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[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I would call 480i an interface, not a resolution.

Most standard DVDs (and all modern standard DVDs) have video on them with 480 lines of resolution (480p). Some earlier DVD players (like from 10-15 years ago) could only send that 480 lines of data to TV interleaved (240 lines one frame, 240 next frame). All modern DVDs connected with component or HDMI send the unaltered 480p to the TV.

In phones, you use progressive by design (every frame is shown as full 480 lines of picture)

When you take a 1080p bluray and send that 1080p video to phone straight away, your phone will downconvert 1080p to 480p to show on a 480x800 screen. That downconversion process will produce WORSE resulting picture than a studio-cut original 480p standard DVD.
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
alright that's just how I understood it... that and an xbox 360 running on my old 32 inch tube tv won't give me a resolution higher then 480i lol

Edit: another question though... does 480 lines necessarily mean it's 480p? I though it also had something to do with the post processing done on the monitor as well?
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
If your TV is capable of physically addressing 480 lines on the screen, it DOES have resolution of 480. However if the circuitry can only produce those 480 lines in two passes by 240 lines, each pass showing every other line, then you are seeing 480i picture.

CRT TVs where a ray is used to quickly draw every single line, and that ray is not quick enough to draw 480 lines for every single frame, it would use 480i to show half frame each time.

480 lines for each frame are stored on your DVD. If you connect DVD player to TV with a composite cable you can only pass 480i signal. Same if your TV can only accept composite, or produce interlaced picture.for any reasons (see CRT example above).

With phones, you are not passing signal over any cables, and LCD/oled screens have enough power in the hardware to show all 480 lines at each frame. So you always use P in phones for videos.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
True but i would like to add that 480i not a simple limitation of CRT, there are hundreds of CRT out there who display resolution of 2048x1536.

The main problem was the bandwidth of the cables themselves and not by the CRT technology.

The 480i is indeed long gone, it was used when analog signals were simply not prepared to output such a high definition, therefor to overcome that situation, tvs were made with an interlaced technology, basically displaying the same frame twice on different vlines of the screen, giving you the illusion that the image was beying displayed at a bigger resolution, even though it wasnt.

So he is correct when he says 480p as a more standard resolution than 480i, especially since we live in 2011 now and Interlaced imo is not really a true resolution.

Think of 1280*720p vs 1920*1080i, alot of ppl would prefer 1280*720p over the interlaced especially since lcds cant handle interlaced outputs as good as crts can.
[Galaxy S II General] xateeq:
+1

Sent from my MB860
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
I'd just like to point out that I'm not completely retarded.... hell I'm a Computer Systems Engineering Student (what would happen if Electronics Engineering and Software Engineering had a kid) I know how CRT works lol I was just asking out of clarification no need to make a guy feel dumb :(
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
i dont know how we made you feel dumb, youve asked a question, weve answeared it unbiased, with facts, thats all.
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
yeah this was me taking a break from studying lol I was feeling vulnerable sorry bout that... god damn exams kicking my ass
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
no worries mate. :)
[Galaxy S II General] ndnesh:
And to answer the original question, some good quality videos can be downloaded from the below sites:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/

http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Hey Cool! I am able to post links! yay!!
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Google "Killa Sample" this scene from the BBC is used a lot to test how well devices can play it back very high framerate!

1080p, 33.1 Mbps 5.1 profile 16 ref frames video sequence
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Oh old HTPC example :)

You would want to use Killa Sample ONLY to test the performance of Graphics subsystem of your device, usually HTPCs. It would tax the hell out of your processor, and if the vid is not playing back smooth enough, your graphics hardware is not good enough.

However in real life you will NEVER run anything like this on a phone :) As was mentioned before in this thread, 480p is the most you should be using, to get best picture and not abuse CPU/battery.

