[Q] Android Video Playback - Legend General

I have installed this rom -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814285
and had also installed the famour Azure 1.0.1 by aliba
i found both couldnt play some mp4
so my question is that does android support mp4 playback ? if it does how will i put it in my current rom [ i have tried 3rd part video players , it failed].
and what video extensions does a normal aOS support ?!
Thanks

Android supports mp4 playback.
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but my default player aint playing mp4..are their certain resolution tht video need to be in ?

AFAIK, mp4 is a file container and many things depend on the codec that was used to encode the video file. Personaly i'm using Handbrake to encode videos for watching them on my Legend, so if you want i could share the "proper" preset for this task.
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I'm using Any video converter and MP4 (x264 / aac)
I found out that for some reason x264/mp3 doesn't work...

yea thanks
AllWin said:
AFAIK, mp4 is a file container and many things depend on the codec that was used to encode the video file. Personaly i'm using Handbrake to encode videos for watching them on my Legend, so if you want i could share the "proper" preset for this task.
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please share it or suggest some converter.

I installed Rock Player yesterday, which supports more file formats. I haven't tried a lot but it plays my downloaded Simpsons episodes just fine. They're in Xvid btw.

Trekvogel said:
I installed Rock Player yesterday, which supports more file formats. I haven't tried a lot but it plays my downloaded Simpsons episodes just fine. They're in Xvid btw.
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Does it work well for you? I got the free version and sometimes it loses audio/video sync...Any issues like that?

It works well but I've only tried short videos like tv show episodes. I read that longer complex videos might lose av sync at some points.
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dhanu007 said:
please share it or suggest some converter.
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Download and install Handbrake (free app). The preset is attached bellow this post, (if you're using Windows Vista / Seven) move it to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\HandBrake
Use preset called "Legend". Good luck
EDIT: don't forget to extract attached file.

is there a better player than rockplayer?
videos that arent 480x320 work incredible bad on my legend. itself the 5800 had a better video playback function than just every player i tried so far on the legend.

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Touch HD Movie Player - Best?

Hi All,
I have tried searching for MP4 and AVI in the forums, but search results came up with nada.
Can someone please assist me with the BEST movie player for the Touch HD and how to encode the files?
I am currently using Slysoft CloneDVD Mobile. I selected Windows Smartphone as my encoding template, loaded the DVD, and built the AVI file. All went good.
I then copied it across to my Touch HD and tried to play it in WMP but get an error "Cannot play file" without any further details.
Any ideas people?
TIA
Sounds like a missing codec problem to me. i had the same with playing xvid movies. i use tcpmp player now instead of wmp, but am looking for a nicer prog.
I find Coreplayer to be the best using the DivX converter set to Mobile for compressing. It will compress most files and even convert AC3 files for use.
The playback is smooth whereas the actual DivX mobile and old TCPMP players seem to have a 1 second slight glich in playback (shown when a video is panning across a scene).
I have also found that if you use a File Explorer with Network access such as Resco Explorer, you can set the default player to be Coreplayer and play these files from any Network drive. I use an ASUS WLHDD2.5 small wireless hard drive with 100Gb capacity and can store loads of Music, movies and photos on it.
Ensure that Coreplayer can actually play the file type first or an error will occur.
Map your Network drive in Resco Explorer (follow the distructions..)
Select and hold the file to play in Resco, select open, Open with and then select Coreplayer.
Viola.
you might want to try the blackstone video encoding gui (search on this forum) to convert movies to mp4 and then play them via windows media player or tf3d video player. To date, those two players are the only ones capable of playing video using hardware acceleration
I use MP4forHD encoder software. Very good and clip quality very good. Playback using default Album player that comes with THD.
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nagging said:
Try the attached CorePlayer 1.3.0. No need to encode files, it reads them all, works perfectly. Enjoy.
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is this a trial version , if not please remove it as its against the XDA rules
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nagging said:
Try the attached CorePlayer 1.3.0. No need to encode files, it reads them all, works perfectly. Enjoy.
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No acceleration though, so you have to encode to much lower quality.
nagging said:
Try the attached CorePlayer 1.3.0. No need to encode files, it reads them all, works perfectly. Enjoy.
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Sorry, but main problem is that CorePlayer will not play movies with AC3 sound (5.1). A lot of new movies have 5.1 sound.
blabla
i love and hate AC3 at the same time
hi, have you seen this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=474955
its a handy little prog that makes very good conversion and plays exellently in the htc player.
yes yes
nagging said:
Try the attached CorePlayer 1.3.0. No need to encode files, it reads them all, works perfectly. Enjoy.
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it works
thanks man
gregy74 said:
Sorry, but main problem is that CorePlayer will not play movies with AC3 sound (5.1). A lot of new movies have 5.1 sound.
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And do you have 5 ears with 5 headphones?
What is the point for having 5.1 on a mobile device, it's not like you can output to TV anyways.
The point is to watch existing movies with AC3 soundtracks without spending hours to reconvert them first.

