Greetings all. Is anyone aware of a video player app that is provisioned to dim the system bar icons during play like the stock player? The stock player is pretty limited in the files it supports. None of the usual suspects (MoboPlayer, VPlayer, VitalPlayer, Meridian, etc) seem to have this yet. Watching a movie while having to be reminded of the time and other notifications is kind of a drag.
Does anyone know of a market app that has this feature enabled or are we just going to have to wait for the devs to update?
yes plz I will pay for a player that does this
There are already a couple of threads requesting exactly this. Just do a search. The condenses at the moment is to email the developer (moboplayer) requesting this feature. Obviously if enough people ask for it, they will implement it sooner
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burhanistan said:
Greetings all. Is anyone aware of a video player app that is provisioned to dim the system bar icons during play like the stock player? The stock player is pretty limited in the files it supports. None of the usual suspects (MoboPlayer, VPlayer, VitalPlayer, Meridian, etc) seem to have this yet. Watching a movie while having to be reminded of the time and other notifications is kind of a drag.
Does anyone know of a market app that has this feature enabled or are we just going to have to wait for the devs to update?
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Try MX player. After installing go to settings and there web site and download the beta. Great player and plays nearly all codecs
Only diceplayer able to dim. U have to buy it...
Dice player is the answer... It has true HW decoding as well.
dice player = the best. Worth every penny
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im having problems locating any video player that will play a movie i have on my tablet, its mp4, the thing is im running starburst uekmb rom and i know i was able to pkay this movie with the stock rom... I dont want to go back to stock just to play a simple video... But any and all video players in the market just refuse to play it just like the galery and built in video player, others are out of sync with the sound, and the ones that arent out of sync play te video in spurts, so the screen looks like its glitching out.
So is there a way to fix this, a video player that will work with my device or some sort of codec thing like in windows to make the built in player play almost anything?
Get diceplayer from the market.
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i prefer moboplayer, but it still can't play all the videos, i use a video tool introduced by Foxreal to deal with videos that can't be supported, the result is just what i expect
ok folks, I'm still a big android noob, so forgive if this is not proper android terminology, but is there a way to install more codecs for the video player?
or do I just need a seperate video player app?
some vids are playing without sound (and actually won't play at all from the dlna app, but plays w/o sound from the gallery>dlna)
and another one plays, but "seek is not supported"
three west said:
ok folks, I'm still a big android noob, so forgive if this is not proper android terminology, but is there a way to install more codecs for the video player?
or do I just need a seperate video player app?
some vids are playing without sound (and actually won't play at all from the dlna app, but plays w/o sound from the gallery>dlna)
and another one plays, but "seek is not supported"
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Built in codecs are limited by the Tegra2 (Specs: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html) However, you can install a different video player with software codecs that work pretty well with almost every format until you get to resolutions of around 720p, then you get skipping.
Download MoboPlayer. It'll automatically install the needed files for your phone. Real solid.
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nice player, better than stock, but still some videos no video but audio, other ones no audio but video...
Check out rockplayer. There's a free version in the market
I have been using mxvideo player with arm7(something) codec. If u install mxvideo player and open it will auto detect the codec u need. Has been working very nice for me I also used QQplayer which was alright.
well, mobo player seems like the nicest interface, but rock player is the only one that consistently works
thanks for the recommendations guys
New Transformer Prime owner. Just about to take it out of the box and get up to speed on this device. I'm a media nut who has tons of videos in 720P and 1080P mkv format. Was wondering whether it was worth waiting a few days for ICS to be available so the default video player could play them with HW acceleration or if I should install one of the ad-supported players like BS.Player or DICE?
I can wait the 3 days until the 12th so no big deal there. I have a lot to learn on this tablet but look forward to discovering what it is capable of.
How obstructive are the ad-supported features or DICE and BS.Player? Would prefer to not have to deal with ads.
ICS is supposed to have HW acceleration and MKV support if I'm not mistaken, but let me know your suggestions.
Thanks.
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I have 20tb of mkv content, and a set of samples representing that content shows me I can play 99% of that content in Dice Player.
If you want to play mkvs, Dice Player should be the first app gotten out of the box.
I don't know how intrusive the ads are though. I bought the ad-free version for my SGS2 months back before it was pulled.
ICS is reported to support MKV, but that's just a container. Will it have HW decoding for all codecs?
I also bought Dice player. The free version (back when it first came out) only lets you use it for 3 days. You can reinstall to keep using it but that's just annoying. The software is worth the $4-5.
One thing to note:
The default player on the Prime does seem to support mkv. The issue is that the default player is not robust enough to play the many types of encodes you find in the scene. Only Samsung's stock SGS2 player can do that in my experience of having tested over a dozen Android devices with my samples.
