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Anyone know any good places to download movies for the n1?

I would like a few movies to put on my phone but do not know where to download them from where they will have the correct format and all. Does anyone know any good sites? Thanks

We don't discuss warez here.

However there is a recent thread: nexus one video conversion with handbrake

OrganizedFellow said:
We don't discuss warez here.
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I never said they had to be free

Austin021296 said:
I never said they had to be free
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My apologies. i jumped to conclusions.
For my favorite movies,i need to rip and back then up to disk.
With an hyper independent toddler who scratches my disks, it's good to have a back up.

I would just suggest converting your own...

Pm sent man....

YOu don't have to download them "for the N1" You can use any movie you want and use Any Video Converter to convert them. There is an option to specify which device you're converting for and you can just select Nexus One and push convert. It's much easier than dealing with selecting the codecs and everything with other programs.

I've used doubleTwist to convert and sync some movies... but it takes FOREVER!!!

If you have enough cores and OCed then you can do other stuff while it encodes

britoso said:
If you have enough cores and OCed then you can do other stuff while it encodes
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I have a lowly Intel Core2 Duo laptop with 3gb of RAM. Not amazing, but as law student, it's always been more than adequate. Anyway, converting and synching a gb of music from wma to mp4a, and a couple gb of avi to mp4 takes a couple of hours...
I think other converters can do this much faster, then I could just drag and drop straight to the SD card, since copying stuff with the card mounted in the phone is slower...
What would be great for doubleTwist, is if you could do the conversion without the phone connected to the computer (currently, it has to be plugged in the whole time), then synch later in a much shorter period of time. Maybe I should email them...

Watching movies

So, last night I decided to givemedia hub a whirl and downloaded 300 and watched the whole movie on the phone and I never realized how good this phones screen is for HD. It looks better than my tv.
But anyways, riht after the movie was done, I downloaded and watched V for Vendetta and fell asleep afterwards without charging, and right now I'm at 13hr 34min with screen on time of 5hr and 43 minutes.
Id say this phone handles media playback quite well lol
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Also just realized...tws is 53%...wtf lol
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Yeah its good to watch movies on this screen.I downloaded about 5 from media hub sofar.Dont forget the files are stored on your sdcard,I had to delete them manually for some reason.

I love using the tv.com app and watching STAR TREK: TOS episodes. Anytime they use a communicator, I feel a tremendous inner geek fire and oh how warm it is. Heh heh.

veoh.com/iphone is high on my list,that and I rip alot of movies to the phone in high qulity,about 1.3gb on most hour and a half movies.

I also highly recommend : Droid Streamer
it's free on the market and streams tv shows, movies, and anime @ 480i compressed. There's a Pro version, but i dont know what features you get with that.

How much gb is a movie file?
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droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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ecooce said:
droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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I wouldn't call droid steamer nice per se, but it is free and gets the job done when bored, altho the dev. needs to use a better player that can do aspect ratios.
Do Media Hub movies play @ 720p for 1gb -/+ files?

I think they are 720p native.

now if we could just find something that will allow us tpo play them through allshare woudl be great, i hate allshare can never get it to play any damn video

I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone

running_the_dream said:
I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone
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One cool feature i like is it lets you airsync your andriod to your itunes player. Do you know of a app that's similar to this but streams to WMP or VLC player?

How to play dvd movies on the tf

I had a free download from one of my dvd movies. But it will not play on my TF. What app should I use?

And the award for "The Least Info Provided" goes to.........

In other words......There is not enough info to provide you with an answer.
If this "free" download is encoded with AC3 audio then its not going to play.
You could try looking in the 100 other threads dedicated to video problems and see if your problem matches an existing one.

sorry, was posting from my phone and didnt have the format avaiable. The format is .wma and i saved it to my sd card but still we not play. Tried the video app and mx video player.

The place you got the wmv, you may want to check to see if it has any DRM running on it. If its enabled DRM'd you maybe unable to given its current state.

it was from a direct link when i bought a bluray d8sc for a free download version so not sure about the drm.
Is ther a player that can decode wma? Tried searching with no results.

.wma is windows media audio format... Are you sure its the movie and not the soundtrack instead?

