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Watching Fan Edits on Android

TV's Frink

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How do you guys watch edits on your phones...specifically Androids?

I've had mixed success with a few Android media players watching .vob files, but as I said it is hit or miss, not to mention I don't get the full DVD experience (menus and whatnot). Seems like you could play the .ifo file but that doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone convert to a DVD file before putting on your phone? And what Android app do you use to watch?
 
Never owned a cell phone so I can't comment but I had no idea you could watch DVD's on your phone. How big a hard drive do those phones have? :lol:
 
I knew a guy who watched my fanedits on a phone...
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never heard of him in a long time.

;)
 
No idea. Never have tried.
 
I never understood why people would want to watch anything longer than a short video clip (youtube, etc.) on their phone or iPod. Those screens are TINY...
 
Agreed, although I have watched Severance on my Ipod Touch and my Desire HD has a 4.3" screen which I use quite a lot for comics.

Anyway to answer the question, VLC for Android should be along very soon.

What is available at the moment and is quite good if you have a decent wifi signal in the house is VLC Direct Pro. Basically it streams a movie from a desktop running VLC proper. The downside is that you need to have VLC running on a desktop PC permanently and of course once you leave the house it doesn't work.
 
ThrowgnCpr said:
I never understood why people would want to watch anything longer than a short video clip (youtube, etc.) on their phone or iPod. Those screens are TINY...
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My Droid X screen is quite nice. And I needed something to do while I was stuck waiting for a both a blood draw and my car to be fixed.

Let me ask another way - for those of you who use your PC to watch, are you watching the .vob files or are you creating a virtual DVD? And is there a better way than opening up one .vob at a time?
 
Like Nomarch said: VLC can play your DVD quite nicely. It's the easiest way without installing a real DVD player. Although sometime it skips the intro video and goes directly to the main menu, I don't know why. (In very few DVD some buttons do not work also...)
Just open the .IFO file instead of the .VOB
 
TV's Frink said:
Let me ask another way - for those of you who use your PC to watch, are you watching the .vob files or are you creating a virtual DVD? And is there a better way than opening up one .vob at a time?
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I don't normally watch DVD's on my PC but I will check them to get a sneak peak at the menus, or in the case of a workprint, the quality. I don't use VLC, although I used to, but with the KMplayer I just hit "open", select the DVD folder, open that so I get the individual AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders and click on "Open all files/folders" and that will start the DVD as though I had just put it in a standalone player.
 
VLC plays ISO files nicely. You could pack the DVD folders to an ISO file, and play with VLC. For the most part, it works without any problems.
 
TV's Frink said:
My Droid X screen is quite nice. And I needed something to do while I was stuck waiting for a both a blood draw and my car to be fixed.
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Please tell me this wasn't happening at the same time...
 
Ha-ha, I was waiting for that. No, one was Saturday and one was Sunday.
 
I took a quick google spin looking for a way to play .iso on my droid, but doesn't look promising. Oh well.
 
Convert to avi with autogk. It will save space and and still look good. Using the appropriate specs will make viewing and skipping around a lot more pleasing. Check avsforum, videohelp or doom9 forums for conversion guides and recommendations.

I use my droid to watch movies once in a while. If you know you're going to be sitting around with nothing to do for a while with no entertainment options it's nice.

I use QQPlayer which will play a lot of odd formats, but will play better with android optimized formats.
 
Even though Reave as a Droid owner is the expert, these are my two cents:

With a Tegra-based Android tablet, viewing non-standard video content without converting is finally an option, but with a PHONE (even a good one), I honestly wouldn't even try without converting. Unsqueezing the anamorphic picture, decoding an ISO, menus, surround sound, the insane bitrates of DVD video, etc - it puts a lot of strain on the tiny CPU/GPU units and it's just not worth it considering it's quality you won't see on your screen. Instead forget about DVDs and MPlayer/VLC/ffmpeg builds altogether, and just convert the movie to the best a Droid X can handle. (I would not choose AVI. Besides being outdated and unflexible, it's not really any more lightweight than other containers.)

The best a Droid X can handle would be a baseline or similar x264 setting with (downmixed) AAC stereo sound. Or if it's stereo AC3 (not surround), I assume you can do a "passthru" setting and keep the sound as-is. The top pixel dimensions would be 854 x 480 pixels (basically the same as an unsqueezed anamorphic NTSC DVD), so HD is out of the question. Lower is of course fine. More settings (for Handbrake) here.
 
My Desire HD plays 720p video absolutely fine, a 1Gb CPU and 3/4 Gigabyte of Ram does quite a lot and using VLC Direct Pro I can watch AVI's, DVD's, ISO's and x264 perfectly.

As for VLC playing vobs, just drag the VIDEO_TS directory directly onto VLC and it will play correctly.

VLC D-Pro also transcodes the files so they are in an acceptable format for your phone.
 
Yeah, perhaps old phones couldn't handle it, but newer smartphones, mine included are upwards of 1ghz processors and play 720p video just fine.

Again, that said, it's always easier on the phone to have a smaller video format, and saves sd card space. I have 16gb of sd, but I don't like it full of crap that could be in a smaller format.
 
Shame your phone isn't up to the task... :p
 
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