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[Q] MPlayer on Android

Has anybody tried a new mplayer for android? Is it worth of giving it a try?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mplayer-ported-for-android/
There are people even with tablets (A101) satisfied with it in the diskussion thread.

tobr said:
Has anybody tried a new mplayer for android? Is it worth of giving it a try?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mplayer-ported-for-android/
There are people even with tablets (A101) satisfied with it in the diskussion thread.
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I'm a bit disappointed with the mplayer. I have several clips which I could play with the Toshiba Mediaplayer and these did not work very well in the mplayer.
I should mention that the clips were 720p and 1080p, but when played with the Toshiba Mediaplayer (which use hardware acceleration) the Folio plays them without breaking any sweat.
I think we have to wait for a video player that use the Tegra 2 hardware instead of using the CPU to decode mkv.

Yes, I did some testing myself and I was disappointed with the quality. Normal SD AVIs from web were pixelized. There was no antialias or smoothing. The pixels of video were just magnified.
Rockplayer with HW support produced much better output.
Maybe for some formats not supported with rockplayer. Lets hope that in some future release it would be better. I didn't make any changes into config file maybe if I applied some filters, the result would be different.

mddsd said:
I should mention that the clips were 720p and 1080p, but when played with the Toshiba Mediaplayer (which use hardware acceleration) the Folio plays them without breaking any sweat.
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Did you use a usb disk to play the clips from or did you try from a UPnP server? I am asking because I haven't been able to play any mkv from wifi connection with clips on my nas as the toshiba player always crashes

gohanSS said:
Did you use a usb disk to play the clips from or did you try from a UPnP server? I am asking because I haven't been able to play any mkv from wifi connection with clips on my nas as the toshiba player always crashes
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It's not possible to play mkv-files with the Toshiba Mediaplayer.
The clips I played are either in MOV or MP4-format.

ok, tnx. I'll have to wait too for a better media player

gohanSS said:
ok, tnx. I'll have to wait too for a better media player
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Rockplayer read all formats. You choise hard or soft decoding.
For me is the best player

bmi44 said:
Rockplayer read all formats. You choise hard or soft decoding.
For me is the best player
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I haven't managed to get any player to play HD x264 mkv's properly. Mostly they don't even start or are just really choppy. Some have options for HW/SW decoding, but still nothing.
Tested so far (latest versions): Vitalplayer, Vplayer, Yxplayer, Rockplayer, Act1 player, Default gallery, ES file manager movie player.
Any suggestions? Running Foliomod 1.3d

Ezzy77 said:
I haven't managed to get any player to play HD x264 mkv's properly. Mostly they don't even start or are just really choppy. Some have options for HW/SW decoding, but still nothing.
Tested so far (latest versions): Vitalplayer, Vplayer, Yxplayer, Rockplayer, Act1 player, Default gallery, ES file manager movie player.
Any suggestions? Running Foliomod 1.3d
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Mplayer seems to play most .MKV files, but framerate is really poor. Anyone found any working solutions for HD video playback?

Ezzy77 said:
Mplayer seems to play most .MKV files, but framerate is really poor. Anyone found any working solutions for HD video playback?
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No not at the moment, but there are a few which in time could be intresting.
CorePlayer is one that I think will be able to play MKV, this due to the fact that they have their own codecs which are very effective and they use the hardware better. But its awfully quiet in the CoreCodec Forum.
They showed of their Android CorePlayer at CES in January.
Another one is the Video Player for the LG Optimus 2x which should support playing MKV in 1080p using the Tegra hardware. The problem here is to port the application to our Folio which has not been that successful. But this is something that could change over time.
More and more manufacturers are using the Tegra platform so I think it's just a matter of time before we se MKV support i several of them and perhaps they could be ported to our Folio.
As mentioned before you could use the MOV format and play video in 1080p without any problem using the Toshiba Media Player or the video player which comes with the Gallery.
But you would probably need to convert your video-files to the Mov format and that is one thing that I for one find a bit tedious.

mddsd said:
As mentioned before you could use the MOV format and play video in 1080p without any problem using the Toshiba Media Player or the video player which comes with the Gallery.
But you would probably need to convert your video-files to the Mov format and that is one thing that I for one find a bit tedious.
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Yeah, that's not an option =) I'll just wait or sell the Folio for another Tegra 2 device probably. Thanks!