With Dice Player, you get a robustness to play 99% of scene content.
Yeah, I'm kinda stuck in no mans land because they pulled the full version of DICE off the market. My only option is to get the ad-supported one or BS.Player. Both have HW support and will play back 99% of the scene related mkvs out there.
Seems the board is split on DICE vs BS.Player for the Transformer Prime, so I will install both and give them a test run to see which one I like better. It's a shame that we don't have a paid version available to avoid ads at this time. Don't know why the pulled DICE player off the market.
Why not just install it? It takes less than 20 seconds
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Why not just install it? It takes less than 20 seconds
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This !
Its not like its a life choice question... as stated, itll take about 20 seconds to install them ... probs less time than it took to log on here and post this thread.
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Yeah, I'm kinda stuck in no mans land because they pulled the full version of DICE off the market. My only option is to get the ad-supported one or BS.Player. Both have HW support and will play back 99% of the scene related mkvs out there.
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True both have HW support, but Dice Player has superior container support and BY FAR superior DTS support. Since many 1080p mkv use DTS tracks, it is the best option.
Don't know why the pulled DICE player off the market.
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Currently can not purchase the full version because the checkout account is suspended.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial&hl=en
I will install both. I'm disappointed that I don't have an option to use an ad-free version of a media player with HW acceleration. The root of my question was weather ICS and the default player would solve my problem or will I require a paid app or ad-supported free app to play back my media. I'm new to Android so I'm not sure how the OS plays with installing and removing apps vs keeping a clean system as much as possible. If anyone could confirm that ICS can play hw accelerated 720p & 1080p mkv files that would be the information I'm looking for. I'm capable of testing this out for myself in 3 days time when ICS comes out, but I figured I would jump the gun to see if one of the sharp people here on the boards could answer my question.
It is hard to answer your question without ICS on a Prime, but I will try.
The only device with official ICS now is the GNex. Someone tested a GNex with my samples and said they failed with the stock player. Yet the Gnex can play all of the samples with Dice Player he said.
Extrapolating from that, I assume that you will still need Dice Player to play most scene content, especially when you add in the fact that nothing has been said that ICS will get DTS support.
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Why not just install it? It takes less than 20 seconds
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Rofl!
anyway, MX Player is boss
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en
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Rofl!
anyway, MX Player is boss
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en
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+1...Mx player plays all the files that dice player skips & stutters through on my Prime.I even bought the full version,it works so good.
tcb121 said:
Was wondering whether it was worth waiting a few days for ICS to be available so the default video player could play them with HW acceleration or if I should install one of the ad-supported players like BS.Player or DICE?
How obstructive are the ad-supported features or DICE and BS.Player? Would prefer to not have to deal with ads.
ICS is supposed to have HW acceleration and MKV support if I'm not mistaken, but let me know your suggestions.
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Don't bring your hopes high. HW video decoding acceleration is already present in Honeycomb (at least H263 H264 VC1/WMV on the TF). And yes, ICS should bring MKV (limited) support which is to finally give Webm container support. But you will not be able to play any of the movies that have DD or DTS sound with any of the built-in players (guess it's licensing issues). They need software decoding provided by third party apps like Dice and BsPlayer.
I have the full version so can't say about the "demo" ad-supperted one. But they should be very obtrusive. Why not give it a try?
Anyone from ASUS reading this? Please give us MPEG2 video hardware acceleration support. Pretty please
I have found out no matter what rom i flash and with front viewing sensors off the video stock player continues to be choppy/skippy during video streaming play. Is this phone missing some kind of software codec? for being a new phone why is this an issue. I've downloaded Dice player which sometimes 85% of the time works while MX player usually works 90% percent of the time but both players do show some struggle at times. So anyone had this issue and figured it out ?or am i the only one with this issue? i do want to mention youtube play back works perfect with no hesitation its just when running streaming on video stock player. I'm running on firmware MJ4.
What sites for example?
With the information you've provided, I'd guess that it's a network speed issue. MX player works great but it needs data to play a video. The difference between the players might be the default cache size before playback resumes. I used to swear with dice but mx plays more codecs. Just my observations... I've paid for both programs but found more success with mx, especially with the variations of codecs under the avi file name extension. I have yet, to the best of my memory, found a codec that mx couldn't play. Dice, unfortunately being my first choice, had ran across quite a few video codecs it refused to play when mx played it with no problems. Having the arm 7 neo plugin helps too with mx and the n3.
