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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gTen:
I see people are talking about using none stock media player apps such as Meridian & mVideoplayer...

But here is my question, do those 2 players support ARM Neon? (Hummingbird has a ARM Neon inside) cause the default player I think does which makes it hardware decode the videos...if the players do not support ARM Neon then they would be doing software decode which is slower >.>
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
I've been playing 720p Naruto & bleach rips by horrible subs & crunchy subs since I bought my SGS. I haven't had any problems other than playing the embedded subs. (which I posted a workaround)

If you have problems with your own camera videos, I think the problem is with your phone. One question though, where are your videos saved? I use the internal memory & I don't have any MicroSD installed. maybe it's your memory card that is defective?

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azreil24:
I don`t have a MicroSD card either. Just the phone`s memory, is the 8GB version, I am thinking maybe that there is a speed difference between the two models, the 16GB and the 8GB, that the 8 GB being slower.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigWorldJust:
How are you guys getting .mkv's to play? Everytime I click it on my phone it starts playing for a bit and then it says this video cannot be played. Nevermind I downloaded RockPlayer ARM7 and it worked :).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
You might have a defective unit. Because as you've said, you are having problems with videos taken by you camera.. that should not happen! just send your unit for service..

or maybe there's an application that you've installed that's eating the your SGS' resources, try to end some of the tasks by using a task manager program.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrianx26:
try frist to restore to factory defaults.... and try again

for converting why dont use CyberLink MediaEspresso, have support for nvidia and ati cards this can reduce the converting/trans-coding time
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azreil24:
I tried factory reset, changed FW, all of them, didn`t install any other software just clean flash, started from JF5 (this was stock), with JG5 the sync problem sims to be minimal. Also, it sims that the videos I took with the phone have a little out of sync even on PC. Might be a hardware problem, I will take it to the local Orange shop. Question though, JG5 is official FW? It is from what I know, or maybe I should flash to JF5, although I don`t have a back-up of the original FW, as the one downloaded from samsung-firmwares is different from the one that came with the phone.

Tks.

LE: Videos taken with the phone don`t have out of sync problem when played with QuickTime, they play perfectly, only when using other players like WMP, Media Player Classic or any other players. Very odd.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
I thought that the Videos Taken from your camera play just fine with your PC but not on your Phone?

are you referring on the SGS' Video Camera? If not, are you able to play the 720p videos taken by your SGS with no problems?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gTen:
So no one knows the answer to this question? its pretty important...mostly if they don't have support for it we should ask the developers to add it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenkiller:
mVideoplayer uses the default codecs supported by the phone. It basically overlays subtitles only.

Meridian also uses the default codecs. However it supports less codecs because it's hardcoded to support those specific extensions that most android phones do, while Samsung android phones are an exception to.

So, they are both using the hardware itself to play those video, not any form of software decoding.

A good example of software decoding would be Rockplayer. Which plays formats not supported natively like rmvb. It even has an option to use the internal codecs to play videos (i.e. hardware decoding), but then u will lose rmvb support in that case.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gTen:
Well Arm Neon can actually hardware decode rmvb as well but if codecs aren't included I guess it won't work...

Then by what you are saying is mVideoplayer & Meridian won't play divx/xvid on a none Galaxy S since those devices don't have the codecs correct? and Rockplayer would play divx and xvid by using the option to use internal codecs?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azreil24:
I usually use QuickTime to open the videos taken with the phone`s camera, and had no problems, but after that I tried to open them with Media Player Classic, that`s when I soo that there is out of sync. That is way I said the first time that they play without problems on PC :)

The funny part is, even thow I have the out of sync problem on videos, the GPS works great, when everybody is complaining about it. I get a satellite fix in 1 minute max, doesn`t lose the connection and is very accurate, and I didn`t do any modifications to the GPS settings. Weird.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Have you decided to return your SGS? I hope it can be fixed or replaced by a new one.

Me too, I don't experience any GPS issues, maybe it's firmware dependent or something else.

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenkiller:
Yes. Read their specs to see what are supported....mvideo even says upfront it supports whatever the phone supports.

