Hey guys I'm currently using MXvideo player and it's pretty decent. I managed to run a 720p mkv video of about 300 mb with Software decoding fast on. On hardware decoding I've not met a video player yet that can handle that and I've tested moboplayer and this one up till now.
Well for the most part the software decoding fast on the Mxvideo player does a pretty decent job but it still kinda lags at times. Anyone found a better solution?
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vplayer is a lot worse than mobo and mx :-s
I have the old beta version of player it works better than the newer version 0.9.9
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use dice player it plays almost all formats
The CPU of Motorola Defy is not strong enough to play H.264 HD videos. Unfortunately according to my experiences, the HW decoding in CM7 on Defy is broken. Until this is fixed, I'm afraid there will be no player capable of playing 720p MKV files correctly.
Rock player lite plays most of the videos. I have played some 720p also.
If you are running the cpu at 1ghz 720p videos should play rather smoothly. Maybe its your sd card thts slowing you down
pravarth said:
If you are running the cpu at 1ghz 720p videos should play rather smoothly. Maybe its your sd card thts slowing you down
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Mkv 720p does not work well at all . Peace
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If you are running the cpu at 1ghz 720p videos should play rather smoothly. Maybe its your sd card thts slowing you down
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On a desktop PC, to play H.264 720p video, you need at least 2 GHz CPU. To play 1080p you need 2 GHz dual core CPU and to play 1080p60 movie, you need at least a quad core 2 GHz CPU.
Now add to this the fact, that ARM is slower then x86 at the same frequency and you would need a 3 GHz CPU to play 720p movies without HW acceleration.
if you use GB rom, try diceplyer.
Diceplayer can play mkv with hw decoding.
Mobo player has hard and soft decoding capabilities. It can decode the video, but in general hd videos have hd sounds, that are cpu demmanding. I think that convert HD videos first is a good idea, even when you phone can play it, nobody wants to run out of battary only because of a movie with quality you can not fully enjoy.
Mkv files doesnt work i try Every Video Player in can find but mp4 hd Videos are playable
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720 Video Play
I am using WajkIUI 1.9.23 very recent firmware. My Defy is clocked at 1.1GHz and an amount of 150MB free RAM. I played 1280 X 720 .WMA file with 30FPS in QQPlayer and ROCKPlayer both played well. but very little lag.
MX player and dice player play full hd video in cm7
MX player and dice player play full hd video with 5.1ch audio in cm7
anyone tried mobo player .. its pretty cool ...... ~~
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On a desktop PC, to play H.264 720p video, you need at least 2 GHz CPU. To play 1080p you need 2 GHz dual core CPU and to play 1080p60 movie, you need at least a quad core 2 GHz CPU.
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Don't know where you got your information bro, but it's def wrong.
I have a dual-core 2GHZ Intel T4200 laptop and i have a mounted a blu-ray player on it for a while now and i can tell you 100% that it plays Full BluRay discs (meaning over 40GB disc) with absolutely no problem in the world.
Vladuu> My information is correct. I know it from many tests I've done. You have 2x2 GHz CPU, that's enough for a blu-ray (1080p, 24fps or 1080i). But your CPU could never play 1080p 60fps movie.
It's also very likely that you have graphics card which in fact does the decoding instead of your CPU.
i use a rom for defy which transplanted from me722. it support 720p decoding, such as rmvb mp4 and mkv. the performance is wonderful
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i use a rom for defy which transplanted from me722. it support 720p decoding, such as rmvb mp4 and mkv. the performance is wonderful
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Hi guys
My question be possible video playback in 720p with the power of snapdragon? someone working on optimizing its software?
Coreplayer works with 720p? what formats if is the case?
Thanks guys, with this 4,3 screen, video in HD would be impresive
a greetings!
May I ask why you would watch a 720p (1280x720) video on an 800x480 screen?
Just so that we wouldn't need to re-encode everything specifically for the HD2.
I mean, videos i would watch on my HD2 first are on my PC - hence, i always download the highest resolution i find. stuff i transfer to my HD2 need to be re-encoded, possibly transmuxed, which is indeed a hassle. If there was a way to read at least 720p, it would clearly be good.
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May I ask why you would watch a 720p (1280x720) video on an 800x480 screen?
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Same question...
What about the memory ?
remiotte said:
Just so that we wouldn't need to re-encode everything specifically for the HD2.
I mean, videos i would watch on my HD2 first are on my PC - hence, i always download the highest resolution i find. stuff i transfer to my HD2 need to be re-encoded, possibly transmuxed, which is indeed a hassle. If there was a way to read at least 720p, it would clearly be good.
