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How (or with what program) can I rotate a picture/movie?

I can't find anything that does this on the software that's included with Mio.
Can anyone help me on this one?
ROM R55

The 'Pictures' app included with Windows Mobile PDA/phones should be able to rotate and save pictures - look closely at the buttons on the bottom row when a picture is open.
As for videos, I'm a bit confused! Do you mean you want to temporarily rotate your videos so that you can view them on landscape on your PDA? Then use TCPMP (Google it), a great freeware media player that plays Divx/XviD, WMV, etc etc...
If you mean actually changing say, a 320x240 video to a 240x320 one (permanent rotation), then I dunno!

toomuchdogfur said:
The 'Pictures' app included with Windows Mobile PDA/phones should be able to rotate and save pictures - look closely at the buttons on the bottom row when a picture is open.
As for videos, I'm a bit confused! Do you mean you want to temporarily rotate your videos so that you can view them on landscape on your PDA? Then use TCPMP (Google it), a great freeware media player that plays Divx/XviD, WMV, etc etc...
If you mean actually changing say, a 320x240 video to a 240x320 one (permanent rotation), then I dunno!
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Ah, thank you!
Now I saw it. You will have to View the picture, and then press EDIT. I don't know why this is not available on the thumbnail mode...
Thanks!
About the movie, I've heard about tcpmp, but what I want is to change from 320x240 to 240x320.
Thanks for the info!
Anyone else knows how to accomplish this?

That would take actually re-encoding (I think) which even for a 100MB movie would be a bit too much work for a PPC device.
Such app might exist any way but I don't know any.
Try a desktop app called Virtual Dub. It's free and lets you manipulate just about any format in any way (size, orientation, encoding etc.).

TCPMP can of course rotate to landscape easily.
If you want to reformat the source video itself, as Levenum says, use Virtual Dub and apply a filter to rotate. It doesn't take too long, but is a lossy process because you have to re-encode.
This is definitely not something for the PDA, PC only.
If you're recompressing or reformatting for PDAs, I highly recommend SmartMovie, http://www.lonelycatgames.com/index.php?note=smartmovie&chapter=smartmovie
or Lathe/PocketDivXEncoder
V

Humm..
The thing is I can't play 3gp taken by MIO on Nokia phones. I assume that it can be due to "size", but I don't know.
Thanks for all the input!

Well I don't have a clue how MIO's camera apps work, as I only have a HTC Magician, but try and check that your camera is indeed recording apps to standard 3gp - meaning it uses the H.263/H.264 (i forgot which) or MPEG-4 codec.
Also, as far as I know, only the most recent 'N' series of Nokias and some other high-end Nokias use 320x240 resolution screens. For Series40 Nokias (eg. 6230), the screen resolution usually sits at 128x128, with optimal support for 128x96 videos. Series60 (eg. 6600) usually have 176x200 screens, meaning that 176x144 is best for them. If your MIO has any resemblance to my Magician, its camera app should have options for you to take video at these lower resolutions.
As for resizing existing video, yes VirtualDub is the best, but it won't support 3GP (from my experience the MOD version will only do AVIs and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 reliably). You could try ImTOO MPEG Converter (Google it), which while of dubious coding quality will convert many files to many other files. A free and perhaps better option is SUPER, though be wary as it will spit out some out of sync files on some formats (but theres so bloody many formats supported that it's hard to list them)!

toomuchdogfur said:
Well I don't have a clue how MIO's camera apps work, as I only have a HTC Magician, but try and check that your camera is indeed recording apps to standard 3gp - meaning it uses the H.263/H.264 (i forgot which) or MPEG-4 codec.
Also, as far as I know, only the most recent 'N' series of Nokias and some other high-end Nokias use 320x240 resolution screens. For Series40 Nokias (eg. 6230), the screen resolution usually sits at 128x128, with optimal support for 128x96 videos. Series60 (eg. 6600) usually have 176x200 screens, meaning that 176x144 is best for them. If your MIO has any resemblance to my Magician, its camera app should have options for you to take video at these lower resolutions.
As for resizing existing video, yes VirtualDub is the best, but it won't support 3GP (from my experience the MOD version will only do AVIs and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 reliably). You could try ImTOO MPEG Converter (Google it), which while of dubious coding quality will convert many files to many other files. A free and perhaps better option is SUPER, though be wary as it will spit out some out of sync files on some formats (but theres so bloody many formats supported that it's hard to list them)!
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That's it. Thank you very much!!
I recorded in H.263_AMR 240x320, and since it was sent to a 6630 it wouldn't play it...
I will record and send in 144x176 and try it!
BTW, why does the quality suck on Mio video capture?
Look at these 2 clips and a bit of a picture.

