Hello all and Happy Thanksgiving. On Friday I am going to pick up a Samsung Galaxy S II. I am looking to root is and flash the UnNamed ROM. I have heard that flashing custom ROM's means that GPU acceleration no longer will work. Is this true and are there any ROM's that allow for it to work? Thank you!
Gpu acceleration as far as videos or in general? Samsung does have proprietary codecs to support wmv, avi, etc, that will not work on non Samsung roms, but there are third party apps to help remedy media playing, but they are not perfect.
As far as the GUI and 3d graphics are concerned though, I can assure you that gpu acceleration still works.
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Thank you!
If you pay for Dice Player you can play every file the stock player can play and more.
well there is one more caveat... samsung uses gpu acceleration on their launcher to make it buttery smooth... you cant get that on other launchers. but at the same time other launchers aren't as heavy as the sock one. generally i like what Samsung does, they think things through very well.
poofyhairguy said:
If you pay for Dice Player you can play every file the stock player can play and more.
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Diceplayer does have some nice support, however, it does not perform as well as stock when it comes to high profile wmv's and avi's. They still play choppy on any non-samsung roms in my experience, whereas on sammy roms they play super smooth.
Ryukeima said:
...will not work on non Samsung roms, but there are third party apps to help remedy media playing, but they are not perfect.
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What about ROM's that are based on the original/stock ROM, but modified (such as Unnamed)? I'd think that these would retain all the benifits of the stock ROM as long as those specific components aren't removed/replaced. Other than CM7, most seem to be in that category.
garyd9 said:
What about ROM's that are based on the original/stock ROM, but modified (such as Unnamed)? I'd think that these would retain all the benifits of the stock ROM as long as those specific components aren't removed/replaced. Other than CM7, most seem to be in that category.
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You are correct. Roms that are based on stock still have the enhanced gpu support for videos. I suppose I was not being very clear in this regard. Not all custom roms are based on outside sources.
For example, I am using unnamed 1.3.1, which is based on stock and I can still play my high profile wmv 's fine. When I load up any of the miui roms or cm7 roms, however, I lose the enhanced support. Make sense?
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If you watch videos encoded in high quality resolutions above 854x480, H.264 or MPEG4 and a pretty high bitrate, you might notice that video playback is laggy and not fluid with custom ROMs. This flashable zip package is supposed to fix that.
Tested
Stable - Any ROM based on stock 2.3.3 (Wolfs TW Gingerbread, Blue Sparks, Ultima GB etc.)
Stable - Most xRecovery-based CM7 ROMs (ZMOD, SpaarcMOD, FreeXperia Sony UI Achotjan etc.)
Stuck on boot - MIUI ROMs
Untested
FXP CM7 (won't work anyways since it uses CWM)
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EDIT: I've uploaded a test video to check whether video decoder lag is present or not.
http://puu.sh/5j8h/SmoothnessTest.mp4 (854x480, H.264, 5 mbit/s)
If it stutters during playback, that's an indication that the video is lagging.
This fix will not eliminate the problem but will reduce the lag by a huge margin.
I noticed this while watching videos with camera panning, they looked very juddery.
Anyone tried this? Just wondering what the original problem was.
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So, this should enable me (us) to play 720p Youtube vids?
never notist a problem and if there whas a problem, Z would have notist and came with the solution.
I think i would not flash this before making a back up.
Puck24 said:
So, this should enable me (us) to play 720p Youtube vids?
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You already play hd youtube.
Guys, please play the video in the OP on your phone and see whether it lags or not.
blacklistedcard said:
Anyone tried this? Just wondering what the original problem was.
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The original problem was playback of high quality videos were very laggy.
robertberma said:
never notist a problem and if there whas a problem, Z would have notist and came with the solution.
I think i would not flash this before making a back up.
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Why do you feel like discouraging people who try to offer something to the community?
On the one hand, there are tons of threads in General section
whining about people moving on from the X10 and development stalling,
and then there are post like yours... It's just not right.
Anyway, @OP, I played the test video and noticed no lags.
Could you explain what is it that you changed in the .so libraries please?
And why some people have the issue and others don't?
Thank you very much!
Okay. Downloaded the files. Tested the video. It does stutter a little.
Tested with scary gov. Running video twice... 22sec at 128mhz. And none over 500mhz! So its not decoding over cpu
P.s. Yes, also did with performance. Same problem.
Now gonna make backup. And then flash file.
Noticed the lag myself. So maybe it's missing a video codec, so it's not using hardware rendering.
I'll flash the fix and see if it works.
Dwaine
My_Immortal said:
Anyway, @OP, I played the test video and noticed no lags.
Could you explain what is it that you changed in the .so libraries please?
And why some people have the issue and others don't?
Thank you very much!
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It depends.
On modded stock ROMs, if the dev included z's audio lag fix, this problem will surface.
On custom ROMs (CM7 for example), the issue is already there.
