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Fast video converter for X1

Hi,
I'm not sure who of you is familiar with the GPU accelerated video encoding, but both nVidia and ATi have some tools about that. As an owner of nVidia 8800GT video card I tried the Badaboom Video Converter and it works as a charm. I get like 120fps transcoding a 720p x264 mkv video to 640x360 mp4 h264 in the right format for X1's windows media player.
Of course when playing the converted video on WMP it is hardware accelerated by the videocard of X1, so the playback is very smooth.
In case you own some GeForce 8xxx, 9xxx, gtx 2xx VGA, you can download the trial version of the converter and test it for your own.:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicsplus/us/download.asp
It works much faster than the HTC Video converter. I can tell that my 8800GT is roughly like 3 times faster for transcoding video than my Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU.

I know Badaboom and have used it till 2 or 3 months.
Badaboom isn't really much faster than different encoders like SUPER. The HTC video converter brings much more quality because there is 2 Pass Encoding in using.
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Yep, you are right about the 2 Pass encoding by the HTC Encoder, but I can't really see any difference for the same kbps on my X1. In theory there should be, practically it's barely noticeable on such display like the X1's.
I haven't tested SUPER, but if it's not GPU accelerated it should be 2-3 times slower at least than the GPU accelerated encoder, and this is with fast CPU.
Did you use Badaboom with GPU acceleration? On which card? I'm curious how will one GTX 280 compare to the transcoding speed of an old 8800GT.

I would like to try this video converter, but your Link to badaboom doesnt work
Edit googled it, found it, http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_badaboom_downloads.html
Have you experimented with optimal bitrate, and which device selection is best for the X1 ?

Badaboom can do the quality like the HTC Converter (btw. I've seen that badaboom sometimes draws artifacts), but the size of the video is much larger. Don't know what settings I had used, but I've converted a video with badaboom and the video had about 600 Megabyte while the HTC Converter has made only about 400 Megabyte and the quality was a bit better.
SUPER doesn't support the CUDA Engine and the speed is like Badaboom. Maybe I'm making a comparison between this 3 converter (maybe 2, because SUPER also uses x264 Encoder that the HTC Encoder used)
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CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (2 x 3,2 Ghz Oced to 2 x 3,5 Ghz)
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Graphiccard: MSI Geforce 8800 GTS 512 (overlocked edition, G92 GPU)
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Any gpu converter for htc touch hd?

Is there any GPU converter that support native 800x480 resolution and compress it?
I have a ATi Radeon HD 5870 and a Nvidia Geforce GTX260.

it a bit tricky to understand what you are asking
gpu == graphic processor unit
converter == something which takes one input and return something else
compress == something which takes one input and return a output of a smaller size
so it sounds like you are asking for something which give an input to your video card
and return a smaller size back
are you talking about a video encoder to make movies for your phone or ?

proace069 said:
Is there any GPU converter that support native 800x480 resolution and compress it?
I have a ATi Radeon HD 5870 and a Nvidia Geforce GTX260.
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not understanding any word

I think what's being asked is for something like BadaBOOM which uses a NVIDIA GPU to transcode video fast.
I can't remember personally if BadaBOOM supports outputting 800x480 but there's a free trial up on their site to have a look at if you already haven't. I took a look at their website and the most info they have on their I could see is...
Output Video Formats
H.264 (MP4) Baseline Profile, H.264 (MP4) Main Profile
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To be honest though the easiest way to getting videos over is by using the handy GUI front-end projection has made over in the Windows Mobile Apps and Games forum. I would link you to the thread but it seems new users can't post links.

proace069 said:
Is there any GPU converter that support native 800x480 resolution and compress it?
I have a ATi Radeon HD 5870 and a Nvidia Geforce GTX260.
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A perfectly normal question IMO...
As was mentioned above Badaboom seems to be the one you're looking for. One condition though: your computer needs to have a supported graphics card (most of GeForces) and an up-to-date driver in order to make it work

