XPERIA S vs XPERIA PLAY audio quality playback in videos - Xperia Play General

Before I got my XPERIA S I had XPERIA PLAY. And I really missing my PLAY specially game pad and I wouldn't be worry much about no ICS for PLAY because GB doing very well on both phones. But one thing very upset me on XPS sound quality and no Stereo on video playback its shame for such as great device. There is my video with proof :
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Thanks for the video.
Very interesting.
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it might be true (ok2.. i did some test, and the video record is not stereo)
but what on earth you meant with sound quality? and no stereo in video playback? i use the default movie app, mx video player, dice player, to watch my video clips collection (not the one recorded by the phone) and im sure as hell it's playing in stereo... in all apps.
and for sound quality? idk.. this is very-very subjective. but i think it sounds nice. provided i use flac+neutron/walkman (ics built-in music app)/poweramp+ Chinese made earphone (Yuin PK3)

Hi. I used my XPERIA PLAY as a gaming phone but also I recorded a lots o videos . for example when my little boy dancing or try to dance with music in background. When I played my videos on my phone or any computer. Sound quality was absolutely perfect and I never heard before so clear sound with STEREO as well form any phone I had in my hands … HD Vidos Quality wasn’t great if compare to SXS but I wouldn’t complaining on sound playback.
Then 1st time I had a chance to see SONY XPERIA S in TV ads and YouTube Reviews then fell in love straight away , bought SXS and I keep doing same thing recording videos … when I played videos on phones or computers I was very disappointed difference is HUGE for me.
I can agree that my video maybe only a proof for Comparison of STEREO AND MONO . But not really for spund quality. I I have sold my SE XPERIA PLAY so I cant make any video at the moment but I have one of good few videos uploaded to YouTube recorded with PLAY . I Just have to make it public …I May have more on my Laptop:
Sound quality on Video recorded by me using XPERIA PLAY
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I noticed after coming from recording something with live music: the nexus ones audio recording quality SUCKS! I say this because my friend recorded the same thing with his palm pre, and its much nicer on the ears. I was reading something about the nexus using the inferior amr codec for the audio portion of the video, and was wondering with the new 720p hacks was this overcome...

Poor Video Audio Sound

I just got an htc desire hd and generally really happy with it. The main gripe tho is why they choose to use a dated codec like 3gp is beyond me with crap 8000khz sound. HD video quality at 720p with dreadfull audio is like putting a ferrari engine in a corsa. Why did they not choose mp4 cd quality 44.1 khz instead of this crap? It's marketed as a multimedia phone with a video format which is, well lets face only compatible with other phones unless you convert it which defeats the whole purpose of having nice prestine hd.
we should have an online petition for this! video recording in mp4 with aac audio!
3rd party recording apps maybe?
Online petition doesn't work anyways.
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Well i sent htc a couple of emails, stating that the audio quality for video is even overshadowed by nokia phones which are 6 years old, why they still use dreadfull audio when literally every other phone on the market from iphones, nokia's sony erricson's all have higher quality audio recording. I find it hard to believe they have done it because of performance issues, most digital camcorders dont have 1ghz processors and they can do it hands down. HTC are still using the same old rubbish low quality audio thats been around on their pda phones since windows mobile 5. It's time to move on, and if its for compatiblity, well how many people send 20 min HD 720p multimedia messages? when no network carriers even support formats or resolutions like that. I think its misleading and false advertising for HTC promoting this phone as having all this great video quality 8mega pixel cam and HD video to completely let us down with zx spectrum like audio quality. What where the HTC designers even thinking is beyond me. Why do they let iphone and nokia, samsung completley walk all over them in the audio department.
stephenuk said:
I just got an htc desire hd and generally really happy with it. The main gripe tho is why they choose to use a dated codec like 3gp is beyond me with crap 8000khz sound. HD video quality at 720p with dreadfull audio is like putting a ferrari engine in a corsa. Why did they not choose mp4 cd quality 44.1 khz instead of this crap? It's marketed as a multimedia phone with a video format which is, well lets face only compatible with other phones unless you convert it which defeats the whole purpose of having nice prestine hd.
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If ubought this phone now your are doomed... You shoulda have waited for htc sensation... Its much better then htc desire hd...its releasing in 1st week of may.. If you can return it.. I think you should.. And if you want loud sound then there is a topic jyst beliw yours abt sound... try it.. I did and now I have 70% more loud ness in my phone...
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Leather|Face said:
If ubought this phone now your are doomed... You shoulda have waited for htc sensation... Its much better then htc desire hd...its releasing in 1st week of may.. If you can return it.. I think you should.. And if you want loud sound then there is a topic jyst beliw yours abt sound... try it.. I did and now I have 70% more loud ness in my phone...
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I disagree that the Sensation is way better than the Desire HD. Yes it is an evolution of the DHD, but in terms of user experience the phones are still very similar. I won't be upgrading because i dont really think the Sensation is too much of an upgrade (bar newer processor).
With that said, OP, i think you'll be very happy to know that the new Gingerbread update coming anytime now will have LARGELY improved audio. It will have sampling rate of 44.1 KHz and 128 Kbps bitrate. This is confirmed in the leaked version in the development section, i've seen a recording and the sound is way better.
Now one area i cant argue with however is the loudspeaker on the DHD. It's terrible. Maybe the Sensation is better there.
stephenuk said:
I just got an htc desire hd and generally really happy with it. The main gripe tho is why they choose to use a dated codec like 3gp is beyond me with crap 8000khz sound. HD video quality at 720p with dreadfull audio is like putting a ferrari engine in a corsa. Why did they not choose mp4 cd quality 44.1 khz instead of this crap? It's marketed as a multimedia phone with a video format which is, well lets face only compatible with other phones unless you convert it which defeats the whole purpose of having nice prestine hd.
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First of all 3gp is a container, not a codec. In that container you'll find the same codecs for the audio and video streams like in the mp4 container used by other camcoders - namely h264 for the video and aac for the audio. The poor quality is due to the codec settings used by the application - 8kHz, 32kbps. Why they did that is beyond me. Maybe the frequency response of the microphone is limited to 4kHz and if this is the case, neither Gingerbread, nor Zebra Cake will fix that.
The micropone can record in pristine 44.1khz quality try using tape machine application, the sound quality is fine, also there appears to be 2 microphones on the htc one for phone calls and another for audio recording. Tape machine allows you to select either or, and they both record in good quality, there could even be the possibility of having stereo records if there are 2.
SupremeBeaver said:
I disagree that the Sensation is way better than the Desire HD. Yes it is an evolution of the DHD, but in terms of user experience the phones are still very similar. I won't be upgrading because i dont really think the Sensation is too much of an upgrade (bar newer processor).
With that said, OP, i think you'll be very happy to know that the new Gingerbread update coming anytime now will have LARGELY improved audio. It will have sampling rate of 44.1 KHz and 128 Kbps bitrate. This is confirmed in the leaked version in the development section, i've seen a recording and the sound is way better.
Now one area i cant argue with however is the loudspeaker on the DHD. It's terrible. Maybe the Sensation is better there.
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still videos in mp4 wouldnt be bad, i hate reconverting them!
Chad_Petree said:
still videos in mp4 wouldnt be bad, i hate reconverting them!
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Like someone else mentioned, .3gp is only the container, not the codec. So you don't necessarily have to reconvert them, just change the container. Should be much faster that way.
Download this program Avidemux: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Drag your videos in, on the left leave Video and Audio as is, and only change Format to MP4. Select save video and make sure you type in .mp4 at the end of the filename (otherwise it wont save as a video). You'll notice that it takes only a couple of seconds to change the container and viola you have an mp4 video
What's wrong with htc? even the new sensation has horrible audio quality, check out this video where they compare the sensation's 1080p recording vs the lg 2x , the guy's voiced sounds high pitched :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmctC5gfvI&feature=player_embedded
still the audio recording quality on the camcorder is still piss poor for a device of this calibre
Has the Gingergread update not sorted that yet?

