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I am a little disappointed in the Xoom for not being able to play 720p mkv files properly.
I have a lot of .mkv video files and I love to watch movies on a tablet.
So can the galaxy tab play 720p mkv files without problem?
Well i didn't know that whether Galaxy play or not but the new MacBook pro can play 720p video.
Earthbrain said:
I am a little disappointed in the Xoom for not being able to play 720p mkv files properly.
I have a lot of .mkv video files and I love to watch movies on a tablet.
So can the galaxy tab play 720p mkv files without problem?
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mkv is a container. If the video was encoded using h.264, the tab will play.
Wtf, why bother mentioning a macbook? Are you on pills, or did you forget to take them??
The Sgt plays all kinds of videos, even 1080p without any problems.
Yes, the SGT can play 720p .mkvs with no issue, it's something I do on a regular basis with mine.
Ehsan Mahmood said:
Well i didn't know that whether Galaxy play or not but the new MacBook pro can play 720p video.
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The tab handles greatly hd video. For some reason it even supports mkv and external subtitles with the built in player. Aaaand my mid 2008 MacBook already plays with no issue full hd video, so it goes without question that a newer cpu coupled with a decent/good video chip will play a simple 720p file XD
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Galaxy Tab is a good video player and play the most formats. Only if it has stereo sound. It cant handle multichannel audio.
And a sad thing is that most of the mvk movies has multichannel 5.1 DD dts etc. So you need to convert them ao you get stereo sound or it wont play the movie.
Galaxy Tab has a really good stock player. Rockplayer vplayer cant compare to the stock one that works great.
I belive that those who have problems whit playing movies whit xoom, have movies whit multichannel. Have not got any answer if android 3.0 can handle it. I now that android 2.2 Cant handle it and had hopes that 3.0 should play multichannel.
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720p should work fine.
I managed to play 2 1080p movies on the plan with no problems
crippleb0y said:
Wtf, why bother mentioning a macbook? Are you on pills, or did you forget to take them??
The Sgt plays all kinds of videos, even 1080p without any problems.
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Was thinking the exact same thing. He probably didn't do too well with comprehension tests at school. SMH
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i have test it with any 720p .mkv movies multichannel or not and plays them perfect with the build in player. Ultra smooth and very low battery usage.
And if you change the coding inside the srt file you can have greek subtitles too
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i have test it with any 720p .mkv movies multichannel or not and plays them perfect with the build in player. Ultra smooth and very low battery usage.
And if you change the coding inside the srt file you can have greek subtitles too
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What version of the Galaxy Tab do you have?? (Sprint, Verizon, Locked / Unlocked etc..??)
Can somebody give a final word on video playback. I intend to watch movies from a portable harddrive and am curious what files have had success, quality, and overall experience with Iconia as a movie player.
Cheers
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After trying multiple players and a few different file types, the only reliable medium that I've found for playing movies on the A500 is AVI, and something on the order of 1280x540 (or there abouts as depending on the movie, the 1280 is consistent but the 540 varies a bit.) MP4's and MKV's are all stuttering messes with distorted sound.
HC 3.1 looks like it'll fix things a bit coming in June.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ
Thanks for the info gentleman. I'm buying it anyway and will just convert. Great link.
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So let me get this straight. My Samsung Galaxy S can play anything including .mkv with multiple streams but the Iconia can not? Without conversion even 1080P movies.
I was hoping that a tab with dual core soc and 1GB DD3 ram would play those files without a problem.
What about mobo player?
Sutorcen said:
So let me get this straight. My Samsung Galaxy S can play anything including .mkv with multiple streams but the Iconia can not? Without conversion even 1080P movies.
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For the most part, the problem here is that Samsung added in additional codec support with hardware acceleration into the Android frameworks, whereas all current Honeycomb devices seem to just support the "core" Android codecs.
I have the same issue in that my single core 7" Galaxy Tab is generally a better video player than my dual core Tegra-powered tablet.
Regards,
Dave
Thanks Dave
I wanted to buy a tablet mainly for watching movies, since holding a laptop all that time and during summer isn't the best solution.
Since video playback was superb on the Galaxy devices, does this mean that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will have similar capabilities? Does the GT 10.1v have the same capabilities? If yes then the Galaxy Tab just returned to the no.1 spot on my "tablet to be" list. Too bad it doesn't have all the port on it.
Will go and check the 10.1v forum too.
I have found that "ES File Explorer"'s built in movie player does a great job at .m4v and .mp4 (formatted for the iPad). Smooth playback. Also, "Moboplayer" does a better job than the stock movie player.
