Hi all,
All of this talk about the video performance etc has me wondering.
I've tried encoding videos in the past to play on other devices, but I never have an appropriate time to watch them.
When do people watch these videos?
I guess whilst commuting?
I just never have the time for this, and when I do I'm at home so can watch on the laptop/telly.
Would appreciate some enlightenment !
multimedia
I think most people are looking for an all-in-one phone. I dont think one exists. Im like you and dont watch enough multimedia to matter, but some people do use that a lot. I dont feel like the HD is the one for all phone pda, but for me it does everything just well enough. I do agree if someone wants perfect playback or perfect screen or whatever, then they may not find it on the HD. I too would suggest a laptop to go along with the HD. To me, the HD does, (so far) a good job of everything, maybe not excellent in all areas, but it is approaching that. It all depends on what people want in a pdaphone. Im very happy with it, coming from a Touch Diamond.
I wouldl watch the videos whilst commuting yes.
I happen to travel through my city on average of 2.5 hours a day, sometimes even 3, and it just so happens that it's very boring on the bus and lately i find that with all the shows i'm watching, i just don't have the time to watch them at home, so an HD with smooth video playback would've been perfect for me, but HTC and Qualcomm had to ruin my dreams
Watched "Sunshine" on the train home today, was 98% perfect, avi was higher rez than the HD display and didnt drop a beat even in the mild fight seen...all good
dogbreath said:
Watched "Sunshine" on the train home today, was 98% perfect, avi was higher rez than the HD display and didnt drop a beat even in the mild fight seen...all good
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Was it DivX and MP3 audio encoded do you know?
This is encouraging. I have also seen many clips on youtube, of what looked like great quality video playing fine on the HD. I'm hoping that the debates over awful video playback are concerning those who wish for higher quality content than I use on my phone. I ordered mine this evening hope to have it saturday !!
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Yer...twas a divx and i think mp3, played around with coreplayer a bit and now working smooth, will try an action movie and post my settings, tiz good though, really notice the higher rez next to a iphone...can barely see the pixels on the HD gui
Whilst commuting, on lunch/breaks at work/school... I hate the fact I drive now instead of commute to work - but at least I still have my lunch half-hour and two 15 minute breaks!
I don't see what everyone's problem with the HD video playback is though! I watched Wolverine And The X-Men fine!
Well as i know some of people want to show "what can my HD do" so... one of things which You can show off is playing High Quality videos. Im ataching You a link which is a trailer of a coming up movie: Planet Earth 2009, it is converted (by SUPER) from a HD trailer and sometimes its a bit laggy (about 3 times in whole video for around 2 seconds) so You can see what kind of quality im talking about. So if any one have any cool videos to show someone best quality of video which your phone can handle please share.
Omnia HD have that kind of videos just to show people what can it do, so lets dont be worse.... share some Good Quality show off Videos.
When You click the link on the previev is real bad quality,but its way better when You Download it to Your phone
http://www.4shared.com/file/93047148/7c7f3abb/Planet_Earth_2009.html
Ok, I've noticed that on stock 1.5 my videos looked a little bit better for some reason. On all 2.1 roms I've tried, my videos get some pretty horrible banding issues around the dark colors. I've tried re-encoding them, I've tried different apps, I've even tried decoding again off the dvds at the highest settings I can find just to try to keep the quality at a somewhat decent level. I'm pretty sure that I'm not nuts that it was way better on 1.5.
Has anyone noticed this? If not, what programs and options are you using?
I'm not talking about small videos, these are full length movies.
Here's a small tutorial of how I encode for the Fresh ROM 2.1d. I capture from a Hauppauge HD-PVR 1212 to .TS, then recode with Handbrake to a bit limit of ~500kbps and play the videos using Meridian.
http://digitaldeverell.com/?page_id=130
Despite the crappy video I posted on youtube at the bottom of the page, full length movies play great! Much better with the 2.1 ROM (verses the 1.5 ROM IMHO). This is usually my Ace in the hand when it comes to comparing phones. I have reviewed all of my movies (animations and live action) and I haven't witnessed any artifacts or banding. But, the overall image could be improved... My guess is it would take a nice OLED screen and then power to run it at 800X600.
Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
Padfoot926 said:
Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
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Any one have any ideas?
if i see movie for 2 or three hours continuosly then it heat a lot or not??
ZeroVirus said:
if i see movie for 2 or three hours continuosly then it heat a lot or not??
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I haven't tested it -- nor do I intend to -- but the obvious answer is: of course.
Anything will get hot with its screen turned on for that long.
bishteca said:
I haven't tested it -- nor do I intend to -- but the obvious answer is: of course.
Anything will get hot with its screen turned on for that long.
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I've tested heating issue while watching videos, it is actually normal. however taking video with camera will turn the device little bit heat. no issues with movies, cheers.
no heat issue while watching 720p or 1080p movies in VLC and also no problem while watching youtube videos, I daily watch almost 3 hours of movies during my travelling.