Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
Dmans said:
Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
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I bought this tablet for two things.
I cannot save money.
My girlfriend moved four states away (NY to VA) and I wanted something to do while on the train for 7 hours. I did nothing on it for 14 hours total but watch movies (OTG cable) and play solitaire. It does both awesome!
Screen is great, headphone jack is nice. If the 10" was cheap I would buy one too!
Battery life while watching movies isn't stellar, however nothing is
Best small portable movie player I know of.
Use headphones in a noisy environment - helps the sound a lot.
I am fond of MxPlayer from the app store - plays .avi movies (ripped DVD format) without converting.
I also happen to think it's perfect for watching movies - having used both a phone and Xoom for comparison. I think the 7" form factor is perfect for tablets since you can comfortably hold the thing in one hand.
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Works great for movies, when rooted you can use an OTA cable and stickmount and play off external storage. However, I think external storage taxes the battery a bit more than on-board storage.
Root, stickmount, MXPlayer, VLC, and you're set.
Use dice player. Or mobo player best two video apps on android. On my 16gb ver without ocing I can play 720p h264 flac or aac audio with subs without any issues what so ever with dice player. As 720p h264 with flac or aac is really taxing and you need a high end device and the nexus7 fitted that to the T. smooth frame rate none or extremely little frame skip is not really noticeable at all unless you are looking for it and even if you are its hard to notice.
Best experience with video watching to date for me with android devices. Droid x2 was OK in the video department cause it had the tegra 2 and the dinc2 is just pathetic with its adreno 205. But this nexus7 plays videos much better them my own laptop. And my laptop is not really a pushover either. 380 dedicated vram, 4gb of ram, 1 tb 5400rpm HDD, dual core 1.9ghz turion (sp?). And this thing does the job either the same or little bit better or little bit worse depending on the video file. So far I have 1 video that won't play. But I think it was encoded improperly because only my PC with cccp with mpc can play it with no problems.
But highly recommended. And especially with dice and mobo player it should be hard to find and issues.
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I have to add - ES Browser is great for movies on your lan. I have a 500gb drive on my router (always on) with all my movies.
ES Browser sees this storage, and clicking on a movie launches MX Player. All .avi movies. Perfect playback.
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It's perfect to watch movies. The colors may not be perfect but the image is pretty sharp. The only disadvantage is that the screen is not very visible outside with sun directly at it. But this is with pretty much everything. It's also very portable and comfy to watch a movie. Specially if you have to hold it in your hand
Dmans said:
Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
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This is the seventh reply to verify the Nexus 7 is great for watching movies. I use the Dice player for h264 720p HD movies. After the 32GB is full, the Nexus Media Importer App and an OTG cable lets you stream movies from a USB flash drive. No rooting required.
Thanks all I will be picking up a nexus 7 from PC world on Tuesday hopefully.
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Get one from John Lewis as they give a 2 year guarantee!
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No john lewis in Ireland so........
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nexus 7 is really nice for movie watching. You see, other tablets is much heavier and this one lies in my hand really good. Also image is pretty nice.
rmm200 said:
I have to add - ES Browser is great for movies on your lan. I have a 500gb drive on my router (always on) with all my movies.
ES Browser sees this storage, and clicking on a movie launches MX Player. All .avi movies. Perfect playback.
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500 gig....amateur.
I do the same with mine. Works great!
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I just want to ask some of you, which app are you guys using to watch any format movie on your NS. I have Rockplayer which works fine with divx movies format, i haven't test other format for rockplayer but if it's working with divx im sure it's working on all the format that rockplayer support. inception looks for beautiful on this screen. wow. I felt as if i was in a small theater blasting the headphones on my ears. speaking about headphones, are you guys using the one that NS came or other brands? hope to hear from you guys. NS forever
Hmm, which version of rock player are you using? Free download from market or paid one. I have the free version and it only plays mp4 movies. No other format is supported. This is same for any other media player, vPlayer, Meridian, Real player, VLC media player etc.
I guess Nexus doesn't support any format but strangely mp4 files plays in any media player. weird...
free version. well im playing divx movie on the NS and it works fine. i would have to check other format movies to see if it can play. wow the screen on the NS looks Gorgeous
My Nexus S and Rockplayer did not like trying to play my copy of 1080p copy of Inception(.mp4) lol. Near complete lockdown of the device in every meaning of the word. Had to do a battery pull in order to restore functionality.
