Can these codecs be ported from Archos Android device - G1 Android Development

Archos just released it's android Pmp and has downloadable HD WMV and MPEG2 plugins. I guess they have to be purchased, but was wondering if this could be ported to G1 as it seems it would be pretty cool just to get a working mpeg2 codec.
It is a little difficult to decipher what they are saying here, but it almost seems like they are intimating that the Android pmp can read mkv too.
Now formats are usually the keys that are ruling the Video world. Some video services provide H.264-encoded videos, some provide WMV encoded ones, while others choose MKV as a format. It can be standard format (SD), or High-Definition (HD). It can be a maze to get through. With the extensive codec support of the ARCHOS 5, all it takes is a drop and drag to watch the video files you want, taking the tedium out of converting video files. You can then experience your favorite movies in super quality with finer details and richer colors with support of the most popular High Definition video formats.
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If only we could get a dump of this Andoid OS

Well apart from not being legal, their codecs will come without source code and be coded for acceleration on that hardware.

I've wanted an Archos PMP for a while, but now I REALLY want one!
Do I need one? Nah.
But I am drooling over this one.

As stated above, would be impossible.
I would be impossible (or rather, infeasible) to write any HD codecs in Java, so the chances of it strictly using the stock Android SDK is out the window. It's more than likely using the NDK, or worse, a highly customized version of Android, to do HD decoding.
Then, the ONLY chance of it working on the Dream, is if the hardware matches. I can't find the exact specs of it, but it's using an OMAP3 CPU, which throws any chance of it working out the window.

^^ Ahhh well. Makes sense, thanks for the input.. one can always dream

pixel-painter said:
^^ Ahhh well. Makes sense, thanks for the input.. one can always dream
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And so we have the HTC Dream

I would assume they ported already done codecs from C to C using the NDK.

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XVID and AVI on the G1

there hasn't been an app on the market that could play .avi's. could there be a hack to add the divx codec to the phone or is it just not possible for the phone to play xvid files?
.avi is a container format for video streams, so beyond an app being able to open the avi, codecs need to exist to decode the streams inside.
Android's multimedia architecture is built around PacketVideo OpenCORE. Excerpt from this document on interacting with OpenCORE:
There are several ways to integrate a codec into the PV OpenCore multimedia framework
including as a compressed media I/O component, as a node, and as an OpenMax component
integrated into the OpenMax codecs nodes that are part of the framework. Many codecs,
especially those that include hardware acceleration, implement the OpenMax IL interface making
the OpenMax interface the most straightforward method of integration in those cases.
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Try CorePlayer..
EDIT: Sorry, did'nt recognize this is Android section Anyway, would be nice to see CorePlayer or TCPMP for Android platform!
Regards,
Carty..
Carty said:
Try CorePlayer..
EDIT: Sorry, did'nt recognize this is Android section Anyway, would be nice to see CorePlayer or TCPMP for Android platform!
Regards,
Carty..
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If you go to www.coreplayer.com it tells you that its coming soon for the Iphone and Android.
lazee_smurf said:
If you go to www.coreplayer.com it tells you that its coming soon for the Iphone and Android.
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20$ for a video player? no thanks...
devsk said:
20$ for a video player? no thanks...
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I love how some people expect all software to be free.
maxdamage2122 said:
I love how some people expect all software to be free.
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not all, but some. I will pay for super good video editing software with some cool effects. But playing video is very basic.
XviD decompression on a 400 MHz CPU in a Java-like VM.
I lol'd. We'll see.
Gary13579 said:
XviD decompression on a 400 MHz CPU in a Java-like VM.
I lol'd. We'll see.
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Don't forget that the screen is small. In fact, you can test it out yourself. Pick a video of your choosing, fire up avidemux, choose IPOD preset and encode it at 320x240. Play it on G1. Plays wonderful quality and perfectly smooth.
Don't underestimate the graphics power of this device. It can do more complex h264 (xvid's and divx's successor) perfectly fine.
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XviD decompression on a 400 MHz CPU in a Java-like VM.
I lol'd. We'll see.
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Not at all impossible to decode XviD (if an openmax codec is implemented), given realistic mobile-oriented resolutions and bitrates.
devsk said:
Don't forget that the screen is small. In fact, you can test it out yourself. Pick a video of your choosing, fire up avidemux, choose IPOD preset and encode it at 320x240. Play it on G1. Plays wonderful quality and perfectly smooth.
Don't underestimate the graphics power of this device. It can do more complex h264 (xvid's and divx's successor) perfectly fine.
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I highly doubt h264 decoding is done within the Davlik VM. Hell, there may even be hardware acceleration for that. But at the moment, any DivX/XviD player would be coded in Java, making is quite a bit slower and harder to do than the h264 version.
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But at the moment, any DivX/XviD player would be coded in Java, making is quite a bit slower and harder to do than the h264 version.
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The UI would be Java, but the codec itself would be a c/c++ implementation that hooked into opencore.
jashsu said:
The UI would be Java, but the codec itself would be a c/c++ implementation that hooked into opencore.
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Which, currently in Android, would be impossible?
the N95 plays divx/xvid files (just any that you'd find on a computer) perfectly using Coreplayer. I would like to think that the G1 could handle the same files just as well with the same software, given that it has 3 times as much ram and a 30% faster Qualcomm processor...unless the G1 suffers the same problem as every Windows Mobile device by HTC currently on the market.
I do hope not.
devsk said:
not all, but some. I will pay for super good video editing software with some cool effects. But playing video is very basic.
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so is bread&milk...
leoni1980 said:
the N95 plays divx/xvid files (just any that you'd find on a computer) perfectly using Coreplayer.
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Because it's written in a native language and runs directly on the cpu and gpu (as opposed to inside a VM)
vihil said:
so is bread&milk...
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you are comparing bread&milk with features on G1...You need to get a life...
maxdamage2122 said:
I love how some people expect all software to be free.
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20 bucks is a ripoff whatever way you look at it. I love people who assume people want it for free instead of for a reasonable price.
devsk said:
you are comparing bread&milk with features on G1...You need to get a life...
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Maybe we all do...
I'm sure someone has already worked their magic and created a video player for Android. All they are waiting for is for Google to allow them to charge for the App on the marketplace.

