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[Q] Best Method to Get Video

Looking for opinions on the best way to get videos (tv shows/movies) on the SGT.
Primarily looking for non-streaming options to view on a flight.

.mp4 works best with the built in media player and will play full hd, i used handbrake to convert some apple trailers to 1024 width and the necessary height pixels with auto aspect correction. They play perfectly. I encoded at 2500kbps. The built in player is really good. Doesn't support 5.1 though. For avi and mkv, rockplayer is the best. Won't play hd though but hopefully the dev is working on it.
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Default player is great. But if you want to play everything else then use vplayer.
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for $10 bucks catalyst is great for dvds you own to convert them into all kinds of formats it has a SGT preset makes it super EZ.

Or handbrake can do it for free if you have vlc
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Rockplayer is free and plays about everything including flv.
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Some questions about DLNA

Hi guys, I have some questions about DLNA on GalaxyS.
I have the device that you can find in my signature.
I use the DLNA withTv-out to see films on my 37'' FullHd Tv, but I noticed some problems, hope that you can help me to solve them.
The player does not open MKV files.
The player does not keep the aspect ratio of the films. 16:9 videos have no problems, but the 2.39.1 (2.40) movies are distorted
If these problems can't be solved with the standard player (there aren't aspect ratio options, instead the classic video player of the SGS) there are better players that can replace the standard one?
Thanks

I think these are the very annoying limitations of dlna. You have to use avi afaik, i'm not sure about mp4 though.
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markdj57 said:
I think these are the very annoying limitations of dlna. You have to use avi afaik, i'm not sure about mp4 though.
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Uhm, i don't understand what is "avi afaik". Should i convert the mkv films?

afaik - as far as I know
avi is container for audio video, like mkv
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svkmirec said:
afaik - as far as I know
avi is container for audio video, like mkv
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Aaaah sorry
DLNA supports all kind of codecs under avi (divx, mpeg4, etc) but not MKV.
I think that there is no solution about this problem

olivercervera said:
Aaaah sorry
DLNA supports all kind of codecs under avi (divx, mpeg4, etc) but not MKV.
I think that there is no solution about this problem
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Actually I think it is a limitation of the tv set. Because the other day I went to bestbuy infront of the television section. Fired up dlna and found tons of tv sets there to use it with.
Long story short I had a 720 mkv video of tottenham vs real madrid and was able to play it on a LG tv. As a matter of fact everything was able to play on the lg tv. But on samsung only avi's was allowed to play video.

Video playback for. Avi

Has anyone ran across an app for. Avi playback..
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Not tried it yet but Rockplayer should do it...
Edit, just tried it and works well.

primus123 said:
Has anyone ran across an app for. Avi playback..
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MoboPlayer works great.

Moboplayer + 1 it has worked well with every file I've tried
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Does anyone know any player that supports subtittles in xvid? Srt or sub files.
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Moboplayer works well but doesnt dim the soft buttons. Is there a honeycomb player yet?

zard85 said:
Does anyone know any player that supports subtittles in xvid? Srt or sub files.
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That would I also like to know.
Edit: Mostly for the .sub files. I have tried Mobo, Rock, QQ, and Vitalplayer and none of them supports .sub files as far as I can see.

I use rockplayer for my series n movies, srt files are working well.

Yes +1 for the mobo player.
I use dvd Fab for all my movies,it also gives you the option to hard encode subtitles in the movie file.
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I can confirm Moboplayer supports SRT subtitles. As best I can tell, it looks at your video's filename, and then looks for the same filename except ending in .SRT. ALL CAPS file extention was the only way I could get it to work. Good luck!

rockplayer shutted down Iconia
jetsetwilly said:
Not tried it yet but Rockplayer should do it...
Edit, just tried it and works well.
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Rockplayer works fine .. but my Iconia shutted down a couple of time while watching movies in RockPlayer .

Try Mx player from market. It has an option to play in full screen and also to employ hardware acceleration /software acceleration.
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dice player is good too!! give it ago!

If you get Freemaker video converter, which is free, for your PC you can convert your videos.
I use Act 1 Video player because it let's you zoom the size.

Qq player work great
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josinpaul said:
Try Mx player from market. It has an option to play in full screen and also to employ hardware acceleration /software acceleration.
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+1 Mx player is awesome!
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mx video player. Avi file with srt greek subs. works perfect.

another person for mx player

I've tried about every player available -- BSPlyer Lite, VPlayer, MoboPlayer. MX Player is all around the best - the only player that streams avi movies from SMB share (used with FS File Explorer). I also like MoboPlayer.
I believe the best player for Tegra 2 is DicePlayer - paid ARM 7. It sucks that the paid version is not available and who knows, may never be available from Android Market. VLC is still in beta - looking forward to that one!
Does anyone know what's going on with Dice? Seems like they pissed someone at Google off...

+1 to MX Player, plays everything I have thrown at it, if not in H/W then in S/W mode. Loads subs, dims buttons and resumes play even from LAN.

Playing videos.

I'm unable to play videos, I have added realplayer but doesn't work. My HTC Inspire 4g with realplayer will play videos fine but my Transformer won't. Any ideas?

all depends on which type of videos you're trying to play i suppose.... moboplayer (free on market) plays anything i throw at it.

It was just an avi file.

right, but an AVI is just a container... could be one of a large number of different codecs.
try moboplayer and see if that video will play.

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right, but an AVI is just a container... could be one of a large number of different codecs.
try moboplayer and see if that video will play.
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Will do! Thanks!

RockPlayer also does a good job if MoboPlayer is not to your liking...

Moboplayer is awesome it works!
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Best mkv player with subs

Hey, until now im using the inbuild player. im mostly watch mkv and i like to know which is the best for mkv with srt subs?
b.t.w when i load srt i dont see the right latters its shows @#%$^ instad of hebrew.

I like mx player, but I've heard some prefer bs player.
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Based on my personal expierence MX Video Player is the best one out there. It could play some videos that VLC on my PC had trouble with (10bit mkv).
Still it had slow performance due to resolution and software rendering but it's much better than MoboPlayer or diceplayer, which couldn't play it at all.
Here's link if you're interested:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en

MX Player stay the best for moment. Can't wait for a rc candidate about vlc

Hands down mx player
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Mx pkayer definitely
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i prefere dice player

Dice Player for me is the best
MX Video Player lags a lot with 10bit mkvs under SW mode while Dice Player implements some kind of unnoticeable frame skipping to keep the video and audio in sync
Dice Player's downside though is it cannot play 1080p videos, for that i use MX Video Player
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Mx player is faraway first. Somee times i use mobo player.

Mx Player too. Since you barely notice the difference between 720p and 1080p movies on the Note anyway.. It never lets me down. And I watch a lot of movies and series on it. The subs look nice too.

+1 MX Player
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Wow, thats mx player is great and the subs function is working great. Plays mkv with subs with no problam.
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