Rockplayer plays quite a range of codecs internally...divx/xvid included. So its the most ideal software player for most Android sets excluding SGS so far.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijaykanth:
Have been experiencing problems with my 720p MKVs. Dunno about Bleach, but Naruto Shippuuden's 168th 720p episode (by HorribleSubs) gave me problems with the audio. The video was flawless, but no audio output.

Can anyone tell me what kinda MKV files will definitely work? I feel as though I may have to re-encode many of my MKV files. Can anyone point out to me why this file won't play at all on the SGS? It's WWE Monday Night Raw (2nd August 2010)

wwe.monday.night.raw.2010.08.02.720p.hdtv.x264-kyr.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 2.18 GiB
Duration : 1h 27mn
Overall bit rate : 3 572 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-03 09:55:47
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.1.1 ('Bouncin' Back') built on Jul 3 2010 22:54:08
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@3.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 27mn
Bit rate : 3 117 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 3 186 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.113
Stream size : 1.90 GiB (87%)
Writing library : x264 core 104 r1677 19df41a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=30 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3186 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 27mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 240 MiB (11%)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azreil24:
The one`s with 6 channel audio AC3 won`t work, only Stereo AC3. All the filles generally work, but the audio has to be stereo, and the mp3`s won`t work if they are 48Khz in sample.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
That episode plays well on my SGS. could be a bad download?

may I know more about your SGS? what version, firmware, any mods?

my SGS is 16Gb, bought from Singtel, stock rom Eclair DXJF4. no mods & using the stock launcher. Kernel 2.6.29 root@SE-S604 #2

*now watching [Horrible Subs] Naruto Shippuuden 172 720p :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gTen:
I read somewhere before that for multichannel audio you need to use headsets that support it :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xent:
For batch extracting subtitles from mkvs, I use mkvcleaver (I cant link this but you can google it easily). It still uses mkvtoolnix so make sure you have that already.

To use MKVcleaver:

1) Open the mkvcleaver

2) Locate the mkvtoolnix directory in the top right (c:\program files\mkvtoolnix\ or c:\Program Files (86x)\mkvtoolnix\ for 64bit windows). Only once when you start the program.

3) Drag drop/add files to extract

4) Select subtitles in the "Track to extract" list

5) Youll just have to rename your subtitle files to exactly the name of your video files (except for the extension which is either .ass or .srt) -OR- Use my script below.

If i could make a good batch script for rename Ill update this

Edit:

Heres the batch rename script:

Copy paste this script in notepad and save as "renamer.bat" Place it in the directory where your files are and open it there.

This ONLY renames the format Filename_Trackx.ass to Filename.ass. To rename *.srt files, just change "ass" into "srt" of course without the quotes. This will not work on File_name_etc_Trackx.ass or File.Name_Trackx.ass Filename formats.

Example:

Doesnt work on:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijaykanth:
Lol... sorry for the late reply DaRkMyk !!!

My SGS is 16GB. 2.1-update 1 with firmware i9000XXJM1 and Kernel 2.6.29 root@SE-S603 #2 ECLAIR.XWJM2

Could be a bad download. But the fansubs work flawlessly for 480p (w/ the subs in mvideoplayer). The 720p ones just don't give any audio.

Like the guy above posted, only the Stereo AC3 works and the sampling rate should be less than 48khz.

I'll check it out...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
trying to get naruto to work... but says

"unable to parse subtitles"

i have the .mkv and .ass files in the same folder... hmmm

any ideas?

edit: my .ass files are showing 0 bytes

:\
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Extract the subs again, that happened to me once. It's the mkvextract's problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardcore:
Actually I just tried making an MP4/3GP file, 720P with High@L3.2 and it works. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
I've been experimenting with Handbrake and found it's perfect for encoding SGS movies. Handbrake preset with success:

2-pass, first pass turbo

bitrate: 750 (more is not needed for this screen size)

constrain video to max 800 wide, 480 high

audio: transcode to 128 or 160kbps AAC (sampling freq. doesn't matter, both 44.1 and 48 kHz work fine)

x264 config:

2 b-frames, 2 ref frames

pyramidal B-frames: normal

weighted P-frames: smart

8x8 transform

no CABAC (but may work?)