Sorry bout the long reply, been quite busy recently with work!
Anyway, video capture isnt a particularly strong point with Pocket PCs and phones in general... their processors cant capture full 25fps video at high quality - remember thats like taking 25 photos a second! My Magician wont do nice smooth video even at 176x144, and I daresay that the Mio range fares worse since most of them use the slower Windows Mobile 5. Thats just something that no one seems to be able to fix, unfortunately .
However CoolCamera apparently will work better with the camera than the default camera apps... however I don't think its compatible with the Mio. Even if it does, you'll have to pay for it :roll:. Also note that it can only record to AVI - Motion JPEG codec, so it wont play back on Nokias.
EDIT: Not sure if this is the same case with Mios, but on my Magician, formatting the storage card to FAT16 makes a huge difference to read/write times! Try that to speed up your video to storage card!

Best mp4 converter for HD 2

can anybody tell me which program can I use to convert .avi files to .mp4 files in best resolution supported by hd2 ? As far as I know Mp4ForHd converts only files to touch hd resolution so as I asked before, which program can be used to convert to mp4 and in which resolution? And my second question - in upper right corner there should be a litle icon which allows me to disable running aplications - I don't have it, how can I turn it on ?

Well, the Touch HD and HD2 have the same screen resolutions (they are both WVGA) despite the size differences. I have used MP4forHD and find that the audio/vidio sync is out on the HD2. I tend to use Any Video Converter which is freeware and allows for much greater customisation to suit your needs, and have yet to find any sync issues. Be sure to keep the video bitrate <= 2000 as values above this start to effect the framerate/ playback smoothness. Also, it is best to keep the resolution at WVGA otherwise you will increase the chance of exceeding the 2GB file size limit. Anything file size above this the HTC Album program wont play (i'm assuming this is what you want to use?).

i use Super i think its the best freeware
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Hi.
Try this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478050&highlight=converter
Its very easy and fast
MfG Uro

Version 2.9b:
- A new codec added "XVID avi". With this, you can now convert to avi files (not only mp4 files)
- Now video quality 'very high' is two times Normal Quality (before 1.5 times). It makes max quality is now 1600 kbps (before 999 kbps)
- Support for MOD video files (JVC cams)
- Added a new video size 768x576 (JVC cams)
- Added two new profiles: HD2 (for HTC HD2) and JVC (for JVC cams)
Ive installed version 2.9c and I cant see HD2 profile...

m4rioo said:
Version 2.9b:
- A new codec added "XVID avi". With this, you can now convert to avi files (not only mp4 files)
- Now video quality 'very high' is two times Normal Quality (before 1.5 times). It makes max quality is now 1600 kbps (before 999 kbps)
- Support for MOD video files (JVC cams)
- Added a new video size 768x576 (JVC cams)
- Added two new profiles: HD2 (for HTC HD2) and JVC (for JVC cams)
Ive installed version 2.9c and I cant see HD2 profile...
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you need to download the 2.9c update and unzip to the instalation folder

ok, anyone knows answer to my second question?

m4rioo said:
ok, anyone knows answer to my second question?
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I have Profile HD2 under Profile
MfG Uro

The video and sound.. they're not in sync when i used the mp4forhd.. any solution for that?

