Droid-Optimized Movie Trailers

[dvdcatalyst]

The Expendables

Stallone, Lundgren, Schwarzenegger, Li, Stratham and Willis, need I say more?

The Expendables trailer

Almost out

I'm not sure how the oldies can keep up with the newer ones though. I hope it's not like Indy 4 where it shows the years. Willis proved with Die Hard 4 age didn't affect him that much, but Stallone in Rambo 4 wasn't really convincing.

 

[dvdcatalyst]

Some new Trailers again

Downloaded using Apple iTunes, HD 720 versions. Converted with DVD Catalyst 3 using the Droid HQ2 profile.

Full-screen 854x480, 1500Kbps H264 video, 160Kbps AAC audio.



A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop.

Wang is a miserable yet cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end... or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence...

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/WomanGunNoodleShop.zip

Black Swan

BLACK SWAN follows the story of Nina (Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/BlackSwan.zip

Due Date

Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan—on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter’s last nerve.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/DueDate.zip

Freakonomics

Alex Gibney (Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money) delivers a visually arresting look at the crumbling facade of Sumo wrestling and exposes searing and violent truths about this ancient and revered sport. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) offers up a buoyant and revealing angle on the repercussions of baby names. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) balance levity and candor with their eye-opening profile of underachieving kids incentivized to learn with cold hard cash. Finally, Eugene Jarecki, who brought us the unforgettably powerful Why We Fight, investigates an unsettling theory to explain why crime rates dramatically dropped in the early 90s. Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) weaves the pieces together with brisk interludes, providing context and commentary from the authors. Freakonomics exposes the hidden side of everything, debunking conventional wisdom, and revealing what answers may come if one just asks the right questions.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/Freakonomics.zip

Let Me In

Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbor. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/LetMeIn.zip

Love and Other Drugs

Hathaway portrays Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won’t let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie’s evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/LoveAndOtherDrugs.zip

Monsters

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures... Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his boss’ daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/Monsters.zip

Nice Guy Johnny

Sure, she can be a little overbearing sometimes, but baby-faced Johnny Rizzo loves his fiancee Claire, and he made her a promise: by the time he's 25-years-old, he'll trade his current dream job as a local sports talk radio host (even if it is the 2 a.m. slot) for something that'll pay bigger bucks. And Johnny's nothing, if not a man of his word. Now he's flying to New York to interview for some snoozeville job that Claire's well-to-do father set up. Enter Uncle Terry, who lives in New York, a rascally womanizer bent on turning a day in the Hamptons into a final fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny's not interested, of course, but then he meets the lovely Brooke...

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/niceguyjohnny.zip

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob—omb, the 22—year—old has just met the girl of his dreams...literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. Genre—smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker’s quest to power up with love in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass—and now is back in town—to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past—from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/ScottPilgrim.zip

The Switch

JENNIFER ANISTON stars alongside JASON BATEMAN in this offbeat comedy as Kassie, a smart, fun—loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s (BATEMAN) objections, decides it’s time to have a baby—even if it means doing it by herself... with a little help from a charming sperm donor (PATRICK WILSON). But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last—minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute—though slightly neurotic—son. From the people behind “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Juno” comes “The Switch," due in theaters this summer.

http://www.tools4movies.com/Droid/TheSwitch.zip

Download the trailer you want using the link.

1. Right-click on the file and select Extract. (mac users, doubleclick on the file) to extract the MP4 file from the ZIP.
2. Check to make sure your MicroSD card is inserted and your phone is on.
3. Insert your data cable into your phone's data port and insert the other end into an available USB port on your computer.
4. Now drag down the notification bar on your phone and select "USB Connected."
5. Touch the "Mount" button/icon on your Droid's screen.
6. If you are using a Window's PC, click the "Start" menu and select "Computer" or "My Computer." If you are using an Apple Computer, skip to step 8.
7. Click on the icon labeled "Removable Device" that corresponds to your microSD card on your phone.
8. You can now drag and drop any MP4 file you want into the "Removable Device" folder and it will transfer to your Droid (Droid X, Droid 2).
9. If you are using an Apple Computer, your Droid phone will show up on the desktop as a new drive.
10. Drag any video file you want into the "new drive" icon on your desktop to transfer files to your Motorola Droid.

