yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Changelog:

v 1.21

-removed IVTC, was causing problems

-fixed some issues with aspectless videos

-fixed subtitles

v 1.20

-added subtitle support

-added audio stream selection

-added .flv to default list of file extensions

-added video file analysis tool

-added help button explaining the "misc. options" section

-added support for cropping the video to fit target aspect ratio (width)

-autocrop video height to resolution aspect (Album does this anyway, so it is a waste of bitrate not to)

-autoexpand video height to resolution aspect when displaying subtitles (letterboxes the movie, to use lower black bar for a part of the subtitles)

-fixed encoding failing sometimes with odd resolutions

-fixed encoding files without audio

-fixed encoding WMV9/VC-1 files

v 1.19

- Fixed encoding failures with non-standard video resolution

- Improved multi-core performance

v 1.18

- Fixed video artifacting on scene changes

- Added new mencoder binary and license

v 1.17

- Rare crash fixed, might help with A/V sync and some videos being blurry also.

v 1.16

- Worked around a mp4box bug with certain path names (reported on 4pda.ru forum)

- Fixed an encoding bug that caused issues on playback.

- Added the results of FPS detection to log file

v 1.15

- Increased Encoding speed by ~20%

v 1.14

- Added audio normalization

- Reworked the bitrate section of the GUI

- Last pathnames used for output and input files are now remembered

- Reduced logfile size by removing the progress messages

- Made logfiles more readable by using separators

- Fixed progressbar being stuck during the first 10% of conversion

v 1.13

- Added reverse telecine (pullup). Should help with some interlaced videos.

- Added output size selection: WVGA, VGA and Custom. The program should now work on Diamond/Raphael with VGA.

- Added support for network paths. For example \\computer\disk_d\video.avi

- Some more fixes for A/V sync

v 1.12

- FPS detection, should help with some A/V sync issues

- Slightly smoother playback

v 1.11

- Autodetect and honor aspect ratios when scaling

- Downmix audio (AC3) to 2 channels

- Resample audio to 44100hz

v 1.10 BETA

- Use mencoder as backend. All decoders are built-in, filesize of download is larger, but does not rely on installed codecs.

- Adjusted video encoding settings to hopefully get rid of de-sync and scrolling problems. Quality suffered a tiny bit though.

- Removed quality option - only the middle one was really useful

- Added option to pause and resume encoding

- Added some more checks to user input

- Increased logging

- Fixed debug message

v 1.04

- Fixed problem with seeking (hopefully)

- Fixed displaying debug message when debug is already enabled

- Some more cosmetic and compatibility changes

v 1.03

- Fixed "encoding" bug, that most people were experiencing.

v 1.02

- Fixed VOB/MPG and some other formats

- Fixed bug, where selecting the output directory before any input files would result in an error.

v 1.01

- Added logging option

- Added filename checks to program startup

- Human readable message for audio encoding failure

v 1.0

- Initial Release
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
It's alive!

Nice job on that!

Folks, some of you (stock ROM users mainly) will still need the SD TuneUp to improve SD Card speeds.

Go play! ;)

Later edit:

I've invited Sony Ericsson Xperia users to join this one since the two devices are so much the same! Please feed us back as per your results on this and state your device, Touch HD or Xperia! Good luck! Go play! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gjpax:
iv installed sd tune up , am i correct in thinking that i just install this the once no matter how sd cards i use ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rovex:
Cant get it to work, it says unable to encode. Make sure you have all required codecs installed. I have installed CCP codec pack and followed the instructions. Running Vista 64bit.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wolfenzi:
Same problem here on winXP. I deleted my codecs all in one because of this...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
My first attempt was unsuccessful due to a possible error with the codecs.

The link for the codecs you recommend wasn't working, but I found the codec pack at http://www.soft82.com/get/download/windows/combined-community-codec-pack/

AFter installing the pack I still get the unable to encode message. Now, I didn't uninstall all my codecs simply because I don't know how to! The codecs on my laptop must be all over the place and I don't know how to find them.

What should I do next? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Ah... I forgot something...

Avisynth, will update first post.

Get it here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/avisynth2/Avisynth_258.exe?modtime=1230650919&big_mirror=0

Install it, then try again.

Should work afterwards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edhunter:
install the cccp codec pack install the Avisynth and still have the same error
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rovex:
Same here!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I will give you a debug version tomorrow, if you like, and you can send me the log it generates.

That way I can find the actual problem...

My best bet is that your codecs are messed up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rovex:
Need to be careful with my codecs i do blu-ray conversions to MKV, and use FFDshow to upscale DVD, dont want to mess that up!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wolfenzi:
Still not working, ever with avisynth. Looks like Projection is the only one who can use it :D

And by the way, when you will adding .srt subtitles support, dont use UTF8. Use latin2 or latin1.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Chris Cross:
I just want to say... WOW - THANK YOU - it works beautifully on my HD.

