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MKV on Desire?

Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?

You can also get the yxplayer from Android Market and I would recommend this.
But I don't know whether it has mkv playback. The only tool I know is called "RockPlayerBase" which is able to play mkv but not very smooth (averaged 16 fps on my Desire). I assume, you can get this tool from here... anywhere^^ just search.
I hope, I could help you. Correct me, if I'm wrong

16 fps doesn't sound too promising.. Thanks for advice though

16fps if you are lucky! more like 5 most of the time. I think the rockplayer is a software player so its using just the brute force of the CPU. Thats not bad considering most Atom based netbooks cant play MKVs smoothly without an HD decoder card...
Maybe one day we will get some hardware assistance..

Not sure if this will help at all, but mkv2vob converts mkv files to either vob or mpeg, and does it very quickly. (I don't normally recommend conversion apps as they're usually really slow.)
If either vob or mpeg will play better then I really would recommend giving it a try.
http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1
Also highly recommended for PS3 users who want to watch mkv files

Try RockPlayer. It's awesome.

ledaz said:
Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?
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That is yxflash and an old version at that a newer one is available in market works a treat for all i throw at it
Also using RockPlayer aka: DemoPlayer

Considering time wasted converting files and saving space, when viewing movies, better idea is to stick with divx/xvid/h.264?

There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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th3 said:
There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
Afaik, you can't set different default programs for different video file extensions. All types of videos are Videos.

Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
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Then you're getting different results to me there. It doesn't play WVGA with the 4 vids I've tried, all low bitrate DivX. Greater than 480p XviD/DivX, it doesn't play without severe problems. The ~1.5Mbps vids you're referencing are DivX/XviD?
There's format and container. Containers can hold many different format vids. AVI and MKV are just containers.
Do you realize that most MKVs are in the H.264 format which it doesn't play?
And that it plays XviD/DivX format AVIs? Not MSMP4 or MP4 AVIs.
As for H.264: I use Act 1 player... after using it, it's not possible to go back to the stock player
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Try diceplayer
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.

I've tried this too,on numerous occasions but with no success :/
I also use RockPlayer But what i do i convert all my Movies (that i watch on my Desire) with Badaboom (Nvidia's official vid converter) to a h264 file in mp4 format,and it plays perfectly [so if u have a nvidia gfx card...i strongly recommend this method,since it's ultra fast ,if u have an Ati,try xvid4psp 5.0+ converter]

Harteg said:
I would really recommend Moboplayer, get it from the market, it plays mkv's just fine on my desire
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I, too, recommend MoboPlayer. It's simple to use and supports embedded subtitles in .mkv files.

Id try arcmedia on the market it always works for me mate and its free
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I also use Moboplayer.
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juami said:
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.
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I can confirm this. All solutions above, (rockplayer, mobo etc.) are crap in comparision to diceplayer, (that if you patch your existing lib as suggested).
I previously postet a thread on this in the general section. It really makes the phone to a "almost" perfect hd media player.

Video Playback Problem

I converted a 1080p video of iron man with Freemake to .mp4 format which eventually has a size of 3.19 GB. converted for android with a resolution of 800 x 480. It just doesn't want to play the damn video does anyone know how to fix this problem? G-force not in HD is played perfectly however it has a much smaller size.
Thnx in advance!

What video player are you using? have you tried rockplayer?

No no rockplayer however the standard video plaer should play .mp4 and it does for G-force however the HD video of 3.19 GB doesn't play how can this be?

maybe the encoding has not worked properly, or codecs are missing....
maybe you can try to download rockplayer from the market (it is free) and then play the files (I've had one file not play on the normal player, but it played perfectly on rockplayer.

When playing .mp4 the codes used should be h264 for the video and aac for the audio streams. The .mp4 is just the type of the container.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Just wanted to know: can the DHD play 1080p mkv's?
Greetz
G.

Try 'arcMedia'

Siksyko said:
Just wanted to know: can the DHD play 1080p mkv's?
Greetz
G.
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Hehe
Currently the DHD can't even play 720p .mkv videos
It will never be able to play 1080p, but 720p .mkv is certanly possible.
I hope when VLC finishes it's port to Android it will support hardware playback of .mkv on our phone
BTW The best player availible now is either Rockplayer or Vplayer (paid) if you're looking for stability and performance.

Native divx playback?

Can anyone confirm whether the DHD offers native divx / avi playback it does this require third party software such as rockplayer or mplayer?

It requires software codecs to play those file types
Sent from my CyanogenMod Desire HD

No great sweat. Rock player works well on the Desire so can only assume it will be excellent on the dhd!

