I thought I can connect a external hard drive, sales rep told me I can but so far works with thumb drive. I'm not rooted yet, just got it last night. Is it possible.
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You can plug in any drive but you'll need a special program if the drive uses a NTFS filesystem (USB mount all, Drive mount,...).
dito33 said:
I thought I can connect a external hard drive, sales rep told me I can but so far works with thumb drive. I'm not rooted yet, just got it last night. Is it possible.
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You must check the filesystem you are using. By default, ie. without any additional apps or such, A500 supports only FAT - or FAT32 - formatted drives. Either format your drive to FAT32 on Windows or install the NTFS - app the above poster mentioned. After that it works just peachy, I've got several drives I use and haven't met a single hitch yet.
Thanks guys, I'm using ntfs drives and wouldn't like to change it to fat. I'm having a hard time locating those app on the market, are those paid apps, one refers to mount sd card, I need a little help here please.
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Thanks guys, I'm using ntfs drives and wouldn't like to change it to fat. I'm having a hard time locating those app on the market, are those paid apps, one refers to mount sd card, I need a little help here please.
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Search for drive mount on the market.....you will need root access to mount ntfs whatever app you use...
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Here you go:
https://market.android.com/details?id=au.dach.drivemount&feature=search_result
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.USBMountAll&feature=search_result
The first app is free.
Thanks I'll check that out as soon as I get home.
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Thanks I'll check that out as soon as I get home.
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Just remember you need to be rooted for a ntfs drive mount program to work
Yup. As the above poster said: "No root no dice."
Feedback, I got all that, thanks guys.
Now half of my dvix movies don't play the audio do I need to install some kind of codec, using mxplayer, mplayer, realplayer, etc all doing the same.
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dito33 said:
Feedback, I got all that, thanks guys.
Now half of my dvix movies don't play the audio do I need to install some kind of codec, using mxplayer, mplayer, realplayer, etc all doing the same.
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Do they have audio in AC3 format? Lots of people -- ie. most people -- can't get audio when it's AC3, I don't know if it's a limitation of Tegra2 or what. If you have AC3 audio in your files then your only reliable option seems to be transcoding the files.
I personally have never even tried, there's no point in having multi-channel audio when I'm only using stereo headphones to listen to it.
Try mobo player; its located on the market. I've found it to play any of my vid formats.
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Try mobo player; its located on the market. I've found it to play any of my vid formats.
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+1 on that. It even plays all my movies over the network when used in conjunction with UPnPlayer or whatever it is
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I did some checking, no support for exfat either. So fat32 it is.
If anyone has a spare laptop hdd or old laptop lying around, take the hdd, put it in an enclosure and use easeus partition manager to format the whole thing to fat 32 regardless of capacity over 40 gbs and velcro that to your Iconia and u will have all the storage ud need. Just keep your files under 4 gbs.
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I did some checking, no support for exfat either. So fat32 it is.
If anyone has a spare laptop hdd or old laptop lying around, take the hdd, put it in an enclosure and use easeus partition manager to format the whole thing to fat 32 regardless of capacity over 40 gbs and velcro that to your Iconia and u will have all the storage ud need. Just keep your files under 4 gbs.
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That's not bad idea I have my body did to his laptop with 2 500gb hard drive, but I don't have any problem rite now attaching my ntfs 500gb as external since reads everything now the problem is like I mentioned earlier some dvix won't play audio, ill try those other players latter.
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veer01_42 said:
and velcro that to your Iconia
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Hahahaha...
Just applied this!
Very nice, thanks!
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Is there any chance to get rid off 4 Gb file limit? I'm trying to get a full hd movie phone unsuccesuffuly.
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The real question should be
sebyku said:
Why the **** am I trying to put a 1080p movie on a 480p phone?
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4gb is a limitation of the fat32 file system
so unless someone's made a way for it to read NTFS there wont be
I was thinking that 800/480 is slower than 480p . I dont know verry well howbis with resolutions . Thanx
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sebyku said:
I was thinking that 800/480 is slower than 480p . I dont know verry well howbis with resolutions . Thanx
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480p = 720x480 or 854x480, 1080p is 1920x1080 which is over 4 times the resolution of the phone screen. Quality and speed isn't based on resolution.
Thank you. What is the best torrent downloader that all fo you use?
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4gb is a limitation of the fat32 file system
so unless someone's made a way for it to read NTFS there wont be
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Except Android is linux based and uses the ext2 filesystem, if I got things right, so the filesize limit should be 16GB minimum (I'm not sure about android ext2 block sizes?)
