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As in the title what is the best app for playing avi, divx and xvid on android?:
OK, I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but you can't play divx or xvid on Android yet. Supposedly future Desire updates will have that.
adventure1001 said:
As in the title what is the best app for playing avi, divx and xvid on android?:
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Try YXflash
Karolis said:
OK, I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but you can't play divx or xvid on Android yet. Supposedly future Desire updates will have that.
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The Archos 5 Internet Tabled (w/ Android) can play Divx, xvid and mostly any other video format, mkv and HD included. Of course, that is because they have a proprietary player.
The Desire is rumored to get an update soon that will allow it to play Divx files. The hardware is more than capable of doing it!
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...ceive-divx-playback-support-in-future-update/
brusnica said:
Try YXflash
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Thanks i had that on my iphone did'nt realise it was on android too
How well does yxflash work with playing back avi-files on the Desire?
I've tried playing 700 mb video (624x352, bitrate aprox. 1500, framrate 25) on a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with yxflash, and it didn't handle it very well. My
Samsung Omnia HD is able to play the file without a problem.
Have installed it on mine and it plays the divx pretty well. Very slightly jerky, but very watchable. It could also be the encoding as it is the only one I have tried so far.
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Have installed it on mine and it plays the divx pretty well. Very slightly jerky, but very watchable. It could also be the encoding as it is the only one I have tried so far.
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i found xyflash on the desire pretty poor. playing a tv show in divx format. very choppy frame rate.
tried xyflash with one film in avi format and seems fine
miles_t said:
tried xyflash with one film in avi format and seems fine
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Odd. Anyway I've discovered doubleTwist now. It's very good. I synced my divx video folder with my phone and as it copies the files it converts on the fly to mp4 format. Works like a dream.
Also, keep an eye out for CorePlayer.
It's in development and sold make an excellent player of al formats for us.
Quite agree coreplayer would be great i am suprised that they have not done it allready.
Keep an eye on this: http://twitter.com/corecodec
Although the coreplayer is in developement, developers of the corecodec stated, that Google's SDK/NDK misses some features for native support, that makes it so hard to bring a final
http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2885&start=75
hopefully once the guy who created yxflash gets a n1 or desire tweaks it to run smoothly.
i had yxflash on my g1 and it played most avi's smoothly.. considering the hardware 528mhz to 1ghz - with new gfx hardware also.
even winmobile 6.1 pro on my treo 750 could play avi fine.
Hi ,,,
I think that the Desire can play the AVI ,
I have seen it on a youtube
(the problem, I can not put the link for your guys here as I am not permitted to do so)
you can search it under comparsion between Nexus and Desire.
Dedo430 said:
Hi ,,,
I think that the Desire can play the AVI ,
I have seen it on a youtube
(the problem, I can not put the link for your guys here as I am not permitted to do so)
you can search it under comparsion between Nexus and Desire.
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No it can't.
Convert you file with mencoder to mp4 and play it on the Desire.
I zipped the necessary files:
mediafire.com/?yx0jbn42qdn
Just drag and drop the file you want to convert on the file convert2desire(.bat).
After waiting some time your file will be converted in the ideal .mp4 format for the Desire.
You will find it in the same directory as the convert2desire(.bat) file.
I will not buy an Android phone before a good .avi/divx player is available. I'm using WM since 2000 and my entire collection of video's is /avi/divx/mkv.
I just couldn't believe my ears when I heard Android (on HTC Desire) can't play those formats.
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I will not buy an Android phone before a good .avi/divx player is available. I'm using WM since 2000 and my entire collection of video's is /avi/divx/mkv.
I just couldn't believe my ears when I heard Android (on HTC Desire) can't play those formats.
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Rockplayerbase (aka rockplayer) works perfectly. It's now in open beta. Search for it.
yep rockplayer works great......no pause at all
Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?
You can also get the yxplayer from Android Market and I would recommend this.
But I don't know whether it has mkv playback. The only tool I know is called "RockPlayerBase" which is able to play mkv but not very smooth (averaged 16 fps on my Desire). I assume, you can get this tool from here... anywhere^^ just search.
I hope, I could help you. Correct me, if I'm wrong
16 fps doesn't sound too promising.. Thanks for advice though
16fps if you are lucky! more like 5 most of the time. I think the rockplayer is a software player so its using just the brute force of the CPU. Thats not bad considering most Atom based netbooks cant play MKVs smoothly without an HD decoder card...
Maybe one day we will get some hardware assistance..
Not sure if this will help at all, but mkv2vob converts mkv files to either vob or mpeg, and does it very quickly. (I don't normally recommend conversion apps as they're usually really slow.)
If either vob or mpeg will play better then I really would recommend giving it a try.
http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1
Also highly recommended for PS3 users who want to watch mkv files
Try RockPlayer. It's awesome.
ledaz said:
Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?
