Hello. What is the best combination for playing hd videos wihtout lag? Which app works the best and which rom-kernel?
I have rooted nexus 10 and i have stock kernel-rom. However the hd videos lag a little.(refering to 720p)
I have tried mx player and bsplayer with our cpu addon.
I just use regular bsplayer. Never had an issue and I was just watching HD stuff this weekend. I am on RasSaber ROM, but I never had issue on AOKP PUB, AOKP, or CM10.1 stuff either.
I would bet it is more about how the player is set up, whether using CPU or GPU, and how easily the clock speed for whatever the player is using ramps up.
More or less. Most of these ROMs have the appropriate CPU/GPU drivers already, so your main concern should be making sure that your player is using H/W decoding...and that you've encoded your file properly too.
EniGmA1987 said:
I just use regular bsplayer. Never had an issue and I was just watching HD stuff this weekend. I am on RasSaber ROM, ....
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Where do you download RasSaber? I can only find rasbeanjelly, etc. Is there a thread?
I do not have a link, I am not sure if it is available anymore or not. I am running a build from may 12th, and the latest build I have is from may 28th. You could ask sparksco or Rascarlo if they can give you a link to one of the builds.
Using hardware the video lags more. I tried an mkv file. Can i change any other settings in the programs to make it smoother?
Maybe i will flash another kernel, but i want 1 week to try the stock kernel in order to be able to tell the differences..
c1oud said:
Using hardware the video lags more. I tried an mkv file. Can i change any other settings in the programs to make it smoother?
Maybe i will flash another kernel, but i want 1 week to try the stock kernel in order to be able to tell the differences..
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Then your player is (probably) badly built. There are really no circumstances under which a S/W decoder should be able to beat a H/W one. I personally don't have issues using MPlayer or stock.
Dice and MX Player. Dice can pla some videos on H/W that MX can't.
I used a few kernels and roms and never had issues with mxplayer. The thing is you have to turn on in options h/w+ (so u have 3 ways to play your video h/w, h/w+ and s/w), then turn it once in top right corner while playing movie. I mostly run mkv 720p files.
Yes i am using hw+ in mx player.. I also use bs pleyer with the neon cpu plugin. I will try another movie and dice player and report.. Thanks.
Edit: i tried dice player and works flawlessly with hw! Also i tried again mx and seems to be working better...
c1oud said:
Hello. What is the best combination for playing hd videos wihtout lag? Which app works the best and which rom-kernel?
I have rooted nexus 10 and i have stock kernel-rom. However the hd videos lag a little.(refering to 720p)
I have tried mx player and bsplayer with our cpu addon.
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I use MX Player without hw+ enabled on stock, unrooted Android 4.2.2, haven't noticed lag, and I play 1080p trailers all the time. If you really want to stress it, here's a 1440p trailer you can try out (third link, which they incorrectly label as 2560p). That video drops frames like crazy if I don't use hardware decoding, but plays fine with it. Better than my HOX+, which just plays the audio and drops the video altogether.
I wanted to find a video that would actually use the full resolution of my Nexus 10 and that's the only one I found that comes close. :laugh:
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I use MX Player without hw+ enabled on stock, unrooted Android 4.2.2, haven't noticed lag, and I play 1080p trailers all the time. If you really want to stress it, here's a 1440p trailer you can try out (third link, which they incorrectly label as 2560p). That video drops frames like crazy if I don't use hardware decoding, but plays fine with it. Better than my HOX+, which just plays the audio and drops the video altogether.
I wanted to find a video that would actually use the full resolution of my Nexus 10 and that's the only one I found that comes close. :laugh:
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I tried it and it works great with mx player.. I think mp4 are read better from tablets...
MX Player has always done me proud...
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Hey now this is GOOD NEWS!
Every since I have had this machine I haven't been able to play HD and I mean Hiiiiigh Definition 720 Mp4 files.
What always happens when I played them they fastforwarded by itself but with the MX player you have the option to play via H/S or S/H meaning play with software or playing with hardware software.
So you simple set to (surprisingly S/H) you can now play those HD files that are 720p and also hear the sound and in sync and everything, before I had to use handbrake and wait for 7 hours to decode a movie from 720 HD Mp4 TO 720 HD Mp4 (weird) using xoom setting wit Handbrake.