Porting question.

As you can tell I am not as familiar with Android as I would like to be. I have a question. I know that there are some pmp's out there that run android such as the archos media player. Would it be possible to port the actual movie player/codecs from an archos android build? Or are the kernels too different and the hardware too different for something like this to work?
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As you can tell I am not as familiar with Android as I would like to be. I have a question. I know that there are some pmp's out there that run android such as the archos media player. Would it be possible to port the actual movie player/codecs from an archos android build? Or are the kernels too different and the hardware too different for something like this to work?
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It's entirely possible, but one of the things about movies on a phone is resources... it takes a lot of effort to decode those things and we don't have a high horse power piece of machinery. It's one of the reasons VLC hasn't been pursued on Android, that and running native byte code is difficult. Not impossible but difficult.
It's definely not going to be as simple as ripping the apk from their media player. You are probably better off trying to find a Dev capable of porting a VLC player to Android, I have looked into it but judging from the VLC Forums it would be really difficult - too it would probably be like a lot of Android stuff and Handset specific because of the hardware differences.
Thanks for the explanation. Most times I can watch movies with A1 or Meridian but sometimes I have to reboot and make sure no other apps are running. This is almost my answer to a phone/music player/movie player that isn't made by apple. The winmo devices can do that well but the battery life sucks. The TP I had was great with movies if you wanted to plug in after 20 minutes. I can watch a full movie on the hero and use much less battery.

[DUMP] i9000's /system (130MB) [MKV/AC3/DIVX/ETC]

