Epic really does movies..umm. EPIC!

**marisdaman** · 09-02-2010, 10:15 PM

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** · 09-02-2010, 10:19 PM

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** · 09-03-2010, 12:05 AM

I want 5.1 on my EVO

**gloverville** · 09-04-2010, 06:35 PM

how can i get movies on the epic?

**Andrew Ruffolo** · 09-04-2010, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by gloverville

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** · 09-04-2010, 09:58 PM

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** · 09-04-2010, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Ruffolo

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** · 09-04-2010, 10:55 PM

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** · 09-04-2010, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by bucc0303

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** · 09-05-2010, 01:49 AM

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** · 09-05-2010, 01:58 AM

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** · 09-05-2010, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 09-05-2010, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by caliskimmer

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** · 09-05-2010, 09:49 PM

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** · 09-05-2010, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**pastorich1** · 09-05-2010, 10:16 PM

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** · 09-05-2010, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**DJPellegrino** · 09-06-2010, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Ruffolo

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** · 09-08-2010, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

....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** · 09-08-2010, 12:38 AM

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.

**jimmyz** · 09-08-2010, 12:53 AM

I have a rather basic question- if I want to avoid transcoding movies how do I watch a file that is larger than 4gigs on my epic 4g? for example some large 720p mkv files- from what I understand the sd card is fat32 so it will not support files that large- I was hoping I would not have to trans-code any files due to the multiple file support

**Aero** · 09-08-2010, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by jimmyz

I have a rather basic question- if I want to avoid transcoding movies how do I watch a file that is larger than 4gigs on my epic 4g? for example some large 720p mkv files- from what I understand the sd card is fat32 so it will not support files that large- I was hoping I would not have to trans-code any files due to the multiple file support

Jimmy, it isn't just the file limit, chances are that up above 4g you are going to see bitrates that may actually choke the epic causing stutter.

would use handbrake or better yet ripbot264. you can que encode overnight which on a decent computer means you can que up four to ten 720 or 1080 films and get top quality results at about 1.5 gb per file. One you do it a couple of times it is a no brainer and easy. they only thing I change is some cropping of sides for 2.35:1 content

for playback I hear rockplayer has soft subtitle support ( I am going to try it later today) whihc is good since if you have ear-buds handy you can skip it but if you dont have earbuds handy you can keep volume reasonably and get an assist from substitles.

**mulcher** · 09-08-2010, 08:19 AM

I'm pretty sure your issue ithe Fat32 format of the SD card. It has a 4gig per file hard limit. There may be an app that can quickly 'split' a video, not sure, otherwise you have to transcode unfortunately.

I use Allok Video converter as its the fastest and has tons of options including getting a perfect 800x480 output. Just tried it on Avatar since I saw all the demos and unfortunately it didn't ship with Sprint.

**ywenz** · 09-08-2010, 09:12 AM

Play this movie on the Epic.. freakin' shows off the AMOLED like none other! The dark blacks and the bright colors!.. No LCD can emulate this viewing experience. That first shot of the chicago city light looks awesome on this screen.

**Cel** · 09-08-2010, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by jimmyz

I have a rather basic question- if I want to avoid transcoding movies how do I watch a file that is larger than 4gigs on my epic 4g? for example some large 720p mkv files- from what I understand the sd card is fat32 so it will not support files that large- I was hoping I would not have to trans-code any files due to the multiple file support

This was my question... Anyone tried reformatting the card to NTFS to see if it works? On my xbox I need to use the mac file system to get an external drive read (forget what it's called, I'm not a mac guy...)