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Anyway to play .avi video files?

I have a bunch of videos in the .avi format and I haven't had any luck playing them on my tablet. I downloaded the MoboPlayer I keep hearing about but it just sits on a black screen and never plays. Anyone know what would work with this format?

You could try your luck with Vplayer or RockPlayer. Works great for me

I found Soul Player and that works pretty good. I'll check the ones you mentioned and see how they go as well, and if they run any better.

And the BOMB, MX Video player!

You are all crazy. Moboplayer is the bomb.
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MX player all the way, at least, IMHO.
Mobo player needs the codec pack installed to work.
Search market for Moboplayer Code and install the proper code pack for your hardware.

which codec's for i500?

shaun298 said:
which codec's for i500?
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ARMV7
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MX Player also has the ARMV7 codec set as well.
The difference would be MX Player is ad-suuport where as Mobo Player is free...

I've had good luck with Rockplayer. For some reason I can't get any sound when using Mobo.
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kjy2010 said:
And the BOMB, MX Video player!
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Have mobo and tried mx. In the brief time to test, I love it. Love the control, thanks for tip. Mobo gone now.

dj898 said:
MX Player also has the ARMV7 codec set as well.
The difference would be MX Player is ad-suuport where as Mobo Player is free...
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Never noticed, thank you ad free android app

tu3218 said:
I have a bunch of videos in the .avi format and I haven't had any luck playing them on my tablet. I downloaded the MoboPlayer I keep hearing about but it just sits on a black screen and never plays. Anyone know what would work with this format?
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AVI is not a format, it's a container that can contain many different kinds of "format", or rather, encoding methods of video. Whether your tablet can play them depends entirely on how they're encoded.

I used to use mobo player, but right after 3.1 update the built in clear.fi player worked for avi. is that just me?

Guys... Best HD Video App Yet

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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burden010 said:
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?

burden010 said:
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

tritran18518 said:
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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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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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.

donghungx said:
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.

[Q] best video player

Can anyone recommend a good video player that will play videos without jerking, without stopping and with the recorded sound. Doesn't have to be a freebie, main requirement is quality of playback on A500 v3.2.
Thanks

dice player + plugin for tegra2 and every movie works like a charm.
proxonic

tomrowe said:
Can anyone recommend a good video player that will play videos without jerking, without stopping and with the recorded sound. Doesn't have to be a freebie, main requirement is quality of playback on A500 v3.2.
Thanks
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It really depends. There is NO video player that can play non-baseline 1080p video without stutter, so if you're hoping for such you're out of luck. But for almost all else Dice Player or MX Player should work just peachy.

I use rock player.
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Dice player pro works excellently at playing HD movies. MX Player is also a great choice and free.

mx player is the business. Does the job very smoothly.

Have used everything out there except dice and the best one I have found was MX Player. Rock player, mobo player, built in one, and a couple other just couldn't cut it.
MX Player was the only one I could find that would play a 720p mkv without stuttering. I actually searched for a paid version of the app it was so good. They did recently add ads into the free version, but I was more than happy to pay for PRO.

proxonic said:
dice player + plugin for tegra2 and every movie works like a charm.
proxonic
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Thanks for the heads up on the plugin, Dice plays everything like a dream now!
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I recommend MX Player. The latest version can do hardware video and software audio at the same time, so AC3 channels can have sound now.

I have tried everything and I think Dice is the best.
It has full Tegra 2 H/W support.

I use MoboPlayer, but I honestly haven't thrown any 1080p content at it yet, so I don't know how well it handles that.

timehunter said:
I use MoboPlayer, but I honestly haven't thrown any 1080p content at it yet, so I don't know how well it handles that.
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Since your screen isn't capable of playing 1080p content natively, that's not an issue.

haven't tried dice but mx is the best free one by far, however I keep mobo on my tablet because you can completely dim the screen while using HDMI, thus saving some battery.

San Pedro said:
haven't tried dice but mx is the best free one by far, however I keep mobo on my tablet because you can completely dim the screen while using HDMI, thus saving some battery.
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Thanks for the tip, i was searching for something like that

MX has always worked well for me

cyberma007 said:
I have tried everything and I think Dice is the best.
It has full Tegra 2 H/W support.
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+1 you can also turn down brightness on dice player whilst playing via hdmi!

timehunter said:
I use MoboPlayer, but I honestly haven't thrown any 1080p content at it yet, so I don't know how well it handles that.
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I use Mobo for my MKV movies and all are 920p or 1080p an a few AVI's... I can also stream online movies too
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Video player for Desire HD

Been using mobo player but it has issues with flv files for example, the movie gets stuck but the time keeps moving and that part just doesn't play. Happens about 3-4 times for several minutes. Just wondering if you guys use another video player?

I have been using Moboplayer. It is the best video player for Android. I have tried several!

MACkjam said:
I have been using Moboplayer. It is the best video player for Android. I have tried several!
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have you tried playing flv files? they give me problem and since i download videos and my downloader only downloads them in flv...so i was wondering whether it's the player or the rom i'm running.

Hello. DICE player Plays it all...
it is Good...Plays MKV on my DHD just fine , when other cant handle it!
try it

Arcmedia Player plays pretty much anything you throw at it.

will give these a try and report back whether they're playing this flv or not.
Thanks !

Try Rockplayer
http://www.rockplayer.com
it;s very good player which i use on my DHD.

shad0wboss said:
have you tried playing flv files? they give me problem and since i download videos and my downloader only downloads them in flv...so i was wondering whether it's the player or the rom i'm running.
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It plays flv, mkv, 3gp etc, and any other format you throw at it.
Monologue was rated the best recently.