My previous experience with playback:

I have been testing all kinds of settings using SUPER and playing some on Album while others on CorePlayer, and although the best was mp4 with h264 (I believe) I always used a video bitrate of at least 1000. My videos were playing well the best in Album, but with occasional hickups.

But the annoying thing, was that to bring up the play/pause navigation bar it was lagging BIG TIME and also caused the video to become choppy for a moment. If I paused the video, the pause would not register until about 4 seconds later. And scrolling was useless because it seriously took the HD forever to register that I was trying to scroll. Then, when the navigation bar disappeared (or appeared) it was always with three or four extremely choppy and jerky movements.

My experience with your program:

I had no problems installing and no problems converting.

FYI - I have the K-lite codec package installed on my Vista 32-bit PC.

I converted a sample xvid Prison Break video that is 2 minutes long.

I used the recommended "Medium" setting with 500 kbps and 128 kbps.

After conversion, the size of the file went down from 17MB to 8.7MB.

It played absolutely perfectly on the HD.

And the navigation bar is smooth and responds instantly to play/pause and scrolling!!!!! :D

My conclusion:

This has by far created the best video playback experience for me.

I can finally enter my opinion in the poll as "yeah, baby!" :)

A huge THANK YOU to projection for the hard work and the hours spent on this. And thank you for taking the initiative to create this so that others can benefit. Of course a big thank you to tnyynt for his help, time and dedication to everything involving video playback on the HD. I know others are still having problems with this new encoder. I hope the issues get resolved, because I would want everyone to have the same experience I am having with video playback now.

I'll add a link to this thread on the wiki about "Video Playback Basics". For those interested in that wiki - see my signature. It is meant to help those who have little to no knowledge about video conversion, so that when they read threads in the forum, they won't feel so lost in the midst of all the terminology. I think with this program now, people won't need that wiki at all. :)

I'll attach a link to the converted file in case someone wants to see the end result. http://www.savefile.com/files/1953095
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Unable to encode, it says.

Try Avisynth and the new encoder pack that u provide, still no success.

Note: i use Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Any suggesion?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] k4l3d:
Thanks for this piece of software.

However it doesn't work on my windows XP SP3 32 bit machine. I got the same error as most of the people here.

I've reinstalled my K-lite codec pack to no avail. Hope to get the version with debug message on, so we can know exactly whats wrong.

cheers..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 2unique:
AWESOME, JUST AWESOME

finally a converter that effectively enables me to play a fullscreen video on the HD and stop it when i want to.

i know that's a bit unfair as many encoders are multi-platform but hey them's the breaks :P

goodbye super, goodbye handbrake... i'll be keeping QMC for .flv file conversions and cutting snippets of movies but you guys have made a lot of people really happy.

a donation coming your way from one grateful guy
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 2unique:
when i uninstall replay converter the program no longer works, i believe it's a codec thing.

http://applian.com/replay-converter/index.php

reinstall it works again

will uninstall and try with yr codec pack
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Just a couple of question for Chris Cross, who success in using this program.

1. What OS u on?

2. Do u uninstall everycodec u had before?

3. Do u install Avisynth and CCCOdec pack as suggested?

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arthenik:
I watched the other video today, the one that seemed alright at first. Audio was spot-on, but about 8 minutes in, the video accelerates and just shows frames spaced 2-3 minutes apart. The strange thing is, the sound is alright, it runs as intended, its just the video that's messed up.

Thank you very much for your work so far :) I hope you'll make the program fully functional.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thank you, and I will try to include subtitles. It's not very hard, but I want to drop the dependency on system codecs. It seems people's codecs are very messed up, so It's better to use mplayer for decoding.

I need to check about the sound...

Perhaps it wants lower bitrate... or different muxing.

I will experiment with MP3 format instead of AAC.

Regarding aspect ratio - your input video does not have square pixels.

The Touch HD assumes that every video has square pixels.

WMP / Album don't allow to manually force an aspect ratio, so that's the problem...

Of course it is possible to add conversion and make the pixels square, but that is an option for the future, not now.

Video should be smooth, we are still working on delivering as smooth video as possible.

Thank you for the donation.

Regarding the scrolling of long videos - I have confirmed this and I am on it.

Will try to do everything in my power to fix this, but if the Touch HD's h.264 decoder is very bad, then I might not be able to.

Glad it works for some :)

Your WMV files have some weird codec/your pc can't play them/your pc's codecs are messed up.

There is nothing I can do about it right now.

I will make a new version ASAP with built-in decoders, to work around this problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mark One:
Same prob here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JohnQ:
i used another software converting this file

Van·Helsing·1080P-H264.mp4

http://www.rayfile.com/files/600fb8bd-dafa-11dd-888b-0019d11a795f/

no lag so far. (bit rate can go up to 1600kb/s, 800x480, 30fps,h264codec) i hope i can use your new version of your software. and i can compare these both. thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Windows Media Player zooms to fit screen.

