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***Challenge for all PPC users and Develpors***

(ISSUE IS TO PLAY A WMV FILE ON PPC)
I Tried my best to play atached wmv file on my ppc wm6 even i tried wm video codecs in windows but my research failed and i need all genius users help,,
Me waiting who will first play this file.
Thanks in advance.
Munazzam.

Try CorePlayer 1.2
Try CorePlayer 1.2

Take VistaMediaPlayer Ver.11, it works here

but i need for POCKET PC.

one thread for one file, please stop this sh.....!

Its very urgent Please Help.....

strange file... even vlc cant open it...
try to convert it or make a screenshot & mp3 cause video is same all the time

Thanks someone tried to play it please keep trying to help me.

My i760 came with a small wav player that will pop up in Total Commander (or any file explorer) and play the file. I hear there are some "search" options available if I'm not mistaken HINT! HINT!

It is encoded with the latest WMV9 codec, you won't be able to play this on anything but Windows Media Player 10 or later.... NO PPC player will play it without conversion.... not even CorePlayer (it only supports upto WMV8)
If you really must get it playing on PPC go get a video converter and put it into a useful format like mpg or h264.

Sendaris said:
It is encoded with the latest WMV9 codec, you won't be able to play this on anything but Windows Media Player 10 or later.... NO PPC player will play it without conversion.... not even CorePlayer (it only supports upto WMV8)
If you really must get it playing on PPC go get a video converter and put it into a useful format like mpg or h264.
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But it is strange... It plays well in my device!

maybe becasue you device has WMP 11 or 10

aa125690 said:
But it is strange... It plays well in my device!
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Which device you r using?

if it works on pc windows media player, have u tried using windows movie maker/ windows media encoder to transfer to your phone, works for me

Oh, I see what you guys are saying... It is a *.wmv file!
Sorry, I only meant the audio part, not the video.

But i need video specially.

This should work on your phone. It worked on mine.
http://xpdnc.org/downloads/temp/ccent31.avi
I didn't mean for the file size to increase so much, but I wasn't sure what sort of codecs a PPC could handle. I tried a newer Xvid codec at first, and it didn't work. So I reverted to a PPC-specfic AVI container with a generic MPEG4 codec. Hopefully you have 5MB of free space somewhere.

dumpydooby said:
This should work on your phone. It worked on mine.
http://xpdnc.org/downloads/temp/ccent31.avi
I didn't mean for the file size to increase so much, but I wasn't sure what sort of codecs a PPC could handle. I tried a newer Xvid codec at first, and it didn't work. So I reverted to a PPC-specfic AVI container with a generic MPEG4 codec. Hopefully you have 5MB of free space somewhere.
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Very very Thanks to Mr.Dumpy for give your preciouse time to work for me can you tell me about the convertor you used for it.
Thanks.

Hey Thats Not Very Funny, When I played it I got this...
Here

munazzam said:
Very very Thanks to Mr.Dumpy for give your preciouse time to work for me can you tell me about the convertor you used for it.
Thanks.
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I used SUPER.
The download process is a bit of a pain in the butt because they hide everything beneath gigantic walls of text.
1. Go here: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Down
2. Click the link that says, "Start Downloading SUPER ©"
3. Click the link that says, "download and use"
4. Click the down arrow (
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), or just scroll to the bottom.
5. Click the link that says, "Download SUPER © setup file"
I know it's a ridiculous navigation process, but that's what they make you do. In exchange, you get a free program that does a decent job with converting files. Just toy with it. Test it on some small video files and see what looks best for you.

Best Youtube Program?

Hello. I was wondeirng if anyone can recommend a good youtube program besides youtubeplay? youtubeplay is ok, but It doesnt let you list by date or relivance or whatever. Also, is there any program that plays or downloads veoh.com videos? Thanks

The best way to play ANY streaming media site on a win mo smartphone imho, is the skyfire webbrowser:
http://www.skyfire.com
use phelps8 to get an instant download.
Any streaming media site I've used works awesome with skyfire. Takes some getting used to. check the forums for details. But sites like hulu.com work AWESOME with it for watching full episodes or movies..
mycast.orb.com when set to stream in flash will open right in the browser too which is incredible for streaming off a home PC...
break.com,youtube.com,stupidvideos.com etc etc all work great.

