yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] levallier:
Dear all,

one (stupid) question from a total newbie. I have installed the HTC Touch HD Video Converter and try to add an input file from a DVD. When browsing I only get the video_ts and audio_ts folder but not the actual title selection I want to convert (i.e. the film with selected language audio). How can this be done?

Tried to find a solution in the forum, but couldn't. Thanks for an answer / instruction on how to solve this as an absolute beginner :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] namelessrabbit:
Question concerning tuning of the SD-Card

Hello guys!

I'm aware that this might be the wrong thread to ask but unfortunately the original thread has been closed.

I'm also fully aware that this question might have been asked a few times before but - forgive me - I don't want to read through 51 pages.

So my question is: Does this SD TuneUp.cab (posted hereimprove the overall performance of the SD-Card or just in case of video playback?

I'm asking this because your tool works very well for me and I'd like to know if there is still room for improvements, maybe even in other SD Card-related environments (e.g. speed up starting of programs)?

So long,

namelessrabbit
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] russell250190:
converter

hi, the gui you set-up do you know if when you change the settings to say for example 1200kbps for video and click start to convert the movie, it comes up highlighted 100kbps is this just a default or is it actually converting at 100kbps after my custom choice of 1200kbps?? thanks russell(new member)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Hey!

My SD TuneUp would tune SD Cards speed system wide. It was not meant and built for video playback, but it's one of it's use.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AliGod78:
Hi, I'd try downloading DVD-Decrypter or DVD-Shrink and having a play with that. Once you've done a few, you'll get the hang of it. Took me a few goes with different settings - but you can tell it not to split up the 1GB VOB files, so creates one continuous video file that you then encode with this awesome program (unless you try 5th element, I can't do that DVD for some reason, or my Casino Royal DVD)... :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dude10:
Hi, if you want to have a nice movie on your HD you do like this (this is what I did). In your Folder where you see video_ts, you will also see many other Files like *.ifo, *.bup etc. If you sort these files, you will see files *.vob with up to 1Gb. These Files are the movies. Sometimes you will see 2 or 3 Files (like: 1.2GB+1.2Gb+0.5GB). All these Files complete a movie.

Use vob-merge to merge these files into one. After that use this video-envoder on the first page or look for a current version in this thread. :D

On my HD it works perfect. I let it play with the original integrate viewer (not WMP not Coreplayer etc.). The Quality is absolut perfect enough to watch and the Filesize is absolutle acceptible (200 - 500 MB). :p

But MY question is still open. In this Encoder application you have a option to change the audio. I tried to change from eng to ger but nothing changed. The Language that I want is on track two.

That´s why I will ask again. How can I change the Track-Language from 1 to Track 2 :confused:

thx for helping
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] giupp:
Really a good appliction, many thanks to projection.

On the other hand, if you use the following settings, video playback is really smooth also on touch cruise!!!

Video 250 kbit/s

Audio 64 kbit/s

Resolution 320x240

BYE

Giupp
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dishe:
maybe I missed it in this thread, but what are the settings this encoder is using?

I assume its H.264, and probably 600-800kbps? Is it full NTSC framerate (29.97fps) or only half (15fps)? I'm not if it is just skipping frames on my touch pro, but while the images look flawless, the motion seems less smooth.

I wasn't able to tell from looking at it...

I ask because I've been trying to see if I can play with settings on encoders like Super, or perhaps directly export from my video editing suites (Premiere Pro, etc) directly into a mobile-ready video... but I'd like to use your default settings as the base in which all others are judged.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gastric123:
Thanks for this simple and effective tool.

I haven't run into any bug/defects in the short time I've been using this. But I do have one feature request. Implement the ability to process in the background to help prevent itslowing the rest of the computer during encoding. My PC isn't crippled completely during encoding, but it's definitely more laggy during the process.

