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[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.

mddsd said:
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

gohanSS said:
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.

mddsd said:
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

Cant get movies to play?

I've tried:
.mpg
.avi
.wmv
none work, using the stock movie player, rockplayer AND vplayer or whatever it is.
Using software and hardware codec.
Do I need some kind of codec to play videos? This is ANNOYING
Anyone have a small video they know works I can troubleshoot with?

If it helps, I converted my wmv files into mp4 format and it works.

^ or try using moboplayer

With Rockplayer, When you load it up, instead of picking an option just wait a few seconds and see it plays. If you don't select it autoselects a codec. Seems to work ok over here.

+1 on MoboPlayer

mobo worked, thanks guys

i have played avi with rockplayer

Issue DLNA play mkv and other video files

As in object Dlna on Tab 2 don't reproduce many files as .mkv...
How i can solve this problem?
Thank you

hmm not sure what your asking.
to play mkv via dlna I use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free
for the playback and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dbapp.android.mediahouse&
that as the dlna browser. this gives me mkv with hw acceleration and no sound sync issues.

DrEzkimo said:
hmm not sure what your asking.
to play mkv via dlna I use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free
for the playback and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dbapp.android.mediahouse&
that as the dlna browser. this gives me mkv with hw acceleration and no sound sync issues.
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Thanks, I'll try this. I also have problem playing .mkv files using default samsung video player and mx player.
About the upnp/dlna browser, how's the mediahouse compared to other browser like upnplay?

Your problem with mkv playback is most likely related to running stock Samsung Rom and software. I used to love the stock dlna player until I realized it does not like mkvs. I recommend dice player. It lists and plays all the files on my media server, including 1080p mkvs. And its great because its just one app instead of 2.
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innov said:
Thanks, I'll try this. I also have problem playing .mkv files using default samsung video player and mx player.
About the upnp/dlna browser, how's the mediahouse compared to other browser like upnplay?
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upnplay was giving me weird audio issues on mkv+ac3 and this is the combination that seems to work just fine.

Nexus 7 Movie Players w/ Subs

Hi, i've just ran into a bit of a problem. I was planning to watch Avatar (1080p) (.mkv format it is in) on my Nexus 7 to see how well it would cope. I started using mxplayer but it had no sound, dice player would play the movie so i then use BSplayer FREE and it worked. Job done. Until i found that i forgot to enable subtitles for the na'vi speech so i could understand. In BSplayer Free when i press in the top right, then select subtitle, then select active subtitle it doesnt find any, but when i use my computer there are 3 subtitle tracks within the video. I've also tried putting the .srt file in the same place, called the same as the movie, but it still wont find it.
Any ideas?

Try Moboplayer?

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Try Moboplayer?
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Moboplayer is laggy and doesnt play the sound. Wont use hardware decoding, attempts to use software decoding and sucks. Bad.
Vplayer Terrible lag.
QQ player Terrible lag.
It seems that only MXplayer and BSplayer play it fine, but MXplayer has no sound. Oh, forgot to mention that Mobo player found the 3 subtitle sets fine so it has to be the apps >.>

did you try SW decoding for MX?
Also, the full version of DICE player was made free last week. There is an option to manually select your sub file.
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Nordendorf said:
did you try SW decoding for MX?
Also, the full version of DICE player was made free last week. There is an option to manually select your sub file.
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Dice player (yes i got the full one) says "sorry, this video cannot be played"
In MXplayer i get the 2 S/W options S/W and S/W fast. Both laggy and no sound. Going to try another method of coding the subtitles to the film.

offender1992 said:
Dice player (yes i got the full one) says "sorry, this video cannot be played"
In MXplayer i get the 2 S/W options S/W and S/W fast. Both laggy and no sound. Going to try another method of coding the subtitles to the film.
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MX player works beautifully for me.. no lag at all
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MX works perfectly for me, just remember to keep it set to S/W mode and not S/W(Fast mode).

hmm. That sucks. I haven't run into the AC3/Tegra issue yet as SW mode has been able to handle my files, but I've only tested 720p stuff for MKV. 1080 MP4 was fine.
I'll check if I have any 1080p MKVs later tonight. I have a feeling most if not all my 1080 stuff is mp4 though. I really try and avoid MKV since it's a PITA for 360/PS3 and i've never gotten those "on the fly" converting media servers to work. Curse you MKV!