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+1 ... this would be nice.
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Hi guys
My question be possible video playback in 720p with the power of snapdragon? someone working on optimizing its software?
Coreplayer works with 720p? what formats if is the case?
Thanks guys, with this 4,3 screen, video in HD would be impresive
a greetings!
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Coreplayer fails at his, but it may be due to the H264 codec, as most 720p videos use this codec.
I am not aware of a player capable of decoding H264 to this date, which is a shame.
coreplayer decodes h264 just fine, but can't play a video larger than 1008 (if i remember right) pixels wide.
This has been discussed many times before. 720p playback is not enabled in the hardware and software decoding is not up to the task. And frankly if it did work you be draining your battery decoding details the screen couldn't display.
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Just so that we wouldn't need to re-encode everything specifically for the HD2.
I mean, videos i would watch on my HD2 first are on my PC - hence, i always download the highest resolution i find. stuff i transfer to my HD2 need to be re-encoded, possibly transmuxed, which is indeed a hassle. If there was a way to read at least 720p, it would clearly be good.
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Exactly, many videos and trailers have them in 720, and is very annoying having to recode, I prefer to occupy the space, and if, although it is 480x800 anyway looks awesome
I tested a video 720 in tcpmp, the audio ok, the image very slow, but tcpmp is very old soft, and no optimized
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it may be due to the H264 codec, as most 720p videos use this codec.
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Video size has absolutely 0 to do with codecs.
CorePlayer doesn't use any hardware decoding on the HD2, in contrast to the Album/WMP, and I believe Snapdragon is locked away from 1GHz/hardware 720p decoding anyway.
Hell, I can see stutter on H264 800x480 videos no matter how I encode it.
AFAIK snapdragon is capable of running 720p video but windows mobile isn´t.
@Yunabeco: did you try this Encoder? stutters on my xperia, but on the HD2 it works like a charm.. tried only some files, i encoded from 720p with subtitle and it looks great with the built-in-player..
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Video size has absolutely 0 to do with codecs.
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Not in theoretical terms, but that's not what I wrote. I was joint pointing to the fact that most 720p videos use x264 compression due to being recorded from H264 encoded HDTV or downsampled H264 Blurays. As he said, he doesn't want to reencode.
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CorePlayer doesn't use any hardware decoding on the HD2, in contrast to the Album/WMP, and I believe Snapdragon is locked away from 1GHz/hardware 720p decoding anyway.
Hell, I can see stutter on H264 800x480 videos no matter how I encode it.
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There is a version of coreplayer that does use hardware acceleration. 1.3.1 build 7141. Don't know why the following ones don't...
benchmarks on my hd2 showed an app. 20% improvement with that version compared to the 1.3.6.
But then again, coreplayer is limited to 1008 pixels wide, so still no 720p anyway.
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There is a version of coreplayer that does use hardware acceleration. 1.3.1 build 7141. Don't know why the following ones don't...
benchmarks on my hd2 showed an app. 20% improvement with that version compared to the 1.3.6.
But then again, coreplayer is limited to 1008 pixels wide, so still no 720p anyway.
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Uh ? I can play 720p vids on my device. I only get performance issues (running at 23% speed at most), using latest core player.
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Uh ? I can play 720p vids on my device. I only get performance issues (running at 23% speed at most), using latest core player.
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There is a 1008 pixel limitation on Coreplayer.....you can't be playing 720p videos on Coreplayer at all.
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There is a 1008 pixel limitation on Coreplayer.....you can't be playing 720p videos on Coreplayer at all.
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or a 1008x720 720p... welcome back, 4x3 vids...
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AFAIK snapdragon is capable of running 720p video but windows mobile isn´t.
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Doesn't have anything to do with Windows Mobile. The question is whether the device has the necessary drivers or not.
To answer the thread: No, it is not possible.
And even if it was possible, you would still have to reencode all the videos.
That's because even if a phone is capable of playing 720p, then it only plays certain file formats that it can harware accelerate.
This should answer everything. 720p gives no benefit at all because reencoding is always necessary.
720P play in ACER S200/F1
I can play 1280x720p wmv9 encoded movie in ACER s200/F1 with windows media player. but coreplayer can not. wmv7 and wmv8 encoded movies can not play with windows media player or coreplayer.
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.
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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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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
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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/
Hi, I know there has been some discussion about this already but I dont think this has been properly resolved.
I am fully aware of the tegra 2 video decoding limitations so lets not get into a discussion about that.
Basically, on the website Samsung suggest this can play 1080p video and there are various videos floating about suggesting it can plan youtube videos in 1080p format.