Best Video Format for HTC Tattoo

I converted all video to this format h.624 HD mp4
I played this format on my tattoo in default player,yxflash and Wuzhenhua Player.
Not working properly.
Please,
Anybody say some good HD video format for tattoo.
Thanks in advance.
try to resize the definition of the file to 320x240 (horizontal)
either HD either not it will fit perfect
i use yxflash though..
I changed the Size to 352x240.
Working...
Thanks man.
svprm said:
I changed the Size to 352x240.
Working...
Thanks man.
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nop
despite it's small 2.8 inch screen it's perfect and worth seeing movies on it.
I LOVE MY TATTOO
djhancks said:
nop
despite it's small 2.8 inch screen it's perfect and worth seeing movies on it.
I LOVE MY TATTOO
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I always seem to have a lag between audio and video. Do you guys have the same or is it in perfect synch?
- Mark
NO lag,prefect video.
Format:
H.264 Mp4 352x240
And with which program you convert it?
Xilisoft Video Converter
dancer_69 said:
And with which program you convert it?
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My greek brother If you don't want to pay for a converting program, try searching the google, there are lots of freeware progs in there
Cheers
Thanks for the advice, I will.
I noticed the out of sync audio-video when playing the video in the default video app. When I watch it on Meridian media player, it plays fine.
sheik_yerbouti said:
I noticed the out of sync audio-video when playing the video in the default video app. When I watch it on Meridian media player, it plays fine.
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yeap the default video player sux a bit... but that's the android market for
sheik_yerbouti said:
I noticed the out of sync audio-video when playing the video in the default video app. When I watch it on Meridian media player, it plays fine.
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same here. Im using FORMAT FACTORY in coverting into mp4 format. IT's freeware by the way. any other suggested video player?
i use Any Video Converter Freeware
this is the converter that i use
it works awesome
and its free
will try the other converters later
but tell me what is the bit rate and sound quality settings you guys use

Rockplayer is out of beta

It seems that Rockplayer is now out of beta and is in the market.
It's free with adverts and $9.99 without.
There's a webpage here too:
http://rockplayer.freecoder.org/index_en.html
Sicknesssssssssssssss
ROCKSSSSSSSSS on my DESIRE!
thanks for info just trying it now and gotta say im impressed :O great player thanks !
Any major change from the last beta?
I'm aware the UI and options have been improved drastically.
EDIT: Many changes: http://www.diffthink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42&sid=f9cc2d545484da204e54b2b144d12627
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Sucks that the red "R" is back unless you buy it.
GUI looks really nice, but I just tryed playing one of the movies recorded with my Desire and sound is all messed up like a really high squeeky sound all the time. Anyone else experience that?
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Yep, sound is just a high squeeky noise on anything recorded using Desire camera on mine as well.
Xvids are fine.
Playing issues
I am impressed how well this player can play DIVX or Avi movies smoothly, but I think this player has problem playing MP4 or MPEG files that are recorded from other phones. For example I have some collection of MP4 files that I have recorded from my previous windows mobile phone, but when I tried to play them with rockplayer, the sound are so horrible. High pitch and full of noise, very distorted. I thought maybe the files are corrupted, but when I tried to transfer them to my blackberry phone...they just work perfect! SO pretty sure this is the rockplayer issues. I guess this player is NOT yet perfect after all.
The player does not play well mp4 and mkv files with multiple audio tracks in container.
What a f... SRT support?
Amazing!
Yes, but it doesn't support special characters.
(Nema šumnika. )
THE PLAYER IS REALLY NICE but i too get some audio problems once in a while
gepardus said:
Yes, but it doesn't support special characters.
(Nema šumnika. )
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It does, subtitles just need to be UTF-8 encoded (File -> Save as -> Coding:UTF in Notepad is enough)
Change to "System Mode" in the settings and then try the 3GP and MP4 vids. Should work far better... works for me
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go to my signature link, and search it!!!
th3 said:
Change to "System Mode" in the settings and then try the 3GP and MP4 vids. Should work far better... works for me
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WOW you are right....that fix the sound problem I have in playing those clips I have recorded with my other phones Awesome...In all honesty I really think HTC should release this type of application FOR FREE too! Come on even Samsung has this capability...most other phone even blackberry can play without converting. Anyway good job to the Rockplayer...=)

Youtube app on X10

Just out of curiosity, since the X10 doesn't support flash (hopefully, that will change someday), then how is it possible to watch videos on youtube with the youtube app?
Does it stream the content using h.264 or something similar? Is the youtube app a standalone flash player?
Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find anythig but rants about the X10 not supporting flash when I searched the forum.
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good question maybe is like in winmo
or because youtube and android are from google maybe a trick is hidden there xD idk
You could ask the same of USTREAM , BBCi PLAYER and MPLAYER (beeb player) and how does SKYFIRE stream media from sites?! as they all do the same
the mobile app essentially streams the 3gp version of videos from the mobile version
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the mobile app essentially streams the 3gp version of videos from the mobile version
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Thanks PiLoT. That explains it.
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to my knowledge, it uses some mediaserver thingie, which apparently worked on my dumb T700 as well..
THAT phone certainly doesn't support flash, and when it failed to stream it says failed to connect to mediaserver..
The videos on youtube are all converted from the original format to various other formats including H.264 and that's what is streamed to modern phones.
On the flash player they're playing a .flv file, which is just a container for the H.264 video. (Also, youtube always keep the original file on their servers in case they change change something and need to reencode, eg. if they increase the max resolution or something.)
Thanks for the replies everybody. Now I know.
/and knowing is half the battle.
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Hi , I have recently Installed the JIT compiler and from then my pre -installed Youtube is not working properly. As soon as click on the video from Youtube app...it keeps on saying loading video and never loads..i installed the custom app from other sources but no luck .help me in fixing this issue.

Convert using VLC player?

Does anyone know what the settings would be to convert hd video file to the proper H.264 format using VLC player. I heard there was a how to but i can not find it. does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance
Recode
Have you thought of using XMedia Recode. It is a donationware video and audio transcoding program for Microsoft Windows developed by Sebastian Dörfler.
No i have not tried that. what settings do you use for it? thanks
I have been using AVS Video Converter lately and it is great. Always in sync and easy to use. Not free though.
psymont said:
I have been using AVS Video Converter lately and it is great. Always in sync and easy to use. Not free though.
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I actually got an older version of AVS Video Converter. I can't figure out what format to convert to though. I hope, and guess, that our programs can expoert to about the same formats.
Which format do you use? I wanna covert into either 720p or 1080p.

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