Im going to try and make this short.
I realize this may not be the best place to ask but i know you guys are the best to ask.
What are the best 1) resolution 2) bit rate 3) quality settings for encoding video for the gtab that give you a nice picture and dont break the ram bank.
At 768x450 2000bits/sec My test movie is 1.3gb. At the native 1024x600 the file size hits in the 1.7gb neighborhood (nice looking but probably not feasible unless i am only going to put one or two movies on here at a time...would like to do 5 or 6)
I tried it at 512/300 (50% of the native resolution) and a bit rate of 800bps and did manage to get the file at around 500mbs but the quality was just sub par for my tastes (fuzzy VISIBLY jerky).
Rather than me testing for days and days..i was wondering what settings you guys had set on (and why).
Thanks!
Allen
Edit: The H.264mp4 format was causing artifacting that i couldnt fix at any setting..
Right now i am using .mp4 at 768x450 (or a 75% scale of the native resolution) and a bit rate of 1,500 with the sound set at DVD quality (which actually does help since i use blue tooth head phones). File size still just at 1gb (that maybe about the smallest i can do with the quality i like). Even at that setting...its still a tad jerky. What should i try? Lowering the resolution and upping the bit rate a tad more???
Still wanting to know if any of you guys have a magic setting for me!
The good news here is that i am not loading my up memory with mp3/songs (have an iphone for that) using pandora radio instead. Regular apps dont take up too much room so i figure i probably have around 10G to play with for video. (when vegan gets the SD card utilizatin fixed ill have another 8G on top of that).
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Still looking for settings suggestions.
I am using 720X480 @ 1,500kbs in MP4. This gets me ~1.2gb files. It is the actual resolution of a DVD, which is where my material is sourced. This lets the display device do the scaling, rather than the encoding process.
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I am using 720X480 @ 1,500kbs in MP4. This gets me ~1.2gb files. It is the actual resolution of a DVD, which is where my material is sourced. This lets the display device do the scaling, rather than the encoding process.
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Duh that makes total sense!
Testing now.
Any ideas what the "video quality output settins are". 1 is best, 32 is worse. 26 is recommended.
I dont have much to go on. I see the recommended settings for an ipad are 1335 bit rate and a quality setting of 24.
UPdate: When i did a test run with higher settings i noticed the video would lag every three or four seconds. I concluded that the settings were too high for the hardware to handle. Likewise when i set them too low..it was jerky, and i concluded the bit rate was too low for smooth frame rates.
At 720x480 1500Bits (and a "quality setting of 24"). The lag is MUCH better, but it still lags about every 20 seconds or so (very briefly). I will test at 1400bits/26q and see what happens.
Jeeze! A lot of work.... its too bad someone hadnt already figured all this out and just given me the quick answer! lol
Thanks again for the answer!
You should be able to play 1080 with no lag?
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You may want to grab a program called Mediainfo. This program analyzes the video file and tells you what profile was used, video and audio encoding stats. I was using this to make sure my source and output files were not using the "High" profile. I have some 1080 files re-encoded under the "Simple" profile and they look great with zero lag. I have re-encoded all my files with Handbrake and the all work without lag.
I used the info listed in roebeet's FAQ post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842899
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You should be able to play 1080 with no lag?
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BUT why when the screen resolution is only 1024x600?
DONT need media info unless reatail dvds are encoded with more than one setting Are they?
I saw roebeets post about using the ipad settings but that makes no sense. THE ipad has a different resoultion and a less powerful processor.
I am getting lag at 720x450 1500bits but not at 720x450 1400 bits. Very interesting.
Hi everyone,
I am still using the original LG firmware 2.3.5 (I have my screen full of bad pixels, will send it the service, so no custom firmware yet for me). I just brought a HDMI cable today, pluged it into my TV and big dissapointment, what i see is the native 480x800 resolution scaled up to full HD does any know if there is some option to output the youtube full hd videos in actuall full hd ? (i saw the Optimus 2X on youtube, there the phone screen said "displaying on secondary screen" and on the TV it was full hd. Did anyone try the HDMI, any luck, is there any solution here or just this clone display with a choppy scaled up output? Maybe cyanogen or some other custom firmware support/will support this?
