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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] giangishanghai:
hi and thanks for give me help.

i mean that there is just noise coming from the speaker. but is ok if i put the earphones.

would you like to teach me how to procede?

thanks a lot for your kindly help!!!

EDIT: i have try to change setting in HDTweak but no effect.

ciao
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] slash_5150:
thanks so much for this!

even works for flv videos. downloaded a HQ video from youtube and converted using this.

now i can really show off my X1's video playback quality.

tnx.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
No offence on that, but I think you're a bit lazy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rovex:
I have had a few videos that when converted have no sound on the PC, but they do on the phone. Bit strange, but as long as they work on the phone i dont mind.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I can make you a linux version of the gui.

Or rather...

I can give you the source .tcl, that is used to build the .exe file.

TCL is crossplatform, so no problem running it on linux or mac.

The only thing is, you will need to adjust the file some, to strip out the .exe references and also get linux binaries of mencoder, mediainfo and mp4box.

In return, you would have to contribute the modifications to the source to me, so that I can release and maintain a linux version.

I do use linux @ work on my workstation, but I have no need to convert videos on it (or I can do it inside VM).

If this sounds like a fair deal to you, then let me know in PM.

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Regarding A/V sync. I think I have solved it, as the only people who still report sync issues now are those who have *.ts interlaced TV streams or messed up (errored) input files.

All progressive files seem to be converted in sync.

It will not be possible to encode interlaced content with the GUI. There are many other programs that allow you to rip DVD-s or TV content, which are better suited. A/V sync with interlaced TS streams is a very difficult issue, and I am afraid that it is not worth the effort, considering it probably affects <0.5% of the people who have downloaded the program, and the benefits are very small, since there are plenty of other tools to do it for you.

Some stats:

Current amount of downloads: 3523

Traffic: 14.4 GB

Donations: 6

If you are willing to help out the development and if the program was useful to you and allowed you to watch videos well on your Touch HD or Xperia X1, please donate.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Uderzo:
Excellent software, loving it!

I will donate some euros when I get home from work :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
So how do i know that the video i try to convert is not an interlaced TV streams?

.ts ?? and what else?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thank you.

Uhm, 99% of stuff that is on your PC shouldn't be interlaced.

As I said, there is absolutely no reason to have interlaced content on your pc, the quality is really bad when you view it on non-50hz screen (TFT doesn't have refresh rate and CRT are 100hz+ usually).

But to find out, you can use for example mediainfo.

This is what I use to check the FPS of the movies for maintaining audio sync.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 2unique:
that is good news... i've now got loads more vids to convert
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
I will try to lower the bitrate and see how it goes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BT52:
Freeview recorded from my Hauppauge Nova card appears to be interlaced.

Is this normal or have I set it up wrong? Because that is the only thing I have any interest in converting.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PRAP:
The original video was avi.

Yes the sound was on. I have also tried to play mp3 music to confirm that the sound in the device was working.

I will try to post the log file as soon as I can.

Yesterday after writing the last post I tried to convert another video but the problem remains..

Best regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] razorblader:
Hi projection, I did encode a number of short clips with 23.976 and 29.976 fps and they all got encoded correctly with Audio/Video in sync, great job on v.1.12!

Will do more encoding of some longer videos tomorrow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
First of all, thank you to the two people who donated.

Your donations are appreciated a lot.

If you have sound on PC, you should have sound on the HD.

Are you using Album to play the video?

Also, this might seem a bit daft, but... are you sure your sound is on?

I guess you are capturing TV from a TV tuner card.

Yes, it is interlaced.

Since there is no way for me to know how it is interlaced (simple telecine pulldown or something else...), I can't really help you.

The effort to implement:

1) Interlace detection

2) Framerate + Interlace handling

3) Pullup or normal deinterlace

4) Correct output framerate

Is currently simply too high.

Most (if not all) programs that deinterlace require you to specify parameters manually... automatic is very hard.

It's easier to add hardsubs and the other things I have listed than implement deinterlacing that would work properly every time.

