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[Q] HD Video is lagging

I bought me a Lenovo Tablet yesterday and wanted to try out to play HD Videos on it.
Sadly my videos are lagging and the audio is async... I tried it with MX Player and Mobo Player, both installed the ARMv7 Codec. What i'm curious about is, that the Tegra v2 Chip should to decoding of 1080p h.264 Material in Hardware (my video was h.264 720p in a MKV Container) and both players showed me that they decode the video in software...
Is there any player that can play my mkv videos without lagging around? Or do i just need to adjust something?

raph3ix said:
I bought me a Lenovo Tablet yesterday and wanted to try out to play HD Videos on it.
Sadly my videos are lagging and the audio is async... I tried it with MX Player and Mobo Player, both installed the ARMv7 Codec. What i'm curious about is, that the Tegra v2 Chip should to decoding of 1080p h.264 Material in Hardware (my video was h.264 720p in a MKV Container) and both players showed me that they decode the video in software...
Is there any player that can play my mkv videos without lagging around? Or do i just need to adjust something?
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Try different players but it's def not capable of 1080 and even has issues with 720p main and high profile
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

mhh but the nvidia site says something different...
so the chip itself should take care of that... maybe its just a firmware issue?

The screen is 1200x800 so there's really no way to play 1080p on it. Even 720p is going to be cropped. The only way to do 1080p is over HDMI without mirroring but apparently that isn't very smooth so 720p seems like a much better option.

Tried a reboot and/or turning Wifi off/on again? It's worked for me.

Basically the chip can do it. The Tegra 2 has some special HW IP inside that will do the decoding. Most of the Tegra 2 tables are unable to use it because the vendors are not supplying the codecs and filters that make use of the HW block. So you are somehow limited to the codecs and resolutions that are choosen by the manufacturer/Nvidia. You can't change anything and as far as I know Nvidia also isn't distributing this part open.
I'm also quiet disappointed seeing that chinese pads with Telechips MCU (ARM11 single-core) can playback almost everything up to full-HD and the Thinkpad Tablet can't.

Dice Player.
It is the ONLY working HW accelerated player in my experience....
mkv files, everything plays well on it....

Hardware Accelerated playback of Xvid movies?

It seems like Samsung did try hard to make multimedia experience good out of the box for the S4. MKV files will play as expected in multiple apps including moboplayer, native video player. My nexus 10 and 5 wont play mkv files correctly unless i use mx player.
What really surprised me though is that i notice when playing back most of my xvid files, moboplayer would indicate hardware acceleration also. Is that really true? If that is so then S4 even beat the video card in my desktop .
Then again the outside of the box in the back did say DIVX HD...
Anyone else can second this?

So how is it that the S4 seems to play xvid with hardware acceleration. The nexus 5 appears to also play divx with hardware acceleration using mx player. So these new qualcomm chipsets can somehow play divx and xvid using hardware acceleration. Amazing!!!

[GUIDE] Playing HEVC x265 movies/videos fluently on the Moto G 2014 (Second Gen.)

Hi, here is a guide to play HEVC H.265 movies/videos fluently on the Moto G 2014. (HEVC on Wikipedia: https://goo.gl/9xFc3).
As you might know, the new HEVC H.265 video encoding standard is a quite CPU intensive codec and the Moto G 2014 doesn't support hardware HEVC H.265 decoding, resulting in choppy video playback with frequent frame drops, freezes, and so on. All software implementations with all optimizations enabled I've tried so far are not even able to play fluently 720p videos.
But I found out that there is a configuration which enables fluent HEVC H.265 playback (At at least [email protected] colors).
By using MX Player (https://goo.gl/GQPa7) + a custom optimized codec from XDA (http://goo.gl/S98AnH), I got 720p movies working fluently (And MX Player says that the video is being Hardware decoded??).
It has even better artifact filtering than switching it to SW decoding.
I was surprised how well this is working, and I really don't know how they achieve Hardware decoding (must be some kind of partial acceleration I guess).
Stuff to note:
- 10 bit color videos won't work and are just viewable using SW decoding which is too slow. If I'm not wrong not even 10 bit H.264 videos are supported natively.
- I only tried 720p videos with 8 bit color. Not sure how well it works with 1080p videos with 8 bit color.
GUIDE:
1. Install MX Player from the Google Play store: https://goo.gl/GQPa7
2. Download this optimized codec from XDA: http://goo.gl/S98AnH
3. Extract the codec to you phone SD.
4. In MX Player, go to Settings > Decoder > Custom Codec. Click on it and find the custom codec on your SD.
5. Enjoy.
Hope this guide will be useful to somebody. I took me some time to figure this out, and I found this basically out by surprise.
Greetings.

I don't know if its right but maybe HW support is already there
Video
Up to 1080p capture and playback
H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
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source:https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/400

I did everything like you said but I'm still getting SW decoder with HEVC videos :crying:
[G 2014 • XT1068 • 6.0]

aplusp said:
I did everything like you said but I'm still getting SW decoder with HEVC videos :crying:
[G 2014 • XT1068 • 6.0]
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I guess you are on stock ROM change ROM .

aplusp said:
I did everything like you said but I'm still getting SW decoder with HEVC videos :crying:
[G 2014 • XT1068 • 6.0]
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HW works for me on cm13 with x265 files.

me_ankit said:
HW works for me on cm13 with x265 files.
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Coincidentally just a few days back, I saw another post from you saying that it works on CM13 and I already made the switch. It works great! Thx :good:

me_ankit said:
HW works for me on cm13 with x265 files.
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Meaning with the above MX Player + Custom Codec
or generally with video player/s on cm13?
P.S.: I would like to merge as much as possible to h265/opus/mkv video files.

