Hi everyone! I have core player loaded on my jade and it plays mpeg files flawlessly. However, it's a different story with my windows media player. All .wmv files played on it is choppy. Anybody else have this problem? Anybody have a fix for this? Thanks in advance!
The WMV clips are probably based on MPEG4 - which needs much more processing power than MPEG.
Maybe you need to convert the clips to a lower resolution first.
SlappyHours said:
The WMV clips are probably based on MPEG4 - which needs much more processing power than MPEG.
Maybe you need to convert the clips to a lower resolution first.
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Sounds right. Any idea though how to convert the wmv clips to a lower resolution? Thanks in advance!
There are lots of converters out there, try windows media encoder or my personal fave, 'winavi'. When you convert you should be able to specify all the options for the output file including rez. Hope this helps.
I am trying to play downloaded DVD movies on my Rhodium and i presume its using Windows Media, the playback is sluggish and the sound is not in sync with the playback, is this the best i can expect after spending £500 or is it just that i need another media player? Shooting video and playing back seems fine the problem is when i convert a DVD the playback is pretty appalling, ANY HELP FROM ANYONE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
tHANKS
Allan
What format are the movies you're downloading? What are you using to convert them? Are the downloaded movies in sync? How about the converted ones? If you play them on your PC, are they synced up?
Check the resolution of the movie. Make sure it is 640x480. You don;t want to have the CPU doing all the resizing as the movie is being played. Some format may be better than the others too. And try with WMP. I believe it has hardware acceleration built-in.
Still I would love the phone be able to play HD 720p videos natively. Maybe one day.
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Still I would love the phone be able to play HD 720p videos natively. Maybe one day.
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amen! lol anyways ya you just arent formating the dvd'rips very well then cause i have a few full dvd's playing in perfect quality and timing on WMP and that's not even the best player to use
Use core player, it works fine with most videos (far better than the standard app)
Vio
try VIO Video Converter for your DVD conversions and select full quality. The file sizes are large but the quality and audio/video sync is superb.
Core Player is great and I consider 640x384 to be the optimal resolution for playback. Get a good video encoder and experiment for yourself though.
Use Super C to resize the video and then coreplayer to play it, no problems at all!
I can play 800x480 AVC @1.2Mbit/s through HTC Media Player smoothly. In Coreplayer I can't even get 1 FPS out of that file. I use MEGUI with the Zune settings to convert the video from a Bluray format.
As far as I can see, there isn't a good option right now, unless someone can say/prove otherwise.
For example: I have an AVI encoded with Divx 5 636*346, avg bitrtate 900, mp3 stereo. I can get this to play smoothly on much older hardware (a Palm TX), without conversion, via TCMPC.
So, WHY can't I find a player that works smoothly on the TP2?
I've read that the TP2 can handle avg bitrates up to 1,400 kbps; and it doesn't make sense to re-encode at a screen res lower than the bloody device.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
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I can play 800x480 AVC @1.2Mbit/s through HTC Media Player smoothly. In Coreplayer I can't even get 1 FPS out of that file. I use MEGUI with the Zune settings to convert the video from a Bluray format.
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What is the HTC Media Player? Anyonehave a cab?
barneypooch said:
As far as I can see, there isn't a good option right now, unless someone can say/prove otherwise.
For example: I have an AVI encoded with Divx 5 636*346, avg bitrtate 900, mp3 stereo. I can get this to play smoothly on much older hardware (a Palm TX), without conversion, via TCMPC.
So, WHY can't I find a player that works smoothly on the TP2?
I've read that the TP2 can handle avg bitrates up to 1,400 kbps; and it doesn't make sense to re-encode at a screen res lower than the bloody device.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
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What I don't understand is that Coreplayer on my device has a verry low FPS. BUT when selecting the Benchmark function, the movie will play beautiful... (Only the movie and sound synchronisation is not so best...)
Anybody a working solution? On a different forum, i've read that HTC Album has the best hardware acceleration. They adviced to play movies with thc album (In the mp4 format)
Greets, Ranney
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What is the HTC Media Player? Anyonehave a cab?