I dropped few divx on mine without any third party software and it plays it and good too
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vimto25 said:
I dropped few divx on mine without any third party software and it plays it and good too
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Interesting to hear, thanks. I didn't think it supported such formats out of the box.

dont waste your time with rockplayer, it loses sync all the time now and the dev wont trasferre your licence when you change phones.
im currently using vplayer alpha - it free and tbh excellent app. ive not noticed any sync problems since loading it, and it handles 720p with no problems.
give it a try

Just to confirm that DivX/Xvid plays natively, however, I tried a high bit rate video and it lagged beyond belief. I suggest you try Rockplayer or Vplayer, both are very capable.... whatever happened to Core Player for Android!
Regards.

lynxboy said:
Just to confirm that DivX/Xvid plays natively, however, I tried a high bit rate video and it lagged beyond belief. I suggest you try Rockplayer or Vplayer both are very capable.... whatever happened to Core Player for Android!
Regards.
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I agree, just tried the native player and I can feel the lagginess and the framerate is slow... Rockplayer played the same video smoothly...

I tried to play a 1,5 GB Xvid with the stock player, which wasn't a big success, then installed the free rockplayer from the market, which worked fine, excellent playback and the screensize makes it very watchable (gotta use earplugs though)

Playing 720p Flv videos with HTC Desire HD
Hi all! My main use of a smartphone is to play 720p Videos on the go. I've tried all of the last giants (Htc Desire, Sony X10, Hd2 with Android roms...) using native videos player,Rockplayer,Alphaplayer but my 720p flv videos did not play smoothly.Now I have a Samsung Vibrant, so far so good! All of my videos play with no issues.
My question is: does the Desire HD capable of playing 720p videos in flv format smoothkly (Ps:I'd like to buy it for the bigger screen and 8Mpxls)?
Thanks

edsontzr said:
Hi all! My main use of a smartphone is to play 720p Videos on the go. I've tried all of the last giants (Htc Desire, Sony X10, Hd2 with Android roms...) using native videos player,Rockplayer,Alphaplayer but my 720p flv videos did not play smoothly.Now I have a Samsung Vibrant, so far so good! All of my videos play with no issues.
My question is: does the Desire HD capable of playing 720p videos in flv format smoothkly (Ps:I'd like to buy it for the bigger screen and 8Mpxls)?
Thanks
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why dont you just re-encode it to a file format that takes less powered to decode ?

Hi. Because I have more than 500 Go of movies, mangas and many things in 720p flv format so I don't have time to change them when I want to travel.

I might be wrong but I THINK the SGS is king when it comes to movie playback and the formats supported out of the box.
I can't speak for the DHD yet as I don't have one but I'm sure someone will be able to check this out for you.

Id also like to know were Core media player for android went.
Wonder if it ever will get released.

xspyda said:
I might be wrong but I THINK the SGS is king when it comes to movie playback and the formats supported out of the box.
I can't speak for the DHD yet as I don't have one but I'm sure someone will be able to check this out for you.
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Is true, the SGS plays everything without problems. It handles full dvd 720p mkv`s like a champ, even with dts sound. I hope DHD can, as in terms of power it could handle them too.

Can anyone confirm if the dhd can handle the same as above?

xspyda said:
Can anyone confirm if the dhd can handle the same as above?
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No, it can't. The DHD (as stated in the specifications) does not play mkv files out of the box. It's capable of decoding the video stream (which is h264) but the audio is ac3 which is a no go with the stock player. I tried vplayer but the results are disappointing - it's like a slowmotion video. What you can do is reencode the files copying the video stream and encoding the audio to aac, and saving it in mp4 format. It takes a couple of minutes for half hour movie, so it's no trouble at all. Still you might be careful what bitrates you encode since the DHD has to have some limit on that.
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Thanks all for the feed back! Now I think that it's better for me to stay with my Vibrant for watching my HD videos (even if I like the 8Mpxls and dual led flash of the Desire HD). However it's just impossible to have the perfect smartphone isn'it? My dream: I hope some day we will have an Android phone with 12Mpxls 25 mm wide angle, Full HD recording and playback in any formats (specially flv for me), 4,3 inch or bigger screen with 1280X720 resolution and MEGA AMOLED!!!

Keep on dreaming
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I hear that divx is supported by the dhd out of the box, just wondered if anyone had managed to get divx / avi to play from a pc on the network using the 'connected media' option within videos... is this possible?

[Q] Can you watch 720p?

Because i've tried via rockplayer, but it lagged so much and there was no sound. Any ideas?
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_terror_ said:
Because i've tried via rockplayer, but it lagged so much and there was no sound. Any ideas?
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try moboplayer, its free and plays anything, i watch 720p videos straight from my laptop, and it eats them up

AndroHero said:
try moboplayer, its free and plays anything, i watch 720p videos straight from my laptop, and it eats them up
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can you stream via 3g? Can you play files from sd card?

