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When playing AVI's it stutters, convert? specific program?

Hi, I've had my O2 XDA Mini s a week and love it.
As I'm new to all this, I'm having problems in playing avi files ad they won't play in Media Player. A friend suggested I install TCPMP which plays everything on his HP IPAQ. I installed it and it does play the file but stutters.
I have just loaded the avi file onto my 2gb SD Card and playing from there. I haven't converted the file smaller or anything. Do I need to do this? If so, what prog, resultion, size looking for etc. Any advice, help would be appreciated.
Also, I saw a store selling 4gb mini sd cards, do these work on this handset?
Thanks
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Unfortunately the Wizard doesn't have a terribly powerful processor, running at 195 Mhz by default. I have the stuttering problem as well with larger files - there simply isn't enough grunt to process the stream fast enough.
You could try using Windows Movie Maker, which has targets specifically for Pocket PCs and/or a specific file size. Add your movie into a collection (make sure you turn off scene selection), drag it onto the story board, then save the movie. I can convert a 350MB 'HD' xvid in about 20 mins.
To answer your question about 4GB Mini SD, see this thread:
list of working 4gb mini sd, please contribute

Anyone know of a good Movie Converter?

Looking for a good movie converter from divx to something that the nexus can play. Preferably free. I'm a little new to this.

handbrake has been my main movie encoder for the last few years. I have never had anything in divx before but it ripped an avi_divx sample file I found on the web just fine.
If you are a windows user and handbrake is not your cup of tea you might look around doom9.net .

download doubletwist.

I used Super C for the g1 - worked great.

Unrelated, but I ran into what seems to be a FS issue when trying to copy some movies, and that the microsd card can't support files over 4GB in size. Windows however is telling me that the FS is fat32 and not fat16. So I'm still left wondering what the limitation was/is.
Edit: nvm I had my FS messed up, and fat32 does in fact have a file size limitation of 4GB.

alexguitar said:
download doubletwist.
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Does doubletwist convert them and shrink them or just to download movies? I don't see anywhere to convert and shrink.

Nothing could be better than a simple MediaCoder (just for every purposes)

I've had good luck with "Any Video Converter"... at least with the G1. It does any sort of conversion imaginable and is free, IIRC.

[Q] Playing Large MP4 Movie Files

Ok so my problem is regarding playing some movies I recently encoded. Movie info is as such:
h.264 MP4
2.8gb size
2000 kps Bitrate
800x480 resolution
29.75 Fps
128 kps audio
The movies I have tried are King Kong and Inception, now these movies have both played fine using WP7 but when I try to load them in Android they fail to play.
Is there a file size limit to what Android can handle processing? Shorter movies (FF7 Advent Children for example) will play just fine when the file size is about 1.5-1.8gb.
I tried the stock video player along with several free options from the market and same story every time.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me
Currently Rom I'm using is in my signature

2.8gb for movie files is too bigger to handled by android sd cache, have u try sd card booster ?
anyway what the encoder program u have used ? a 2.8gb with WVGA resolution kinda waste
Im suggesting 'auto gk ' for best compression

I believe the problem is the SD card file system.
Fat32 cannot support files bigger than 2048MB = 2GB

sorry to throw this into further confusion but i just finished watching sorcerer's apprentice and the mp4 file size is 2.6gb. i alternate between using rockplayer and vital player on my hd2. no problems and the skip / locate works well. example, i wasn't able to finish it on the train yesterday morning. in the afternoon, boarded the train and rockplayer picked it up from the last scene i left it. although....i DID run into an mkv 300mb file which was rather slow and the skip/locate froze up. which is really strange because i've watched other mkv files with no problems. could be the file itself regardless if it's mp4, mkv, avi, etc.

zach.antre said:
I believe the problem is the SD card file system.
Fat32 cannot support files bigger than 2048MB = 2GB
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Fat32 is 4gb limit if I remember right from my xbox360 days, if it was 2gb the file wouldn't be on a fat32 drive in the first place, or copy successfully onto a fat32 SD card from say a ntfs drive

download QQ Player from the android market. Thats what solved my problem.

2.8gb for movie files is too bigger to handled by android sd cache, have u try sd card booster ?
anyway what the encoder program u have used ? a 2.8gb with WVGA resolution kinda waste
Im suggesting 'auto gk ' for best compression
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I use iSkysoft media converter, very easy and great quality
Gunblade77 said:
download QQ Player from the android market. Thats what solved my problem.
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I tried that and still nothing
sorry to throw this into further confusion but i just finished watching sorcerer's apprentice and the mp4 file size is 2.6gb. i alternate between using rockplayer and vital player on my hd2. no problems and the skip / locate works well. example, i wasn't able to finish it on the train yesterday morning. in the afternoon, boarded the train and rockplayer picked it up from the last scene i left it. although....i DID run into an mkv 300mb file which was rather slow and the skip/locate froze up. which is really strange because i've watched other mkv files with no problems. could be the file itself regardless if it's mp4, mkv, avi, etc.
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See I wonder what it is that's different that allowed you to play that.

[Q] What format to use for microsd card

I am purchasing a 32gb microsd card to use with TF. However, I have videos files that are larger than 4 GB (Fat32 limitation). I am wondering if there is another format supported by TF that will allow larger files. Thanks.

i'd give ext3 a try... you'll have to install Ext2Read on your windows box to access the memory card though.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

Are you sure those video files larger than 4gb will even play in Honeycomb without skipping? Sounds like a high profile encoded video.

tekkitan said:
Are you sure those video files larger than 4gb will even play in Honeycomb without skipping? Sounds like a high profile encoded video.
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Yes. I can already play them through streaming.

xformulax said:
i'd give ext3 a try... you'll have to install Ext2Read on your windows box to access the memory card though.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
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Thanks. I presume this is supported by TF and I will be able to copy/delete to the card through the USB cable?

Yes you can.

Would you recommend using ext3 over NTFS and if so why?
I haven't recieved my transformer yet so not sure if it will nativly read NTFS but I know the rooted devices can.

[Q] small question regarding video compatibility

Hi, I just bought the Iconia and I've been playing with its clear.fi app. It's not perfect, but nice for music, and I would like to use it for movies as well. Unfortunately, it won't show me any of the movies I have on my hard drive (.avi's and such, mostly whatever I have show with digital cameras), nor will the usb transfer let me send files over the wire. So what's going on?
I thought it was a format issue, but I've converted several avi's to mp4 and neither clear.fi, nor the usb connection would let me see them / transfer them, respectively.
thanks

oh, and just for clarity sake, i have a 501 and stock rom (for now)

Hi, as I understood using clear.fi or Acer movie you can play only DivX (MP4...) and H264 movies.
For a lot of other format try MX Videoplayer, it'free.
Download from market both the app and the armv7 codec.

thanks for that, but any idea why i can't transfer them via usb?

Sorry but I didn't understood your USB transfer problem...
I use astro to transfer from USB to internal memory with no problem.

i don't have a micro sd card so far, that's why i'm wondering why i can copy certain small size-files via the usb cable between the computer and the tablet, but i can not copy large ones. is there a limit imposed by the FAT/NTFS systems or..?
thanks

Ok, now it is more clear...
I have transferred from pc to tablet movies file bigger than 1gb but less than 2gb; the pc (win7) just warn me that the files could be not reproduced.
I don't know if tablet has limit like Fat32...

it finally worked with copy and paste, drag and drop wouldn't work. Avi and played flawlessly

Me too use copy and paste.
Enjoy your AVI files !
Ciao