Now, here's the rub....
If you play a video in none desktop mode it plays great but this isnt in 1080p format, this is pretty obvious if you pump it out the HDMI. If you attempt to play it straight out of the browser, stock or Dolphin it stutters in 1080p and is just about watch-able in 720p.
So, I am wondering exactly what 1080p video sammy are actually referencing to?
On a side note however I have found that DICE and MXplayer do a really good job or playing main and high profile MKV's to the point where 720p high profiles are watchable at stock cpu 1 gig and smooth at 1.6 gig overclock (neither is hardware decoding, all done by CPU).
wow 60 views and no replies... ghost town in here...
Samsung simply repeats what Nvidia states which is the tegra 2 can only play 1080p video encoded in Baseline profile. The problem is nobody uses Baseline profile as its obsolete and has poor compression.
Youtube certainly does not use Baseline profile when it re-codes videos uploaded to its servers and that is problem....
Yes the video decoder in the tegra 2 sucks balls.
I dont think that is right, flash 3.2 is supposed to have tegra 2 hardware acceleration and should be able to play 1080p youtube stuff through a browser.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec.html
See here, it still states full 1080p video playback, if it cannot play youtube 1080p then you have to wonder what it is refferring to exactly?
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I dont think that is right, flash 3.2 is supposed to have tegra 2 hardware acceleration and should be able to play 1080p youtube stuff through a browser.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec.html
See here, it still states full 1080p video playback, if it cannot play youtube 1080p then you have to wonder what it is refferring to exactly?
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Just because it has hardware acceleration of a codec does not mean it can play all 1080p video as explained with h.264. If the video is encoded with too high of a bitrate the tegra 2 hardware accelerator chokes, and it does not take much to choke it....
Unfortunately advertisement is inherently deceptive as the case with the link you provided.
Does anyone have any more info regarding this? I really thought that with the 3.2 Honeycomb update they would optimize the Tegra 2 GPU more, but it still cant play any stream or youtube video at 1080p.
Hey guys, just got a few 720p high profile mkv files which reviews claimed could be played with the stock video player. All 3 files currently do not. Dice player works in trial but when i try to buy it gives me not found in the market. I'd rather usethe built in player personally but has anyone else had any luck either way?
EDIT solved with bs player
Try moboplayer its free.
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or MXPlayer I have used that on many MKVs
compuw22c said:
Hey guys, just got a few 720p high profile mkv files which reviews claimed could be played with the stock video player. All 3 files currently do not. Dice player works in trial but when i try to buy it gives me not found in the market. I'd rather usethe built in player personally but has anyone else had any luck either way?
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I got same problem,but i used mx player and upnp , works flawless
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I got same problem,but i used mx player and upnp , works flawless
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I use the exact same
mx player works well but there's no hardware decoding available in any of them. Very disappointed ( though I know the hardware is capable of it). I know anandtech? Or one of the reviews did a blu ray rip and it played great so I'm guessing I'm missing something, an update broke it or if will be fixed in ics. Is also possible they just need hardware drivers for tegra3. I'm optimistic, is launch week, well have awesome devs, it'll get sorted eventually. Even software decode stutters just a bit ( I'm a video perfectionist). Also peeved at xda app FCs but again, brand new device. Just let me know if anyone (particularly those who didn't update) has any better luck.
Unbelievable , this still not resolved after the Tegra 2 debacle.
i've played a couple mkv's just fine with the stock player and mx player. the only issue i've had with them is if i skip around, the video never picks back up, works fine in software though.
but if i just watch the movie through without skipping around, it plays perfectly.
as you can see here ICS has added support to the Matroska format, so hopefully the default player will be handling it smoothly in ICS.
hXXp://briefmobile.com/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-announced-feature-list
replace hXXp with http in link.
That's good to know. Was thinking of cancelling my preorder once I heard people having problems with mkv's & diceplayer being unavailable
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mx player works well but there's no hardware decoding available in any of them. Very disappointed ( though I know the hardware is capable of it). I know anandtech? Or one of the reviews did a blu ray rip and it played great so I'm guessing I'm missing something, an update broke it or if will be fixed in ics. Is also possible they just need hardware drivers for tegra3. I'm optimistic, is launch week, well have awesome devs, it'll get sorted eventually. Even software decode stutters just a bit ( I'm a video perfectionist). Also peeved at xda app FCs but again, brand new device. Just let me know if anyone (particularly those who didn't update) has any better luck.
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How were these files encoded? Because in order to take advantage of hardware decoding a file has to meet a certain standard. If it deviates even a tiny bit, it will not work.
