ipone to droid x text quality

**nick96ss** · 07-09-2011, 09:17 PM

my wife has an iphone 4 when she sends me a short vid through text to my x
the vid on my x is choppy and unwatchable . im using handcent for text messaging
the vid on her phone is crystal clear and when i shoot a vid its crystal clear .
any way to fix this ....thanks

**smalltank** · 07-09-2011, 09:48 PM

sounds like your iphone re encodes your video then when on your X..plays choppy..perhaps...OR your X has very low 3d/video hardware capabilities or settings but I doubt that..keep in mind apple n android dont like eachother and dont help one another out..make sense?

**Smitty_82** · 07-09-2011, 11:15 PM

You might try saving the video to your sd card before watching it. Might help it run smoother.

**wildman** · 07-10-2011, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by Smitty_82

You might try saving the video to your sd card before watching it. Might help it run smoother.

+1, if you are streaming the file there is many things to cause issue, also remember Apple uses a unique video codac for everything that is made for playback on iphone and quicktime that android really doesn't play well with.

**b1gt78** · 07-10-2011, 05:04 AM

this issue can easily be fixed in 4 steps...

1. grab her iphone and sync everything to the computer
2. throw her iphone out the window on the freeway
3. get her a thunderbold 4g or droid (any model)
4. enjoy sexting videos to each other

**markstanco#CB** · 07-10-2011, 10:17 AM

5. pull the battery a few times before you can actually get the android device to work properly.

**wildman** · 07-10-2011, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Mark1015

5. pull the battery a few times before you can actually get the android device to work properly.

Thats funny but I haven't had to go through any battery pulling to get my Droid X to work..

**itguy09** · 07-11-2011, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by wildman

+1, if you are streaming the file there is many things to cause issue, also remember Apple uses a unique video codac for everything that is made for playback on iphone and quicktime that android really doesn't play well with.

FYI: The codecs Apple and Android use are the same. MPEG4 for video, AAC for audio, and 3GP for SMS. There's nothing different or Apple proprietary about any of them. There are certain encoding specs (Bitrate, resolution) that may be different but not enough to really matter.

What may be the issue is:

Handcent - may be taking up CPU cycles
3GP is a pretty lousy compression for HD video which is what the iPhone4 shoots. Try having her e-mail them to you from the iPhone. i bet it will work better that way.

**wildman** · 07-11-2011, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by itguy09

FYI: The codecs Apple and Android use are the same. MPEG4 for video, AAC for audio, and 3GP for SMS. There's nothing different or Apple proprietary about any of them. There are certain encoding specs (Bitrate, resolution) that may be different but not enough to really matter.

What may be the issue is:

Handcent - may be taking up CPU cycles
3GP is a pretty lousy compression for HD video which is what the iPhone4 shoots. Try having her e-mail them to you from the iPhone. i bet it will work better that way.

You do realize there is several different codecs that are mp4 branded, just because it reported mp4 does not mean its the same and contain the same data... Read this information on mp4 codacs... Also 3gp files are not a support recording format as far as I know..

Also if you read here iPhone can also record in MOV format with supported apps... Read here...

**itguy09** · 07-11-2011, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by wildman

You do realize there is several different codecs that are mp4 branded, just because it reported mp4 does not mean its the same and contain the same data... Read this information on mp4 codacs... Also 3gp files are not a support recording format as far as I know..

The video data is still, at its core MPEG4. There are different profiles, containers and such but the data is still roughly the same. Different data rates, encodings, etc for different platforms.

Here's a good article:

Basically we're all getting AVC on both Android and iOS. It's the most popular and both phones understand it. There may be differences as far as bitrates and resolutions supported but it's still MPEG4.

3GP is a container for MPEG4 that is mainly used for MMS.
This article has more info:

The choppiness is probably because of the extreme compression of getting video into the MMS format

Basically you have to compress it into 300-600k files which is insanely small for video.

It's also not an iPhone specific thing:

http://forums.crackberry.com/forum-f...uality-603329/

Also if you read here iPhone can also record in MOV format with supported apps... Read here...

