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Best video player

I know, this question sucks, but I'm concerned about hardware decoding capabilities.
I was using Rock Player with my old phone, now on Vibrant it can just do software decoding, which I think is less battery-efficient.
Anything better?
Thanks

The Vibrant media player, maybe? Since that one was coded to work with the phone's hardware...
Or you can just deal with crappy battery life and move on, you know...

I cannot switch the stock media player to landscape mode (I don't know if it's just me...), and I prefer a folder visualization mode more than a whole list of all my videos.
Furthermore, I feel like it cannot decode xvid-coded files.

flapane said:
I know, this question sucks, but I'm concerned about hardware decoding capabilities.
I was using Rock Player with my old phone, now on Vibrant it can just do software decoding, which I think is less battery-efficient.
Anything better?
Thanks
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Umm... The GalaxyS has the most hardware codec support of any of the Android phones. I can play mkv, xvid, divx, using the default video player...
Hell, that's half the reason I still own this phone.
What ROM are you using? The only ROMs which support the extensive hardware decoding for the SGS are TouchWiz roms (ie not CM7 or MIUI)

Uhm, so it may be CM7 video player's fault, because if I open it I can see my old 3gp videos, but not my xvid .avi files (which are handled well by Rock Player via software decoding).

Moboplayer is my choice when I'm not on touchwiz.
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Thanks I'll give it a try and will let you know.

Try diceplayer
Diceplayer take advantage of your hw video decoder
Even you have cm7 roms, you can play 720p h.264 high mkv with dts/flac audio.

Sounds great, I'll try both

Second vote for moboplayer. Ignore everything else
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I tried both and I eventually preferred DicePlayer interface, anyway they're both great choices because they support HW decoding on CM7 roms.
Thanks for the suggestions.

Change of mind......DicePlayer works great too

I tried VPlayer too (it shouldn't change much from Premium version), and it looses a/v sync if I move the seek bar... any hints?
MoboPlayer doesn't offer folder visualization and shows me all the videos in a list, while I prefer separated folders for separated videos.

flapane said:
MoboPlayer doesn't offer folder visualization and shows me all the videos in a list, while I prefer separated folders for separated videos.
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yes it does. phone battery dead or i would tell you where but when you touch the screen one of the "buttons" changes to a different view type.

I get just two visualizations here: grid and list.
In both cases, the videos aren't separated in their respective folders

Try Mobo Player. It plays all formats (even with CM7 or MIUI).

lifehijack said:
Try Mobo Player. It plays all formats (even with CM7 or MIUI).
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Try diceplayer. it can use hw accelerated video player( even with CM7/MIUI )
Mobo can not use hw acceleration when playing non-supported format like MKV,MOV,AVI.
Mobo run at 800-1000Mhz to playing 480p H.264 AVI.
but Dice run at 400Mhz. ( Galaxy S )

Which media player will give smooth output to 1080p .mp4 files? (Ripped from youtube)
I have tried QQ and Rockplayer, FPS is like 2 and Default player wont even open the file saying its not supported.
Thanks!

juami said:
Try diceplayer. it can use hw accelerated video player( even with CM7/MIUI )
Mobo can not use hw acceleration when playing non-supported format like MKV,MOV,AVI.
Mobo run at 800-1000Mhz to playing 480p H.264 AVI.
but Dice run at 400Mhz. ( Galaxy S )
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Yep, dice seems to be the best choice because it also shows different files in different folders.
Too bad the trial is gonna expire here...
phrozenflame said:
Which media player will give smooth output to 1080p .mp4 files? (Ripped from youtube)
I have tried QQ and Rockplayer, FPS is like 2 and Default player wont even open the file saying its not supported.
Thanks!
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Given the screen resolution, why do you want to play 1080p files?

Tried the dice player. Didn't liked it, it lags a lot for me.
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Official ICS supports 720p HD Video playback on the Nexus S

The Official ICS has got awesome Codecs that allows 720p hd video playback on the Nexus S on the stock player itself without lag.
But Video files with .mov extensions are not supported yet, ONLY .mp4
Try yourself
Here some 720p Movie Trailers
http://www.digital-digest.com/movies/movie_index.php
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Gingerbread supported h264 codec
Still missing important video like avi and ac3 dts audio codecs dice player still needed but atm not compatible with 4.0.3
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Funny thing is (on GB with MX Player), that 720p mp4 video @ ~30fps plays with no lag at all. Simply beautifull. But video with same params but avi format lags like hell, or plays like slow slideshow...
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Lordofminor said:
Funny thing is (on GB with MX Player), that 720p mp4 video @ ~30fps plays with no lag at all. Simply beautifull. But video with same params but avi format lags like hell, or plays like slow slideshow...
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That's probably because it doesn't support hardware acceleration with other codecs than H.264.

