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Problems playing .avi on my Touch HD

Hi I've just received my HD and overall I'm very impressed. I was a smartphone user previously so I’m having to come to terms with TouchFlo and Windows Mobile all at the same time!
The only real problem I’m having is playing .avi video. I've transferred an .avi file to my memory card but it won't play in CorePlayer (need the AC3 codec I think) and TCPMP doesn't load (get a crash screen) and mobile divx plays the video but it’s a mess on the screen.
I've even tried to encode the video file with PocketDivXEncoder but I think this needs TCPMP to play and it looks terrible in Mobile Divx.
So my question is how do I successfully play an .avi as this is one of the main reasons I bought my HD.
Also one further question with appointments in the calendar when I get a reminder the notification pop up doesn't appear till I click on the alarm icon at the top of the screen - is this due to touchflo and can you force WM6.1 to always show the notification - I’m finding I’m forgetting about meetings because of this!
Thanks in advance of your help.
JM

I've tried playing avi (divx) files with great success. I have been using CorePlayer (v1.2.5). Maybe you should try another video file? it should work

Interesting - are you using a special codec with that or just the player?

JetMouse said:
Interesting - are you using a special codec with that or just the player?
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I now see your problem, I had originally tried only avi movies with mp3 audio (like most of my videos). I tested it with a file with AC3 audio and it appears that CorePlayer doesnt have that codec.
Guess your only option with movies with AC3 audio is to convert them, or you might be able to get an AC3 codec somewhere.

So is there a way of converting my video into avi + mp3 rather than AC3 as it sounds like that would sort my problem?

JetMouse said:
So is there a way of converting my video into avi + mp3 rather than AC3 as it sounds like that would sort my problem?
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You could try the freeware video converter program 'SUPER'.
SUPER allows you to convert easily many aspects of a video including size, frame rate, format of video and audio, etc.
I use it all the time to convert my camera videos for use with my Hard Drive TV Media Player.
Don't try and download it from the developers web site it's a minefield in how to get the program.
Instead get it direct from Download.com here:-
http://www.download.com/Super-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10277613.html
Beards

I'm about to buy a Touch HD and was wondering if someone can confirm that it can playback video files (.avi) that can be found around the web (e.g. tv shows, movies and such) smoothly without conversion. (just transfer and play)?

yes please, can handle a typical rip of 350mb tv show or 700mb movie without problems?

Insaneboy said:
I'm about to buy a Touch HD and was wondering if someone can confirm that it can playback video files (.avi) that can be found around the web (e.g. tv shows, movies and such) smoothly without conversion. (just transfer and play)?
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It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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Could you share the FPS and bitrate please?

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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This is exactly whay i'm trying to do - can you tell me which video player you used?

edwardscdr said:
It certainly can. I watched a whole divx movie i downloaded in full resolution (640 i think) without any conversion, and it was working great. havent tried a TV show yet but i guess it will work fine.
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How did you manage that, mines plays the videos but they are jerky, seems like it's caching the film. I've even tried same file on iphone & hd, iphone was much smoother. what am i doing wrong??
Peter.

I've got to agree here with edwardscdr. I have no problem whatsoever in playing .avi files using Core Player 1.2.5
I believe the problem that others are having is down to what software and system associated files individuals have installed on their Phone. These could be effecting the performance of the playback.
It's a bit extreme but one sure way of finding out the problem is to hard reset the device and install ONLY Core Player (I personally did this when I first received my Touch HD).
Next transfer a video/movie file and play it........ Do you notice any improvements?
If so then at least you know it's down to what was previously installed.
To then eliminate the culprit that was causing the problem is to install software titles one-by-one and on each occasion check the playback of the video.
When it changes and no longer runs smoothly then BANG.... you have your culprit.
Beards

its the ac3, core player can't play it
i wish i can convert the audio via super...

sound can be changed, the audio codecs will show different results when using a different container, im just used to the .mp4 container so i didnt see an audio codec change to mp3

