I have a Sprint Tab, and every time I watch a movie, it pauses itself every minute or so.
Has anyone else experienced this? Or know what might be causing it.
Very frustrating
what are you watching? get a codec info app and post it. audio too
does it have dolby audio? I have read SGT cannot render Dolby and a movie.
Well, I'm not sure it is just a movie thing, because I experience a similar hiccup when doing other things
in particular, recording a movie with the built in camera, I can go for maybe 40 seconds then it just stops
or playing angry birds, the game will just automatically pause itself ever 40 seconds
with the movies and the games, I just unpause them and keep going, but it is pretty constant around that 40 - 60 second time frame.
LargePrime said:
what are you watching? get a codec info app and post it. audio too
does it have dolby audio? I have read SGT cannot render Dolby and a movie.
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That's untrue. I have watched many movies on my Sprint SGT encoded at 720p with Dolby digital without any pausing or skipping.
If there's a consistent pause in every app after 40 seconds, there's something wrong with your SGT in general.
My Sprint Tab has no issues with videos. Maybe try a factory reset on it. Otherwise, it could be a hardware issue.
I watch 720p movies all the time flawless local lan over a wireless n router. Now 1080p movies lag horribly but that's all. Only reason I tried 1080p is because all my movies r either 720p or 1080p. But going to test it over the internet today when cable gets installed.
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FYI, did a factory set, that fixed all of the problems, yay!
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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.
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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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So I'm waiting for my hdmi cable to come from monoprice, and I'm getting kind of anxious. I was just curious if anybody converted 720p videos and played them on a large hdtv, and how it worked out. Was there smooth playback, was there an audio delay, is the quality what you expected? Also, how are games displayed? I saw a video of someone playing angry birds on the Evo but the frame rate was pretty bad.
I got my HDMI cable yesterday. I haven't tried converting any videos and playing them on my 46 inch HD TV, but I did stream a TWiT TV video on the Xoom and mirrored it on the TV. It looked really good. The sound synced up fine, but it carries the audio on the HDMI so I had to turn up the volume on my TV to hear it. I think I'll either have to route the audio out on my TV to my stereo or I'll have to send the headphone jack of the Xoom to my stereo.
Since the Xoom screen has a vertical resolution of 800 pixels and the HDMI out is running at 720, some of the top and bottom of the screen gets cut off. If you are playing a 720 video that shouldn't be an issue though.
I'll try playing Angry Birds on it and see how the frame rate looks. I didn't notice any degredation in the frame rate though while I was playing around with it yesterday.
After playing with it for an hour or so I was pretty happy with the way it looked. I'm waiting for Flash so I can see how Netflix mirrored to my TV looks. Now you've got me wondering though. I'm going to RIP a DVD and see how it looks mirrored to my TV from the Xoom.
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I got my HDMI cable yesterday. I haven't tried converting any videos and playing them on my 46 inch HD TV, but I did stream a TWiT TV video on the Xoom and mirrored it on the TV. It looked really good. The sound synced up fine, but it carries the audio on the HDMI so I had to turn up the volume on my TV to hear it. I think I'll either have to route the audio out on my TV to my stereo or I'll have to send the headphone jack of the Xoom to my stereo.
Since the Xoom screen has a vertical resolution of 800 pixels and the HDMI out is running at 720, some of the top and bottom of the screen gets cut off. If you are playing a 720 video that shouldn't be an issue though.
I'll try playing Angry Birds on it and see how the frame rate looks. I didn't notice any degredation in the frame rate though while I was playing around with it yesterday.
After playing with it for an hour or so I was pretty happy with the way it looked. I'm waiting for Flash so I can see how Netflix mirrored to my TV looks. Now you've got me wondering though. I'm going to RIP a DVD and see how it looks mirrored to my TV from the Xoom.
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Netflix doesn't use flash though so it won't do you any good unless you're using an app like Playon.
I used it last night. (no 720p source)
Mainly on the Youtube app and got some issues.
Now the cable I got was 15' from amazon, but who knows how good it is.
I'm connecting it to a 27" PC monitor that has been wonky with my cable box (I think its the cable box's issue)
But that said, it restarted my Xoom 3 times. Videos would play fine and then freeze, with the tap to restart message. Audio would be out of sync for awhile, and then catch up, or freeze. Im thinking it might be the app though, I don't have any other media on it to play though. When it was working, the quality was great (other than the HQ youtube) menus looked sharp, sound was perfect.
