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[Xoom General] Flaunt77:
Ipad 2:

Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

XOOM:

If you stick with H.264 Baseline Profile, you can achieve up to 1920x1080p at 30 fps at 20Mbps.

Baseline Profile means:

- No CABAC entropy coding.

- No B frames

- No 8x8 transforms (DCT)

- No Weighted Prediction

For 1280x720p at 30 fps, you can go up to 20Mbps and Motorola XOOM should still be able to handle it. More Realistically, depending on the content, you can get away with 4Mbps and up with varying degrees of quality. If you are tight on space, use 4Mbps. If you want something to look good you can use 10/12 Mbps. At some point though the higher the bitrate will only translate to decreasing amounts of quality improvement. In other words, 20Mbps will probably look as good as 15Mbps, but will just use up more space. Ultimately, there is really no one size fits all solution and it may take a little experimentation to find the settings that work best for the content you wish to view.

Additionally your device does not have a limitation on certain types of B frames (Main profile tool). So you can add in B frames and not affect performance that much. If you are using a encoding tool that uses B frames, such as QuickTime Pro, you should be able to achieve main profile encoding.

If you are using a lower resolution that 720p (such as 720x480 resolution size) in order to encode longer length video , you can get away with using more tools (High and Main profile tools). However, encoding become more complex and may require more experimentation to achieve acceptable results.

In general, if you are concern about performance, use baseline tools and possibly b-frames (with no weighted prediction). This will give you the best performance.

Also as side note, if you are upscaling from a DVD to 720p try to use the best upscaling algorithm provided and don't expect to get true 720p quality from upscaled DVD.

Looks like Xoom is a tad bit better in terms of supported Hardware video decode capabilities.

In terms of GPU - it seems that the Ipad 2 may have a bit of an edge with the new power VR 543 - though this is not official as there are no direct comparisons yet.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Well my Epic4g with the Powervr SGX540 plays back high profile 720p FLAWLESSLY. The iPad will be capable of much more than that with the newer chip. The video standards that they "support" are the ones that they use through itunes and in no way represent the highest possible encoding of video that will play back. The instant XBMC hits the iPad2, I expect at least 1080p main profile to work since 1080p high profile ALMOST works on the iPad1.
[Xoom General] Legacystar:
What's that you say, the iPad can output 1080p? Well sort of. The iPad can mirror its 1024x768 display in 1080p but it still won't decode 1080p H.264 videos, and we don't know what type of TV you have, but we'd bet ours does a little bit better job of scaling than the magical iPad. All that being said, the iPad 2's new form factor will increase its desirability as a couch companion --not to mention we'll buy anything with magnets -- but an HD source device, not so much.

That's from engadget

http://hd.engadget.com/2011/03/02/the-ipad-2-and-1080p-theres-nothing-to-see-here/
[Xoom General] joereist:
There are a lot of threads about xoom video limitations.

Am I the only person who just copied dvd rips from my iTunes folder straight to the xoom, and watch them with zero issues?

Maybe my handbrake settings arent top-notch, but the quality/size trade off worked fine on my old I pad, and work fine for the xoom. If I wanted full crazy HD, i'd watch from the blu-ray disk directly, on a TV that does it justice.

Am I crazy?
[Xoom General] muyoso:
It won't do it officially. Once it its jailbroken though it will have xbmc and will have ridiculous capabilities. For example the current ipad can play 720p high profile with xbmc now.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
What the specs page lists for the iPad 2 is irrelevant. Here my iPad1 playing a 720p H@L5.1 h.264 mkv file:

http://vimeo.com/20636064

Pretty sure the iPad never had that listed on its specs page. For a comparison, here is the Notion Ink and the Xoom playing back that exact same clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWu6m33EP0&feature=player_detailpage#t=231s
[Xoom General] Bauxite:
How long did it take from the MOMENT the iPad was released to when that became supported by some app?