Using FolioMod 1.4 and the Toshiba Media Player I can play MKV (720p, [email protected]) with almost the right speed. So there must be room for other improvements.
I really don't want to transcode every episode of all series.
Don't have any problems with quick rewrite to another container format (mp4, m4v), because this is fast and I need to get rid of AC3 in favor of ACC, otherwise no sound

[Q] hardware accelerated video

Hi there running vegacomb 3.2 just wondering how to enable hw video playback,can't play 720p videos at all without it being choppy as hell.
I did search first but it was mostly old info and didn't work heh.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Also if anyone knows how to get setcpu working on this build that be great.
Tried using custom text file which it can read but it does not actually apply any settings.

I use dice player to play videos. Give that a try, there's a free trial available on the market

maltloaf said:
I use dice player to play videos. Give that a try, there's a free trial available on the market
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Brilliant thanks for that everything is super smooth now.
Shame none of the free ones had compatible hw playback.
Worth the pennies though got portable HD playback now

Did you try MoboPlayer or MX Video Player, those are free and should also support Tegra 2 HW thru their respective plugins?
Plugins for your specific device should auto download thru the market when you first start the player.
Give those two a try and report back.
Of course if you already paid for the full version of DicePlayer then there is no point to test any other player because this should be the best there is (if it's working for you).
I tested the trial on a 720p MOV file and there was no video, only audio.

yani2000 said:
Did you try MoboPlayer or MX Video Player, those are free and should also support Tegra 2 HW thru their respective plugins?
Plugins for your specific device should auto download thru the market when you first start the player.
Give those two a try and report back.
Of course if you already paid for the full version of DicePlayer then there is no point to test any other player because this should be the best there is (if it's working for you).
I tested the trial on a 720p MOV file and there was no video, only audio.
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I tried those before coming here.
No joy : [
Any other suggestions? Got a few days til trial of dice player is up anyways.

Have you tried BSPlayer lite with BSPlayer ARMv7 VFP CPU support?
Look up in the market.
I've been using it and it looks ok.

dogboda said:
Have you tried BSPlayer lite with BSPlayer ARMv7 VFP CPU support?
Look up in the market.
I've been using it and it looks ok.
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Thanks will need to get some hd files to test though.
Unfortunately doesn;t read .mov files : [

All of free media player on market
use Tegra2 optimized SW video decoder.
(except HW mode that use stock player)
but diceplayer use hw video decoder ( not VFP otimized sw decoder ) in Tegra2
at all combinations of containers(avi,mkv,mov...) and audio codecs(aac,ac3,dts,flac,mp3....)

juami said:
All of free media player on market
use Tegra2 optimized SW video decoder.
(except HW mode that use stock player)
but diceplayer use hw video decoder ( not VFP otimized sw decoder ) in Tegra2
at all combinations of containers(avi,mkv,mov...) and audio codecs(aac,ac3,dts,flac,mp3....)
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So at the moment dice player is my only option?
Just making sure as I don't want to buy something if don't need to
Downloaded an MX video player better which improved SW decoding performance ( things play at 15-20 fps) HW still doesn't work though : [
But the dev is looking into how dice player done it so with luck MX player will have HW acceleration with the vega soon.

NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA No Hardware Acceleration Mx Video

Put the newest build i could find for this guy. Bought him off ebay for a cool 135 free shipping and has turned out to be amazing. Using him with my old Tzones plan running NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA.
Everything runs great except videos. If I am streaming an MP4 its like an 80% chance the file will just be green and blurred like scrambled cable. Sometimes it will play just fine. Even crappy 240p files will be green in both the regular android player and MX Player.
Now I'm trying to see which type of 720p files the phone can play. After a couple of handbrake encodes it will play the 720p in MX Player but it will be frame ratey. The stock player wont even touch the file.
I check the decoding options in MX Video and only software decoding is enabled. Is there an ICS build capable of playing videos with Hardware Decoding.
Your thoughts guys !
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Tried with Mobo Player and still the same error.

