which on is better, i found it in mx player, is it better to use HW for higher resolution videos then use SW for lower resolutions or what because i know HW is using the hardware to play the video then SW is using software and using the cpu but i read somewhere it is bad to use SW on tegra 2 tablets but tablets do have really good cpu's well if you overclock it...
hardware decoding is always better and more efficient (regarding power consumption)
software decoding is only an alternative, with poor results when HD material is processed.
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Are most current DivX formats playable with the HTC album (i.e. with hardware acceleration) ?
Or is the codec library as poor as for the HD on the HTC album??
(And don't tell, me "Use Coreplayer", I know CP's benches are ok on the HD2, but it's still software rendering, which means always some lags on good DivX, and no 720p, etc...)
There is no support for DivX or Xvid in HTC album.
The only way to play those formats is to use a third party application (e.g.: Core player or TCPMP).
Use coreplayer . No seriously, altough coreplayer is software rendering, with snapdragon, you won't notice. I have an HD2 and i can play a divx very smoothly. Better then on all other htc devices I had, but that was obviously.
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(And don't tell, me "Use Coreplayer", I know CP's benches are ok on the HD2, but it's still software rendering, which means always some lags on good DivX, and no 720p, etc...)
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You can forget about 720p playback on the HD2 even with hardware acceleration. One or two reviewers have tried it, but got frame-rates of 15fps or less. So, 720p material will need to be transcoded anyway, and you may as well transcode it as .mp4 and play it back in HTCAlbum.
Coreplayer will likely play anything up to the resolution of the screen lag-free, unless the bit-rate is truly outrageous. The Snapdragon CPU on the HD2 is something like three times as powerful as the one on the Touch HD; software playback really isn't that much of an issue any more.
That's a good news, thak you all for your answers!
how is video performance? what formats and resolution does it support? does it play 1080p smoothly e.g?
and how is gaming performance on it? are heavy games like asphalt 6 or shadowgun smooth on it? is it on par with other tegra 2 tablets?
finally how is multitouch performance? how many touches does it support? no particular issues to report?
Games are smooth as buttter. yea I spelled it with three t's because its that smooth.
Video playback is not that great to me, but it can play pretty well.
Multitouch only registers 4 fingers as far as I can tell.
thx for the reply... the thrive suffers from the lack of codec support by tegra 2 right? read the most highest compression that the tegra 2 can handle is only main profile 1080p... there are no video player that can play 1080p high profile smoothly using software decode on thrive? like mx player?
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thx for the reply... the thrive suffers from the lack of codec support by tegra 2 right? read the most highest compression that the tegra 2 can handle is only main profile 1080p... there are no video player that can play 1080p high profile smoothly using software decode on thrive? like mx player?
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Mobo players new update and codex seem to work very well. The thrives. 0011 update seems to have made significant changes to video playback as well, and just use sales rom version not ota if you want to root.
Sent from my Thrive, rooted and looking for more.
Has its GPU support for decoding of such videos? If not, are four A15 cores powerful enough?
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Has its GPU support for decoding of such videos? If not, are four A15 cores powerful enough?
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No and no, at least on the Snapdragon version.
Tried a 1080p vid now and a couple of 720p ones of varying bitrates.
The stock player only decodes the audio.
In S/W+ decoder in MX Player with 4-core encoding and only 16-bit colour depth the 1080p video still stutters, although marginally improved Vs last years hardware. Of the 720p videos the lower bitrate video was fine, the slightly higher bitrate one was again slightly improved Vs last years hardware and watchable if not completely smooth (watchable for me that is, YMMV of course).
Thank you. Sad to know that 1080p Hi10P isn't yet playable.
but 1080p videos coded like the youtube videos and such, are 100% playable, right?
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but 1080p videos coded like the youtube videos and such, are 100% playable, right?
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Of course, otherwise why Samsung would've added the 1080p screen
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Note 4 does not have hardware decoding support for 10-bit Hevc/H265 files.
SW decoding is laggy and not battery friendly.
Is there any way to wathc 10-bit Hevc/H265 video without lag on Note-4
Have you tried MX Player or VLC? Don't have a file of that format on hand to try, but if it's possible then either of these should be able to do it. MX would be my first choice, as it has lots of options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
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Have you tried MX Player or VLC? Don't have a file of that format on hand to try, but if it's possible then either of these should be able to do it. MX would be my first choice, as it has lots of options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
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I am using both of them but the problem is not player. Note 4 does not have 10 bit support so player cannot use HW decoding only use SW decoding which has poor performance with high battery usage.
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I am using both of them but the problem is not player. Note 4 does not have 10 bit support so player cannot use HW decoding only use SW decoding which has poor performance with high battery usage.
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Gotcha - I guess your only options are to re-encode the video to something a little more manageable or use a different device :/
Try MoboPlayer. The software encoder in that is actually pretty good.
Not comprehensive, but did grab a bunch of samples with some key differences (264/265 8/10 bit, 1080p/2160p, 60FPS) just to see what this stick could handle. My test bed was MX Player with the all-in-one decoder pack.
Smooth Playback via HW/HW+
- h.264 8bit 1080p
- x.265 8bit 1080p
- x.265 10bit 2160p
- x.265 10bit 2160p 60FPS
SW only
- h.264 10bit 1080p (LOTS OF DROPPED FRAMES - yuck)
Conclusions
Great hardware decoding, but CPU not strong enough for SW-h.264/10bit (a semi-popular anime format). I'm not sure if any SoC supports this in HW, but so far it seems like only high-end SoCs can handle this in SW (I have a Kirin 660 device which does a good job).
Thank for sharing your results.
These are very different from my testing.
I have multiple issues with playback, very annoying.
See: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78329629&postcount=5
Do you have these problems also? Or do I have a corrupt stick?
The MX devs replied stating that media server process has died during playback, forcing MX to try a different playback modus. And that they probably cant solve it.
It seems so weird to me, since then everybody should have these issues.