AC3 will play on the old TCPMP beta, the screen is buggy (missing buttons etc) but it does work. If you set up file extensions (in the options settings in both apps) to play on different media players you won't have any trouble (eg: AC3 plays on TCPMP, divx/xvid plays very well on Coreplayer).
The only videos i have trouble playing are in the H264 codec, but that's not a surprise as it is an advanced codec that can make some older desktops slow down.
As far as I am aware, the only media player that takes advantage of hardware acceleration is the built in media player with the HD. For optimum video playback you'd probably want to convert your video files with a third party app into mp4, BUT as an experienced heavy user of video files I find that a combo of Coreplayer, TCPMP and the built in player works just fine for nearly all occasions.
Hope this helps.

the videos are kinda bit pixelated also in tcpmp, the play buttons are center below but u cant see them until u click them ahha

Galaxy s media player

Had anyone used the galaxy s media player yet?
Is fantastic compared to the media player that was on my hero, and also far better than anything that I have downloaded from the market too.
After 12 months,i finally have a fully functioning and customisable eq on my android device.
Very impressed with this phone in all aspects.
Is the dogs danglies!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Agreed.... I thought my HD2 player was very good but this one is simply superb.
Plays all my files without a hitch

Hi,
Does the player allow you to see embedded images in podcasts?
can you skip chapters on podcasts?
Thanks.

does it play flac and vbr aac? Alac?

yes this is really a nice and great and fast media player and i love the EQ and sound quality (I keep it on wide =D and custom EQ)

is the organization of tracks as good on the HTCs???
on my i8000 Omnia II for instance, when u go the the "artist" tab, all the artist's songs are just packed there, instead of showing "Albums", which sucks imo...

Does it play unedited 720p and 1080p files. I know there is no point due to screen resolution but it will give an idea about the performance capability of the device.

Mine plays unedited 720p .avi files fine, doesn't seem to like 1080p, but then I've only tried over allshare. I might try copying one to the actual drive and see what happens. Mind you, to my mind, flawless 720p playback from my server upstairs on my phone in the garden is damn near magical anyway .
I seem to be less lucky with .mov, they won't play. Not sure where the files originally came from though, they were Iron Man 2 and, um, something else (Ice Age maybe) trailers in 800x480 mov format. Are we meant to be able to play .mov files on this thing?

umm can anyone rip the app and post it here ? or is that illegal ?

How does it handle Xvid/Divx and MKV scene releases?

What app do you recommend to transfer albums too it ? Where we could perhaps edit the tagged data too?
I've tried using WMP but its clunky and seems to either want to sync everything or have trouble syncing anything?
Ideally I would just like to view whats on the device and edit the alum name, album art etc.
I've seen this http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt & http://www.getsongbird.com/ but never used them before. I loved sharepod for apple devices - I'd like the equivalent

Barkotron said:
Mine plays unedited 720p .avi files fine, doesn't seem to like 1080p, but then I've only tried over allshare. I might try copying one to the actual drive and see what happens. Mind you, to my mind, flawless 720p playback from my server upstairs on my phone in the garden is damn near magical anyway .
I seem to be less lucky with .mov, they won't play. Not sure where the files originally came from though, they were Iron Man 2 and, um, something else (Ice Age maybe) trailers in 800x480 mov format. Are we meant to be able to play .mov files on this thing?
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Video codecs
mpeg4
H.264
H.263
Sorenson codec
DivX HD/ XviD
VC-1
Video formats
3GP (MPEG-4)
WMV (Advanced Systems Format)
AVI (divx)
MKV
FLV
I'm 1 for 2 on 1080p to my tv via Allshare, the fail played but was extremely choppy then quit. The success took a second to load, then stopped, then played from that point on without a hitch (maybe a 3 min test though, don't know about a whole movie)
MichaelWestin said:
How does it handle Xvid/Divx and MKV scene releases?
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It plays them, MKVs can look simply marvelous.
dizzle118 said:
What app do you recommend to transfer albums too it ? Where we could perhaps edit the tagged data too?
I've tried using WMP but its clunky and seems to either want to sync everything or have trouble syncing anything?
Ideally I would just like to view whats on the device and edit the alum name, album art etc.
I've seen this http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt & http://www.getsongbird.com/ but never used them before. I loved sharepod for apple devices - I'd like the equivalent
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DoubleTwist doesn't import FLAC, so I can't call it ideal for an audio junky, that's its biggest flaw as a music transfer (I'm not in love with the software, but it's not bad).

