Video playback - streaming and recording - Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General

So I've done pretty thorough research into the ins and outs of the video problems with the tilt(kaiser). I get that the inadequate drivers slow everything down (the time it takes for my tilt to go from portrait to landscape is ridiculous). But I have an question that I can't seem to find an answer to:
The videos rendered using youtube, or really streamed from any website, do not suffer from any kind of lag, buffering (unless I'm out of range), or any other ill effects. The clearest and sharpest videos I get are from online streaming. Why is that?!? Whereas videos I upload from my laptop, or especially videos I record on the phone are completely, absolutely, so awfully unwatchable!
Is it just a matter of video size and quality? If i reduce the video recording resolution would that help? (the answer is no, i've tried).
More importantly, is there a way to replicate the streaming videos a la youtube with the videos uploaded or recorded on the phone?!

While I don't have any hard facts to prove it. I belive the issue lies in the resolution and audio quality of the youtube videos. I Watch youtube on my phone with no problems. but the quality is Vastly lower than the videos I upload from my laptop. If you reduce the quality of the videos you upload you'll notice a similar speed boost. but you'll be reducing the quality quite a bit.
At least thats my experience. I notice a better playback when I reduce audio and video quality of my files. But considering I need subtitles for what I watch. Quality reduction isn't an option for me.

What programs are you using to play each of these? Also, streaming videos will almost always be a lower resolution thatn files from your computer. A streaming file can have a large enough resolution that it looks very sharp on your 320x240 screen, but not sharp on a desktop monitor. Now, the file that looks good on your desktop monitor at a resolution of 512x348 or so, requires a lot more CPU to render, thus looking like poop.

It makes sense that youtube etc videos are of lower resolution and everything. But I would honestly take the lower resolution if I could have not-jumpy streaming of the videos i record. Is it possible to tweak my cam in some way to make that happen? I've tried setting it to the lowest resolution but that doesn't work. Any other thoughts on this?

while resolution is important matter ...
stored medias can have different bit rates (kbps) this applied to both streams and stored/recorded media...etc and don't confused this "KBPS" with the rate of internet speed ... 2 different things ... too high a rate will choke your device
select one stored media and choose properties ... click on the summary tab ...check it and see !!
you can have 2 videos with the same resolution ( X by Y ) ... but concentrate on bit rates ( kbps ) as well as frame/sec ( fps )
out of the 3 above ... resolution is the least important ... as our device is QVGA ( 240x320 ) ... if your media is higher res ... it will shrink to fit ... likewise, if it's lower res. ...it will stretch to fit ..etc
ie ... try playing a 640 x 480 video on a modern desktop monitor ( which is averaging 1280 x 800 ) ... and it will still play fine ... but stretched ....therefore, that is the LEAST of your problem

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Coreplayer 1.2.1 With Youtube Integration is OUT !!!

