Stock video seems to only support only a limited number of encoding methods, not supporting H. 265 if I am correct? MX Players seems to support all but uses SW decoder for H. 265. However, our 820 SoC should be able to HW decode most videos, which app should I use to enable this?
VLC for Android has worked great for me.
MX Player Pro is the best app around. Even the non Pro version is above any other app. No other app will enable HW support on it's own.
The hardware support of H.265 is not an app support issue, it's a ZTE implemetation issue... Unfortunatly nothing can be done about it except flash a custom rom. I had the same issue back when is till owned an Axon 7 with H.265 10 bits videos that couldn't be played well on SW decoder and after flashing LOS based, HW suport for that codec in 10 bits was working.
djona12 said:
MX Player Pro is the best app around. Even the non Pro version is above any other app. No other app will enable HW support on it's own.
The hardware support of H.265 is not an app support issue, it's a ZTE implemetation issue... Unfortunatly nothing can be done about it except flash a custom rom. I had the same issue back when is till owned an Axon 7 with H.265 10 bits videos that couldn't be played well on SW decoder and after flashing LOS based, HW suport for that codec in 10 bits was working.
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+1 to this. If you haven't been using MX Player, you just might have been joking trying to watch videos on the phone. jk
But seriously, I am yet to find any other video player to impress me as much . Even without Pro, it still kicks ass (if you don't mind the well-placed ads).
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I tried BS Player, DicePlayer and VLC and all no dice (pun intended!). Then I tried MX Player and downloaded the armv7 add-on. Tested streaming over DLNA with Skifta and HW works! At least for video. Very smooth. Audio doesn't work in HW decoder mode but just have to uncheck the box and it'll be SW-decoded (1080p takes a few secs to buffer).
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I can confirm this! Installed MX and their ARMv7 add on... HW acceleration works! Audio HW acceleration actually worked for me too!!
What's the difference between ARMv7 and ARMv7 Neon? Also, can someone walk me through getting DTS codecs working with MX player? And lastly, what's the best way to stream media to my N10? I'm installing Skifta now because it was mentioned in the OP, but I want to hear some other opinions.
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I can confirm this! Installed MX and their ARMv7 add on... HW acceleration works! Audio HW acceleration actually worked for me too!!
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Probably the audio codec in these videos I tried isn't supported yet.
yumcax said:
What's the difference between ARMv7 and ARMv7 Neon? Also, can someone walk me through getting DTS codecs working with MX player? And lastly, what's the best way to stream media to my N10? I'm installing Skifta now because it was mentioned in the OP, but I want to hear some other opinions.
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BubbleUPnP
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I downloaded mx player and the armv7 codec and i opened around 20 movies with bubbleupnp, but they always switch to sw decoder (and are unplayable with hw or hw+ decoders)....
What can be the issue?
The armv7 codecs are for SW not HW. Also, the codecs with NEON support will likely be faster.
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The armv7 codecs are for SW not HW. Also, the codecs with NEON support will likely be faster.
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So you are saying that it's better not to download those at all? Sorry I'm a little confused!
I tried using mx player with the arm7 codec with one of the high resolution videos in the nexus 10 forums, but it runs with lots of lag. However its fine without the arm7 codec. Anyone else having this issue?
All I can say is that I'm using MX Player with ARMv7 Neon codec to stream my TV shows, both 720p and 1080p, and so far it's worked very well. Get a bit of buffering problem (could just be wifi) after 15 mins or so, but goes away quickly.
what audio was your files because i cant get anything to play 1080p with DTS audio, anything with AAC or Dolby Digital was working fine?
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what audio was your files because i cant get anything to play 1080p with DTS audio, anything with AAC or Dolby Digital was working fine?
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Found out that user dylanh333 compiled for different platforms ffmpeg codecs for playing dts audio as well as other codecs. Just follow his instructions on how to get it to work. For the nexus 10 its the neon.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34649108#post34649108
Works great I already tested it out an mxplayer with dts audio works now, thanks to him!
