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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.

[Q] I am done with trying playing movies on my xoon?

I just can't play movies on my damn Xoom ..I have tried mkv ..avi.. mp4 I tried everything every size but still ridiculously bad the screen is terrible and it is not even near to HD ....Xoom mz604 with supposedley 720p screen ---

The display is 1280 x 800 regardless of what you think it is. Your question being?

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The display is 1280 x 800 regardless of what you think it is. Your question being?
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What I am saying is when I try playing HD movies on it --it is just not HD anymore there is always a weird something like pixels intertwined in the background especially when there is a lot of action --it is just supposed to have a 720p HD screen and one can't enjoy it ..I also tried using stuff like handbrake in order to get it the right stuff but still nothing ..

Can you give us a sample of the video? It could be your video player, try MX player. 720p videos works just fine on my XOOM.

I look movies in Youtube app and the quality is great.
show sample since the display is fine.

download your porn from a more reputable website.

Chaosgod27 said:
Can you give us a sample of the video? It could be your video player, try MX player. 720p videos works just fine on my XOOM.
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I look movies in Youtube app and the quality is great.
show sample since the display is fine.
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I have tried every MX player be player and a whole different players... and yes videos on YouTube doesn't make any problems

Sounds like your crappy encoding OR video source.

I have never faced this problem... 720p videos play flawlessly some 1080p videos get stuck. Either there is some problem with the ROM you are using or maybe a hardware problem...
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Any thing I've encoded with DVD Catalyst 4 (tools4movies.com), using its XOOM HQXT setting, that were from high quality sources (bluray or dvd), look great on my Xoom's screen.
Playback of movies and TV programs via Netflix streaming on the Xoom also look good.
Playback of those same files or netflix via HDMI out to TV sometimes looks a little blocky. But are still watchable. (Netflix really depends on if its a "HD" playback movie or show to look any decent on a TV).
The Xoom HQXT encoded files look as good as those I've encoded (also using DVD Catalyst) for my MS Surface RT tablet, and Samsung Series 7 Slate PC (XE700T1A) using the Surface HQXT setting.
I hate to say it, but the screen of the iPad3 I have has more vibrant, and HD "TV" like colors, where as my Xoom looks more "washed out" in comparison. The Surface screen looks close to the Xoom.
EDIT: I use Mobo Player to play back on my Xoom.

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Any thing I've encoded with DVD Catalyst 4 (tools4movies.com), using its XOOM HQXT setting, that were from high quality sources (bluray or dvd), look great on my Xoom's screen.
Playback of movies and TV programs via Netflix streaming on the Xoom also look good.
Playback of those same files or netflix via HDMI out to TV sometimes looks a little blocky. But are still watchable. (Netflix really depends on if its a "HD" playback movie or show to look any decent on a TV).
The Xoom HQXT encoded files look as good as those I've encoded (also using DVD Catalyst) for my MS Surface RT tablet, and Samsung Series 7 Slate PC (XE700T1A) using the Surface HQXT setting.
I hate to say it, but the screen of the iPad3 I have has more vibrant, and HD "TV" like colors, where as my Xoom looks more "washed out" in comparison. The Surface screen looks close to the Xoom.
EDIT: I use Mobo Player to play back on my Xoom.
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I use jelly bean ROM the orginial and I will try mobo player also ...but still

If you use the proper settings, the Xoom can play great-looking 1080p videos.
visit this link on your Xoom using the stock web browser:
http://tools4movies.com/xoom/1080p/pussinboots-tlr1_h1080p.mp4
and use the stock video playback to stream the video.

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If you use the proper settings, the Xoom can play great-looking 1080p videos.
visit this link on your Xoom using the stock web browser:
http://tools4movies.com/xoom/1080p/pussinboots-tlr1_h1080p.mp4
and use the stock video playback to stream the video.
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OK I will try doing it..
Also I tried Mobo player it is better but not totally fixed
Edit: OK I have watched it and it.is Absolutely flawless ..what do usugges I should no now ?? My problem is that I have faced in a lot of movies I was trying to rip .what settings should I choose now?

