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AVI?

anyone know of a way to play avi files?

dsarch21 said:
anyone know of a way to play avi files?
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Short answer: it's in the works. There are some alpha/beta players that can play it, but my advice - wait up, it's coming.

thanks, i'll keep my eyes out...
really it will be when i pick up the EVO come summer....
wanna push my downloads from my phone to my TV...

I havent had any luck with lots of research been converting with dvdfab and handbrake

Yxflash from the market plays them... its not the greatest and framerate kinda sucks... but it does the job..
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meh I just convert anything to mp4 and it plays beautifully on N1.

Convert to mp4 with handbrake, upload to server, watch when I want where I want! This thing is awesome.

Convertings for chumps.
yxflash plays them. It'll even play flv's

GldRush98 said:
Convertings for chumps.
yxflash plays them. It'll even play flv's
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Do you like the app? It doesn't have good ratings.

Good video player???

Is there any video player like coreplayer on windows mobile? I know there is YXFlash but when I play movie it is not smooth (choppy)...

use meridian , but it will not play divx videos

same here i am missing a good divx player on android !

is it possible to play divx on android?
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yes YXFlash works but it;s pay app and options are limited.
Don't understand there isn;t any good FREE player. Android is Linux based so it should be easy...

CorePlayer is working in andoid version but no release date on their tweeater...

i find that 98% of the videos I try to play...video files, video podcasts, and most youtube videos are out of sync.
anyone else has similar issues?

yellowchilli said:
i find that 98% of the videos I try to play...video files, video podcasts, and most youtube videos are out of sync.
anyone else has similar issues?
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It is a known issue, donno is due to software or hardware

davidwong said:
It is a known issue, donno is due to software or hardware
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So currently there is no solution to this problem? It's the biggest disappointment for me so far..

does VLC Work for Android?

simplyblue said:
So currently there is no solution to this problem? It's the biggest disappointment for me so far..
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me too...
i came from the n900 multimedia powerhouse tablet and this is like a full downgrade lol
in this category anyway

Hmmm this is a bit of a blow.... I was just looking at getting a Legend or maybe Desire but With no decent movie player it could be a non starter
Out of interest I notice that the Legend is similar specs to the HD - how does it compare? anyone had both.... I find the HD sluggish with later WinMo ROMs and Android to be honest.

Rockplayer Plays it all.....
Its in public beta for now.
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yeah i was going to say what about rock player, its in public beta but it plays it all. might as well grab it while its free even if it is a tad bit buggy since its a beta. plus i'm pretty sure it plays everything, even divx

didn't rock player use armv7 ? when the legend support only armv6 :\

slythers said:
didn't rock player use armv7 ? when the legend support only armv6 :\
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Rockplayer is working great on my legend so I would say no...

the new rockplayer public beta has support for armv6 / legend

Im glad there is a nice player finally no need to convert that much anymore saves a lot of time
I hope they update it and stays free
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What will happen with Rockplayer if the public beta time is over..Anyone know something about this?
1. Will be blocked (unusable), except you pay for it (pay app)?
2. Continue as freeware and with tons of new updates?
I am in desperade of having a good FREE video player. ^o^

absolute best VIDEO player for honeycomb?

So far i have tried rockplayer and moboplayer....rockplayer had a lot of FC's because I don't think it was compatible, plus the video playback kinda sucked
I recently tried Moboplayer and it works great...even saves where you left of on multiple videos
is there anything better? Thank you

i swear by rock player, not an issue yet. Maybe try reinstalling? Other than that, what does it need to be able to play?

Yeah WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 12 / VLC MEDIA PLAYER.......
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Perfects said:
i swear by rock player, not an issue yet. Maybe try reinstalling? Other than that, what does it need to be able to play?
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it doesn't seem to be optimized for HC...keeps FC'ing on me
Moboplayer seems to have a lot more downloads, hence popularity

I mainly use rockplayer and the stock one......

Both are made by the same dev of believe. Mobo is much better than rock however. Be sure and have the latest codec pack installed.
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PC36100 + XDA Premium

Moboplayer for everything.
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marctronixx said:
Be sure and have the latest codec pack installed.
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There are codec packs?
I use Moboplayer.

vplayer - but not tried moboplayer

burden010 said:
There are codec packs?
I use Moboplayer.
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yes, when you first install it, it will let you know if they are needed.