I don't know... installed dylanh333's custom codec and it performed worse than the one from Play Store...
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I don't know... installed dylanh333's custom codec and it performed worse than the one from Play Store...
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The DTS codec is a software decoder, you can't have a HW DTS decoder.
I was quite shocked when I found out that DTS Support under Android has recently become a nightmare. Seen many people trying to find out a workaround to this by using external decoders, but after testing many different players I think, it seems this might not be necessary to go through all this. Let me share my findings:
VLC Media Player: Does support DTS. Pixelated video on high bitrate movies. Crashed when selecting a secondary audio track. HW Acc Support.
DICE Player: No DTS. Crashes when selecting a secondary audio track.
MXPlayer: No DTS. Everything else works fine.
XBMC: Recognizes every codec out there but there's no HW Acceleration for S3 and most phones. It's initially intended for Android Based Standalone Box Players but support for mobiles will arrive down the road.
Mobo Player: No DTS Support. Selecting a secondary DTS Channel would take me back to the Primary non-dts track and there's no way to switch it back.
QQ Player: Does Support DTS but there's no HW Acceleration support for my device. Pretty decent SW decoding support... (Far better than XBMC) enough for 720p movies but not for 1080p. Battery eater.
VPlayer: No DTS Support.
BS Player: Virtually everything works perfectly. Smooth DTS support (clean audio) Secondary tracks are properly recognized (Though it switches back to the primary track when you switch apps) You will need to adjust your subtitle coding setting for proper non English subs decoding. Try ISO 8859-1 for Spanish subs. Velvet Smooth HW Decoding for movies up to 1080p - high bitrate.
Hope you find this helpful!
Cheers!
Tested on Samsung i9305.
MX Player can support DTS if you use an external FFmpeg build with it enabled. I built my own, so I haven't tried these myself, but the NEON build listed here should work.
EDIT: I should've read the first line of your post. Sorry.
very helpful...
I found the lack of DTS in MX Player annoying.
This article turned me towards BS Player.
Works for anything that I threw at it on my Nook HD+. Thus bought the full version.
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I was quite shocked when I found out that DTS Support under Android has recently become a nightmare. Seen many people trying to find out a workaround to this by using external decoders, but after testing many different players I think, it seems this might not be necessary to go through all this. Let me share my findings:
VLC Media Player: Does support DTS. Pixelated video on high bitrate movies. Crashed when selecting a secondary audio track. HW Acc Support.
DICE Player: No DTS. Crashes when selecting a secondary audio track.
MXPlayer: No DTS. Everything else works fine.
XBMC: Recognizes every codec out there but there's no HW Acceleration for S3 and most phones. It's initially intended for Android Based Standalone Box Players but support for mobiles will arrive down the road.
Mobo Player: No DTS Support. Selecting a secondary DTS Channel would take me back to the Primary non-dts track and there's no way to switch it back.
QQ Player: Does Support DTS but there's no HW Acceleration support for my device. Pretty decent SW decoding support... (Far better than XBMC) enough for 720p movies but not for 1080p. Battery eater.
VPlayer: No DTS Support.
BS Player: Virtually everything works perfectly. Smooth DTS support (clean audio) Secondary tracks are properly recognized (Though it switches back to the primary track when you switch apps) You will need to adjust your subtitle coding setting for proper non English subs decoding. Try ISO 8859-1 for Spanish subs. Velvet Smooth HW Decoding for movies up to 1080p - high bitrate.
Hope you find this helpful!
Cheers!
Tested on Samsung i9305.
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MX Player can support DTS if you use an external FFmpeg build with it enabled. I built my own, so I haven't tried these myself, but the NEON build listed here should work.
EDIT: I should've read the first line of your post. Sorry.
