I don't know about all of you, but I love VLC - it's exciting to have it on android.
That said, I downloaded VLC-20120226.apk [Cortex-A8, NEON] [Latest] and installed it on my ICS Alpha 2 Touchpad and it works great.
Just in case anyone was wondering what build to use.
Here's the beta thread in case you missed it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517415
I was also able to enable hardware acceleration in vlc player, and I didn't have any issues. I played a 720p mkv with no problems perfectly smooth.
Try it!
Yeah, saw this in the blogs.. Works good so far. Good job on posting the right apk.
Sent from my android touchpad.
So the cortex a8 one is the one for touchpads?
HP Touchpad - CM9a2
The A9 version is the right one. A8 I fine too though.
--Matt
Using A9 version now
Hi guys,
Been using VLC for a couple weeks now. Works great, with one exception I was hoping someone could give me some advice on. When I go to play mpeg's, it starts and within 10 seconds it crashes. I can play avi's all day long with no issues.
Any ideas?
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Hi guys,
Been using VLC for a couple weeks now. Works great, with one exception I was hoping someone could give me some advice on. When I go to play mpeg's, it starts and within 10 seconds it crashes. I can play avi's all day long with no issues.
Any ideas?
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VLC is an alpha and not really even an official one as it was just user compiled from the source. So for now you are stuck either converting them to a format that works or using another software to play them.
The A8 version worked fairly well. The A9 version didn't.
VLC is looking very promising. Still not as good as Dice player though. VLC fails my 720p stress test video and Dice player passes.
Stress test video dl link:
http://db.tt/A4mizhVk
The birds is what kills VLC. Dice player plays it all flawlessly.
muyoso said:
The A8 version worked fairly well. The A9 version didn't.
VLC is looking very promising. Still not as good as Dice player though. VLC fails my 720p stress test video and Dice player passes.
Stress test video dl link:
http://db.tt/A4mizhVk
The birds is what kills VLC. Dice player plays it all flawlessly.
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Sweet, never knew about Dice Player until now. Looks like it plays a wide variety of formats and supports streaming. Will probably become my player of choice until an official VLC player is released.
I've loved VLC on both PC and iPhone (seen the light and abandoned Apple for the SG Note) but it'll take a lot for me to change from MX Player now. Its played everything I have thrown at it, regardless of codec and including full HD videos.
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I came from Winmo 6.5 and missed my dearly Coreplayer.
So found and installed Rock Player (which is called Demo Player after install?) but no matter what I do: no video whatsoever is played. I have .wmv files, .avi, .mp4: I tap the filename and rock player goes back to the dir view.
Anyone else know about this issue? Or did I miss something?
You should use Meridian. It's very nice but only plays mp4.
Xvid and wmv is not hardware supported but you can use xyflash to play them. It just lags. You will have to wait for coreplayer 2.0 for android.
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You should use Meridian. It's very nice but only plays mp4.
Xvid and wmv is not hardware supported but you can use xyflash to play them. It just lags. You will have to wait for coreplayer 2.0 for android.
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No, he doesn't. Rockplayer Beta works wonderfully with divx, xvid, mkv and the likes.
same here i cant get rockplayer to work on my legend.
As far as I know Rock Player is an old project of getting vlc to work on android. Only problem is that is isn't designed to be running on the mobile platform. It works for some but I tried every apk I could find but never got it running on my Legend.
I myself am looking forward to CorePlayer. It is going to do all that is missing in videoplayback on android.
Thats just my 2 cents.
downloaded the latest rockplayer and its now working great
http://www.freecoder.org/rockplayer/RockPlayer_0.2.8_Beta_v6_vfp.apk
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downloaded the latest rockplayer and its now working great
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Yepp, this works great! thanks!
rockplayer is freaking awesome on my N1
Works great on Desire, however the latest they have added a watermarking!
If it shows "Demo Player", then you are installing the logo hacked version of first close beta of RockPlayer. The later URL posted is the official public beta which is much more stable.
I strongly suggest you to have a look at the release announce at www . diffthink.com /forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4 , it helps to understand why some phone cannot run it.
RockPlayer first public BETA release
We are proud to announce the android video player, RockPlayer is ready for public beta, enjoy video on your favorite phone now!
