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High profile HD videos yet?

Has there been any progress with the tegra2 limitations on high profile HD videos, especially with 3.2 or will this never be fixed?
there are way too many high profile hd videos out there for this to not work on any name brand tablets (except Archos ironically and jailbroken ipad1/2).

For 720p try diceplayer. Works for most MKVs and is the best we'll get probably...

akaria said:
For 720p try diceplayer. Works for most MKVs and is the best we'll get probably...
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is it hardware acceleration for high profile 720p videos?

superflysocal said:
is it hardware acceleration for high profile 720p videos?
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Yes. It is. There's a thread in the app section somewhere where the dev is actively talking to people on xda. It's worth the $4. I play 720P high profile videos often, but it takes either a really good SDcard, or use the internal memory. A slow (aka <10 mbps I think...my 6mbps usd card doesn't play well) card will make it not work. For obvious bandwidth issues.

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is it hardware acceleration for high profile 720p videos?
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Hi I just installed it and it works!
My high profile 720p mkv files are playing very smooth.
But I cannot understand WHY this the DicePlayer is the only player
that can play such files smoothly. Maybe it uses hardware decoding for video and software decoding for audio?

chaykee said:
Hi I just installed it and it works!
My high profile 720p mkv files are playing very smooth.
But I cannot understand WHY this the DicePlayer is the only player
that can play such files smoothly. Maybe it uses hardware decoding for video and software decoding for audio?
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thats exactly what it does.

darkhawkff said:
Yes. It is. There's a thread in the app section somewhere where the dev is actively talking to people on xda. It's worth the $4. I play 720P high profile videos often, but it takes either a really good SDcard, or use the internal memory. A slow (aka <10 mbps I think...my 6mbps usd card doesn't play well) card will make it not work. For obvious bandwidth issues.
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class 10 is 10 megabytes per second... in order for video content to exceed that bandwidth, it'd be 600 megabytes per minute of video, or 36gb per hour of video. Bandwidth is not an issue.
also keep in mind classes are WRITE speeds, not read, read is almost always faster than write.

I can't get the demo to play without sticking after a few seconds. Tried various 720p MKV's. Running off a class 6 MicroSD.

I tried this and now about 1/2 to 3/4 of my 720p files can be played smoothly.
Wondering though, the ones that do play, have a slight pixelated appearance to them, I was dissapointed in its visual appearance. I don't think its related to this player but the Tf in general? Perhaps bitrate is not high enough and that's why it was able to play?
The thing is if I play this on my archos 70 or ipad1 with XBMC, the picture quality is perfect, HD looking.
Anyone noticing this?

I find that curious as well. Noticed the same thing which wonders me since 720p should be mapped 1:1 on the transformer screen. But you can really notice the difference to a (baseline) encoded 1080p Video!

Can Dice Player play movies from NAS drive? And if you need thread about dice I think it is this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16273817#post16273817

superflysocal said:
I tried this and now about 1/2 to 3/4 of my 720p files can be played smoothly.
Wondering though, the ones that do play, have a slight pixelated appearance to them, I was dissapointed in its visual appearance. I don't think its related to this player but the Tf in general? Perhaps bitrate is not high enough and that's why it was able to play?
The thing is if I play this on my archos 70 or ipad1 with XBMC, the picture quality is perfect, HD looking.
Anyone noticing this?
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I played Rango in a 720P DiVXHD the other day (in MoboPlayer I believe), and I was really impressed with the quality (playing over the network nonetheless)... I'l have to go back and try it again and really pay attention to the visual quality of it. Overall though, I thought it looked great, and noticeably better than any of the 480p videos I play on it.

When I was saying that video playback gets stuck I meant I was using the Diceplayer 3 day trial version. Everything I played that contained a AC3 or DTS track caused the video to freeze after a few seconds of playback. FF a bit and it plays then freezes again.

deadman3000 said:
When I was saying that video playback gets stuck I meant I was using the Diceplayer 3 day trial version. Everything I played that contained a AC3 or DTS track caused the video to freeze after a few seconds of playback. FF a bit and it plays then freezes again.
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Because the player is only using the cpu to decode the ac3 audiostream. Combine this with the load from the video-decoding and there is not enough cpu power. Even at 1500Mhz i have not enough power for all my mkvs.

