Epic really does movies..umm. EPIC!

[marisdaman]

Watching movies on this phone is awesome! The earbuds produce great sound and bass. When you turn on 5.1 channel it handles surround sound very very well. And the screen.. well we already know about the screen. I also love the fact that I dont have to convert my avi. files, it plays them flawlessly. Another thing that I like is that there is a button to stretch the movies to fill the whole screen. To sum it up, its EPIC!

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Sound is awesome in the car via aux input. Much better than ipod nano and hero. Used to have to crank it up all the way just to hear it, now I can hear BASS... its amazing!

 

[chrgnthru]

I want 5.1 on my EVO

 

[gloverville]

how can i get movies on the epic?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

how can i get movies on the epic?

Drag and drop... as far as getting them... Handbrake from a legit DVD that you own.

 

[whippingboy]

I wonder why the streaming movies on iphonemoviez doesn't work with Epic? My Evo buddy is rubbing my face in this. They're xvid .mp4 or at least some of them are.

Pretty sad when iphone can play something the epic can't.

 

[bucc0303]

Drag and drop... as far as getting them... Handbrake from a legit DVD that you own.

What are the settings on handbrake that you use I have a standard DVD and try to set the screen width to 800x480 and it defualts back to 720x480. Is this fine and can be adjusted when playing the movie on the Epic?

 

[barakisbrown]

Movie quality and sound quality is actually pretty good compared to my hero. Forgot to check it on evo before my main board went..do not know how though..

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

What are the settings on handbrake that you use I have a standard DVD and try to set the screen width to 800x480 and it defualts back to 720x480. Is this fine and can be adjusted when playing the movie on the Epic?

I haven't done it yet for the Epic, sorry. I've done it for the Hero. In handbrake, make sure iPod 5G Nano is unchecked.

 

[caliskimmer]

Nice! I need my freaking Schiit Valhalla amp to drive my Senn HD 800s, but then I'm hoping I can get some Super AMOLED goodness with ridiculous sound. And yes, I do know those headphones are anything, but portable.

 

[SomeAudioGuy]

I don't know about streaming films, but for downloads RockPlayer has been doing a pretty good job of playing back MP4, mkv, flv, and random avi's.

 

[caliskimmer]

I don't know about streaming films, but for downloads RockPlayer has been doing a pretty good job of playing back MP4, mkv, flv, and random avi's.

I also think that DoubleTwist can play movies, but I didn't really try it out when I was prompted for what player I wanted to use.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

I also think that DoubleTwist can play movies, but I didn't really try it out when I was prompted for what player I wanted to use.

It does. I was using it on the hero as my movie viewer.

 

[baltimoreevo]

I want to get the same quality that the copy of Avatar on the vibrant. I have movies on my Epic but the copy of Avatar is absolutely cinema quality. Does the setting for the nano give you that kind of quality? Thanks in advance.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

I want to get the same quality that the copy of Avatar on the vibrant. I have movies on my Epic but the copy of Avatar is absolutely cinema quality. Does the setting for the nano give you that kind of quality? Thanks in advance.

you have to uncheck the 5g nano icon in handcent.

 

[pastorich1]

I downloaded DVD Catalyst for $10 earlier. It is very easy to use and ripped a couple of movies flawleslly to .mp4 format (I used the Droid Incredible settings). I copied them to my Epic and they play great and aren't very big. "The Reaping" ripped in less than 30 minutes and is just under 600 MB.

You can get the free version first to test the quality.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

I downloaded DVD Catalyst for $10 earlier. It is very easy to use and ripped a couple of movies flawleslly to .mp4 format (I used the Droid Incredible settings). I copied them to my Epic and they play great and aren't very big. "The Reaping" ripped in less than 30 minutes and is just under 600 MB.

You can get the free version first to test the quality.

Too bad they don't have a mac version... can't wait to get rid of this thing

 

[DJPellegrino]

Too bad they don't have a mac version... can't wait to get rid of this thing

Don't understand...get rid of the mac or epic?

 

[waytoocrazy]

Nice! I need my freaking Schiit Valhalla amp to drive my Senn HD 800s, but then I'm hoping I can get some Super AMOLED goodness with ridiculous sound. And yes, I do know those headphones are anything, but portable.

....very nice, but why hook those up to the Epic, highly doubt the DAC in there is worth much of anything. Screen on the other hand is fantastic!

 

[waytoocrazy]

Ok, just tried the following settings in Handbrake (which looks great) and plays with 5.1 audio.

High Profile setting...
Picture: Default (Auto Cropping) (Keep Aspect ratio)
video Filters: DeInterlace (Slower)
Video: Codec: H.264, Framerate (same as source) & Constant Quality
Audio: Automatic, Audo codec: AAC, MixDown: Dolby Prologic II.
Subtitles: Forced Only and Burned In (set to Yes for both).
Chapters: checkmarked.

Tried it out... worked FANTASTIC with Swordfish (only converted 10 chapters). The beginning part where the woman explodes from the bomb strapped to her... AWESOME in 5.1 surround (didn't even know it had this feature). This plays through the default movie player. I can take screen shots if you need it.