I have been jumping all around trying various ROMs. So far, I like VeganTab GB the best. However, there is 1 bug I cant seem to get past and it only affects me in VeganTab GB and CM7 which its based off of.
Playing back m4v files that I created in Handbrake, I get very laggy\Choppy playback. This doesn't happen in any of the other roms I have tried (VeganTab 5.1.1, TNT Lite 4.4.0).
I would post this in the VeganTab GB thread but I do not yet have enough posts to reply in that forum.
Any suggestions on anything I could try to fix this?
Thanks
What video player are you using? I was having similiar issues until I started using rockplayer and enabled hardware acceleration. My tab now plays everything I throw at it without issue.
crutzulee said:
What video player are you using? I was having similiar issues until I started using rockplayer and enabled hardware acceleration. My tab now plays everything I throw at it without issue.
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Thanks. I checked it out and it does resolve my issue. Interestingly enough, if i use it in hardware accellerated mode, i get the ssme crappy performance.
Makes me wonder if i actually have a driver issue for the underlying issue.
Now if i could just get swype on here for easier 1 finger typing...
hardware acceleration is broken in Gingerbread
That explains that. Rockplayer is a fine workaround until its fixed. Now to hack swype onto this thing...
I have install the lastest version tonight and I loaded a few videos and none are playing anyone having this issue??? I tried the standard Videos Program and also doubletwist and mVideoplayer? Any suggestions???
All Gingerbread based ROMs are going to have some issues with video playback because there are no hardware drivers for the Tegra 2 chipset that the GTablet is based off (Harmony dev board).
So you will get software decoding only, hardware accelerations isn't going to be there.
All my videos work but when im in the web browser using flash 10.2 fixed it plays the video in slight fast forward no sound on hulu
If you haven't already done so you need to post your issue in the ROM's thread so GoJimi will be aware of the issue if he doesn't already know about it.
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If you haven't already done so you need to post your issue in the ROM's thread so GoJimi will be aware of the issue if he doesn't already know about it.
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i would but i can't post in the developers section
Aside from the hardware acceleration issue, have you tried Rock Player, or Vplayer, I've had much success with those two.
I have actually had a random audio issue since day one so I'm RMA's mine and I flashed it back to stock now got super irritated last night with the Audio issue and then not being able to play any videos that were playing in Vegan 5.1.1! Wanted to love the tablet but I seem to be at my wits end with it! We'll see what happens!
The only videos I can get working are MP4 videos that were converterd for my Iphone.
I tried xvid,wmv,mkv, and avi. None of these will play on any of my video players(Act 1,mVideo,RockPlayer,VitalPlayer). This is the first android tablet I ever modded(VegAn-Ginger edition). Maybe I'm missing something.
Until full hardware acceleration exists, your best best is a Froyo mod like VEGAN-Tab or Brilliant Corners.
However, even those mods may disappoint you. Remember, it's not container support thats the problem (AVI / MKV / MP4 are containers), it's audio / video codec support. People confuse the two, but it's why some MKV's play and other don't, or why some have audio and some don't.
Honeycomb is even worse - my Xoom couldn't even play back WMV's that my GTAB could. But in Android's defense, it's not like the iPad is a heck of a lot better - it's OOTB support is pitiful. Granted, there are a lot of third party players, but some of them aren't free.
I currently have 'VEGAn-TAB ROM BETA 5.1 FINAL' installed as of yesterday and it's already crashed while I was watching a video. I know Gingerbread doesn't have video acceleration so I would like to avoid that if possible.
They're all pretty darn stable. And they're all listed at my site.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/rom.htm
vzq said:
I currently have 'VEGAn-TAB ROM BETA 5.1 FINAL' installed as of yesterday and it's already crashed while I was watching a video. I know Gingerbread doesn't have video acceleration so I would like to avoid that if possible.
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It may not be the rom that caused this...what video player was being used? what file format was the video in? when did you select if you were given the option of hard coding or soft coding? Where there are plethora of apps running in the background? What exactly was the "crash, forced reboot, lock up, video/audio distortion? Did the video file play properly on another device, ie your computer?
There are many players out there, some work well, some work kinda "eh." Some can't handle some video formats, some can play them, but not properly. Some vieo formats require decoding, hard or soft (I like hard when speaking of ice cream, but software decoding ususally works for my videos).
I'm using BC (the 1.2 version of VEGAn 5.1.1), and rockplayer to play video. I've been thinking of trying moboplayer, since it seems to have received rave reviews on this and other forums. I've been able to play .avi files with software decoding. MP4 files play fine, but the quality isn't as good..they're made for mobile devices with really tiny screens.
