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Movie resolution and bitrate?

At what resolution and bitrate do you encode your movies for Note or similar mobile devices?

Okay, I encoded Kung Fu Panda into x264/AAC with Handbrake. I chose 800kbps as average bitrate and 128 as average audio bitrate, encoded with 2 pass + turbo first pass at a resolution of 1280 x 540, it's about 1:32 hours and it came out to be 615MB. I'm very space conscious as I don't have a lot of space considering the amount of crap I want to put into the Note, but this seems quite good.
EDIT : Hmm...800kbps is indeed a bit too low for this resolution, I'm going to try 1000kbps.

encode?
Direct transfer and go.

kersh said:
encode?
Direct transfer and go.
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Each of my movie is about 8-10GB and I got more than 20 of them. Yeah right.

Dragooon123 said:
Okay, I encoded Kung Fu Panda into x264/AAC with Handbrake. I chose 800kbps as average bitrate and 128 as average audio bitrate, encoded with 2 pass + turbo first pass at a resolution of 1280 x 540, it's about 1:32 hours and it came out to be 615MB. I'm very space conscious as I don't have a lot of space considering the amount of crap I want to put into the Note, but this seems quite good.
EDIT : Hmm...800kbps is indeed a bit too low for this resolution, I'm going to try 1000kbps.
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I would just use m720p 1-2GB for the space concious ones.
For me 3-4 movies of 2-2.5GB each are spot on. Space wise.
And another 16-32GB microSD is a must this days.

I have a 1080p MKV with a video bitrate of 9,500kbps and it plays fine on my SGSII and Note

NZtechfreak said:
I have a 1080p MKV with a video bitrate of 9,500kbps and it plays fine on my SGSII and Note
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That is not my question, I'm looking for an optimal setting where the movies look good without using too much space.

NZtechfreak said:
I have a 1080p MKV with a video bitrate of 9,500kbps and it plays fine on my SGSII and Note
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Wow! Incredible!!

Dragooon123 said:
That is not my question, I'm looking for an optimal setting where the movies look good without using too much space.
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Pretty subjective thing though wouldn't you say? Hard for anyone else to advise you on what the right rate is for you. Videos I have at ~7000kbps total bitrate look OK to me, so maybe start there and do a few brief encodes of the same thing at 5 and 3mbps and see how they look to you.
Others might be interested in this, since they will come here to see information on video playback:

Questions on video formats

I used Handbrake to convert a 1080p video to baseline.. I have a couple q's:
If ever ripping/downloading a video, should I just get it in 720p or is there a big quality difference between 720p and 1080p baseline?
Is there a big quality loss between regular 1080p and baseline? Or is it just the way it's encoded?
Is there a way to get handbrake to save the configuration?
Thanks! This is my first tablet, I love it!

Haloman800 said:
If ever ripping/downloading a video, should I just get it in 720p or is there a big quality difference between 720p and 1080p baseline?
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You should definitely get high-profile 720p instead of 1080p baseline one: especially in high-motion scenes you'll quickly notice blocking artifacts from the compression. Also 720p high-profile takes a lot less storage space.
Also do notice that the tablet screen is only 720p.
Is there a big quality loss between regular 1080p and baseline? Or is it just the way it's encoded?
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Yes, there is a noticeable quality-loss. You could in theory encode a baseline-one so that the quality is the same as on normal- or baseline-profile one, but you'd end up with a 15 gigabyte file.
Is there a way to get handbrake to save the configuration?
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Save it as a profile or grab one of my profiles from the sticky thread.

Wow, thank you so much, that answered all of my questions. I'll go for 720p from now on.
I just noticed an error in my post "If I ever ripping/downloading a video".. I meant "If I'm ever ripping/downloading a video".. lol.

