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help with Mp4 video resizing ?????

I have downloaded an Mp4 film but the film is 320x240 so doesn't look good on the screen as its too small, is there any free software that I can change the resolution to a bigger size? also how do I go about doing it? I am not very techi minded so any help would be such a help, thanks.

320x240 mp4 files play fine for me. What are you using to play them?
Incidentally, you can resize videos both up and down, but there's no point resizing a small video to a larger size if your player will play it full screen. You can't get better resolution that way.

I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..

tanzi said:
I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..
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Touch the screen when it's playing
But, for mp4 files, you should use the in-built video player as it supports hardware acceleration, and therefore plays better.

I have tried touching the screen in the windows media player and its still the same, whats the best format in core player?

tanzi said:
I have tried touching the screen in the windows media player and its still the same, whats the best format in core player?
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Play it in CorePlayer and touch the screen. In windows media, you need to go into the menu and select Full Screen.
Core player will play many formats. It's a massive discussion if you want to know what people think is the best.
So...
CorePlayer, touch the screen.
Windows Media, use the menu for fullscreen.
But, I'd recommend using the built in video player for mp4 files (just navigate to the file with file explorer and click it. If you've not changed any file associations, it will use the in-built video player).

I will go and try and see what happens, will update my thread in about an hour, thank you so much for your help....

tanzi said:
I will go and try and see what happens, will update my thread in about an hour, thank you so much for your help....
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No problem mate - good luck

tanzi said:
I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..
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this is because the aspect ratio of the movie is different to that of your screen.
If you made the image fit the screen to get rid of the black bars you would be stretching the video height, this would make all people look tall and skinny, or you could fill the screen while maintaing aspect ratio but would loose some of the video of the sides where it cant be seen.

rumpleforeskin said:
this is because the aspect ratio of the movie is different to that of your screen.
If you made the image fit the screen to get rid of the black bars you would be stretching the video height, this would make all people look tall and skinny, or you could fill the screen while maintaing aspect ratio but would loose some of the video of the sides where it cant be seen.
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It was actually because he was playing it in portrait, not landscape.

When watching a movie, does the status bar disappear on the 7.7 ?

Does the status bar disappear when you view a movie ? I like to have full 1280 x 800 resolution without the annoying status bar. I hope that it only shows when you tab on the movie and disappear when in playing mode.

Yes. The bar fades away to black, with the buttons reducing to very dimly lit dots.

how/where do you get movies?

adinis78 said:
how/where do you get movies?
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May the force of Kim Dotcom be with you.

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Yes. The bar fades away to black, with the buttons reducing to very dimly lit dots.
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But it does not give us full screen view?

Earthbrain said:
May the force of Kim Dotcom be with you.
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i meant legaly, i dont mind purchacing them as long as they can be played on the tab with no issues. How do user here get their movies on their tab.

adinis78 said:
i meant legaly, i dont mind purchacing them as long as they can be played on the tab with no issues. How do user here get their movies on their tab.
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I would use Samsung's media hub, if it ever worked for me (I have NEVER had media hub work, on every Samsung device I have ever owned). But even then, there's no guarantee they'll have a big enough selection or that they'll have what you're looking for.
No wonder people just do a Google search for whatever they're looking for, and then just get it from whoever has it, legal or not...

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
I would use Samsung's media hub, if it ever worked for me (I have NEVER had media hub work, on every Samsung device I have ever owned). But even then, there's no guarantee they'll have a big enough selection or that they'll have what you're looking for.
No wonder people just do a Google search for whatever they're looking for, and then just get it from whoever has it, legal or not...
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my understanding is that media hub only works on NA versions of the tab (tmobile, att) i have the original tab and when i flashed the european rom to enable calls i media hub would no longer work. I know we can get movies via the market with the 7.7 but only as rentals.