smallguy6 said:
OK I will try doing it..
Also I tried Mobo player it is better but not totally fixed
Edit: OK I have watched it and it.is Absolutely flawless ..what do usugges I should no now ?? My problem is that I have faced in a lot of movies I was trying to rip .what settings should I choose now?
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What settings to use? Well, when it comes to making Good or even Great looking videos for your Xoom (or other device), it depends on 1. Quality source (crappy source video-in will produce crappy target video-out), 2. the optimum encoder settings for your playback device.
DVD Catalyst 4 has consistently taken care of #2 for me on my Xoom, iPad2, iPad3, BB Playbook, Surface RT and a few of my android phones. It has been the BEST, Easiest, and most reliable way to give me great looking videos to take with me. I've used it to encode DVD's, Blurays, camcorder videos, etc. And they all look great. Ok, so DVD rips don't look as good as Bluray rips, but that is because of the DVD source.
So my Suggestion... Read the following two links...
http://www.tools4movies.com/2012/01/dvd-catalyst-device-profiles-fast-hq-hq2-hqx/ (Note: 99% of the video watching done via my portable devices is done on the device's screen, so I don't use the 1080 profiles for the Xoom and such. Instead I stick with the HQXT for a great balance between output size and playback quality).
http://www.tools4movies.com/2012/04/motorola-xoom-avi-dvd-m2ts-mkv-and-bluray/
One draw back of having multiple play back devices (xoom, ipad2, ipad3, Surface, phone, etc), is that to get the best results, you need to encode the video using the right profile for your playback device. So for me, if I encode a movie for my Xoom today, and decide I want to watch it on my iPad as well, I have to encode the source for the iPad so I have a file encoded the best way for iPad playback. Or if I want to watch it on the Surface RT, I have to then encode using the Surface profile, etc. BUT DVD Catalyst does have profiles for all my devices and more! And they do a great job of adding profiles for newer devices as they come out.
Also keep in mind that I don't know if DVD Catalyst can get around copy protection on DVD's and Blurays as I use AnyDVD HD for this. So if your source DVD or Bluray is copy protected, you might have to deal with that before using DVD Catalyst. I do know that DVD Catalyst can't work with DRM protected video files, like those from iTunes, Ultraviolet, etc.
And NO, I do not work for the company who makes DVD Catalyst, nor am I connected to them in any way. I am just a very satisfied customer who has tried other options (Handbrake, Nero Recode, etc) and haven't been happy with the results until using DVD Catalyst.

KidJoe said:
One draw back of having multiple play back devices (xoom, ipad2, ipad3, Surface, phone, etc), is that to get the best results, you need to encode the video using the right profile for your playback device. So for me, if I encode a movie for my Xoom today, and decide I want to watch it on my iPad as well, I have to encode the source for the iPad so I have a file encoded the best way for iPad playback.
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Thank you KidJoe,
Actually if you use DVDs as a source, the videos you create using one profile will work on just about all your devices.
Only when you are using HD content, you might run into limitations with the iPad2 (max 1280x720) and your phone (depends on the model).
I haven't had any complications with playing HQXT 1080 on the Xoom, iPad3, Surface RT and the Playbook. They even work fine on the new NOOK HD's and Kindle Fire HD's

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Actually if you use DVDs as a source, the videos you create using one profile will work on just about all your devices.
Only when you are using HD content, you might run into limitations with the iPad2 (max 1280x720) and your phone (depends on the model).
I haven't had any complications with playing HQXT 1080 on the Xoom, iPad3, Surface RT and the Playbook. They even work fine on the new NOOK HD's and Kindle Fire HD's
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Thanks. Most of my stuff is encoding from Bluray now a days.
I'm doing it to put movies on my Xoom (using Xoom HQXT profile) for my Son to watch while we travel. When I first got my MS Surface RT, I decided to copy a few of those I had done for the Xoom right onto the Surface and playback was choppy. Run the original through DVD Cat again with the Surface profile picked and they look great on the Surface. And of course, on my wife's iPad2 the ones encoded as Xoom HQXT didn't play right either.
Encoding for each device is a small price to pay for great looking videos on the device that happens to be with us

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Thanks. Most of my stuff is encoding from Bluray now a days.
I'm doing it to put movies on my Xoom (using Xoom HQXT profile) for my Son to watch while we travel. When I first got my MS Surface RT, I decided to copy a few of those I had done for the Xoom right onto the Surface and playback was choppy. Run the original through DVD Cat again with the Surface profile picked and they look great on the Surface. And of course, on my wife's iPad2 the ones encoded as Xoom HQXT didn't play right either.
Encoding for each device is a small price to pay for great looking videos on the device that happens to be with us
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Ah ok,
With Bluray, the resolution comes into play. The iPad1 and iPad2 don't like anything larger that 1280x720. If you change the resolution for the Xoom in "Modify" to 1280x720, the movies you convert for the Xoom will play on the iPad2 as well.
I'm not sure why they would be choppy on the Surface RT though. When my RT came in, I grabbed a bunch of Xoom files I had on a drive, and played them without issues (and the bigger, wider screen did make it look even better )

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.