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[Feature request] Half SBS Side-by-side playback for 2D videos

Now that Google has released Cardboard, I would love a feature to render regular videos the same way 3D Half SBS is rendered.
Obviously it won't create any 3D effect but it would still give the big screen cinema effect when using Cardboard or Durovis Dive for example.
There is already an app called "Side-By-Side Video Player" but it can't play any of my x264 MKVs, so if MX started supporting this, that'd be great!

Same here, I 3d-printed a Durovis Dive and with Changed Aspect Ratio its cool to watch side by side movies.
If there was an option to double a normal 2D video, would enable me to watch normal movies for instance on a plane like being in a movie theatre.
And by the way, the format after the conversion (double) would be side by side, not half-sbs.
Thanks in advance,
seas

http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-3d-anamorph-t2797118

CDB-Man said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-3d-anamorph-t2797118
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That's not really related, he wants conversion for different types of 3D standards, Side-by-side vs Over-under.
Over-under videos look like this: http://www.tweaking4all.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/3d_top_and_bottom_example.jpg
VR glasses like Cardboard and Durovis Dive require the video to be Side-by-side.
What seas1 and I are requesting is simply an option to render the same frame twice, Side-by-side.

Ah, well, this seems on appearance to be a simple implementation, the "hard" part would be to crop it for left vs right eye. Let's see what the dev's got to say about this.

Hi everyone, please post/repost your question/request/comment on the new Sticky thread on this topic. This way, it's more organized and we can more easily get visibility and discussion on this topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/sticky-google-cardboard-vr-3d-videos-t2888991
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[Q] Anyway to reduce the video size of Android

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Is there anyway to reduce the video size of Android

You can use MX Player to see videos and change the zoom to more or less by pinching the screen, just like when viewing a picture. There is other gesture support too like changing the volume and brightness. All in all its probably the best video player for Android...
If you are by chance referring to the screen resolution to make your screen smaller for all of your Android display and not just while vieweing videos, then you need to root your phone and use an app like NOMone Resolution Changer

Thnks for replying... but besicaly I want to know that how to reduce the size of camera's video file without reduce the quality. Why Android makes a captured video file size so bigger then its quality and lenth.. Is there any patch for it ??

ansaryx said:
Thnks for replying... but besicaly I want to know that how to reduce the size of camera's video file without reduce the quality. Why Android makes a captured video file size so bigger then its quality and lenth.. Is there any patch for it ??
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Oh well i don't know for android
But on PC you can convert the video file to smaller file size

ansaryx said:
Thnks for replying... but besicaly I want to know that how to reduce the size of camera's video file without reduce the quality. Why Android makes a captured video file size so bigger then its quality and lenth.. Is there any patch for it ??
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Oh I see! Sorry about that haha!
There are many apps you can use for video file conversion similar to how you would do it on a PC. One such app is Video Compressor, but you can search for many on Play Store if you type in keywords like 'video file size reduce' or 'video converter' etc.
However, if you are sharing on Whatsapp then it automatically reduces the size greatly and before sending and it happens quite fast somehow as opposed to using a video converter. There is no apparent loss of quality as long as you are seeing that video on a phone screen I suppose. If I want to share the video on something other than Whatsapp, what I usually do is Whatsapp it to myself to another phone or to my brother's/friend's phone and then share that file.
I really think Whatsapp has a very good and fast video converter built into their app which they should offer separately!

steps to reduce the video size
1. After installing Video Converter Android on your device, launch it and import the video you would like to shrink. After you select the video, tap the Convert option at the bottom of the screen.
2.Select Manual profile to convert the video and reduce the resolution, bitrate and FPS of the video. The recommended settings while reducing the size of the video is 176×144, 800 and 23.98 respectively. Leave every other settings as it is and convert the video.
The tool will process the video and reduce its size considerably. If the receiver will view the video on the device itself, he will hardly notice the reduced quality. After the conversion is complete you will see the video in the Android Gallery from where you can share it on WhatsApp or at any other social network.

Thank you all for your helpful suggestions :angel::angel::angel::angel:
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[Feature Request] Internal Capture

I don't know if the title is appropriate for this request.
I mean MX Player would be better with a button to capture a shot from a video.
Why need an internal capture when Android OS already has a capture feature?
Because capture in Android OS simply interprets what is shown on the screen and saves it and I think the interpretation process is unnecessary because the data is already included in the video file. (I don't know much about video encoding/decoding, so if im wrong sorry for my ignorance on the subject) The resulting image is poor in quality and most importantly takes up TOO much space. If I capture the same scene on the same video by video playing programs (KMP, etc), I get better capture image small in size also(as much as 20 times smaller).
Another problem with Android capture is that ads (I don't know the free version still shows ads when tje video is paused) or soft-keys (although it can be hidden by the app) can be captured together.
And finally, capture is done not considering the size of the video. Android merely captures the screen as shown, the captured image's resolution is the same to the device's screen's resolution, which is a problem when playing videos with higher or lower resolutions or when the video's height-width ratio is different to that of the device's screen(4:3, 16:10, CinemaScope, etc).
So, I think it would be wonderful if you would consider including an internal capture feature in the app.
I think you're working on Frame-by-Frame feature, so I guess it can be related to that.(again, sorry if Im wrong)
Im always happily using MX Player for years and I appereciate your efforts. :laugh:

