Snowfox software makes a few programs for video and audio tools. I played around with their dvd and total video converter last night and this morning. It had some decent results. It isn't perfect but its done a good job with converting divx or hd mkv files to files compatible with the audio and video specifications of android. I put in the video size of 800x480 and bumped up the video bitrate and adjusted the sampling and bitrate of audio and let the trial do its thing. Good results.
I also stumbled across a miro video converter. That program does a good job as well but basically does not have any settings to tweak. It has phone presets. I picked the one I thought had a high video resolution, nexus one, and let it do its thing.
I have been having a difficult time trying to get iphone and ipod presets to play good with handbrake as the encoder, but haven't had much luck yet. I am trying to get as good of quality as I can and these are the results I've gotten so far. I thought I would share this with you in case anyone might be wondering. Miro is free as in beer.
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Snowfox software makes a few programs for video and audio tools. I played around with their dvd and total video converter last night and this morning. It had some decent results. It isn't perfect but its done a good job with converting divx or hd mkv files to files compatible with the audio and video specifications of android. I put in the video size of 800x480 and bumped up the video bitrate and adjusted the sampling and bitrate of audio and let the trial do its thing. Good results.
I also stumbled across a miro video converter. That program does a good job as well but basically does not have any settings to tweak. It has phone presets. I picked the one I thought had a high video resolution, nexus one, and let it do its thing.
I have been having a difficult time trying to get iphone and ipod presets to play good with handbrake as the encoder, but haven't had much luck yet. I am trying to get as good of quality as I can and these are the results I've gotten so far. I thought I would share this with you in case anyone might be wondering. Miro is free as in beer.
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thanks dude, good lookin out
Hi guys, it's about a week that i'm tring to create a flawlessy working HD video for the Iconia, i've tried a lot of config but no one works, so i tried with Up downloaded from iTunes and it works like a charm, with a very good quality in about 4GB with the native Honeycomb player. So i take my Tron Legacy BluRay and tried to create a MP4 with HandBrake with AppleTV 2 preset but when i play it with every player i've got on my tab (native, Mobo, VPlayer, RockPlayer, Vital and Nemo) it's like fast forwarding and i cant slow it down to normal speed. With MediaInfo i compare the downloaded Up m4a and my rip of Tron, they look the same (same ref frames, same b-frame and all) but the iTunes one works, mine not. Obviously on PC everything it's ok.
So guys, what do you use to convert your videos to playback on Iconia?
I took the advice from this post and was able to get a 720p conversion using Handbrake from a 1080p mp4 rip of Shaun of the Dead, using Loose Animorphic setting and 1280 Picture width. You have to go to the Advanced tab and set Maximum B-Frames to 0 (from default 2?) and Preferences/General/Output Files, uncheck "'Use iPod /iTunes friendly (.m4v) file extension for MP4'". Also a good idea to make sure the Audio's set to no more than 160kbps, I think that's the Honeycomb maximum audio rate for video files atm.
Oh, the 720p file ended up being ~2GB, looks good but not great picture (occasional blur artifacting on hard scene transitions.)
Thanks, did you use AppleTV preset?
I'm going to try with your settings (i thought i used the same, but probably i'm wrong), tomorrow morning i'm coming back to update.
I've been using this preset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ and have had no problems
That preset works perfect.. Thanks!
I use normal and no b-frames and i got a playable videos but very choppy. I'm going to try that present, thanks Bootup.
I've used HandBrakeCLI under Linux to convert HD MKVs for use on my Iconia. It definitely works ok for 720p video but not yet tried any 1080p.
I've written a couple of scripts that convert a single mkv file and also a directory full of mkv files, they can be downloaded here: http://db.tt/Fq7knIr
Usage is simply: "mkv2iconia.sh inputfile.mkv" or just "bulkmkv2iconia.sh" for a full directory. They will both produce "inputfile.mp4" that can be played via hardware accelerated system player
Requirements: a linux command line, HandBrakeCLI, and a lot of time/patience.
Hope this is useful to someone.
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I'll give it a try if the preset posted before wont work for my rip of Tron Legacy.
