I want to convert some short and long video files to my PPC but I'm unsure about what format and bit rate.
I use WMP for my music and TCPMP for video. I notice that MPG usually gives better picture but I'm still trying to find a good bit rate and other settings.
Any recommendations? Size is not too much of an issue (4GB card), I prefer quality and lack of freeze and skipping.
My PPC is SX66.
How to make wmplayer as my default player on my touch pro instead of coreplayer? Thanks
I have only had this device for 12hrs and so far I would recommend the DivX mobile player for video and retain the HTC base for audio.
a, saves space
b, DivX is better than WinMed on WM6.1
Until someone says better...
I don't want to start the whole debate about CBR vs VBR, and what bitrates to use. But can someone tell me if they've run into any issues with incompatibility on VBR-encoded mp3's on their Fuze or on recent WinMo media player apps (such as Media Player, Kinoma, built-in player in TouchFlo3D, etc)?
I recall having issues on old Moto phones but that was years ago. It seems VBR has some qualities that will be beneficial to me, such as faster encoding, smaller filesizes, and adaptive quality.
I own a TP2. There are four different ways (that I'm aware of) to get iPlayer material playing on this phone:
1) Change the User Agent string in Opera 9.5 to impersonate a Samsung Omnia. You can then visit the mobile version of the iPlayer website and stream material. It plays in the Streaming Media player. Resolution is roughly 320x176. Doesn't work over 3G unless you're with 3 or Vodafone.
2) For programmes that have a "download for mobile device" option on the main iPlayer site (browsed from a desktop PC) you can grab the resulting .wmv file, copy it across to the phone, and play it on the TP2's "Pocket" Media Player. Resolution is 320x176 (ish).
3) There is a stand-alone iPlayer app, which imitates an iPhone; however, it doesn't work on my TP2 (just crashes before you can access anything).
4) The "myplayer" app. This offers two options: stream at 320x176, or (sometimes) download in .mov format. The latter has a slightly higher resolution - something like 480x270. The .mov files can be played back fairly well using Coreplayer, I believe, but I'm too cheap to pay for Coreplayer. Using TCPMP it's a bit jerky, and playing full-screen even more so. Does work over 3G although your carrier will hate you if you try it.
Now, using HTCAlbum as a player, the TP2 can very comfortably handle an .mp4 file with a res of 800x480, and a bit-rate of 750kb/s. So what I'm wondering is if there's any other way of getting iPlayer material to play which offers a higher resolution and better video quality?
The "iPlayer Desktop" downloads appear to be in .mp4 format, but no player other than iPlayer Desktop seems to be able to make head or tail of them.
IPlayer does offer higher-res .wmv downloads of some programmes - these have a res of something like 720x540, but are recorded anamorphically (so they play back at 960x540 or so, with horizontal upscaling). Trying to play one of these on a TP2 (using Windows Media Player) is fairly painful - the bit-rate is too high for it handle, and it doesn't recognise that it's anamorphic, so the aspect ratio is wrong. Feeding one of these WMV's through the Encoder programme that I normally use for converting video to HTCAlbum-compliant .mp4 files produces sparkly gibberish - the WMV is obviously encrypted in a way the Encoder application can't detect or handle.
Are there any other options I'm missing?
Do people feel that Coreplayer on the HD2 is sufficiently much better than TCPMP that it justifies the price premium?
Shasarak said:
Do people feel that Coreplayer on the HD2 is sufficiently much better than TCPMP that it justifies the price premium?
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In my opinion not really:
Does not read MKV files / H264 in spite of claim to do so (this is a huge let down)
streaming support is lacking (Windows Player can read streams that Coreplayer can't).
If you want to manage your music library there are other alternatives
No, useless in my opinion. WMP or HTC Album do a better job.
CorePlayer:
- is very old (the developer never seriously updated the current version and is also unable to deliver a v2).
- No hardware acceleration,
- cannot play AC3,
- cannot play MKV,
- cannot play real HD movies,
- has no recent codecs,
- has a very old interface.
It's a dying software.
Kinoma Play is much more promissing.
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No, useless in my opinion. WMP or HTC Album do a better job.
CorePlayer:
- is very old (the developer never seriously updated the current version and is also unable to deliver a v2).
- No hardware acceleration,
- cannot play AC3,
- cannot play MKV,
- cannot play real HD movies,
- has no recent codecs,
- has a very old interface.
It's a dying software.
Kinoma Play is much more promissing.
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QFE
Serriously htc album and wmp can play video better on the hd2 than coreplayer can, and version 2 is coming soon yup soooooooon (yawn)
There's no question that HTCAlbum and Media Player do a better job on video formats they actually support, but that's not many. I need something to play back downloaded xvids as well. TCPMP doesn't do too bad a job, but I'm wondering how much of an improvement I'd see with CorePlayer.
Actually there's one other possible issue when comparing with HTCAlbum and PMP besides format-compatibility and that's colour adjustment; TCPMP allows some tweaking of the video decoding - brightness, contrast, saturation, and white balance. The colour temperature on my HD2 is shifted quite badly to blue, so playback using TCPMP looks better if I can dial the blue down a bit. This option isn't available in HTCAlbum, and I haven't yet found it in Pocket Media Player (although I haven't looked very hard).
There's an additional problem in TCPMP, here, in that what appears to be the optimum combination of settings for maximum Benchmark framerate also happens to be one that disallows any video adjustments except brightness. (It disables dithering as well). The settings in question: use DirectDraw as renderer, then choose YUY2 as your overlay format, uncheck "use colorkey" and "use blitting" and check "use device stretching". If I switch to using RGB overlays instead of YUY2 then all the colour adjustment controls come back, but playback is much less smooth.
I assume Coreplayer has similar issues, but if it's sufficiently much faster in terms of basic performance then a colour-adjustable format may still play faster than an non-adjustable one in TCPMP.
So, what sort of performance difference is there? I'm guessing the difference is smaller than it would be on (say) a Touch HD because there's no HD2 equivalent to using QTV overlays...?
Hi
I use CorePlayer very often, and my opinion is: drag & drop Your (not compressed) *.avi file on memory card and enjoy fine quality on almost full screen resolution. About music: choose folder with Your music (mp3) , select all files and put headphones on.
CorePlayer is miles better than TCPMP, there is absolutely no doubt about it. Yet it has annoying limitations, so it's miles away from being perfect or even excellent. Such is the sad state of affairs with regard to video playback on mobile devices that CorePlayer is the best we have... At least we have it on WM, iPhone and Android don't even come close.
I used coreplayer for as long as I can remember. OK it's not PERFECT. but it does the job VERY nicely. No other program I tried, for the kick of it, made the job like coreplayer can.