Hi, I've had an X1i unbranded from some time in november (bought from play.com) but when playing back video in the media panel (currently on R2A) or when using the youtube application here, there are lines on the left and bottom of the screen (when the screen is in portrait) that remain the colour of the previous screen. Is my xperia faulty or does everyone else get this problem?
To me it seems like the program is trying to fill the screen but misses a pixel. If the screen is written to from the top left in portrait mode then it seems that the programs are starting from 1,1 instead of 0,0. Oddly it only happens in the youtube application and the media panel when playing video full screen. All other apps work fine as does windows media player.
Can anyone help?
so does this only happen to me?
The youtube app is like that on every xperia. The media panel may also have stripe on the side. It does on mine with the James Bond trailer. Not in other videos though, so I'm not sure what's up with it.
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Windows media player is playing my files fine, but its screwing up the aspect ratio, ie. it plays full screen without the black bars of top and bottom. I want the black bars
How can I fix this?
PS! I tried the option under video "Scale to fit window", but that doesnt help.
Same problem for me with WMP.
I use HTC Album to read video, with the "aspect ratio" button (bottom right during play).
WMP i useless if it doesnt have exactly 800x480 resolution or same aspect ratio as 800x480.
Use Album or use converters which can make black bars.
Nice tip to use Album. Dunno why CorePlayer doesnt play the file as well as WMP/Album.
K3yMaster said:
Nice tip to use Album. Dunno why CorePlayer doesnt play the file as well as WMP/Album.
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Because CorePlayer hasn't hardware support yet.
I have a different problem with WMP. Most WMV files I play in full screen I get black borders all around (top+bottom+sides) so I end up with a tiny video image. The size is not much bigger than when playing in portrait mode.
You can try to use the converter I wrote. It is in a sticky thread.
Regarding WMP:
It behaves very badly with anything that isn't the exactly right AR/Size.
I personally recommend album. It has more finger friendly controls and it uses the same rendering method as WMP, so you will not miss out on performance.
When I play mp4 videos, I see strange artifacts appearing randomly on the screen using WMP or Media panel. They are horizontal and they look like short white dashes. It happens when I watch youtube videos too and it tends to appears more on higher resolution videos.
I really hope someone can shed some light on the issue. Thank you all just for any comments because this is really bugging me and seems to suggest faulty hardware.
Got this test video from somewhere.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b3223dfe9165e58fd8f14848abf485ddc558de5c13248a17b8eada0a1ae8665a
No one else encountered this problem?
This device just doesn't handle video very well at all, at least thats my experience. Especially video with higher bitrates. And yes I sometimes see artifacts, mostly "residue" of clips I've played just before like stuck frames at the borders of the video.
I have the edge problems too
But the artifacts/streaks of tiny short lines are appearing randomly in the screen area, not the edges. I am worried about having faulty hardware. I don't know how pda hardware function, but I have several desktop GPUs dying on me before.
Please guys, I really need more insight into this matter because if it is a hardware problem, I will be going down to the service centre soon.
Please just play a mp4 video and report your observations. I know it means nothing but I will be very grateful.
Have you tried running the vids through CorePlayer?
Have you ensured that the files aren't too big (res or framerate)?
Instead of posting vague information like "do you get artifacts" how about some real info about the files you are using.
artesea said:
Have you tried running the vids through CorePlayer?
Have you ensured that the files aren't too big (res or framerate)?
Instead of posting vague information like "do you get artifacts" how about some real info about the files you are using.
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I specified I get the problems with mp4 files on WMP and Media Xperiance Panel. The files are DVDs encoded with the tool from "[APP][REF]Full HD (800x480) video playback with acceleration" with the recommended settings(which I believe wouldn't be too high). Also, they lag horrendously with CorePlayer so I used WMP or MXP where they played smoothly EXCEPT with white - - - (dashes) appearing consistently but randomly. It occurs on all the videos I encoded this way when played on MXP or WMP.
In case you want some more details, one of the files played have the following details viewed with CorePlayer's Media Properties menu,
Video: AVC aka H.264
Video Size: 640 x 480
Frame Rate: 29.970
File Size: 20370KB
I thought I would not need to post much details because I believed people here would have at least tried playing videos close to the native resolution of X1's screen.
It seems the problem is only with my device and no one else here is having any problem I am having so I will head down to the service centre.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b3223dfe9165e58fd8f14848abf485ddc558de5c13248a17b8eada0a1ae8665a
anybody? no one willing to help test?