You should just use another program to deinterlace the video, and use my tool to convert it. Sorry.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Glad to hear that that I am doing something right :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BT52:
Ah well. Thanks anyway. Forgot to mention. the latest version solved my lack of audio from the handset problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] danwhitcl:
just discovered something that may be of interest

copied a high qaulity trailer of speed racer from the blackberry bold ( which plays perfectly and looks amazing on bold)

but played like crap in album on touch and barely better in core player

so had a mess and though i would disable the audio and guess what..

the vid played perfectly! ( with no sound obviously

so it looks as if the device is struggling with the audio not the video?

any thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahlok_hk:
Hi projection,

The encoder is very handy for Touch HD users! I wish the following things could be added to the encoder:

- multi core CPU support

- subtitle support

- able to set video size

- can modify audio sync ( + or - msec audio timing with video)

Thanks a lot!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lmclaney:
I've managed to use the encoder to convert an 820mb avi to play on the HD. It converts fine. However, when I try to upload the video to my SD nothing happens, it says its copying but I've left it for 1 hour now and it hasn't changed.

Could anyone help? What's the recommended video size as mine is approximately 700mb.

I'm using activesynch if that helps.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carlhoerberg:
in memory extraction, heard of that? i normally don't extract rar's, XBMC streams them content from them natively. if it was open source i could probably add it my self in an hour or so...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -=Tavos=-:
The app works really fine and is just what I needed.

A One-Click-Tool for optimal results.

One little idea (if it doesn't take much time):

Drag n' Drop for the inputfiles would be nice.

Thanks and keep going !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Glad to hear.

Audio:video rate is about 1:7. But if your video was on the very edge of being played correctly, then getting rid of the 10% cpu overhead, might have made the video playable half-decently.

Anyway, I don't see how it relates to my GUI. You transferred a random file to your Touch HD, it played bad. That's old news, that's why this GUI was created in the first place.

It /already/ supports multicore when encoding. Did you check your CPU utilization?

Subtitles are planned.

Video size... well, probably can add that.

Audio sync is pointless with the "+-". You do realize that audio goes out of sync due to different duration of the video and the audio right? Not because they are the same duration, and one starts to play earlier?

This is rather offtopic, but when you connect the device to the computer, select "File Transfer" mode on the device. After that your card will appear as a normal drive and you can copy there. Should go a lot faster.

Honestly. I thought this RAR idea was someone trolling.

Are you even serious?

The answer is "NO". Just "NO".

Unless you pay me for the time spent and moral compensation for doing something like this, when a lot of other, better things could be done in that timeframe :D

I wanted to add Drag n' Drop, but forgot about it.

Thank you for reminding me about it. I will try to add it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kr00t0n:
Just gave this a try to see if it work better than my current method, but after encoding an episode of Merlin at 500kbps, it played very choppily with noticeable pixelation.

This was playing with Coreplayer.

I also encoded the file using PocketDivxEncoder with the following settings:

Device type: HDTV

Video quality: 70

Audio quality: 9

Resize: 600x332

Runs smooth as silk with lovely detail, plus the app has the ability to queue up multiple files, so I can set entire seasons of shows to be encoded while I am at work.

That said, the file generated by your app was half the size of the other one...

Good work any way! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] matthewtse:
A/V out-of-sync for VBR RMVB??

I've tried v1.11 and v1.12 to convert a rmvb file.

for v1.11, it's just fine, A/V sync better a lot than v1.12, but still a bit not sync.

but for v1.12, it's A/V out-of-sync through out the film.

may be it's because the rmvb is VBR, so the frame rate are not fixed?

and log file attached, hope this problem can be fixed soon, thanks for your great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eel316:
Works for touch pro

I converted a 1 hr movie and it played smoothly on my touch pro. Even when outputting the video to big screen tv it looked great! Thanks for this tool. A request for future release is an option to boost the volume for the encoded file as the video that I did encode came out with really low volume.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
You fail :D

It clearly states that you have to use album to play, so it can use hardware acceleration, and not coreplayer.

Please read the first post completely, thus avoiding making yourself look silly :p

Also, my GUI can queue up multiple files too...

Double fail.

v1.11 resampled FPS to 25, and duplicated/dropped frames as needed.

v1.12 detects FPS and does not duplicate or drop frames.

If you can come up with mencoder switches, that encode your video without a/v sync problems, then do let me know.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] therancor:
I tried this app and it seems working quite well. Nice work!

However UNC path does not work when adding files witch is a minor problem but still annoying.

For example. If I browse for files and tries to add files in this path the application will fail: \\server\movies\acme.divx

Regards rancor
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I'll check if I can do something about the network path issue.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
It's not that easy to "boost" volume.

I can add volume normalization, however that most likely won't solve your problem.

Imagine your volume as a graph. At the top, it maxes at 0db. And it goes negative downwards.

Something like this:

0db _
-1db | ___ __
-2db | | |_| |_
-3db |__|
-4db

Now, if something goes higher than 0db, it gets "clipped". Meaning, the information disappears. Meaning a sharp "chip" sound in your audio.

