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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] craige:
Max resolution i keep is dafault that is on DVD (720x480). Also which software to use ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
You could try HTC Touch HD Video Converter, you can download from the first page of this topic.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mightbme:
I inputed mp4 videos that I downloaded from a ppc site. The output files were also mp4,which my wmp can't read. Does anyone have any idea how I can convert wp4 to a compatible format.

Cheers

Sammy

EDIT: Scratch that....Plays in Album! Wicked!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hongkongtom:
great piece of ART projection, the software works so well, I dumb in rmvb and it just comes out perfect without lag on my Touch HD, speechless!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bide59:
Can not open file in HD

Hi guys,

I converted my film "the Pianaist.divx" from a DivX file using the Encoder and got in total 3 files, one "Audio.aaa", one "divx2pass.txt" and one big one "video_video.h264". I tried to open the last one with WM in my HD, but it anly alowws me to open the audio file, playing th audio of the movie. What did I do wrong, help please ???

Thanks,

Bide
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
It's not finished yet. That's why.

Try again and wait until you get .mp4 file in the output folder.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] craige:
when i am converting any music videos everythings perfect, but when i convert my dvd movies the audio gets extremely dimmed/low.... I have tried three diff. movies and all have the same problem...

So, whats wrong?

Also, when & how to set audio/video k/bits manually ?

PS: Using Encoder software (the one on 1st page)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hobs0n:
Newb question!

I know there was a thread before that said exactly what kinds of formats of video the Blackstone could and could not play but I cant find it.

I have a video,

Banned in Orlando 2 in the following format:

Mpeg-4

512x384, 29.9fps

48Khz, 160kbit

Coreplayer reported after about 1 minute of playing:

played 19.9 fps, dropped 1546, played 3096.

So my Touch HD cant handle it. Is it because MP4 formats are to intense for it, do I have to encode the MP4 movies to another format?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Check Normalize Audio, it might help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
You should use Album to play MP4.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ArtieQ:
Coreplayer does play normal videos without problem for me, if I played a converted video it lagged like hell and quality was bad. So to you who has Coreplayer, just put the video/videos on your phone and play them as they are.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
I use TCPMP, the problem is I couldn't play converted video using TCPMP it's very slow. If use Album it's smooth. I'm not sure about CorePlayer, does it support hardware acceleration now?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hobs0n:
I tried that but it said that it couldnt find any pictures or videos in the "banned in orlando 2" dir. What to do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vattmann:
works a treat

Hi

i used this encoder for the 1st time today & it worked like a charm i encoded epi of american dad xvid avi for my diamond used the vga presets to encode to mp4 & it worked showed up in album & played fine..many thanks for your hard work:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sweet_eye_h:
help

:(hi thnks 4 great prog

but i keep getting this error crash message ENcoder has stopped workin at face 2 &sometimes at face1 when i try 2 convert some(not all) of .DAT clips

i use vista x64 ultimate and the .dat videos are all the same but i dont know why some convertes why some crash plez help me

thnks anyway guyes
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hobs0n:
Just tried it! It worked like a charm, took about 5 mins to convert Banned in orlando 2 which is about 30 mins long and the file was half in size after conversation! Amazing program Projection! I thank thee!

A question here, I have a Q6600 CPU and parts of the conversion all 4 cores was used and some parts only 1. Why is it like this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Denja:
Hi, I keep on reading that this peace of software gives perfect results for everybody on wmp or album, but no matter what I try, I can’t get smooth 25fps from my Touch HD. With 600kbit/s 800x480 I get 2-3 frame drops every second, even 360x240 lags once in a while (1-2 frame drops in couple of seconds). Playback on my PC is perfect, the question is, should this device give the same perfect results as PC or my current playback performance is ok?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
If i copy the temp.avs file to tools dir and start the encoding with the exe file instead of bat file it starts converting.. maybe some wrong arguments in the batchfile and wrong placement of the temp.avs file ??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
The avs file works in WMP, it starts playing the video.

I don't understand what your asking me to do, how do I execute it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Hm...

I will try to specify more absolute paths, and will make you a test build.

ok?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
Thank you.. didnt manage to find the output file, but the x264 started to convert and fisished... Ill keep looking :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
If I just copy the output of the log file the following system message appears:

The system cant find the path specified.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
The output file doesn't exist, because it's turbo 1st pass.

It just discards the output and only writes stats.

http://gm.mainframe.no/stuff/test.rar

Try that version.

And check PM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SingaporeAirlines:
No lines in between

Just did it from the command prompt. I renamed the file from my D Drive and put it in C:\ (root) and name: 1.avi

See attachement.

