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[HOWTO] Convert videos for Samsung Galaxy S using Handbreak.

Team,
Thought I would throw this out here so people don't have to hunt it down.
The Samsung Galaxy S has a big, beautiful screen that just begs for some quality video to show off. But what is the best way for you to convert your favorite videos and transfer them to your Galaxy S? In this guide, we show you what software you need to convert videos for viewing on the Galaxy S, and we also show you how to get your newly converted videos onto your handset.
Requirements:
1. Installed copy of Handbrake software from here http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
2. Video files and or DVD of your choice
3. Samsung Galaxy S with microUSB cable​
Step I: Launch the Handbrake application on your computer and select the video source
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1. Launch Handbrake (figure 1)
2. In the menu on the right-hand side, select the iPod Legacy preset (figure 1)
3. Select your video source by clicking on the Source dropdown menu (we used a DVD for our testing purposes)
4. Select the destination and name for the file once it has been converted (both the .mp4 and .m4v extension work for the Galaxy S)
5. Confirm that the container is set to MP4 File and that Large file size, Web optimized, and iPod 5G support are unchecked​
Step II: Adjust Handbrake's Video Settings
Picture Tab:
1. Uncheck Keep Aspect Ratio
2. Set the Galaxy Sd Width and Height (the Galaxy S supports a maximum of 800 x 480 pixels)​Video Tab:
1. Set Handbrake's encoding settings by clicking on the Video tab (figure 2)
2. Confirm the Video Codec is set as H.264 (x264)
3. Framerate (FPS) should be set to Same as source
4. Under Quality, select the Avg Bitrate (kbps) and change it to 1500​
Step III: Adjust audio settings
1. Set Handbrake's audio settings by clicking on the Audio tab (figure 3)
2. Confirm the Audio Codec is AAC (faac)
3. Mixdown should be set to Stereo.
4. Change the Samplerate to 48
5. Change the Bitrate to 160​
Step IV: Save as a preset for future use
1. Click on the Presets menu and select New Preset
2. Enter Galaxy S in the dialog box and click Add
3. "Galaxy S" will now be saved as a preset and listed on the right hand side in Handbrake to be used in the future​Step V: Convert the video and copy to your Galaxy S
1. Click on the Start button in Handbrake
2. A command line/DOS window will open and start to process the video conversion
3. Once the conversion is done, mount your Galaxy S on to your computer via USB (figure 4)
4. Once mounted, create a folder named Video in the root folder on the Galaxy S
5. Copy converted file into the Video folder​
That's it! The converted video can now be played on your Galaxy S using the Gallery app. It should look fantastic on the Galaxy S's screen as long as the original source was of good quality.
A few things to keep in mind when converting video:
1. The Galaxy S does not like video file sizes over 2GB (the settings in Step II should help insure that the file size is kept under 2GB)
2. Your converted video will only be as good as the source video
3. If your source is over 800 x 480, you must be sure to set the width and height to a maximum of 800 x 480 as noted in Step II​

This program crashed whenever i try to convert a vob file that is over 1gb in size. Smaller vob files convert just fine.

Great guide TGA_Gunnman thanks!
But since Galaxy S supports Matroska files, why don't some of them work on the phone? Example episodes of the Simpsons and TopGear work just fine if I throw them to my fone in 720p format. But Futurama, Band of Brothers and such do not. Even if I convert the Furutama episodes to the native resolution, BUT keep the mkv-format: still they don’t work. But they work in .mp4-format ofcourse, but this conversion method takes a a lot of processin power and a LOT of time.

jokuvuan said:
Great guide TGA_Gunnman thanks!
But since Galaxy S supports Matroska files, why don't some of them work on the phone? Example episodes of the Simpsons and TopGear work just fine if I throw them to my fone in 720p format. But Futurama, Band of Brothers and such do not. Even if I convert the Furutama episodes to the native resolution, BUT keep the mkv-format: still they don’t work. But they work in .mp4-format ofcourse, but this conversion method takes a a lot of processin power and a LOT of time.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but are not MKV files just containers for audio/video/subs?
So you can have in a MKV an AVI+MP3, or MP4+AAC and so on...