So what I can do, is make sure that the highest peak is at 0db, and move everything accordingly upwards. This is called normalizing.

However, if the highest peak is already at 0db, then normalization will do nothing. In that case you need to apply dynamic range compression to the track, or a hard limiting compressor.

I will not get into how dynamic range compression works, as it's outside the scope of this. Just note, that dynamic range compression is a term from audio mastering, not from compressing into formats like mp3 and that it requires very good knowledge of audio and a competent person to do it. It can not be automated and produce good results.

So as you see - while I can normalize all the tracks, it most likely won't solve your loudness problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
it would be nice subtitles support ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Subtitles themselves are not very hard to add...

The question is how to implement them into the GUI.

One option is to check if there is a subtitle file with the same filename, and different extension as the file you are trying to convert, add them, and make a checkbox for whether it should search.

The other option is being able to edit options for every file in the list. That way for example, one could set a resolution and aspect ratio for every file etc...

But that is harder.

And I think aspect gets detected correctly right now.

If anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to let me know.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
I think you should go the hard way and make an option menu for each entry in the list. This menu could be opened by a right click (or a symbol next to the entry).

In this menu you can then choose a subtitle file (maybe different formats smi/srt), and things like the aspect ratio.

Maybe a zoom in/out functionality would be cool, or something like that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahlok_hk:
I have many Digital TV recordings in .ts format, they are embedded with subtitles of two languages inside the .ts file. Can this encoding program let user choose which language of subtitle to be included, and then "burn" the subtitle text into the encoded video automatically in one go (without having to extract the subtitle file first)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Currently there is no subtitle support at all, but it is planned later.

Also, your request is not very reasonable. It is useful only for you or perhaps 1-2 other people.

Rip the subtitles yourself into a more standard format. And once subtitles get implemented, you will be able to add them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
I've tried to encode with version 1.12 after audio issues with v1.11.

Unfortunately the audio is still out of synch - fast by 2-3 seconds.

U mentioned that it's probably down to the video - for future versions would it be possible to include a audio delay feature?

I've included the log file in case there's any information which may point to the problem other than the video being dodgy.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
In the final film sound is very quiet, so it could be? The sources volume normal
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PerezDeQueya80:
Last version downloaded and same problem. Is this file corrected?

Anyway thank you for tool :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Read what I said before. Fixing audio sync is not as simple as adding a delay.

Your source video most likely has variable framerate. There is no way I can support that.

Feed it sane source video, and it will produce sane outputs.

You have 48000 hz audio. It should downsample it to 44100.

I don't know of any problems arising from that.

Is it also quiet on the PC?

I don't see why it should be...

But I will add normalization.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
projection,

Yes, the sound is VERY quiet on the PC and HD
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I converted a huge bunch of MPEG music clips. They all had different lengths, different framerates.

All of them came out perfectly fine, except one. That one had an error in the start (bad stream). The PC just stalled the video for a bit, but the touch HD totally messed up the audio sync.

I have a feeling, that you have some misformed videos. Because I have even converted 23.976 fps, Interlaced MPEG-2, and it STILL came out fine.

The only things that are hard, are TS streams. You can read the mplayer mailinglist for why...

Either way, if you get sync issues for one video, it's most likely that one video that is bad. The mencoder parameters that get made, get all handling that is possible automatically to ensure that there is perfect sync.

There is very little complaining also about the sync.

When I released the program there was a HUGE amount of activity, because it was broken for a lot of people. Now, it should work out of the box for 95% of videos. That is why there are very few people reporting sync issues. And even then - it's mostly either TS streams, variable framerate streams or just bad video.

Weird, perhaps the movie you converted had some sort of "gain" set inside it's audio stream, which was lost when converting to AAC.

I will mark this, and try to add an audio normalization option for the next version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
I do not know whether this was written before, the English - not my mother tongue, very would like the opportunity to be placed any authorization (for the trim around the edges), and why after the coding is an effect, I do not know how to explain in English that is like a big pixelisation or the imposition of squares
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
sorry, but I can't understand that.

try to get a friend to translate for you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] golightlygl:
Audio & Video out of sync

I think I posted my vote too early. All seemed to be going well but once I settled down to a film I realised that the audio and the video were out of sync. It also seemed as though not all of the audio tracks were present.

I am encoding off of a DVD and the DVD plays fine through WMP. I have tried several different DVDs but the same problem.