Hello,
The new core player 1.2.1 with youtube integration is OUT !!!
Go to Mobihand and enjoy.
Private69.
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Great news thanks
As core player does not have a trial, and is pretty expensive, could you do some screen shots of this feature?
Surur
just check out the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNkuEfx7j4
Cool. Thanks. Pretty nice. Looks like I will be shelling out, after refusing to pay for software without a trial for more than a year now.
Anyway, any way to get core player to play .flv files saved from YouTube. I know it does not support it natively, but I wonder if there is a hack or not.
Surur
Youtube integration works like a charm but trying to use H.264 for streaming (highest quality) makes me lose ~75% of the frames.
I dunno I guess I didn't expect it to be perfect but it's totally unwatchable. The medium settings works fine but looks worse than the flash video bundle with tcpm. (The actual interface is retty nice though a bit unresponsive and it doesn't always bring up the video when clicking a video, thus making you have to change "view" to see the actual video. pretty annoying.)
That youtube integration looks kinda slick.
I have core player, and am very happy with how it plays the videos I have on my storage card. It's clearer and sharper than WMP or TCPMP.
I don't have the you tube integration yet. What advantage does it have over TCPMP? Does it upload faster, or play the videos better? Sounds like undac didn't find the quality to be all that great.
Gibbs said:
I have core player, and am very happy with how it plays the videos I have on my storage card. It's clearer and sharper than WMP or TCPMP.
I don't have the you tube integration yet. What advantage does it have over TCPMP? Does it upload faster, or play the videos better? Sounds like undac didn't find the quality to be all that great.
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eeks, h.264 youtube LOOKS great, but as undac pointed out...it's unwatchable... dropped-frame city...
medium setting RUNS great but looks bad...
so still flash video player and tcpmp for quality youtube...
if you just wanted to watch a video asap and didn't mind the quality, well medium setting core player would work ...
I tried the new version and really like the YT interface. I played several videos via WiFi and 3G and saw good results, video's only dropped about 5 frames in 2,500 pretty consistant with both radios with h.264's and zero frames with MPEG4s.
To select videos, I pressed the "i" icon on the right of each video, then in the larger info screen, pressed the play icon. Worked every time and seemed pretty responsive as well.
Edit, Oops, that was with the stock settings (Medium), when I changed the network setting for YT to high quality, the Kaiser chokes as reported. It played 101 frames and dropped 1515! Is this strictly a Kaiser/Tilt missing video driver issue??? and other PDA's function with this setting??
Just tested several H.264 Videos over wifi. 10000k frames played 400 dropped - frame rate 25.68. Thats pretty acceptable to me.
Not sure why my is performing better than some. Yes I did check to make sure it was h.264 High.
any1 have the cab for this? I know its not free I have purchased it but for some reason handago didnt provide me with the link for new version they still are selling the old one.
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any1 have the cab for this? I know its not free I have purchased it but for some reason handago didnt provide me with the link for new version they still are selling the old one.
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I am sure they will have it soon enough. No warez posting is allowed here. Mobihand.com of course has it already and I have to say it really is working nice. Love the youtube interface and streaming is really flawless with hsdpa.
High quality (H264) YouTube playback over wifi on my HTC Advantage is virtually flawless in CP 1.2.1 - I have it set to use the ATI Imageon video decoder w/acceleration selected. Supposedly the ATI chip doesn't have the capability to do hardware acceleration of H264 but in CP 1.2 and 1.2.1 I get incredibly smooth playback of H264 video (not at 640x480 unfortunately).
Can anyone advise on optimum settings van CorePlayer?
YouTube doesn't look too good here either. Can anyone advise on the best video (and other) settings to use with CorePlayer 1.2.1 / TyTN II?
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YouTube doesn't look too good here either. Can anyone advise on the best video (and other) settings to use with CorePlayer 1.2.1 / TyTN II?
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I would just suggest you make sure under video settings you have the qtv option selected.
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YouTube doesn't look too good here either. Can anyone advise on the best video (and other) settings to use with CorePlayer 1.2.1 / TyTN II?
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The "default" setting for Youtube video's is the crappy 3gp mode
to get H.264 goto
menu -> tools -> preferences -> Network
and amend the "YouTube Format" to "h264 (High Quality)"
Also make sure
menu -> tools -> preferences -> video
has "video Output" set to "QTV Display" (I'd recommend setting it to GDI first, exit, restart, set to QTv, exist and then restart)
QTv mode has some quirks (it wont display some of my album art) but for video it's way better than GDI
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Just tested several H.264 Videos over wifi. 10000k frames played 400 dropped - frame rate 25.68. Thats pretty acceptable to me.
Not sure why my is performing better than some. Yes I did check to make sure it was h.264 High.
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bratag, can you post links to some youtube vids and your live benchmark on them over wifi at h.264?
I've only tested it a little and so far it seems great to me. Having Youtube integrated kicks ass. Here is a sample I tested:
with three bars on HSDPA and Youtube set to high quality...
Wolverine trailer
320X240 25 fps
1405 frames played
165 frames dropped
actual framerate 22.373
Im sure that larger pixel dimension files will drop more frames. But so far I am happy. This CoreCodec team is the heat. First the QTV overlay and now youtube. Props
It very much depends on the size of the youtube video. Anything over about 480x runs choppy. You have to go down to medium for that. But anything encoded at a lower size than that is fine