TGA_Gunnman said:
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Thanks but it did not work. I actually tried to convert a 2.6 GB mp4 file using handbrake following a guide by someone in the forum to convert videos to play in the SGS. It produced a 2.1 GB mp4 but SGS will not play it just skips over to the next video file.
I even tried to convert the video using Kies but the video quality is so crap, can't believe how samsung can provide such a software where it converts all movie frames not above 300 pixels whereas SGS is having 800!!?

Worked for me, ripped my Avatar DVD into a 2.5GB file with Handbrake and it plays perfectly.

Arkymedes said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but are not MKV files just containers for audio/video/subs?
So you can have in a MKV an AVI+MP3, or MP4+AAC and so on...
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That's my understanding as well.
Some mkv files play on my PS3, some do not; just depends on the underlying codecs used. Same thing for the Galaxy S.

?????????? convert???????? why???????
Guys,
One of the main points of having an SGS is that you DONT HAVE TO CONVERT "videos".
EDIT: I see you are referring to DVD's!!
aah, ok
DVD is different from "videos", DVD is just one kind of way to deliver videos.
Of my +1200 divx, xvid, wmv, mkv, mp4 videos, VERY few have been unable to play, I have not even considered the hassle of a conversion software, this isnt an iphone after all ;-) Even some 720p HD videos play with no conversion with my SGS... awesome phone.
Mark

I think it is an issue more with the audio than the video for why some mkvs don't play. There is a program, can't remember the name ATM, that is used I icon vert mkvs into xbox compatible mp4s. Ot takes about ten or twenty minutes, I think it only modifies the audio but does nto transcode the video.

drizek said:
I think it is an issue more with the audio than the video for why some mkvs don't play. There is a program, can't remember the name ATM, that is used I icon vert mkvs into xbox compatible mp4s. Ot takes about ten or twenty minutes, I think it only modifies the audio but does nto transcode the video.
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yeah I used Popcorn mkv converter http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PopCorn_MKV_AudioConverter, it was so simple, I don't have to do extract audio - reencode - repatch manually all was taken care of the software like a breeze, great work by the developer and he is worth to be appreciated with some gift as he saved me now. The fix was so easy it just took some 5 + mins for a movie and around less than a minute for my song video. Now it plays in my SGS. Remember it only supports mkv files. Audio codec that was not supported by SGS was VORBIS in those files.
My only problem is to reencode my mp4 avatar which is great quality but audio missing in SGS, anyone suggest how I can do this easily like the above.

Hey guys
this program works great and all but I noticed some videos show up in the mediaplayer with length of 0:00? They play fine and in the actual video the correct length shows up, but when browsing through the media player library the length shows up as 0:00.
anyone know how to fix this? For some vids I don't have thsi problem, but for a lot I do.

Hi guys,please help me out with this,it's driving me crazy.
I did everything on this howto, I converted some avi files to mp4 but my SGS doesn't play it at all,I keep getting the message "I can't open this file" or "file not supported"
players used: galaxy s video player,Vplayer,Meridian, same thing every time.
suggestions?
Thanks

Just buy an external memory card
You dont have to convert nothing it almost plays everything. Converting is time and energy lost and you sure in theory loose video quality..
The only problem galaxy have is to downmix 5.1 channel movies to stereo, but you can do that with tools that just change the audio file without touching video, like yamb and audio transcoder.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I already have an 8gb kingston card.
I tried to play avi,mp4,mkv with different players.nothing at all.
Am I missing something?
Please help.