One thing I'd like to be clear, though, which file or files should I be submitting for encoding. I assume it is VIDEO_TS.IFO in the VIDEO_TS folder. The AUDIO_TS folder appears to be empty. In the VIDEO_TS folder there is also a VIDEO_TS.BUP and then several numbered VIDEO_TS_x sets (.VOB. .IFO and .BUP).

I tried encoding a single .VOB file which represented a portion of the film but also had the audio mismatched.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MJRL:
Thanks for this software.

BTW what player do you recomend to play the movies?

I've tried with TCPMP and Core Player and i have lot of breaks tried all video setings, it plays in slideshow, but with HTC Album all runs fine :confused:

The movie i've tried was Cars 720P mkv

Thanks again :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hongkongtom:
yet with few limitations for this program, it still saves my the day deciding which setting should I use in encoding videos. meanwhile, let me spot something I have come across and possible solution for those:

1) Seems not working too fine when directly encoding DVDs (as Projection already told us, DVDs, which are interlaced in the first place, SHOULD NOT BE converted by his program) - so I used Aimersoft or Super or Format Factory to first encode the DVD (Aimersoft has the function to deinterlace, yet Format hasn't) into mpeg4, then use the program to convert into HD playable file, the video works fine (but can't say it's marvelous with .1s-.3s AV delay)

2) seems not working with rmvb, I dumbed in a 1hr/290mb rmvb directly into the program and it came out not watchable (like 10s AV delay). so I did the same as above with the rmvb and not it's working fine.

though it's a little workdy, but still good work by Projection and it worth to get what's great on my HD :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahlok_hk:
The subtitles functions I mentioned will be benifitial to many people because nowadays many digital TV broadcast(e.g. in Hong Kong) are recorded in .ts format. If you implement this function people in DTV broadcast area could transfer their TV programme very easily and watch in their HD or X1 without complex steps.

About the AV out of sync, I think there is room to improve for the program because I tried convert some ts file using this encoding GUI and SUPER. The one output by SUPER plays in HD with matching audio and video, while the one output by your program have 3 to 5 seconds of AV timing different.

Thanks for your effort and nice program! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xtac:
My dvd files are rippped in VOB format. Can i dump the VOB files into this program to convert it for me to avi?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 2unique:
splitting a section (choose start point and finish point) and/or merging files into one. This would involve a preview type window so not sure how hard/time consuming this will be for you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
You are not really supposed to encode DVD-s with this.

I have written that many times before.

As it is written in the first post: Album.

You can also use WMP, but it won't stretch the video properly sometimes.

It is because other players can not use the hardware acceleration on the HTC Touch HD.

RMVB = Real Media Variable Bitrate.

Note the Variable Bitrate.

I am not sure how to encode that at all....

SUPER probably uses something other than mencoder.

Also, does your SUPER converted file play in album?

I can convert all day to avi, and it will be in sync.

No.

Use the 37583498575843 different other softwares available for that.

This is meant to be a one-click tool. Not a movie editor. Sorry.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
video quality is ok, but the audio is always out of sync :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahlok_hk:
Yes. The video output by SUPER can be played in album.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
You make a change resolution in next version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
No, it's not "always out of sync".

Post the logfile as instructed in the first post.

Just complaining without any logs won't help to do anything at all.

I will write it down... perhaps yes.

In that case it is a question of command line switches.

Since SUPER is closed-source, I doubt It will be very easy to get them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Added new version.

It should further help with A/V sync and also allows the program to be used for Diamond and Raphael.

As always, if the program improved your video experience on your device and you wish to support further development please donate.

Every little bit helps.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] v001011:
what about to load subtitles when encoding like in smartmovie???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] therancor:
UNC path fixed :) thanks!

A small donation is made, just 5 EUR but more to come and I hope other does the same. I'm not that wealthy but if many contributes a little then the creator gets some for the trouble anyway

Regards rancor
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Moandal:
I couldn't get the encoder v1.12 to produce an output file that worked for me with the audio in sync. However Handbrake (download from handbrake.fr) works a treat with the iphone profile.

I can't help thinking that this Blackstone app is re-inventing the wheel. (and it's not perfectly round yet).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jandre:
Your last version (1.13) solved my A/V Sync issues.

Two suggestions for your great program

- Remember the input and the output folder used the last time.

- Possibility of croping the video (usually the left and right sides) to obtain the desider ratio of 5:3 (used in HD).

Greetings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
It would be cutting edge video-on (the size of the display) and an increase in volume in %