What is the best media player for the nook? I am running CM7, and have been using rockplayer. However, I love dice player for my sensation, but it doesn't seem to work well on my nook? Is there a consensus on this?
I use Vplayer myself. I haven't really gotten around to trying a lot of them due to the fact Vplayer does everything i want it to.
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I like MX Video Player myself.
MoboPlayer works nicely for me.
I've been using mobo player without issue, but I'm curious about what everyone else had been using.
was using mobo, switched to mx player (i prefer sur ui, works as great as mobo)
Moboplayer works for me. It even loads up subtitles! (.srt files!)
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Mobo player here as well, does well even with software decoding.
+1 for mobo player
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vital player (neon). works great for me, software decode obviously. think I've even watched some HD stuff without problem.
I use MoboPlayer because someone recommended it to me. I like that I can easily change volume or brightness while watching a video. I can't really compare it to other video players, though, so I'd love to hear what people like and dislike about their responses.
I just tried mono and it blows vplayer out of the water by far! Plus its free.
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Another +1 for Mobo... I used VPlayer (and paid for it) for a long time. But I like Mobo better, and it is free. As others have stated, I can jump around the video with little more than a swype of my finger, same with volume and brightness. Love the app...
VitalPlayer Neon is all I've needed. It plays my xvids without any need for resizing.
Another vote for MX Player. Very snappy and the controls during playback are awesome.
I'm interested in this as well. I see a lot of recommendations for MoboPlayer. Did you have to do anything special to get it to run? I just installed it on CM7 Nightly 177, and it FC's when I try to open it.
I have mobo as well.
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roland0fgilead said:
I'm interested in this as well. I see a lot of recommendations for MoboPlayer. Did you have to do anything special to get it to run? I just installed it on CM7 Nightly 177, and it FC's when I try to open it.
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I didn't have to do anything special. I am using a nightly from 6/22 (haven't updated in a while ).
I used to use Mobo player, but i now use MX player. Both worked good but mx worked better for me.
I hover between Mobo and Vital Player. Both seem to play all the vids I throw at them, but sometimes one won't play it full size, in which case I use the other player.
I think I saw VLC is available now?
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I currently have both vplayer alpha and moboplayer installed, moboplyer seem more stable never forceclosed but everytime i exit vplayer it FCs. Only problem I have with Moboplayer is that it does not save current play time on exit so you have to start agaon from the start.... otherwise its excellent.
I never installed vPlayer, as it was always crashy on my Evo. I have been pleasantly surprised by MoboPlayer on my Flyer though. Works very well, and the UI is actually pretty nice. It has saved my point in time on close though, So I haven't seen that problem.
i prefer rock player lite
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i prefer rock player lite
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Here here... I sent a nasty e-mail to HTC, about their video player not supporting a basic avi format, and they said "use rock player lite" I thought it was sad, honestly, but their suggestion was true...
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IP IHI II IL said:
Here here... I sent a nasty e-mail to HTC, about their video player not supporting a basic avi format, and they said "use rock player lite" I thought it was sad, honestly, but their suggestion was true...
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Ummm. The gallery plays standard avi for me. As long as it doesn't use AC3 audio...
Rock player supports most of the files, so its quite reliable no crashes yet
Finally i'm using successfully vPlayer.
try to set it in high quality video mode and set the maximum buffer size.
It works perfect for me.
I don't know if the Flyer has an hardware to decode, so I choose software decoding mode, but it has no lags.
I hope to get in a future a way to set it directly to a specific folder and to get the view of the film's covers.
Did anyone find a way to put an Mkv full hd inside ?
I use QQPlayer for mkv never had a problem never FC (fingers crossed touch wood and all that).
I just wish their connectedMedia app would stream mkv files from my ReadyNAS, avi and the others are no problem.
Has anybody tried Act 1 Player with the Flyer yet? I bought it to use on my Evo last year and I liked it.
i use vital player,plays avi very well
Please someone recommend me a video player which has d function to lock d screen while playing a video; just like
The default player in Samsung galaxy s. Thank u.
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which player can play .flv files?
Real Player beta plays any video format on the flyer. Nice interface and also free!
Shokouhi
will this play .mkv files
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MX player works very well and its free. The I has replaced moboplayer and vplayer for me. Moboplayer had issues sizing optimized videos on my nook color but I have to issues with MX player.
Real Player doesnt work with avi files.
