When I try to attach video clip that I shorten to 550kb in mpeg4 (standard mobile quality) can't be attached. What format and how big of a file should be to send these kind of files. I use to have crappy phones that I done this many times, now with new technology and phones wtf Sprint-EVO.
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Hi All,
This might seem like a bizarre idea but I'd like to be able to use my XDA to convert video files from uncompressed .AVI into a compressed format such as .mpg
My reason for wanting to do this is I am going Africa in a few weeks to take part in the Tour d'Afrique, an 11,800km bike race from Cairo to Capetown.
My plan is to post a video diary to my blog from internet cafes along the route. I'm going to use an online video editing site such as JayCut.com to edit the video, but the problem is uploading the uncompressed AVI files, which are huge (about 1Mb per second of video).
There are plenty of free .AVI to .MPEG converters for desktop/laptop computers, but I haven't found any for XDAs. (not hard to guess why).
Space (and weight) are at a premium, so I'd rather not take a laptop and the XDA would be ideal if I can just overcome the video compression problem. (I don't mind that it might take a while to do the conversion)
Any suggestions would be really appreciated
Cheers
Simon
You could use coolcamera from ateksoft which makes videos in small sizes... 1 min takes about 5mb with reliable quality!
Considering that video encoding takes huge amount of the pc hardware i dont think its possible to make one for a ppc! You would probably need a whole day to encode a video!
Thanks Sercio, but unless I'm missing something, coolCamera looks like a bit of software that runs on an XDA and makes better use of the inbuilt camera ?
This wouldn't really fit my needs as my camera needs to be rain and dust proof !
Since coolCamera can do compression in real time, I think XDA's can probably (hopefull) cope with doing "offline" compression, albeit more slowly.
I did find this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=395600
which suggests that people are working on video conversion / compression using XDA's ?
I wonder if anyone has created a simple wrapper application for the ffpmpeg.dll's that would "just work". (it doesn't matter how simple the app as long as it can convert .avi into .mpeg)
I also realise (or think I do) that the .avi format can actually contain any number of different codecs, so nothing is ever simple ...
Thanks anyway
In the end I decided it was better to for an Asus eee PC with an additional external battery (and a solar charger). Should (might) have about 15 hours of battery life !
watch out for the lions and zimbzbwean.
by the way, where can i find your video journal when you are there?
hi,
how do i convert videos taken with the blackstone?
i setup mpeg4 but neither windows movie thing editor nor virtualdub can handle the file.
but i can play it with mpc without any problems.
linux...at least i see the video
i like to convert it to some moviemaker compatible format so i can quick edit some files to one video with effects in between.
thx!
Blackstone videos are already highly compressed as it is, so recoding them only to be able to use them in movie maker would give you awful videos. your best bet is avisynth - a frameserving application which basically feeds uncompressed stream from original video to the editing application. The idea is this, you create a text file which contains a link to the input file, save it with an .avs extension and then open that with an editing application. The avs file could be as simple as this:
DirectShowSource("c:\VIDEO0001.mp4")
I tried it now, and it works. You need to download avisynth and install it. Unforunately, i don't remember which apps open .avs files.
sorry i don't get it...
it's not about compression in detail.
i mean i do not want to compress or decompress the files.
i can not use it with moviemaker cause i just hear the sound and the picture is black.
so i thought i convert it to a format moviemaker can handle as it seems htc is saving it in some format that can not be used.
which i think is strange but...what do i know...
i which i could do all that with my jaunty
Well, here's the deal - every time you edit a video and save it, you are recompressing it, meaning you're getting a degraded picture quality. If you are only cutting out portions of video, then you can save it without recompression, meaning you get the same quality as the original file. The moment you add effects to the video (transitions, resizing, etc...), you have to reencode video - and get lower quality. Now, that may not be a big deal when your input files are high resolution videos, but when the input file is a heavily compressed ile, such as those made with Blackstone, it will definitely show.
Movie maker can't open mp4 files. The way i see it, if you really want to edit the files, your best bet is to download Super, a freware app which uses AviSynth as a part of it's encoding process, then output the files from blackstone as avi files in HuffYuv codec (lossless compression codec), open it in Windows Movie Maker, edit it and then save it. Note that Windows Movie Maker doesn't output to mp4, only wmv.
As far as getting only the sound an no video - deinstall all codecs or codec packs from your system and install ffdshow.