Saying all this just to prevent hard attacks in people who would try this mkv on their SGS2 :) Although SGS2 may as well handle this vid just fine.
[Galaxy S II General] XDA mark:
I used this back in the days of the HTC HD2, first awesome 4.3 inch device. And I plan on doing on the SGS2 as well :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Colors, sexyness, nice song.
[Galaxy S II General] cTrox:
Are you kidding? This isn't 1080p at all and not even good 720p quality.

And in my opinion, this song is just terrible!
[Galaxy S II General] XDA mark:
Like stated, the 480p vids look best. Choose whatever vid you like, I'm just saying the people I know will be impressed when they see that vid on a SAMOLED Plus display :)
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Not sure if this qualifies, but I always loved this video.

http://vimeo.com/21294655
[Galaxy S II General] Ayrlupine:
Absolutely beautiful!!!
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Thanks, I am looking for the TRUE 1080P vid of this, I have emailed the poster to see whether if he could share it.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Are you talking about the Aurora video?

WHY WOULD YOU EMAIL THE POSTER?

This is vimeo, the best HD video site.

You can see on that page:

Original video: MOV, 1920x1080, 1108.33MB, login to download.

Just download, do not bother the poster, he is probably busy making another great movie :)
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Woops, Didnt know...

Thanks for the heads up. :)
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
slightly off topic, but still...

Eldar Murtazin now claims those prototypes with no logo on the front were using an Amoled but not final. He is not clear if he means previous generation SAmoled or a draft version of SA+.

http://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/59298676211855360

I think he is wrong, he is not that tech savvy as far as I can see from his reviews.

He posted that tweet in reference to someone else's review he criticized. That reviewer concluded that SGSII was not that special, and he was especially disappointed with Exynos and mentioned that there was no support for it, and most developers would just support Tegra 2 in the future. :)

Use google translate if you want to read that critical review

http://hi-tech.mail.ru/review/misc/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II_GT-I9100_obzor.html
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
I totally agree that devs will focus on tegra and not exynos. At the end tegra 2 will be on a lot of phones and exynos on one and not all the versions of that one. Market is much bigger for tegra.

Exinos looks like a total failure for gaming enthusiast, and much more if we compare it with the minimum sgx543 that will use the i5.

But, after all of that, samsung will offer a quality audio that no other offers at the moment in android market, a nice screen for some people, and a great camera.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
didn't stop the developers from supporting Galaxy S when it was the only phone with hummingbird cpu and sgx gpu

I'm sure if samsung is popular as they were with previous gen then dev support will be there
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
the devs doesnt had any other good gpu in the market. Snapdragon was not enough, and the updated versions of desire hd were launched too late with a small life against the future new dual cores.

Galaxy was the first smartphone with a decent life in the market and a good GPU, now tegra is the reference and have tegra shop and a lot of games specifically designed to that CPU. Even if Samsung sells 10 million, tegra 2 will have 100 in the market and we will see the same thing as iphone/ipad.

100 million android devices cant compete with 1000 o apple, and that is the reason of ID software and epic games doesnt port their games and engines to android platform, and if some day they do it, they will focus on tegra 2 not exynos.

Seriously, if you are going to buy a new phone for gaming, forget this phone and buy another with tegra 2, or the galaxy s2 tegra version.
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
Is it me or does that look like some sort of prototype of SGSII.

He mentions it having 2.3.1 which surely wont be the case in final release. Also mentioned is 1Ghz chip which is now 1.2Ghz and also no NFC contact points for back cover (assuming the implementation will be similar to Nexus S ).

The devices
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
The author of the review says he reviewed "almost" final version.

Eldar who criticized that review called it BS and claimed it was pointless because the review was of a very old prototype.

Eldar however has to be taken with a grain of salt. He reviewed an Android phone for Russian market recently, that was supposed to support Russian military GloNaSS satellite navigation, and claimed there was no support for GloNaSS. His main reason for claiming that? Google Maps application had same exact size in bytes as the version on the same phone with regular GPS support. :)
[Galaxy S II General] cTrox:
I can't download the video from Vimeo. I have an account and I'm logged in but it just says "Sorry, not available for download."