Support Android OS : 1.6 - 2.2
Support Media format : avi mkv rmvb flv mp4 3gp wmv mov asf , divx xvid h264 rv40
CPU Requirement: ARMV6 、ARMV7 .device must support VFP (NOT Support: HTC G1 G2 G3 )
Download link : groups.google.com.hk/group/rockplayer/files
Official Forum : www . diffthink.com/forum/
Must uninstall the old version before install if any. And this public beta will expire at July-15-2010.
Please keep above note when you share the news.
2010-Jun-23: The google group exceed the bandwith quota, you may download the file at www . freecoder.org/rockplayer/RockPlayer_0.2.8_Beta_v6_vfp.apk
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Have you tried yxplayer? it plays even xvid avi file. Works great on my Legend.
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Have you tried yxplayer? it plays even xvid avi file. Works great on my Legend.
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It's terribly sluggish on mine.
The latest beta for Rockplayer now supports the Legend, excellent! And the performance is superb with very little slowdown, if any.
doesn't work on my Hero (2.1) as well. It just keeps on going back to the file explorer window. Samsung Galaxy Spica has DivX support and it works like a charm.
Working great on my Evo.
BicolXpress said:
downloaded the latest rockplayer and its now working great
http://www.freecoder.org/rockplayer/RockPlayer_0.2.8_Beta_v6_vfp.apk
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WORKS!! Finally.. great player!
Yeah, the lastest version works really great. Btw, yxflash is screwed.
Keep getting Installation Failed on my 2.1 Hero (ezHero v5.0)
Works on my friends hero, same firmware, any suggestions?
NEVER MIND, think my original download was corrupt, after re-downloading and installing it worked.
GREAT APP!
Can anyone please reupload or send me a link to a working version of Rockplayer ? The link here is dead.
I have the Demoplayer version and it keeps crashing everytime I try to play a file (tried avi video, and mp3 music).
edit : I downloaded a version from the market, but it doesn't play my avi files (tried a random episode of BBT, 175MB) - it says it can't play in system mode and freezes in normal mode. This version can at least play audio, which couldn't be more useless to me.
@grandioso
Which Rom do you use? I think that if you use Azure rom, the rock player won't work. It has something to do with camera library, if they change it so that the player would work, then the camera doesn't work. So the devs decieded that most users prefers working camera. I must say it's a right decision, but maybe some one will find a solution to this problem.
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.
Thanks
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Has anyone tried playing any HD MKV's through the Rezound? If so, does it handle it better than Tegra 2 and utilize the screen well?
i've got a bunch of 720P .mkv files i've tried out. for the most part they play fine, but occasionally there's a slight "out-of-sync" issue. it seems the 2 best apps to use for playing these files are Dice Player and MX Video Player. the weird thing is, sometimes when a sync issue occurs, for instance if it's in MX, i'll try playing in Dice instead and it'll play fine... but there's times it'll happen the other way around to. of course, considering that the OS isn't really designed to take advantage of multi-core CPU's + the b.s. Sense & bloatware on the phone don't help either.
I have seen the same type of files play on the Galaxy Nexus as well(but through the stock player) and the GN had similiar issues as well though.. so... hmmm.. !!
Theyplay fine with moBo player for me
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What's your video properties? I just tried to play Transformers: Dark of the Moon and it stutter forever.
I saw the videos in the gallery that come preloaded on the device and they look amazing. I want to be able to take my HD MKV's and have then look good and play as fluid as the pre-loaded ones. Any suggestions for that or conversion?
There is a vlc media player beta floating around in the nook color threads. It works pretty fing good, mobo seems to do the job as well. I have found that it depends on how, or what it was encoded with. I will try and post a link to the vlc file in awhile. Good luck.
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ok here's one that'll play slightly "out-of-sync":
Regular Show - 309 - House Rules (720p).mkv
MPEG4 video (.H264)
1280x720 23.98fps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch
Hi all,
I recently jumped the bandwagon and installed ICS leak on it. Tried Dagr8 Alpha 1 and 2. I also tried Collective. I really love those leaked roms (except maybe Alpha 2, so much lag in my case).
I need help with MX player. One of the biggest reason I bought the note was to watch a lot of my anime series when in the bus going to work/from work. I download animes in MKV format and the subtitles there are embedded. The anime I download are usually 1080p and 720p. I download this video size because sometimes I watch it on my computer too. So I just download it at large sizes so I can watch it anywhere with good quality.
Anyway, when I installed ICS and installed MX player, I'm having horrible out of sync with audio/video. It also gets worse when you watch the video longer. Sometimes out of sync takes a 4-second difference.