Does the Galaxy S media player come on carrier branded phones? I didn't anything obvious on my captivate.

It plays almost all the formats I own.
Both 720p avi as well as 720p mkv work splendidly. But a huge problem if your into Anime releases. It has a problem with displaying the subs from the mkv files.
avi releases work (the subs are after all embedded in the video)...

Archius said:
yes this is really a nice and great and fast media player and i love the EQ and sound quality (I keep it on wide =D and custom EQ)
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+2 on the player
its an exceptional player
eq better than anything on any device anywhere
the auto eq (i think it reads idtags of files for genre and applies corresponding eq preset) is amazing. I wish i can edit presets tho for the auto eq.
the 5.1 SRS made the already exceptional soundstage of my triplefi even more amazing.
my niggles would be slight in that it doesnt support press twice to next track and press thrice to go back from the inline mic button.
Btw, anybody went and check the service for the mediaplayer
i saw coreplayer service active, but i have no knowledge of coreplayer being ported to android. AFAIK, coreplayer is still purely a winmo app, and a very good one at that, maybe the best in winmo.
But if the one on the SGS is really coreplayer, then it should be good

Galaxy Vibrant subtitles video
vijaykanth said:
It plays almost all the formats I own.
Both 720p avi as well as 720p mkv work splendidly. But a huge problem if your into Anime releases. It has a problem with displaying the subs from the mkv files.
avi releases work (the subs are after all embedded in the video)...
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Extract the ass/ssa file from the video (videohelp.com or use just use mkvtoolnix), save it with the same title as the video file, upload both on the phone (SD or Internal memory). Download mVideoPlayer from the market and play the file. I tried it myself yesterday. It works I tried seitokai yakuindomo from [Ayako] at 720p.
Enjoy

Dunno if I'm as big of a fan of the media player...
When I try to open a .wmv I get either 'File type wmv not found' (in Astro file manager) or when it does try to open (when opening it in root explorer) a 'Not supported file type' message... This for multiple different wmv's (they play fine in rockplayer btw).
Also the same for an .mp4 file. A 'This video can not be played' message...
Anyone else with the same issues? Rockplayer plays all my files perfectly but if the built in app could do the same that would be great...

k2snowboards88 said:
does it play flac and vbr aac? Alac?
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From the Samsung Specs page:
Music
Music Player with SoundAlive
3.5mm Ear Jack
MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/OGG/WMA/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/WAV/
MID/AC3/IMY/FLAC/XMF
Mine doesn't play WAV Files, at least not the one that I tried, so who knows?

MichaelWestin said:
How does it handle Xvid/Divx and MKV scene releases?
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Depends on resolution and bitrate of course. It can easily play XviD DVD rips and such.

where are the playlists stored?

[Q] MKV Playback

Removing a bunch of preloaded bloatware, I also tossed the My Files app and have been searching for a way to get MKV play back to work. I'm noticing RockPlayer has a way to force System Player, which I would assume is the phones default video player.
I've loaded 3 videos onto my phone, all of which have subtitles. One is a 480p with subtitles, plays fine perfect frame rate, etc. however there are no displayed subtitles. Rockplayer does have subtitles enabled.
Second video is a 720p with subtitles. Video plays fine and smooth, no subtitles displaying.
Third video is also 720p with subtitles and those are working. However, the MKV uses codecs for variable frame rate, which make the video lag terribly in certain parts. Playing this file directly through RockPlayer causes a ton of artifacting and lag about four times more than I am experiencing with the stock player.
Does anyone know how to fix these subtitle problems, or know if there is an additional or better way to load the videos than using RockPlayer?
Edit: And on that note, is there a way/app that will allow choosing specific audio track for a video, or will it always be stuck on the default for the file?

