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Problems playing .avi on my Touch HD

Hi I've just received my HD and overall I'm very impressed. I was a smartphone user previously so I’m having to come to terms with TouchFlo and Windows Mobile all at the same time!
The only real problem I’m having is playing .avi video. I've transferred an .avi file to my memory card but it won't play in CorePlayer (need the AC3 codec I think) and TCPMP doesn't load (get a crash screen) and mobile divx plays the video but it’s a mess on the screen.
I've even tried to encode the video file with PocketDivXEncoder but I think this needs TCPMP to play and it looks terrible in Mobile Divx.
So my question is how do I successfully play an .avi as this is one of the main reasons I bought my HD.
Also one further question with appointments in the calendar when I get a reminder the notification pop up doesn't appear till I click on the alarm icon at the top of the screen - is this due to touchflo and can you force WM6.1 to always show the notification - I’m finding I’m forgetting about meetings because of this!
Thanks in advance of your help.
JM

I've tried playing avi (divx) files with great success. I have been using CorePlayer (v1.2.5). Maybe you should try another video file? it should work

Interesting - are you using a special codec with that or just the player?

JetMouse said:
Interesting - are you using a special codec with that or just the player?
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I now see your problem, I had originally tried only avi movies with mp3 audio (like most of my videos). I tested it with a file with AC3 audio and it appears that CorePlayer doesnt have that codec.
Guess your only option with movies with AC3 audio is to convert them, or you might be able to get an AC3 codec somewhere.

So is there a way of converting my video into avi + mp3 rather than AC3 as it sounds like that would sort my problem?

JetMouse said:
So is there a way of converting my video into avi + mp3 rather than AC3 as it sounds like that would sort my problem?
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You could try the freeware video converter program 'SUPER'.
SUPER allows you to convert easily many aspects of a video including size, frame rate, format of video and audio, etc.
I use it all the time to convert my camera videos for use with my Hard Drive TV Media Player.
Don't try and download it from the developers web site it's a minefield in how to get the program.
Instead get it direct from Download.com here:-
http://www.download.com/Super-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10277613.html
Beards

I'm about to buy a Touch HD and was wondering if someone can confirm that it can playback video files (.avi) that can be found around the web (e.g. tv shows, movies and such) smoothly without conversion. (just transfer and play)?

yes please, can handle a typical rip of 350mb tv show or 700mb movie without problems?

Insaneboy said:
I'm about to buy a Touch HD and was wondering if someone can confirm that it can playback video files (.avi) that can be found around the web (e.g. tv shows, movies and such) smoothly without conversion. (just transfer and play)?
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It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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Could you share the FPS and bitrate please?

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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This is exactly whay i'm trying to do - can you tell me which video player you used?

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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How did you manage that, mines plays the videos but they are jerky, seems like it's caching the film. I've even tried same file on iphone & hd, iphone was much smoother. what am i doing wrong??
Peter.

I've got to agree here with edwardscdr. I have no problem whatsoever in playing .avi files using Core Player 1.2.5
I believe the problem that others are having is down to what software and system associated files individuals have installed on their Phone. These could be effecting the performance of the playback.
It's a bit extreme but one sure way of finding out the problem is to hard reset the device and install ONLY Core Player (I personally did this when I first received my Touch HD).
Next transfer a video/movie file and play it........ Do you notice any improvements?
If so then at least you know it's down to what was previously installed.
To then eliminate the culprit that was causing the problem is to install software titles one-by-one and on each occasion check the playback of the video.
When it changes and no longer runs smoothly then BANG.... you have your culprit.
Beards

its the ac3, core player can't play it
i wish i can convert the audio via super...

sound can be changed, the audio codecs will show different results when using a different container, im just used to the .mp4 container so i didnt see an audio codec change to mp3

