How To: Convert and Play videos on your Instinct for free. Tv shows, Movies, etc

when your downloading torrents what format do you get.  I downloaded hancock in avi but for some reason it wouldnt let me play it i converted it to mp4 and it said i needed a codec to play it...  i was just wonder what i should be looking for

This is the wrong place to ask video questions. Your better off searching the DOOM9 forum. Your not going to get good video info here.

I would consider myself a video guy. I've been converting videos for a number of different platforms for years now. And I have to say the video on the Instinct... SUCKS for a lack of a better word. They say it can play AVC H.264 video and it can, but only at 320x240 - Baseline Level 0 profile. It can play MPEG-4 ASP video like the PSP at 432x240 up to Advanced Simple Level 5, but I have yet to encode a high quality video that plays smooth. The Instinct doesnt play MP3 audio from a video file and AAC audio from Video files on Instinct causes choppy playback during panning scenes.

The best results you'll get will come from VirtualDUB Mod. Most people here use cheap tools. VirtualDUB is what all of the video and illegal movies you download online are made with. It's the best tool out there but it will take some time to learn all of the different settings and aspects of video encoding. You'll have to encode to an AVI without audio and use a mux tool like MP4Box to combine them into an MP4 container.

If you dont want to learn VirtualDUB, use MediaCoder. It's not as good as VirtualDUB, but it's the best all in one tool and it does let you set MOST of what you need to.

What Sprint needs to do is unlock the video of the device. From my testing the device can play back high quality video at high bitrates, but the lack of scaling, lack of audio playback from video files and lack of full screen H.264 video really kills it. I hope in this update (whenever they decide to release it) opens up the video player a little more. At the very least scaling options should be added.

And if people reading this THINK that any of the tools I've seen mentioned come close to the quality you  can get from VirtualDUB... your sadly mistaken.

BTW - You can set resolution with the tools you mentioned, you just have to go into the advanced options or add a simple command line to the encoder output.

- John

When I open up the Videora it says to select the iPod model I'm using it for, but what do I choose because I'm using the Instinct instead...

Select Iphone, not Ipod; I think the audio/video formatting is dependent on this setting.  Make sure you select Mped-4 file format also.

Yes. download the latest realplayer! http://www.real.com/
after you download and install that.. all you have to do is right-click the video>choose download to realplayer. the movie will download as a .swf then use videora to convert it. ITs that simple. Ive got Batman: The Dark Knight on my instinct thanks to this AWESOME program..

Hope this helps

I downloaded the Win AVI converter off torrent sites and it lets you adjust it to 432 x 240 and the video's come out real good on the Instinct

i dont think there is a way to actually dial in a screen resolution.. it just automatically thinks you have an ipod screen.. But keep checking videora for updates as im sure they'll have a new converter just for our phones..
I use the xbox 360 converter.. and it is AWESOME quality on the instinct because its made for a bigger screen but downsizes it automatically..