I've been using a Windows application called DVD Catalyst 4 (tools4movies.com) to convert video. It had a lot of buzz about it on various forums, but I was skeptical. But it has a group of settings specifically for the Acer A500 (fast, HQ, 1080p) which make it easy to use and the new beta version works with DVDs or Blu-Rays (even copy protected ones if you have AnyDVD installed). I've done a few movies as tests and it seems to work very well.
And I was a user of Handbrake and RipBot264 previously.
I'm ripping a DVD now to try this process. It's getting good feedback,but I'll be able to decide for myself once I get it on tab. http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...rum/14292-ripping-videos-dvd-acer-solved.html
Update: Just transferred the movie onto my tab (Tangled @1.05 GB) and all I can say is wow!! You guys definitely must give this a try.
@DJ_Jedi
At the risk of sounding stupid, how are you using videos downloaded from iTunes on your Acer? I thought they were DRM protected.
Do all of your videos that you have encoded come out a bit choppy? Like skipping frames all the time.
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@DJ_Jedi
At the risk of sounding stupid, how are you using videos downloaded from iTunes on your Acer? I thought they were DRM protected.
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I just take it, renamed to .mp4 and copy into my Movies folder, it said "Could not work, copy anyway?" i said yes and it works.
But great news guys, used the Xoom preset posted on the previous page and it works great! Picture quality it's not the best, a little bit lower than on my previous tries, but definitely good, i'm gonna try 2 ref frames and target size 4GB and not avg bitrate 3500.
i use rock player... it plays pretty much every video file
Here is a guide for ripping high quality DVD to a500. Read to the bottom, as video conversion is discussed as well.
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...rum/14292-ripping-videos-dvd-acer-solved.html
EDIT: Woops, that was already posted above.
I have been using dvdvidesoft for our other android phones with the iPhone/I pad settimgs with no issues. I switched to it from handbrake because it was faster...,very user friendly and wasn't quite the resource hog handbrake was
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I've been using a Windows application called DVD Catalyst 4 (tools4movies.com) to convert video. It had a lot of buzz about it on various forums, but I was skeptical. But it has a group of settings specifically for the Acer A500 (fast, HQ, 1080p) which make it easy to use and the new beta version works with DVDs or Blu-Rays (even copy protected ones if you have AnyDVD installed). I've done a few movies as tests and it seems to work very well.
And I was a user of Handbrake and RipBot264 previously.
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Been using DVD Catalyst for a long time now. I usually rip in a Divx encoded AVI wrapper, but the Iconia Tab d/n support AVI files. So I did a couple rips using the Apple TV HQ HD settings and that is working peachy. I didn't realize it had a specific device profile for the Acer (doh!).
I like this tablet, but the poor media file format support will keep it from being my main entertainment portable go to device. That will remain my Archos 70IT (250GB) for the time being.
I think i'll stick to Handbrake + Xoom Preset downloaded from here, good quality and about 3 hours conversion with a 2.1 dual core mobile CPU, guess how much it takes with an i7, because i'm going to buy a new PC this summer and i'm waver between i7 2600 and new AMD's Bulldozer...
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm
Converts in minutes
saeba said:
I've been using a Windows application called DVD Catalyst 4 (tools4movies.com) to convert video. It had a lot of buzz about it on various forums, but I was skeptical. But it has a group of settings specifically for the Acer A500 (fast, HQ, 1080p) which make it easy to use and the new beta version works with DVDs or Blu-Rays (even copy protected ones if you have AnyDVD installed). I've done a few movies as tests and it seems to work very well.
And I was a user of Handbrake and RipBot264 previously.
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I don't know what version you have but my dvd cat 4 is a retail copy and i do not see anything on the a500 . I do see the xoom but thats it. No Iconia a500
Hello everyone,
I got a 64GB Acer Iconia Tab A500 about two weeks ago. I am looking to recode my bluray discs to watch on my tablet. I have looked over the forums and haven't found much in terms of settings. I recode using Handbrake, but every video I recode ends up being choppy and lagging on the tablet. I am getting the feeling that the CPU is lagging behind when playing the videos.
I have tried MX Video Player, Mobo and Dice and ask the will yield the same result with the same video.
I am running it full stock 3.2.1, but could root if need be.
Thanks in advance!