EDIT: To specify, this lock up only occurred when attempting to use the "Hardware Decode" function. Using "Software Decode" I would get severely compressed sound or no sound at all as well as 1-2FPS.
I'm waiting on VLC for Android.
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It really kind of sucks that hardly any video formats are supported.
Just give it time, I'm sure dev are working on it. I just can't wait fire honeycomb
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I finally got my rips working NICE!
Downloaded the mechanic last night in 1080p. Converted using DVD Cats highest encoding, shrunk the file from 17gb to 7gb. Plays perfectly on my 55" LED TV from the hdmi out.
just got the incredibles 1080p, used HQ2 setting sincer I wont be watching on my TV. Went from 7.5gb to 2.6 and looks/sounds amazing on my Xoom
Highly recomended
I agree 100%. I just re-encoded The Incredibles using DVDCatalysts 4 HQ1 Profile and it looks and plays Awesome, it's 1.92gb (this is the Blu-Ray of course). I also have (Cars, Monsters Inc, Avatar, Percy Jackson, MegaMind, Kung Fu Panda & Toy Story 3
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I agree 100%. I just re-encoded The Incredibles using DVDCatalysts 4 HQ1 Profile and it looks and plays Awesome, it's 1.92gb (this is the Blu-Ray of course). I also have (Cars, Monsters Inc, Avatar, Percy Jackson, MegaMind, Kung Fu Panda & Toy Story 3
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Have you compared HQ1 vs HQ2? Im just curious how they look and size difference. I've only used HQ2 and the 1080p setting
DroidHam said:
I finally got my rips working NICE!
Downloaded the mechanic last night in 1080p. Converted using DVD Cats highest encoding, shrunk the file from 17gb to 7gb. Plays perfectly on my 55" LED TV from the hdmi out.
just got the incredibles 1080p, used HQ2 setting sincer I wont be watching on my TV. Went from 7.5gb to 2.6 and looks/sounds amazing on my Xoom
Highly recomended
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How does it look and play on your xoom? Just as good?
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Can you please try these video trailers and tell me which worked ?
http://www.h264info.com/clips.html
thanks
timrock said:
How does it look and play on your xoom? Just as good?
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yes, awesome on my xoom
MoboPlayer Rocks too!
Dvd catalyst is a must have if you own a Xoom
Just converted a 14 gig 1080p rip of TRON to a 2.8 gb .mp4 using HQ2...
wonder if I can watch it on TV without it lookin bad...
Its nice, remote into my home desktop and do all the converting/download/unrar while im at work
Converting using HQ1 now, seems to be going twice as fast as HQ2, will report back when its done
Are you guys using the free version or did you splash the $10? I don't mind Handbrake but it's not the best/easiest GUI.
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DroidHam said:
I finally got my rips working NICE!
Downloaded the mechanic last night in 1080p. Converted using DVD Cats highest encoding, shrunk the file from 17gb to 7gb. Plays perfectly on my 55" LED TV from the hdmi out.
just got the incredibles 1080p, used HQ2 setting sincer I wont be watching on my TV. Went from 7.5gb to 2.6 and looks/sounds amazing on my Xoom
Highly recomended
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Howdy can you tell me what version of dvd cat, im still on the beta for mkv rips...
ya im using the beta too
+1 for Moboplayer & DVD Catalyst. I paid the 10 bucks and it was well worth the money. Handbrake is good, but DVD Catalyst just makes it too easy to get great quality rips
The only thing I would add would be a command line interface so I could write a Powershell script to automatically encode a batch of movies in my library.
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+1 for Moboplayer & DVD Catalyst. I paid the 10 bucks and it was well worth the money. Handbrake is good, but DVD Catalyst just makes it too easy to get great quality rips
The only thing I would add would be a command line interface so I could write a Powershell script to automatically encode a batch of movies in my library.
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Can't you queue movies with dvd catalyst?
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are you shrinking the movie separately? i am using the xoom quick setting amd the movie is large. it is the paid version of dvd catalyst. which setting has the smallest size.
thanks.
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Can't you queue movies with dvd catalyst?
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Yes, you can. you can add a multiple files in multiple locations. You can even add folders (in you want to convert a complete series season for example) of seperate files.
