V having a hard time playing videos.

[darrenb1988]

Well I have a few mv4 and mp4 videos on my sdcard. I tried playing them and they lag so bad and the audio is horrible. Is the v just not capable of playing videos? I remember my 4 year old g1 being able to play videos just fine.

 

[confuzion]

Are you using the stock video player? You can try to download Rockplayer or Vplayer from the market. Those might work better.

 

[anon(141613)]

It depends on the format and bitrates the videos are encoded with. The V wants H264 MP4 video, and shoots camcorder video at a rate of 2000kbps. Unless you are encoding at a very high bitrate beyond the capability of the Class 2 card, or are using an incompatible format, you shouldn't have issues.

I have a 32GB Sandisk Class 2 card and am encoding H264 video at 512kbps video and 64kbps AAC video with decent looking video playback and not-too-huge file sizes. The native video is 480x320 for the V...if your videos are sized differently and you're asking the phone to resize them, it will also degrade playback.

 

[travisbickle]

@TVCSS Thanks for the info.

Do the videos you encode look as good as youtube videos with HQ on? And for us with smaller SD cards or stock cards, do you know of any way to have files stored on a server aka home computer and possibly stream over the internet via 3g? I'm sure there are ways to do it over LAN but I'm not really looking for that.

 

[anon(141613)]

@TVCSS Thanks for the info.

Do the videos you encode look as good as youtube videos with HQ on? And for us with smaller SD cards or stock cards, do you know of any way to have files stored on a server aka home computer and possibly stream over the internet via 3g? I'm sure there are ways to do it over LAN but I'm not really looking for that.

3G stream performance is going to be erratic at best, no matter how you try to stream it. You'd need at least 600kb for the audio/video, plus whatever headroom is needed for the transport, to be able to stream decent video. You could upload your stuff to YouTube but even with setting it to private they'd likely hit you with a copy vio if it's movies. The quality of an H264 video properly encoded with the settings I mentioned is as good or better than anything YouTube could get onto the phone.

DropBox (link here) is one app that's easy that allows you to access 2GB free (or more paid) of media and files on a home PC via your Android phone...but a test file I tried to play streaming to the phone via Real Player failed to load. The Gallery player wants to download the file first, not stream it. Again...it's all about bandwidth more than anything else. I still find Dropbox very handy to send files to my phone as needed from the PC.

The easiest solution is to get yourself a larger Micro SDHC card. Deals recently have been for as little as $8 shipped for an 8GB and under $25 for a 16GB. I have a 32GB Class 2 and video playback quality is as good as my 16GB Class 10. There's a thread in the V forum at Android Forums where people try and post Micro SDHC card deals as they come up, and other places around the Web have them as well.

WinX DVD Ripper is free, and can create compatible H264 MP4 files. There are numerous other media conversion programs as well...I have about 20 of them. One that does not seem to like the V/Gallery is FormatFactory, for reasons I'm still not entirely sure of, but many others work.

 

[scootincivic]

I've never played vidz from my SD..
Always used VLC Stream & Convert to just stream all my vidz/Tunz from my PC vlc player to phone and never had issues.
Works well on 2G as well.

I know it deverts away from the subject but its the best alternative I have ever found.

Sent from my VM670 using Tapatalk

 

[anon(141613)]

I've never played vidz from my SD..
Always used VLC Stream & Convert to just stream all my vidz/Tunz from my PC vlc player to phone and never had issues.
Works well on 2G as well.

I know it deverts away from the subject but its the best alternative I have ever found.

Sent from my VM670 using Tapatalk

I'd like to see the video bit rates and sizes you're using to stream through VLC...here's a quote from the WikiHow page on it:

You probably won't be able to stream anything of very good quality over the Internet. Because of the bandwidth video files demand, the average home internet connection probably won't work well enough, although you can probably stream music nicely. You need a good upload speed to send the files out at the speed they need to play smoothly.

By all means, post how you do the video...I'd like to see your specifics.

 

[trebores]

This is the correct answer. I have found that software decoding with rockplayer on higher res xvid videos is choppy .. once I convert with handbrake to the iphone preset (h264 320xwhatev), that the phone supports in hardware mode, it plays back fine.

Basically, convert your videos to a format the phone supports and it will play back flawlessly.

It depends on the format and bitrates the videos are encoded with. The V wants H264 MP4 video, and shoots camcorder video at a rate of 2000kbps. Unless you are encoding at a very high bitrate beyond the capability of the Class 2 card, or are using an incompatible format, you shouldn't have issues.

I have a 32GB Sandisk Class 2 card and am encoding H264 video at 512kbps video and 64kbps AAC video with decent looking video playback and not-too-huge file sizes. The native video is 480x320 for the V...if your videos are sized differently and you're asking the phone to resize them, it will also degrade playback.