Note 4 does not have hardware decoding support for 10-bit Hevc/H265 files.
SW decoding is laggy and not battery friendly.
Is there any way to wathc 10-bit Hevc/H265 video without lag on Note-4
Have you tried MX Player or VLC? Don't have a file of that format on hand to try, but if it's possible then either of these should be able to do it. MX would be my first choice, as it has lots of options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
Kinsman-UK said:
Have you tried MX Player or VLC? Don't have a file of that format on hand to try, but if it's possible then either of these should be able to do it. MX would be my first choice, as it has lots of options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
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I am using both of them but the problem is not player. Note 4 does not have 10 bit support so player cannot use HW decoding only use SW decoding which has poor performance with high battery usage.
tsubasa23 said:
I am using both of them but the problem is not player. Note 4 does not have 10 bit support so player cannot use HW decoding only use SW decoding which has poor performance with high battery usage.
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Gotcha - I guess your only options are to re-encode the video to something a little more manageable or use a different device :/
Try MoboPlayer. The software encoder in that is actually pretty good.
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I know, this question sucks, but I'm concerned about hardware decoding capabilities.
I was using Rock Player with my old phone, now on Vibrant it can just do software decoding, which I think is less battery-efficient.
Anything better?
Thanks
The Vibrant media player, maybe? Since that one was coded to work with the phone's hardware...
Or you can just deal with crappy battery life and move on, you know...
I cannot switch the stock media player to landscape mode (I don't know if it's just me...), and I prefer a folder visualization mode more than a whole list of all my videos.
Furthermore, I feel like it cannot decode xvid-coded files.
flapane said:
I know, this question sucks, but I'm concerned about hardware decoding capabilities.
I was using Rock Player with my old phone, now on Vibrant it can just do software decoding, which I think is less battery-efficient.
Anything better?
Thanks
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Umm... The GalaxyS has the most hardware codec support of any of the Android phones. I can play mkv, xvid, divx, using the default video player...
Hell, that's half the reason I still own this phone.
What ROM are you using? The only ROMs which support the extensive hardware decoding for the SGS are TouchWiz roms (ie not CM7 or MIUI)
Uhm, so it may be CM7 video player's fault, because if I open it I can see my old 3gp videos, but not my xvid .avi files (which are handled well by Rock Player via software decoding).
Moboplayer is my choice when I'm not on touchwiz.
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Thanks I'll give it a try and will let you know.
Try diceplayer
Diceplayer take advantage of your hw video decoder
Even you have cm7 roms, you can play 720p h.264 high mkv with dts/flac audio.
Sounds great, I'll try both
Second vote for moboplayer. Ignore everything else
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I tried both and I eventually preferred DicePlayer interface, anyway they're both great choices because they support HW decoding on CM7 roms.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Change of mind......DicePlayer works great too
I tried VPlayer too (it shouldn't change much from Premium version), and it looses a/v sync if I move the seek bar... any hints?
MoboPlayer doesn't offer folder visualization and shows me all the videos in a list, while I prefer separated folders for separated videos.
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MoboPlayer doesn't offer folder visualization and shows me all the videos in a list, while I prefer separated folders for separated videos.
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yes it does. phone battery dead or i would tell you where but when you touch the screen one of the "buttons" changes to a different view type.
I get just two visualizations here: grid and list.
In both cases, the videos aren't separated in their respective folders
Try Mobo Player. It plays all formats (even with CM7 or MIUI).
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Try Mobo Player. It plays all formats (even with CM7 or MIUI).
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Try diceplayer. it can use hw accelerated video player( even with CM7/MIUI )
Mobo can not use hw acceleration when playing non-supported format like MKV,MOV,AVI.
Mobo run at 800-1000Mhz to playing 480p H.264 AVI.
but Dice run at 400Mhz. ( Galaxy S )
Which media player will give smooth output to 1080p .mp4 files? (Ripped from youtube)
I have tried QQ and Rockplayer, FPS is like 2 and Default player wont even open the file saying its not supported.
