For some reason when I try to play videos on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 they keep coming out choppy and pixilated. I tried the default player, Mobo, and RockPlayer, and the videos still come out all pixilated and choppy. I tried putting a few movies on there last night like Inception, The Dark Knight, and Limitless and they were all choppy and pixilated. I used .avi, .mp4, and .m4v formats, none of which worked. I even tried downloading vids encoded specifically to work on mobile devices such as iPod/PSP and they didn't work. I even downloaded HandBrake for Mac and followed the directions on Cnet and nothing played properly. Everything played choppy and pixilated on all the players.
A Google search showed that MANY people are all having the same problem, so I don't think it is an isolated issue with my specific Tab. How the hell can I play videos clearly on my Tab???
I use vplayer
try Diceplayer.... IT plays anything i throw at IT..... except 1080 mkv, they stutter sometimes
Use the low profile settings for handbrake from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
Or use the Samsung Kies software and let it automatically convert the video for you when you transfer it to your device (handbrake is faster and slightly better quality imo).
Or as has been suggested already, try DicePlayer from the market and see if it works with your files.
MeGUI is the only way for top video quality in your tablet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245668
mine doesn't even play divx.. on my galaxy s its no problem, it plays almost anything
Upload the sample-megui.mp4 file to your tablet and open it with Google Videos app. Let me know if it works and how is the quality. Make sure you tap on the 5.1CH logo to enable the 6 channels sound.
Not sure if you have an unlocked bootloader, but I heard that the Videos will force a bootloader lock. Mines is already locked, so I don't care...
I've the same problem. I've tried everything (change player, video quality, etc.) but the video playback still sucks. I hope the release of vlc for android will fix this issue, but I'm a little bit disappointed..
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MeGUI is the only way for top video quality in your tablet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245668
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It may be an option but it isn't the ONLY option (Handbrake is at least one other proven option that many people here use), keep your marketing spam out of this thread.
Anyone who claims that their solution is the ONLY solution is clearly here to do some marketing.
In fact, for those who use MacOS or Linux, MeGUI is NOT an option, period.
Nah, no marketing here. Been on forums for a long time (Google my full name) and I hear what you say... sorry for misunderstanding. I'm an old member on doom9, they are hardcore video people. Handbrake is great for mobile devices, while MeGUI allows you to to encode your video's at any level you want.
Cheers
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Heh, I was on Doom9 when Doom9 the dude was still a regular, and Gej was still pounding on DivX 3.11. Old times, eh.
As for MeGUI, it's not the only front-end around. If you're on Doom9, then you know better. Most do basically the same thing, which is to run x264.dll plus some processing via AVISynth. Each front-end has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Despite its dinosaur interface, Handbrake is still more user friendly than MeGUI or most front-ends, and it does the job more than well enough. The auto-IVTC works well.
MeGUI allows more manual fiddling, as of course do most geek tools. It's been around a while, and there are newer "geek" front-ends with better UI. But for the hardcore, the "only way" is to ignore front-ends and use the tools directly, ie x264.exe and AVISynth, and write scripts as needed.
Check out my "conversion" script below. It's a geek tool geared for noobs (only one menu), but is infinitely adjustable for geeks. The script is only a text file, after all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102922
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Heh, I was on Doom9 when Doom9 the dude was still a regular, and Gej was still pounding on DivX 3.11. Old times, eh.
As for MeGUI, it's not the only front-end around. If you're on Doom9, then you know better. Most do basically the same thing, which is to run x264.dll plus some processing via AVISynth. Each front-end has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Despite its dinosaur interface, Handbrake is still more user friendly than MeGUI or most front-ends, and it does the job more than well enough. The auto-IVTC works well.
MeGUI allows more manual fiddling, as of course do most geek tools. It's been around a while, and there are newer "geek" front-ends with better UI. But for the hardcore, the "only way" is to ignore front-ends and use the tools directly, ie x264.exe and AVISynth, and write scripts as needed.
