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oneonezerosix

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with the x10's huge screen, i'd like to know where i can get high def movie files to put on my sd card.

anyone know?
 

oneonezerosix

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i didn't say download. look again. but even with a redeem code with dvds and blu rays, the file formats are mpegs
 

saltorio

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For encoding, try Handbrake. It works really well using the iPhone preset (just make sure to adjust the video width to 854 pixels).

A Blu-ray rip of an episode of Dexter I have looks amazing.
 

SmokinSteveO

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Anyone try and encode an HD movie on handbrake ?

I convert a 8gb 720P movie, set the bit rate at 1500...The vid took about 8 hours convert, and ended up being 3gb when done...set at 854x480...I also tried designating the output file size to 1.5gb, still took 8 hours...Been using Handbrake for a while now, quite familiar with the "advanced" settings, but taking so damn long to convert 720p movies. Love it none the less...
 

saltorio

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Anyone try and encode an HD movie on handbrake ?

I convert a 8gb 720P movie, set the bit rate at 1500...The vid took about 8 hours convert, and ended up being 3gb when done...set at 854x480...I also tried designating the output file size to 1.5gb, still took 8 hours...Been using Handbrake for a while now, quite familiar with the "advanced" settings, but taking so damn long to convert 720p movies. Love it none the less...

My conversions of BD rips of 1hr TV shows seem to take a bit over 60 minutes each. That's using the iPhone preset with an 854 width setting.
 
Anyone try and encode an HD movie on handbrake ?

I convert a 8gb 720P movie, set the bit rate at 1500...The vid took about 8 hours convert, and ended up being 3gb when done...set at 854x480...I also tried designating the output file size to 1.5gb, still took 8 hours...Been using Handbrake for a while now, quite familiar with the "advanced" settings, but taking so damn long to convert 720p movies. Love it none the less...

i concur, the X10 is capable of 720p playback. I've converted my own AVCHD 720p files and they play perfectly fine on the X10....which is AWESOME.
 

saltorio

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i concur, the X10 is capable of 720p playback. I've converted my own AVCHD 720p files and they play perfectly fine on the X10....which is AWESOME.

Technically, it's not playing 720p. The 720 refers to horizontal lines of resolution, not the vertical lines. 1280x720 is the resolution of 720p.

The X10 is capable of playing what YouTube and other sites call "480p", which is pretty much what DVDs are encoded at.
 

Astral07

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i agree, x10 can play some really HQ files though i find little use of it, a "normal" 350mb episode or 700mb movie will do fine when coverted to .mp4

it's a pitty x10 doesn't have TV-out capability...i had X2 and it worked pretty nicely

is there any way that picture from the x10 could be sent over wireless or am i just talking nonsence :) maybe an app that would show on your PC the screen which is on X10
 

Cinner

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Technically, it's not playing 720p. The 720 refers to horizontal lines of resolution, not the vertical lines. 1280x720 is the resolution of 720p.

The X10 is capable of playing what YouTube and other sites call "480p", which is pretty much what DVDs are encoded at.

This is incorrect. Yes, the X10 is capable of playing 480p, but you make it sound like it can't play anything above that resolution because the screen itself is 480p.

If you play a 720p video on the X10, it will be downscaled to 480p, but the X10 is still decoding the full 720p video which takes quite some horsepower. I used Handbrake to convert a 1080p Youtube trailer to 720p, which the X10 plays, but not without some stutter. Maybe my bitrate setting were a little high and the X10 could play it smoothly on lower encoding settings, but the fact that it plays a perfectly fine quality 720p even with some dropped frames is still pretty impressive.

And no, it's not really usefull to playback any video with a greater resolution that the X10's native screen resolution, but it's fun to play around with IMO. I do wonder if the media player has GPU acceleration. If not, that these results are all the more impressive.