Slow video playback

Is anyone having problems with video playback?
WMV files they are played very slow (loosing a lot of frames). With MP4 I got best results but not the best. Any suggestions??
Thanks
WMV
I can't even get the above files to play
are you using Media Player? as video playback has always been awful on Medial Player on every pocket pc or smartphone ive everhad.
install TCPMP and video playback will be perfect, and will play any file you throw at it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=380387&highlight=tcpmp+diamond
Thanks for the tip keyz86. I'll try it.
no problem, glad to help a fellow Dimondarian
won't play
loaded the TCPMP but everytime I try and start it i get the attached error, using diamond help
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no problem, glad to help a fellow Dimondarian
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Dimondarian Cool hehehe
Has anyone been able to play a full resolution file without skipping?
I am using CorePlayer now but if another player works better, please say so.
With Coreplayer I benchmark about 85%, which is not good enough.
I believe the Diamond should be able to get 100%.
I found that an encoded mp4 file would play about the same as the original avi xvid file...
What do you use to encode videos specifically for the Diamond?
Come on!! Post your results!
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What do you use to encode videos specifically for the Diamond?
Come on!! Post your results!
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What video settings do you use with coreplayer ?
DirectDraw, GDI or what ?
This is what i get:
With these configs.:
But with some other videos i have i get only 88% speed and some frame drops and tearing.
Doesnt the Diamond has a good video hardware.
Imo, it shouldnt lag at all.
Ive read somewhere that it doesnt use the hardware correctly since the drivers were not fully implemented. Not sure if its true.
Still looking for a good solution... any more help?
Coreplayer is still choppy ...
Yeah, I wasn't able to get WMVs to play using this, either.
I think what we need to have a look at is which encoding, resolution, bitrate, fps, etc are optimal for the diamond using core player.
I'm experimenting a bit. Will report back in a bit...
I've just got my Ignito (diamond) a couple of days ago, but I've got a long history of video playback on hand helds. Since this is my first time post, and I happen to have a bit of time on my hands.... I'm going to convert a file into a series of different resolutions and settings to see which one will perform the best. I know the objective is to get a full res one to play, but I'll see what I can come up with.
Also, I'm using the default ROM at this time.
With Coreplayer you should use the 'QTv' display option - this is hardware accelerated and beats 100% benchmark on every AVI I have tried. If you get a blank display using this mode, you are using an old version and need to update.
Alright. After trying a bunch of different codecs, encoders, video and audio formats at various resolutions I came the conclusion that for now, full resolution video is just not possible without jerky movements during continuous motion or fast action scenes.
My eyes are very sensitive and I get really irritated if playback is not perfectly smooth.
So far what works the best in achieving this kind of natural playback is AVI as the output container with XviD video codec at 480 x 360 resolution, and mp3 audio. I set the video and audio bitrates to match whatever the source video was (min 864 kbps and max 1008 kbps for video and 192 kbps for audio).
Even then, CorePlayer is a must with the following settigns: QTv On, TytnII driver mode On and Smooth Zoom On.
Every now and again CorePlayer will show only a purple screen during playback when QTv mode on. At that point I usually do a soft reset and it starts working again.
This issue may be resolved with an upcoming release of CorePlayer (1.3) but until then, the solution above works exceptionally well.
I'd be very interested in anyone else is having success in other ways...
320 by 240 versus 640 by 480
I have done some playing with conversion and have found that the Diamond (currently) does not support the 640 by 480 settings with a good bitrate. The BEST conversion I have found (using Coreplayer to play back the files) is using the BETA Version of the Pocket Divx Encoder (http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/EN_index.htm) and using the HTC Diamond Template (NON VGA!!!!, there is a VGA and non VGA) that team has developed. They have done an excellent job!
The output settings -
Dimensions 320 by 240
Video Quaility - "36" ... 584 kb bitrate
Hopefully an update by HTC or coreplayer will be released to fully utilize the resolution that the Diamond SHOULD be able to support, but for a clear, non jerky playback, this is my 2 cents
im able to play those axxo dvdripson using coreplayer without any sort of convertion....
I want to share my experience. I am using core player and trying to recode unprotected high-definition TV shows (original resolution of 1920x1080) that I've recorded on Windows Media Center (.dvr-ms files) to watch on my Sprint Diamond. Unfortunately .dvr-ms are poorly supported, and the only program I've found to recode is TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress.
I am using Core Player version 1.2.5 build 4506, and my video output is QTv Display with the Tytn II driver mode enabled.
Like everyone else here, I have had horrible results when converting the shows to DivX at 640x360 at any usuable bitrate (above 500 kbps). Benchmarking in Core Player yielded a playback speed of 66% or so (completely unacceptable, obviously). So I played around with the resolution and bitrate, and finally settled on the following:
Format: DivX
resolution: 512x288 (maintains the 16:9 aspect ratio of the original)
Video bitrate: 850 kbps
Frame rate: 29.97 fps (progressive)
Audio: MP3
Audio bitrate: 80 kbps, 48kHz sample rate
With those settings, I have a 104% playback benchmark with around 25 dropped frames compared to several thousand played, and about 29.5 fps. Basically, it is completely smooth audio and video.
I was still PO'd that I had to sacrifice so much resolution and bitrate on a supposed media device, so I played around with other formats. WMV was awful. MPEG-2 was awful, and avi was passable, but no better than DivX. I also decided to try h.264 (MPEG-4 AVC). Here are the settings I used:
Video Format: MPEG-4 AVC (saves as .mp4)
Resolution: 640x360 (still maintaining the original 16:9 AR)
Video bitrate: 1000 kbps
frame rate: 29.97 fps (progressive)
Audio format: AAC
Audio bitrate: 96 kbps, 48kHz sample rate
Core Player absolutely choked on this. It was unwatchable, and the benchmark revealed a playback speed of 50%. Dropped frames were higher than played frames (!) and framerate was 13 fps. Obviously not successful.
But, before I deleted the file, on a whim I decided to try Windows Media Player and...it was completely FLAWLESS playback. Absolutely beautiful, smooth motion, no audio stuttering, slow and fast pans were the best I've ever seen on a WM device.
Why??? Is there something I'm missing about this that someone can elaborate on? Is this the fabled "hardware acceleration" that I've read so much about? I should note that WMP had a hard time on a 320x240 .wmv file, so I can't really understand how it is able to play a 640x360 .mp4 file so smoothly. In any event, I have found my perfect file format, and, surprisingly, it doesn't involve Core Player in any way.
-R
The thing is that HTC didn't release any kind of SDK for Diamond or Touch Pro and companies like CoreCodec have hard time trying to figure out how to use the HW acceleration but they are trying very hard to improve the situation so maybe with time they will be able to use the HW for now the only way we wan't to watch videos with HW acceleration is only WMP which means recoding or atleast remuxing files.
Cheers
P.S. Could you post exact specs of the .mp4 file? What kind of AVC it was and things like that.
in regards to the WMP hardware acceleration.
is it better on battery life than having coreplayer trying its hard out to render a video. even if its a small 320x vid that plays at 120%. Does that mean that the cpu is running near max?