I'm guessing it's an XVID problem!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poceh:
It has been encoded with 750 kbits setting in your program. The result playback - video bitrate rarely jumps over 1000kbit/s, haali media splitter tells me Max 1084, Average 751, Current 600 - this is when the whole clip has been played.

I've noticed the same interlaced lines appeared in 500kbit/s files. But they appeared only when there are fast moving scenes and not all the times (if I rewind the same scenes back and play over again).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
Same result.

14:03:43 Starting to convert C:\Program Files\Encoder\hd1080-tih-sample.mkv to C:/Program Files/Encoder/hd1080-tih-sample.mp4

14:03:43 Executing x264 with args: C:/Program Files/Encoder/tools/x264.bat --level 30 --pass 1 --progress --me dia --no-cabac --vbv-maxrate 1000 --vbv-bufsize 2000 --subme 0 --partitions none --bitrate 750 --threads auto -o NUL C:/Program Files/Encoder/temp.avs

14:03:44 Error encoding video...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
You totally mixed up the command line.

No, it's not an XVID problem.

Run this:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Interesting.

Add me on MSN please, i PM-ed you my address.

We will solve it faster without spamming the thread.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
I dont understand what u saying ... ?!?!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Then it's an anomaly in the Touch HD's H264 decoder... I don't do anything that could possibly interlace the content.

Is your source progressive?

If it's interlaced, then you need to deinterlace it first...

I can add options for that sometime, but now it's more important to get the basics working for everyone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SingaporeAirlines:
Hmm..... :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
Hey what about me??? :) I've got MSN as well!

How do I execute what the encoder is trying to execute?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poceh:
I also think so, seems like a bug in h264 decoder. Because I can't notice such thing when playing it on my PC with media player classic. The source video is progressive as I can see.

In fact It's not so noticeable, there are at about 5-6 interlaced lines appeared in transitions of the scenes on random places on the screen (not on the whole video frame). Those lines are horizontal in normal media player window on the phone and vertical when playing full screen (landscape view).

Sure, most important now are the basic workings. This is just a cosmetic thing I guess. Also I've found that when encoding the video, ffdshow icon shows up in the taskbar and it remembers my settings there (from previous playbacks of video files). Are those settings being applied to the converted video?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Yes they are.

You can setup deinterlacing there if you like or whatever else that is needed.

But yeah, if it's not interlaced, then I guess it's a quirk in HD's decoder.

Basically my GUI uses avisynth, which uses whatever codecs your system has. That way it is possible to support a very large amount of file formats and I don't have to make it a huge download by including a ton of decoders.

Btw, I fixed the encoding bug. Thx to reidar... :)

Updating first post.

Also guys, ease up on the MSN requests.

No offence, but if all of you would message me at the same time, then I would not get anything done at all, as all my time would be required for reading messages :)

If you had problems with encoding before, please post if v1.03 fixes it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SingaporeAirlines:
Well it's looking good so far.......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
You can try a smaller file also :)

With bigger files it can take a lot of time.

Also, there is almost no need to use "High".

"Normal" should be enough... Only use "High" if you are going away from pc and don't care about the time it takes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SingaporeAirlines:
Yes - evidently! :p

Well I can't be bothered to stop it now. Stage 2/3 seems painfully slow but I'll just keep it going. Will update later regarding final output and quality on Touch HD.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
What ROM are you using? What is the resolution of the source video?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Denja:
Dutty's WM6.1 V4.5 ROM, source video resolution - 1920x1080i preprocessed with Avisynth to 800x480p. But the thing I'm most interested in is whether Touch HD can give perfectly smooth 25fps as PC does. It’s just that HTC_Blackstone_Service_Manual.pdf states that it supports 30fps for QVGA and VGA H264 and just 20fps for WVGA.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ChaosR:
I have a quick, but complex question.

I would like to know the exact encoding details, video/audio codec, encoding options, bitrates, etc. This I would like to know so I can start trying to make a similar GUI or script for our linux users.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Have you tried to convert 1920x1080i directly using this GUI? Select HD input, and Maximum Resolution 800x480.

I don't know about Avisynth.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
For Bitrate you could look at the GUI. I believe video codec is H.264, and audio encoding is AAC, but I don't know other details.

You could ask projection directly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ChaosR:
I've send projection a PM. I especially have trouble encoding H.264 correctly, as its a really complicated codec. With the default settings my phone basically freezes up because it is not fast enough.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Denja:
The result would be awful (doubt that motion adapted deinterlacer is enabled in this encoder), also I don’t see any reason why it would help. Btw could you please answer the question I’ve asked? :)

ChaosR, I believe video codec is x264 with baseline lvl3 2 pass 750Kbs bitrate encoding (600 for normal quality) and maximal bitrate set to 1200. Probably some noise reduction is enabled and converting to 25fps.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Sorry, we're not supposed to use this tool to encode interlaced video. I didn't notice that your source video is interfaced.

