Best video format for HTC TC?

[jant90]

What's the best video format for this PDA? What format plays it best? (Without fps drops). I've ordered the TC but it's still on it's way so I started preparing by getting the correct programs for it.

Thanks in advance.

[panosha]

Try DivX Converter. :)

[nikiiv]

What's the best video format for this PDA? What format plays it best? (Without fps drops). I've ordered the TC but it's still on it's way so I started preparing by getting the correct programs for it.

Thanks in advance.

Pocket Divx Encoder - it is free and it does the job..
Just leave the settings as is and do 320x240 resolution - I am not experiencing any issues with videos done like this.

[BadTasteUK]

Top Tip. Thanks Nikiiv. Will try it today.

[panosha]

Pocket Divx Encoder - it is free and it does the job..
Great program (with free xVid), but DivX Converter is better.

[benzo8]

Whichever converter you use isn't particularly important. The OP asked about video *formats*. Down-sizing an AVI to 320x240 (as mentioned above) certainly seems to work fine on my TC - 227% on Core Player during a high action scene. So that's certainly what I'd recommend - AVI, 320x240...

[Rudegar]

avi is not a true format though it's a container which can include various formats
divx being one of the nicer ones

think it's the same with mov from apple it also have various formats like mp4 and others

[evert]

Can anyone do some speed comparison on DivX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divx) vs. Xvid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid)?

Or perhaps 3GP plays more efficiently? Or some other format?

Has anyone done some testing with this? Taken a source file and converted it to the various formats a TC can handle, and seen which of these formats gets handled best? :cool:

[Turnipio]

I have tried a few different formats (I converted Holy Grail; Life of Brian and Meaning of Life so I can have them witn me at all times). I had set them all to convert at 320x 240.

I used Roxio10 to do the conversions.

I had initially been playing back on WM Player but found CorePlayer better ito ease of use and DivX playback.

3GP: smallest size of about 118MB; video was a little too blocky and there was some Video/Audio lag.

WMV9: large size, excellent picture quality but very choppy video and some Video/Audio lag.

WMDevices: as in WMV9 but much less choppiness and better Video/Audio lag.

DivX:
Large size (about 408-448MB per movie); excellent picture quality, no VIdeo/Audio lag.

Therefore, I deleted all other formats and now just use DivX with Coreplayer.

Videos/Movies are stored on a Sandisk 6GB Micro-SDHC card.

Hope this helps you with your choices.


T

[jant90]

I have tried a few different formats (I converted Holy Grail; Life of Brian and Meaning of Life so I can have them witn me at all times). I had set them all to convert at 320x 240.

I used Roxio10 to do the conversions.

I had initially been playing back on WM Player but found CorePlayer better ito ease of use and DivX playback.

3GP: smallest size of about 118MB; video was a little too blocky and there was some Video/Audio lag.

WMV9: large size, excellent picture quality but very choppy video and some Video/Audio lag.

WMDevices: as in WMV9 but much less choppiness and better Video/Audio lag.

DivX:
Large size (about 408-448MB per movie); excellent picture quality, no VIdeo/Audio lag.

Therefore, I deleted all other formats and now just use DivX with Coreplayer.

Videos/Movies are stored on a Sandisk 6GB Micro-SDHC card.

Hope this helps you with your choices.


T

That was really useful, thanks. I'm already using CloneDVD Mobile to convert my DVDs (to DivX, 320 x 240) and it does the job really well. I'm using the generic DivX setting, 1 pass and quality set at 66 (I think I can have it lower without a visible quality loss), cropping of the black bars at the top and bottom (full letterbox zoom) and including subtitles of choice. It only takes around 30~ minutes to convert an entire DVD. File got 1,05 GB at this quality though. Also I saw that CloneDVD is using DivX4, will this be a problem? (Latest version is 6).

Now I just need a program to convert my movie files, I tried Pocket Divx Encoder quickly but it gave me errors. I'll play with it some more.

Thanks again,
Jan

[profitoral]

I use SUPER as my video converter between any type of video files and I think it's pretty good and is also free!:

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Cheers.
= J =

[jant90]

I use SUPER as my video converter between any type of video files and I think it's pretty good and is also free!:

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Cheers.
= J =

Good tip, the program looks really nice! Too bad the lastest version is bugged for Vista users (like me). How is this program handling subs (if you tested it)? I believe it can only encode subs via DirectShow, right?

[profitoral]

Good tip, the program looks really nice! Too bad the lastest version is bugged for Vista users (like me). How is this program handling subs (if you tested it)? I believe it can only encode subs via DirectShow, right?

I never tried subs... I think I would go blind trying to watch them in such small screen :-)

Cheers.
= J =

[jant90]

Hmm, SUPER is doing a good job but I can't combine cropping with resizing, I wanna crop my 16:9 movies to 4:3, but the cropsettings get overwritten by the resize settings. Also I'm more looking for a one-click-crops-all solution, like CloneDVD Mobile is doing with it's letterbox zoom option. Does anybody know if there is such a program?

[edan]

Playing DivX files with CorePlayer produces a nervous audio sync effect, that is impossible to get just right, even with tweaking the a/v sync.

Playing them with DivX Player mobile is the best, after you adjust the player's a/v sync to about +.25 s.

Anyone else done this?

[tormoddf]

Playing DivX files with CorePlayer produces a nervous audio sync effect, that is impossible to get just right, even with tweaking the a/v sync.

Playing them with DivX Player mobile is the best, after you adjust the player's a/v sync to about +.25 s.

Anyone else done this?

Adjusting it to -0.25s seemed to help me immensely with my sync issues, both in Core player and TCPMP. With Coreplayer, QTV and Medium quality a 512*288 DivX of Jericho seems watchable without any noticeable slowdowns. Will be doing some more testing, and will see if I can try DivX Mobile too..

*Edit* Wow DivX Mobile was awful. Horrible framerate AND quality, hardly any settings to choose from, and the interface was terrible too. That's not staying on my memorycard.. :)

[edan]

I just installed the updated CorePlayer, the previous one made picture taking unusable, and did the -.25 a/v sync, and it really looks good. I hardly notice any dropped frames.

I've pinned the CorePlayer shortcut to directly to the touchFlo cube. That's the best we can get right now...

[sonus]

Good tip, the program looks really nice! Too bad the lastest version is bugged for Vista users (like me). How is this program handling subs (if you tested it)? I believe it can only encode subs via DirectShow, right?

Don't know about you two, but I would try the damned Super program if the website wasn't so flawed (not to mention verbose) as to bring me about in circles. And yes, I did read his note about empyting my cache and Java, and blah blah blah, he needs to fix that website.

Edit: Just found the actual link after skimming everyingthing, I'll edit this post w/my impressions once I try it out.

[Creeep]

I´m using Spb Mobile DVD.

XviD - 25fps - 320x240 - 500kbit/sec


Playing this stuff with CorePlayer 1.2.0.. Its perfect :)

[evert]

I just installed the updated CorePlayer, the previous one made picture taking unusable


Which version caused problems, and which version do you have now? :cool:

[Straputsky]

For DVDs I use Handbrake. It's a nice and easy program.

[merkman]

Creeep - Giving those apps a try before heading out on a trip. Hopefully it will work as well for me as it does for you. :)