When I use Media Room, thumbnails for my videos aren't generated. All I get is a repeating toast that reads, "Generating video thumbnails, please wait..."
Would anyone have any idea why this might happen?
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I've been going nuts trying to figure out why some videos just won't show up in HTC Album, but others encoded with the exact same settings (seemingly) will.
I usually use Handbrake to do my encodes. I start with the iphone preset, then change the quality setting to 600 kbps. If it's a widescreen video, I may use the cropping to crop the content to 4:3. I change the file type from m4v to mp4 because album never seem to want to see the m4vs at all (even though I could have sworn it's supposed to).
MOST videos show up just fine, but not all. For some of them, I'll see album try to recognize them the first time I navigate to that folder. It will create a space for the video for a moment, and try to get a preview thumbnail of the video to put in it. A moment later, it will fail, and remove that video from the list entirely.
Here's the really strange thing -- if I click on the space where the video is supposed to be, right when it first shows up (before it has a chance to scan it for a thumbnail and then remove it), it will open in the fullscreen player and play just fine. If I wait a moment longer, and hit it after it's tried to generate the preview but just before it's going to vanish, i get an error saying it can't play that sort of mp4 file.
I've been using newer roms that use the blackstone (or other) album and fullscreen player packages, but I tried installing the oem album and had the same thing happen.
These files play fine in mobile wmp, and they play fine in the fullscreen player if i can trick it into opening them -- so what's the problem?
Oh, one more detail -- I've seen the same thing with other encoders, including the one that's being developed in the blackstone forum (but now has vga as an option for us non-widescreen folks).
Hey all, I'm just wondering if anyone knows the file formats for the cooliris gallery thumbnails?
I have a 2 year old who loves watching videos on my phone, but all of the thumbnails for these videos are just black (well most of them). He never knows which video he is playing.
My idea is to manually generate the thumbnails myself and use those but I only see some chunk, index, and cache files in the cooliris data folder.
Does anyone know where I can find the format of these files so I can write a program to generate these files for me?
Hi,
I have used handbrake to convert a DVD movie for playing on the Nexus S, according to settings found on a nexusoneforum thread (840-how-convert-any-video-your-nexus-one) Basically the settings are the same than the iPhone, but with correct extensions and some tweaking. The video has only P/I frames, no B frames.
When converting a 5min chapter, the resulting video was perfect! I got a 45MB file, which could be played in the stock player. However, after converting the whole DVD (file size of 1.1GB), using the same settings, then I get the message "Sorry, this video cannot be played". I tried other players but with the same issue.
Has anyone got an idea? Is there a maximum size for videos?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I return with some new experiments. I partially encoded the movie, trying various number of chapters, still in h264 (x264) in handbrake. I noticed that a 155MB, 17 minutes file plays correctly, but not a 275MB. I don't know if the problem is size or duration, I would need to try different resolutions for that.
Has anybody tried it?
I just tried to play these files from the USB storage but on my computer. The file itself is ok, but VLC can play the 17 minutes file, but cannot play the longer one with this error:
Code:
No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
I now suspect the problem lies with handbrake, that uncorrectly tags the stream formats (but why does it happen for a longer stream??). I will try to edit these files with avidemux or virtualdub to see what is inside.
I found the issue and it has nothing to do with the encoding, but with the uploading to the phone!
Indeed, the original file is readable. I use Linux, with the KDE desktop. It seems that when the screen times out (or the phone goes to sleep?), the upload is somewhat interrupted and the file is corrupted! Even if I took care to unmount the mounting point of the Nexus on the Linux filesystem.
I tried again after I increased the screen timeout to 30 minutes, and it worked ! I was able to upload the 1.1GB file to the phone and the movie could be played.
Is that a known issue, or am I doing something wrong?
Besides, I still have difficulties to unmount the Nexus:
Code:
$ umount /media/35EE-1E0E/
Unmount failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
The mounting point of the Nexus disappears though and the file is correctly uploaded. Has anyone encountered this problem (or has tips)?
Hello all....i recently got my TF and have noticed that when i go to sites that have a flash video (like my anime site), the video will not fully load. If i push play on the video, it will start streaming the video but if I pause it and let it continue to buffer the rest of the content, and move to a new tab or application, the buffering stop. If i would to stay on the page and let the video stream and buffer to the end, then I can watch the whole video. I have noticed this in stock browser and Dolphin.
Is this normal? I was expceting something similar ot my computer where i can start a video, switch screens, and when I come back , the video is finishing buffering and I can view all of the movie.....any ideas? Thanks
I think it part of Android to safe resources (cpu power is limited).
Hi - I have LOADS of videos (in my Gallery), where the thumbnail is either black or you can't really tell what it is... is there a (simple!) way/app where you can just go into the video and take a screenshot of what you'd like the thumbnail to be?
Thanks.