I got my Xperia U a week ego. For first few days everything was fine,but for last few days the gallery crashes randomly when I play a video. I use mx player to play my videos,the crashes doesn't happen when I use the default player but there are occasional glitches.After fiddling around a bit I found out the crashes only happen when I'm using HW accleration with bravia engine on. The crashes doesnt happen If I use SW mode OR turn off Bravia Engine. The glitches on default player are gone with Bravia Engine turned off. I did a factory restore but that didn't solve my problem.Tried Mobo Player but the same issue remained.
How do I solve this problem? Is this a software issue or hardware?
My firmware : 6.0.B.1.564 (No updates available)
Video files: 720p MPEG4 Video (H264)
Model No: ST25i
Player Tried : Mx Player, Mobo player, Dice player
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Hi y'all
I dont know if my transformer is hard ware damaged or if i have a software problem.
Problem description:
I just exchanged my transformer prime for a replacement unit since the HDMI was broken on my old unit.
I reinstalled MX player and started playing a video (H264) and it keeps crashing. The player will kill itself and once, it even went into a weird stripe crash and had to be hard rebooted. I uninstalled the codec pack for MX player, did it on software encoding, no hard crash, but MX player keeps dying.
I tried vplayer, which doesnt seem to crash but the audio/video sync is off. Now I cant remember having this problem on my old unit.
I then proceeded to download the glowball demo to 'tickle' the tegra cores, in case its a cpu/gpu issue, and that worked fine without crashing.
unrooted, locked bootloader with all software updates from Asus.
i am out of ideas, any pointers what could be wrong / how i can locate the issue?
cheers
blues
I have similar problem with u on the video playback, however I manage to play MP4 and MKV files without crash.
MV Player stops when I play any rmvb files which is quite annoying as most of my video are rmvb.
I wonder if it crashes the codec when we try installing different Video players.
saw a new video player on the forum and gonna try it tonight ~ hope this will work~
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517415&page=1
lets keep talking about this issue and I believe some other users have the similar issue too...
wow VLC build for ARM, impressive
What REALLY is annoying that i get a "not supported" from the stock player. How come the standard Android 4 player does not know the h264 codec ?
Did it work?
Try moboplayer out too and see if that is any different.
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I will next, cheers
I just tried the VLC port. it does the same thing of crashing (but its alpha, so hey )
edit:
just tried a xvid file with moboplayer, same crash
all the apps just stop playing the video and return to video select screen
i have seen a couple of Tegra 2 optimized players, nothing for tegra 3 yet?
edit 2:
mx player has an experimental build where you can increase the cores to 4 for sw decoding, havent tried that yet
cheers
blues
I have the same on Tegra 3 - tried MX player, MX player with ARM 7 codec, Mobo player - they just kill themselves during the playback....
Will try more players, not sure if that will help at all...
Dice player seems to have the best interface other then mx.
But no crashes and everything runs with hardware decoding that I've tried.
I too am am having lots of mx player crashes after the jellybean update on my stock uprooted transformer prime. The stock player also crashes.... This never happened on ice cream sandwich. Anyone fi d a solution to make video playback more stable?
Try S/W decoder.
I had a similar problem just a few minutes ago. I deactivated H/W+ decoder and it worked perfectly.
Sometimes, hardware can't play everything. You should try and play these videos with S/W decoder.
I might be wrong. I just said what helped me.
Like Mobo player etc... Am trying to play 720p MKV movies but am getting no sound with the stock player.
What has Bravia engine to do with sound in MKV files?
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It will work if you run the player on HW decoding!
MKV= not working well on the default player (there are no sound) but seems DICE Player handle it well!
Cholek3 said:
What has Bravia engine to do with sound in MKV files?
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Well I cant use the stock player to play my MKV films because I get no sound, so I need an alternative player that the bravia engine will work on.
Whats the point in having a hd bravia screen and not be able to use it to its full potential?
Solid Eye said:
It will work if you run the player on HW decoding!
MKV= not working well on the default player (there are no sound) but seems DICE Player handle it well!
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Nice one, helpful reply, as it should be on XDA, thanks given!
I think all video player have problem with ac3 sound.