I find no problems -am on stock UK Vodafone X1i and encode DVD's onto the SD card regularly (watch on train commute)
No problems with original FW and none since updating to RA2 via SEUS
Have just tried your posted "test" mp4 (crysiswarhead?) and definitely no white --- artefacts at all
It plays OK but is a bit laggy (only just noticeable)
The res is 800x480 which may have something to do with it (bit too high) ... I have been using 480x272 which works great and looks awsome (I use a commercial DVDripper -Aimersoft)
Good luck at the service centre!!!
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunate for me though, I always hate service centres. =(
More input please. =(
Same problem here.
Don't think it's a hardware thingy.. it's just not the ideal encoding for this little machine
I'm already happy I can play a normal mp4 / xvid / 'specially' encoded file on it.
Unless it's all over your image I do not think there is any succes in returning the phone.
they'll tell you it's not the 100% right codec format for the phone and will kick you out.
at least.. that's my thinking
Thanks mate for the response. I love this device and can live with this flaw, but I don't like the idea of having a defective hardware on the *inside*.
I can live with the problems I'm already having, scratch keyboard, wobbly slider, black paint dropping off but the fact that my x1 is havinga defective processing chip inside scares me so much.
Heading down to the service centre now...
There are videos that I encoded that play SMOOTHLY but will white flickers popping out all over. The service centre I know have a demo set, I will try playing videos on thatt and compare and hopefully convince those guys.
I have downloaded an Mp4 film but the film is 320x240 so doesn't look good on the screen as its too small, is there any free software that I can change the resolution to a bigger size? also how do I go about doing it? I am not very techi minded so any help would be such a help, thanks.
320x240 mp4 files play fine for me. What are you using to play them?
Incidentally, you can resize videos both up and down, but there's no point resizing a small video to a larger size if your player will play it full screen. You can't get better resolution that way.
I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..
tanzi said:
I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..
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Touch the screen when it's playing
But, for mp4 files, you should use the in-built video player as it supports hardware acceleration, and therefore plays better.
I have tried touching the screen in the windows media player and its still the same, whats the best format in core player?
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I have tried touching the screen in the windows media player and its still the same, whats the best format in core player?
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Play it in CorePlayer and touch the screen. In windows media, you need to go into the menu and select Full Screen.
Core player will play many formats. It's a massive discussion if you want to know what people think is the best.
So...
CorePlayer, touch the screen.
Windows Media, use the menu for fullscreen.
But, I'd recommend using the built in video player for mp4 files (just navigate to the file with file explorer and click it. If you've not changed any file associations, it will use the in-built video player).
I will go and try and see what happens, will update my thread in about an hour, thank you so much for your help....
tanzi said:
I will go and try and see what happens, will update my thread in about an hour, thank you so much for your help....
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No problem mate - good luck
tanzi said:
I am using core player, I have tried to get it to play full screen but I just can do it, it plays wide screen with black borders at top and bottom, I can watch it like that but would prefer to be able to watch it full screen..
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this is because the aspect ratio of the movie is different to that of your screen.
If you made the image fit the screen to get rid of the black bars you would be stretching the video height, this would make all people look tall and skinny, or you could fill the screen while maintaing aspect ratio but would loose some of the video of the sides where it cant be seen.
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this is because the aspect ratio of the movie is different to that of your screen.
If you made the image fit the screen to get rid of the black bars you would be stretching the video height, this would make all people look tall and skinny, or you could fill the screen while maintaing aspect ratio but would loose some of the video of the sides where it cant be seen.
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It was actually because he was playing it in portrait, not landscape.
So I got my microHDMI cable and it works really good except the annoying AR problem with black bars on the sides.
I have seen people saying that video from Googles Play store does go fullscreen, but haven't seen it in action anywhere and can't try it myself because I live in Sweden.
So if Google can do it 3rd party apps should also be able to do it right? Or are they using some unofficial/undocumented API or something? I haven't seen anyone talking about this so I wan't to get some discussions going.
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So I got my microHDMI cable and it works really good except the annoying AR problem with black bars on the sides.
I have seen people saying that video from Googles Play store does go fullscreen, but haven't seen it in action anywhere and can't try it myself because I live in Sweden.
So if Google can do it 3rd party apps should also be able to do it right? Or are they using some unofficial/undocumented API or something? I haven't seen anyone talking about this so I wan't to get some discussions going.
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I haven't had a problem with anything other than sound via HDMI. My n10 desktop, google movie rentals and apps that I have run are all at full screen. I don't recall any of them using a different aspect ratio. I just got a new 55inch plasma last week and I did notice the notification bar runs off the screen slightly.
Maybe it's a setting in your tv for that device? Set the tv's settings when using that particular hdmi channel in case they are not global. Try your remote's aspect button in case it is not in the display menu. See if it displays info so you will know what resolution is being displayed?
