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Hi Everyone,
I m kindly asking you to help me push MS into fixing the avi/xvid issue since conversion times are too long.
edit Several members have also raised concern that the Zune software transcodes videos where there is really no need!
ruscik said:
a 720p Family guy blue harvest in divx (my own copy) was converted to mp4 but resolution was not lowered.
A 720p family guy something dark side in mp4 was converted to mp4 but resolution was not lowered or audio adjusted.
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I have created a post on the official MS support forums and the fellow users have supported the post but MS is trying not to give a proper answer on the issues unless people reply enough or click the "I would like an answer too" button. The post seems to be ending up unanswered and pushed back. I need to let the post grab MS attention!
I would like MS to escalate the issue internally but I need more input! So please be so kind!
I suggest that we could do this for other issues as well!!!
Their forum relies on Live IDs so it is just about entering your username. (Doesn't take long)
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...7/thread/b71af2ac-9f72-4b10-a5ee-eaa29c1933e7
It can be fixed quite easily.
1) Write down the spec of your computer on a piece of paper.
2) Go to your local PC shop
3) Hand them the piece of paper and ask for something faster at encoding video
4) Happiness
Yep. Crap computers suck at transcoding video. Even a better graphics card would work much better, since lots of GPUs these days can offload much of the conversion.
Some notebooks were sold without multi-core processors (but are still 64-bit, some people assume 64-bit = multi-core), and lots of consumers have things like mismatched ram sticks and the like that can reduce their computer performance for these types of tasks.
Thanks a lot guys!!!! Appreciated!
It looks like they are still ignoring the issue. I think I might try to upvote the thread tomorrow again.
My general issue is that I am accessing different PCs all the time. Let it be work, uni, friends, or my home laptop. So I generally just need a fast way to get stuff onto the device.
Maybe we get lucky and they enable it again
I personally don't think this issue should have a high priority, as Zune software reencode your file on the fly.
Even at Microsoft, ressources are limited, and there are lots a other stuff I would like first (custom ringtones, multitask, silverlight and flash on the browser...)
My 2 cents.
(nico) said:
Even at Microsoft, ressources are limited,
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The issue here is that it works on the Zune HD without re encoding or demuxing and the same applied to the wp7 emulator until they decided to take the feature out...
Maybe it will be a OEM specific feature?!
Name one reason for DivX /XviD support, except that you want to play your pirated movies...
Transcoding XviD shouldn't take much time with a modern computer.
Why do they have to be pirated? There are those of us who have huge DVD/BD libraries ripped to xvid (and later on MKV). Personally I have several hundred DVDs that I have painstakingly converted to xvid for digital storage and easy access from my HTPCs.
Sir. Haxalot said:
Name one reason for DivX /XviD support, except that you want to play your pirated movies...
Transcoding XviD shouldn't take much time with a modern computer.
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You could make the same assumption about mp3s. I started ripping in 99.. I don't have the resources to rerip my music into something better now. And in a real case scenario I don't want to be told 2 years from now that an MP3 player doesn't play mp3s anymore because they are "all" considered to be pirated .....
I have pleny of DVD's/BD that on top of normal movie have a digital copy that can be used with portable players. They come in many formats on those discs and all require to enter a code before 1st play so it can check if it is valid copy.
I do that and then can play them on my PC even via Zune. Formats I have are WMV, AVI, MP4 and DIVX.
My death race in wmv that works on windows 7 fresh install (with no extra codes and net access) is converted by zune. Annoying as zune officially supports WMV and even plays that movie.
Two mp4 movies (Mummy and Mummy 2) from the same Box set one just copies and works one is converted from mp4 to mp4. Some Divx movies are "converted" but it lasts 1 to 2 min aka it only changes extension while some are properly reconverted but resolution or quality are the same afterwards (720p or standard resolution no matter). There is a problem there.
I can't quite get whats the difference between the two.
Someone else may be able to give you a much more detailed explanation but I will try to make it simple. Adobe Flash is a proprietary plugin for browsers, this plugin does enable a lot of rich browser content. But at the same time because it is proprietary it hinders web development by somewhat limiting what you can do and just how you can do things with web browser, websites, and some applications.
HTML5 is not proprietary and is also something that is included in the native code of browsers, websites, and other applications. This means it is not a plugin so it can work more fluidly with whatever software it is being used in as well as being able to allow developers to have more control over their work. Also just as Adobe Flash, HTML5 encompasses a lot more than just playing video content.
If you have not already looked it up I suggest you take a minute to have a read at the two links below as well as doing further research of your on.
Adobe Flash
HTML5
Flash is a proprietary plugin from Adobe that implements various advances animation and video features. For a long time it's been really the only reasonably standard way to do this sort of sophisticated content on the web. It however has a long history of security problems and other quality problems.