Couple things. The default media player on the epic has ZERO options. You can not configure it as far as I know. However, it plays 720p\1080p MKV files flawlessly. I usually navigate to my video files with a file explorer and open them with the default video player. If subtitles don't work out of the box, then you're pretty much screwed. I'm willing to bet the movie player on the other SGS phones have more options.
Rock player is a piece of doodoo. While it can play MKV files, it chokes on anything remotely high definition. Video playback is all kinds of terrible. Doesn't seem to be able to make use of the Epic's graphics processing.
Until Sammy gives us a video player with more options, I think you're out of luck with subtitles

Just a suggestion but hardcode the subs to the video file.

i too been looking for a video player that can play mkv with the subtitles

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i too been looking for a video player that can play mkv with the subtitles
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You can try rock player, but it's really choppy with high quality movies. I think it supports subtitles. You can try it. It's free on the market.

hydralisk said:
However, it plays 720p\1080p MKV files flawlessly. I usually navigate to my video files with a file explorer and open them with the default video player.
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For some reason, I can't get any of my 1080p mkvs to work. Do they need to be encoded in any particular way?

my problem is that the stock video player wont play any mp4 or mkv vids with more than 2 channels of audio. almost everything i have is 6 channel and wont play on the stock player. as stated above, i find rock player also to be boo boo at hi def playback. i can use headphones and get 5.1 audio, but not through the device speakers. any help?

"5.1" is simulated using a filter, but that method requires headphones to work, so that it can control exactly what each ear hears.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Hey..if you guys haven't noticed mvideoplayer added MKV internal subtitle support for SGS phones..and from what I hear it uses the default hardware acceleration rather then software like rockplayer
austin thats another video player for you to try lol..if not I suggest taking it to the i9000 forum as for now all the development has been there and they had the phones longer.

gTen said:
Hey..if you guys haven't noticed mvideoplayer added MKV internal subtitle support for SGS phones..and from what I hear it uses the default hardware acceleration rather then software like rockplayer
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Oh thank you for pointing this out! I just tested a few 720p MKV files and they played great! Not only that, but it was made by the same person who crated act1 video player. It remembers the position of every video you start and stop. I love it

I was hardcoding subs until I foudn mvideoplayer a couple of days ago. works fine on 80% of external subtitle formats, even allows positioning and font control. it is great.
no more hardcoding subs or worrying about demuxing and increasing audio gain for me!

Cool, thanks for the recommendation. RockPlayer couldn't do HD, so I was looking for another player that was actually hardware accelerated.
And it's free to boot!

I love you guys. This is exactly what I needed.

works perfect with my 720p anime videos with subtitles. had been looking forever and finally this program did the trick. thanks guys

I loaded up an MKV TV show with 720p h.264 and 6 channel AC-3 and it worked flawlessly. I tried playing a 1080p mp4 file with 6 channel AC-3 and couldn't open it. I'm going to try a 1080p mp4 with 6 channel AAC.
If that doesn't work then I'll be pretty disappointed but not by much. I know the S5PC110 supports 1080p recording and playback. It's likely Samsung lowered the DSP clock to save power.

arashed31 said:
I loaded up an MKV TV show with 720p h.264 and 6 channel AC-3 and it worked flawlessly. I tried playing a 1080p mp4 file with 6 channel AC-3 and couldn't open it. I'm going to try a 1080p mp4 with 6 channel AAC.
If that doesn't work then I'll be pretty disappointed but not by much. I know the S5PC110 supports 1080p recording and playback. It's likely Samsung lowered the DSP clock to save power.
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The only point in trying to put on a 1080p movie is if that is the format you already have. If you're ripping your own movies, you should probably rip them to the resolution of the phone. Anything higher than 480p is overkill. 1080p is double the resolution of the phone. Have you tried a 1080p MKV?
For some reason when i try to copy over a 1080p movie that is 6GB, it says the file is too large for the destination device's file system... even though I have about 11GB free.

hydralisk said:
The only point in trying to put on a 1080p movie is if that is the format you already have. If you're ripping your own movies, you should probably rip them to the resolution of the phone. Anything higher than 480p is overkill. 1080p is double the resolution of the phone. Have you tried a 1080p MKV?
For some reason when i try to copy over a 1080p movie that is 6GB, it says the file is too large for the destination device's file system... even though I have about 11GB free.
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Thats normal..you have to break it up into either 2gb pieces or 4gb pieces (don't remember off the top of my head)...and it will work...this is actually where Kies I hear is good for..it automatically breaks up the video file for you if you use it. (unfortunately due to TW3 being missing we can't use Kies)