EarlZ said:
But it does not give us full screen view?
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Depends on the aspect ratio of the video. Most will be letterboxed if you want to see the full picture. Most all video players have zoom options that will fill the screen, but then that will tend to cut off parts of the sides of most videos.
One option, if you don't want to be a pirate, is to convert DVDs using Handbrake, then upload them to your tab however you like uploading files.

ok i think i will try itunes to porchuse my content as it seems thats the only legal way to do so. my question to you guys that already play movies on the tab, what should i be looking for? any size restrictions? formart restrictions? it seems i can only get the standard version of the movie, as it states that in order to get the hd version my pc has to be windows 7 and have HDCP components, :-(

Back to the original question, No the status bar does not go away when watching videos. As Jade Eyed Wolf said it fades to black so as not to take your eye away from the image but it still takes up screen resolution and your videos get resized accordingly. I think this is a limitation of honeycomb and in ics hopefully it will completely disappear during full screen events like video watching. I have read online somewhere that a hide status bar apk might work but i am not exactly sure how.

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Back to the original question, No the status bar does not go away when watching videos. As Jade Eyed Wolf said it fades to black so as not to take your eye away from the image but it still takes up screen resolution and your videos get resized accordingly. I think this is a limitation of honeycomb and in ics hopefully it will completely disappear during full screen events like video watching. I have read online somewhere that a hide status bar apk might work but i am not exactly sure how.
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There's still a blank space in full-screen mode on ICS on my OG 7". Rather than the faint dots, it's just full black. Again, I think with the aspect ratio of these things there's going to be deadspace in most videos anyway unless you zoom and crop.

Wish it can do full screen so at least screen aging becomes uniform

burhanistan said:
There's still a blank space in full-screen mode on ICS on my OG 7". Rather than the faint dots, it's just full black. Again, I think with the aspect ratio of these things there's going to be deadspace in most videos anyway unless you zoom and crop.
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For normal videos yes but i still wish it was an option, things like older 4:3 videos get shrunk by the bottom bar and full screen activities like games and book reading loses space becuase of it too.
edit: just found Hide Bar it requires root so i haven't tried it yet. Also different bar hider app in market ,third bar hider
I have no idea if these things work with touchwiz at all. Try at your own risk.

adinis78 said:
ok i think i will try itunes to porchuse my content as it seems thats the only legal way to do so. my question to you guys that already play movies on the tab, what should i be looking for? any size restrictions? formart restrictions? it seems i can only get the standard version of the movie, as it states that in order to get the hd version my pc has to be windows 7 and have HDCP components, :-(
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You should have no issues with being able to playback full HD content where you can get it, even with very high bitrates of 9mbit/sec and such. Fortunately, the 7.7 is very good at being able to playback lot's of different formats, not least of which include DivX, h.264, VC1, MP4, etc. It's also very robust in terms of what containers you have them in too, so .avi, .mkv, .m4v, and a bunch of others should play fine. I think even .wmv works too.
Your only size restriction is the fact that only FAT32 is natively supported for the external storage, so that limits you to a 4GB file size. I know that there are some tricks to being able to mount NTFS external storage, but it's a bit of a hassle, and requires root.

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
You should have no issues with being able to playback full HD content where you can get it, even with very high bitrates of 9mbit/sec and such. Fortunately, the 7.7 is very good at being able to playback lot's of different formats, not least of which include DivX, h.264, VC1, MP4, etc. It's also very robust in terms of what containers you have them in too, so .avi, .mkv, .m4v, and a bunch of others should play fine. I think even .wmv works too.
Your only size restriction is the fact that only FAT32 is natively supported for the external storage, so that limits you to a 4GB file size. I know that there are some tricks to being able to mount NTFS external storage, but it's a bit of a hassle, and requires root.
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Thanks for that but I tried a rental from itunes and it didn't play. I even tried several other players from the market
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Anyway to get the popup window to be even smaller?

I like to watch a floating youtube video on my Note 4, but the current popup implementation makes the youtube app (and every app) very tall (portrait). Is there any way to modify something so it allows for complete resizing of that popup window?

