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Stock video player vs RockPlayer/VPlayer

Hey guys, I'm wondering... I can pretty much play everything with the stock Samsung video player, even 720p MKVs (would that be due to hardware H264 acceleration on the Hummingbird?), but I've been thinking... those other players, like VPlayer and RockPlayer seem pretty popular. Are they any better in quality, compatibility or take a lighter hit on battery? Are they worth my time and money?

I believe they just give you more options like playlists and such. I personally have never found any need to download a third party player to date.

Pretty sure those exist because most android phones do not have the codec support the vibrant has out of the box. I haven't felt the need to get it.

mVideoplayer is the best third-party app among the bunch imho. It has playlist options, slide finger across the screen to forward/rewind instead of steady press on a button and such. Tap on one side to bring up volume rocker, tap on the other side for brightness settings, and on another for bookmarking a scene. Plus it remembers the scene from which you stopped watching on each and every video you have - which the native video player does only for the current video you are watching
And one more thing, it has better zoom options than the stock player. Some videos i downloaded via youtube play full screen where the native player only plays it with a letter-box.

I prefer the QQplayer: support also avi-files and srt-files

MoboPlayer is the best!
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i use only the stock video player, but I cant play .mov files, so I have to use rockplayer

Also the stock player won't play .flv files

BenKranged said:
Also the stock player won't play .flv files
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My stock player plays them just fine...

Any player that will work with files having 6 channel audio? I could never find one.

Mobo is king of players, if it can't do it none can.
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[Q] Best Media Player for TF

Does anyone have any suggestions for a media player for the TF? I would love it if it did the following:
Hides the taskbar - most important
Plays most common codecs - very important
Uses the docking station controls - important
Gesture controls - not too important
I downloaded MoboPlayer and it is great with the exception of not hiding the task bar. QQ Player for some reason is laggy on a 480 DiVX rip I made, but MoboPlayer is silky smooth.

To answer my own questions:
* There is currently no media player that removes the honeycomb taskbar
* I have yet to find a media player that uses the docking station controls other than the default
I guess I'll keep MoboPlayer until something better comes along.

Kilmar said:
To answer my own questions:
* There is currently no media player that removes the honeycomb taskbar
* I have yet to find a media player that uses the docking station controls other than the default
I guess I'll keep MoboPlayer until something better comes along.
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+1 on MoboPlayer... It's been updated frequently, it's free and plays everything nicely so far. Latest when the HC source is released devs will be all over it to remove the taskbar! It doesn't bother me that much anyway

Pandora KM Player

funnycreature said:
+1 on MoboPlayer... It's been updated frequently, it's free and plays everything nicely so far. Latest when the HC source is released devs will be all over it to remove the taskbar! It doesn't bother me that much anyway
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My issuw with moboplayer is that it dowsntfollow the system rotation. Ie using the Asus case, sometimes the image is upside down depending on how you place it.
-mark

rooted with you can at least get back the stock hc buttons. the white ones are too harsh and distract me when reading or watching movies. not a perfect solution but better than those frikken bright icons.

I have found moboplayer to be the best one so far. Vplayer advnace following second

does mobo player plays formats like mkv with subtitles in srt extension , avi and original dvd untouched rips?

I can confirm avi - no problems.
Mkv - well, high profile h264 is very slow. I didn't try subtitles.
The quality is somewhat strange, I noticed a strange grid of pixels on the video. I'll check if it's on every one. Also HDMI quality is very poor (looks like 256 colours).

funnycreature said:
+1 on MoboPlayer... It's been updated frequently, it's free and plays everything nicely so far. Latest when the HC source is released devs will be all over it to remove the taskbar! It doesn't bother me that much anyway
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Just download vplayer, haven't tried it. But supposedly it can play divx. Will try when I get home. But been using moboplayer myself

diomark said:
My issuw with moboplayer is that it dowsntfollow the system rotation. Ie using the Asus case, sometimes the image is upside down depending on how you place it.
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you can change that in the prefs.

madsquabbles said:
you can change that in the prefs.
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sorry, didnt mean to hi-jack the thread topic..but..
i have that auto-rotation issue with market and angry birds. markey opens only in landscape and angry birds in landscape in one direction only.

I'm still rocking rockplayer. It plays everything that I have thrown at it that the tegra can handle. ( so high profile still runs bad etc)

Magnesus said:
I can confirm avi - no problems.
Mkv - well, high profile h264 is very slow. I didn't try subtitles.
The quality is somewhat strange, I noticed a strange grid of pixels on the video. I'll check if it's on every one. Also HDMI quality is very poor (looks like 256 colours).
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what is high profile h264 means, sorry noobie here..
what about flac format audio files?

Tenny said:
I'm still rocking rockplayer. It plays everything that I have thrown at it that the tegra can handle. ( so high profile still runs bad etc)
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I can also confirm that rockplayer handles subtitle SRTs perfectly.

newtybar said:
I can also confirm that rockplayer handles subtitle SRTs perfectly.
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Does anyone know if you can play the subtitles on the hdmi output screen when i have downloaded the .srt seperatly (so not with burnin option from handbrake).
Very anoying that the subtitle plays on the screen of the tablet!