This zip simply replaces the libs with those from stock ROM.
PS: It was one of the reasons why I didn't use Froyo custom ROMs.
doomed151 said:
It depends.
On modded stock ROMs, if the dev included z's audio lag fix, this problem will surface.
On custom ROMs (CM7 for example), the issue is already there.
This zip simply replaces the libs with those from stock ROM.
PS: It was one of the reasons why I didn't use Froyo custom ROMs.
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So, it will give us back the audio lag while listening to music then?
doomed151 said:
It depends.
On modded stock ROMs, if the dev included z's audio lag fix, this problem will surface.
On custom ROMs (CM7 for example), the issue is already there.
This zip simply replaces the libs with those from stock ROM.
PS: It was one of the reasons why I didn't use Froyo custom ROMs.
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You could have also said this in first Post, right?
flashed it and saw no big difference. I'm on WB4.0.4
Maybe he already included it.
P.s. Your test video is not realy high res ^^ does 1080p work on our phone? Depens on bitrate i guess.
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So, it will give us back the audio lag while listening to music then?
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Technically, yes. Personally, I rarely get any audio lags while listening to music except when there's CPU heavy stuff going on like installing a large app from the Market.
doomed151 said:
If you watch videos encoded in high quality resolutions above 854x480, H.264 or MPEG4 and a pretty high bitrate, you might notice that video playback is laggy and not fluid with custom ROMs. This flashable zip package is supposed to fix that.
Tested on
Any ROM based on stock 2.3.3 (Wolfs TW Gingerbread, Blue Sparks, Ultima GB etc.)
Most xRecovery-based CM7 ROMs (ZMOD, SpaarcMOD, FreeXperia Sony UI Achotjan etc.)
Untested
FXP CM7 (won't work anyways since it uses CWM)
MIUI ROMs
Special thanks to
zdzihu
EDIT: I've uploaded a test video to check whether video decoder lag is present or not.
http://puu.sh/5j8h/SmoothnessTest.mp4 (854x480, H.264, 5 mbit/s)
If it stutters during playback, that's an indication that the video is lagging.
This fix will not eliminate the problem but will reduce the lag by a huge margin.
I noticed this while watching videos with camera panning, they looked very juddery.
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Doesnt work on MIUI Rom got stuck on bootlogo ,
doomed151 said:
Technically, yes. Personally, I rarely get any audio lags while listening to music except when there's CPU heavy stuff going on like installing a large app from the Market.
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I see...
But I got terrible audiolag before Z's fix when listening to music, even when this was the only thing I did (no other tasks running, screen off).
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My_Immortal said:
I see...
But I got terrible audiolag before Z's fix when listening to music, even when this was the only thing I did (no other tasks running, screen off).
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It may be because I'm running a custom kernel. Barely any audio lag.
Is it possible to play the pps.tv with h.264?
robertberma said:
You already play hd youtube.
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Not really. We play HQ YT vids aka 480p
Try DL-ing a 720p or even a 1080p vid and play it... see what happens. Not to mention HD divx/xvid content
P.S. regarding audio lag. I still experience it while underclocking to 128MHz. It's doesn't happen while the sleep FQ is at 245, though
I installed the Vanilla Gingerbread V8.1 ROM from jt1134. I go to Mx Video Player, and I cannot play MPEG-4 avi files with hardware decoding.
I was on CM7.1, and with that, I could not even play h.264 mp4's with hardware decoding.
How come I can't decode h264 with hardware decoder?
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I installed the Vanilla Gingerbread V8.1 ROM from jt1134. I go to Mx Video Player, and I cannot play MPEG-4 avi files with hardware decoding.
I was on CM7.1, and with that, I could not even play h.264 mp4's with hardware decoding.
How come I can't decode h264 with hardware decoder?
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Maybe because your device doesn't support it (NB.: Hardware)
Theonew said:
Maybe because your device doesn't support it (NB.: Hardware)
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No, the whole point is, on the stock ROM [EH03], video decoding works fine [last I tried while on that firmware]. But with the 3rd party roms [CM7, SuperClean3, etc.. I am going to give tsm pool party next I think], HW decoding is flaky/broken.
mvmacd said:
No, the whole point is, on the stock ROM [EH03], video decoding works fine [last I tried while on that firmware]. But with the 3rd party roms [CM7, SuperClean3, etc.. I am going to give tsm pool party next I think], HW decoding is flaky/broken.
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This is due to the AOSP drivers not supporting it and due to that the codex have been removed. It is one of the things you give up running AOSP roms. Think of it like running Linux on a windows PC. Yes it will work but there will be compatibility issues and some things just won't work.
zelendel said:
This is due to the AOSP drivers not supporting it and due to that the codex have been removed. It is one of the things you give up running AOSP roms. Think of it like running Linux on a windows PC. Yes it will work but there will be compatibility issues and some things just won't work.
