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Get Badaboom files to enable TouchHD profile!

Hi all
I've just finished editing the Defaults.xml and creating some basic graphics to enable the TouchHD profile in Badaboom!
You can now have GPU accelerated transcoding with ease.. just one click!
[size=+2]Tested only on Badaboom 1.1.1.194[/size]
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[size=+1]Video transcoding settings:[/size]
Profile: baseline
Level: 3.0
Bitrate: 650-900 VBR (default 750 - should be a good tradeoff between quality and size)
Audio: mp3 stereo 128kbps
Resolution: 720x480 (due to a limitation in badaboom you can't set this beyond the hardcoded resolution and that's the closest to our 800x480..)
[size=+1]Enable or disable deinterlacing according to your videos![/size]
[size=+1]Get the files here:[/size]
http://www.mediafire.com/?ji1gy5z3kg3

first and last UP just for letting more ppl see this post..

Cheers Eraser , works a bloody treat , you gotta love the speed that it transcodes files . Great work .

how's the image quality compared to x264 based converters at the same bitrate?

I kind of take it all back , converts super fast but slaps DRM over everything , won't let me play on my htc . bummer .
maybe i am doing something wrong but i can't find out how to turn DRM off .

~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.

mcdull said:
~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.
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That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.

garybeaman said:
That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.
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Yes, and just try to encode some ~1hour from movie for my X1.
Quadcore CPU 6800 - 20mins
Nvidia GTX 260 GPU - 6mins
i hope badaboom will support xperia 800x480 resolution in next versions

Wow, this is awesome. Maybe 20 minutes or so for a normal movie for me. The end product is bigger in size than if you were to use one of the two "made for Touch HD" applications our members have created, BUT the movies look superb and play smooth as butter with no audio sync problems at all.
Pop your DVD in and after you've set up this profile for the HD click "Start", then copy the file over to your HD. Excellent! It also looks like you can do VOB directory too if you've already ripped all your media to harddrive, but I haven't tested it yet. I'll have to try that next to see if it's any faster than ripping right from DVD.
Thanks for pointing this out! Wonderful!

Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??

Thanks Eraser, this is great. It also works on the latest version 1.2.1
This would probably get more hits if it was posted in the Apps and Themes section though.

Charlie3999 said:
Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??
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Anyone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like your video card has problems. Have you tried the latest drivers for your card?

Where are multi-format Video Players? Core? mVideoPlayer? BluMedialab Media Player?

Quite simply, I've wanted to play my downloaded itunes TV shows, which are in .m4v format. Searched high and low. I'm not a developer, just a savvy end user, but I was surprised at how few offerings exist for multi-format video players on Android.
Here's what I've found so far. What am I missing?
1. BluMedialab.com 's Media Player v 1.6 - costs approx $3.50 USD - claims to play .m4v files. I bought it, it doesn't. Uninstalled and got refund.
The player that plays more media on your DROID then other apps: from your SD Card or streaming from web.
SD card: WMA, MP3, MP4, M4V, (small!) WMV, MID, 3GP (some)
Streaming: WMV, M4V, MP4 (also non-progeressive!)
Has a built-in SDcard browser, video RSS reader and webbrowser with Google search.
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They say their new TRIAL version is more advanced... So why they continue to sell any version at all is beyond me. But they do. This should be highly discouraged in my view. The moment it's clear an app doesn't perform as advertised, to sell it in the store is morally wrong, and I think such app developers should be economically punished by horrible reviews, and hammered with email til they take down their pay versions. It's ridiculous.
Here is their Trial Version Media Player v 2.2
FIXED crashing!. Please upgrade and update your reviews!
Plays media from your SD Card or streaming from web.
SD card: WMA, MP3, MP4, M4V, (small!) WMV, MID, 3GP(some)
Streaming: WMV, M4V, MP4 (also non-progeressive!)
Has a built-in SDcard browser, video RSS reader and browser with Google search.
Remembers your recents!
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2. Core Player is coming, so they say: from Aug 2009:
While Android works great for many apps.... its A/V system designed by PacketVideo is far from robust enough to add onto no less use. David Turner one of the lead Android Devs even noted last week that there are major changes coming this way with each SDK/NDK release as it relates to multimedia, quoting: "(and believe me the graphics and media frameworks are under extensive changes at the moment, and will keep doing so for quite a number of upcoming releases)".
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AndroidForums and other sites announce that CorePlayer Mobile 2.0 is soon coming to Android OS!!!
And here is, according to that thread, a pic of a build:
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and here is another from sizzlecore.com:
3. mVideoPlayer for Android:
Some user comments from AndroLib.com :
Without a doubt the best app for the G1 no damn question.
by Brandon the 3/5/2010
I love srt support. Now it's my default video player. Five star well earn. Thank you, Nexus One
by Karan the 3/2/2010
Works great for mp4s I play on here.
by Izzy the 3/2/2010
I like the UI and the "watched" color coding. Please add an "any order defined" playlist function... No other video app is doing that - be the first!
by Hunter the 3/1/2010
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4. Everything Else....
I found this, Act 1 Video Player at hyperaware.com, and they say:
December 1, 2009 - There is a new version of the app called "Act 1 Video Player for And 1.5" which is intended for the Motorola Cliq and HTC Hero because they are currently stuck at Android 1.5. This version is equivalent to the old 1.13 version of the app and will receive no future upgrades, HOWEVER, you can feel confident purchasing this app because we will be issuing discounts to the latest version of the app when your phone's Android OS ugrades. When this happens, go ahead and purchase Act 1 Video Player then contact us with your Google Checkout order numbers for both "Act 1 Video Player" and "Act 1 Video Player for And 1.5". We will manually refund the difference in price between them.
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The comments from the Core Codec site explain why multi-format video players are not prevalent yet for Android. I have to say, really? After a whole year, and Google can't enrich their OS to play videos properly?
Someone please enlighten me. Where's that great app I am missing?