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+1 for mx player plus custom codec. Infact the bd20 player menus now takes you to that thread to download the codec. No problem playing MKV with DTS even over the network
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BSPlayer is best for me. i tried to play some 7.2GB mkv ac3 with mxplayer and many other players and it didnt play, just black screen for a while and skip back to menu or other issues. Then the BSPlayer played this video great. Im so sattisfied with BSPlayer that i bought full version to support them.
+1 BS Player tested with 8gb 1080p mkv file.
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.
Hello,
I'm after some info &/help with using the HW & HW+ decoder in MX Player. I have been trying some mkv video files of anime series I have on my PC. and while some will let me use the HW decoders other won't. More specifically the files which would use HW & HW+ were videos of older shows with 480p resolution while the ones that don't are 720p though play absolutely fine with the SW decoder.
I have the correct codec installed for the tablet and after trying to use Google to find some answers I've hit a roadblock. Is there more I can do to make the 720p files use the HW/HW+ decoder? Would it be a bad thing to just use the SW decoder for those files or does the other two have a benefit to using them (e.g. battery life?).
I have tried searching through the forums but I couldn't find anything that seemed related to my issue. Any help would be much appreciated.
Just in case it is needed information I currently have the latest stock update for the Tablet Z. Only just got it this past Christmas which is why I am a little late to the party.
Being that the processor is somewhat outdated I wouldn't count on having hardware decoding with those new 10 bit encodings that are all the rage in the Anime scene also I don't think it could decode h. 265 being something a bit new u could always try to stream it using something in the fly like universal media server
I am looking for a tablet that has a CPU capable of playing 10 bit files... Is this the case for this one?
You can simply test it by getting jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv 10 Mbps file from: http://jell.yfish.us/ and play it in MX Player where it shows you HW, HW+ or SW decoder.
Thank you.
Yes, it plays the file without any issue or stuttering.
MX Player shows HW in the upper right corner.
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Yes, it plays the file without any issue or stuttering.
MX Player shows HW in the upper right corner.
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Are you 100% positive that it was a 10-bit file? (or jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv if you used the above)
If so, thank you so much for the confirmation!
I will return my MediaPad M3 Lite and get this one, only because half of the stuff I download is in 10-bit.
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Are you 100% positive that it was a 10-bit file? (or jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv if you used the above)
If so, thank you so much for the confirmation!
I will return my MediaPad M3 Lite and get this one, only because half of the stuff I download is in 10-bit.
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I've tried the following:
jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-20-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-40-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-60-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-90-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-120-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-140-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv
Overall HW runs smooth through all of those. SW stutters even on 10mbps. Too lazy to wait and download the rest. Pretty sure this indicates that Mi Pad 4 is more than capable with likely any HEVC 10bit file you throw at it
Hope this helps.
p.s. I've tried HW+ which appears to be less smooth than HW. Apparently HW+ uses MX Player's Media framework whereas HW uses stock media framework. So HW seems to be the way.
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I've tried the following:
jellyfish-10-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-20-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-40-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-60-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-90-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-120-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv
jellyfish-140-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv
Overall HW runs smooth through all of those. SW stutters even on 10mbps. Too lazy to wait and download the rest. Pretty sure this indicates that Mi Pad 4 is more than capable with likely any HEVC 10bit file you throw at it
Hope this helps.
p.s. I've tried HW+ which appears to be less smooth than HW. Apparently HW+ uses MX Player's Media framework whereas HW uses stock media framework. So HW seems to be the way.
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You would expect that from SW really... I do not think there is any point using SW as long as is it native HW. I was not able to find much information about Snapdragon 660 and 10-bit files, since asking here for confirmation.
Thank you very much! I will soon order this tablet as I cannot find any alternative close to this price.
I can also confirm smooth playback of all the above files, which i streamed directly to the device using MX Player.
Yes, snapdragon 660 (of this mipad4) can play hevc 10bit without errors.
4k hevc 10bit too. (plex without transcoding)
Just got the tablet and yes, I can only confirm the above. H.265 10bit works flawlessly!
Will use for offline episodes and Plex streaming. Thank you.