I am a new Xoom user, and I usually enjoy movies on Xoom. So I search what formats that Xoom supports. From Xoom official website, I know Xoom use Tegra2. And I surveyed them, I found Xoom supports AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, ACC Enhanced, OGG, MIDI, AMR NB, AAC.Tegra2 supports decode: H.264, VC-1 AP, MPEG2, MPEG-4, DivX 4/5, XviD, HT, H.263, Theora, VP8, WMV, Sorenson Spark, Real Video, VP6.Encode: H.264, MPEG4, H.263, VP8.
Since Xoom use Tegra2, why Xoom only supports very few formats? I want to know which one encode and decode video? Xoom or Tegra2?
It's Android/codecs, not the hardware. You still need software to decode the various formats to get out the frames. The GPU mainly does image scaling from the native resolution of the video to fill the screen. I imagine by listing codecs that hardware can deal with means that the GPU can handle scaling native frames from those formats.
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HTC claims that new Touch Pro 2 supports WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, AVI
http://www.htc.com/europe/product/touchpro2/specification.html
Seems like there is a chance for SEX1 owners to get the full accelerated WM soft and see movies directly from lovely x1 without ugly converting at last
Nice
Nice, it's like the big ugly brother of the Xperia.
I was about to buy a Touch HD the day I got my Xperia, until they got it out the box and i saw how big it was, told him to put it right back and bring the Xperia.
I'v got an iphone for if i feel the need to carry a weapon, but my phone I like to be comfortable.
AVI support would rule, just about every video I "own" is an AVI.
up till then coreplayer does the trick!
(good enough that is..)
Not that simple
AVI is a container, xvid, divx, and others are codecs within that container (e.g. you can put MP4 encoded video inside an AVI file). Just because something supports the AVI container, doesn't mean it supports 90% of the AVI files out there. Unfortunately, that's usually the case too.
If you don't see divx and xvid specifically, odds are they don't don't support them, only the vanilla avi trash from 10 years ago that no1 uses.
Anyway, there is none of HTC devices, who contains "AVI supported" string in specification list, only Touch Pro 2 and Touch diamond 2.
Sumenthus said:
AVI is a container, xvid, divx, and others are codecs within that container (e.g. you can put MP4 encoded video inside an AVI file). Just because something supports the AVI container, doesn't mean it supports 90% of the AVI files out there. Unfortunately, that's usually the case too.
If you don't see divx and xvid specifically, odds are they don't don't support them, only the vanilla avi trash from 10 years ago that no1 uses.
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Agreed - I don't see the big hoopla about the ****ty .avi container... almost any ripper supports or online released video offers some sort of mp4 (e.g. main profile L4 and up supports resolutions higher than X1's @ bitrates of 20Mb and up already).
AVI is a crap, it's time for AVI to DIE.
I think we can use Smart Movie or DIVX 0.91 to see any avi format, right?
I think, we have many tools (CorePlayer etc.) to play AVI, but we have nothing to play AVI with Qualcomm 7200's full hardware acceleration. It's only Windows Media Player and TouchFloAlbum who supports this kind of acceleration but they aren't support AVI. So, I hope TPro2 player will support both of them, so, hope there will be a chance to take the player from there to the X1, SEX1 and TPro2 proceccors are equal. I don't know if AVI ****ty or not, but most of my video content is AVI and all I want is to watch it without any problem
Hi, guys:
I just did some rtsp capabilities test on G1. Found that G1 didnt support h.264 well through rtsp, but the mpeg4 is fine. The youtube's video played on G1 looks having high quality. Can anybody confirm for me that is the youtube's video encoded by h.264 or mpeg4? And does it transferred through rtsp?
thanks.
I think it is some kind of flash-video codec, not the ones you mentioned. Adobe monopoly.
Youtube uses mpeg4 video for it's HQ streams, flv video for the LQ ones. The G1 gets served an mpeg4 stream regardless of the quality.
Since the new galaxy tab will have more video codecs by default than the xoom, can the xoom get more codecs in the future such as from the people at xda. If the xoom can be rooted, wouldn't this be possible?
I would like to know this also, but I would be more intrested in an app that will install codecs in your Xoom without being rooted just like the codec packs you install into your computer.
Source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html
The Tegra 2 supports the following hardware decoding codecs,
H.264
VC-1 AP
MPEG2
MPEG-4
DivX 4/5
XviD HT
H.263
Theora
VP8
WMV
Sorenson Spark
Real Video
VP6
Any codecs not listed here can not be hardware decoded by the Tegra 2 and would have to be software decoded.
I have just got a Xoom and copied over a couple of mkv videos. The video plays fine but there is no sound. Audio codec is AC3, is this not supported?
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
I don't think so.
It's annoying, because AC3 AFAIK doesn't have any issues surrounding it like other media formats can have...
Ah, an Android limitation then, guess I'll have to convert it to mp3, thanks.
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AC3 decoders have to be licensed. It's the old proprietary codec thing which Google tries to avoid.
Hmmm, still no sound as MP3, converted with ffmpeg...
Code:
Input #0, matroska, from 'blah.mkv':
Metadata:
doctype : matroska
Duration: 00:21:45.98, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 192 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
Does it have to be AAC?