AC3 will play on the old TCPMP beta, the screen is buggy (missing buttons etc) but it does work. If you set up file extensions (in the options settings in both apps) to play on different media players you won't have any trouble (eg: AC3 plays on TCPMP, divx/xvid plays very well on Coreplayer).
The only videos i have trouble playing are in the H264 codec, but that's not a surprise as it is an advanced codec that can make some older desktops slow down.
As far as I am aware, the only media player that takes advantage of hardware acceleration is the built in media player with the HD. For optimum video playback you'd probably want to convert your video files with a third party app into mp4, BUT as an experienced heavy user of video files I find that a combo of Coreplayer, TCPMP and the built in player works just fine for nearly all occasions.
Hope this helps.

the videos are kinda bit pixelated also in tcpmp, the play buttons are center below but u cant see them until u click them ahha

Watching Videos from Touch HD on PC

Hi Guys, i have a noob question.
How do you watch videos from your HD on PC, what player or codec do you use? I can see the image, but MPC reports there is no codec installed for the sound.

milosn said:
Hi Guys, i have a noob question.
How do you watch videos from your HD on PC, what player or codec do you use? I can see the image, but MPC reports there is no codec installed for the sound.
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Try VLC http://www.videolan.org/

I tried it before, now i tried it again, i get the same message every time for 3gp or mp4:
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "samr". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
Does anyone know how to solve this? Where can i Find that codec? I googled it with no results.

milosn said:
I tried it before, now i tried it again, i get the same message every time for 3gp or mp4:
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "samr". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
Does anyone know how to solve this? Where can i Find that codec? I googled it with no results.
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Have you tried the k-lite codec pack?
www.codecguide.com
or the community codec pack
www.cccp-project.net

probaj sa gom plejerom,pušta sve a i džabe je

vidojajce said:
probaj sa gom plejerom,pušta sve a i džabe je
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Please abide by forum rules and use English language. Free translators can be found online using Google

Google a Coreplayer. Plays anything without any conversion.

kitzie said:
Google a Coreplayer. Plays anything without any conversion.
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he is trying to play videos he made on his hd on his pc, not play videos on his hd lol

you mean to say you've never seen this application?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
you missed one half of your blackstone life mates!

jigners said:
you mean to say you've never seen this application?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
you missed one half of your blackstone life mates!
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do people on here not read lol

As I said, I'm trying to play mp4 or 3gp that I made with my phone on my PC. Thank you guys for your advices. This evening, for the first time since I got my HD, i heard the sound. I'm usimg MPC Home Cinema and Windows 7 x64. I don't know what happened, yesterday nothing worked, and today all is fine !!?? Strange, I didn't install anything except VLC.

I was going to suggest VLC it will play just about anything. My guess would be it has installed the required codecs.
BGF

I think VLC is using it's own codecs, i just tried the demo 3gp from my phone and there is no sound. In MPC Home Cinema x64 everything works fine, i guess it's this latest version (1.3.1249.0)

i've tried vlc, quicktime alternative, mpc, mpc-hc, but still, i always get the same error: ".samr files cannot be opened" or sthng like that.
there's got to be a way...
im using win 7 x32.

Has anyone found a solution for this problem? I am also trying to play videos (that I recorded with the touch HD in mpeg4 format) on my PC, but no player can play the sound. VLC gives me the error that it cannot play samr audio. I also have the full k-lite codec pack installed, but still no sound.
How do you guys play Touch HD videos on your computer?

you most probably know this...
... but here is a reminder...
i view my hd video's on pc.....
by going to video settings on hd......advanced ..capture format and set it to H.263 instead of mpeg4...
i then view it with quicktime..etc..on my pc..!!
...why persist with mpeg 4..?
above method still gets you there ....to view on pc..
(maybe picture quality not fantastic ...but still good to view..)
good luck
willcor

willcor said:
... but here is a reminder...
i view my hd video's on pc.....
by going to video settings on hd......advanced ..capture format and set it to H.263 instead of mpeg4...
i then view it with quicktime..etc..on my pc..!!
...why persist with mpeg 4..?
above method still gets you there ....to view on pc..
(maybe picture quality not fantastic ...but still good to view..)
good luck
willcor
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Thanks. You're right, I'll stick with H.263 and play the 3gp video in Quicktime.