I was looking for something like this a couple of months back. Didn't get anything to work well on my 4850 or my 5850. Kinda frustrating, because technically it's possible and should speed things up quite a bit.
What I tried:
-ati has a videoconverter that will work on your gpu. you can download it from the amd site. It works, but the interface and output settings kinda suck.
- Mediacoder Espresso is supposed to use GPU acceleration to convert video, but I haven't got that to work aswell (at least not with h264 .mkv files as input).
What you could try:
-Badaboom should work fine (read some positive reviews), but I haven't got an Nvidia card so don't know if that is any good.
But, if you have a pc with a 5850, you probably have a very powerfull CPU aswell; you should be able to convert video using regular software on that quite fast (Core i7 ftw )

SGS doesn't play 1080p mkv files?

As a test I copied a 1080p mkv file and tried to play with the stock app but couldn't.
Can someone independently verify this?
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Not tried but I dont think it would as it records 720p so I would think that its the max until new phone comes out.

He plays 1080p files only with other players, with fps around... 2.

This is something I was going to try tonight, so far I have played a 720p xvid which the phone breezed. What was the video bitrate that you tried?
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dipac said:
As a test I copied a 1080p mkv file and tried to play with the stock app but couldn't.
Can someone independently verify this?
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I've also had tried to play one with the stock app as well with no success, retrying 2 now...yeah, I get unsupported file type, I think that stopped me from loading more onto the phone. However, I have successfully played these onto my TV through DLNA.
Maybe I'll try to load more later.

i'm quite sure if you use rock player you could
but it'll be slow as hell

To be fair the specs always said 720p playback

what's the point in playing 1080p content on a 480 x 800 screen?
I'm curious, does any other phone play 1080p without being very slow?

Not really a complaint just an observation as I was planning on putting some of my kids movies onto the phone for the rainy day and I have some 720p as well as 1080p movies.
Just means that I have to alter those before I put them on the phone
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at 1080p you wont be able to keep many movies in your SD card
you'll have a better luck at 720p

I managed to playback this 720p @ 60fps flawlessly , not 1080p but damn it is awesome.
Format profile : [email protected]
Bit rate : 9 000 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Frame rate : 59.940 fps
Captivate thread

INeedYourHelp said:
what's the point in playing 1080p content on a 480 x 800 screen?
I'm curious, does any other phone play 1080p without being very slow?
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I'd output them to a TV, I've had mixed results, but perfect 1080p playback on a TV is highly desirable.

i converted a 1080p .mkv file into a .mp4 format on kies and it just convested to 1280x720 but it still runs Amazing good sound perfect picture

still not solved to get 1080 playable?? i tried following and i´m still out of luck
Hi i successfully got a working ubuntu on my microsd class 10 32 gb card
i used a samba fileshare to mount the huge partion (ext4) on my sgs
if i try to play a 17gb 1080p file its always jerky with any player.
i also got successfully connected thru otg adapter my usb harddrive (with an usb hub) formatted to ext3. (can be connected to any windows pc via ext2fsd btw)
there are fullhd movies also on it and sgs2 is still jerky while playing any movie
its OC to 1600Mhz ... GPU also tried to OC to 400 Mhz still out of luck.
so i wanna watch fullhd (1080p) movies over my phone streaming via the mhl adapter to my tv 42".
booth wont work microsd card and usb hdd ... CPU and GPU OC wont help either.