Bet you flashed some custom firmwares
Just, factory reset, I advice to flash 2.2.1 oficial, no lagfix, through kies, its probably better than every custom firm
I also have subtitles support with this firmware
luposurfer said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I already have an 8gb kingston card.
I tried to play avi,mp4,mkv with different players.nothing at all.
Am I missing something?
Please help.
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Actually I have:
Firmware Froyo 2.2
PDL:I9000RSJP5
Phone:I9000XXJPP
CSC:I9000ITVJP3
Kernel Version:2.6.32.9
[email protected]#1
Froyo.RSJP5
Does it make any sense to you?

Well, does it open any video file at least? If there are only a couple of videos, than they can be corrupted, or not supported,
otherwise I would still recommend factory reset or/and flashing.
Why do you install all these video players, do they offer anything more than the stock?
I tried Meridian and it was laggy .
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After some testing, it seems to me that the stock player prefers 44.1khz audio sampling frequency. 48 khz also works, but with considerable stutter due to dropped frames.
On a side note, I find the color enhancements done by the stock player to be absolutely horrendous. Some people, mostly asian hardware companies, seem to love extra colors...but it looks awful to the rest. Please samsung: add an option to turn it off...we are not all color blind.
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I think HD video look gorgeos on the stock player, thats why I dont convert, and I`m not asian,
anyway I prefer Windows Media Player to all other pc video players,

sonci said:
I think HD video look gorgeos on the stock player, thats why I dont convert, and I`m not asian,
anyway I prefer Windows Media Player to all other pc video players,
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Well, WMP does not do anything weird with the picture or colors. The stock SGS player seem to boost the contrast and colors for a higher "wow"-factor. Come to think of it, this is exactly what Samsung TV's do by default (the "Dynamic"-setting, which thankfully can be turned off). However high the wow-factor is, the colors are not correct, and they make any movie look like a cheezy commercial. If the film producer wanted higher contrast and more colors, he would have added it
I believe the voodoo colorfix corrected this exact problem (look at http :// project-voodoo.org/color for an example), however I don't think it is available for 2.2.
(Sorry about the spaces in the url, but I'm not allowed to post proper urls :-( )

