A Gift for A3 owners!

[The.Yield]

Well, I'm still waiting for mine to show up (darn holiday hours). But I've gone ahead and encoded a little piece of video for yall' to try out.

It's the opening credits for the animation movie, Paprika. Good stuff.

It's native resolution @ 6000 bitrate. It's H.264 with no B-frames so it should play just fine.

This video is finely honed down over the course of many, many tests to find the best possible quality without going into the moronic zone (which prolly' wouldn't play on the A3 anyway).

Please if you try this 2 minute clip out, leave some feedback here. If you notice and screw-ups please tell me!

Be sure to point out things like color banding or jagged edges if you see them + where you saw them! I'm particularly interested in how bright colors turned out, as that's a big problem with portable video.

I hope it's not overly sharp lol (yes that is possible, believe it or not).

File comes in at just under 60MB. Here's the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?debgjyszxml

P.S. This was transcoded directly from a Blu-Ray rip! [toungue]

[howdo]

Hi

what was the program & settings used?

[vlada]

The A3 doesn't play HD video in H.264 compression. The file won't play.

[The.Yield]

The A3 doesn't play HD video in H.264 compression. The file won't play.

Awww! [surrend]

This can't be true!

This is just in 800xWhatever resolution... I had no idea the A3 couldn't play back native resolution video with this codec.

How very sad =(

[doniago]

Hello...are we talking about copyrighted material here? Because if so, then posting video links here would be a no-no.

Thanks.

[The.Yield]

Don't believe so, similar content available via the official trailers and the music video.

[doniago]

Okie-doke.

[vlada]

The.Yield
From the information other people reported here, the H.264 is only supported up to 640x480@30fps, baseline profile.

If you need higher resolution, you might try another format - MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP.

[Sasami]

Well, I'm still waiting for mine to show up (darn holiday hours). But I've gone ahead and encoded a little piece of video for yall' to try out.

P.S. This was transcoded directly from a Blu-Ray rip! [toungue]

Hi,

"AIR" can also be encoded from the Japanese release BD's. For all you anime fans...^^.

[guenthar]

From what I have seen from people testing this they should beable to play this video on the A3. I play this resolution of video on my a2 in xvid format and the A3 is much more powerful than the A2.

[The.Yield]

Ya I may have to recode this into a MPEG Xvid for yall... It'll be up soon.

[vlada]

From what I have seen from people testing this they should beable to play this video on the A3. I play this resolution of video on my a2 in xvid format and the A3 is much more powerful than the A2.

MPEG-4 AVC is almost twice as much difficult to decode then MPEG-4 ASP (that is the format XviD encodes to). From the specs the A2 supports MPEG-4 ASP up to 720x576@24fps. The A3 might be twice as fast and support the same resolution in MPEG-4 AVC, but I really doubt (and some people already confirmed it) it can play higher resolution the this.

The.Yield
You might try MPEG-4 SP (Simple Profile). Use XviD codec and disable all ASP options. There is a preset for it in XviD codec.

[austinv]

The.Yield
From the information other people reported here, the H.264 is only supported up to 640x480@30fps, baseline profile.

If you need higher resolution, you might try another format - MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP.

i've coded widescreen video at 800x340/24fps in H264-BP/AAC/MP4 and they play fine.

[The.Yield]

i've coded widescreen video at 800x340/24fps in H264-BP/AAC/MP4 and they play fine.

AH HA! I thought as much. That Ti DaVinci chipset is no joke. [thumbsup]

P.S. What kind of bitrate are you pushing out, or are you using a quant/quality setting?

[vlada]

And what about 800x480 or at least 800x450 (16:9)? Does it work too? It would be awesome if it does.

800x340 is less pixels then 640x480. But since the A3 should support 640x480@30fps, 800x480@24fps might work too.

The.Yield
I thought that the movie you encoded is 720p, that's why I said it won't play. Sorry, my fault. The 800x480 might be O.K.

[Dominic]

800x340 is less pixels then 640x480.

what maths did you apply to get that?

[vDrag0n]

800*340=272000
640*480=307200

[Dominic]

duh duh.... I'm having a dumb day today

[cardslash02]

As for the Paprika video:

When i put it on my A3, it loads fine, but only the sound plays, not the video. Am I doing something wrong here, or is something wrong with the encode?