Asking a bit much I think. I was floored at how flawlessly it can play 720p in the first place.
Get an SGS2?

haufe said:
Hi i successfully got a working ubuntu on my microsd class 10 32 gb card
i used a samba fileshare to mount the huge partion (ext4) on my sgs
if i try to play a 17gb 1080p file its always jerky with any player.
i also got successfully connected thru otg adapter my usb harddrive (with an usb hub) formatted to ext3. (can be connected to any windows pc via ext2fsd btw)
there are fullhd movies also on it and sgs2 is still jerky while playing any movie
its OC to 1600Mhz ... GPU also tried to OC to 400 Mhz still out of luck.
so i wanna watch fullhd (1080p) movies over my phone streaming via the mhl adapter to my tv 42".
booth wont work microsd card and usb hdd ... CPU and GPU OC wont help either.
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Emmm.... this is a SGS1 (I9000) thread and not SGS2 (I9100) thread.
I heard SGS2 could play 1080p movies that have bitrate up to 24mbit, you should check that in your own forum.

alovell83 said:
INeedYourHelp said:
what's the point in playing 1080p content on a 480 x 800 screen?
I'm curious, does any other phone play 1080p without being very slow?
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I'd output them to a TV, I've had mixed results, but perfect 1080p playback on a TV is highly desirable.
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With SGS's only option being RCA with the max resolution of 768x576, I would also like to know why would you want more than 1080p.
And for all the other that are wondering why your SGS doesn't play 1080p movies, the answer is very simple:
Too low hardware!!!
1080p movies need at least dual-core CPU.
So, get over it, it ain't gonna happen, so stop asking!
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Actually afaik it's GPU support that would be needed. The SGS would choke on 720p if the GPU didn't handle the decoding. Want to see trying playing it in something like rockplayer rather than the stock video player. Slide show without GPU acceleration.
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[Q] Hardware 1080p decoding

I've a Transformer prime so far and a consider changing for a Nexus 10. I just wondering if the dual-core A15 processor will be enough for playing 1080p mkv from my synology NAS via WIFI?

Exynos 5250 is the next generation of the exynos series, which will surely improve the hardware decoding dsps

The Exynos 5250 can supposedly decode 1080/60p which I have plenty on my DS211j from a Panasonic TM700 (in m2ts format).
"This SoC will have a memory interface providing 12.8 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, have support for USB3 and SATA3, decode full 1080p video at 60 fps along with simultaneously displaying WQXGA-resolution (2560x1600) on a mobile display as well as 1080p over HDMI."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos_(system_on_chip)

The GPU of the Exynos 5 is faster than the one of the Tegra 3... I'm pretty sure that it will play 1080p videos
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we should be asking if it's gonna play 2560x1600 videos at 60p, hell 2k. Hell, 4k!

okay, then let's buy it!! wait until november 13

Samzebian said:
we should be asking if it's gonna play 2560x1600 videos at 60p, hell 2k. Hell, 4k!
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To be honest, if the Tegra 3 can do 1080p60 and it is much, much slower, I don't see why this thing shouldn't be able to do videos of that resolution. Not that they exist, of course - or do they? Is that what BluRay's all about?
Though really, I'm not sure you can fit a feature-length film at 1600p into 32GB.

Kookas said:
To be honest, if the Tegra 3 can do 1080p60 and it is much, much slower, I don't see why this thing shouldn't be able to do videos of that resolution. Not that they exist, of course - or do they? Is that what BluRay's all about?
Though really, I'm not sure you can fit a feature-length film at 1600p into 32GB.
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do a youtube search of 4k test.
Make sure you're PC can handle it tho!:laugh:

Samzebian said:
do a youtube search of 4k test.
Make sure you're PC can handle it tho!:laugh:
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If my PC can't handle it, then it's just another situation, like browser scrolling, where desktop software is inferior to mobile software. Considering I run games at maximum settings on here. But do you think the Nexus 10 could do it?

Kookas said:
If my PC can't handle it, then it's just another situation, like browser scrolling, where desktop software is inferior to mobile software. Considering I run games at maximum settings on here. But do you think the Nexus 10 could do it?
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I honestly couldn't say weather the Nexus 10 could handle 4k. Depending on how old your PC is and your GPU, you may or may not be able to view 4k videos smoothly.

have you found an app who does support hardware decoding on our N10?

admiralwilly said:
have you found an app who does support hardware decoding on our N10?
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Depends on the format. For Mp4/h.264. Everything works. For h.264 in a mkv. MX Player will play HW video and SW audio.
For other format nobody seems up to date yet. The Exynos claims support for a lot of format decoding, but Google seems to have phoned in native support on the kernel.