Can you give me a link?
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
Ahh, I dont really know who Eldar is, but what I said was from my observations.

Sure phone hardware might be close to final. But Its clear from his article and pictures he posted that it does not have final software version. AFAIK SGS II will come out with 2.3.3. We already know how big a difference GPU drivers make. Take an example of DHD. It gets huge bump with GPU driver fix in Nenamark.

The score from the Neocore is about same as what original SGS and Nexus S gets right now. I highly doubt Samsung will make a second generation GS with something thats same or worse than the previous generation Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S II General] Nameless21:
have a look at this
[Galaxy S II General] johnsonc:
Nope, GLONASS was definately there and he showed that with the appropriate app that could show GLONASS and GPS satellites. His point was about inability of applications to actually access and use GLONASS data due to the fact that they were identical in size to the same apps installed on devices with GPS only.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Sorry I take that back then. The uploader did not enable the option of sharing the raw upload.

You can try this temporary hacked link that would give you just 11 MB standard def file, same file you see on the vimeo site. This link will work probably for 10 minutes

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop/play/clip:21294655/6812176bcbf5f64e8d55571b8fc683f2/1302983357

Another good video on vimeo that has the download option enabled is this (but it is 720p only)

http://vimeo.com/19449647
[Galaxy S II General] shaddix2:
Thanks for the hilarious read.
[Galaxy S II General] digitaldw:
That is a beautiful video, it always amazes me how much we miss of the night sky living in large cities
[Galaxy S II General] mur76:
another brilliant video, may be even better, from the same author:

http://vimeo.com/22439234
[Galaxy S II General] henrikrox:
is there a way to download these movies, the aurora and the mountain? would be a great showcase video indeed

i know i can get the 50mb ones but the source video is hard to get i guess
[Galaxy S II General] virussnake:
clipnabber works very well
[Galaxy S II General] henrikrox:
thats what i use, but i just get the 50mb file, the source isnt what hes uploaded on vimeo.

Oh well, shame it says login to download, and when i login, it says download not available
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
this will do just fine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyly3JtXoy4

;)
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Thanks...

When I came down to India the first time, I could see the night sky as clear as day... It was truly amazing...

Thankfully I was not living in the city area, and on the bit of outer portion, the further outside the city, the clearer the sky.
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
demo helicopter from samsung omnia hd
[Galaxy S II General] RJvXP:
If I get the SGS2, I would showcase this:

http://youtu.be/PIZL7-HGKkI?hd=1
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Wow, the aurora video (and the guys other videos) are awesome. Thanks!

...and to those who are talking about 1080p being a waste of time on the phone screen - of course you are right BUT if you really want to wow people then you'll play it on the phone, and then connect to your 1080p TV, and utterly floor them...

I for one will be watching a lot of 720 and 1080p material via this handset.
[Galaxy S II General] psych2l:
Great suggestions, I would like to throw in this, good music, vibrant colors, and a great take :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
SUSHI!!!!!!!!!! :)
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
I hate fishes...

But this video is beautiful and vibrant.
[Galaxy S II General] linhsiaohung:
maybe a little off topic, but how do I copy a 1080p movie over 4gb to the phone?
[Galaxy S II General] virussnake:
why would you do that??? what a waste of space... aside from one or two cool hd videos its pointless to cramp your memory with 1080p movies... it wont make any difference on the sgs2's display...

and if you just want to hook it up with your tv to watch it there, get a usb flashdrive....
[Galaxy S II General] linhsiaohung:
I have a 32gb microsdhc with my i9000, it sort of work as my flashdrive now since everything else is on the cloud. So I'd like to know the possibility, and also what if I'm recording 1080p with i9100 and the file is over 4gb?
[Galaxy S II General] virussnake:
now that is more applicable and reasonable, nobody can tell till some people get their hands on the retail version
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Phonearena's 1080p sample is 2.13 MB per second of video. So you can fit slightly over 30 minutes in a 4 GB file. If you plan on filming more than 30 mins at 1080p in a single scene, I suggest you bring your camcorder to the occasion. :)

Also, I am not sure if SGS2 would let you save a file bigger than 4 GB on the internal ext4 filesystem. ext4 natively has 16 TB file size limit.
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
agree on the camcorder bit.. but with ext4 natively supporting 16TB max file size wouldn't that just mean 4 GB+ file sizes are just peach? Doesn't make sense to me that they'd modify the file system...