People act like just because there are no apps RIGHT NOW for the xoom to play additional formats that there never ever will be.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
It took a while for XBMC to be ported, 9 months or so. Dont know if they were working on it that entire time. The reason people act like that BTW is because the Tegra 2 is incapable of hardware decoding H@L4.1 or higher. Here is the guy who ported XBMC to the iPad and AppleTV and who was tasked with porting to Tegra 2 devices talking about it:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=735285&postcount=41

Believe me, I wish that were not the case. Wants me some Xoom or Galaxy Tab 10.1 action.
[Xoom General] iceytea:
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only thing difference I seem to see from baseline and high profile h.264 is compression. My Xoom is fully capable of displaying the converted 720p mkvs with no chop/stutter in widescreen format on its screen. I've yet to test out hdmi out to my TV though.

Unless you want to talk about bitrate, but I can hardly tell the difference in quality loss vs source on something that I downloaded off the internet.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
Oh there is no doubt that you can convert the video to play back perfectly on the Xoom. That isn't in question. I personally just think its ridiculous to have to.

Good read on the differences here, especially on page 3:

http://www.polycom.com/global/documents/whitepapers/h264_high_profile_wp.pdf

Warning, above is a direct link to a pdf.
[Xoom General] iceytea:
Thanks for the read, I skimmed it and it pretty much sums up as higher compression without visual quality loss. I never put it together that the development of high profile was used for bandwidth savings though, interesting.
[Xoom General] hakujin:
Thank you for your posts, and yes, I COMPLETELY AGREE with you! Once I began my due diligence today comparing the iPad 1, iPad 2, and the Xoom I thought to see if high profile h.264 was supported.

I was shocked to find out that the Tegra 2's hw (and Nvidia has confirmed this) does not support high profile h.264. BUT.... the iPad 1 does?! It's ridiculous quite frankly, and in my eyes, Tegra 2 is partial failure because of it.

Anyway, iPad 1 handles that Planet Earth clip (i.e. the de facto pseudo h.264 720p/1080p benchmark for years it seems!) beautifully. How's the batter life when watching h.264? How long can you get? Also, I would think the iPad 2 is capable of 1080p high profile yes?

In any event, I won't be buying a zoom. For the steeper price point, that is just insulting. I'm gonna try to find one of the remnant ipad 1s from Verizon that have been creeping around for ~$300, however unlikely at that price point it may be to find!

Kudos to your efforts and exposing this massive fault in the Xoom. I have NEVER been a fan of reconversion of the years, from divx in its earliest days through xvid (when apple ironically pushed 'reconversion' into mainstream)... glad that w/ this bad boy that won't be necessary as I'd never do it, too much hassle and insulting, imho.
[Xoom General] ilogik:
Not being able to play 720p videos is the main reason I returned the xoom. If I am forced to convert videos I might as well do it for the ipad.
[Xoom General] techs1200:
I am so tempted to sell my xoom because of this video playback issue...

I have a lot of bluray rips and I cant watch them on the xoom.

They were encoded using the Apple TV2 preset in handbrake, which I'm guessing is high profile :(
[Xoom General] Eclair~:
Oh wow, if this is that serious most of the Honeycomb tablets will be losing quite a lot of sells. I hope Samsung doesn't use the Tegra in their tabs. I'm fine with their Exynos, assuming it has the amazing codec support their Hummingbird does.
[Xoom General] pjcforpres:
Its not the chip ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html ) supports 1080p h264 just fine. As it stands right now, best I have been able to gather, it is a software/firmware (likely drivers) issue causing the poor playback.
[Xoom General] vamp6x6x6x:
That would seem to make since, but I believe in Google...A phrase I never thought I would be saying ever lol.
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Sorry. But there isn't much doubt at this time that it IS in fact the "chip"

There are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of articles at this point citing the same thing: Tegra 2 CANNOT DECODE HIGH PROFILE VIDEO.

Period.