I use CorePlayer and it works great

Skyfire works awsome!! feels like im on a PC viewing the many video streaming sites..only one that doesnt seem to work is veoh..doesnt load the videos

YouTubeplay

CorePlayer has a YouTube quick-button, with several quick choices, like "Most popular" and "most linked to." But beware: The program can hang your 6800 if you go full-screen, requiring a soft-reset.
I've read great things about the new multimedia player with the Japanese-sounding name (K-something?); can't think of it now. It was designed for rich Web content from the ground up.

Kinoma ?

Kinoma
That's it: Kinoma.
Thanks to this thread, I installed YouTubePlay. It works flawlessly; rotation and full-screen toggling cause no freezes. I'll still use CorePlayer for music. Mostly, I watch downloaded TV shows. For that, I prefer Windows Media Player because I've installed a plug-in that lets it remember where I left off...just as my Audible Player does for books I've bought at Audible.com.

bombzhome said:
YouTubeplay
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+1
I think it operates better in full screen mode as well.

youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.

Paul in Maryland said:
That's it: Kinoma.
Thanks to this thread, I installed YouTubePlay. It works flawlessly; rotation and full-screen toggling cause no freezes. I'll still use CorePlayer for music. Mostly, I watch downloaded TV shows. For that, I prefer Windows Media Player because I've installed a plug-in that lets it remember where I left off...just as my Audible Player does for books I've bought at Audible.com.
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Whats the plugin called?

Protonus said:
youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.
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Really? I will check again but I think I like the video better there vs skyfire, that is if that is what you are comparing it to. I will check again and report back.

rleejr79 said:
Really? I will check again but I think I like the video better there vs skyfire, that is if that is what you are comparing it to. I will check again and report back.
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since skyfire is a proxy/transcode browser it might be lowering the quality of the video
i use kinoma, for orb though since i dont care much for youtube, although ive used it to shut iphone fanboys up a time or two

RiftReaper said:
Whats the plugin called?
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Windows Media Player Resume Plug-In.

Protonus said:
youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.
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well, if you watching it on your phone's bandwidth, you might not want to wait for a high quality file to stream over evdo, or use the extra data if you don't have an unlimited plan.
Skyfire plays embedded flash videos pretty well, but its at around 15 frames per second, so its not as smooth as watching it at home, or downloading it first.
TCPMP with the flashVideoBundle.cab installed works well with pocket IE and will give you the option of downloading the video to your phone (so you can watch it later), or streaming it right on the spot (after a short buffer), which works pretty well.

anyone got the latest cab for skyfire?

240sxer said:
anyone got the latest cab for skyfire?
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Edit: if you knew anything about skyfire, or bothered to do any reading, you'd know you need to sign up for the beta to be able to use it.

Hence me asking if anyone has the cab because I didn't.
Asswipe.

240sxer said:
Hence me asking if anyone has the cab because I didn't.
Asswipe.
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you can't use it without an account for the love of god. A .cab isn't going too help you. diaf.

Get Badaboom files to enable TouchHD profile!

Hi all
I've just finished editing the Defaults.xml and creating some basic graphics to enable the TouchHD profile in Badaboom!
You can now have GPU accelerated transcoding with ease.. just one click!
[size=+2]Tested only on Badaboom 1.1.1.194[/size]
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[size=+1]Video transcoding settings:[/size]
Profile: baseline
Level: 3.0
Bitrate: 650-900 VBR (default 750 - should be a good tradeoff between quality and size)
Audio: mp3 stereo 128kbps
Resolution: 720x480 (due to a limitation in badaboom you can't set this beyond the hardcoded resolution and that's the closest to our 800x480..)
[size=+1]Enable or disable deinterlacing according to your videos![/size]
[size=+1]Get the files here:[/size]
http://www.mediafire.com/?ji1gy5z3kg3

first and last UP just for letting more ppl see this post..

