yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 2unique:
1.10 seems to have resolved the inability to skip to a later part of the movie. Will give a better look when get some time. 1st day back at work and all that.

I posted a cheque to my sister today, Thailand doesn't allow expats to send money out of the country.

excellent work fellas... and yes there is better (depending on yr needs) free (er isn't this free) software out there but this like HD Tweak / Advanced config is made for my current phone, I have access to the coders who have shown a desire to listen and update and does exactly what i need (well if you bring a flv decoder to the party and the ability to select start/end points) so for me its well worth a donation.

Is it perfect? No. However it does what it says on the tin and for me that's more than i had with endless tweaking of Super, Amerisoft and Quick Media Converter.

Here's looking fwd to a robust non beta version that works for all
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
No, with 1.10 you don't need neroaacenc.

So use that software then. Don't use mine if you don't want to.

It's not as if anyone is forcing you. You can turn logging on and take the settings from my file + use other software if you so prefer.

Though regarding bugs - any software using mencoder will most likely have similar bugs with the final encode.

Also, if you get playback problems.

Please send in your log files. Just saying "It doesn't work" is good and fine, but it won't help me fix it ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romansvillage:
Have you tried StaxRip?

Could be. As I understand your software is generating a script which is processed by third party software. So maybe that bug is not in your application.

Yes, I should know that, I also developing software. When I'm back on the computer where I tried your software I can look for the log file and send it to you if it still exists.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] obadvw:
GREAAAT WORK..it really works
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Seriously now.

We all know there is other software out there that is capable of doing the job.

Take that discussion elsewhere. Open your own thread etc.

This thread is for the program I made. Once again, no one forces you to use it - feel free to make another topic with a better method if you have one.

But stop OT discussion please.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sakky:
greaat!!! thanks man, fantastic job!! ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
It managed to encode the file that version 1.03 couldn't.

However the audio is out of synch - fast by about 2 seconds. What next...?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Run with -debug.

Then exit the program during (1/4) and upload the log here.

That way I can see what kind of source video you used and also what I might be able to do with the settings.

Thank you.

Also, I would like to ask the people who have encoded longer videos to post.

1) Video format?

2) Is audio in sync?

If it is not in sync, please also post logfile.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PerezDeQueya80:
I just testing a converted video on my xperia, video is ok, sound no.

I hear only something... like an accelerated movie but at lowest volume.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] petreme:
Unable to encode

Hi projection.

I try new ver 1.10 and Ihave this same problem: "Unable to encode"

Hier is log:

Thank You.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] yas216:
The sample video is not available? Anyone have an alternative link?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pzucchel:
great words....he has made a free tool for everybody, listens to stupid questions, provides free support and...what do you want more? :mad:

(the first :mad: i post on xda-developers :o)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] taunouibo:
Aspect ratio... again...

Hi projection!

Excellent work! Honestly - I was very disappointed in the video performance on my device so far and I spent almost whole xmas testing different codecs, containers, bitrates etc. Now I made several tests with your software with great success, but I'm also one of them who complain about the aspect ratio problem.

I do a lot of video editing with native HDV files and use them for archiving. But as they are 1440x1080 with 1,33 AR, I cannot use them directly in your software. Actually I can, but they are encoded at 640x480. What if there was a custom resolution box, where I can force the output to 800x450, which should be correct AR in my case? The same aspect ratio problem occured when I used IPTV streams (transport stream, Elion btw) - somehow they were encoded to 600x480, not 640x480 as expected and there was about 0,5 sec audio delay. Can you use those streams yourself or I can upload for you as source material?

Once again - thank you very much, I'm very proud, that estonians can make waves on software development :)

Tervitused Viljandist!

PS! Kui need probleemid saavad lahenduse, siis minu poolt kast A Le Coq'i!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dusty_nz:
Positive results.

Looks good on the first go however one small problem.

Plays well from start however cannot jump to sections in the movie. Screen just goes blank.

If I stop then start it resumes again however cannot jump to a section.

The timer still plays but no picture

Ideas?

Have tried the album as well. Still no go.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Post logfile please. You can start first pass on that video, and then exit the program - It will contain the information I need.

Confirmed the bug. I will fix it tonight. Thank you for your report.

This feature has been requested a lot.

I will consider adding an option of forced AR for the 1.2 release, along with hardsubbing.

The audio delay is a very tough nut. For some videos it seems to be ok, for others not.

Even when using the best settings I could find for mencoder by spending hours reading mailing lists regarding sync issues, they still remain...

I'll try to keep working on it, but I am not sure how much I can do if it's a problem with mencoder itself.

I am surprised to see another estonian person here actually, and you are welcome. I hope I can perfect my software.

