Ok, i've heard about the battery performance of desire. I'm planning to get one anyway, but I wonder how many hrs of movies/music can I enjoy before the battery runs out.
Up (until I get some answers).
Nobody watches movies on desire? C'mon!
RockPlayer is not doing very well
On my 3 previous WinMo HTCs, I could watch several movies before the battery was depleted.
I've installed RockPlayer and after 90' of watching the same type of movie files, I lost 60% of a fully charged battery and that is way too much.
I'm going to look around for another player and see how well it does.
After 130 views, at least somebody replied. Thanks man, I really appreciate it. Is that coming from a 100% charge? It seems galaxy s is the way to go for heavy multimedia.. it's the desire however that I want in my pocket.
Max BrainBox said:
I've installed RockPlayer and after 90' of watching the same type of movie files, I lost 60% of a fully charged battery and that is way too much.
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DivX using Rockplayer is definitely not as battery efficient as H264 - I can get 4/5 hours out of H264 encoded video, with some battery to spare.
Regards,
Dave
Depends really, with the radio turned off I get maybe 4-5 hours maximum.
I watched a XviD movie on my Desire 90 minutes and was at 71% when the movei was over.
Well I have encoded some Tom and Jerry movies and a lot of the pixar stuff, but I encoded it to low mp3 quality.. But the quality is still very good. My son can watch two full dvd movies and I an still on eighty percent..... I use act to watch them. The low quality is extremely battery friendly.....
3G off, Screen Brightness maximum.. 4 hours and used up only 20%! I dont really know but I seem to be getting very good battery life compared to others! I love my Desire!
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4h of movies and still on 80%...? Hard to imagine how that could be possible... never saw a phone that would make up to 20h of movie playback...
!PANDA said:
3G off, Screen Brightness maximum.. 4 hours and used up only 20%! I dont really know but I seem to be getting very good battery life compared to others! I love my Desire!
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Woah. Well, he himself wonders why. So, on the average everyone can seem to watch at least 2 movies. Not bad.
Please include your player with your posts
Those that claim > 4 hours of playback, what player do you use?
I use RockPlayer, which I find inferior to the TCPMP player I used on my WinMo phones.
I use ACT for playback and recoded files. The files are recoded on purpose in a low quality (but still very watchable) and during playback I had only 15 to 20 % processor activity. Wich is very low. That's how I get the good numbers.
I suspect that when i play a full 750 MB MP4 my proc would eat a lot more power giving me less playback time. But since they average from 180 to 230 MB in size only, the proc does a lot less processing and thus uses up less juice.......
Well I only have 250-350 mb movies as I convert them to mkv or rmvb cos they take up less space too much music :/
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Travel a lot. So watching movies on my Desire is very more or less mandatory.
I am able to run 6-7 hours, but battery after is 10%, just enough to make some calls and be on standby before charging.
And that is now after battery calibration and applying POWERSAVING MODPACK. Maybe placebo, but before I was able to handle max 3.5-4h hours and actually had to buy a spare battery to cope with my travel requirements.
I am using RockPlayer, auto brightness. Playing video without any conversion, just download from torrents unzip and play on phone and only SD videos, no HD (I do believe RockPlayer is not able to handle it).
It just occurred to me a bit ago that this could be why my 720p videos suck more then the next lesser resolution.
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I have a class 6 and havent seen an improvement over class 2, the video records at a slower speed than your card can handle so it shouldn't matter,
I can backup roms quicker though
thank you for the reply.
so the crappy 720p video was a marketing scam or what?
i love this phone, and i thought the video shot very good till i noticed that it wasnt set to 720p, so i bumped it up thinking it would look even better....lol it looks worse.
Umm lets see:
1280*720 = 921'600 pixels
Assume that the camera records @ 8 bpp (24 bit color) * 24 fps = 921'600 * 24 * 24 = 530'841'600 bps... that is 531 Mbps or 63.28 MB/s.
So theoretically, yes a higher speed media would yield a better quality (note that the calculations above do not take in consideration the CPU and the compression, also notice that the sound is not included). Even at the crappy 12 fps, the required sustained speed is still higher than any microsd card out there.
Calculations taken as reference from here
agreed i have a class 6 micro sd n the video quality still sucks
fenixjn said:
Umm lets see:
1280*720 = 921'600 pixels
Assume that the camera records @ 8 bpp (24 bit color) * 24 fps = 921'600 * 24 * 24 = 530'841'600 bps... that is 531 Mbps or 63.28 MB/s.