Ill try and move some 720p Community episodes over tonight and see how they look.
+1 for community.
Hopefully it is just the youtube app, it seems a lot of people either hit or miss with that. I don't know, since day one, I have had what I would consider a relatively low amount of force closes (maybe 1-2 per day) with random stuff here or there, but some people talk about it like they can't use it at all. The 1-2 is with several hours of various usage per day, and the force close is usually when trying to open an app, not even when I'm doing anything important. I never had any wiggling on the upper half of the Palm Pre from a release day launch, never had any issues with the Evo Maybe I'm just lucky.
I bet my Xoom explodes tonight.
converting a 720p movie on my xoom tonight and trying it out..
also youtube has massive problems to begin with soo, naturally the mirroring was horrible
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So I'm waiting for my hdmi cable to come from monoprice, and I'm getting kind of anxious. I was just curious if anybody converted 720p videos and played them on a large hdtv, and how it worked out. Was there smooth playback, was there an audio delay, is the quality what you expected? Also, how are games displayed? I saw a video of someone playing angry birds on the Evo but the frame rate was pretty bad.
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I have Despicable Me, 720p version, on my Xoom, plugged it in with the Micro HDMI to My 50" Samsung - looked great I thought. Mouthing I slightly off, but thats how it is on my Xoom to so no changes with that. I also played Mario Cart with the N64 App and the Wiimote hooked up. Worked great!
I have Avatar, Startrek & Transformers 2 on my device played them all via HDMI using the Rock Player app and it was perfect sound was in sync and no lag.
Played Nes & Snes and both were great too. Web browsing was also very solid.
Only one issue and that was the YouTube app. Its an app issue not tablet or HDMI... that app is unstable at best usually anyways and Google needs to update it.
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Netflix doesn't use flash though so it won't do you any good unless you're using an app like Playon.
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Playon is the plan. Works great on my Samsung Epic that I rooted and installed Froyo on.
I made a video for this.
youtube.com/watch?v=2PzSJv3Pcsk
P.S. Oh and if you liked it please like, comment, and subscribe as I am in the process of trying to become a youtube partner so I can help off set the cost of buying all my gadgets, and hopefully eventually start giving the stuff I review away to my viewers. Thanks
Edit: Just wanted to say that the TV in the video is a 55" 1080p TV.
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I used it last night. (no 720p source)
Mainly on the Youtube app and got some issues.
Now the cable I got was 15' from amazon, but who knows how good it is.
I'm connecting it to a 27" PC monitor that has been wonky with my cable box (I think its the cable box's issue)
But that said, it restarted my Xoom 3 times. Videos would play fine and then freeze, with the tap to restart message. Audio would be out of sync for awhile, and then catch up, or freeze. Im thinking it might be the app though, I don't have any other media on it to play though. When it was working, the quality was great (other than the HQ youtube) menus looked sharp, sound was perfect.
Ill try and move some 720p Community episodes over tonight and see how they look.
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I have the same problem with the YouTube app when on wifi and no hdmi. I have not tried too much on wireless since I don't want to burn through my cap but the few I tried worked better. Regardless I am inclined to say it is the app and not the HDMI out.
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Screw you tube for now it's loaded with glitches. I just uploaded a 720 p mad men episode flawless.. sound is a little crappy doubt but not unsynced
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Dice Player... best video player so far. I've been playing with it for a couple of days and it plays 720p well. I've jacked my CPU up to 1.6ghz and Dice is handling 720 downloaded mkvs which is exactly what every other player can't do. (It still works without overclocking but I tried a 6.5GB movie at 1ghz and it was jumpy, TV shows were fine though).
It's not got the prettiest GUI and OK, it's not the most stable, it just stops playing the video sometimes and even force closing the app doesn't get it playing again, you have to reboot... which isn't the most convenient but hey, at least I don't have to spend hours converting mkvs to mp4s!
I haven't tried any 1080 vids because I don't have any and I'm not downloading an 8GB file just to try it.
I've just bought the full version (you get a free 3 day trial to test it out). I am hoping that with my hard earned $3.95 the dev will be able to make it even better.