Nokia N8 VS iPhone 4: Enjoy your DVD/Video with best smart phones

Now in the market of smart phones, iPhone, also with other Apple devices are too hot, and most of the people think there is no other product could challenge the position of Apple iPhone. But actually it is not the case. Now that the Nokia N8 has shipped, The Nokia N8 is the first Symbian^3 smartphone released globally and big emphasis is placed on its imaging capabilities.Could it challenge iPhone 4 ? Below we would have a simple review and comparison to find out more features of the two hot devices.
Nokia N8: Hardware Impresses, but Software Underwhelms
The new Nokia N8 is the Finnish company’s first successful touchscreen phone. It’s neat, good-looking and has a battery that will take you safely from one day to the next. You’ll probably still want to recharge it overnight just to be sure, but our tests saw it last happily into a second and even a third day between charges. Plus, it’s a Nokia, and has a hugely familiar operating system that’s intuitive and simple, so there’s only the gentlest new-interface learning curve.
In fact, the system has been greatly improved from earlier touchscreen versions so it’s less erratic and more accessible. The phone’s anodised aluminium casing is solid and businesslike, especially in the dark grey and silver colour options (lime green not so much). It’s no slouch in the features department: a class-leading 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash means you can rely on it if your job entails taking site-visit photographs or high-quality video. Even better, thanks to a mini-HDMI socket and supplied cable you can painlessly play back the video or photographs on a full-size flatscreen TV, say – handy for presentations. And when you’re on the road, the excellent BBC iPlayer application will mean you can play back last night’s EastEnders on the hotel room TV.
Nokia has top class push-email features – though BlackBerry is still the gold standard here and many users will still prefer the convenience of a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen version. Overall, though, this is a powerful smartphone which will serve business users well.
iPhone 4G -The iPhone 4.0 is too hot today. Many refer to it as the Apple iPhone 4G, but that term is actually incorrect. Regardless, you are probably wondering if the smartphone is worth its value. First, lets consider the iPhone 4 cost. To upgrade from your current AT&T plan, the price is $199.99 for a 16 GB unit and $299.99 for a 32 GB unit. However, if you don’t currently have an AT&T contract, the price of an unlocked iPhone 4 without a contract is $599.99 and $699.99 for a 16 GB and 32 GB respectively. Ultimately, if you are upgrading, the price generally isn’t a huge concern. Now let’s take a look at some of the iPhone 4 features. Probably the most notable is the video calling, which allows you to video conference with a contact who also has the model. While this feature is definitely an example of superior technological innovation, not every smartphone consumer has an iPhone 4. The 960 x 640 resolution makes the interface of the model eye-catching. Videos can be recorded in HD, and the display of the model is probably better than that of your own personal computer. At the same time, don’t fail to realize that the iPhone 4 battery life is going to take a hit with the display of these distinguished graphics.
It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players?
Now I will introduce you an all in one solution. Only one program will help you solve all your questions, that is Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite. This program consists of two wonderful software: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter. Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can get movies and music from any format files. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.
You can free download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Video Converter from this link:
Then I will introduce you how to get movies and music from DVD and other video files with this powerful program.
How to get movies and music from DVD?
Step 1:you may open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “DVD Ripper”, then you may get the software Nidesoft DVD Ripper.
b.Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c.Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.
After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2:
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop: you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.
Effect: Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect.You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.
Trim: as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment.
Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Note: If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if your portable player is PSP, choose the profile “PSP Video MPEG-4 (*mp4)”
Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start the conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
How to convert video or audio files to some formats which your player supports?
You can free download the Nidesoft Video Converter from this link:
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1:open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “Video Converter”, you may get the software Nidesoft Video Converter.
b.click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.
c.EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1)Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2)Effect: You can select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3)Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4)Options:
Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate to customize the output video's quality.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
d.Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.
e.Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. If you have any questions, please visit Nidesoft Studio website or send email to: It’s my pleasure to help you solve your problem.

Yea, I'm in the process of probably trading my Vibrant for an N8. Symbian has moved to an iOS/WP7 update model where features will be given out to each device instead of having to buy a new phone to get a new version of the OS.
The only thing that bothers me is the way Nokia stifles the phones with low amount of RAM, which can lead to performance issues.
There is SPB Mobile shell for Symbian so the UI issues aren't such a huge issue. I also like the development environment for Symbian (very flexible, similar to Windows Mobile).

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Why would you bump the thread for free in an attempt to seem witty? And why such a useless post?
I agree that it may not be in the correct forum, but you haven't indicated as much with your post...

If you read all the post you will notice all it is, is a spam message to get someone to download and use a video conversion program, the fact it has a thinly veiled hardware review at the beginning does not mask this fact.
This is why new users cannot post links

Really, who cares about crap symbian and the iphone 4??
Also why post in the wrong thread
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Symbin+Qt+Strong phone = <3
better than Samsung GS crap! have to look to lagfix, gps fix, color fix, shapness fix, fake ram, covers coz its stupidly weak, lov scratch! and......
goning back 2nokia very soon, E7 or N9
meego gonna blow up everything

[Q] How to transfer large movie files??

i got a gtab just recently and i couldn't transfer my hd movies. i read some where that its not possible to format the internal sd to ntfs so i tried with my external sd card and the device doesn't recognize the card..... is there any way to transfer large files?

