Recently updated to ics rom, however, the stock video player no longer plays avi files as it did with gb rom. I have flashed several gb roms since (full wipe each time) and still won't play. I've tried several stock video apks from this forum too yet still no joy. I have read that Samsung have stopped supporting sum codecs on ics update (Galaxy nexus owners are having similar issues). I'm back on gb rom but avi is still not playing as I'm getting the 'unsupported file' message bearing in mind the same file played fine prior to ics update. How do I get back or reinstall the original codecs? Flashing gb roms doesn't fix it either!
Probably not the answer you want, but you could do worse than opening your wallet and buying MX Video Player or Dice Player.
I bought both, and have yet to find a file/codec that neither can play.
The stock player (I'm on GB too) borked too often for no reason on too many file types for me. Never tried it on ICS.
iv got mx player, it works when using sw decoder. use to work on hw encoder for both mx and stock player.
I have a couple of videos which play fine in MX with HW encoding, but with no audio. The same videos play fine with perfect audio in Dice with HW encoding.
Codecs are fussy buggers. I do all my own encoding with MeGUI/avisynth - no shortcuts - and still haven't found one profile for all, so I chop and change.
Only bought Dice a couple of weeks ago, but it's overtaken MX as my default player. There's a free version with intensely annoying nag banners if you want to try it.
Thanks for suggestion, but ultimately, I'd like the stock player to be working as it did with gb with hw decode. This ics update has been a disaster on sammys part, ruined the excellent vid player, ruined the phone apk wrt contact options been omitted. Maybe success is getting to them!
What version of ICS fw were you running or what ROM? I have had no problems whatsoever playing videos on ICS using stock. I use my phone a lot for watching videos and need it to function properly as I take the train to and from work a few hours a day. Were you running an AOKP or CM9 based rom?
If you still can't play when reverting back to GB, I'd suggest a full wipe, wpe cache/partition. Then flash a GB stock rom through ODIN. See if that works?
Tried that, still no joy. Was on gb kk5 rom. But now keep getting unsupported file!?
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Hello all i purchased my gtab new a week ago and have had plenty of time to play and mode it is running 2.3.3 and vegan 7.0.0 build is GRI40 after reviewing it before purchase and appreciaing the hardware for the money made the purchase and i am in love .,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..EXCEPT ONE ISSUE it will not play video clips that i am used to playing on anything even my chineses herotab would play just about anything i threw at it is there anything i can do as this will be a deal breaker for me and it will be retruned pls any input or advice is appreciated
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Hello all i purchased my gtab new a week ago and have had plenty of time to play and mode it is running 2.3.3 and vegan 7.0.0 build is GRI40 after reviewing it before purchase and appreciaing the hardware for the money made the purchase and i am in love .,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..EXCEPT ONE ISSUE it will not play video clips that i am used to playing on anything even my chineses herotab would play just about anything i threw at it is there anything i can do as this will be a deal breaker for me and it will be retruned pls any input or advice is appreciated
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What video player are you using? I've found moboplayer to work really well and play most types of video files. If that doesn't work try Rock Player or one of the many other video players available for Android. The stock video player isn't all that great and won't play a lot of video files that other players will.
NVidea has never released video drivers for gingerbread, so videos will not play 100% correctly in any gingerbread Rom.
If you back down to a 2.2 Froyo rom, then just about any video clip you want to play will work.
I've found that RockPlayer can handle just about anything. But I prefer MoboPlayer because it's free. In MoboPlayer, be sure to long press on your video and select "Soft decoding" if the video will not play. Many videos on a gingerbread ROM will require soft decoding. Also you won't be able to playback HD video on most gingerbread ROMs.
yep is because you are running 2.3.3 (gingerbread) you need to go back to 2.2 (froyo) for videos to play properly, because of hardware acceleration.
+1 for RockPlayer Lite
I use Rockplayer Lite daily. It's free (as in beer), and it works on everything I've thrown at it. Actually, I'm using it right now to play .flv videos.
Have tried looking through the various forum threads but so much there that I have not come across this. I have had my GTab for a few weeks and love it. have tried several roms and thanks to everyone for the awesome amount of resources. the first 10 days I was able to play videos from my computer and even movies and tv shows. As of a couple of day ago I can not play anything, get sound but nothing will play including the same stuff that played so well before. Have tried converting videos to various other formats and no luck get error message saying can not play video. Is this an issue with the GTAB, any fix or solution have even restored it back to its original TnT state when it came out of the box. have tried video files in internal SD, external SD and even off a usb stick, same results. Any advice would be greatly appreciated....Thanks !!
I download a lot of avi, and xvid tv shows so I can watch later and without commercials. Currently I'm using Calkulin+Clemsyn 1.5ghz Froyo Combo VERSION 5. Even the stock movie player works nice and smooth(no converting). The only other ROM I tried was VEGAn-Tab GingerEdition. It's a good ROM, but not for video playback. I may switch to a Honeycomb ROM when the hardware acceleration issues are worked out.
I use Rock Player and it plays everything I've thrown at it... Although it sounds like maybe you're having some issues with the OS? Maybe try clearing settings for the video player or something?