If you need me to cite about 50 different sources, I would be happy to do so.
[Xoom General] vamp6x6x6x:
No, no, I'll take your word for it. I guess some of us were hoping that it was just a honeycomb issue that would be fixed with an update.
[Xoom General] muyoso:
The Xoom can play baseline 1080p h.264. The Xoom cannot play 720p high profile h.264. I would venture to guess that 90% of all video that people have that they didn't videotape themselves is high profile h.264 with 9.99% of the remainder being main profile h.264.

The iPad 1 handles the Planet Earth clip perfectly, but do realize that it is a jailbroken iPad with XBMC installed. The iPad does not natively support high profile h.264 even though the hardware is capable, because Apple wants you to buy media through iTunes.

The iPad 2 SHOULD be capable of 1080p high profile, but we won't know for sure until it too is jailbroken and XBMC is installed/optimized.
[Galaxy Tab General] wildcat777:
Hi guys just heard that Google has pulled 21 infected apps from the AM.I think i may have downloaded one of these apps about a month ago,does anyone know how long these infected apps were on the market and when,like i say the app i downloaded was about a month ago(photo editor)i'm just hoping it was the legitimate one,problem is i uninstalled more or less immediately as it didn't suit my needs so i can't check the developers name. Thanks in advance for any responses.
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
That sucks. The more popular an OS gets the more of a target it will become.
[Galaxy Tab General] Aeskulapio:
Trojaned Market apps

The fact that we don't have clarity on what apps were effected is disturbing.

I also read on Android Police that there maybe as many as 50 total apps that were "infected"

I'm going to wipe my GTab, re-root and load a smaller slate of apps from "trusted" devs

Good luck
[General Questions and Answers] neznayka404:
Hello guys, I`m newbie and I need help :D

Today I was installed vRecorder to my HD2 with Android (Typhoon 2.4.5), but it is not work. I uninstall it, but in stock apps like Dictophone, Google Voice and Phone mic don`t work! What i must do to fix it? Any suggestions?

P.S. Sorry for my English :o
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevalin:
Hi, Folks,

Well, now that I've solved my Speedmod problem (turned out to be an issue with a corrupted program on my computer, not the kernel), does anyone have a copy of Cognition 3.02 or 3.04?

I usually save copies of the roms, etc., I flash, but I blew this one. I want to "upgrade" to Cog 4... but I also want to have the option of flashing back if it doesn't suit my fancy, so to speak. I've already done a CWM backup in preparation, but bitter experience has taught me that that isn't always adequate.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I'd rather have 3.02 if possible (I prefer its lock screen), but I will gladly accept 3.04.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
I have cognition 3.02 CWM zip saved on my phone. I'm not near wifi so I can't upload it for you yet, but might be able to later. You have a server i can upload to?

Sent from my i896 running Paragon 6 using the XDA premium app.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevalin:
Thanks so much, but I don't need it anymore. One of my local friends found the version I need on their computer and sent along via DropBox.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] bleuiko:
I would like to have my SMS popup and light up the screen in the very least (like on the iPhone). Not sure if I want the same for email but maybe a 3-sec balloon would be nice (kind of like growl).

Any suggestions?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] wealeat:
Handcent SMS.

Not sure about email.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] lsxrx7:
Go SMS does just the same
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
if you just want a popup notification for these events, you can use Tasker. Tasker is complicated at first but after you understand how it works, you can create some good stuff. Right now I have a popup "ballon" that notifies me of new moves on words with friends with a popup, sound, led, and vibrate. I did this because WwF's notifcation is still new and basica n doesnt even work well.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] chainsaw5001:
smspopup is also good.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] G-Man.:
...Or go back to the iPhone if you want iPhone features :)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] bleuiko:
SMSpopup is what I use now and it works pretty well for SMS. For calendar, I'm currently testing Calendar Snooze, but at that price, I might as well get Tasker.

Tasker seems awesome but I know I'll have to spend hours to configure it and I'm not sure if I want to do that.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] bleuiko:
I'm pretty sure you're joking but this is like telling someone who used to own a Brand A car with satellite radio to go back to Brand A because his new Brand B car comes only with a standard radio. The more sensible thing would probably be to explore the option of installing a satellite radio in his awesome new ride.