My issue is finding a file type my xBox and my DirectV DVR like. I can share the media to both devices, but they don't support the .m4v and .MP4.
Astro
Sutorcen said:
Since video playback was superb on the Galaxy devices, does this mean that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will have similar capabilities? Does the GT 10.1v have the same capabilities?
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As far as I'm aware, the 10.1v, 10.1 and 8.9 Galaxy Tabs are still Tegra-2 based, and have the same limitations as any other Honeycomb Tegra-2 tablet (e.g. Iconia, Transformer, Xoom etc).
That being said, I believe the Froyo-based Viewsonic GTablet is also Tegra-2 based, yet had additional codec support built in to the Android frameworks, so a lot of this is a Honeycomb issue, rather than a Tegra-2 issue.
Regards,
Dave
I have had some luck using xvid4psp to convert my mkv/mp4/m4v files to baseline 3.1 mp4 files with little to no change in file size (720P is all I've tried so far). Quality is excellent clear.fi finds them locally and on my windows home server.
I'm not a video quality freak, but to my eyes there is no change in video quality. The sound on the other hand was converted from AC3/DTS to AAC so there is audio degradation on the whole, but I'm not someone who cares an awful lot about that either.
I stongly recommend the MoboPlayer. It will download a codec pack after you install it, and after than has been able to play every video file I threw at it. It'll use GPU hardware decoding depending on the codec, or offer to play using software.
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I stongly recommend the MoboPlayer. It will download a codec pack after you install it, and after than has been able to play every video file I threw at it. It'll use GPU hardware decoding depending on the codec, or offer to play using software.
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+1, did exactly the same.............
I'm using Rockplayer as a carry over from my HTC Evo, and it plays everything I've thrown at it. There's a free and donate version. The free version is in the Market.
So, bought the Gtab on Friday, got a 32gb unlocked (Sweet). So, here is the problem that appears to be happening to almost everyone.
My video playback is Horrible, I've tried multiple codex's, and different Resolutions.
The videos so far i've tried.
3,343 Kbps 1280x720 at 29.970 fps, AVC ([email protected]) (CABAC / 4 Ref Frames) .MP4 Container, Very Choppy.
1,390 Kbps 640x272 23.976 fps MPEG-4 Visual (Xvid) Advanced [email protected]) (BVOP2) .avi Container Very Choppy
5,000 Kbps 1280x720 29.970 fps, VC-1 (WMV3) ([email protected]) .wmv Container Plays Flawlessly
Everything but the .wmv will play flawlessly on my Vibrant. Actually .wmv's are the only thing that i have found that won't play on my Vibrant.
I will test more configurations, but so far i'm not pleased with the video playback on the galaxy tablet.
I've tried other video players off the market, Moboplayer, mVideoplayer, haven't tried RockPlayer yet, but i had it on my vibrant and I felt the playback was not as good. Maybe i'll try it on Honeycomb.
So, I guess list your experiences so far, and suggestions. I will update as I go and find things.
Reserved... (Pending List of known formats)
Working Audio Codex's (So far):
AAC Low Complexity 2 Channel, Best
MP3 2 Channel
WMA 2 Channel
None Working Audio Codec:
AC-3 (Any Channel)
Working Video Codex:
AVC/H.264 Base Profile for 720p/1080p 3 Ref Frames, 0 B Frames
MPEG-4 Visual (Xvid) (Unknown limitations)
VC-1 (Unknown limitations)
Vplayer works great for me
Unfortunately, the fact that Samsung kept their hands out of Honeycomb has a downside. As far as I know, the Tab supports no more video types than stock Honeycomb. Which results in almost no good support at all. I've come to deal with it and you can, too.
The majority of my videos (720p and 1080p mkv) are converted and compressed while maintaining the quality by using this setup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102922
Worth it.
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Unfortunately, the fact that Samsung kept their hands out of Honeycomb has a downside. As far as I know, the Tab supports no more video types than stock Honeycomb. Which results in almost no good support at all. I've come to deal with it and you can, too.
The majority of my videos (720p and 1080p mkv) are converted and compressed while maintaining the quality by using this setup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102922
Worth it.
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I found that this morning and tried it, i Converted 3 different files, and tried different settings, and they all run like crap. I guess i will try some other settings on it.
Who thinks Sammy should use Exynos in the tab? Tegra does not seem to be very friendly with respect to playback. I find it tough to believe that Tab looks so sluggish compared to GS2.
Just download a different movie player app. MoboPlayer works great, and it's free.
I downloaded Hall Pass 720 BRRip xvid and it looks amazing and works great...