Thank you.
mine is in automatic, u can try any option from hdmi settings, last time I checked i just needed to rotate the phone to get a full hd
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mine is in automatic, u can try any option from hdmi settings, last time I checked i just needed to rotate the phone to get a full hd
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Thank you for the idea, i allready tried it (automatic, and when the video starts rotated my phone to landscape, then even tried rotating to landscape before the video started ... ), but it's still the same, the video plays on my mobile screen too but that is upscaled to the TV (btw, the TV states at the hdmi info that the input is [email protected] - so the automatic detection works). And i do tried it with a full hd clip from youtube, played the same clip on my computer and of course the quality difference is clear. The same goes for the photos i made with my phone, when scaled up on the TV they look like they ware made by a 0.3 pixel camera, so poor quality with the upscale (and yes, the images are good quality, copied them to my computer and hdmi to the tv and they are excelent). So my dear LG,LG,LG ... what to do with you
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Thank you for the idea, i allready tried it (automatic, and when the video starts rotated my phone to landscape, then even tried rotating to landscape before the video started ... ), but it's still the same, the video plays on my mobile screen too but that is upscaled to the TV (btw, the TV states at the hdmi info that the input is [email protected] - so the automatic detection works). And i do tried it with a full hd clip from youtube, played the same clip on my computer and of course the quality difference is clear. The same goes for the photos i made with my phone, when scaled up on the TV they look like they ware made by a 0.3 pixel camera, so poor quality with the upscale (and yes, the images are good quality, copied them to my computer and hdmi to the tv and they are excelent). So my dear LG,LG,LG ... what to do with you
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Can i ask where u bought this cable hopefully not the chinese crap
only 1 that will work properly (Full HD Quality 2D and 3D Image on 720P) is the original cable. Ebay or similar websites sell the cable search for:
LG DHC-N100
I dont know what country u are from so have a look on ebay.com its 20$ but have a look for your country first could be cheaper!
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Can i ask where u bought this cable hopefully not the chinese crap
only 1 that will work properly (Full HD Quality 2D and 3D Image on 720P) is the original cable. Ebay or similar websites sell the cable search for:
LG DHC-N100
I dont know what country u are from so have a look on ebay.com its 20$ but have a look for your country first could be cheaper!
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from a mobile phone service, and yes, it's LG DHC N100 acording to the label, it was 10 Euro. and like i said, the TV states that the input is [email protected], so in theory it should work.
But may i ask, when you play a youtube clip, the phone displays the clip in it's 480x800px resolution and in parallel the tv displays it in full HD (or the phone doesn't display anything when the TV displays it in full HD)?
Or maybe in the latest 2.3.5 update is not working properly any more?
i think the issue is the vids from youtube, you're not seeing them in 1080 cause of being watched on a mobile device, try to download youtube mate dl a vid in 720 at least and check again in your tv, also have u checked the channel's info ??? does it say 480p/i???
will try to upload one later today
The only way of displaying full hd on your tv is playing videos with the video player.Everything else (youtube app for example) will not be displayed on full dh unfortunately
Hm, reset to defaults seems to solved the problem, and indeed only local content with video player is transmited in hd/full hd, however the quality is not perfect, when i play the same content from my computer compared to the phone's output there is a BIG difference ... i guess this is what the developers from Cyanogen refered to when they sait they have increased the maximum bitrate of the codecs ... what the phone outputs indeed seems like a lowered quality, so hopfully a new rom in the future will some this. LG could really pay a bit more to the developers to make something good, since the hardware in this phone is quite good, it's a shame that a poorly configured rom brings it down ...
