Does international s3 support hardware decoding aac or lame mp3 - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I stream all my music fro my server to my phone. I have decided to purchase a 64gb sdcard. So next step would be to convert my flac files to a lossy format. I'm deciding between Nero acc or lame vbr mp3. A lot of people suggests, that aac have the best quality per bit. But my concern is battery life. If acc is only software decoded on my s3, then I would prefer mp3, unless it's also software decoded.

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what media player ?

wich is the best program and why ?
should i keep my original windows-media player wich wont play mp3 or is there a better one out there .....???
The original Media Player DOES play MP3 files. However, I prefer WMA format at 64k, which doubles my storage space with very little loss in quality (as far as what you can hear from the PPC even with good headphones). Unfortunately, the two excellent aftermarket players do not support WMA. So, if you want to play MP3 files, I recommend withMP3 (expensive, more mature) or PocketMusic (free, good but not perfect, early version release). The URL for the latter is www.pocketmind.com; I don't recall the URL for the other one.
With the windows media player keep the bit rate below 160k and the MP3's will play without issue, or got to Tools setttings, Audio & Video and allow the device to play unsupported files.
Jason
Media Player
Hi!
My Choice is the PocketMVP Player.
He plays DIVX and all other formats.
And the Price is ZERO!!!
Lock at http://www.pocketmvp.com
Stevie
Well, the site is down so I can't go try it out. Does it actually play WMA format?
Media Player
Try This :
http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/index.htm
Stevie
I see no evidence that it plays "all other formats." In fact, considering the author's anti-MS rant, I see reason to believe it will NOT play WMA.

mp3 too large!

hello, developers.
is there any way to put mp3's on my device, but change them into a smaller file? convert them to different extention?
You could re-sample them to a lower bitrate (Google: "resampling mp3"), or play them from a large SD-card.
I compress all my Mp3's using X-ing MPEG Encoder (now owned by real).
I use the 64kbs setting with small loss in quality over CDs, but I can fit humongous amounts of MP3's into 64Mb. However I use 128Mb SD cards for more storage and can compress an entire feature film down to 70Mb!!
Windows Media Player 9 will automatically copy and resample files to any portable music device or card. Works great. I resample everything to WMA 64k, get double the space with little quality loss. It does this via playlists, so it is easy to switch your music around.
thanks rustek.
but where did you get this x-ing mpeg encoder?
Hi,
if you have windows media player 8.5 on your xda, then you should be able to play mp3 and wma files.
You can actually get good quality sound out of a compressed wma file, at 64 bit rate or lower
use www.dbpowerAmp.com tool to covert the source file to any bit rate you want. Follow the codec insallation on the website.
i managed to get a 5mb mp3 file, down to a 900k wma file, and it sounded very reasonable on the xda.
For low bitrate WMA is the way to go. Keep your eye's on Windows Media Player for support for MP3pro, this is on par with the WMA encoding rates v quality.
hi all,
does anyone have a cab file of any mp3 player? i left my cable at home so im planning to install it from other PDA.
thanks! :lol:

[Q] Video lag, audio out of sync?