Try the 3 day trial, seriously.
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Dice Player... best video player so far.
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burden010 said:
It's not got the prettiest GUI and OK, it's not the most stable, it just stops playing the video sometimes and even force closing the app doesn't get it playing again, you have to reboot... which isn't the most convenient but hey, at least I don't have to spend hours converting mkvs to mp4s!
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thats quite contradicting. Have you tried MX Videplayer? It too can plany 720p mkv vids with no issues. and it doesnt have any of the problems you mentioned about. Check out MX and let me know if you still feel the Dice is superior.
The thing that always makes me go "wtf?" is why people would WANT to play high profile 720p or 1080p video on their Xooms.
It'd kind of trash your battery, even if you could get it to work software-wise.
Much better to handbrake to a format where the GPU can do all the heavy lifting.
I tested it for 3 days and ended up buying. It plays 720 mkv files better than MX Player. I convert movies with Handbrake but don't want to take the time with TV shows. It's nice to just move them over the wifis with File Manager HD and watch them when I can.
What I like best about Dice is that it can play everything. I don't like switching players for formats. All the old wmv from when my son was born play fine, avi, etc.
The dev is pretty active in the Transformer forum. Seems like they try hard to make the player better.
Dice and Mizzu Movies make a nice combo.
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Just tried MX Player - it's not playing the files that Dice is. It's playing Entourage at 720 but very jumpy and no sound and it's just force closing when trying to play Ironclad or Platoon 720 mkvs. Basically the same results as Mobo player.
Also, don't care about battery, I'm using the Xoom mostly on 1hr long train journeys to and from work. I just want to be able to download a TV ep in the morning, transfer it to the Xoom and go. I can do that now without messing about re-encoding them with Handbrake/Badaboom etc.
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Is there any other FREE player than can play MKV?
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Just tried MX Player - it's not playing the files that Dice is. It's playing Entourage at 720 but very jumpy and no sound and it's just force closing when trying to play Ironclad or Platoon 720 mkvs. Basically the same results as Mobo player.
Also, don't care about battery, I'm using the Xoom mostly on 1hr long train journeys to and from work. I just want to be able to download a TV ep in the morning, transfer it to the Xoom and go. I can do that now without messing about re-encoding them with Handbrake/Badaboom etc.
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did you try switching between soft decoding and hard decoding. i played a true blood 720p mkv and it played fine, after switchin.
Chubby_Skunk said:
Is there any other FREE player than can play MKV?
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vplayer, MX player, mobo player... These free app can play most mkv files without problem
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vplayer, MX player, mobo player... These free app can play most mkv files without problem
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Most? I wouldn't say so. If you're downloading 720p content, chances are it's high profile and in those cases the video players you mentioned won't play it. Dice Player is the only one that's played everything I've thrown at it.
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thats quite contradicting. Have you tried MX Videplayer? It too can plany 720p mkv vids with no issues. and it doesnt have any of the problems you mentioned about. Check out MX and let me know if you still feel the Dice is superior.
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Dice is superior. it use HW decoder even when it play MKV/MOV/MTS files.
but MX use only SW decoder.
timrock said:
thats quite contradicting. Have you tried MX Videplayer? It too can plany 720p mkv vids with no issues. and it doesnt have any of the problems you mentioned about. Check out MX and let me know if you still feel the Dice is superior.
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I aggree with him, you guys dont know what is MKV 720p, all player can playit with HW decode video but have no ****ing sound, I have tried Diceplayer yesterday, i got all my sound and video still on HW decode, very smooth one, but 3 days trial for software is stupid deal. He just need put some ads and make money.
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I aggree with him, you guys dont know what is MKV 720p, all player can playit with HW decode video but have no ****ing sound, I have tried Diceplayer yesterday, i got all my sound and video still on HW decode, very smooth one, but 3 days trial for software is stupid deal. He just need put some ads and make money.
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I figure if it's something I'm going to use every day and it helps towards the development of an even better app, 4 bucks isn't a lot of money.
I'd much rather pay that and know it's going towards a quality product than mess around with re-encoding.
Well, it is the better mkv hd 720p player. But it is not perfect yet. Some 720p movies don't play. And 1080p don't play too. But I recommend, because play smooth many tittles.
