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[Samsung Infuse 4G] Heuser1:
Tried again today. Have been unplugged 6 hours and I am at 50% and have had light-medium? usage. Where should I look to see what xould be using up my batt? I had even turned the display down to 50%. Any ideas or just wait it out another day and see how it goes? Thanks xda!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] wasonamit:
I would check the account sync..Do you have either the bluetooth or GPS on ?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Heuser1:
Neither bluetooth nor wi-fi. Checked apps in settings and did see something like AABserviceSync or something like that running... is that whatvyou were referring to? Do I need to turn thatcoff always? I don't use facebook so that's not a sync issue. Thanks for the input!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] antuus:
Normal usage.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Simba501:
Display time?

Sent from the most interesting device in the world.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] antuus:
About an hour. Don't remember exactly. Ended up plugging it in for tethering.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] speedfreak228:
13 hours and I am down to 13% idk how everyone is getting such good battery life
[Samsung Infuse 4G] b3asty:
So all I did was add the loopy smoothness tweak. All else remains the same (Infused 1.5 with the Defused 1.3 kernel). Strangely my battery life has gone up even more.. and the phone appears to charge faster. Here's a snapshot after taking the battery down close to nil. I was able to get close to 30 hours on one charge... RIDICULOUS!

Sent from an Infused ROM. Woot.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MattSoRaven:
Yeah I gotta say this is great. Thanks so much gtg!

34 hours total battery life, 2 1/2 hours display time. 30min of talk time. I have screen shots, but xda won't let users who've posted less than 8 times post links.

my battery life was totally decent before, but after using Battery Calibrator from the app store and running juice defender with the 1.5 rom I'm very impressed.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Longcat14:
I had to charge my phone because it died, but with Infused 1.5.2, loopy smoothness tweak, and Infusion kernel, I went 2 and a half days before the phone died..

I'll do this again so I can show post a picture. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] b3asty:
That's awesome man.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
My today's stats on infused 1.5.0.

Unplugged: 11.5 hours

Voice calls: 3 hours 13 mins 3 secs (~1.5 hours on bluetooth, rest on speaker)

Display: 3 hours 25 mins 0 secs (1.5 hours browsing/data activities, 2 hours movie)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MattSoRaven:
that rules. Are you under volting? that seriously makes me want to install infusion now. I couldn't find instructions for installing a kernel but will do some searching.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
No sir! After some playing around, I realized that the bundled kernel is very good. I just underclocked to 800 using SetCPU, and that's it. No under volting!

3+ hours voice + ~3.5 hours display is no joke!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MattSoRaven:
cool. I'm totally gonna give infusion a try and see if 800mhz is to my liking or at least for those crazy days where I really need juice. That's some seriously heavy use.

Yeah its funny how all the criticisms of this phone I've read are "it doesn't have 2 cores! Wait for galaxy s2!" Most of them seem to have not used either phone and don't seem to get that not everyone cares about 2 cores.

I'm really interested in having both an awesome phone and not being tethered to a charger.

also, I'm so glad I actually have a phone, instead of checking every day for At&t announcements that don't come.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
Well, I never felt a slow down so far with 800, atleast till now, for all day to day tasks. I tried playing some 3D games too like racing ones, I think like Thunder 2 or something, and never felt any lag.

And I believe in "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush".
[Samsung Infuse 4G] b3asty:
I may have to change tbis thread title... Lol.. Or just leave it buried... I upgraded to gtg's infused gingerbread v2 beta 2 yesterday and the battery life on this sucker is phenomenal. I have been off charge since 7am and, as you can see, gingerbread has really solidified battery usage. 4 hours. 3% gone. Note the estimate in the bottom left corner. Lol I'll be happy with 35 hours.
[Acer Iconia A500] dgcxsk:
Hi folks,

Is there any posibility of a lagfree playing of those videos ?

It sucks watching Videos with less than 20fps...
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
3.1 is supposed to improve playback... just no idea if it will improve 720/1080p playback
[Acer Iconia A500] scottw714:
I use Handbrake and imported these setting I found on the net.

https://sites.google.com/site/theiveryinc/a500files

That Google site is mine.

