I have an ipod and have converted all of my tv shows and movies to .mp4. I now have a k-jam that I take with me everywhere and would like to keep a show or two stored on it for when I get bored, but I don't want to convert my files back to .wmv. Is there something I can do so that I can watch .mp4 on my k-jam? I suppose it would be too much to ask for a pocket quicktime? Thanks.
-Ross
Try TCPMP it plays almost eveything, including mp4 movies I shot with my magician. Btw these last play with wmp as well.
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How will you get a full movie (Wall-E) to work on the AT&T Fuze? Do you have to convert to a different format or size? Please help.
For best performance, it's best that you convert it. The more you start doing it and mess with the settings, the better you'll become and find which settings yield the best results.
I originally tried Quicktime Pro for this, but the people at Apple have decided that the iPhone screen is the biggest resolution they want to support on export, and I don't want the player scaling up, so I had to look elsewhere.
I'm playing with a program called Allok MPEG4 converter (http://www.alloksoft.com/mp4_converter.htm), which seems to do a nice job if a bit slowly. Of course, to do a nice job requires LOTS of processing power. I have been using the defaults except for making the output H264 and 640x480. Once the files are converted, I just copy them to the Fuze's SD card and play them from there.
I use a program called VideoReDo (www.videoredo.com) to suck in the DVD files and make a single large MPG file from them (the free DVDShrink will also work for this, if you can still find it somewhere), then load that single file into Allok and let it run. A decent DVD will take pretty much overnight to process. The results have been very good so far.
Start with a small (5 minutes or so) piece to practice with and try various settings, then when you're happy, let the full movie conversion run overnight.
Also, be aware that most commercial DVD's will have DRM and you will have to deal with that before you can do anything with the files.
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How will you get a full movie (Wall-E) to work on the AT&T Fuze? Do you have to convert to a different format or size? Please help.
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If you are converting from an .avi file then you can try PocketDivXEncoder (freeware). It has presets for Diamond which you should start with. You should decide whether you want VGA or QVGA. VGA should look a little sharper but will be ~30% increase in file size and on a 2.8" screen the difference may not be much. Test for your self
I would modify some of the settings though. Leave video as is. Change the audio (small arrow on the left) to 32Khz 80 kbps stereo. Go to advanced and tick 2-Pass and Xvid.
What is your source file for the movie? If its on DVD then you definately want to convert it. Once all of my media is ripped or converted to the container / format I want I leave it at computer base resolution and just play it on the phone. Core player has done pretty well at handleing what I put at it so far.
Now that PocketDivx Encoder is a good program and does a pretty good job and shrinking files down.
Any recommendations on codecs, resolution and bitrate? I would especially be interested if anyone knew which settings preserved battery life the best while watching video.
Menneisyys has a good thread on video playback.
I use Core Player and I really don't covert any of the TV shows that I watch.
Windows Movie Maker is a great tool too. Its free (if you have XP SP2 installed) and it uses WMV format that Windows Media Player Mobile will play without any addons.
If you watch alot of movies on your Touch Pro I would suggest investing in Core Player, it plays most of the commonly used codex and its pretty quick too.
Bit rates and resolutions: I have found that if its a TV show that is about 40 to an hour, I dont have to do anything with it. For example an episode of House is about 42 minutes long, its 624x352 and running at 23.97 frames. With Core Player the episode looks flawless, eventhough the statistics on Core Player say its dropping frames, I can't tell.
I would think that a full length movie would perform a little worse, or a TV show with alot of action.
Also fatheadpi has this thread posted about encoding video for the Raphael phones.
Thanks for all the reply's. I'll try them out.
Watch Movies on Fuze Problems
So I got an HTC FUZE not too long ago and have been trying desperately to get it to play movies.
Windows Mobile Player does not want to play the wmv files I give it...
and no matter what file I use with CorePlayer the audio is terrible
mpegs, mp4, avi, h.264...
All of these videos will play fine on my computer but as soon as I get it to my phone, the audio goes to crap.
To make it all more difficult, I only have a Mac to sync this device with, so Windows based programs are useless to me...
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all,
'Jammin
I too have been trying and so far no Success
Operating my Fuze in cooperation with a Mac Laptop is difficult enough. The programs most suggest to convert videos exist mainly for PC.
I have used many methods of conversion and found no luck with producing watchable quality on my FUZE
CorePlayer gives me bad audio playback when the video played perfectly on my computer
and Windows Media Player will not play my bigger wmv files for some reason.
Let me know if you found a combo of programs and settings that really works
'Jammin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
I use this and it works great. Converting the video is a pain in the butt.
+1 Take time to convert but yield a much better result in viewing your video in either Album or WMP
Thanks for the info, but isn't that program for PC's?
I have many different methods of converting videos
from freeware that helps me with wmv's (as I am on a Mac and that is somewhat hard to do)
To Final Cut Pro's Compressor and even Adobe's version
Windows Media Player on my Fuze seems not to like any files over 100mb
and even though the video will look awesome on my computer after conversion, the players I use on my phone completely destroy the audio...