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
Have you tried the settings that WereCatf gives in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184002 ?
Jeff
jlary said:
Have you tried the settings that WereCatf gives in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184002 ?
Jeff
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I have not. I will try them once I get home. Thanks!
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Okay, so I recoded the first video and it ended up as an MP4 and in Both MX Video Player and Mobo they both said that the video cannot be played. As if it was an incompatible format.. I thought that was what MX and Mobo were for!
I tried using the 720p High Profile, I'm recoding one right now using baseline, but I have no clue what the difference is between the two.
After not having much luck using Handbrake to re-encode for any device (including the A500), I just threw $10 at the problem and bought DVD Catalyst. I use it to convert movies for every device in my family (Acer A500, Nook Tablet, Nook Color x4, original iPad, iPad2, HTC EVO 4G, and even a first step in re-encoding for Nintendo DSi XL), and it works like a charm. The developer hangs around XDA, too, so there's excellent on-going support for the product.
Hope this helps.
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After not having much luck using Handbrake to re-encode for any device (including the A500), I just threw $10 at the problem and bought DVD Catalyst. I use it to convert movies for every device in my family (Acer A500, Nook Tablet, Nook Color x4, original iPad, iPad2, HTC EVO 4G, and even a first step in re-encoding for Nintendo DSi XL), and it works like a charm. The developer hangs around XDA, too, so there's excellent on-going support for the product.
Hope this helps.
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I've actually gotten some success with one of the presets from WereCatf. I was able to get Planet Earth to look pretty and not stutter on my tablet!
I ended up using 720p Baseline for anyone else who's wondering.
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What settings are best (quality and efficiency) for the Nexus 4?
Preset: Android High
Picture Height: 1280
I wan't to encode some movie in advance of getting my N4.
Thanks for any input!
You don't have to encode anything. Just put the video file onto the device and you're good to go.
I recommend either: DICE Player or MX Video Player.
zephiK said:
You don't have to encode anything. Just put the video file onto the device and you're good to go.
I recommend either: DICE Player or MX Video Player.
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Thanks! I should mention that i'm also moving from iOS to Android with the N4.
I will need to downsample since a lot of my movies are in 1080p format or blu-ray remux (35GB). The teeny tiny 16GB N4 won't quite suffice
Good choice coming from apple to the nexus line.
As far as ripping movies the best solution is to get a 32GB nexus 7. More storage, longer battery and best of all.... Another gadget"
-Sent from my Nexus 4, also the proud owner of a 32GB nexus 7.
Uh60m Pilot said:
Good choice coming from apple to the nexus line.
As far as ripping movies the best solution is to get a 32GB nexus 7. More storage, longer battery and best of all.... Another gadget"
-Sent from my Nexus 4, also the proud owner of a 32GB nexus 7.
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The stock handbrake settings work great it seems.
Thanks. I figured that Google Nexus is the closest i could get to an iPhone (gorgeous display, updates right away, great build) with Android. Which is likely Google's strategy. Oh my I love this thing. Stomps iPhone for users like me. Love love love.
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As per the Nexus 7 thread i am using a custom preset:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791605
Picture: Width 1280
Audio: 160 Kbps, Stereo (ffmeg)
Advanced: Reference Frames: 5
Advanced: Adaptive B-Frames: Optimal
When saving the Preset:
Use Picture Size: Custom
1280 x 768
Re: Completed setup on Nexus 7FHD/Everything works--use Vplayer for Video
Hi:
I got my Nexus 7 FHD yesterday from Amazon and completed the setup this morning. I set up it up according to my guide:
http://www.nexus7nexus10.com/forum/...7-tablet-basic-step-step-setup.html#post20555
Everything worked, OTG and Nexus Media Importer, but my favorite video players--Dice, VLC, etc. Fortunately, Vplayer, free, does the job. No doubt other players will update soon. I had to backup and sideload a few apps like File Digger but otherwise all is well.
The high display doesn't play well with sites that display ads with machine-gun rapidity. The processor or the browsers can't refresh that quickly to accommodate the display. The main pages of XDA come to mind.
Baby Nexus 7 FHD is grounded and staying at home until a case and screen protector come my way. It's only day three so patience will have to be a virtue.
Best,
Tom