3.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB, WinXP Pro SP3,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _purple_:
Does this program recode to .mp4 (I need it for playback on a non-PPC device)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dishe:
Encoding is one of the most CPU intensive tasks you can run on a computer, and there's no way around that. This is one of the few tasks a standard consumer would benefit from having more than 2 cores (I do a lot of video compression, and a Quad core is almost mandatory for a decent workflow).

You can, however, adjust how much CPU priority is given to the task:

Hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, got to processes tab, find the running process name in the list (usually the name of the exe), right click on it. Then select "Set Priority", and move it lower if you need to. Drawback is that encoding will be noticeably slower.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gastric123:
I completely understand the cons and the manual process. Note you'll have to do that for both processes (going off memory) Mencoder.exe and Encoder.exe as they're both crunching numbers.

But you'll find some tools with a handy "Background" button right in the GUI to facilitate that. Like 7Zip, it's handy when uncompressing a 4GB RAR. You can go about your business easier while it's doing that. :)

Just sharing my opinions. :)

Like I said, a great tool. I queued up 3 full length Bluray movie rips which are stored on my network server (over gigabit) and it handled them without issue. Though it took quite a while even with my fast 2-core CPU. My quad-core is in the server which coincidentally runs PMS (PS3) Media Server which also uses Mencoder HT to perform it's transcoding, which it does an excellent job at, and to support real-time playback on the PS3 over the network none the less.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] onurdndar:
This program's output is compatible with Toshiba G900's G5500 hardware decoder. WQVGA (400x240) at 450-600 kbps works great. The bitrate can be increased further but increasing the resolution too much causes a strange tearing effect even at lower bitrates. TCPMP G5500 edition is still alpha software though, this might change in the future.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] txtsd:
GPU?

can this program be recoded to run off nVidia's CUDA?

i wanna run it on my nVidia GTX280!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] skulk3r:
Sides being cut off

Hi guys,

You all seem to know lots about video encoding, but unfortunately when it comes to these things, I must admit I'm very much a noob.

I encoded the entire Casino Royale just to test it (took forever...I was doing it on my laptop :p) but when I went to play it in full screen, the sides were being cut off.

How can I make it so that it resizes so that the sides don't get cut off? I would rather have the black lines on the top and bottom of the video than to have about a third of my screen cut off =S.

I think that the video of Casino Royale is widescreen, like 16:9? It's a DvD Rip :D.

Anybody know if there's a post already to this question? Or is there a setting I can choose? Or if there's an app/addon that will do this for me?

I'm using Windows Media Player Mobile at the moment.

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wolfblood:
Hi projection,

I've a problem when I try to encode with subittle, the subittle is not correct like the fonts encodeing is wrong...

I'm useing SRT subittle file format and the file encode is UTF8 (Because I'm useing Chinese)

And if I want to change the subittle font type. How can I do?

Many many thanks a lot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] David Chester:
No output file

Hi,

I am trying to convert a DVD which has been ripped to a single .vob file for use on my HTC Touch HD.

Your great little utility appears to complete but there is no output file in my output folder. There are 2 files created in the work folder, video_video.h264 and audio.aac and I can play the .h264 file fine which appears to be complete as it displays the subtitles at the end. I can't seem to coax anything into playing tyhe audio file however.

Have I done something wrong?

Please find attached log file.

Thanks

David
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SkidBox2:
This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask anyway.

After encoding a file, I get an .avi file. I thought it

was supposed to be a mp4 file. My Touch Pro will not

play the .avi file.

Would someone mind sharing what I'm missing?

Thanks

Skid
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] l3v5y:
Your encoding may not have finished... It needs to do three passes to encode fully.

Also, are you sure you've got the correct output file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] figeloal:
Jerky

I am sorry but doesnt this program give movie clips that have jerky playback? very little jerkyness but still... not satisfactory for my needs anyway :(

i would rather have worse quality in flash but 100% fluid movies :(

unless i am doing something wrong here but seems there is nowhere to go wrong as it is all automatic :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SkidBox2:
That was it. First try had an issue, stopped encoder.