The files will appear in the Gallery app. If you would like to see the movie name (Gallery just shows thumbnails, no titles/names) use a video player such as Act1 instead.

 

[phantommax]

Ddvdcatalyst, I do have a couple of questions. The Vids I download from your links look great! Problem is the frame rate and audio? They are terrible. No sound and the movement is wrong.

How do I fix that? Again, the picture quality is great but no audio and the frame rate is not good for my phone. I'm not good with custom settings when converting video.

 

[dvdcatalyst]

Ddvdcatalyst, I do have a couple of questions. The Vids I download from your links look great! Problem is the frame rate and audio? They are terrible. No sound and the movement is wrong.

How do I fix that? Again, the picture quality is great but no audio and the frame rate is not good for my phone. I'm not good with custom settings when converting video.

Using the streaming links over 3g might be a bit much. Try those on wifi, or download the zipped ones, extract and copy the mp3 files then directly to your Droid.

If you still don't have audio then, a battery pull will usually do the trick.

The files themselves work fine, but due to the high quality, they require a good internet speed for streaming.

 

[dvdcatalyst]

Quality comparison between standard/hq/hq2/streaming profiles

For many popular devices, DVD Catalyst 4 offers a variety of profiles, such as Standard and HQ, and for some even Fast and HQ2, and selecting one that fits your needs can be a little confusing. This article is intended to clear some things up and also contains (streaming) links to a trailer converted using the settings for the profile.


* Standard profile. These are settings we (would) use ourselves for our own conversions. For the different devices, the default settings using the standard profile (nothing behind the device name) are capable of producing good looking video at a reasonable file-size. For our own mobile video experience, we prefer to have a fairly large collection of movies and episodes available, which enables us to choose something to watch based on our mood or interest at the time.By watching a movie or TV show on a portable device, you are already aware of the fact that you could also watch the movie at home on your (HD)TV, so by watching it on the go, you already made a compromise. With that in mind, having a perfect replica (while possible) is not really a top priority.

For the Droid 1/Droid 2/Droid X Standard profiles, DVD Catalyst 4 converts your movies to 800Kbps H264 video format at a resolution of 848×480. Audio is encoded at 128 Kbps Stereo


streaming sample

(note, watching this trailer over 3G will work, but due to the quality settings used, you might experience buffering every few seconds. We recommend connecting to WiFi for optimal results)


As you can tell from the sample clip, the quality is actually quite good. We often hear from people that files created with DVD Catalyst, even when similar settings are used, are created with a better quality and convert faster than when converting the same video using different software products.

* HQ/HQ1 profile. The settings used in the HQ profiles are intended to produce great looking video files, but while you gain a slightly better quality, the conversions are a bit slower and the resulting filesize is a bit bigger. For most movies, the standard profile has our own personal preference, however, for “faster” movies, such as ones that contain car chases and/or explosions, the HQ profile will result in a better quality during these scenes.

For the Droid 1/Droid 2/Droid X HQ1 profiles, DVD Catalyst 4 converts your movies to 1000Kbps H264_HQ video format at a resolution of 848×480. Audio is encoded at 160 Kbps Stereo


streaming sample

(note, watching this trailer over 3G will work, but due to the quality settings used, you will likely experience buffering every few seconds. We recommend connecting to WiFi for optimal results)

* HQ2 profile. The settings used in the HQ2 profile are near the maximum capabilities of the selected device in terms of video playback. They produce video files that are basically identical to the original video source, and are perfect to be used for playback on TV using either a HD Media Player device or an HDMI cable (if the option is available). Quality isn’t that much different from the HQ profile, but if you look close enough, you can see the difference.

