[Q] Avatar Bitrate/Quality Settings? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone happen to know what the bitrate/settings are of the preloaded Avatar movie? I'm trying to convert my bluray 720p down to a 480x800 friendly size, but it keeps looking like crap. Or, it'll look great, but end up being about 3.5gbs. I played with a Vibrant at the T-Mobile store and the copy of Avatar was crystal clear.

I gave up and ordered a 16gb class 6 micro sd card. Problem solved!
Though, if anyone does happen to find out the details, I'd still love to know.

ericc191 said:
Anyone happen to know what the bitrate/settings are of the preloaded Avatar movie? I'm trying to convert my bluray 720p down to a 480x800 friendly size, but it keeps looking like crap. Or, it'll look great, but end up being about 3.5gbs. I played with a Vibrant at the T-Mobile store and the copy of Avatar was crystal clear.
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What are you using to encode? I personally use RipBot with a variable bitrate. I set the encoder to mp4/avc (h.264), res to 800x480,and the average bitrate to 1500. These videos have looked excellent for me and should be more than enough.

Mi|enko said:
What are you using to encode? I personally use RipBot with a variable bitrate. I set the encoder to mp4/avc (h.264), res to 800x480,and the average bitrate to 1500. These videos have looked excellent for me and should be more than enough.
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Awesome, I'll try it out. I'm using Any Video Converter free.

Xilisoft Video Converter has been good to me over the past two or three years. It converted from DVD to a format my iPhone would read. Now all the movies I buy mostly have a digital copy so I don't use the software as much any more. My Vibrant plays back everything (MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263)that plays on the iPhone so no need to convert either.

ShinyBuddha said:
Xilisoft Video Converter has been good to me over the past two or three years. It converted from DVD to a format my iPhone would read. Now all the movies I buy mostly have a digital copy so I don't use the software as much any more. My Vibrant plays back everything (MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263)that plays on the iPhone so no need to convert either.
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How did you put a digital copy on your phone? I bought cop out on blu ray and it came with a digital copy and I just drag it onto my sd card then i try to play it and it says there is a license error or something like that.

ShinyBuddha said:
Xilisoft Video Converter has been good to me over the past two or three years. It converted from DVD to a format my iPhone would read. Now all the movies I buy mostly have a digital copy so I don't use the software as much any more. My Vibrant plays back everything (MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263)that plays on the iPhone so no need to convert either.
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I'm still using an N1, at the moment, so it forces me to convert my vids.

mikey7436 said:
How did you put a digital copy on your phone? I bought cop out on blu ray and it came with a digital copy and I just drag it onto my sd card then i try to play it and it says there is a license error or something like that.
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You can't use the digital that comes with it. Its meant for iDevices or Windows media devices. I just use Handbreak to convert my videos and use a custom preset with the resolution of the phone and an average bitrate of 1200 and its good.
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oquinones said:
You can use the digital that comes with it. Its meant for iDevices or Windows media devices. I just use Handbreak to convert my videos and use a custom preset with the resolution of the phone and an average bitrate of 1200 and its good.
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I hope when you say resolution of the phone you mean 1280X720, because there is no reason to go any lower unless the original file was not HD.

vortec87 said:
I hope when you say resolution of the phone you mean 1280X720, because there is no reason to go any lower unless the original file was not HD.
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When I say the resolution of the phone, I meant 480 x 800. Unless your gonna output to the TV via DLNA or a Micro USB to HDMI cable, there is no point to have a 720p.

As of right now I found no way to look at the stats for the avatar movie since its a protected file...except that it is around 1gb in size, so by that I'm assuming the bitrate is anywhere from 1500-2000 if that helps...and the size must just be the size of the phone 800x480

ld006 said:
As of right now I found no way to look at the stats for the avatar movie since its a protected file...except that it is around 1gb in size, so by that I'm assuming the bitrate is anywhere from 1500-2000 if that helps...and the size must just be the size of the phone 800x480
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I recoded a 4.13gb HD movie down to 2200 bitrate and it turned out 1.52gb... that was 1280x720 though. Avatar is (or should be) 800x480 so it may have a slightly higher bitrate... avatar.dcf is 1.40gb.

