the Display/Video/Media thread

[probbiethe1]

Well if you covered them to mp4 your tablet would read them or download rock player and that will play avi's for sure it might also play what you want

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[Woodfiend]

Any good converters to recommend (free preferably) I was looking around while waiting for advice. I found one that said free and I downloaded it....turns out the free version only downloads 5 min of each file.

 

[Joshua]

"Super" is a good but sometimes confusing converter, but its free. I second the "Rockplayer" recommendation to avoid having to convert videos.

 

[Woodfiend]

I will look for Super. Thanks. So you think Rockplayer may play mkv files? They are not compressed at all since I wanted the best quality for my media server. And now I find it is hard to play them with anything else..... oops.

 

[gurgle]

Mediacoder is probably the Tablet users best friend for transcoding, but that is my opinion

 

[Woodfiend]

I will check out mediacoder as well. I downloaded rock and looks like it is $9.99 or at least it won't let me install it without purchasing it. Now are you guys loading your movie files into a specific section of your tablet? Do you transfer them into Rock or another program or do they just stay under file manager?

 

[gurgle]

I transcode all my files on my PC using me, then copy them to a video folder called video on the flash card. I then can play them all with the Demo Rock Player available. Just find the compatible codec that works best on your device and away you go.

 

[probbiethe1]

I just checked the market and rock player is still free but it is now called rock player universal

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[Woodfiend]

I think maybe it just isn't my day. I downloaded the Rock player universal version but when I clicked the install button it gave me a msg stating that I had to purchase it first.....there was also a "try" button so I hit that next but the program didn't respond. Next I downloaded Mediacoder and the version that loaded was in Chinese. I searched the Mediacoder forums and found out how to change it to english and that worked fine. But then as the new english version started it gave me a message stating that mediacoder cuda is not compatible with my machine. I am running a Quad core Intel I7 920 2.66ghz processor..........not sure why it wouldn't be compatible. Thus why I say it may just not be my day. I may just have to retry tomorrow and see if I have better luck. Thanks for all the patience and advice so far....!!!!!!

 

[gurgle]

This is the official link, It should not be a compatibility issue. I am using an I7 with W7-64 with no issues. MediaCoder - Downloads
Here is a link to an older version of Rock player Access point This is the older demo version

 

[nrage23]

The easiest convert for mp4 is Handbrake and it is free. Also you set up multiple encodes and let it run all night.

 

[Woodfiend]

Well apparently I'm not intelligent enough to get it or I am not doing something right..... I have tried 4 different converters some that you guys have recommended and the VLC converter as well. I changed the files to mp4 and I still can't get anything to play. When I load the files to the tablet they appear in file manager. Do you leave the files there or move them elsewhere? I tried opening them directly.... to no avail and I went into Rock player and tried to locate them but only have access to the files on the internal hard drive.
I am sure I am overlooking something simple or making a ridiculous mistake but I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

 

[xaueious]

If it is playing on your computer, it might just be your tablet...

 

[Woodfiend]

Well I seem to be making some headway at least. I figured out part of my problem..... and it was somewhat easy like I imagined it would be. In the settings in Rockplayer I had to switch the rootfolder from sdcard to sdcard2 so it would access the external sd card.
Now I can load mkv movies and watch them but only if they are less than 3.5 or so GB. When I try and load a normal one that is about 5gb it says the file is too large even though I have a 16 gb sd card. The file system still seems chaotic and not intuitive to me. still trying to convert a few and load them to see if I can get it to work in mp4 format so I can use less memory.

 

[Twedk]

Is there an app where we can just download movies