using vlc streaming to get movies from my phone, working really well. just fire up vlc on your pc and change a couple settings.
my only issue is the videos are squeezed and aspect ratio is stretched vertical. the aspect ratio no matter what the input video always outputs a stream that is tall and skinny. i have tried changing the aspect on every vlc setting on phone with no luck. also tried using mp4 for the codec instead of h264, still the same issues with incorrect aspect ratio. looks like a 16:9 got smushed into a 4x3 or worse.
Apart from that, the player works very well no dropped frames, any format that your pc vlc can play works in the phone now since the pc converts on the fly. my quad core i7 760 uses about 15% processor to stream live.
http://traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert/setup
Thanks for the help
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Hey does anybody know how to change the aspect ratio on videos streamed through AllShare? When ever I play a extra widescreen movie, it stretches it out and makes it 16x9. Any way to change this? Thanks.
You can't. Lame, huh? I worked around this by changing the aspect ratio on the TV.
Edit: You guys are talking about the other way round, huh? Phone to TV rather than server to phone. If so, NM, lol.
Does Allshare use the standard Video UI? I was all sorts of frustrated with stretching on 4:3 videos, and then I realized that little square button on the right changes it between stretch, shrink to fit, and original. I haven't messed with Allshare much (our wifi is not very good =/) so I dunno if it uses the regular video player.
I was actually talking about watching on the phone from a server. It appears to use the standard video player but it doesn't have that button to change the aspect ratio. It has a button that looks like it but it is the stop button.
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Is there still no aspect ratio adjustment solution for playing movies through Allshare (on the phone)?
So lame that allshare doesn't allow you to change the player in order to get subtitles
I'm looking for an app that can playback the videos I used to convert to use in windows mobile coreplayer. I'm running an htc hd2 which has a display resolution of 800x480 and an aspect ratio of 5:3. I convert all my movies to pan and scan to 5:3 aspect ratio. What that does is, It allows the video to automatically fill the entire screen at 1:1 pixel perfect quality depending on the source resolution. So i tried the same method with Android 2.3.3 with my htc hd2 using VitalPlayer, which I feel is the best video I've been able to find. I hate having an audio app "PowerAMP" and a seperate extremely limited Video Player. So my problem is when i playback a 5:3 aspect ratio pan and scan 800x480 video on any player in android, it displays everything stretched vertically but it fills the screen. Coreplayer displayed it flawlessly as I had intended. I use Xilisoft Video Converter HD. I use .mp4 avc format with cuda support. This method worked great on Coreplayer. What should I do? Actually I remember I had to set the aspect ratio on coreplayer to Square to display it correctly. Thanks.
Question - What is a good video player that can playback all the formats vitalplayer or even coreplayer does preferably and have some options to change/ adjust the aspect ratio and zoom and more?
Actually I re did it at 5:3 and now it displays perfectly. lol. my bad. I had my aspect ratios messed up, now wonder. User error all along.
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Actually I re did it at 5:3 and now it displays perfectly. lol. my bad. I had my aspect ratios messed up, now wonder. User error all along.
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Which one is it ?
Im looking for Players for Android, like -
VIDEO-
CorePlayer
TCMP player
AUDIO-
S2P v.1.4
MortPlayer 3.31
the best part about these players is it starts from exactly the place you stop it
Please Help
What resolution must i change 1080p video to to run it fullscreen HD on the Atrix, I tried 540x960 but that doesnt run full screen, and importing full 1080p, unsuprisingly, runs very slowly.
Thanks
What app are you using to play the videos? Also, in order to play HD videos smoothly, Tegra 2 requires Baseline profile H.264 whereas most HD videos use High profile H.264. These videos have to be re-encoded as baseline in order for playback to be smooth.
EDIT: Do you mean you get black bars on the top and bottom? What about the left and right?
im using MoboPlayer, and am getting black lines all around, so i guess its not the wrong ratio. what would re-encoding videos require on windows? i use handbreak on my mac, but i dont currently have that on me. also what would the highest resolution be that the atrix could handle well, it seems a shame to watch films like Transformers with a low quality image
thanks
Refer to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12563592#post12563592
Handbrake is on Windows and Mac so you're good to go there.
Using moboplayer to play.. mkv's? If you re-encode the video like above, you can use the stock video player which I guess is just called "Gallery" or "Video Player"... Otherwise, MX Video Player is capable. Both of these are able to use Tegra's hardware acceleration. I still get some stuttering on MX Video Player though so I recommend just using Gallery.
I have tried playing the 1920x1080 with different players; the preinstalled video player, Real Player, and Soul Player -but no success. I have HC 3.1 as the 3.2 is not yet available for my region. Thanks in advance!
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I could play this res using DicePlayer and BSPlayer but both lag and out of audio/video sync!
I've been experimenting with this a lot, lately, and playing HD video remains a problem. While I haven't tried 1080p, 720p is already horrible. With every player I've tried (MX, Dice, Mobo, VPlayer, QQ, mVideo and probably more) there's some form of lag, and some don't even seem to have the capacity to start an HD video. So far, the player best capable of playing HD video seems to be DicePlayer, as suggested above. Also MX Video Player can manage some HD videos, with a proper setup.
If anyone else has suggestions for playing HD video, please tell them. I'm very interested to see if I missed any good players.
If you're looking to be able to play your average HD rip found on the internet you'll be sorely disappointed. If you encode your own though, it's easy to get good quality playback.
My best advice for good 720p video playback is to encode your own files with Handbrake using high profile with B-Frames turned off, CABAC entropy off, 8x8 transform off and weighted p-frames off. Set your max width to 1280 and let the height be whatever it needs to be depending on the source aspect ratio. I use either CQ of 22 or so or I'll go with a 2-pass encode using average bitrate in the 3-4k range. Resulting files play great in Dice Player with full hardware acceleration.
For those looking to play their already encoded 1080p material off of their LAN I don't know what to say; the device won't do it . . it's a limitation on tegra 2 that has specific codec settings supported and not all. Other than re-encoding all of your stuff the only other alternative for LAN playback would be to run a Plex media server on your LAN which is what I do at home. Quality wont be great but it will be watchable and at least you'll have access to your media.
Hi,
I'm trying to make MP4 files from my DVD archive to play on NT. I'm using MeGUI and I have been through that process a number of time for my PC. However, the problem I have with NT is that it seems it cannot playback 16:9 or other wide formats that have non-square pixels correctly: during playback, it shrinks the video to display it with square pixels. No need to say that the same files play correctly on a PC or other devices (Xbox 360, network media player, etc.).
One solution is to resize the video during encoding. I tried that with HandBrake (couldn't figure it out in MeGUI though) and encoded a PAL 16:9 video (in the standard 720x576 pixels forat) into an MP4 file with 1024x576 pixels. It worked and NT played the file beautifully. Still this process is less than ideal as it reduces the overall quality and wastes space.
Is there any way to keep the original video resolution and still make NT to play it correctly? Also it would be great to know how to do that with MeGUI (HandBrake is fine but misses a few critical features compared to MeGUI).
Thanks,
AlefSin