The only problem I am having is that if I have a multi language, it doesn't convert it to the chosen language.
btw: I have the full paid version. The USD is cheap for me in Europe
I ripped a couple 1080p movies last night using DVD Catalyst with the Xoom HQ2 settings, and for some reason when I play them back on the xoom it WILL NOT stop fast forwarding. Just skips in about 22-25 second intervals like I'm holding the seek button....Anyone got a clue what could cause that?
Instien said:
I ripped a couple 1080p movies last night using DVD Catalyst with the Xoom HQ2 settings, and for some reason when I play them back on the xoom it WILL NOT stop fast forwarding. Just skips in about 22-25 second intervals like I'm holding the seek button....Anyone got a clue what could cause that?
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Are you using moboplayer?
sounds like a botched conversion.
did you test on another player on your xoom to see if it does the same thing? are these rips from disks you own? or are they downloads off the net?
did you make any adjustments to the stock settings in the program?
were you multitasking on the same computer that was also doing the conversions?
what movies?
Instien said:
I ripped a couple 1080p movies last night using DVD Catalyst with the Xoom HQ2 settings, and for some reason when I play them back on the xoom it WILL NOT stop fast forwarding. Just skips in about 22-25 second intervals like I'm holding the seek button....Anyone got a clue what could cause that?
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OK,
I have just returned my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (16Gb) to the store after suffering the "Newtons Ring / Oil Spill" phenomenon, and after the store assistant told me that someone else had returned 2 with the same problem, and BOTH store display models have the same issues, I decided not to get a new one. So now I am in the market for a new tablet. (And to get rid of my Dock, Book cover and SD / USB Connection Kit, Dock - Used, Book Cover - Unopened and SD / USB Connection Kit - Unopened - but thats another story).
So I am thinking about moving away from Tegra 2 after having problems getting it to play High Profile HD video due to the underpowering of the Tegra 2 chipset.
I am considering the Archos G9, which has a Texas Instruments ARM dual-core CORTEX A9 OMAP 4 chip (1Ghz to 1.5Ghz), which Archos claim will play High Profile HD video.
Are there any tabs that you think I should consider?
I realise that this is a Galaxy Tab forum, but I have read some good advice from users of this forum section.
Thanks
Stewart
StuMcBill said:
OK,
I have just returned my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (16Gb) to the store after suffering the "Newtons Ring / Oil Spill" phenomenon, and after the store assistant told me that someone else had returned 2 with the same problem, and BOTH store display models have the same issues, I decided not to get a new one. So now I am in the market for a new tablet. (And to get rid of my Dock, Book cover and SD / USB Connection Kit, Dock - Used, Book Cover - Unopened and SD / USB Connection Kit - Unopened - but thats another story).
So I am thinking about moving away from Tegra 2 after having problems getting it to play High Profile HD video due to the underpowering of the Tegra 2 chipset.
I am considering the Archos G9, which has a Texas Instruments ARM dual-core CORTEX A9 OMAP 4 chip (1Ghz to 1.5Ghz), which Archos claim will play High Profile HD video.
Are there any tabs that you think I should consider?
I realise that this is a Galaxy Tab forum, but I have read some good advice from users of this forum section.
Thanks
Stewart
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Archos make great media players so their new ones will probably play x264 without a problem. But I've never liked their design or build quality.
Itaintrite said:
But I've never liked their design or build quality.
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^^^^^
This.
Add to it that they're big and heavy based on the published specs.
If you're not a big video (streaming and local) user the HTC Jetstream/Puccini is a great tablet. It'll probably be released in Europe this Fall.
If you want a good thin alternative to the Tab 10.1, the new OMAP-powered Toshiba AT200 looks like a good bet, if it releases in the near future.
I think you might need to wait for the next generation of tablets. The GT10 is as good as it gets right now. After the new year there will be several more options but as of now, there's nothing that will get you high profile video and build quality at the same time. A quick question about the newton rings: could you actually see them when the screen was turned on?
slack04 said:
I think you might need to wait for the next generation of tablets. The GT10 is as good as it gets right now. After the new year there will be several more options but as of now, there's nothing that will get you high profile video and build quality at the same time. A quick question about the newton rings: could you actually see them when the screen was turned on?
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Yeah i could see them, especially in dark scenes on movies etc.
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Croak said:
OMAP-powered Toshiba AT200
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wait for the next generation of tablets.
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One of these two options.
