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[Q] people who watch online movies

Where do you watch them? (Sites)

Jack Daddy said:
Where do you watch them? (Sites)
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There are several threads here in General and Themes and Apps that talk about this.
I don't know of any reliable site that lets you stream movies on our gTabs at the moment (that doesn't mean one doesn't exist). I rip movies and move them to my gTab to watch. I also use my iPad/iPhone to watch NetFlix streaming movies (they have announced they will release a NetFlix app for Android soon).
Try using search and you will see this issue has been around for a while.

Jack Daddy said:
Where do you watch them? (Sites)
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Epixhd.com works. Uses Flash I think. It's included w some cable Co. services, e.g., Cox.
Jim

androidvideo.net has movies and TV shows. You used to be able to just go to the site and watch but the admin says people were stealing the content. Now you have to sign up for a free or premium paid account.

Yeah i rip my dvds too but looking to watch at hotel and a week long stay can be lots of dvds

what you use to rip your dvds?

I use dvd fab.

+1 for DVD Fab. It is by far the most full featured and easy to use movie ripping tool.

I watch on justin tv. Its really not on demand but sometimes there are some good movies.

sjmoreno said:
+1 for DVD Fab. It is by far the most full featured and easy to use movie ripping tool.
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What version??? DVD Copy 8.0.6.8??? Also, they offer the GTab configuration or that is something that you have to do on your own?
Thanks

jcarlospr said:
What version??? DVD Copy 8.0.6.8??? Also, they offer the GTab configuration or that is something that you have to do on your own?
Thanks
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I'm using the latest version (I don't remember what it is as the app auto-updates). I rip all of my movies as xvid avi files resulting in movie files sizes between 400 MB to 1.2 GB depending on length of the movie or tv episode I rip.
They have profiles for different video format outputs already built in to the app and you have the ability to create your own custom format profiles as well. The full app with all of the options is pretty expensive in my opinion but you can find it from 3rd-party sellers for way less.
The quality of the resulting video for me looks fine on the gTab but don't expect it to look good if you have a dock and are using the HDMI out to view it on your big television (it will look pretty bad).

sjmoreno said:
I'm using the latest version (I don't remember what it is as the app auto-updates). I rip all of my movies as xvid avi files resulting in movie files sizes between 400 MB to 1.2 GB depending on length of the movie or tv episode I rip.
They have profiles for different video format outputs already built in to the app and you have the ability to create your own custom format profiles as well. The full app with all of the options is pretty expensive in my opinion but you can find it from 3rd-party sellers for way less.
The quality of the resulting video for me looks fine on the gTab but don't expect it to look good if you have a dock and are using the HDMI out to view it on your big television (it will look pretty bad).
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I need it for my kid’s movies - so I am not looking to use the HDMI or the docking station.
Yes, I noticed is kind of pricey – when you said third party you mean Google it to find it cheaper?
And as far of the format I am looking something really easy to use like plug and play without many configurations to set. Is this something like that?

handbrake works really well for ripping movies as well and is free.

csi15 said:
handbrake works really well for ripping movies as well and is free.
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Handbrake does not work for me - I don't know if is because I have a 64 computer or what.
I have reinstalled 3 times and I always get an error with any DVD that I tried.

Just navigate on over to either of these sites and enjoy, they work beautifully on my Gtab running Vegan Beta 5
www.surfthechannel.com
www.ch131.com

jcarlospr said:
Handbrake does not work for me - I don't know if is because I have a 64 computer or what.
I have reinstalled 3 times and I always get an error with any DVD that I tried.
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I think I bought my copy of DVDFab from a company called Tarzan Media for like $30 with lifetime upgrades.
Here's the link: Click Here

great price for lifetime updates!!

sjmoreno said:
I think I bought my copy of DVDFab from a company called Tarzan Media for like $30 with lifetime upgrades.
Here's the link: Click Here
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sjmoreno thanks for the info I am going to buy it right now, just one more question. What configuration you use for the GTab?

Here's my favorite so far. Some old school cartoon series and older shows but full lengh good movies too. Looks like it was set up by the same people as Hulu but actually works.
crackle.com

ThinkinBig said:
Just navigate on over to either of these sites and enjoy, they work beautifully on my Gtab running Vegan Beta 5
www.surfthechannel.com
www.ch131.com
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All require xVid codec...
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[Q] How can I watch 720p mkv video on Inspire 4G??

