I made a one minute video showing Sailfish OS 2.0.10 (Saimaa) on Google Nexus 5. It is very smooth and fast, a pleasantly positive surprise to me. This will be my daily phone OS for now.
Best observed with youtube quality 720 / 50 fps. Was a bit surprised that Youtube supported Panasonic's MTS 50 fps format directly
edit: Here is a direct link if the above embedded link does not work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlGHImb56w?vq=hd720
The Nexus 5 has a full hardware support and as seen in your video is very smooth.
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Is it gonna look as good as a Iphone 4 or a Omnia HD?If not Im not gonna bother you know, I checked on YouTube, and it looks just like the normal video on the N1.
Yeah, it's like the video's you saw, except 720p.
People are working on getting it higher quality, with video, audio, and FPS.
Actually I just checked a newer vid and it actually looks better than I thought, Still though I'll wait till its really good looking!
The iPhone 4 has better camera, so it won't be as good. That said, I would rather use the nexus video hack at 480 with 30 fps rather than 720 at 20 fps. They may still improve the hack to match the iPhone though, we have to wait and see.
And the 480p 30 fps hack only works on 2.1?
Yes but they are working on froyo version.
480p @ 30fps works on Froyo; you just need to be rooted and edit the media_profiles.xml file and set the fps to 30. You can also set resolution to 800x480 if you wish.
I've seen various people having issues with 1080p video on the A7. I've been doing some work to figure out what works and what doesn't. I used Nero Recode, but you should get the same results with Handbrake or StaxRip.
1080p (1920x800) - Silky Smooth
+mp4 container
+H264 - Main Profile, 3 B-Frame Refs, 4mpbs
--No CABAC, Weighted Prediction
+AAC LC 192kpbs 2 Channel
--Does not support 5.1 down mixing!
I managed to get it below 4GB (Iron Man 2.35AR - 2:02) and it still looks decent. I think 2 hours is pretty much the limit. I think on a true 16x9 movie (1.85AR) you would have issues.
Using Microsoft Expressions:
1080p (1920x800) - Blocky
+wmv container
+VC1 - Advanced Profile 4mbps
+WMA Pro 5.1 384 kmps
Played fine, just blocky. The device does support 5.1 down mix (only 2 channel is outputed via HDMI)
Hi Everyone,
I want to know how is the video playback on Nexus 7 (720p and 1080p) and if possible can any one test out the result if i want to stream (720p or 1080p) video via wifi using any app.
as far as playback goes. 720p is good to go. Galaxy Nexus can handle it and i know the Tegra 3 can (at least on the other asus tablets)
Can't say anything about 1080 or streaming though.
I am only asking because I amusing Atrix (tegra 2) and it sucks at playing even 720p videos (only videos made from camera are rock solid) and i dont want to convert a video before watching it on tablet i guess quad core cpu with 12 core GPU is just a fancy bull ****
So for the longest time, my Note 3 always lagged a bit with 1080p videos, but a few days ago when I just updated to the newest MX Player, 1080p videos now play perfectly.
A majority of my videos are encoded in 720p mainly because 1080p couldn't play right, but now I'm thinking of re-encoding all my movies in 1080p. My question is will it make a difference in quality? I can always tell the difference in quality when I watch on my 42 inch TV since there's some distance between me and my TV, but when I watch my videos on my phone, I usually have it in front of my face pretty close. Would a video in 1080p make a difference to a 720p video even on a small 5 inch phone? I can tell a huge difference between another one of my phone which is 4 inch (480p) vs my Note 3 (720p) when playing videos. I just want to know if there is no real difference, I was going to keep 720p because 1080p videos are damn huge.
Sorry for the long question. Kudos to anyone who has any knowledge on this subject.
