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Video encoding

Hi all
I have searched the site and the net so please forgive me if I am asking a question that's already been addressed, but I am having real trouble encoding video that will play on my streak.
I am using hand brake on a mac, a few people have suggested on other sites that using the iphone standard settings should produce a video that will play correctly but when I copy it to the device I get the broken video icon, I have tried various different h264 settings but the video is jittery and there is a lot of artifacting.
Has anybody got any ideas? Is it possibly because I am using a mac?
Any help is greatly appreciated

lesday said:
Hi all
I have searched the site and the net so please forgive me if I am asking a question that's already been addressed, but I am having real trouble encoding video that will play on my streak.
I am using hand brake on a mac, a few people have suggested on other sites that using the iphone standard settings should produce a video that will play correctly but when I copy it to the device I get the broken video icon, I have tried various different h264 settings but the video is jittery and there is a lot of artifacting.
Has anybody got any ideas? Is it possibly because I am using a mac?
Any help is greatly appreciated
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bro, use rockplayer. it plays .avi perfectly. just download tv show/movie and whack it straight onto msd card and your good to go. google: rockplayer apk

Thanks for that, I'll try it right now

Yes i also use rockplayer its pretty sweet since it plays avi, and just to say handbreak on my mac does work and i used the iphone profile and converted videos that the streak was able to play straight away.

Rockplayer works great and so does encoding using the standard iphone profile.

Youtube app on X10

Just out of curiosity, since the X10 doesn't support flash (hopefully, that will change someday), then how is it possible to watch videos on youtube with the youtube app?
Does it stream the content using h.264 or something similar? Is the youtube app a standalone flash player?
Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find anythig but rants about the X10 not supporting flash when I searched the forum.
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good question maybe is like in winmo
or because youtube and android are from google maybe a trick is hidden there xD idk

You could ask the same of USTREAM , BBCi PLAYER and MPLAYER (beeb player) and how does SKYFIRE stream media from sites?! as they all do the same

the mobile app essentially streams the 3gp version of videos from the mobile version

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the mobile app essentially streams the 3gp version of videos from the mobile version
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Thanks PiLoT. That explains it.
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to my knowledge, it uses some mediaserver thingie, which apparently worked on my dumb T700 as well..
THAT phone certainly doesn't support flash, and when it failed to stream it says failed to connect to mediaserver..

The videos on youtube are all converted from the original format to various other formats including H.264 and that's what is streamed to modern phones.
On the flash player they're playing a .flv file, which is just a container for the H.264 video. (Also, youtube always keep the original file on their servers in case they change change something and need to reencode, eg. if they increase the max resolution or something.)

Thanks for the replies everybody. Now I know.
/and knowing is half the battle.
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Hi , I have recently Installed the JIT compiler and from then my pre -installed Youtube is not working properly. As soon as click on the video from Youtube app...it keeps on saying loading video and never loads..i installed the custom app from other sources but no luck .help me in fixing this issue.

[q] please help!!! Videos will not play on dx!

XDA,
I downloaded the ROM FlyX v0.1 Final. Everything seemed to be fine with my Droid X accept for watching videos. All my videos show the "thumbnail", when I click to watch I get a message that says "CANNOT PLAY VIDEO: Sorry, this video cannot be played". PLEASE, IF SOMEONE CAN PROVIDE ME ANY INFO. THAT WILL SOLVE THIS ISSUE IT WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
Thank You All For Your Assistance. -DROID X_46

I haven't tried flyX but you can try using rock player, it can play lots of file formats that the standard player can't. I dl torrents and have been able to play any video format I throw at it.
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Thanks for the help. Its not the format that's the problem, I've never had a problem before watching my videos. For no real reason it seems my Droid X will not play any videos. I CAN'T EVEN DOWNLOAD VIDEOS TO WATCH! -----HAS ANYONE HEARD OF THIS ISSUE & KNOW HOW TO SOLVE IT?------
Thanks, Droid X_46