Perfects said:
i swear by rock player, not an issue yet. Maybe try reinstalling? Other than that, what does it need to be able to play?
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I used to use rock player too....give moboplayer a try and I bet you won't go back

Mobo player doesn't dim (and by dim I mean turn them into small dots) the os buttons and time at the bottom, this is the sole reason I am considering uninstalling it, but I haven't found one to beat it yet.
Does it "dim" for anyone else?
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I like the way control volume, brightness on moboplayer.

Feature-wise Moboplayer still has a lot of room for improvement. But in terms of codec support and performance (some stuff that wasn't smooth on other players played smooth as silk on Moboplayer), MoboPlayer is my favorite.

tritran18518 said:
I like the way control volume, brightness on moboplayer.
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yea same here...its very neat

Mobo doesn't play very smoothly in software mode for 720p content... Unfortunately the Xoom doesn't playback enough formats natively so software mode is a necessity...

I swear by MoboPlayer as well, though sometimes I drop back to RockPlayer Lite just to see how it handles things. Love how Mobo remembers where you've left off regardless of how many movies/videos you've watched in between.
On the other side of the spectrum is mVideoPlayer, it has an awesome interface but only supports stock Xoom codecs. They recently updated to support sub/idx support for subs, but that whole stock codec only support kind of ruins it for me. I use this for any YouTube videos pulled w/ TubeMate.
I tested QQPlayer as well, it's not too bad but I was really searching for subtitle support so I could enjoy foreign flicks on the road. It didn't really offer much aside from srt support, but I figure I'll keep it in the hopes it'll see more development in terms of sub support (I believe it's developed in China or Korea, so sub support would have a higher priority).

any players allow you to make playlists? I like to fall asleep with a few episodes of stuff in the background

FWIW -- QQPlayer plays everything that I need it to play....

Vital Player is the best player on honeycomb I love you can turn the volume just using the screen.Same goes for brightness & full and widescreen.Vital Player updates regularly.
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[GUIDE] CIFS Streaming fix/optimization

I use CIFS to stream video from my Windows server to my TF. Problem is that I never could get more than around 800-900KB/s even though my network is WIFI N and can push at least 2-3MB/s.
Here is a fix, using CifsManager, add under Options(eg. domain=android,ro)
directio
Now you can get around 2MB/s CIFS bandwidth. Just enough to stream high profile 720P h.264 vids and more. It really did make a huge difference on my TF. Hopefully it will help yours.

how do i add another to the options, i already got "iocharset=utf8" in my option field.

Just seperate the options with a comma....
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bradputt said:
how do i add another to the options, i already got "iocharset=utf8" in my option field.
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Until someone who know comes along, I'll give you my best guess. Usually, stuff is separated with a semicolon. One of these ;
@OP, thanks for the tip!
Edit: too little too late

jtrosky said:
Just seperate the options with a comma....
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i'm pretty sure this is correct

Just an offtopic Q: what media player are you guys using on the android side?
I can sucessfully play stuff via UPNP with no hassle, but it omits .srt files and many of my DVD rips are subtitled and UPNP players omit the subtitles files.
I'd like to try streaming via CIFS - with the help of cifsmanager I can browse the shared file directories fine, open docs on the CIFS-shared drives etc, but when it comes to streaming moboplayer and several other random players can't seem to "find" the media files when I browse, using the player interface.
I'm looking to try different players and wondered what you guys were using to sucessfully stream movies from shared drives, with.
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I use Diceplayer which can decode ac3 in software and h.264 in hardware as well as tons of other formats in hardware. Also use Vplayer since it can decode damn near everything. And I have Moboplayer for good measure. Diceplayer is amazing, only player that can can do 720P HD w/ac3.

I still haven't found a player that can handle 720p MKV with DTS. AC3? Sure. But not DTS. It takes too much power to decode it would seem.

deadman3000 said:
I still haven't found a player that can handle 720p MKV with DTS. AC3? Sure. But not DTS. It takes too much power to decode it would seem.
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Im pretty sure diceplayer is supposed to decode 720P MKV w/DTS but I haven't got any source to try.