Thanks!
juami said:
Try diceplayer. it can use hw accelerated video player( even with CM7/MIUI )
Mobo can not use hw acceleration when playing non-supported format like MKV,MOV,AVI.
Mobo run at 800-1000Mhz to playing 480p H.264 AVI.
but Dice run at 400Mhz. ( Galaxy S )
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Yep, dice seems to be the best choice because it also shows different files in different folders.
Too bad the trial is gonna expire here...
phrozenflame said:
Which media player will give smooth output to 1080p .mp4 files? (Ripped from youtube)
I have tried QQ and Rockplayer, FPS is like 2 and Default player wont even open the file saying its not supported.
Thanks!
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Given the screen resolution, why do you want to play 1080p files?
Tried the dice player. Didn't liked it, it lags a lot for me.
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Guys im looking for an app that can play mkv file, which one do u prefer? With hardware acceleration
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Guys im looking for an app that can play mkv file, which one do u prefer? With hardware acceleration
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Mxvideoplayer can play mkv 1080p video with H/W , though it only works with 8-bit video, not 10-bit profile.
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Mxvideoplayer can play mkv 1080p video with H/W , though it only works with 8-bit video, not 10-bit profile.
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how can i check my video is 8 or 10 bit?
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how can i check my video is 8 or 10 bit?
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You can check it by going to the video properties on your preferred video player on your pc,im pretty sure most mkv files are 8 bit.
is the 8bit restriction a limitation of the hardware, or of the (mxvideo)player?
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is the 8bit restriction a limitation of the hardware, or of the (mxvideo)player?
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Im not really sure about that but whenever i tried to play 10 bit mkv video on mxvideoplayer with hardware decoding, it gave me a black screen.
Dice
You might want to try Dice player as well, i had loads of mkv rips that would not play audio on other players but dice has never failed me on mkv's
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You might want to try Dice player as well, i had loads of mkv rips that would not play audio on other players but dice has never failed me on mkv's
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I tried dice player it doesnt work. so far mxvideoplayer, dice player and moboplayer doesnt work for 10 bit mkv with H/W.
I'm not sure if there are any players that can play 10bit files at the moment. For general mkv's I've been using Dice Player as it has been able to play all my files on my Asus transformer which other players weren't able to. But since the exynos processor is far superior to the tegra2 I would think any player that has hardware accelerated playback will suffice.
Most recently I've been using BS player as well for playing mkv's stored on my NAS streamed over wifi. This is the only player that seems to be able to play 720p video smoothly over wifi.
Stock Samsung player can't play MKV like Galaxy S and Galaxy SII?!? It's the best HW player for my SII...
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I use MoboPlayer, it can play almost video formats well.
But I also got aneesoft video converter to help me do some conversions when need, and it let me to play HD, and AVCHD videos that shot by HD camcorder smoothly.
Aneesoft? Never heard of that. I'm looking for a .mov converter as the tablet converter had trouble with my .mov files.
Is that the best converter out there?
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Aneesoft? Never heard of that. I'm looking for a .mov converter as the tablet converter had trouble with my .mov files.
Is that the best converter out there?
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Well, aneesoft video converter can convert the .MOV video well for my tablet, it has a special output selection for tablet, so you just need to choose your tablet model as output.
I'll echo the mx player recommendation; I like its rendering options and subtitle support among other things. Lack of hi10p support is a hardware limitation. Video with 10-bit color profiles is just too new and (at least afaik) isn't supported by any current hardware. And of course mobile cpus lack the compute muscle to decode decent-quality x.264 smoothly. So as others have said, transcoding on your computer is your best bet. If you don't know anything about video encoding, try http://hi10ptranscoder.wordpress.com/. It's a simple program for this exact problem.
For me Dice-player had stuttering every 10 secs on some .mkv-files. The stock player doesn't stutter, but it also doesn't support movies with DTS-sound.