I tend to forget that when I ran a 2.4Ghz AMD CPU on my desktop the highest res I could play were 720p MKV's most of the time. I am guessing some sorta hardware acceleration needs to be achieved in the codecs for it to play them smoothly?

I recorded a Full HD MP4 video with my Samsung Galaxy S2, where I can play back it absolutely smoothly. Then I copied it to my TF's internal SD card and it stutters like hell with the same player.
I would never have expected this, because both devices should have pretty similar performance hardwarewise.

Aymara said:
I recorded a Full HD MP4 video with my Samsung Galaxy S2, where I can play back it absolutely smoothly. Then I copied it to my TF's internal SD card and it stutters like hell with the same player.
I would never have expected this, because both devices should have pretty similar performance hardwarewise.
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Full HD is not good.
Tegra 2 only supports Baseline for Full HD. You should check the video and which profile it has.

sontin said:
Full HD is not good.
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But it should be. If you search Google for "Tegra 2 Full HD Video" you'll find several hints, that it should work like a charm, like in THIS product presentation video. I wonder, which player they are using in this demo.

Aymara said:
But it should be. If you search Google for "Tegra 2 Full HD Video" you'll find several hints, that it should work like a charm, like in THIS product presentation video. I wonder, which player they are using in this demo.
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Tegra 2 is able to play Full HD but (and this is a big but) only Baseline Profile.
And that's the problem: Baseline is dying which makes Full HD on Tegra 2 a useless feature.

I think it's this device/Honeycomb. I had no issues playing main profile with B-frames (no CABAC/Weighted-P or B-frames) on my Elocity A7 (Froyo). Same files do not play on Transformer.
I could never get CABAC to work, but even 2.35 cropped 1080p files played.
I'm really impressed that Dice can do mkv. It's very computationally intensive as far as containers go. Might have to give it a try.
Something's jacked up and one day it will magicly fix itself.
The main info thread said that 3.2 was supposed to have better media support. What works better?

720p mkvs and ICS

so i was hoping that ICS would fix all the mkv issues since on my galaxy nexus every mkv i have plays perfectly.
but sadly that is not the case. MX and BS players are the best and only lag when theres a lot of things going on, like the final battle in thor.
anyway, my mkvs are all that high baseband or whatever, and i haven't bothered redoing them, or trying to convert them because i was hoping that ICS would actually allow them to play.
now that it hasn't, i guess it's finally time to convert them all so i can play them.
so i'm asking for help for a program that will allow me to convert all of these so that they can actually play on the transformer, but without any loss of quality, or any increase in file size. currently they're all around 7GB.

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This is probably not the exact answer you're looking for but you can read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
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Use DicePlayer, supports hardware decode
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@curti: not sure if that will do what i want, but i'll give it a shot. i'll try anything at this point.
@nxt: DicePlayer is unable to play high profile 720p mkvs on the transformer without lag. This is true in all versions of honeycomb and in ICS. and ICS makes it even worse. Only players that are even somewhat watchable are MX and BS, and both still lag.

quick smart arse answer- stop whining, recode your goddam videos and accept the fact that the Tegra 2 chip is and always will be underpowered to play mkv's.
question: who the hell wants to play mkv's on a 10inch tab anyway, get a TV.

bob dylan said:
quick smart arse answer- stop whining, recode your goddam videos and accept the fact that the Tegra 2 chip is and always will be underpowered to play mkv's.
question: who the hell wants to play mkv's on a 10inch tab anyway, get a TV.
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if you bothered to even read my original post, i asked how to recode them.
And i want to play mkvs on a 10 inch tab because i can't carry around a tv to school or on an airplane, and my tab has an HDMI out that i can plug it into a TV to play said videos.

also make sure you have the tegra 2 plugin for dice player, works fine for avi and mkv on ICS.

I use xenonmkv to transcode. It leaves the video alone but repacks the video and audio in a mp4 format. More tegra2 friendly.

720p mkv should play natively on ics as of now.I got them playing though I encountered an issue with audio not working with the stock app.