And the stock video recorder outputs MPEG4 (.m4v, iirc) files. Even Quicktime's .MOV is MPEG4 at the core now.

Best choice for the OP would be to have their friend e-mail the videos or use another means other than MMS.

**b1gt78** · 07-12-2011, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by wildman

Thats funny but I haven't had to go through any battery pulling to get my Droid X to work..

me either lol. something must be wrong with your droid. but hey pulling the battery a few times is still better than haviing to hold your iphone in a certain way to avoid the DEATH GRIP!!!!!
...just sayin

**wildman** · 07-12-2011, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by itguy09

The video data is still, at its core MPEG4. There are different profiles, containers and such but the data is still roughly the same. Different data rates, encodings, etc for different platforms.

Here's a good article:

Basically we're all getting AVC on both Android and iOS. It's the most popular and both phones understand it. There may be differences as far as bitrates and resolutions supported but it's still MPEG4.

3GP is a container for MPEG4 that is mainly used for MMS.
This article has more info:

The choppiness is probably because of the extreme compression of getting video into the MMS format

Basically you have to compress it into 300-600k files which is insanely small for video.

It's also not an iPhone specific thing:

http://forums.crackberry.com/forum-f...uality-603329/

And the stock video recorder outputs MPEG4 (.m4v, iirc) files. Even Quicktime's .MOV is MPEG4 at the core now.

Best choice for the OP would be to have their friend e-mail the videos or use another means other than MMS.

You make a good argument but one major thing to consider is that the differences in the formats is the end factor, part of the issue... I have a iphone 3G and a 4 and both causes issues with playback when I send them to my Droid X for playback, after looking into file formats and the only variable of difference is the numbers of frames captured and they are lower than my videos I have on my SD Card so playback shouldn't be choppy do to this...

Oh well, another level of proof that Android and iPhone just dont like to play together well..

**itguy09** · 07-12-2011, 02:59 PM

That is interesting - I had no real issues going from my iPhone 3G to the DroidX. And I get stuff from iPhone users all the time and have few issues.

I doubt I'd have issues if/when I go back to the iPhone too.

**wildman** · 07-12-2011, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by itguy09

That is interesting - I had no real issues going from my iPhone 3G to the DroidX. And I get stuff from iPhone users all the time and have few issues.

I doubt I'd have issues if/when I go back to the iPhone too.

Are you receiving them as emails or mms? MMS seems to be the issue because if I transfer by cable or email files play dine but when I send as mms I usually notice the issue..

**Dostovel** · 07-12-2011, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by b1gt78

me either lol. something must be wrong with your droid. but hey pulling the battery a few times is still better than haviing to hold your iphone in a certain way to avoid the DEATH GRIP!!!!!
...just sayin

At least Androids have the ability to pull out the battery...

**Smitty_82** · 07-12-2011, 08:24 PM

Since almost all media that is sent via MMS has to be re-sized due to size restrictions, it might just be the way the iPhone refomats the file.

**markstanco#CB** · 07-12-2011, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by wildman

Thats funny but I haven't had to go through any battery pulling to get my Droid X to work..

thats awesome... you are certainly in the minority! Froyo I was okay, but GB took a dump. I have looked at my BB Tour a few times and almost called VZW to reactivate.

**itguy09** · 07-13-2011, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Smitty_82

Since almost all media that is sent via MMS has to be re-sized due to size restrictions, it might just be the way the iPhone refomats the file.

It's the size thing. If you look at one of the links I sent, the MMS size is under a MB (300-500k) and compressing any video to that size is guaranteed to be crap quality. That's why e-mail is the best.

**itguy09** · 07-13-2011, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by b1gt78

me either lol. something must be wrong with your droid. but hey pulling the battery a few times is still better than haviing to hold your iphone in a certain way to avoid the DEATH GRIP!!!!!

Except the death grip is common among most phones and was way overblown by the media...

The fanboi attitude on both sides is quite annoying. Both the iPhone and Android are great platforms, no need to trash either one. (Now Windows Phone, that's something that needs trashing).