Help Movies on Evo ?

Roze · Oct 13, 2010

Hi everyone,

I just want to remind everyone here to keep the conversation to movies that you own and you want help/suggestion on best method to put them on your Evo for your viewing pleasure. Please do not, link distribute, ask direcly or indirectly for sites that allow you to stream or download illegal movies.

Thanks,
-Roze-

lamboh · Oct 14, 2010

I use divx player feom the market and it plays all the movie torrents i ddownload... avis and such... pretty clear

punkzanyj · Oct 16, 2010

two words. Format Factory. It's free and it does everything. Nothing complicated about it.

HTCeasar · Oct 17, 2010

I paid for access to two sites online:

1. The BigU - bigU
2. FFI - Freedom for iPhone Movies-iPhone Movie Downloads

Just watched Machete dvd quality through hdmi off evo. Steam or download. Files are MP4. Have about 20 movies on my SD card.

Caloy · Oct 17, 2010

punkzanyj said:
two words. Format Factory. It's free and it does everything. Nothing complicated about it.

Excellent find mate. I find it the best solution for me so far!

mmuscaro · Oct 22, 2010

dvdshrink is the best freeware ripper on the market with tons of choices.

dvdshrink.org: FREE Backup Solution for your DVD movies!

mwintz · Mar 1, 2011

Go here and follow the instructions carefully (not hard). I did this and have converted 3-4 movies and downloaded them to my EVO 4G - AMAZING !!! Won't convert "protected movies" though (use anyDVD Commercial to convert first, then Handbreak. Works great).

TIP - find a VERY small movie/DVD (like one you might find advertising some product) and run that through Handbreak first. Takes much less time to see if it will work. Once you have saved your profile, you just use that from now on (not further set up needed). Easy peasy !!

How to convert videos and transfer them to the HTC EVO 4G - Know Your Cell

ndh777 · Mar 1, 2011

I know this is old but...who cares

My friend got the Epic and I have the Evo. He came to me asking for some movies for his phone so I told him he could try by using my video "Rick Ross-Aston Martin Music" and see how the video quality worked and looked. Upon using, we found that either it's hidden, or there is no stock app that can watch movies until we got RockPlayer.

The latest version of RockPlayer allows the play of MP4, avi, and many other types of movie files. It didn't used to be so good though, it would fade in and out and whatnot, then the newest version changed and it seems that most movies can be played very well.

As for getting movies, I got most of mine through buying copies at the store and them coming with a digital copy. I used to download movies and videos using "torrents" although they are considered illegal by most and I won't go into any more detail here. I stopped because I received a cease and decease letter from my ISP, so use at caution.

mrmojoz · Mar 2, 2011

ndh777 said:
Upon using, we found that either it's hidden, or there is no stock app that can watch movies until we got RockPlayer.

It is called "Videos".

Side note, I had a large collection of WMVs I ripped for use on my Zune. They play perfectly on the Evo with the stock player, I was surprised.

esthernrob · Mar 2, 2011

Slice28 said:
yea i wish we could get the blockbuster app like the droid x has. would make things much easier

i'm actually anticipating NETFLIX. use it at home and couldn't be happier with it. haven't watched a video of any major length of time, i would imagine that a full length movie would require a plug in. need to get me a few more car adapters and such...

Ventada · Mar 3, 2011

Is there any way to stream videos to your evo for free?

ndh777 · Mar 3, 2011

mrmojoz said:
It is called "Videos".

Side note, I had a large collection of WMVs I ripped for use on my Zune. They play perfectly on the Evo with the stock player, I was surprised.

The "Videos" stock that comes with the phone does not open certain files such as .mp4 and .avi. Another app is needed to open these and RockPlayer does this. I do believe that the stock "Videos" will open videos in formats such as m3gp or whatever it is called, but other than that, not too many other videos so third party apps are needed.

When downloading from torrents and other places, the video formats are typically in .avi or .mp4 for mobile devices.

mwintz · Mar 17, 2011

I've used Handbrake to rip several movies and copied them onto my EVO 4G. Works great........until I tried it on a DRM protected movie. What do you all use to unprotect DRM protected movies (that I own, so let's not go there) ?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

EarlyMon · Mar 17, 2011

Ventada said:
Is there any way to stream videos to your evo for free?

Yes, here's one way that's almost free - Pogoplug

I'd caution that recent moves by the Febs, including briefings this week on deep packet inspection to Congress are under way - and that we have a new IP czar.

Free streaming of stuff you've not paid for - not worth Federal time or fines.

JeffinCA · Sep 15, 2011

RockPlayer is the third one I've tried with the MKV files I have. Performance ranged from horrible (software mode) to just-about-non-existent (hardware mode) on my EVO 4G.

What I want to do is play MKV videos at 1200x720 out the HDMI port to an HDTV.

If I have to convert to another format to keep the resolution and have the HDMI output, what do you suggest?

Jeff

JeffinCA · Sep 17, 2011

I just received an HDMI cable for my EVO 4G. With the TV and phone off, I connected the cable, turned them on and selected videos in different formats (MKV, M4V and MP4).

While all the videos played on my EVO 4G, nothing was displayed in my TV when using either Gallery, the default Video player or RockPlayer Lite. I know that the cable is at least partially good as the TV displays a different message when the cable is connected to the phone than it does when disconnected.

From what I have read, there are no settings on the phone to activate HDMI output; the app either uses it or it doesn’t.

What, if anything, can I do to fix this? Are there any videos I can get that are guaranteed to output in HDMI so I can verify my cable?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

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