Just bought the touch HD! Im new to the whole converting videos for phone playback thing. I would really appreciate it if anyone here would share their experience with what free software to use to convert videos to playback flawlessly on my HD. What are the best settings and bitrate? Thx.
Dude, use the search first before u open a new topic.
[TUT]The Definitive Video Playback Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446366
45+ pages of people's video convert experience.
Hi all - sorry for the newb questions but I've been searching and reading and just getting myself more confused tbh.
I'm looking for some decent video to watch on my new toy in the gym, previously I had an Ipod touch so I have a few music videos from Itunes store etc which I'd like to play on the touch - is this possible ?
Also I want to watch downloaded video from BBC Iplayer - is it possible to convert either the normal downloaded video or the mobile content or does DRM not allow this ?
Many Thanks in advance !
Guys,
I'm using Super as per this link ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3103846&postcount=394 ) to re-encode my video files for optimum playing on my Touch HD.
However whenever I choose Flash video it shows he output file to be an SWF and not FLV.
I have a later build than that shown in the picture and I can't get it to say FLV.
Can somebody help?
Thanks
EDIT: Scrap that I clicked encode and it gave me the option then...sorry - consider closed
hold up a sec pls.
this is even more of a newb question but..
What if you just want to covert a simple naughty mpg file from limewire etc?
would you still need to buy Coreplayer to get good result?
I'm using the old settings from my n95 atm so any basic settings appreciated.
That's a good question. quite frankly my Artemis was easier to use in terms of video playback...I encoded with PocketDivxEncoder and made the res smaller and job done. However I find lots of videos playing better in ALBUM than in Coreplayer (which is shocking in most flicks to be fair).
I have yet to find a "one size fits all" guide. I grab mostly XVIDs and want to convert them (I'm now downloading 720p rips and I'll see how they convert to FLV)...I converted a 720p trailer to FLV and it's lovely!
oh ok thanks.
I really have read up a bit more on the Wiki or other stickies cos I think I understood about two words of that second paragraph
I just wanna convert some free porn that's all..
If you want the perfect videos for the Touch HD, use this tool:
HTC Touch Video Converter
It has the optimal settings and is very easy to use.
...and it also doesn't give me very good videos to play - I think perhaps it's my source vid?
I used the coverter for more than 100 files already (HDTV and SDTV) and all have very good quality.
One thing is important for playback:
You MUST use Windows Media Player or the HTC Album for playback !
Only these programs can utilize the hardware acceleration and you need it, because the converted files are close to the maximum the HD can play.
If you still don't get good results, I guess you are right and the source file isn't the best.
Maybe you try some other files to see where the problem is.
Hello,
I just got a new HTC touch HD and I was trying to convert a music video using the program Super located in the tutorial thread. However, after reading through the entire thread I tried it and ran into this problem.
My music videos are normally in .AVI form and runs a 25-29.97 frame/sec. Now the problem is that the HTC Touch HD runs smoothly in 23.976 frame/sec. When I set everything up, it gives me an error I guess due to the output being different from the input.
Can anyone help me with conversion tips? I'm currently just using the WMP.
It's hard to convert vidéo for Touch HD with SUPER because there are too many settings...
If you just want easily convert your vidéo, I suggest you to use HTC Touch HD Video Converter wich is very simple and give very good results
You can find it here
I have noticed that when I put videos that I have recorded on my droid x on my computer in the details the video was shot at about 15fps. I have the camcorder set to 720p hd and I thought it was supposed to 24fps. Does anyone know how to fix this. Also is there a way to change the video out put file from .3gp to .mp4. I saw you can alter the etc/media_profiles.xml but when I change the file to .mp4 it still outputs to .3gp. Any help would be appreicated. Thanks