Check out my "conversion" script below. It's a geek tool geared for noobs (only one menu), but is infinitely adjustable for geeks. The script is only a text file, after all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102922
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I totally agree with you, MeGUI is a pro tool not intended for the novice user. However, as you said it so well, you can't beat MeGUI's customization levels allowing you to achieve amazing results. I get both of worlds, I do my own AviSynth scripts directly into MeGUI... I encode all my Bluray's with it for Media Center and push the data through Yammm. Now that I got a tablet, is time to redo some of my faves for the P7510.
BTW, good fortune with Searchlight and Axivo.
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Hi
I am new to this and have purchased a new HTC Advantage on WM6.1. I also have a Touch Diamond. It there anything i should do to have the Advantage running at its best or any good apps that would make its more useful?
I will mainly use the Advantage for mobile working, email and reviewing documents. I also will use it to keep my banking blog up to date while on the move.
Thanks in advance for your help.
JR
jonryan,
Welcome to the forum
You might want to try out SoftMaker, which lets you have full office documents creating, editing, and viewing capabilities. In fact, it has exactly the same full desktop functionalities on the 5 inch screen.
Of course, viewing videos on the move on this large screen is something no other phones can match. This includes doing youtube on the move too, with either Coreplayer or YoutubePlayer. I use both, but more the later. I always prefer to save it first before watching, as it means I'm charged the data download cost only once, not to mention the smoother playing of the video too.
Another software that works uniquely well only on the Athena (again it is because of the large screen) is realVGA at 96dpi. No other phone is really still useable at that dpi IMHO.
The Athena also manifests it's strength using GoogleMap. You can see the satellite maps so much more and better.
Same goes for Webbrowsers, eReaders, PDF file readers and the like. You can see MORE with the same font size as the other phones.
Cheers.
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This includes doing youtube on the move too, with either Coreplayer or YoutubePlayer. I use both, but more the later. I always prefer to save it first before watching, as it means I'm charged the data download cost only once, not to mention the smoother playing of the video too.
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Does Coreplayer download to save youtube videos or does it stream?
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Does Coreplayer download to save youtube videos or does it stream?
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Coreplayer streams, but very high quality and fast.
Guys
Thanks for all your replys. It is great to get such good information and actual user specific info. Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks
JonRyan
I'm pretty sure I am not breaking the cardinal sin of asking a stupid question with an answer right in front of me. If I am, I am truly sorry. I searched, and did not find any threads on this.
I recently modded my TP with CM7 (I'm very new to all this). Everything went fine, no issues here.
I plan to use it to play video's from time to time, pre-loaded in case there is no net at the location, etc. I use astro file manager on my phone, and since I love it, I grabbed it for the TP also. Problem is, it really seems like it cant see anything.
I am thinking the folder path mappings are off or something? I see that I can define where I want "external storage" to look, (default is... /mnt/sdcard)?
I even tried to take a screenshot and got... "Error: /mnt/sdcard/tempshot.bmp (Permission denied)" Screenshot saved to null
Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks!
-- Ps, if I can get this sorted out, my main question was which video files are supported for playback with this CM7 rom through the TP.
These were answered before, but for the most part buried in threads. Your external SD is actually listed as EMMC and it's not in your primary directory, you actually have to go up one.
Android should play most formats it would normally, but as this is still alpha, there is no hardware video acceleration, so anything higher resolution then a internet video will most likely be choppy.
There are some video players that people have had luck with, and overclocking the processor also can help until we get hardware acceleration.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using xda premium
Ah ok. I was somehow able to get the stock filebrowser to see my directories without a problem after I poked around a bit. I then ran into what you already answered for me . Video's do indeed seem choppy... I think I'll try to reduce the quality of an avi I have and see how that go's.
I'm not ballsy enough to OC anything. It took me a lot of guts to flash the damn thing anyway, thanks for the heads up though.