Now I can watch HD movies on my tab finally without conversion!
Next step MKV files! Can be seen excellent on Mobo player but without sound and with VLplayer you can hear sound and see the image but the video stutters all the time.
Give it up to our developers/modders! That managed to fix one CRUCIAL AND COMMERCIAL function!
Cheers!
07/08/2011 Edit: MX Video Player got an update and can now play MKV with new feature setting S/W Decoder (fast mode) and High Definition 720p mkv's can now be played with little or no lag! Awesome!
Really? Nobody happy?
High profile which level? Moboplayer always work fine for me even better on galaxy based rom
I'll test mxplayer when back to home
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you can actually play 720p Hp with dice player. though u are restricted by the file size. andof course u have to pay for it though. it's lag free with sound sync.
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High profile which level? Moboplayer always work fine for me even better on galaxy based rom
I'll test mxplayer when back to home
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I alway use stock rom but with custom kerne, best combo.
tested. Very nice player like it very much. Still missing continuous playing and shuffle mode for music videos. Only meridian have it.
Installed and keeping.
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Sorry, did I miss something? Did you post something or are you just happy it's playing well?
Hi, is there someone who can watch a 720p mkv video without freezes with A500 ?
I tried several software player with no luck , I'm not able to see it
I'm using Thor Rom , it's better than the original 3.2 but still something is missing
Any comments are high appreciated
Ramp
I can play H.264 720p high-profile .MKV files just fine on my tablet and I'm not even running a custom ROM. Download and install Dice Player. If that still lags and freezes then you likely have something running in the background.
Yep, already downloaded the trial version, it works better than other players but if I use software decoding is choppy , if I use BS hardware player is less choppy ( even if it's still visible) but often audio is out of sync , and if I use hardware player ( the other one) is good but I have no audio
Ah, forgot, nothing running in playground and cache cleaned
Can you please give me your settings ?
Thanks
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I'm using hardware decoding. Obviously A500 isn't fast enough to do high-profile 720p in software, you're just hoping for magic if you insist on using software decoding.
Try overclocking
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Hi, is there someone who can watch a 720p mkv video without freezes with A500 ?
I tried several software player with no luck , I'm not able to see it
I'm using Thor Rom , it's better than the original 3.2 but still something is missing
Any comments are high appreciated
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OK....Ive had some issues in the past with a few BRRips 720p high mkv and mp4 movies on a500.
I am using stock rooted 3.2
Using MXPlayer or dice player they were a little choppy and the sound would fall out of sync using SW decoder. This would happen even with everything possible shut off in the background.
So I just tried an overclocking experiment with one of thors custom kernals.
I flashed thor-kernel-3.9 for stock3.2 and overclocked to 1400 or so using SetCPU. I changed nothing else on my system.
Then went back and tried playing those troublesome movies and so far everything is a lot smoother. Can now fast forward and not lose sync where before that would throw sync way off and sometimes never recover.
Have not tried 1080p.
BSPlayer lite
Oh, btw, if you're using Dice Player you should also install the Tegra2 plugin for it from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.tegra2&feature=more_from_developer
So far I haven't found a 720p file that didn't play with it just fine so I'm personally pretty satisfied with it.
I had a tricky 720p MKV file that was choppy on everything and every app until I switched to Thor's ROM. I'm using something like version 12 and it plays flawlessly with MX Video Player with HW decoding.
Sometimes it actually depends on the formatting of the MKV.
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BSPlayer lite
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It works for me.
hardslog said:
I had a tricky 720p MKV file that was choppy on everything and every app until I switched to Thor's ROM. I'm using something like version 12 and it plays flawlessly with MX Video Player with HW decoding.
Sometimes it actually depends on the formatting of the MKV.
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I to on thor rom and use MX player fast softwaremode work best for me, only file the stutter for me is 1080p files..
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So I just tried an overclocking experiment with one of thors custom kernals.
I flashed thor-kernel-3.9 for stock3.2 and overclocked to 1400 or so using SetCPU. I changed nothing else on my system.
Then went back and tried playing those troublesome movies and so far everything is a lot smoother. Can now fast forward and not lose sync where before that would throw sync way off and sometimes never recover.
Have not tried 1080p.
