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best video file to use for playback

hi all im using AVS Video Converter 6 to convert 720p trailers and ive made my own profile based on a iphone profile, (ive just changed the res for the htc hd2)
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the video quality is ok its looks good and u only notice very little fussiness/graininess from the video, i would like to know what...
1- whats the recommended codec format
2- whats the recommended video bitrate

Well you can raise the bitrate a lot, at least 2000. 712 is more like the bitrate the HD likes. Keep raising it until your happy the quality, smoothness and files size are to your taste.
I believe you can turn CABAC on as well, the HD didnt like it but the HD2 seems ok with it, it should help quality.

I'd go with .mp4 since it's universal with iPods and such.
What's the resolutaion of your original source?

Check this thread for more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582122

Well you can raise the bitrate a lot, at least 2000. 712 is more like the bitrate the HD likes. Keep raising it until your happy the quality, smoothness and files size are to your taste.
I believe you can turn CABAC on as well, the HD didnt like it but the HD2 seems ok with it, it should help quality.
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whats this CABAC thing,
What's the resolutaion of your original source?
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as stated in post one 720p (1280x720)
Check this thread for more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582122
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will look into this now matey thanks

heres a sample ive done using same settings as in post one .m4v ipod format
different bitrates

Is this some kind of a sport or are you guys really going to convert every single video to watch on your phone? I mean, you aren't going to use it as your primary video device, are you? And for occasional watching isn't this too much of a hassle?

Is this some kind of a sport or are you guys really going to convert every single video to watch on your phone? I mean, you aren't going to use it as your primary video device, are you? And for occasional watching isn't this too much of a hassle?
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where pure geeks who like to see what it has to offer

DAMIEN123_666 said:
heres a sample ive done using same settings as in post one .m4v ipod format
different bitrates
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If you spend 30sec and look carefully you can see a difference, seeing it for 1/30 second i doubt you would even notice. 2000 bitrate should easily be enough, bring the file size down too.
As a percentage, how much bigger is the 4000 bitrate file over the 712 one?
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If you spend 30sec and look carefully you can see a difference, seeing it for 1/30 second i doubt you would even notice. 2000 bitrate should easily be enough, bring the file size down too.
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yes think 2000 is plent, size is
712b/rate = 15.3mb @ 02.33min lengh
4000b/rate = 79.2mb @ 02.33min lengh

BadaBoom2 - Convert Vids at 2x-5x Speed

Yes, this is yet another video conversion thread. Yea!
I just installed Badaboom2 and it seems to work very well for the Xoom. The original version of Badaboom was pretty buggy, but 2 seems to be much better.
Config is super simple; drop in a video file, select the Xoom under Output, click start.
Most importantly, it also supports Nvidia CUDA. If you have a compatible video card, it will offload most of the conversion overhead to the GPU.
I just converted a 5000 kbps MPEG4 video. Look at the CPU\GPU utilization and the frame rate.
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The frame rate is 27.xxx per second, but lets say it is 30.
155 FPS / 30 = @5x speed
Since most of the heavy lifting was pushed to the GPU, the machine was usable while converting. I wouldn't notice it was even running unless I looked at the GPU consumption in Aida64. That said, I wouldn't try to play Crysis 2 MP demo while converting either
Speaking of silly, here's my setup:
CPU: Intel 2600K [email protected] MHz
MB: Asus Maximus Extreme 4
Vid: Nvidia 580 GTX
OS Disk: 4x 60GB OCZ Vertex2 SSD's, RAID0 (Intel RAID)
Storage: 4x 2TB Seagate Barracuda's, RAID5 (Areca 1210 RAID Controller)
BR Drive: LG GGW-H20L
I also tried converting a M2TS file directly from a Blueray disc.
That's 2x. I copied the file off the disc to the OS drive and saw the same performance, so there isn't any gain moving the file to a faster medium. I use AnyDVD HD for ripping, if you are curious.
Note: some BR movies are spread across multiple files. Badaboom doesn't join them or allow you to convert an entire blueray movie. It may do DVD's but I haven't tried.
The default Xoom settings are: 1280x720 at 2500 kbps, 23 FPS and 125 kbps stereo audio. You can change this if you want, but the default works for me. The playback is completely smooth and very sharp.
I'm going to do more conversions before buying Badaboom, but I'm pretty happy right now. You can convert 30 videos on the demo, no watermarks.

The only complaint I have with that software is that it produces HUGE output files no matter what compared to solutions like handbrake.

looks quick but wow if I'm looking at it right 5 gigs for 1 movie is insane. I have 18 movies and still have 8gb of space and that's with apps,pics,and music too

What was the size of the input file compared to the output file? What does it rip the file into? [email protected] I'm guessing??

The defaults look to be baseline with the level set at auto. Not sure which it chooses in this mode, but you can set it from 1 thru 4.1

Can someone just release a batch program? I just want to convert all my High Profiles to identical Main Profiles. If I had an app that could do that I would be sitting pretty.