Album zooms to fit screen by default, but you have an option to choose from 3 settings: zoom to fit screen, stretch to screen and normal. You can cycle through these by tapping the first button from right in album player.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
But i dont wanna play video with album u know, i wanna play it with WMP and i do know that WMP zoom to fit screen but in my case it doesnt fit properly, the top and bottom part is not fit inside the screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
Ok, I am using the latest version right now, and it works just fine now. Unfortunately converting is not an option for me.

I am coming from a Dell x51v with a Intel2700g chipset. It just plays anything without any lags, so its really sad to see that a device, released three years after the x51v, is not able to playback normal video files smoothly :(.

I hope that QTv support with CP will be released soon :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wolfenzi:
This is why I told projection to add the letterbox option, so you can have 800x480 videos with same aspect ratio as input and you can play it in WMP.

But anyway, for now the most important problem is longer videos which begin to jump random frames(ever from end of the film) in like 7-10 minutes after beggining.

I would suggest :

1.) Change your codecs, these are not working for a lot of people.

2.) .srt burn in support with latin1/latin2 . No UTF8

3.) encoding options :

a) stretch to 800x480 (For WMP and for tv series with not much wide aspect ratio, like prison break etc.)

b) 800x480 with letterbox (black stripes on top and bottom) so aspect ratio is the same (For WMP and for wide films which would look pretty bad stretched to 800x480)

c) 800 wide and same aspect ratio, so for example 800x340, 800x360 ... depends on your input. (For Album )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
I totally agree with his suggestion.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
Same problem here to..

Input file is MKV, conversion is OK plays well in WMP. But when i fastforward to a random place in movie it stutters like h***.. If I rewind back to the first 8-10 mins its ok..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mark One:
Yeah - my 4-5 year old Pocket Loox N560 pisses all over the HD when it comes to processing. HTC (controversially I seem to remember) opted for a cheap & nasty Qualcom chipset some time back and it's been the slow lane for all their devices ever since :(

The video is not helped by the fact that they do not provide the necessary drivers for the video hardware (as they would have to pay for them).

Search this forum or see http://www.htcclassaction.org/ for more.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
OK Guys, I try to understand your frustration and feelings but let's not hijack this thread with comparisons, drivers, etc. We are discussing a software here that outputs videos that don't need third party apps in order to be played back.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikemod:
Thanks for this, videos now running really smoothly with Windows Media Player.

Just converted Cars from HD MKV and it looks superb. Coreplayer no use at all, really jerky.

Running Vista32 with K-lite codec pack installed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romeo0119:
Run very well on my X1, I'm using the xperia panel to play it. No frame rate drop. One prob I do have though is when I tried to skip around, the video doesn't catch up with the sound. Any thought?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
How long do you guys need in order to convert a video? I have just tried to convert a 40 min documentary and it took me about 20 min. I have a AMD 64 3700 MHZ CPU and quite disappointed with the result.

Is there anything I can do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
projection's working on a fix now which I hopefully will approve after testing, so hang on...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Well, besides upgrading to a core2duo or quad that would chew through the files like butter, not much.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pzucchel:
Hi guys,

your work is awesome, i am amazed....compliments to both of you - now i do have a touch HD

:eek:

thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
No offence.

But I would suggest that you don't suggest anything until you know what you are talking about.

1) You are using your codecs. Not mine. That's the point. CCCP is just a good codec pack, nothing else, nothing more. I have nothing to do with it whatsoever.

2) Not sure how to do .srt with various encodings yet, can probably do selection. But easier would be if you convert your subtitles yourself to UTF-8. UTF-8 can support any language. It is your problem that you don't know how encodings work.

3) Blah, blah blah. No I will never letterbox with black stripes anything, ever. Use album, or use other software.

I haven't seen any donations from you, only whining and whining and more whining. You are not paying me to do this and you really don't have a clue how things work. So please, chill out, and wait what the future brings. No point to hammer the same things over and over again.

Sorry if you took offence, but you need to understand, that you are getting this for free, and bad attitude like yours will only kill my motivation to do anything. So have patience.

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V 1.1 soon. It will use mencoder instead of directshow, so that means it won't be dependant on people's codecs anymore.

I am also continuing the search for the best video settings themselves. Hopefully this will fix the seeking (etc) issues. If not... then I'll keep trying.

You should also get a significant speed boost to encoding speed. (I got about 50-70%).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PowLee:
Thanks for this awesome program!

I love the fact that you can convert so many different formats, and it's really easy to use as well. Great job! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
It creates a .avs file for a few seconds which then disappears when the encoding finishes - all in a matter of seconds!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] insom81:
Hi chaps,

Just tried this on my Vista x64 premium and had no problems whatsoever.