Well, that's all folks,
Thank you everyone for your help.
I had same problem (still do), tried an app to set dpi higher to get higher resolution on phone but that just made me have to format it (was unstable). might work with a different firmware or something who knows.
ATM i'm trying to set up like a dual display but i have no idea if that's even possible.
or maybe setting hdmi output to screen resolution to reduce upscaling ugliness.
If anyone has any ideas... including the use of a custom rom...let me know please as being able to stream vids over wifi from tvlinks through my TV (only ones i already legally own ofcourse ) would be wild.
Im on V22A (2.3.5) p920 firmware on p925g hardware
I saw the "dual display" on the youtube for Optimus 2X with Tegra chipset, if you look at the videos, you will see that on the phone display a text with "outputting on secondery monitor" something apears ... i guess we'll see once a Cyanogenmod final release apears for O3D ...
I just purchased an acer a510 and one thing I don't like is it crops the bottom portion of the screen over hdmi. I assume this only happens if the output display is 16:9 which mine is. No tv option will fix this for me.
I did some googling and found an article about an update for the transformer prime:
. Besides that, is the ad hoc support for Ice Cream Sandwich and two new modes for the HDMI interface, crop and scale.
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from this link:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/transformer-prime-firmware-update/
Too bad this isn't in stock ice cream sandwich but it sounds like asus has added it. I hope they added it for tf300 as well. If so, can someone tell me if it scales properly? In that it retains a proper aspect ratio or does it simply squish the image ensuring it fits but with an incorrect aspect ratio.
Or too bad there isn't a utility to change the resolution/aspect ratio on the actual device. This feature is important enough to me that I may return the a500 for a tf300.
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I just purchased an acer a510 and one thing I don't like is it crops the bottom portion of the screen over hdmi. I assume this only happens if the output display is 16:9 which mine is. No tv option will fix this for me.
I did some googling and found an article about an update for the transformer prime:
from this link:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/transformer-prime-firmware-update/
Too bad this isn't in stock ice cream sandwich but it sounds like asus has added it. I hope they added it for tf300 as well. If so, can someone tell me if it scales properly? In that it retains a proper aspect ratio or does it simply squish the image ensuring it fits but with an incorrect aspect ratio.
Or too bad there isn't a utility to change the resolution/aspect ratio on the actual device. This feature is important enough to me that I may return the a500 for a tf300.
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Yes the tf300t does have the 2 modes scale and crop. My sucks though since it wont let me change the resolution, its overscanning the display.
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Yes the tf300t does have the 2 modes scale and crop. My sucks though since it wont let me change the resolution, its overscanning the display.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2
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On a related note, does this use a type d micro hdmi like the playbook? Thanks
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On a related note, does this use a type d micro hdmi like the playbook? Thanks
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This is the one I got and it works great.
Yes the tf300t does have the 2 modes scale and crop. My sucks though since it wont let me change the resolution, its overscanning the display.
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Can you please explain on the above? What do you mean it won't let you change resolution. Changing resolution would be an easy fix for ice cream sandwich in general (pick a 16:9 resolution or whatever you need) but afaik that's not possible.
On my acer I have no hdmi option, so I assume it would be considered crop. As in, it displays the correct aspect ratio but the bottom portion (the ui buttons) are cropped. Which is no good for me. I assume scale would scale it so it all fits, but my concern here is how does it scale? Does it squish it and it's the wrong aspect ratio? I don't want that either. What does scale do for you vs crop?
I want to run this device at home on my monitor so this is a deal breaker for me and need to know if the tf 300 will do this. So if you could expand on you answer (or anyone else) I would really appreciate it. Like does scale not show everything for you? Are you outputting to a 16:9 display?