[Example] Xperia Play 2.3.4 HD Video Recording

Just a VERY short video shot with the HD video recorder, it's not the best tbh!
Just IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EocxqNVGs

Nhialor said:
Just a VERY short video shot with the HD video recorder, it's not the best tbh!
Just IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EocxqNVGs
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Come on, it looks ok! I'd give it 7-8/10
It's clear and quite smooth, around 27/28fps, far better than it was before...

Was that with the BRAVIA engine on?

How do we know this was recorded using a Xperia Play?

Does it have option to record in 480p too?
Could you do a video example of the same thing in 480p and 720p to see how it improved?
How is it light compared to real life? We don't have the Exmor sensor

Hey,any improvementis good improvement.it looked quite crispy
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Looks decent
Oh and just a hint, to embed a youtube video on the forum just just the video id (in your case its 96EocxqNVGs) and put youtube quotes around it
(YOUTUBE)96EocxqNVGs(/YOUTUBE)
Use square brackets though.

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This image to demonstrate that there exists recording HD ?

I think its still the same, here's a clip from the last vid I recorded from my 2.3.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16w8pVOwG2o
On my free time I'll try to upload some vid with some of my fighting *****..

Ok, I'll take a video of something tomorrow in 480p and then 720p, and I'll edit them in side by side, and see what everyone thinks.
@Miles Wolf This was recorded on my Xperia Play, as I stated earlier...don't see why I would fake it?

not much difference from the old 480p with regards to picture quality and fps, though the increased resolution is something!

Awwww, how cute the dogs are.

Nice, buy they didn't change the interface of the camera, right?
But, is great

Your video is featured on one of the Engadget articles.,

haha, yeah, I woke up to an email and it said "thumbs up if engadget sent you here" checked engadget and there it was. Haha, over the moon, chuffed really.
3500 views over night XD

Niiiiice
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Sweet. What are you going to do now that you are a celebrity?...Besides go to Disney World that is.

The same thing I do every night pinky, try to take over the world!
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I love the new 2.3.4 update! It films in wonderful HD
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Just one quick question, did you loose root?

why the HD video HW decoder is so poor in quality? img attached

Hi all,
I have the xperia ray 2.3.4 rooted stock.
I already fill bad 4 the ****ty camera image quality that sony doesnt care (same chip on icrap) and now I can't stand it any more- look it the screenshot of the avangers official trailer @ 720P - all the image is blocks and blocks!
I transferd the same video to iphon 4 (the old 1) and it plays it beutfully! and even can play the 1080P! (we can only paly 720P on HW decoder )
why the hell we get this ****ty quality from leader company like sony who knows all about video & audio electronics?
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The actual screen shot via camera:
Why is that? this is happening for all hd videos!
any solutions?

Nice advert popping up in the middle of the screen. What crappy player are you using to play the video? How do you know it supports hardware decoding?
I'm guessing it's user error, and you also had trouble posting this in the correct forum.

unlike arc and other phones- Ray only has developing forum! and this is not dev topic and its comon chipset to all xperia line.
and the player is MX player, and I try'ed them all!
stock player, mobo player and I choose and see HW decoder enable
without the HW decoder U cant watch 720P video in good fps
I think its relayted maby to gamma
I am graphic editor and it like to apply gamma and shadows/highlights filter

It might not be encoded in the proper format. Make sure it is H.264 8-bit @ L2.1 or below.

this is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8
this quality issue is common 4 all the videos played on the device!
it lookes like the screen becomes 4096 color screen vs 16bit! while playing video
can't U see in your xperia phones this problame? look at the dark palces!

Perfect quality on my arc s. I'm using stock browser to play it.

Best option for Divx movie playback

I have just got my Nexus 7 and tried copying an AVI file encoded in DivX into the movies folder, the standard movies app did not want to play it.
I have a program that can convert it to mp4 but I do not know what would be the best setting to use.
So my question is can the Nexus 7 play Divx movies natively, if so how? If not is it better to download an app (suggestions please) or is it better to convert (again suggestions as to formats to use).
Cheers
Baz.

"Bsplayer" in the play store will play dvix files.
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Baz8755 said:
So my question is can the Nexus 7 play Divx movies natively, if so how?
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I use BSPlayer for all my video files and after trying out half a dozen other players on the market it has been the best for me.

I ended up buying both MX Player and BS player.
I've got to say they each have their plus points.
MX player produced much louder audio and automatically plays the next movie in the folder, however it does not yet support Tegra 3 so decoding was done in software.
BS player does support Hardware.
As I bought the device to play movies whilst travelling the extra volume is a bit of big deal, however hardware support is supposed to offer longer battery life.

That's actually not true. Mine decodes in hardware mode just fine.
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sinbsd said:
That's actually not true. Mine decodes in hardware mode just fine.
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How did you get MX player to do that? Mine is greyed out

I just de-selected the software encoder.
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I just de-selected the software encoder.
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Already did that, however it would appear that some movies do work in hardware mode whilst others still switch back to software mode even though BSplayer still plays as hardware

VLC Media PLayer works for me. I used to to play full length DVD rips in DivX. It plays them directly off a USB flashdrive too .(rooted/Stickdrive)

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How did you get MX player to do that? Mine is greyed out
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Simply deselect software and you are on your way. I've never had anything not play in hardware mode but perhaps its the type of files you are using? Not sure.