**The Touch Pro Video Playback Bible**

[MaskedLion]

Great thread, great information, and Great discussions.
Will stick to album and wmp for my videos.
Thanks

[esqueue]

Originally Posted by moovius

I am running mighty rom 4.10 (ran juicy's 4.7).

I run avi's of movies thru the encoder program posted on xda forums. I encode at 600 kb and video playback in WMP shows a subtle stutter during playback.

Anyone else noticing this?

Post such as these go ignored as it seems that people prefer to complain and cry about poor video performance instead of converting videos and movies to work flawlessly. I've posted the programs and directions on converting movies 710 kb/s and no skipping, at all (after opening, closing and reopening the player). I gave up a while ago though.

[esqueue]

Originally Posted by TreyBeno

what is the fastest video converter?

Check out this post. It have a link to what I believe is the fastest video converter and most useful while being free.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...4&postcount=41

[dishe]

Originally Posted by shaakezula

ok so after reading most of the post here..what i've found to work best on MY touch pro is using CORE PLAYER and using total video converter (which can be d/loaded for free here)http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/M..._Download.html

and i convert my video files into h264 avi format and i have NEVER had a frame drop yet..that i've noticed and it compresses 300 mb tv showws down to 60-70 mb with out losing quality..ALSO mvk formatted movies will work also as for they too are compressed movie files

I'm sorry, but H.264 at 60-70mb will NOT yield video quality worth watching in my opinion. I aware that this will work in coreplayer, but that's because of the lower-quality bitrate requiring less resources to play- therefore, even the non-accelerated apps have no problem playing them.

I will admit something tho- I do enjoy coreplayer more than WMP and Album, especially since I can resume playback where I left off if I close the app. Also, you can play DivX natively... Although the best acceleration and highest bitrate-to-framerate ratio can be achieved with H.264 on Album/WMP, I still find myself preferring Divx on Coreplayer.
My original post is mostly just an explanation of how/why all this works, so that people can better understand their devices. A full-on coreplayer QTV support in the future would put this whole discussion to rest...

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by dishe

I'm sorry, but H.264 at 60-70mb will NOT yield video quality worth watching in my opinion. I aware that this will work in coreplayer, but that's because of the lower-quality bitrate requiring less resources to play- therefore, even the non-accelerated apps have no problem playing them.

I will admit something tho- I do enjoy coreplayer more than WMP and Album, especially since I can resume playback where I left off if I close the app. ...

I agree 100%.

I have the latest CorePlayer myself & the best feature IMHO is being able to resume where you left off (I do that all the time)

I never use it anymore however as WMP gives so much better h.264 playback.

~John

[alleyezonblack]

thanks for the help

[p0rn0saurus]

Originally Posted by stevedusa

What really bothers me is the SlingPlayer... At windowed mode it can reach 20+ FPS, but when it comes down to full screen? HORRIBLE...

haha i have the same problem. i think my 6700 phone played better.

[laegion]

Thank you for this post! this is very useful information to me as i'm not afraid to re-encode movie files to get rid of dropped frames, I'm a quality (audio and video) junkie and i'm glad to know that high quality video is possible on this device...it's an issue that's bothered me with both my 6700 and 6800...

[MrBogard]

So would I be correct in assuming that there's no solid solution for playing scene released (a la eztv.it) TV episodes through the TV-out, without re-encoding? QTV seems like a pretty crappy solution to a long standing issue with these handsets. It would be nice if they let people have public access to their custom API/renderer. If TCPMP had full acceleration this functionality would be much more appealing.

I've never really enjoyed re-encoding my stuff for specific devices.

[tc32brat]

I was wondering if anyone knew how to get netflix to play on the TP?