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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.

Gary13579 said:
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.

Gary13579 said:
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.

Can these codecs be ported from Archos Android device

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.

[APP] MPlayer for Android

Hi Friends,
I have successfully ported MPlayer for android.
It should work on Android 1.6-2.3.
Try and post your device detail and feedback here. Once it gets confirmed that it is working on other devices I will upload it to market also.
Features -
1) Support all subtitle format.
2) Proper audio video sync.
3) Uses libfaad2 and libmad for aac and mp3 decoding.
4) Stream URL support
I have tested with gt540 2.1.
Updated Version [Many fixes including neon support]
[MultiUpload]MPlayer.apk
If you have NEON capable device enable neon optimization from settings screen.
Old Version
[RS]MPlayer.apk
[MultiUpload]MPlayer.apk
Download subtitle file and extract to /sdcard for osd and subtitles
[RS]mplayer.zip
[MultiUpload]mplayer.zip
Please donate it will help me to improve the player
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Hi ajeet,
thanks for the effort, i noticed some bugs on my htc desire (oxygen rom , android 2.3 )
it skipped the first 30 seconds of my video
audio/video wasnt in sync (maybe cause of the skip? )
subs didnt show up
some infos about the video:
video: MPEG4 (H264) 712x480 29,97 fps
audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo
Subtitle: Advanced SubStation Alpha
//edit:
forgot to extract the mplayer subtitle folder ><
subs are working now, even though the progress bar makes it impossible to read them ^^
best regards
Kemo

Great job, I tried an MKV BDRip with MPEG-4 video and AC3 audio. Works flawlessly on my [email protected]
However, in the subtitle there are "á é í ó ő ú ű" letters and instead of these, there are some weird symbols shown. I tried this with SRT and SSA subs saved as UTF-8, but no luck.
Atm, this looks promising, so keep it up.
+1
Edit: please, for heaven's sake, avoid RapidShare. But if you like RS, then use multiupload. Thanks

Option key will hide the statusbar/seekbar

i try avc + aac mp4 (640*360 + 44Khz/128kb) on my milestone eclair
it too slow so not sync and i try the stop the play it crashed

Nice work. I only have flvs on my phone right now, but they play very well. quite responsive too.
Could the controls hide on screen tap as well as menu button?
Also, how mplayer is this? I realize that the frontend is going to be original work, but wonder how much porting you had to do for the player itself.

dateno1 said:
i try avc + aac mp4 (640*360 + 44Khz/128kb) on my milestone eclair
it too slow so not sync and i try the stop the play it crashed
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oh my misstake
not 640*360 (it is 600*338)

hiddenhandgun said:
Nice work. I only have flvs on my phone right now, but they play very well. quite responsive too.
Could the controls hide on screen tap as well as menu button?
Also, how mplayer is this? I realize that the frontend is going to be original work, but wonder how much porting you had to do for the player itself.
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You can use option key to hide menu(s) . I have used sdl ported by Pelya(commander genius) for audio output and written video driver for android from scratch.

dateno1 said:
oh my misstake
not 640*360 (it is 600*338)
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So due to some bug neon acceleration is not working with this version. I will fix that then you can watch h264 w/o any issue.

screen shots would be cool and if you can get some of the gpu/cpu accelerations combos working on higher end devices like Hummingbird and Powervr.

Very nice it works even on the archos tablet and without any stutering or delays. Keep up the good work.
This is the first non stock media player that works good for general use.
Sent from my A101IT

great player, best i've found on the market yet.

It's perfect for my Legend ! the best player for the video quality.
And subtitles work fine. The only "problem" is that I always have the interface at the top and bottom of the video. So, I can't read subtitles.
I tried to open settings but it does't exist.
Great job anyway

The best working video player on my X10. Just one problem I am from Slovenia, any chance for Slovenian, Croatian,,,,letters support.
Thanks

OK, I have tested streaming from an URL (Mpeg-TS-stream - dreambox)
1) on my HTC HD2 running HD Desire: works although there are some delay/lag. Also problems with syncronization of video/audio
2) on my Samsung i5800: I get pictures and then it pauses for 2-3 seconds and I get new frames and then it stops again and so on. Audio works without breaking. Perhaps its processor is not fast enough to handle a stream with a ratio of 1:1?
3) the preferences button seems disabled.
I look forward to next releases.

tilleke said:
OK, I have tested streaming from an URL (Mpeg-TS-stream - dreambox)
1) on my HTC HD2 running HD Desire: works although there are some delay/lag. Also problems with syncronization of video/audio
2) on my Samsung i5800: I get pictures and then it pauses for 2-3 seconds and I get new frames and then it stops again and so on. Audio works without breaking. Perhaps its processor is not fast enough to handle a stream with a ratio of 1:1?
3) the preferences button seems disabled.
I look forward to next releases.
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can somebody tell me what does it mean to stream a url? help

Streaming from an URL means playing (therefore sending) a file (be it video, music...) over the net on a remote device.
(Trying to keep the definition simple).
Sent from my Desire HD

Works great on evo
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Installed on my Dell Streak. It works for playing AVI. I'll try with other file types and report back.

same problem.