As a side note, I'm certainly not a blackberry fan, but my friend has a play book and it outputs to everything (I saw him try it on various displays) and it just works. And he has numerous aspect ratio scaling options but he said he never needs to tweak cause it always seems to detect the correct aspect ratio. It also has an option to turn off the pb display while outputting to hdmi (I was looking for apps to darken the screen). Hell, I was really impressed that he could pipe a movie out to his tv and still browse the web on his playbook. I'm a fan of android for numerous reasons and not switching, but it's a shame to see the first version of the playbook get all this right from the start and not on android.
I've seen youtube clips of people outputting to displays and not being cutofff, I assume they were 16:10 displays.
If so my options are get a 16:10 display instead (just got this display, really don't want to return it but if I have to maybe so) OR I want to determine if the ASUS solution actually works.
Otherwise, are there any resolution/aspect ratios utilities for ice cream sandwich? I couldn't find any. This shouldn't be up to asus to fix, it should be in stock ics, but if asus is the one that does this right, I'll return this tomorrow.
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Can you please explain on the above? What do you mean it won't let you change resolution. Changing resolution would be an easy fix for ice cream sandwich in general (pick a 16:9 resolution or whatever you need) but afaik that's not possible.
On my acer I have no hdmi option, so I assume it would be considered crop. As in, it displays the correct aspect ratio but the bottom portion (the ui buttons) are cropped. Which is no good for me. I assume scale would scale it so it all fits, but my concern here is how does it scale? Does it squish it and it's the wrong aspect ratio? I don't want that either. What does scale do for you vs crop?
I want to run this device at home on my monitor so this is a deal breaker for me and need to know if the tf 300 will do this. So if you could expand on you answer (or anyone else) I would really appreciate it. Like does scale not show everything for you? Are you outputting to a 16:9 display?
As a side note, I'm certainly not a blackberry fan, but my friend has a play book and it outputs to everything (I saw him try it on various displays) and it just works. And he has numerous aspect ratio scaling options but he said he never needs to tweak cause it always seems to detect the correct aspect ratio. It also has an option to turn off the pb display while outputting to hdmi (I was looking for apps to darken the screen). Hell, I was really impressed that he could pipe a movie out to his tv and still browse the web on his playbook. I'm a fan of android for numerous reasons and not switching, but it's a shame to see the first version of the playbook get all this right from the start and not on android.
I've seen youtube clips of people outputting to displays and not being cutofff, I assume they were 16:10 displays.
If so my options are get a 16:10 display instead (just got this display, really don't want to return it but if I have to maybe so) OR I want to determine if the ASUS solution actually works.
Otherwise, are there any resolution/aspect ratios utilities for ice cream sandwich? I couldn't find any. This shouldn't be up to asus to fix, it should be in stock ics, but if asus is the one that does this right, I'll return this tomorrow.
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I skipped a word in the message you quoted. It was suppose to read My TV sucks.... My problem is that my TV only has two aspect ratios 4:3 and 16:9 so when I connect my Pad to it my display gets cropped on the top and bottom. I have tried researching this around the web and the answer I've gotten is that my TV sucks, since it has no option to do 1:1 or change the scanning options. The scale mode is the full screen with status bar and the crop mode is the display without the status bar.
In the end it depends on the monitor you're going to be using, how it reads the hdmi and the options you have to edit this. I've been trying to find answers to see if somehow I can change the resolution of the 300's output to better fit my TV. So far no luck...
The scale mode is the full screen with status bar and the crop mode is the display without the status bar.
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Well I guess my display sucks too as it only has 16:9 or 4:3. Sorry to ask for further clarification but so why doesn't scale mode work for you? That's the option I was hoping to choose. Does everything fit but then it's squished? Crop is all I currently have. Again, I assume a 16:10 display would solve this, but it's funny, googling this and I saw the old ICS announcement and ICS's official resolution is a 16:9 resolution. I dunno, changing the resolution of the display shouldn't be this big a deal. I can't find any utility that does this.
Anyway, still not sure if asus's solution actually fixes this. Even if there was a way to pan the desktop so I could see the button's when I need them, I dunno something.