What do you guys use to playback 4k or even mp4 for that matter

I tried playing my videos on my computer using Windows Media Player and it won't play any of my videos. It said something about not having the codec for it, but I need to find a reputable place to either get that or a better playback option where I won't get a virus on my computer. Any suggestions or links?
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vlc media player.

ssmaster said:
vlc media player.
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Where do I find that?
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MACHEK said:
Where do I find that?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vlc+media+player

ssmaster said:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vlc+media+player
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Haha, well played sir, well played. Thanks again
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ssmaster said:
vlc media player.
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So I downloaded it but when playing 4k its very jumpy and freezes, do you think that its my PC that just can't hang with it? I have a old Dell m1330 xps laptop, 3gb ram (haha same as my phone, I love that) and 2GHz processor on windows vista.
Second question, is it possible to burn this to a DVD or can you only playback on a bluray or something like that?

MACHEK said:
So I downloaded it but when playing 4k its very jumpy and freezes, do you think that its my PC that just can't hang with it? I have a old Dell m1330 xps laptop, 3gb ram (haha same as my phone, I love that) and 2GHz processor on windows vista.
Second question, is it possible to burn this to a DVD or can you only playback on a bluray or something like that?
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Oh yeah, that computer can't handle 4K video. You need a really modern computer.
My laptop has a 2.4ghz amd with 4gb ram, it's 4 years old, and it can't play back 4k either, very very choppy.
Here is a video I shot. While on youtube, try it 1080p, then try "original" resolution. You should see that 1080p should be smooth, but original (4K) will be very choppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5d_1eX_5U

ssmaster said:
Oh yeah, that computer can't handle 4K video. You need a really modern computer.
My laptop has a 2.4ghz amd with 4gb ram, it's 4 years old, and it can't play back 4k either, very very choppy.
Here is a video I shot. While on youtube, try it 1080p, then try "original" resolution. You should see that 1080p should be smooth, but original (4K) will be very choppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5d_1eX_5U
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your videos only got up to 720p for me.... not sure why

ssmaster said:
Oh yeah, that computer can't handle 4K video. You need a really modern computer.
My laptop has a 2.4ghz amd with 4gb ram, it's 4 years old, and it can't play back 4k either, very very choppy.
Here is a video I shot. While on youtube, try it 1080p, then try "original" resolution. You should see that 1080p should be smooth, but original (4K) will be very choppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5d_1eX_5U
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Well there's your problem (actually my problem)... Yup, even 1080p playsback like crap on this laptop. Damn.
Now to just save the videos, I can save them on a thumb drive and eventually we can burn them onto bluray or a similar technology right? I mainly ask cause I wanted to record the kids in 4k, and eventually five or ten years down the line buy a 4k TV when they are affordable, but it would be nice to have some home videos shot that way.

my laptop has 3.4 ghz i7,12 gb ram, and a 1 gig nvidia gforce gts 360m and i can play them just fine

I have an Atari 800XL an they play just fine

Potplayer x64.
Plays every video that I have thrown at it. Have a geforce gtx 460 with 1gb ram. Plays fine. 4k resolution thru Youtube always stutters for me. I have read that it is a prob;em on Youtubes side.

strange i have intel i5 4200u with with 12gb ram 2 video cards intel hd 4400 and GT720m both are 2gb youtube 4k plays fine no lags but media player classic and vlc stutters on 4k videos

It is difficult for most players to afford 4K videos. You can download VLC player to have a try or downscale your 4k video to 1080p first before playing.

I use vlc for pc and mx player for android.
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play 4k videos smoothly
for the 4K videos, not only about the powerful computerbut also the code that you may also has the influence. If your computer not such powerful, then I suggest you to downscale your files then have a try.