Hi, Been using Archos video player on my nexus 7 and works really. Installed on Nexus 9 and crashes every time just after launching.
Anyone recommend a good video player than can play local and network content?
Thanks
Mx player is the best around. There is a beta or something like that. It works with lolipop,......... Unfurtinatley it doesnt index any local file instead i use solid explorer and mizuu for media content. Look them up
Mx player!
5.0 beta here: https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpe...32_neon_direct_nightly.apk?attredirects=0&d=1
taken from here https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
"Partially supports Android 5.0 developer preview. hw+ decoder is still not supported."
Dice Player works OK, although I can't get it to play back MKVs.
Thanks everyone for suggestions. I will try them out.
VLC works fine for me. I am looking forward to MX Player though.
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When is it available? I can't find the right player what handles all the streaming formats from mp3 till Windows Media Player files (asx, wma, mms://) etc. Something like the TCPMP player or Core Player for Windows Mobile.
VLC - when its done
I dont know exactly what formats mplayer supports but you could give it a try
Give "Rock player" a try. It plays everything I have.
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Give "Rock player" a try. It plays everything I have.
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Try it but only video...
i 2nd rock player. not a video format ive throwin its way it hasnt played
Rock Player is good. But VLC Stream and Convert already works. You can easily setup a VPN at home if you have trouble and it works flawlessly. Only challenge is transcoding Real Media files which are usually a ***** and quite rare anyway.
Meridian is decent
available beta
A beta of the vlc player is now available.
LINK
http://tabletroms.com/forums/adam-g...68-okay-whos-willing-compile-vlc-android.html
Rock player and Mobo player.
for some reason, those 2 player play any video i throw at it... weird...
/sarcasm
ps: rock player and mobo is all you need.
pss: media player (k-lite) is far better than VLC player.
zeke1988 said:
Rock player and Mobo player.
for some reason, those 2 player play any video i throw at it... weird...
/sarcasm
ps: rock player and mobo is all you need.
pss: media player (k-lite) is far better than VLC player.
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Idk mobo doesn't play 720p well for me, but Dice player plays all.
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Rock Player is very good but only for videos
I don't know about all of you, but I love VLC - it's exciting to have it on android.
That said, I downloaded VLC-20120226.apk [Cortex-A8, NEON] [Latest] and installed it on my ICS Alpha 2 Touchpad and it works great.
Just in case anyone was wondering what build to use.
Here's the beta thread in case you missed it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517415
I was also able to enable hardware acceleration in vlc player, and I didn't have any issues. I played a 720p mkv with no problems perfectly smooth.
Try it!
Yeah, saw this in the blogs.. Works good so far. Good job on posting the right apk.
Sent from my android touchpad.
So the cortex a8 one is the one for touchpads?
HP Touchpad - CM9a2
The A9 version is the right one. A8 I fine too though.
--Matt
Using A9 version now
Hi guys,
Been using VLC for a couple weeks now. Works great, with one exception I was hoping someone could give me some advice on. When I go to play mpeg's, it starts and within 10 seconds it crashes. I can play avi's all day long with no issues.
Any ideas?
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Hi guys,
Been using VLC for a couple weeks now. Works great, with one exception I was hoping someone could give me some advice on. When I go to play mpeg's, it starts and within 10 seconds it crashes. I can play avi's all day long with no issues.
Any ideas?
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VLC is an alpha and not really even an official one as it was just user compiled from the source. So for now you are stuck either converting them to a format that works or using another software to play them.
The A8 version worked fairly well. The A9 version didn't.
VLC is looking very promising. Still not as good as Dice player though. VLC fails my 720p stress test video and Dice player passes.
Stress test video dl link:
http://db.tt/A4mizhVk
The birds is what kills VLC. Dice player plays it all flawlessly.
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The A8 version worked fairly well. The A9 version didn't.
VLC is looking very promising. Still not as good as Dice player though. VLC fails my 720p stress test video and Dice player passes.
Stress test video dl link:
http://db.tt/A4mizhVk
The birds is what kills VLC. Dice player plays it all flawlessly.
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Sweet, never knew about Dice Player until now. Looks like it plays a wide variety of formats and supports streaming. Will probably become my player of choice until an official VLC player is released.