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I downloaded Hall Pass 720 BRRip xvid and it looks amazing and works great...
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And its a .avi
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Whats wrong with just converting everything to hi-def MP4 on your desktop/laptop and dumping on your tablet? I mean the iPad does it with great success and gives the user the impression that it can play every video format??
The tab is a 10" screen, just about any video format 720p and above (hell even some 480p) will look just as good as 1080p on your 40-50" tv screen....or am I missing something???
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Whats wrong with just converting everything to hi-def MP4 on your desktop/laptop and dumping on your tablet? I mean the iPad does it with great success and gives the user the impression that it can play every video format??
The tab is a 10" screen, just about any video format 720p and above (hell even some 480p) will look just as good as 1080p on your 40-50" tv screen....or am I missing something???
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What program and settings do you use, then?
Ok, I just purchased the 10.1. I use it alot to play back mp4 and m4v videos that have been encoded by Handbrake. What I've noticed on the 10.1 is that while they look excellent, when panning, the video pans with a jerky motion and is not smooth.
Any suggestions? I've looked around the forum but have not found anything definite. I've encoded the video at 720p.
From what i've read and researched, Tegra 2 only supports H.264 with Mainline Profile, Meaning 3 Reference Frames and no B frames, i've encoded several 720p Videos that way at 5Mbps and they play flawlessly.
While researching, i came across someone that came up with a Profile on Handbrake. That is what I've been using to encode my videos and so far, everything works great.
I will continue to do more Research.
Just a fyi, it does support High Profile, but with a max of 4 reference frames and 3 B frames.
Check the very first post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
It also includes presets for High and Baseline.
buri73 said:
Background
As I understand it, Tegra 2 should playback up to High Profile 720p and Main Profile 1080p. However, with limitation on Honeycomb and/or lack of driver release by Nvidia, current crop of HC tablets do not playback anything above Baseline Profile smoothly. Future updates by Google/Nvidia should fix this issue, but it looks like we may have to reencode High/Main profile media for the time being.
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Even he says it, Tegra 2 currently doesn't support anything above Baseprofile because of driver limitations
But that thread is a Very good reference on how to encode video using handbrake, for Tegra 2 Devices.
He wrote that before the 3.1 update. He should really take that out.
buri73 said:
Update 5/28: Honeycomb 3.1 upgraded TF101 can playback 720p High Profile natively!
Verified with native player and Mobo(HW playback). Modified steps 3-3.1 to reflect HP settings, added HP preset and sample. Enjoy!
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Ahh I see it, right at the top, right now im testing it out, encoding a 720p video using his High Profile.
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I found that this morning and tried it, i Converted 3 different files, and tried different settings, and they all run like crap. I guess i will try some other settings on it.
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I've only converted mkv files, but for 720p ones I use 1280 max output width, 20 video quality, live video type, high h.264 profile, and veryfast encode speed. For 1080p I just change the profile from high to baseline. All of my videos (with the exception of Avatar.....Man that's a long movie) are cut by two thirds. I guess I should mention though that I have a Motorola Xoom til I can sell it and get a Tab
If that doesn't work, just contact the OP of that post. He's really good at giving prompt replies.
Thanks for the information guys, I really appreciate it!
I just got my tab today and I am bitterly disappointed in how poor it is in terms of formts supported. Non of my avi or mkv files play (and when I use a 3rd party app they lag like crazy).
Anyone got hd video playing smoothly with tab 10.1? This is frustrating because my friend can play hd video very smooth on his original tab 7" while I can't
Try using an app called 'dice player' from the marketplace.
There is a trial version available, to see whether your device is compatible. It's hardware accelerated, basically meaning that it should play without lag. I know this from experience as I had the same issue using my advent vega running vegacomb 3.2
If It's on YouTube or iplayer, you have to let it buffer - all you really can do
Hope this helps
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on youtube or on videoplayer ?
Alex Charles said:
Try using an app called 'dice player' from the marketplace.
There is a trial version available, to see whether your device is compatible. It's hardware accelerated, basically meaning that it should play without lag. I know this from experience as I had the same issue using my advent vega running vegacomb 3.2
If It's on YouTube or iplayer, you have to let it buffer - all you really can do
Hope this helps
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I got a few hardware accelerated player rockplayer and mx player.. still.. both failed to play 1080p videos smoothly..
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on youtube or on videoplayer ?
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on video player of course. so how is your experience?
+1 for Dice Player.
Works on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G, it plays mkv's without any problems. I downloaded 1080p youtube windows in MP4 format and they play fine. You can download the 3 day trial + the Tegra 2 plugin and test it!!