I have no idea, I'll post some picture of my TV displaying both mode at the end of this post. What I can tell you is that when playing videos the screen resizes correctly, yes weird wild stuff. As far as I can tell Netflix doesn't crop the video, nor does MX Player and CrunchyRoll. I was planning on using this feature for games. As you will see in my pictures when using Scale mode my display gets cropped on the top and the bottom, and when I'm in crop mode my display gets cropped practically every side, more so on the sides.
Like you say there should be an easy way to fix this with an app or something. I've searched the market for solutions, haven't found anything yet. T_T
I just tried a video on CrunchyRoll, just when I selected the video the whole screen shrinked to the correct side, weird, and the video doesn't crop anything I can see the subs perfectly. Hopefully someone will find a solution...
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Hey thanks for the pictures I really appreciate that. Hmm, it looks like your crop is almost ok. It's hard to tell if the aspect ratio is being screwed with. I'm just looking where the word 'settings' is in both pictures and noticing that you almost have the buttons on the bottom, so it seems like more is being displayed. I suspect it is squishing it though and not doing a correct aspect ratio change. Hard to tell with just text. If you are curious what it is doing, find an image of a perfect circle and switch between the modes and see if it becomes slightly oval in one or the other.
But I was joking that we have crap displays. Just about all 16:9 displays or 16:10 displays can do one or the other. Like imagine buying a monitor and your nvidia card couldn't push out a 16:9 res and you needed to get a different display. I just looked in my manual and they have various quoted resolutions and a couple are 16:10. If there was a simple way to invoke it in ICS I'd be in business. I wonder though with yours could it actually be your monitor, cause it looks like it's almost correct. Well, I'm looking at the second image that you indicate as crop but I'd have expected that to be scale. On my acer 510, the top, left, & right are perfectly aligned, it's exactly where the menu buttons begin that are missing.
Oh and just to mention, mine is perfect playing movies as well, not just because it's a 16:9 display, but ics over hdmi does different resolutions when a full screen video is launched. Or from what I've read anyway. I wonder if that is true for someone who is doing this on a 16:10 display? Do they just have black borders on 16:9 content or do they still have the ui buttons? I suspect black borders...
I've wasted a better part of a day trying to find a solution and the only solution seems to be get a 16:10 monitor which sucks to put it lightly. I've never mucked with dpi settings and I know some do that if their fonts/gui are too small. I don't know if changing the dpi has any affect on the actual resolution used by the device.
Anyway, if I find out more I'll post it here, even though we currently have different devices, there may be a general solution, but it sounds like it will take an OS update. I was hopeful that asus addressed this issue themselves, but looking at your shots it's hard to know is it always like that or does it work on other displays.
I tried the perfect circle thing and they both looked the same to me.
Well that's a good thing the circle looks the same in both. That's means they are not mucking up the aspect ratio but clearly you are seeing more (although not all) of the android interface.
Hmm, I wonder if Asus does do it correctly and for some weird reason it's just not working on your display. It's good to see someone is tackling this, but again it should be google not asus, and then others hoping other vendors do the same.
You are hooking via hdmi correct? Just wondering if you are using an adapter going hdmi to vga on your monitor. if so, vga sometimes needs to be resized/centered, but hdmi is normally automatic and most if not all displays won't even give an option to modify hdmi resizing/centering.
Damn it, I really like my acer otherwise, have about 10 days to return it for an asus cause I really want the entire interface to fit on my screen.
Can anyone else who has a 16:9 display hook theirs up via hdmi and try scale/crop and see if one fits perfectly? But asus is really impressing with this and including usb over ethernet drivers, which I'm not sure if mine has as I may buy one to wire over my network.
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Well that's a good thing the circle looks the same in both. That's means they are not mucking up the aspect ratio but clearly you are seeing more (although not all) of the android interface.