You forgot about the chinese app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=642713

Video out from ARIA

Is there a Way to make my Aria say, display a video/movie on another screen? Like say a 7 inch LCD in the back seat of my Truck? I have no real reason to do this, other than because i possibly can, lol!
I have searched the forum, but I could not find any definitive answer as to the Aria itself.

I was wondering about this and found some micro usb -> rca plug adaptors and wondered if that would work

struff said:
I was wondering about this and found some micro usb -> rca plug adaptors and wondered if that would work
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That might work, but even with the adapter, wouldn't there need to be an app to make it happen? I don't know the first thing about writing programs, (I would like to learn) so i could not tell anyone how to even begin with that.

If you search online I believe a few HTC phones support audio and video out thought the micro usb port. I doubt that the aria does since it is a mid level device. If you look at the accessories page on the HTC site it does list a pair of usb "universal" headphones for the aria though.

HD 1080p Movie Stick 4gb with Remote - USB to HDTV Converter with HDMI Output - 4gb Internal Memory - Micro SD Card Slot
http://www.amazon.com/HD-1080p-Movi...?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280089963&sr=8-31
Product Description
HD Movie Stick is a really cool device. The size of a USB drive, it connects via HDMI to your TV and can play 1080p content flawlessly. Here's how it works: one end of the stick connects to your computer via USB - you transfer video, music, and photos to the device's 4gb internal storage (or up to 32GB Micro SD memory). The other end of the stick is the mini HDMI connector to display the content on your TV, with an included remote to navigate it all. The movie stick can also be plugged into the USB port of an external HDD and play directly to your TV.
This means NO DRIVERS ???
Specs:
Supported Video Formats: AVI, MPG, WMV, RM, RMVB, MKV, DAT, TS, VOB(1080p)
Supported Music Formats: MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG
Supported Photo Format: JPG, BMP, PNG
Operating system: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
Internal Memory: 4gb
External memory: Micro SD slot supports up to 32gb.
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Interesting ...

[How to] Encode HD videos for Iconia Tab

Well, since there is no guides for how to encoding videos for our lazy Tegra 2 Tablet, I happy making this for you guys.
First of all, im mexican and I never study english, so my gramatical skills aren't very good
All we need in this guide, is Staxrip, a free and open source UI for several tools, like avisinth, x264, virtualdubmod, besweet, and a lot more.
You can download Staxrip ready for tegra encoding from this link: Download Staxrip
Now, if you don't want to complicate this bussiness just uncompress Staxrip.7zip on C: because all paths are set for C:
OK, open Staxrip and you will be a window like this:
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there is a lot of options, simply and fastly:
Source: input video
Target: output video
Filters: avisynth filters
Resize: well, exactly that, resize
Encoder: default set to x264, baseline, no tunning, HQ and already configured.
Container: default set to mp4
Audio: default set to AAC VBR ~192kbps
All this settings are ready to play on our Iconia tab.
1. Drag and drop a good quality video on staxrip window. The program may ask for some programs like avysinth or others, all apps required are stored inside application folder and staxrip just ask for install, but you don't need to search or download any of this applications.
2. Once that the video you selected are loaded you will see something like this:
You now can see info about input video, like resolution, display aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio and stuff.
If you see on last image, I clicked on Resize and I selected 1280x720 and Resize filter has checked on Filters settings.
3. Now just click on Next button at bottom right and the project will be added to Jobs list. If we want to attach several videos to encode just close Jobs list and repeat all process to load another video. If not, just click on Start! button.
Now you can see the output video on your A500 and see what smoothly the video will play.
Click here if you want to download and test a nice 1280 output video to play on your iconia
Please feel free to ask for anything you want
BTW, This profile settings works with 1080p too

How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?