Confirmed. It is ****ing amazing. Well worth the coin. Regular updates, loving it.
This fix is going to make it so much better Cheers guy!

i tried comma, semi colon
but i get "segmentation fault"
any ideas guys>???
edit: ok somehow i have to put directio first . working now.
how to check the transfer speed?

bradputt said:
i tried comma, semi colon
but i get "segmentation fault"
any ideas guys>???
edit: ok somehow i have to put directio first . working now.
how to check the transfer speed?
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Hi,
I am having the same issues, but not following "edit: ok somehow i have to put directio first . working now."
Would it be possible for you to cut and paste how you entered your multi options in cifsmanager.
Tia

i typed in the options field.
directio,iocharset=utf8

phonoflux said:
Confirmed. It is ****ing amazing. Well worth the coin. Regular updates, loving it.
This fix is going to make it so much better Cheers guy!
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We're clearly running different Transformers. DICE is only as fast as Tegra2 failware allows, and Tegra2 cannot process files with bitrate>2000, or crf<21. Which happens to be every single 720p mkv release ever made. (some, like bd based releases have bitrate of 9000).

JoeTF said:
We're clearly running different Transformers. DICE is only as fast as Tegra2 failware allows, and Tegra2 cannot process files with bitrate>2000, or crf<21. Which happens to be every single 720p mkv release ever made. (some, like bd based releases have bitrate of 9000).
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Na, the problem is the decoding of the ac3 stream. Combine this with the cpu usage for the video decoding and 1000Mhz is not high enough for smooth playback.
I have no problem to play high Profile 720p videos with over 2000kbit and aac audio.

I don't want to hijack the thread, but i was wondering if the stock rom has the required cifs module needed for cifsmanager to run....
I'm asking because i have a rooted tf101 and when i try to run cifsmanager it says superuser permission denied....does that mean it's trying to get permission to something that isn't there aka the cifs module or is there something else wrong ??
I know i'm rooted because i just did the left speaker fix.
I've tried some other cifs connection programs too and i get the same error.
if it doesn't have what i need do i have to load a new rom that has the cifs module in it or can i just install the module

You probably need to read the logs; I know from exp that it works on Roach's Prime ROM's.
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720p video playback in ICS worse than HC

I saw there was a thread kind of about this but that got derailed...
I'm using Dice Player, MX Player, and BS Player. BS seems to work the best, but still not as good as Dice was back in HC.
Does anyone know if it's just a matter of those apps having to be optimized for ICS?

misteroh said:
I saw there was a thread kind of about this but that got derailed...
I'm using Dice Player, MX Player, and BS Player. BS seems to work the best, but still not as good as Dice was back in HC.
Does anyone know if it's just a matter of those apps having to be optimized for ICS?
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Well it's not ICS that is killing some 720P file, it's the Tegra...

i find ICS a lot better than HC, but still unable to play high profile 720p mkvs without lag.
DicePlayer is even worse than honeycomb though. MX and BS player are barely watchable.

misteroh said:
I saw there was a thread kind of about this but that got derailed...
I'm using Dice Player, MX Player, and BS Player. BS seems to work the best, but still not as good as Dice was back in HC.
Does anyone know if it's just a matter of those apps having to be optimized for ICS?
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Have you restarted at least once since upgrading to ICS? I had video issues that went away after restarting.

I'm having similar issues

I can play mkv normally but audio seems to not work.This is using the stock player.

misteroh said:
I saw there was a thread kind of about this but that got derailed...
I'm using Dice Player, MX Player, and BS Player. BS seems to work the best, but still not as good as Dice was back in HC.
Does anyone know if it's just a matter of those apps having to be optimized for ICS?
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I confirm the same, Bsplayer plays the audio but not the video . As for the Dice it always crashes ! I will lnstall Revolution HD 3 and see if this will play the 720p videos !!!

all those having issues- you need to reboot.
also bare in mind that video playback issues are not the OS's fault, Tegra 2 is underpowered to play video at 720p and 1080p, always has been, always will be.