Lordofminor said:
...But video with same params but avi format lags like hell, or plays like slow slideshow...
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Which codec is the AVI using? There are h264 codecs that you can use in AVI files, but as stated, the usual h263 ones (divx, xvid, etc.) probably aren't hardware accelerated.

The new Vplayer offers 1080p video playback on the nexus s and galaxy nexus running ics
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Try BSPlayer

720p video on a ~480p display?

I tried vplayer last night video playback with hardware acceleration were distorted but playback seemed smooth. Tested despicable me 720 MKV with DTS and RIO 720 AVI (old movies but great for showing off the SAMOLED)
but then again im using on icecream so maybe not supported and hardware acceleration is in experimental atm.
diceplayer has matured overtime also supports DTS a common audio format for MKV videos- offers everything you need for 5 buck. $5 is chump change considering the caliber of the app also the dev is great, really quick to fix problems and response quick to emails
also from what i hear BS player is also hardware but ATM don't work correctly on IC
also 1080 cool if can be played with hardware acceleration and playback is smooth. but not practical with only 16gb memory ..you might e ables to fit one movie with quality reduced since a decent quality MKV is like 9-12GB plus the SD is used for more than just media...its not worth it
Maximilian Mary said:
720p video on a ~480p display?
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believe it or not it looks better than a 480x720 even if not running at 720P
also most HD movies online are at 1280x720 so it save the hassle of resizing and also reducing the quality of the video

Anyone else experiencing really laggy HD playback?

I'm using stock 4.0.3 and Glados 2.4 and whenever I try to play a MKV video on MX player (or any other player cause I tried them all basically) ITS REALLY LAGGY!
Back on gingerbread I used to watch videos like this one and they were butter smooth..
What can I do to solve this crime?
(Needless to say I used the HW decoder when I played those videos)
THANKS!

try BS player or Dice player
I use dice no problem and BS player works great also
both were recently updated to work with 4.0.3 sounds like MX needs to be updated
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demo23019 said:
try BS player or Dice player
I use dice no problem and BS player works great also
both were recently updated to work with 4.0.3 sounds like MX needs to be updated
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I tried BSplayer now and its still laggy..
What rom do you use? Or what kernel?

You can try the recently updated build of RockPlayer. Force hardware decoding.

veagles said:
You can try the recently updated build of RockPlayer. Force hardware decoding.
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Still slow man.. What should I do?

Dice player...
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Guys it's not a player problem nor a rom one..
I flashed 200 different ICS roms already and they're all lagging even when I use BSplayer, MX Player, DicePlayer or RockPlayer..
On gingerbread it's flawless but on ICS it keeps lagging! Any of you really tried playing 720P videos on ICS?

fine for me 4GB 720p mkv (h264)and 3gb 720 avi on stock 4.0.3 play just as smooth as in GB using diceplayer
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demo23019 said:
fine for me 4GB 720p mkv (h264)and 3gb 720 avi on stock 4.0.3 play just as smooth as in GB using diceplayer
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So what do you suggest I should do man? I'm exhausted =\

So the same video file plays fine on GB?

Si_NZ said:
So the same video file plays fine on GB?
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Yeah exactly.. That's what I don't get..

Shameless bump

Im using sw decoder fast. I have no problem in playback with that setting.
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Lirankn said:
So what do you suggest I should do man? I'm exhausted =\
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I'm not sure why your having this problem. Only thing I could think its the video but u said same file played fine GB
can you make a sample clip of you video and share so i can try?
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try this
Sample I made from Despicable Me its MKV h.264 (720p) Ac3 audio
http://www.multiupload.com/0G815X5NGJ
mixtapes08 said:
Im using sw decoder fast. I have no problem in playback with that setting.
Sent from my 1st android phone Nexus S
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software decode lose of quality compared to hardware decode also the H.264 and other hd codecs will not play as smooth as hardware and will run into sync issue with audio
should use dice or other one thats true hardware decode players like BS
rockplayer mobo and most other are not true hardware players they only capable of hardware decode on codecs already supported by default those players add codecs but will only play with software
dice actually adds codecs and plays with hardware support

Hmmm interesting
for me some mkv 720ps videos play fine and some don't but I guess it has something to do with the bitrate