@bob dylan: i have the tegra2 plugin installed. dice lags so bad everything is unwatchable.
@pongo: sounds like an idea. any changes in file size? my mkvs are around 7gb, i don't want them to get any bigger.
@DarkLG: not sure how your able to play them, myself and many others are unable to get them to work properly on any player.

Use handbrake to recode ur vids , soo many options so i betting ull find 1 that works for you
ive been using the high profile option in handbrake and i havnt had a issuse yet..

Ligerblue said:
Use handbrake to recode ur vids , soo many options so i betting ull find 1 that works for you
ive been using the high profile option in handbrake and i havnt had a issuse yet..
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that defeats the purpose of this thread.... even a Galaxy S1 can decode high profile 720p MKV with dice player and stock, there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
encoding a video takes too much time and it shouldn't be necessary.

zephiK said:
that defeats the purpose of this thread.... even a Galaxy S1 can decode high profile 720p MKV with dice player and stock, there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
encoding a video takes too much time and it shouldn't be necessary.
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actually zephik, my original post was asking how to reencode them to get them to work. so he was right in what he said.
I do agree with you though, there is no reason why the transformer can't do it other than issues in honeycomb and ICS. my galaxy nexus can play even do 1080p videos without any issues, but i'd much rather watch things on a 10" screen instead of a 4.6"

zephiK said:
there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
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neok44 said:
I do agree with you though, there is no reason why the transformer can't do it other than issues in honeycomb and ICS. my galaxy nexus can play even do 1080p videos without any issues, but i'd much rather watch things on a 10" screen instead of a 4.6"
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Why the hell you keep comparing Tegra 2 with Nexus's TI OMAP cpu assisted with PowerVR GPU? Despite same Cortex-A9 "base" architecture those are totally different CPU/GPU systems. All you see is that marketing bull**** with "CORES! Ghz!"?!
Tegra 2 is missing SIMD-instructions block needed to succesfully decode high profile/high bitrate h264 video in hardware accelerated mode. And you have nothing to do with it. Point.
And talking about high bitrate - 7GB sized videos looks like 9-10Mbps video stream for regular 1h40m movies. Thats way too high for Tegra2. Its upper limit is somewhere near 5Mbps. And preferable Main Profile encoded.
But if you want - you can continue complaining and comparing your TF with nexus or whatever you want. Thats pointless.
So the bottom line is - reencode.
You can find Handbrake profile on this forum, for example. Or try to find best acceptable settings yourself.

justmara said:
Why the hell you keep comparing Tegra 2 with Nexus's TI OMAP cpu assisted with PowerVR GPU? Despite same Cortex-A9 "base" architecture those are totally different CPU/GPU systems. All you see is that marketing bull**** with "CORES! Ghz!"?!
Tegra 2 is missing SIMD-instructions block needed to succesfully decode high profile/high bitrate h264 video in hardware accelerated mode. And you have nothing to do with it. Point.
And talking about high bitrate - 7GB sized videos looks like 9-10Mbps video stream for regular 1h40m movies. Thats way too high for Tegra2. Its upper limit is somewhere near 5Mbps. And preferable Main Profile encoded.
But if you want - you can continue complaining and comparing your TF with nexus or whatever you want. Thats pointless.
So the bottom line is - reencode.
You can find Handbrake profile on this forum, for example. Or try to find best acceptable settings yourself.
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i think the reason why people, myself included, assumed that is because the tegra2 was being shown off as being capable of playing HD video, which, it is, but just not all hd video, and not the most common form of it, in the high profile.
i do thank you for giving a technical reason though. i had always been under the impression that the tegra is simply the most powerful out there, when i got my Gnex, that was proven very wrong.
i've been looking into the reencoding, as well as reripping. and thanks to a few good posters i have some good setups. Now just to setup my laptop and hopefully that will be powerful enough so it doesn't take 20 hours to do one movie.

