Hi,
on my galaxy tab 10.1v I can not play videos ( mp4,mkv or divx..) corectly. I mean it plays but it freezes for a second and then play on and freezes again... I tried many video players; even mobo player, but it's the same with all. But mp3 plays ok. Tab runs on Honeycomb 3.0.1
maybe with update on 3.1 will be better? Please any suggestions?
Thanks!
mister009 said:
Hi,
on my galaxy tab 10.1v I can not play videos ( mp4,mkv or divx..) corectly. I mean it plays but it freezes for a second and then play on and freezes again... I tried many video players; even mobo player, but it's the same with all. But mp3 plays ok. Tab runs on Honeycomb 3.0.1
maybe with update on 3.1 will be better? Please any suggestions?
Thanks!
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What H.264 variant is used in the MP4s? Our devices have issues with high and main profiles. Baseline profile H.264 is solid.
Is variable, but on samsung galaxy s and galaxy s 2 player which is included plays perfectly all formats even full hd ( mkv - music videos ). So why is on galaxy tab dificult to play videos smootly?
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Is variable, but on samsung galaxy s and galaxy s 2 player which is included plays perfectly all formats even full hd ( mkv - music videos ). So why is on galaxy tab dificult to play videos smootly?
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Simple. Samsung's GPU that is paired with Hummingbird processors is optimized for media and supports a lot of H.264 features not supported by any other mobile GPU. Nvidia's Tegra GPU is optimized for 3D and not as much for media.
Ok, I solve problem now with Handbrake. Full hd videos ( 1920x1080) convert to 1280x790 without losing quality and now plays just fine.
Yea, Tegra sucks at media play back, course IMO Nvidia sucks in general with there Shady business practices.
But Baseline with 2 Channel AAC Audio is the way to go, won't have any video play back problems that way.
Related
Trial at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial&feature=search_result
Try it out!
Edit: Diceplayer and ES filemanager is a nice combo, plays mkv via wifi very nicely
Limitations
1. S5PC11x Chipset can play 720p(h.264 high profile)
2. Tegra 2 based phone can not play H.264 high profile clip.
3. Froyo Galaxy S/Tab can not play movie. Gingerbread is required.
4. 2nd gen. Snapdragon can not play H.264 High profile level 4.0/5.0 clip.
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Are we sure it will work? Testing now.
bullzeye.za said:
Are we sure it will work? Testing now.
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Impressed! Works perfectly
Thanks for the link, buying it!
Does it play x264 high profile encoded 720p and 1080p mkv files?
Works perfect so far! Even plays across smb!
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Can someone check the playback of the following video clips, using Diceplayer? These clips are taken from this thread here. This is what the OP of that thread says:
This is a survey to see how well current tablets can play 720p and 1080p H.264 movies. Attached below are 6 sample clips from Avatar, each is of the same scene, encoded in H.264 high/main/baseline profile and 720p/1080p resolution. Please try all clips.
I've selected Avatar since it is full-frame and requires more bits than a normal wide-screen movie. This particular sequence is very high action, and serves as a worst-case test. (For playback, please minimize system load by closing down other running apps.)
http://mediafire.com/?15ec78k8s57db1z 1280 high MP4
http://mediafire.com/?pylvj2fa9kzynh2 1280 main MP4
http://mediafire.com/?9uk4z06ig651x3u 1280 baseline MP4
http://mediafire.com/?ge1nwgd5003s3ak 1920 high MP4
http://mediafire.com/?8aarftw6r499dga 1920 main MP4
http://mediafire.com/?7yqwhma8yhrhusq 1920 baseline MP4
The above video 1280 high profile play just fine with stock player. Android 3.1 handle highprofile mp4 with the right spec.
The 1920 highprofile freeze my tab and only gets audio. And when do people want to play 1080p? Better to use 720p with good quality and bitrate.
The thing that's stand out with diceplayer is that you can play .mkv.
It Evan plays videos with dts.
If you want use to test and see different between diceplayer and stock you should upload videos that don't run on stock player
Have tried some highprofile mkv and its almost ok, for the most time it runs smoothly, but sometimes the picture hangs,studder.
It's almost there but it don't reach all the way, hopes that we will see updates so the playback gets better.