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That is yxflash and an old version at that a newer one is available in market works a treat for all i throw at it
Also using RockPlayer aka: DemoPlayer
Considering time wasted converting files and saving space, when viewing movies, better idea is to stick with divx/xvid/h.264?
There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
Afaik, you can't set different default programs for different video file extensions. All types of videos are Videos.
Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
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Then you're getting different results to me there. It doesn't play WVGA with the 4 vids I've tried, all low bitrate DivX. Greater than 480p XviD/DivX, it doesn't play without severe problems. The ~1.5Mbps vids you're referencing are DivX/XviD?
There's format and container. Containers can hold many different format vids. AVI and MKV are just containers.
Do you realize that most MKVs are in the H.264 format which it doesn't play?
And that it plays XviD/DivX format AVIs? Not MSMP4 or MP4 AVIs.
As for H.264: I use Act 1 player... after using it, it's not possible to go back to the stock player
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Try diceplayer
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.
I've tried this too,on numerous occasions but with no success :/
I also use RockPlayer But what i do i convert all my Movies (that i watch on my Desire) with Badaboom (Nvidia's official vid converter) to a h264 file in mp4 format,and it plays perfectly [so if u have a nvidia gfx card...i strongly recommend this method,since it's ultra fast ,if u have an Ati,try xvid4psp 5.0+ converter]
Harteg said:
I would really recommend Moboplayer, get it from the market, it plays mkv's just fine on my desire
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I, too, recommend MoboPlayer. It's simple to use and supports embedded subtitles in .mkv files.
Id try arcmedia on the market it always works for me mate and its free
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I also use Moboplayer.
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juami said:
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.
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I can confirm this. All solutions above, (rockplayer, mobo etc.) are crap in comparision to diceplayer, (that if you patch your existing lib as suggested).
I previously postet a thread on this in the general section. It really makes the phone to a "almost" perfect hd media player.
Hello
Im looking for a media player that can reproduce all possible formats (mostly videos). Something like VLC for Android would be nice.
Anything out there?
Have you tried arcmedia ? It plays most of the formats, its worth a try. Especially since its free.
rockplayer , xyplayer etc etc.. look on google... I know I did
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rockplayer , xyplayer etc etc.. look on google... I know I did
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I did as well but didnt find anything universal that plays everything. I swore there was a player that the description said "VLC like; Plays all formats"
Tried many, chose Rock Player:
RockPlayer can support audio and video container format: avi mkv rmvb mp4 mov wmv asf wma wav mpg ts mpa dvd au mp3 mid ivf aiff ogm ogg cda flic d2v aac roq flac drc dsm swf pls pmp.Audio and video encoding format AAC AC3 DTS FLV4 LPCM ALAW ULAW MPEG Audio MPEG-1 MPEG-2 RealVideo RealAideo Vorbis AVC VC1 XVID DIVX SVQ Theora Bink Theora Bink basically includes all popular multimedia formats.
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bubble said:
Tried many, chose Rock Player:
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When I saw it was powered by ffdshow, I pretty much decided
Thanks.
I used to use arc player but you could not move it to sd. I now use aPlayer and it plays everything I have streamed...
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u should try poweramp its pretty awsome supports swiping through music a lot of equalizers and auto downloads the album art
Audio: PowerAMP
Video: RockPlayer
No more words...
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What phone have you got btw?
Because you won't be able to play anything properly if you've got a phone like HTC legend, HTC wildfire, you'll need 1ghz processor to play everything property..
If you have 1ghz , then try arcmedia. It's free, but if its not good enough for you for some reason, then try rock player, its paid app, but also has a trial. I never had any issues with rock player, it plays everything smoothly.
I use yxplayer on My wildfire
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What phone have you got btw?
Because you won't be able to play anything properly if you've got a phone like HTC legend, HTC wildfire, you'll need 1ghz processor to play everything property..
If you have 1ghz , then try arcmedia. It's free, but if its not good enough for you for some reason, then try rock player, its paid app, but also has a trial. I never had any issues with rock player, it plays everything smoothly.
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I meant what phone has the author if this thread got.
So how's watching videos on a wildfire ?
Because its about as fast as HTC legend, and it was sluggish on the legend sometimes.
You will have to get the apk.. so if u can't get it off the developers site then maybe try some not so legal methods to see I'd it works that way?
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I meant what phone has the author if this thread got.
So how's watching videos on a wildfire ?
Because its about as fast as HTC legend, and it was sluggish on the legend sometimes.
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of the reviews i read, a lot of them said that video support was hit or miss, presumably on the stock video player. on my phone i use rockplayer, it can play everything i throw at it, without having to encode.
is rockplayer in the tablet market or can you sideload it?
if so, does it scale properly, and can it play most anything?
I played a few AVI's with no issue. Haven't tested mp4's, though I think the native player handles those.