DVD rip file types...

I'm trying out dvdfab at the moment and was wandering if someone could provide me with a brief summary of the best types of file to convert the DVD to - pros and cons.
Also, why is coreplayer usually recommended over WMP to play movies on the Diamond?
Thanks in advance,
S.
coreplayer:More formats supported, depending on the version, better acceleration support.
it's all down to personal preference really.
I tend to rip my dvds to 640*x resolution so that it is as full screen as possible, but due to the small screen, i keep the bit rate down as you really can't notice the difference most of the time. however, on my athena, i ended up increasing the video bit rate a little due to the big screen!
i tend to aim for around 750kbps bitrate for video using either divx or xvid, and 128kbps mp3 for the audio. tends to give a file size of around 512MB which allows 7 or 8 on the 4GB storage, depending on the exact file size, which is different every time.....
others may have other preferences of course....there's bound to be other threads about this in practically every forum here, so have a good look around, try a few people suggestions and pick your favourite.
Some people will go for quality every time and end up with higher file sizes, some people like me will happily sacrifice a little quality (which is barely noticeable if done right) and go for having more films available!
I usualy encode movies at 320x240 with a bitrate around 700kbs, usig xvid or divx and 128kbs sound. It gives great quality, even though the resolution is only 320x240, but it will stretch automaticaly and you'll hardly notice any loss of quality because the size of the screen is not too big. it's like you would play a regular divx movie (576x????) on your desktop monitor at a much higher resolution. You won't see much loss of quality. And @ 320x240, the file size will be around 300 to 400 mb.
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I usualy encode movies at 320x240 with a bitrate around 700kbs, usig xvid or divx and 128kbs sound. It gives great quality, even though the resolution is only 320x240, but it will stretch automaticaly and you'll hardly notice any loss of quality because the size of the screen is not too big. it's like you would play a regular divx movie (576x????) on your desktop monitor at a much higher resolution. You won't see much loss of quality. And @ 320x240, the file size will be around 300 to 400 mb.
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I think, it´s a big difference between the resolutions. Yes, a movie 640-480 takes much space, but it´s so sharp, that it makes much more fun. I ripped some concerts to my diamond, and one of them in 320*240...it looks not really great.
Thank you all for your replies. Like you say, i'll have to play around with settings myself, but its nice to have a starting point through other's experiences.
I'm guessing that watching an average dvd movie will totally drain the battery? lol...
Spb Mobile DVD
Is great for converting most types of video.
Very simple to use - plus a great feature is that if the movie is in wide screen format, ie - 16:9 , you can crop it and stretch it while restraining the proportions so none of the screen space is wasted.
You can adjust the quality , and you can preview the final quality of the video before you convert it , you can finalise the file size according to the quality you want.
I tried the rest , and stuck with this.
Use core player , you can play anything with it , even FLV files which you can download/rip off youtube.
You can use the new free version of real player for that
Ripping movies to 640*480 does offer greater qauality,but its takes too much space, since we are stuck with a 4Gigs, 320*240 is more than adequate.
IT doesnt make much of a difference, converted video anyway has lossy quality.