Hi. My wife emails me videos she made on her iphone 3GS, and i can't open them. Any ideas of how i can make it work? They are .mov files..thanks
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Hi. My wife emails me videos she made on her iphone 3GS, and i can't open them. Any ideas of how i can make it work? They are .mov files..thanks
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Have her record them in a different format, .mov is the Apple Quicktime format, and the vibrant does not play them ...
So you have 2 choices ..
1.) have her record them in a different format if possible ..
or
2.) save them to your pc and convert them to a true .mp4 or another format supported by the vibrant .
hxxp://lifehacker.com/5668721/vplayer-plays-just-about-any-video-format-on-android
Should handle .mov
(sorry bout link, new user thingy)
You could post some of her vids, so we could test em :-D
I have a number of schematics that I carry that are in simple GIF file format. I used to view these on my Windows Mobile phone and they were fine. And of course I can view them on my desktop PC, and they are fine. But on the Fascinate when I try to view them in the built in Gallery viewer, they are unusable. The quality is so bad that much of the text and lines are visible. These same images are online. When I view them online from the Fascinate, they are just as bad.
Does anyone know of any quality GIF format image viewers?
Best way to convert long recorded lecture(wav) to mp3
Finally, found a good recorder which flawlessly records my long lectures and easy transfer to pc. App name : yovisoft recorder.
But size of the recording is huge, 300mb for 2.30 hours lectures. And it gets too heavy on my sd card.
I tried audicity software to convert the wav to mp3 which gave me 200 mb mp3 file. Still huge, isn't it.
Than I directly copied wav to my lumia via mtp. As soon as i copied it prompted to convert. I selected yes, it gave 14mb file but it very dull quality.
I don't have deep knowledge of sounds/frequency/bitrates, please gave me best way of good quality and low in size (up to 25~50mb) way to convert. I have 16gb sd card.
Quick questions
1. Which is best audio format for hearing recorded lectures.
2. Which bitrates-frequency will be ideal for recorded lectures.
3. Any direct software on pc, dedicated for such jobs?
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Try audacity. It is a good converter between various formats.
He tried (and misspelled) Audacity, but he clearly didn't know how to use it because he got a huge file. Set the quality of the created file to something like 64kbps (if you use constant bitrate MP3 for voice, that's probably good enough, although MP3 isn't great for voice) and probably mono instead of stereo (halves the size, at the cost of losing the difference between right and left channels if those are present to begin with).
Actually, the fact that over two hours of uncompressed audio was only 300MB is *very* suspicious. For perspective, an audio CD (which is uncompressed, much like WAV) is only 72 minutes of audio (half of what you're trying to store) for roughly 700MB of data. Storing the amount of audio you're talking about at the quality of a CD would take about 1.5GB, not 300MB. Making it mono instead of stereo would halve that, but you're still talking a factor of 2.5x compression that isn't accounted for. Either the recording quality is very poor, or it's already compressed.
Well, the default lame encoding properties offer pretty good compression rate.
He either:
a) didn't have WAV as the original file format
b) Didn't convert to mp3 but to some lossless format.
c)messed up with the lame encoder properties.
hint: usually, bigger numbers tend to generate bigger files. The only exception is the compression rate, which only appears for lossless codecs.
Both of you guys (#2 #3) are genius.
Than thanks for understanding my typo @GoodDayToDie.
I use yovisoft recorder as i said, it gives me wav file, i dint knew all what you detected and conveyed me.
I need time to understand as my background is Accountancy Finance and Taxation.
I will do R&D and revert asap.
Thank you, i found exactly what i was looking for. Stay connected please.
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I use audiorecorder pro it records to compressed format aac.
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I use audiorecorder pro it records to compressed format aac.
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is it stable to record long lectures? About 3 hours.
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is it stable to record long lectures? About 3 hours.
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I'm not shure about 3 hours, but it recorded without problem 1,5 hour which was something about 60 Mb. Than you have three options to share:
By creating a file server, uploading to skydrive or saving it to a phone music library and than usual way of sharing files with pc. You can try this app without paying. I'm not shure if it is stable on gdr3 as I'm waiting on my official update for Lumia 920.
Free version fails in long recording, it doesn't even show last recording.
Yovisoft is only the working one. But strange format and size.
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Try Wavepad Sound Editor. You would be able to trim any unnecessary parts and when you save it, you can set the bitrate that you want it to be.
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Free version fails in long recording, it doesn't even show last recording.
Yovisoft is only the working one. But strange format and size.
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There was an update to Instant Incognito Recorder that adressed some bugs (crashes, etc), you can try it again and see if it works, also the dev. added an option to save to music collection so you can copy recordings via USB cable.