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W900i - Very High Quality music video download |
turboslipper
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
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Mysh, you are a star. That help guide was exactly what I needed...
Just wasted an enjoyable afternoon playing around and got a whole phone/card full of videos.
Might as well stick some of them on tinternet so have loaded a few up
http://www.pointless-engineering.co.uk/mpegs/mp4/dimmu1.mp4
http://www.pointless-engineering.co.uk/mpegs/mp4/doughnutfull.mp4
http://www.pointless-engineering.co.uk/mpegs/mp4/ghostrider.mp4
http://www.pointless-engineering.co.uk/mpegs/mp4/nightwish.mp4
First is a conversion of a reasonably high quality mpeg. Band Dimmu Borgir (death metal) are somewhat dubious but it was a good quality clip. Second clip is taken straight off a DV camcorder and was when the tyres needed replacing on my skyline so I destroyed what was left of them doughnutting it. Third is a clip taken from a high quality DVD rip, some loon on a motorbike annoying people. 4th is another high quality mpeg conversion. Band is nightwish who are cheesy as you like but lead singer is fit as so I don't care...
Anyway, thanks again to Mysh for the help
regards
Ben |
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turboslipper
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
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Oops, I've just tried that ghostrider clip on my phone and realised that the sound is out of sync with the picture...this is due to ulead videostudio which seems to do this when you take bits out of the middle of a huge file.
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Ben |
tom.k
Joined: Dec 28, 2004
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After playing around with the videos a bit more, I noticed one annoying thing - on color transitions like light to shadow, skin tone on face etc., there are color rings visible instead of a smooth gradient. It's not present on PC, playing the same file, so I guess it's the difference between W900s 262k colors and PCs 16M colors.....
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mv agusta
Joined: Jun 21, 2004
Posts: 62
From: Indonesia
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Hai everyone, i just got my w9 yesterday. My w9 is a bit slow when i trying to acces menu and other stuff, so with the video pla
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numb
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
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On 2006-01-09 08:20:30, tom.k wrote:
After playing around with the videos a bit more, I noticed one annoying thing - on color transitions like light to shadow, skin tone on face etc., there are color rings visible instead of a smooth gradient. It's not present on PC, playing the same file, so I guess it's the difference between W900s 262k colors and PCs 16M colors.....
Maybe it's possible to decrease video colors count somehow?
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Its not due to the amount of colors, but due to different gamma value, W900 like K750/W800 suffer from a different gamma value approx 1.4 from normal pc monitors gamma. This means its "brighter" than normal pc monitors, which washes out colors and contrast, both on pictures, themes and videos compared to viewed on pc monitor. This also increase viewable artefakts in videos.
K700 for instance which only had a 65k colors screen did not have this problem. The gammavalue was very close to a pc monitor, thus themes, pictures, videos etc. looked the same on the phone as on the pc monitor.
This is very annoying for those creating content (themes, videos etc.) for the new generation of phones, and something we have complained about since the release of K750. When creating themes I need to work with a colorprofile that takes the difference of gamma value into account.
You can do something similar when creating videos by applying a videofilter that changes gammavalue, or brightness/contrast - if your way of encoding has an option of using filters. If you follow mysh's guide using Virtual Dub, there are plenty of filters that can be applied to help out.
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tom.k
Joined: Dec 28, 2004
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I don't think this is the case here. First, I tried making a darker MP4 video...and it was darker  , but the rings were still visible, video as whole pretty unwatchable.
Second, try this picture:
http://web.iol.cz/Swifty/img/test.jpg
On W900i, if you zoom just above the gap between the two trees above sun, you'll see the rings. On PC it's almost perfectly smooth. |
numb
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
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#tom.k
I agree, colortransitions as you describe it this way, is dependent on number of viewable colors, but the difference between a "small" 262k w900 screen and your pc monitor running 32bit color shouldent be that noticeable. Especially not in videos where theres motion in the picture. The difference is there, but Im surprised you notice it.
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tom.k
Joined: Dec 28, 2004
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I noticed it on the Mockingbird music video, where there is a beam of white light coming out of projector in dark room. That's quite visible there.
But I'm not really complaining, I always have to find something, no matter how good the thing is. I found one dead subpixel on my old S700, I have the color rings now
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IainsTheName
Joined: Mar 15, 2004
Posts: 71
From: Newcastle, UK
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Tagged for later, Cheers for the guide mate 
Any male can have a child, but it takes a real man to be a father. Name's Iain  Our Lady Peace > You  P900 is sweet |
turboslipper
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
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Hey, I'm not going to get too beaten up about the quality. It is a mobile phone at the end of the day. I didn't realise that a PSP can only handle 320x240 when using the memory stick (Sony blocked higher so it doesn't harm sales of its 640x480 UMD films it sells). Ok, bit rate is higher I think but for this phone I'm pretty pleased with what it can do. Another year, and we'll all be using something better but for the mo...I'm pretty chuffed
Ok, so I still want an Archos RV500 as well but thats gadgets for you.... |
tom.k
Joined: Dec 28, 2004
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Yeah, PSP is a good example of a device I'd get if I wanted to watch movies in high quality.....anything bigger and I could take a notebook instead and have it with all bells and whistles. You're right that this is indeed just a "regular" mobile phone that's not made for watching movies, it just can play them in above average quality.
Plus it really depends on the kind of the movie, obviously movies with dark scenes are in disadvantage. |
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