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MKV on Desire?

Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?

You can also get the yxplayer from Android Market and I would recommend this.
But I don't know whether it has mkv playback. The only tool I know is called "RockPlayerBase" which is able to play mkv but not very smooth (averaged 16 fps on my Desire). I assume, you can get this tool from here... anywhere^^ just search.
I hope, I could help you. Correct me, if I'm wrong

16 fps doesn't sound too promising.. Thanks for advice though

16fps if you are lucky! more like 5 most of the time. I think the rockplayer is a software player so its using just the brute force of the CPU. Thats not bad considering most Atom based netbooks cant play MKVs smoothly without an HD decoder card...
Maybe one day we will get some hardware assistance..

Not sure if this will help at all, but mkv2vob converts mkv files to either vob or mpeg, and does it very quickly. (I don't normally recommend conversion apps as they're usually really slow.)
If either vob or mpeg will play better then I really would recommend giving it a try.
http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1
Also highly recommended for PS3 users who want to watch mkv files

Try RockPlayer. It's awesome.

ledaz said:
Hi,
I've been searching the net for any information about MKV playback on Android and found this one:
mobilegadgets-review.blogspot.com/2010/04/htc-desire-plays-mkv-divx-videos.html
Can I trust this source? Anyone tried this one?
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That is yxflash and an old version at that a newer one is available in market works a treat for all i throw at it
Also using RockPlayer aka: DemoPlayer

Considering time wasted converting files and saving space, when viewing movies, better idea is to stick with divx/xvid/h.264?

There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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th3 said:
There's nothing that currently plays MKVs properly in all I've tried incl. the aforementioned apps. The RockPlayerBase cannot play H.264 vids. It will however play XviD/DivX totally fine upto VGA resolution (plays upto 1.2Mbps VGA vids fine that I've tested).
Act 1 player, Meridian, the stock player - all play H.264 vids perfectly. HD 720p vids at that, and in some vids, upto 10Mbps plays well. But they don't play AVIs or MKVs.
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Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
Afaik, you can't set different default programs for different video file extensions. All types of videos are Videos.

Plays 1.5 MBPS full WVGA videos just fine, too. And you can just use Rock for XviD/DivX/MKV/AVIs and Stock for H.264. Don't be a lazy bum
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Then you're getting different results to me there. It doesn't play WVGA with the 4 vids I've tried, all low bitrate DivX. Greater than 480p XviD/DivX, it doesn't play without severe problems. The ~1.5Mbps vids you're referencing are DivX/XviD?
There's format and container. Containers can hold many different format vids. AVI and MKV are just containers.
Do you realize that most MKVs are in the H.264 format which it doesn't play?
And that it plays XviD/DivX format AVIs? Not MSMP4 or MP4 AVIs.
As for H.264: I use Act 1 player... after using it, it's not possible to go back to the stock player
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Try diceplayer
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.

I've tried this too,on numerous occasions but with no success :/
I also use RockPlayer But what i do i convert all my Movies (that i watch on my Desire) with Badaboom (Nvidia's official vid converter) to a h264 file in mp4 format,and it plays perfectly [so if u have a nvidia gfx card...i strongly recommend this method,since it's ultra fast ,if u have an Ati,try xvid4psp 5.0+ converter]

Harteg said:
I would really recommend Moboplayer, get it from the market, it plays mkv's just fine on my desire
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I, too, recommend MoboPlayer. It's simple to use and supports embedded subtitles in .mkv files.

Id try arcmedia on the market it always works for me mate and its free
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I also use Moboplayer.
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juami said:
Try diceplayer.
My nexus-1 ( patched libOmxVdec.so )
can play 720p High 3.1 MKV+DTS file flawlessly.
Desire use same AP, i think that desire can play 720p MKV.
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I can confirm this. All solutions above, (rockplayer, mobo etc.) are crap in comparision to diceplayer, (that if you patch your existing lib as suggested).
I previously postet a thread on this in the general section. It really makes the phone to a "almost" perfect hd media player.

Video Playback Problem

I converted a 1080p video of iron man with Freemake to .mp4 format which eventually has a size of 3.19 GB. converted for android with a resolution of 800 x 480. It just doesn't want to play the damn video does anyone know how to fix this problem? G-force not in HD is played perfectly however it has a much smaller size.
Thnx in advance!

What video player are you using? have you tried rockplayer?

No no rockplayer however the standard video plaer should play .mp4 and it does for G-force however the HD video of 3.19 GB doesn't play how can this be?

maybe the encoding has not worked properly, or codecs are missing....
maybe you can try to download rockplayer from the market (it is free) and then play the files (I've had one file not play on the normal player, but it played perfectly on rockplayer.