I've searched up and down threads like these and am at a complete loss...
qwik question
which is better to convert movies to my fuze spb video or avs video?
sorry people
um what size micro sd card on average would I need to store the videos?
get at minimum a 4GB microSDHC... under $8 if you're lucky
or a 8GB for $16... no reason to jump for that now that memory isn't that expensive
Use coreplayer bro
I bought it, and its amazing $29.95... Don't convert anything that I get. It only has trouble with on6 flv files, and devs say it'll never support codec. Shame, because flash 9 and 10 protected movies are almost all encoded with this...
A small ffmpeg utility can run one through flv to avi, keeping aspect and original source resoultion, and process a 1.5 hour flv file in about 3 minutes and give you a great quality avi output for your phone
With TCPMP I get lag when watching full movies, but Coreplayer is fine
Set video to the qtv display, high quality.
If you've got bad audio, perhaps you need to lower the pre-am if muffled, or increase if quiet
Also, you may have equaliser enabled, and not know it.
Check the options section go through pages
There definatley should not be a problem playing media with this program
Only problem now is.... I bought this... ya sweet - but now can't afford to get my raph unlocked until next month
So still without a mobile
xhypnotik said:
How will you get a full movie (Wall-E) to work on the AT&T Fuze? Do you have to convert to a different format or size? Please help.
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News Flash
Disney released Wall-E on DVD and Blue Ray discs. I have yet to see a cell phone with a built in DVD or Blue Ray player.
The motion picture experts group (standards body)...MPEG for short, many years ago, decided to evolve the distribution techology (for consumers), from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is a broad spec and covers everything from small hand held devices to HD quality video (H.264, VC-1 etc).
Your Touch Pro has built in hardware acceleration to handle MP4 up to a reasonable limit. Your best built in video players, as delivered by the OEM, are HTC Album and Windows Media Player. Both apps support hardware accleration for MP4 video.
I continue to read about (and have purchased) Coreplayer. In the mobile space, Coreplayer is a modest improvement over the free open source TCPMP player. CorePlayer, caused a brief stir when they half-hacked into the (modest) built in hardware acceleration on the HTC Kaiser.
On a Touch Pro, Coreplayer does support non industry standard video formats, but only in software mode (slowly rendered down sized formats). Coreplayer fails dismally, when compared to Album or WMP for MP4 playback.
So...yes, convert your content to a fully supported format. Or...leech your content in supported formats. Search this forrum and you'll find guidance, and free conversion tools.
Hi
I would like to use my TYtN II to watch films or TV shows while I am in the gym but have not got a clue how to go about it. I know that media player will not play some of the little movies some people bluetooth to me so am not sure if I need to use something else. Where do I even go to to get the movies or TV shows? You tube does not seem to have full length videos etc only clips. I would really like to make use of BBC's iPlayer but not sure how that works either. Total newbie at this. All help gratefully recived.
Thanks in advance
Phrontis
Magic Video Converter and TCMP
Get a Program Called Magic Video Converter and go to your local dvd rental store rent a dvd convert it to .avi Edit The Profile to 320x240 and Use Tcmp To Play the movie
Hi all,
I got my new HTC touch 2. Its awsome and i like it a lot.
I copied a movie(700 MB)(.avi/.mp4) file and tried opening in WMedia Player. I was able to hear the sound but there was no picture display.
Do i need to convert the (.avi/mp4) files to HTC Touch 2 format.
Pls provide me some VLC Palyer which an run .avi and .mp4 files.
Thanks
Ganesh
You need something like core player 1.3.6
Version 0.72RC1 was last free but doesn´t work on mega.
You need something like PocketDivXEncoder_0.3.96.exe on your PC to convert the movie to PPC
I conver videos to avi/divx . Audio 128 kbps and video 360 kbps. I dont tried bigger quality. Tried someone bigger quality ?
What resolution?
Think that touch2 have 320x240pixel only
I've notice that 640x480 resolution is better
Please post it dude
Hope i can play big movie files(700MB)(AVI Format)
Thanks a lot dude
tcmpc doesn´t work in touch mega.
640x480 is better resolution but touch mega ONLY have 320x240.
Why you want more resolution if you cannot see better because the best resolution to mega is 320x240.
Movies in 320x240 are 200mb more or less
iogrea said:
tcmpc doesn´t work in touch mega.
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r u sure couse right now i'm watching "Zombieland" through it and it works ! ...
LtBlue said:
in Bulgaria we have a nice torrent site , where i find many new films with .mp4 or .avi format and about 250-500mb big ... with CorePlayer i pwn them also WMplayer opens them too ;]] the quality is good enough
get the CorePlayer from bellow it's nice i keep all the .cab files on my microSD card ;]]
Install the both and choose what fits u better ;]] i prefer the CorePlayer , the TCPMP is just an older of the core player ;]]
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Any other nice apps from Bulgaria you want to share with us?
Frank Caarls said:
Any other nice apps from Bulgaria you want to share with us?
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I better start a new thread i got some usefull .cabs
Look at the top of the sheet
LtBlue said:
r u sure couse right now i'm watching "Zombieland" through it and it works ! ...
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Version 0.72rc1 ???