Second try went smoothly.

Thanks for the help.

Skid
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] l3v5y:
If it's jerky, make sure you don't have to many applications running in the background (on your Diamond), and if that doesn't work, decrease the video bit rate by 100kb/s or so...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gastric123:
I've converted 3 full length Bluray rips using this tool. They resulted in 500-600MB .MP4 which plays in Media Player on my AT&T Fuze just fine. However, the conversion from widescreen source DOES crop the left/right edges off abruptly. You mostly notice it in scenes with text, such as the into to the movie with artists names, they get chopped off. Or when there's narrative text it's chopped so it's unreadable.

Additionally, the resulting movie isn't completely smooth, though it's not seriously jerky. I'm playing them off an 8GB Class 6 storage card. Playing the same movie on my PC off it's hard drive has no visible lag/jerkiness so it's likely a bitrate issue or limitation on the Fuze as opposed to some problem with the encoding of the resulting video.

The jury's out on this tool for me thus far. Ease of use is excellent due to the simple options in the GUI. But it likely needs some tweaking regarding the resulting output.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] David Chester:
I just installed this on a second machine and it is working perfectly on that. And the movies play perfectly on my Touch HD. Thank you for a great utility!

David
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] killerkhatiby009:
I have it running and it seems to work (havn't gotten my touch pro yet but I made a video to test it when I do get it) but my only problem is the conversion took a very long time, for a 20-minute video it took about 3hrs. I am doing something wrong? or is it something with my codecs?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] berk_bear:
Anything similar for HTC x7500/x7501/x7510 Advantage (Athena) are possible? We wait for this... Please, help, programmers! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wiggz:
Guys

I'm hoping somebody here can help. I've used Perception's cool app to re-encode a DVDSCR I grabbed off the net. It was an XVID so probably already compressed to buggery. Anyway, it plays "reasonably" well in "Album" but in the Coreplayer application it's complete dogs**t.

Anyone got any ideas?

What's the ideal res etc for something like that (Xvid re-encode)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jere99:
This Software is quite usufull

But i have a question

I have a movie file that is in 640x480 (Divx) resolution, so i use this program to change to mp4 in same resolution, but when i play in my HD, it will crop the top and bottom space to show it in full screen, instead of showing the screen with black area in left and right.

Why it would showing like this?

Thanks All...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wanwarlock:
It depends on your pc/laptop spec as well. on my HP pavilion, core 2 duo 1.67GHz, 2G ram a complete 650mb avi reencoded took about 45mins/1 hour. was away from the laptop about that time...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wanwarlock:
it's mentioned on the 1st page that the movies encoded play well with album or wmp mobile. core player does not support the hardware, it uses software, hence it's slow

i've left the res as SD and vga in the settings, works fine for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wiggz:
yeah sorry, can't believe I missed the bold red text :)

OK, so why aren't people using PocketDivx player then? I used to use this on my Artemis and it was rather speedy for flicks that had been re-encoded.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dude10:
No answer of my question

Hi Guys,

I just want to say "Thank you" for your replies to my question, that I was asking long time ago. :mad:

--- If or how can I change the Track-Language inside the Vob. with the application Video encoding --

It seems that no one is even interested of my question. I can´t imagen that all members are english speaken people.

Is there no one who can tell me, how to change the audio-language. The Option for changing is there, but the Video encoding is not reacting if I change from default-eng maybe to track-ger (german). It allways use the eng audio

PLEASE I NEED HELP !!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sonicboom007:
Can someone with a CDMA (Sprint) Diamond Help me? I am encoding my videos with this program and I have installed the CCCP Codec pack onto my Win XP computer. I can get the videos to encode just fine, but when I play them back in Album/WMP playback is still slightly choppy. What is funny is that I get around the same amount of slight choppyness no matter what Resolution I encode the videos in.