Edit: I had extra things to say
[Galaxy S II General] moparman:
This is an important question..

In this goggle translateted review it says

Separately, I note right up to 32 GB of built-in Galaxy S II memory, this is not no one else smartphone Android. Here are just a small reservation here. The fact that the memory is formatted in FAT32, and supports a maximum file size 4 GB, which means the standard BDRip'y to MKV 5-6 GB by.

If you try to format the storage Galaxy S II a different system on their own, the smartphone does not recognize it and automatically formats the back at the next reboot, removing all the recorded data

http://translate.google.com/transla.../misc/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II_GT-I9100_obzor.html

Its the only text i found of files over 4 gig.

Why Fat 32 ?

Is the internal memory Fat-32 and system ext4 ?

Or is it a prototype ?

If all is ext4 there should not be a problem

gsmarena just write this

The video player had absolutely no trouble with any of the files we threw at it – starting with .WMV, through .AVI (DivX and XviD) and .MP4 to .MKV (H.264). Resolution wasn’t a problem either – the Samsung Galaxy S II played FullHD files. Large files of over 2GB worked as well.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-review-588p4.php
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Thanks for the link (that I posted here before and forgot). Yes I now remember reading that review. The guy says (human translation) that the internal user-accessible FS is fat32.

This actually makes sense - SGS lets you mount itself to a computer as a storage device. And MACs and PCs have one thing in common - they can read fat32 :)

It made perfect sense to have these internal FS be fat32.

I believe this is a NON FREAKING ISSUE guys. One out of a hundred of us will be filming in 1080p (it makes no sense storage wise, and you can't SHARE these huge vids from the phone). One out of 100 thousands of us will ever run into the 30 min video limit at 1080p. And even then, I think Sammy has a surprise for us in store, it would just split your single take video in multiple files, problem solved :)
[Galaxy S II General] moparman:
I dont think its an issue when recording movie..

But for some people its a disappointment not to use BDRip'y to MKV 5-6 GB .

Not a problem for me but.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Why would I waste space on my phone with a 6 GB BD rip with 7.2 sound and 1080p resolution, when I can have a 1 GB version with with just 480 lines of resolution and stereo sound, PERFECT thing for playing back on the phone?

Besides being able to only keep 2 of huge movies on the standard 16 GB SGSII, instead of the optimal 12 movies, I would waste more battery power per movie, taxing the CPU with downconversion of the 1080p picture.

If I want to play it back on my TV from the phone, I would just use DLNA or some app to stream the movie to my TV from a NAS or some other home storage.
[Galaxy S II General] moparman:
Just saying that some people will have an issue :)

Hard to make everyone happy :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
And for those people with issues, this great video "The Mountain" someone posted here previously

http://vimeo.com/22439234

It is NOT available as a download because the author protected it on vimeo. He sells HD copies, it is his business. He busted his ass making that video. It is not a 30 second video he shot in 10 minutes, it is a time-lapse that took him perhaps 2 weeks to shoot and master. The video is probably shot with Canon Mark III or something similar, on a dolly that costs more than 50 SGSIIs.

Anyway, back to my point. He does not allow downloading the 1080p of that 3 minute video. You can probably contact him and buy the video and a license to show it. The file size of it is 2.7 GB.

I however suggest you do not short-change yourself. Go straight for the "Digital Cinema 4K" version he is also selling. He would send it to you probably on a hard drive, as the file size would be around 11 GB. You can then cut the file into 3 one-minute chunks, suffocate your 16 GB SGS2 with it, and if the video plays back on SGSII, demo it to your friends. Good luck.