The included trailer is encoded at 1300ish kbits so its safe to assume that Avatar is also encoded at this rate.
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oquinones said:
The included trailer is encoded at 1300ish kbits so its safe to assume that Avatar is also encoded at this rate.
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Then Samsung or whoever must've used a nice compression program, cause all the 1.5GB and under conversions of Avtar I've made look terrible.

ericc191 said:
Then Samsung or whoever must've used a nice compression program, cause all the 1.5GB and under conversions of Avtar I've made look terrible.
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Are you using the h264 codec? Because mine look fine.

Mi|enko said:
Are you using the h264 codec? Because mine look fine.
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I agree. I can drop the bitrate to well under 1000 for a basic DVD rip and it still looks great.

Hm, that could be it. I'll double check.
Update: Yeah, I setup RipBot correctly this time and it came out perfect. Bitrate's about 1350kbps @23fps. 800x450. 1.6gb. I don't think I had the h264 mp4 option selected at the bottom the first time.

ericc191 said:
Hm, that could be it. I'll double check.
Update: Yeah, I setup RipBot correctly this time and it came out perfect. Bitrate's about 1350kbps @23fps. 800x450. 1.6gb. I don't think I had the h264 mp4 option selected at the bottom the first time.
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Hello fellow Android Bros/ Sis!
I was searching through google and XDA and found myself here. I was really interested in the outcome of your video. My question is:
1) Was this video a conversion from a Blu Ray movie or a regular HD movie/ file?
2) What were your Audio Output settings?
Short History: I have both the Captivate and the Vibrant, and wanted to see if i could just use my Blu Ray Movie of Avatar to Rip and Convert for the Captivate since my Vibrant already has it. Plus i also wanted to be more familiar with Handbrake myself (have converted dozens of HD movies so far), but Blu Ray is an issue for me. As far as video, i can transcode no problem. Audio on the other hand, is either slow-distorted-muffled or no sound at all. Regardless of which audio codec i tried.
Thoughts?

WHAT UP, NICE avtar, HOW DID U PUT G.O.W IN YOUR PROFILE?

Avc is a horrible encoder. I had a crystal clear 1.5gig avatar file in aweird format that avc'ed and it came out with 200 megs in the ****tiest quality ever.
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[Q] Videos recorded in .3gp format... or .Mp4?

I just read the Phone arena review for the SGS2:
Here are the PROS and CONS:
PROS
Significantly improved Super AMOLED Plus display
The best handset for recording and watching Full HD video
The dual-core Exynos chipset meets and exceeds the benchmarks in its peer group
Future-proof collection of connectivity options
CONS
Design could be a bit more differentiating
Automatic screen brightness adjustments are not smooth
Motion sensor-powered gestures could see more practical usage
They gave it 9/10
However, they say this in the review:
The Full HD 1080p video is one the best we've seen from a phone, largely due to the fluid 30fps it's captured with, and the good amount of detail. Granted, we've only seen retail 1080p samples from the LG Optimus 2X for now, which shoots with 24fps. The Samsung Galaxy S II records video in the .3GP format - we’d rather have .MP4 files, but you’d be able to record just one hour of Full HD 1080p video to the user-available internal memory, not the hour and a half you can now.
Can the people who have got the phone confirm this? all the previous reviews suggested that the phone can record video in .mp4 format that too at a very good bitrate.
Can someone please clarify??
Thanks in advance.
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Videos are in 3go
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i think its mp4,seen certain samples and they r in mp4
Eg:http://www.mediafire.com/?m5h9njk1qwm7ipi
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-review-588p5.php
MaximN97 said:
Sorry 3gp
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How would you know? It's not released in germany yet
Wow
Can someone that have the GSII confirm wether video recorded by this phone are in 3Gp or in mp4 format ?
I'm dying to know the truth
MP4 format, at least they are from mine
.mp4
10 char
siksik6 said:
MP4 format, at least they are from mine
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Yep I second this, however when I look at the format of the video on my phone it says 3gg, but when viewed from kies it states it's a mp4. My phone also indicates that I have 1.5 hours at 1080p, so I can confirm that too.
To be honest you should use 720 res. The autofocus is a bit laggy in 1080 when moving the camera about.
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One question please.
For recording 16:9 the phone must be vertical or horizontal?
phone arena made ANOTHER mistake... lg optimus 2x uses 3gp sgs2 uses mp4
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MP4 format, at least they are from mine
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Mine shows as 3gpp.
Why are people saying it records in mp4, if you go to the details of the video it shows as 3gpp.
Ok this is weird, it shows as 3gpp on the phone but when I transfer it to pc it shows as mp4.
When I download a video from youtube though it shows as mp4 on the phone though
The recording is in Mp4 format
JGS2 said:
Mine shows as 3gpp.
Why are people saying it records in mp4, if you go to the details of the video it shows as 3gpp.
Ok this is weird, it shows as 3gpp on the phone but when I transfer it to pc it shows as mp4.
When I download a video from youtube though it shows as mp4 on the phone though
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Which country was your phone manufactured in? Mine is recording very well in .mp4 format. Thank you. Made by Samsung in China.
Any video ive ever taken on my GS2 has been in MP4. format.
3gpp stores files as Mpeg 4 p2 or p10 as i understand the label .
jje
mine says it records in 3gp but when transfered to pc, says mp4 what the h..l is happening here?
Kostask11 said:
mine says it records in 3gp but when transfered to pc, says mp4 what the h..l is happening here?
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same. went from kf3 to ki3 with chainfire kernal.
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[Q] How to put 7G+ 1080p video in the phone?