last week asked Galaxy S owners to provide me with a /system dump, and they did. now sharing it with everyone else, might come in useful.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uinwwjl0jhn ([email protected])
the interesting parts:
/system/lib/libs264domxoc.so
/system/lib/libsac3domxoc.so
/system/lib/libsdiv3domxoc.so
/system/lib/libsflacdomxoc.so
/system/lib/libsvc1domxoc.so
/system/lib/libswmv8domxoc.so
/system/lib/libsavidocn.so
/system/lib/libsmkvdocn.so
/system/lib/libsflvdocn.so
/system/lib/libswmfdocn.so
while at it, might as well ask a related question... would it be possible to port some of those modules over to Evo, or they are too tied in with the Cortex-A8 which Galaxy S runs?
thanks
please someone try...
Sick Matroska. This is the only codec that does not work well with rock player.
Matroska would make me a very happy camper. Anime + EVO = yay!
Samsung Galaxy S has Cortex-A8 = hardware accelerated ALL video codec/container support
Motorolla Droid X has Cortex-A8 = hardware accelerated ALL video codec/container support
HTC Evo does NOT have Cortex-A = no proper video playback support
why does Evo has to have everything but miss out on the most important features, hardware accelerated video playback (which is not limited to just baseline-h264 & aac in mp4)
... I really think I'm going to get the Droid X... and let Verizon rape me for 2 years.
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Motorolla Droid X has Cortex-A8 = hardware accelerated ALL video codec/container support
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Wrong
ok, correction - NEON technology, which is included in Cortex-A8.
"... easily integrate multiple codecs in software with NEON Technology on the Cortex-A8 ... watch any video in any format ... Many soft codec standards: MPEG-4, H.264, On2 VP6/7/8, Real, AVS... "
src: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.php
src: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/neon.php
not quite sure if a system dump is all you need to create a rom, but I'd really dig a touchwiz rom.
if anyone wants to test i can post a deodexed app folder. those lwps are sweet, but the weather/clock widget looks like a poor interpretation of sense clock. i did rip out the non-trial version of swype though....
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ok, correction - NEON technology, which is included in Cortex-A8.
"... easily integrate multiple codecs in software with NEON Technology on the Cortex-A8 ... watch any video in any format ... Many soft codec standards: MPEG-4, H.264, On2 VP6/7/8, Real, AVS... "
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I'm pretty sure Snapdragon has support for the NEON instruction set.
The Scorpion core (shown in Figure 1) is similar to ARM's Cortex-A8, which also implements the ARMv7 architecture. Like the Cortex-A8, Scorpion is a superscalar, dual-issue machine, and supports the powerful, signal-processing-oriented NEON instruction set extensions and VFPv3 floating-point extensions (referred to collectively on Scorpion as the "VeNum" media processing engine).
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that's what i thought as well... yxplayer supports Cortex-A8/NEON, and when i turn them on in settings = no change
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that's what i thought as well... yxplayer supports Cortex-A8/NEON, and when i turn them on in settings = no change
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I have the same result when using a Motorola Droid, which has a Cortex-A8.
cloud858rk said:
I have the same result when using a Motorola Droid, which has a Cortex-A8.
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i think i'm seeing some light at the end of the tunnel again
I think that the snapdragon is not being fully-utilized by the drivers in these phones... It is FAR more capable than we are seeing...
EtherealRemnant said:
I think that the snapdragon is not being fully-utilized by the drivers in these phones... It is FAR more capable than we are seeing...
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Video players like yxplayer and Rockplayer are tapping into Android's OpenCore and can't play xvid, mkv, etc well as a result. CoreCodec is developing CorePlayer for Android which will replace Android's multimedia stack and use their own. CorePlayer can already play many codecs at more than fullspeed on other platforms like Windows Mobile and Symbian. CoreCodec is known to take its time getting stuff out the door and have only recently have had most of the stuff they've needed in the SDK/NDK to port it, so it might take a while for them to finish it.
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Matroska would make me a very happy camper. Anime + EVO = yay!
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i second this majority of my stuff is in MKV 264 so id donate to someone who makes a small footpritn player that couould handle my files to paly native on evo without conversion 20$ towards this ims ure others woudl do same with ability to use subs and diffrerent audio tracks as well basically port vlc to android and were set
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if anyone wants to test i can post a deodexed app folder. those lwps are sweet, but the weather/clock widget looks like a poor interpretation of sense clock. i did rip out the non-trial version of swype though....
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I'd definitely test.
MagnusRagnarok said:
if anyone wants to test i can post a deodexed app folder. those lwps are sweet, but the weather/clock widget looks like a poor interpretation of sense clock. i did rip out the non-trial version of swype though....
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load it up, i'll attach it to OP
spyngamerman said:
i second this majority of my stuff is in MKV 264 so id donate to someone who makes a small footpritn player that couould handle my files to paly native on evo without conversion 20$ towards this ims ure others woudl do same with ability to use subs and diffrerent audio tracks as well basically port vlc to android and were set
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If someone ported VLC to Android I'd be the happiest person alive.
And I'll definitely test anything you have as well.

[Q] Video playback - is Asus Poland wrong?