Is 4 gb even you try to download from phone or.to.copy from pc .. I was trying woth ttorrent.
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Except Android is linux based and uses the ext2 filesystem, if I got things right, so the filesize limit should be 16GB minimum (I'm not sure about android ext2 block sizes?)
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But the user area on the internal memory and the MicroSD card is FAT32.
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Except Android is linux based and uses the ext2 filesystem, if I got things right, so the filesize limit should be 16GB minimum (I'm not sure about android ext2 block sizes?)
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but the SD card is formatted in fat32
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Except Android is linux based and uses the ext2 filesystem, if I got things right, so the filesize limit should be 16GB minimum (I'm not sure about android ext2 block sizes?)
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And that the S2 uses EXT4
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seshmaru said:
The real question should be
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that S2 is equipped with an HDMI port so it can connect to any full-HD LCD or plasma TV to play HD movies?
seshmaru said:
The real question should be
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As stated.... HDMI out?
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+ 1 for this.
I use my phone for films with HDMI output at my parents house when I visit and full hd would be awsome.
So has anyone been able to get the phone to mount the SD card with ext2 partition? I am receiving unsupported filesystem error.
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And that the S2 uses EXT4
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When I look my partitions I see that my SD Card and my external SD Card are formatted in FAT32.
The only solution for microSD is format the microSD and use
fuse.ko and ntfs-3g from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15167790&postcount=41
if the video is mkv it should be simple to cut in pieces, even without recoding.
yeah, we can use file splitter to split that video instead of converting it to lower resolution thats what I did with my transformers 3 hd and it works fine
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The only solution for microSD is format the microSD and use
fuse.ko and ntfs-3g from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15167790&postcount=41
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i think it wont work for memory card....its for mounting usb....
memoy cards with ntfs file system may work with minor modifications in kernel....and system......
any dev may focus this issue...then we can get rid of this limitation........
I'm running out of space with 32gb card. Will my home screen get messed up or change if I change the sd cards from time to time even if I make sure that both cards have the apps I have on the home screen? I only use three pages of home screen including some folders. I don't keep shortcuts to xperia play optimised games as they appear in the play launcher anyway, same with pocket ps games. Those are probably the most space consuming apps so I'm hoping I could use 2 cards without having to redo the home screens every time.
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If you copy your basic app and settings data to the second card, but not your media, it should be ok
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running out on 32GB already? dude, what have you been putting in your SD card? may i know please?
narflynn619 said:
running out on 32GB already? dude, what have you been putting in your SD card? may i know please?
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I have the same issue. It's because there is so many games to play on the play. I had to delete 2pac to donwnload Hot pursuit data sorry 2pac
My external is mostly filled with dubstep and Gintama lol
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captain67 said:
My external is mostly filled with dubstep and Gintama lol
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It's all about the Grime I like tre mission, He is canadian
And that is why I love Google Music. Only need a few mp3s on my phone, the rest are in the cloud.
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Keep the apps that you use regularly on both sd cards and you will be fine.
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kupo5131 said:
And that is why I love Google Music. Only need a few mp3s on my phone, the rest are in the cloud.
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Can you listen the ones in the cloud without 3G or WiFi?
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running out on 32GB already? dude, what have you been putting in your SD card? may i know please?
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Bought all gameloft games and they downloaded lots of data to sd. Some other games, Psxexperia games' data. Normally don't have media on the card - tend to stream it from NAS drive - but would not mind putting a few for when traveling.
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On my iPad I used an app called Air Video <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-video-watch-your-videos/id306550020?mt=8> to stream videos from a hard drive on my wireless network. I would like to do the same on my Nexus 7. Does anyone know a good app to do that? I searched the Play store but wasn't able to find any.
You can try fs explorer if its a share drive.
BSPlayer
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untilcomplete said:
You can try fs explorer if its a share drive.
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Do you mean "ES Explorer"? I didn't find anything under the name of "fs explorer"
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BSPlayer
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Holy smokes! BSPlayer is awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!
woshiweili said:
Do you mean "ES Explorer"? I didn't find anything under the name of "fs explorer"
Holy smokes! BSPlayer is awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!
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I think he mean't FX explorer.
I'm not sure how to exactly do this, I have a HDD plugged into my router, how do I go about finding it now? Any help would be great thanks!
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I tried ES File Explorer and that seems to work for Windows SMB network shares.