Yes, i used my desktop windows and i think it was the only option to download. It plays fine on my desktop thru the windows media player but not thru my tf.
CaNsa, enough info for you?

its probably drm protected as stated above, just like movies downloaded from itunes. the only way you will play it on the transformer would be to get a program that strips the drm off

i have never seen a wma file with video.. does it exist?
i have seen wmv with video and i am sure wma only carries audio

lordgodgeneral said:
its probably drm protected as stated above, just like movies downloaded from itunes. the only way you will play it on the transformer would be to get a program that strips the drm off
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If you decide to strip the drm off of it, be prepared to go to federal prison and have lots of ass-widening yoga classes.

goodintentions said:
If you decide to strip the drm off of it, be prepared to go to federal prison and have lots of ass-widening yoga classes.
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It's perfectly legal to make a backup or duplicate file or DVD so long as you don't turn around and resell it and it's for personal use only.
EDIT: So it's illegal to copy a DVD? Interestingly, no. Judges have said that consumers have a right to copy a DVD for their own use—say, for backing it up to another disk or perhaps watching it on another device, such as an iPod. That's the same "fair use" rule that made it legal to tape television shows for watching later, perhaps on a different TV. The problem is that consumers can't duplicate DVDs without software tools that get around the copy protection on those disks. It is those tools that Congress outlawed.
EDIT: Had to partially edit my post as I was partially correct. Sorry about that goodintentions.

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The problem is that consumers can't duplicate DVDs without software tools that get around the copy protection on those disks. It is those tools that Congress outlawed.
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Yup, although it depends on where you live, of course. We in the US have some of the dumber restrictions, such as those you mentioned. It's legal to copy DVDs for personal use...the tools that will perform the decryption, however, aren't.
Personally I believe it's every citizen's duty to defy unjust laws, so I make tons of copies of my DVDs.

rickatnight11 said:
Personally I believe it's every citizen's duty to defy unjust laws, so I make tons of copies of my DVDs.
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Your not alone, I feel the same way.

From an ethics perspective there's no difference in downloading and sharing. The other leechers could be doing the same thing you are.
From a prosecution standpoint it leaves your vulnerable, which is why off-shore VPNs, private trackers, and other protective means are useful.

rickatnight11 said:
It's faster for me to download a digital copy than copy it from the media myself.
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Wow, you must have some kind of wonderful on download speed because I can rip and burn or rip and transcode in just under 20 minutes. I like to rip my own movies that way I know and can control exactly what I'm getting. I've tried torrenting movies but then I'm getting some copy in PAL format and hard subtitled in Russian or Swahili or something. It's really annoying.
If you really want a good movie to download I would suggest a straight rip from a Blu-ray but the size is anywhere from 35gb to 50gb in size and can take a hellacious amount of time to download, especially if there aren't a lot of seeders and there harder to come by too.

AcIdC0R3 said:
Wow, you must have some kind of wonderful on download speed because I can rip and burn or rip and transcode in just under 20 minutes. I like to rip my own movies that way I know and can control exactly what I'm getting. I've tried torrenting movies but then I'm getting some copy in PAL format and hard subtitled in Russian or Swahili or something. It's really annoying.
If you really want a good movie to download I would suggest a straight rip from a Blu-ray but the size is anywhere from 35gb to 50gb in size and can take a hellacious amount of time to download, especially if there aren't a lot of seeders and there harder to come by too.
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I was actually thinking about Blu-Ray, when I quoted that, which takes some time to encode (plus I trust the encoding skills of release groups way more than my own). While a DVD doesn't take long to encode anymore, it's still way quicker to download them on my FIOS connection.
I've downloaded quite a few Blu-Ray rips, but honestly there's no noticeable difference in quality, when compared with an x264-encoded .mkv, especially when viewing across the room on an HDTV. Sometimes I end up reencoding those (or redownloading another version) for space purposes.

thebadfrog said:
In other words......There is not enough info to provide you with an answer.
If this "free" download is encoded with AC3 audio then its not going to play.
You could try looking in the 100 other threads dedicated to video problems and see if your problem matches an existing one.
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really? i could be mistaken, but im pretty sure ac3 works for me just fine. i download movies with adownload from btjunkie and watch them all the time on dice player, and most of them say AC3 encoded. ive never run accross any format that i havnt been able to play yet.

sonami said:
really? i could be mistaken, but im pretty sure ac3 works for me just fine. i download movies with adownload from btjunkie and watch them all the time on dice player, and most of them say AC3 encoded. ive never run accross any format that i havnt been able to play yet.
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Then you have the only trasnsformer that plays high profile 720p + with ac3 audio encoding

