Seeing how the Magic and my old iPhone 3G have similar battery sizes, I'm kinda disappointed by the battery lifetime of longterm music playback.
I can make the playback glitch pretty easily via browser activity, altho my phone's set to 384MHz permanently. Things like this never happened on the iPhone. That thing however had dedicated hardware for MP3 and AAC decoding, which is a more efficient way and doesn't rely that much on the CPU.
How about the Magic (and by extension G1), do they have dedicated hardware codecs or not. If so, can Android actually use them.
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Well, as I lost my iPod I was going to use the X1 to play my MP3s. I know it won't be as good but it is better than nothing, for now.
Is the built in player any good? What about the audio quality? Can you subscribe to podcasts? Is it worth checking out CorePlayer?
Thanks.
Hey there,
I'm a heavy listener who planned on using the X1 for music before I bought it. I came from a 5.5G ipod video and I'm familiar with the iphone/ipod touch, and a lot of mp3 players on the market.
My conclusion? Don't, convergence is still not an easy thing to do right now, at least the software side can be very difficult and frustrating.
For example, I think Volume control is messy on the X1. There's a system volume, and then each music player app usually has its own volume control. You'll want to juggle both to get the volume adjustment you want. I don't know if all WM phones are like this, but it should be less clumsy.
The Panel will give you tiny snags from time to time, like cover art may or may not show up, and it's not as finger-friendly as the button sizes suggest. I don't use it for music; it's almost my least favorite music app for the X1.
Heavy music users coming to the WM system will want to pay $20 for one of the music apps. Don't use CorePlayer. Conduit's Pocket Player is the best, lots of tweaking possible and closest to the iphone's music player in terms of interface. However it's still not as smooth as the iphone, and there are some aspects of the operation I took two weeks but simply couldn't figure out (e.g. podcasts always play on the fly instead of download and sitting on the phone for later).
I'm not sure if you've already got the X1, whether you want to permanently replace the ipod with the phone, or if this is just a stopgap solution, so my reply is a bit all over the place. If you want free apps, S2P is probably the smoothest right now and IMO puts the X1's hardware to good use.
Sound quality... one of the phone review sites tested the X1 and the signal/noise ratio went through the roof, better than a large number of phones and mp3 players. In the world of audio numbers don't necessarily mean much, but the sound is definitely good. I just think the software side is a big letdown.
i am using pocket player and it works really well. It has the today screen plug in, making it very easy to use.
as for the quality, i would say the performance is so-so...but it also depends a lot of the headphones and the format of the music is
I like Windows Media Player more than the media panel. I sold my ipod touch when i got my xperia and it hasn't been a huge downgrade honestly, considering it's one less thing i have to carry in my pockets. The 16gb microsd card pretty much makes it into a full blown mp3 player. It's not bad, but don't expect audiophiles to be pleased with it. I'm a pretty average user, and I listen to music at least 3-5 hours each day on my x1.
I use the media panel
don't want to carry 2 devices so
I leave my ipod touch at home as remote
works great for me think speakers/headset mean a lot more
for audio quality then the device
i use media panel beaucse its finger friendly and can easily play music - does drain the batty kinda fast tho
I am a heavy listener as well, except the huge storage on ipod (well, some models), I think any WM can do better jobs especially w/ A2DP/AVRCP. Since many of my music are in video format (MTV, KTV, youtube ...etc), core player is my first choice.
Sound quality wise, Nokia is the best but the OS sucks.
I've always used my phone for music, and I must say I think the SE A200 walkman player is the best one i've seen (better than iPhone imo), but the Media panel for X1 is okay too.
"I think any WM can do better jobs especially w/ A2DP/AVRCP."
yeah i use my nokia a2dp headset with mine to avoid wires
Hi guys.
I wanted to listen some FLAC with my Wildfire so I tested three free players which is on Market: Meridian, AMPlayer, andLess. I used the phone a lot before every test so I could get some realistic results. All of them were laggy :/ but I'm searching for best.
Meridian: Was the best of the three. Lagged lesser than the others. It has the best browsing feature. I wished that it gets browsing like TCPMP 0.81 which is on WM.
AMPlayer: 2nd less lagger of the three. It has a weird annoying and sucking browsing which pushes you to create a playlist :/ And I didn't like it
andLess: Most lagger of the three. Has a simple browsing which is better than AMP's. Worst thing about it is appers in notifications instead of ongoing so I hated it
Winner: Meridian. Until the CorePlayer released i think
Of course I can't get better quality than MP3 with Wildfire's stock speaker but I can listen them with headphones or power speakers. And I thought that can we replace the speaker with a better one?
I tried Meridian - works flawless Thank you for your review. I'm now listening only to flac format
Watching a movie that is h264 encoded while listening with bluetooth headphones causes a noticeable decrease in video quality. In slow panning scenes the amount of "judder", or stuttering is subtley increased. It gives the video a jerky feeling, as if the video is not quite smooth.