I've loved VLC on both PC and iPhone (seen the light and abandoned Apple for the SG Note) but it'll take a lot for me to change from MX Player now. Its played everything I have thrown at it, regardless of codec and including full HD videos.
Anyone have a favorite video player? I want something that will play all types of files, like MP4, AVI, MKV.
Aside from finding the 'best' one, a problem is when I download something like MX Video Player, I see all these add-on apps like codexes that are for specific processors. Which should I choose?
Thanks for any help or advice.
I think this question was already answered in another forum... but I downloaded MX Player and didn't have to install any codecs. For my atrix the mx player app prompted me to download... i think the armv7. But for the note, everything just played fine. I didn't get to try mkv's though.
MX Player can play 1080p mkv's just fine in hardware mode.
I use that in conjunction with file manager with samba support to stream from my NAS.
Another vote for MX player. I've even uninstalled the stock video player and just use the MX player for my main video player.
MX player will automatically prompt a codec download if needed. You don't need one with the Note.
Dice player is another good one but it had some slight lag when I was watching a movie which was disappointing. That never happened to me before with dice.
Loving vlc alpha. No pros in software or hardware mode with a 720p movie for 3+ hours.
I find MX to be jittery in HW mode on many video files (doesnt happen to me on my international Note). I run in SW mode but the quality appears to be slightly worse..?
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I find MX to be jittery in HW mode on many video files (doesnt happen to me on my international Note). I run in SW mode but the quality appears to be slightly worse..?
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Yeah MX seems to be a bit jittery with my .MPG files... it wont even play them in HW mode, i have to use SW mode.. and even then i have to use SW Mode Fast Decoder to get it to play properly
however the quality looks excellent to me. I'm still amazed by this f*ckin screen. 1000x better then my atrix.
Anybody know the best conversion settings for Handbrake? I read on another site that these were good choices, but seem to be for International version:
Video
Codec- H.264
Resolution- 1280×720/1280×800 (HD)
Bitrate- 1500kbps
Framerate- 30fps
Audio
Codec- AAC
Sampling rate- 44.1khz
Bitrate- 160kbps
Channel- stereo
I use Moboplayer and it seems to work fine. I wish vlc would be final.
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MX Player has been working great for me...
Rockplayer and dice play everything I need.
Mx player will attempt to play anything you throw at it. I used it until I realized that's not necessarily a good thing. It will play files that it can't play well...with no video, with audio sync issues, at half desperate, or down-scaled. Not what I wanted.
I use CIFS Manager to mount windows shares locally. This give you access to more players. If you have issues, a TVersity install may be an option.
So apparently there's been a big stink about DTS support and it's a hassle coupled with a headache to get working. Anyone know a quick guarantied way to get video files with DTS audio working?
Dice Player is the only one that I have found to really support DTS Audio files. It also has nice features like a video pop out window similar to the stock video player.
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Looks like Archos Player does it as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mediacenter.videofree
If you grab the free codec pack it plays everything I throw at it including DTS, AC3, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.m4rk3t.libcopy2
As an added bonus, the Archos Player pulls in meta data for movies and tv shows on your device. Pretty slick, just purchased the "Pro" version after playing with it for just a few minutes, and it looks to become my new default video player.
After playing various media files of multiple different codecs via my networked media server... I now say forget about Dice Player, and go with Archos. Can't do cool stuff like pop out video, but it plays EVERYTHING (if the codec pack is installed)!
i bought to archos pro the day it came out. i loved the player on my 101it and couldn't wait for a version to come out for other tablets. that free codec is just icing on the cake.
it's like combining mizzu and the old bs player into one. there haven't been many movies that it can't play. i've even put it on my daughter's memopad hd7. none of the other players can handle the files as well as the free archos (she didn't get the pro version).
Thanks guys. Archos did indeed work out very well. The video is a little big grainier than it is on MX Player but having sound is a very nice trade off imo
Is there any other reason to buy the pro version besides it being ad-free?
i haven't noticed problems with the free version, but i haven't used my daughter's tablet a lot and she hasn't complained about any problems.