MX Player seems to work the best and it also has an option for SW-decoding the sound if a file has DTS-sound. (Have to change it from the default HW-decoding to hear sound.)
No need to worry about 8 or 10 bit - there are NO rips with 10bit of any movies, 720p, 1080p - all are OK...EXCEPT some crazy anime, seen them - I really don't get this 10 bit hype - just some ultra-grainy stuff...
Stock video player can play MKV smoothly , why bother to use another player ?
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Stock video player can play MKV smoothly , why bother to use another player ?
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Stock player doesnt play audio if the mkv contains DTS track.
MX Video player for me is the best. Without chainging the H/W decoding i just selecting the DTS audio track and plays it perfect.
I have done tests with heavy mkc samples with 20-40MBPS with DTS sound and it plays it so smooth. Smoother than my expensive O2 HMR-2000!
My oldest Galaxy S2 plays them perfect too but with same samples i have some frame drops some times even if i have it at 1.6GHz.
It seems tab 7.7 doesnt have excactly the same cpu/gpu. At papers it is the same. But not in real life. Maybe the memory or the controler or the chipset or the architecture? I dont know.
It plays PERFECT any mkv with DTS and it is an great media player. The only problem is to read NTFS HDD's. Because the fullHD / full length good quality movies is always bigger than 4GB's that the file system of TAB can read.
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Stock player doesnt play audio if the mkv contains DTS track.
MX Video player for me is the best. Without chainging the H/W decoding i just selecting the DTS audio track and plays it perfect.
I have done tests with heavy mkc samples with 20-40MBPS with DTS sound and it plays it so smooth. Smoother than my expensive O2 HMR-2000!
My oldest Galaxy S2 plays them perfect too but with same samples i have some frame drops some times even if i have it at 1.6GHz.
It seems tab 7.7 doesnt have excactly the same cpu/gpu. At papers it is the same. But not in real life. Maybe the memory or the controler or the chipset or the architecture? I dont know.
It plays PERFECT any mkv with DTS and it is an great media player. The only problem is to read NTFS HDD's. Because the fullHD / full length good quality movies is always bigger than 4GB's that the file system of TAB can read.
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Ntfssd can read NTFS sdcard, Drive Mount can read OTG NTFS or EXT storage devices. These two app are free in Market.
I would have to chime in and say MX-Video player is the best especially on how it handles video stretching, the stock player cant really cover the entire screen and both dice and mvideo player zooms the image to fit the screen, only MX video player stretches it properly to cover the entire screen, pretty nice if your using a honeybar
When playing movies using MX Player Pro, everything looks great. Even my Blu-Ray rip of Lord of the Rings looks frikking magical.
However, when I play the exact same file using XBMC, the exact same files are choppy and stuttery and unwatchable.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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When playing movies using MX Player Pro, everything looks great. Even my Blu-Ray rip of Lord of the Rings looks frikking magical.
However, when I play the exact same file using XBMC, the exact same files are choppy and stuttery and unwatchable.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Yeah, continue using MX Player... :good:
But seriously, they are two very different apps in the way they process the video. MX Player has had a great reputation for its performance for quite some time. XBMC is still relatively new on this platform.
As far as any options regarding tweaking XBMC, I couldn't tell you since I don't use it myself. Perhaps another user would have some advice. And always remember... "Google is your friend"
The difference betwen the two is that MX Player is using HW accelerated playback and XBMC does not. XBMC trys to avoid using special HW acceleration methods that differ with each GPU. With that being said there is a fork of XBMC that adds ARM7 HW accelerated video api which is used by the Nexus 10. This fork is not official.
Official experimental build - "universal support for hardware video decoding in XBMC"
http://liliputing.com/2013/01/exper...dware-accelerated-video-for-most-devices.html
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=152005
This web site indicates XBMC external player support, including MX Player:
http://www.xbmcandroid.com/forums/installing-xbmc-android/374.htm
I hope this helps, I am still waiting for my N10 to arrive so have not tried any of these myself.
Good luck
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!!!
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.