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Weird playback issue

Sometimes when i try and playback a .mp4 file that has been encoded with super via coreplayer (using coreplayers open file etc), its so stuttery that its unwatchable. this includes samples that ive downloaded off the sticky playback thread. this also happens when i try and playback .flv files. trying wmp the files dont even play and skip straight to the preloaded demo files.
The issue, is that when i open these same files via the inbuilt wm6.1 file explorer and use coreplayer to play, they run smooth as silk. i can even play files thats downloaded straight off the net ie 700mb without any encoding at all and they run smooth. wmp sadly still wont read the file.
It seems very tempermental though and just wanted to know what the community thought about this as theres 38+ pages in the aforementioned playback thread about whats the best encoding for smooth playback yet ive found that none (for downloaded files at least) is needed, albeit tempermentally.

Playing Rockplayer over Network - Solved

This is a workaround I discovered this morning. Apologies if this has already been described.
IMO Rockplayer is not very useful if it can't play a stream and the cifs workaround I found wasn't very useful across an unstable vpn connection.
Anyhoo, the workaround basically is just using an ftp program like Andftp to connect to my home ftp server. Once the file begins downloading then I go to the folder it is being downloaded to, the root of the sd card by default, using astro and then click on the file. The choices of opening the file are presented.
I have found with a couple of avi's that I have to wait about 20 seconds before I start playing the file or it stops.
This worked nicely using the stock player downloading an mp4 file as well.
edit: just to clarify - the video plays while the file is still being downloaded. Tested on N1 running CM6 with both stock player and mp4 and Rockplayer with avi.
This is especially well suited to slow connections because you can adjust your wait time to your download speed, and if you have to stop watching for a minute the file continues to download.
Can't wait to try this on my in transit nationite midnite!!!!!!

Issues with ASUS eee TRANSFORMER

I have problems installing market apps -- I always get a notification that Installation is unsuccessful. I was trying to install video players like Moboplayer and VPlayer. Previous installs like CNBC worked fine.
Also, I was not able to find the stock video player. Where is it? Like to add a video player which support more type of videos like DIVX.
I did found out that I could not install any apps from Market when I have connection with my PC.
Thanks for your help.
ps: my new tablet, contrary to XOOM, is not supporting synch book marks with CHROME! Anyone know how?

where are you located at?
For movies, the Gallery app is the same as the movies app. If you go to File Manager and look for the movie you wanna watch (it can be saved on the TF hard drive or the microSD card foler), just tap on the movie file name and you'll get prompted to which application to use to play that movie. It will show "Movies" and "Moboplayer" as the options if you have MoboPlayer installed. If you don't, it shows as Movies and you click on it and you can start watching it provided it's a format that is supported.
I strongly suggest downloading MoboPlayer though.

I can't install moboplayer as it fails installing. Any idea why?

Found problem...
I ran out of 16GB file space....
Anyone let me know how to use CHROME bookmarks with browser....

Little help with streaming please :)

Hi guys, i've got a little problem with streaming videos to the N7 and need a little push in the right direction.
So i'm using Linux Ubuntu 12.04, i've setup Samba and managed to get the SMB share working on the tablet through ES File Explorer...
All that works fine, i can see what's on the computer, i can delete, add, move, copy files, that works good. However i cannot for the life of me get the damn thing to stream videos properly, the video just cuts out or drops or something. :crying:
Example:
So i'm watching chuck, i can watch the first 15/20 minutes without any hiccups, it streams perfectly and everything is all good, then all of a sudden the video stops and the app closes, ES File Explorer restarts and im back to the local content on the SD storage.
I have tried opening the videos in ES File Explorer with VLC player, MX Player, Dice Player and V Player... It just drops out every 20 minutes roughly... Am i doing something wrong or is it a bug or am i missing something obvious? I've googled the issue and the closest i can find is to use BubbleUPnP, i can't connect to local host in Linux to setup the pc end it refuses to connect.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I'm pretty sure yur chuck video is broken/corrupted at one point. Can you verify if it always crash at the same minutes/second?
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 7 avec Tapatalk

I've checked around 6 episodes in the series and its done for all of them, I've also streamed a movie (Bourne identity) to see if its just the chuck videos and the movie cuts out around every 20minutes too.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

This happens to me also. I use ES File Explorer to browse to videos stored on my WD Elements external USB HD connected to a WDTV network media player on my LAN and stream to either MX Player or BSPlayer on an unrooted Nexus7. All videos abruplty stop after a period of time and I get kicked back to ES File Explorer SD Card directory. This happens regardless of the media (I've tried tons of files) and happens with both MX Player and BSPlayer. I am assuming it is a bug with ES File Explorer unless it has something to do with the source.
Anyone have any ideas why this happens?

I realize this is an old thread, but I have been having this issue for a long time. I contacted the developer, and the app has been updated many times since, but the issue persists. I had originally thought the issue was with the video player, but I think you're right. No matter which video player I use, the video drops out at random intervals, crashing the player and kicking me back to ES File Explorer, but on the Local tab, not where I left it. Sometimes the interval is less than 10 minutes, sometimes I make it through as much as 30 minutes before the player crashes. There doesn't seem to be a pattern. I have reproduced this with hundreds of videos, encoded with at least 3 different codecs, of varying size and length. My server is XP Pro SP3, so it's not something tied to Linux, as another user suggested. Although this is a Nexus thread, I have experienced this on my Transformer TF700T. Is it possible the ES app is going to "sleep" while the video is playing, causing the LAN session to close? Eight months is a long time to wait for such an important bug fix. I'd be willing to post logs if you explain how to get them.