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Tried overclocking as you said and it's working with bsplayer. Thanks a lot
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I still get lagging playing some 720p MKV's in HC. Just wondering if the ICS hardware acceleration would improve on this and make it work smoother?
I have tried all players such as MOBO, MX, RockPlayer and Dice. Sometimes when I choose HW accelration it crashes the tablet.
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I still get lagging playing some 720p MKV's in HC. Just wondering if the ICS hardware acceleration would improve on this and make it work smoother?
I have tried all players such as MOBO, MX, RockPlayer and Dice. Sometimes when I choose HW accelration it crashes the tablet.
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Remember this is a leaked Beta rom. Thou most things do work there will still be alot of tweaking done by acer before there final push.Also many apps are not totally updated to support ICS.
So we would hope hardware acceleration will improve but to say YES would be guessing.
hope this helps .
I've just tried it, but i have to say it's not smooth at all. Maybe later
(MX player, Lightspeed_4 ROM)
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I still get lagging playing some 720p MKV's in HC. Just wondering if the ICS hardware acceleration would improve on this and make it work smoother?
I have tried all players such as MOBO, MX, RockPlayer and Dice. Sometimes when I choose HW accelration it crashes the tablet.
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You should try convert mkv to mp4 and use MX for play.
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You should try convert mkv to mp4 and use MX for play.
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I rather not try to convert since all my movies for the home is on a server. I try to stream to the Iconia but it lags. I have tried it on SDcard and it still lags. These are 720p rips of BR usually 4-6gb in size.
HW Acceleration works, even on the leak. The problem is that it doesn't support Vorbis/Theora, which are mostly used in mkv files... So these videos are never going to play really smoothly, they might work or not depending on system load and whatnot.
As to some apps not being properly ported to ICS: True, but for MX video player it is officially supported and has been for a while.
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I rather not try to convert since all my movies for the home is on a server. I try to stream to the Iconia but it lags. I have tried it on SDcard and it still lags. These are 720p rips of BR usually 4-6gb in size.
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I had the same issues before. A500 can't play smoothly rips of BR because it is not fast enough to process. Converting video to mp4 or wmv with lower rip-level is the only solution. Sometime the converted larger than original file but... it's work.
I use DVD catalyst 4 to convert my DVDs to MP4 for my Iconia. There are presets for the Iconia. I personally like the HQXT preset. It gives good performance for both action and slow paced movies. My movie file size is normally 1.3 gig.
Its not only mkv that has problem with ICS, its every HD video 720p and above. Even streaming videos like NBA is lagging and ugly to watch. But I know this will fixed soon because v96 video playback is really smooth.
Try streaming again using a program like Emit or Qloud. Both will re-encode the files to a specified bitrate while streaming and you can leave them on your server. I haven't tried it over 3G/4G but it works great over wifi.
yes indeed, but you need a good CPU on your computer for that.
not my case..
and frankly, seeing some low-priced chines tab running 720p without any problem makes me a bit crazy..
tegra2 was a real success.. from sellers points
but at a technical POV, not sure it's soo great
I have tried several players (MX, Dice, BS, QQ), but only MX and QQ do hardware acceleration and none of them plays really smooth.
For testing, I used a 720p 24fps Blu-ray rip which plays smoothly on my Galaxy Nexus using MX.
On the N10 it's only *almost* smooth, it looks a bit like if it cannot update the screen fast enough (maybe because of the resolution).
Developers probably need some time to update their app to support Nexus 10's hardware decoder. I would shoot them an email for status.
BTW, I also tried that Timescape 1440p video and I tried the Google Movies Player. Same problems.
Vlc player?
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Thanks for the tip. But VLC does not finish scanning at start. Have to force close it.
Also tried VPlayer, but it shows a black screen when HW decoding is enabled.
Try mx player. And dont forget to download mx player decoder based on your procie.
Yeh I'm sorta disappointed at the player also cannot find a video that can display this screens potential and run without dropping frames' I'm sure software can help with this and app updates. Also every website image looks so bad on this screen due to websites not having hi red images lol I'm sure they will fix that for the iPad and in turn for us lol
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Try mx player. And dont forget to download mx player decoder based on your procie.
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Already tried MX. What codec should I download? I thought MX displays a message, if you should download a codec.
Maybe the problem is related to 24p. I will have to find something in 60p.
Would be interested in this also as I currently can only use S/W decoder on MX Player.
