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new problem here
1. I downloaded a 4k in youtube. It's the Giant Twisted Solar Filament Eruption. It's in .mp4 and itunes can't get it play. I updated itunes to the latest version. The video isn't 2048x1536 yet so I converted it to that resolution and still can't sync the vid to my ipad. Tried playing it in my pc and I only see black screen.
2. Kinda off topic but can an ipad2 play a true 2k vid?
3. Our sanyo 1080 40+ inches tv seem to play full hd movies crispier than my ipad O.O. Do you have an explanation for this?
1. I downloaded a 4k in youtube. It's the Giant Twisted Solar Filament Eruption. It's in .mp4 and itunes can't get it play. I updated itunes to the latest version. The video isn't 2048x1536 yet so I converted it to that resolution and still can't sync the vid to my ipad. Tried playing it in my pc and I only see black screen.
2. Kinda off topic but can an ipad2 play a true 2k vid?
3. Our sanyo 1080 40+ inches tv seem to play full hd movies crispier than my ipad O.O. Do you have an explanation for this?
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1, are you sure you followed the next part in my tutorial:
"2.2 Encoding
You can easily transcode your videos to plain MPEG4 (ASP): use Handbrake, select the Regular / High Profile in the Presets tab and change the (by default, H.264) Video Codec to MPEG-4."
2, you can't synch 2k videos, not even ASP ones, to the stock Videos app. Use a third-party player with HW acceleration and iTunes File Sharing support (it's the latter that you'll want to transfer your vids to the iPad); for example, GoodPlayer.
thanks forgot to do that xD. I thought it was not necessary. Are there free apps like GoodPlayer?
Thanks again.
Few questions again.
1. What should I do with a .avi vid? It has a .srt subtitle.
- I converted it to a 720p.mkv and played it using this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imedia-player/id544635606?mt=8. I was actually wrong since the quality of the vid is worse. Then I tried the Moli Player you suggested and the difference is night and day.
Do you have any idea why it came like that? I mean the lower quality in iMediaPlayer. Is it because of the hardware playback?
Is there a need to convert it to a .mkv?
Is there a way to combine the subtitle file to the vid so I won't have to worry about placing that file in every video part? Btw, I'm watching a novel.
2. What is remuxing? And why the need to remux?
3. Is this the beta of MP4Tools? http://www.emmgunn.com/betadownload.html
4. After using handbrake to encode the Giant Twisted Solar Filament Eruption vid, I still see pixels when played in MoliPlayer O.O. Am I missing something?
Also, when I pause it, it's still running O.O
5. What are those rectangles and oblongs on your long post on the first page? Sorry for being such a newbie xD
6. just to confirm, so I no longer need to convert .mkv animes right?
7. Should I choose hardware or software decoding?
Questions are in bold. Thanks!
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Because it doesn't support the Retina screen (as is also mentioned in my review - it seems I haven't crossposted it these forums; if interested, I can post it) - hence the vastly inferior image quality. Moliplayer does support it.
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You mean #16? It's also answered in that article: "In the following annotated version, I've denoted the vertical lines with red rectangles and the horizontal lines with red ovals."
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I wouldn't as
- you're an iOS user, where MKV isn't supported very well
- the formats you mentioned (AVI, SRT) don't warrant the use of the more generic MKV - M4V will do just fine. That is, there're no special formats you want to include in the m4v file; for example, BD subs.
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You can give it a try to save a LOT of time and keep the original quality. AviDemux 2.6 remuxes AVI files to M4V's just fine.
If you have a Mac, installing 2.6 (as opposed to 2.5) is a bit more involved. Let me know if you do have and I look up my tutorial of doing it.
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If those anime MKV's have ASS / SSA subs (as mostly do), you can't convert unless you choose to burn those subs into the video itself. If the videos are low-res (not 720p or higher), use software decoding and an SSA-capable player like "HD Player Pro". Don't use other players for SSA playback!
Look up my review of HD Player Pro at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1466946/ .
Other questions:
1. Is there a way to combine the subtitle file to the vid so I won't have to worry about placing that file in every video part?
2. How can you lessen the size of a video without losing it's quality? In my case, my brother downloaded Brave (640x274). It runs for 2 hrs and it's only 700mb. It's in .avi format
3. HD Player Pro is not available in my country
. What's the difference of that and MoliPlayer?4. Hardware or Software decoding?
5. After using handbrake to encode the Giant Twisted Solar Filament Eruption vid, I still see pixels when played in MoliPlayer O.O. Am I missing something?
Also, when I pause it, it's still running O.O
6. How do you change itunes back up file path? I need to put my back ups in my external drive...
Thanks again ^^
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So to summarize, pls fill up this table xD You may edit it to your preference. You may add more for future reference
I will be forever grateful for you effort! I prefer to have something like that so everything will be summarized
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?n4fr40xrafj6u6n
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So to summarize, pls fill up this table xD You may edit it to your preference. You may add more for future reference
I will be forever grateful for you effort! I prefer to have something like that so everything will be summarized
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?n4fr40xrafj6u6n
Everything depends on what those containers contain. That is, the mkv / avi rows need to be changed into "H.264", "MPEG-2", "VC-1", "Vorbis", "AC-3", "DTS" and the like.
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HD Player Pro is not available in my country
Most importantly, flawless ASS sub support and hardware MKV playback (when applicable). Particularly the former is very important for most anime MKV's out there.
Here's the filled-in version: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/81986513/102012/Conversion Table.docx
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I can't as it'd be self-promotion - this is why I paste my articles in their entirety here.