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I seem to remember a player called something like arcmedia or something to that effect worked for avi. I personally use soul movie. Works very well, and is a very minimal app.
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Dice player has HARDWARE based playback and supports FLV and MKV formats among others.
It's $5, but plays back some downloaded 1.5GB 720p MKV files I tried out flawlessly. Even subtitles. So now I have all of season one of a show I like ready for my next flight, without the bother of re-encoding it to suit the View's native player.
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How do you get to your movies using the stock application? I've got my movies installed on the SD Card in a folder called movies. To watch them now I navigate to them with Astro and open them from there.
I think I should mention Vital Player if you want to play any kind of video format and take a screenshot from it. FYI, you cannot use magic pen to take screenshot from any kind of video player other than Vital Player.
I thought ICS was suppose to support MKV by default. I am able to play video but get no sound.
Dice player works fine as it did on 3.2 but was expecting the built in player to work.
Can anyone confirm?
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I think it is a software issue.
Prior to ICS, and I couldn't play a mkv file.. Now I get video but no sound just like you. A step in the right direction. Hopefully will be fixed with an update.
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You can use MX video player and chose an alternate music stream and that plays the sound. You can choose the alternate stream from the music icon at the top when you are playing the Video file.
Hope that helps.
Give QQplayer from the market a try.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tencent.research.drop
Try BSPlayer Lite from the market for your mkv files. It's free and seems to work well.
I also got no sound from my TFP with ICS with other players.
You don't get sound because the Prime doesn't support the audio codec of whatever video you are trying to play.
i use v player. Always works smoothly with mkv. And if its one of those movies that doesn't like to play right, it will work on mobo player. Mobo player is choppy on mkv for me so I use it as back up
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ogar1978 said:
I thought ICS was suppose to support MKV by default. I am able to play video but get no sound.
Dice player works fine as it did on 3.2 but was expecting the built in player to work.
Can anyone confirm?
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It can support native MKV decoding but you need to take a look at the audio codec as the stock player probably does not support it.
Why would you want to use it anyways? Dice is amazing
I use Mobo Player for all my android devices.
I use Dice and this works smooth as well..
This is so frustrating. I installed every player imaginable and the only one that plays the mkv perfectly is Dice. The sound with the Dice Player is horrible and unlistenable though. All the other players play the sound perfectly, but the video is choppy on all of them. The mkv is a 1080p if that matters. I'm ready to blow a gasket over here !
lennie paz said:
This is so frustrating. I installed every player imaginable and the only one that plays the mkv perfectly is Dice. The sound with the Dice Player is horrible and unlistenable though. All the other players play the sound perfectly, but the video is choppy on all of them. The mkv is a 1080p if that matters. I'm ready to blow a gasket over here !
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you sure that its Dice? since i have no issue with it at all, sound is great and quality of the movie outstanding.
to bad i can't get the paid version since this is one of the rare apps i would def. buy.
Hawkysoft said:
you sure that its Dice? since i have no issue with it at all, sound is great and quality of the movie outstanding.
to bad i can't get the paid version since this is one of the rare apps i would def. buy.
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100% sure it's Dice. Did you try a 1080p mkv with Dice?
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100% sure it's Dice. Did you try a 1080p mkv with Dice?
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hmm 720p so far, just checked it, will give u feedback when i checked a 1080p ^^
also thought it wouldn't accept the size of an 1080p full movie because of the fat?
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hmm 720p so far, just checked it, will give u feedback when i checked a 1080p ^^
also thought it wouldn't accept the size of an 1080p full movie because of the fat?
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That's why I formatted the card to NTFS.
Try MX Video Player. It play MKV from my USB HD too...
downloaded full movie 1080p 9gb, audio perfect same as 720p, which should be the same as well i think?
but still i did format it to ntfs pushed it over played it with dice, no issue at all
sorry mate can't help u further
Any video players with tegra 3 support?
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BIG EARS!!
Bsplayer in hw(Bsplayer engine), mode works great.
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I have found, at least with my media collection, that Diceplayer works better across all types of codec configurations.
I normally use BsPlayer, since it has built in samba client and therefore no need to use ex file explorer to start dice player. If BsPlayer does not cut it, then I switch to Diceplayer.
Mx video player does not currently decode all formats i hardware on the prime, so wait a little while with that.
I am finding the default video player after the ICS update to be quite capable. Haven't had to download any codecs, or anything.