'And my second question - in upper right corner of my hd2 there should be a litle icon which allows me to disable running aplications - I don't have it, how can I turn it on ?'

sorry for second post but I cant input any file while editing existing post, so - i ment this:

m4rioo said:
sorry for second post but I cant input any file while editing existing post, so - i ment this:
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Try this cab , Its called Task manager , this is one is made by Dutty for HD2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=284213&stc=1&d=1266797843

best settings for TCPMP on TG01

Even tcpmp is just a beta from coreplayer, I have the feeling it is working more reliable and faster. Does anyone can suggest the best settings for the TG01 to play (normal and 720p) movies?
Haven't found that on google

thees apply for both coreplayer and tcmp
use DirectDraw when possible
recommended settings
go to select page then DirectDraw:
uncheck Overlay with colorkey
uncheck Use blitting instead of overlay
check Use device stretching for blitting.
Overlay: YUY2
works fine for me
source
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673459

[Q] What type of scaling is MX Player using?

And how to change it?
It wasn't a problem on the N7000, but now on the N910F's 1440p screen the 1080p videos get upscaled with WAY too sharpening, ruining the image. Is there any way to use another scaling with less sharpening of the image?

There should be no sharpening since it uses what system uses and system uses bilinear. There're no options in MX player that affect scaling quality.
I see 2 possible cases: either display does this or this is post-processing apllied to media (manufactures love this thing, every PC gpu has "image worsener" options. Even my Z3 Compact has those). Try checking device settings for any kinds of "display/image enhancement" that could be turned off.
Does this happen when no scaling is happening (use bottom right button to select "100%" scaling mode)?
Does this happen when using S/W decoder?
I'm using this video to test scaling algorithms, can you try playing it (at default and 100% zoom) and take screenshots?
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=75458987026854998049 (this will be played using H/W decoder)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00692852724795150552 (this should force using S/W decoder)

vivan000 said:
There should be no sharpening since it uses what system uses and system uses bilinear. There're no options in MX player that affect scaling quality.
I see 2 possible cases: either display does this or this is post-processing apllied to media (manufactures love this thing, every PC gpu has "image worsener" options. Even my Z3 Compact has those). Try checking device settings for any kinds of "display/image enhancement" that could be turned off.
Does this happen when no scaling is happening (use bottom right button to select "100%" scaling mode)?
Does this happen when using S/W decoder?
I'm using this video to test scaling algorithms, can you try playing it (at default and 100% zoom) and take screenshots?
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=75458987026854998049 (this will be played using H/W decoder)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00692852724795150552 (this should force using S/W decoder)
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Here it is, sorry for the delay.
HW:
http://puu.sh/hktEe/c21a7bd661.jpg
http://puu.sh/hktHg/c6e3a073a7.jpg
SW:
http://puu.sh/hktHs/63ddfbeb82.jpg
http://puu.sh/hktFY/947030aba1.jpg
Also, bonus:
http://puu.sh/hktNi/f47eab21d6.jpg
http://puu.sh/hktM0/b2962844b7.jpg
It does appear that the issue is not the scaling, but it's the decoding or something after that that ruins the quality (for example the vertical lines seen on full colors). I tried disabling every "image enhancement" I found in the settings of the Note4, without much success.

First, I forgot to mention that by default SW decoder uses 16-bit (5/6/5-bit) RGB which is really bad (long time ago most of the devices couldn't handle 24-bit color but those times passed). Settings -> decoder -> color format (at the bottom) -> RGB 32-bit (YUV is actually faster and better, but less predictable).
Images for reference:
bilinear / cropped (it didn't like height of the video not being mod8 and cropped it a bit, my fault) bilinear
bicubic (just for a reference - how sharp scaler actually looks) / cropped bicubic
So it still bilinear, and indeed there's some sharpening - but it's very hard to spot without high magnification.
100% / cropped and resized back to match HW
Well, my conclusion is that it sharps everything for a tiny amount, but only after scaling (usually postprocessing does it before). And it seem to affect SW mode too... It makes me wonder if does this for everything on a screen.
However those vertical lines are really weird.
Usually postprocessing works only with hardware decoding because it's easy for a driver to mess there (after the decoding, before giving the picture to a renderer). In SW mode player works like any other app (like game, browser or image viewer), system doesn't know that it plays video.
Here's what my Z3 Compact could do: before / mode1 / mode2. Now that's terrible Luckily it could be turned off.
If you don't mind I have another test (based on http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/sharpness.php), to test if it sharps everything.
That image is made that way that even tiny amount of sharpness is visible. If everything is ok - it must look solid gray, if sharpening happens - some squares become brighter (there're examples on that site). But I'm not sure if it would be representative on such screen because it has non-RGB subpixel layout.
http://s29.postimg.org/ql7twm0mt/1440p.png (download it and open in image viewer, without zooming - it's 2560x1440 and should be displayed as 1:1).
1) Does it look solid or some squares are lighter/darker?
2) Could you take a screenshot of it (of this picture opened in image viewer to see if it sharps it)?
As for vertical lines... if you want I could provide a build of a library that I'm working on. It's works like a game (doesn't rely on media system) and should be able to render/display image perfectly unless system itself does something weird. If it does - and there's nothing in settings that affects it - then nothing could be done (except talking with samsung support and hoping that they'll fix it). If it doesn't - then there's some hope.