Give MoboPlayer a shot.
MX player after todays update is playing most files smooth.
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MX player after todays update is playing most files smooth.
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I have yet to recieve an update and all files I try and play I get "Cannot play this file with H/W decoder", and S/W I get like 7 FPS.
I watch a lot of animes, and many animes these days are encoded using 10-bit H.264 (Hi10P).
720p 10-bit is very laggy on my galaxy S3 when using MX player. Can someone test it on galaxy S4 and tell me if it handles ? Also, please use mx player which can be downloaded for free from google play
Also, keep in mind the S4 sold in my country is GT-I9500 which uses samsung exynos processor
Did you try with VLC ?? (I don't know if it runs better with VLC, just asking)
VLC uses the same decoding libs and the performance wouldn't be much better.
10bit can only be decoded in software right now so you simply need more CPU power (and the GS4 might have enough power).
I'm quite curious if 720p 10bit can be decoded myself.
I'm curious about this as well, apparently S4 uses the same GPU as iPhone 5 which plays 10 bit videos flawlessly with no lag at all. Can anyone confirm about this?
Im getting my S4 quadcore in about 2 hours and use mxplayer. Ill be happy to try it if no one has done it by then. Where can I d/l a video to test that is the right format/rate?
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Im getting my S4 quadcore in about 2 hours and use mxplayer. Ill be happy to try it if no one has done it by then. Where can I d/l a video to test that is the right format/rate?
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Here you are! Sorry if anime is not your liking . Thanks a bunch.
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=427698
Almost all 720p mkv files on nyaa.eu are 10-bit, you can try others if you want
I'm successfully watching 10-bit 1080 w/ .FLAC and .ASS subs in .MKV format using QQ Video Player. the video file is 1.6 gb and 23 minutes. it's a COALGIRLS video if you know what that is. the only thing I noticed is that it seems to be slightly out of sync.. it's not notable until right 12 minutes in because of how slight it is =/. the vid works fine in Media Player Classic, so Im hoping an app or fw update will correct this.
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I'm successfully watching 10-bit 1080 w/ .FLAC and .ASS subs in .MKV format using QQ Video Player. the video file is 1.6 gb and 23 minutes. it's a COALGIRLS video if you know what that is. the only thing I noticed is that it seems to be slightly out of sync.. it's not notable until right 12 minutes in because of how slight it is =/. the vid works fine in Media Player Classic, so Im hoping an app or fw update will correct this.
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good to know that, is it smooth? :laugh:
Can you check whether 720p is still out of sync
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Here you are! Sorry if anime is not your liking . Thanks a bunch.
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=427698
Almost all 720p mkv files on nyaa.eu are 10-bit, you can try others if you want
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Sorry to have taken so long. I tried to d/l it after I got the phone, but didnt realize it was a torrent. Then I saw it was 341mg and I
only had slow 3g. D/L it when I got home and just watched some of it.
I have never watched anime, so I will simply tell you that it seemed normal to me. Using MX player I had to switch it to software decoder, as the hardware decoder played the audio but there was a black screen. Switched it to software and everything played fine, and the a/v seemed synced. It seemed smooth, I saw no choppiness or halting issues. Screen was clear and bright and crisp. Audio was loud and clear.
I didnt do anything to the phone (stock) and only made the hardware to software change in MX. Otherwise it was straight outta the box.
Hope this helps you.
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Sorry to have taken so long. I tried to d/l it after I got the phone, but didnt realize it was a torrent. Then I saw it was 341mg and I
only had slow 3g. D/L it when I got home and just watched some of it.
I have never watched anime, so I will simply tell you that it seemed normal to me. Using MX player I had to switch it to software decoder, as the hardware decoder played the audio but there was a black screen. Switched it to software and everything played fine, and the a/v seemed synced. It seemed smooth, I saw no choppiness or halting issues. Screen was clear and bright and crisp. Audio was loud and clear.
I didnt do anything to the phone (stock) and only made the hardware to software change in MX. Otherwise it was straight outta the box.
Hope this helps you.
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Thanks a lot for you reply, sounds like a perfect player after all. I definitely have to buy a S4
btw, is MXPlayer better than the stock one ? AFAIK, Samsung and LG appear to be the only ones on the markets that have the best codec support in the stock player! Nexus 4 have serious lag when playing the file above but Optimus G drives it smoothly even though they have the same hardware support (benchmark was lower on Nexus 4 though).