Also think that mp4 baseline and other video plays smoother in movie's when there is alot of movement and panning.
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Doesn't play on my 3.1 Tab
Diceplayer doesn't work on my Tab - running HC3.1. Anyone else have problems?
arnold88 said:
Diceplayer doesn't work on my Tab - running HC3.1. Anyone else have problems?
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Same for me
arnold88 said:
Diceplayer doesn't work on my Tab - running HC3.1. Anyone else have problems?
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Same here, it opens, sits for a second, then closes.
Works pretty well with these ([email protected] AC3) TV shows that I download. Not bad since Mobo couldn't play these smoothly. Video has some hiccups but audio is smooth.
Downloaded a sample video ([email protected] DTS) and there was no video. Then the file stopped playing half way through (27 seconds in).
But I don't watch movies on my tablet anyway, only TV shows. And this seems to work great. Let's see if it'll be able to stream the TV shows smoothly. Thanks OP!
This plays my 720p x264 mkvs perfectly. Fantastic find, Doc, thanks.
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Ahh finally, since neither stock nor mobo could play my .mkv's (tv series) this is godsend.
I'm running HC 3.1 & TW.
Got Diceplayer playing back a 720p .MKV file (not sure if it was high profile or not) - not buttery smooth but better than anything else I've seen so far on HC3.1
Got a couple of questions, I was wondering if anyone can answer...
1) Diceplayer claims to offer hardware accelerated video decoding - is this for .MKVs?
2) Is that hardware acceleratation for Tegra 2
3) IF so, how are they managing it where so many others have failed? (Wasn't the core problem with offering HW acceleration for .MKVs down to lack of support from the nVidia side of things?)
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1) Diceplayer claims to offer hardware accelerated video decoding - is this for .MKVs?
=> Yes. it use hw accelerator at any format with MPEG-4/H.264
you can play MOV / AVI files with HW accel.
2) Is that hardware acceleratation for Tegra 2
=> YES.
It plays 720p high profile mkv without any issues. With 1080p, The video stops playing, but the audio still works for some, but wont for most of the 1080p videos either mkv or mp4. I think this might be achieved in the future.
720p playback is great !
1080p just freeze the tab but hey not even my Galaxy S II cant handle Full HD besides the resolution is useless for now anyway
krips2003 said:
It plays 720p high profile mkv without any issues. With 1080p, The video stops playing, but the audio still works for some, but wont for most of the 1080p videos either mkv or mp4. I think this might be achieved in the future.
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I don't think it (Galaxy Tab/Tegra2) can handle level 4.1 or higher. But plays the rest better than anything else I've tried.
juami said:
1) Diceplayer claims to offer hardware accelerated video decoding - is this for .MKVs?
=> Yes. it use hw accelerator at any format with MPEG-4/H.264
you can play MOV / AVI files with HW accel.
2) Is that hardware acceleratation for Tegra 2
=> YES.
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Awesome.. which leads me to question 3.. *How* are they managing to implement HW acceleration where the other software vendors have failed? e.g. the reliance on core NVidia software library support (or lack of it apparently) ??
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Awesome.. which leads me to question 3.. *How* are they managing to implement HW acceleration where the other software vendors have failed? e.g. the reliance on core NVidia software library support (or lack of it apparently) ??
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see my interview.
http://blog.clove.co.uk/2011/07/20/focus-on-apps-dice-player/
Im buying a tab in like 2 or 3 hours and i found out the old galaxy tab can play mkvs but there is no info on the 10. 1
If it can, can someone tell me how well it runs
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The stock player doesnt read mkv but if you encode in mp4 it'll play HD videos well
For mkv there is a video player called Diceplayer that can play them
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Aww that sucks
If i push the galaxy tab original's video played to system/app will it work
And does this dice player have to lag?
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okay i just tried to play a 720p MKV with subtitles on Diceplayer and it plays fine & on sync !
no installing the apk wont help since its a CPU limitation problem
if think you'll be fine with stock player + Diceplayer
K thx
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gtuansdiamm said:
Im buying a tab in like 2 or 3 hours and i found out the old galaxy tab can play mkvs but there is no info on the 10. 1
If it can, can someone tell me how well it runs
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Moboplayer https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en will play anything you will throw at it.