When I rip or download a movie, I almost ALWAYS make sure that it runs fine on my Acer netbook (same screen size) to get a general idea of what I can expect on the G-Tab.
in a nutshell, your issue may not be the rom at all...VEGAn 5.1.1 is probably one of, if not THEE most stable 1.1 based rom out there.
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They're all pretty darn stable. And they're all listed at my site.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/rom.htm
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Thanks! I looked at the site.It is a darn good site.
I have tried many AOSP roms (actually mostly all of them) for i9100g (cyanogen was first ) and the major reason i did not stick to any of them for long time was because of the bad support for hardware accelerated Video play.
Most of the videos play on stock rom without any problem out of the box
Has this issue been addressed or can it be addressed ?
Is there any developer who can look into this??
This would help me and many others to permanently transition to the better performing AOSP roms.
I am a die hard fan of AOSP and wanting to know whether this has been fixed in any of the roms.
Since cyanogen and AOKP seem to be the base for most of roms for my device, i request them to fix it. Others will be fixed automatically.
does anyone face this problem or is it only me????
Fixed using dice player(best video player)
it is better than mx player
Hello XDA, I am user of Moto E and I frequently jump from ROMs to test the stability, performance and bugs of all ROMs I can try.
I watch a lot of TV Series and one of the newer trends is HEVC aka h265 aka x265. This codec enables use to watch HD videos in half the size without losing much quality.
Coming to point, as we know that Moto E as well as Moto G 2014 does not natively supports HEVC playback but all custom ROMs(I really mean all) based on Android Lollipop or above, can play 720p HD HEVC videos smoothly on our device.
It was all going good until 12th May.
I was using Mokee ROM, build 11 May 2016. Then I installed the OTA for 12 May. And bam, HEVC playback is screwed now.
At first I thought this problem was exclusive to Mokee ROM but turns out ALL the ROMs built after 12 May 2016 have this bug.
I have tested and confirmed that the bug exists on: Cyanogenmod 13, Mokee 6.0.1, Resurrection Remix 5.5.9, AOSP CAF, Krexus.
It is a systemwide problem, not just of a media player.
So, I request the devs to have a look at commits made on or before 12th May that affect video playback. or are related to it.
If this is not fixed then many of us will not be using newer builds.
I have attached a screenshot of the problem. To reproduce this bug, just play any hevc video and you will notice a green colored overlapping.
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Hello XDA, I am user of Moto E and I frequently jump from ROMs to test the stability, performance and bugs of all ROMs I can try.
I watch a lot of TV Series and one of the newer trends is HEVC aka h265 aka x265. This codec enables use to watch HD videos in half the size without losing much quality.
Coming to point, as we know that Moto E as well as Moto G 2014 does not natively supports HEVC playback but all custom ROMs(I really mean all) based on Android Lollipop or above, can play 720p HD HEVC videos smoothly on our device.
It was all going good until 12th May.
I was using Mokee ROM, build 11 May 2016. Then I installed the OTA for 12 May. And bam, HEVC playback is screwed now.
At first I thought this problem was exclusive to Mokee ROM but turns out ALL the ROMs built after 12 May 2016 have this bug.
I have tested and confirmed that the bug exists on: Cyanogenmod 13, Mokee 6.0.1, Resurrection Remix 5.5.9, AOSP CAF, Krexus.
It is a systemwide problem, not just of a media player.
So, I request the devs to have a look at commits made on or before 12th May that affect video playback. or are related to it.
If this is not fixed then many of us will not be using newer builds.
I have attached a screenshot of the problem. To reproduce this bug, just play any hevc video and you will notice a green colored overlapping.
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1080p video working fine here
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Abhimanyu Shekhawat 121 said:
1080p video working fine here
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I was talking about HEVC codec. Not about h264 or mkv in general.
HEVC uses h265 which is a newer codec.
Download any 720p h265 based video and you will see the bug in playback.
Ptmaroct said:
I was talking about HEVC codec. Not about h264 or mkv in general.
HEVC uses h265 which is a newer codec.
Download any 720p h265 based video and you will see the bug in playback.
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Ok
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I can verify this issue.
piku 123 said:
I can verify this issue.
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You are also facing this issue? Any luck with newer builds?
Ptmaroct said:
You are also facing this issue? Any luck with newer builds?
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I was facing this issue with mokee.
I went back to RR 5.6.7 build.
720P HD HEVC videos lag a bit..while playing in Orion rom.
akshay 33333 said:
720P HD HEVC videos lag a bit..while playing in Orion rom.