Converts all my 720p.mkv files perfectly, the only issue is the files are big, 2-4 GB, but the quality is outstanding. They even play on 'Movies' which darkens the navigation bar.
[Acer Iconia A500] Walvater:
i was looking for something like this so many times before, but I never found a stable movie app. On my Samsung Galaxy S II however, it's no problem at all. And that's a freaking phone man! But it's no wonder the hole system is so fast. It makes my newly aquired Iconia looking really sluggish and outdated :-( I don't know if I gonna keep this tablet or gonna look my movies on a 4.3" screen... :(
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
I asked Acer customer support whether they're ever going to support additional formats and they replied that they won't ever add support for MKV and can't comment on the rest. So official support for MKV is out the window.
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
Mkv isn't a video format, it's a container. It's just that most mkv's don't contain only baseline h.264, which is the only supported video format currently. The most benefit would come from adding support for main or high profile h.264
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
I know, it still doesn't help at all if the video player application or framework don't support the container format. I personally love MKV, it's handy to slap in two different audio tracks and subtitles in English, Finnish and the hearing-impaired version, plus any metadata about the movie itself. No need to hassle with several files then.

Indeed. I tried transcoding a 1080p movie to 720p in constant quality mode, both in baseline and high profile modes, and while the quality was the same the high profile one used a lot less storage space. With storage space being rather scarse on mobile devices....

Well, we can only hope. But I don't know if the DSP is beefy enough to decode high profile or if it can be re-programmed to support it. Some DSPs are hardcoded and can't be used for anything other than what they already do when shipped. I don't know anything about Tegra 2 internals so I don't know what to expect.
[Acer Iconia A500] dgcxsk:
I use 3.1 atm, but there is no mentionable ddifference to 3.0.1
[Acer Iconia A500] OrionBG:
The nVIDIA Tegra 2 250 is fully able to hardware decode:

H.264

VC-1 AP

MPEG2

MPEG-4

DivX 4/5

XviD HT

H.263

Theora

VP8

WMV

Sorenson Spark

Real Video

VP6

and encode:

H.264

MPEG4

H.263

VP8

And this is for 1080p both enc/dec

Why ACER can't (won't) support them is beyond me! Even my Single Core 7" Samsung Galaxy TAB can play all 1080p videos I have thrown at it!

And here is the full spec of the Tegra 2 250 Link!
[Acer Iconia A500] dgcxsk:
Is it maybe because of that, that I play these videos from my USB-HDD?
[Acer Iconia A500] OrionBG:
You can always copy one of them to the TAB and see if there is any change ( I doubt it)
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
Using a OLD 60gb usb hdd (literally 8 years old)

And it does not seem to matter - even with the low speed of an old external drive I have no issues playing video from it.

.Mkv -- Regardless of where it is stored is not going to work on the Iconia right now - i don't think there is anything anyone can do or change to fix that right now - the system will not?/can not? use the hardware decoder on mkv files - and software decoding, even for a low bit rate video file is always going to suck.

Hopefully 3.1 will improve our video performance - but I find it a very simple matter to just transcode a video file if the only source I have handy is mkv. Plenty of great and free tools that make the process pretty darn easy. I watch a lot of movies/TV on my a500 - and get a great experience as long as I don't throw .mkv files at it.
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
My understanding is tegra2 will support h.264 high profile up to 720p @ 20mbps, but only baseline profile for 1080p.

With regard to the container format vs video format thing, I'm under the impression that container format support can be added by an app - so even if Acer never support mkv in the default player, if they do add hardware high profile h.264, then other apps should be able to play an mkv that contains high profile h.264 with hardware acceleration.
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
From playing around with PRIMEE, mkv containers are split appropriately and if the video format is supported hardware decoding works. The problem is that there is no support for AC3 therefore majority of compatible MKVs will play very well but have no sound.

Unfortunately once software encoding is enabled we are back to the same stuttery playback issues.