Droid X_46 said:
Thanks for the help. Its not the format that's the problem, I've never had a problem before watching my videos. For no real reason it seems my Droid X will not play any videos. I CAN'T EVEN DOWNLOAD VIDEOS TO WATCH! -----HAS ANYONE HEARD OF THIS ISSUE & KNOW HOW TO SOLVE IT?------
Thanks, Droid X_46
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I've had this problem before. Are you on the latest system version? To check hold the volume down and camera buttons when turning on your phone and you'll be presented with a black screen with white text. Look at the top for the bootloader version. The latest update is version 30.04. Let me know what version it is and I'll help you from there

stock browser downloads and video playback

Not sure if it's just me or not but I'm having a lot of issues with downloading files over the air using the stock browser. Files whether they be apk's,zip,rar or mp3 rarely download successfully. I always have to use firefox browser for the downloads to complete. is anyone else having this issue? I have already reverted back to stock kernel to see if that may have been the issue. Also another problem that I been having is a lot of my videos (.mp4) that use to play just fine in the native video player don't play back anymore. I just get a black screen of it trying to load and have to use moboplayer which is fine since moboplayer works great but definitely annoying.
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je2345 said:
Also another problem that I been having is a lot of my videos (.mp4) that use to play just fine in the native video player don't play back anymore. I just get a black screen of it trying to load and have to use moboplayer which is fine since moboplayer works great but definitely annoying.
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Try accessing the videos using a file-explorer rather than using Gallery, so they start that way. Gallery can be a bit picky every now and then, especially if you move your files around a bit.

I have the same problem, it seems to me that direct links to file work ok (no matter what the file type is), but links with redirects don't work (it downloads the redirecting page not the file).

Video player advice....

Hey does anyone know about a video player that plays VIDEO_TS.....I need to play some of my movies....?!
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vari9 said:
Hey does anyone know about a video player that plays VIDEO_TS.....I need to play some of my movies....?!
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look for MoboPlayer in the market....the best so far for me..

I'm using RockPlayer. Sweet~ And stable. Able to play Video_TS files like VOB and even rmvb.

MOBO I use it works very well and is available on the MARKET
François

I used rock player.....it doesn't play the video_ts folder as a whole...i have to select files....gonna try mobo now.....and the movie has a menu in the beginning...so how to select to play movie or view scenes...??..??
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I tried mobo....didn't work out for me...it cannot play the video_ts folder as a whole!
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i have alot of movies with -TS files, too
so this is something i'm gonna be looking into as well. i thought Mobo was gonna be the solution

anyone tried VPlayer ?

sanaell said:
anyone tried VPlayer ?
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I have. Plays AVI very well.

Try Mplayer. If it will be as good as the pc one it will rock. SO far it's a bit rough but will work where others fail.
Watch out what settings you tick, not all processing methods are supported by tegra.

I used MoboPlayer and when plays DivX video, the movie plays but the screen getting so dark. I almost couldn't see the movie.
MP4s or MPGs plays normally.
Any help?

Try RockPlayer, seems the best so far.

You don't answer his question.... he asked for a player that plays vob files in a folder. Not the best media player.

moboplayer dark screen
ahsya said:
I used MoboPlayer and when plays DivX video, the movie plays but the screen getting so dark. I almost couldn't see the movie.
MP4s or MPGs plays normally.
Any help?
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I have the same problem. mobo goes dark whenever I start a video..however the trick is the control screen for moboplayer that displays once after you install it and the correct codec.
Brightness control is done by using your finger to slide up/down on the left side of the screen ( landscape mode ).
volume is on the screen right side ( up /down) and forward back in the video is at the top ( left right)
After I reinstalled it and actually read what the control screen says instead of just clicking on pass I find it to be satisfactory to just bring the brightness back up.
I have only had my A500 for 2 days so I'm new. Hope this helps.

sweborn said:
You don't answer his question.... he asked for a player that plays vob files in a folder. Not the best media player.
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Neither did you, so stop being useless.
PS. I did mention mPlayer a few posts back, if that doesn't do it...

I favor Buzz however I haven't tried much else...

I'm new to android.Is it impossible to install movie codecs on android tablets so that we can play all movie formats.Like .ts .mkv etc.

I hope you don't torture yourself with updates on your pc when there's VLC and SMplayer.
No, one size should fit all, look for mplayer or rockplayer.

Thanks.I downloaded moboplayer and it seems for me better than other players i tried.

jbrownusn said:
I favor Buzz however I haven't tried much else...
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is there a vdo player that was built from ground up specific for the tegra processor as opposed to a regular android smartphone player?