Since the ICS update subs on MKV titles no longer work--tired the latest diceplayer and the stock ICS video player (BSPlayer still not functioning with ICS). Any advice out there?
MX Player works good for me on ICS. Free has ads but only when using the controls, not during normal playback. Pro has more options though and it works so well I purchased to support the dev. Try free, if it works go pro.
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I've been trying to play MKV files off of my gtab with flashback 10.1.
I can get it to play with OnlinePlayer but it is too laggy to watch enjoyably, and I tried Mobo Video which doesn't seem to work for me after installing like 3 add ons they recommended...
Anyone else have any luck? I really want to use this as a video player device but I can't get files to work.
I'm on flashback 10 (since all 10.1 seems to do is update / replace / remove various apps) and I've been using MX Video Player to play my MKV files. works perfectly. I was specifically looking for a player that handles softsubs on MKVs and this player does that far better than I expected. So many extra little features works fine for me with 720P files. haven't tried any 1080P ones though.
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I'm on flashback 10 (since all 10.1 seems to do is update / replace / remove various apps) and I've been using MX Video Player to play my MKV files. works perfectly. I was specifically looking for a player that handles softsubs on MKVs and this player does that far better than I expected. So many extra little features works fine for me with 720P files. haven't tried any 1080P ones though.
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Ok I will try that out. Isn't the gtab with honeycomb incapable of playing HD video though?
edit: Tried out MX Video player. Very good recommendation. It is great! Thank you very much.
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Maybe its just me, but I've been having some odd issues with video playback on my new Tablet S.
Basically, anything that the Tablet natively supports works just fine. But anything that requires using a Software Decoder (like MX Video Player, or QQPlayer etc) goes weird. The audio and the video will become unsynced as the video playback framerate is much lower than the original file while the sound plays at the normal speed, sending it far ahead of the displayed video.
Does anyone have any suggestions on better ways to play non-supported video files?
Dice player has worked for me without any problems. I've heard of problems with sync on MX but who knows, give Dice a try and see if it helps...
MOBOPLAYER.
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I'm using BS Player lite, had no problems with avi or mkv.
Hey guys,
Loving my Prime but I'm finding the video playback hit and miss to be honest.
I'm finding them all very buggy and most of them kick me out of the video randomly even without anything else running.
All of the below run perfectly on my friends Galaxy SII so it may be ICS?
I want to play back XVIDs and MKVs with subtitle support.
Below are the players I've tried and their results:
Google Videos:
Reads MicroSD
Plays MKV (some without sound) but NOT XVID
Doesn't support subtitles
STABLE
Rockplayer
Plays XVID & MKV
No subtitle support
UNSTABLE
MX Video Player Pro
Plays XVID & MKV
Subtitle support
UNSTABLE
MoboPlayer
Plays XVID & MKV
No subtitle support
UNSTABLE
How have you guys been finding video playback on this guy?
I play on using this tablet for a lot of video consumption so I'd love to get this sorted.
Thanks for the help!
Dice Player has been gold for me, playing everything I've thrown at it (720p mkv, avi, mpeg). I haven't tried anything with subtitles, but it supposedly supports them.
There's currently only the ad-supported version available, but the ads are small and don't show up at all should you use microHDMI to display the video on an external screen.
MX video player has worked great for me. Try different encoders if something in your video isn't working well (ie, HW, SW, etc). Also, try re-installing if you think ICS broke it.
Diceplayer is the best I think. Plays everything just fine and have good setting for subtitle.
I watch my videos most with subtitle and i haven't had any problems. Easy to change size and if you long press on the subtitle text you can move it up and down. Also have easy access to change the subtitle sync. And the add only shows when the controls are showing. here You don't see the add when the video plays and the controls and status bar hides.
And if some videos don't play properly i say that the problem often is the video file that is encoded strange.
MX Pro works great for me even on my high profile x264 encodes. SW decoder works better than HW decoder (go figure right? I would have thought the opposite) with fast mode disabled.
Edit: I have to agree with Andreas, if you're having playback issues it's likely the video not the player. Encoding is a subtle art, not everyone gets it right. Get your vids from well known sources like Thora.
Thanks a million guys.
