[ICS] Video playback and battery mod - Optimus One, P500, V General

I've installed MX video player but unfortunately we don't have OMX for ARMv6 so, only s/w decoding is possible.
I did the following settings-
1.OC to 480-691 conservative.
2.Open MX video player and go to settings>Decoder>check S/W decoder(local and network both) and color depth to 32 bits.
3.Added the line "video.accelerate.sw=1" to build.prop.
Got these results-
1.Tried 3 videos of resulution 320x480 @25FPS and they were perfect smooth on MX.
2.Tried 1 video of resolution 640x480 @24FPS and it was also perfectly smooth on MX.
3.Tried 1 video of resolution 640X480 @30FPS and it was also perfectly smooth on MX.
4.Tried 1 video of resolution 704X576 @24FPS and it was also perfectly smooth on MX.
5.Videos with 640X480 resolution and above were not smooth with stock gallery but were perfect with MX.
6.I was happy
Battery tweak-
My device on ICS gets a lot of wakelocks. I want to know that will adding the following lines to build.prop
"ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1" and "pm.sleep_mode=1" improve deep sleep ?
My questions-
1.Does the line video.accelerate.sw=1 has any effect ?
2.Can we also mod the youtube.apk to render using s/w only ?

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Can u tell which video format did u use for testing?cos only mp4 lags in software decoding,avi plays perfectly.

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ashishv said:
Can u tell which video format did u use for testing?cos only mp4 lags in software decoding,avi plays perfectly.
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I used mp4 only

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I think that those battery tweaks are working well, I'm on cm9.1 flyme by hehappy and sleep wakelocks are minimized, drained only 4% in 8hrs while me and my phone were sleeping.. I got one day backup with moderate usage and still 40% is left, expected backup is above 40hrs

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I didn't know that videos played smooth even at S/W decoding!!!! I ll try this in ics miui and report back

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umangleekha said:
I think that those battery tweaks are working well, I'm on cm9.1 flyme by hehappy and sleep wakelocks are minimized, drained only 4% in 8hrs while me and my phone were sleeping.. I got one day backup with moderate usage and still 40% is left, expected backup is above 40hrs
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Battery runs same without any tweaks for me!! And it really has been the same for all the times I was on tweaks and without tweaks.. Tweaks have been proved to be Placebos!!

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mike_24_11 said:
Battery runs same without any tweaks for me!! And it really has been the same for all the times I was on tweaks and without tweaks.. Tweaks have been proved to be Placebos!!
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No tweaks can improve the battery life... The only thing those tweaks do is improve sleep. So, less battery is drained when phone is in sleep.

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Video quality is the only thing holding me back from using ICS on my O1. That's an interesting idea about modding the Youtube.apk to use s/w decoding; I hope someone takes up the challenge. HQ videos on ICS? Hell yeah.

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Finally ! A new hope ...:beer:
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kunnaliskinng said:
Finally ! A new hope ...:beer:
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Not hope actually, modding the youtube.apk for this purpose imo looks impossible

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Yes, but what about watching videos using browser and mx player? Is it possible?
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BulazPieca said:
Yes, but what about watching videos using browser and mx player? Is it possible?
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yes, that is possible if you uninstall youtube app and whenever you will play a video in browser, it should ask you to choose a player..

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umangleekha said:
yes, that is possible if you uninstall youtube app and whenever you will play a video in browser, it should ask you to choose a player..
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No need to uninstall youtube just change user-agent to desktop.

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What browser do you use?
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BulazPieca said:
What browser do you use?
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stock ICS browser is excellent

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Unfortunately HQ YouTube videos still doesn't work. Video is playing, but quality is very bad.
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all videos work fine with s/w decoder but found that music plays 1st then the video performance is shown(both work at same time)
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I've got AOKP ROM created by william. Maybe it is the reason of bad quality, but I don't think so...
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@uman
If you are getting lot of wake locks then you should probably tick the "use 2g networks" options in mobile network settings.
I did the same thing and found that sleep improved. Maybe the rom/kernel is aggressive to search for 3g networks
Currently using cm9.1.1 by hephappy
And about the sw acceleration thing it improved things are only a little.
Videos encoded with h. 264 still lagged (just like stock rom) but they play smoothly on oxygen, cm7...

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video playback is still laggy for me after trying all types of settings