uneven multi-hexagon

subpel ME: 9 or 10

motion est: 16 (more is overkill for low res like this)

adaptive direct: automatic

adaptive B-frames: optimal

deblocking: -1, -1

partitions: most

Trellis: encode only

These settings give great watchable quality with minimal filesize, and are quick to encode on a multi-core system.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k8t:
Could someone post some videos online (YouTube or something) of the phone playing 720p MKVs and subtitles? Especially videos encoded with high profile, level 4 or higher, CABAC enabled, greater than 2 Mbps bit rate and greater than 5 reference frames? Those anime videos are probably good examples since they're known to have fairly complicated encode settings. Maybe paste these settings in the description too.

I'd like to see if the performance is acceptable to me. Since what's good or bad to people can differ a lot, I thought videos would help people more accurately decide whether the Galaxy S would be good for them.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
why 5 reference frames? needless use of memory IMHO.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miki4242:
Wow, great to see that theme artists AND multimedia tycoons are getting aboard on the Galaxy S. Great! :-)

To all of you who felt disappointed that the SGS doesn't have HDMI out, it may not have it yet, but Samsung may yet have something in store for us... Check this out!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k8t:
Just want to see the Galaxy's abilities. For my encodes, I use 2 but many of those files from the internet like the anime videos talked about in this thread use a lot of reference frames. I don't know why they do that but for people who don't like transcoding videos it would be nice if they could see what kind of videos they can play before buying the Galaxy.

Edit:

I found this from digital-digest.com/articles/x264_options_page3.html:

So, while live action videos don't benefit much from high reference frames, animation does. Since animation has a lot of repetition, high reference frames will yield better motion estimation (lower cost motion vectors) and thus improve compression.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardcore:
I could play several 720P MKV files on the phone just fine. For example, the latest Top Gear episodes in 720P. 1080P MKVs wouldn't play.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacksome:
for me, the audio in some MKVs doesn't work. In rockplayer, it is sounds weird too.

But on a computer - all is fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CazeW:
General
Complete name :boundin.2003.720p.bluray.x264-sinners.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 156 MiB
Duration : 4mn 42s
Overall bit rate : 4 644 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2007-10-28 00:30:47
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 4mn 42s
Bit rate : 4 000 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 688 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.860
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.189
Stream size : 132 MiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 56 svn-680
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=4000 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 4mn 42s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 21.6 MiB (14%)

Found this video to test with. As you can see, it is High@L5.1 with 8 reference frames. Played perfectly smooth. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrhunski:
is there any player that can play video files over wifi from local network ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suomaf:
So far I have tried all share and also vlc stream and convert.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibanez33:
Do you mean in terms of streaming to, or from the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrhunski:
I mean I have my local PC like storage for movies and other video files. I would like to watch them on phone without copy&paste them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vrhunski:
looks like there is no solution for me :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bhonka:
you can use "vlc stream & convert"

you need to have vlc installed on the computer you want to access though.

works great. I have streamed pretty much every video format fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob151515:
I'm using cifs manager i think it's called to mount an smb share on my pc from the phone and watch content directly off that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moosamm:
hehe...u said ass :eek::eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
Is it possible to reformat the SD card with NTFS or EXT2 or basically anything that'll allow larger than 4gb file sizes ? A bundle of my HD movies come out over that, and its a ballache having to re-rip them... Takes over two hours on my system, when theres no reason they can't play, just can't fit into the file system :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginkage:
Use MKVmerge, at 'Global' tab tick 'Enable splitting', 'after this size:', set it to 2 gb or something like that. Set output to your phone's SD card, and, basically, you're done: it won't re-encode your movie, it will just copy it from your HDD to SD (at USB copying speed!), and will split it so that you won't have to worry about the file system.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
mVideoplayer has been updated, it can now read embedded subs from MKVs! HORAY!

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Yeah.. I also convert some HD vids that I downloaded to save space.. here's a useful thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=729094
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
hey hey hey.. wait up!!!! Don't give up so easily!