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Our phone is not powerful enough to play 720p hevc videos smoothly.
piku 123 said:
I was facing this issue with mokee.
I went back to RR 5.6.7 build.
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That's what I did. As we know that Resurrection 5.6.7 is not latest, it was build before 12th may hence it has no playback issue.
akshay 33333 said:
720P HD HEVC videos lag a bit..while playing in Orion rom.
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Try any old build of april of Mokee or CM or any. HEVC playback was worse before, they did some upgrade and frame drops were heavily reduced. But on near 12th may there was a commit to main source which completely broke the playback.
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Our phone is not powerful enough to play 720p hevc videos smoothly.
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Our phone does not natively support HEVC videos but custom roms have kernel enhancements and/or changes in framework_av which made playback possible.
Bug Reporting Process
@piku 123 - Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I don't browse the condor forums regularly, so I don't see these reports unless I'm told about them.
I don't have my condor on me, but I was able to reproduce this issue with HEVC playback on the latest nightly for otus, and can confirm that this issue is not present on the older snapshot build. Since this issue is easily and consistently reproducible, and would have had a clear last known good and first known bad date, this would be classified as a nightly regression. Nightly regressions are reproducible issues that worked properly on a specific recent nightly and no longer work on the current nightly. The proper way to report nightly regressions is on JIRA.
I understand that the JIRA bug reporting process takes a little time, as you need to be clear and specific about the nature of the issue. However, reporting it through JIRA would ensure that the all the relevant developers are made aware of the issue in a timely manner, have proper descriptions of issues, and specific last known good dates. It also allows tracking the progress of the issue and follow up. Due to the nature of Android's version control (a bunch of separate git repos), it can become difficult to reproduce a month old build. The sooner an issue is reported on JIRA, the easier it would be to debug.
With regards to this issue with HEVC, since I am now already aware of the issue and working on it, it probably isn't necessary to create a JIRA ticket. However, for future reference, please report new nightly regressions on JIRA.
Yes, I was facing this issue on 9 may cm13 build. And great to see that squid2 was read this thread and will fix this issue.
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@piku 123 - Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I don't browse the condor forums regularly, so I don't see these reports unless I'm told about them.
I don't have my condor on me, but I was able to reproduce this issue with HEVC playback on the latest nightly for otus, and can confirm that this issue is not present on the older snapshot build. Since this issue is easily and consistently reproducible, and would have had a clear last known good and first known bad date, this would be classified as a nightly regression. Nightly regressions are reproducible issues that worked properly on a specific recent nightly and no longer work on the current nightly. The proper way to report nightly regressions is on JIRA.
I understand that the JIRA bug reporting process takes a little time, as you need to be clear and specific about the nature of the issue. However, reporting it through JIRA would ensure that the all the relevant developers are made aware of the issue in a timely manner, have proper descriptions of issues, and specific last known good dates. It also allows tracking the progress of the issue and follow up. Due to the nature of Android's version control (a bunch of separate git repos), it can become difficult to reproduce a month old build. The sooner an issue is reported on JIRA, the easier it would be to debug.
With regards to this issue with HEVC, since I am now already aware of the issue and working on it, it probably isn't necessary to create a JIRA ticket. However, for future reference, please report new nightly regressions on JIRA.
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Thank you so much sir
I know that my way of reporting isn't the best example but I tried. I created an account on JIRA and even searched for existing tickets for the same issue. I did not post because of lack of proper knowledge. Now that you are aware of this bug, I hope you will fix it sooner or later.
@Ptmaroct how you play hevc videos i tried its laggy here and it plays only on sw decoder,hw decoder its not supported....
vinay001 said:
@Ptmaroct how you play hevc videos i tried its laggy here and it plays only on sw decoder,hw decoder its not supported....
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MX player or gallery supports HEVC with HW.Moto E can play upto 720p(TV series Episodes).
What ROM are you using?
@piku 123 this file doesn't play smoothly on Mx player or Bs player it plays only on sw decoder when we switch to hw decoder says Hw is not supported i tried HW+ too
bw its 720p Hevc file....
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@piku 123 this file doesn't play smoothly on Mx player or Bs player it plays only on sw decoder when we switch to hw decoder says Hw is not supported i tried HW+ too
bw its 720p Hevc file....
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That is a AC3 file our device can't do both hevc and 5.1 decoding .
Most HEVC are hit and miss but 720p hevc tv series plays properly in our devices.
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That is a AC3 file our device can't do both hevc and 5.1 decoding .
Most HEVC are hit and miss but 720p hevc tv series plays properly in our devices.
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The best example of supported HEVC videos are 720p Tv Series episodes from encoders like Shaanig or PSARips.