How To Lazy Man's Movie Installation Guide for Droid (How-To)

[Deleted User]

thanks... i'm trying Pulpfiction and house of flying daggers to see what they look like on the droid! Great SHARE and FIND!

 

[maderhatter]

thanks... i'm trying Pulpfiction and house of flying daggers to see what they look like on the droid! Great SHARE and FIND!

Let me know how they turn out! They are both on my short list, lol.

 

[maderhatter]

Looks like the quality of films can vary considerably from megaupload- I DL'd The Simpsons Movie and it was a "camcorder job" filmed in a movie theater.

Im looking around for ya buddy, but I am having a hell of a time finding a good copy of that movie that is scaled right. There is a really good one on the thread that wont work on our phone because of the scale i think. I'm still looking for ya.

 

[Deleted User]

Let me know how they turn out! They are both on my short list, lol.

Pulp fiction is great! Dagger is cropped for some reason and doesn't fill the whole screen which kinda sucks.

 

[maderhatter]

I just DL'd Snatch too. It's cropped as well, but the picture is so good I didnt care. I'm lovin it. I'm still looking for an app everyone likes to stretch these to full screen. Act 1 didnt have stellar reviews across the board, so the search continues.

 

[Deleted User]

Don't worry about finding a better Simpsons... It's one of those films I'll watch once and not again anyway, thanks though.

Snatch was the first one I grabbed- looks great on my ipod...(did I mention I don't have a droid yet?........)

 

[Deleted User]

interesting: I started pulp fiction and let it run... when i came back, i noticed the sound and video was not synched properly, at the restaurant scene, no problem. However the talk about amsterdam in the car, voice doesn't match the video... I wasn't sure if that was because i was using "aPlayer" or because i had too many apps running in the background... or maybe a bad encoding of the movie.

anyone have experience with this issue? what player are u using to read ur media files?
can anyone suggest a movie that they know for sure has been well encoded, is good quality, and runs on their droid? that may give us a reference point to compare our individual droids...

also, the play of the movie isn't 100% smooth... it breaks up here and there... not sure why... playin the movie right now to see if it continues... yup, still does it once in a while...

anyone else?

 

[JB4times4]

For a handbrake tutorial check the 1st post of the Put Videos on Droid topic.

Nice post, but yes it is piracy unless you own the dvd then your walking on a gray line.

 

[saltysteve]

need some help:
i mount the phone and in my pc i see it is listed as
removeable disk (E)

i drag it into E and it says
Please insert a disk into drive E

what do i do?

 

[saltysteve]

never mind i didnt mount when i thought i did. thanks- it seems to be downloading at the moment. it takes about 30 minutes per movie? is that normal?

 

[Fabolous]

never mind i didnt mount when i thought i did. thanks- it seems to be downloading at the moment. it takes about 30 minutes per movie? is that normal?

No, that's not normal. Do you have USB2.0 ports?

Transfer speeds to the SD card are ~6MB/s for me, so a 700mb movie file should take 2 mins to transfer...

 

[Deleted User]

never mind i didnt mount when i thought i did. thanks- it seems to be downloading at the moment. it takes about 30 minutes per movie? is that normal?

You mean to DL from megaupload? Yeah it takes awhile if you do the free DL.
Copying to your phone SD should be quick though.

 

[maderhatter]

interesting: I started pulp fiction and let it run... when i came back, i noticed the sound and video was not synched properly, at the restaurant scene, no problem. However the talk about amsterdam in the car, voice doesn't match the video... I wasn't sure if that was because i was using "aPlayer" or because i had too many apps running in the background... or maybe a bad encoding of the movie.

anyone have experience with this issue? what player are u using to read ur media files?
can anyone suggest a movie that they know for sure has been well encoded, is good quality, and runs on their droid? that may give us a reference point to compare our individual droids...

also, the play of the movie isn't 100% smooth... it breaks up here and there... not sure why... playin the movie right now to see if it continues... yup, still does it once in a while...

anyone else?

I run into that issue every now and then if i pause a movie and then come back later. The easy fix for me is just tap the rewind a couple of times and it syncs back up. A very small pain but seems to work every time. Hope it works for ya.

 

[maderhatter]

never mind i didnt mount when i thought i did. thanks- it seems to be downloading at the moment. it takes about 30 minutes per movie? is that normal?

Are you downloading the movie straight into your Droid? Or transfering it from a file on your PC after you have already downloaded it? If you are using the free option to download,(depending on your DL speeds), 15-30 minutes is normal. Transferring the file to your Droid should only take a couple minutes. I would say just to pick all your movies and DL them on a file on your desktop first. That way you dont have to have your phone mounted for so long.