Hi,
I have asked Asus Poland (on FB) few questions about video playback abilities of transformer... no I am confused
http://on.fb.me/hAiLml - translation below:
I own Asus 1201N and I want to have the same video capabilities on tablet as I ahve on netbook....so I have asked at the source (since Xoom can not do it :-( )
ME:
1. I would like to know what is the situation with video playback on Transformer, especially I am interested in h.264 (mkv files) 720p High Profile.
2. What about playing videos from NAS drive (again in format as described above)?
3. Will I be able to watch video streams from sites like vod.onet.pl (site requires MS Silverlight plugin)?
Also according to Asus Poland devices imported from USA will have a vaild warranty in EU.
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Asus Poland reply:
1. As in Windows 7
2. As in Windows 7
3. Yes
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What do you guys think... either Transformer and ASUS are so great and they have added extra bits to reference Tegra 2 platform..... or ...
Tegra 2 itself is ok and it is just a Xoom that is not very good at video playback...
I think they are a little lost. Or they thought you are asking for Asus Slate not Transformer. Or maybe both. It's good to know that they honour the warrancy on tablets bough abroad (I intend to buy Tranformer in UK). [I'm from Poland too, didn't set it up in my profile here]
You might be right - when I look at it now...
I have asked question (about transformer) on their Wall... and they have asked me (after few days without reply) to ask again in the discussion section.
When I was writing I completely forgot about EP121 Windows Tablet....
What is more when I did remember I thought it was clear (since I only repeat the questions I have already asked) that we talk about Transformer.
I will clarify it for them ;-)
But isn't 720p the low profile regardless, its the 1080p version which is high.
Resolution has nothing to do with video profile.
There are 3 profiles - base line, main and high
Tegra 2 can play:
all in base line profile (almost 0 stuff to download is encoded this way)
main profile 720p only (but again not much to download... I have not found a single movie coded this way)
nothing (720p and above) in high profile
This means:
You either re-encode (and waste taime) or you do not watch...
QUESTION!
One of the reasons I do not own an iPad was a similar restriction of video playback, however I have been told that AVPlayer HD plays all kinds of stuff on iPad - do you guys know if it is true?
I have an update from Asus Poland.
I have asked them again (with clarification that I am asking about Transformer).
Will it play h.264 (mkv) high profile 720p?
ANSWER:
1. Nie ma problemu. Urządzenie posiada natywne wsparcie sprzetowe dla dekodowania h.264 FullHD
No problem. Device has a native support for decoding h.264 FullHD.
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So... I have asked yet again...
Prosiłbym o bardzo konkretne potwierdzenie tego p. bo kłuci się troszke z tym co piszą co poniektórzy szczęśliwi posiadacze. H.264 ma 3 profile kodowania. base, main i high. Czy Transformer odtwarza wideo (pliki mkv) w rozdzielczosci 720p kodowane jako h.264 High Profile? - Okreslenie h.264 i FullHD sa dosc szerokie i malo konkretne
I would like to ask for an exact answer/confirmation as it is in conflict with information provided by few lucky owners. h.264 has 3 profiles for encoding: base, main and high. Can Transformer play videos (mkv files) in resolution 720p encoded as h.264 High Profile? - Your (Asus) description of just h.264 and FullHD is quite "wide" and not exactly concrete/exact.
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Can any of owners confirm (either way) if video 720p. h.264 (mkv) high profile plays ... or not?
galtom said:
Can any of owners confirm (either way) if video 720p. h.264 (mkv) high profile plays ... or not?
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I've tried a couple, and the answer is no.
Regards,
Dave
I've tried playing 720p mkvs on the ADAM tablet and the transformer suing MoboPlayer and VPlayer. Neither succeeded. The framerate was slow and audio was often out of sync.
I actually got a better framerate by locally connecting to my MAC using remote desktop on the Asus and playing the file through that!!! (It still wasn't great though).
So, to me, it looks like the Tegra 2 cannot handle 720p mkv and above. I never experienced the issue on my iPad, but then again I was converting on the fly using airvideo....
Than I would be very careful with an answer if I were an Asus but, I would really respect them if they would say loud and clear - sorry it will not do it. So far neither Google, Motorola or Nvidia had put any word about this.... "we will not talk about it and problem will go away - people will buy tablets and be happy!" :-(
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So far neither Google, Motorola or Nvidia had put any word about this....
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There is a thorough information on Motorola site about the profile you need to play HD files on Xoom. Nvidia probably has it in Tegra2 specs. Google doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
galtom said:
Resolution has nothing to do with video profile.
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Whatever that means
galtom said:
This means:
You either re-encode (and waste taime) or you do not watch...
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I've never expected to watch, I don't quite understand why people want to watch whole movies on such a small screen
