Highly recommended video player for HD content and LAN streaming - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

I would recommend BS Player Lite.... I tried DICE, MX, Mobo, Vplayer and many others last night and BS was the only one that would play everything (even 1080p) smoothly, even over a network connection from a local share. Best part, it's free!!
Market location: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free&hl=en
Tips for best playback:
- If you use it over a network, go into BS Player and use its LAN mode. The decoder must be the BSEngine Hardware Decoder to stream.
- For local playing content, change the decoder to the system hardware decoder and not the BSEngine hardware decoder. Works so much better.
So far I have been able to play (both locally and streaming from a network share), 1080p and 720p video including DTS Audio from the following formats: MKV, WMV, AVI, F4V, MP4, FLV, DIVX and M4V.

Just tried it on an 1080p file. System HW decoder- video looks great but no sound. BS Player HW decoder- video looks like crap but audio works. Having the same issues with mxplayer. Very dissapointing.
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Dice player seems to be king of media players. just make sure if you watching movie from internal memory/external or removable(micro SD card) that its using HW decoding.

I Agree with the OP ... BSPlayer has been flawless for every video bar 1 for me ... Dice player isnt free but the trial was the same as BSPlayer for the files i tried.

How do you connect in lan mode? When I go in LAN MODE my ip adress is already in. I cant change it. I put in user name and pw and i get an invalid host message.
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Danny-B- said:
I Agree with the OP ... BSPlayer has been flawless for every video bar 1 for me ... Dice player isnt free but the trial was the same as BSPlayer for the files i tried.
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New Prime owners who want to watch video on their shiny new tablet will be pleased to know that a full version of Dice Player (ad-supported) is now available on the Android Market.
Links & barcodes for your phone here.

bnl552 said:
Just tried it on an 1080p file. System HW decoder- video looks great but no sound. BS Player HW decoder- video looks like crap but audio works. Having the same issues with mxplayer. Very dissapointing.
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Your file is to blame.
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I use the BSPlayer as well. Works perfectly. I also use the Lan mode and stream from my Windows 7 machine. 1080p .mkv movies are sometimes laggy, but sometimes they aren't. I think it differs from file to file because of its size and my local network isn't fast enough.

Did not play my mp4 version of a high res movie only really slow! Tried multiple settings and now I am back to mx
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demandarin said:
Dice player seems to be king of media players. just make sure if you watching movie from internal memory/external or removable(micro SD card) that its using HW decoding.
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I'm using DICE + ES File Explorer to stream 720p videos on my Galaxy Tab and it works great. Can't wait to try the same combo with TF Prime

I also tried it on Prime and it works. Full HD sometimes still lags on wifi streaming (smb through ES explorer) but pausing for a minute sometimes help. The best player I tried, and I tried a lot of them.

thank you very much, dude it helps me

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Best app for HD Video - DicePlayer (IMHO)