HTML5 is a newer version of various standards that go into basic web pages. It adds certain advanced animation, content, styling, and scripting features that bring a regular browser without a plugin closer to the rendering capability of flash. However, it's not really 100% there as there's some key missing features.
Apple refused to support flash in iphone because they're assholes basically and now Adobe is abandoning mobile flash entirely. So HTML5 is going to be the future even though it's not really 100% ready yet.
html5 is coming with browser but adobe u should install on browser and flash make browser runing heavier and take more cpu usage but html5 its designed to be simple and avoid great effect on cpu usage, which is better to us as android users that many of us have cpu problem.
Sent from my HTC Sensation.
Jwtiyar said:
html5 is coming with browser but adobe u should install on browser and flash make browser runing heavier and take more cpu usage but html5 its designed to be simple and avoid great effect on cpu usage, which is better to us as android users that many of us have cpu problem.
Sent from my HTC Sensation.
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readams said:
Flash is a proprietary plugin from Adobe that implements various advances animation and video features. For a long time it's been really the only reasonably standard way to do this sort of sophisticated content on the web. It however has a long history of security problems and other quality problems.
HTML5 is a newer version of various standards that go into basic web pages. It adds certain advanced animation, content, styling, and scripting features that bring a regular browser without a plugin closer to the rendering capability of flash. However, it's not really 100% there as there's some key missing features.
Apple refused to support flash in iphone because they're assholes basically and now Adobe is abandoning mobile flash entirely. So HTML5 is going to be the future even though it's not really 100% ready yet.
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T-Macgnolia said:
Someone else may be able to give you a much more detailed explanation but I will try to make it simple. Adobe Flash is a proprietary plugin for browsers, this plugin does enable a lot of rich browser content. But at the same time because it is proprietary it hinders web development by somewhat limiting what you can do and just how you can do things with web browser, websites, and some applications.
HTML5 is not proprietary and is also something that is included in the native code of browsers, websites, and other applications. This means it is not a plugin so it can work more fluidly with whatever software it is being used in as well as being able to allow developers to have more control over their work. Also just as Adobe Flash, HTML5 encompasses a lot more than just playing video content.
If you have not already looked it up I suggest you take a minute to have a read at the two links below as well as doing further research of your on.
Adobe Flash
HTML5
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Thanks for the responses. I did look into it but I still couldn't get what the difference so that was why I asked here. Now I understand. Last question, with HTML5, will we be able to view flash videos?
afgwahid1994 said:
Thanks for the responses. I did look into it but I still couldn't get what the difference so that was why I asked here. Now I understand. Last question, with HTML5, will we be able to view flash videos?
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You can't view "flash videos" but there are HTML5 videos. The problem with this is that there's no standard video codec which is implemented in all HTML5 browsers which has limited adoption of HTML5 video. Also, there are still some major missing elements like fullscreen support that are starting to trickle in. The Onion for example is using HTML5 video on its site, however.
HTML5 and Flash are two completely different things, HTML5 is markup language you are writing webpages in, Flash on the other hand is a Rich Internet Application you can "fancy/enhance" your webpage with (yet you still need HTML to implement it) but:
Theres no difference in either of these by video managing, Adobe (originaly Macromedia) Flash is ONE OF MANY ways how to embeed video for online streaming, due to its popularity it became kind of standard (even for RIA), in HTML5 W3C came with own - sort of embeeding - of video formats for online streaming with a <video> tag (eventhough the initial purpose was completely different), both these solutions have same goal, embeed a video online, HTML5 has one, lets call it advantage, its a worldwide standard for everybody (W3C compliant), unlike Flash (RichInternetApplication), furthermore, some (we all know which) browser/s, are incompatible with it. So HTML5 embeeding and Flash embeeding is basically the same, Flash embeeds videos using action/lua scripts, whereas HTML5 embeeds videos using HTML tag, both of these video embeeding styles will die under the wheels of crossbrowse supported jQuery sooner or later anyway.
Analogy: Its like comparing Mercedes and Audi, they have different engines, but both have same purpose, to transport people from place A to place B, that exactly goes for Flash vs HTML5 video thing.
so far supported in HTML5 are H264 (MP4 format), WebM (VP8 format), OGG (Vorbis) with either ogg or aac audio
Hello folks,
I have a keen interest in making short movies of my outdoor sport/recreation, and I am looking to install some video editing software on my Android smartphone.
It is a Hauwei Ascend Y320 (4.2.2 Jellybean OS, dual-core processor etc).
Now Google Play has quite a few apps in the search result 'movie maker' or 'video editor', however there are dozens of clones on the stock Android movie maker app 'Movie Studio', which only allows very basic features, such as trimming, add one audio track, add photos to video collection etc.
But I need more features to efficiently edit my videos.