 

[dozens]

Is it possible to download the movies with the droid? I tried and wasnt successful. It took a while to enter in the code to enable the download (the browser seems kinda buggy to me). I then spent a minute or so waiting for a data connection before transitioning to the downloading screen which lasted about 30 seconds before I got a message saying the file format wasnt supported.

 

[aileendq]

but as long as you are not SHARING the file with anyone else, I think only the guy originally posting the rip would go down. LOL

Er, NO. It's copyright infringement either way. Both ends of the transaction are illegal.

Think of it as stealing and receiving stolen goods- both are illegal.

- A former law enforcement officer

 

[dmodert66]

Er, NO. It's copyright infringement either way. Both ends of the transaction are illegal.

Think of it as stealing and receiving stolen goods- both are illegal.

- A former law enforcement officer

100% True...A few notes though...

Generally law enforcement goes after the uploaders (though there have been exceptions). Please keep in mind, that this is currently the case. Tomorrow, the IP (Intellectual Property) holders or law enforcement COULD decide to go after downloaders. You would have ZERO protection if they decided to do this EXCEPT...

***HUGE GREY AREA CONCERNING THE LAW***
If you already OWN the movie (be it on VHS, DVD, etc), with the Fair Use Act, you MAY have SOME legal ground.

That said, Ripping a DVD and converting it with Handbrake (or whatever) is ALSO ILLEGAL. Why? Fair Use should make it fine right? Nope. There is another Law that makes it illegal to circumvent a media's copyright protection (meaning the protection on a DVD). So it's not technically illegal to make a backup, but to make the backup, you break the law by breaking the encryption (crazy I know)...

I'll not give my opinions on either side of the piracy debate, I just wanted to clarify things...

Lastly, the reason many movies have bars or "boxes" around them, is they are meant for Iphones/Blackberries/other Android phone's screen resolutions. The Droid has close to double the resolution, which is why you are seeing black areas around the movies...

 

[tolas]

Is it possible to download the movies with the droid? I tried and wasnt successful. It took a while to enter in the code to enable the download (the browser seems kinda buggy to me). I then spent a minute or so waiting for a data connection before transitioning to the downloading screen which lasted about 30 seconds before I got a message saying the file format wasnt supported.

I too tried downloading directly from droid browser with no luck. I think it must be something with megaupload.

 

[jestexman]

I too tried downloading directly from droid browser with no luck. I think it must be something with megaupload.

I just dl a movie from the droid and it is on the phone. The thing i noticed is that it came with a .txt extension so i changed it to .mp4. It still did not play back on the phone. Not sure why.
It does play on my pc.

Any ideas.

Does it need to be mpg or avi or something other than mp4 i thought m peg 4 was a supported format.

 

[bikevision]

this post is so awsome it promped me to make my first post.

btw, now ill never get to sleep. ill be dl movies all night.

 

[burbankfun4u]

I must be doing something wrong. I have a macbook and downloaded the movies from mega... when I tried to drag the movies onto the droid icon I got a notification that said "error 36" and it said the file was missing some information or not formatted correctly.

 

[jcrater]

First I would like to say thank you for this post! I have DL 3 movies nd only 1 of them works I get perfect beautiful sound on the other 2 but no video any idea of why this is happening?

 

[Overman]

Err ok.... I'm going to do my rendition of "Lazy Man's Movie Installation Guide".... ready?

Step 1. Pick up your phone and go to imp4movies.com.
Step 2. Download.
Step 3. Watch.

w00t! Sorry, I take lazy to an extreme!!! Now now... I know what you're thinking... what if I have this giant avi file already and I want to watch that?? Well.. ok..

Step 1. Download doubletwist and add the movie to it's library.
Step 2. Hook up your phone.
Step 3. Drag and drop the movie from DT's library to phone and allow it to sync.
Step 4. Watch movie on phone.

Doubletwist detects the phone, already knows the video format, size, etc.. of the phone and converts it to play on the phone.

Why ALL these steps for such a simple process?

 

[snowman9031]

I use dvdfab and I can convert it to nething. Psp format iphone, ipod, but no droid. but lucky enough ipod is the same format. This program lets you do nething with the movie. Remove the features in the beginning and just do the main movie. I believe that they have a trial or a free version.

 

[mojo1094]

I know that link has a disclaimer and I don't want to be a party pooper but that is piracy.

And downloading from file sharing services can have dangers.

actually if you own the movie, you can download a copy of it. It would then count as a backup. For someone like me, who owns hundreds of DVD's, but doesn't know thing one about ripping, it's fantastic.