Awesome video potential

I've just videoe my TV screen (with ceiling light above me too)
The stock camera app recording was fuzzy around the edge (grainy) and the TV picture wasn't that clear at all (was half zoomed in)
So then I used the LG camera app. Turned FPS to 60 and rate to 10mbit... EPIC!
Yes it uses more space, but the quality is amazing!
Anybody wanting to test video capability, download LG camera app, set FPS to 60 and check it out! (it doesn't look,great until you start recording)
Am just uploading a sample,video which is on highest settings in LG camera app. It's a whopping 250mb for just under a minute!!

wezzel98765 said:
I've just videoe my TV screen (with ceiling light above me too)
The stock camera app recording was fuzzy around the edge (grainy) and the TV picture wasn't that clear at all (was half zoomed in)
So then I used the LG camera app. Turned FPS to 60 and rate to 10mbit... EPIC!
Yes it uses more space, but the quality is amazing!
Anybody wanting to test video capability, download LG camera app, set FPS to 60 and check it out! (it doesn't look,great until you start recording)
Am just uploading a sample,video which is on highest settings in LG camera app. It's a whopping 250mb for just under a minute!!
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Where did you download the app from?, you should post this in the themes and apps section aswell.

Just search on the play store
.. Its free
Still waiting for it to upload, taking ages

wezzel98765 said:
Just search on the play store
.. Its free
Still waiting for it to upload, taking ages
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yeah i just checked and installed it, its the middle of the night here so il test properly tomorrow, i remember using this app a long time ago when i had my htc sensation.

Here's the sample
Not bad for an indoor false light video of a TV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWq1CVkuwNU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

wezzel98765 said:
Here's the sample
Not bad for an indoor false light video of a TV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWq1CVkuwNU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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what video settings did you use, what bitrate did you use. the samples good for the condition, i think we need to test this in normal daylight to see what it can really do. I took a video 32 seconds and it was 80mb

wezzel98765 said:
I've just videoe my TV screen (with ceiling light above me too)
The stock camera app recording was fuzzy around the edge (grainy) and the TV picture wasn't that clear at all (was half zoomed in)
So then I used the LG camera app. Turned FPS to 60 and rate to 10mbit... EPIC!
Yes it uses more space, but the quality is amazing!
Anybody wanting to test video capability, download LG camera app, set FPS to 60 and check it out! (it doesn't look,great until you start recording)
Am just uploading a sample,video which is on highest settings in LG camera app. It's a whopping 250mb for just under a minute!!
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thnx my frnd... it is indeed an amazing app and really the vids r much much better.. n so are pics too

wezzel98765 said:
Just search on the play store
.. Its free
Still waiting for it to upload, taking ages
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Can you pls post the link.
Cant seem to find it.

amey2606 said:
Can you pls post the link.
Cant seem to find it.
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Its in the play store, just search its called LG Camera.

If this is the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera&hl=en
then 60fps not supported, I just checked it out, 1 file on 30fps and 17mbit, the other file at 60fps and at 60mbit or whatever it was. Both files are at 29fps, so until sony adds a [email protected], I don't think it will be supported.

ascariss said:
If this is the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera&hl=en
then 60fps not supported, I just checked it out, 1 file on 30fps and 17mbit, the other file at 60fps and at 60mbit or whatever it was. Both files are at 29fps, so until sony adds a [email protected], I don't think it will be supported.
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Yeah thats the one....damn i was hoping for the 60fps option to work

MX Player detects 59,4 Hz!

OfficerTux said:
MX Player detects 59,4 Hz!
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That is something else, fps means frames per second and i have just checked on my pc and the videos max out at 30.1fps.

Well in this case Hz and fps actually are the same, as long as we are talking about the captured framerate and not the outputted one, which can very well differ.
Still you're right! MX Player is detecting bull****, Media Info on my PC does show 29,716 fps.
Would have liked it to by different though, 60fps would have been great for some slowmo action

OfficerTux said:
Well in this case Hz and fps actually are the same, as long as we are talking about the captured framerate and not the outputted one, which can very well differ.
Still you're right! MX Player is detecting bull****, Media Info on my PC does show 29,716 fps.
Would have liked it to by different though, 60fps would have been great for some slowmo action
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nah im sorry Hz and fps are 2 completly different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
MX player indicated correctly, it just didnt show you fps

Hz describes a frequency and just means "per second" and normally when I use it to describe framerates people do understand what I mean, even if fps is the better word
If you take a look at my earlier Screenshot you will see that MX Player never claimed it to be Hz, it just says "Bildfrequenz", which means framerate, and does not use any unit.

you're right, the quality seems much better with lgCamera. :good:
EDIT: also took some pictures but the quality of them does not seem to be improved.