Hmm, I wonder if Asus does do it correctly and for some weird reason it's just not working on your display. It's good to see someone is tackling this, but again it should be google not asus, and then others hoping other vendors do the same.
You are hooking via hdmi correct? Just wondering if you are using an adapter going hdmi to vga on your monitor. if so, vga sometimes needs to be resized/centered, but hdmi is normally automatic and most if not all displays won't even give an option to modify hdmi resizing/centering.
Damn it, I really like my acer otherwise, have about 10 days to return it for an asus cause I really want the entire interface to fit on my screen.
Can anyone else who has a 16:9 display hook theirs up via hdmi and try scale/crop and see if one fits perfectly? But asus is really impressing with this and including usb over ethernet drivers, which I'm not sure if mine has as I may buy one to wire over my network.
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Yep I'm hooking it through HDMI, if I had a VGA I would be able to rescale the screen, sicne my TV apparently has an option called PC Setup (only available when connected through VGA)
Well, hopefully some other kind soul could try this via hdmi on a non 16:10 display and tell the results.
I found this on an acer forum. Someone was talking about subtitles not displaying on the hdmi display but were displaying on the tablet when playing hw accelerated content:
Also, another issue (and this is reported by many Android users), using Dice player Hw decode (or any other player with HW decoding) over HDMI, the subtitles are not displayed on the TV but only on the tablet. I wrote to DICE player devs and they replied:
"The overlay including subtitle when HW accelerated should be supported by manufacturer. The Android framework does not have any interface for HDMI, so the HDMI output depends on manufacturer's implementation.
But the most devices do not support the HDMI output with the overlay, so it is to hard to support it."
So it seems that is up to Acer to implement this in a future firmware (but I doubt it).
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My issue isn't subtitles obviously, but I find it concerning that it sounds from the above it's up to the vendor to deal with hdmi, and it sounds like only asus has tried to address this, and still not sure if their method actually works.
I still feel it should be up to google, but I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for them to ever address this.
Hmm, one issue I have is flash content full screen crashes over hdmi. Also, using the mobile youtube app automatically goes full screen over the hdmi display but not on the tablet. I thought this may be a standard for video but maybe that's just how acer has tackled it. If you use the youtube app does content automatically go fullscreen?
And google may not have a framework for hdmi but they should have a means of changing resolution or aspect ratio. I'm still convinced it's possible to change resolutions (even on bootup or something) just haven't found how yet.
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Well, hopefully some other kind soul could try this via hdmi on a non 16:10 display and tell the results.
I found this on an acer forum. Someone was talking about subtitles not displaying on the hdmi display but were displaying on the tablet when playing hw accelerated content:
My issue isn't subtitles obviously, but I find it concerning that it sounds from the above it's up to the vendor to deal with hdmi, and it sounds like only asus has tried to address this, and still not sure if their method actually works.
I still feel it should be up to google, but I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for them to ever address this.
Hmm, one issue I have is flash content full screen crashes over hdmi. Also, using the mobile youtube app automatically goes full screen over the hdmi display but not on the tablet. I thought this may be a standard for video but maybe that's just how acer has tackled it. If you use the youtube app does content automatically go fullscreen?
And google may not have a framework for hdmi but they should have a means of changing resolution or aspect ratio. I'm still convinced it's possible to change resolutions (even on bootup or something) just haven't found how yet.
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Youtube app goes automatically full screen on mine too, and FREAKING CRAP youtube app is getting cropped from all side woooooooooooowhoooooooooooooo. Going to try through opera desktop mode
I just double checked my video apps and they are all cropping the image T_T
Hmm, I normally wouldn't suspect the display, but maybe in your case it is. I found this post regarding the transformer prime and he was complaining that over hdmi it's only outputting 720 when the device is capable of more. By the numbers he's quoting, his output is 16:9 and the display looks like it perfectly fits. He is right, that we should be able to specify higher than 720 but I'd be happy at this point with 720 that fits.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26480838#post26480838
So either the prime does it right and the transformer doesn't, or you have an issue with your display. Could you check mobile you app and tell if it auto-fullscreens? I suspect that was something acer did.