My son's Samsung Chromebox displays at a very low resolution using hdmi on his tv. Tried every possible setting and he has the black bars on the sides and all the icons and words are so large that the menus don't fit on the screen. Real annoying and looks like an older CGA screen on a pc-xt. (like a 480dpi setting under windows) Tried every cable he could find, every tv setting and it would not display higher 720p. Nothing he could do, we just gave him our old plasma tv and the display is beautiful... Really high resolution.
Same as my tablet, no sound on either of our panasonic tv's... Others work fine... Have you tried viewing it on other tv's.... Could be something is not compatible with your tv and it is down converting the resolution?
Well, those are a couple of things I might look at... Check with others and see if it is a problem for everyone else... Does the n10 main menu show smaller as well? I just double checked and mine runs to all the edges with no "black bars".
I hope something here might help.
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I haven't had a problem with anything other than sound via HDMI. My n10 desktop, google movie rentals and apps that I have run are all at full screen. I don't recall any of them using a different aspect ratio. I just got a new 55inch plasma last week and I did notice the notification bar runs off the screen slightly.
Maybe it's a setting in your tv for that device? Set the tv's settings when using that particular hdmi channel in case they are not global. Try your remote's aspect button in case it is not in the display menu. See if it displays info so you will know what resolution is being displayed?
My son's Samsung Chromebox displays at a very low resolution using hdmi on his tv. Tried every possible setting and he has the black bars on the sides and all the icons and words are so large that the menus don't fit on the screen. Real annoying and looks like an older CGA screen on a pc-xt. (like a 480dpi setting under windows) Tried every cable he could find, every tv setting and it would not display higher 720p. Nothing he could do, we just gave him our old plasma tv and the display is beautiful... Really high resolution.
Same as my tablet, no sound on either of our panasonic tv's... Others work fine... Have you tried viewing it on other tv's.... Could be something is not compatible with your tv and it is down converting the resolution?
Well, those are a couple of things I might look at... Check with others and see if it is a problem for everyone else... Does the n10 main menu show smaller as well? I just double checked and mine runs to all the edges with no "black bars".
I hope something here might help.
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I run the TV without scaling/zoom so if you don't see the bars and buttons on your screen your TV is wrongly configured. The N10 sends the unaltered 16:10 picture right to the TV thus the black bars.
I know I can probably distort the picture so it fits with the zoom feature on the TV but that is not a solution, I want a full 1920x1080 output for video-playback without any scaling and distortion of the picture. On my Xoom it would lock the apps to 1280x720 resolution so they fit the TV when you plug in the HDMI cable so if feels so stupid that they removed that feature in the never Android version the N10 runs.
No sound on Panasonic is a know problem if you search around here.
the_slain_man said:
I run the TV without scaling/zoom so if you don't see the bars and buttons on your screen your TV is wrongly configured. The N10 sends the unaltered 16:10 picture right to the TV thus the black bars.
I know I can probably distort the picture so it fits with the zoom feature on the TV but that is not a solution, I want a full 1920x1080 output for video-playback without any scaling and distortion of the picture. On my Xoom it would lock the apps to 1280x720 resolution so they fit the TV when you plug in the HDMI cable so if feels so stupid that they removed that feature in the never Android version the N10 runs.
No sound on Panasonic is a know problem if you search around here.
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You are right about the apps and the main n10 menus. But if I. Play a movie (tried ice age that came with the tablet and one I purchased off google play) they fill the screen and the info from my tv shows it at 1080p FULL. Meaning that it is not using stretch, zoom or any other screen altering settings. I don't have black line when playing movies back in the play store movie app. I do get them if I try youtube or other apps. Movies play as they are designed to on mine, completely filling the screen (on their own).
I do know about panasonic, that was my point about different equipment!
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You are right about the apps and the main n10 menus. But if I. Play a movie (tried ice age that came with the tablet and one I purchased off google play) they fill the screen and the info from my tv shows it at 1080p FULL. Meaning that it is not using stretch, zoom or any other screen altering settings. I don't have black line when playing movies back in the play store movie app. I do get them if I try youtube or other apps. Movies play as they are designed to on mine, completely filling the screen (on their own).
I do know about panasonic, that was my point about different equipment!
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Good to hear that the play store can do it. So should we ask developers to implement the same thing then? I hope it's documented by Google.
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So all has been good after the update to android 10. No major issues. However, there is some issue with watching videos on fullscreen on the youtube website, NOT the app. (tested on firefox and chrome)
The bottom part of the video clips/ fall through. I have attached screenshots showing the same.
Anyone else facing the same issue? Solutions?
First image shows normal/vertical orientation. Second one (with the clipping) is full screen/landscape.