I personally don't believe it's Acers' job to add playback compatibility, I personally believe it should be built into Honeycomb as a baseline. Honeycomb is a tablet OS and as such should be expected to play popular video and audio. codecs. Saying that, if manufacturers did add additional codec support it would be a solid competitive edge.
[Acer Iconia A500] patterson12123:
Use mobo player.
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
Have you read any of the thread, running moboplayer doesn't help, as I mentioned above as soon as you enable software decoding HD MKVs start to get choppy.
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
Ah, that's good to know, so with a baseline h.264 payload an MKV will play fine on stock?

I think it probably IS Acer's job to add codec support, frankly. At the end of the day we're talking about hardware acceleration, and Android provides the software framework for that to work, and it's up to the hardware vendor to make it work with their specific hardware.

Frankly I think Nvidia should be doing it though - it'd do wonders for Tegra 2 sales if they offered up code to support hardware acceleration for their platform on Android.
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
I guess you didn't really do your research on video playback on Honeycomb tablets, did you?

You can not blame Acer for poor HD playback when, frankly, this is a Google/nVidia issue. Currently no 10" Honeycomb tablet can playback high profile encoded HD vides--smoothly, if at all--without reconverting said movies.

There may or may not be a *real* fix in the future (quad core Tegras are right around the corner, so...), only time will tell.
[Acer Iconia A500] OrionBG:
I bought an ACER device so I'll blame them! Problem here is that the Tegra 2 chip is capable to decode and encode the formats at 1080p without problems! The fact that Google still hasn't taken advantage of this feature doesn't mean that ACER couldn't!! To back my words here is an example:

Samsung! The Galaxy S and Galaxy TAB (7") they have much superior video codec support! I'm playing 1080p movies just perfectly on the Galaxy TAB. Samsung have invested in codec support and optimized it for the platform (both Hardware and Software) The Hummingbird CPU is Single Core! So why can't ACER do it? Maybe because they never did something like this before? Maybe because the have done only the hardware till now and they don't have the programmers that can pull this of? Ones the managers at ACER understand that selling thees devices without enhancing the base that Google provides won't cut it, I think we will have a very good device (not that it isn't good now but...)
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
Guess you'll have to "blame" every single manufacturer out there who have a Honeycomb tablet out too, then.

So does the Samsung 10.1 play 1080p videos smoothly?

From what I've been reading.. no. Frankly, watching a 1080p on a 10" tablet is pointless (which is what I'm assuming you're crying about). If 720p isn't "good enough" on a 10" tablet, well, then, time to buy a 17" laptop.
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
That isn't the point. A lot of my source material is 1080p, I would prefer to be able to play it on the tab without having to re-encode it all.
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
Again, this is a Google/nVidia issue.

Do people just not research before buying $500 electronics anymore? This has been a known issue since the Xoom.
[Acer Iconia A500] Justray:
But google makes you OS, nvidia your video chipset, and acer just assembles them all just like legos or a jigsaw puzzle so acer is the leat guilty, i think blame goes for nvidia for not having properly drivers for honeycomb or google for releasing (told the manufacturers to release tablets with android 3.0) not ready to use the FREAKING recomended hardware that google established as standar (no wondering why all honeycomb tablets are almost the same with tegra 2, dual cameras 5mpx and 2mpx, same screen resolution, ratio, size and a whole lot similar?).

You Galaxy S and tab run android 2.2 and 2.3 wich have full support for harware and decoding for mp4 (h.264) up to 1080p. Our acer iconia have android 3.0 "honeycomb" or android 3.01 by updating and DOESNT have 1080p support, even if we have a badass tegra 2 chip in our hands.... Hell i cant even play 480p mkv or rmv cuz honeycomb doesnt support them.... move your hate to the real culptry, google... and maybe nvidia... :rolleyes: maybe a driver related issue.