Or you can get a Blackberry Playbook, I have one and it plays 1080p videos without a sweat, you can even multitask while the video is playing without a single frame being skipped!!! The HDMI output is the best of any tablet on the market, and the screen is top notch.
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The Playbook is using the same OMAP CPU as the aforementioned Toshiba AT200, except clocked at 1GHz as opposed to the 1.2GHz of the Toshiba.
So if it can rattle through 1080p videos, there's a good chance the Toshiba will be able to as well.
It's the GPU, the PowerVR SGX GPUs are something pretty special.
Nope, not underpowered, just a crap video player supplied with the stock rom. I thought it was true until I found dice player. With dice I have had no trouble playing any video so far. The 4 gb file size limit is more of an issue that finding a proper video player.
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No even with dice player, it can't play 1080p high profile video. Tegra 2 is so weak that it even stutters playing some YouTube videos.
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Nope, not underpowered, just a crap video player supplied with the stock rom. I thought it was true until I found dice player. With dice I have had no trouble playing any video so far. The 4 gb file size limit is more of an issue that finding a proper video player.
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hbkmog said:
No even with dice player, it can't play 1080p high profile video. Tegra 2 is so weak that it even stutters playing some YouTube videos.
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Same here. Most of my videos are 1080p. I've tried a number of media players and none have been able to keep up.
Latoc said:
Or you can get a Blackberry Playbook, I have one and it plays 1080p videos without a sweat, you can even multitask while the video is playing without a single frame being skipped!!! The HDMI output is the best of any tablet on the market, and the screen is top notch.
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I really like the styling of the playbook, and if it ran android i would be all over it!
However, since it hasn't been selling as well as RIM had hoped, we might see some heavy discounts soon?
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Tegra2 only support H.264 [email protected] and no weighted prediction B-frames.
For me thats okay, no need to play higher resolution on the tab than 720p anyway. Only problem is having to recode high res videos.
And about the 4gig limit. You can copy larger files too, over wireless if you have the time. (which takes a ****load of time, is there any other way to copy larger files to the tab, and maybe even faster?)
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I think you might need to wait for the next generation of tablets. The GT10 is as good as it gets right now. After the new year there will be several more options but as of now, there's nothing that will get you high profile video and build quality at the same time. A quick question about the newton rings: could you actually see them when the screen was turned on?
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The HP Touchpad can do it if somebody writes a decent media player for it. I've tried remuxing 1080p h264 videos (to reencode the audio while keeping video intact) and it plays the videos very smoothly with stock player. Waiting patiently for Android to come so I can try DicePlayer and others with the TouchPad.
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Tegra2 only support H.264 [email protected] and no weighted prediction B-frames.
For me thats okay, no need to play higher resolution on the tab than 720p anyway. Only problem is having to recode high res videos.
And about the 4gig limit. You can copy larger files too, over wireless if you have the time. (which takes a ****load of time, is there any other way to copy larger files to the tab, and maybe even faster?)
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Never understood the desire to play full 1080p monster video files on a tablet. I love watching full size on my huge plasma but on the tablet it is just a waste to play such a large file. I batch encoded some for playimg on the tablet for trip a while back with handbrake and all I had to do was limit three bit rate. The video looked perfect and with dice player it never stuttered.
Each to hire one I guess, but this is much better than watching on my phone and the form factor is perfect.
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Never understood the desire to play full 1080p monster video files on a tablet. I love watching full size on my huge plasma but on the tablet it is just a waste to play such a large file. I batch encoded some for playimg on the tablet for trip a while back with handbrake and all I had to do was limit three bit rate. The video looked perfect and with dice player it never stuttered.
Each to hire one I guess, but this is much better than watching on my phone and the form factor is perfect.
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It's just a matter of convenience. Would you prefer reencode all the videos if it could be avoided? And not everybody has a computer fast enough to do so quickly. On my intel E8400, a 2hour movie will take about half a day.
It's an extra step that should be unnecessary. It limits how you can use your tab since you just can't drag & drop videos on a whim not knowing if it'll play. Also it's not awaste if you're using it to feed an hdtv.
Were people expecting the first generation tablets to be blu ray players too? This is complaining just for the sake of complaining.
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I don't see the point playing 1080p video on tablet either. Speaking of convenient, I think it's more convenient just to download smaller 720p videos and not have to worry about file size and such.