Tervitan sind ka. AR saab kindlasti korda, aga sync probleemid on raskemad.

Kui sa saad sellise klipi välja otsida, kus sync märgatavalt metsa läheb ja mis ei ole väga suur, siis ole hea, viska link privasse.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
It seems to work for most people.

Are you using a custom ROM? Or perhaps you can try to soft-reset your device.

Then again, post log... without it I can't help you much.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ultish:
wow this worked great with 1.10 first time using default settings. Excellent work! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gien29:
Thank You

Well I have to congratulate Projection for that great work! :)

I have never seen such good videos befor on my THD ! :)

A must Have ! :)

Gien
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Those who have sync problems.

Please post logs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gauner1986:
Hi,

is it possible, that you include an option to convert the audio from AC3 to stereo?

Nearly all my HD-films have an AC3-audiostream and my Xperia can't play it. (can't hear anything at least)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] makavelianz:
The quality as always wth windowsmedia player is good but i never seem to get the smoothness from it, so i cant say im satisfied, :o. if you can get the video smooth then this would be perfect untill then im going to stick with tynnt other Guide with coreplayer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I'll look into it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PerezDeQueya80:
For precision, the video works correctly on the computer.

This is the log.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
I've attached the log file as asked after starting the encoding process and then stopping after a minute.The original conversion produced a video with the audio out of sync.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] theone01:
The output file works perectly on the PC but on Xperia there is no sound at all!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] razorblader:
Hi projection, thanks for your efforts so far, it's greatly appreciated. I did encode a 40 minutes episode of heroes from a 720p source with 1.10beta. Audio is out of sync probably due to the fact that the file got encoded with 25fps instead of 23.976 of the source file. I have included the encoding log and a Mediainfo screenshot of the source file.

An option to change/confirm the fps setting would be great, do you think there's a way to include this in your GUI?

The same file encoded with the 1.04 was fine and smooth until the video started to play up after a few minutes of viewing on the HD. A number of short encodes (2 minute long sample files) from 720p sources worked great with version 1.04 and are very smooth on the HD. Audio/Video sync on these files is fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Wrong logfile.

I need the log that is generated by running Encoder.exe with -debug switch.

You gave me 2pass information from x264, with which I have absolutely nothing to do.

I did change FPS with -ofps... It shouldn't desync the audio though.

I'll try a couple more things/heuristics, and see if that fixes some of the audio issues.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wolfenzi:
1.) You didnt understand what I meant, but you can forget about that anyway, because now this point works perfectly in the new version. Nice one here.

2.)You mean there is way how to convert my .srt file into different .srt file which will work with utf-8 settings ? Ever if it does, I still think it would be better if you choose something better like latin, because I´m really not only one here who isnt native english(or other language with simple letters) speaker.

3.)Why are you so against letterbox ? And what is this "or use other software" ? Which ? I dont think there´s another usefull player avalaible... And about album... Yes, you can play it in Album. Or YOU MUST PLAY IT IN ALBUM. It will never get 800x480 resolution(unless the input has same aspect ratio, which would be really rare), so you wont see sides of the video in WMP on fullscreen.

But problems with Album :

1. In WMP it´s very easy to skip, almost instantly or 0,5sec. In Album it takes pretty long, so if you are trying to find some funny part in 1 hour long video, you will rage about that.

2. Opening videos in Album is pretty bad. It doesnt show you names but pictures of the video. Which means :

a) It takes pretty long before the pictures ever load. I got 5 films and I was waiting like 10sec.

b) You dont see name of the film. Yeah, you can guess by look on that picture, but not always. Also if you got several episodes of something, then they probably has same first frame...

So if you are really not going to add letterbox option, then you should delete everything which mention WMP, because you CAN´T play videos from your encoder in WMP. Unless it is 800x480 which it won´t be. It won´t show you sides of the video.

And about the rest of your post :

Yeah, I took offence. I really appreciate you are trying to make good GUI for us, but I don´t like how you demand money on me just because I don´t like something. In your first post you said "If you like this tool and it works for you, please donate!" . When I wrote that post, it didnt ever work for me. Now it works but it´s not giving me any advances againt other programs.Maybe you think "yeah, but if I finish this and he will really like it, he would not give me any money" and yes it´s true. Sadly I dont have paypal account. Does that mean I have to shut up if I want some new features in that GUI ?

And by the way: I just encoded/played some video with the new version of your GUI, but it doesnt have quality settings anymore, so which quality is it using ? low, medium or high ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c4Lvin:
works perfectly for me!