As the title...
Early on I was trying to directly put them on the phone storage, but since the file system is also FAT32, there is a size limit of 4GB, so the uploaded video file is incomplete and cannot play properly, so I'm wondering if there is someway to put those 7G+ files onto the phone without cutting them... Thanks
You need to use KIES. It'll chop up the file into two parts automatically when you move it over.
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You need to use KIES. It'll chop up the file into two parts automatically when you move it over.
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So I did use KIES to move it over, first used the "transfer to device" option in the KIES library, then instead used the "sync" option in the connected device panel, both will only give me half of the mkv file, instead of two cut parts, so could you explain a bit more in detail? Thanks
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
drm111 said:
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
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yeah you have a point, but sometimes 720p movies do come with a size bigger than 4GB as well, then someway of proper transfer is still needed...
Honestly I'd say if you're going to convert the video anyway, why not convert it to the screens native resolution. Same quality, less processor usage so better battery life, and then you don't need to split the file (since i dont think any 800*480 resolution video file should reasonably surpass 4gb )
drm111 said:
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
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Maybe he want to watch on TV, although MHL adapter is not available yet.
alexcarterkarsus said:
As the title...
Early on I was trying to directly put them on the phone storage, but since the file system is also FAT32, there is a size limit of 4GB, so the uploaded video file is incomplete and cannot play properly, so I'm wondering if there is someway to put those 7G+ files onto the phone without cutting them... Thanks
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Anyway you can use "mkvtoolnix" or any other similar program to split the mkv video and then put in the phone.
I'm tired of hearing people over and over again asking why other people would want to play HD movies on their phone "when the screen resolution is only.... blah blah blah"
please do shut up and/or by an iphone and go bore the iclones with your ignorance.
madpavel said:
Maybe he want to watch on TV, although MHL adapter is not available yet.
Anyway you can use "mkvtoolnix" or any other similar program to split the mkv video and then put in the phone.
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and this mkvtoolnix can ensure there is no out of sync with audio and video? I hope it is simply cutting, not transcoding... but thanks
alexcarterkarsus said:
and this mkvtoolnix can ensure there is no out of sync with audio and video? I hope it is simply cutting, not transcoding... but thanks
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sure, no out of sync or transcoding and believe me it is very simple
11.5gb 1080p video, 4 minutes to split on my 3,2Ghz core 2 quad
format micro sd card to ext4, and put it there
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or download it from the net, or torrent it to your phone
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Hi
I have split 3 1080p movies in part on 3.5 GB with mkvmerge
In PC it's OK 100%
But in GSII, I have no audio.
In my Samsung TV, there is an error message (DLNA)
Any one have successfully split a 1080p movie and watch it on a TV ?
thx
I have no audio too on MKV files.
What seems to be the problem?!
Regards.
The included player doesn't support DTS, so that could be the problem.