Thanks for your observation and input I am using both players at the moment any ideas why stock player is not effective in playing? for in stance it's always choppy and skippy while while other phones play streaming fine on the same wifi connection
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With the information you've provided, I'd guess that it's a network speed issue. MX player works great but it needs data to play a video. The difference between the players might be the default cache size before playback resumes. I used to swear with dice but mx plays more codecs. Just my observations... I've paid for both programs but found more success with mx, especially with the variations of codecs under the avi file name extension. I have yet, to the best of my memory, found a codec that mx couldn't play. Dice, unfortunately being my first choice, had ran across quite a few video codecs it refused to play when mx played it with no problems. Having the arm 7 neo plugin helps too with mx and the n3.
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w7excursion said:
What sites for example?
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for example sites that stream video that don't have porn....can you even post links here that refer to other sites without getting moderated. Oh and I think you were trying to be funny btw so there's your funny answer.
Was going to see if I had the same problems. Just got mine yesterday. That was all.
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Was going to see if I had the same problems. Just got mine yesterday. That was all.
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Forgive me i'm actually the one out of line but its funny how the note 2 didnt have this problem when it came to video streaming i had it was maybe a configuration setting but i've looked at all the settings on the note3 with no solution to this so i wondering other were having the same problem and why Sprint has not addressed this issue with its stock player. So much money on this expensive phone and having an issue to something simple as the video player com'mon makes me wonder what other faults maybe present with this phone.
Can anyone recommend the best Android video playback app? There are literally dozens on the play store. I find that the stock video player with the G Pad plays AVI and MP4 just fine but cannot handle MKV files. Would definitely require an app that uses hardware acceleration as well.
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I downloaded MX Player and seemed to do well.
MX Player is obviously the best player..
yeah mx player. One additional reason is that it supports so many different subtitles formats
Another benefit of mx player is follows:
If you pin a movie from Google play and it uses a lot of space, you can then use a file manager and go-to the folder and move the movie too your sd card. Out will have a funny name with a gem extension, but mx player can then be configured to look for that extension and still play it, saving valuable space on our internalso storage.
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I use MX Player too. Does everything I want. Plenty of settings to display the elapsed/remaining time, etc. I haven't found any format that doesn't work with it.
Last week, i wanted to open some old videos from my old camera. It was formated as quick time, default player nothing, with mx, all videos played just fine.
One more vote for MX player. I use VLC at home, and have dabbled with Mobi, QQ and others on Android, but MX is the most solid overall player around. I watch a lot of stuff with subtitles and this rocks for it. If only the native player were nearly as good!
Mark
MX is the best for me
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MX is the best for me
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mx is pretty good and I paired it with Mizuu to organized my movies. Archos is also a good up and coming player.
I wanted to say that MX player is the best one. But I don't think that will be necessary.
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My vote is for MX player. I have the premium version and it works great on my phone, Gpad, and my son's Nexus 7.
MX is good. I also like Diceplayer lots.
+1 for MX player
MX player is really good to use. Very easy to use gestures for increasing volume, brightness, forward/rewind among other things.
+1 for MX Player.
I'm also experimenting with the MediaMonkey Beta, which plays OKand handles libraries as well too.
Well MX player is no doubt the best player, some other options could be moboplayer, vp player, rock player. Check with all and choose the one that will be more compatible with your device.
Just popping back to this thread to report that I've been playing with the stock video player on this thing and it's actually not bad at all. It supports added subtitle files (haven't tried embedded ones just yet) and the brightness and volume controls are basically the same as MX Player. The scan function is also pretty cool, showing a little preview of the point you're scrolling to before you tap on it to go to that point. Works with all formats I've tried so far, and I've also started to appreciate having the player going in the background (and transparent) while I'm twittering away about stuff.
Anyone else play with and like the stock player? Any shortcomings you can think of?
Mark
I was an MX fan (and still am) but Dice player has a nice variable playback speed function. It makes watching some programmes a bit easier, and certainly quicker!
Both seem to farm out the decoding to hardware and that saves battery.
Diceplayer for the samba-ftp no frills browser. I have been streaming from my ubuntu file server without a problem.
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Impromark said:
Just popping back to this thread to report that I've been playing with the stock video player on this thing and it's actually not bad at all. It supports added subtitle files (haven't tried embedded ones just yet) and the brightness and volume controls are basically the same as MX Player. The scan function is also pretty cool, showing a little preview of the point you're scrolling to before you tap on it to go to that point. Works with all formats I've tried so far, and I've also started to appreciate having the player going in the background (and transparent) while I'm twittering away about stuff.
Anyone else play with and like the stock player? Any shortcomings you can think of?
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I agree, the LG video player - and its Streaming Player facility - is an excellent piece of software; probably the most capable video player to come bundled with a tablet.
That said, MX player handles streamed video better, with virtually no buffering. The LG player tends to buffer quite a bit - and I'm wondering if there's a setting somewhere to increase its cache..