Here's my review:
iMedia Player (AppStore link)
(The interface of iMedia Player during playback using software decoding. As you can easily see, there's no Retina iPad 3 support videos are rendered at the resolution of 1024*768. As usual, click the image for the original-sized version.)
Pros
- Free but still capable of quality playback with some formats
- Very good WMV playback for WMV or VC-1 files with no WMA Pro audio. (WMA Pro isn't at all supported)
- Very good software H.264 decoder at 720p (albeit lipsynch issues are a real pain)
- Very good MS-MPEG4 decoder
- 15/15s quick rewinding / fast forwarding with single-finger swipes and dedicated ffwd / rewind icons. Doesn't work in hardware decoding mode, though.
- Good ATSC DVB 1080i60 MPEG-2 playback unlike for SD broadcasts
- Support for HW playback of native iDevice file formats uses the original interface, allowing access to everything (audio / subtitle track selection etc.). HOWEVER, swipe-or button-based repositioning doesn't work in this case!
- FLAC and Ape support (audio)
- Tries to find album artwork for audio playback. A screenshot of this:
Cons
- No iPad 3 Retina support with SW-decoded videos. (HW decoding does use the full resolution!)
- No SSA subtitle support: the Suzumiya subs are displayed as unstyled English not even the Japanese text is shown
- Poor SD DVB 576i50 support
- Doesn't even list MTS videos, let alone playing them
- Lipsynch issues with a lot of videos
- Poor (very slow) M-JPEG decoder (for unconverted camera videos)
- Constantly displays annoying ad dialogs. Some other, also free players do this much more discretely and in no way such an annoying manner; for example, RockPlayer2.
- Swipe-or button-based repositioning doesn't work with hardware decoding
- No OGG video support
- WMA support-wise, not better than all the other iOS players (except for XBMC, of course)
Verdict
If you don't need Retina support for the iPad 3 and don't want to play back formats not (OGG, MTS videos, WMA Pro audio also extensively used in WMV videos etc.) or poorly (standard-definition DVB MPEG-2 TS or M-JPEG videos; ASS subtitles etc.) supported, you may want to give it a try - after all, it's free.
ok I get your point. Thanks for the table.
I seem to have problems with the subtitle using MoliPlayer. It just wont show fast like you have to skip the video to a certain point and return back and see if the subtitle is running again or not. Especially at the beginning of the video. Particularly anime. I didn't have any problems with the .avi video. Will it work better if I should have used XBMC or HD Player Pro?
I also can't seem to switch audio since the Fullmetal Alchemist I have has a dual audio. It only plays the English voice and not the japanese T.T
EDIT: Problem solved using viPlayer. However, does it support retina display? The quality in Moli is better than viPlayer...
Err, do you have other Moli Player alternatives? I mean retina display supported player.
EDIT: Found RushPlayer Lite - It's free and has a retina display support. There's no sound when I play .avi files though. It has a brightness setting separate from the ipad brightness. Btw, what is that SW I saw? By default it's in SW 1.0x...
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which is better, RushPlayer+ or HDPlayerPro? Or do you have anything better? Jailbroken or not, I don't care.
If you're jailbroken, give a try to RushPlayer+ - it's free and absolutely unleashed, unlike HD Player Pro. The latter uses the traditional "remux in the background" playback even on JB'n devices and, therefore, inferior to anything directly utilizing hardware playback.
I can't find my video. The appsharing option in itunes isn't available too. So I just put it in Movies tab of itunes. When I ran RushPlayer+ and clicked file, It showed many folders. Is it free or do I have to register it?
You can put them anywhere. I, generally, put them in the Documents directory of another player I use for video playback (e.g., It's Playing) via iTunes File Sharing and, when in RushPlayer+, just navigate to it via var/mobile/Applications/<programname>/Documents.
Pls help my brother. He uses a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. It's rooted.(Jailbreak in Apple)
File he would like to play smoothly: .mkv anime (Hi10)
Neither BS Player nor MX Player play the file smoothly. Black Screen appear when he use a HW decoder.
Thanks in advanced!
File he would like to play smoothly: .mkv anime (Hi10)
Neither BS Player nor MX Player play the file smoothly. Black Screen appear when he use a HW decoder.
Thanks in advanced!
I don't know whether Hi10 can be played by any Android hardware. It can't be played by the Apple hardware, which isn't much different, capabilities-wise, than those of Android.
Software playback, which, as has been explained above, needs to be used, will always be stuttering.
K thanks.
Another help here,
My subtitle in RushPlayer+ is incomplete since in my iPad it shows the subtitle like this: "This is the subtitle..." Notice the dots after? I checked it in my pc and it is indeed incomplete. I tried moving the subtitles up but same results came. Any other player that might help me? I prefer to have that retina quality. By the way, I was watching an anime there. Didn't had problems with the subs while watching a .avi movie prior to that.
RushPlayer+ doesn't really have strong sub support. It can't at all render VobSub subs (while it does show them being present in the video file). This means the subtitle tracks in for example https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13100693/html/042012RetinaHDVideoPlayers/lupaus-ads-orig.mkv won't be displayed.
It can't render ASS / SSA subs with styles either.
But, at least textually, it renders the latter - so, all the three subs are rendered in the Suzumiya test video ( http://www.auby.no/files/video_test..._vorbis_styled_and_unstyled_subs_suzumiya.mkv ).
Does your anime have VobSub subs or ASS / SSA?
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I see. Our sub is ASS/SSA. Might as well recommend for vobsub for future use. And how do you know if it's vob or ass/ssa?