I'm not sure, but have you tried Viral YouTube player? You can size it at will and even have multiple pop-up players.

Like this:

rcobourn said:
I'm not sure, but have you tried Viral YouTube player? You can size it at will and even have multiple pop-up players.
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Yes, I know that third party apps can offer that individually, but I'd like a solution that applies system wide,since I'd like to see a tiny window for more than just youtube videos.
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I wanted to know a solution to this as well

Is it possible to run KODI in multiwindow with other app below?

Is anyone could check it for me please. That is possible with root.
Just love to watch tv snd browse internet.

netgar said:
Is anyone could check it for me please. That is possible with root.
Just love to watch tv snd browse internet.
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Checking now.
No you can not.

Netgar:
It is possible, but I don't yet know if it's really a viable option. In Developer Options, there is a toggle near the bottom that will let you force apps to resize.
After this, I was able to have a video playing on kodi (portrait mode) on top with chrome on the bottom, but I haven't messed around with it much. For starters, it seems very difficult to navigate kodi in split screen, and I'm not sure the video aspect ratio is correct. Anyhow...

Thx guys.
Using my n4 I can have both spmc and kodi running in portrait mode and watching soccer.
I wish we have a root.
Thx again

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Netgar:
It is possible, but I don't yet know if it's really a viable option. In Developer Options, there is a toggle near the bottom that will let you force apps to resize.
After this, I was able to have a video playing on kodi (portrait mode) on top with chrome on the bottom, but I haven't messed around with it much. For starters, it seems very difficult to navigate kodi in split screen, and I'm not sure the video aspect ratio is correct. Anyhow...
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Were you able to navigate in kodi? Pause, play, stop movie?
I'm sorry that I am coming back to the same question.
Is anyone could test it please
Anyone?

I took another look and I don't really think forcing kodi to run in split screen is worth the hassle.
Alternatively, using a sportsmania account with the matrix TV browser (which plays the streams on app of your choosing such a MX, VLC, etc.) works great in split screen. Also could use sportsaccess account, load the stream in the browser and then split chrome tabs.

netgar said:
Is anyone could check it for me please. That is possible with root.
Just love to watch tv snd browse internet.
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I love kodi. Isnt it possible to use an external video player that will do allow split view. I feel like ive seen that in the settings.

Bubba: good point. I had not thought of using an external player as I don't use kodi on my phone that often. I got it to work using MX free player, but am not aware of any settings within kodi... you can find instructions for adding an xml file which then lets you choose an external player by googling...
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I love kodi. Isnt it possible to use an external video player that will do allow split view. I feel like ive seen that in the settings.
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pachanga74 said:
I took another look and I don't really think forcing kodi to run in split screen is worth the hassle.
Alternatively, using a sportsmania account with the matrix TV browser (which plays the streams on app of your choosing such a MX, VLC, etc.) works great in split screen. Also could use sportsaccess account, load the stream in the browser and then split chrome tabs.
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Thank you pachanga74
Unfortunately the streaming I use run only in kodi.
I just wonder if you could just navigate it. I can use kodi in multi window view all the time and use spmc full screen.

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How to use full notch display while watching videos??

How about watching full-screen videos in this phone

Kanhadas1995 said:
How about watching full-screen videos in this phone
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Video playback does not uses the notch area i.e. the area of the top notification bar.
I also want a solution to this..

Kanhadas1995 said:
How about watching full-screen videos in this phone
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While full screen, pinch out (like we do while zooming in for camera apps)

Shantanu said:
While full screen, pinch out (like we do while zooming in for camera apps)
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That still doesn't utilise notch area like realme u1

I think mi vedio player has option after playing a vedio thereis option of fullscreen may be work
I am buying it on 26 flipkart bonanza sale so check after receiving the device

Holding the icon doesn't show anything i.e, uninstall or app info. What to do please answer...