11si17bun said:
I don't know if the title is appropriate for this request.
I mean MX Player would be better with a button to capture a shot from a video.
Why need an internal capture when Android OS already has a capture feature?
Because capture in Android OS simply interprets what is shown on the screen and saves it and I think the interpretation process is unnecessary because the data is already included in the video file. (I don't know much about video encoding/decoding, so if im wrong sorry for my ignorance on the subject) The resulting image is poor in quality and most importantly takes up TOO much space. If I capture the same scene on the same video by video playing programs (KMP, etc), I get better capture image small in size also(as much as 20 times smaller).
Another problem with Android capture is that ads (I don't know the free version still shows ads when tje video is paused) or soft-keys (although it can be hidden by the app) can be captured together.
And finally, capture is done not considering the size of the video. Android merely captures the screen as shown, the captured image's resolution is the same to the device's screen's resolution, which is a problem when playing videos with higher or lower resolutions or when the video's height-width ratio is different to that of the device's screen(4:3, 16:10, CinemaScope, etc).
So, I think it would be wonderful if you would consider including an internal capture feature in the app.
I think you're working on Frame-by-Frame feature, so I guess it can be related to that.(again, sorry if Im wrong)
Im always happily using MX Player for years and I appereciate your efforts. [emoji23]
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From your description it looks like you looking for trimming feature. There are many apps are available in Google Play which can trim the video without recoding. It will do the job as you are expecting.
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ktsamy said:
From your description it looks like you looking for trimming feature. There are many apps are available in Google Play which can trim the video without recoding. It will do the job as you are expecting.
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Yes, I'm aware that there are lots of video trimming/frame break and capturing/editing apps available. But I was just thinking that it would be nicer to have a capturing (I believe it is different from trimming, since capturing is about extracting just one frame out of the video while trimming is extracting multiple continued frames and merging it) feature included in the MX Player so that I can easily watch a video and capture "a" frame without opening another app while watching a video. It is not a big and urgently needed feature, but it would make things more easier.

11si17bun said:
Yes, I'm aware that there are lots of video trimming/frame break and capturing/editing apps available. But I was just thinking that it would be nicer to have a capturing (I believe it is different from trimming, since capturing is about extracting just one frame out of the video while trimming is extracting multiple continued frames and merging it) feature included in the MX Player so that I can easily watch a video and capture "a" frame without opening another app while watching a video. It is not a big and urgently needed feature, but it would make things more easier.
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It's my mistake. Apologizes for that. I have misunderstood the word Capture.
Anyway I will convey your request about frame extraction/capture feature to the developer.
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Stretch YouTube?

Ok, I know it's not the most popular opinion on how to view videos, but is there a way to have YouTube stretch videos instead of cropping to fit them? I know viewing stretch will make things look fat, but the crop feature cuts off some of the video, and I'd rather watch stretch than sacrifice content. Is there any way to do this?

No. No such option, this question has been ask before.
I know it is user preferences but I still need to highlight It is awful and wrong way watching video in stretch. Aspect ratio is very important, probably YouTube purposely don't want to add-in such option to helping some user watching video in a correct way.

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No. No such option, this question has been ask before.
I know it is user preferences but I still need to highlight It is awful and wrong way watching video in stretch. Aspect ratio is very important, probably YouTube purposely don't want to add-in such option to helping some user watching video in a correct way.
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Ah well that sucks. At least having the option of stretching or cropping would be nice.

Taichou said:
Ah well that sucks. At least having the option of stretching or cropping would be nice.
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I wouldn't want to watch that way myself, but I agree it should be an available option either in the YouTube app or in the system settings. Maybe in the future.

Videos not playing to the corner

Hi, I just got switched to pixel 3 and notice that the videos on fullscreen is actually cropped when playing. They are not streached to the corners, does any one knows a fix for it? Thanks

ajeevlal said:
Hi, I just got switched to pixel 3 and notice that the videos on fullscreen is actually cropped when playing. They are not streached to the corners, does any one knows a fix for it? Thanks
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The zoom in feature to fill the screen is a crop, not a stretch like you might see on your TV. There is no "fix".
Just have to wait until more content is recorded in the 2:1 ratio

thanks