The fact is 1080p will technically appear better than 720p. Whether or not you notice the difference will depend on how well your eyes are attuned to high pixel images. While I've never done a comparison on my note 3 I have clearly noticed the difference on an 8in tablet. I can notice pixelation on 4k images and higher but I've been exposing my eyes to them for years now. I honestly don't think it would bother you (or me) if watching videos, but if you are ocd like me and have the original files at higher resolution with the storage space I would probably make all my videos the highest res available based on the original (understanding that without high end video editing software there is no benefit to increasing resolution beyond the original).
Oops I forgot to mention. I actually never had problems with 1080p videos. It was always the ones that were encoded in 10bit + 1080p that lagged. With the latest version of MX Player, SW decoder can actually play the damn thing without much lag. And this is with the subtitle enabled which is pretty amazing.
My eyesight is pretty horrible so maybe I won't notice the sharpness of 1080p much...
Edit - So I tested a few videos. Looks like I overestimated the SW decoding. It's definitely come a long way because there isn't as much as lag as before, but there IS still lag. I actually tested some 10bit 1080p with insanely high bitrates and it lags like a mother still. The lag isn't as bad as before, but it is still there. Guess I will just stick with 10bit 720p for now. No matter how much better 1080p may look, it doesn't beat 720p with perfect playback and no annoying lags.
You brought up the one thing I forgot to mention about differences between the two, bitrate. When it comes to encoded videos (not on a disc), bitrate is almost everything when it comes to quality. My previous post holds true as long as the bitrate remains comparable. If a 720p video has a significantly higher bitrate than a 1080p video, the 720p will view better in almost every scenario.
I don't know at what point the Note 3 will be unable to support smooth playback, but depending on what format you have encoded your videos will determine the quality. What I do know is that bluray level bitrate if far too high for the Note 3. I would take a guess that somewhere between 3000 - 4000 kbps would be the limited to what the hardware could handle but I could be mistaken. What I do know is that using MP4 (or MKV with MP4 encoding) at around 2k kbps is close to the same visual quality (on smaller screens) as any container using H.264 encoding at 3k-4k kbps.
kinstre11 said:
You brought up the one thing I forgot to mention about differences between the two, bitrate. When it comes to encoded videos (not on a disc), bitrate is almost everything when it comes to quality. My previous post holds true as long as the bitrate remains comparable. If a 720p video has a significantly higher bitrate than a 1080p video, the 720p will view better in almost every scenario.
I don't know at what point the Note 3 will be unable to support smooth playback, but depending on what format you have encoded your videos will determine the quality. What I do know is that bluray level bitrate if far too high for the Note 3. I would take a guess that somewhere between 3000 - 4000 kbps would be the limited to what the hardware could handle but I could be mistaken. What I do know is that using MP4 (or MKV with MP4 encoding) at around 2k kbps is close to the same visual quality (on smaller screens) as any container using H.264 encoding at 3k-4k kbps.
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I encode most of my videos in MKV format which is why the bitrate is already high enough. Most of my 720p videos have a bitrate of around 2k-2.5k and that's good enough for me. Most of the 1080p videos are almost triple that amount so I guess it's not surprising that the Note 3 will have some hiccup here and there. Not to mention the size of the files are almost 3-4 times big which isn't really ideal for my small storage.
Anyway, thanks for the helpful reply. Wish I can do HW+ decoding with MX player, but alas that's not possible so I guess I will stick with 720p.
There's a 240 fps slow mo hummingbird video from the 6P on youtube. I'd post a link, but I can't because I'm new to the forums.
There's at least a couple versions of it on the net, I downloaded the 19.5 mb version, and decoded it into its image frames:
892 frames at 720x1280 resolution.
My tool told me the MP4 was running at 30 fps for approx 29.733 seconds. If it was recorded at 240 fps, then it means this video is slowed down 8X, and real time it was only a recording of approx 3.71 seconds. My computer is not quite fast enough to speed it up that much, the best I can do is run all 892 frames in about 6 seconds. At that speed it really looks like a guy is just holding the camera in his hand and you can tell its moving around a bit.
Does anyone know more details of the slow motion options available for the 6P?
Are there any other 6P 240fps slo mo MP4s out there in the wild?