-- figured I'd post how it turned out.
I used Xilisoft HD Converter and converted using the android specific output setting, and 640x480, runs great using double twist.
I'm planning on getting a Galaxy Player 5.0 soon (though I'm hoping to get one for Christmas), it just looks like the perfect device for all my needs, not to mention it outstrips my second gen iPod Touch in every category and beyond.
One thing I'm really looking forward to is Adobe Flash, which I know Gingerbread and this device support, but I still have a few questions for people who actually own it. I've watched a lot of reviews, but none of them have really focused on or demonstrated the capability. Here are my questions:
1) What version of Flash does this device run?
2) How well/smoothly does it run? Say I wanted to watch a video on a site like Megavideo, how well would it work?
3) I know there are alternate browsers to the default one, does Flash work with any of them?
Thanks in advance for any answers, I really appreciate it!
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I'm planning on getting a Galaxy Player 5.0 soon (though I'm hoping to get one for Christmas), it just looks like the perfect device for all my needs, not to mention it outstrips my second gen iPod Touch in every category and beyond.
One thing I'm really looking forward to is Adobe Flash, which I know Gingerbread and this device support, but I still have a few questions for people who actually own it. I've watched a lot of reviews, but none of them have really focused on or demonstrated the capability. Here are my questions:
1) What version of Flash does this device run?
2) How well/smoothly does it run? Say I wanted to watch a video on a site like Megavideo, how well would it work?
3) I know there are alternate browsers to the default one, does Flash work with any of them?
Thanks in advance for any answers, I really appreciate it!
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Hi,
Re. 1) I currently have 11.1.111.5, from the Android Market on my SGP5. Also, Adobe AIR 3.1.0.488 (also from Market).
Re. 2) I watch streamed Flash videos from various websites. It mostly seems to work ok. The websites I use typically don't host the videos themselves, so I'm not always 100% of the actual streamer, but typically, it'd be like Tudou, etc. Some of them behave strangely within different browsers (esp. placement of the Flash frame).
Re. 3) I've used Flash with default browser, Dolphin Mini, Xscope, and Opera. Firefox doesn't support Flash yet, I think (not sure why). I think that I also tried a couple of other browsers. Xscope use to be my favorite, but several months ago, I started having problems with Flash and Xscope (window would go black when the Xscope menu was visible), so I've mostly been using Dolphin Mini and Opera with Flash lately. Both perform about the same, Flash-wise.
Jim
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Hi,
Re. 1) I currently have 11.1.111.5, from the Android Market on my SGP5. Also, Adobe AIR 3.1.0.488 (also from Market).
Re. 2) I watch streamed Flash videos from various websites. It mostly seems to work ok. The websites I use typically don't host the videos themselves, so I'm not always 100% of the actual streamer, but typically, it'd be like Tudou, etc. Some of them behave strangely within different browsers (esp. placement of the Flash frame).
Re. 3) I've used Flash with default browser, Dolphin Mini, Xscope, and Opera. Firefox doesn't support Flash yet, I think (not sure why). I think that I also tried a couple of other browsers. Xscope use to be my favorite, but several months ago, I started having problems with Flash and Xscope (window would go black when the Xscope menu was visible), so I've mostly been using Dolphin Mini and Opera with Flash lately. Both perform about the same, Flash-wise.
Jim
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Thanks a ton, that was pretty much what I was looking for!
I'm still wondering about the Flash performance though, you mentioned strange behavior in window placement, but I'm more curious about whether or not it's possible to watch a video without framerate issues, artifacts, etc.
EDIT: Also, you said that Opera and Dolphin Mini perform similarly, but how do they compare to the default browser?
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Thanks a ton, that was pretty much what I was looking for!
I'm still wondering about the Flash performance though, you mentioned strange behavior in window placement, but I'm more curious about whether or not it's possible to watch a video without framerate issues, artifacts, etc.