If I change from Hardware acceleration to Software, out of sync goes away but the playback is sooo laggy that you can't watch it too. ** Oh maybe not totally go away, as I just experienced right now (while typing this) that I had an out of sync issue even in software decoder. **
I never had any issue with GingerBread. All my anime video plays fine even in 1080p. I have not tried converting to Mp4 but I don't think it will make sense because it was working before with GB. I have a lot of anime and converting it would be a pain for me. Maybe there is a trick that I can do in ICS to fix this issue.
Are you guys also having out of sync issues with some videos in MX player? If not, please try playing videos in MKV with embedded subs and let me know.
I really want to stick with ICS. This is the only reason I'm going to go back to GB before I get to work on monday Please help, I really don't want to go back to GB anymore.
Thanks
bumping thread.
or maybe others can suggest a player that is like MX that uses hardware acceleration to play clips.
Mobo Player does not and I can't find any other player out there that uses HW accel for playback.
Thanks
keplenk said:
Hi all,
I recently jumped the bandwagon and installed ICS leak on it. Tried Dagr8 Alpha 1 and 2. I also tried Collective. I really love those leaked roms (except maybe Alpha 2, so much lag in my case).
I need help with MX player. One of the biggest reason I bought the note was to watch a lot of my anime series when in the bus going to work/from work. I download animes in MKV format and the subtitles there are embedded. The anime I download are usually 1080p and 720p. I download this video size because sometimes I watch it on my computer too. So I just download it at large sizes so I can watch it anywhere with good quality.
Anyway, when I installed ICS and installed MX player, I'm having horrible out of sync with audio/video. It also gets worse when you watch the video longer. Sometimes out of sync takes a 4-second difference.
If I change from Hardware acceleration to Software, out of sync goes away but the playback is sooo laggy that you can't watch it too. ** Oh maybe not totally go away, as I just experienced right now (while typing this) that I had an out of sync issue even in software decoder. **
I never had any issue with GingerBread. All my anime video plays fine even in 1080p. I have not tried converting to Mp4 but I don't think it will make sense because it was working before with GB. I have a lot of anime and converting it would be a pain for me. Maybe there is a trick that I can do in ICS to fix this issue.
Are you guys also having out of sync issues with some videos in MX player? If not, please try playing videos in MKV with embedded subs and let me know.
I really want to stick with ICS. This is the only reason I'm going to go back to GB before I get to work on monday Please help, I really don't want to go back to GB anymore.
Thanks
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Although I haven't watched any anime since I flashed ICS, my mx player has had no issues with any movies I've played. I'll download an anime movie and let you know.
Have you tried clearing the data/cache or even reinstalling?
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Coffinfeeder said:
Although I haven't watched any anime since I flashed ICS, my mx player has had no issues with any movies I've played. I'll download an anime movie and let you know.
Have you tried clearing the data/cache or even reinstalling?
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Thanks. That would be awesome. I'm actually looking for a 1080p mkv movie video (even trailers will do) so I could just test it without subs. Surprisingly I can't find one .. lol.
If you are going to download, try mkv animes + embedded subs. I did other test with some other animes and noticed that not are all the same. Although all of anime have audio/video/subs sync issues but some of them only has .5 seconds lag. Some 2 seconds, extremes are 4 seconds. I would assume that whatever is causing this, is how the anime was encoded but when I play it with Gingerbread, not a single sync issue happens. So its either the ICS leak or MX Player.
Thanks again. Looking forward for your test results
keplenk said:
Thanks. That would be awesome. I'm actually looking for a 1080p mkv movie video (even trailers will do) so I could just test it without subs. Surprisingly I can't find one .. lol.
If you are going to download, try mkv animes + embedded subs. I did other test with some other animes and noticed that not are all the same. Although all of anime have audio/video/subs sync issues but some of them only has .5 seconds lag. Some 2 seconds, extremes are 4 seconds. I would assume that whatever is causing this, is how the anime was encoded but when I play it with Gingerbread, not a single sync issue happens. So its either the ICS leak or MX Player.
Thanks again. Looking forward for your test results
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Just downloaded ninja scroll episodes to test. The files are mkv with English subs. Everything seemed to be in perfect sync, but hard to tell on a subtitled video.
Just so you know, these are 65mb files so they're not of the highest quality but everything runs fine in terms of audio sync.
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Thanks for the test. Yup, I failed to mention that if its 480p .. its fine. Whenever you raise the bar to 720p or 1080p videos then its a different story.