Another +1 for diceplayer
I bit the bullet and purchased it... very happy with it so far. Rockplayer and the other well known media players very much so pale in comparison to DicePlayer for the galaxy tab 10.1. Not that I had issues with Rock Player on my old Epic, just that diceplayer plays very nicely with the tegra2.
I have been using it with UPNPlay and MediaTomb on my server in my room and it makes video playback very nice in my house. (except that my N router doesn't buffer the high def stuff well)
Copying to the device though, i have never had an issue with anything i have thrown at it.
sundazetoo said:
+1 for Dice Player.
Works on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G, it plays mkv's without any problems. I downloaded 1080p youtube windows in MP4 format and they play fine. You can download the 3 day trial + the Tegra 2 plugin and test it!!
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Another +1 for diceplayer
I bit the bullet and purchased it... very happy with it so far. Rockplayer and the other well known media players very much so pale in comparison to DicePlayer for the galaxy tab 10.1. Not that I had issues with Rock Player on my old Epic, just that diceplayer plays very nicely with the tegra2.
I have been using it with UPNPlay and MediaTomb on my server in my room and it makes video playback very nice in my house. (except that my N router doesn't buffer the high def stuff well)
Copying to the device though, i have never had an issue with anything i have thrown at it.
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Unfortunately it is still no go for me. Downloaded Diceplayer Trial + codec and still give me choppy 1080p video playback (better than other player) so I'll hold my card for a while and waiting for other recommendation.
What make me really frustrated is my friend old spec tab 7" can play it with no problem whatsoever.. wtf is wrong with this so called dual core marketing bull****
You can always use Handbrake or something to convert it down to 720p, since it will look exactly the same on the tab. All of my 720p vids work great
first you are totally right my galaxy tab7 0n anndroid 2.33 plays 1080 videos much more smootherthan my other tab 10.1 , but remember the humming bird processor in the galaxy tab 7 had a very strong GPU compared to the nvidia tegra gpu so dont consider the galaxy tab 7 a low end device also the galaxy tab 10.1 had to scale for resolution (1280x800 ) while the galaxy tab 7 scales for only (1024 x600 )which is a bigger load on the galaxy tab 10.1 Gpu
second there were a similar problem in the motorola xoom forum and they reached a conclusion that the problem is in the honeycomb compitability with nvidia drivers in some videos extensions not all 1080 p videos lag but only some and may be fixed by a second update or by the release of icecream sandwitch so try to
sundazetoo said:
+1 for Dice Player.
Works on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G, it plays mkv's without any problems. I downloaded 1080p youtube windows in MP4 format and they play fine. You can download the 3 day trial + the Tegra 2 plugin and test it!!
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Hi! How do you get your MKVs onto the Tab? My Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to upload an MKV file onto the Tab 10.1! It's so frustrating!
I've never been able to upload an MKV succesfully before!
Please help!
EDIT: I also bought DicePlayer from the market! This is an excellent app! If I remux 720p MKVs into MP4s and downsample AC3/DTS to 2channel stereo AAC files. The quality on the player is great! I can see a lag occasionally though! It's most definately a drivers issue!
I've never tried to play a 1080p MP4 though.
I've had some success playing 1080p VC1 video files though aka WMV (Windows Media Video) files on the native video player without any issues! The video is silky smooth!
can I just ask why you want to play 1080p video in the first place? the gtab 10.1's resolution is barely over 720p so you will see no quality difference when playing 1080p, if anything it will be worse as it wont play as smoothly.
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can I just ask why you want to play 1080p video in the first place? the gtab 10.1's resolution is barely over 720p so you will see no quality difference when playing 1080p, if anything it will be worse as it wont play as smoothly.
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The usual answer to this question is because they have loads of 1080p videos already, and don't want to re-encode for the GT10.1.
Simple answer though is that the Tegra-2 SoC doesn't support 1080p in hardware for anything other than baseline profile, whereas the Hummingbird SoC in the GT7 supports baseline, main, and high profile (nothing to do with the screen size).
Regards,
Dave
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can I just ask why you want to play 1080p video in the first place? the gtab 10.1's resolution is barely over 720p so you will see no quality difference when playing 1080p, if anything it will be worse as it wont play as smoothly.
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The point is that it is easier to put movies directly on the device instead of converting it to 720
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foxmeister said:
The usual answer to this question is because they have loads of 1080p videos already, and don't want to re-encode for the GT10.1.