Projection, everything works perfectly for me on avi files. I had a 700MB movie and converted it in about 1-2 hours (slow laptop). I was wondering why everyone is having these problems with encoding? Maybe it's vista or what? And no sound? I tried everything to find a flaw but I don't get any of those problems whatsoever. It's either your PC is jacked up or you aren't installing what needs to be installed on the device itself I guess? I am running Laurents' V2 ROM and D3D drivers and nothing special. I play only on my album player as the movie I got is 16.9 and WMP won't adjust it for me (i do not mind if its got black mark). On WMP seems like it zooms in instead and doesn't show everything on landscape, i guess that's why we have Album player i guess!!! Good job dude!!! Thanks!

oh BTW, can it do RMVB files?

Thanks!

Cal
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Urokinase:
Hi.

I am trying your APP... great work... but i have a Problem. I converted 2 AVI Files and everything is good. I wanna look them with MediaPlayer. I turn my HD in Landscape and MediaPlayer switch in Landscape Mode but not the Movie. Somebody can help me ?

Uro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Media Player don't do automatic landscape. For that you will have to press the Full Screen button on the player.

HTC Album on the other hand launches videos automatically in landscape full screen.

The accelerometer's functionality has been disabled (not really implemented) for video playback.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Urokinase:
I try it now with HTC Album but the Movie didn´t start in Landscape Mode... i can do everything but the movie is not turning into Landscape... the Player is in Landscape Mode :-(

I use Dutty´s Rom 1.5 ...

Uro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
Are you using a screen rotator like GSen, Gnes, Gyrator, etc? Maybe that's the culprit. Maybe it's a ROM bug...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Urokinase:
Yes thats it... I used FlipIt and after i stop it everything went fine... thanx for help :-))

Uro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I did understand that you want me to bundle the decoders, but perhaps you should learn to express your thoughts a bit more exactly. Instead of saying "your codecs", say "instead of using system codecs".

Of course there is. You can convert between encodings.

And why would I choose latin? UTF-8 supports all languages. If I choose latin, what happens to people who want chinese subtitles?! Or russian?!

Because letterboxing is stupid, period.

It wastes size (the black are still extra pixels to be encoding), it needs more power to encode and decode (resolution is artificially higher).

Basically it is a cheap hack that:

1) Reduces battery life

2) Wastes filesize.

3) Increased encoding time.

That is why I will NEVER do this. Do not ask.

Regarding other software - you were so fond of your "handbrake" tool. Use that if you don't like mine.

This GUI is meant to be used together with album. I test all videos with album. If WMP can't play them correctly - sorry, write to microsoft.

Sure, I'll check if it says anything about wmp anywhere.

No. You need to be polite. You are very rude all the time.

No one asks you to pay anything, I never expected to get any money out of this either.

But you come "demanding" and "ordering". You have no right to do that, and it only annoys me. It is my program, you can ask me *nicely* to do something and I will. But not DEMAND.

Anyway, stop this OT. I think you understand what I mean.

None of them. The original options had all issues with seeking etc.

I'd say it's closer to "medium". But the truth is, that it's pretty much the only thing that works properly.

I am not sure what RMVB files are.

It can do everything mplayer can.

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Also, I made a new version yesterday, but xda-devs was down, so I could not upload it.

It fixes aspect ratio (should be autodetected properly now, so no more stretched video) and also tries to downmix AC3 sound to 2 channels.

I think I also found a solution for the audio sync issue. But I did not have time yesterday to code it yet. I will do so for 1.12.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Also guys, if you are able to, and if my tool helped you, please support the development of the tool by donating.

It has taken many, many hours of work to get it where it is now.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] amitambika:
Projection.This toll works good for me.Have done a small donation.W ill let you know if I face any problem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
So how can we overcome this problem with album? cus i experience the same situation as him. any suggestion?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thank you, your donation is very appreciated.

I guess you can put the videos in different folders, so that they are recognizeable enough. I know it is not a very good way, but I don't have a better idea right now.

Actually album calls an external program to display video/overlay.

If someone figures out what exactly is called, it might be possible to hack together a different file listing program.

I don't have enough time to do something like that though, as I have never coded an application for Windows Mobile before, it will take me a lot of time to learn.

Perhaps someone who is experienced with developing mobile applications manages to hack something together.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] petreme:
Working

Hi projection.

With new ver.1.1 now working. Thank You. I now testing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] razorblader:
If this is just about selecting the correct file from a folder you can select the file in the windows file explorer (or resco or whatever you usually use) and it will open it automatically with the album player if it's a .mp4 file, no need to go through the album. Or are you guys talking about something else?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I think that's exactly what the talk was about...

I just tested, and indeed if you open the file with file explorer, it plays with album player directly.

So, if you guys have a lot of videos and need to know the names, just use file explorer to open them!