_terror_ said:
can you stream via 3g? Can you play files from sd card?
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Ive never tried to use it to stream video's ive only played video's from my SD Card
here is the market page
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en

AndroHero said:
Ive never tried to use it to stream video's ive only played video's from my SD Card
here is the market page
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en
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don't seems like you can play .mkv files thou :/ well I can't any way

_terror_ said:
don't seems like you can play .mkv files thou :/ well I can't any way
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have you tried software rendering mode?
also try this codec
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil.armv7_vfpv3&feature=more_from_developer

AndroHero said:
have you tried software rendering mode?
also try this codec
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil.armv7_vfpv3&feature=more_from_developer
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i get sound, but no audio

Just tried software decoding mode. It works! Thanks dude!s

_terror_ said:
Just tried software decoding mode. It works! Thanks dude!s
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i was just about to say, i copied a 720p .mkv to my device. at first there was no sound and it was all broken, i ticked software decoding on in settings and the video and sound work great

Srewaming 720p will lag the sevice
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I watch mkv anime videos with moboplayer, renders the subtitles too
Sent from my R800

well I have mobo player when I try to play 720 p anime like haruhi suzumiyah it plays but it goes out of sync the video and audio anyone know anything do u think overclocking would help

faisaldante said:
well I have mobo player when I try to play 720 p anime like haruhi suzumiyah it plays but it goes out of sync the video and audio anyone know anything do u think overclocking would help
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I think it's a bad file. I got season 11 south park all 720p .mkv files. and they play fine

do u htink the size has somein to do with it i watch really small anime encodes like 60 70 mb maybe thats why if i watch d 100 or 120 mb ones it may make a difference maybe

faisaldante said:
do u htink the size has somein to do with it i watch really small anime encodes like 60 70 mb maybe thats why if i watch d 100 or 120 mb ones it may make a difference maybe
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I hope your talking about 70mb SD encodes cause 70mb 720p would give you major eye cancer .
I dont think its the file size its probably the way the file has been encoded down to 70mb thats the problem. Since i have not had a problem playing anime i would watch on my pc.
I have just watched [Coalgirls]_Shiki_01_(1280x720_Blu-Ray_FLAC)_[5B75CA00] (430mb)(bitrate : 1600 kbps) with no problems. No lag in audio or subtitles and video was like 95% smooth, only the occasional jerk for a second when panning. Try a normal sd encode @ like 200ish mb.
I also had no problem playing The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya NCED theme (Hare Hare Yukai) SD video with karaoke soft-sub from here in the test videos part. Which is 30mb & bitrate: 3400 kbps.
My phone is rooted and bloat removed dont know if that helps....?

No man i got mine from minitheatre.org some small awesome anime encodes i thnk ur right that a few big ones play well i noticed sd ones work perfect its only hd ones i have trouble with them i use MX player ill test ur file to see if its working an all. Also I love bleach so put many bleach eps which i rewatch bout 100 times a day lolz on ma xperia play to but in 480p.

A lot of the higher quality anime I tried was lagging. I just use 480p most of the time now
Sent from my R800

Try diceplayer
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial
diceplayer can use HW video decoder in Qualcomm QSD8255.
it can play 720p H.264 [email protected] / DTS,Flac,AC3 / MP4,MKV,MOV,MTS,AVI.

juami said:
Try diceplayer
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial
diceplayer can use HW video decoder in Qualcomm QSD8255.
it can play 720p H.264 [email protected] / DTS,Flac,AC3 / MP4,MKV,MOV,MTS,AVI.
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diceplayer lagged horribly when I tried 720p anime. Lagged worse than moboplayer.
Sent from my R800

captain67 said:
diceplayer lagged horribly when I tried 720p anime. Lagged worse than moboplayer.
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Can i get your file info?
Diceplayer can play 720p [email protected] at QSD8255( this is hw video decoder limitation )
My old Nexus-1 can play 720p [email protected]+DTS/AC3 MKVs.

How To Get The BEST Out Of Playing HD 1080P Movies Smoothly?

I've tried many players including DicePlayer, VPlayer Video, RockPlayer, QQPlayer, MX Player, MoboPlayer, etc...
ALL above players lag when playing 1080P MKV files. The only player that JUST about manages to play 1080P MKV files close to smooth is VPlayer, the rest lag and the movie appears to be playing in slo mo...
Other problem is that every couple of seconds the movie buffers which results in a split second pause which is annoying. Audio is slightly out of sync too...
It is not my memory card as I'm using the 32gb Sandisk ultra class 10 micro sd card which is specified to play full HD movies without a problem...
Read/write speeds are 30MB/s so I would of expected it to perform better...
I've read something about increasing memory card speeds in the Tab by using some application which boosts & gives you the absolute maximum read/write times from the memory card.
Could anyone guide me on a good application which gives you the best performance out of your Micro SD card?
Also, what else can I do to make HD 1080P movies play smoothly on the Tab 7.7?
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried mVideoPlayer by Daniel Nilsson?
I play movies with no lag from my 32 gbsd card. This player might help. i could not tell from your post if you had used it already.

