Folks,
Having issues playing mkv files with the H/W or H/W+ decoder. I installed the latest purity ROM, and have been having issues playing the videos since. The files will only play in S/W decoder. I had a different ROM earlier(can't recall) and the same mkv and other video files would play in H/W and H/W+ decoder.
Could someone please explain if this is a ROM issue or do I need to do something else to fix this?
Thanks
You probably need this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254
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Hi guys
I've installed PureGingerbread gpc_hd2_gingerbread_v1.7 on my HD2.
Everything works quite good, but i can't open any video files.
I've tried .xvid and .mkv with built in player and mVideoPlayer.
Can you help me ? Is that ROM broken or I should install some codecs ?
No one can help me ?
try a different player such as rockplayer
The same.
Always the same problem, which is "This file can't be opened on this devide"
Ok, I've got something !
I can play movies when I disable Hardware Decoding support in Rock Player.
What can be wrong in system ? Why hardware acceleration doesn't work ?
I am running the latest HyperDroid-CM7. Which video players (are there any) support hardware decode? If there are any, which codecs are supported for hardware decode?
I've been encoding in H.264 via Handbrake but I'm getting lots of stuttering in the players I've tried. If I need to try a different format, I just need to know which one(s).
Stock video player, RockPlayer, MoboPlayer etc.
Practically any player can play in HW mode. Just make sure to enable Hardware Decoder in settings
I am using MoboPlayer and there is an option in settings called "Default Using Soft Decoding". It was _not_ checked. I checked it an now I'm getting much smoother playback.
Did I just _enable_ software decode? If so, why is it playing better?
I think I'm not understanding something here.
As far as I know, HD2 doesn't have hw support for H.264 but for H.263. So when converting your movies in Handbrake, use H.263 as output.
I swapped ROMs to NexusHD2-Gingerbread and now MoboPlayer is working much better than it did under HyperDroid. I think it might have been a HyperDroid issue.
Try diceplayer.
Mobo/Rock/VPlayer can't play MKV(+DTS) in hw decoder mode.
diceplayer can play MKV/M2TS/AVI using hw decoder.
juami said:
Try diceplayer.
Mobo/Rock/VPlayer can't play MKV(+DTS) in hw decoder mode.
diceplayer can play MKV/M2TS/AVI using hw decoder.
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For anyone else interested in this:
diceplayer is indeed good, play flawless video with hardware decoding
Hi,
anyone else having trouble with mkv files with AC3 audio?
Tried MX player, BSplayer and vlc.
MX player has no sound and smoth in HW and sound in SW (audio only) but really choppy.
BSplayer won't play in hw at all and vlc has horrible quality (artifacts).
Is that working for anyone or is that a general problem? (codec?)
Anything that i can try?
thanks
Try sending the MX Player dev a message mentioning the problem, it's likely something to do with the cutting edge hardware in there not being 100% supported just yet. MX Player is a great app, and I'm sure the N10 will be supported in no time at all.
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nilknarf said:
Try sending the MX Player dev a message mentioning the problem, it's likely something to do with the cutting edge hardware in there not being 100% supported just yet. MX Player is a great app, and I'm sure the N10 will be supported in no time at all.
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I am using MX for MKV with AC3 - in the Decoder tab in settings, set the decoder to HW+ and in the Software decoder section, tick the box 'S/W audio' to force software decoding for Audio - then you should get smooth HW accelerated video playback with soft-decoded audio.
I also use MX with EZ Usenet to stream these types of files directly from Easynews, and it works perfectly with HW+ setting, software for audio
tried using a vlc nightly? What version did you use?
VLC: used the armv7-android-neon nightly from 2 or 3 days ago
MX: with hw+ its stutters even worse than with hw when i have software audio
i stream directly from files on my computer, can that be the cause?
VLC works intermittently for me and MX Player works pretty good, the only issue I've had is what seems like missing frames or slow playing video but then the audio is ok. To me VLC seems smoother but it's very tempremental.
ninjasamo said:
VLC works intermittently for me and MX Player works pretty good, the only issue I've had is what seems like missing frames or slow playing video but then the audio is ok. To me VLC seems smoother but it's very tempremental.