bob dylan said:
all those having issues- you need to reboot.
also bare in mind that video playback issues are not the OS's fault, Tegra 2 is underpowered to play video at 720p and 1080p, always has been, always will be.
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I disagree , before ics i had revolver and i was able to play 720p without any problem. I rebooted 7 times after the update but still nothing , even the camera stopped working in panoramic mode !

hanybv said:
I disagree , before ics i had revolver and i was able to play 720p without any problem. I rebooted 7 times after the update but still nothing , even the camera stopped working in panoramic mode !
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me too, you need to do an ICS reinstall, my video playback is the same as on revolver now.

rebooted around a dozen times between lockups and just actual reboots, i've noticed no difference in any app.
i find it strange that people seem to have very different experiences than me. i have no issues getting them to play, it's just the lag.

do a reinstall of ICS.

bob dylan said:
do a reinstall of ICS.
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and how do we do that.
i don't mean to be a ****, but in all your posts i see you give nice suggestions, with no help. how about including some help in your future posts.

Seems about the same for me. High profile really tears apart the Tegra2. I love this tablet but man the Tegra2 sucks.

neok44 said:
and how do we do that.
i don't mean to be a ****, but in all your posts i see you give nice suggestions, with no help. how about including some help in your future posts.
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Wtf? You are a member of xda...why do you not no how to install a rom? There are like 5 threads in the dev section on how to install ics .....you want hand holding you should walk up from the basement and ask yer mom...
Not to be a Richard........

yep
tried to played 720P
yestarday
very very choppy
same files that i play usually on HC that plays smooth
i personally reverted back to HC

There was a thread somewhere about best settings for Handbrake for encoding mp4 to suit the Transformer. These are the settings:
"Start with the Regular/Normal Preset
Container: MP4 File
On the Video tab, choose:
Video Codec: H.264
Constant Quality: RF 24 (Lower number is better quality but higher file size, I wouldn't suggest going lower than 20 in this case)
On the audio tab change the Mixdown to "Stereo", bitrate 160
On the Advanced Tab:
Maximum B-Frames: 0
Uncheck "CABAC Entropy Coding"
Uncheck "8x8 Transform"
Uncheck "Weighted P-Frames"
After those changes, you can save these by clicking on Presets -> Save Preset and name it something like "Transformer". "
This is an exact quote of the post, I don't have the original on hand to thank the original poster. But he does deserve my thanks, as this made 720p video beautiful on my FT101.
Doesn't work so well when streamed via wifi, I think 802.11G is a little too slow, maybe I need to go to 802.11N. Works fine via a portable hard disk, or a microSD card, or even a USB stick. If you have the dock or the usb converter adaptor thingy.
Sorry for those who don't have access to a grunty PC for converting using handbrake, I guess my post isn't much help to you. I'm waiting until I get my TF101 back from a warranty repair to try a few things out, including ICS. I'm currently running Revolver, and I'm VERY happy with it.. kudos GNufabio.
PW

horndroid said:
rofl
You have over 1000 posts here
You list a ton of devices in your signature(what's the point anyway?)
Yet, you don't know how to reinstall a rom
what the f?
Furthermore, you go on to demand that the person who gave you a nice suggestion should help you even more by holding your hand through the process.
You must be a fat American.
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Wth does that have to do with being American? You like blanket statements?
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well one person got reported for being a douche.
and yes, i'm well aware of how to flash a rom.
most of us here however are running stock ICS from the update with no root or anything like that. So simply saying reinstall ICS is not a very intelligent statement.
If i have an issue with my nexus i know how to back it up and reinstall because i have CWM installed.
however on this, as i just said, i'm running a totally stock device. i've never rooted, never installed a custom recovery, and i don't want to.
and personally, i also think the suggestion of installing ICS is BS and won't make a difference.
anyway, thank you @squire-au for that. i have seen that post and have been hoping there would be another way since totally encoding can take a very long time. but i will be testing that out overnight to see what happens.

neok44 said:
well one person got reported for being a douche
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****. just. got. real....
I agree though, 720p is very stuttery now when it was fine before the update.