Video Formatting - What works for you

Hey guys, I'm waiting on my tablet to come in from best buy. In the mean time I'm getting ready to start converting movies to be ready to throw on when it gets in and I get a 64gb card for it (hope it works without too much fighting). So I'm hoping some of you guys can help me out with video settings. I want a balance of size/quality. and to keep size as far under 1gb each as possible for a standard 90 minute movie. I'm also a huge Futurama/American Dad/ Family Guy/ Simpsons/Southpark fan so obviously lower quality can be used, so if you have converted this type of animated stuff, what settings seemed to give the smallest size while retaining quality for the TF700? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Chief Geek said:
Hey guys, I'm waiting on my tablet to come in from best buy. In the mean time I'm getting ready to start converting movies to be ready to throw on when it gets in and I get a 64gb card for it (hope it works without too much fighting). So I'm hoping some of you guys can help me out with video settings. I want a balance of size/quality. and to keep size as far under 1gb each as possible for a standard 90 minute movie. I'm also a huge Futurama/American Dad/ Family Guy/ Simpsons/Southpark fan so obviously lower quality can be used, so if you have converted this type of animated stuff, what settings seemed to give the smallest size while retaining quality for the TF700? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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IMHO even for animation thats way to low a bitrate. I would go with handbrake high profile, shoot for 3-5mbps 720p if they are HD originals. If they are 480p originals then maybe you're ok with that bitrate.
Personally i shoot for 4gb movies.

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IMHO even for animation thats way to low a bitrate. I would go with handbrake high profile, shoot for 3-5mbps 720p if they are HD originals. If they are 480p originals then maybe you're ok with that bitrate.
Personally i shoot for 4gb movies.
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This isnt going to be my sole movie experience device. This is my travel and work companion. 1-1.5 is where I stick for a good action movie. But comedies and such I go lower. Animation I stick around 700mb. When im getting drunk on an airplane, I want to make sure my movies arnt blotchy and pixilated, but they dont have the be blue ray quality. I run a media server at home (plex) and that's where I keep the levels far higher.
I may have to give hand brake a try, I have been using format factory for years because I can make so many adjustments and chose the containers and formats.

get dvdcatalyst to convert your movies. It has a few presets for all devices. they can range from 1 to 4gb, depending on the initial size of the movie and the quality you want. i highly recommend it.
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I appreciate the advice. I don't have an issue converting, I'm just trying to get some feedback as to the actual presets your using as to ratio, bit rate, file type and container types, so on.
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Here's what I personally use, you can set what you like otherwise...
For TV DVD sources, I convert them from anamorphic to square pixel, and then crop widescreen movies as necessary. 640x480 SD videos I use a bitrate of 1mbps. Widescreen stuff I give 1.5mbps. These are the copies I watch on the TV, tablet, phone, whatever and I can't tell any quality difference between the original and the h264 encode. At these levels I can fit all of Home Movies, Futurama S1-5, The Office S1-4 and all of ATHF on one 64gb card.
For movies, since these are just portable copies and not my full versions for home viewing, I use the same standards above for SD sources, and for HD sources I scale it down to 720p, crop if necessary, and use a 2mbps bitrate. (you could insist on a 1080p encode, but on a 10" screen are you really going to notice the difference and need to add in the extra bps?) You get a little more pixelation at times, but nothing unwatchable. This keeps it light enough to stream over my local network and small enough that you can fit a lot on while still being a good watchable version.
All audio I drop to a 96kpbs stereo mix.
This is what works for me. What works for any of you may be different depending on what you use it for.

Exactly what I was looking for.
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what are the appropriate codec (video & audio) settings to get hardware acceleration and native player support?

DarsVaeda said:
what are the appropriate codec (video & audio) settings to get hardware acceleration and native player support?
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For the native player you need h.264(avc) video and stereo aac audio.

i have movies that are h264 and DTS 5.1. I just drop them on my 64gb card (inserted into the doc) and they play fine, nice and crisp. No need to convert. They are about 4gb in size.

timrock said:
i have movies that are h264 and DTS 5.1. I just drop them on my 64gb card (inserted into the doc) and they play fine, nice and crisp. No need to convert. They are about 4gb in size.
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Your playing dts on the native player? Me thinks not. BS player will however,but asked about native

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Your playing dts on the native player? Me thinks not. BS player will however,but asked about native
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yeah, sorry, using BS. native will play the movie, but no sound.