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is that a general assessment or specifically to AC3?
kavey said:
I am using MX for MKV with AC3 - in the Decoder tab in settings, set the decoder to HW+ and in the Software decoder section, tick the box 'S/W audio' to force software decoding for Audio - then you should get smooth HW accelerated video playback with soft-decoded audio.
I also use MX with EZ Usenet to stream these types of files directly from Easynews, and it works perfectly with HW+ setting, software for audio
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THANK YOU!!!!
Remove AC3, MLP audio codec
Changelog for MX player says the following:
1.7.33
Remove AC3, MLP audio codec due to license issue.
Added RTL subtitle disposition option under Settings > Subtitle for Android 4.2 and later.
Added http user-agent overriding option under Settings > General.
Thratchen said:
Changelog for MX player says the following:
1.7.33
Remove AC3, MLP audio codec due to license issue.
Added RTL subtitle disposition option under Settings > Subtitle for Android 4.2 and later.
Added http user-agent overriding option under Settings > General.
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No problem use a custom code:
"Custom Codec v1.7.32 is fully compatible with MXPlayer 1.7.33
As Usual supports all codecs incl DTS & DOLBY (AC3)
(Old Custom Codecs are not compatible with the latest MXPlayer v1.7.33...!!)"
P.S. the version of MX Player that has AC3 support removed is v1.7.33 so you need to at least refresh the codec you have installed or install the latest ones.
Here is the post with all the various devices compatible custom codecs and installation instructions. I just did a successful before and after test. After installing this AC3 audio is a non-issue.
Too bad both the owners of DTS and AC3 need to such dicks about their decoding software. I have no issue when they charge for encoding.
MX AC Problem
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you. You guys worked successful and it is easy to follow through. Thanks once again. I am Karuhiu from Kenya
Hello everyone,
I can't find any way to have a video decoded using H/W Decoding with any player, video, nor custom roms.
With official Roms, I used WMP to transcode and send videos to my MB526 via MTP mode, which resulted in wmv files. This way, MX Player was able to play videos using hardware decoding (how ever, as far as I remember, the quality was sloppy).
But of course, that solution does not work anymore with custom roms, as MTP, wma and wmv are gone.
Right now I send .avi or .mp4 files using ftp; but I can't figure out a way to make them play using hardware decoding. All I got are insults like "can't play using H/W Decoder" (S/W works just fine, as long as I simplify the work for the chip : lower quality and mpeg2; but even then I think that HW decoding would spare the battery)
I tried :
- Different ROMs : Quark's CM10 roms, and White Rabbit (CM7) roms (among others)
- Different Codecs : MP4 (h264), Mpeg2, aac audio, mp3 audio, etc.
- Different Resolutions and Qualities : 854x480, 320x240, 25fps, 15fps, etc.
- Different Transcoders : vlc, ffmpeg, ...
- Different Players : MX Player (with or without armv7 codec), VLC, stock
Even in software mode, I have to decrease quality of the video to (150Mb for 20 minutes in mpeg2) to be able to run videos smoothly.
I searched everywhere in the forum but couldn't find any answer (I saw people complaining they can't play 720p with HW decoding, but I can't even play anything with HW decoding).
Do anyone knows what I did wrong ? Or how I could get a workaround ?
Regards
Has anyone had any luck in playing H265 on their Nexus Player?
I am using the stock ROM with KODI 14.2rc and H265 content is unwatchable. I thought I'd ask around here before trying the Lollipop ROM and other versions of KODI in case this was a known issue.
is it the x86 build of kodi? because only the x86 build will play h.265/hevc., the arm build just can't (the same goes for h.264). oh - and you'll need to be using software decoding, not hardware decoding.
i've been able to play hevc completely fine on my np. i'm running 14.1 x86 stable.
Few media players online can afford H.265 directly. You'd better encode H.265 into H.264 mp4 first so that you can play the videos.
Works for me
I just tried an H.265 video on my stock NP today using Kodi Isengard (15.2). Worked great!
MX Player works. I recommend you google to download the all in one codec zip file to use with it.