Razorblader:

IIRC you had a sync issue due to 24/1001 video.

I will make a new version of the player tonight, which should correct it (fps autodetection).

It would be nice if you could test tomorrow and let me know the results.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sameerabedi:
Hey projection, any chance of looking at my log with re: audio out of sync? Or will version 1.12 be the solution to all audio issues hopefully?

(see post #249 for the log file if you need to)

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] willwmj:
have tried the v1.11 GUI with 40 mins movie.

after about 20mins movie gone, my HD screen stick, not sure whether its related to the GUI or others, suggest the new beta GUI to have the split mp4 function.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] razorblader:
Sure, I will test it and let you know my results. Glad to help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Errr... is it only me? whenever i open .mp4 file from files explorer, it open with Core Player by default. is there a way to change this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Delete::::
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reidar.ostrem:
@Projection

Hi and thanks for the great tool... dropped you a donation for the work you've done so far.

After some testing I actually get smoother video with Flash in AVI, but maybe some quality differences.

I used 750kbps bitrate on a 1080hd movie, and album does not play this as smooth as coreplayer with flashvideo ( 960kbps bitrate ).

I'm confident that this tool will evolve to a premium GUI for the touch hd phone. I will follow your progress and test each version :) More donations are on the way when I get this thing working right for me .. hehe
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Deadbeef:
It takes forever to render

I've tried converting a 800 MB DivX and it takes a realy long time.

It finished the stage 1/4 in 1 1/2 hours.

The version I've used was 1.11beta

Can someone post some rendering times?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] razorblader:
Deselect MPEG4 files under menu/tools/preferences/file associations in Coreplayer, save with ok and exit Coreplayer. This should do the trick...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I guess you either have a very very slow CPU, or something else was using it.

Post your spec.

Thank you.

Regarding smoothness... perhaps lower bitrate to 650...

I will try something else as well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vosszaa:
Thx mate. It works ^^
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I looked at it...

New version will hopefully fix it.

If not, then I don't know what to do anymore :/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] azurepalm:
For the options group, it would be nice if it's made simpler. Something to this effect:

--Options----------------------------------------------
| ( ) SD input (600 kbit/s video, 128 kbit/s audio)
| ( ) HD input (750 kbit/s video, 128 kbit/s audio)
| ( ) Custom
| Video [_____] kbit/s, Audio [_____] kbit/s
|------------------------------------------------------

Legend:

"( )" is a radio button

"[______]" is a text-box

edit: come to think about it, the term "SD" and "HD" might be to ambiguous for our grandmas, spelling it out to "Standard Definition" and "High Definition" might actually help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thank you for the suggestion, will consider it for 1.2 release.

It is more of a cosmetical nature though. Currently I try to focus more on functional changes.

Also, 1.12 has been released.

People who had A/V sync issues, should try it.

Note, that it is not a magic bullet by any means. If your input video is messed up and mplayer can't properly read it, then it won't help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CWempe:
Feature Request: Option to select Input Audio-Stream if the source contains more audio-streams.

Just a thought.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PRAP:
I converted an avi video (750 kbit/s) and it played very well. Very smooth. But the video has no sound. I have tried with version 1.10 beta and 1.12 but in the touch hd there is no sound. Playing the video in the pc there is sound but only in the video converted with the version 1.12.

What was wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I don't know.

You did not post a log file, neither the type of video.

I have not yet encountered a single video, which has no sound. Is your sound on, on your phone?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carlhoerberg:
rar support?

how about rar support? as most of my torrent downloads comes as rar archives i would like to encode them directly from the archive to the phone without having to extract them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Alex Atkin UK:
Seeing as you HAVE to extract the rar archive before you can get at the video, it would seem a bit lazy to expect the GUI to do this for you.

You will need enough space to extract the video from the rar file either way, it wont make any difference there except it might try to extract where you have insufficient space.

Surely there is a torrent app that extracts the rars when its done? It would seem more suitable to that than a video transcoder.

I also wanted to say that the encoder appears to run fine under WINE on Linux, but so far I have not been able to get any of the output videos to play. They are all showing bad when trying to play them using mplayer or the phone, so I think perhaps something is not working correctly using WINE. I will try XP under a virtual machine next.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] giangishanghai:
Hy all

first sorry if this question was already asked but i havent fount it.

Gui seems to work good, image quality is really great, but i can hear the sound only with earphones.

is this normal? sound on my HD is on and i can hear music very well.

thanks for the hard work.

ciao
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
What do you mean by that? Isn't there any sound comming out of the speaker? It works just fine for me, so I guess you messed up your driver(s), equalizer(s) or something like that. There is also a country specific sound level barricade. You need HDTweak in order to change (or disable) it.