The limit is 4GB and this is due to the FAT32 file system. If android could read exFAT or NTFS there wouldn't be that limitation.

hydralisk said:
The only point in trying to put on a 1080p movie is if that is the format you already have. If you're ripping your own movies, you should probably rip them to the resolution of the phone. Anything higher than 480p is overkill. 1080p is double the resolution of the phone. Have you tried a 1080p MKV?
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The only 1080p MKVs I have are over 4GB. Even if the phone could play 1080p MKVs, it can't play the DTS audio in the movies I have.
I usually get m2ts contained movies with AC-3 audio that stream perfectly to my Xbox 360 and also work locally on PS3s.

[Q] MPlayer on Android

Has anybody tried a new mplayer for android? Is it worth of giving it a try?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mplayer-ported-for-android/
There are people even with tablets (A101) satisfied with it in the diskussion thread.

tobr said:
Has anybody tried a new mplayer for android? Is it worth of giving it a try?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mplayer-ported-for-android/
There are people even with tablets (A101) satisfied with it in the diskussion thread.
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I'm a bit disappointed with the mplayer. I have several clips which I could play with the Toshiba Mediaplayer and these did not work very well in the mplayer.
I should mention that the clips were 720p and 1080p, but when played with the Toshiba Mediaplayer (which use hardware acceleration) the Folio plays them without breaking any sweat.
I think we have to wait for a video player that use the Tegra 2 hardware instead of using the CPU to decode mkv.

Yes, I did some testing myself and I was disappointed with the quality. Normal SD AVIs from web were pixelized. There was no antialias or smoothing. The pixels of video were just magnified.
Rockplayer with HW support produced much better output.
Maybe for some formats not supported with rockplayer. Lets hope that in some future release it would be better. I didn't make any changes into config file maybe if I applied some filters, the result would be different.

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I should mention that the clips were 720p and 1080p, but when played with the Toshiba Mediaplayer (which use hardware acceleration) the Folio plays them without breaking any sweat.
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Did you use a usb disk to play the clips from or did you try from a UPnP server? I am asking because I haven't been able to play any mkv from wifi connection with clips on my nas as the toshiba player always crashes

gohanSS said:
Did you use a usb disk to play the clips from or did you try from a UPnP server? I am asking because I haven't been able to play any mkv from wifi connection with clips on my nas as the toshiba player always crashes
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It's not possible to play mkv-files with the Toshiba Mediaplayer.
The clips I played are either in MOV or MP4-format.

ok, tnx. I'll have to wait too for a better media player

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ok, tnx. I'll have to wait too for a better media player
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Rockplayer read all formats. You choise hard or soft decoding.
For me is the best player

bmi44 said:
Rockplayer read all formats. You choise hard or soft decoding.
For me is the best player
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I haven't managed to get any player to play HD x264 mkv's properly. Mostly they don't even start or are just really choppy. Some have options for HW/SW decoding, but still nothing.
Tested so far (latest versions): Vitalplayer, Vplayer, Yxplayer, Rockplayer, Act1 player, Default gallery, ES file manager movie player.
Any suggestions? Running Foliomod 1.3d

Ezzy77 said:
I haven't managed to get any player to play HD x264 mkv's properly. Mostly they don't even start or are just really choppy. Some have options for HW/SW decoding, but still nothing.
Tested so far (latest versions): Vitalplayer, Vplayer, Yxplayer, Rockplayer, Act1 player, Default gallery, ES file manager movie player.
Any suggestions? Running Foliomod 1.3d
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Mplayer seems to play most .MKV files, but framerate is really poor. Anyone found any working solutions for HD video playback?