:)
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Not sure if this has been posted but one for the lads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdySQHhLXjA&feature=player_detailpage
[Galaxy S II General] virussnake:
some videos in here have been downright hilarious
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] optimuschile:
First of all sorry for my english, im not a native speaker

EDIT: Let me explain again, i dont want a new contacts app nither a new dialing app. What i want is an app that changes the answering call ui like easy answer (http://www.appbrain.com/app/easy-answer-button-free/org.nsd.easyanswer) but with better design and mainly i want REALLY BIG buttons for easy access when im driving, my main goal is to place my optimus on the car dock and by using an app that i already have to make all calls go trough loud speaker having an easy and free hands free :D

If anyone could help me find sutable app i would be really greatful
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] pymebrahimi:
You can use GO Contacts... a contacts and call manager for android... it is in market if u can acces (maybe a newer version)... otherwise you can download it here.
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] optimuschile:
Sorry i think i explained myself wrong i have now edited the first post to make myself clear
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] 4silvertooth:
Don't u have CarHome
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] optimuschile:
Actually i do, but car ui doesnt change at all the interfase of answering a call.

Anyone has an alternative to "easy answer button" i mean its agly and i want an even bigger button
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] 29988122:
bump

I also have the same problem, And if it's possible to directly modify phone.apk, it would be good!
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] optimuschile:
finally someone understood my problem

i now have a question what if I ask in the development sub forum if they can enlarge the buttons to answer and reject call? is it posible to edit the phone.apk file?
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] kokesh:
TAKEphONE dialer

My choice

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.shsh.android.atakephone
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] optimuschile:
I'have now created a thread were i explain better

Plz help

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1065709
[Xoom Themes and Apps] chbennett:
Has anyone seen a good calculator app that works well on xoom? (With lots of feautures, think like a graphing calculator)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jwischka:
I use Droid48, which is an emulator of the old HP-48GX. Quite nice.

If you're not into RPN, there are a couple of TI emulators. No 89, though, sadly.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Scooterman1:
I love Real Calc
[Galaxy S I9000 General] indianx:
Hi

I dont know why the pictures and videos of my games shows up in the gallery. Is there a way to remove them without deleting them from the game directory?

It never happened before but it happened since i upgraded to darky 9.5
[Galaxy S I9000 General] itenos:
Simply place an empty file called .nomedia in each directory you want to hide. Don't forget the dot in front of the name.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] indianx:
awesome thanks. it works
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dyskmaster:
hey, I already have an expensive smartphone plan but I want all the experience of android so I am looking for a somewhat inexpensive WiFi only android powered tab with a good build quality (good specs, multitouch, at least 6-7 inches, 1ghz, you know, that stuff). I currently have a windows phone, but I used android long ago and I was wondering, is this the tab for me?

also, is the android experience good on the tab?

and another thing/ slightly off topic, if I bought apps in the amazon app store, can I download them on the samsung galaxy tab?

sorry for this barrage of questions, but I just don't know if this is the right tablet for me
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natious:
The tab is the best 7inch tablet on the market hands down, i love mine to death and it goes everywhere with me besides the pub. It was my first android device, but its not that different from android phones ive used, its just wayyy better for gaming and web related stuff
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrammarFreak:
Just to provide some colour (yes, that's the correct spelling of colour) to the argument:

No. Don't get one.

;) :p
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] {Diemex}:
I also wouldnt buy one,

I just got one bbecause I only had 300€ and no cellphone, so this is my all in one device.

But it really isnt as great as I thought and if you have a gooood cellphone already a 7inch tablet wont give you much more functionality...

I thought it would be great, it is, but not really functional. :D
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dyskmaster:
Thanks for the input. If I don't get this tablet, what tablet would you suggest (I don't have a laptop anymore so I want another mobile computing device, other than my tower) for under $500 USDollars?