Just today after the roll out of CM 10.2 stable release I flashed it to my device. This is the very first time i installed a custom rom. As the stock LG G2 video player supported lots of codes. MX player supports lots of them too but MX Player seems to consume a lot of battery compared to the stock player.
Some one please help me set the correct settings for MX Player (like decoder SW/HW etc.)
in_core said:
Just today after the roll out of CM 10.2 stable release I flashed it to my device. This is the very first time i installed a custom rom. As the stock LG G2 video player supported lots of codes. MX player supports lots of them too but MX Player seems to consume a lot of battery compared to the stock player.
Some one please help me set the correct settings for MX Player (like decoder SW/HW etc.)
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Can't help you too much as I just got the phone and I have not even used it yet, but, you ALWAYS want to use the hardware decoder as it will consume much less battery power.
The dedicated chip for decoding H264 content is always much more efficient than using the CPU to do the task. So, use the HW decoder and battery life should be fine.
Note that jacking the brightness up will lower your battery as will raising the volume of the loudspeaker, although the loudspeaker thing may be negligible, I'm not sure.
DornoDiosMio said:
Can't help you too much as I just got the phone and I have not even used it yet, but, you ALWAYS want to use the hardware decoder as it will consume much less battery power.
The dedicated chip for decoding H264 content is always much more efficient than using the CPU to do the task. So, use the HW decoder and battery life should be fine.
Note that jacking the brightness up will lower your battery as will raising the volume of the loudspeaker, although the loudspeaker thing may be negligible, I'm not sure.
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Ya i do keep the brightness to the minimum most possible at the given environment i am.
Anyways by default its set to HW decoding for a/v both. There are options for HW+ decoding and many other. I dont really understand them so thats why i posted if anyone knew about the other ones. Anyways thanks for your information. Appreciate it. If you happen to know about those HW+ decoding and etc plz do let me know.
I also use mx video player the problem i am having on slimkat is mx video won't come up when trying to play a video. On 4.3 a pop up would come asking which app I wanted to use to watch the videos now I don't get that and the stock player is always used.
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One thing i noticed yesterday. I was playing few MKV files and MP4 files of 640x480 around resolution. With HW Mp4 was playing fine, but the Mkv's were lagging. Then selected SW for mkv and they were playing fine. Whats wrong? :S
The SW mode for the mkv definitely consumed about 40% more battery
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Seeing how the Magic and my old iPhone 3G have similar battery sizes, I'm kinda disappointed by the battery lifetime of longterm music playback.
I can make the playback glitch pretty easily via browser activity, altho my phone's set to 384MHz permanently. Things like this never happened on the iPhone. That thing however had dedicated hardware for MP3 and AAC decoding, which is a more efficient way and doesn't rely that much on the CPU.
How about the Magic (and by extension G1), do they have dedicated hardware codecs or not. If so, can Android actually use them.
Watching a movie that is h264 encoded while listening with bluetooth headphones causes a noticeable decrease in video quality. In slow panning scenes the amount of "judder", or stuttering is subtley increased. It gives the video a jerky feeling, as if the video is not quite smooth.
This effect is present across multiple video players in hardware decoding mode. The same videos play more smoothly when listening through wired headphones or the XOOM's built in speakers.
Again, I repeat this a somewhat subtle affect. I spent two days playing with video encoders and handbrake settings, driving myself crazy trying to smooth out my videos. Then, due to a battery failure in my samsung BT headset, I started watching movies with a wired headset and the cause finally dawned on me. I did multiple AB comparisons to confirm the problem.
So if your video doesn't seem quite right, and you are using BT audio, try wired audio or buit in speakers for a while, and compare.
I'm using moboplayer right now, and watching Top Chef masters that I encoded into h264 (via Handbrake).
I turned on soft-decoding option, it runs smoothly, and the audio works fine straight from the jack on the top and straight from the speakers.
EDIT: Oops didn't read the post all the way, Sorry.
overclock it a little and your problems will be solved.
patass said:
overclock it a little and your problems will be solved.
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Yeah, I was thinking that too. Overclocking might solve the problem.
But wow! Wouldn't you think a 1GHz dual core CPU with hardware acceleration for h264 would be enough already just to play BT audio with your video? I'm just surprised overclocking is even necessary.
Edit: Just to point out - the video I'm playing has already been encoded specifically for the XOOM and is being handled by the hardware. The CPU should hardly be taxed to begin with. Is playing BT audio such a processor-intensive task that it should require more than a dual core 1GHz?
Hi. Im running the newest virtuousXoom rom and experiencing odd playback issues with any video player i use on a 720p video file.
Mx Player for example plays the video EXTREMELY fast in hardware mode. I had though this may have had something to do with my cpu speed so clocked the tablet down. This changed nothing.
However if i OC to 1600mhz the video and audio are fine, but only in software mode. There maybe a very slight shudder in video.
Any clock setting below that renders the video unplayable.
I got this tablet for use when i go over seas in the next couple of weeks with hopes of being able to watch my movie collection without needing to convert every movie.
The hardware seems very capable so i can only guess at this point maybe its software related? Hell who knows i could be thirty different kinds of wrong.
The main question is, is there any program that will play these video files correctly?
