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I have downloaded a few apps trying to convert a ripped DVD (the latest Star Trek flick) to MP4 format. I am looking for something that is freeware. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I tried "Any Video Converter" that I downloaded from CNet, but the formats available don't seem to cover the G-tab. I converted Star Trek using 720x580, but it's too small on the screen. The video plays nice and smooth, though.
The other thing I would "like to have" is a converter that converts all the .VOB files into a single .mp4. Right now I have about 15 .VOB files in a directory. Watching 15 minutes of a movie then having to double-click the next .mp4 isn't ideal. And yes, I tried selecting all of them and executing, but it only plays the first video selected.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I use DVD Catalyst, and have through many different devices now. It can convert to pretty much any popular format, and it has device profiles, many already preset. If it doesn't have a device preset for your device, you can easily create one. It is payware, but it is not expensive, and have have been very ahppy with its results.
I use Handbrake. It is free, and you can use presets, or can pick your own.
Handbrake works really well and it's default preset seems to be working fine for the tablet (only tried one video so far).
--Bill
Thanks, fellas! Handbrake works great! Exactly what I was looking for.
What settings did you use in Handbrake? I can't seem to get anything to play on this thing.
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I just made sure that I was converting to MP4 format. I think it's the H.264 format.
handbrake
i used these settings..
http://www.funtechtalk.com/motorola...mat-conversion-settings-using-free-handbrake/
however i upped the res, my handbrake topped out at 720 though.. read the whole thing including the comments, something about handbrake and custom cropping, halfway down i think..
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I noticed some of the movies I ripped came out with an m4a extension which I couldn't get recognized. Renaming to mp4 had both Rockplayer and the native player play them with no issues. Both DVD rips at default resolution as well as a 720p MKV transcoded with Handbrake at whatever the default setting chose.
--Bill
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I use handbrake as well.
Is there a player with subtitle support?
So the stock browser doesn't play M4V embedded subtitles. Booo. I'm thinking either I have to re-encode all my videos and hard sub them or switch to another player that will software decode. No other player seems to support embedded subs though. I have to put SRTs in the same directory.
mVideoPlayer has so far been the best option in order to actually change the size so the subs don't come out tiny.
So:
1. Are there any other players that so far support hardware decoding and also support subtitles? - Don't want to waste battery.
2. Are there any players that support embedded subtitles in an m4v? (not hardsubs)
3. What is the best program for hardsubbing an SRT? I usually use handbrake but it doesn't want to burn in the subs. I want control over the font and shadow too to get decent quality.
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Why should I delete? These are 'on topic' questions that don't have a specific thread to discuss. I'm aware some issues are partially discussed in other threads, but not in this context and no consensus has been reached.
ryukent said:
Why should I delete? These are 'on topic' questions that don't have a specific thread to discuss. I'm aware some issues are partially discussed in other threads, but not in this context and no consensus has been reached.
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Sorry, the "delete" was for my post, since before my edit, I wrote about mVideoPlayer without realizing you've already tried it...
1. Vplayer
2. I tried a lot, and as far as I remember, none of them was able to find a subtitle track on a mp4 video file.
3. Handbrake. You have first to convert your srt into an ssa file, then merge with mkvmerge the ssa file to the original mkv,
and handbrake will then be able to handburn your srt file. You probably have to apply a patch (I wrote the patch, look for
decssasub.c), because handbrake was not able to handburn srt2ssa converted files.
Hope this help, it's really a pain to watch subtitles movie on a transformer, it does not play straightforward mkv files, you
have to convert them and so one.
Another solution would be to use plex media server, which is able to transcode movie, and which is avoiding the pain to
convert movie files, but unfortunately the plex android client does not support subtitles at this moment.
We're stuck to poor solutions.
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Vplayer does not hardware decode. It does seem like a good player though. Managed to get handbrake to burn in using ssa instead of srt subs and bubbled to convert them. Still not great though.
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Does anoyone have an answer for my problem? i have .srt files downloaded and they play like they should with mvideoplayer. But when i connect to my tv with hdmi, i see the subtitle on my tablet and not on the tv.
This really is pretty stupid. is there any player or app which can output my subtitles on my tv without me having to "burn them in"?
thats really weird they dont show up on HDMI, maybe the resolution is different?
MX VideoPlayer uses hardware decoding. There're options to choose between that and software decoding. It also has subtitle options (font, size, alignment, etc.).
I used DVDFab to get subtitles to show in a m4v flick. Had to click around with some of the subpicture options and then check it out in the preview screen to see if the subs would show; after a few tries, got the subs to only show up to translate and not during the entire film. Subs also show up in the stock player.
i found that the only way of displaying this subtitles to hdmi is to burn them in with handbrake. But handbrake does not support burn in of .srt files.
Anyone know an alternative which is simple?
mobo player, plus install codec corresponding to your CPU (ARM V6) all from the market.
Then place the .srt with strictly the same file name as you video file, play it with Mobo and subs should just show up.
I tested with lots of video format, including
Thanx for the reply, but do .srt files also show on the HDMI output if they are downloaded?
On the tablet all Works fine.
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I'm now re-encoding everything using XviD4PSP which is free and allows you to burn in the subtitiles. Seeing as I'm transcoding most stuff to h264 mainline anyway, I might as well add subs. The main problem is that this software is slower than handbrake. It does accept SRTs though. Jubbler is good for converting and editing subtitile files.
I play using moboplayer and mVideoPlayer. mVideoPlayer plays with hardware decoding and allows you to change the size of SRT subs if you are using SRT. The other players show text too small.