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This isn't so much a video quality test, because well, it's not the best... But I think the audio recording sounds pretty good. :good:
I didn't find another thread simply for Audio or even video tests, only people complaining about picture quality.
I uploaded two videos onto YouTube, the first one is the music they played during the actual show and the second is a couple of extra songs they added.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsG9g159oT4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgQySCkZJ4
And they're saying 'BLUUUUUUU" and not Booooo
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This isn't so much a video quality test, because well, it's not the best... But I think the audio recording sounds pretty good. :good:
I didn't find another thread simply for Audio or even video tests, only people complaining about picture quality.
I uploaded two videos onto YouTube, the first one is the music they played during the actual show and the second is a couple of extra songs they added.
And they're saying 'BLUUUUUUU" and not Booooo
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Sound is pretty good.
The music was crazy!
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Cool video mate, I normally hate Brass band type stuff but they were sh*t hot lol ... The quality was bang on in the videos so I decided to test it myself with music playing in the car and on the PC ... I was pretty happy with the quality, more so than the crap weather in the 1st video (you wouldn't think it was almost July lol)

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I just recently purchased the G2 and I've noticed some pretty poor performance when streaming video. I've tried both the youtube and Netflix apps and it doesn't look like it's HD quality at all. I've come from the iphone 5 where streaming in HD looks incredible. AND with the specs this phone has I would expect it to be capable of streaming even better. I tested the HTC one, g2, and S4 in the Verizon store and they all seemed to stream video pretty poorly. Is this just an android thing or am I crazy? I have a 720p and 1080p video stored on my phone and the quality is no where near that. I have the Nexus 7 and the quality on that is just amazing which makes me think it's not an android thibg. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
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YouTube has always looked better for me with quality files compared to Netflix. I have not been able to get Netflix to stream true HD even with a solid signal. Google video does exceptionally well. Using my own files, I get beautiful HD playback.
Is it the video player or the actual video itself?
I don't stream Youtube too often, but I thought something was seriously broken (software wise) when the videos looked low quality. I tried watching through a browser and there appeared to be no difference.
After several low quality videos, I just recently came across a video that offered really clear quality so I'm going to assume that it was poor quality uploads for the previous videos I watched.

Problem with 16 Bit 44.1khz audio playback.

Hi,
In an effort to get around the generally miserable sound quality on my OPT, I installed the android app for Qobuz, the streaming music service I use. This allows streaming of CD quality 16 bit 44.1khz uncompressed audio, only of course my OPT won't play it, just skips the tracks. The app and audio output works fine on my Sony Z3 compact and Nexus 4.
Does anybody have any suggestions for a fix/work around?
The terrible audio quality really is an issue with this handset, I'm really surprised more isn't made of the issue in reviews etc. Coming from the Sony, which was astonishingly good, this is just about a deal breaker, I no longer use my phone to stream audio in the car as it's just so bad!
Just noticed the other thread with the same problem with Tidal's hi-fi streaming service, so this is clearly a software/hardware issue with this handset. Hope it gets addressed else I'll have to sell mine. It's amazing that Oneplus were able to make a phone that sounds so awful, quite an achievement in 2015!

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