For you question, I really don't know.

But I could play a video converted to 640x480 using this tool at 25fps smoothly using Album. I have never converted to 800x480 and play in my Touch HD yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] we5leyj:
Hi, I have no problem playing the video but for some reason none of the files I have tried so far have had audio on the phone, thou they have all been mkv files.

The resulting files play fine on the pc so there is audio in the files but for some reason no audio at all on the phone any one got any ideas?

whether they are played with windows media player or the HD own brand.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Hm, that is strange, if there is audio when playing on PC but no audio when playing on Touch HD. I have no idea.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hobs0n:
That looks like a commercial for me...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tsalta:
How can i convert and use a cyrillic subs?

can you fix this... when i use a cyrillic i in screen is monkey symbols!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ericardo:
I am trying to convert a MKV file containing two audio streams, one in german and one in english, and using an external .srt file with english subtitles. I clicked the "Analyze file" button to confirm this, entered "eng" on both "preferred audio language" and "preferred subtitle language", but the resulting mp4 file has the audio in german. I tried turning the "normalize audio" checkbox off, same results. The subtitles are correctly added to the output file, though.

I use The KMPlayer to play the original file, it also has an "preferred audio language" setting and always picks the english audio stream as intended, so the problem isn't on the source file. Is there any test I can do to pinpoint the problem?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sucro:
IN regional setting, on control panel. select for your country cyrillic, or in panel UNICODE programs select your language...

Greetz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] n2daico:
Hi

Is there a 'How to' for encoding a DVD? Do I only have to chose all the *.vob files on the DVD? What about the German audio language? Is it "de" or "ger"?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NetDwarf:
The tool is really the best converter. Only one Mediacoder version come to a similar level but not the same.

The only thing that is really missing is a kind of picture setting with brightness and contrast. I really would like to see :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
The only feature I don't like about this program is autocropping, everything else work fine :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dhrusis:
Is there a reason why my Touch Pro will not play the video from DVD rips that I encode with HandBrake? Has anyone gotten Handbrake to work?

The original poster's tool works extremely well, but I am attempting to learn more about the video codecs and why the Touch Pro won't play certain vids.

I am trying to use Windows Media Player for these videos to utilize the Qualcomm drivers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bobo12:
@Projection!/Original Poster!

Truly Amazing Program. I really needed this for my XPERIA! Only odd thing I noticed was that my .flv files which are around (170mb a piece) are transcoded into (approx 220 mb a piece). This is a definite increase! Any ideas?

I would love to send you a donation but I have nothing in paypal right now. As soon as I get some, I will happily send you a donation!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Avalun:
Hi,

thanks for the cool app, but I have sometimes Artifacts in the enconded videos.

How can I alter the compression level?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smokingdragon:
Cheers Projection!

Worked and jerk free video and good colours!

Cheers

Simon
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hrivas:
I've tried tricks above for the cyrillic CP1251 but in vane. it not works? with .srt.

Can someone give a clue??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] precsmo:
Both the software and the developer are perfect!!!! The app can probably convert anything thrown into it!! And the developer is really making the app really perfect and handy for everyone of us!!! It doesn't need installation, and it supports probably almost any common formats!!! A million thanks!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fecskeneo:
small problem

Hey Guys! I have a small problem:

The conversion is made correctly, but WMP only plays the sound. What's the problem? :confused:

Please help!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dkun:
Hi guys,

great software!

But I still have the audio sync problem.

If I start the video under "ALBUM" on the touch pro 2 is not in sync.

Just ms but still.

When I stop the video and then start it again it works fine. How come?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lovingHDTV:
Is there a way to set the thread priority of the encoder automatically in the GUI to 'below normal'? This helps a ton with usability of the computer during encoding.

Also what is the benefit of enconding a 720x480 DVD to 800x480 for a wvga screen? Shouldn't we leave it at its native resolution?

I did get good results when played in WMP on my Touch Pro 2. HTC Album was jerky and unwatchable.

thanks for the GUI, it was a big help,

dave
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Super777man:
Does anybody has this software ported to work with Mac OSX?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
As far as I know, no. There is only the Windows version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shasarak:
I don't know if the author of Encoder still monitors this thread, but if he does, a minor comment....

It took me a whole to figure out how to correctly transcode an AVI with a resolution of 512x384. (It uses XVID, in case that makes a difference). It works correctly if you use the manual resolution setting and actually put in 512 and 384 in the boxes; but with the default setting (WVGA) the video is, by default, vertically cropped. so it ends up with 512 horizontal resolution but rather less than 384 vertical. This seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jigners:
this will certainly need to be stickied!

ive been using this application since day 1 of having my blackstone and i've flashed dozens of Cooked ROMs and my experience on this is undaunted, ripped movie files, converted flv files, you name it! MILLION OF THANKS to your work!!!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Yeah, that is auto-crop feature which I also don't like.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adell_:
Can this tool convert matroska video (.MKV files)? I converted a 3 hours video, but the length of the result video was only 9 minutes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fefeal:
Thank you very much, this has return my faith on HD capabilities of the Blackstone !!