So theoretically, yes a higher speed media would yield a better quality (note that the calculations above do not take in consideration the CPU and the compression, also notice that the sound is not included). Even at the crappy 12 fps, the required sustained speed is still higher than any microsd card out there.
Calculations taken as reference from here
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I think the various codecs and compression make these numbers much less significant, but since I don't know the exact numbers I'm would have to speculate on how much the sd card speed matters.
I have heard that for some cameras the sd card speed can affect video capture.
Probably the way the phone handles the compression is the major cause of choppiness for our phones though.
they compress the video so the crappy class 2 cards the phones come with can keep up, someone would have to change the codec so it doesn't compress it as much.
So I just converted my first blu-ray to play on the tablet and it looks a little pixelated. Did I use the wrong settings or is it the program I'm using for conversation?
the outputted .mp4 has the following settings:
Video
Frame Width - 1920
Frame Height - 1072
Data Rate - 2496kbps
total bitrate - 2624kbps
frame rate - 24 fps
Audio
bitrate - 127kbps
channels 2
audio sample - 48hhz
I set the program to export for Android Tablets 1080P. They don't currently have the Samsung 2014 as a listed model yet, I did see the Nexus 10 which has the same resolution but oddly enough it wanted to do 1280 x 720 res.
Why convert?
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Why convert?
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space limit?...
he/she is not providing enough information about encoding settings... no program name, etc...
2624kbps for 1080p file?...
bump up your bitrate. 2500 is kinda low. 3000 is acceptable imo if you're concerned with space. I only use 2500 for videos for my daughter. 4 to 5K should give you a 3-5GB file depending on movie length and how well it can compress.
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bump up your bitrate. 2500 is kinda low. 3000 is acceptable imo if you're concerned with space. I only use 2500 for videos for my daughter. 4 to 5K should give you a 3-5GB file depending on movie length and how well it can compress.
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To Answer your question I'm using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Looks like its defaulting the bitrate to 2500 (for the target) I'll try raising it and see how that works. Thanks.
howie411 said:
To Answer your question I'm using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Looks like its defaulting the bitrate to 2500 (for the target) I'll try raising it and see how that works. Thanks.
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try handbrake/vidcoder... :victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:
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try handbrake/vidcoder... :victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:
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Yea what he said ^^^
If your going to use low bitrates then your better off using a resolution of 1280 instead of 1920, generally for good quality archiving any bitrate below 4000 for 1280p is considered low, for 1080p anything below 8000 is considered low, although there are other variables at play which can mean you use less or have to use more.
Obviously I'm not talking about viewing on a tablet when using the above but I thought it would help just to give you a general idea, with tablets having a smaller screen size its going to allow you to get away with a lower bitrate.
Your going to find it easier to get a bitrate close to 4000 when using a resolution of 1280 while maintaining a file size your happy with.
Unless you have a 50" tablet 1080p is overkill :laugh:
I would also recommend handbrake along with a little bit of reading of basic encoding.
I know that devices that can record UHD and up will limit the record length to 5 minutes. The main reason that im reading is because of heat. My sisters S5 did get hot after a few minutea of UHD recording but my note 4 doeant get nearly as hot. In fact i cant tell the difference between full HD and UHD when it comes to heat.
I was reading the other thread that it is not a good idea to remove the limit. Well back then we were talking about Snapdragon 800 and 801. Wouldnt the 805 be able to do the same task with less heat?
I actually do have a Cinema 4K T.V and want to record longer bits of video such as my kids sports and other school activities. What do you guys think... good idea or bad idea?
I assume rooting is required to remove that limit.
Hi I wanna get something out of this waste of money so far it's really not too good.
Only 5MP camera and as soon as you start using it sometimes I'll lose 10-20% in 5-10 minutes of use on battery.
Is it capable of more than 5MP?
Can anyone point out a customizable kernel with very effective DEEP SLEEP?
It appears to never go to sleep so when the screen is off the battery drains very quickly. Battery usage says idle 0% and it spends most of the time screen off. So the factory kernel is just a huge pile of crap. My HTC ONE has been on for 15 days NOW!!! Use it doing the same tasks with it's equal 2GB Ram, Quad-Core it loses 5% in 25minutes of use. It also is only down to 5% now at 15 days and counting...
I'd like to listen to FLAC audio on my SAMSUNG 64GB MicroSD Card yet it won't put up with it at all... LG's like no no you people don't need more than 320kbps... I have more FLAC than MP3 for a reason.
So I'd like to load some music and videos on there like .mp4 1080p videos/ movies & a bunch of FLAC AUDIO. I mean that's why I bought the 64GB MicroSD Card...
Any advice or do I need to just buy a SAMSUNG?
THANKS