Cheers Eraser , works a bloody treat , you gotta love the speed that it transcodes files . Great work .

how's the image quality compared to x264 based converters at the same bitrate?

I kind of take it all back , converts super fast but slaps DRM over everything , won't let me play on my htc . bummer .
maybe i am doing something wrong but i can't find out how to turn DRM off .

~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.

mcdull said:
~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.
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That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.

garybeaman said:
That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.
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Yes, and just try to encode some ~1hour from movie for my X1.
Quadcore CPU 6800 - 20mins
Nvidia GTX 260 GPU - 6mins
i hope badaboom will support xperia 800x480 resolution in next versions

Wow, this is awesome. Maybe 20 minutes or so for a normal movie for me. The end product is bigger in size than if you were to use one of the two "made for Touch HD" applications our members have created, BUT the movies look superb and play smooth as butter with no audio sync problems at all.
Pop your DVD in and after you've set up this profile for the HD click "Start", then copy the file over to your HD. Excellent! It also looks like you can do VOB directory too if you've already ripped all your media to harddrive, but I haven't tested it yet. I'll have to try that next to see if it's any faster than ripping right from DVD.
Thanks for pointing this out! Wonderful!

Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??

Thanks Eraser, this is great. It also works on the latest version 1.2.1
This would probably get more hits if it was posted in the Apps and Themes section though.

Charlie3999 said:
Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??
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Anyone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like your video card has problems. Have you tried the latest drivers for your card?

[How to] Encode HD videos for Iconia Tab

Well, since there is no guides for how to encoding videos for our lazy Tegra 2 Tablet, I happy making this for you guys.
First of all, im mexican and I never study english, so my gramatical skills aren't very good
All we need in this guide, is Staxrip, a free and open source UI for several tools, like avisinth, x264, virtualdubmod, besweet, and a lot more.
You can download Staxrip ready for tegra encoding from this link: Download Staxrip
Now, if you don't want to complicate this bussiness just uncompress Staxrip.7zip on C: because all paths are set for C:
OK, open Staxrip and you will be a window like this:
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there is a lot of options, simply and fastly:
Source: input video
Target: output video
Filters: avisynth filters
Resize: well, exactly that, resize
Encoder: default set to x264, baseline, no tunning, HQ and already configured.
Container: default set to mp4
Audio: default set to AAC VBR ~192kbps
All this settings are ready to play on our Iconia tab.
1. Drag and drop a good quality video on staxrip window. The program may ask for some programs like avysinth or others, all apps required are stored inside application folder and staxrip just ask for install, but you don't need to search or download any of this applications.
2. Once that the video you selected are loaded you will see something like this:
You now can see info about input video, like resolution, display aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio and stuff.
If you see on last image, I clicked on Resize and I selected 1280x720 and Resize filter has checked on Filters settings.
3. Now just click on Next button at bottom right and the project will be added to Jobs list. If we want to attach several videos to encode just close Jobs list and repeat all process to load another video. If not, just click on Start! button.
Now you can see the output video on your A500 and see what smoothly the video will play.
Click here if you want to download and test a nice 1280 output video to play on your iconia
Please feel free to ask for anything you want
BTW, This profile settings works with 1080p too

How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?

What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.

Maddmatt said:
What's the advantage of encoding the movie, versus downloading an app like MoboPlayer that plays just about anything?
MoboPlayer seems to work well.
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Anything but 720p+ MKV files, unfortunately..