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Moboplayer https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en will play anything you will throw at it.
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I heard this from a lot of people, but I tried it on a simple MOV file (several actually, although from the same site) and it opens, runs for 3 seconds or so, then pauses. After a short while it then force closes?!?
I'm on stock 16GB, am I missing a setting somewhere?
Diceplayer works great
Moboplayer doesn't play 720p for me without lagging. Everything else works fine though.
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Moboplayer https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en will play anything you will throw at it.
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Only diceplayer can play 720p mkv high profile, without any lags. Still no go for .avi or 1080p mkv or mp4.
Es file managers video player and Vplayer play pretty much everything I've tried so far and stream perfectly from my goflex satellite...
gtuansdiamm said:
Im buying a tab in like 2 or 3 hours and i found out the old galaxy tab can play mkvs but there is no info on the 10. 1
If it can, can someone tell me how well it runs
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You can use the MoboPlayer. I have converted some HD 1080P MKV videos via the Brorsoft Video converter, and all of them work well. But there is one thing you need to know: the channel shoule bd stereo.
Hope it can help you solve your problem.
Get the diceplayer, now it handles almost all formats without any lags an it supports AC3 and dts audio without any issues. The videos are super smooth and it uses hardware acceleration. There's a 3 days trial available to test if it can play what you are looking for.
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dice player works smooth on some MKV files I play, an others, very laggy like the others.
Im starting to think that it may have to do with the encoding of the audio/video
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dice player works smooth on some MKV files I play, an others, very laggy like the others.
Im starting to think that it may have to do with the encoding of the audio/video
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So far I haven't experience that issue on mine. I know that it does have it on 1080p video.
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Play MKV/AVI/MOV/ iTunes movies on Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1
Galaxy Tab 2 doesn't support all MKV format playback, the codec must be H.264/AAC or AC3. If your Galaxy Tab 2 can't play some MKV files, you can convert MKV video to H.264/AAC MP4 video for playing MKV movies on Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1. Aovsoft Video Converter is your best choice. With Aovsoft Video Converter Ultimate, you can convert all formats to Galaxy Tab 2, such as convert MKV to Galaxy Tab 2, convert AVI to Galaxy Tab 2, convert MOV to Galaxy Tab 2 etc. If you want to play iTunes movies on Galaxy Tab 2, Aovsoft Media Converter can give you hand.
MX player isn't mentioned. It will also play just about anything.
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When you try to put and view AVI, MKV, VOB files on Galaxy Tab, you may find that all your efforts appeared unavailing. This is because Galaxy Tab does not support the video or audio codecs used by AVI, MKV or VOB. To get the work done, one effective method is to convert VOB/MKV/AVI to Galaxy Tab most compatible video format like MP4.
http://www.brorsoft.com/how-to/play-vob-avi-mkv-on-galaxy-tab-4.html
My Galaxy Tab 10.1 cannot play the 720p mkv movies while my Samsung Galaxy S can do it. I don't know this is the CPU related or kernel related problem, is there anyone facing this problem?
i downloaded diceplayer and this seems to be able to play mkv and anything else i've thrown at it with no problems. Gave up trying to fight with the stock player and converting stuff to a friendly format. Now I just transer files over and they play fine with Diceplayer. Give it a try, there's a 3 day trial version before purchasing.
The features of diceplayer stated some limitation that the Tegra 2 based phone/tablet can not play H.264 high profile clip. I believe that this is because of Tegra 2. I don't know if Honeycomb 3.2 will fix this or new driver from nVidia will do. Most of mkv H.264 movies are encoded with high profile, I think. Hence we need to re-encode to base profile in order to play on 10.1.
Get Moboplayer from Android Market. It's free and plays 720p mp2/4 without problems.
I've always experienced stuttering HD video playback on all my devices. I've used dice player and Mx player. The hardware and software acceleration used with my gnex, never could I get HD video to play stutter free. Hoping for some better results with the GS3.
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ajd88 said:
I've always experienced stuttering HD video playback on all my devices. I've used dice player and Mx player. The hardware and software acceleration used with my gnex, never could I get HD video to play stutter free. Hoping for some better results with the GS3.