Even Xperia Z has issues when dealing with 10-bit video, and I doubt that HTC One is capable of playing video files well as the codec supported is rather limited (according to GSMArena).
My point is, if galaxy s4 were to have CM10.1, I'm curious whether its ability to decode film still retains by using MXPlayer
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Thanks a lot for you reply, sounds like a perfect player after all. I definitely have to buy a S4
btw, is MXPlayer better than the stock one ? AFAIK, Samsung and LG appear to be the only ones on the markets that have the best codec support in the stock player! Nexus 4 have serious lag when playing the file above but Optimus G drives it smoothly even though they have the same hardware support (benchmark was lower on Nexus 4 though).
Even Xperia Z has issues when dealing with 10-bit video, and I doubt that HTC One is capable of playing video files well as the codec supported is rather limited (according to GSMArena).
My point is, if galaxy s4 were to have CM10.1, I'm curious whether its ability to decode film still retains by using MXPlayer
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I just tried to play it with the stock player and it wouldnt play video only audio. Il try some other players and see wut happens.
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I just tried to play it with the stock player and it wouldnt play video only audio. Il try some other players and see wut happens.
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Please test it with MX player. Don't forget that you need to use S/W instead of H/W to play 10-bit
MX player is not the fastest player to play 10-bit. Archos Video player can play much 10-bit faster.
However, mx player is best player I've tested when it comes to rendering subtitles. The other video players can only display subititles at the bottom, but mx players can display the subtitles that appear in middle or top of the screen that appear in many animes. Thats the reason why I'm asking people to test using mx player.
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Here you are! Sorry if anime is not your liking . Thanks a bunch.
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=427698
Almost all 720p mkv files on nyaa.eu are 10-bit, you can try others if you want
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You can also download 720p 10-bit animes from this website. The size of the animes is also much smaller, which good for people who don't have fast connection
http://web.hi10anime.com/
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Please test it with MX player. Don't forget that you need to use S/W instead of H/W to play 10-bit
MX player is not the fastest player to play 10-bit. Archos Video player can play much 10-bit faster.
However, mx player is best player I've tested when it comes to rendering subtitles. The other video players can only display subititles at the bottom, but mx players can display the subtitles that appear in middle or top of the screen that appear in many animes. Thats the reason why I'm asking people to test using mx player.
You can also download 720p 10-bit animes from this website. The size of the animes is also much smaller, which good for people who don't have fast connection
http://web.hi10anime.com/
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I did run it with MX Player first. If you go back a couple posts I used that first for silversun92. You are right and it ran very well. I did have to change it to S/W, but after that it worked without any problems. Silversun92 asked me about the stock player, so I tried that next and it didnt work. Sound did but video did not. Can anything correct that?
FWIW, I also ran it with BSPlayer (which I like and use). It seemed to run slightly jittery, but it automatically showed subtitles which MX didnt when I ran it. That might just be a setting issue though. Regardless, I think MX ran better than BS.
Is there anything else that you all need tested ?
anyone know how to get DTS video to work on S4? I have 1080p mkv videos with DTS audio, but it wont work at S4 video player.. there is no sound
@ben3003
DTS only works in H/W+ mode afaik. (Testing with MX Player) on S4 this is a ARMv7 Neon FFMPEG custom distribution example
I find that the experience for 720p 10bit playback is not yet satisfactory. But the device may be capable of more due to its unique hardware support (HEVC). I think we can expect improvements to playback in future.
As @maroon1 mentioned Archos Player is almost satisfactory experience with 720p hi10p playback (I believe this is software rendering) however it lacks the Styled subtitle support that I have grown to love MX Player for. I can get over this lol but would be nice to have in future.
So you guys disagree on the results....
So, @roninep you say that 720p 10-bit mkvs played smoothly with MX Player on your S4, but @sh4z you say it wasn't satisfactory? Would both of you mind posting a short ~5 minute video clip of your results for comparison please?
I'm debating on buying an S4, since I watch a lot of video on my phone. Currently I have to manually re-encode (with handbrake) all my videos and anime from 10-bit to 8-bit before I put them on my phone, so a phone that plays 10-bit and saves me this extra step would be great!