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of the reviews i read, a lot of them said that video support was hit or miss, presumably on the stock video player. on my phone i use rockplayer, it can play everything i throw at it, without having to encode.
is rockplayer in the tablet market or can you sideload it?
if so, does it scale properly, and can it play most anything?
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Downloaded fine for me, was really choppy so I enabled hardware decoding in the settings of rockplayer which made the video extremely smooth but the audio didn't work. I know it works fine on my computer in vlc. it was 720p MKV, high quality encode. That was all I tried, it didn't play the avi. Though I played an avi in another program and it played fine. But I assume since Rockplayer was able to play the video fine with hardware decoding enabled it should work good, not sure why the audio didn't work... could have just that one mkv but thats all I have tried.
laaaavely.
i don't have too many mkvs, mostly avis, so yay.
The only thing I don't like is the inability to play high profile h.264 video and all my video is high profile.
There is no reason Tegra 2 shouldn't be able to play videos that my 3rd gen iPod Touch can handle without breaking a sweat.
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I played a few AVI's with no issue. Haven't tested mp4's, though I think the native player handles those.
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I read all the comments about the bad quality, and them tried AVI on rocketplayer and it looks amazing. the only problem I'm running into is the volume not being able to change.
I am not having any issues really playing movies with either the native player or Rockplayer. Though, most of mine are MP4 files.
If you bump into file type issues where you have one kind that works great, but another that does not I would recommend Tunebite. It can take any video and make anything out of it... as long as your PC can play it, it can convert it. DRM junk included.
I used to have an iPhone (hangs head in shame) and had taken a few movies from Blu Rays download copy thing and put them into iTunes (hangs head again in shame). When I went to Android (stands ups proudly) I needed to bring them over. So, Tunebite to the rescue.
-Loc
If you can't play a video on the Xoom, follow these instructions. Has worked 100% of the time for me using the Xoom stock player:
http://www.gigadroid.com/androidtalk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=21
Well yeah that's transcoding the videos. Of course that works - it lowers the bit rate and takes hours to do. Its really sad that a 2 core CPU and a 8 corr gpu can't decode high profile 720p video. I can't get the zoom to play anything my Streak can't. Pretty sad and disappointed now. Some how the notion ink adam can though.
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Hey,
Wondering if anyone wants to recommend me a video app for the xoom.
Ideally, play files without converting (i.e. mkvs). also optimized for larger screens.
heard about rockplayer - but apparently you cant get the paid version. dont mind paying for no ads.
in the meantime anything else?
search is your friend; endless posts about this topic in the Apps thread..
I would reccomend Rock Player. It isnt in the market so you will have to go to their site to get it. It is free and will play pretty much any video file there is.
rockplayer. freecoder. org
dro1dfan said:
Hey,
Wondering if anyone wants to recommend me a video app for the xoom.
Ideally, play files without converting (i.e. mkvs). also optimized for larger screens.
heard about rockplayer - but apparently you cant get the paid version. dont mind paying for no ads.
in the meantime anything else?
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moboplayer
I also second Moboplayer -- it's been able to smoothly play videos rockplayer couldn't handle
I gave this a try and it does play things the stock player cannot. Although it still cannot play high profile 720p files properly, still, a very good player so far.
Yeah, It still fails on 720P high prof MKVs -- it's a bummer. But it handles AVI's better than rock player(though it chokes on 5 channel audio - 6channel is fine)
Moboplayer plays my avi, xivd perfectly but has issues with audio from MKV's. Sadly, I have to install multiple video players to play my videos. I have over 5TB worth of MKV's. I'm going to have to re-encode, if I ever want to play them on my Xoom on one video player.
Act 1 video
+1 for mobo
Vital player works great
bigslam123 said:
I would reccomend Rock Player. It isnt in the market so you will have to go to their site to get it. It is free and will play pretty much any video file there is.
rockplayer. freecoder. org
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thanks! i think they are waiting for android market in app payments.
moboplayer is great too
Moboplayer plays literally everything that I throw at it. I always dl movies and tv shows from all the file sharing sites and it literally everything plays smooth.
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Moboplayer plays literally everything that I throw at it. I always dl movies and tv shows from all the file sharing sites and it literally everything plays smooth.
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Any high profile 720p mkv file does not play with moboplayer. More specifically, it will try to play but without sound and severe stutter.
After trying numerous video apps, the best one I found is PlayOn. Early on I had issues with some video files but after updating to the latest server software, I was able to play all my video files (avi, xivd & mkv's) perfectly. PlayOn player is free but you have to pay for the server software.
I'm willing to pay if it plays all my video files w/o conversion but I found it best to convert it to the Xoom screen size & shrink down my 8GBs+ 1080p MKV's to 2GB+ for when I'm traveling or watching while eating lunch at work. I use DVD Catalyst to convert.