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There is a thorough information on Motorola site about the profile you need to play HD files on Xoom.
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Would you be kind enough to supply me with a link?
Kermode said:
I've never expected to watch, I don't quite understand why people want to watch whole movies on such a small screen
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Well.... maybe I do not wish to carry a 49" tv to a plane with me? Not to mention it is quite hard to lie on a bed with something like that on top of you... ;-)
jimbob1971 said:
I've tried playing 720p mkvs on the ADAM tablet and the transformer suing MoboPlayer and VPlayer. Neither succeeded. The framerate was slow and audio was often out of sync.
I actually got a better framerate by locally connecting to my MAC using remote desktop on the Asus and playing the file through that!!! (It still wasn't great though).
So, to me, it looks like the Tegra 2 cannot handle 720p mkv and above. I never experienced the issue on my iPad, but then again I was converting on the fly using airvideo....
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Argh.
MKV (Matroska) is a container format not a codec. It is either parsed or not. It has virtually no impact on performance. The video stream inside could be encoded in almost any way. Nowadays that is often h.264.
The tegra2 SOC can handle:
H.264 with sub standards Baseline Profile (B frames) — 1080p/20Mbps,
Main Profile (B Frames, CAVLC) — 1080p,
Main Profile (B Frames, CABAC, no weighted prediction) — 720p/6Mbps and
High Profile (B Frames, CABAC, no weighted prediction).
Tegra2 running android with the latest froyo binaries on a harmony board can handle:
1080p using baseline profile
720p using main profile
No high profile
Tegra2 running Android with the current honeycomb binaries on a ventana board can handle:
1080p baseline profile
No main profile
No high profile.
This is all ignoring things like rockplayer that will _never_ play HD content well.
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Argh.
MKV (Matroska) is a container format not a codec.
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Ok, I'll rephrase what I said - Neither the Adam nor the Asus played the 720p h.264 mkv files I threw at it. Or, rather, they played them, but at a crawl.
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I don't quite understand why people want to watch whole movies on such a small screen
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Remember that via HDMI you can connect the tablet to something bigger. Also if you keep the screen close to your eyes it's as big as a TV on the wall (as a person with nearsightedness I prefer to watch from very close distance). The resolution is perfect for 720p.
Well, when I get one I'll try watching something and get back to you
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Ok, I'll rephrase what I said - Neither the Adam nor the Asus played the 720p h.264 mkv files I threw at it. Or, rather, they played them, but at a crawl.
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What were you using to play them? As I said MKV support is either there or it isn't. I believe Samsung add it into their framework for the galaxy tab but the Asus and the Adam shouldn't play MKVs at all.
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Argh.
MKV (Matroska) is a container format not a codec. It is either parsed or not. It has virtually no impact on performance. The video stream inside could be encoded in almost any way. Nowadays that is often h.264.
The tegra2 SOC can handle:
1080p using baseline profile
1080p using main profile
720p using high profile
Tegra2 running android with the latest froyo binaries on a harmony board can handle:
1080p using baseline profile
720p using main profile
No high profile
Tegra2 running Android with the current honeycomb binaries on a ventana board can handle:
1080p baseline profile
No main profile
No high profile.
This is all ignoring things like rockplayer that will _never_ play HD content well.
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Thank you!, this is the best explanation I have heard so far. I was getting confused since on the wiki for Tegra, it clearly said it would play 1080p base :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra#Tegra_2_.28T20.2FAP20H.29
But my question is:
-if the SOC can handle 720p Hi and 1080p Main, is this a s/w issue of the binaries not being able to handle it? If so, which binaries, NVidia binaries or Honeycomb binaries?
-Also, according to the wiki, Asus and most others are Harmony board, not sure if this would make any difference
-Is this a potentially solvable issue by future Honeycomb updates since the H/W can handle 720p Hi?
-What is most content (tv shows in hi def and such) encoded as? Hi profile I presume..
Just trying to get a feel of how much re-encoding I will have to deal with to be able to watch in Hi profile 720p on the Asus…
Also, I have heard reports that the Asus when connected to an HDTV is limited to 720p, is this correct?
According to this NVidia reply, it should have been able to output 1080p to TV:
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/f...-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
KG
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What were you using to play them? As I said MKV support is either there or it isn't. I believe Samsung add it into their framework for the galaxy tab but the Asus and the Adam shouldn't play MKVs at all.
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VPlayer, Mobplayer and vital player. They all played but at an unwatchable rate.
This is very, very sad news :-(