I still have the problem where some parts of the flv movie gets stuck but i believe it is probably the rom i'm using. All those players are functioning just fine and playing flv..

shad0wboss said:
Been using mobo player but it has issues with flv files for example, the movie gets stuck but the time keeps moving and that part just doesn't play. Happens about 3-4 times for several minutes. Just wondering if you guys use another video player?
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You can try MX Player, it's quite slick.

...my rant on this... pls excuse the bullc**p.. >_<
As a user who plays A LOT of movies due to constant use of the public transport for long journeys to and from work... my long-ass post here might be a bit useful for this thread.. ^_^
Initially (late 2010 when I was on Desire Bravo) I was a Rockplayer user, since it was the ONLY player that played most formats decently. Even then, playback of HD videos was buggy at best, impossible most of the time.
Then mid/late 2011 (still on Desire Bravo) Moboplayer came out... and that played more formats with better stability compared to Rockplayer (you need the right codec file downloaded for stability, ARM7VFP was the one I used) even the HD ones. But it was still lacking in regards to playing a lot of HD vids, and MKV playback was still buggy-ish... =/ It was also touting 'hardware decoding' playback... however, I almost always get a prompt saying 'hardware playback not possible etc..' whenever I play most videos anyways.
Nonetheless, I stuck to Moboplayer... since it did play more formats than Rockplayer... and was more stable.
On late November I switched to Desire HD, and whilst I initially stuck to Mobo for my standard player... I was finding that my battery was running out a lot quicker, even with all the 'battery optimizing' tweaks from the forum applied by me to the letter.
Other players like MX was pretty much similar to Mobo... in that it killed the battery just as quick... due to software decoding..
It was then that I found DICEplayer... stating that it did proper hardware decoding straight off the bat. So i gave that one a try... and to my surprise... playback was just as smooth and stable as Mobo... but it didnt kill the battery as bad as my old player!
So currently, my primary player for my DHD is DICEplayer, and imho its probably the best for the phone specifically because of the phone's generally poor battery performance... >_<
Though, i think the dev is having problems with his android market account... so I'm not sure if it can be purchased properly at the mo... =_=

Thanks for the information

I found dice player go be much better
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Try using vplayer... I like it very much...
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... Used vplayer for a bit earlier on as a substitute when rockplayer couldnt play a file... Only because sometimes vplayer wouldnt play a file, in which case I'd switch back to rockplayer which would plau the file... Suprisingly.
But then, MOBOplayer came out and found that it played everything that both vplayer and rockplayer wouldnt play...
I would've stuck to mobo... But then again... DICEplayer has better hardware decoding support.. And is able to play most HD mkv files more consistently...
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Bsplayer hands down. Finds subtitles automaticly and uses HW acceleration lika baws
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+ 1 Rockplayer. The only player that can play every thing on my phone
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Dice is Nice (couldn't resist that)
I've been using Moboplayer but switched to Dice mainly because you can set the aspect ratio up in the settings rather than on the fly. Also when using a Bluetooth headset there seems to be no lag in the audio (lip sync) in comparison with Moboplayer which is also very good but has the slightest of audio lags over BT there's barely anything in it between the two though.
Tried Vplayer, that's okay, but IMHO it's
1. Dice
2. Moboplayer

MACkjam said:
I have been using Moboplayer. It is the best video player for Android. I have tried several!
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Agree....moboplayer is the best, in my opinion.
2nd place: Rock Player
matt
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Some decent info on here:
http://slodive.com/freebies/best-android-video-players/
Matt

Diceplayer has proven to be an excellent player. Works well with uPNPlay.

Is there a player that can properly play 720p mkv videos?

Is there a video player that can properly play 720p mkv videos? It seems like all that I've tried are glitchy.

Curb71 said:
Is there a video player that can properly play 720p mkv videos? It seems like all that I've tried are glitchy.
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have you tried mx player? using software decoding i am getting decent results....

Yeah +1 for MX Player

Diceplayer ? Used it on all my devices and no problems ...
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coolius said:
Yeah +1 for MX Player
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I'm using Dice Player. It seems to work with HW acceleration.

I've always used MX player, but i'm hoping to see good things from VLC for android once it comes out of beta.

I also use MX Player. If the video or sound isn't working, switch between the H/W and S/W decoding modes. I haven't run into any problems yet.

MX
MX Player here as well. It's on all of my devices. MX for video and Mixzing or Ubermusic for tunes.

BSPlayer all the way. The best out there. Can play even my baddest, biggest 720p mkv videos from a mounted cifs share on my NAS over the network, absolutely smoothly. And hides the softkeys. Well, most times
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hello_world.c said:
BSPlayer all the way. The best out there. Can play even my baddest, biggest 720p mkv videos from a mounted cifs share on my NAS over the network, absolutely smoothly. And hides the softkeys. Well, most times
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I use BSPlayer too and also stream from a networked hard drive flawlessly. I also like the fact that when I play a new movie, it would automatically search, suggest a list of and download subtitle files for me if I don't already have one. :good:

I have a 6.5 GB 720p mkv file. Here's my experience on the Nexus 7:
Dice Player: Surprisingly doesn't recognize it. It used to play everything. Oh well...
VLC player: Crashes.
Real Player: Cannot recognize it.
BSPlayer: Plays is flawlessly, except the audio is a bit on the low side. Not sure I'd hear it with headphones on a plane.
MX player: No audio.
I hope that helps. BS Player is what I'll be using from here on till someone has another suggestion that works.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833704