Hi all,
I've had my new Thrive for about a week, and have had no success in getting imported movie files to play without being slightly jerky, especially during scenes with some panning. I realize the Tegra chipset has to use baseline encoding, so I've used Handbrake with all the advanced settings off for H.264 / 720p with no luck. I tried decreasing quality / bitrate, even took a shot at an H.263 encode, same issue. Sadly enough, I've even downsized the video to 480p, and the issue is mostly gone, but it's stil there if you're looking for it. Having about given up with encoding, I tried some HD YouTube movie trailers and have noticed the same studdering / jerkyness when it plays back scenes with some panning.
I believe I have all the updates, it's the first thing I checked for when I got online.
Some posts that I have run across mention trying to disable the video enhancement capability, which I've done, but no change.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. (???)
Thanks for any input!
Yes I have the same problem. Even videos I take with the camera on it does the same thing. Every video regardless of quality or format jitters and plays very weird and not smooth.
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Hi all,
I've had my new Thrive for about a week, and have had no success in getting imported movie files to play without being slightly jerky, especially during scenes with some panning. I realize the Tegra chipset has to use baseline encoding, so I've used Handbrake with all the advanced settings off for H.264 / 720p with no luck. I tried decreasing quality / bitrate, even took a shot at an H.263 encode, same issue. Sadly enough, I've even downsized the video to 480p, and the issue is mostly gone, but it's stil there if you're looking for it. Having about given up with encoding, I tried some HD YouTube movie trailers and have noticed the same studdering / jerkyness when it plays back scenes with some panning.
I believe I have all the updates, it's the first thing I checked for when I got online.
Some posts that I have run across mention trying to disable the video enhancement capability, which I've done, but no change.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. (???)
Thanks for any input!
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I watch alot of videos on my Thrive and can say I encountered this once when I first got it when watching YouTube videos while mirroring on an led tv. However then I updated my Thrive and it went away and I never saw the problem again. So perhaps check is your updated or restart your Thrive?
I watch my videos from the SD card and am using a class 10 so perhaps if your watching movies from a lower class SD card you should transfer them to the onboard storage? I also stream anime from animehere.com and do not have any problems there either.
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I'm an idiot, I didnt see that you think you have all the updates, this is baffeling.
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Yeah I also get that. The movie plays fine & the audio is in sync just when the camera starts to pan it seems like the screen is jerking or stuttering ever so slightly. I've tried AVS, Handbreak, DVD Catalyst & Xilisoft. Multiple times with multiple movies & profiles. Seems like this Tegra 2 might have been a bad choice for processors. The same 720p movies play just fine on my Evo 3D. Hopefully Nvidia comes out with a update that fixes this as I have read that all of the tablets with the Tegra in it suffer from the same problem. A huge FAIL on Nvidia's part IMO. Whats the sense of having a tablet with a 720p screen but you can't watch movies smoothly.
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Yo, I'm not sure whether 720p works completely fine though but for any other res under that either VPlayer or Mobo seem to be able to play them relatively well.
Over the last month I've experimented with the Thrive and an Asus Transformer. Both have had the same jerky playback issues with my encoded videos, with the built in Honeycomb player. A resolution I've found for playing back my MP4 files is Dice Player, it seems to have gotten rid of the stuttering issue on both devices. YouTube is still a mixed bag, most low quality videos play fine, but the HD stuff will still have issues from time to time. I read somewhere that Dice Player has it's own system / codec files that bypass the built in files provided by Nvidia for the default Honeycomb player, I'm guessing that may be the issue...
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Over the last month I've experimented with the Thrive and an Asus Transformer. Both have had the same jerky playback issues with my encoded videos, with the built in Honeycomb player. A resolution I've found for playing back my MP4 files is Dice Player, it seems to have gotten rid of the stuttering issue on both devices. YouTube is still a mixed bag, most low quality videos play fine, but the HD stuff will still have issues from time to time. I read somewhere that Dice Player has it's own system / codec files that bypass the built in files provided by Nvidia for the default Honeycomb player, I'm guessing that may be the issue...
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Have you tried without the Video Enhancement thing? Seems that turning it off helps quite a bit.
Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
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Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
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Any one have any ideas?