MX Player and ChromeCast

This is a continuation of the original thread on Google Groups.
Link to original thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/Xgb6KKj95vg/discussion
Thanks for starting this up here. Any updates on Chromecast support?
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Thanks for starting this up here. Any updates on Chromecast support?
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THIS is the Chromecast solution I feel I have been waiting an eternity for. Best of luck with ongoing development...
Well, Miracast accomplishes a similar result, but as it's live transcoding of your entire screen, it would only have decent video playback on higher-end devices. That and Miracast means you can't do a 2nd task on the phone when the video plays.
From my understanding of Chromecast support right now, Google is slowly rolling out support for different formats and file containers. Not sure how long this will take. MX Player transcoding should mean that anything would be playable, assuming your device can handle live transcoding.
CDB-Man said:
From my understanding of Chromecast support right now, Google is slowly rolling out support for different formats and file containers. Not sure how long this will take. MX Player transcoding should mean that anything would be playable, assuming your device can handle live transcoding.
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Google is slowly rolling out support for different formats and file containers
Where is the proof or where did you find that
ALSo. I wanted to ask.
Could you please not do one step at a time?
E.g add Chromecast support but for NORMAL. E.g. Basic support. For normal formats which work. Like avia media player.
Thank you
Supported formats: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media
As to your question about adding Chromecast support, that would be a question for the developer to answer. @bleu8888
Hopefully we will see this happening any time soon.
Thank you in advance, because we all know MX is the best out there.
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Ok, so what exactly does this mean? Is the developer working on Chromecast support? Any ETA for when it should be expected?
Yes he is working on it; no an ETA has not yet been indicated. Thing is, the developer wants ALL videos to work on Chromcast; this means MX Player must do live transcode on any format that Chromecast doesn't support.
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Yes he is working on it; no an ETA has not yet been indicated. Thing is, the developer wants ALL videos to work on Chromcast; this means MX Player must do live transcode on any format that Chromecast doesn't support.
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Any update to the progress or challenges? eagerly awaiting any news on this, as it would be super to unlock these features through MX player and ChromeCast!
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This is a continuation of the original thread on Google Groups.
Link to original thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/Xgb6KKj95vg/discussion
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What I don't understand is WHY don't you do 1 step at a time?
Why cant you simply right now, add the NORMAL chrome cast features, just MP4 files first.
and then later work on every single file format and transcoding?
Im sure many people would like this option?
Is it possible for a modern quad-core ARM phone/tablet to transcode video formats on the fly? I love MX because it literally plays anything I throw at it, but I don't know if this is the same as transcoding these different formats for casting.
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@Krisshp Don't know; it was the developer's decision.
@CAL7 well, for 10-bit I would assume it can't handle it, considering only the more recent phones were able to decode it. For 8-bit, it might be possible if the bitrate isn't too high.
CDB-Man said:
@Krisshp Don't know; it was the developer's decision.
@CAL7 well, for 10-bit I would assume it can't handle it, considering only the more recent phones were able to decode it. For 8-bit, it might be possible if the bitrate isn't too high.
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Cant you give this suggestion (which many ACTUALLY want) to the developer? and take it 1 step at a time?...
Thanks
there are many different options out there to use at the moment if you want to stream to chromecast. I agree with the developer having his standards of exactly what he wants his app to be able to do before releasing it... Kudos to him! :good:
I echo the same sentiment of playya.
I agree with you guys, no need to rush, it must come out when ready... But it would be very nice to be updated about the progress, just to know if we can expect it this month or in december 2015
JerryBels said:
I agree with you guys, no need to rush, it must come out when ready... But it would be very nice to be updated about the progress, just to know if we can expect it this month or in december 2015
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...... Or just leave us in the dark, alone, crying about our insecurities, struggling to overcome our fear of the unknown, but in the end doomed to the abysses of hell. That's cool too.
Glad to see that there is a possibility of seeing a Chromecast compatible MX Player in the future. Kudos to the devs for wanting to keep the standards up. If you need a beta tester count me in. I have helped with other apps in development. Do love MX Player the best I 've found. Just updated to pro to hopefully help with Chromecast development.

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