Go and Download BSPlayer lite from the market. It has the same funtionality like Diceplayer. Tegra 3 can nearly play all 1080p vids.
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How were these files encoded? Because in order to take advantage of hardware decoding a file has to meet a certain standard. If it deviates even a tiny bit, it will not work.
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Well its h264 high profile, which tegra 3 plays. Tegra 3 isn't picky, as long as its less than a 42mbps bitrate the hardware will handle it. The only standard it must meet is 1080p and less and 42mbps or less in h264 anyways. For tegra 3, i'm sure software is the issue.
Files came from my media server which are also hw accelerated with an nvidia graphics card via vdpau. never even have to check, just always plays (h264 anyways)
Again, i'm sure they'll fix it eventually,I know the chip does it, still annoying., its why I never bought tegra 2. And for those suggesting software decode, battery life PLUMMETS and the performance we would have with hw decode would be as good or better than blu ray with no stutter.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review/5
EDIT:BS player appears to work WITH hardware acceleration. Every other app told me "not supported by system player, using software device" including dice
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Prime will handle highprofile mkv just fine if you use a other media player like mxplayer, diceplayer The problem when you can't play with the stock player is that it for the most times can't handle the audio.
Just give them some time to update there players to full Tegra3 support. The device have only been out some days and I think the developers also would like to have a device to test on.
I have posted this in a other thread, but I will repost it here to. From swedroid.se test, and translated into English.
"As is the case for the music player, Asus do net onclude their own video players, but instead uses default player that comes with Android. This is a rather rowdy players who only manages one of our clip in the table below (# 9), but without any sound, because support for AC3 missing."
"The third-party video player dice player or MX Video Player, both of which are available in the Android Market, it is however full marks. ASUS Prime plays everything we feed it with, whether it is DivX, XviD or MKV / h (x) 264-films with soundtracks in DTS or AC3 format."
Resolution / Codec / Profile / Container / Bitrate / Audio / Results (MX Video Player
640x352 XviD / [email protected] / AVI 1 Mbit/s MP3 2.0 OK
576x320 XviD / [email protected] / AVI 1,4 Mbit/s MP3 2.0 OK
720p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 3 Mbit/s AC-3 5.1 OK
720p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 9 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 14 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 19,2 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 22,8 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 25 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 30 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 42 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
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@OP
Have you tried a straight MP4 (H264/AAC) with standard Android player? You do realize that it's not just the video track that kicks the (3rd-party) player into HW or SW mode, right? Subtitles, for instance, will invoke SW mode. Chapter tracks will also probably cause SW.
As much as you sound you know, then you should also know that not every downloaded video is the same. If you have problems, SOP is first to provide specs (MediaInfo works), second is to provide a sample, third is to specify environment (which player you've tried, and their respective performance). Only noobs go "my vids don't work, now what?"
With the non-info you've provided, all you get is guesswork.
What do you mean by " files came from a media server"? If you are streaming to the device, expect skipping playback because WiFi can't handle hi-bitrate 1080p.
I have no issues running 720p or 1080p hi profile (locally) on my Transformer Prime in Dice player, even with DTS and multiple audio tracks.
people need to realise 3rd party players need to be optimised for tegra 3 for hardware acceleration. its not to do with type of file, as long as it does not have very high bitrate.
Everyone has to understand, that MKV is just a container. You can put almost anything into this container so therefore it is unlikely that the hardware can decode everything that can go into a MKV container.
The main thing about the Kal-El SoC, it is the first chip that can decode h.264 High Profile video. To see the supported codecs that Tegra 3 can decode in hardware see: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html
I've ripped hundreds of blu-rays. I've ended up using two sets of files.
Archive for playback on Samsung LED TV's and other high end DLNA devices:
Container: MKV
Video: H.264 High Profile 4.0 Constant Quality 18-20 1080p
Audio: AAC-LC 384 5.1 channel
Subtitles: sub format
Software: HD Decrypter, RipBot264 and Handbrake
Mobile Devices:
Container: m4v
Video: H.264 Base 3.0 Profile, 2-pass (1000kbps widescreen and 1200kbps for 16x9) qHD size (960x540),
Audio: AAC-LC 128 2 channel
Subtitles: Converted from the MKV
Software: Handbrake
I spend most of the time make the archive format looking as good as possible for it's size. Most files come out to 4-7GB per movie. There are exceptions depending on the quality of the movie. Movies with lots of noise in them come out to be much larger then one that is very clean. Computer Generated movies will come out to 3-4GB using CQ 18. The Prime should decode these just fine.
