Hi all - sorry for the newb questions but I've been searching and reading and just getting myself more confused tbh.
I'm looking for some decent video to watch on my new toy in the gym, previously I had an Ipod touch so I have a few music videos from Itunes store etc which I'd like to play on the touch - is this possible ?
Also I want to watch downloaded video from BBC Iplayer - is it possible to convert either the normal downloaded video or the mobile content or does DRM not allow this ?
Many Thanks in advance !
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Just bought the touch HD! Im new to the whole converting videos for phone playback thing. I would really appreciate it if anyone here would share their experience with what free software to use to convert videos to playback flawlessly on my HD. What are the best settings and bitrate? Thx.
Dude, use the search first before u open a new topic.
[TUT]The Definitive Video Playback Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446366
45+ pages of people's video convert experience.
ok well im slowly getting to grips with my touch, now obviously it comes with windows media player, i have also installed core player.
on my pc i have total video convertor and pocket divx convertor. which program should i be using to convert various avi's that i have to get the best quality, what format should i be converting into, and what program should i be using on my touch to watch them, iv had a few attempts and everything i convert seems to come out rather jumpy etc and just not good to watch.
thankyou.
Please use the search function or atleast google. This has been addressed many times over. In fact, it's been discussed so much that several great xda members have even made various programs/applications which will convert whatever input to an output which performs best on the HD. Most of these are in the Applications part of the Blackstone forum.
In a nutshell, the built in TF3D player is the best way to go since it's the only player which uses hardware acceleration and will give best results when playing mp4.
sincere apologies, i was just being lazy
will search now and delete core player lol
Hello pugme
Go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112 and download this free video converter it’s the best one out there. The Touch HD has its own player and the quality of these 2 apps together is superb. If you put the converted films on to your sd card in a folder called films or what ever you want then start/programs/album/albums/storage card/films then select to play or add albums to your programs short cut.
Quality when watching is like half hd
use Duttys ROM with coreplayer i can play pretty much anything i want without jumping, dont get me wrong the converting programs on here are very good but why convert if you dont have too!
Hello,
i'm really noob to smartphones... my last phone being a very old Nokia (5 or 6 years old) which can just call and send sms^^
I am now considering buying a HTC touch HD and what i am looking for is mostly:
a) big screen for reading comics
b) big screen and video quality for watching movies
c) gps
d) decent phone (call and sms)
My biggest concern, reading many topics on the subject, is the quality of video playback and the need to convert video files.
Is there some smartphones (with of course the appropriate viewer programs) which can manage any video (divx, xvid...) with good results? (without the need of converting video files)
Or it's the same situation for any phones on the market?
The HD can manage xvid files with core player? I think i read somewhere they need to be converted too but i'd like to make sure.
Thanks a lot for any calrifications on the issue
I watched a divx movie using the core player sometime back. but now I tend to watch the bbc catchup programmes which are in wmv.
I dont know about reading comics on the screen but of the few time times that I have read my ebooks on it, I found that I had to constantly zoom in and out.
for the gps is quick ok. I use Quick GPS to get a lock on my position and then use one of Google Maps, Garmin XT, Live Maps and they do just fine.
I don't have much to say about the call and sms except maybe that it does the job well.
It's quite easy: video playback requires processing power and a driver system which allows to make proper use of it. In addition, it also depends on the formats, which require more or less processing power. I believe you will encounter the same difficulties on all the other smartphones at this moment. The TG01 looks promising, but it then still depends on the format of the video file.
Maybe it's just too early for the kind of video playback you are used to due to the Web 2.0 and the x86 processing power. Next year, the situation might look better on the mobile market.
i have had no probs in video playback in fullscreen, i think it works well.
Hello,
Im a bit of a novice......
How do i go about watching movies and streaming real time tv to my HD2 , i see loads of people watching avatar on their hd2 and streaming sky sports and the like but i just dont understand how to do it.
can someone (in simple terms!) explain to me how i can do this. ie
what software do i use for movies and real time streaming
where do i download movies from, which website do people use ?
thanks in advance
andi1977dog said:
Hello,
Im a bit of a novice......
How do i go about watching movies and streaming real time tv to my HD2 , i see loads of people watching avatar on their hd2 and streaming sky sports and the like but i just dont understand how to do it.
can someone (in simple terms!) explain to me how i can do this. ie
what software do i use for movies and real time streaming
where do i download movies from, which website do people use ?
thanks in advance
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There's a few apps for streaming online tv channels, but I don't use any, so I don't know any off-hand.... but for movies I use coreplayer, tcpmp (free version of coreplayer), or the built-in players or wmp. There are many apps out the to convert dvds to avi or mp4 format.
I use Myplayer and it works brilliantly, have a look here.
I'm unable to watch video content from the french/English news channel france 24. Before switching to Galaxy S, I was able to watch video news like a breeze on the iphone 3Gs.
Do I have to download any app or plug in that'll allow me to view video content?
Thanks very much
Is the Video Content streamed in Flash?
if it's Flash content, then read this topic to enable yours, if it was not already enabled
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755329
is there any way to stream flash hq video to a internal player on the SGS?
i believe TCPMP used to be able to do something like this.
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is there any way to stream flash hq video to a internal player on the SGS?
i believe TCPMP used to be able to do something like this.
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yup, i'll like to see TCPMP ported to Android
that's like the only thing i miss from the WM phones