I still have few hours to test. Thanks for spending time and testing it
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Thanks for the test. Yup, I failed to mention that if its 480p .. its fine. Whenever you raise the bar to 720p or 1080p videos then its a different story.
I still have few hours to test. Thanks for spending time and testing it
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I'll download a 720p hd anime movie and report back a little later. It is easter after all
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Ok so I downloaded ghost in the shell 2.0 and it's 720p mkv format. The mx player would not use hardware encoding to play it, but it played via "sw encoding (fast)".
I loaded up the subtitles and let it run. I skipped several places every 20 minutes or so to test. It played with no issues, audio and video were in sync with the subtitles.
You may want to try software encoding (fast) on your mkv files, maybe that'll work for you as well. You can adjust the encoder in the settings.
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Coffinfeeder said:
Ok so I downloaded ghost in the shell 2.0 and it's 720p mkv format. The mx player would not use hardware encoding to play it, but it played via "sw encoding (fast)".
I loaded up the subtitles and let it run. I skipped several places every 20 minutes or so to test. It played with no issues, audio and video were in sync with the subtitles.
You may want to try software encoding (fast) on your mkv files, maybe that'll work for you as well. You can adjust the encoder in the settings.
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Ok I will try to do it. Maybe tomorrow since I already flashed back to GB. I only used software decode (not the fast one). But its weird that you don't have HW playback. hmmm. All my videos played in HW acceleration fine, of course except the audio/video sync.
Hmm ..
I actually found something interesting. MX player has issues with some subtitles with our leak ICS.
I tried Dice Player which also uses HW acceleration and I don't have any issue with the same video.
I also tried other ICS video players that use HW and there are no issues.
So, i think its just MX player.
keplenk said:
Hi all,
I recently jumped the bandwagon and installed ICS leak on it. Tried Dagr8 Alpha 1 and 2. I also tried Collective. I really love those leaked roms (except maybe Alpha 2, so much lag in my case).
I need help with MX player. One of the biggest reason I bought the note was to watch a lot of my anime series when in the bus going to work/from work. I download animes in MKV format and the subtitles there are embedded. The anime I download are usually 1080p and 720p. I download this video size because sometimes I watch it on my computer too. So I just download it at large sizes so I can watch it anywhere with good quality.
Anyway, when I installed ICS and installed MX player, I'm having horrible out of sync with audio/video. It also gets worse when you watch the video longer. Sometimes out of sync takes a 4-second difference.
If I change from Hardware acceleration to Software, out of sync goes away but the playback is sooo laggy that you can't watch it too. ** Oh maybe not totally go away, as I just experienced right now (while typing this) that I had an out of sync issue even in software decoder. **
I never had any issue with GingerBread. All my anime video plays fine even in 1080p. I have not tried converting to Mp4 but I don't think it will make sense because it was working before with GB. I have a lot of anime and converting it would be a pain for me. Maybe there is a trick that I can do in ICS to fix this issue.
Are you guys also having out of sync issues with some videos in MX player? If not, please try playing videos in MKV with embedded subs and let me know.
I really want to stick with ICS. This is the only reason I'm going to go back to GB before I get to work on monday Please help, I really don't want to go back to GB anymore.
Thanks
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I have a Captivate and use MX Player to watch Game of Thrones. 720p with H/W Acceleration...click on the music note next to the H/W tanlb and you should find more audio options. Try some of those.
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So awhile back I sent an email to both BSplayer and MXplayer devs.. Asking if they could implement something in their app that gives full screen hdmi like Google play movies does, where it goes in to "hdmi mode" and the output is full screen...
Long story short MXplayer got back to me and had me send them some pictures of the Google app at work as well as what it looks like using mxplayer...
They just emailed me this morning saying they figured it out and it will be implemented in the next major update!!
Woohoo!!
I still think google needs to implement full ui scaling... But this is a great step
If this belongs in the apps section feel free to move it... I put it here because it is more about the hdmi than the app to me
AW: MXplayer to support full screen HDMI!!
Sounds good. Let's hope that the next update will be soon.
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Holy Bananas!
the_boo said:
So awhile back I sent an email to both BSplayer and MXplayer devs.. Asking if they could implement something in their app that gives full screen hdmi like Google play movies does, where it goes in to "hdmi mode" and the output is full screen...
Long story short MXplayer got back to me and had me send them some pictures of the Google app at work as well as what it looks like using mxplayer...
