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Video Playback Issues

Videos played by my nexus have an odd choppy feel. Every five seconds or so, the player pauses for a very noticeable moment, then continues. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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No problems regarding smoothness.
The only problem I have is that nothing seems to have audio (using mxPlayer)

theoneofgod said:
No problems regarding smoothness.
The only problem I have is that nothing seems to have audio (using mxPlayer)
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Its not bad enough to want to return it, but it's irritating.
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Now I seem to have problems with games. Is this a hardware issue or OS related?
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No. My nexus runs very well. Are you on 4.1.1
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theoneofgod said:
No. My nexus runs very well. Are you on 4.1.1
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Yes.
Is it a background app causing it? I read about a few phones having this issue in the past.
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upstandingcitizen said:
Videos played by my nexus have an odd choppy feel. Every five seconds or so, the player pauses for a very noticeable moment, then continues. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I'm on 4.1.1, not rooted and I've noticed the same problem. When playing a video or certain games every 5 seconds or so there is a slight pause. I've tried different video players and still the same issue.

GreenBasturd said:
I'm on 4.1.1, not rooted and I've noticed the same problem. When playing a video or certain games every 5 seconds or so there is a slight pause. I've tried different video players and still the same issue.
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Having the same issues but it seems to happen more with games especially tegra 3 games like a riptide. the funny thing is is I swear I remember playing riptide and It had no lag. I can't remember whether it was prior to the 4.11 update.

Same here! I tried watching the Transformer movie we got for free and it kept freezing up! This is irritating, I'm going to try a factory reset. I'm exchanging this thing any way cause the headphone jack is defective.
From my long awaited and totally worth it EVO LTE!

Same issue here after upgrading to 4.1.1. Anyone here having this issue on a custom ROM? If not then I'm flashing a ROM ASAP.
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Nobody else?
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Try other video players (MX Player, BSPlayer)

Was this apparent before 4.1.1? I just got my 7 yesterday and updated right away and do notice the stutter w/ my high profile 720p vids. On my Prime stuttering was fixed with over clocking and running an interactive governer.
Edit: this is for 720p high profile movies stored on the device, happening w/ dice player and MX player. Don't use stock since it doesn't support ac3 audio.

stock n7 with latest ota updates, unlocked and rooted. No problem playing any game and video, either stream from play store (transformer movie) or stream my my home network.

songmeesay said:
Was this apparent before 4.1.1? I just got my 7 yesterday and updated right away and do notice the stutter w/ my high profile 720p vids. On my Prime stuttering was fixed with over clocking and running an interactive governer.
Edit: this is for 720p high profile movies stored on the device, happening w/ dice player and MX player. Don't use stock since it doesn't support ac3 audio.
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It doesn't matter if it's on the device or not, it happens when I stream the transformer movie and/or any YouTube video. I'm about to return this back to Google if I don't find a solution soon. Going to try a data factory reset and see if that helps.
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Yeah looks like its happening for me on YouTube as well.

I just put a video on my device from my PC and it played fine. But if I stream anything it plays like crap
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Did some more testing. Tried the stock player and no stutter but no sound due to no ac3 support. I have another 7 coming in on Monday and will test that one leaving it as is (before 4.1.1 update)

I just got off the phone with Google and they said it's probably a issue with my router streaming media on the device. I'm going to test another WiFi connection sometime soon and see if the issue persist or not.
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I'm having problems with this, I can't watch a single video on this device without the lag. I've tried the youtube app, Netflix, dice player and a few other video apps and everyone of those lag.
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Music discovery app recommendation?

There's any number of music apps out there that will let you discover new music that's similar to what you like. I'm looking for something that will play music across genres that is completely random. I want to be able to press 'play' and not have any idea what's next.
l'n not interested in anything where you have to press a button to switch genres, or artists, or anything.
Any ideas?
tia
Nick
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Pandora

Sm0k3d 0uT said:
Pandora
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Not outside the US. I'm in the UK. I can get a 'Pandora radio' that just plays rock'n'roll
Nick
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Xmbc

Who uses this app with there n4? What kind of set up do you use? Do you stream it to your tv? Reason I'm asking is I have been using it for awhile and I most recently started streaming it to my tv. It works well most of the time but I'm trying to figure out the optimal set up.
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I steam from my sever using nfs. Have htpcs hooked up to other TV sets so I only really use it on my n4 if I'm in the small room or in the garden.
I currently run the experimental Gotham alpha with the libstagefright as it's the only build that comfortably handles all my 1080 content and anime with ass subs
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Alex240188 said:
I steam from my sever using nfs. Have htpcs hooked up to other TV sets so I only really use it on my n4 if I'm in the small room or in the garden.
I currently run the experimental Gotham alpha with the libstagefright as it's the only build that comfortably handles all my 1080 content and anime with ass subs
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How do the gotham builds handle HD content? Is it better than the final frodo build? I'm using a xaf custom build which uses mx player as the default video player instead of the xmbc player. With mx I can download a custom codec and I have options to use a HW decoder or SW one. This set up works better than the non custom xmbc app.
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They are similar except the libstagefright build enables hardware acceleration on the built in xbmc player. I only prefer this method over the mx player because the last time I tried a xaf build it would not handle .ass subtitles
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Ok. I will try it out. The frodo build did not have hW exceleration? Also the issue I'm having is it seems like any time I stream a video it starts off fine. Then after so long it becomes choppy. The phone gets really hot and stops charging. I'm assuming so the battery can cool down. I'm wondering if the choppiness is because of wifi issues, or thermal throttling occurring. I want to say it's the latter since the wifi connectio is really solid
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Alex240188 said:
They are similar except the libstagefright build enables hardware acceleration on the built in xbmc player. I only prefer this method over the mx player because the last time I tried a xaf build it would not handle .ass subtitles
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I tried the gotham build. It would exit out of the app every time.
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One other thing is I'm using cm 10.1. Does rom have anything to do with xmbc compatibility?
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Smallsmx3 said:
I tried the gotham build. It would exit out of the app every time.
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i just updated to alpha4 and this build is apparently not working properly on the N4, network shares just crash the app.
so i reverted back to alpha2 which works nicely for everything i use it for
EDIT: Ignore that, i was been a dumbass and had my WIFI off.
just tested and working fine here
[Alpha4]
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/xbmc-20130604-249ada1-Gotham_alpha4SF-armeabi-v7a.apk
if you want to try it, you can grab it from here
[Alpha2]
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds...f76-Gotham_alpha2_stagefright-armeabi-v7a.apk

