From VLC:
H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
English
1280x720
Frame rate 23.976215
In an MKV.
The audio plays, it has a picture from the frame of the video, but it just wont play the video stream... How can I get it to say why? Or have I got some special codec that won't play, I thought the SGS could play a 720P H264.
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I've got some h264 encoded mp4 files on my mem card, and Album won't list them to allow me to play them.
Anyone got any ideas why? I also can't play them in WMP [blank screen] or Coreplayer [extremely stuttery playback].
The mp4 encoded mp4 files are fine.
This is the ffmpeg of the h264 file:
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Nightwatch.mp4':
Duration: 01:49:39.76, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1148 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x400, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
Actually, if I open it into Album through File Manager, I still can't see and picture.
Hmmm... very irritating!
The fact that you can't play them might have something to do with it... Do they work on your PC?
Yeah, they play absolutely fine.
It's so weird. It must be something to do with the encoding. But I'm not sure what.
Iirc there's a couple of levels of h264 encoding... I'll look into that.
re-encode them in a lower res is what I would do
don't think the cpu have enough juice to play video
fluently in the full res
I get the same Problem.
The Files (Simpsons) are encoded in:
Video: x264 96kbps 240x176
Audio: AAC Stereo 44.1kHz 96kbps
So 1 single Simpson movie is about 30MBytes large. They play very fine with Corplayer - in the Benchmark i get 140% of the original speed.
I think the decoder is just missing for HTC Album. Is there any chance to add one? Till then i watch with Coreplayer.
I'm trying to decide between an Xperia Play or Xperia Arc for my next phone and need to know if either or both can play High Profile Level 3 H.264 mp4's.
I've got all my DVDs already ripped and my current Moto Atrix (Great, Fast phone) can't play them.
Any help?
I use mobo player mainly for playing h264 and it works great (480p, 720p works well) 1080p bit laggy but it works. See following thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080194&highlight=player
* edit * Just tested a sample video from here (scroll down to see The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya NCED theme (Hare Hare Yukai) SD video with karaoke soft-sub) http://imouto.my/watching-h264-videos-using-dxva/ Its 480p Profile: [email protected] even displaying subtitles and no lag
Hello all I just got my E Pad and looking to load some movies onto it.
Can anyone tell me the best format to use for quality. I have an 8Gig Micro to use for videos. I also use DVDFab for converting.
Thanks
Diverwes
I'm wondering this as well. I've seen a few threads on here regarding 720p settings, but how about non-hidef? What would people recommend using? I copied some movies over to my TF when I first got it and the playback was horrible, regardless of what player I used.
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I'm wondering this as well. I've seen a few threads on here regarding 720p settings, but how about non-hidef? What would people recommend using? I copied some movies over to my TF when I first got it and the playback was horrible, regardless of what player I used.
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Anything works for non-HD, just make sure you play it with something like Mobo Player, the default player doesn't support that many formats, nor does it play it as smoothly. In terms of HD, just look at the handbrake preset or install Mediainfo to check what profile your h264 video is at (Baseline, Main, High), it usually is Main/High. If it is 720p High, you may try playing it, but anything with more than 3 reference frames will lag.
something weard is i converted some movies they play but only at 2x they fly through.
diverwes said:
something weard is i converted some movies they play but only at 2x they fly through.
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I had this issue too. The file was an MP4 H.264 encoded file but the audio codec was not in stereo.
I re-encoded the movie using AVS Video Converter with these settings:
Frame Size: 1280x 720 (depending on movie format)
Video Codec: H.264/AVC
Frame rate: 24fps or match source video
Bitrate: 1500KBs video
Video Advanced: Multi-pass (first pass fast)
Audio Codec: MPEG-2/4 Audio 192KBS Stereo not 5.1
File type: MP4 PSP
With these settings, high def videos play awesome on my Transformer both on stock player and Rock Player with hardware decoding setting.
I am comparing encodes of MP4 and MKV based video files using Handbrake as the encoder and x264 as the compression type.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the results are less than inspiring.
Using the default Video player on the Tab, MKV's stutter. Anamorphic MKV's also do not display in the correct aspect ratio. Non-Anamorphic videos are larger and display correctly but stutter.
MP4's have no such problem.