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Hello everyone,
I got a 64GB Acer Iconia Tab A500 about two weeks ago. I am looking to recode my bluray discs to watch on my tablet. I have looked over the forums and haven't found much in terms of settings. I recode using Handbrake, but every video I recode ends up being choppy and lagging on the tablet. I am getting the feeling that the CPU is lagging behind when playing the videos.
I have tried MX Video Player, Mobo and Dice and ask the will yield the same result with the same video.
I am running it full stock 3.2.1, but could root if need be.
Thanks in advance!
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Have you tried the settings that WereCatf gives in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184002 ?
Jeff
jlary said:
Have you tried the settings that WereCatf gives in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184002 ?
Jeff
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I have not. I will try them once I get home. Thanks!
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Okay, so I recoded the first video and it ended up as an MP4 and in Both MX Video Player and Mobo they both said that the video cannot be played. As if it was an incompatible format.. I thought that was what MX and Mobo were for!
I tried using the 720p High Profile, I'm recoding one right now using baseline, but I have no clue what the difference is between the two.
After not having much luck using Handbrake to re-encode for any device (including the A500), I just threw $10 at the problem and bought DVD Catalyst. I use it to convert movies for every device in my family (Acer A500, Nook Tablet, Nook Color x4, original iPad, iPad2, HTC EVO 4G, and even a first step in re-encoding for Nintendo DSi XL), and it works like a charm. The developer hangs around XDA, too, so there's excellent on-going support for the product.
Hope this helps.
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After not having much luck using Handbrake to re-encode for any device (including the A500), I just threw $10 at the problem and bought DVD Catalyst. I use it to convert movies for every device in my family (Acer A500, Nook Tablet, Nook Color x4, original iPad, iPad2, HTC EVO 4G, and even a first step in re-encoding for Nintendo DSi XL), and it works like a charm. The developer hangs around XDA, too, so there's excellent on-going support for the product.
Hope this helps.
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I've actually gotten some success with one of the presets from WereCatf. I was able to get Planet Earth to look pretty and not stutter on my tablet!
I ended up using 720p Baseline for anyone else who's wondering.
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Guys what's a good video converter (free/paid) for converting Bluray/regular movies to a format that's perfect for Nexus 4 screen size?
Lemme know. Thanks!
Handbrake, perfect for any situation.
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I don't think you need 1. Just download MX player and it should handle the format very well. I used MX on my Galaxy Nexus to play some 720p mkv and it looked really gorgeous. Can't wait to watch Homeland on my Nexus 4.
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I don't think you need 1. Just download MX player and it should handle the format very well. I used MX on my Galaxy Nexus to play some 720p mkv and it looked really gorgeous. Can't wait to watch Homeland on my Nexus 4.
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The file themselves are too big, so converting them to a smaller file helps.
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Freemake! It's free, sufficiently good for the small screen, and you can use it for just about any device/situation you can imagine. That, and it's brain dead simple with a pleasing modern interface. You should check it out...
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/.
But, yeah, I would only re-encode if the 720p files are too large, and as we know, space is surely a commodity on this device.
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The file themselves are too big, so converting them to a smaller file helps.
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Given the screen resolution of Nexus4 resizing will result in a much less enjoyable experience. Do you need to put 10G worth of video on your phone? Really?
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Given the screen resolution of Nexus4 resizing will result in a much less enjoyable experience. Do you need to put 10G worth of video on your phone? Really?
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If I don't reduce quality (not the resolution but the bitrate), one of my video will be of 10G.... There's a point beyond which quality is not noticeable on such small screen, so reducing the bitrate doesn't make much of a difference.
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I think I'll be perfectly happy playing 700 MB BR-RIPS with MXplayer! Thanks guys!
Just grab a 700MB or smaller torrent. A quick search for a popular movie showed blueray rips (BRRip) coming in at 450 MB. I have to think that futzing with ripping a 30-50GB blueray file in Handbrake easily equals the time, effort, and CPU cycles it would take for a typical 400-700MB torrent movie to download? While the screen may be HD on your phone, it is doubtful your eyes could discern much difference in quality on a 4-5 inch screen. The thought police may not like it if you are in the dying empire however.
Since I'm on a limited net connection which isn't very fast, it's cheaper and easier for me to convert videos than to re download them. Plus I got a beefy computer so it gets to flex it's muscle.
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Reason I don't play 720mkv on my iPad is a) space b) increased processing power and battery consumption, because it has to work harder