Never heard of this program before but I like the layout of it and it works well w/ the things I am trying to stream
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MX player can play dts audio i believe. You have movies downloaded that play without sound right? Go into mx players settings and under decoder set everything to hw+ After that It should start playing them no problem. If that doesn't work here is a quick quide on how to install DTS codec into MX player
http://techcentralz.com/how-to-install-dts-codec-to-mx-player-for-android-os/
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Will need a custom decoder which can be downloaded from the play store. For mx player it is the arm v neon... but like the poster above me mentioned, mx player will play anything you can throw at it.
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I had the same problem. After trying several apps, i found the solution with vlc.
VLC for Android Beta. (As a new user I can't post links outside... :laugh: , so you have to look for in in the Playstore)
Currently it's even my favorite video player. Good luck. :good:
Can anyone recommend the best Android video playback app? There are literally dozens on the play store. I find that the stock video player with the G Pad plays AVI and MP4 just fine but cannot handle MKV files. Would definitely require an app that uses hardware acceleration as well.
Thanks
I downloaded MX Player and seemed to do well.
MX Player is obviously the best player..
yeah mx player. One additional reason is that it supports so many different subtitles formats
Another benefit of mx player is follows:
If you pin a movie from Google play and it uses a lot of space, you can then use a file manager and go-to the folder and move the movie too your sd card. Out will have a funny name with a gem extension, but mx player can then be configured to look for that extension and still play it, saving valuable space on our internalso storage.
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I use MX Player too. Does everything I want. Plenty of settings to display the elapsed/remaining time, etc. I haven't found any format that doesn't work with it.
Last week, i wanted to open some old videos from my old camera. It was formated as quick time, default player nothing, with mx, all videos played just fine.
One more vote for MX player. I use VLC at home, and have dabbled with Mobi, QQ and others on Android, but MX is the most solid overall player around. I watch a lot of stuff with subtitles and this rocks for it. If only the native player were nearly as good!
Mark
MX is the best for me
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MX is the best for me
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mx is pretty good and I paired it with Mizuu to organized my movies. Archos is also a good up and coming player.
I wanted to say that MX player is the best one. But I don't think that will be necessary.
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MX Player
My vote is for MX player. I have the premium version and it works great on my phone, Gpad, and my son's Nexus 7.
MX is good. I also like Diceplayer lots.
+1 for MX player
MX player is really good to use. Very easy to use gestures for increasing volume, brightness, forward/rewind among other things.
+1 for MX Player.
I'm also experimenting with the MediaMonkey Beta, which plays OKand handles libraries as well too.
Well MX player is no doubt the best player, some other options could be moboplayer, vp player, rock player. Check with all and choose the one that will be more compatible with your device.
Just popping back to this thread to report that I've been playing with the stock video player on this thing and it's actually not bad at all. It supports added subtitle files (haven't tried embedded ones just yet) and the brightness and volume controls are basically the same as MX Player. The scan function is also pretty cool, showing a little preview of the point you're scrolling to before you tap on it to go to that point. Works with all formats I've tried so far, and I've also started to appreciate having the player going in the background (and transparent) while I'm twittering away about stuff.
Anyone else play with and like the stock player? Any shortcomings you can think of?
Mark
I was an MX fan (and still am) but Dice player has a nice variable playback speed function. It makes watching some programmes a bit easier, and certainly quicker!
Both seem to farm out the decoding to hardware and that saves battery.
Diceplayer for the samba-ftp no frills browser. I have been streaming from my ubuntu file server without a problem.
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Impromark said:
Just popping back to this thread to report that I've been playing with the stock video player on this thing and it's actually not bad at all. It supports added subtitle files (haven't tried embedded ones just yet) and the brightness and volume controls are basically the same as MX Player. The scan function is also pretty cool, showing a little preview of the point you're scrolling to before you tap on it to go to that point. Works with all formats I've tried so far, and I've also started to appreciate having the player going in the background (and transparent) while I'm twittering away about stuff.
Anyone else play with and like the stock player? Any shortcomings you can think of?
Mark
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I agree, the LG video player - and its Streaming Player facility - is an excellent piece of software; probably the most capable video player to come bundled with a tablet.
That said, MX player handles streamed video better, with virtually no buffering. The LG player tends to buffer quite a bit - and I'm wondering if there's a setting somewhere to increase its cache..