This effect is present across multiple video players in hardware decoding mode. The same videos play more smoothly when listening through wired headphones or the XOOM's built in speakers.
Again, I repeat this a somewhat subtle affect. I spent two days playing with video encoders and handbrake settings, driving myself crazy trying to smooth out my videos. Then, due to a battery failure in my samsung BT headset, I started watching movies with a wired headset and the cause finally dawned on me. I did multiple AB comparisons to confirm the problem.
So if your video doesn't seem quite right, and you are using BT audio, try wired audio or buit in speakers for a while, and compare.
I'm using moboplayer right now, and watching Top Chef masters that I encoded into h264 (via Handbrake).
I turned on soft-decoding option, it runs smoothly, and the audio works fine straight from the jack on the top and straight from the speakers.
EDIT: Oops didn't read the post all the way, Sorry.
overclock it a little and your problems will be solved.
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overclock it a little and your problems will be solved.
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Yeah, I was thinking that too. Overclocking might solve the problem.
But wow! Wouldn't you think a 1GHz dual core CPU with hardware acceleration for h264 would be enough already just to play BT audio with your video? I'm just surprised overclocking is even necessary.
Edit: Just to point out - the video I'm playing has already been encoded specifically for the XOOM and is being handled by the hardware. The CPU should hardly be taxed to begin with. Is playing BT audio such a processor-intensive task that it should require more than a dual core 1GHz?
Hi. Im running the newest virtuousXoom rom and experiencing odd playback issues with any video player i use on a 720p video file.
Mx Player for example plays the video EXTREMELY fast in hardware mode. I had though this may have had something to do with my cpu speed so clocked the tablet down. This changed nothing.
However if i OC to 1600mhz the video and audio are fine, but only in software mode. There maybe a very slight shudder in video.
Any clock setting below that renders the video unplayable.
I got this tablet for use when i go over seas in the next couple of weeks with hopes of being able to watch my movie collection without needing to convert every movie.
The hardware seems very capable so i can only guess at this point maybe its software related? Hell who knows i could be thirty different kinds of wrong.
The main question is, is there any program that will play these video files correctly?
TIA for any info anyone can give me.
mobo player. It plays all videos and content with a soft decode option.
bsplayer, and mirage beta worked best for me...
the two players that seem to work best for me are bsplayer and mirage beta.. good luck tho, it can be hit and miss with mkv and mp4..most straight avi files work fine though on most players. mobo did not impress me, as one person suggested.. best luck
Just today after the roll out of CM 10.2 stable release I flashed it to my device. This is the very first time i installed a custom rom. As the stock LG G2 video player supported lots of codes. MX player supports lots of them too but MX Player seems to consume a lot of battery compared to the stock player.
Some one please help me set the correct settings for MX Player (like decoder SW/HW etc.)
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Just today after the roll out of CM 10.2 stable release I flashed it to my device. This is the very first time i installed a custom rom. As the stock LG G2 video player supported lots of codes. MX player supports lots of them too but MX Player seems to consume a lot of battery compared to the stock player.
Some one please help me set the correct settings for MX Player (like decoder SW/HW etc.)
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Can't help you too much as I just got the phone and I have not even used it yet, but, you ALWAYS want to use the hardware decoder as it will consume much less battery power.
The dedicated chip for decoding H264 content is always much more efficient than using the CPU to do the task. So, use the HW decoder and battery life should be fine.
Note that jacking the brightness up will lower your battery as will raising the volume of the loudspeaker, although the loudspeaker thing may be negligible, I'm not sure.
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Can't help you too much as I just got the phone and I have not even used it yet, but, you ALWAYS want to use the hardware decoder as it will consume much less battery power.
The dedicated chip for decoding H264 content is always much more efficient than using the CPU to do the task. So, use the HW decoder and battery life should be fine.
Note that jacking the brightness up will lower your battery as will raising the volume of the loudspeaker, although the loudspeaker thing may be negligible, I'm not sure.
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Ya i do keep the brightness to the minimum most possible at the given environment i am.
Anyways by default its set to HW decoding for a/v both. There are options for HW+ decoding and many other. I dont really understand them so thats why i posted if anyone knew about the other ones. Anyways thanks for your information. Appreciate it. If you happen to know about those HW+ decoding and etc plz do let me know.
I also use mx video player the problem i am having on slimkat is mx video won't come up when trying to play a video. On 4.3 a pop up would come asking which app I wanted to use to watch the videos now I don't get that and the stock player is always used.
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One thing i noticed yesterday. I was playing few MKV files and MP4 files of 640x480 around resolution. With HW Mp4 was playing fine, but the Mkv's were lagging. Then selected SW for mkv and they were playing fine. Whats wrong? :S
The SW mode for the mkv definitely consumed about 40% more battery