Mkv playback

Guys im looking for an app that can play mkv file, which one do u prefer? With hardware acceleration
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emprize said:
Guys im looking for an app that can play mkv file, which one do u prefer? With hardware acceleration
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Mxvideoplayer can play mkv 1080p video with H/W , though it only works with 8-bit video, not 10-bit profile.

randomgent said:
Mxvideoplayer can play mkv 1080p video with H/W , though it only works with 8-bit video, not 10-bit profile.
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how can i check my video is 8 or 10 bit?

emprize said:
how can i check my video is 8 or 10 bit?
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You can check it by going to the video properties on your preferred video player on your pc,im pretty sure most mkv files are 8 bit.

is the 8bit restriction a limitation of the hardware, or of the (mxvideo)player?

wjharing said:
is the 8bit restriction a limitation of the hardware, or of the (mxvideo)player?
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Im not really sure about that but whenever i tried to play 10 bit mkv video on mxvideoplayer with hardware decoding, it gave me a black screen.

Dice
You might want to try Dice player as well, i had loads of mkv rips that would not play audio on other players but dice has never failed me on mkv's

spiralz said:
You might want to try Dice player as well, i had loads of mkv rips that would not play audio on other players but dice has never failed me on mkv's
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I tried dice player it doesnt work. so far mxvideoplayer, dice player and moboplayer doesnt work for 10 bit mkv with H/W.

I'm not sure if there are any players that can play 10bit files at the moment. For general mkv's I've been using Dice Player as it has been able to play all my files on my Asus transformer which other players weren't able to. But since the exynos processor is far superior to the tegra2 I would think any player that has hardware accelerated playback will suffice.
Most recently I've been using BS player as well for playing mkv's stored on my NAS streamed over wifi. This is the only player that seems to be able to play 720p video smoothly over wifi.

Stock Samsung player can't play MKV like Galaxy S and Galaxy SII?!? It's the best HW player for my SII...
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I use MoboPlayer, it can play almost video formats well.
But I also got aneesoft video converter to help me do some conversions when need, and it let me to play HD, and AVCHD videos that shot by HD camcorder smoothly.

Aneesoft? Never heard of that. I'm looking for a .mov converter as the tablet converter had trouble with my .mov files.
Is that the best converter out there?

uncle_buckman said:
Aneesoft? Never heard of that. I'm looking for a .mov converter as the tablet converter had trouble with my .mov files.
Is that the best converter out there?
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Well, aneesoft video converter can convert the .MOV video well for my tablet, it has a special output selection for tablet, so you just need to choose your tablet model as output.

I'll echo the mx player recommendation; I like its rendering options and subtitle support among other things. Lack of hi10p support is a hardware limitation. Video with 10-bit color profiles is just too new and (at least afaik) isn't supported by any current hardware. And of course mobile cpus lack the compute muscle to decode decent-quality x.264 smoothly. So as others have said, transcoding on your computer is your best bet. If you don't know anything about video encoding, try http://hi10ptranscoder.wordpress.com/. It's a simple program for this exact problem.

For me Dice-player had stuttering every 10 secs on some .mkv-files. The stock player doesn't stutter, but it also doesn't support movies with DTS-sound.
MX Player seems to work the best and it also has an option for SW-decoding the sound if a file has DTS-sound. (Have to change it from the default HW-decoding to hear sound.)

No need to worry about 8 or 10 bit - there are NO rips with 10bit of any movies, 720p, 1080p - all are OK...EXCEPT some crazy anime, seen them - I really don't get this 10 bit hype - just some ultra-grainy stuff...

Stock video player can play MKV smoothly , why bother to use another player ?

dreamxp said:
Stock video player can play MKV smoothly , why bother to use another player ?
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Stock player doesnt play audio if the mkv contains DTS track.
MX Video player for me is the best. Without chainging the H/W decoding i just selecting the DTS audio track and plays it perfect.
I have done tests with heavy mkc samples with 20-40MBPS with DTS sound and it plays it so smooth. Smoother than my expensive O2 HMR-2000!
My oldest Galaxy S2 plays them perfect too but with same samples i have some frame drops some times even if i have it at 1.6GHz.
It seems tab 7.7 doesnt have excactly the same cpu/gpu. At papers it is the same. But not in real life. Maybe the memory or the controler or the chipset or the architecture? I dont know.
It plays PERFECT any mkv with DTS and it is an great media player. The only problem is to read NTFS HDD's. Because the fullHD / full length good quality movies is always bigger than 4GB's that the file system of TAB can read.

