DRIOD X Video Profiles?

[cg5000]

Still working on it. Will try to post something later today. Killing all other apps and putting it in airplane mode seems to help the jerky playback but is not a real solution.

Leaving Thursday! Help!

[signals]

Still working on it. Will try to post something later today. Killing all other apps and putting it in airplane mode seems to help the jerky playback but is not a real solution.

[cg5000]

The X seems to expand any content horizontally until either 1) the video touches the top/bottom or 2) touches the sides, and it does it very well. It will allow us to make lower resolution conversions (smaller files) that still look very good on the Droid. The ones I am testing are in the 60xX25x range. I tried something similar to the iPone profile and did not like the results. The wmvs seem to play more smoothly, and that is what the Motorola driver converts to if you run it through there (which I do not recommend).

Signals - Did you find a good final setting for the Droid X? I know you were testign some in certain ranges...whats the final verdict?

[cg5000]

Signals - Can you give very specific seettings that were used for succesful playback? At thos resolutions, I get choppy playback.
What codec? Audio bitrate? Framerate? Video Bitrate? Etc...

Lay it out for us.

Thanks!!

Signals,

Are the WMV's larger file sizes? I guess I haven't watched enough video to see if there is a lipsync problem, but the two movies I've converted so far looked good and sounded acceptable, or good to me.

An advantage to going WMV vs MP4? Smoothly? can you describe that? I don't see a jumpyness in my MP4

I used the iphone/ipod settings with the following mods:
-Cropping disabled (kept the 16x9 aspect with black bars top and bottom for 2.35 material found on DVDs)
-custom resolution 854x480.

File size ended up being about 1.2-1.3GB.

[FoeHammer865]

will allow us to make lower resolution conversions (smaller files) that still look very good on the Droid. The ones I am testing are in the 60xX25x range.

I am very interested in your thoughts/results on picture quality using the 6XX by 2XX resolution range.

[FoeHammer865]

Signals,

Are the WMV's larger file sizes? I guess I haven't watched enough video to see if there is a lipsync problem, but the two movies I've converted so far looked good and sounded acceptable, or good to me.

An advantage to going WMV vs MP4? Smoothly? can you describe that? I don't see a jumpyness in my MP4

I used the iphone/ipod settings with the following mods:
-Cropping disabled (kept the 16x9 aspect with black bars top and bottom for 2.35 material found on DVDs)
-custom resolution 854x480.

File size ended up being about 1.2-1.3GB.

[signals]

The X seems to expand any content horizontally until either 1) the video touches the top/bottom or 2) touches the sides, and it does it very well. It will allow us to make lower resolution conversions (smaller files) that still look very good on the Droid. The ones I am testing are in the 60xX25x range. I tried something similar to the iPone profile and did not like the results. The wmvs seem to play more smoothly, and that is what the Motorola driver converts to if you run it through there (which I do not recommend).

[FoeHammer865]

The v8.x with ipod/iphone settings worked well. I watched some of the video. it scaled to fit the screen. I believe the encode resolution was 720x320 or something like that. I'll look again and update.

[signals]

No, the newest is good. I am working on the X profile tonight.

[FoeHammer865]

I'm attempting the Ipod/Iphone settings right now as I type. We'll see how that works out. I didn't find the profile listed here until after I had started the encode. So I'll just let it finish before I do anything. See if this one works.

Foehammer

edit: I forgot to say I'm running the newest v8.x DVDfab. Any reason not to run the newest?

[cg5000]

Yeah, same here. Signals was pretty good at helpin...seemed to know his stuff. But still havent been able to get all the settings needed for a vid to play well on the Droid X

[droiduser]

I will have a Droid X this week and will be working on a profile for it. I will post it in the New Profiles thread when it is done.

Hey guys. New to the forum, and I actually joined just because I've got a droid X and am looking to convert some movies to it for an upcoming trip. I'm running DVDFab v6 and am looking to use it to do the necessary conversions....

Anyway, I've yet to mess around but using the info on this forum I think I'll start with the original driod profile that's been posted. But PLEASE keep posting any droid X specific success stories if you've got them! This device should be able to handle some truly high quality video files.

[signals]

To paste stuff into \Video without the Droid driver interfering (and converting to wmv) you have to select Mass Storage mode for the USB connection (pull down from the tiny white area at the top of the screen). You can then put anything you want in there (but you may have trouble accessing the \DCIM\CAMERA folder). If "Droid X" shows up in My Computer, the device driver is active and will try to convert everything, but it does give me the option of copying without converting.

I let the driver convert a high bitrate MP4 I made with DVD to Mobile (modified for for 6xxXxxx resolution) that actually looked pretty good. I need to see if I can duplicate it with other content. It should play anything you make with the Generic h264+AAC MP4 profile in DVD to Mobile, it just won't play widescreen content well (4:3 no problem), especially with horizontal motion or camera pans.

//EDIT// The MP4 that I let it convert was 608x256, but the X scaled it up to full screen with no adjustments. I didn't know it would do that, an undocumented (like the video specs) feature.

Thanks for your help SIGNALS - hope your enjoying your new phone. Great device, just cant wait to get it to play back the video DVDFAB makes.

Also, Froyo (Android 2.2 OS) is supposed to be about 4-5 times faster....that should help provess the video playback a little better.

Another strange thing I find is when I try and copy/paste a vid mae from DVDFAB (.mp4) into a new directory called (Video) on the X, it wants to convert it to .wmv...Windows media player format. It says if I dont, the device might not play it correctly. Ironicly, the device has not played backanything correctly yet so....

Anyhow, we will get there! Thanks again for your input and suggestions.

[cg5000]

Thanks for your help SIGNALS - hope your enjoying your new phone. Great device, just cant wait to get it to play back the video DVDFAB makes.

Also, Froyo (Android 2.2 OS) is supposed to be about 4-5 times faster....that should help provess the video playback a little better.

Another strange thing I find is when I try and copy/paste a vid mae from DVDFAB (.mp4) into a new directory called (Video) on the X, it wants to convert it to .wmv...Windows media player format. It says if I dont, the device might not play it correctly. Ironicly, the device has not played backanything correctly yet so....

Anyhow, we will get there! Thanks again for your input and suggestions.

[signals]

Thanks for submitting that. Detailed video file requirements would really be nice. Can't find them anywhere on the web yet, but they will show up sooner or later. I am still working on this. The X does not recognize 3gp files if you put them in the Video folder, only if they are in the \DCIM\Camera folder. I made some with DVDFab and put them there but they don't look that good. It plays MP4 and WMV, ignores AVI, MKV. The video quality is excellent, really sharp and clear. The problem is that it can't redraw the screen fast enough to keep up with full screen (1.78:1) video if there is a lot of movement (actually, not even a lot, just some is enough for it to start dropping frames). Works fine if you hold it vertically, which gives a picture the size of two postage stamps. The audio sync has been perfect on everything I've made for it from DVD and Blu-ray. You can try experimenting with the Xbox360 wmv profile that is now available in BD to Mobile. The problem is not DVDFab, the files play great on a PC. I have not given up yet.

//EDIT//
Also, the 3gp files it makes are variable frame rate, which DVDFab does not produce.