Divx/Xvid, and MKV Oh My

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So i have had my nexus one for a while. I have been converting my videos wiht hand brake and what not. And I gotta think there is a better way to get Xvid movies to play on the phone.

anyone have luck with yxplayer?

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yxplayer keeps crashing on 2.2

Its called Rock Player (not free).

Originally Posted by Festaman

So i have had my nexus one for a while. I have been converting my videos wiht hand brake and what not. And I gotta think there is a better way to get Xvid movies to play on the phone.

anyone have luck with yxplayer?

One need not transcode the video to make it compatible. Android simply does not understand the PACKAGE and/or FOURCC. Your "xvid" video contains a fourcc of "xvid" when, in fact, it is simply h263 (and should have a fourcc of "h263").

One can simply use ffmpeg like such:

ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -vtag h263 -i inputfile outputfile.mp4
(or outputfile.3gp)
It will be nearly instantaneous.
You can even loop this over an entire directory like so:

mkdir outdir
for FILE in *.videoextension
do
ffmpeg .... -i "$FILE" "outdir/$FILE.mp4"
done

You can even get fancy....
mkdir tmp
for FILE in *.videoextension
do
ffmpeg ...
adb push "tmp/$FILE.mp4" "/sdcard/videos/"
rm -f "tmp/$FILE.mp4"
done
rm -rf tmp

Hmm.. Thats too much work :D. I installed The Rock Player and it is liek a dream come true. I need to get somethign like this for my ipad! (dont kill me)

For those who want to convert videos with handbrake here's an easy guide: http://thegreencodeblog.com/2010/04/...ndroid-device/

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