Have you modified something?
Version 0.72RC1 allways crash on my vodafone rom.
Version 1.3.x works but I cannot run 0.72RC1
i've just found it ... yes it is the version u said ... i havent do anything ... ow .. i remember it crashed at first when i installed it ?! then it went smooth ?! try to install/reinstall ... if nothing , i'll upload it for ya ;]]
How you can see movies on HTC
Hy people,
I use Acala 3GP converter (acala-3gp-movies-free.en.softonic.com) to convert the movies in 3GP format, witch can be watched on HTC.
After you install the software on your PC, you can convert any movies from AVI/other format to 3GP.
Then you can simply copy these 3GP movies to your HTC and you can see it with DivX Player (labs.divx.com/Mobile).
For me it works fine!
Bye
Hi,
To convert movies and get a high end quality I use videora HTC converter for the conversion of the movies, and core player to see them in the htc. The result is perfect.
Super
Hi,
I agree with you kings1204. There are many way to convert videos and watch on HTC. Also you can use Core Player or Tcpmp for watch after conversion.
Like this one.
" Super " is a free program to convert most of the video and audio files for any mobile phones included here smartphone and PPC.
Anyway you can follow this link www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.htmlhttp:/www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
I hope is useful for you.
Regards,
Full working TCMPC (with subtitle support):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636423
Free converter program to reduce avi size:
http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/EN_index.htm
listen all of you just convert the movie into mobile video file and wath in full screen
ganesh.htc said:
Hi all,
I got my new HTC touch 2. Its awsome and i like it a lot.
I copied a movie(700 MB)(.avi/.mp4) file and tried opening in WMedia Player. I was able to hear the sound but there was no picture display.
Do i need to convert the (.avi/mp4) files to HTC Touch 2 format.
Pls provide me some VLC Palyer which an run .avi and .mp4 files.
Thanks
Ganesh
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hi, i use coreplayer 1.3.0 on my touch 2 and it works great.... i download files in mp4 from the net and it works absolutely fine.... i haven't trid with divx files ....
hope this helps..... g.luck
Movies
Hi All
The Mega actually has it's own built in video player but will only play MP4 or AVI files.
To get this to work just open up your video list from the SD card and tap on the movie and enjoy. Do not use the WMP. This may seem like sucking eggs but I have owned my Mega for three months and only just worked this out
TCPMP does work on the Mega but it can be a bit jerky and sometimes the movie can only be viewed in landscape making control a bit awkward, it will play in portrait but you may only have audio.
The DIVX player for windows mobile is absolute pants and should be avoided at all costs, unless you can lip read as the audio lags about 1 -2 seconds making viewing virtually impossible.
If you want a good convertor then go for DVD CATALYST FREE. This will convert to windows TCPMP, MP4 and many others. If you want your film to play perfectly on the Mega convert it using the (please forgive me for saying this) Ipod touch option and you should get an average size of 400Mb still big but a lot but better than 700Mb.
Hi there,
I would like to have movies played on my HD2, but somehow I just don't get it right.
I've searched the internet as well as this forum for the right video converter that would show my movies on my HD2 (together with the subtitles as they are in the original movie) in full screen. I'm stuck...
Could anyone please help me out here? When I check a link, that is mentioned in the forum, I get a thousand others. To me, it's all very confusing... To which format should I convert a movie to have it shown on my HD2 in full screen? What player should I use on my HD2? Would it be possible to (de)activate the subtitles in that player? For instance, I've converted the movie "SALT" to my HD2, but the movie is NOT in full screen, and it's subtitles are gone...
I'm way open to suggestions.
Thanking you in advance!!
Robert
The best player... pretty much the ONLY movie player worth bothering with on windows mobile... is coreplayer. The cab I use is attached.
Coreplayer can fullscreen, but you may need to play with aspect ratio settings to make it take up the entire screen (as the movie will often fill the width of the screen, but won't fill the height... doing so would make everyone look tall and thin, or you'd have to crop the left and right sides of the movie).
Here's a thread with the info on subtitles.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-345995.html
I guess there's a subtitle plugin for coreplayer that you must download separately, but it doesn't take popular subtitle formats. So you must convert the subtitle to a format that coreplayer likes (on your PC) first. The movie itself may or may not need to be converted depending on the format. Core plays most things without the need for conversion, but some types (not all) of mp4 or mkv won't play without conversion. Also you'll need to convert if the movie is true high-def. A 720p or 1080p isn't going to play smoothly on the phone, but something like 720 x 304 will play fine.
I have a bunch of videos taken using my Touch Pro 2 Windows Mobile phone that I can't get Zune to even recognize let alone add to my new HTC Arrive.
.3gp
.mpeg
.mpg
.avi
Only the .wmv and some .mp4 videos seem to be recognized. Windows Media will play all of them though, it's just that Zune won't see them.
What's up?
EDIT: I found a free 3gp to mp4 converter and used it for all of the videos taken with my TP2. I guess I'll have to covnert all my mpg and mpeg video to wmv now too
I also had to convert all my movies over from .avi to mp4 for Zune to find them. I got a free converter from the web and it was easy.