Agree, even with youtube reviews you can tell android 3.0 sucks ass... hence these new tablets doesnt work as espected, now early adopters and sheeps whine... i just love this tablet and all its features and bugs/errors/defects except for one little big thing... freaking bootloader is locked!!!... not needed for noobs, early adopters and general people, you know normal folks like some here.... whining.
[Acer Iconia A500] Justray:
How do i delete this post
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
I never said it wasn't. I was just stating a reason that people would want to play 1080p video on a 720p screen.
[Acer Iconia A500] OrionBG:
Don't get me wrong here! I love the A500! It is a beautiful device with a lot of potential! But why putting an HDMI port on a Device that can't use it fully? 3.1 brought 1080p resolution to the HDMI port ok, but what will we be playing through it? Yes ACER IS TO BLAME as all other manufacturers of tablets for rushing to market devices that are NOT ready yet! My biggest fear is that nVidia will be to busy with there new Kal-El toy and forget the tegra2. But with a 12 month between generations.....I don't know... It is too early to say but I think that we will again have to rely mostly on the community here to fix the things that nVidia/Google didn't...but maybe they will?? Time will tell
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
Acer has stated that 1080p output will be addressed in 3.1

:rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] krickatthedisco:
i have a super easy fix for every android phone/tablets lack of format capabilities! plex media server, set it up on your home computer, its free, buy the simple $4.99 android app and use it among all your devices and voila! your device no longer does any of the decoding or worrying about format, it plays the videos/music/pictures from your computer, so all you are using is your bandwidth. you do have to be on wifi for this to work, but it does. i just sat in a hospital for four days after brain surgery and watched a ton of movies with my fiancee, in avi, mkv, mpeg4, etc etc. its the easiest solution until we have vlc for android. im buying my tab probably next week but if anyone wants to try it out i'd love to know how well it works on the iconia!
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
It's pretty sad that a Samsung Galaxy S II plays mkv perfectly and we can't even play them on the lovely 10.1 inch screen. Somebody stuff up big time, I'm thinking it was Nvidia.
[Acer Iconia A500] r3v0Lut10n:
again. just for you.

s2 - android 2.3.3

a500 - anroid 3.0

not the same. not even close. honeycomb doen'st have proper codecs yet. stop crying, sit back and w8 a bit. support will come ...
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Hell even my Galaxy S ONE plays .mkv fine out of the box. This crappy codec support is pitiful, and I think the finger needs to be pointed squarely at nvidia here.
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
I'm not crying, just saying it's sad and someone has messed up. Both true statements!
[Acer Iconia A500] BrianDigital:
Ehh all codecs and containers supported by the os. Don't think that would ever work. It would be nice.

Isn't Google pushing web m as a video codec or something. Wonder if there are any way to use that format
[Acer Iconia A500] ESCapePS:
Just to let you know:

I use Splastop remote desktop HD to stream my 720p Vids from my desktop, and it works really fine. No playback issues ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] r3v0Lut10n:
sad really, but thats it for now. hoping for some update for this, as i wanna use my tablet as a portable media player :)
[Acer Iconia A500] San Pedro:
The inability to play 720p files smoothly without converting or streaming is one of my 2 complaints, the other being weight. Actually, I have a standard definition a VI file that will not play smoothly.

Hopefully, we will be able to just drag and drop files to our tabs in the future and not worry about it.
[Acer Iconia A500] gabrielbcn:
I'm also on 3.1. Previously I couldn't play my 720 move, now I can. My problem now is with AC3.
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
same here, since 3.1, some of my movies are playing better (some 720p high bitrate mp4's), but mkv's still struggle.
[Acer Iconia A500] skycop1951:
so how do you use this download? Just run the download? thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] OrionBG:
Can somebody please test this clip?

I can play it perfectly on my 7" Galaxy TAB GT-P1000 but all the Tegra2 Honeycomb tablets (including my Acer A500) I've tried it on, will either stutter badly of not play at all!

I just can't imagine why a previous generation Single-Core CPU can play it without any problems using hardware acceleration and the Tegra2 Can't !?!