What video encoder/settings do you use?

After a lot of experimenting I've settled on Mediacoder as encoder: free, fast, from everything to everything. The only big disadventage is that it isn't very easy to use (altough the Web UI is ok).
These are the settings I use. I've chosen them because they produce the smallest file/quality compromise while retaining smooth plaback. Also you don't need a special player to view it, WM/the HTC player can do it (altough that might only be since the diamond2 since I use gen.Y's D2 rom)
Container: MP4
Video codec: H.264 (x.264 encoder)
Bitrate: 256 Kbps 2-Pass (target bitrate/average bitrate will produce same sized file faster altough with bit less video quality, since I usually only transcode short music clips etc. and have a fast computer I use 2-pass, but if you want to encode 6 hours of movies you might want to select average bitrate)
Resolution: 640x480
Profile: Baseline - Level 3.0
Audio codec: AAC (Nero encoder)
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Profile: LC-AAC (make sure you use this, most players can't play HE-AAC yet, e.g. Apple can only do it since iTunes v9, iPhone OS 3.1 and the iPods of fall 2009)
As I said: smooth playback, small filesize and good quality...
Sometimes I have a file which doesn't play really smooth, but lowering the bitrate to 200 Kbps usually fixes that. That is also usually the bitrate I choose for video if I have a really large file and/or want to be sure the file (e.g. film) plays smooth. In my experience lowering the resolution helps a bit on smooth playback, but doesn't really help much. The only reason I use a lower resolution is because I like [email protected] Kbps better than [email protected] Kbps (200 Kbps differs a bit from case to case). Remember: the bitrate gets "divided" over all the pixels so more pixels => less bits per pixel. The only reason to use a higher resolution is because it's sharper but you don't usually see that on such a small screen and low bitrate.
Another thing: I really recommend using x.264 as an encoder rather than the nVidia CUDA encoder. Altough it is waaay faster it also produces worse quality results, especially at low bitrates. So if you have the time: use x.264. If you have the power and space: use the CUDA H.264 encoder.
What do you use?
try handbrake... its free
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try handbrake... its free
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Well, that doesn't sound very good to me...
AVI: AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete. It does not support modern container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate video, or out of order frame display. Furthermore, HandBrake's AVI muxer is vanilla AVI 1.0 that doesn't even support large files. The code has not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of conditionals that make the code more difficult to read and maintain, and make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming back, and good riddance.
OGG/OGM: HandBrake's OGM muxer is just as out of date. It hasn't been actively maintained in years either, and it too lacks support for HandBrake's best features. ... This one is not coming back either. ...
XviD: HandBrake, these days, is almost entirely about H.264 video,... Meanwhile, XviD's build system causes grief...
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Ok, avi I can understand. Anyone who combines AVI with H.264 is just being stupid. But OGM? Xvid? Sound to me more like: we were to lazy to update our requirements and now they're out of date and awfull so we're just removing them...
Removing Vorbis and Xvid from your encoder... Whut?