Alex240188 said:
i just updated to alpha4 and this build is apparently not working properly on the N4, network shares just crash the app.
so i reverted back to alpha2 which works nicely for everything i use it for
if you want to try it, you can grab it from here
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds...f76-Gotham_alpha2_stagefright-armeabi-v7a.apk
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Thanks a lot for all your help. I have trouble trying to decipher through all the random websites and different builds.
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Smallsmx3 said:
Thanks a lot for all your help. I have trouble trying to decipher through all the random websites and different builds.
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im guessing you grabbed a normal build as they do stutter on HD and get very hot very quick (because they are all software decoding)

Trying
Thanks for thins link.

Alex240188 said:
im guessing you grabbed a normal build as they do stutter on HD and get very hot very quick (because they are all software decoding)
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Well the one I get to work the best is the xaf build. And the SW decoding option seems to work the best using mx player. I did get the gotham alpha 2 to work. Ill give it a test run and see how it goes
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I just noticed that all the webserver setup is gone in Gotham. On both windows and android builds.
Thankfully you can still set it up through the XML files
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Gave the alpha build a test run. Watched a couple of episodes of Game of thrones. Each episode I watched froze at some point and ended the stream. Playback was good. Progress is being made. So I decided to reinstall the xaf build and used mxplayer again. Used only hw excelleration . Phone ran much cooler. Had some stuttering but nothing crazy. Might of been wifi related.
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Hmm very weird. The only times it has ever binned out of the app for me is when I'm scanning a new source into the library.
Everything else has been flawless.
In fact I'm watching a 720p game of thrones right now and it's flawless for me.
But I suppose if you have a different setup or method of streaming you could be running into bugs that I am not
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So after using it for almost a week I'm more frustrated than anything. I constantly get booted out of movies or shows. When I fast forward to where I left off they never start. Just stay frozen. Im going between the frodo xaf build and the gotham build as one works better for some streams and vice versa. I use icefilms for most thing s. Is that my issue? It just seems there are so many possibilities and options and I can't pinpoint the issue. Also I'm not tech savvy enough to look into the code side of things. Any suggestions?
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Also I'm streaming via miracast to my tv. Could this be an issue
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Built-In Music player problem - SM-N9005 + MJ7 (BTU)

Hi All
i've been searching through the internet and through XDA and couldn't find anything relative to the problem i experience with my Note 3 (SM-N9005 + MJ7 (BTU). I'm using the built in Music Player app and widget and i've noticed that it never remembers the minute/second of the currently played track after it exits. I mean - i listen to a 2 hours mix (single mp3 file) and pause the player after 40 minutes, then i want to resume from the same position but it will always start from the beginning of the track ! i've noticed that it happens only after Music Player disappears from the running apps and this happens few minutes after you actually pause it or exit from the UI.
Did anyone notice that ? is that a new "hidden feature" that we never asked for ???

Try using google play music.........
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sawantaaradhya726555 said:
Try using google play music.........
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Thanks but i don't like to use google play music since it doesn't know how to show local folders. it shows albums/artists/etc... but not local folders as folders.

Is ur phone rooted??
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sawantaaradhya726555 said:
Is ur phone rooted??
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No. and it's not going to be in the near future.

Sry then...... Or otherwise u wud have made ur favorite player as ur system app...... Now, I can only suggest u to get a nice music player from play store........ Or u can show ur problem in the Samsung store
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CM 11 / AOSP problems w/ Slacker Radio

So, does Slacker work properly for anyone on CM11 or any AOSP rom?
Every CM or AOSP rom I've tried to use Slacker on it does not with properly. It will load and start to play and then it will pause at exactly 7 seconds. You then have to press play again to continue the song. Also, after it starts playing it will skip around the song. Once it gets to the end of the song it will rewind about a minute or so and then will play to the end again then it will start the next song and then pause at 7 second again starting the process over again.
It works fine on any stock based ROM. But it does not work on any AOSP based rom and I've tried them all.
Anyone else with this problem? And if so do you have a solution?
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really? no one?

hello? anyone home?
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into view
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Hehe! I just wanna reply coz I know how bad it is to create a thread and no one replies! And it's been 4 days!! That's harsh!
I really dunno what Slacker is or how to help you! Sorry!
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again?
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t3project said:
So, does Slacker work properly for anyone on CM11 or any AOSP rom?
Every CM or AOSP rom I've tried to use Slacker on it does not with properly. It will load and start to play and then it will pause at exactly 7 seconds. You then have to press play again to continue the song. Also, after it starts playing it will skip around the song. Once it gets to the end of the song it will rewind about a minute or so and then will play to the end again then it will start the next song and then pause at 7 second again starting the process over again.
It works fine on any stock based ROM. But it does not work on any AOSP based rom and I've tried them all.
Anyone else with this problem? And if so do you have a solution?
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Yes, It works properly on CM10.2. I keep trying CM11 in hopes its been fixed, but perhaps you and I are the only people on here that use slacker. Its a damn annoyance and since I pay for slacker its a deal breaker.