Or in my case, an app that turns the screen on when I get events notifications.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] G-Man.:
I just lol'd
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] djkinetic:
Chomp SMS does the trick for me, I was using the default app with SMS Popup, but i like the customization you get from Chomp =)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tha5150:
i have always used Handscent for SMS and LOVE IT
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] live4nyy:
I think the OP wants something that can handle other notifications also, like calendar and task notifications.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] bleuiko:
Thanks, I do. But I don't think I'll suffer too badly if I have to get a seperate app for each notification type. I'm debating between Go SMS, Handcent SMS, and Chomp SMS for SMS. They all kind of look the same.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] live4nyy:
SMS Popup works well. And you don't have to use a different messaging app to use it.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] olieebur:
+1 for smspopup
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] kevyh:
Light Flow - LED Control

It costs 1$ but works well and has lots of settings including setting different LED colors for different notifications; different sounds; different vibration patterns.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] DKRussell:
Handcent
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] PAulyhoffman:
care to share this task

Id love to set that up on my tasker
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] havlaz:
Hendsent SMS is similar to iphone..
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] cs3vigny:
Droid Notify Lite

I use an app called Droid Notify

You should check it out.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] ranjithkumar1201:
lol
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Obartuckc:
I use iPhone Notification Lite, from the Play Store.

~Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G Badass~
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
First off, my tone is from frustration. I've experienced this snafu now on both versions of clockwork recovery. The phone won't completely shut off while charging. If I power the phone down unplugged, then plug it in while off, recovery boots up. If it's plugged in while powering down, recovery boots up after a few seconds.

I suppose I could flash cwm when I need it then flash back to stock recovery. I guess that's what I'm going to have to do until it might get fixed. I thought going to version 3 would fix the bug but apparently not. I've tried to flash a new recovery with rom manager but an error always happens.

I flashed version 2 the way the root guide said and flashed 3 with fastboot. I forgot if thats the way it was done with 2 or what. I am starting to wonder if I'm doing something wrong because I don't see anyone else complaining about this.
[EVO Shift 4G General] riggsandroid:
Are you looking to bump charge? You've asked this issue a multitude of times and each time its been responded to. (at least in my mind, might be others too) and it is a known issue with CWM recovery and from what I've read Koush isn't really looking at fixing it.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
I can't speak for what'll happen in the future but it's not you. That is a known issue with the recoveries we currently have. I believe most of the complaints are in the how to root thread.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
I am not talented enough to "fix" the problem but it is discouraging to hear that it isn't deemed important. Maybe I was spoiled with my moment, evo, and epic. It seems as if the shift has the smallest developer base so far. When the evo came out, the devs were all over the place.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've even seen anyone besides myself that has a shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
You don't think not being able to charge while turned off isn't really a minor problem? And you're using the Moment as a model of progress??

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
That's what I started on
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Yeah, me too. And every ROM was basically themed stock. No CM7, no MIUi, no cool ish like the New Sense. Jeez, they just finally got 2.2 working on it! I'd be using CM7 right now if the headphone jack worked. That ish there excites me.

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
First..the facts show the shift as a far more superior platform to any samsung..probably even the tab..let alone its not that your problem isn't important...it just isn't to anyone but you so there is some importance..with everyone complaining about all these issues and the limited dev support maybe we should figure out whether we want a rom..a kernel..a recovery fixed or a genie in the bottle..patience is the virtue here because everyone keeps flaming about support for this and that..maybe the devs have a life..maybe they died..maybe they think its funny to see people whine and complain like they owe us some kind of development
[EVO Shift 4G General] everydaysince87:
google gave everyone a evo that went to the I/O when it comes to the devs the all had a free one from jump i too want cyanogenmod on my shift for the reason i love cyanogenmod BUT its not supported by him oficially
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Toastcfh has a CM7 where everything works but sending MMS and the headphone output. And he's been working on it everyday. And Cyanogen responded to someone asking him on Twitter if there'd be CM support for the Shift and he said "Yes, soon". I think it was on 2/17.