720p and 1080p Mkv Playback

Hi there,
Please some one can help me how i can Play 720p and 1080p .MKV movies smoothly with my Gtab 10.1???
Because with a simple samsung galaxy S 1GHZ CPU is possible to play a 720p MKV movies smoothly no problem, but the Galaxy Tab have Dual Core 1GHZ TEGRA 2 with 1GB ram, and not have to possibility to play it, i don't see this normal
Short:
- 720p: h.264 [email protected]
- 1080p: h.264 baseline
Best Player for 720p Video:
Dice Player
* Honeycomb tables(TF101,GT10.1,Iconia500,Xoom) : 720p [email protected] ( no weighted prediction )
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For more information use the search function.
Ok thank you very much for your help, Dice Player Work great for the 720p
The tab chokes with 1080p smh.
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DoubleTwist works pretty decent with mkv's. 1080p though is a no go. Who needs it though on a ten inch screen?
Agree.. 1080p is overkill for 10" screen .. you wont notice any different compare to 720p .. plus its such a waste storage
VouSDru said:
Agree.. 1080p is overkill for 10" screen .. you wont notice any different compare to 720p .. plus its such a waste storage
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Yep. I am all new to this but I noticed 1080p is overkill as well. I am running at 720p or BDrip x264 in 2gb to 4gb and detail is perfect. I converted most of my favorite movies to 720p and running with latest dice player. No issues whatsoever.
Cool,thank you.i will also try the dice Player when i am at home.
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To anyone saying 1080p is a waste... of course it is on this device.
But people store their videos generally with 1 copy in the best quality. So I need to be able to watch my 1080p videos, even though it's overkill, because I'm not going to re-encode another 720p copy and store that somewhere. I'm going to store one 1080p copy.
What puzzle me is that I can play 1080p mkv using the built-in player on my SGS II without any problem.
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gjoe77 said:
What puzzle me is that I can play 1080p mkv using the built-in player on my SGS II without any problem.
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in short, Tegra 2 is a disappointment.
Tegra2 does dissappoint . Im ready to upgrade to kal-el, like now.
Just curious, what programs are people using to convert/make/etc 720p movies?
gjoe77 said:
What puzzle me is that I can play 1080p mkv using the built-in player on my SGS II without any problem.
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MKV is container not codec. MKV can hold virtually anything...
Some 1080p can be played, some NOT, it depends what inside is.
Look at #2 post
ccapasso said:
Just curious, what programs are people using to convert/make/etc 720p movies?
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I use handbrake. Depending on the source, but for the most part, I make sure the width is 1280px. I set the quality to 21, baseline profile, and then convert. My friends say the videos I've converted look great.
mystified said:
I use handbrake. Depending on the source, but for the most part, I make sure the width is 1280px. I set the quality to 21, baseline profile, and then convert. My friends say the videos I've converted look great.
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Handbrake is the shizzle.
so, is video the only reason you bought a tablet? I don't watch movies on little screens when I have an HDTV at home. I typically have a drink in one hand so holding my tab in the other would get old. Tab runs great for everything except 720 and 1080 movies apparently. If you want to watch movies on the go, by a portable blu-ray player, not a tab. Tegra 2 runs great! Tab runs great on task's roms BTW!
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Handbrake is the shizzle.
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Yeah, handbreak is the best converter even if you use mac!
Been using MX Video Player with the codec pack for Tegra2. Switch it to the SW decoder, and it's not perfect but pretty good.
mj0528 said:
so, is video the only reason you bought a tablet? I don't watch movies on little screens when I have an HDTV at home. I typically have a drink in one hand so holding my tab in the other would get old. Tab runs great for everything except 720 and 1080 movies apparently. If you want to watch movies on the go, by a portable blu-ray player, not a tab. Tegra 2 runs great! Tab runs great on task's roms BTW!
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Its not really fair to say "buy a portable blu ray player". Samsungs site says it can play 1080p, which in some cases it can and cant. Most of the time it cant.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec.html