Just open the app, click the top left and Local to LAN. Then click the Search icon and it will find your computer on the network. Then just pick the file and open it with your preferred video player. The quality for my SD videos seems very blocky. I don't know if that's normal or not since I'm too lazy to put a file onto the internal memory to test, but it works. 1080p videos don't really play though and I haven't tried 720p. I might try some other apps later on.
ES File Explorer + MX Video Player. Works great. Rumor has it that an update to Solid Explorer is coming out soon that supports SMB share streaming.
I have tried a bunch of apps to stream from my Usb Hard Drive which is connected to my Netgear Router, but I have had no joy!
Anyone else using one of these routers and having any joy?
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Yes I am using a netgear router also n600 to be exact. I have had no luck so far, I think I am missing some settings that I need to change still.
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Plex worked for me.
http://www.plexapp.com/
Both of these stream from my WD Live TV Hub, not sure if they will work from a networked hard drive, probably will as long as there is some kind of DLNA/UPNP server on the NAS. I use these in conjunction with Dice player, which seems to play any codec up to 720p.
UPNPlay
Media House
I'm using VPlayer on the Nexus and I've installed TVMOBiLi on my mac.
I seriously don't get how to do this whole streaming thing, I don't have a server at home but I did plug in my portable hdd to my router and im not sure how to get it streaming to my N7. Any help would be great!
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atlman28 said:
Plex worked for me.
http://www.plexapp.com/
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+1 for plex.. its worked great for me
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1+ Plex
I've found Plex works well and I can use the same app on my GNEX and it happens to be built into my blu-ray player as well.
Three for the price of one!
dadoc04 said:
+1 for plex.. its worked great for me
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But don't I need a server with the Plex app? Sorry for the noob questions.
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XBMC works like a champ with PS3 Media Server installed on the computer. Able to stream 720p mkvs with subtitles to the N7 without any issues or stuttering
So I tried out BSPlayer and found it very easy to connect to my Windows 7 smb network shares. I liked it so much I used some of my credit to buy it.
It does get crashy, especially if you have a lot of LAN videos in your Recently Played, etc Playlists, but I don't use those anyway. The video seems much better quality than using ES File Explorer and MXPlayer/VPlayer. Load times and seek times are super quick with just BSPlayer too. The gestures for the interface aren't really useful to me, but they said they will probably have an option to disable it in a future update.
Anyone willing to connect with me via teamviewer to set it up to make it possible for me to stream my videos from my portable hdd that is on my router?
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i will be relying on my N7 for entertainment for a while and i have a 2tb i would like to hook up to it if possible.
Slack2116 said:
i will be relying on my N7 for entertainment for a while and i have a 2tb i would like to hook up to it if possible.
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If your 2tb hdd has external power it works if you use an OTG USB cable.
I have hooked it up to one of my 1.x tb hdds with external power by OTG USB and it worked like a charm
does it require root access??
Will-Survive said:
does it require root access??
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Good question. I would like to know also. And yes it has external power. Just a normal WD external.
I've just ordered a Samsung 500GB HDD and OTG cable so good to know (everyone should root their Nexus you can do so much more)
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Will-Survive said:
does it require root access??
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Not for read-only access (search play store for 'nexus media importer'), however if you root it, you can hook up the HDD, run media rescan (paid version of stickmount has that), and videos will show up in MX player, music in Music player and pics in Gallery.
Root is awesome.
If youre going to watch bluray rips or with audio codec DTS then i recommend you use DICE PLAYER and find a modified plugin file. its somewhere on XDA cannot remember for the life of me where it is...
its the only player that will play DTS and HD videos smoothly. MX has sync issues and other players dont support it.
Rooting is so confusing on this thing. Not like my RAZR MAXX.
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I use the Nexus Media Importer with a WD My Passport 500GB Hard Drive and I've had no troubles with it.
Slack2116 said:
Rooting is so confusing on this thing. Not like my RAZR MAXX.
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It's not really, it's the unlocking downloader that erases your data, but besides that you can root it with two clicks using one of the available tools found on this forum
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I've tried VLC media player to rip some of my old movies I have, but I can't seem to find the ideal settings. I rip on the preset "Video for android sd high" but the movie still wont transfer over without my phone wanting to convert it again when I transfer. Then after it does, my 2 hour movie takes up 1.4 gb, and that seems to high. Any recommendations on a more efficient setting or maybe if I should transfer directly to the SD card and reinsert it into the phone? Thanks
Try a program called "Handbrake". I've used it rip my DVD collection and I set it to encode on a "universal" setting, ends up being in .m4v format and my phone plays it fine. I'd say that's a normal size (at least what I've experienced) for a 2 hour movie.