EDIT: Also, you said that Opera and Dolphin Mini perform similarly, but how do they compare to the default browser?
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Hi,
There was, I think, an earlier 11.x version of Flash that I had problems with "tearing", and I had to fallback to 10.x, but that was on my Gtablet. I haven't seen that problem with the 11.x on the SGP5.
Mostly when I see problems with pauses, I've concluded that they weren't with Flash itself, but because of loads on the websites themselves, at least on the ones that I use (mostly streaming Kdrama site). I can't prove that, but it's because if I get on at different times or days, it'll be fine.
I haven't used the default browser much (actually not at all), so I can't give you info on that. Sorry.
Jim
Alright, thanks for clarifying
Anyone else have anything to say about Flash performance and whether or not that same performance differs between the default and other browsers?
The flash on my Player run quite well. It's so much better than iPod
Hey all.
Just wanted to share with you a series of youtube videos I'm doing covering all aspects of the TFP. I'm well aware that many of you in this forum are far more knowledgable than me about getting the best out of the prime but it's thanks to little help posts and stuff that I've learned the things I've learned so I thought I'd share my knowledge as I learn more and more and enjoy what the prime has to offer. I've tried using the youtube link button but it doesn't seem to set them up as videos so I guess you'll have to use the links. I'll update this thread as and when I make more videos. Thanks for watching and commenting in advance
Thanks
THANKS. AS I ran out of them. YouTube button is easy to use. Just press it. Then add the YouTube video code in the middle. Make sure no spaces are in-between. I had a hard time at first figuring it out. The spaces are what messed me up. Now its very easy to do and works. It would be better for you to convert links to embedded videos. To keep everything centralized and within this thread. If I get a chance, I might look into converting them for you. It is alot of videos though..lmfao. or I might make you a little how to on it.
Will be checking these out soon.
Thanks for your efforts.
Setting up a bluetooth mouse
Here's another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jethnymDlmY - Setting up a bluetooth mouse
And here's an attempt with the youtube button. Still doesn't seem to work for me
See only this part " jethnymDlmY" needs to go in-between [YOUTUBE]exAmplecode[YOUTUBE] Best way is go to desktop YouTube site. Then on video page, click share that's underneath video. A code will pop up like the one you just tried to post. Instead of the whole thing, only grab the last part of code /last part. Then come back here. Make your post. Press YouTube button. Then paste code exactly in the middle. Make sure no spaces. Then press OK or whatever and video should be embedded. That's exactly what I did with what I saw you try to post. Put last part of code in between both [YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE] And here's the embedded video
Awesome. Thanks for that. I've worked out how to fix it - done one video. I'll do the rest soon.
Videos now fixed and embedded. Thanks to demandarin. More videos coming soon
A video review about google currents
A highlight reel of the videos I've done so far
Fixed the above one which was showing the wrong video. Today's video is about my cloud storage.
One I'm sure most of you are aware of but a useful demonstration of the volume difference using your right hand.
Putting Snesdroid through its paces.
Hi there, not to disrupt the cleanliness of your thread here, but:
Did you happen to catch the app that would let us stream chosen content (say YouTube as the most obvious) over other apps? I'm pretty sure I remember just such an app being named at some point and have since lost the thread.
Don't know to be honest. Sorry
This is a two-parter. Things didn't go quite as planned because of the tablet and applications. That's why I did it though; to show if it could be done, how difficult it could be to do and what the final end product would look like. It shows how, productivity wise, tablets just still aren't up to the task.
The first video is actually the final product of me recording stuff with the Prime tablet and editing it together using the Movie Studio app.
The second video is of me editing the first video together.
This is a look at the BBC iplayer application/website.
A look at the ASUS exclusive widget: myzine
A pretty cool news app here for you. News Republic.
MX Video and Swipepad
Two vids today. One about MX Video
The second is about an application I came across after it being mentioned on here actually: Swipe pad - a very cool task switcher/app launcher app.