[Q] Best Handbrake Settings

Can anyone provide the best Handbrake settings for ripping DVDs?
I'm interested in opinions as well on this matter.
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Back when I had my Captivate I used these settings:
http://capfaq.com/w/Transferring_movies_from_DVD
I put these movies on my Note and they're all still excellent quality. I was assuming that the quality my suffer due to the Note's large size, but it's still great. And with these settings, I'd say about 75% of the movies I encoded were less than a gig and most less than 900MB.
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
The note...being sent down to us by the gods (why...what gods you ask? Ill tell ya...the AMOLED gods, the robot gods, and the HD gods...and they frown on crabbiness.) and being so well endowed, is quite the media consumption device. What the OP was trying to figure out...was how he might best take advantage of such a wondrous and surely godly device.
And the movie industry...being ungodly as they are, makes an all-hands-on-deck effort to obfuscate and obscure any clearly delineated path to enjoying popcorn-tasting-finger-licking-goodness on the go. For this is their only purpose in life..besides, making movies, of course.
I might add...high profile is. Lovely. On the same subject... I've only used CIFSManger and allshare in combination with TVersity to play media...i use Netflix on the go. But Im curious as well...does anyone know which format and container is required to play native HW decoded video on the note? Does the container event matter? I know i can usually find a video player that can play any video file, but i have issues with .Mkv the most...and the pseudo-5.1 audio and the native player is nice....real nice.....really really niiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccceeeeeee.
HW decoding is always a plus. And its easier on the battery too.
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Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
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I was just wondering if anyone had encoded any of their DVDs to play on the Note. I've used Handbrake previously to watch movies on my Captivate and thought someone might have played around enough to have optimal settings for the Note. Using the settings I had for my Captivate, the picture/sound quality is pretty great on the Note.
I use MakeMKV for both blu rays and dvds. (correct me if im wrong) as far as i know, it's like flac. Compresses the video with no loss of quality in both video and audio.
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iTunes movies are the perfect resolution and size for the note I found a bunch on torrents just by searching iTunes 720p they look great way better then the dvdrips I have been using
handbrake settings
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Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
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For me its abuot file size. While I have been able to get a 64gb card to work on the GNote, I still am limited by the fat32 4gb restriction, so I am interested in settings for compression. I have many downloaded files bigger than 4gb.
You just answered a 13 month old post.
Yeah, well now we have his opinion. Better late than never.
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studacris said:
You just answered a 13 month old post.
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:laugh: Yeah, just before you did.:good:

Xperia S Converter

I am currently using Handbrake to convert my videos to Andorid High and lets say the quality is not that great compared the the original MKV file. Does anyone know any particular settings? Or an alternative software?
Thanks
I Suggest Xmediarecode! I get really good looking results with it, but it takes some time if you want really high quality videos. It also gets updates about every 3rd week, i think handbrake is dead or something.
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andoridkiller said:
I am currently using Handbrake to convert my videos to Andorid High and lets say the quality is not that great compared the the original MKV file. Does anyone know any particular settings? Or an alternative software?
Thanks
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Google Android HD Handbrake or the like.
Also
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/442868-convert-owned-movies-handbrake.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ
Thanks guys, only reason im asking is becuase I cant seem to transfer hte 8gb 720p movie to my xperia as it wont let me saying the file is too big and sony has restricted it, otherwise I would use the MX player.
MKV Files play fine on my XS. Why convert them?
Seansmit17 said:
MKV Files play fine on my XS. Why convert them?
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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It's about the sd card fat32 partion that only allows 4gb file size max.
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andoridkiller said:
Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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You can transfer any file search on Google "how to transfer big Files on fat32"
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Is there anyway to unlock this n transfer large files?
andoridkiller said:
Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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What format have you encoded THAT to? Sounds far too large a file for even an HD video. And ... as another has said, that 'lock' isn't Sony, it's the format of FAT-32.
I use Miro and Handbrake to convert. Handbrake is the more flexible software (the new version [0.9.6] has an 'Android High' setting that should serve most people).
Handbrake lives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Killerhakan said:
I Suggest Xmediarecode! I get really good looking results with it, but it takes some time if you want really high quality videos. It also gets updates about every 3rd week, i think handbrake is dead or something.
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No ! ... Handbrake lives ... it is alive and well and better than ever !!! ... get it here : http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

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