Simple answer though is that the Tegra-2 SoC doesn't support 1080p in hardware for anything other than baseline profile, whereas the Hummingbird SoC in the GT7 supports baseline, main, and high profile (nothing to do with the screen size).
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Dave
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Then this problem can't be fixed by only drivers modification ?
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Guess not since all Tegra 2 devices have the same problem with 1080p.
foxmeister said:
The usual answer to this question is because they have loads of 1080p videos already, and don't want to re-encode for the GT10.1.
Simple answer though is that the Tegra-2 SoC doesn't support 1080p in hardware for anything other than baseline profile, whereas the Hummingbird SoC in the GT7 supports baseline, main, and high profile (nothing to do with the screen size).
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Dave
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really??!....it is too bad news...
i can't play full HD on my tab 10.1
it is in .mp4 format and it just says video can't be played
komorka said:
Hi! How do you get your MKVs onto the Tab? My Windows Explorer crashes everytime I try to upload an MKV file onto the Tab 10.1! It's so frustrating!
I've never been able to upload an MKV succesfully before!
Please help!
EDIT: I also bought DicePlayer from the market! This is an excellent app! If I remux 720p MKVs into MP4s and downsample AC3/DTS to 2channel stereo AAC files. The quality on the player is great! I can see a lag occasionally though! It's most definately a drivers issue!
I've never tried to play a 1080p MP4 though.
I've had some success playing 1080p VC1 video files though aka WMV (Windows Media Video) files on the native video player without any issues! The video is silky smooth!
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Reposting my original question, since no one answered (most likely cause it appeared at the very end of page one)....
anyone can help with transferring MKVs to the tab in the first place?
renaming/removing the extension doesn't help!
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Reposting my original question, since no one answered (most likely cause it appeared at the very end of page one)....
anyone can help with transferring MKVs to the tab in the first place?
renaming/removing the extension doesn't help!
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I guess your windows is broken since I (and other) have no problem transferring any files to my tab. You can try using alternative explorer such as directory opus or xplorer2
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foxmeister said:
The usual answer to this question is because they have loads of 1080p videos already, and don't want to re-encode for the GT10.1.
Simple answer though is that the Tegra-2 SoC doesn't support 1080p in hardware for anything other than baseline profile, whereas the Hummingbird SoC in the GT7 supports baseline, main, and high profile (nothing to do with the screen size).
Regards,
Dave
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Really? So in which area this dual core can perform better than original tab single core? This is much disappointment for me since this is considered high end tablet :-(
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Hello All.
I'm looking for the best way to play 720p Movies on the Galaxy Note so I can take advantage of the excellent screen but run into a few problems.
1) The 720p files are over 4GB
2) Struggling converting .MKV files to a Note friendly format while keeping the quality.
3) Streaming is then the only option but still have to convert the video files first.
What methods do you guys use to get good quality Movies / TV shows on your Note?
Many Thanks
PS. Wish AirPlayit would come out for android. Used the iPhone version and that was excellent.
I use Handbrake (open source) http://handbrake.fr/ to convert my mkv's
there are tons of tutorials and walkthroughs for most of the android devices
for example just follow this
http://androidadvices.com/how-to-convert-watch-movies-on-samsung-galaxy-tab/
however, make sure you adjust the resolution that fits the note which is 1200x800 because the website is talking about galaxy tab
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I use Handbrake (open source) http://handbrake.fr/ to convert my mkv's
there are tons of tutorials and walkthroughs for most of the android devices
for example just follow this
http://androidadvices.com/how-to-convert-watch-movies-on-samsung-galaxy-tab/
however, make sure you adjust the resolution that fits the note which is 1200x800 because the website is talking about galaxy tab
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Many Thanks for that
The settings on the website after changing the resolution look awesome and have cut my 5GB file down to 1.6GB.
Really appreciate the help.
RustyWrightOne said:
Hello All.
I'm looking for the best way to play 720p Movies on the Galaxy Note so I can take advantage of the excellent screen but run into a few problems.
1) The 720p files are over 4GB
2) Struggling converting .MKV files to a Note friendly format while keeping the quality.
3) Streaming is then the only option but still have to convert the video files first.
What methods do you guys use to get good quality Movies / TV shows on your Note?
Many Thanks
PS. Wish AirPlayit would come out for android. Used the iPhone version and that was excellent.
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Diceplayer plays MKV's perfectly.
I tried an ep of trueblood 720p MKV and it ran perfectly without flaws.
Was only 2gb so not sure of over 4gb limit.
I uses this to stream all my Recorded TV (.ts), rmvb, mkv, avi etc etc to my note, works great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.qiss.vega.pro&hl=en