[Q] About video playback...

Anyone manages to play most 480p/576p.H264.mp4 files in blackstone via windows media player? in what rom and how to? Thanks...(I have great trouble playing mp4 files. The wmp which exclusively supports H264 acceleration always gets nothing but sound, coreplayer simply cannot play the aka files, and TCPMP skips too many frames.)

Or can an adroid system solve this problem? I've tried a lot, none of them is able to play video files.

I have the same problem, too. I cannot watch videos any player skips so many frames what resolution, player and video format should i use to watch videos ??

Use Touch HD encoder guyz. Nothing is better than it for our HD. 800*480 resolution, h264 mp4 format and no frame skipping problem-or other-.

Problem with playing video!Anyone else?

So guys,I have tried playing some hd movies on my DHD with no success.Mostly I used 720p,but also tried the native 480p.All the videos were encoded using H.264 mid-high profile with a size of about 1.8-2 gigs.These videos either don't play at all or play with severe lag,both on stock video player and rock player,making them unwatchable.
The strangest thing of all though is that said videos play super smooth on my "old" Desire ( ) and have awesome quality.The Desire doesn't seem to give a **** what I throw at it,it plays everything.What is wrong with the DHD?Does anyone have the same problem?Or does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
PS:Sorry for my english but it's almost 4 am here and I am really really tired!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

i had the same issue, but i figured it out that DHD only plays several formats
such as:
.3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)

goran macedon said:
i had the same issue, but i figured it out that DHD only plays several formats
such as:
.3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)
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Not the situation here!I think I even encode them with the same "specs" as the videos taken with the camera.Am I missing something here?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Are you using the same SD Card that you use on the Desire? (Are they the same movie files on the same SD Card?) If not I would recommend formatting the SD Card as a first step.
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3

Same problem here. I tried several players like RockPlayer and VPlayer.
Videos are laggy and the sound is out of sync. Lags occur mostly on 720p MKV and MP4 files. I tried nearly every ROM and kernel out there, everytime the same results: laggy and out of sync.
Is there a fix for it?
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

on my computer, to play HD files i use QQplayer. so i thought, lets try looking it for android, and i was suprised they also have an android app... and i tried playing an .MKV and it's playing.. smooth on some parts, others aren't.. but i found it to be watchable

Cbxu said:
on my computer, to play HD files i use QQplayer. so i thought, lets try looking it for android, and i was suprised they also have an android app... and i tried playing an .MKV and it's playing.. smooth on some parts, others aren't.. but i found it to be watchable
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Have you tried rock player thats what i use to play .avi files which are encoded with ac3 audio

well yea, I tried rockplayer, but with .mkv qqplayer is smoother.. i use rockplayer for .avi too

Grant Barker said:
Are you using the same SD Card that you use on the Desire? (Are they the same movie files on the same SD Card?) If not I would recommend formatting the SD Card as a first step.
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3
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Yeah,it's the very same card(put the DHD's 8GB card in the Desire ) with the same file.Maybe it's because I used to have an ext partition which I deleted and then expanded the FAT partition on the space left by the ext one.Cause I also have problems with files becoming corrupt.Will try that,thanks!

Video players problem.

Hello, I own a HTC Touch HD. WM 6.1 stock rom.
I want to watch some videos but I can't because if i convert it with MP4forHD any video quality I may choose it has video / sound sttuter in it so I can't barrely watch someting.
Tried to download some 720p video from Youtube. Converted them with that software but still doesn't work , furthermore I tried to get a full movie (Avi XVID , mkv ... ) but still i get that sttuter. As I remember it was a time when I could watch any videos without sttuter using the same software. I use pvPlayer and TCMP 2.3.
Is there any solution for this?
Cheers.

Try Core Player. just google it.