The last couple of weeks, I have been getting numerous reports on non-playable video files on a variety of different Android phones and tablets. In all cases, the video file played fine on the computer, and when copied to internal memory on the device itself, the files played fine as well, but when copied to [...]
A few people have reported some issues with stuttering video and audio sync issues when created video files are played on their computer as well as on their device. A setting, added to DVD Catalyst 4.0.2.7, is unfortunately the cause for this. If you are experiencing these issues, please perform the following steps:
This guide will provide you with all the info you need in order to experience the best movie and TV show watching experience with the Toshiba Thrive 10.1 Honeycomb Tablet . Here’s how to do it:
This guide will provide you with all the info you need in order to experience the best movie and TV show watching experience with your shiny new Asus Transformer Honeycomb Tablet . Here’s how to do it:
This guide has been updated. For the new, more detailed guide for the Galaxy Tab, please visit this link: http://www.tools4movies.com/2012/03/ultimate-samsung-galaxy-tab-video-how-to-guide/ This guide will provide you with all the info you need in order to experience the best movie and TV show watching experience with your shiny new Galaxy Tab 10.1 Honeycomb Tablet . Here’s [...]
Many people believe that “easy” conversion tools are too simple or limited. While in most cases this is true, the thing is, DVD Catalyst 4 is different. The idea behind DVD Catalyst 4 is “automation”. Over the last 7 years, the concept of video conversion software has not changed a bit. They all still use a step by step interface, and while some new things have been added, the concept is still the same. DVD Catalyst 4 is the only conversion tool that includes innovative technologies and creative thinking on how to make it as easy as possible. Rather than forcing users to manually configure each aspect of the conversion manually, DVD Catalyst 4 remembers the changes you make, and will use them for all the conversions you use it with. After install, many of the most commonly used settings, such as black-bar removal, volume adjustment are already set, so all that is left for you to make use of it is to simply start a conversion. For the more demanding user, Power User mode and Global Settings provide access to 100′s of features and options that let you control every aspect of the conversion, many not found in any other application. Automatic language/subtitle selection, volume maximizer, brightness/contrast/hue/saturation. On top of that, DVD Catalyst 4 is the only conversion tool that doesn’t care if you want to convert 1 movie or 100. No need to set up each individual conversion, just drag a folder of video files onto the program, and start a conversion. All the basic settings such as video/audio quality, screensize and video format are set, but also the more advanced features you might have enabled.
Not really advertised, DVD Catalyst actually works with TiVo files.
Not yet available, but getting this to work got me excited, so I figured I’d post something about it on my website. Because the new conversion engine in the beta seems to be a bit finicky with embedded subtitle fonts in MKV video files, I figured it would be cool to implement something to let [...]
Because most of the specs of the eeePad Transformer are identical to that of the Xoom, the Xoom profiles, (as well as all documentation regarding the Xoom found on this website) will apply to the Transformer as well.
Last week, I converted How To Train Your Dragon using the Xoom HQ2 1080 profile from Bluray (DVD Catalyst 4.0.3 Beta + AnyDVD HD), which played fine on the Motorola Xoom. Just for kicks, since the Playbook is advertised to be able to handle 1080 video, I loaded it up to see how it worked. [...]
My Blackberry Playbook (16GB model) just arrived ! From the brief time I have played with it (UPS was late) I’ve managed to play a 20Mbps 1080 video clip I created earlier today to test on the Xoom, on it without any issues. Of course 20Mbps is overkill, but it does show off the capabilities [...]
Update: This no longer seems to work in the 3.1 update. Why Google, why? A couple of days ago, I wrote a quick how-to for the Xoomfaq. While I mentioned a few things on how to do it before, it was a bit unpredictable in how Gallery actually shows the images, but after playing [...]
Full Screen Movies. This is the most often asked question I receive. With all the different video playback devices on the market, Blackberry, Droid, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Xoom, Zune etc, there is a large variety in screen aspect ratios, which affect the way movies and TV shows are displayed on-screen. Even if you use a [...]
To show-off the capabilities of the Xoom, I converted a couple of movie trailers using DVD Catalyst 4′s Xoom HQ1 profile. The original source of the trailers are 1080 versions downloaded from the Apple Trailer website, resized and cropped to match the entire video-playback area of the Xoom, resulting in true full-screen playback (minus the [...]
With the Xoom update released, here’s what is next on our todo-list at this point:
After playing with the XOOM a bit, I noticed that the bottom menu bar stays active all the time. With the Xoom’s 1280×800 screen resolution, you would expect that to get full-screen video on your Xoom, you would need to create videos with that resolution, but unfortunately, if you do that, because of the active [...]
While Apple’s iTunes Store provides quick and easy access to new movies and TV shows, unfortunately, they have not created an easy way of transfering your own DVDs and video files onto it. With an extensive collection of DVDs, why would you purchase the same movies again, just to put them on your iPad2? This [...]
Just released, and already people are flooding forums and websites about the troubles they are experiencing with video playback on the XOOM, but not so if you use DVD Catalyst 4 to create your Xoom-optimized videos. This guide will provide you with all the info you need in order to experience the best movie and [...]