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It come on the device. HTC Album
i just can't imagine that there is no possibility to play normal divx/avi movies on my tp2 .. just like on pc.
i don't want to waste my time converting all videos just to watch it on tp2 ..
same prob with subtitle support .. can't be that difficult ?! only tcpmp can play them with an extension .. (and that video playback isn't smooth!)
http://kinoma.com/
give that a try and let us know if you are happy or not please
kinoma doesn't support divx/xvid
i use a free program called handbrake and my settings are 480x320,mpeg4,480 biterate-Audio,AAC 160 biterate. i actually used these settings on my G1 originally but when i got my TP2 i tried a few of the movies out since they wur already on my memory card and they all play and sound great on the default player.
im using coreplayer and ive not had a problem playing any movie downloaded from the net. anything from 700mb to 1.6mb dvd rips, ive watched probably 60 odd and they've all played perfectly. never had to convert anything.
coreplayer is definetely the best thing to get supports pretty much everything
i only use the album player for converted hd content (using the converter someone made on this site) = that plays excellent as well, and looks better (i might be ight in thinking album uses hardward acceleration as well)
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What I don't understand is that Coreplayer on my device has a verry low FPS. BUT when selecting the Benchmark function, the movie will play beautiful... (Only the movie and sound synchronisation is not so best...)
Anybody a working solution? On a different forum, i've read that HTC Album has the best hardware acceleration. They adviced to play movies with thc album (In the mp4 format)
Greets, Ranney
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Menu > Tools > Preferences > Select Page > Video
Change "Video Output" to GDI if the player is choppy/crappy. On my Telus (CDMA) Touch Pro 2 the QTv Display works fine but I know other HTC devices have required GDI instead.
The playback on this phone sucks big time! Not sure what it is .... coreplayer GDI does not work and Tcpmp with all kinds of tweaks settings does not play videos smooth at all. You can tell there are frame skipping in my phone. My wing plays videos better than this. GEEZ!!!!!
I am new to converting videos for HD2, but all the videos i converted have bad sound quality when i play them on my HD2. I am not sure if it's the phone or the converter, or that im just not on the right setting. the converter im using is Videora HTC Converter. Sound quality is great when played on my pc. please help.
Can you give us more details? have you played a recorded video and see if the quality is bad? Try uploading into your device an unconverted video and see if you get the same behavior.
I tried playing an unconverted avi file and windows media player says its unsupported. I converted the files into H.264 VGA 1024kbps stereo/128kbps. The picture quality is great, but the sound quality is really bad. Are there any players that can play videos?
Hiya folks since all of us are using the X10, I thought I'd ask for some help.
Recently I converted a bunch of videos to MP4 using the H.264 & ACC audio codec. At first they seem to play without a glitch but after 15-20secs into it, the visual side will pause and the audio continues. So naturally, I feel, I'm encoding them with the wrong settings.
Does anyone have any pointers here? What works for you and keeps the video quality at the optimal quality without those annoying pauses?
Hi - I'm using Videora Android converter.... selected the HTC Magic device (there wasn't an x10 option!).. and H.264 480x320 768kbs stereo/128Kbps profile..
Works really well.. great quality and no jerkiness.
I use SUPER to convert my 1080p files. Heres my settings
H.264/AVC
AAC LC
848x480
29 FPS
1584kbps Video Bitrate
Hi Quality
44100
Stereo
128kbps Audio Bitrate
I've used Super and TMPGEnc to try to convert some Divx files to MP4. For some reason the audio is always out of sync on the converted video when I play it back on the X10. I can't figure it out. I'm using different resolutions with a bitrate of about 1500kbps and always sticking to AAC LC for the audio. Is anyone see the same problem or have a suggestion to fix?
Odd thing, I have tried many rips of movies and most play fine, mp4 mp3 192 sound 4800khz, but some listed as ac3 sound dont play....picture is fine but no sound and yet I though sgs was ok with ac3, now i can convert the film and change the sound but that takes ages.....so is there an easy way to recode just the sound or is there a problem with phone?
have you tried a different video player?
yes tried a few, rock player will play the video bably picture breaks up but the odd thing is it is able to play the sound but it is also bad and breaking up but it tries to,
I wonder if i am missing a codec? and if so how to get it.
My default video player plays xvids, divx, h.264 AC3 encoded just fine. Infact using the 5.1 option does wonders to headphone surround sound especially using quality headphones.. Are you talking of .ac3 audio files only?
Its not all but last one was a rip of HellBoy 2, stunning picture and the audio codec is listed as mp4a 48000hz, picture is fine but just no sound.
Another was a rip of Armageddon, again nice picture but mp4a and gives no sound.
There has been others but I forget what codec they were, thought some were ac3...might be wrong, anyway tried these movies and only player that even tried to play the sound is rockplayer, but the sound is broken and so is the picture.
If it is the case mp4a is not playable then I would like to recode the film but just the sound, I want to leave picture as it is but change the sound to mp3, anyone know a program for this ?
cheers