Hi all.
I have been testing some Android based TV boxes (basically Android box with HDMI output) for using as a Web TV player. The one I am most interested in is based on the Amlogic Cortex A9 processor with Mali400 GPU. However the video performance has been hit or miss.
Some players (like MXPlayer) the hardware acceleration works great. But some players (like VPlayer) the hardware acceleration does not work at all, and just shows a black screen while audio is playing.
I am hoping there is someone familiar with this chipset, or at least familiar enough with hardware acceleration, to answer a few questions:
- why does software decode have such terrible/choppy video playback compared to hardware acceleration; is that expected for all devices, or its just this device we're testing?
- is hardware acceleration possible for streaming video content (like RTMP, MMS) or only for local content? I have heard it won't work with streaming content but I have personally tested MXPlayer streaming RTMP and RTSP content which works fine with h/w acceleration but another player (BS Player) wont let me stream with H/W acceleration enabled.
- how do we find out which library the app developer needs to call in order to enable hardware decode? Is there a standard way to do this, or does tit vary by manufacturer? Any example would be great.
- in order to utilize a particular player in my own android application and have my own assets on the screen while the video is playing, what do I need from that video player app? is there any safe way to embed their player in my application without having their source?
Thanks.
Any ideas? Did I post this to the wrong forum perhaps?
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When running Android, are video players supposed to use hardware decoding
when playing 720p/1080p MKV videos? (CM7, XRON, or that other one)
Thanks!
The CPU isn't quite powerful enough to play 720p video without the graphics acceleration from what I'm seeing.
I know the SGP doesn't have a dual-core processor or any native support whatsoever for 1080p file playback, but would proper tweaking allow the device to playback such files?
Such as overclocking to 1.5GHz (perhaps I don't understand the requirements for that kind of playback, so correct me if I'm way off)
What do you all think?
Um, it has a 480p screen?
H.264 playback is, in theory, handled by dedicated video decoding hardware (samsung's FIMC), which might be capable of 1080p baseline profile. But I've heard there might be issues with hw accel video on this device?
Been too busy trying to port CWM to mess with that.
is this realy true ?
no player is aviable that supports the Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore cpu +gpu ?
all players supports only s/w play and this suck already on sd content stream :-(
2x 1,5 gh is not enough ?
tested wit mxplayer and vplayer both supports only arm v7
on hardware decoding i got back a screen
hi,
you need the cinema plugin from the archos homepage. there is a shop where you can download (not free) it.
http://www.archos.com/store/plugsearch.html?prod=archos101g9
(change to your language)
supports hardware acceleration within the native archos video player and is smooth and fast forget sw rendering
with other players. this is the only way to get mpeg + ac3 video and audio in high quality.
if the above link doesnt work try this
https://store.archos.com/plugins.php
Yeah i found this plugin gut i cant buy IT without a credit card
That is a very Bad Situation For me ...
Thanks For ur help
BSPlayer works very well.
zando2712 said:
BSPlayer works very well.
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THANKS 10000x
u are right ist 90% working with hardware acceleration
only 1080i stream crashes ... now after a short update 1080i stream works also !!!! best player for streaming better than many players that can purchase
Hi!
I'm using a custom ROM (Cyanogen) for my Kindle Fire HD and I'm wondering if videos are correctly hardware accelerated.
My player is VLC. It seems to try hardware acceleration for a few seconds and then fallback to software decoding.
VLC developers told me it is certainly related to the ROM I'm using.
Is there any simple way to check if H264 (and other codecs) H/W acceleration are correcty implanted in a custom ROM?
I'm also noticing strange behaviour when opening multiple tabs in Firefox containing videos but I'm not sure if it is related.
Hi all, I've a Snapdragon 801 and I'm looking for an optimized player to see Full HD H265 videos. I tried with a 1920x1080 8 bit 4,7Mbps video but:
1) With VLC it pretend to play smooth, but it lose the colours.. I tried all combinations, enabled HW acceleration, chosed the mediacodec (seems better between choices), it helps only a bit.
2) Tried MX player with dedicated codecs. Enabled HW acceleration as well, It lags.
3) MM video player lags (the video works about 5 fps) but it looks the best way to watch movie.
Any chance? maybe trying other settings, or a player with optimized ARM decoding.
Anyone would share a comment here?
Thank you for your opinion!
anyone interested?