Ripping Blu-Rays to Asus Infinity

I been ripping blu-rays on DVDFAB and have tried several profiles from mp4, to some labeled ps3, xbox, ipad 3, etc, and they rip and look great on my laptop......Now placing them on my infinity is a different story, I've tried every player on the market and none seem to play them flawlessly, there is always a slight but noticeable stutter in video......This has shown on every tablet i've owned which is Every asus tablet, acer, and samsung.....The only way I have got them to play perfectly is by using Handbrake to bring it down to 720p, but I was under the impression that with the screen being better and also the hardware better than any of my previous tabs, then I wouldnt need to do this....any one able to play blu rays that they have ripped on their Infinity? If so, what methods did you use?

i download my blu rays in mkv format. they range from 4gb to 15gb. Whether 720p or 1080p. Previously, when i was using a motorola xoom, i would convert them with dvdcatalyst. Now, with the infinity, you no longer need to convert them. Just drag them to your card, assuming its formatted at ntfs or exfat. Get BS Player from the market, and this app will play any format without issues, with no issues.
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timrock said:
i download my blu rays in mkv format. they range from 4gb to 15gb. Whether 720p or 1080p. Previously, when i was using a motorola xoom, i would convert them with dvdcatalyst. Now, with the infinity, you no longer need to convert them. Just drag them to your card, assuming its formatted at ntfs or exfat. Get BS Player from the market, and this app will play any format without issues, with no issues.
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Thanks, Im going to try ripping them to mkv format, I guess I got too used to ripping things in mp4 format, and see if there is success

timrock said:
i download my blu rays in mkv format. they range from 4gb to 15gb. Whether 720p or 1080p. Previously, when i was using a motorola xoom, i would convert them with dvdcatalyst. Now, with the infinity, you no longer need to convert them. Just drag them to your card, assuming its formatted at ntfs or exfat. Get BS Player from the market, and this app will play any format without issues, with no issues.
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I tried with a whole bunch of videoplayers and I still get stutter every now and then , even when playing from the internal sd card.I believe it's so I/O sensitive that any sync or operation going on in the background causes stutters in the movie. Both in 1080p and 720p.
Asus Sweden claims they play them without any issues at all and i'm not sure they are telling me the truth. They even suggested it to be sent for repair.
Keeping my hopes up for JB to solve such issues!

You really shouldn't need to re-transcode videos if they are h.264, Just rip to mkv and pay in BSPlayer. Now will you occasionally hit a section of video that is too intensive? sure,happens even on my PC at times. There are 2 main reasons for this.
1) Something in the background kicks off on your tablet causing the stutter
2) Blu-rays are Variable bitrate which means more intense scenes get more bitrate thrown at them and need more power to decode.
#1 can only be resolved by turning of whatever is causing the background action, finding it is another matter
#2 can be alleviated by transcoding to a constant bitrate or a lower profile, however you're gonna lose some quality. I recommend using handbrake.
Also I would suggest placing on external sd card and not internal as internal storage has some IO issues.

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I been ripping blu-rays on DVDFAB and have tried several profiles from mp4, to some labeled ps3, xbox, ipad 3, etc, and they rip and look great on my laptop......Now placing them on my infinity is a different story, I've tried every player on the market and none seem to play them flawlessly, there is always a slight but noticeable stutter in video......This has shown on every tablet i've owned which is Every asus tablet, acer, and samsung.....The only way I have got them to play perfectly is by using Handbrake to bring it down to 720p, but I was under the impression that with the screen being better and also the hardware better than any of my previous tabs, then I wouldnt need to do this....any one able to play blu rays that they have ripped on their Infinity? If so, what methods did you use?
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Bsplayer. Also, I would suggest torrenting your movies if you've legally bought them. I think that's legal and it gives you better filesizes at times.
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No player optimized for Tegra3, 1.6 ghz and 1080p yet. At the moment 720p is the most popular since most tablets support it. I've been sending out messages to the various video player devs out there to get on the ball, hopefully they are listening.