Well either way, whether it improves FPS or not (which I didn't check it.actually did), it does improve the video massively. That video was captured using the highest bitrate, which is what defines the quality of the video
video. You don't have to use maximum setting all the time, but it truly is much better than the stock app.

Nfl game pass Quality

Is there any way to get a better quality?
Like 6000 Mbit download and 60 Hz like by the Xbox one?

I guess not. Quality sucks ?

Unless
bigfatturden66 said:
I guess not. Quality sucks
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Unless you have a sub. I use D9TV addon and watch them in 720p quality.

denmod said:
Unless you have a sub. I use D9TV addon and watch them in 720p quality.
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Hmm where I find that?

Recording 1080p video with 60fps?

Dear community,
our HTC U Ultra cannot record 1080p with 60fps by default. However, the snapdragon 821 is capable of recording fullhd with this framerate as other phones with this cpu proof.
Is there there any way or app to enable fullhd with 60fps?
I have tried several apps like Filmic Pro, Open Camera and cinema fv-5 already and none of these apps allow to enable 60 fps.
Is there another way?
Thank you.

HellSassa69 said:
Dear community,
our HTC U Ultra cannot record 1080p with 60fps by default. However, the snapdragon 821 is capable of recording fullhd with this framerate as other phones with this cpu proof.
Is there there any way or app to enable fullhd with 60fps?
I have tried several apps like Filmic Pro, Open Camera and cinema fv-5 already and none of these apps allow to enable 60 fps.
Is there another way?
Thank you.
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The google camera ports support it!
Keep in mind that you need more light. So don't expect good results in low light situations.

madphone said:
The google camera ports support it!
Keep in mind that you need more light. So don't expect good results in low light situations.
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I see there is a long list, which one do you recomend?
Arnov v6 or?MGC?

Garkan said:
I see there is a long list, which one do you recomend?
Arnov v6 or?MGC?
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this one works pretty good for me.

madphone said:
this one works pretty good for me.
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Thx. Have you got Oreo? Was wondering if it was anything new for the cam app.

Thank you very much madphone for pointing me in the right direction The Google Camera App with HDR+ works perfect for my needs and produces beautiful 1080p60 videos!
For videos the viewfinder works also very smooth. For pictures the viewfinder is laggy, as mentioned in the linked thread.
Video files are always safed to the internal storage but as the ulra has at least 64gb of internal storage the videos can be manually copied to the sdcard from time to time.
btw: I am aslo still on android 7.0 at the moment with a european device.

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HellSassa69 said:
Thank you very much madphone for pointing me in the right direction The Google Camera App with HDR+ works perfect for my needs and produces beautiful 1080p60 videos!
For videos the viewfinder works also very smooth. For pictures the viewfinder is laggy, as mentioned in the linked thread.
Video files are always safed to the internal storage but as the ulra has at least 64gb of internal storage the videos can be manually copied to the sdcard from time to time.
btw: I am aslo still on android 7.0 at the moment with a european device.
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did u put it on your computer to check if the phone is taking 60 fps video or not ? because when i try to use the google camera app and chose 60 fps option when i put the video on my computer it tells me this is 30 fps footage even when i upload it to you tube its just 1080p 30 i tried 720p @ 60 but still same issue so pease check for ur self and tell me what did youl find

I'm only getting 30fps 1080p, I tried the google app.

deC9r said:
I'm only getting 30fps 1080p, I tried the google app.
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well this sucks cuz this phones hardware is totally capable of 1080p 60 fps but for some ****ing reason HTC doesnt allow us !:crying:
alright so i have tried the google camera app and yes it record 1080p 30 fps even when i choose 60 fps but i did notice something really weird. when choose 60 fps the video size is always and i mean always way bigger than when i choose 30 fps i dont really know why this is the case and am really confused because i come out with 2 identical videos with the same frame rate at the same resolution and when is about more than 60% larger than the other! so i dont know howto explain that
one more thing is that it might actually be a hardware problem maybe the sensor isnt capable of 1080p 60 am just assuming as i dont really know any way if any of you guys found any thing that could help us out with this problem please let us know
and have a nice day

Maybe the metadata is just wrong. I will try later.

So.. Anyone got 60FPS working?

iAbhishekh said:
So.. Anyone got 60FPS working?
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Yes. Try Snap Camera for example.