Xoom - new user experience

I have had this Xoom tablet since Monday and every evening after work I've been busy toying with it to see what it can do. Wasn't sure initially that I was going to get it since a new version is about to hit the markets, but I got a good deal at Dixons in Dublin airport (€289) for the WiFi version.
Anyway, in most of the things it's a great toy but it has a few, but really annoying, shortcomings:
- Not able to charge via USB cable
- Not able to mount like a normal Android device to my computers
- Playing movies is a a horrible experience, if at all possible.
For the second item, I have downloaded and installed the Motorola drivers for my Windows PC and after that it mounts just fine. Same goes for my Mac. For Linux I had to fire up the Terminal and do some fiddling following various guides on how to set up USB mounting and Samba sharing. So it's not impossible, just annoying that manual setup needs to be done on various platforms...or perhaps I'm just lazy.
I have quite a few .mkv movie files and I have searched this forum for players that will accept the files. None of the players I've downloaded are able to play mkv even with Codecs installed. All of the players mentioned in this thread do not work with a mkv file the size of 1.5GB. There appears to be software that can convert the files to be more Xoom friendly, but it costs about $30. Of course, seeing my mate being able to play all movie files on his HP TouchPad with WebOS without problems doesn't exactly help to lift my spirits.
I did have some issues with Google Music not wanting to remember my online collection but since downloading the latest app yesterday this now appears to be fixed.
My Xoom runs Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.2.2 - Moray and I flashed the Odachi kernel.
Other than my ranting above the Xoom is great for browsing the web, skype, listening to music and reading books (becoming addicted to buying books in Kindle)

For the MKV files - handbrake won't convert em for you? Cause that's free - and what I use to convert raw material for my xoom.
edit: and I personally have never seen a tablet that charges via USB. Samsung's galaxy tabs charge via their dock, my old nook color required the charger to charge, even though it was a modified USB cable, and the xoom is well.. we know already.

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For the MKV files - handbrake won't convert em for you? Cause that's free - and what I use to convert raw material for my xoom.
edit: and I personally have never seen a tablet that charges via USB. Samsung's galaxy tabs charge via their dock, my old nook color required the charger to charge, even though it was a modified USB cable, and the xoom is well.. we know already.
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Haven't used Handbrake in a while so I'll have a try to see if it works. Any special settings you set up in Handbrake for it to work with the Xoom?
This is my first tablet so I don't actually have much to compare with regarding the USB charging. I just mentioned the lack of USB charging to two colleagues who have HP tablets and they were surprised that it needs an actual wall charger.

As its been said many times before USB charging would take forever on a tablet. I can charge my xoom to 100% way faster then my girlfriends Galaxy 10 which uses the 5v USB.
And the way the file managing is done is better and worse in a way. Phones and pcs handle it better and i haven't had a issue with corrupting my sd card like i did with my Droid 2 and the old mounting. But linux is a pain to get MTP to work with. On my Win 7 pcs it saw it right away and worked with out needing anything DLed.
And handbrake does all my video converting great. It may not be super 1080P HD but i really dont need super HD on a tablet. Ill try to pull my preset file for you to try.

I use MX Player off of the market for MKV files and it plays them flawlessly when changing to software decoding and such for certain files. You should look into that.

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I use MX Player off of the market for MKV files and it plays them flawlessly when changing to software decoding and such for certain files. You should look into that.
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I second MX Player off of the market (http://goo.gl/WvXLa).
I also found pre-alpha VLC player that I've used without any issues.
http://dl.cvpcs.org/android/test/common/VLC-neon.apk
http://dl.cvpcs.org/android/test/common/VLC-noneon.apk
I used to convert my video with Handspring but I no longer have to with these two awesome video players.

omac_ranger said:
I use MX Player off of the market for MKV files and it plays them flawlessly when changing to software decoding and such for certain files. You should look into that.
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Tried that but it didn't work even when changing to software decoding.

nephroid said:
I also found pre-alpha VLC player that I've used without any issues.
http://dl.cvpcs.org/android/test/common/VLC-neon.apk
http://dl.cvpcs.org/android/test/common/VLC-noneon.apk
I used to convert my video with Handspring but I no longer have to with these two awesome video players.
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Cool thanks! Was looking for VLC earlier. Will give these a try.
Edit: first one (VLC-nonneon) works albeit the picture is not very steady. Loads of small breaks when playing a film. Second one force closes.

slonn said:
Cool thanks! Was looking for VLC earlier. Will give these a try.
Edit: first one (VLC-nonneon) works albeit the picture is not very steady. Loads of small breaks when playing a film. Second one force closes.
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Just out of curiosity, how large are these files you're testing with? .mkv's, .avi's?
The VLC app works for me if I don't try to jump all around the videos too often. It's pre-alpha so there should be some quirks.

