Dear XDA Community,
So yesterday I recieved my Lenovo Yoga Book - Android Version.
Today I installed a few apps on the Yoga Book im using to watch my favorite TV Series & Movies. It has got to my attention that something very wierd is happening on the Yoga Book that NEVER happend on any other Andoird devices im using (like Samsung for instance), with the exact same applications.
Videoplayers like VLC / MX Player and Kodi have the abbility to zoom in on a video (fit to screen / full screen) so that there are no upper and lower black bars on the screen, since most tablet screens have a 16:10 ratio and TV Series are 16:9.
Here is my problem on the Yoga Book:
When a video is played, watching in normal mode everything looks fine (whole video is within screen):
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However..
As soon as i zoom in on a video (fit to screen / full screen, or manually by pinching in and out) it is shown in full screen mode but, the screen also shows a black bar on the right side of the screen and starts "cutting out" de video:
As i zoom in further, the black bar takes even more space on my screen.
Every video player i've tried (as mentioned above) shows the same caracteristics.
I also did a full factory reset on the Lenovo Yoga Book, still no succes..
Is it a hardware related problem? Or is it something within a code of some video player settings within the Android OS?
Can somebody please help me?
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Hi Xoomers. I'm using the Transformer currently and would like to know about HC 3.1 and the Youtube app. 2 quick questions
1) Does the Youtube app on 3.0.1 on the Xoom also have the choppy/laggy playback problem in full screen with HD turned on? The Transformer has this problem.
2) If Yes to 1, did upgrade to 3.1 fix the playback issue in the app?
Thanks in advance
I've never had choppy playback in HD in the YouTube app
It is greatly improved.
The UI is different too:
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i don't like the way they moved fullscreen icon to bottom left corner.
Can't say if 3.1 fixes the problem, still waiting for it, but my Wifi xoom always start full screen HD youtube movies choppy. Same on rewind or forward... choppy for a while and gets ok after a couple of seconds.
If you are talking about the jumpy video when you switch to full screen and when ever there is something over-lay, if that is the issue you are talking about, yes it is resolved. I did not see any of that same jumpiness at when I switch to full screen.
My Wifi XOOM Youtube never experience choppy issue in either 3.0.1 or 3.1
I'm not speaking about the jumpy choppyness when switching to full screen. I'm speaking about choppyness when the video plays in full screen HD mode. It is an issue on the Transformer.
Hello all ,
Go to Youtube and watch DTS : The Speaker Orchestra
Watch it in HD
LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvm4FZF8L4
Compare it with playing in your laptops or desktops or other smart phones...
You'l see how awful this pixel crush is in Note....!!
PS: Please post your review here after watching the video
Yup. Looks like where there is black background there are huge pixels. I don't know how it's possible.
I watched it in opera mobile browser, bit of black crush.
That video looks sweet on my note really shows off the screen :-D
It's there for only a fraction of a second... If I watch the exact same section where the so called crush is on my pc monitor I see the same artifacts. It's just compression that messes with that particular section. Apart from that fraction of a second the rest of the clip just shows what a gorgeous screen the Note has.
I took a screenshot on my pc and lowered the mid levels in Photoshop by just a little to show exactly what is wrong with the movieclip and not with the phone... All this whining about crush is getting ridiculous if you're just blindly blaming the Note. This is just lousy compression and has absolutely nothing to do with the Note itself.
The proof:
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This shot is taken from the 1080p version and the artifacts are there at the exact same frames in all screen modes.
My review: calibrate your laptop or desktop monitor if you can't see these artifacts on it, your contrast/brightness settings are off.
amazing
Hi Guys! I just bought this tablet, and been trying to play higher than HD videos for days in multiple circumstances without succes.
what is going on?
i updated to the latest firmware,
latest youtube app, videoplayers (tried several)
in youtube app:
wont show options higher than 1080p
cant zoom in to 16:9 videos to get rid of letterboxing.
I tried these videos, Patagonia 8K, etc. still only fullHD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChOhcHD8fBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdWJeybMo8
also tried in video player app,
downloaded the above vids from youtube in WQHD and 4k resolutions : bad playback, stuttering
tried blueray rips, 2160p : extreme stuttering and freezups!
1440p : theres very few available in this resolution, movies etc. only found one, played ok, but sometimes stuttered also.
what am I doing wrong? or this is a only fullHD capable tablet with a bigger screen stacked on?
thx :highfive:
ps: this is the one of those I tried, with very heavy stuttering, while I also cut the first 20 so minutes and removed 2 audiostreams from the 3 to make it easyer on the rig, but to no avail...
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bump! guys, any opinions? or your device plays 4k video and 1440p youtube content just fine...?
Hi friends ...!
I have an Alcatel One Touch Pop C7 (7041X) that is still a phone, but with too old software - Android 4.0.2, which not allow install of most the apps who I have interested.
I decided to upgrade it to the above level.
My goal was to achieve optimum functionality of device and durability of the battery.
I tried a lot of variants. Тhe most appealing to me stayed the version CyanogenMod CM12.1_StableEdition_V2. This customROM (Android 5.1.1 (LolliPop)) is perfect in every way except the Multimedia. In my opinion the problem comes from the used decoders and encoders ... or more precisely in their settings ...I read on the Internet and maked a lot of experiments ... but alas with no result ...!
Now will be glad if I eliminate this problem with your help ...!
One quick word about the problem or at least what the most annoys me.
The problem appears when I try to watch TV online with the Da Player app (play streaming video in format *.m3u8). The application itself installs normally, loading the playlist also works, but when playing whoever it is channel, it previews the following (see attachment screen ) without sound.
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,
I want to emphasize that on the same phone, but installed Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) - this effect is not observed - the app (Da Player) works fine.
The phone is rotatable and has an MT6582 processor.
I would be really glad if anybody would cooperate ...
Thanks in advance !
Hi all.
I have an RSNav in my car running Android 9, I also have modded headlights that can be controlled via the bluetooth app on my phone. I thought that I'd be able to install the app on my RSNav and control it that way instead of being phone dependant, however the app doesn't work properly on the head unit.
The app is 'Morimoto XBT RGB' and while their hardware is top quality the app is really poor, and it hasn't been updated for about 4 years. When trying to run this on the unit, it does load up, but it's clear that it isn't designed for landscape devices as the title displays all stretched and pixelated. On the main screen it has a color wheel, but this doesn't work properly; it gets cut off and the dot on the wheel glitches all over the place, as does the tone selector. The icons at the bottom also get cut off and you cannot scroll down on the RSNav. I've not even bothered to try and connect via bluetooth.
Picture of the main screen:
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I've not got a huge understanding of all this. The RSNav has Android 9, but it's kind of a cut down version and doesn't have all features/options, say, a phone would have. It has nothing to do with screen orientation in the settings, for example. And I've had issues with other apps such as "Poweramp" - it threw an error when I tried to set music folder locations (but I managed to get around it) and people seemed to point out that "something" was missing it depended on.
Anyway I did try some screen orientation apps to try and force it to run in some kind of portrait mode but nothing worked.
So my question is: is there any way to get this working or is it a lost cause?
I wish Morimoto would update the app since a lot of people have had many issues with it, it's outdated, and it has a low rating because of this. But at the moment it stands neglected.