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Any update about mkv players who support B-engine? And witch support HW-video and HW-sound?
Dice player and BSPlayer support Hardware mode for the most videos. As long as you play your videos in hardware mode, they will play with the Bravia Engine.
Some mkv files lags badly on HW/SW and HW can't utput subs o.o
Fringe.S04E15.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
Fringe.S04E16.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
laggy and two players said "do not support this format"
Try MX Player, they recently added SSA/ASS support with embedded fonts.
I tried an mkv file with x264 codec (1280x720, profile [email protected], aac sound, embedded ssa file and fonts), working perfectly. HW mode.
How can i play .mkv on SXs??
i downloade rockplayer but the video stopped after some times of viewing it..can u tell me another one?
You can try MX Player.
Or search the play store, I'm sure you'll find something there.
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xperia s
install MX video player from google market. It ever best player for all kinds of movies extension.
i've installed MX PLAYER, but after on hour the video gets closed :| .
MX Player the best
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i've installed MX PLAYER, but after on hour the video gets closed :| .
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MX Player can play all formats may be the file you viewed was error (not properly copied) try another file
Yea MX Player is so legit.
You Can use V Player...which will let you run all types of video format's...I use it....and i am satisfied by its performance
Go for QQ player or Vital player...both free apps in google play store!!
BS Player Lite is also good, allows playback of mkv files in hardware mode (which means Bravia Engine would work)
Standard Movie Player Works
Tried some .mkv files on my Sony Sola and they played using the standard movie player. Still on stock GB .564 system. MoboPlayer also plays these files in the hardware decoding mode.
I am looking for something than can play wmv/ogm/mkv/xvid/mp4/etc supporting multiple audio streams and multiple subtitle tracks
Any suggestions? I would prefer something that is accelerated so the phone's specs will help video run well as the resolution and file-sizes of the video files are quite large
Dice player....
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Thanks
Works well, but my MP4 video 5.1 sound files have a horrible crackling noise when it gets to loud parts. Decreasing volume doesn't help.
Ack double post! Just wanted to update on my progress:
Mobo player - won't open video for some reason, says it "can't open /mnt/sdcard/extsd........" error. Doesn't seem to be codec/decoder related as it does it regardless
MX Player - Works only in software mode, regardless of which decoder I use the video switched to "SW (FAST)" mode and shows HW as unavailable
Dice Player - Like I said above works GREAAAT except for popping/crackling audio. Software decoding works with audio but makes the video horrible and slow and laggy.
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RockPlayer Lite - Will not play the video file
VPlayer - Crackling audio, slow video playback even with codec/decoder
[EDIT 2]
Dolphin Player - Will not play the video file
[EDIT 3]
QQ Player - Will not play the video file
Shameful triple-post thread BUMP
Desperate for a video player with HW acceleration that decodes 5.1 AAC without terrible crackling noise.
Other alternative is to re-encode all videos but that is waaaay too much work, and is only a last resort.
Must be something in the encode it doesn't like. Stock player should play mp4 just fine, dunno how it handles 5.1.
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I have a Razr , running stock ICS. It works fine if I watch a movie on the phone itself. The problem occurs when I connect it to my tv through hdmi. The sound starts skipping like every 20 seconds. Im using mx player and have tried both h/w and s/w decoder. This is a dvd rip, dont remember if it does it while on netflix. I have tried mobo player also, for some reason on mobo I cant hear anything and it wont let me change from h/w to s/w decoder. Please help.
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I have a Razr , running stock ICS. It works fine if I watch a movie on the phone itself. The problem occurs when I connect it to my tv through hdmi. The sound starts skipping like every 20 seconds. Im using mx player and have tried both h/w and s/w decoder. This is a dvd rip, dont remember if it does it while on netflix. I have tried mobo player also, for some reason on mobo I cant hear anything and it wont let me change from h/w to s/w decoder. Please help.
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I know I have had some issues with movie playback like that before and I believe it is just the codec or movie format doesn't play nicely with MX Player. I have had a couple of movies that refuse to sync up sound and video no matter how it is decoded. Maybe once they finally VLC for android we wont have to worry about this issue.
Hey thanks for the info. I was hoping there was a fix to this since I use this to watch movies very often.