hi all i just got a 500 meg sd card for my xda2i . my question i have lots of dvd movies and would love to put a movie on my phone but i only have 500 meg and dvds r much bigger than that . is there any way i can squash a dvd on to my phone . what program do u need to do this and will my phone play movies or do i also need to download a dvd player or will media playe play them . any help would be good on how to do it cheers
If you do a search you'll find loads of posts on this. There's free stuff as well as commercial software and you should be able to get 2 watchable films on your 512 MB SD Card.
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Hi guys
I've read a few similar requestes from others regarding playing .avi files on XDA/MDA pocket PC.
I have quite a few full length films in .avi format, abot 700mb each.
What software can I use to play these on my MDA3? I have a 1Gig SD card so shouldn't be a problem storing them.
I tried RealPlayer for pocket PC but that wouldn't play them. I have seen mention of BetaPlayer. Did a search for that and found 1000's of hits but none I downloaded would install!!!
Any help appreciated
John
i never had any problems with beta player
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1080
make sure it's arm / xcale you get
I'm using v0.04 and find it very good. I use the vidx codec for encoding rather than divx - should be in nemo codec pack. Though you might have problems playing AVIs intended for the desktop - I encode the AVIs for PPC with a max res at 320x240. Though to be honest I don't think I've tried to play desktop AVIs on my PPC.
Cheers guys,
I can get to the site http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1080 no problem BUT when I click <Download ( ARM/XSCALE )> I get a message saying hang on 3 seconds and you'll be redirected but it never happens!
It may be a problem my end as I have noticed some problems acting some sites.
I'll search for it elsewhere.
Thanks
John
Attached is v0.04 that I downloaded a while back
I convert them to WMV using Windows Media Encoder (free download from Windows Media area of MS Website) and just play them in WMPlayer on PPC.
Done a 300Mb AVI the other day, using the Pocket PC defaults option in WM Encoder, just changed the output resolution to 320x240 (XDAIIs Widescreen) and it compressed down to about 40Mb.
Perfect picture quality and Audio.
Thanks for the replies guys
How long did it take to re-encode the file down to 40Mb?
John
About 1hr, although this was on a not over powerful IBM laptop (P3 1Ghz 512mb ram)
I'm sure this would be cut down drastically on a decent desktop as the WMVEncoder seems to be quite CPU hungry
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I have quite a few full length films in .avi format, abot 700mb each.
John
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Your movies really shouldn't be that big.
Convert them to the right resolution for your PDA using Pocket DivX Player.
Perhaps they'll come to about 200MB.
Anyone can tell me which one is the best for us in term of file size, video and audio quality for PocketPC (especially O2 XDA II mini) device before I convert all my DVD to .mpg or to .wmf.
Thank you in advance
Arto.
Cheers again,
Yup, I did compress my avi files and ended up with just unde 200mb providing good quality when viewd on the MDA.
The conversion was quite quick - about 30mins or so, I was thinking it might have been an overnight job!
John
I cannot find any freeware software to play a dvd film from an SD card on my MDAIII.
The reason I require freeware is because this is a one of job for a presentation.
If anyone can point me in the right direction :roll: I would be very gratefull.
THANKS in advance...... :wink:
betaplayer is the best I've seen for playing movies. Plays most formats and I think you can download additional codecs for it if need be.
Sorry:What I ment to also say is I am trying to record from dvd to mpeg4 on my hard drive and then put it onto SD card to play on my PPC.
But hav'nt found any free software to do the job..
Thanks to Spb Tips and Tricks, use DVD Decrypter, AutoGK and PocketDivXEncoder. Play on Beta Player. All of these are free !
thanks for the info will get searching >>>>>>>>>>>>
I have purchased an ePad 2.2 android tablet for my nephew. I've successfully loaded songs and music videos from my iTunes account to a micro sd card. I have been able to play them on the tablet with no issues. I also downloaded a couple of movies but I've been unable to get the movies to play. The odd thing is the file formats for the music videos are the same as the movies, (.m4v). Yet the music videos play and the movies do. I didn't convert any files to different formats. I'm only using the "My Video" app that came installed on the tablet to play the music videos. Yet the "My Video" app won't play the movies. I'm guessing it's because the movies have an index whereas the music videos are just plain videos. Also, to get my iTunes files from iTunes to the 16 gb micro sd card I simply did a drap and drop in folders I created called music, music videos and movies.
I've searched all day and have found nothing to help. Does anyone have any clue how I can get the movies to play? Is there an app I can download? I don't have access to download thru the Android Market. I've been using Amazon.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! U can email me at [email protected]. Hopefully I've included enough info to be helpful. Please ask questions if I haven't.
Thanks so much,
Dgj
The standard video app is rubbish but most video players like mx video player for example will play your files. Just try a few free ones and see what you prefer, you may find some at getjar.com which gives you free apps and is a respected site so you will find a lot of market apps free there.
Dave
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I can recommend Mobo Player too.
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play itunes videos on Android tablet
itunes videos are drm protected, you have to get a DRmare M4V Converter to help you remove DRM. check this: macobserver.com/weekly-sponsorship/sponsor-drmare/
I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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I can recommend BSPlayer.
BSPlayer is what I use too, seems to play everything under the sun...
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
*player (still getting used to this keyboard)
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BS plagued won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I have not had any issues in playing movies in excess of 4 GB with BSPlayer
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I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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PowerAmp for audio. DICE player for video.
I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
BS player has played everything i threw at it. Im watching n 11gb 1080p blu ray mkv of Avengers right now, with no issues.
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I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
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I would copy some media files to the internal storage and try it again, this would rule out sd card issues...
While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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Sandisk 64 microsd, straight out of box, mkv, vob, avi, mpeg m4v files have been played via bsplayer.
Have played files from micro sd, internal storage, and smb share.
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BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I haven't had any issues with it. Granted I have only played mkv (with DTS audio) on it, either from local storage or streaming from a Twonky server. It can't be the file size, the movies I played were 10+ GB.
Ok, so i wasn't specific enough before, I had my music and movies on a 32 microSD drive, mounted to the tablet. I tried putting it into an adapter and using it with the keyboard dock. Now everything is working exactly like i should be. I took the files from my laptop with the card and adapter combo too, but i dont know if that has anything to do with this solution working. This is different from the original subject, but does anyone know why this might be, or how I could get it to work with just the microSD?
And for the record, Im liking BSPlayer for movies, and Player Pro for music.
Hi,
for my holidays I copied some records from my receiver to the tablet. All the movies are from ARD HD and come in ts format.
I tried to watch the movies with different players (MX-Player, ...), but with each player the same result:
after around one minute the sound becomes asynchron and so I couldn´t watch the movie...
Is the tablet to slow for such records? Does it help to install a faster ROM (I´m using the original ROM).
The files are on my Class 10 SD card. I couldn´t test it on local memory, because I have not enough space.
Somebody has/had similar problems?
Cheers!
I tried some more apps and with VLC the movie and sound works like expected! But I recognized a very little jerking in the video...
I also installed the ARM 7 Neo(?) codecs for MX Player and now it works with the MX Player too.
But I'm also think about installing a new faster Image...