I have been ripping Blu Ray discs for 3 years. I have about 500 at the moment. I use AnyDVD HD and Pavtube Blue Ray ripper. I rip everything down to 720P, H.264 with a high bit rate of 2500. Movies are between 1.75 and 2.50 GB each. I have no issue watching them on everything from 65" HD TV's to my SGN. This combo seems to provide the best compatibility and quality for my needs.

I use Any Video Converter Ultimate with the settings above mentioned.
I can add to this thread that if you re encode your blurays with that method, you will have up to 20-30% higher battery life. Plus you save space on your drive.
Personally if I have the time I re encode my files before copying them. If not I dont care.

BS Player has worked for every rip that I have thrown at it, and was the ONLY player that worked for a lot of them. Give it a try.

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I use handbrake to rip blu-rays to .mkv container h.264 codec-file sizes ranger from 2 gb - 10 gb.Dice Player is tegra optimized and plays back mkv files flawlessly

Mike02z said:
I have been ripping Blu Ray discs for 3 years. I have about 500 at the moment. I use AnyDVD HD and Pavtube Blue Ray ripper. I rip everything down to 720P, H.264 with a high bit rate of 2500. Movies are between 1.75 and 2.50 GB each. I have no issue watching them on everything from 65" HD TV's to my SGN. This combo seems to provide the best compatibility and quality for my needs.
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I just picked up an Infinity Tablet and looking to convert some of my Blu Rays. I have Make MKV and Handbrake, but I am having difficulty in getting the movie to come out in Blu Ray quality once converted. Any suggestions to fix this, or should I go with something more like Pavtube Blu Ray ripper?
Handbrake seems to take for ever to convert a blu ray from and MKV file. Plus I am still a newb to this whole ripping of blu rays, but I would like to be able to rip to 5.1 audio so I can mirror and play on HD TV when I travel if possible.
Thanks for the help.

eviltwin_52s said:
I just picked up an Infinity Tablet and looking to convert some of my Blu Rays. I have Make MKV and Handbrake, but I am having difficulty in getting the movie to come out in Blu Ray quality once converted. Any suggestions to fix this, or should I go with something more like Pavtube Blu Ray ripper?
Handbrake seems to take for ever to convert a blu ray from and MKV file. Plus I am still a newb to this whole ripping of blu rays, but I would like to be able to rip to 5.1 audio so I can mirror and play on HD TV when I travel if possible.
Thanks for the help.
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Pavtube is what I use and couldnt be happier. Its very easy you should not have any problems with it. B-rays take forever no matter what your using. I put the B-ray I want to copy in before I go to bed and set Pavtube to shut down the computer when completed.
I think the price of Pavtube went down to $40
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Pavtube is what I use and couldnt be happier. Its very easy you should not have any problems with it. B-rays take forever no matter what your using. I put the B-ray I want to copy in before I go to bed and set Pavtube to shut down the computer when completed.
I think the price of Pavtube went down to $40
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Can't agree more. Been using PavTube for more than 2 years. No issues at all. I don't shut down my PC or stop any services. I'm running on Windows 7 X64 Ultimate with an X4 965 Black with 4 Gig RAM and a Kingston SSD. I can rip at real time and still surf, use mail etc. Anything too intensive will impact my rip so I generally rip right before heading off to bed. AnyDVD and Pavtube is a winning combination.
I do have Aunsoft Video converter as well. I use that to rip HD DVD's I buy on eBay for .99 cents. Use an old XBOX 360 drive I picked up for 20 bucks. Think I must have every HD DVD ever made by this point

Ok, so I just purchased PavTube and I must be missing something. I don't see the option/Format to rip to ASUS Transformer Infinity. I only see the options for the original Transformer and T100 and 200 and the Transformer Pad...
I clicked on update and, it says nothing is available... any help would be appreciated. If we need to take this offline, you are more than welcome to PM me.
Thanks,

eviltwin_52s said:
Ok, so I just purchased PavTube and I must be missing something. I don't see the option/Format to rip to ASUS Transformer Infinity. I only see the options for the original Transformer and T100 and 200 and the Transformer Pad...
I clicked on update and, it says nothing is available... any help would be appreciated. If we need to take this offline, you are more than welcome to PM me.
Thanks,
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Just use those it will work just fine
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eviltwin_52s said:
Ok, so I just purchased PavTube and I must be missing something. I don't see the option/Format to rip to ASUS Transformer Infinity. I only see the options for the original Transformer and T100 and 200 and the Transformer Pad...
I clicked on update and, it says nothing is available... any help would be appreciated. If we need to take this offline, you are more than welcome to PM me.
Thanks,
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I just use iPhone 4S 720P Format and alter the settings to leave the original frame rate and 2500 kbps for the bit rate. 1280x720 is the size I use. You can probably change this to the native TF700 resolution but then it may not work on other devices that can't support that resolution or down convert it. I was looking for nearly universal compatibility.

