When I open a movie with the default android movie player while docked into dells docking station it will ask me do I want to show picture to TV. When I open it with MX Player I cannot find the setting to which it will allow me to show movie through HDMI dock. I need to watch movies via MX Player because it can decode .mp4 5.1 surround sounds files which normal android player cannont.
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You cant, only the stock gallery player can output through hdmi
Any hope of this ever changing? It would be so bad ass to pop my streak in the docking station to any HDMI TV and play all these newly encoded movies via MX Player or Mobi Player.
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If you can convince the maker to make a special version specific to the streak, it doesnt seem particularly difficult (for an app maker to add) but it must have specific code bits to output hdmi on the s5.
You cant simply add generic hdmi support as the s5 does it in a specific way.
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I heard a while back that Android 3.1 was supposed to include native support for FLAC playback, but today when I attempted to play .flac files from an external hard drive and a microSD card, most of the songs refuse to play, with it saying "Error playing selected track." The files play just fine in Rhythmbox on Linux Mint 10 and foobar2000 in Windows 7.
Has anybody else tried this? It seems FLAC support is somewhat incomplete or broken, and that the TF may require very specific settings on the encoding for the files to play correctly. I've occasionally had issues like this before on a few music player applications in Linux and Windows, and I'm just wondering if I'm going to need to re-encode most of my music collection in order for it to play.
By the way, I can confirm that I can get working FLAC playback by running the problem files through Sound Converter in Linux Mint, using the default .flac settings. It's just a pain to do that, especially with a large collection of files.
Try another player from the market, for example poweramp (claims to support flac)?
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There is a player in Market that claims to play flacs but it doesn't work for me. I didn't found a way to play them. Frustrating.
The FLAC on my microSD finally showed up in the stock player after I did a factory reset. I am still on leaked 3.1. They play fine. It's a slick interface. FLAC with MoboPlayer required turning on an expermental feature (soft decode), but then worked.
Would be nice to have DLNA supported by stock player though.
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mike5065 said:
The FLAC on my microSD finally showed up in the stock player after I did a factory reset. I am still on leaked 3.1. They play fine. It's a slick interface. FLAC with MoboPlayer required turning on an expermental feature (soft decode), but then worked.
Would be nice to have DLNA supported by stock player though.
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For Dlna, you can use Plex for android and see how that works for you.
It appears support for Flac was added to 3.1? I can play my flacs now in WinAmp (but the stock player doesn't see them). Sound quality on my stereo is not bad but a little muddy (in comparison with my old SB Live!). I hope one day Android will work with USB sound cards (or maybe HDMI sound output could be used... hm...).
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone around here is using PS3 Media Server with their Atrix?
Specifically, be able to play movies (mostly MKVs, some High Profile) from the PS3 Media Server (currently running 1.30.1, also tried 1.40 beta 2)
I keep getting some invalid stream messages from all the players and UPNP/DLNA controllers I tried (BubbleUPNP, UPnplay) using Video players MoboPlayer and MX VIdeo Pro.
AVI files work just fine. But MKVs just don't work. I didn't try any other formats (MP4 for example, I would assume it works as it's natively supported on the Atrix)
Has anyone managed to make a Renderer .conf for PS3 Media Player that works well with the Atrix ?
I searched the forum and couldn't find anything. I also searched PS3MediaServer's and couldn't find anyhting that worked. (except one thread from someone asking the same question as I do, with no answers)
Thanks for any feedback you may have.
Noone?
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As far as I know. The Atrix won't play any high profile mp4, or mkv. I have used your exact setup. The only thing I can recommend is that you try to have the settings so that it transcodes the videos in a 720p main to low profile that the Atrix can render. I've noticed it doesn't like videos with ac3 5.1 audio. Only aac. Its funny, so many people trash the iPhone 4 but it plays almost all the videos I've tried, whether I'm streaming over DLNA or streaming over the web.
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Possibly a stupid question but I have some movies on my computer I might load one of two at a time to watch on my Nex but it seems most won't play, at least the ones I've tried.
What format do I have to convert them to?
I've tried using Google movies and the video player built in. I'd like to have the files work in Movies.
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jphilippon said:
Possibly a stupid question but I have some movies on my computer I might load one of two at a time to watch on my Nex but it seems most won't play, at least the ones I've tried.
What format do I have to convert them to?
I've tried using Google movies and the video player built in. I'd like to have the files work in Movies.
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yes i have similar issues.
The google movies app doesn't like or detect any of my mp4 or avi films, and the double twist, mx and daroon players will not play many of my avi files that played perfectly well on my htc phone using the stock movie app.... any suggestions of apps, codecs or file formats etc to use?
MX Video Player hasn't let me down in the past. Some people have also mentioned some other player that starts with a "D", but I can't recall what it is atm
I use the BS player and it plays everything I have thrown at it well.The MX player did not work well at all for me.I have movies and tv shows in several formats loaded on a flash drive and BS plays them all.
I use vplayer via usb otg from a 16gb data traveller it plays all my. avi a treat.
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Hi all,
I was wondering if there is a video player available playing movies even smoother than bs player does.
VLC ain't the best choice as there are blocks during playback, even the sound is async.
My test files are big buck bunny, gopro hero3 teaser, some mkv samples of movies. All 1080p.
They all run quite smooth with bs player, but sometimes there are hangs irritating me. Zooming in to fill screen works well with 1920*1080 but with 1920*800 it's a mess, because it fills the height than the width.
I got the slimport adapter from amazon. Theoretically it should be able to play 7.2 sound. All I get from 5.1 ac3/dts movies is 2.0 at my av receiver.
What player do you guys use to watch movies on your N4 with full feature support?
cheers
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AWSM!
MX player is what i've searched for, even with ffmpeg for dts :good:
Did you get audio passthrough with slimport working? My N4 seems to downmix the ac3/dts channel, so I am not able to decode it with my receiver instead.
vlc player is not bad:>
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i am having a hard time streaming 720p .mkv rip video to my nexus from a seagate goflex satellite mobile hard drive. i was able to install samba on the drive. i use es file explore to view and mx player with dts codec to play the video. only problem is i cant get the hardware decoder to work and the video is choppy with the software decoder. i get the error "cannot play this view with h/w+ decoder" and when i use the normal hardware decoder i get a grey screen. I dont think this is a bandwidth issue because this thing says it can stream 3 hd movies at once, i could be wrong wouldnt be the first time. im thinking i dont have something configured correctly on my nexus but i have no idea what to look for. any help on this would be amazing
H/w+ doesn't work on the nexus 10. You need to use the regular h/w decoder. Alternatively, try bs player.
Will MX player play the video when the hard drive is plugged into the nexus 10 with an otg cable? If it doesn't, then it is probably a problem with the mkv file. You may need to trans code it to mp4 with handbrake.
I can wirelessly play transcoded 1080p mp4 files easily with my hacked go flex satellite. (But not ripped mkv files from my bluray discs.)
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H/w+ doesn't work on the nexus 10. You need to use the regular h/w decoder. Alternatively, try bs player.
Will MX player play the video when the hard drive is plugged into the nexus 10 with an otg cable? If it doesn't, then it is probably a problem with the mkv file. You may need to trans code it to mp4 with handbrake.
I can wirelessly play transcoded 1080p mp4 files easily with my hacked go flex satellite. (But not ripped mkv files from my bluray discs.)
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im such a dummy, it was the container. moved it to mp4 and fixed the issue
there is update for nexus 10 to support H/w+ , check latest version of the MX palyer and ArmV7 codec .