Has anyone experienced video lagging causing audio to fall out of sync? I've been playing a small variety of .mkv files and some lag and others don't. What's most odd is that the largest file I've tried (24 minute 1.15GB, with subs) works fine, while a smaller file (24 minutes, 274MB, with subs) falls out of sync within a minute and doesn't re-sync until I move the playback head.
I've seen that other Android handsets seem to have similar issues, though the solution was usually to re-encode the file at a lower bitrate, but I don't get why a larger file would work fine while a smaller one would have sync problems?
Both video files I'm mentioning here are MPEG4 (h264), but the larger file's audio is Dolby AC3 48000Hz audio while the smaller one is AAC 44100Hz audio. I'm playing the video with mVideoPlayer and the videos are stored on the internal memory.
Edit: I've played the same file side-by-side on my laptop and phone, and it's definitely the video that's lagging.
Sorry for the bump, but I'd really like to know if anyone else is having this problem, or if there's a solution for it. No one else experiencing this problem?
I went back and tested multiple players mentioned here on the boards. I tested every player using the same file, one that lagged in the stock player and in mVideoPlayer. Here's a rundown of my results:
VPlayer: no lag, no matter what combination of settings used
RockPlayer: lags in hardware decoding mode, no lag in software decoding mode but terrible video quality (artifacting everywhere)
MoboPlayer: lags (in hardware decoding mode?), no lag in "default software decoding"
mVideoPlayer: lags
stock player: lags
I don't know what's causing the lag, but it almost seems like the players relying on hardware decoding are mainly the ones that lag. Not all files lag, just certain ones, as mentioned earlier.
usually, the reason why video & audio out of sync is the bitrate and framerate are inconsistent, in this case, i suggest u using a video tool, with the video tool, there are two solutions for you:
1. you can convert mkv to the format that compatibled well by galaxys 2
2. just import the mkv video into the tool, then adjust bitrate and framerate.
i prefer the first way, the second way you need trying many times.
for myself, i use fox real video converter, it has video audio sync technology
Thanks for the suggestions. Part of my decision to buy the GS2 was the fact that it could play large video files without conversion since I don't have the time to constantly re-encode video files. Will probably drop the $4.99 on VPlayer since it's been playing my files well. Still prefer mVideoPlayer tho.
Is there some way to check if a file has inconsistencies between bitrate and framerate as you've mentioned?
I convert MKV files to play on my PS3 with a great tool called mkv2vob. It can convert a 1.5GB movie in about 2 minutes, so I imagine it's not actually encoding at all. I'm just curious as to whether it would solve your problem, especially with it being such a quick and easy app to use.
http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1
Giving mkv2vob a shot, but it's taking far longer to convert than 2 minutes. My ~250MB file is about 25% through video transcoding, and I'm already 5 minutes in. Will report back whether it worked or not, but I don't think I'll be doing this for every video that lags.
Okey-dokey, here's what happened with the video file I converted with mkv2vob:
It output an mpg file that was unplayable or problematic in mVideoPlayer, MoboPlayer, Rock Player Lite, and lagged in VPlayer. Encoding/transcoding took about 30 minutes, and the resulting file was 337MB, up from the original's 273MB.
I guess you could say it didn't work out well. I found it interesting hat the file lagged in VPlayer where before the same file played fine before the conversion.
-Tj- said:
Thanks for the suggestions. Part of my decision to buy the GS2 was the fact that it could play large video files without conversion since I don't have the time to constantly re-encode video files. Will probably drop the $4.99 on VPlayer since it's been playing my files well. Still prefer mVideoPlayer tho.
Is there some way to check if a file has inconsistencies between bitrate and framerate as you've mentioned?
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i don't know how to check the file, when i met this problem, i just import the file into the video tool, by viewing the preview to adjust some parameters
i have the same problem with my neverlocked and unrooted sgs2 running firmware "pda:kf3/phone:kf7": mp4 videos with x264 video codec and AAC VBR audio codec loose audio-video sync. i.e. the video lags behind and you hear people talking before they open their mouth. using xvid4psp 5.0 i experimented with the used audio codec. when recoding the videos to mp4 with x264 video codec and AAC ABR av sync is o.k.. using MP3 as audio codec also works but since AAC is the mp4 standard audio codec i'll stick to that.
and by the way: using another video player like vplayer also works with the problematic AAC VBR videos. since vplayer does software-decoding i suspect a problem with the hardware-decoding layer in combination with certain video/audio codec combinations (like x264 und AAC VBR). the benefits of hardware-accelerated-decoding are better performance and lower battery drain. therefore i want to stick with the stock-video-player (because i asume it is strictly using hardware-accelerated-decoding).

[Q] Can Prime play lossless bluray ISO rips?

I'm curious if the hardware and software are there yet - can the Prime with Tegra 3 and ICS play (perfectly, without any stuttering, ect) Bluray video ripped losslessly to an .ISO file on an external hard drive? Both on screen and output through HDMI with both lossless video and HD audio quality? If not, would this be due to a hardware limitation or software and something that might become possible through future apps Jelly Bean?
I have a collection of lossless .iso videos on a portable 1.5tb drive I'd like to be able watch while on the on my bicycle tour for the next few years. I won't recode them to lossy formats, but want to wait for the technology to get good enough to do it on the move.
There is no way to mount an iso in Android. You can convert those to 1080p 10000mbps Mp4s with 5.1 aac audio to play on the TFP though, that is what I did and the quality is great through HDMI. If you are watching through the TFP you can just create a 1280x720 MP4 with stereo audio to limit file size.
I use Foxreal video converter with cuda off to get the best quality. Chapter grabber program to get the main movie playlist from the bluray and tsmuxer program to read the playlist. Then I add the appropriate m2ts files listed by tsmuxer to Foxreal for conversion...

best audio format for xperia s?

which format are you guys using for music on your xperia s'?
i have all my music backed up in apple lossless or flac, so i can re-convert to any format that's best.
i've currently got most stuff already in ogg at approx 64kbps for my ipod mini.
but sony media go doesn't seem to recognise these files/i can't import them in to the media library.
so i'm thinking of converting things to AAC (M4A) which media go does recognise.
are there any differences in performance/battery life etc between these formats?
and i remember reading somewhere that the built in music app supports gapless playback, is this just for mp3? or also for other formats like ogg and m4a?
im normaly use MP3... but its not a question of belive in this format, ist just because the most files im download (legal) are in mp3 320kb/sec
Ogg 64kbps is horrible .
A song should be at least in mp3 128kbps with decent encoder .
been using ogg at 64 for a while now, it's perfectly listenable on a portable device, and have managed to reduce my music collection down to around 10Gb by using it
was just curious to see if anyone prefers m4a, but seems that maybe most people are still using mp3?
I personally use .wav and .midi
But on a serious note, I use mp3 and some flac ( on another player).
Sent from my LT26i using XDA
320 .MP3s. All the way. Reasonable size, great quality and low overhead for playback. That or V0 compressed.
320 mp3 or FLAC (it's what I tend to get/rip)
I paid for PowerAmp it plays pretty much anything...
shmoejoe said:
I personally use .wav and .midi
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:laugh: great sound quality @ midi... Dolby digital 5.0 sounds like a SID against
AAC 256 bitrate from MP3 320 bitrate
http://www.mediafire.com/?6ifhe31zuhvdrgd
AAC is much more effective that MP3. Same quality -20%. -5% of quality, -40% of size.

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