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I've have watched a few 720p videos in the stock video player stutter-free. I even tried the pip feature, and the phone wasn't lagging when changing homescreens while the video was playing in a floating window on top. I have also streamed some hd movies in the plex app without any stuttering.
Playing 720p stutter free works on my 2 year old vibrant too. I guess you should check 1080p high profile videos with high bitrate video and audio. Also i wonder how sg3 handles multi channel audio formats like AAC, AC3, DTS etc
Sadly Snapdragon GS3 , doesn't handle HD videos to well , worse then my GS2 , specifically 60fps HD videos , it skips and stutters horribly ,my old International GS2 plays them smoothly. Kinda bumped about it , im guessing Samsung SOC has beefier hardware decoder.
But, if all your 720,1080p videos are only 23~30 fps you will be fine.
When I get it I'll mess around with encoding some videos to play well with it. If anyone finds a sweet spot with encoding videos with handbrake post some details please. Thanks.
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Hi,
I am trying to find out following: I would like to find out if I can use Galaxy Tab 10.1 to play video on my HDTV (Full HD via HDMI adapter). However almost all the apps that I have seen seem to produce dropped frames or problems with sync with audio/video during playback for number of mkv/mp4/avi media files. Only few full HD videos played properly while most of 720p/1080p had poor playback. So I am looking for an advice:
1) Will updating to ICS/JB (now only custom roms available) as compared to original HC help with video playback?
2) Are there any apps that you found that can play most of full hd videos? Friend of mine have tried almost all the popular ones but could not get any of them to play properly most of the full HD videos?
3) Will overclocking help with decoding? I saw several posts that indicate that some custom roms support overclocking. In some cases I got SW based playback to give almost good playback (HW based decoding did not work in all cases).
4) What is proper approach for mounting external drives that are in formats such as NTFS/exFAT? I am looking at this as some files might be bigger then 4GB limit of FAT32.
5) Is there a device that I can stream to 1080p from Galaxy Tab 10.1? Of course assuming that Galaxy Tab 10.1 can stream 1080p...
6) Do you have any other advice?
Kind regards,
Bo
This device does not have the processing power to play back most HD videos smoothly. By most videos I mean the HD x264 mkv/mp4 files which people watch these days. Overclocking will help but it's not guaranteed to make it play most HD videos smoothly.
Now there will be posts saying "Well I can play HD videos on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 just fine". This may be true but these people are likely not watching sufficiently high bitrate content that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 can't handle. On top of that they probably have overclocked the device as well.
Don't forget the term HD has become a broader and broader definition. So one person saying they have no problems with HD playback could be referring to HD Youtube app videos which are crap quality. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 can most definitely play this content just fine. On the other hand this device will struggle with most of the x264 HD television and movie files. The truth is most of the decent HD content out there today is beyond the capability of this device aside from the low bitrate and low quality stuff.
This device will not suit your needs if you plan on watching HD x264 mkvs or mp4 TV / movie files. You will not be able to play most of these files without having to re-encode them. I don't use any of the streaming services so I can't comment on that. Maybe it does work fine with Netflix, Hulu or what have you.
Decatf hits all of the key points. For taking HD content with you to play back anywhere your best bet is going to be encoding your files in such a way as to ensure smooth playback. You can play back 720p files that are encoded with the proper settings (basically as has been said the decoding capability of the Tegra 2 is limited) but don't expect to play back any HD file you download off the net perfectly. There are threads on the forum that talk about the proper settings in Handbrake to ensure smooth playback.
I haven't tried it but for playback at home perhaps a WD Live Media Hub would be a suitable companion whereby you control the device using their remote control application available in the Play store. Reviews on both the app and the device itself seem to be hit and miss so I'd carefully weigh them given your circumstances before buying (for example some reviews state that NAS support of the WD Live Hub is not great).
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Only thing you have to be careful in case of h264 files is that they MUST be encoded in Baseline profile. This is a limit of Tegra 2!... I play very smoothly Full HD mp4 movies with this setting. In order to check the profile level, you can use the tool MEDIAINFO you can download freely from Internet.