Mike02z said:
I just use iPhone 4S 720P Format and alter the settings to leave the original frame rate and 2500 kbps for the bit rate. 1280x720 is the size I use. You can probably change this to the native TF700 resolution but then it may not work on other devices that can't support that resolution or down convert it. I was looking for nearly universal compatibility.
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Thanks, so I just chose "Motorola Xoom Full HD 1080p (.mp4) and I have to say the pay back is less then desirable and not anywhere near HD. Maybe someone can help me with suggesting better settings. When I ripped the movie it was set at the following:
Video
Codec: h264
Size: 1920x1080
Bitrate: 3000
Frame Rte: 24fps
Audio
Codec: AAC
Sample Rate: 48000
Bitrate: 128000
Channels: 5.1 (thinking should have selected 2.1 as volume is really faint) Was wanting it so I could play on the tablet or Mirror to HD TV and play when I travel.
Thanks for your help.

3000 kbps seems low for 1920x1080. Maybe 5000 but the file will be 4 GB. Try the 720P and 2500. Still looks darn good on my TF700. Are you using the built in memory or an sd card? if sd, it should be a class 10 card for 1920x1080. I have used class 4 cards with 720P but prefer the class 10 cards.
I would also advise leaving the frame rate set at "original". You don't want to use 24fps if the original was shot at 30fps and vice versa. I also don't use 5.1 as many devices cannot down convert and you won't have sound then. I always use 2 channel.

I use Zumo cast to watch any of the 300 Blu Rays I have ripped using AnyDVD decoder and Open Blu Ray Ripper.
Ripped into H264 for view on PS3. Shared file location in Zumocast on PC, and installed on Infinity.:victory:
Files are between 4-8Gb, and play very fluid.

playback 1080i mpeg2 choppy?

I had previously bought and returned tf700 because playback was choppy when playing my mpeg2 1080i video's. This is the format my videos are in and i dont want to re encode. I was also only getting 2 hr's. Battery life while watching my mpeg2's. Does that sound right? Ipickf i was to root and overclock would it make video playback much smoother? If so and im on ebay looking for tf700, do i need to ask anything to know its android compatible?

That doesn't sound right to me at least. Tegra 3 should support MPEG2 just fine (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28677759), but I can't say for sure because most of my movies are encoded in H.264. If you have a sample video, I would gladly give it a double check. Btw, just to be thorough, what player did you use? Did you play your videos with hardware acceleration? You will definitely drain your battery faster if you use software decoders to play videos (using the CPU) instead of hardware decoder (offloading the task to GPU).

As far as i know mpeg2 does not support hw acceleration. i use mx player. Basically im looking for a 10 inch display for the cheapest i can find that can handle my 1080i mpeg's, taken from TiVo. I thought tf700 might fit the bill?

leif2 said:
As far as i know mpeg2 does not support hw acceleration. i use mx player. Basically im looking for a 10 inch display for the cheapest i can find that can handle my 1080i mpeg's, taken from TiVo. I thought tf700 might fit the bill?
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If you look at Tegra 3's spec sheet on Nvidia website, it is stated that Tegra 3 fully support MPEG-2 decoding, so I don't think what you say is true. Regardless, why don't you provide a sample video or at least other information regarding your videos like bit rates, formats, profiles, etc...? And btw, MX Player has its own decoder called "H/W+", have you tried it? You should also give Dice Player and BS Player a try if you haven't.
If all else fails, just get a Nexus 10, people have played really high bit-rate videos on the Nexus 10 that far exceed any videos you encounter normally.