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What video files does Universal support ?

hi, i am newbe so i am sorry for my silly question in advance. i'd like to mention that i tried to serch what i am interested in before i posted this.
can anybody tell me excatly what kind of vide or movie formats or files does universal support ? and if it dosnt support many is there anyway to upgrade it to enable this device ?? does is suport divx or avi , mpeg files ? and can u convert the above to the format universal support ?
and what is the SD card universal support. what is the mac size ? 4GB ? or lesss ?
cheers,
matt willing to get MDA Pro

MDA Pro supports 4 GB SD Cards.
Maybe it will support bigger sizes, but i think no one has a 8GB test card.
WMP 10 Mobile support only Microsoft Formats.
If you like to play other formats look on this project http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

It is also important to know that:
YES, the Universal supports 4GB SD Cards ONLY for running and storing applications or files. The camera application won't allow you to store recorded movies nor pictures taken by the camera if you are using 4GB SD cards.
2GB SD cards don't have any problem.

cktlcmd said:
It is also important to know that:
YES, the Universal supports 4GB SD Cards ONLY for running and storing applications or files. The camera application won't allow you to store recorded movies nor pictures taken by the camera if you are using 4GB SD cards.
2GB SD cards don't have any problem.
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4gb cards don't have a problem usually, providing the free space on it is less than 2gb.

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.

Problems moving vids to SD

Ok, I know that FAT32 has a file transfer limitation of 4GB. But the Tab wont read an SD card formatted to NTSF, so my question is how do I get my 4.5 GB+ HD movies onto my tablet to watch on my upcoming trip?

Use ripbot to re-encode at a smaller file size. You will not notice the difference on the SGT. 720p movies generally shrink to 1.8-2.5 GB.
If you feel it's crucial to keep the file the way it is, the only other option is to use mkvmerge to split it into two files. Google mkvtoolnix. For some reason, the 4.5 version of mkvmerge causes problems for me with the SGT. If that's the case with you, hunt down the 3.2 version.

[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] deploying soon, wanting some advice on how to do a few things.

Hey gang going to be deploying for the rest of the year soon and would like to be able to hook up an external USB hard drive loaded with movies to my a500 and watch them on the tablet. My question is will an external USB drive even mount or read on android (never tried don't own one) and if so what format will I need movies in and what software would you guys recommend for DVD ripping.
Thanks in advance
v/r
Btw, I'm rooted running Dexter 3.1 hc

Lucky for you, you bought the only tablet that will connect to a usb hd.
video foramts for the iconia are H.264 BP/MP/HP, MPEG-4, H.263
best dvd ripper I have no idea.

If you've already got HD vids, I suggest you download handbrake and download this setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ and convert your videos that way.
As for DVD ripping you could do a search for ripit4me or something similar.

Thanks for the quick responses, looking up rippers now

I have a WD 1TB drive, NTFS formatted. The tablet will not see it without a little legwork, but the legwork is fairly easy.
Root it with Gingerbreak (since you're already rooted, that's for others that need the info), then install one of a couple different apps. Since mine is NTFS (large file support) I then installed NTFS Mount. I link up the drive, run NTFS Mount, pick the drive then click the mount button. In a couple moments I'm browsing the drive from the USB Storage link in my favorite file manager and movies galore.
As for file formats, it will also deal with AVI, DivX and other file formats by installing Mobo Player, which comes with additional codec packs to deal with other files types.
I've been using DVD Catalyst for all my ripping needs.
And since I'm a veteran and have seen my abundant share of deployments (1st Gulf War, 3 tours in Korea, etc), stay safe out there brother! OO-RAH!

timehunter said:
I have a WD 1TB drive, NTFS formatted. The tablet will not see it without a little legwork, but the legwork is fairly easy.
Root it with Gingerbreak (since you're already rooted, that's for others that need the info), then install one of a couple different apps. Since mine is NTFS (large file support) I then installed NTFS Mount. I link up the drive, run NTFS Mount, pick the drive then click the mount button. In a couple moments I'm browsing the drive from the USB Storage link in my favorite file manager and movies galore.
As for file formats, it will also deal with AVI, DivX and other file formats by installing Mobo Player, which comes with additional codec packs to deal with other files types.
I've been using DVD Catalyst for all my ripping needs.
And since I'm a veteran and have seen my abundant share of deployments (1st Gulf War, 3 tours in Korea, etc), stay safe out there brother! OO-RAH!
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Excellent advice! Thanks mate!

Ok... I got a 1TB WD "my passport" the USB 3.0/USB 2.0 one. I formatted it to fat32 with a utility from Verbatim. (find fat 32 formatter in google Verbatim worked for me) Once I got it formatted on my PC I copied the 2 or 300 videos/movies I have... Most of my videos are encoded in XVID or DIVX but I have WMV and MP4's too. When I first plugged it into the Acer it simply flashed and I thought it wasn't working but on the next try I let it flash until it finally stopped flashing (about 70 seconds) then I was able to browse the drive with file expert. I downloaded MOBO Player which will play about any file type that I throw at it... there is a file browser in MOBO Player that will let you find the file you want to play. This mind you, is all done without rooting or doing any thing difficult... formatting to fat32 has its drawbacks but at that time there wasn't any ntfs driver programs that I knew about.
Wish you well with this great tab!
edit: found this http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197

You can also try rockplayer, it can play virtually every kind of video file out there (certainly all the ones I tried), so you might save some time from converting them. Just keep in mind that to open file extensions not supported natively by android you have to go through rockplayer itself rather than a file explorer.
And just to add something small to timehunter's comment, if you use NTFS Mount (which is a great app and works with every hdd I tried), your hard disk will appear as "sda1". When you select it and click mount, it will be viewable under /mnt/sda1.
*Edit*: The new version in the market is called Drive Mount, not NTFS Mount. It is still free and still as good (and more). However, make sure you have busybox installed, as some root methods don't include it automatically, like the stock 3.1 root.

I've been using DVDFab for ripping and Handbrake for converting; the newer version of DVDFab's conversion tool wasn't at all stable the last time I checked it out (thankfully before paying for it, yay for trialware.)

Where
Where can I find ntfs mount? I can't find it at the market. Thanks

shaun298 said:
Where can I find ntfs mount? I can't find it at the market. Thanks
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Its now called drive mount
Sent from my Acer iconia a500 rooted running Dexter 3.1

just wanted to say thanks. Got a Seagate goflex 1 TB USB 2.0 drive at best buy for 99$, DVD catalyst 4 for 10$ from toolsformovies.com and it worked great. Ripped "Seven" using the predefined Xoom HQ2 1080p filter (output was in .mp4) took 2.5 hrs but looks excellent in moboplayer.

threedfreek said:
Ok... . I downloaded MOBO Player which will play about any file type that I throw at it... there is a file browser in MOBO Player that will let you find the file you want to play. This mind you, is all done without rooting or doing any thing difficult... formatting to fat32 has its drawbacks but at that time there wasn't any ntfs driver programs that I knew about.
Wish you well with this great tab!
edit: found this http://www.verbatim.com/index/support.php?lang_id=1&cat=9&action=downloads&pid=5411&aid=197
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+1 for moboplayer! I have a bunch of WMV v8 encoded files and before moboplayer I was staring in the face the need to transcode them all to some other codec. No need now!
And thank you for your service, Scott.