TIA for any info anyone can give me.
mobo player. It plays all videos and content with a soft decode option.
bsplayer, and mirage beta worked best for me...
the two players that seem to work best for me are bsplayer and mirage beta.. good luck tho, it can be hit and miss with mkv and mp4..most straight avi files work fine though on most players. mobo did not impress me, as one person suggested.. best luck
I have the Verizon Note 3 and whenever I try to play a video from an internet site such as a news clip etc...it is all choppy and lags. This happens no matter what browser I use (Chrome or Stock) and does the same thing when using MX Player or the built-in video player. Not sure what's going on. I originally had the power save mode enabled and thought that may be causing it, but I turned it off, rebooted and video still lags. I had no issues with my Nexus 7 playing embedded videos so I am not sure what's going on. This phone has powerful hardware so I have to believe it's something software related?? Wanted to add this is happening while using wifi or 4G, doesn't seem to matter.
Any input?
Rob
BubbaRob1978 said:
I have the Verizon Note 3 and whenever I try to play a video from an internet site such as a news clip etc...it is all choppy and lags. This happens no matter what browser I use (Chrome or Stock) and does the same thing when using MX Player or the built-in video player. Not sure what's going on. I originally had the power save mode enabled and thought that may be causing it, but I turned it off, rebooted and video still lags. I had no issues with my Nexus 7 playing embedded videos so I am not sure what's going on. This phone has powerful hardware so I have to believe it's something software related?? Wanted to add this is happening while using wifi or 4G, doesn't seem to matter.
Any input?
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There are 2 things you can do to improve video playback on your Note 3:
1. Install MX Player, go to its settings and download the NeoN.zip driver. After you install that (unzip first) and put video and audio playback on HW+ (also in the MX Player settings) the video playback part is done. This gives you DTS playback also.
2. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with Wifi communication, for which afaik no clear solution exists. I'm trying to see if another model router solves the issue since several posters on this forum reported having no Wifi issues at all. Maybe a topic should be started to see what router chipsets are causing problems.
Activate the, Force GPU Rendering, in the Developers Options , and see if it will make any difference.
BubbaRob1978 said:
I have the Verizon Note 3 and whenever I try to play a video from an internet site such as a news clip etc...it is all choppy and lags. This happens no matter what browser I use (Chrome or Stock) and does the same thing when using MX Player or the built-in video player. Not sure what's going on. I originally had the power save mode enabled and thought that may be causing it, but I turned it off, rebooted and video still lags. I had no issues with my Nexus 7 playing embedded videos so I am not sure what's going on. This phone has powerful hardware so I have to believe it's something software related?? Wanted to add this is happening while using wifi or 4G, doesn't seem to matter.
Any input?
Rob
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Try turning off the Smart Screen options, like Smart Stay and Smart Pause etc. Maybe that will work?
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There are 2 things you can do to improve video playback on your Note 3:
1. Install MX Player, go to its settings and download the NeoN.zip driver. After you install that (unzip first) and put video and audio playback on HW+ (also in the MX Player settings) the video playback part is done. This gives you DTS playback also.
2. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with Wifi communication, for which afaik no clear solution exists. I'm trying to see if another model router solves the issue since several posters on this forum reported having no Wifi issues at all. Maybe a topic should be started to see what router chipsets are causing problems.
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Thanks for all the replies. After switching MX player to H/W + the video is smooth as butter. I also enabled Force GPU rendering in Developer Options as well. Looks like I'm good to go.
Appreciate the help.
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Activate the, Force GPU Rendering, in the Developers Options , and see if it will make any difference.
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I did this and my stock player still stops and plays every few secs. The on screen buttons come up and show it is pause. Its almost as something is reading that the screen has been pressed. My web videos play fine as does DicePlayer.
I am also having trouble with audio playback using Poweramp. The music gets louder and softer randomly, and i get distortion and crackling/popping sounds as well. Using the stock player seems fine.
Anyone have these issues?
Dice Player fixes the issue. Download it and make it your video player.
Hey, peeps. I use my phone to follow some twitch streamers. Problem is that my battery won't last as long as the stream.
The solution is to just listen to the streamer instead of watching thr video (I watch it for the funny commentary).
I can do this with an app called Ace and any third party video player.
This is where my actual problem starts. I have audio lag when the screen is off. When it's turned on it is ok. When I turn it off the audio starts to stutter. I can't figure out why. I've tried different settings.
I'm running full performance settings on my phone.
I tried MX Player, BSPlayer and VLC Player. VLC doesn't seem to have the stuttering issue but it also doesn't allow me to fast forward or backward (on a past broadcast).
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Hey, peeps. I use my phone to follow some twitch streamers. Problem is that my battery won't last as long as the stream.
The solution is to just listen to the streamer instead of watching thr video (I watch it for the funny commentary).
I can do this with an app called Ace and any third party video player.
This is where my actual problem starts. I have audio lag when the screen is off. When it's turned on it is ok. When I turn it off the audio starts to stutter. I can't figure out why. I've tried different settings.
I'm running full performance settings on my phone.
I tried MX Player, BSPlayer and VLC Player. VLC doesn't seem to have the stuttering issue but it also doesn't allow me to fast forward or backward (on a past broadcast).
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Did you try different kernel/roms? It sounds to me like your cpu/gpu scales to low when screen is off.
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Did you try different kernel/roms? It sounds to me like your cpu/gpu scales to low when screen is off.
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I am on Resurrection Remix with Alucard kernel running the extreme performance profile.
Videos stored on my device don't sutter (even with the screen off). It happens only when streaming. And it's not buffering lag, since it works well with the screen on.
I'll try turning cortexbrain off. Since it supposedly puts the phone into a battery friendly state when the screen is off.