Xplic1T said:
Put the newest build i could find for this guy. Bought him off ebay for a cool 135 free shipping and has turned out to be amazing. Using him with my old Tzones plan running NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA.
Everything runs great except videos. If I am streaming an MP4 its like an 80% chance the file will just be green and blurred like scrambled cable. Sometimes it will play just fine. Even crappy 240p files will be green in both the regular android player and MX Player.
Now I'm trying to see which type of 720p files the phone can play. After a couple of handbrake encodes it will play the 720p in MX Player but it will be frame ratey. The stock player wont even touch the file.
I check the decoding options in MX Video and only software decoding is enabled. Is there an ICS build capable of playing videos with Hardware Decoding.
Your thoughts guys !
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Tried with Mobo Player and still the same error.
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Install MX Player and install the Armv7 addon for MX Player (it will be in the related apps or something in the play store) and use software decoding. I have also found 720p playback to be atrociously laggy, but I tried Inception at 480p and it plays great.

Installed and it definitely seems to be working with the green videos but 720p seems like a no go...
Is it the rom or is it the phone ?

Xplic1T said:
Installed and it definitely seems to be working with the green videos but 720p seems like a no go...
Is it the rom or is it the phone ?
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Hmm, 720p playback is usually listed as a working thing but I don't see how NexusHD2 is in any way inferior to the other ROMs, it definitely has a comparable performance.

[Q] Can play Hi10p ( High Profile @L5.1 ) ?

Hi I wan to know that nexus 7 can play Hi10p file or not ?
cause I have a problem with tegra 2 that can`t play Hi10p.
thx

I have a BSPlayer paid version on my N7, I see there is an option for Hi10p file in setting. So I am not sure it can play or not, cause I don't have that kind of file to test. But for x264 [email protected] video, my N7 can play fine using BSPlayer.

I can test it for you if you provide a short clip for me to download.

Please go to 4shared and search hi10p
http://search.4shared.com/q/CCAD/1/hi10p
and try to download some file
thx

Um, I said short clip... but anyways, I did some googling and found this post, which says that the Tegra 3 doesn't support hardware acceleration for Hi10p, which isn't surprising since I don't think that any mobile chipsets support Hi10p yet. I did download one of the videos and I tried using both Dice Player and Mobo Player. Dice Player's video lagged behind the audio, and Mobo Player did a good job of keeping audio and video in sync but the video had artifacting and dropped lots of frames.

OP5 does not support HEVC/10bit decoding?

Hi,
I have a OP5 (5.1.7) and when I play a .mkv video HEVC/10bit using HW+ with MX Player the audio works fine but the video keeps black all the time, just works with software decoding.
OP5 does not support HEVC/10bit decoding?

Zosk said:
Hi,
I have a OP5 (5.1.7) and when I play a .mkv video HEVC/10bit using HW+ with MX Player the audio works fine but the video keeps black all the time, just works with software decoding.
OP5 does not support HEVC/10bit decoding?
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Do you have installed the codec for mx player? Or just use vlc, it should play it.

Yes, I installed the codec for MX Player, but didn't work.
And I tried others players like VLC, KM, BS, Kodi.....
but didn't work too.

Writing this for all the people finding this thread in Google
I got 10bit 4K H265 working on my Oneplus 5 in Kodi (no stutters) by doing this:
(I'm using the Estouchy skin, you can swap to it in settings > interface)
Go to settings > player
Click on the settings cog in the bottom right
Click on the Standard option until it says expert
Scroll down to the processing section (this is in the videos tab btw)
Turn off "Allow hardware acceleration - MediaCodec (surface) and keep the other hardware acceleration one on.
Enjoy your 10bit content!