Hi all,
I've been playing with my MHL-HDMI adapter lately, and noticed that on my HDTV that the very top and bottom of the display gets truncated.
In addition, when a video is played (which always plays full screen) the video is slightly cut off all around. Not a big deal for most movies/tv shows generally, but is really annoying when there are small details in those corners (like for starcraft vods).
I've tried both the default player and mobo, but regardless of what I do to the video on the device, the MHL output remains unchanged.
Is there a way to force everything to show up on screen, even if that means the video will not fill the entire screen because of aspect ratio? Though I'm not rooted at the moment, I would be willing to root and tinker for a solution.
Thanks
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Hey,
i just got my MHL cable today and tested some of my 720p vids (~5Mbit highprofile) and i think that on my tv it doenst play as smooth as on the s2 itself.
Is it possible that the hdmi output is somehow slow or lagging ? Has someone
tested mhl yet?
regards
I have the same problem with every video file, no mater the video quality. What cable do you have? Samsung genuine?
firstly which firmware you have. secondary did you test other non-stock players?
for me is working with geniue and non-geniue (have two MHL cables) cables with no video lag...
in which format is movie?
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I have genuine samsung one and it works perfectly.
I am watching 1080p video files with x264 codec and also experience lag, not a huge lag but the kind of lag that once you know its there makes you notice it (it skips a frame every now and then)
I have tried several players, but it seems the HDMI output completely ignores the display that the 3rd party players provide (mxvideo, dice video), and instead gives you the same playback video that you get from playing the video from within the gallery.
I.e. the display on the phone is not the same as on the TV - subtitles are not displayed, image size is always with borders, color settings are not respected.
I have an original Samsung MHL adapter, but not one specifically designed for the galaxy s2 (I just went to a local store and bought one).
Has had someone success with 1080p Movies (I'm referring to ~6-10gb full 1080p rips, split in 4gb chunks)? - They play back without a hickup on the phone, just not on the tv.
Thanks!
EDIT: I'm on stock 2.3.4 gingerbread firmware
Is anyone else having part of their android screen cut off (just the two side edges) when they are plugged into the hdmi port on TVs? Any idea how or if you can fix that?
Depends on the resolution of your TV and the picture mode/scaling you have set.
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I want to be able to turn my screen off while watching a movie, is that possible? I have watched 2 movies so far and the screen stays on the whole time while I watch the movies, I feel that this drains the battery more this way. Is there a way to turn off the screen while watching a movie?
I have not yet found a way to do so
What player did you use? I watched a 720p mkv using BSPlayer Lite and I think at some point the screen timed out and the video kept going on the TV.
TalynOne said:
What player did you use? I watched a 720p mkv using BSPlayer Lite and I think at some point the screen timed out and the video kept going on the TV.
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I tried modoplayer and mx player
i used mxplayer and my screen turned off but i was using hw not sw mode
A lot of TVs have "overscan" enabled by default, which cuts off the outer edge of the screen and stretches the image. It's a carryover from the SDTV days, since CRT TVs wouldn't display all the way to the edge and TV shows and video games were designed with this in mind. That might be the issue. There's usually a setting in the TV's menu to disable overscan.
When using Gallery to play video to HDMI, my screen actually does go off for 1080p videos (no mirror function due to the high res).
I still can't get more than left channel audio when playing an H.264 stereo AAC MPEG4 video out to my 2 HD TVs. My several other tablets and phones don't have this issue. I've tried with 2 HDMI 1.4 cables that work for the other devices.
If I play a video with 5.1 channel audio and run it through my AV receiver, the receiver detects the 5.1 input, but I get only left front channel out and sub. I'm still not sure if this is a defective Prime or a buggy implementation of 5.1 on the tablet.
Is anyone getting both left and right channel audio when plugging the Prime into an HD TV?
i'm actually not being able to see anything on my tv, am i doing or missing something wrong?
I've got both side speakers working on my TV. I have a samsung sound bar hooked up to my tv and it sounded awesome last night while watching my movie.
Cuyabro, the only thing I did was plugged the HDMI cable to my TV and TP and it worked. I didn't do anything special.
Tried rebooting the tablet and unplugging-replugging the cable, cuyabro?
I hooked up my TP to my old CRT TV (please don't laugh at me) through a small digital to analog converter. Audio and video come through fine, except the video is "squished" thinner than it should be. The converter and TV don't seem to have options for changing the aspect ratio, so the responsibility falls on my TP. Problem is, I can't find info about changing aspect ratios anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks!
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I hooked up my TP to my old CRT TV (please don't laugh at me) through a small digital to analog converter. Audio and video come through fine, except the video is "squished" thinner than it should be. The converter and TV don't seem to have options for changing the aspect ratio, so the responsibility falls on my TP. Problem is, I can't find info about changing aspect ratios anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Thanks Mosh! I'll give it a try.
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Get Dice player, it has options for size, rotation and so on, but that is for local videos and I am not sure it will do anything for web video.
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Come to think of it, I mostly run the Netflix app, so yeah, I would need to somehow change the aspect ratio for the HDMI video output (or on the Netflix app, which doesn't seem to have that option).
Anyone else have ideas?
I recently bought the HDTV Adapter for my S3 and so far it served its purpose except for one thing, video playback (.MKV to be exact) soft subs. They do not show on my big screen for some reason as if it was splitting my phone and giving it a second monitor but not showing exactly what's on my phone's screen. Any way to make it so my soft subs display on my big screen through the HDTV Adapter?
I don't know which program you're using, but I can tell you from my experience with MX Player that if you use the software decoder, the subtitles will appear on your external screen.
If you're using BS Player, go to Preferences -> Decoding mode and choose Hardware Decoding Mode (system). For me, using this or the software decoder worked perfectly.
It's just a matter of fiddling with the settings.
Hope I could help.
Cheers
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I tried and actually worked with MX Player but terrible video instability and lag issues followed with both 1080p and 720p videos, will have to keep looking.
This is a known bug. please vote to get it fixed.
I got the same issue across all players (bsplayer, mobo,mx, vlc, etc. you name it) on an Asus TF700T/ICS.
As someone who prefers to watch their HD-high-bitrate-movies in Originalton, meaning original soundtrack and not their own language,
on an external screen (beamer,TV) hardware-decoding and subtitles are often mandatory.
Please Vote(star) here to get OHAP's attention: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32564
I asked this in another section, no one responded. I have xtrons radio running 8 I believe. I have a hardwired(rca cable) camera on the back of my rv. I can access this video from an app AUX in video plays just fine but the music cuts off. Maybe there is some other music player I could use or a different app I can use to display the video, It would be even better if it just opened up in a small window since this is a 10 inch screen. I would mostly use this for lane changes.