I have a feeling my Shift is gonna be very happy soon :)

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G General] everydaysince87:
Soon isn't official yet tho I may look into a way to donate to toastcfh then
[EVO Shift 4G General] Rob_ec:
My clockwork recovery hasn't gaven me any problems
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
+1 and I use cwm 3
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
How did you install yours? Maybe your hardware version of the phone is different than mine? I bought my phone the day after it went on sale. Hardware version 4
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
This is the tutorial I had to follow to install my recovery..at the bottom of the page someone rewrote the 2nd command to enter and it worked for me..but I had to follow this tutorial & not the one stickied..let me know if this works..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=908267&page=6
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jeezimus:
They didn't read your post. The boot to recovery from power off while charging is univeral. Its just that very few people care very much.
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
Lol +1 to not caring much
[EVO Shift 4G General] grandebob:
You actually turn your phone off?
[EVO Shift 4G General] griffindy:
there is at least now an official release of clockwordmod:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=979778
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
I turn it off and on no problem..I haven't tried while its plugged in..why would I even do that unless I want to boot to recovery which is what people complain about so actually its a benefit to me..
[EVO Shift 4G General] grandebob:
My point is that i only turn off my phone when I'm rebooting into recovery. Hence this problem seems to be very minor. I would rather the clockwork mod works on more phones with more ROMs etc instead of focus on something that some people would call a feature. "You mean if I turn off my phone and plug in the USB charger it will go straight to recovery? awesome!"
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
That's what I said just rephrased :) or were you being sarcastic
[EVO Shift 4G General] Evo_Shift:
It is why I have been happy to stick with my rooted stock Shift. I don't like the powering on bug and I don't like that the WiMax keys are not backed up as part of the normal backup.
[EVO Shift 4G General] ahager88:
Just out of curiousity...

Didn't all of you backup your wimax keys yourself? And even if you did, has a fullproof way to restore them even been implemented on any wimax capable device?

Sent from my HTC Speedy
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
We backed them up with dd, I would venture to say dd will put them back.

For those that don't know, dd copies images bit by bit at a disk level, not by files, so when you dd your wimax partitions - i.e. the infile, or 'if' part of the command, to an outfile, or 'of' part of the command, you copied every bit in that partition. So reverse the if and of, and it should put it right back. This also means be very very careful with the dd command. Many jokes that it stands for Disk Destroyer. And it will. Easily, with one tiny typo.
[EVO Shift 4G General] ahager88:
That's why I was asking about an implemented push :)

I just hadn't really looked around and seen if anyone implemented a nicer way on the evo or epic.

I can see the cries from erroneous dd commands in the future :-P

Sent from my HTC Speedy
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
I had no problems dd "push"ing recovery..I'm sure ill be ok..and as many times I've wiped and flashed a rom already I think were safe
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
Yeah, but imagine someone who doesn't make sure that's a 0 and not an O, or an I versus an l, or something of that nature, not realizing the destructive power of the almighty dd
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
So should we post a topic about it and with a note of copy this code and paste it in cmd window? I can't right now I'm shopping :)

Edit: get it sticked too so we don't have a billion questions about it
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
Well, like I said, I assume it will work, but sometimes with these phones ya just don't know. They defy logic sometimes. Like my old phone that wouldn't clock past 1056, but my new one will do 1600 and some can break 1800. Or some phones will tether, and some won't on the same rom
[EVO Shift 4G General] oxeneers:
Well, yeah, most people don't care about the recovery-while-charging-while-off thing, but it is stupid/annoying. And it should be fixed. But it won't be. It's unfortunate.

Count me in as one of the people that realize when an HTC phone is off, it will fully charge to 100% and not start to discharge to 90% only to start charging again. See the EVO 4G for more details on that. The Shift has the same problem/feature.

Turning the phone off is useful because when you turn it on in the morning before work/school/whatever, it will be near 100% unlike when it's on and charged.