Ezzy77 said:
Mplayer seems to play most .MKV files, but framerate is really poor. Anyone found any working solutions for HD video playback?
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No not at the moment, but there are a few which in time could be intresting.
CorePlayer is one that I think will be able to play MKV, this due to the fact that they have their own codecs which are very effective and they use the hardware better. But its awfully quiet in the CoreCodec Forum.
They showed of their Android CorePlayer at CES in January.
Another one is the Video Player for the LG Optimus 2x which should support playing MKV in 1080p using the Tegra hardware. The problem here is to port the application to our Folio which has not been that successful. But this is something that could change over time.
More and more manufacturers are using the Tegra platform so I think it's just a matter of time before we se MKV support i several of them and perhaps they could be ported to our Folio.
As mentioned before you could use the MOV format and play video in 1080p without any problem using the Toshiba Media Player or the video player which comes with the Gallery.
But you would probably need to convert your video-files to the Mov format and that is one thing that I for one find a bit tedious.

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As mentioned before you could use the MOV format and play video in 1080p without any problem using the Toshiba Media Player or the video player which comes with the Gallery.
But you would probably need to convert your video-files to the Mov format and that is one thing that I for one find a bit tedious.
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Yeah, that's not an option =) I'll just wait or sell the Folio for another Tegra 2 device probably. Thanks!

Using FolioMod 1.4 and the Toshiba Media Player I can play MKV (720p, [email protected]) with almost the right speed. So there must be room for other improvements.
I really don't want to transcode every episode of all series.
Don't have any problems with quick rewrite to another container format (mp4, m4v), because this is fast and I need to get rid of AC3 in favor of ACC, otherwise no sound

Can TAB 10.1 play 720p .mkv video files smoothly?

Hi, I just got my galaxy tab 10.1 and all 720p video files (trailers, music videos, movies) I put on it lagg really bad. I tried moboplayer, rockplayer and MX player. Has anyone been able to play a 720p file on it without lagg, and how do you do it? Thanks.

I'd do a search if I was you. there is either bsplayer lite or diceplayer on the market. those play them OK. that's your only choices.

Agreed, Diceplayer works without any lag at all. All my 720p mkv episodes run buttery-smooth.
If you only buy *one* app from the market, make sure it's this one (you also have to install the Diceplayer Tegra 2 plug-in).

yeah diceplayer is good. just that there is only the trial version on market with 3 day trial. waiting for the paid one

Diceplayer is still a little bit laggy. Tegra2 suckz big time btw. My singlecore galaxy s handles all kinds of hd-videos without problems.
Bsplayer works best. Almost no lag.
Gesendet von meinem GT-P7510

I use VLC Direct Pro, works really great!
and you can stream from your pc, so you don't have to put your movies, series of music on your tablet, just stream it from your pc

I use mxplayer and I haven't got problem, although my tab is far from stock rom

Nash123 said:
Diceplayer is still a little bit laggy. Tegra2 suckz big time btw. My singlecore galaxy s handles all kinds of hd-videos without problems.
Bsplayer works best. Almost no lag.
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Thank you! Bsplayer was the only player I found that handled 720p with only a little lag. When I overclocked to 1,4ghz with the task 650 rom the lag was like 99% gone on bsplayer. Tegra 2 did not run 720p videos as good as I thought it would, and I guess battery life while watching hd movies must be pretty bad if it needs 1,4ghz OC to run it smoothly.
Edit: It was only able to play trailers smoothly. When I tried a 720p movie it was really choppy. I think I have dowloaded every video player there is and none actually play 720p mkv movies smoothly at all, even with 1.4ghz OC it doeson't work. If I can't get 720p to work, I think I will return this and get the transformer prime instead.

Threads like this come up every couple of weeks. Yes, hardware accelerated codec support on tegra 2 is limited. Those looking to decode just any old file they get elsewhere should look elsewhere for a device that supports the random codec settings that are found on video and movie "distribution sites". Those who do their own encoding can find encoding settings that provide great playback quality on these devices at 720p resolution.

Default video player plays 720p mkv fine for me. 2.17GB file and no lag or frame drops

davidheffernan said:
Default video player plays 720p mkv fine for me. 2.17GB file and no lag or frame drops
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Your default player plays MKV? :/

Mass Zero said:
Your default player plays MKV? :/
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If you copy files on without file extension (this also allows files greater than 2GB to be transferred) and then use androzip or similar to add .mkv to the files Default video player picks up the files and plays them fine

davidheffernan said:
If you copy files on without file extension (this also allows files greater than 2GB to be transferred) and then use androzip or similar to add .mkv to the files Default video player picks up the files and plays them fine
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With "pick up," do you mean adding to the library? Because the files actually are in the library in my case, the player just says the files can't be played.