Nordendorf said:
hmm. That sucks. I haven't run into the AC3/Tegra issue yet as SW mode has been able to handle my files, but I've only tested 720p stuff.
I'll check if I have any 1080p MKVs later tonight. I have a feeling most if not all my 1080 stuff is mp4 though. I really try and avoid MKV since it's a PITA for 360/PS3 and i've never gotten those "on the fly" converting media servers to work. Curse you MKV!
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11gb of download son, glad my internet recently got buffed for free though!
At the minute using mkvmerge and Avidemux to see if either will hardcore them into the video itself properly and not softcode.
I spent almost 45minutes today getting the subtitles to match up with my copy of the film. Really frustrating getting that to work properly.

offender1992 said:
Dice player (yes i got the full one) says "sorry, this video cannot be played"
In MXplayer i get the 2 S/W options S/W and S/W fast. Both laggy and no sound. Going to try another method of coding the subtitles to the film.
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you should use custom plugin and libffmpeg.so on sdcard.
it may be a DTS issues.

juami said:
you should use custom plugin and libffmpeg.so on sdcard.
it may be a DTS issues.
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Fixed it, by default subtitles are disabled in BSplayer, for whatever reason that is, and then it worked :/ I had to spend ages altering the timing of subtitles though as the subtitles werent the ones for the copy i had Works fine now.

Video player doesnt play some files

As titled, the video player on my note 3 doesnt play some video files properly. It just plays the sound of the file but doesnt show the video.
This is weird because these files played fine on my note 2 previously.
Please help thanks!

ck_jun said:
As titled, the video player on my note 3 doesnt play some video files properly. It just plays the sound of the file but doesnt show the video.
This is weird because these files played fine on my note 2 previously.
Please help thanks!
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Note 3 supports *MP4, AVI, MKV, 3GP, WMV and FLV format. Check you video file format. Alternatively try mx player

Rosli59564 said:
Note 3 supports *MP4, AVI, MKV, 3GP, WMV and FLV format. Check you video file format. Alternatively try mx player
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My videos are of the avi format. Some can be played without problems. Most only plays the sound.
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ck_jun said:
My videos are of the avi format. Some can be played without problems. Most only plays the sound.
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Seems that avi not in the list.
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_3-5665.php

ck_jun said:
My videos are of the avi format. Some can be played without problems. Most only plays the sound.
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there are sometimes some of the avi. Format that are not proper try to download some low size video.avi then play it if it's work there is nothing wrong with the app but with the video if it doesn't then let us now and I'll gonna post the stock svideo apk and then try to reinstall it

Use MX player, and the arm 7 neon codec. Best media player i have used on android. It has played anything ive thrown at it for years now.
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celderic said:
Use MX player, and the arm 7 neon codec. Best media player i have used on android. It has played anything ive thrown at it for years now.
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The new versions of MX player dont need the codecs.
Simply install.
Go to Settings > Decoder > enable HW+
Even without enabling its one of the best apps ul find for video playback
It has gestures, as well as keeping track of the position you stopped at
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"Skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been.”
- Wayne Gretzsky

Or just use VLC or Dice Player, those play everything.
MX doesn't play certain audio codecs because of copyright issues.

ShadowLea said:
Or just use VLC or Dice Player, those play everything.
MX doesn't play certain audio codecs because of copyright issues.
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And yet it plays a heap of videos with sound in software decoding that other players won't...
I tend to use 3 players for allround coverage. I've only ever found 1 or 2 things that don't play and that was because of encoding errors...

ultramag69 said:
I tend to use 3 players for allround coverage. I've only ever found 1 or 2 things that don't play and that was because of encoding errors...
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Yes, same here. I have VLC, Dice, MX and Archos installed. Mostly I use DICE because of the 400% volume boost and the fact I have yet to find a file it can't play. (And I download, so.. loads of different formats.) VLC secondary, MX is usually my 'If it really doesn't work, might as well try it' one, as it usually crashes on the files the others can't play.
VLC plays literally everything.
Worst videoplayer ever is Stock... I've seen Windows Media Player do a better job...

It seems that there is no correct video codec on your devices to afford AVI videos. Have a try to encode AVI into MP4 format.
brorsoft.com/how-to/convert-avi-to-mp4-wmv-mov-mkv-flv.html