ColBill said:
I play movies with no lag from my 32 gbsd card. This player might help. i could not tell from your post if you had used it already.
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I tried the above player and there will still lag. However, I found THREE different versions on the market place. Which of the 3 should I try?
I've tried the mVideoPlayer OId edition - https://play.google.com/store/apps/...6a2wuZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQubVZpZGVvUGxheWVyLm9sZCJd
Then there is the mVideoPlayer Pro version - https://play.google.com/store/apps/...6a2wuZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQubVZpZGVvUGxheWVyLnBybyJd
And finally there is mVideoPlayer - https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wiYWZ6a2wuZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQubVZpZGVvUGxheWVyIl0.
I've tried the very first edition (old edition) and the lag is still there.
Which version are you using?
Thanks.

Update - Just tried the latest Pro version & the lagging persists...
Could it be anything to do with the bit rate of the blu ray rip being too high?
It's 5.2Gb in size and full HD 1080p...

Are you using JB? Or the default samsung rom?

lambstone said:
Are you using JB? Or the default samsung rom?
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I'm using Jelly Bean.

ColBill said:
I play movies with no lag from my 32 gbsd card. This player might help. i could not tell from your post if you had used it already.
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You're playing 1080 mkv with sound with this player?
I can't get sound out of 5 different test movies.
PK

XDAKhan said:
You're playing 1080 mkv with sound with this player?
I can't get sound out of 5 different test movies.
PK
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Strange, I recommend THIS player - Vplayer. It's the ONLY player that actually plays 1080P MKV movies without lag, and yes, there's sound!
It's not free but it's free to try...

I like the colors with Mobo more than with standard or meridian

kanej2006 said:
I'm using Jelly Bean.
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Jelly bean lacks some video codecs.
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I don't know if I'm missing something here but, why would you want to play 1080p files on a 7 inch screen? My 1080p movies in mkv format are anything from 10gb to 30gb.
I transcode with dvdfab or similar which brings an HD movie down to not much more than 1gb at the quality is still brilliant! And there are no problems in read speeds and loads can be stored.
Or did I miss the point somewhere?

robt2379 said:
I don't know if I'm missing something here but, why would you want to play 1080p files on a 7 inch screen? My 1080p movies in mkv format are anything from 10gb to 30gb.
I transcode with dvdfab or similar which brings an HD movie down to not much more than 1gb at the quality is still brilliant! And there are no problems in read speeds and loads can be stored.
Or did I miss the point somewhere?
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Or I could do 720P HD rips, keeping a high bitrate keeps higher quality. And as you said, on a 7'' screen there's not much difference in 720P & 1080P...
Even on my 32'' LED IPS 1080P TV, comparing 720P & 1080P can be difficult at times...

There's your problem. Only the default stock samsung roms have proper 1080p playback. Not to mention HW decoding of WMV.

kanej2006 said:
I'm using Jelly Bean.
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Only samungs firmware with stock kernal plays 1080 without issues.
Sent from GT-P6800 using xda premium

lambstone said:
There's your problem. Only the default stock samsung roms have proper 1080p playback. Not to mention HW decoding of WMV.
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Yeah, that explains it. I literally had to try 5-6 different video players till I found one able to play MKV movies smoothly...
Ekoplex said:
Only samungs firmware with stock kernal plays 1080 without issues.
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Yeah, your right... At least by using VPlayer, it comes with a HW decoder & therefore plays 1080P movies just fine.

kanej2006 said:
Strange, I recommend THIS player - Vplayer. It's the ONLY player that actually plays 1080P MKV movies without lag, and yes, there's sound!
It's not free but it's free to try...
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...hmmm...Playing from my 64GB USB the sound is noticeable out-of-sync with the image
XK

XDAKhan said:
...hmmm...Playing from my 64GB USB the sound is noticeable out-of-sync with the image
XK
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Yeah. just a little...

I abandoned custom ROMs because of HD video playback. On official ROMs I can stream HD videos over WiFi with Dice, on other ROMs its impossible.
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recent MKPro updates include the option to select HW decoding.

Nutsonfire said:
I abandoned custom ROMs because of HD video playback. On official ROMs I can stream HD videos over WiFi with Dice, on other ROMs its impossible.
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Had this problem too on cm roms but bsplayer works flawlessly. Used it on all cm based Roms to stream and play local hd movies. Also has an option to offset audio delays.