vivan000 said:
First, I forgot to mention that by default SW decoder uses 16-bit (5/6/5-bit) RGB which is really bad (long time ago most of the devices couldn't handle 24-bit color but those times passed). Settings -> decoder -> color format (at the bottom) -> RGB 32-bit (YUV is actually faster and better, but less predictable).
Images for reference:
bilinear / cropped (it didn't like height of the video not being mod8 and cropped it a bit, my fault) bilinear
bicubic (just for a reference - how sharp scaler actually looks) / cropped bicubic
So it still bilinear, and indeed there's some sharpening - but it's very hard to spot without high magnification.
100% / cropped and resized back to match HW
Well, my conclusion is that it sharps everything for a tiny amount, but only after scaling (usually postprocessing does it before). And it seem to affect SW mode too... It makes me wonder if does this for everything on a screen.
However those vertical lines are really weird.
Usually postprocessing works only with hardware decoding because it's easy for a driver to mess there (after the decoding, before giving the picture to a renderer). In SW mode player works like any other app (like game, browser or image viewer), system doesn't know that it plays video.
Here's what my Z3 Compact could do: before / mode1 / mode2. Now that's terrible Luckily it could be turned off.
If you don't mind I have another test (based on http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/sharpness.php), to test if it sharps everything.
That image is made that way that even tiny amount of sharpness is visible. If everything is ok - it must look solid gray, if sharpening happens - some squares become brighter (there're examples on that site). But I'm not sure if it would be representative on such screen because it has non-RGB subpixel layout.
http://s29.postimg.org/ql7twm0mt/1440p.png (download it and open in image viewer, without zooming - it's 2560x1440 and should be displayed as 1:1).
1) Does it look solid or some squares are lighter/darker?
2) Could you take a screenshot of it (of this picture opened in image viewer to see if it sharps it)?
As for vertical lines... if you want I could provide a build of a library that I'm working on. It's works like a game (doesn't rely on media system) and should be able to render/display image perfectly unless system itself does something weird. If it does - and there's nothing in settings that affects it - then nothing could be done (except talking with samsung support and hoping that they'll fix it). If it doesn't - then there's some hope.
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Here is the screenshot:
http://puu.sh/hkJDS/770ba02860.jpg

mx player 3D to 2D convert

I want to 3D to 2D converter feature.
It was translated by Google translate

You're going to have to provide more explanation than that.

hello there,
yes i am looking for a solution as well for playing 3D (SBS or OU) movies on 2D mode with mx player (android set top box)
i thing it would be nice if there would be a simple option to crop/zoom screen and align it to just one eye stream (either half part of the movie)
(i don't like vlc player)

Peter Sebastian said:
hello there,
yes i am looking for a solution as well for playing 3D (SBS or OU) movies on 2D mode with mx player (android set top box)
i thing it would be nice if there would be a simple option to crop/zoom screen and align it to just one eye stream (either half part of the movie)
(i don't like vlc player)
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You can just use pan & zoom functions to achieve the same. BTW, we are adding more controls to zoom function to individually control vertical or horizontal zoom. You may stretch the video as you wish by using the new zoom controls.

Thirumalai.K said:
You can just use pan & zoom functions to achieve the same. BTW, we are adding more controls to zoom function to individually control vertical or horizontal zoom. You may stretch the video as you wish by using the new zoom controls.
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Thank you for your quick response!
Am i able to pan with mouse? (i mean with single pointer like air mouse)? Since i use android set top box i have no multi-touch screen ability.