They just emailed me this morning saying they figured it out and it will be implemented in the next major update!!
Woohoo!!
I still think google needs to implement full ui scaling... But this is a great step
If this belongs in the apps section feel free to move it... I put it here because it is more about the hdmi than the app to me
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I have been waiting for this for a while and it's finally here, time to give Mxplayer another shot
:good: Thanks
Hopefully netflix do the same ..
Sv: MXplayer to support full screen HDMI!!
It's great they fix this. However I would prefer a system wide setting before individual app. Now we need to fix this for every app we want it.
But I'm very greatful to mx player developers who fix it on their side.
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I totally agree... It should have been system wide from the beginning...
Beware of the latest update. It doesn't like tablets apparently, definitely the N10. It will force close trying to load any video. I had to restore the previous version to get it working again.
Update: Problem fixed by updating the custom codec to the matching version.
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Great news! Thank you! :victory:
This is where they say so https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mx-videoplayer/VkTmfrueMYk
Sweet mxplayer rocks! Thanks for the info!:good:
Did this get implemented? I don't see anything @,@
In the mean time I use this hack from the android terminal
Code:
am display-size 2560x1440
And to reset
Code:
am display-size reset
Has anyone gotten MX player to work with the android 4.3 update?
Sounds great! Thanks for the info.
why not use this app in the mean time? or maybe forever - works great for me!
Play Store
Atmazzz said:
Has anyone gotten MX player to work with the android 4.3 update?
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See: "MX Player alternatives for Android 4.3" dosn't look like there is a working player for HD content yet (as of Jul 25th 12:30PM EST) issues throughout various players are dropped frames (HD content) to no audio.
3DSammy said:
See: "MX Player alternatives for Android 4.3" dosn't look like there is a working player for HD content yet (as of Jul 25th 12:30PM EST) issues throughout various players are dropped frames (HD content) to no audio.
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Wait a minute: Are you saying that with a single update Google has managed to render ALL HD video players non-functional on the Nexus 10?
That's hard to believe.....
And I think, that would have to be considered a significant problem.....
Oh well who wants video on a media consumption device anyway.....I'm sure Google has it all figured out...
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Wait a minute: Are you saying that with a single update Google has managed to render ALL HD video players non-functional on the Nexus 10? ...
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As of (Jul 27th 8:20PM EST), MX Player Pro still does not work but:
> VLC arm7 Nightly from git 0.1.3+ works but not on HD content even with HW acceleration enabled the audio is out of sync
> I am reading that VPlayer works but have not tried it myself
> Of course Google's own Movie player works
There are other apps that no longer work with 4.3 which will need updates (e.g. full!screen, ServeStream, Superuser ... etc). All told this is a temporary blip with some devs playing catch up. Unfortunitely MX Player Pro plays a central roll in my N10 usage so that is a pain. In the mean time I'm using Plex for HD content and VLC for my transcoded NAS content.
3DSammy said:
As of (Jul 27th 8:20PM EST), MX Player Pro still does not work but:
> VLC arm7 Nightly from git 0.1.3+ works but not on HD content even with HW acceleration enabled the audio is out of sync
> I am reading that VPlayer works but have not tried it myself
> Of course Google's own Movie player works
There are other apps that no longer work with 4.3 which will need updates (e.g. full!screen, ServeStream, Superuser ... etc). All told this is a temporary blip with some devs playing catch up. Unfortunitely MX Player Pro plays a central roll in my N10 usage so that is a pain. In the mean time I'm using Plex for HD content and VLC for my transcoded NAS content.
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LOL Yes VPlayer Works but in Software only mode (h264 mkv files) and just barely (video isn't very smooth) - which I suppose is a testimony to how powerful the processor in the Nexus 10 is - it can decode h264 video and audio reasonably well in software - problem is, your are maxing out the processor to do this, so just about any other process will cause the video to periodically slow - and I can only imagine what software only decoding will do to battery life when watching videos...
The built in player seems to have two modes: choppy and unwatchable or smooth and silent ( no audio ) so it appears useless as well
I suspect transcoding everything to mp4 might work, but seriously? Back to that again?
The Nexus 10 had spoiled me. Its been working so well for so long I've lost patience with all these stupid format games and transcoding - just want something that works at this point.
I'm surprised - this was touted as a minor update - sure has broken a lot of things for a minor update....
For me BSPlayer is working for 1080p mkv videos. Both VLC and MxPlayer don't work.