@ Alejand
Thanks for sharing. Nice job. I'll try this. The video you posted is nice. And don't worry about your proficiency in English here. You are not writing a master thesis
Anyway, I did not know that the iconia is capable of playing the video on the fly without downloading. Awesome, I love this tablet.

techpal said:
How much time it takes to encode 2 hrs movie?
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All depends of how much frames per second can encode your hardware, for example if you pc is powerful and you can process 100 frame per second and your input movie is 2 hours at 23fps then
2 hours= 7200 seconds.
7200 seconds x 23 fps = 165600 frames
And if your hardware can encode 100 frames per second then encoding process will take about 27.6 minutes
But remember, we al depends of your hardware

can it deal with discs? almost all of my movies are stored on bluray or DVD disc. i once downloaded a free version of a bluray tool. it works well, but there is a big logo "foxreal" in the centre of the converted file. it's really affect viewing. i have looked for such free tool for a long time. any suggestion?

[Q] Stuttering on video playback - MP4 1280 x 720

I have some high quality video (BBC Frozen Planet - "H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) 1280 x 720" according to VLC Codec Details) that really stutters with the standard video app. I tried DICE Player and it was no better. I tried MX Video Player and I finally seem to be getting somewhere - but I am puzzled.
MX Video Player has a choice of decoding modes at the touch of a button:
H/W Decoder
S/W Decoder
S/W Decoder (fast mode)
H/W mode is still stuttering, but the other two seem to work perfectly. (Wow - I love this screen!!)
So why doesn't H/W mode work?
And does anyone know which of the other two is the best (by which I probably mean uses least battery)?
Will S/W modes use more power than H/W?

fjuniper said:
So why doesn't H/W mode work?
And does anyone know which of the other two is the best (by which I probably mean uses least battery)?
Will S/W modes use more power than H/W?
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1. I can't give you any details about why the HW decoder would have issues without the video in question, but I assume it has some unusual settings in the encoding that confuse or bog down your decoding hardware. It's not something that comes up a lot, honestly--usually hardware decoding either works fine or fails outright, in which case you can fall back to software decoding.
2. I honestly don't know exactly the difference between fast and normal software decoding in MX. I assume the "fast" flavor is optimized for speed at the cost of quality, but I haven't been able to discern any differences between the two modes.
3. Yes, SW decoding uses massively more power than HW. The tab has fixed-function video decoding units that use relatively little power for the codecs it supports, while the CPU can sit idle. In software mode, the CPU is doing the decoding, so you're going to be taxing it heavily, which is a very large power drain. I almost never play software video on mobile devices, but I'd expect your battery life to be about half as good with software decoding compared to hardware.

stuttering has to do with bitrate...especially since the format your file is is what I rip to and I've had no problems...even in software...I've found that you lose no quality with a bitrate of around 6k for 720p...I haven't tried higher because you get close to the 4gb FAT32 limit with a full length film
Have you tried the file on your pc? And if your bitrate is too high...use format factory to bring it down

Thank you for your detailed answers teiglin and bdroc.
@teiglin (3) Confirmed what I thought about H/W versus S/W.
@bdroc The attached image from VLC suggests that the bit rate is around 400 kb/s, which seem an awful lot less than the 5k you mention, so I am not sure how low I should go if I re-encode in Format Factory. I am trying the Mobile Devices preset -> HD AVC(H264) 1280x720 which uses 1500KB/s. 1% complete so far...
The file came direct from the BBC btw, using get_iPlayer. It plays perfectly on a laptop. With the window sized to 7.7 inches like the tablet, the tablet looks so much better! (ThinkPad T400).
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I like this program to look at video info
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

Masterface7 said:
I like this program to look at video info
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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Thanks for that. So my original files was:
Overall bit rate : 2 467 Kbps
Bit rate : 2 367 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 3 500 Kbps
And the same file after conversion in FormatFactory using the preset mentioned below is:
Overall bit rate : 1 617 Kbps
Bit rate : 1 489 Kbps
The second file seems to play perfectly well in MX Video Player in H/W Decoder mode, so that is good, though it is a shame to have to convert what seem to be perfectly good files to be able to use them on the Tab... It took 1hr 47mins to convert the 58 minute file!