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I am finding the default video player after the ICS update to be quite capable. Haven't had to download any codecs, or anything.
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Yes, I also have been impressed by the built in player but it has had problems with playing audio on many of my files.
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I don't believe there are any of yet. I currently use Dice Player which has played 99% of my videos on HW. For the other 1%, MX Player seems to have the fastest SW decoder. I know Dice has a Tegra 2 plugin (tried it on my Prime to no avail). I wouldn't be surprised if we see Tegra 3 optimized decoding before long. I can't imagine it would be too difficult to do, but since Tegra 3 is so new, there just haven't been any attempts yet.
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Yes, I also have been impressed by the built in player but it has had problems with playing audio on many of my files.
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I agree. The video playback is much better but do not have sound on many MKV 720p high profile. DICE Player is the best for me so far with BS Player second.
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I am finding the default video player after the ICS update to be quite capable. Haven't had to download any codecs, or anything.
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I find that the default ICS player is bugged out. Instead of a menu for play,pause and stuff it just shows colored squares (looks like my screen is melting form the inside out) and is obviously bugged out, it doesn't play half the stuff dice player does.
mx player has been treating me the best since I can select hardware or software for the video and the audio separately, allowing me to play 1080p videos and for those that the audio isn't working I can select software decoding of audio. Also MX player is so far the only player that has been handling multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitle tracks well.
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OK, sorry, I stand corrected. Just tried out an .mkv on the built-in player which gave no sound at all! Ugghh...
i no this is a bit random
does any one how i can open the default layer app without going through gallery, because am having problem finding my video files through the numerous files on the gallery, thanks
Use the videos app and select the option for personal videos on the top left tab
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No players are perfect, I keep four players and usually one of them will work.
I thought there wouldn't be a problem playing any video with this device. Disappointed it's such a pain in the ass.
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No players are perfect, I keep four players and usually one of them will work.
I thought there wouldn't be a problem playing any video with this device. Disappointed it's such a pain in the ass.
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Same thong here. These are like browsers. You have to keep an arsenal of them just in case one isn't cutting it. I have MX player, dice player, n mobo player
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Use the videos app and select the option for personal videos on the top left tab
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in the applist their is no video app, i can only open video app by clicking on a video in gallery, and while using it this way he video app dont appear in recent app???
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I thought there wouldn't be a problem playing any video with this device. Disappointed it's such a pain in the ass.
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Which videos are not playing with Dice or BSPlayer?
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Which videos are not playing with Dice or BSPlayer?
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Everything is playing, but not everything is playing well. I still get some lag and audio problems with 1080p mkvs.
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Everything is playing, but not everything is playing well. I still get some lag and audio problems with 1080p mkvs.
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Can you upload a sample? I have different kind of mkvs and i have no problem.
There are a few encoding settings with make problems (like 10bit) but overall i didn't found many h.264 mkv videos which are not playing.
Long time reader, first time poster!!!
Just wondering, is there a better alternative to the stock Samsung Video?
The Video app plays just about every video format I throw at it? Is there a better alternative or is the Video app the pinnacle of the S2 multimedia experience?
Any advice or recommendations welcome.
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Long time reader, first time poster!!!
Just wondering, is there a better alternative to the stock Samsung Video?
The Video app plays just about every video format I throw at it? Is there a better alternative or is the Video app the pinnacle of the S2 multimedia experience?
Any advice or recommendations welcome.
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try MX Player
MX Player is best around.
I like MX Player, has lots of codecs, it's quite customizable and it's designed to work with dual-cores.
Superb...thanks to all.
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as previous MX player is damn good and the codec pack works really well. The adblocker will pretty much block all the adds same as the pro
Also an MX fan, but have installed Diceplayer too.
On a custom MIUI ROM I'm testing, MX couldn't hw decode a couple of mkv 720 files I had, but Diceplayer can. Some files are tricky that way - will play flawlessly on one player but not another.. Do all my decoding with MeGUI, but haven't found One Profile To Rule Them All.
The first four things I did on my SGS1 and both my SGS2s were throw the stock phones in the trash, root, uninstall the stock video player and ditto the stock video player
A couple of other good ones that that play most videos are RockPlayer and VPlayer. Give them all a try and see which you like. (never hurts to have 2 or 3 installed in case you get a vid that doesn't play on one).
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.
Thanks
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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MX Player
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?
Mark
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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..