Stream Movies from PC to NOOK by WIFI. VLC Stream & Convert

Got this working perfectly as you can see... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00UxoPJ5XsA
This app will let you stream media from your pc to your nook using Wifi.
Download from market vlc stream and convert. (mobile)
Download vlc media player (PC)
Make sure you have ports 5554 and 8080 open on your router. More then likely you already do!
For Pc install vlc media player then open and go to view > add interface> and click on Web interface. IF your running windows it will ***** about it but just click allow.
Make sure your firewall won't block the ports. So if it doesn't work just disable your firewall just to test to see if that is the problem.
Ok your done with the pc.
Now install the app and open it up on the nook
Go to menu then connect > scan > after scan it should find your pc. click OK. You should be connected.
If you have problems go to their home site and make sure you follow the steps www.traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert
Ok now for the magic...
Once connected you should be able to browse your computer for files.
Now your going to want to optimize it for the nook.
Go to menu settings >steam to phone (rtsp) >caching (in ms) set to 1000 , i use 500 but default is 2000ms and it will lag like hell.
Next go to H.264 AVC settings I have mine set at custom bitrate at 1024 frame rate is at 30 with is 640 and Canvas aspect ratio is 16:9 , I selected cavas crop and that's it!
Go back to settings and go to general > playback and I have Landscape and Portrait to "fit to screen".
Obviously if you don't have the paid version you will have to set bitrate at 768 and width at 480.
Hope you guys enjoy this cause this Rocks!
***edit had a little rips and tears in video so i adjusted the cache to 50ms and it seems to be completely gone.
I got this to work, but the video quality has to be set to 'dismal' to make it happen. I finally got streaming video read from my desktop to display on the Nook, but the video bitrate must be set as low as possible (128), and the video width nearly as low as possible (240). The resulting video quality is terrible, and still occasionally jumps and is out of sync with audio. I am trying to stream a straight DVD rip, so perhaps this is a problem on my desktops end not being able to decode, re-encode and stream all at the same time from a high quality source. Perhaps if the source video is downscaled a bit or changed to the same video and audio codecs to prevent the need to re-encode things might work better, but I gave up for the time being because the results I got were so dissapointing. I can stream my webcam input to the Nook with acceptable results, which is acutally why I bought VLC S&C to begin with, so not a total loss.
This has potential, but I think you need a rather buff desktop setup to get it to work well.
After spending a whole day learning about creating a VPN and accessing it both locally and remotely, I finally got it working!
I have decent quality running at 920 pixel width, but I haven't played around with bitrate too much just yet. I'm thinking I should be able to get it to be a bit better without creating massive buffer times.
I'm still running on the free version since I wanted to be sure I can get everything working right. I definitely want to toss a few bucks to the developer, but want everything set up so I'm not just annoyed when I do!
After spending a whole day learning about creating a VPN and accessing it both locally and remotely, I finally got it working!
I have decent quality running at 920 pixel width, but I haven't played around with bitrate too much just yet. I'm thinking I should be able to get it to be a bit better without creating massive buffer times.
I'm still running on the free version since I wanted to be sure I can get everything working right. I definitely want to toss a few bucks to the developer, but want everything set up so I'm not just annoyed when I do!
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So I've played around with this a bit more and have gotten decent quality streaming video playing over a VPN! Assuming you have successfully connected to your computer and can play video, try these settings:
Stream to Phone (rtsp) >
Video Codec: H.264 AVC
H.264 AVC Settings >
Video Bitrate: 768
Frame rate: 29.97
Width: 480
Canvas Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (854:480)
Movies of various qualities seem to have bit of grain but they're definitely acceptable to me.
OMG Thanks man! I got it to work! I did a few tweaks and I got to say it's working absolutely beautifully. I was trying to run everything as mp4 don't know why i didn't think to do x264 avc settings
I did what you did and used these settings
Frame Rate 29.97
Width 480
Canvas aspect ratio 16:9
Ok this is the trick to get it to work
Set "Caching (in ms)" from the default 2000ms to 1000ms and fixes the frame rate issue 100%. For all i know it could play at 60fps and I wouldn't notice any improvements. Smooth as butter. Resolution is comparable to a netflix stream so resolution is pretty good B+. In playback I adjusted the screen to see if i could stretch it out a bit but didn't really get it to 100 full screen, maybe about 70%. Going to do some more tweaking. Maybe even get the pro version now i know this rocks! BRB...