When playing .mp4 the codes used should be h264 for the video and aac for the audio streams. The .mp4 is just the type of the container.
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Just wanted to know: can the DHD play 1080p mkv's?
Greetz
G.

Try 'arcMedia'

Siksyko said:
Just wanted to know: can the DHD play 1080p mkv's?
Greetz
G.
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Hehe
Currently the DHD can't even play 720p .mkv videos
It will never be able to play 1080p, but 720p .mkv is certanly possible.
I hope when VLC finishes it's port to Android it will support hardware playback of .mkv on our phone
BTW The best player availible now is either Rockplayer or Vplayer (paid) if you're looking for stability and performance.

[Q] milestone2 laggy when playing 720p.

I watch youtube video alot, using tubemate to download video, 1280x720, 640x360,
My ms2 can't play 720p video smoothly, been using all video player I can install.
My friend htc desire can play a same 720p video very smooth, but my ms2 can not, can only play 640x360 smoothly.
Is any ms2 the same or just mine?

bdconcept said:
I watch youtube video alot, using tubemate to download video, 1280x720, 640x360,
My ms2 can't play 720p video smoothly, been using all video player I can install.
My friend htc desire can play a same 720p video very smooth, but my ms2 can not, can only play 640x360 smoothly.
Is any ms2 the same or just mine?
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Milestone2 is not well in 720p hardware decoding.

Mine is playing 720p very smoothly. I download clips from youtube (by keepvid btw) to my PC and then transfer them to phone. And no matter what player am I using it's smooth as hell .

I was traying some clips in 720p in mp4 format played via DLNA from my notebook, and was very smooth. You are writing about avi or mp4 movies?

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I was traying some clips in 720p in mp4 format played via DLNA from my notebook, and was very smooth. You are writing about avi or mp4 movies?
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cant be movies because i recently saw a documentary in 720p on my phone in flight and it was superb. no lag, and really smooth
perhaps the person who has issues is running something memory intensive in the background?

It greatly depends on what codecs are being used.

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It greatly depends on what codecs are being used.
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why use anything else than H264 anyway.. use Mobo Player (best video player ever, smothest playing ever and almost all formats you ever need ot play)
even plays 1080p movies with ~21FPS (1,4ghz overclocked) on my MS2..

I have the same issue on my MS2 @@
I also downloaded a 720p mp4 video via Tubemate from youtube
Playing of the video is not very smooth
especially the first 30 seconds, it really lags
After playing for a while it becomes smooth again but still may have some random lag
I have rebooted my MS2 before playing the video so as to clean up RAM, but the problem didn't solved.
The MoboPlayer have similar performance as the stock video player...do I need to download any moboplayer codec?..
Does anyone know how to solve this
*update : I am thinking, would it be the problem of sd card? what class of sd card are you guys using? Is my Toshiba 16GB C4 sd card too slow?
I have downloaded SD-Booster and set the cache size to 2048kb

By the way wich one is correct Mobo codec for M2?
I just know it is ARMv7.
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dangpzanco said:
By the way wich one is correct Mobo codec for M2?
I just know it is ARMv7.
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So download this for ARMv7 BTW I couldn't play movies with the Mobo player. If You will have any problem with this player, try the Rock player
MotoMilestone 2 & TapTalk

Did anybody managed to play smoothly 1080p HD mp4 video on fis device?

Hello !
Yesterday I was very much surprised when I downloaded all mp4 HD video from my SGS2 to the TAb and neither file couldn't be played on stock player. After hours of rush in the Internet I tryied almost all other known players but the bext I achieved was slow motion video in dice player. What is your expereience? Did anybody run smoothly HD videos on his device?

720p is fine. 1080p is not. You can grab bsplayer free from the market, very nice player.

I believe the only hardware accelerated codec is H264 so any video not in that format would have issues with 1080p. I personally played a 720p Xvid, over the network, using MX Player last night. DICE had speed problems with it.
In my experience DICE is better for MKV and MX is better for AVI etc.

there's discussions and recommendations about this in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306457

If there is any app that would do it if the hardware was up to spec it would be Dice Player. It eats all my 720p MKV's for breakfast but still can't do 1080p.

Cant play 720P mkv

i have the south park movie
720P
i played it yestarday fluent
and now its lagging as hell
same player

This had been covered in depth and to death. I suggest you search. Buy to their you another bone... I will suggest getting dice video player.also playing 720p does require a lot of resources, if you have a lot of open apps running in the background it will effect playback performance... Kill as many running apps as you can and try again.
I would recommend using a converting program to convert those videos to a more compatible format...ie mp4 or something...
Good luck
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