For the Droid 1/Droid 2/Droid X HQ1 profiles, DVD Catalyst 4 converts your movies to 1500Kbps H264_HQ video format at a resolution of 848×480. Audio is encoded at 160 Kbps Stereo


streaming sample

(note, watching this trailer over 3G will work, but due to the quality settings used, you will experience buffering every few seconds. We recommend connecting to WiFi for optimal results)

Streaming:
The previous video samples were created using quality settings not really intended for streaming. While possible, you will need a good reception to be able to play them without buffering. With the release of our free MP4 Streaming Server application, we added some streaming profiles for a variety of different devices.


Because streaming over the internet greatly depends on the upload speed of your internet connection for the computer that provides access to the files, as well as the download speed, the settings for these profiles are based on certain commonly used internet speeds. The quality indication, Kbps, used for video files directly translates into your internet connection. For streaming files created using the standard Droid profile, you will need 800Kbps (for video) + 128Kbps (for audio) totaling 928Kbps, or almost 1Mbit. The HQ2 profile, 1500Kbps + 160Kbps totals to over 1.5Mbit required as UPLOAD to be able to stream properly.


Unless you are among the lucky few to have an internet connection capable of handling such a datarate, some compromises have to be made. The most obvious settings to modify are the quality settings. By lowering the video and audio quality, the total bitrate required lowers as well, resulting in a better playback experience. However, by lowering the quality setting of the video, the actual quality of the video will suffer as well. To overcome this, you can adjust the screen resolution of the video to match the quality setting. While the video portion will become smaller (it will be upscaled to fit your device screen during playback though) the quality of the video will go up.


sample video fully optimized for 512Kbps (custom screen resolution 456×256, same aspect ratio as the Droid screen)


sample video at original resolution encoded for 512Kbps streaming (original 848×480 Droid resolution)

*Streaming 768Kbps. As the name suggests, this setting is optimized to stream video at an upload speed (host computer) of 768Kbps. Video is encoded at 500Kbps at a resolution of 512×288, audio at 128Kbps Stereo, totaling at 628Kbps, leaving s0me room for internet inconsistencies. A 2 hour movie requires about 550MB (almost 60 hours of video on a 16GB memorycard).


Sample video

*Streaming 512Kbps. This setting is optimized to stream video at an upload speed (host computer) of 512Kbps. Video is encoded at 380Kbps at a resolution of 456×256, audio at 128Kbps Stereo, totaling at 508Kbps. A 2 hour movie requires about 450MB (almost 70 hours of video on a 16GB memorycard).


Sample video

*Streaming 256 Kbps. Optimized for streaming over a 256Kbps internet upload speed. Video is encoded at 180Kbps with a resolution of 256×144 , audio at 64Kbps mono, totaling 244Kbps. A 2 hour movie requires about 220MB (almost 150 hours of video on a 16GB memorycard).


Sample video


(note: by selecting Mono for audio, you can basically cut the audio quality in half. 128Kbps Stereo is basically 64Kbps on each side. With mono, both left and right side are merged into 1, which is then played on both sides, making the sound quality of 64Kbps mono the same as 128Kbps Stereo, but at half the size needed. During playback, the only difference is that stereo fx such as hearing a car moving from one side to the other are lost. You will just hear a car.

*Streaming 128 Kbps. Optimized for streaming over a 128Kbps internet upload speed. Video is encoded at 80Kbps with a resolution of 200×112 , audio at 32Kbps mono, totaling 112Kbps. A 2hour movie takes up about 115MB (almost 280 hours of video on a 16GB memorycard).


Sample video


(note: Yes, the quality in the last few samples is not amazing. However, keep in mind that the last one, 128Kbps requires an internet connection only double that of Dial-Up! Almost 20 years ago there was ISDN, a digital phone-internet connection that was capable of bundling 2 phone lines to enhance your internet experience. This 20 year old technology is enough to stream video. Of course most people now have either cable or DSL internet, so I doubt that anyone would use the 128Kbps Streaming Profile, but still, if you want streaming video on your phone, and do not have an unlimited dataplan, it might just be what you need.

 

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Superbowl Trailers 2011

I am currently uploading 11 of the new movie trailers that were displayed during the superbowl last night.


Index of /Big_Game_2011


the files are both in streaming MP4 as well as downloadable zip format.


Enjoy