I just running this from wifi didn't have to do a vpn to get it work. I did make sure i opened the ports for 8080 and 5554 on my router just to be safe.
*************edit please buy the pro version it is much nicer!!! So these settings can be increased for better resolution and bit rates!!!!
Just posted a video up! Enjoy!
I just use SubSonic. Install the program on your PC and the app on your Nook. No ports need to be open if your watching on your local network and only 1 port needs to be open if you want to watch remotely. Streams every music format under the sun and most video formats. For video it converts it all to Flash and lets you choose your Bitrate. I like it because I can lower the bitrate if on a slow link or even use it on my laptop.
edit - can't post url's until I pass some post limit. w-w-w.subsonic.o-r-g
I say that would be good for audio streaming. I didn't see anything on their site to actually stream video. However, i'm not saying they don't but VLC has a awesome rep for converting video and such for many years. I've had them i swear for at least 10.
EDIT - Found the issue was that I had to set the Player mode to stream to phone (rtsp).
Thanks for the info. Trying to get this to work now. I now able to browse the files on my computer, but whenever I try to play a file it says "Cannot create play command!".
Same message if I try to file a video or mp3 file. I've made sure my ports are open. Any ideas?
can i download anytime file type like avi or does it have to be H.264 AVC.
so in other words can i download a movie and not convert it and it will still play?
EverythingNook said:
can i download anytime file type like avi or does it have to be H.264 AVC.
so in other words can i download a movie and not convert it and it will still play?
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It will play avi files. I believe it will convert any of the many type of video formats that VLC plays.
Still working on tweaking my connection. The quality of the video is great but the lag is pretty bad. I tried mimicking your settings, Todfather (on non-paid). Great app but I need to figure out how to get a better fps.
I'm using CM7 and router is on wireless G connection.
Ahhh FPS fix was in the cache settings (2000 was default) when i had it at default it was a bit laggy, after i adjusted it to 1000 it was perfect then i just said screw it and brought it all the way down to 50ms still is fine! That may be overkill but what the hell. OH yeah i am also running CM7 with dalingrins OC kernel and have it set to 1.1ghz on interactive. I am not to learned in all the different formats but i played a mp4 mv4 h264 and a avi I think. But honestly I only download 264 cause i usually stream stuff to my xbox.
What are your settings now? I'm willing to help ya!
Ok here are my current settings
video codec h.264 avc
caching 50ms
bitrate is 1024 (paid) yours will be 720 witch is nice as hell but just not as nice as 1024
frame rate 29.97
width 640 (paid) yours will be 480
canvas ratio 16:9
anyone have any clue what reference frames do?
Here are my settings:
cache settings 1000 (lowering it didn't seem to help)
video codec h.264 avc
caching 50ms
bitrate is 768
frame rate 29.97
width 480
canvas ratio 16:9
I have tried many variations but cannot seem to get a better framerate. I should probably mention that I am using verygreen's SD installer for CM7 and Dalingrin's kernel with cpu OC'ed @ 1.1. Quadrant scores of 2k+.
anyone getting this working on honeycomb? i just get out of synch choppy video
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It works!!! This is enough reason to setup a vpn IMO. Christ... NetLimiter says 108KB with the free settings. I only have like 40k uplink to the outside world!!! WEAK.
The video gets out of sync easily though. Any ideas?
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Here are my settings:
cache settings 1000 (lowering it didn't seem to help)
video codec h.264 avc
caching 50ms
bitrate is 768
frame rate 29.97
width 480
canvas ratio 16:9
I have tried many variations but cannot seem to get a better framerate. I should probably mention that I am using verygreen's SD installer for CM7 and Dalingrin's kernel with cpu OC'ed @ 1.1. Quadrant scores of 2k+.
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Perhaps a limitation with having OS on a sd card?
Sync issues seems to be bad if i pause and restart. I'm playing with some settings now to figure it out
Awesome Awesome!! Got it to work. Thanks a million. Haven't played with all the setting but settings from the OP works for me. I'm on the free VLC now. Will test it some more and will upgrade my VLC.
I am getting could not connect ip:5554 error.
Running rooted stock OS. Opened the TCP ports 5554 and 8080 in Router.
Any idea?
Anyone using this with verygreen's SD installer for CM get an acceptable frame rate?
Edit - Tried it from my auto-nootered 1.1 and was able to get a good frame rate. The problem seems to be that I am on a SD bootable CM7 ROM.
I thought so ^^ Sd cards are just not as efficient has internal ssds. I tried running on a sd as well and just couldn't deal with the read write speads even though i was on a class 6 sandisk. Glad to hear you solved your problem

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