Saddly notify you, it's no way "now". May it "will" by hacking the file system support with XDA's, we wish...
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The Galaxy Tab uses Fat32 file system I believe. That said, max single-file transfer size is 4 GB for Fat32 drives. If you try to transfer anything over 4 GB to a Fat32 drive you will receive an error and it will not complete. My ripped blu-rays look amazing on the Tab! Let me know if you want instructions.
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You can stream using Tversity on your computer and vplayer on your tab also you can mount the drive as a smb mount there's some info on that in developement and it works rather good. Also upnplayer is good to see local media servers
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i just drag an drop my 720p br rips with no problems

Is the Android file limit 2GB or 4GB? I've had zero luck transferring a file over 2GB to my SGT using ES File Explorer or Websharing. Can >2GB files be transferred via cable? And if so, are they playable or even recognized by the OS?
My workaround for this limitation is to use mkvmerge to split the file into parts. As it is, 90% of what I watch are TV shows, and none of them top the 2GB limit.
Kind of interesting that most manufacturers tout 1080p video performance as a benchmark but ignore the limitation in file size at the same time. I guess they're concentrating on lower bitrate 1080p streaming than h.264 encoded mkv files.

Phone_Junkie said:
The Galaxy Tab uses Fat32 file system I believe. That said, max single-file transfer size is 4 GB for Fat32 drives. If you try to transfer anything over 4 GB to a Fat32 drive you will receive an error and it will not complete. My ripped blu-rays look amazing on the Tab! Let me know if you want instructions.
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Hi.
Can you show how to transfer file more than 4gb to the tab?
Thanks

Really you shouldn't be needing video's that large, with the screen resolution of 1024x600, what would you do with a video that's 1920x1080? The screen isn't even high enough native resolution to support 720p. I'd recommend sizing your video to keep the native aspect ratio and fit it into the 1024 width which often still leaves letterboxing on your video but then at least you see the entire movie.
My largest file, Harry Potter 6 is 2.93gig which saves fine on a Fat32 SD card, and plays fine in the built in video player, and looks outstanding scaled to fit 1024 pixel width.

Interesting. While the actual file limit of FAT32 is 4GB, the Android limit is 2GB. So you can copy a 3GB file to the SD card in storage mode from a PC, but you can't copy more than 2GB if you are using a copy program from within Android. Or at least, that's what I'm seeing.
I'm puzzled as to why Android can play a 3GB file but not transfer it. Unless, of course, I'm doing something wrong.

I can transfer any file under 4 GB to my Tab, regardless if transferring to the external micro SD card or internal. Attached is a "detail" picture of one of my ripped blu-rays.
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I can transfer any file under 4 GB to my Tab, regardless if transferring to the external micro SD card or internal. Attached is a "detail" picture of one of my ripped blu-rays.
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Odd...I tried to ftp file > 2GB and it didn't work. How did you transfer it? Through PC USB?

Thats what i do. Try splitting the file into two
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Yes, sorry should have been more clear on my method. I am connecting to my PC through USB and using the mass storage feature when prompted on the Tab. Hope that helps.
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Okay, I have transfer Despicable Me to my Tab, which is one of the videos you see on the Sprint ads, and it won't play. When I use the stock video player I get an error "Sorry, License Acquisition Failed". When I use VPlayer it is all pixelated. These are not BR just standard def files and they are authorized digital copy transfers. I've tried Handbrake but the program crashes before it gets to 2%. I've read several topics on this subject and it seems just about everyone else is not having trouble. Any other ideas ?

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Okay, I have transfer Despicable Me to my Tab, which is one of the videos you see on the Sprint ads, and it won't play. When I use the stock video player I get an error "Sorry, License Acquisition Failed". When I use VPlayer it is all pixelated. These are not BR just standard def files and they are authorized digital copy transfers. I've tried Handbrake but the program crashes before it gets to 2%. I've read several topics on this subject and it seems just about everyone else is not having trouble. Any other ideas ?
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I had the same problem when trying to put a digital copy of "The Expendables" on my Tab. The DVD company couldn't help either. I finally gave up.

maxjivi05 said:
You can stream using Tversity on your computer and vplayer on your tab also you can mount the drive as a smb mount there's some info on that in developement and it works rather good. Also upnplayer is good to see local media servers
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Yes I think streaming is the way to go, on my iPhone I use "Air Video" that converts on the fly the vids on my PC. Need to look into Tversity, does it do the same thing?