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Just out of curiosity, how large are these files you're testing with? .mkv's, .avi's?
The VLC app works for me if I don't try to jump all around the videos too often. It's pre-alpha so there should be some quirks.
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The files were about 1.5 GB. I've tried with smaller files and that seems to work. I just assumed that any file under 4 GB would play without problems. In any case I've fired up Handbrake to compress the movie files. Great with free software

My way of doing things.
so far i havent had any problems playing videos, partially because things have been too hectic for the 4g xooms so i keep changing stuff, and partially because most of the movies i own in digital form all play without hesitation, like from the google movies.
as far as mounting goes, windows does fine once u have the drivers, but i hate paying for software, so fudge windows. linux on the other hand is easy, all i do is boot into cwm and mount usb drive. works like a snap, prob work in windows too, just havent tried. that lets u access your externalsd, but theres prob a way to mount ur internal, just havent tried that yet either.
and the charging i read somewhere actually works through usb, its just so slow, and so low that one, it doesnt register, and two it would only really be fesible in an emergency. but i actually like the fact we get a full powered charger that just juices it up quick and painlessly. true the only way to charge it on the go is get a seperate charger, or a converter, but i can live with the battery power.
hope u figure your stuff out, i love this thing. does all i want and more, witht the added benefit of having a metal case, which is more important than u think!! wait till your mates drop their pads, i put mine through some rough wear, and that metal case has saved it several times. the biggest thing that breaks on these that ive seen is the glass on the screen, which is a pretty easy fix, plus it wont make it unusable if u do, just gotta live with it. have fun!!!

I use MX Player to play video files that were nearly 1.1GBs, never had a problem. Is the Video the problem or the audio when you were using it?

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I use MX Player to play video files that were nearly 1.1GBs, never had a problem. Is the Video the problem or the audio when you were using it?
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It's the video that lags.

no lag now after the films were compressed with handbrake. Happy days

I play 10GB MKVs with MX Video player, I have no idea why you would be having issues with your files. I love my Xoom and MX plays everything

charged it to 100 % last night and it was at 99% thus morning. Just one per cent down in 10 hours with screen off. That's very impressive!

slonn said:
no lag now after the films were compressed with handbrake. Happy days
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What format did you convert too? MP4?
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slonn said:
charged it to 100 % last night and it was at 99% thus morning. Just one per cent down in 10 hours with screen off. That's very impressive!
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Yep in my experience this is pretty normal! ;-)
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From my personal experiences:
- Not able to charge via USB cable
Aye, that's a shame but understandable due to the amount of power needed.
- Not able to mount like a normal Android device to my computers
Unfortunately this will be the way for all android devices, also all phones. This is due to the switch to MTP connectivity from ICS and up. Google made this switch so they were able to pool all the memory in a device to a single storage pool, this to avoid all the issues with earlier (low amount of memory) devices which would run out of space after installing a lot of applications like for example the HTC Desire or original Nexus.
- Playing movies is a a horrible experience, if at all possible.
Agreed, it was quite a let down, mostly due to the limitations of the Tegra cpu. As mentioned by a lot of others MX player does it pretty well however, for my own collection i use and can advise you Plex. Its removes the need to recode anything in you library. On the move its not an option if you are without wifi in your case (i have a 3g Xoom myself) but its awesome when connected.
Enjoy your device.

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What format did you convert too? MP4?
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No, converted it to m4v.

[Q] Watching DVDs?

Hi all,
Would anyone happen to know how to watch DVDs on the galaxy S4? I am trying to watch Dexter (which usually consists of 4 episodes per DVD) and would prefer viewing shows on my phone rather than a TV or on my computer.
When I open the DVD I get a video_ts and audio_ts folder if that matters and I have tried converting it into an MP4 format, but the picture does not work out very well. Also, the DVD contents is about 7.15 GB in size so I am unable to put it on my phone due to a lack of space.
If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated

You could try winX dvd to mp4 ripper
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Unfortunately that did not work says the DVD is encrypted. Thanks for the reply though!
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Okay I figured out how to, for anyone having the same problem I just got a program called aimersoft which allowed me to convert the episodes into AVI format
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handbrake with vlc installed on your computer will do everything you need for free

I use AppGeeker DVD Ripper with success.
It has default settings for many of devices such as iPhone, PS3, S3, etc. (S4 may be built-in now), and allows you to alter the file size and video quality.
I have no idea whether this software will work for you but worth giving it a try.

Me and my nephew have both been using Dvd catalyst for a few years and it is very fast, it`s on special offer at the moment at $9.95 , also the support is next to none the creator spends a lot of time on xda helping people with getting the best results from the software.
https://www.tools4movies.com/
I do not have any connection to the seller, it`s just such a great product i want to tell everybody.
EDIT : have a look at the thread below to see some of member dvdcatalys`s posts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072107
John.