nectons2000 said:
Stock player doesnt play audio if the mkv contains DTS track.
MX Video player for me is the best. Without chainging the H/W decoding i just selecting the DTS audio track and plays it perfect.
I have done tests with heavy mkc samples with 20-40MBPS with DTS sound and it plays it so smooth. Smoother than my expensive O2 HMR-2000!
My oldest Galaxy S2 plays them perfect too but with same samples i have some frame drops some times even if i have it at 1.6GHz.
It seems tab 7.7 doesnt have excactly the same cpu/gpu. At papers it is the same. But not in real life. Maybe the memory or the controler or the chipset or the architecture? I dont know.
It plays PERFECT any mkv with DTS and it is an great media player. The only problem is to read NTFS HDD's. Because the fullHD / full length good quality movies is always bigger than 4GB's that the file system of TAB can read.
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Ntfssd can read NTFS sdcard, Drive Mount can read OTG NTFS or EXT storage devices. These two app are free in Market.

I would have to chime in and say MX-Video player is the best especially on how it handles video stretching, the stock player cant really cover the entire screen and both dice and mvideo player zooms the image to fit the screen, only MX video player stretches it properly to cover the entire screen, pretty nice if your using a honeybar

1080p MKV playback

Hey,
Anyone had any success with playback of mkv files yet?
I expected to be able to stream HD content from my NAS however it didn't work with the 4 players i tried.
Then tried copying a sample onto the unit but still couldnt play it smoothly.
Ended up converting to mp4 and that works fine.
Thanks in advance

MPJ88 said:
Hey,
Anyone had any success with playback of mkv files yet?
I expected to be able to stream HD content from my NAS however it didn't work with the 4 players i tried.
Then tried copying a sample onto the unit but still couldnt play it smoothly.
Ended up converting to mp4 and that works fine.
Thanks in advance
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I don't think it can play them naively however I use this, it works great:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5wb2RlbmQubW9iaWxlLmJyb3dzZXIiXQ..

thanks I'll try that when home, just noticed there's already a thread discussing this in the general thread so will keep an eye there too!
DICE, MX and BS played them but they just went out of sync and stuttery etc.

MPJ88 said:
thanks I'll try that when home, just noticed there's already a thread discussing this in the general thread so will keep an eye there too!
DICE, MX and BS played them but they just went out of sync and stuttery etc.
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MX has been MY GO TO PLAYER for all things MKV - especially the HD stuff. But, I think it's power comes from optimized cores for decoding. We might have to wait a bit for those optimized cores to come out for the Nexus 10's GPU.

dr9722 said:
I don't think it can play them naively however I use this, it works great:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5wb2RlbmQubW9iaWxlLmJyb3dzZXIiXQ..
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That gets awful reviews

htowngator said:
That gets awful reviews
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Works great for me

MX Player is working fine with the HW decoder. Tested 720p, 1080p and 1440p files, all buttery smooth.

Most of my mkv files play fine using vlc player. (if you can't see it in the market use these nightlies: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/armv7-android-neon/)

MPJ88 said:
Hey,
Anyone had any success with playback of mkv files yet?
I expected to be able to stream HD content from my NAS however it didn't work with the 4 players i tried.
Then tried copying a sample onto the unit but still couldnt play it smoothly.
Ended up converting to mp4 and that works fine.
Thanks in advance
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I can't as well. Streaming 1080p 24 fps video seems to be not possible, even with your tablet 1cm close to your wireless n 5mhz access point. This is from my web search.
Can u guys confirm?
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BSplayer just updated their app and provided an alternate HW decoder for the nexus 10 that works beautifully! Plus, it is just about the only app that will also decode DTS audio in .mkv files.

davin8r said:
BSplayer just updated their app and provided an alternate HW decoder for the nexus 10 that works beautifully! Plus, it is just about the only app that will also decode DTS audio in .mkv files.
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MX player will play DTS audio just fine, but you need to download the proper codecs to do so. A search on these forums should point you in the right direction. Ironically though I did just purchase BS player because I love the option where it finds subtitles easily online with very little effort.

You need to determine if it is an issue with the app not being properly optimized or if it is your device throttling itself down due to thermal restrictions that is causing the stutterer.

davin8r said:
BSplayer just updated their app and provided an alternate HW decoder for the nexus 10 that works beautifully! Plus, it is just about the only app that will also decode DTS audio in .mkv files.
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Although I like the interface of MX player better but with the new update for alternative HW decoder, all my1080p mkv files play flawlessly and that too, while streaming on Wi-Fi with BS player