If you're not in a hurry then you'd be better off feeding the movies through Handbrake or somesuch and dropping them to a less ridiculous size. On a screen the size of the tabs even a "low resolution" 480p movie will look fine if encoded at a reasonable bitrate with h264, a ~100 minute movie at a filesize of around 500MB should be plenty. That way you can fit a whole bunch of movies on there rather than just a couple. The lower the bitrate & resolution, the less processing power required to play it as well, so the longer your battery will last.
The tab uses RFS (Robust File System)for its filesystem. which is a version of FAT which as a result has a 4GB filesize limit.

[How to] Encode HD videos for Iconia Tab

Well, since there is no guides for how to encoding videos for our lazy Tegra 2 Tablet, I happy making this for you guys.
First of all, im mexican and I never study english, so my gramatical skills aren't very good
All we need in this guide, is Staxrip, a free and open source UI for several tools, like avisinth, x264, virtualdubmod, besweet, and a lot more.
You can download Staxrip ready for tegra encoding from this link: Download Staxrip
Now, if you don't want to complicate this bussiness just uncompress Staxrip.7zip on C: because all paths are set for C:
OK, open Staxrip and you will be a window like this:
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there is a lot of options, simply and fastly:
Source: input video
Target: output video
Filters: avisynth filters
Resize: well, exactly that, resize
Encoder: default set to x264, baseline, no tunning, HQ and already configured.
Container: default set to mp4
Audio: default set to AAC VBR ~192kbps
All this settings are ready to play on our Iconia tab.
1. Drag and drop a good quality video on staxrip window. The program may ask for some programs like avysinth or others, all apps required are stored inside application folder and staxrip just ask for install, but you don't need to search or download any of this applications.
2. Once that the video you selected are loaded you will see something like this:
You now can see info about input video, like resolution, display aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio and stuff.
If you see on last image, I clicked on Resize and I selected 1280x720 and Resize filter has checked on Filters settings.
3. Now just click on Next button at bottom right and the project will be added to Jobs list. If we want to attach several videos to encode just close Jobs list and repeat all process to load another video. If not, just click on Start! button.
Now you can see the output video on your A500 and see what smoothly the video will play.
Click here if you want to download and test a nice 1280 output video to play on your iconia
Please feel free to ask for anything you want
BTW, This profile settings works with 1080p too

How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?

What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.

Maddmatt said:
What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.
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Anything but 720p+ MKV files, unfortunately..

@ Alejand
Thanks for sharing. Nice job. I'll try this. The video you posted is nice. And don't worry about your proficiency in English here. You are not writing a master thesis
Anyway, I did not know that the iconia is capable of playing the video on the fly without downloading. Awesome, I love this tablet.

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How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?
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All depends of how much frames per second can encode your hardware, for example if you pc is powerful and you can process 100 frame per second and your input movie is 2 hours at 23fps then
2 hours= 7200 seconds.
7200 seconds x 23 fps = 165600 frames
And if your hardware can encode 100 frames per second then encoding process will take about 27.6 minutes
But remember, we al depends of your hardware

can it deal with discs? almost all of my movies are stored on bluray or DVD disc. i once downloaded a free version of a bluray tool. it works well, but there is a big logo "foxreal" in the centre of the converted file. it's really affect viewing. i have looked for such free tool for a long time. any suggestion?

