[pete.herbst]

So I just got my new playbook and have a movie that I downloaded. It is 3.72 GB MPEG-4 H246 blueray rip. When I try to put it on my playbook it plays maybe 2 seconds of the video then stops. I can move around in the video but then when I try to play it, it plays a couple seconds then stops. Any suggestions? Maybe wrong frame rate? Maybe need to send it through a video converter?

[blackjack93117]

Someone should be along to help shortly-just want to say congratulations and welcome to Crackberry! Enjoy the playbook - did you get the 16g or 32g? all I can think is lack of memory space or like you say perhaps strange resolution or format.

[SumthinNew]

Xilisoft video converter works wonders

[pete.herbst]

thanks for the welcome. i have the 16gb and it says theres about half memory left with it on there. which xilisoft converter did you use?

[Superfly_FR]

Well I haven't tested yet, but for my father, I've converted a few family vids using AVS4U.
I remember its ease of use and the big set of parameters that permits quite any type of resolutions and codecs ... I'll give it a try and let you know, unless someone has done this before ?

[timmsy]

playbooks are for some reason a bit strange with codecs

h264 video codec is favourably played through MKV, playbook plays h264 but not MKV

it will play XVID or AVI and the HD codec for the audio on this is AC3 which the playbook will not play.

so its like you need to get an ipad encode of an XVID AVI on a AA3 or AAC audio codec

all good torrent sites will do this.

if not you need a MKV to AVI video converter (search there are millions) or an AC3 to MP3 or AAC audio converter

[jsfalk]

Try DVD Catalyst to convert the MKV. DVD Catalyst 4 | DVD and MKV to Xoom, Playbook, Galaxy Tab, Iconica, iPad2, NOOK, Transformer, Thrive and more. works great for me...

[kingbernie06511]

I use VLC, the wonder video player. It has an stream/export function and the mpg output file works with PB. you can even tell it the size of your export file you want.

[jeffs99]

Read this:

BB Playbook Video Formats

And then use this:
Open Source Video Converter


I use it all the time, works great!

[bluetroll]

i use xenon mkv

it's easy enough to use. converts files to mp4 format.

[jvictor77]

I use Handbrake - no problems!

[III 4U2NV III]

The PB plays mp4 files w/np either. I use both AVS4U (cost) and Handbreak (free) to convert vid files.

[blackjack93117]

Movies to Playbook - Download/Put/Play Movies on Blackberry Playbook.

[Wolfgan]

Read this:

BB Playbook Video Formats

And then use this:
Open Source Video Converter

If the video/audio streams are PB compatible (ie flv or mkv with h264/aac) I try not to reencode them to avoid loosing quality, just simply remux to a compatible container (.mp4), in my case with AviDemux cause I have it installed already.
Wolf

[MJ151]

+1 for the DVD Catalyst, works well for me.

[primusd]

If the video/audio streams are PB compatible (ie flv [...]

Just to clarify, PB native player doesn't support FLV, but the app MovieFLVPlayer does (reasonably decently; like the last upgrade)