The program is also very quick, it uses all the cores on my 4ghz i7920 !!!

I´m sure this has been told but performance with converted mp4 is much better with WMP than with Coreplayer, this probes the not so good video acceleration on Qtv with the latest.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cmd512:
Don't use WMP OR Coreplayer!!!... use HTC album player super smooth, hardware accelerated playback!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fefeal:
Thank you for the advice.

I´ve tried a converted mp4 but I can´t see any difference with WMP.

I´m pretty stock with ROM 1.56.105.1 WWE and WMP 10.3 20769. I´ve only installed Chainfire´s GfxBoost 1.2.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fefeal:
Just in case this is general and be useful to someone, I´m on Vista x64 and I had a desperating no responding problem while adding input files that I´ve solved marking "mencoder.exe" in tools as xp sp2 compatibility mode.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrobo:
could you implement something like in SUPER Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer that could be possible add name of the producer to the screen when playing the video
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dolomitt:
czech

how to choose czech language in subtitles...the czech letters is not corect

enter cze, cz or czech?

thanks for your answer!

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mosaiques:
Hi there!

I would like to know which H264 profile uses this GUI for video encoding.

I think it's the same as the iPod "Base Line - Level 1.3" but I would like to know for sure in order to get better results using x264 and not mencoder.

Greetings! ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Hi,

I have not had time to read all replies...

I see some people are still making donations after all this time. Thank you.

Since I no longer have a HTC device in my posession I do not have the time or motivation to continue development of this program.

However... As a gift to this community I will create a SVN repository with anonymous access and import the code there.

If you want to continue development of this program, and have experience working with SVN, please send me a message asking me for committer access to the SVN repo.

I hope a skilled individual takes over development of this program and adds features that I just did not have time to add, such as universal subtitle support and perhaps a Linux branch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Ok,

I've setup SVN.

To get a copy of the project: svn co svn://sirius.aai.ee/xda/Encoder/trunk

The SVN is anonymously readable, but not writeable (of course)...

If you want to contribute, please PM me with a username and password that you would like.

It's OK to make a Linux and a Mac branch, if needed.

To build, you will need tclsh85 in path. Check out the project and run "build.bat", it should generate an EXE file.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mosaiques:
Thanks for the information projection!

Actually I just wanted to know the profile you used in your GUI for the mp4 encoding. I would like to take closer look but frankly megui will do, in any case, a better job than any attempt from my part. :rolleyes:

So, which AVC Profile and AVC Level did you take for the h264 conversion?

I'm having problems with "Baseline - Level 1.3", it runs OK but the video gets crazy after 20min. playing while the audio continues normally.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
The source is posted. Please check out the source with SVN and you can see all the parameters used.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sypod:
Fantastic Program. Downloaded, installed, converted video worked beautifully instantly. Finally I have something to watch while im supposed to be working:D

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vitorinno:
Settings for h.264 encoder

For those who understand the real talkin':

Profile: Baseline

Level: unrestricted (or at least level 4)

Reference more than 1 frame for Quantization

Don't let VBV Buffer size and VBV maximum bitrate goes too high (not more than 5000 in my xperience)

Recommended GUI for h.264 compression: MEGUI

The result: :eek:

Xperia will like it

It would be good if somebody can put this settings on HTC Video Converter for the newbies, rookies, etc.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] funkyfunk:
Hi all,

I've got a little problem in choosing the right audiotrack from an .avi file.

I got 2 audiotracks, the first one in German (Titel 1) and the second in English (Titel 2).

I tried eng and Titel 2 (since the Englisch track is called so) for preferred audio language but got the German sound both ways.

Can anybody help with this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Not sure what is going wrong there...

The source of the program is posted, I really wish someone capable would take it and continue development.

I don't have a HTC device anymore.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] l3v5y:
I'll have a look at it, and see if we can add some things for the Leo etc..

Thanks for your work getting this far though!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BoyBawang2:
Hi! thanks for the great app!

Can you provide a formula about the best possible bitrate for a given resolution?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Cool, if you need commiter rights on the SVN, let me know.

Doesn't it say in help somewhere? It also depends on the clock speed of your device... Try to see if there is stuttering - if there is, reduce it, etc...

The default should be a pretty good bet though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zarxic:
First of all thanks for this great encoder. Most of my files play well. I am getting a "Muxing failed" error on quite a few videos though. Log file is attached.