Finally have sound, using AAC codec, now video is laggy as hell, only around 3Mbit too, thought Xoom was supposed to handle up to 20Mbit?
Philio25 said:
Finally have sound, using AAC codec, now video is laggy as hell, only around 3Mbit too, thought Xoom was supposed to handle up to 20Mbit?
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You need to use baseline h.264. Also, some android devices support AC3 (like your galaxy s) , but the Xoom doesn't.
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63258/kw/video/p/7901,7906,
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AC3 decoders have to be licensed. It's the old proprietary codec thing which Google tries to avoid.
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http://liba52.sourceforge.net/
Don't think so.
ydaraishy said:
http://liba52.sourceforge.net/
Don't think so.
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Just like frauenhofer doesn't prohibit open source mp3 decoders for personal use, but requires licensing for commercial products like mp3 players, I'd imagine Dolby labs requires licensing for dvd players and such. I'd be really surprised if theyballowed google/moto to use an unlicensed decoder.
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Just like frauenhofer doesn't prohibit open source mp3 decoders for personal use, but requires licensing for commercial products like mp3 players, I'd imagine Dolby labs requires licensing for dvd players and such. I'd be really surprised if theyballowed google/moto to use an unlicensed decoder.
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This was ATSC standardized, but I forgotten it's synonymous with Dolby Digital...
Here are specs that work really well for me on the Xoom:
Container format: mp4
Video codec: H.264
H.264 options:
Baseline profile
Level 3.0
Video size: 1280x752
Video bitrate: 3500 Kbps
Audio codec: AAC
AAC options: LC
Audio bandwidth: 256 kbps
I use the slow profile with 2-pass encoding with ffmpeg to get really good compression quality for the given bitrate.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the responses, I encoded the video again using latest ffmpeg and x264 codec and specified baseline profile this time, works flawlessly!
If anyone is interested, these are the ffmpeg options I used (latest ffmpeg/x264 from git):
Code:
ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec libfaac -aq 100 -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -tune animation -profile baseline -crf 20 -threads 0 OUTPUT.mp4
Hii everyone ,
I have some movie in hd format which I want convert to watch on my galaxy s4,I know I can watch them as it is after I watched the helicopter video which came preinstalled on my galaxys4 I thought why not watch every video or movie like that.
So any particular converter I should use and what settings should I use ,, like for the video height and video width.
the bits per second and audio settings.
The movies I have have are of 7 to 10 gbs each and of very very high quality.
thanks.
I have movies
Nexsss1 said:
Hii everyone ,
I have some movie in hd format which I want convert to watch on my galaxy s4,I know I can watch them as it is after I watched the helicopter video which came preinstalled on my galaxys4 I thought why not watch every video or movie like that.
So any particular converter I should use and what settings should I use ,, like for the video height and video width.
the bits per second and audio settings.
The movies I have have are of 7 to 10 gbs each and of very very high quality.
thanks.
I have movies
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Just buy an SD-Card and play them natively with MX Player, or Diceplayer. No need to convert anything.
Totally agree! Can't beat MXPlayer for functions! I missed the samsung player for a while on the S2 when I used a custom rom, but then I found MXPlayer. Now I even gotten myself the 'PRO' one to support further development
Toss3 said:
Just buy an SD-Card and play them natively with MX Player, or Diceplayer. No need to convert anything.
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Dude I know that I can play them on mx player or even the default video player.its juts that I wanted to know what setting I should use if I wanted to convert the videos for the default s4 resolution,cause normally theres always black areas below and above the videos or u gotta zoom in which causes a bit of the frame to cut out .
So if someone could just get me some good converter settings..
Nexsss1 said:
Dude I know that I can play them on mx player or even the default video player.its juts that I wanted to know what setting I should use if I wanted to convert the videos for the default s4 resolution,cause normally theres always black areas below and above the videos or u gotta zoom in which causes a bit of the frame to cut out .
So if someone could just get me some good converter settings..
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You want to convert a 2.35:1 video into 16:9? Why not just scale it? You are going to introduce clipping if you want to get rid of the black bars, and re-encoding only results in a loss of quality. I don't know what exactly you are expecting if you already know that scaling cuts off a bit of the movie.
Try xilisoft video converter. It has a conversion option for galaxy phones
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Nexsss1 said:
Dude I know that I can play them on mx player or even the default video player.its juts that I wanted to know what setting I should use if I wanted to convert the videos for the default s4 resolution,cause normally theres always black areas below and above the videos or u gotta zoom in which causes a bit of the frame to cut out .
So if someone could just get me some good converter settings..
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Your movies are in 2.35:1. They will always have black bars, it's intended to be that way. If you play those movies on an 80 inch television you will also have the same borders. Either zoom in, which degrades the quality, or watch them as they were intended.
Or, simply only download 16:9 movies. Problem solved.
Here are the video settings supported by Galaxy S4 from Samsung's official site:
Video
Codec: MPEG4, H.264, H.263, DivX, DivX3.11, VC-1, VP8, WMV7/8, Sorenson Spark, HEVC
Recording & Playback: Full HD (1080p)
So you can convert your video to 1080p H.264 .mp4.
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