DicePlayer works great on the Prime. MKVs are super smooth!
Thanks for taking down the warez in the first post
Dice Player ad supported version to go out on the Android Market soon, paid version probably to SlideMe (and/or Amazon).
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this player is perfect, nothing I have used can come close to matching its performance. 8 gig high profile 1080p movies play flawlessly with no lag at all skipping to any point in the movie. very cool
played 11gig movie from mxplayer over DLNA still smooth
I was trying to play some 1080p stuff on my prime and it was lagging and eventually just quit. It was a x264 mkv file with ac3 codex for sound). When I try to play it in mx player, so it's smooth with h/with acceleration but has no sound. The I tried running it on my pc and it worked fine.
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Haven't tried MX Videoplayer on the Prime just yet, but it's playback isn't as good as Dice Player on every other device I've used it in.
Video playback demo video - Dice Player playing everything:
I threw a 17gb 1080p MKV of Jurassic Park on my Prime and watched it with DicePlayer. Fantastic playback.
NickSaul said:
I threw a 17gb 1080p MKV of Jurassic Park on my Prime and watched it with DicePlayer. Fantastic playback.
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How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
foboi1122 said:
How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
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I just hooked the USB cable up to my computer and navigated to the internal memory and dropped the file into the "Movies" folder. it took almost an hour to transfer it.
Oh, and in the Market there's "DicePlayer plugin for tegra2". I have that installed. See if that works.
Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428289
I removed DICE last night due to the LAN streaming limitations. BS Player worked so much better for me and played even more than DICE did for me.
addisdar said:
Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428289
I removed DICE last night due to the LAN streaming limitations. BS Player worked so much better for me and played even more than DICE did for me.
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BS player is the ticket, especially with no paid version of dice player available.
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What LAN streaming limitations?
Just use ES File Explorer on the LAN tab create entries for your samba shares, navigate to your media collection and when you tap to play the movie you can choose which player to launch it with. Works great with DicePlayer.
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foboi1122 said:
How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
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Did you copy it to internal memory or an SD card? If to an SD card how is it formatted? You may need to format the SD card as NTFS to properly support large file sizes on the Prime.
TalynOne said:
What LAN streaming limitations?
Just use ES File Explorer on the LAN tab create entries for your samba shares, navigate to your media collection and when you tap to play the movie you can choose which player to launch it with. Works great with DicePlayer.
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Tried ES File Explorer, but the load time was too long to start a large file. With BS it is instant.
addisdar said:
Tried ES File Explorer, but the load time was too long to start a large file. With BS it is instant.
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Load time may be a little longer (by like 3-5 seconds) but BS Player is noticeably choppier when actually playing high def content (yes I have HW acceleration on).
NZtechfreak said:
Haven't tried MX Videoplayer on the Prime just yet, but it's playback isn't as good as Dice Player on every other device I've used it in.
Video playback demo video - Dice Player playing everything:
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What version are you playing with in the video? 1.8.3? Full version?
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What version are you playing with in the video? 1.8.3? Full version?
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Full version, most recent (at the time of filming earlier in the week at any rate, it updated today).
BTW everyone, an ad-supported version is now live in the Android Market.
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DicePlayer works great on the Prime. MKVs are super smooth!
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Merdian works great too. What is nice its a media player it does everything except windows. I have a window washer to do those
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BS player is the ticket, especially with no paid version of dice player available.
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BSplayer is good to. But I miss that there are no controller/option to adjust the subtitle sync.
There, both Dice and MX has an advantage that they have multiple settings for the subtitle.

ICS MKV Support

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 !
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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?

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.
tedr108 said:
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
dee32181 said:
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.

[Q] playing movies on prime

Is there a way to play movies that I have on my computer already on my prime? Is there an app that will play movies in any format with out converting them or do I have to convert the files?
Already answered your other thread. Try BSplayer
mechanism cancn
MX Player is also great.
to get to the files on your network share I like using es file explorer.. choose the file and then pick your video player. nice n easy.
mx player is good, but a lot of times uses software rendering. and more and more my videos would just stop and go back to the list screen.
I've switched to dice player and haven't had one that isn't using hardware rendering. and no closing out for no reason.
the main reason hardware rendering is going to be better is if you have it plugged into HDMI. software rendering still displays the video on-screen, draining more battery. whereas on hardware the screen is black and its only putting it out via HDMI.
UPNPlayer is a nice app to STREAM from your computer...
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atiatinini said:
MX Player is also great.
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I can't echo my experience with MX Player. I have plenty of H.264 encoded mkv videos (High-Level Profile 4.0/4.1). MX Player for some strange reason hiccups with the sound and video when I start a video and then as I'm playing, will also skip randomly. I use Dice Player. Once BSPlayer modifies their app to "minimize" the action bar with dots like Dice and MX player can do, I'll switch to that, since Dice seems to cause random reboots at times.