Wondering if anyone has a solution here, AVI and MKV have issues playing. The MKVs are 720p HD tv shows, and the audio is great, but the video is choppy\slow-mo. Has anyone managed to find a player or a method to resolve this? I know this has been discussed in other forums, but related to different phones, so curious if there's a specific fix to this phone, or if a 720p is just too much for the Inspire 4G to handle. I wouldn't think so since last year's iPhone 3G and 3GS and 4 can handle it just fine.... I'm thinking something is wrong or I'm using the wrong app.

I don't think the stock video player can do it, so you'll have to try some third party apps like VPlayer, RockPlayer, and Act 1. Let us know if any of those three get the job done. I'm curious too. Otherwise we may need to convert videos.

gtg465x said:
I don't think the stock video player can do it, so you'll have to try some third party apps like VPlayer, RockPlayer, and Act 1. Let us know if any of those three get the job done. I'm curious too. Otherwise we may need to convert videos.
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VPlayer - Same
RockPlayer - Same
Act 1 - Same
None of these seem to work. I wonder if it's the way my videos are encoded? I sure hope not, because all the MKV files I download from the torrents of tv shows I miss are formatted the same way. They always played fine on iPhone
Anyone else experience this issue and find a resolution?
Thanks!

maybe the class of your SD Card, for anything above 720p a class 6 card is needed

Wiingy said:
maybe the class of your SD Card, for anything above 720p a class 6 card is needed
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Oh really? I don't see any Class 6 or higher on Amazon. Mine is a class 4. Can the Inspire 4G even benefit from class 6? I'm able to watch them off the memory card on my class 4 when plugged into my computer just fine.

the desire hd can support all class cards including class 10, so i cant see why the inspire cant either.
Yea class 4 should be ok i would think? Have you tried different size files?
Is anybody else having trouble like this ?

Wiingy said:
the desire hd can support all class cards including class 10, so i cant see why the inspire cant either.
Yea class 4 should be ok i would think? Have you tried different size files?
Is anybody else having trouble like this ?
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I have 2 inspire 4g devices, and have tried both a Class 2 and a Class 4 card. I ordered a Class 10 from Amazon (they only had up to 16gb, not the 32GB like my class 4), so I'll report back tomorrow when it arrives.
The file I'm using is a 1.09GB MKV file.

I have yet to purchase the Inspire and this problem is one of the reasons that I am waiting. FWIW I have read many complaints from users having this problem.

I have the same issue
It happens on G1, Streak and Inspire. However, cheap Archos doesn't this issue. Isn't that ironic? I was trying to copy the Archos player but no success...

andycai said:
It happens on G1, Streak and Inspire. However, cheap Archos doesn't this issue. Isn't that ironic? I was trying to copy the Archos player but no success...
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Clearly it's either the way my video is encoded, or the lack of proper decoder on the android. I am at the end of my rope trying to resolve. I didn't like my iPhone because it's incompatibilities, and everyone with Android said "get an Android cause it'll decode anything" ... lol... wonder if we'll ever have a solution to decode a mkv properly.

You do realize that your phone is only capable of show video resolution up to 400p? MKV is mostly used for HD rips because it ends up having the best quality after compression, but your phone is not HD in the sense that it is over a standard definition television vertical wise (watching it in wide screen format).
Anything bigger will have to be scaled down by the player, sucking up battery life and you wont notice a quality difference. Aside from that, forcing your device to play something higher res will suck the battery life as well because it will be more intensive on the cpu. Why dont you just use xvid rips in avi format? Everything that's ripped in mkv is always ripped in xvid as well.

yareally said:
You do realize that your phone is only capable of show video resolution up to 400p? MKV is mostly used for HD rips because it ends up having the best quality after compression, but your phone is not HD in the sense that it is over a standard definition television vertical wise (watching it in wide screen format).
Anything bigger will have to be scaled down by the player, sucking up battery life and you wont notice a quality difference. Aside from that, forcing your device to play something higher res will suck the battery life as well because it will be more intensive on the cpu. Why dont you just use xvid rips in avi format? Everything that's ripped in mkv is always ripped in xvid as well.
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Yeah that's what I'm going to do is just rework the files. Any suggestion on an easy program for MAC to convert MKV to avi?
Thank you much!

