Title says it all really, does the latest update to 10.5 (4.4.2) break flac playback?
Clang broke flac playback in 4.4.2 for those not aware.
Technically Google didn't fix this until 4.4.3/4.4.4 but Sony may have caught it and sorted it themselves...
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I have a question...
I have a couple of videos, that I would like to strip the audio from, and was planning to use FLAC, and/or similar lossless codec; but before I do this, what codecs can Andriod decrypt? According to Android Central, it can decode FLAC, but only in Android 4.0 and higher, and I'm currently on Android 2.3.4 on a HTC Amaze 4G...
Is there any software I could get, in order for it to decode/decrypt FLAC correctly?
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I don't mind using any other lossless audio codec, as long as Android 2.3.4 supports it...
I am currently on ICS Passion 10.6 which is based on ICS 4.0.3 on my Samsung Vibrant and Flac will not play properly.
The files either refuse to play or play very slowly.
I came from Team Whiskey's excellent NextGen V2 and I could play Flac files with several players with no problems.
Not worth switching back because of this though.
I think you should use native flac library for that, actually ffmpeg is much better because it supports so many formats. There's a lot of tutorials on the internet how to get it working on android. Just google.
Its not about android, but its codecs.
My tablet (2.3.4) plays FLAC, DDS, AC3 etc. out of the box.
If your phone doesn't try FFMpeg (To put it simply: its like a codec pack for windows)
F.e. http://odroid.foros-phpbb.com/t338-ffmpeg-compiled-with-android-ndk
I finally found an ICS that plays .flac files on the Vibrant properly.
CM9 since the 3-30 nightly has worked great in all players that had worked for me in the past.
I am on 4-15 and all is still good.
metalheim said:
Its not about android, but its codecs.
My tablet (2.3.4) plays FLAC, DDS, AC3 etc. out of the box.
If your phone doesn't try FFMpeg (To put it simply: its like a codec pack for windows)
F.e. http://odroid.foros-phpbb.com/t338-ffmpeg-compiled-with-android-ndk
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this has armv7 support?
I need someone to check this out for me, it's not a deal-breaker but I'm only curious. Can the Xperia S play loseless Flac files?
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Not natively. I also have issues with wma lossless which play fine on an sgs2 natively. Seems its included in ICS so maybe we will see some love when Sony roll that out in 2014.
Hello. My firmware is e97020j
I just noticed that in many players (including a default video player) a video quality isn't good enough .
See attachments for example.
The only good result I got is with a software decoding in a mx player. But I think a software decoding is not a good solution.
In other players like a Dice player or a BS player the picture quality is the same bad as in the MX player with a hardware decoding. So I think maybe after an official JB update something went wrong with a hardware video acceleration. I watched the same video on a samsung GS3 with the same mxplayer with a HW+ decoder and the playback quality was OK. It was the same as in my OG with a SW decoder.
So guys do you have any suggestions?
I have the same problem. Any idea ?
When I installed a SnowJB over the official 20j firmware the problem went away. But the att-JB was much nicer for me, so it would be great if there's any way to fix the video playback on it. I tried a ME's kernel on the stock jb and it didn't solve the problem. Also I tried to lgnpst back to the official ics and the playback quality there was fine, just like in a snowjb and some other android devices I have.
I got the way to fix the problem on stock jellybean. All you have to do is turn on disable hw overlays option in developer options.
I want to know how to down sample 5.1 audio to 2.1 in a faster way. When I watching 2 gb movie with 5.1 audio there is no sound on mx player. After software decoder I got audio but there is noticeable lag. So I need to change audio to 2.1. That will fix the problem.
Take a look at this post (by MajTJKong):
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/760901#4764242
It may take a bit longer than using tool like AviDemux to convert audio without extracing, but it won't cause any audio<->video desync issues.
I tried HEVC video in both mkv and mp4 containers but all I get is a black screen with only the audio playing.
Kinda ironic as HEVC support is being touted as a lollipop feature and especially since the K1 has (partial) support for HW hevc decode.
Going thru the stock ROM files, I found that all the libs needed for hevc are present so this certainly is a bug. Hopefully google will fix this in a futurte update as playing HEVC thru s/w wastes too much power.
Updated to 5.0.1 and it's still broken.
Really pissed. A lollipop feature not working on a flagship nexus device.
I would not know how I can even test it.
Maybe supported in the future?
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I would not know how I can even test it.
Maybe supported in the future?
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Just search for any movie or series in x265 (so many, everywhere!!)
And no, it should be supported now. Its one of the features of Lollipop (as per google's Lollipop feature list).
Also, our ROM has the decoder libs so I'm not sure why its not working.