movies

[bravo1013]

Is there a way to watch movies on the droid

[administrator]

Can you be more specific? What are you trying to accomplish exactly? Watch a movie on hulu? Youtube? DVD?

[bravo1013]

Ya like actual full length DVD movies is there a way

[administrator]

http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article...ris----/935873

[bravo1013]

What about pulling videos not you tube but actual movies on here

[administrator]

That's what I'm talking about. You'll have to "RIP" the DVD to another format before you can watch it.

[richg12524]

Thanks admin, you saved me from researching this on my own, I've been busy over on Motorola in the forums, this info is much appreciated. Rich

[cooly]

I've had good luck with DVDFAB, http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm, to rip movies to my hard drive. It works very well. You can then try the trial "DVD TO Mobile", which works well to shrink and transcode the movie. I use Badaboom, an Nvidia program that uses a Nvidia video card to shrink the movie incredibly fast. There are alot of free programs that will shrink and transcode movie to an mp4 file such as "handbreak". Spend a little time googling around the web. These specs work well on the droid:Container/File format:

MP4 with the following video/audio codecs and settings:

Video

Resolution: Up to WVGA (854x480)
Codec: H.264, Baseline profile
Bitrate: 2.5 Mbps
Framerate: 24fps
Audio

Codec:AAC stereo audio
Bitrate: 64-128 kbps

Good Luck

[richg12524]

Originally Posted by cooly

I've had good luck with DVDFAB, http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm, to rip movies to my hard drive. It works very well. You can then try the trial "DVD TO Mobile", which works well to shrink and transcode the movie. I use Badaboom, an Nvidia program that uses a Nvidia video card to shrink the movie incredibly fast. There are alot of free programs that will shrink and transcode movie to an mp4 file such as "handbreak". Spend a little time googling around the web. These specs work well on the droid:Container/File format:

MP4 with the following video/audio codecs and settings:

Video

Resolution: Up to WVGA (854x480)
Codec: H.264, Baseline profile
Bitrate: 2.5 Mbps
Framerate: 24fps
Audio

Codec:AAC stereo audio
Bitrate: 64-128 kbps

Good Luck

Thanks cooly, i hope to be able to play around with movies this weekend, got knocked on my butt by a flu / upper respiratory infection for just over 2 weeks now, it sucks "getting" old. Rich

[cooly]

FYI for ya'll
I just bought Avatar for the family. I went to http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm, and downloaded "DVDFAB PassKey 7". This removes encryption so I can rip my movie. I installed PassKey and inserted my dvd. Then using Badaboom, which works with Nvidia video cards to transcode video fast, I transcoded Avatar in less than one hour and am now watching it on my Droid. Now, ATI has a transcode program also, there's is free, and can be found on there web sight. If I get time I will do a trial run on my Ati machine also.
The settings I used on Badaboom are:
Select PSP on the right, select the drive your movie is in on the left.
Click Advanced, top right.
Video Decoder tab: check mark all
Video encoder tab: Profile=baseline Key frame mode=fixed
Level =Auto Interval =80
R.C.S.=Constant Q
Move the slider to Highest Quality
Pic Tab: Display Res=720x480
Aspect R.= Fill to Aspect(this is important)
Output Res. will read=720x404
Film-mode=Auto And checkmark "Deinterlace"
Audio Set. tab: Audio mix=Stereo Downmix
Audio Channel= English(D.D.)6ch
Audio Bitrate slider= far left 128
These setting may also help if you are using some other transcode program such as Handbrake or Super, which are free.
Good Luck