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Argh..!! So are there any other roms that do support it and have the codec? Or is stock rom the only one?
mvmacd said:
Argh..!! So are there any other roms that do support it and have the codec? Or is stock rom the only one?
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Any rom built off of the stock rom will be able to do it. As they have all the Device built drivers and supporting codecs
zelendel said:
Any rom built off of the stock rom will be able to do it. As they have all the Device built drivers and supporting codecs
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Right, I meant what are the most well known stock-based fascinate roms?
where the most well know non-stock roms being Cyanogenmod, JT's vanilla GB, TSM Pool Party, SuperClean3..
I'm a big fan of CM and other non-Samsung versions of Android. In the past, there has been no real reason to keep Samsung based ROMs. But with the S3, the stock camera app seems so much better than everything else, this is a problem.
Are there any ways of running the stock camera app in CM at the moment?
OR
Are there any alternative camera apps that can do the kind of continuous speed shooting (20 exposures etc.) that the Samsung stock app can do?
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I'm a big fan of CM and other non-Samsung versions of Android. In the past, there has been no real reason to keep Samsung based ROMs. But with the S3, the stock camera app seems so much better than everything else, this is a problem.
Are there any ways of running the stock camera app in CM at the moment?
OR
Are there any alternative camera apps that can do the kind of continuous speed shooting (20 exposures etc.) that the Samsung stock app can do?
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I would recommend using hx camera mod. I can say that it 's the best camera app so far especially when recording a video at 30Mbit - 1080p superfine. Try to look at this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691145 or http://hx-custom-roms.com/galaxy-s3-camera-mod
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I would recommend using hx camera mod. I can say that it 's the best camera app so far especially when recording a video at 30Mbit - 1080p superfine. Try to look at this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691145 or http://hx-custom-roms.com/galaxy-s3-camera-mod
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Thanks. I think this will only work on stock roms though as it is Samsung framework dependant. What I really want is something that will allow me to leave Samsung roms and move to for example Cyanogen mod, but keep the additional functionality found in the Samsung camera app.
ryukent said:
Thanks. I think this will only work on stock roms though as it is Samsung framework dependant. What I really want is something that will allow me to leave Samsung roms and move to for example Cyanogen mod, but keep the additional functionality found in the Samsung camera app.
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try this one. works close to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746611&highlight=i9305
i liked the ultrapixel feature
Hello everyone, help me please, I'm sick and tired of stock firmware, I would like to move on cyanogenmod 11, but I am haunted by the lack of stock music player and video list may have sposob make them work on the cm 11, I understand that in the cm of another application media server, can can solve the problem? (of course quite elegant could cram even video codecs from stock firmware even without stock video player) Help, can you somehow them to port, stock music player with his equalizer + Viper give wonderful sound. Help me, please.
Samsung apps does not work on AOSP ROMs. You will have to use alternatives.
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Samsung apps does not work on AOSP ROMs. You will have to use alternatives.
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Do not tell, because why? And maybe there is some sort of video player animated preview app-like video list?
There are ups and downs to different types of roms.
TouchWiz: Laggy(yds), features u will miss when gg to aosp etc, camera, the apps by samsung
Aosp etc: Poor camera quality, the stock music player app is not good, however very fast and snappy, no lag at all.
Choose
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on the lg p990 forum we had the same problems with cyano.
Someone ported part of the lg framework on AOSP and we were able to use the official lg's camera (extracted from ICS) on cm10, instead of the crappy aosp one.
No way we can do something similar with i9300?
sorry, but it's not about the pros cyanide, about samsung apps, frameworks and TouchWiz also have ports, so why not to port these two applications?
Hi,
I have one problem with AOSP roms and I consider this as the biggest one.
I have a Galaxy S3 I9300 running Stock 4.3 deodexed, zipaligned etc.
Now with this ROM I am able to play almost all types of video files...Why is this not possible with AOSP roms?
I have always seen people installing different types of Apps (MX Player, VLC Player etc. etc..) to get all the videos playing...
But TouchWiz plays almost all types of videos out of the box...As of now I don't have any third party video player installed on my phone...
I am a big fan of CM, but refrain from installing it just because of this one reason!
Can someone please explain this to me...would be great !!
And please correct me if i am wrong...
Thanks.
Touchwiz is a hugely bloated layer on top of Android, everything works so even beginners have a good experience. AOSP starts with just Android, then you add the parts you want -if you want video then add it. AOSP on a Samsung device isn't ideal for new users
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boomboomer said:
Touchwiz is a hugely bloated layer on top of Android, everything works so even beginners have a good experience. AOSP starts with just Android, then you add the parts you want -if you want video then add it. AOSP on a Samsung device isn't ideal for new users
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Thanks for the answer but that's exactly what i want to know...
How can i enable support for all types of video files without installing numerous video players?
Are there any codecs which when installed on AOSP will do the magic??
Thanks
Some codecs aren't included in AOSP as they are not free. Same reason AOSP does not include gapps.