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Your default player plays MKV? :/
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Mass Zero said:
With "pick up," do you mean adding to the library? Because the files actually are in the library in my case, the player just says the files can't be played.
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Sorry, yeah they get added to the library. Must just be the encoding used within the mkv frame in your case. Either audio or Video codec not compatible within the mkv for the Tab. In the case of the 2GB file I was using it's AVC and AAC audio.

davidheffernan said:
Sorry, yeah they get added to the library. Must just be the encoding used within the mkv frame in your case. Either audio or Video codec not compatible within the mkv for the Tab. In the case of the 2GB file I was using it's AVC and AAC audio.
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hello friend, can you please explain simple and step by step?
if i can run .mkv in my stock player then that is the biggest happiness for me.
what should i do please tell me.thanks.

I'd like to add to this that overclocking the device to 1.4GHz did the trick. I can now play my 720p MKV files perfectly fine, using MX Video Player.
parag31 said:
hello friend, can you please explain simple and step by step?
if i can run .mkv in my stock player then that is the biggest happiness for me.
what should i do please tell me.thanks.
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Remove the file extension on your computer. This can be achieved by opting to show file extensions, in Windows' folder options. Then, when the files are on your tablet, use a file manager like ASTRO, IO or AndroZip to re-add the extension. That's it. Depending on the video files, this may or may not work.

Here's the answer to you question
kidio007 said:
Hi, I just got my galaxy tab 10.1 and all 720p video files (trailers, music videos, movies) I put on it lagg really bad. I tried moboplayer, rockplayer and MX player. Has anyone been able to play a 720p file on it without lagg, and how do you do it? Thanks.
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The best solution I've found to play 720P locally or stream via SMB is using diceplayer or BSplayer. I use both. Dice Player kinda sucks at skipping timeframe, only great playing 720P video from beginning to end. BSplayer is awesome because I can skip to any and plus it has its own SMB file browser. That alone is not enough though when playing 720P smoothly, you have to overclock it to 1.4Ghz. I'm using Galaxy Task 8.0 ROM and it plays buttery smooth. Use tasker and setcpu to create some custom condition when to overclock. I set condition in tasker to overclock to 1.4Ghz when BSplayer is active and in SetCPU, I set 800mhz when screen is off and set another for 1Ghz when screen is on. Hope that helps. ^^
Don't use Galaxy Task v9 or v10 because I was having WiFi issue, i dont know if its just my tab or not...

1. In Handbrake load your video.
2. Choose the profile for iPad.
3. On the Advanced settings tab unclick "8x8 Transform".
4. This step is optional if you don't really need a 720p video. iPad resolution videos looks exquisite on the Tab anyway.
Resize your video to 1280x720 by clicking on the Picture tab on a Windows machine. Mac users can click the Picture button to change the resolution. Leave all other options intact!
5. Hit convert and wait.
The resulting file will be less than 1GB for a 1h40min video! You can push it with ADB or copy it through MTP without reconversion!

On stock ROM and with Galaxy Task, I've been able to play 720p with no lag using diceplayer with the Tegra2 add-on. No overclocking. I think it's going to depend a lot on how the file was encoded, though. It just happens that I have no problem with the videos I play.

yeah i've been playin with .mkv files on my day old stock rom (but rooted) tab...
my experiences...
transferring 720p mkv via std mtp mount on win7 pc = file copies fine,
1080p mkv wont transfer (it copies for an 1hr, gets to 5 secs to go & fails lol)
stock player can't play mkv for shjt
mx is laggy as hell & hw decoder doesnt work
vplayer does a good enough job with 720p, when using a buffer & hw decoding
i realise there's a lot more to a movie file than its extension... but that's all i realise ;-)
did kinda expect better from the tab tbh... my old cheapa$$ arnova a9 g2 (that i took back to the store & put money too, to get the tab) could play 720p on the stock player.... (exact same files i'm testing on the tab)
i might check out diceplayer that y'all raving about or even BSplayer, my preferred mkv player on my laptop
cheers