MX Player Pro doesn't support HW decoding on the Transformer Prime. At least on mine it doesn't. Dunno why. And its really flakey. It keep crashing out on any file I try to play (XVID, MP4, MKV)
DicePlayer is WIN so far! Thanks for the recommend!
It's playing everything with subtitles too.
The only thing I don't like about it is the background 'behind' the movie is a gradient from black at the top to grey at the bottom so on some movies you've got a grey at the bottom of the picture instead of it playing on a full black background.
Unless you guys know how I can change that I'll be using DicePlayer until something better comes along.
HURRY UP VLC!
HW decoding technically works on my Prime, but SW decoding performs better. Is the option not even available for you in settings? Free or Pro? Also, no VLC...ever. Just no.
OK!
Very happy to report that after purchasing the full version of MX Player Pro EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT!!!!
Many thanks again guys!
XDA ROCKS!
lediva said:
Dice Player has been gold for me, playing everything I've thrown at it (720p mkv, avi, mpeg). I haven't tried anything with subtitles, but it supposedly supports them.
There's currently only the ad-supported version available, but the ads are small and don't show up at all should you use microHDMI to display the video on an external screen.
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Another vote for DICE. Hopefully they can get their payment issues sorted out.
Dice is the best IMO. I run huge 1080p files and only Dice can handle it without a hiccup. MX Player Pro has a skip every once and a while. Not that big but Dice doesn't do it so it wins.
VitalPlayer Pro seems to work well. It can't navigate to the MicroSD card though.
BSPlayer has worked well for me. I use the lite version and all is good. It handles all video/audio as well has HW decoding for supported video types.
My vote goes to Dice player. It is the only one that I have tested that doesn't have audio lag when I am using bluetooth headphones. Also it plays everything I can throw at it.
And don't forget to instal mx player codec pack for armv7.. In market too.
MX Player will prompt you if it needs a codec pack installed. In the Primes case it does not, it is good to go.
Since I use and like DVD Catalyst 4 to convert my DVD's to video I also use their video app called Movie Gallery. Not sure if it plays all codecs but it sure works great with my converted DVD's
I used to use VPlayer when it was beta/free but now I use vlc for android http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-09-18/videolan_for_android_pre-alpha
I get my TFP tomorrow but it works on my phone and the OG transformer according to the post so it should work on the prime. NONeon btw at least the OG was NONeon
I sure hope that it does.
video and sound on tv, subtitle on prime
I've tried Dice- and MX player and with both programs I get sound and video on my tv playing avi but the subs will be displayed only on the Prime. Has anyone the same problem or does someone a solution?
Does MXPlayer require an internet connection for the key verification? I saw some reviews that stated it did. Obviously on a wifi only device i may be without internet... Anyone have trouble with this?
Schutter said:
I've tried Dice- and MX player and with both programs I get sound and video on my tv playing avi but the subs will be displayed only on the Prime. Has anyone the same problem or does someone a solution?
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You have to use software decoding if you want soft subs, the hardware decoder on the prime doesn't handle them when outputting.
I have several 1080p h.264 files in .mov and .avi containers that played perfectly with HW decoding on the AT&T-based GB ROMs. But with all of the ICS ROMs I've tried, they don't open at all in the stock video player. Both VPlayer and MX Player show they're using SW decoding instead of HW decoding.
ROMs I've tried:
SHOstock2 v1.1
Samsung leaked UCPLC5
AOKP 4.04
CM9 Nightly 2012-04-05
UPDATE:
It turns out that the Samsung-based ICS builds no longer support h.264 in Quicktime .mov or Microsoft .avi containers. However remuxing the .mov or .avi file into a Matroska .mkv file using MKVMerge (or other MKV muxing tool) allows the built-in media player to play the files properly and the HW decoding works fine. This also allows MX Player to play the file with HW decoding.
DicePlayer is able to play any of the formats with HW acceleration on both the Samsung-based ROMs as well as on AOKP.
MX Player HW decoding only worked for .mkv on the Samsung-based ICS ROM.
Thanks to everyone who provided feedback.
H.264 works fine for me on Shostock2 v1.1
CM9 (and probably AOKP) will never have hardware-accelerated x/h264 playback due to licensing issues with re-distributing Samsung's proprietary code.
I haven't tried playing movies on UCPLC5 leak (I don't watch movies on such a small screen), but I would go ask in the thread in the developer forum.