It's really too bad google doesn't have a framework for this, we'll probably have devices for the next few years that have no hdmi options, or barebones options.
From what I gather, even if I figure out a way to force my device to boot with a custom res, the hdmi output will take over and go back to 720 (and not 16:9)
Wow, all this crap I've been reading and I wouldn't have even known there was a problem if I had a 16:10 monitor instead...
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Hmm, I normally wouldn't suspect the display, but maybe in your case it is. I found this post regarding the transformer prime and he was complaining that over hdmi it's only outputting 720 when the device is capable of more. By the numbers he's quoting, his output is 16:9 and the display looks like it perfectly fits. He is right, that we should be able to specify higher than 720 but I'd be happy at this point with 720 that fits.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26479317#post26479317
So either the prime does it right and the transformer doesn't, or you have an issue with your display. Could you check mobile you app and tell if it auto-fullscreens? I suspect that was something acer did.
It's really too bad google doesn't have a framework for this, we'll probably have devices for the next few years that have no hdmi options, or barebones options.
From what I gather, even if I figure out a way to force my device to boot with a custom res, the hdmi output will take over and go back to 720 (and not 16:9)
Wow, all this crap I've been reading and I wouldn't have even known there was a problem if I had a 16:10 monitor instead...
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By mobile you app, do you mean the youtube app? As I said before, it does automatically go full screen while video playing, even when on the tablet the video isn't playing on full screen. I sent a technical inquiry to ASUS about my specific problem, with a picture of my tv cropping the display. It sucks that it crops videos too...
Anyone else tried connecting their 300 to an HDTV through HDMI??? Seems I'm the only one.
ok if you said that earlier I missed that. Yes I mean the youtube app and not the browser. It goes fullscreen automatically for me and was curious if asus devices did the same.
And youtube via the browser crashes if I invoke fullscreen if I am using hdmi, but I think this bug is only with the acer and not the asus.
Not sure if you looked at the attached link, but that guy's display looks perfect to me (although of course, only 720) and his monitor is 16:9. I wish someone here would confirm it works properly for them with the tf300 with a non 16:10 display.
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ok if you said that earlier I missed that. Yes I mean the youtube app and not the browser. It goes fullscreen automatically for me and was curious if asus devices did the same.
And youtube via the browser crashes if I invoke fullscreen if I am using hdmi, but I think this bug is only with the acer and not the asus.
Not sure if you looked at the attached link, but that guy's display looks perfect to me (although of course, only 720) and his monitor is 16:9. I wish someone here would confirm it works properly for them with the tf300 with a non 16:10 display.
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The attached link took me to this same post, try posting it again. Also trying youtube in desktop mode mine just go into blackscreen, it doenst really crashes but I have to press home button and stop browser process.
Fixed the link above but here as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26480838#post26480838
That is kind of what happens to mine when using full screen flash via hdmi. Both screens go blank so I can't hit home on the tablet, but I hit escape on the keyboard I have plugged in and that brought me back to the tablet. The other time it seemed to entirely freeze, but maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to come back. When using the standalone youtube app, it auto full screens when using hdmi, that is what I was asking you if it does the same. Doesn't really matter, but I was just curious if asus did it the same way.
Hmm, I'm looking at my monitor's manual and it has a chart of the various resolutions supported. Some are 16:9 res, some 16:10 but none of them actually say 720. Like I would expect to see 1280 x 720 but that is not listed. Maybe that could cause an issue, but I highly doubt it and still suspect it's a tablet limitation. I think most of my friend's all have 16:10 but I'd like to try it on another 16:9.
But then my manual goes on to say:
This monitor supports full HD (480p, 576p, 720p, 1080 i/p) video content from game consoles, DVD players and other consumer video devices via HDMI.