Today's video is a look at a variant of the News Republic app I did a few days ago. This one is called Appy Geek.
might be time to make vids of newer apps n stuff. like overskreen, stickit, etc...more hardcore apps that'll gain interest. also, how come you just don't organize all your videos into the OP? instead of being spread throughout the thread where posts integrate with them and vids will be lost in the pages.
just a tip. good work regardless
Here's what I want to do: I'd like to be able to take multiple videos throughout the day and then at the end of the day join them together as one video to upload to YouTube.
Here's the problem: I can't join videos together that are VFR (variable framerate). They need to be converted to CFR first. However, no matter how I try converting them, I always end up with audio/video sync problems. I've spent days and done lots of research and tested several programs/methods to accomplish this. There's still more for me to try, but so far I've not been successful.
Which brings me back to: If I can just get the RAZR to record videos with a constant framerate, the above problem(s) should be eliminated.
My current favorite camcorder app is the LG Camera ("LG" having no relation to the electronics manufacturer). It has many options and blah blah blah. One of the options is to set the framerate. Offers selections as low as 2 FPS up to 60 FPS. Unfortunately (and I have emailed the dev about this), changing this setting doesn't seem to have any effect.
This could be because of a firmware limitation of the device itself, or it could simply be a bug with the app. I don't know yet. I'm trying to find out.
I did find another post around here about recording videos at 120 FPS or something like that. Seems that making some edits to the build.prop file made the phone think it was recording at that FPS but the resulting file showed otherwise. Well, I'm not looking for any real high FPS for my videos. I figure somewhere around 30 should be good enough. The only thing I really want to know is if there is any possible way I can force the camera to record at a constant framerate.
Perhaps the build.prop file can be edited to allow this. I'm not sure. I certainly hope this is possible one way or another, though.
Thanks for your time.
I was one of the people doing the 120fps experiments, and as you noted, nothing worked. I'm thinking the cpu is simply sending a stream of data that the phone must accept.
I'm pretty sure the phone records in a variant of motion jpeg, and simply takes up to 30 stills per second. I've edited these files myself, and it's a pain in the a**.
You need to find a setting in your video editing app that allows for variable framerate content. VFR for short.
Also, .avi containers doesn't support VFR content. You need to save to MKV, MP4, WMV or ASF. Probably more containers, but those are common.
Thanks for the response.
Well, bad news and good news.
Bad news is, I was never able to find any program that could properly convert and/or join the video files without blatant sync problems as a result.
The good news is that the above is not 100% true. After posting my question, I had received some help elsewhere and ended up using ffmpeg and MEncoder (both command line tools for video processing). ffmpeg converts the files to CFR and then MEncoder joins them together. These two utilities combined with the automation power of AutoHotkey allowed me to create an AHK script that will convert and join all the videos successfully simply by dropping the files in the folder and running the script.
In the rare case someone else comes here with the same problem, here's the video-help thread that brought me to this solution: ~~~ Okay, I can't post links. In that case, here's a sample command line for converting the file to CFR:
Code:
ffmpeg -i input01.mp4 -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 1800k -c:a copy -vsync 1 -r 25 temp_output01.mp4
You'll have to run ffmpeg separately on each file, I believe.
Here's a sample MEncoder command line for joining the converted files together:
Code:
mencoder input01.mp4 input02.mp4 input3.mp4 -vf harddup -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o joined_output.mp4
You can enter in as many input video filenames as you want to join together.
After I found a solution for converting and joining, I decided to leave this post up because I still wanted to find out if recording in CFR on the Droid was possible. I'm guessing it isn't. That's too bad.
I read about that actually, problem is that directly converting to CFR makes the video somewhat choppy. As you are either playing the same frame twice, or removing a frame to compensate for the fps you're using.
If I'm not too confused, you can interpolate the missing frames to make it appear smoother. At least in some video editors.
Yeah. Fortunately, so far I haven't noticed any obvious issues with the final video.