I am using the stock Sprint ROM and I am wondering - are there any settings to change in WMP or regedits to make that will make these videos run more smoothly? (Or at least as smoothly as everyone here is claiming)

THANKS!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edge540T:
A log file with a mpg video in not too much good condition, freeze a little when it's played on pc, seems it's normal to have encoding problem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sw1pe:
sound lag

The quality of converted videos is fantastic but i got problem with sound... Video is like 3 - 5 second faster when sound. I tried to convert different video but still. Even if i tried to play on my pc i have a same problem. Do you know how to fix it? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Hello,

My life has been very hectic and I have not been able to respond to anything for a while.

I will try to make some time this weekend, read this thread through, update all the donations and respond to any questions.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dude10:
Tried this link and your problems will disappear :p

http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Rishi_Tank:
hey, does anyone know of any good software that can be used to join two parts of a film together i.e. two avi files as one avi file? Because then i can use this nice video encoder to encode that one file instead of two separate files :) thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sonicboom007:
just use windows movie maker under start-accessories-windows movie maker (in Windows XP)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Quantique:
Hi

I definitely miss a tutorial with this encoder...

I rip my DVDs with CloneDVD, and i get video and audio files,

I can convert these, but I really don't understand how to get the subtitles ...??????

There is nothing in the audio or subtitles lines when i "analyse" the VOBs

But when i read the VOBs with VLC i can have the subtitles in several languages !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dandie:
First of all, thank you for this software. It is really hard to find a decent video converter. The video quality of these files are just great and I really would like to use it for my X1.

Now I have one issue. I have a ripped movie on my hard drive with all these .vob, .bup and so on files. The movie is split among several 1 GB .vob files which I can convert perfectly with this tool but I get also many output .mp4 files. Isn't it possible to receive one video file for my multiple .vobs or how can I merge the .vobs together so I can encode them in one run?

By the way, what would be great to have is a manual crop and stretch functionality. I always loved the one from PocketDivxEncoder. For cinemascope, I was cutting some part of the right and left of the movie and stretched it a little bit in the vertical. Would that be possible?

Another thing I was using with PocketDivxEncoder is the regulation of brightness because I find the movies always to dark when playing on my mobile. Can this be achieved by this tool?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Uglymike:
Dandy, for the multiple VOB issue, it seems the only solution at the moment is to use something like VOBMerge (free soft) and to manually join the movie VOBs prior to letting Encoder do its wonderful work :p

I now have a non-English file (Pan's labyrinth - Spanish movie) which converted nicely. The subtitles are not shown however (although VLC can see them in the resulting mp4 albeit offset by about 15 seconds.....)

Same for my (Dutch speaking) daughter. She needs Dutch subtitles on her Pixar movies. This is a no-go for the moment....

Well, now that Projection is back, maybe we'll see some action over the weekend (and as said previously, make language & subtitle selection work and there will be another name to add to the Donations list...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Quantique:
Same for me, but how can we get a mp4 with subtitles for the touch hd from that...?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dandie:
Thank you for the tip. What about this interlacing and progressing stuff that the auther mentioned in the first post? PAL DVDs are interlaced, right? So is it correct that the program doesn't work will with this sort of input, i.e. ripped PAL DVDs .vob? If so, is there an easy way to convert multiple .vob files to one progressive, deinterlaced avi or something?

Also the cropping of the program doesn't convince me. I would really like to stretch cinemascope a little and cut some of the left and right of the movie to fill the screen. PocketDivxEncoder was perfect for doing this because it showed how the movie would actually look cropped with regards to the screen resolution.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] makavelianz:
CHEAAA! excellent software man, really appreciate your work, thanks ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cinner:
No, that's not right: SOME PAL (and NTSC) DVD's are interlaced, it's not a rule that PAL DVD's are interlaced by default. Especially newer movies/releases are progressive, not interlaced. Depends on the DVD itself, regardless of PAL/NTSC format.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sw1pe:
I found that if I'm converting matroska video files (mkv) when video is faster then the sound of the video. :(

Are you going to fix it in newer versions?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nek4d:
A workaround for the subtitles is to burn the subtitles before running this excellent converter (I use to do this regularly with success).