I am using avi format xvid and it still can't play anything in hd. My captivate plays the same files fine wtf.
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Nevermind vplayer works for xvid avis I wonder why the stock player won't play any of them....
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laxwillsch said:
Nevermind vplayer works for xvid avis I wonder why the stock player won't play any of them....
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Yeah, the processing power is certainly there so I guess it's just an issue of improper codec execution :-(

Not sure on a player to watch them on android. I would just go through the top ones on the market place and do trial and error
I dont have a computer with osx on it currently, but VLC (the PC/OSX version) does convert file formats as well and it's free.

yareally said:
Not sure on a player to watch them on android. I would just go through the top ones on the market place and do trial and error
I dont have a computer with osx on it currently, but VLC (the PC/OSX version) does convert file formats as well and it's free.
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Yeah none worked. I think it's just the issue of the MKV file. They don't work on iPhone with any of the players either, I think it just takes more power and video processing to handle them.

Try xyflash, i used this on iphone. Android market has it also so i tried it. It plays 720p mkv bleach videos and sub titles work using mkv sub extractor. Not the best but it does the job i think

Did you guys try lower resolution files but coded in mkv?
Will the Atrix be capable of running 720p mkv files?

idanoclo said:
Try xyflash, i used this on iphone. Android market has it also so i tried it. It plays 720p mkv bleach videos and sub titles work using mkv sub extractor. Not the best but it does the job i think
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I don't even see an app by that name on the market. You realize that not everything for iPhone is for android, and vice versa, right?

[Q] Full Flac support

Is there a way in the interim before Cyanogen is fully up and running that we can hack it to have flac support? Probably half of my music on my phone is Flac and any attempt to use apps like Poweramp, Songbird, or the like to "shuffle all" results in only shuffling tracks supported by the Android core (which sadly Flac is not yet apart of?!?!?)
I believe that CM7 has flac support built in, but I might be wrong. Just wish Google would add it to the core already!

I would love to be able to listen to my Triple.Fi 10's on this device, but am wary as past phones headphone outs have been horrible. How's the Tbolt? Is there a defacto standard media player app that caters to flac and doesn't cost $5.99?
Thanks!

CM 7 does play FLAC just fine for me. I use MortPlayer, which is free and has a lot of features (and works for flac just in case you were curious). I cant remember if it worked for FLAC on sense or not, but it might have. The developer for it has been working on it since the windows mobile days and ported it over to android.
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.stohelit.folderplayer&hl=en
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=page&entry=mpa_overview&action=view&menu=36
Probably the best reason to have cm7 for audio is the fact you can use the volume keys to switch tracks and it's not dependent on the player to do so either. Having that to me is a must if you wish to use it for running or some other exercise that keeps you from seeing the screen.

Yeah, I tried it last night and found the stock music app plays flac just fine. Unfortunately, the sound quality from the Jack leaves something to be desired. Oh well, that's what the Zune HD's for. ;-)

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Yeah, I tried it last night and found the stock music app plays flac just fine. Unfortunately, the sound quality from the Jack leaves something to be desired. Oh well, that's what the Zune HD's for. ;-)
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Does the ZuneHD support FLAC? I have the Zune 120 and the lack of FLAC support makes me cry
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Does the ZuneHD support FLAC? I have the Zune 120 and the lack of FLAC support makes me cry
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If you really want FLAC, I would find a media player that supports rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/
I have a nano 1g and it's worked great on it for the past 6 years.