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Try a program called "Handbrake". I've used it rip my DVD collection and I set it to encode on a "universal" setting, ends up being in .m4v format and my phone plays it fine. I'd say that's a normal size (at least what I've experienced) for a 2 hour movie.
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Why would movies downloaded onto my SD card for Flixster only be 700mb then? Are they somehow compressed?
I honestly couldn't tell you. I only have experience with that one program and don't know what flixster is.
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I thought with handbrake you need to save a whole dvd to your pc with a different program and then use handbrake. I'd rather just use one program If possible
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Not in my experience. Handbrake rips,saves, and converts all in one step.
http://www.techhive.com/article/242876/how_to_rip_a_dvd_with_handbrake.html
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Not in my experience. Handbrake rips,saves, and converts all in one step.
http://www.techhive.com/article/242876/how_to_rip_a_dvd_with_handbrake.html
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Yeah doesn't work for me, says scan failed unrecognized file type
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chrisbass said:
Not in my experience. Handbrake rips,saves, and converts all in one step.
http://www.techhive.com/article/242876/how_to_rip_a_dvd_with_handbrake.html
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I ended up getting dvd decrypter, and handbrake. That combo works even though I didn't want to get two programs but it's fine I guess as long as it does the job. Thanks
The whole process is pretty quick takes about 30 to 40 minutes for a whole movie. I'm happy with it
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Not sure if this is even an issue here... your 1.4GB file for a 2 hour movie at 1080p sounds exactly right... The 700MB file you mentioned sounds right for the same movie in 720p... are you checking these files after loading them on your phone to see what resolution they are? I've never seen one of my movies at 1080p turn out smaller than 1.+GB... even recording with the camera for that long turns out that big at 1080p...
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Not sure if this is even an issue here... your 1.4GB file for a 2 hour movie at 1080p sounds exactly right... The 700MB file you mentioned sounds right for the same movie in 720p... are you checking these files after loading them on your phone to see what resolution they are? I've never seen one of my movies at 1080p turn out smaller than 1.+GB... even recording with the camera for that long turns out that big at 1080p...
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Good point but I was having issues even ripping with vlc. Handbrake works just fine and I don't think I need any better then 720 for now. Is handbrake capable of 1080?
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Why would movies downloaded onto my SD card for Flixster only be 700mb then? Are they somehow compressed?
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Is there an option to download movies to your SD card with flixster? I can only stream movies, but can't download them to my card. Is it a setting that I need to enable?
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MACHEK said:
Yeah doesn't work for me, says scan failed unrecognized file type
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Don't do the scan folder option. Choose the add then file then choose the file directly.
Orr....
Get the best BEST dvd / blu ray backup software I have ever used. It's called MAKEmkv. It's free while in beta. You can find the software key on their website that is good through jan.
Use this. You will thank me later.
Makes 100% lossless backups in mkv format. Then you can use handbrake to condense.
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mrlaigle said:
Don't do the scan folder option. Choose the add then file then choose the file directly.
Orr....
Get the best BEST dvd / blu ray backup software I have ever used. It's called MAKEmkv. It's free while in beta. You can find the software key on their website that is good through jan.
Use this. You will thank me later.
Makes 100% lossless backups in mkv format. Then you can use handbrake to condense.
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Thanks I like that you can select only certain items. This may be a dumb question but are all DVDs 720? I can't seem to find a setting higher then that.
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You guys need to try DVD Fab. I paid for a lifetime license and can rip and convert anything I ever wanted to. In about any format you can think of. From Android to apple.
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Thanks I like that you can select only certain items. This may be a dumb question but are all DVDs 720? I can't seem to find a setting higher then that.
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Yeah DVDS are 720 at best. Blue rays are 1080. You can upscale the dvds to 1080 but it's not really worth it. You would be better with just the 720 verison.
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If you convert DVD of the VOB format to any other formats, the quality will be lossy. But if you just rip DVD to VOB format which if of the same format as DVD, the original video format will be kept maximally as there is no re-encoding process. Also some software allow you to convert DVD to HD format. I think the output quality will be good.
chris198810 said:
Well, it's not hard work as long as you get a DVD ripping tool that allows you to rip and transfer DVD to Galaxy Not 3 directly. Here is tutorial for you: How do I Get DVD movies onto Samsung Galaxy Note 3
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I've used DVD Catalyst forever (so its probably old technology). It lets you choose your device and optimizes it from there...
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Looking for help on DVD playback
I am afraid that you need to get a professional DVD Ripper to deal with your movies. The blog I found on Google should be helpful to you.