I still have that problem, on my new devices, did any of you found a fix or a reason`?

[root] xbmc - choppy avi playback solution - mount samba share - external mxplayer

It looks like disabling hardware acceleration and not choosing multi-threaded decoding helps with this problem.
see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2796356
edit: 6/26/14 - It looks to me like xbmc for ouya does not have this problem with xvid playback with libstagefright turned off (software decoding?) so I am going to try launching xbmc for ouya as an external player and see how that works.
Other than remuxing files into mkv format, I did not find another solution for choppy xvid playback in xbmc gotham 13.1.
Redardless, I posted this info so that there is more information on how to mount a remote share on an android device and have the share visible for android apps.
I ended up using mxplayer android app to launch when playing xvid files, or invoke it manually through the "play using" option in the context menu. Having a mouse handy may be needed to scroll to some options during app setup.
I have my firetv rooted, and as the default launcher following threads on this forum. I installed SSH and use SFTP to put files on my FireTV
This is the only way I could get any app to mount a remote share and have android apps see the share.
The first step is to install mxplayer and the custom codec (I believe this helps with AC3 passthrough)
sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/download - MXPlayer downloads page
I downloaded and installed the second option (free neon edition)
then I downloaded the custom codec (for neon) found in the link at the bottom of the codecs section and followed the directions, putting the file in the data directory.
I put the file in /sdcard/Android/data/ and pointed mxplayer to the file, as per directions in the xda custom codec thread.
wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Use_external_players_on_Android - HOW-TO: Use External Players on Android
following those directions I made a playercorefactory.xml file and put that in the xbmc userdata directory.
/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="mxplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule videocodec="xvid" player="mxplayer"/> <!-- launch mxplayer to playback xvid files if xbmc knows already -->
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
restart XBMC after putting playercorefactory.xml in the userdata directory
The mxplayer would not launch on files using only this method, as the NFS or Samba share I was using was not usefully passed along to mxplayer, so I had to find a way to mount a share in android and use that mountpoint as my video source.
from your terminal on your pc (not using ssh, using adb) - This is for mounting a samba share (windows share). I saw a lot of problems trying to use NFS shares.
replace the IP addresses with your servers IP Address, and username,password
Code:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb connect 192.168.0.xx (put your IP address of your file server here)
adb shell
mkdir /mnt/obb/nas
su
mount -o noperm,unc=\\\\192.168.0.xx\\putsharenamehere,username=putusernamehere,password=putpasswordhere -t cifs none /mnt/obb/nas
add that video source in XBMC, by navigating to root filesystem, and /mnt/obb/nas
verify that it works by going to video->files and seeing the share
In mxplayer, I had to select Hardware decoding for video, not Hardware+, and Software Decoder for Audio
If XBMC knows the file is xvid video it will launch mxplayer automatically otherwise you can use the context menu and choose mxplayer
caveats:
messing with the settings in mxplayer will cause AC3 streams to not passthrough, but I don't always have the mouse hooked up to navigate to the proper settings and fix them back up, but it looks promising so far. I do have smooth playback for xvid files (avi containers) and passthrough of AC3 audio to my receiver.
I don't believe the mountpoint will survive a reboot at this point, but I believe it would be easy to put a script in an init file somewhere to do this, as long as we find the right file that is invoked after bootup.
navigation using the fire tv remote is OK in mxplayer for basic playback, and disabling subtitles in settings if you have to (I chose a default directory with no subs)
if we use this mountpoint as a media source, scan into the library, and don't make it persistent after reboot, we will have problems. But I have mostly x264 files in my library, and they play fine normally with XBMC so this is only useful for .avi files for me.
If anyone wants to find a way to make the mount persistent after reboot this would help me out. The mounting of remote shares for android apps took a day of googling for me to nail down, not sure if there is an easier way, but nothing else worked.
with mxplayer set to decode files this way, I have trouble playing mkv files (I believe with AC-3) with it but I don't use mxplayer for those files.
UPDATE: I am not able to play files with AC3 and use passthrough without losing seeking function in mxplayer, might try bsplayer next or another android app. The difference as far as the video is concerned is night and day though.
I think with the mount options that I found it would be possible to use CIFS Manager app to automate the mount, but I would probably still have to make the directory before mounting. This is just a temporary solution for me until hopefully we get linux on the fire tv and can solve some of the playback issues I see. I don't wish to re-encode files that I ripped 15 years ago, and merging them in mkv format makes no difference.

I don't have any avi files that are that big, the biggest I've got is probably 90 minutes and a size of 3 gig. I just tried it in xbmc 13.1 and it seemed OK to me.
Are you connecting your Fire via wifi or ethernet? I put mine onto ethernet very quickly after putting it in the living room, and it seems very helpful to do so.

My files range from 300MB to 3GB and I see jitter during pans and normal scenes that occur visibly on files that are .avi and/or originally encoded as xvid. I tried to look for a number of settings that would help, but never did. I am looking at the long thread on the xbmc forum and seeing if I get any pointers, might try a nightly build. When I load the same file in mxplayer I don't see the jitter. Thanks for your input.
I am connected ethernet, SMB or NFS shares.
what are your settings for acceleration, and your other settings regarding audio and video in system, and video tabs?
thanks