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If you really want FLAC, I would find a media player that supports rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/
I have a nano 1g and it's worked great on it for the past 6 years.
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My old Sansa players were all rockboxed but they all supported FLAC anyway
The Zune was just given to me from a friend. I appreciate it (obviously) but I miss the FLAC support.
Thinking of grabbing a Clip+ and throwing in my 32GB MicroSD in it and reaching a decent size of 40GB in an mp3 player about the size of 1.5 quarters

will it be ever possible to play hd movies?

it is a HUGE inconvenience and i was wondering if it will be ever possible to play and maybe even record hd movies on the NS? if not, i am really considering to go back to the captivate

Moboplayer? I use that for all my movies in random formats. Haven't tried HD movies yet however. Nexus S screen resolution isn't HD anyways.
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You wont be able to record at 720p it lacks the hardware
As for movies ever since 2.3.3 nexus s has been able to play 720p (x264) movies but still lack proper audio codecs so no sound hopefully more audio codecs get introduced in 2.4 update when ever that comes out but dont hold your breath
If you check in dev section there is a ROM in that includes new hardware codecs but the video player that is required is not 100%
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Moboplayer? I use that for all my movies in random formats. Haven't tried HD movies yet however. Nexus S screen resolution isn't HD anyways.
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exactly you haven't played high quality HD movies on your phone experience what we are talking about
also im pretty sure he is talking about hardware support Mobo or any other player does software only for the codecs that are not supported by the OS
And ask anyone who had or has a galaxy S image quality is outstanding
Also doesn't matter if the phone is not 720p you dont having to spend time properly converting

This is a big let down for me, its true a few media players can play via software decoding but the nexus s out the box has limited media support.
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You can try the hardware multi-codec thread in the dev section. You need to flash the customized ROM though, and install ho player from Market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052318

I just recommend that you go back to your Captivate. I've had the Vibrant and sometimes I miss that my Nexus S doesn't have the hardware support to play other media files without converting, but I don't use it for media much so it wasn't a priority in the phone for me. Reading from your first post, it sounds like you use the phone a lot for watching media and somewhat use HD video recording. So that's why I recommend that you stay with the Captivate and perhaps wait for Galaxy S II if you're looking for an upgrade. Nothing can really beat the media capabilities that the Galaxy S offers.

What codec are you trying to play? I have HD videos on my Mac downloaded directly from YouTube. With no transcoding, they work fine on my Nexus S in the Gallery app using stock firmware.
H.264 has many different encoding profiles, and mobile devices (even the iPhone and iPad, along with scores of Android and Nokia devices) have limits on both the profile and the bit-rate that they can handle.
With regards to recording, the Nexus S does not do HD recording, and that's fine with me. If I want to record some video (which I do like 4-5 times a year), I'll whip out my Flip. You know why? Because recording video drains a lot of battery, and I need my Nexus S to last all day.

24bit/96kHz .wav audio support

My SGH-I337 can play back .wav at up to 24bit/48kHz but not 96kHz using the default (Samsung?) Music player app. I'm pretty certain that the Qualcomm DAC on my S4 supports 96kHz. I can playback 24bit/96kHz using the Poweramp app but someone suggested that the decoding used by Poweramp is all software based and will probably use more cpu.
Is there any way to get the default (Samsung?) Music player to support 24/96?
Also what about DLNA streaming support? Assuming your DLNA renderer device supports 24/96, will the S4 "negotiate and accept" that and not do any downconverting (to say 48kHz) or downsampling (to say 16 bit) ??
If anyone has any specification for the Qualcomm DAC used in the SGH-I337 I'd really like to see it.

https://twitter.com/supercurio/status/312378336972242944
So AT&T #GalaxySIV uses @qualcomm audio solution, and its Audioflinger is configured to upsample everything at 48kHz. Not good.
So bs..... My infuse had a very good Wolfson...
But who really cares, unless you have great headphones or good speakers... Blah is a mobile... no expectations...

slider2828 said:
https://twitter.com/supercurio/status/312378336972242944
So AT&T #GalaxySIV uses @qualcomm audio solution, and its Audioflinger is configured to upsample everything at 48kHz. Not good.
So bs..... My infuse had a very good Wolfson...
But who really cares, unless you have great headphones or good speakers... Blah is a mobile... no expectations...
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I do...I have great headphones and studio monitors...that's why I have poweramp...only use it on the songs the phone can't natively support :/ unfortunately because of my case limiting the size of what can fit in my 3.5 mm input, music on this phone has been mediocre - at least I still got my infuse with Wolfson dac for music
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Yea not really that noticeable except 48k sucks ass... anything about 96 isn't too noticeable...
Maybe this will help.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/2265