Bo... said:
Hi,
I am trying to find out following: I would like to find out if I can use Galaxy Tab 10.1 to play video on my HDTV (Full HD via HDMI adapter). However almost all the apps that I have seen seem to produce dropped frames or problems with sync with audio/video during playback for number of mkv/mp4/avi media files. Only few full HD videos played properly while most of 720p/1080p had poor playback. So I am looking for an advice:
1) Will updating to ICS/JB (now only custom roms available) as compared to original HC help with video playback?
2) Are there any apps that you found that can play most of full hd videos? Friend of mine have tried almost all the popular ones but could not get any of them to play properly most of the full HD videos?
3) Will overclocking help with decoding? I saw several posts that indicate that some custom roms support overclocking. In some cases I got SW based playback to give almost good playback (HW based decoding did not work in all cases).
4) What is proper approach for mounting external drives that are in formats such as NTFS/exFAT? I am looking at this as some files might be bigger then 4GB limit of FAT32.
5) Is there a device that I can stream to 1080p from Galaxy Tab 10.1? Of course assuming that Galaxy Tab 10.1 can stream 1080p...
6) Do you have any other advice?
Kind regards,
Bo
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Try overclocking the tab. A1 Kernel for example, has a bit GPU overclock and you can set CPU at 1,6GHz, try it at this freq and performance-cfq (governor-iosched) temporally.
Try the hw + option in Mx player
As per below in Mx player.
How to play HiDef movies/video on the Tab 10.1:
Install Handbrake
Download and install XOOM profile found here
https://sites.google.com/a/dibona.com/www/www/filestorage
or this one:
http://jccorporation.net/downloads/All 720p HD.plist
Rencode with this profile
Play
(rince, repeat)
Yeah as the above posts mentioned... It is the limitation of the tegra processor. I use my tab for watching movies. I had the same problem with the hd videos. Spending so much for a device like this and it wasn't able to play a good hd video.
Now I'm using Cm10 jelly bean build. Seriously man this is serious sh*t. Now I'm able to play almost all the 720p videos and this is more than enough for me. When a 1080p comes, I just avoid it....
Try flashing the jb rom. But with the latest build, you won't be getting the mic to work.
Tapatalked using my galaxy y
Bo... said:
4) What is proper approach for mounting external drives that are in formats such as NTFS/exFAT? I am looking at this as some files might be bigger then 4GB limit of FAT32.
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for NTFS you can use Ntfs Mounter, which can also mount Ext2/3/4 partitions on your tablet. You can also use Paragon NTFS & HFS+ or some other app to mount NTFS partitions but I don't remember the name
kishorsidu said:
Yeah as the above posts mentioned... It is the limitation of the tegra processor. I use my tab for watching movies. I had the same problem with the hd videos. Spending so much for a device like this and it wasn't able to play a good hd video.
Now I'm using Cm10 jelly bean build. Seriously man this is serious sh*t. Now I'm able to play almost all the 720p videos and this is more than enough for me. When a 1080p comes, I just avoid it....
Try flashing the jb rom. But with the latest build, you won't be getting the mic to work.
Tapatalked using my galaxy y
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Yes, it is the limitation of the tegra processor, so the solution could be, as I said in previous post, in freeing the limitation by overclocking the tab. 1,6GHz with performance governor youtube HD videos works fine.
jaswinky said:
Yes, it is the limitation of the tegra processor, so the solution could be, as I said in previous post, in freeing the limitation by overclocking the tab. 1,6GHz with performance governor youtube HD videos works fine.
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Is it that worth to over clock the tab to 1.6 GHz just to watch a video? Long overclocking can the fry the chipsets ryt? 1.6 GHz is bit too much for the tab and battery to handle I think when combined with online streaming of YouTube HD videos.....
Just felt so...
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kishorsidu said:
Is it that worth to over clock the tab to 1.6 GHz just to watch a video? Long overclocking can the fry the chipsets ryt? 1.6 GHz is bit too much for the tab and battery to handle I think when combined with online streaming of YouTube HD videos.....
Just felt so...
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I have my tab overclocked to 1,4 24h since 2 years ago with no burning or smoking problems. When i need puntually more performance as reading ebooks or pdfs, or playing some games, i set to 1,6 woth no problems.
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Thread resurrection!
Is there a way I can get the tab to change the max cpu when I load YouTube and then drop back afterwards ? Maybe by using tasker or similar?
It's a real pain to keep manually changing the cpu speed.