Thanks to this forum, I was able to find my Samsung Galaxy Hub downloaded movies and move them to the external SD card. Thank you for that!
I've searched the web (and this site) for a way to convert pyv to mp4 or any other format that I can burn to a DVD and watch on tv or at least watch on the 27" desktop monitor. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks,
Monica
To my understanding, the movies lic, is tied to the device you download them, unless a program breaks the security on the movie it won't be possible to rip them.
Now you could try to stream them to your tv.
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Hi there,
I am reasonably new to the HD, and WM in general. Just got my HD and absolutely loving it. I have a few long train journeys coming up though, and am looking to make the most of video/audio playback.
Basically I'm not 100% sure how to do it all. I have some DVDs that I would like to rip to my harddrive and then convert into a suitable file type to be played on my HD. I have DVD Decrypter which I will use to rip them to my harddrive, but I'm not entirely sure of the best way to proceed from there. They will just be in standard DVD format on my harddrive. If anyone can help and give me a quick tutorial and recommend a few programs to use, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks!
Firstly I rip the DVD movie to a Divx format.AVI file, then I use a program on my desktoppc called "PocketDivxEncoder" which converts the .AVI to a compressed format suitable to dump onto my memory card (about 80MB for a 45min TV show with reasonable quality - so on that basis a movie would be arounf 160 - 180MB), then finally use PocketDivx player (downloaded from www.divx.com) to watch fullscreen - works perfect for me, I have a 16gb card and have several completer series of tv shows stored quite happily with really good quality viewing!
Thanks for that. How do you rip the DVD movie into DivX? Sorry, new to all this!
there are several freeware apps that you can use to rip a DVD, I use one called "Shark Ripper", it has numerous options incl. output format - where I select DIVX video compression and MPe audio compression. Take a search on download.com and I'm sure you'll find a suitable freeware DVD ripper!
I have my movies located on a NAS server. Is there anyone who knows if it is possible to play movies directly from it. The films are in the "vob" format?
video_ts is just the folder name for dvd format videos. I dont have an answer for you, but to help you search you need to be searching for a player that supports '.vob', not 'video_ts'.
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video_ts is just the folder name for dvd format videos. I dont have an answer for you, but to help you search you need to be searching for a player that supports '.vob', not 'video_ts'.
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Thank you. I edit the title.
.vob is DVD MPEG-2, and there isn't any player that correctly supports it under WM, simply because it takes a lot of power to decode, which no WM device ever really had.
TCPMP with the AC3 and FFMPEG plugins will play it, but just barely on the HD2, a little laggy, and most importantly without deinterlacing, which looks ugly if your content is interlaced.
alright as you all may know or not know, some blu ray movies come with digital copies of the movie and i was wondering if anyone successfully transfered them onto your hd2 and being able to watch them??
ive tried 2 movies already and both of them say "a digital rights management error has occurred"
on the windows phone site it says that our windows media player on the phones will play protected content but the above quote throws me off??
and on the movies themselves say that they can be transfered to any portal device that allows it..
has anyone gotten theirs to work and if you did what steps did you take??
please advise
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alright as you all may know or not know, some blu ray movies come with digital copies of the movie and i was wondering if anyone successfully transfered them onto your hd2 and being able to watch them??
ive tried 2 movies already and both of them say "a digital rights management error has occurred"
on the windows phone site it says that our windows media player on the phones will play protected content but the above quote throws me off??
and on the movies themselves say that they can be transfered to any portal device that allows it..
has anyone gotten theirs to work and if you did what steps did you take??
please advise
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You just need to encode them the same way you'd encode any movie(unless of course you use WMP to sync you media content, which won't work in this case and isn't really recommended for movies anyways as the quality is just awful) .
I myself use MeGui. You can of course use a different encoder if you find megui to be too complicated.
The basics are that you need to find the largest file in your STREAM folder on you Blu-Ray disc and encode that into a format the HD2 supports(h264 packed in an MP4/AVI container).
Then it's just a matter of moving the file over and enjoying it on your HD2.
Avatar encoded from the Blu-Ray disc looks simply phenomenal!
the hardware supports it but windos doesnot have suitable codecs ,may be wp7 or android port will help
can someone share any information on how to convert videos for the nexus s? as i am having quite a bit of trouble, programs used etc?
http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-faq-how-tos/840-how-convert-any-video-your-nexus-one.html
enjoy. yes i know it says nexus one. same screen res though. worked like a charm for me.
Cheers dude
I use handbrake also, but do so in a slightly different way.
I got tired of re-ripping my movies each time I switched to a device that had a different resolution/codec/whatever. So what I did was to buy two 1TB drives, one for DVD Movies, and one for DVD TV shows. Then I downloaded the free DVDFab (http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm). DVDFab will strip the DRM from the movie and copy it. For movies I only copy the "main movie", for TV Shows I "copy the entire disk".
Then, since I dual-boot Ubuntu Linux, I wrote a couple of scripts to use HandBrake to go through all of the DVD folders and convert any DVD Movie to my current movie codec (right now mp4 using H.264). For the TV DVD's I create a text file with each episode's title and location on the disk. That way I can again transcode them automatically.
So, for instance, when H.264/mp4 is no longer viable and we are all on WebM, all I have to do is download the latest version of HandBrake for Ubuntu, change the settings in the script, and re-run them. Viola, I have all of my movies and TV shows on my third 1TB drive that I can take with me and put on my phone or laptop or whatever.
I found FormatFactory to be better than handbrake if you already have the source on your computer and want to implement subtitles. Just my experience.
Below are the settings that I use.
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I found FormatFactory to be better than handbrake if you already have the source on your computer and want to implement subtitles. Just my experience.
Below are the settings that I use.
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Format Factory's website is showing as hostile on McAfee's SiteAdvisor...
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Format Factory's website is showing as hostile on McAfee's SiteAdvisor...
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....It doesn't on others. So you can decide who to believe. I mean, it's been used and recommended by xda members and other sites. So yeah, believe what you want and use what you want.
The only thing McAfee got right is the wavesecure app, otherwise I wouldn't just believe everything their software say.
I am pretty new with this. How do you download movies? What software would you need? Also, can you plug it into the computer?
Download movies?
The movies that are on my elocity are from my own collection.
plug it into the computer?
I guess it depends on why you need to connect. If its to get files on the elocity, I use the app Dropbox to transfer files. Another user posted using bluetooth to transfer files.
This Elocity A7 section isn't that big and you could learn what others have discovered by reading some of the threads.
I use uTorrent over AceVPN with PeerBlock to download movies and television to a network storage device. From there, I use ES File to download to my A7 over wifi or sometimes I put the movie on a thumbdrive and then I use Act One to playback the movie.
Works very well for me although I would prefer to stream, but can't find any way to stream .avi files.