Using the default Video player on the Galaxy S, both MKV's and MP4s play without stuttering however Anamorphic videos do not display in the correct aspect ratio, but non-anamorphic videos play fine - as expected.
Dice looks like it has received an update which now actually plays correctly all formats and aspect ratios.
I'd rather find a solution to get MKV's play correctly in the correct aspect ratio without stuttering using the stock video player on both Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Samsung Galaxy S.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Simon
Just fork out the cash for Dice player. It plays everything correctly and can be used on both devices under your account.
I think you may want to look at encoding settings.
Saw your post and it intrigued me because normally I don't use MKV files but given the fact that I sometimes watch my rips in loud areas I thought that it might be useful to have subtitles along with my rips.
So I did a little experiment taking a rip of my Cars 2 bluray that I did for my GT in MP4 format that already played well on the tab and applying an SRT to it using MKVMerge. The resulting MKV file plays well in Dice player with subtitles showing up just fine.
What settings do you use in handbrake?
For me I'm using max width of 1280 (720p), no video filters, AAC audio with a bitrate of 160, and advanced settings tab settings of 3 reference frames, 0 b-frames, CABAC off, 8x8 tranform off, p-frames off, psychovisual off and all other settings to the right at defaults.
Im using a max height of 576 and strict anamorphic (so actual width is never more than 720 but displayh size is max 1024), no cropping, no filters, x264, 160 bitrate aac audio. Im using Default settings as per the Regular > Normal profile, but bumped reference and max b frames to 3, and subpixel me & mode detection to seven.
Encode the same video, one in an MP4 container and one in MKV results in only the MKV stuttering. Same settings for both though.
Just tried that MKVMerge to Mux the MP4 to MKV and the resultant file still stutters using the stock video player app.
Dice however works flawlessly! course Im annoyed that I have to fork out £3.50 for an app that works when it should really be part of Android.
The stock player for the 10.1 doesn't support mkv (not listed as a supoprted container in the specs) that's why you get the stutter. Dice is the best and well worth your purchase. Bs player is free and is almost as good as dice but it has problems seeking during playback on mkv 's.
Thanks songmeesay - best answer I've heard. I like technical limitations like that. It's a finite answer!
So MP4 is a preferred choice on the Tab plus it handles anamorphic videos.
Do you guys have any knowledge of the Galaxy S and why that doesn't handle Anamorphic videos correctly?
Im still guessing my three choices are:
Convert to MKV Anamorphic- smaller files but need to use Dice
Convert to MP4 Anamorphic- smaller files, plays well on Tab, but will need Dice on Galaxy S
Convert to MP4 non anamorphic- larger files, but larger scope for support on the Tab, S and will of course play back in Dice...
Tricky decision. What would you guys go with?
How to Ideal way to convert MKV files to MP4 format ?
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I am comparing encodes of MP4 and MKV based video files using Handbrake as the encoder and x264 as the compression type.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the results are less than inspiring.
Using the default Video player on the Tab, MKV's stutter. Anamorphic MKV's also do not display in the correct aspect ratio. Non-Anamorphic videos are larger and display correctly but stutter.
MP4's have no such problem.
Using the default Video player on the Galaxy S, both MKV's and MP4s play without stuttering however Anamorphic videos do not display in the correct aspect ratio, but non-anamorphic videos play fine - as expected.
Dice looks like it has received an update which now actually plays correctly all formats and aspect ratios.
I'd rather find a solution to get MKV's play correctly in the correct aspect ratio without stuttering using the stock video player on both Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Samsung Galaxy S.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Simon
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.mkv container should only be used for DTS audio encodes.
Else you better off with mp4 and h.263 .xvid for compatibility reasons.
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Ok so I have .mkv's that I have ripped from physical Blu-Rays. I have converted them to h.264 mp4's using ripbot264. The settings I have are AVC high profile 4.0 progressive, 2-pass encoding, 4000kbps video @ 720p, & 2-channel audio AAC @128kbps.
With these settings, one would think that the Nexus 10 would have no problem at all playing the video back smoothly via the stock video app. Unfortunately this is not true, the video playback is constantly choppy and I am trying to figure out what the problem is.
Don't use the stock app lol. Try MX Player or BS Player.