This is the codec info:

General

Complete name : D:\Downloads\Avatar_clip_1920_high.mp4

Format : MPEG-4

Format profile : Base Media

Codec ID : isom

File size : 125 MiB

Duration : 1mn 23s

Overall bit rate : 12.6 Mbps

Encoded date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:17

Tagged date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:17

Video

ID : 1

Format : AVC

Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile : High@L4.0

Format settings, CABAC : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames

Codec ID : avc1

Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding

Duration : 1mn 23s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 12.4 Mbps

Maximum bit rate : 22.5 Mbps

Width : 1 920 pixels

Height : 1 078 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate mode : Constant

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.251

Stream size : 123 MiB (99%)

Title : x

Writing library : x264 core 114 r1913 5fd3dce

Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=2 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=10 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=23.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Encoded date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:17

Tagged date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:22

Audio

ID : 2

Format : AAC

Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec

Format profile : LC

Codec ID : 40

Duration : 1mn 23s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 132.3 Kbps

Maximum bit rate : 152 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Channel positions : Front: L R

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 1.34 MiB (1%)

Title : x

Encoded date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:22

Tagged date : UTC 2011-05-22 19:19:22
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Guys I need to convert a video_ts folder using handbrake....plz tell me the setings I should use.....I tried the ipad option(and added an default subtitle) but it always fails at 60-63 mb......
[Acer Iconia A500] rquinn19:
Check out the Asus Transformer forums. There's a thread that has two presets for Handbrake that both work well for me.

The Transform forums are good for info like that since they have a stronger following
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
All is a bit unrealistic but the most common containers and codecs should be supported. At the very least MKV and AC3 would be a good start.

That would be the 3.1 Asus base? As far as I know the Acer base has made no major improvements into media support.
[Acer Iconia A500] e.mote:
@vari9

If you're running Windows, this is a script wrapper for Handbrake for DVD encoding. You don't need to do anything other than drag-drop the ripped DVD folder onto the script. It should be fine on Tegra2/HC 3.0.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=978529

For fast remux/conversion of MKVs to Tegra2-compliant MP4 format, check out my script here. Again, it's a simple drag-drop affair. For HC 3.0, you'll need to set Recode to YES and select Baseline profile. For 3.1, High profile should be fine, but recode is still needed for most "downloaded" 720p.

It uses bare-metal x264 engine, and I'll put up its speed & quality against HB any day. Subs are also taken care of.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102922

@hellcat82

>All is a bit unrealistic but the most common containers and codecs should be supported. At the very least MKV and AC3 would be a good start.

This won't happen, at least from Acer for the Tegra 2. Windows & OS X never have AC3/MKV support built-in either. The best one can hope for is that a commercial media player will be available that can play them with HW accel, which excludes all of the ffmpeg-based ones to date.

It's a simple matter to mux MKV to MP4, though. It's only a container change. As for AC3/DTS/FLAC/etc, converting it to AAC takes about 2 minutes for a full movie (if video doesn't need to be recoded as well). The script above does that. It only recodes the video if you want it to.
[Acer Iconia A500] vyklos:
Thanks! this is working like a charm. Slow convert, that for sure, but quality is really outstanding
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Is there someway to convert video_ts faster....handbrake takes a lot of time
[Acer Iconia A500] fxandrei:
wooowww .... so u cannot play mkv files with sound because it does not have codecs ?... woooooooooooooooooow ....
[Acer Iconia A500] entropy.of.avarice:
like every video codec/audio codec ever...

I play .720 and .1080 video formats quite often on my a500 - you need to take the time to convert them to the proper format before you expect Android to magically accept whatever video/audio codecs you decide to throw at the OS. It is a quite simple process to use free tools to convert your video files to a format that the a500 will play without any issues.

Woooooooooooow - a little reading and personal effort will convert any video to a format that your a500 will play using full hardware support. I play 720/1080 video often, both on my tablet and via HDMI out - stop expecting the world to release video/audio that is compatiable with your choice of hardware and learn to transcode video files to whatever format your device requires.

Werecatf has written a guide (which is even made a sticky by mods) to convert pretty much any video format to a ready to play video on the a500. I highly recommend you read these guides and fix your problem. .MKV files work great on my system - you need to understand that .avi and .mkv are just containers - the audio or video may be in any one of a number of formats and may require transcoding before your choice of hardware device.
[Acer Iconia A500] kashinoda:
Dice player handles 720p mkvs on the a500 with hardware encoding, even with ac3 audio etc. Grab the trial on market and see for yourself. :-)