How to: Handbrake and A500

Many people still seem to have lots of misunderstandings about H.264 support and they often try to feed wrong kinds of files to their tablets resulting in choppy playback, so I create this thread to help atleast some of them:
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* The Iconia Tab A500 does support H.264 video in 720p baseline-profile on 3.0.1 stock ROM, it doesn't support hardware playback of 1080p video at all and that will be choppy. The tablet simply doesn't have enough processing power to do 1080p video in software fast enough, so you'll have to update or install a custom ROM for that.
* The tablet on 3.1 (or newer) does support H.264 video in 720p resolution in baseline-, main- and high-profiles, but 1080p resolution video only in baseline-profile. This means that if you're getting choppy video playback on 1080p video then it's not baseline-profile and doesn't use hardware playback.
* The difference between baseline-profile and high-profile is that high-profile produces better quality output and smaller files. On a mobile device with limited storage it's obviously then better to use high-profile as often as possible.
* The tablet only has 720p screen so it's pointless to play 1080p on it. You should only use 1080p video if you plan to display it on big screen via HDMI.
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Handbrake: what and where?
Handbrake is an application that is meant for easy transcoding -- ie. converting from one format to another -- of video. It does the transcoding job in software so it can take a lot of time, especially if your computer isn't too beefy, but then again it produces a lot, LOT better quality output than any of the applications that utilize hardware encoding.
Handbrake can be downloaded from http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
Handbrake can't use encrypted DVDs as input, ie. almost any regular DVD-movie. You need to strip those first to your HDD and then use Handbrake for transcoding. On their website they suggest using Fairmount paired with DVD2OneX if you're on Mac, or AnyDVD on Windows.
As transcoding jobs usually take several hours per movie I personally like to set up what I want transcoded and add several movies to queue and leave Handbrake to do its job during the night when I'm sleeping. That way it doesn't bog down the system when I'm actually using it myself.
As for hardware-assisted encoding: such solutions are really a whole lot faster, like using Cyberlink MediaEspresso I can transcode a whole 2 hour movie in just 15 minutes. But the downsides are bigger files and lower quality, and so far I have not seen a single hardware-assisted transcoding application that does high-profile, only baseline-profile. Thus I personally only recommend using such when you're in a hurry, otherwise use Handbrake.
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Set-up a 720p high-profile job on Handbrake:
* Load up a video
* On the first tab ("Picture") find a setting called "Anamorphic" and change it to "Loose"
* Set "Width" to "1280"
* Go to the 3rd tab ("Video") and select "Constant Quality", set it to 20.0
* Go to the 4th tab ("Audio"), select the audio track(s) you wish to use, and set the settings as follows: Audio Codec AAC(faac), Mixdown Dolby Pro Logic II, Samplerate Auto, Bitrate 160, DRC 0.0
* Go to the last tab ("Advanced") and set the settings as follows:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Set-up a 720p baseline-profile job on Handbrake:
Do otherwise the same as in above steps, but replace the last step with the following:
* Go to the last tab ("Advanced") and set the settings as follows:
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Set-up a 1080p baseline-profile job on Handbrake:
* Load up a video
* On the first tab ("Picture") find a setting called "Anamorphic" and change it to "Loose"
* Set "Width" to "1920"
* Go to the 3rd tab ("Video") and select "Constant Quality", set it to 20.0
* Go to the 4th tab ("Audio"), select the audio track(s) you wish to use, and set the settings as follows: Audio Codec AAC(faac), Mixdown Dolby Pro Logic II, Samplerate Auto, Bitrate 160, DRC 0.0
* Go to the last tab ("Advanced") and set the settings as follows:
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How to add subtitles
Handbrake doesn't support rendering of external subtitles in the output, ie. your only option is to use a videoplayer application that supports external subtitles, or use another transcoder software. Mediacoder can handle rendering of subtitles in the output if you really want hardcoded subtitles and Mediacoder has a pretty nice configuration wizard you can use, but it also has a GAZILLION different options and tweaks and thus there's plenty of things you can ruin your transcoding with if you don't know what you're doing.
Mediacoder also supports using CUDA on NVIDIA GPUs for speeding up the transcoding but again it cannot do high-profile H.264 then, you'll need to use CPU encoding for that.
If you're interested in using Mediacoder instead then go to http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ and download.
As for media player software that supports external subtitles: Moboplayer for example is one that has worked fine for me so far. If it doesn't work for you then leave a comment and state clearly what fails and what kinds of files you're using.
Where to get subtitles then? Well, I for one like to use www.subscene.com, they've got a great selection there for almost all possible languages.
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Disclaimer: I am not an expert in these things and thus I don't promise anything whatsoever nor accept any responsibility for anything. However, these instructions SHOULD work
UPDATE: Added ready presets in a zip file at the bottom, just import them in Handbrake and you're good to go.
UPDATE #2: Had a major brainfart and forgot to add a preset for encoding DVD-videos; they're only 480p or 576p, depending on the DVD, so using even 720p preset is a waste of bandwidth and storage space. Do find the dvdsource.zip - preset in the attachements below!
HALEP, Why is the resulting file so big?!
I personally seriously hate compression artifacts and wish to retain every single possible detail so I had left the Constant Quality setting somewhat high. In hind-sight I should have included presets with Constant Quality set lower so the output files are also smaller. Well, now you have it; just download the "Smaller output files.zip" from the attachments, import the profiles and use those instead when transcoding if you want smaller files and do not mind the slightly lower visual quality, the resulting output file should be anything between 30%-60% smaller.