What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.

Maddmatt said:
What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.
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Anything but 720p+ MKV files, unfortunately..

@ Alejand
Thanks for sharing. Nice job. I'll try this. The video you posted is nice. And don't worry about your proficiency in English here. You are not writing a master thesis
Anyway, I did not know that the iconia is capable of playing the video on the fly without downloading. Awesome, I love this tablet.

techpal said:
How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?
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All depends of how much frames per second can encode your hardware, for example if you pc is powerful and you can process 100 frame per second and your input movie is 2 hours at 23fps then
2 hours= 7200 seconds.
7200 seconds x 23 fps = 165600 frames
And if your hardware can encode 100 frames per second then encoding process will take about 27.6 minutes
But remember, we al depends of your hardware

can it deal with discs? almost all of my movies are stored on bluray or DVD disc. i once downloaded a free version of a bluray tool. it works well, but there is a big logo "foxreal" in the centre of the converted file. it's really affect viewing. i have looked for such free tool for a long time. any suggestion?

[Q] Stuttering on video playback - MP4 1280 x 720

I have some high quality video (BBC Frozen Planet - "H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) 1280 x 720" according to VLC Codec Details) that really stutters with the standard video app. I tried DICE Player and it was no better. I tried MX Video Player and I finally seem to be getting somewhere - but I am puzzled.
MX Video Player has a choice of decoding modes at the touch of a button:
H/W Decoder
S/W Decoder
S/W Decoder (fast mode)
H/W mode is still stuttering, but the other two seem to work perfectly. (Wow - I love this screen!!)
So why doesn't H/W mode work?
And does anyone know which of the other two is the best (by which I probably mean uses least battery)?
Will S/W modes use more power than H/W?

fjuniper said:
So why doesn't H/W mode work?
And does anyone know which of the other two is the best (by which I probably mean uses least battery)?
Will S/W modes use more power than H/W?
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1. I can't give you any details about why the HW decoder would have issues without the video in question, but I assume it has some unusual settings in the encoding that confuse or bog down your decoding hardware. It's not something that comes up a lot, honestly--usually hardware decoding either works fine or fails outright, in which case you can fall back to software decoding.
2. I honestly don't know exactly the difference between fast and normal software decoding in MX. I assume the "fast" flavor is optimized for speed at the cost of quality, but I haven't been able to discern any differences between the two modes.
3. Yes, SW decoding uses massively more power than HW. The tab has fixed-function video decoding units that use relatively little power for the codecs it supports, while the CPU can sit idle. In software mode, the CPU is doing the decoding, so you're going to be taxing it heavily, which is a very large power drain. I almost never play software video on mobile devices, but I'd expect your battery life to be about half as good with software decoding compared to hardware.

stuttering has to do with bitrate...especially since the format your file is is what I rip to and I've had no problems...even in software...I've found that you lose no quality with a bitrate of around 6k for 720p...I haven't tried higher because you get close to the 4gb FAT32 limit with a full length film
Have you tried the file on your pc? And if your bitrate is too high...use format factory to bring it down

Thank you for your detailed answers teiglin and bdroc.
@teiglin (3) Confirmed what I thought about H/W versus S/W.
@bdroc The attached image from VLC suggests that the bit rate is around 400 kb/s, which seem an awful lot less than the 5k you mention, so I am not sure how low I should go if I re-encode in Format Factory. I am trying the Mobile Devices preset -> HD AVC(H264) 1280x720 which uses 1500KB/s. 1% complete so far...
The file came direct from the BBC btw, using get_iPlayer. It plays perfectly on a laptop. With the window sized to 7.7 inches like the tablet, the tablet looks so much better! (ThinkPad T400).
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I like this program to look at video info
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

Masterface7 said:
I like this program to look at video info
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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Thanks for that. So my original files was:
Overall bit rate : 2 467 Kbps
Bit rate : 2 367 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 3 500 Kbps
And the same file after conversion in FormatFactory using the preset mentioned below is:
Overall bit rate : 1 617 Kbps
Bit rate : 1 489 Kbps
The second file seems to play perfectly well in MX Video Player in H/W Decoder mode, so that is good, though it is a shame to have to convert what seem to be perfectly good files to be able to use them on the Tab... It took 1hr 47mins to convert the 58 minute file!