HD Video Play Back..

[edub186]

Originally Posted by radar369

Well.......that's garbage for me than!!!!!! LOL!

You should try to hook something up to it to see if it works! It will come up as a storage device and not as a phone! If not than you should be able to transfer them to your computer and copy them from there!

I just download whatever I wanna watch.......hopefully TVersity can be loaded with the EVO's web browser!

All it does so far is charge my phone. I dont see any setting on my evo to let me download onto my micro sd

[Scotty_Two]

Originally Posted by BrianBaker

Putting it at 720 gives me a letter box(black bars on top and bottom of screen).Its very little though
heres a sample,it gives it a less stretchy feel and looks more natural with letter box.

I'm confused as to how you have top and bottom letterboxes. 720x480 would mean that you fit the exact height of the screen (in landscape of course) and be 80 pixels shy horizontally, thus giving you 40 blank pixels on either side. what am i missing here?

it seems to me (and what i did for video on my TP2), that to keep the true aspect ratio of HD, you would want to set your downscaled resolution to be 800x450; 16:9 using 100% of the width with 15 pixel letterboxes on top and bottom.

[BrianBaker]

Originally Posted by Scotty_Two

I'm confused as to how you have top and bottom letterboxes. 720x480 would mean that you fit the exact height of the screen (in landscape of course) and be 80 pixels shy horizontally, thus giving you 40 blank pixels on either side. what am i missing here?

it seems to me (and what i did for video on my TP2), that to keep the true aspect ratio of HD, you would want to set your downscaled resolution to be 800x450; 16:9 using 100% of the width with 15 pixel letterboxes on top and bottom.

I hope I dont come off as someone who knows everything about converting videos,because i pretty much follow directions and adjust as I go..When i had it set at 480x800 it took up the whole screen and stretched it out vertically..Changed 800 to 720 and letter box on top and bottom is what i got..My preset saved for that conversion is WIDTH:480 HEIGHT:720 Codec H.264 avg bitrate 1500...I totally understand what you said and it makes sense but this is what i got with these settings,maybe its EVO magic

[Scotty_Two]

Originally Posted by BrianBaker

I hope I dont come off as someone who knows everything about converting videos,because i pretty much follow directions and adjust as I go..When i had it set at 480x800 it took up the whole screen and stretched it out vertically..Changed 800 to 720 and letter box on top and bottom is what i got..My preset saved for that conversion is WIDTH:480 HEIGHT:720 Codec H.264 avg bitrate 1500...I totally understand what you said and it makes sense but this is what i got with these settings,maybe its EVO magic

haha, i like to believe that the EVO is indeed magical; just like magnets, how does it work???

cant wait to have one in my hands!

[radar369]

Originally Posted by edub186

All it does so far is charge my phone. I dont see any setting on my evo to let me download onto my micro sd

OOOH...might have to wait for Froyo 2.2 my friend! I'll try something when I get mines! You can try this and see if it helps!

[gutrrob]

Originally Posted by BrianBaker

I dont think the video quality will make a difference on the battery.It will just make the file bigger.

Either way the resolution i converted this to is beautiful.Wont be able to tell the difference on a 4'' screen..Seriously i get no pixelation what so ever..Its seamless

I'm thinking of putting that HDMI port to work LOL

[WisdomWolfX]

Originally Posted by BrianBaker

I hope I dont come off as someone who knows everything about converting videos,because i pretty much follow directions and adjust as I go..When i had it set at 480x800 it took up the whole screen and stretched it out vertically..Changed 800 to 720 and letter box on top and bottom is what i got..My preset saved for that conversion is WIDTH:480 HEIGHT:720 Codec H.264 avg bitrate 1500...I totally understand what you said and it makes sense but this is what i got with these settings,maybe its EVO magic

The guide says to disable the keep aspect ratio setting. I have no idea why, but that's what causes all the stretching BS. My suggestion is to always keep the aspect ratio and set the max width to 800 or whatever your videos width is (whichever is smaller). The video may not fully cover the screen, but you'll only end up with minimal black bars and you'll make better use of the Evo. I think a 16:9 video converts to 800x448 when keeping the aspect ratio.

I haven't ordered my HDMI cable for video output yet, but you can indeed keep the video at 1280x720 and it'll playback fine on the Evo. I would assume this would make for optimal video output, but it comes at a cost of roughly 1GB/hr.

For those wondering the video that handbrake outputs is typically h.264 video with aac audio in an m4v container.

Originally Posted by radar369

OOOH...might have to wait for Froyo 2.2 my friend! I'll try something when I get mines! You can try this and see if it helps!

I'm not sure what you think he would need Froyo 2.2 for. He is trying to take files from his DVR to his phone. This is fully supported on at least 1.5 up and probably even 1.0 via the mass storage option. The benefit that 2.2 brings is the ability to install applications to the memory card. Currently we are restricted to using built in storage only for applications.

[BrianBaker]

Originally Posted by gutrrob

I'm thinking of putting that HDMI port to work LOL

Holy Crap,talk about a feature i forgot about..I will take a 720p movie and slap it on the Evo and test again to see if the battery drains more than 18%....Cant believe i forgot that you can do that.