1080p mkv on Nexus 10

I bought the Nexus 10 mainly for movie playback, I have downloaded several 720p mkv files and 1080p mkv files. The 720p mkv works fine in MX Player, but 1080p mkv does not work at all. (not only the sound but also the video), Ive also tried VLC player , BS player, Dice player, nothing works.
Its weird because Ive seen several clips on youtube where 1080p mkv files do work, but I dont understand how.
Can someone please help me???
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I bought the Nexus 10 mainly for movie playback, I have downloaded several 720p mkv files and 1080p mkv files. The 720p mkv works fine in MX Player, but 1080p mkv does not work at all. (not only the sound but also the video), Ive also tried VLC player , BS player, Dice player, nothing works.
Its weird because Ive seen several clips on youtube where 1080p mkv files do work, but I dont understand how.
Can someone please help me???
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MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
I don't know how relevant this is but...
I got "The Tunnel" free with uTorrent awhile back. Legally. I went to watch it on my older, last-gen A500 (720p mkv file) on MX Player. Didn't work with H/W at all. S/W, would play video and audio. Audio'd desync around 1 minute in with video slowing down. 2 1/2-4 minutes in, audio dies permanently. Didn't work through the HDMI or on-board screen. Could it be similar causes?
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MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
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Doesnt work.
lKBZl said:
MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
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I don't know how relevant this is but...
I got "The Tunnel" free with uTorrent awhile back. Legally. I went to watch it on my older, last-gen A500 (720p mkv file) on MX Player. Didn't work with H/W at all. S/W, would play video and audio. Audio'd desync around 1 minute in with video slowing down. 2 1/2-4 minutes in, audio dies permanently. Didn't work through the HDMI or on-board screen. Could it be similar causes?
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Doesnt work.
Can only someone who owns a Nexus 10 reply.
Use dice player with the custom DTS plugin (guessing that's why its trying to force software playback). Its called libffmpeg.so - do a Google search for it, put it in root, then activate it in the settings menu in dice player. Should play in HW mode. No matter what peeps say, I keep using dice player (can stream over ftp shares!)
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Use dice player with the custom DTS plugin (guessing that's why its trying to force software playback). Its called libffmpeg.so - do a Google search for it, put it in root, then activate it in the settings menu in dice player. Should play in HW mode.
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Isnt DTS only for sound? the problem is also the video, there is no playback at all, so are you sure it will work? what is "put it in root" ???
Never try a 1080p mkv
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Never try a 1080p mkv
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why?
The mkv is made of two or more parts: the video, and the audio(sometimes multiple streams). If the audio is unsupported by the hw decoder, it will try to play via software (slower). Root directory /sdcard/
I recently started using dice player because it plays my mkv videos 1080p with dts sound.
Default settings used and no custom codecs.
Mxplayer doesnt support dts audio due to some licence issue otherwise I prefer Mxplayer
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shahed26 said:
I recently started using dice player because it plays my mkv videos 1080p with dts sound.
Default settings used and no custom codecs.
Mxplayer doesnt support dts audio due to some licence issue otherwise I prefer Mxplayer
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You did that with a Nexus 10?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254
Did you try mxplayer with the custom codec from this thread? 1080p mkvs work for me with this. Using h/w+ decoder , s/w audio decode and 4.0 compatibility mode in the settings.
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You did that with a Nexus 10?
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BS Player works fine for me on my Nexus 10. Have you ticked the "Use alternate HW decoding mode" under playback preferences? Sometimes when I do get the odd 1080p MKV file not working with this, I swap it to software decoding which then works fine.
Dude, HW+ and Software Audio Decoding in MX Player does the Trick... I even created a 2560x1600 h.264 mkv video (25fps) with high preset, and it works smoothly - however, you must have the exact pixel count. If the Nexus 10 has to do rescaling, e.g. because of the navbar, you will get horrible stuttering. Nevertheless, this is pretty impressive. It is all about proper usage.
Edit: 1080p can be scaled up without stuttering, of course.
i don't know what it is you're doing wrong, but MX Player and BSPlayer both play 1080p perfectly fine as long as they're in HW decoding mode. I prefer MX Player since BS is having issues with A/V sync when playing a lot of the smaller 720p videos i have tried. make sure to enable HW+ decoding in MX Player, add the custom DTS codec for the current version and get some proper 1080p mkv files and it will play pretty much anything perfectly.
What is the bitrate of your mkv?
I encoded the video using Handbrake at High Profile (CRF20), which produced 19mb/s in average, with peaks at up to 70mb/s.
My source file was "Redwood National Park" by Jacob+Katie Schwarz (you can find it on YouTube). I avoided letterbox with a combination of cropping and resizing.
Keep in mind that you have to match the native resolution if you want to enjoy insane video playback like this without stuttering. If you create a 2560x1604 file for example, you end up seeing one frame every three seconds...

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