Hi guys,
I am currently using Android Revolution HD 6.5.1 XE on my Sensation and I have several major problems:
1. I realize that 1080p mkv videos that my phone can play smoothly on Gingerbread (including Youtube HD 1080p) now become laggy. Even with SD videos (fully HW accelerated), sometimes the playback is choppy as well (I use MX player and Dice player). Can anyone help me confirm whether you have the same problems? I believe ARHD ICS does not have GPU overclocked as on Gingerbread, hence the choppy video playback.
2. On random occasions, I cannot get any sound on any applications, but notification sounds and stock music player are working normally. I can still listen to music through the stock player but cannot get any sound for videos. Everything will return to normal when I restart the phone.
3. Wifi randomly turns on by itself. The last time I check, this problem seems to be unsolved, but I may be wrong.
Any kind souls willing to give me some directions to solve the above problems? ARHD Gingerbread ROM does not have any of the problems above, but I don't want to go back to Gingerbread.
I used the latest VEGAn-ge-7.1.0 for the 1.2 bootloader on my gTab with CWM the other day. First time ever flashing a rom and everything went great! The problem I'm having is that the built-in video player in VEGAn will no longer play my mpeg4 movies/TV shows. With the stock ROM on the gTab I never had any problems with the built-in videoplayer OR mVideoplayer. They both worked just fine. Once I flashed VEGAn my movies wont work.
I can only assume it has something to do with hardware acceleration.?.?.?.? I have over 5tb worth of movies and tv shows already ripped from my collection, I will NOT re-encode anything at this point!
99% of what I use my gTablet for is watching movies while I'm at work(I'm on call with lots of down time) I would love to use a better ROM then the crappy TnT stuff Viewsonic shipped this thing with. But I cant NOT be able to play my mpeg4 movie files.
Is there a good ROM that will let my mpeg4's work like the stock ROM does? I dont care about any fancy features or anything in the ROM, I only watch movies on this thing and play the occasional game. But if I had a better ROM I'm sure I'd use this thing for more then what I do now.
My mpeg4 encode settings used in DVDFab are as follows:
848x480 resolution
3000kbps fixed bitrate(less then this movies can get pixelated)
128bit DolbyPrologic2 audio
FastEncoding 1 pass
These are the best settings for mpeg4's that I have found while testing out various settings when I bought the gTab. From the looks of the settings could it be that I need HW accel video playback instead of SW?
Any of the Froyo based roms such as Beastly-Clemsyn (my favorite, very fast and stable), Frankentab, BC, etc all have working hardware acceleration, as does the new ICS beta. You are probably right about the hardware accel. being the problem, this is the same reason I always end up back on a Froyo rom. I have encoded a lot of video that I stream from my main PC, and there is almost always skips, freezes or audio sync problems on roms w/o hardware acceleration.
You can also try on your current rom, MXPlayer and Mobo Player have versions that are optimized for ARM v7 (Gtablet). In the players settings, change from hardware to software video and audio decoding. Most of my videos play alright with MXPlayer on software decoding using CM7, which doesn't have hardware acceleration.
Last, you could try Qloud Media, if you have a pretty fast PC. Qloud will re-encode and stream your video from the PC, optimized for the target device. It works very well on every device I have tried it on, and can even work beyond your network, but it consumes my entire 4 CPU cores in bursts of a few seconds while it is re-encoding, so no intense PC usage while it is running.
Thank you! I'll try and stick with the Froyo based ROM's. I've DL'd quite a few different ROM's but I have yet to install any of them other then the latest VEGAn one.
So is it just me or with the new ICS (4.0.3 LP7) , a lot of formats (infact almost all) that could be played on GB have stopped working.
I keep getting "Unsupported File Format" for almost every video I could play on GB.
This is when using samsung allshare app which uses the default video player.
if I use skifta which lets me choose player, only rockplayer is able to play the videos, and that too not at all smoothly. All other players (mx, etc) just play a bucket load of distortion.
Weird thing is that on GB (2.3.6) , allshare itself played every god-damned format I threw at it.
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So is it just me or with the new ICS (4.0.3 LP7) , a lot of formats (infact almost all) that could be played on GB have stopped working.
I keep getting "Unsupported File Format" for almost every video I could play on GB.
This is when using samsung allshare app which uses the default video player.
if I use skifta which lets me choose player, only rockplayer is able to play the videos, and that too not at all smoothly. All other players (mx, etc) just play a bucket load of distortion.
Weird thing is that on GB (2.3.6) , allshare itself played every god-damned format I threw at it.
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Yep my observations also. I've updated ICS to XWLPF now so maybe theres been a fix, but I haven't tried as yet. However, I used Allshare on my brothers Samsung TV and it played native recorded videos just fine.
The device you're streaming to has to be able to display or support different formats also.
MX Player is awesome as always. No issues.
Yea which is why I'm wondering if ICS (or at least LP7) has this regression.
Fetching LPF now to see if it has fixed this
nope, factory reset and flashed LPF.
Videos via AllShare still throws "Unspoorted File Format" to all the videos I used to play via serviio before on GB