I tried moboplayer and rockplayer at first. And i managed to play MKV's smoothly, but only when started from the gallery. When I open the same mkv directly from moboplayer or rockplayer the movie didn't play smooth at all. So I tried mVideoPlayer. After i installed mVideoPlayer my mkv's play smooth anyway I open them. The best part is that the stockplayer plays MKV's as well after installing mVideoPlayer (but doesn't have support for subtitles).
But the main problem is that most mkv's have 5.1 sound, this is not supported, you can convert the soundtrack with mkvavi2mp4 or convert the whole movie with handbrake (takes a lot longer).

stuttering rubbish
Hi, whats the best settings to use in Handbrake for this device, I have an SGS2 and it plays 720 and 1080 content fine (HW decoding?) but as soon as I stick the same vids on the TF its appalling.. any tips what settings to use I am thinking of sending it back and waiting for something with a decent video player as I am not impressed my phone does a better job..
Found the settings in a differenmt thread, will try

I like Moboplayer but it does not play AVI files correctly, so I ended up installing QQPlayer as well.
QQPlayer does not play the AVI as smooth as Moboplayer but it displays the video in the correct color.
Anybody that knows which player that can play AVI file smoothly, I would appreciate the input. My AVI files are mainly captured from my Canon camera.
I know I can convert it to MP4, but this is not practical when we on the road.

quick question
whats the Best format to use for playing videos on the transformer, at what resolution, and whats a good piece of software to re encode existing movies to this format.
thanks!

Divx Player

Anyone know of any good Divx player? I just got the a500 and haven't have much lucking finding one that works. I found some a few years back for my G1, but we all know how overpowered that device is..
And yes, i have tried searching...the few i have found don't run on the a500.
thanks!

I'm playing DivX with moboPlayer from the market.
I did have trouble with it at first but after Selecting "Default Using Soft-Decoding" option in settings it is working great.

Using MoboPlayer here, but haven't changed any settings for playing my rips.
I'll have to go fiddle with it later.
I was really surprised to see that divx .avi files weren't playable on the tablet.
The thing jumps on my server with no problems and then can't play the files it finds.

strider_mt2k said:
Using MoboPlayer here, but haven't changed any settings for playing my rips.
I'll have to go fiddle with it later.
I was really surprised to see that divx .avi files weren't playable on the tablet.
The thing jumps on my server with no problems and then can't play the files it finds.
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See this is what surprised me too. It won't play divx encoded .avi files. I'm going to mess with the "Default Using Soft-Decoding" option and see if it'll work. It's gonna seem like a pain to have to convert all the videos i have to a diff format just to play them on the tab.

iixiom said:
See this is what surprised me too. It won't play divx encoded .avi files. I'm going to mess with the "Default Using Soft-Decoding" option and see if it'll work. It's gonna seem like a pain to have to convert all the videos i have to a diff format just to play them on the tab.
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MoboPlayer plays DiVX files fine, did you install the codec pack? There's also RockPlayer and MXPlayer.

FloatingFatMan said:
MoboPlayer plays DiVX files fine, did you install the codec pack? There's also RockPlayer and MXPlayer.
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I did not know there was a codec pack, i thought it would have been preinstalled. I'll look this up. Thanks a bunch!

iixiom said:
I did not know there was a codec pack, i thought it would have been preinstalled. I'll look this up. Thanks a bunch!
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It tells you about it when you start the app... You get a dialog asking if you want to download it...

(help) can't play mkv files?

HI all, the problem is i can't play/hear mkv files, i tried to use: Vplayer and video was stuck, then i tried to use: mvideo player and then i coudn't hear anything, i geuss im looking for hd-audio-codec for my xoom or some player who can play mkv+sound+subtitle,
im using motorola xomm 3g, 3.1
thanks, Aviad

Try Dice player. It plays high bit rate .mkv files. I also noticed quality improvements after overclocking my device but that will not be necessary for Dice Player to work.

Add to the list rockplayer and moboplayer, both of which do a nice job for me.
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Mobo player is great on xoom.
Been using MXVideo player lately and I'm starting to like it a lot better.
Either one works great
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Use dice player...
Dice player played my videos better than most other players.

I never got high bit rate .mkv files to play on any other player. Mobo played lower bit rate .mkv files but sometimes I'm watching 720p files on my home computer and want to continue watching on my commute so I just transfer without converting and Dice plays it.

Thanks guys, ill try dice player and let u know if it works

hey,
Mx player works great for me. I love it.

Hi, r u useing MKV files with this player and everything is ok? it looks like very nice player im trying it but i think the video is no perfect as i want it to be... now i can play subs+mkv+sound but sometimes the video and the sound are not perfectly sync

Aviad said:
Hi, r u useing MKV files with this player and everything is ok? it looks like very nice player im trying it but i think the video is no perfect as i want it to be... now i can play subs+mkv+sound but sometimes the video and the sound are not perfectly sync
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In the market you will see that there is a Dice Player plug in for Tegra 2 devices. Install that as well. They should be on the same page.
Here it is:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.tegra2

Aviad said:
Hi, r u useing MKV files with this player and everything is ok? it looks like very nice player im trying it but i think the video is no perfect as i want it to be... now i can play subs+mkv+sound but sometimes the video and the sound are not perfectly sync
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I ran into issues like this with some HIGH PROFILE MKV files while running dice player.
MX Player plays those files for me with ease.
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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.