ChriMo said:
Meaning with the above MX Player + Custom Codec
or generally with video player/s on cm13?
P.S.: I would like to merge as much as possible to h265/opus/mkv video files.
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I did not try stock video player. it was working on mx player.

The link isn't working!

MX Player Custom Codec
rhp07 said:
custom optimized codec from XDA (http://goo.gl/S98AnH), I got 720p movies working fluently (And MX Player says that the video is being Hardware decoded??).
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Here is the XDA thread of the codec: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=19112#downloads
But since MX Player has been sold, everyone wants to try the alternatives VLC or mpv-android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv
mpv-android is a video player for Android based on libmpv.
Features:
* Hardware and software video decoding
* Gesture-based seeking and volume/brightness control
* libass support for styled subtitles
* Play network streams with the "Open URL" function
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Need help with HEVC playback

I wonder if there is a way to play a HEVC encoded video smoothly.
I have tried a several players like mx , vlc, bs player etc. I also tried to play with setting dorimanx "high performance" profile. But nothing made the video playback smooth. It keeps stuttering.
I know that SD800 doesn't support hevc officially. But there gotta be a way.
Plz suggest me something..

Android 6+ has hw playback of HEVC, you can play it with MX player on HW decoding, it's smooth and doesn't heat up like SW on 5.0.2

shaneel1491 said:
Android 6+ has hw playback of HEVC, you can play it with MX player on HW decoding, it's smooth and doesn't heat up like SW on 5.0.2
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Oh really!
Will try that thanks

muhib471 said:
I wonder if there is a way to play a HEVC encoded video smoothly.
I have tried a several players like mx , vlc, bs player etc. I also tried to play with setting dorimanx "high performance" profile. But nothing made the video playback smooth. It keeps stuttering.
I know that SD800 doesn't support hevc officially. But there gotta be a way.
Plz suggest me something..
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In Mx player pro, select SW decoder for video instead of HW after you play a HEVC video, it will run smooth. also check if your device requires a custom codec like neon.

MarshisnotMellow said:
In Mx player pro, select SW decoder for video instead of HW after you play a HEVC video, it will run smooth. also check if your device requires a custom codec like neon.
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SW is CPU intensive, HW and HW+ is what you should be aiming for.
Anyways on Nougat I watched an HEVC encoded movie and got 1% drain every 6 mins, it's that's pretty good! So like 16% battery used for a full movie.

MarshisnotMellow said:
In Mx player pro, select SW decoder for video instead of HW after you play a HEVC video, it will run smooth. also check if your device requires a custom codec like neon.
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Trust me, I tried all the possible ways. The culprit is 5.0.2
shaneel1491 said:
SW is CPU intensive, HW and HW+ is what you should be aiming for.
Anyways on Nougat I watched an HEVC encoded movie and got 1% drain every 6 mins, it's that's pretty good! So like 16% battery used for a full movie.
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Yeah man, now I am running Ressurrection. Which is good too.
But the game-play becomes laggy sometime. Do you know any solution?

shaneel1491 said:
SW is CPU intensive, HW and HW+ is what you should be aiming for.
Anyways on Nougat I watched an HEVC encoded movie and got 1% drain every 6 mins, it's that's pretty good! So like 16% battery used for a full movie.
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For me its other way around though. Every video/movie i watched on it worked smoother on SW decoder, whereas on HW decoder, some files didnt even show the video. Tried those same videos on SW decoder and worked without any stutter.
The only thing better i feel with HW decoder is it shows better quality than SW but stuttering playback, on SW, feels like slightly soft brushed version of that file but smoother.
Btw these experiences were in kitkat 4.4. for the G2. but even on my other devices i experience same thing, its always smoother on SW.

muhib471 said:
Trust me, I tried all the possible ways. The culprit is 5.0.2
Yeah man, now I am running Ressurrection. Which is good too.
But the game-play becomes laggy sometime. Do you know any solution?
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Maybe install Lambda kernel then maybe under-clock a bit, sounds like you're overheating.

Does OnePlus 6T support HEVC 10.bit HW\HW+ videos playback?

Hello,
I am very interested in buying OnePlus 6T for it's screen, performance & battery, but the only thing holding me back is that i don't know if it supports playing HEVC 10.bit videos as HW\HW+ Decoder in MX Player?
Your help is greatly appreciated
Thanks

Best phone out right now.
Use Nplayer as it has many more audio decoders built in. Just tested a 10 bit HEVC 4k video @ 10mbps with DTS and worked fine with HW decoding.
Buy it.

Avalaunchmods said:
Best phone out right now.
Use Nplayer as it has many more audio decoders built in. Just tested a 10 bit HEVC 4k video @ 10mbps with DTS and worked fine with HW decoding.
Buy it.
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Thanks for your reply,
My htc u11+ keeps stuttering while playing HEVC 10bit videos using HW+ decoding, guess will switch to the one plus.