1hr 45 min video plays like a dream on the X1.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Glad it works and glad I brought you Xperia people over here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SingaporeAirlines:
Thanks once again to Projection and TYNNYT for your efforts. :)

I just converted a few more videos and they look great (I do use the High Quality setting to get that extra 5 - 10% perceived quality!)

I made a donation as a small token of thanks for your efforts. I will donate more in the future but my currency is a bit crappy at the moment.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Chris Cross:
20 Minutes? That's pretty good, isn't it?

A 45 minute XviD video takes me almost 1h45m !!!!! I have a 5 year old P4 2.6GHz CPU. That is really long! And it kills your motivation to convert.

Well, I also don't know if you can really compare just by how long a movie ist. I assume decoding and encoding types influence the process.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gasman:
Superb works a charm :)

Touch HD
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BT52:
Anyone have any ideas why I get no sound from the converted files when I play them on the phone?

I tried tnyynt's file and that plays fine with sound, but when I do my own conversions I get nothing, even though the sound plays fine when I connect to the PC and play via PC software?

Someone else had this earlier as well. I didn't spot if they managed to sort it out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] willio:
Beta? it works perfect. The last two years i encoded lots of stuff and tried everything to play it well on my P3600. So far it was better than on my HD. Untill now! Thanks a lott, great app.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] petreme:
Uneble to encode

... Hi. I made all like You write, + Itry too CCCP, but dont encode.

I have Window mesage with "Unable to encode".

Pls.hlp.

Thank You
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Hello again.

Thank you everyone who donated and also who was kind enough to submit logfiles. It made a big difference for me.

You can find the beta of the new 1.10 version in the first post, and I also kept the 1.04 version intact, until 1.10 is stable for everyone.

The 1.10 version no longer relies on avisynth and directshow to do the work - too many people have a total mess in their system with directshow filters, and they are hardly the ones to blame - the system is quite bad.

Planned for 1.2 is hardsubbing and perhaps support for more devices.

Enjoy the new release, thank you for your donations and debugging help.

And I await your logfiles, since I doubt that it is perfect :D

P.S.

This version is fundamentally different. If you had problems with scrolling, bad sync, no audio, etc - please try this and report your findings. I tested with wmv and avi files, and had success. No idea about mpeg-2 etc.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Black Antitoon:
Hi. :)

00:22:09 Starting to convert K:\Desktop\Desktop15\BotenKOG.wmv.AVI to K:/Desktop/Desktop15/BotenKOG.wmv.mp4
00:22:09 Executing mencoder with args: K:/Desktop/DE7ECE~1/BOTENK~1.AVI -ofps 25 -of rawvideo -ovc x264 -x264encopts level=30:pass=1:bitrate=500:vbv-maxrate=1000:vbv-bufsize=2000:subme=0:analyse=0:partitions=none:me=dia:trellis=0:bframes=0:threads=auto:no-cabac -vf scale=800:-3::::::1,scale=-3:480::::::1,harddup -nosound -o NUL
00:22:10 Error encoding video...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
I've clicked on the link but it's not working. Is the link down at the moment or has it been incorrectly written?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Does that happen with any video?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Sorry my bad, it should work now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BadCluster:
the link for 1.10 is broken, for 1.4 works

can anyone upload again?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
It's fixed already.

Also, does 1.10 work for anyone at all, except myself?

I tested it on a couple of computers at home, and it looked fine...

P.S. Going to read tomorrow. Go play with the BETA, and see if it works at all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomasn:
Version 1.10 worked excellently for me (the previous versions have done as well). Thank you for all the time and effort you are putting into this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Black Antitoon:
I tried a .avi (don't remember the format, I can check it if you need it) and a .wmv, and it's the same for both of them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
Btw, do I still need to put the Nero audio encoder into the tools folder?

Will try an encode now and let you know how it goes... (it's going to be an overnight job)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sidneylopsides:
Worked straight away, video looks great! Thanks for this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vegeta2007:
not in sync

hi

tried the program and converted with no errors, but when i play the video, its out of sync, the video is 1 second faster than the sound, this is for all the settings in the program

pls help!!

im playing the videos on my xperia
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Version 1.10 Beta works fine for me. (Vista Ultimate 64Bit)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JohnQ:
hi projection:

the 1.0 beta finally works for me! thanks man!

vista 32bit
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romansvillage:
In my opinion, there is already enough freeware/open-source software which does the same and even have less bugs. Ok, in other software one will have to do more settings, but it isnt really difficult.

I think I keep using the software I was using before.

Btw, Video was not converted correct in my test (vista ultimate x64). Video played very fast and repeated a few times while sound was ok.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JohnQ:
no, using other software e.g. aimersoft, super, will have lags. really discusting. now im using projection's and tmp software. both are perfect