epic
Too cool of you!

Thanks Werecatf!
Great job!

cheers!
I do fair number of encoding using Handbrake and this will certainly help me to encode in 720p high-profile

Thanks for the tut! Gave you a click, truly awesome help for those that watch movies on their A500s!

Might be a good idea to create some profiles too, so folks can just import them into handbrake.

This should be a sticky!

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This should be a sticky!
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Updating the thing a bit, planning to add a few more sections to it like e.g the subtitles and so on. Ask away if there's something you don't understand, I'll try to clarify things.

What video player do you use Cat?

Zylograth said:
What video player do you use Cat?
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I find MoboPlayer good for my uses. I usually have subtitles in .srt as a separate file in the same directory as the movie so I don't have to do anything special to get subtitles working, and otherwise I don't need any kind of special features from a video player.

Thsi is AWESOME!
I Must share this to the world on Google Plus.
Great guide.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113884569404079501384/posts/Ak6FFUvz1Kz

Weird. I tried the 720p high settings on a 1080p video and there was a lot of artificing. I'll try a different vid and see what happens.

edgie168 said:
Weird. I tried the 720p high settings on a 1080p video and there was a lot of artificing. I'll try a different vid and see what happens.
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That's strange, I don't get such myself. Did you try with another vid already?

Very, very useful thread! And you've prepared presets as well - good job, WereCatf!

Ok
I used the 720p preset for a DVD and it came out very "soft". There was no detail and everything was blurry. Think this is because its native format was 480 (dvd) not 720. Is this correct or is there a bigger issue here?

Aaron Camp said:
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I used the 720p preset for a DVD and it came out very "soft". There was no detail and everything was blurry. Think this is because its native format was 480 (dvd) not 720. Is this correct or is there a bigger issue here?
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You cannot increase the quality of the video - encoding a 480 video @ 720 will just make it look like crap.

I actually went out and asked the Handbrake developers if they're planning to add the option of burning-in external subtitles to the output file, their response was that "no one needs that" and thus they will not add it.
I found the response.. well, not too convincing, and was disappointed to hear that. I doubt it'd be much work for them to add that. But I guess that's that then.
I'm now wondering if I should do a similar how-to for MediaCoder in case some people wish to use that instead, like e.g. if they really need the ability to burn in their subtitles.

Stupid newbie question. How do you get going watching movies. Ie; What format are the movies in, file size, program used and now I'm confused about this Handbrake thingy! I appreciate any help!

tedpc01 said:
Stupid newbie question. How do you get going watching movies. Ie; What format are the movies in, file size, program used and now I'm confused about this Handbrake thingy! I appreciate any help!
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The files created by Handbrake are .MP4, but the A500 can also play some .AVI files by default. You can also install one of the players from Market to get support for extra formats. I personally use MoboPlayer.
The file size for 720p high-profile videos created by Handbrake are something around 1.5Gt-2Gt, depending on the length of the video obviously.