I don't know if that is unusual that it doesn't list a 720 res in it's list of supported resolutions and the 720p is referring to video only.
Anyone here used HDMI to output to a 1080p screen via HDMI? What is the resolution of the image seen on the TV? Just 480p or actually genuine 1080p.
1) eg a photo seen on the phone screen will only ever be 480p, so mirroring thet same photo displayed on the TV will see much more detail? or just the same 480p resolution only on a bigger TV?
2) Even if you did have USB charging during use, would the drain-rate of playing video via HDMI out strip the charge-rate?
Thanks in advance for your feedback
Here's my side of the story
2old4toys said:
Anyone here used HDMI to output to a 1080p screen via HDMI? What is the resolution of the image seen on the TV? Just 480p or actually genuine 1080p.
1) eg a photo seen on the phone screen will only ever be 480p, so mirroring thet same photo displayed on the TV will see much more detail? or just the same 480p resolution only on a bigger TV?
2) Even if you did have USB charging during use, would the drain-rate of playing video via HDMI out strip the charge-rate?
Thanks in advance for your feedback
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I start by saying that I use a 1.4 HDMI cable made for Sony Ericsson phones that I found at 10 euros. My settings for HDMi output are 1080p at 50Hz - I must say that leaving it in automatic is bad cause it does like 480p as output resolution.
For photos the output fine, the 1080p and looks great, even the 3D photos. But when I'm using the camera while the phone is connected to TV the output is not 1080p but, IMO, a poor 480p. Same story with videos - while playing them give you the resolution on which they were recorded, on "live show" you got only the 480
The home screen is seen on TV at its native resolution not HDMI. The games are on the same boat, at screen resolution and not HD. Not even with the games that declares themselves HD is not working.
On the second issue: yes - the HDMI playback while charging DOES strip off the charge rate, finding yourself that after a 20 minutes of video playback while charging you have no juice left in your battery.
In my opinion the HDMI out is useful only in few situations: dual boot on the phone, letting you to use it as a computer (but this implies the USB Host active on our P920 - which still is missing), playback of files on the phone which would be impossible to play on TV - here you might get variations based on the TV set that you might own and the final use I foundshould be to use it as a game console but this also implies to have a bluetooth activated controller because playing with the phone while connected to the TV is just... a big NOOOO - only in some games that implies only the use of accelerator sensor, like racing games.
I hope that this is useful to you. I voted the second option - I use it but I'm not addicted.
Excellent response! Can you tell me how
To set 1080 output output on
the o3d because I have HDMI link but cant find the android setting page. My current setup must be in auto because photo gallery looks like worse than 480p on my TV right now.
Thanks
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Aint it possible to hack in order to acheive higher resolutions? Managed to run ubuntu, but it looks everything but good on my tv. :banghead:
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2old4toys said:
Excellent response! Can you tell me how
To set 1080 output output on
the o3d because I have HDMI link but cant find the android setting page. My current setup must be in auto because photo gallery looks like worse than 480p on my TV right now.
Thanks
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for setting HDMI go to settings => HDMI => Resolution and select from the options available (1080P at 60Hz or 1080P at 50Hz)
schubeir
One idea...maybe stupid
vitorcruzbr said:
Aint it possible to hack in order to acheive higher resolutions? Managed to run ubuntu, but it looks everything but good on my tv. :banghead:
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Have you tried to set higher resolution within Ubuntu? Like setting screen resolution. I might think it would work because will force the phone to give the application's resolution (still running Ubuntu is like running an application, because Ubuntu is not set in dual boot with Android on the phone but is working through a Virtual Machine, if I'm not wrong)
Can you tell me how you've managed to run Ubuntu on O3D? Thanks
i got another problem that is way worse. i got sound failing during videos are playing. in the movie player or in youtube, all the same, it keeps failing. the sound stops and then starts again but the image has no problem.
Nope... non. On my stock phone. Simply
No sign of HDMI settings
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