Life would be so much better if stock played embedded subtitles in an m4v though!
Bought a Xoom recently and one of the major things I'm using it for is to watch movies and TV while I'm at my desk. I'm playing the files straight over the network, but I'm finding a lot of my files won't play (using MoboPlayer) They'll open, play for a half second, then close. Going into Mobo and forcing the software decoder for the file works about half the time. Seems like most of the time it's just a minor error in the AVI that's throwing the player off. I can open the it in avidemux, just save it to a new file, and the new file will play fine. I've got several hundred movies and tv episodes on my file server at this point, so it'd be difficult to fix those one at a time with avidemux. Can any one suggest something else to use?
You could try transcoding one to a mobile friendly format like MP4 using Handbrake. If it works without a hitch you can batch transcode all of them if necessary.
As a common sense, AVI(DivX, XviD) is not a friendly format for Android. To play AVI movies on Android is to change AVI to Android compatible formats like MP4. To achieve it, you can use an AVI converter to encode AVI to Android friendly MP4 and then transfer the file to your Android. Handbrake is a good suggestion and Brorsoft Video Converter is also a good one.
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As a common sense, AVI(DivX, XviD) is not a friendly format for Android. To play AVI movies on Android is to change AVI to Android compatible formats like MP4. To achieve it, you can use an AVI converter to encode AVI to Android friendly MP4 and then transfer the file to your Android. Handbrake is a good suggestion and Brorsoft Video Converter is also a good one.
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Can't agree more, I think you'd better encode AVI to Android format before playing the videos.
...so yesterday I filmed fireworks underneath London Eye, since it lasts for 13min in size it's 1.4GB, I wanted to reduce it's size to smaller to put it on youtube, otherwise I'm at the moment with broadband and they are really unstable regarding connect. I tried vegas 7.0, but for some reason it doesn't recognize .mp4 file and sometimes it does recognize but makes this 13min video into 108h video and then it just freezes (app).
any ideas?
Happy New Year to everyone by the way!
You can use virtualdubmod on a windows pc. Load the video into it and save the video as an avi with xvid compression. Virtualdubmod and the xvid codec are both freeware and googling them will find the download links for you.
Also if you want to edit the video virtualdubmod can do that easily.
Dave
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You can use this free windows program http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/ to patch video header and make it a standard mp4 that any software can open
mistermentality said:
You can use this free windows program http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/ to patch video header and make it a standard mp4 that any software can open
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tried this app, but it doesn't shrink size, just convert into AVI, that's all. Thanks anyway.
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You can use virtualdubmod on a windows pc. Load the video into it and save the video as an avi with xvid compression. Virtualdubmod and the xvid codec are both freeware and googling them will find the download links for you.
Also if you want to edit the video virtualdubmod can do that easily.
Dave
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for some reason it can't recognize .mp4 video what I filmed with O3D and tried the other recommended app which turns .mp4 into .avi's and it still shows some error about:
Couldn't find decompressor for format 'H264' (unknown)
The mpeg4avi program only fixes the video header so any software will read it as a h264 mpeg four video file.
After patching it you can use the new version, it defaults to calling it videout.avi, in any progran to edit it.
If your choice of program can't read it you just need to install a h264 codec like this one at http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/ as that lets virtualdub see the video.
Basically you need a h264 codec, an xvid codec, virtualdubmod and all you do then is....
1. In virtualdubmod choose open file option and load your video
2. For compression choose xvid and set it how you want or leave it at its default setting
3. Choose to save avi. It will reduce size based on your settings for compression.
Dave
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mistermentality said:
The mpeg4avi program only fixes the video header so any software will read it as a h264 mpeg four video file.
After patching it you can use the new version, it defaults to calling it videout.avi, in any progran to edit it.
If your choice of program can't read it you just need to install a h264 codec like this one at http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/ as that lets virtualdub see the video.
Basically you need a h264 codec, an xvid codec, virtualdubmod and all you do then is....
1. In virtualdubmod choose open file option and load your video
2. For compression choose xvid and set it how you want or leave it at its default setting
3. Choose to save avi. It will reduce size based on your settings for compression.
Dave
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tnx, it cut size in bout half, but still 700mb for 11min, tried to edit it in Vegas 7.0, but it just recognize only sound, not picture.
Vegas nay need a direct show h264 filter like the free ffmpeg one as opposed to the vfw one I linked to.
You can get hd video down to about four hundred megabytes by trying different settings such as lower bitrate in xvid or setting it to have a quantiser of more than 1. The easiest way is encode a short thirty second clip in virtualdub to test different settings. On youtube some similar length hd videos are as small as 250 mb but it depends on your compression settings mainly.
Dave
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mistermentality said:
Vegas nay need a direct show h264 filter like the free ffmpeg one as opposed to the vfw one I linked to.
You can get hd video down to about four hundred megabytes by trying different settings such as lower bitrate in xvid or setting it to have a quantiser of more than 1. The easiest way is encode a short thirty second clip in virtualdub to test different settings. On youtube some similar length hd videos are as small as 250 mb but it depends on your compression settings mainly.
Dave
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changing video moe from full proccessing mode to different would decrease size also?
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changing video moe from full proccessing mode to different would decrease size also?
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You have to have full processing on. It can only be off for things like converting framerate that do not require changes to the actual video itself. But you should be able to get good results with bitrates as low as 1500 k its just a case of finding compression settings you prefer.
Dave
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As you know MX player can play one file after another. My question is very simple: is it possible to automatically display the name of the file at the beginning of the playback of each video file, in full screen and very readable even from a distance?