Stupid question... did you do a full wipe before flashing?
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Did Samsung eliminate supported file formats or resolutions with ICS or something?
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The other way around. Samsung didn't have time to add file formats support in ICS yet. ICS in many ways is closer to HoneyComb than GingerBread. Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners have suffered this similar issue (only 1/10th of formats will play) from day one. Who says newer OS is always better.
raduque said:
CM9 (and probably AOKP) will never have hardware-accelerated x/h264 playback due to licensing issues with re-distributing Samsung's proprietary code.
I haven't tried playing movies on UCPLC5 leak (I don't watch movies on such a small screen), but I would go ask in the thread in the developer forum.
Stupid question... did you do a full wipe before flashing?
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Actually, I am running task650's latest released AOKP rom and it plays my 1080p mp4 and mkv's based on h264 perfectly using HW acceleration @ 10 mbps.
However, It doesn't play my wmv's whereas Samsung based roms do. I'm not too broken up about it though. I just converted any wmvs to mkvs and now they play fine.
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On my ROM, every HD file I have on my computer (mkvs using DivX, H.264, and a bunch of other codecs) play perfectly. However, I do have some special files that don't play...
raduque said:
CM9 (and probably AOKP) will never have hardware-accelerated x/h264 playback due to licensing issues with re-distributing Samsung's proprietary code.
I haven't tried playing movies on UCPLC5 leak (I don't watch movies on such a small screen), but I would go ask in the thread in the developer forum.
Stupid question... did you do a full wipe before flashing?
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Actually H.264 was fixed quite a while ago. Works fine for me.
foxbat121 said:
The other way around. Samsung didn't have time to add file formats support in ICS yet. ICS in many ways is closer to HoneyComb than GingerBread. Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners have suffered this similar issue (only 1/10th of formats will play) from day one. Who says newer OS is always better.
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It looks like this is what's happening.
It seems that the Samsung-based ICS builds no longer support h.264 in Quicktime .mov or Microsoft .avi containers. However remuxing the .mov or .avi file into a Matroska .mkv file using MKVMerge (or other MKV muxing tool) allows the built-in media player to play the files properly and the HW decoding works fine. This also allows MX Player to play the file with HW decoding.
DicePlayer is able to play any of the formats with HW acceleration on both the Samsung-based ROMs as well as on AOKP. However I noticed that DicePlayer on the Samsung-based ICS ROM was very smooth playing back 1080p whereas there were noticeable dropped frames playing the same file on AOKP 4.04.
MX Player HW decoding only worked for .mkv on the Samsung-based ICS ROM.
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Actually, I am running task650's latest released AOKP rom and it plays my 1080p mp4 and mkv's based on h264 perfectly using HW acceleration @ 10 mbps.
However, It doesn't play my wmv's whereas Samsung based roms do. I'm not too broken up about it though. I just converted any wmvs to mkvs and now they play fine.
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What video player are you using? I'm trying to play an x264 video with MX player and it only plays in SW.
Nevermind... BS player works. I prefer MX player's interface but have no clue why it won't play certain files in HW.
mzaur said:
... BS player works. I prefer MX player's interface but have no clue why it won't play certain files in HW.
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If you like MX Player's interface, you should check out DicePlayer. I don't like it as much as MX Player, but it's UI is allot closer to MX Player than BSPlayer is.
Based on my testing, it seems like MX Player hardware decoding relies on the underlying OS to handle splitting containers into streams whereas DicePlayer and BSPlayer seem to have built-in support for splitting .mov and .wmv.
Hi, Been using Archos video player on my nexus 7 and works really. Installed on Nexus 9 and crashes every time just after launching.
Anyone recommend a good video player than can play local and network content?
Thanks
Mx player is the best around. There is a beta or something like that. It works with lolipop,......... Unfurtinatley it doesnt index any local file instead i use solid explorer and mizuu for media content. Look them up
Mx player!
5.0 beta here: https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpe...32_neon_direct_nightly.apk?attredirects=0&d=1
taken from here https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
"Partially supports Android 5.0 developer preview. hw+ decoder is still not supported."
Dice Player works OK, although I can't get it to play back MKVs.
Thanks everyone for suggestions. I will try them out.
VLC works fine for me. I am looking forward to MX Player though.