Thank you for confirming!!
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I made two videos to compare MX Player and Archos Player on GT-I9505 S4.
I pretty much agree with @maroon1, I think Archos is the smoothest so far out of the players I've tried. MX Player has better subtitle support so If it's not 10bit I would use that.
Same video is used no special optimizations default settings. Streaming over WiFi G. (Plenty of bandwidth for 720p) @roninep might have a GT-I9500... Haven't tested MX Player on that yet. Will give it a go tomorrow. Maybe its okay with that device.
MX Player
https://vimeo.com/67198798
Archos Player
https://vimeo.com/67198799
Apologies in advance these videos are a bit blurry at some points as they were taken by my Galaxy S GT-I9000. It doesn't know what to focus on lol. Anyway the frame rate I think is visible enough in each example (I think that's what is important right ?)
Some other 720p 10bit mkv Tests (In Reverse Order *worst first*)
1. Mobo Video Player constantly played intrusive ad's and crashed when attempting to playback,dumped that like a **** ...
2. VLC Does not play properly v.choppy got about 3 frames out of it (It's beta after all and may kill your kittens (lol wtf vlc thats the warning you get when running the first time )) audio came through okay.
3. QQ Player was worse than Mobo Player laggy video and out of sync audio, did not properly understand styled subtitles and output incorrectly.
4. VPlayer - Constantly playing catch-up (video; fast,slow,fast,slow)- Subtitles displaying correctly at beginning but then later disappeared
5. MoboPlayer (Audio playback no video on H/W) Software playback was good but artifacting (think twice compressed jpeg, probably just not proper 10bit support) faster than MX but archos is better(faster no artifacts), subs displayed correctly but not styled
Any others people have tried that are good let us know! its useful. Cheers :good:
Thank you @sh4z for posting the videos! And you're right, framerate was what I was wondering about! And coincidentally, I'm currently using an I9000, want to upgrade to the I9500. And yeah, I currently use MX Player for everything, including those animes I convert from 10 to 8 bit.
Before I forget and go on, @sh4z how did you get the fps to show in the topright corner on MX Player? I couldn't find it as a menu option in MX Player...
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So it seems that MX Player framerate is watchable, but when compared to Archos player, Archos is much more enjoyable. Hopefully MX Player's dev will be able to improve his codec! (with MX Player having much better .ass subtitle support)
It's good that you pointed out you tested on the I9505, I had forgotten about the different chipsets. From a few places I read around, I've heard rumours that perhaps the I9500 with its Exynos 5 Cortex A15 will perform much better than the I9505's Qualcomm Krait 300.
Just looking at their comparison on Wikipedia's page for the Krait CPU, it appears (at least on the surface) that the I9500's Exynos 5 should do better? Hope we find out later!
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Hopefully, we will soon get an android device + app combination that rivals the iPhone 5 in terms of playing 10 bit videos.
For reference: From what was said on Animesuki's forum thread "iPhone 5 and 10-bit MKVs" , there's a video that proves that iPhone 5 with "HD MKV Player" app can easily handle 10 bit videos.
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I had tested some of those other players on my I9000 too, and I agree that MoboPlayer probably performs best out of them, in terms of framerate. Like you said, it's too bad that it artifacts on colours and doesn't fully support .ass styling.
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From his signature, I'd caution a guess that @roninep has the North American I9505 like you do, so no Exynos core. If anyone else here has an I9500 would you mind testing this out please? Thanks in advance!
I tested on I9505 S4.
Was watching a 720p 10 bit anime video with MX Player and find it pretty smooth except scenes that has lots of movement, action where the video stutter a little (No problem though).
But do take note the CPU does heats up a little... Mine was at 55 degree C after a full episode.
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I tested on I9505 S4.
Was watching a 720p 10 bit anime video with MX Player and find it pretty smooth except scenes that has lots of movement, action where the video stutter a little (No problem though).
But do take note the CPU does heats up a little... Mine was at 55 degree C after a full episode.
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@psycovirus thanks for testing! Would you say the performance was about the same or better than the video sh4z posted with MX Player on I9505?
And yeah, it's unfortunate but expected that the CPU would heat up since it's all software decoding.... I don't think any consumer hardware will get hardware accelerated h.264 hi10p, especially with the release of h.265 "HEVC".