There's a pre-installed app called AllShare

you are presented with 3 options:

1) Play file from my phone on another player

2) Play file from server on my phone (This is the one you need) :D

3) Play file from server on another player via my phone

for this to work, you'll need to configure your Windows 7 & Windows Media Player's Media Streaming Options

I use this often. you can also access your Galaxy S media thru WiFi.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob151515:
Does anyone know why the SGS playback of video looks much worse than playing the equivalent video on a PC?

Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that it can play these back at all but I've got some divx avi's that look ok on the computer but look terrible on the SGS. I'm no expert but It's like the contrast or brightness is way out or something.

An interesting test is to use Rockplayer and switch off the hardware decoding and use straight software to decode the same avi file - this looks great, so I think it has something to do with the way the hardware is decoding the file.

It's not just avi's either, HD mkv's look pretty good for the most part, except some parts can look quite washed out and blocky. The same mkv will look flawless on my 50" HD plasma.

Again, I'm loving the fact that it can playback these files smoothly especially at 720p, i'm just a bit dissapointed with the quality of the playback I guess...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
Pixels?

Contrast Ratio?

you are trying to compare a 4" 800x480 vs 50" whatever resolution HD Plasma? :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob151515:
Like I said, I'm no expert. I have 2 HD TV's (a Sony Bravia 32" LED and an LG 50" Plasma). Both with a res of 1920x1080. I just don't understand how a video can look perfect on these and then not so good on the phone which is 4".

I think there's something going to with the SGS firmware as well because I've tried certain builds where the blacks seem to be more of a dark gray than other builds (testing with the same video file).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
I want a plasma LCD too!

For me it is still better to watch movies from my LCD, I have a 23" 1920x1080 LG LCD Monitor with 50K Dynamic Ratio.

SGS is the best in the smartphone category
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] torres76:
Hey all films I have are just great avatar, 2012, up in smoke, gone in 60 seconds. I converted using handbrake and another purchased software.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
Hint: your phone is downscaling. The video isn't the correct size for the phone screen, hence the downscale.

When you take a 1080p or 720p movie, which has a higher resolution than the 800x480 of the SGS, and try to play it, several things happen.

1. the bitrate is extremely high. This means the storage works to keep up

2. the phone downscales the video to make it fit on the screen. This means the CPU works to keep up.

3. battery dies faster than if you were playing native resolution video.

When you downscale there are different ways to do it; the fastest methods look blocky sometimes. Google bilinear, cubic or lanczos resize.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinki3s:
Hello, I currently have an Archos 5 Internet Tablet. It plays most of my movies but I was considering getting the Galaxy S since it has 3G data. I was wondering if anyone can test these sample files on their Galaxy S phone. My Archos can't play them.

mediafire.com/?wxrn72h4y6se2ci

mediafire.com/?a18133mrrhvk5r1

If the Galaxy S can play these then I might replace my Archos with it so I only have to carry one device for both phone and video playback.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CazeW:
The anime video played just fine. The Firefly trailer had sound but no picture, but this is probably just because of the custom kernel I have that is known to cause this with some videos.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rob151515:
Thanks but I'm not quite sure that's whats causing what I am seeing.

Have a look at the description here under the 'Color and Sharpness in Videos' section:

http://project-voodoo.org/color

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

He's saying that stock configuration of the SGS applies several filters successively which results in what I'm seeing.

I should have mentioned that it is more evident in dark scenes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jinki3s:
Thank you for testing them! The Firefly trailer is interesting because it uses header removal compression on the video track as per the MKV container spec. I wonder if it's your kernel or the Galaxy S's video player just doesn't support this feature. My Archos doesn't support header compression.

I'm glad the anime clip worked. From my understanding anime encoders tend to use hard to decode settings. They're usually good for testing the video capabilities of players.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Indicative:
It seems like I cannot play MKV files. It says file not supported. AVI files work fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
You cannot play MKV's via AllShare or directly on your phone?

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Indicative:
Via Allshare
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaRkMyk:
I assume you can play that MKV when you transferred it to your phone?

MKV's works fine via AllShare, I just tried it a while ago with the latest episode of naruto.

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Indicative:
MKV's work fine in the default player but not allshare. odd