Hi all,

    The lack of support for AVI packaged files on the Milestone (and a ton of other phones - iPhone included) is pretty annoying, right?

    I spotted someone talking about watching Xvid and DivX movies without fully transcoding them, and I tried it, and it works perfectly.

    Avidemux is an open-source video transcoding and repackaging software. With it, you can take a Xvid/DivX (they use an Mpeg4 standard) encoded avi, change the sound from mp3 to aac (because you can't have mp3 audio in an mp4 container, and resave it in an mpeg4 container (m4v). That whole process on my computer (MacBook Air - not the most powerful system on the market) takes about 3 minutes for a 700MB .avi, leaving me with a 700MB .m4v that plays flawlessly with any of the opencore players for the 'stone, including the stock player or Act1.

    Just download and install the package (you can find binaries pre-compiled for most linux, Windows or Mac, all for free), then open your .avi file. If the file is recorded with vbr (variable bit rate) sound, it will ask if you want to map the sound, and this takes 30-60 seconds. Then you leave the video encoding setting alone (set to "Copy"), change the sound from "Copy" to aac, set a filter to put the sound in "Stereo" if it was recorded in 5.1, set the "Format" to MP4, then just save the file in an mpeg container as a .m4v. A couple of minutes later, you have a file that plays. I did this with 10 different films and tv shows this morning and all of them play flawlessly. This is MUCH more convenient than transcoding for an hour or two per video with Handbrake.

    Here's a short post I checked out explaining the process:

  http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/a...ing_app/c0i48bw

    Google avidemux to find downoadable binaries, or you can find it for linux in your distro's repositories.

    Have fun - happy video-watching.

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