The mobile size I use for under powered devices and also to have as many movies as possible for it's size. qHD actually ends up looking very nice for it's size when down converted from blu-ray. A two hour movie comes out to be about 1GB. This way I can have on average 60-70 movies on 64B microsdxc card and about the same on the 64GB prime itself.
sorry, but I felt I provided all necessary info. The files are stored locally, mkv h264 high profile 20mbps streams with ac3 5.1 audio. They also have subtitles, though I don't need them.tpb was the source of all 3.
In any event, bs player works with hardware acceleration perfectly and I'm very happy. It also shows the hardware is fully capable of it, software will soon follow (ics)
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sorry, but I felt I provided all necessary info. The files are stored locally, mkv h264 high profile 20mbps streams with ac3 5.1 audio. They also have subtitles, though I don't need them.tpb was the source of all 3.
In any event, bs player works with hardware acceleration perfectly and I'm very happy. It also shows the hardware is fully capable of it, software will soon follow (ics)
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According to the Tegra 3 specs, AC3 is not supported in hardware.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html
Hi! I'm trying to find a way to play 720p videos smoothly on my Tablet S but I can't find a proper bitrate for it. I tried 4000 but it's still laggy. On some tutorials I found they were saying to use 1500 as bitrate but that is ridiculous. A 720p video with bitrate 1500 will result in a lot of dead pixels. So what can I do?
I'm using Format Factory to convert the MKV videos to MP4 H.264/AVC 720p
Help please :crying:
Sorry bad english
RulezMac said:
Hi! I'm trying to find a way to play 720p videos smoothly on my Tablet S but I can't find a proper bitrate for it. I tried 4000 but it's still laggy. On some tutorials I found they were saying to use 1500 as bitrate but that is ridiculous. A 720p video with bitrate 1500 will result in a lot of dead pixels. So what can I do? I'm using Format Factory to convert the MKV videos to MP4 H.264/AVC 720p Help please :crying: Sorry bad english
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The best video format for the Sony Tablet S is MPEG-4 (mp4) encoded using a H.264 CODEC with a pixel size of 1280 x 720, a bit rate of 1500 kbps, and a frame rate of 29.97 fps. The video's audio should be stereo AAC with a sample rate of 44100 Hz and a bit rate of 96000 bps. I use and recommend Handbrake for converting videos and MX Player Pro for playing videos.
RulezMac said:
Hi! I'm trying to find a way to play 720p videos smoothly on my Tablet S but I can't find a proper bitrate for it. I tried 4000 but it's still laggy. On some tutorials I found they were saying to use 1500 as bitrate but that is ridiculous. A 720p video with bitrate 1500 will result in a lot of dead pixels. So what can I do?
I'm using Format Factory to convert the MKV videos to MP4 H.264/AVC 720p
Help please :crying:
Sorry bad english
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Actually you can just download Dice Player or BS Player Lite. This two video player can play any mkv files I load into it. even upto 1080p :laugh: :good:
1080p are terribly laggy
RulezMac said:
1080p are terribly laggy
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But still you can now play your 720p vids w/o converting them :good:
karl_angel0 said:
But still you can now play your 720p vids w/o converting them :good:
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Ok I tried some 720p MKV files and the sound isn't synchronized with the video. Also I still noticed some lag.
RulezMac said:
Ok I tried some 720p MKV files and the sound isn't synchronized with the video. Also I still noticed some lag.
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Try QQPlayer. I had a lot of problems with video playing slower than audio when using Dice and MX, but QQ seemed to clear them up. Other than that, try using a video converter (such as Handbrake) and use the Apple TV preset. Works for me.
I'm also disappointed by the Tegra 2 performance in video. Here are some thoughts and questions.
From my personal tries, all video players (MX, BSPlayer, Dice) have about the same performance (perhaps BSPlayer with ARMv7 plugin is a little better). Does every video player Tegra 2 video playback implementation are based on the same library?
Is there some way to make some low-level (asm) optimization that would help? I would gladly take a look if there was a way to do it.
I've noticed that even 720P High profile have some lag! Not very serious, but noticeable!! For example, Rise of the Silver Surfer 720P-HP trailer (see h264info.com/clips.html) lags at several points in the video. It may be clearly seen with BSPlayer, when displaying FPS information ('(i)' button during video playback).
1080P Baseline Profile seems to play smoothly (and H/W acceleration is enabled).
Video players disables H/W acceleration for High Profile 1080P so, of course it is terribly laggy. Is it a technical requirement? Isn't there a way to force H/W acceleration for Full HD High profile videos, even if that wouldn't mean full speed?