I have tried many programs to hard burn the subtitles to the video file and lately I discovered the easiest solution software: AVI ReComp Link:

http://www.avirecomp.com/news.php
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nek4d:
congratulations for this converter!

I would like also to congratulate the creators of this software.

Before I write this, I had tested many other programs.

Funny thing is that I firstly discovered this converter from a torrent file!

Just to name one branded software which supports HTC & X1 resolution (800x480), I compared the final videos with the videos produced by Spb Mobile DVD.

The results are in favor of HTC Touch HD Video converter!

Video image is much clearer and with more contrast, obvious directly from anyone! Even the subtitles are more crystal clear :cool:

Will certainly donate soon.

Thanks and keep up the good work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RLIP:
Request

Authors of this encoder are by far the best thing that happened to us, proud owners of HTC Touch HD phones, so congratulations.

Is there any chance of seeing the encoder with support for central european subtitles any time soon? Really don't know how much time do you need to do that, I just would like to know is that maybe something you have considered.

Thanks anyway.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ranger093:
THANK YOU!!!

Jesus, this is great! I just wish our scrolling speeds were as smooth as this... Damn qualcomm. I sure hope that HTC either switches to Intels system on a chip or Nvidia's system on a chip.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luckyuser:
Thanks for the tip and link!

But for all the noobs like me, can you give a little more explanation how you do that,

burn the subtitles before running this excellent converter !

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dude10:
Hi, if you like you can look on page 73 on my description. Maybe this is the answer of your question or it Helps you for an idear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Triela:
Awesome program! I can watch movies on my X1 now :D

Only issue I can find is that any mkv files with subtitles on it will cause choppy video on my X1 (when the use subtitle check box is marked)

The videos play fine on my PC, but when transferred to my phone it gets choppy/noise appears but the subtitles are there

Any tips? I've been reading over the forums for a few days now but I haven't been able to find any clues yet :3

Edit: with the subtitle check mark un-ticked, video plays fine on PC and X1, however the subtitles do not appear :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kineko:
Error

Hello everyone!

I have a strange error and i dunno what to do, if someone has a solution pls respond. The error looks like this:

child process exited abnormally

child process exited abnormally

while executing

"close $pipe"

(procedure "myexec" line 5)

invoked from within

"myexec "[filt \"$::curdir\\tools\\mencoder.exe\"] -nosound -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1000 -frames 1 -o NUL -vf scale=-10:-1,scale=0:-10 -msglevel..."

(procedure "getvidinfo" line 6)

invoked from within

"getvidinfo $file"

(procedure "convert" line 23)

invoked from within

"convert"

invoked from within

".buttons.start invoke "

invoked from within

".buttons.start instate {pressed !disabled} { .buttons.start state !pressed; .buttons.start invoke } "

(command bound to event)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] David Chester:
I would imagine you just select "Custom" and change the size to the native resolution size of your screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] David Chester:
The encoding time is dependent on the speed of your computer's CPU. There's a huge difference in the time it takes on the two I've have tried it on. A Core2 Duo 2.67/1066 and a Quad Extreme 3.0/1333 - I would imagine it would take several hours to encode a DVD movie on something like a Pentium 4
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Geeba:
"5. Once finished encoding, transfer the encoded video to your device and use Album (or WMP) to view them."

Still never got this working... the output file doesnt show in the Album view and WMP wont play it.. I suspect codec problem... ?

Obviously Core player does see it but as you state wont use hardware acceleration and cant play it fast enough... :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wanwarlock:
my 'album' can't see it as well. just open up file explorer, go to the folder that has the mp4 file, double click/tap, wmp should open and play it.

if it can't, maybe try reencoding? i've had no trouble at all