I have been using 'Movie Aid' and it is quite good, by far the best I have used. It has provision for trimming, transitions, photo, video, multiple music tracks, slow/fast motion, text, credtits, subtitles (including image overlay), and audio volume adjustment, etc.
I also use 'AndroiD StudiO' which is a video editor app, not a timeline style movie maker. It does splitting, trimming, filters, cropping, slow/fast motion, audio adjustment, add text to videos, extract video/audio, and much more...
Now that brings me to my question, can I install Linux OS on Android, and then install Linux programs (such as 'Openshot video editor')...
And if you think I should just edit videos on a computer... well I have a Windows 7 Acer laptop, however, as I spend a lot of time in remote ares on camping trips, I need to be able to edit videos easily on the go/in the field. (As when camping, I don't have access to mains power of, so I can't charge my laptop, once the battery runs flat).
Hope someone can point me in the right direction...
You can find a lot of projects "Linux on Android". f.e.
com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid
Google "Linux for android"
In general it seems very hard to install a linux program in Android, though it is true that Android runs on a Linux kernel. The kernels are often modified to suit the needs of the type of machine they run on. A typical x86 or x86_64 processor machine is not too much different from another. So linux runs well on a great variety of desktops and laptops.
I've been trying to turn my tablet into a linux computer. One problem I have run into is that some packages are not able to run on the ARM processors. So this requires recompiling from source specifically for the tablet. And since my machine is too slow compared to my tablet, it runs out of memory compiling on it's own. So I try to cross compile which has it's own set of troubles. Notice it is the packages for programs that give the most trouble. The kernel does fine.
I have tried Linux on Android, but it complains that my kernel is too old. Your machine sounds pretty impressive so it might be able to handle it. Linux on Android is actually a way to chroot into Linux. It moves root from the typical android filestructure to a Linux Distro's filestructure and runs right off of the kernel running in Android.
I am working on a project that is somewhat similar to the way Netflix works (as a streaming service), and have the following requirements:
Database that stores video files
Create group that can access the video
Ability for Owner to invite/add users to the group(s)
Video can be played/paused, and resumed if users close and come back to watch later.
Users in the Group can watch the video at the same time
Email/push notifications whenever owner of a group uploads a new video ready for watching
Now I have last developed in Android some 4 years ago, but in terms of cross platform compatibility, e.g. iOS and Android, what is the best approach for this project?
Should I use AWS or Azure to host the database? Would SQL database work well with storing videos? Is MP4 the best format considering its wide compatibility? From my android experience, I developed an App in Android studio, but is there a better alternative to develop an app that can work for both iOS and Android at once?
I use Magix Movie Edit Pro.
I was very annoyed discovering this software is NOT using my GPU!
I have a great NViDIA GeForce RTX 2060. However, I cannot make any serious project with it, because the program still works on Intel Graphics!! What is that about??!!
I am asking precisely about Cinema Pro 21:9 footage. Is there something special about it in terms of codecs?
What happens:
When my program is using Intel Graphics (internal Intel 630) I can see the footage in the program. But it lags, it is not strong enough.
So when I switch to my Graphics card, NViDia GeForce RTX 2060 I see all videos blank. Black.
What should I do?
Check Windows 10 Graphicsettings. You can select which GPU it has to use for each Program...
Thank you. As I mentioned above:
- when I select internal Intel 630 graphics, I can see the footage. But after big editing, the program starts to be very sluggish.
- when I make my program use dedicated graphics card NViDIA GeForce RTX2060, the footage is black. I just hear the audio.
- On Vegas Po 14 I see the footage completely green.
I see many Xperia 5 videos on internet. What do people use to edit Cinema Pro footage? Adobe?
I don't own a Xperia 5 myself, so I can't give a definitive advice. I could imagine that Adobe Premiere Pro handles the files well with its CUDA empowered GPU rendering option.
Other than that maybe Blackmagic Design's Resolve can work with the files or you could try Avid Media Composter First (both are available as free version)?
I can offer to test it from my workstation if you upload an original file (via wetransfer for example). If you do so please try and make sure that file size does not exceed 500mbs (slow internet here --> rural Germany...).
Maybe I will send the file. The problem is the edit is quite advanced and there is no way to replicate it on another program.
But it would be good to know for the future of course.
Maybe I will send the file. The problem is the edit is quite advanced and there is no way to replicate it on another program.
But it would be good to know for the future of course.
doministry said:
Maybe I will send the file. The problem is the edit is quite advanced and there is no way to replicate it on another program.
But it would be good to know for the future of course.
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Usually NLEs provide, the option to export timelines (or your whole project) as XML (or EDL) files. I assume Vegas has this option aswell? This way, if another editing software supports the Xperia 5's Cinema Pro App videos in a better way, it could be an option for you.