[Q] Question before buying Gtab

Hi,
I am new to Android and I would like to get some help for a few questions before buying a Gtablet.
1) Flash support - I saw it's posted on the official website it has a temp version of flash player. Can I know if it works well? I need to watch high-def flash movies on different websites. I hope it can play smoothly. Also am I able to play facebook flash games?
2) RMVB/AVI/MKV support - I have tons of these kind of videos on my NAS server but the official site does not say they are supported. I heard there is a Rockplayer that can do it, but I went to their App Store and found no such software. Can i know a way to play these formats? If the hardware does not support them, and there is a software does, how is the quality and speed?
3) Local LAN share - I think I already googled there is one called EStrong, can I open my NAS file share folders, and play Video directly?
4) Customization - Can I install apps from anywhere instead of their app store? for example can i install Android Market? or install an app from a file?
That's pretty much what i concerns so far, other than that this is a great tablet!
I much appreciate your advices.

I can help with the first and fourth ones. This afternoon I watched an episode of outsourced on nbc.com. it wasnt perfect, but definatly viewable, and youtube videos all look fine for me. As for the last one, I have the android market installed, and I have also installed .apks that I have the file form so yea they do work.

re. 2, my son user rockplayer to watch some mkvs last weekend. I'm not that familiar w/anime, but he said it wasn't handling embedded softsubs. We did find another player on market that did but I don't remember the name.
re. 3, ES Explorer will copy files over lan (windows shares or ftp), but it's not for streaming.

Mkv support depends more on how it was encoded. I ripped some DVDs to mkv with 5.1 sound using handbrake and those will play in rockplayer using software decode fine.

japhule said:
Mkv support depends more on how it was encoded. I ripped some DVDs to mkv with 5.1 sound using handbrake and those will play in rockplayer using software decode fine.
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I should clarify my earlier post. We were able to watch the MKVs (animes) he had downloaded fine with rockplayer. But they had softsubs, and it wasn't showing those.
Jim

Re. 1, my wife uses the Gtab to watch Kdramas, on sites that stream flash, and it works pretty well. Served from sites like tudou, qdisk, etc., and works ok, but a lot of those sites sometimes have heavy traffic, and even with a PC, they get jerky, so it's not the Gtab, but the stream server and traffic usually.
Jim

chuugokujin said:
Hi,
I am new to Android and I would like to get some help for a few questions before buying a Gtablet.
1) Flash support - I saw it's posted on the official website it has a temp version of flash player. Can I know if it works well? I need to watch high-def flash movies on different websites. I hope it can play smoothly. Also am I able to play facebook flash games?
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Works on news sites, tv.com, hulu, but thats with vegan 5.1. The stock rom ran flash "ok" but would crash some times.
2) RMVB/AVI/MKV support - I have tons of these kind of videos on my NAS server but the official site does not say they are supported. I heard there is a Rockplayer that can do it, but I went to their App Store and found no such software. Can i know a way to play these formats? If the hardware does not support them, and there is a software does, how is the quality and speed?
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According to the specs It will play:
32-bit LP-DDR2, DDR2
S1080p H.264/H.263/ VC-1/MPEG-2/4/WMV9/DiVX 4/5 Video Decode
1080p H.264/MPEG-4 Video Encode
Supports multi-standard audio formats, including AAC, AMR, WMA, and MP3
Not all of those are working currently (some are and some aren't). Get yourself a good video encoder/dvd ripper for your computer and once they are encoded, you just drag and drop onto the gtab. If they are encoded properly with the proper settings, you get descent video quality.
4) Customization - Can I install apps from anywhere instead of their app store? for example can i install Android Market? or install an app from a file?
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Yes but you will need to do a couple updates using the developer instructions from here and then do a market fix. The easiest one is the simple performance pack update to the 3389 build with a market fix, however over 5,000 people have gone to vegan 5.1
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/
It is the best from what i can tell, wicked fast. It has two issues curently 1) Micro SD card management/file mgt 2) Keyboard auto correct. Updates seem to come out every 10 days to 2 weeks right now.

Thank you all!
Thanks a lot for your answers it helped me a lot!

Allenfx said:
Works on news sites, tv.com, hulu, but thats with vegan 5.1. The stock rom ran flash "ok" but would crash some times.
According to the specs It will play:
32-bit LP-DDR2, DDR2
S1080p H.264/H.263/ VC-1/MPEG-2/4/WMV9/DiVX 4/5 Video Decode
1080p H.264/MPEG-4 Video Encode
Supports multi-standard audio formats, including AAC, AMR, WMA, and MP3
Not all of those are working currently (some are and some aren't). Get yourself a good video encoder/dvd ripper for your computer and once they are encoded, you just drag and drop onto the gtab. If they are encoded properly with the proper settings, you get descent video quality.
Yes but you will need to do a couple updates using the developer instructions from here and then do a market fix. The easiest one is the simple performance pack update to the 3389 build with a market fix, however over 5,000 people have gone to vegan 5.1
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/
It is the best from what i can tell, wicked fast. It has two issues curently 1) Micro SD card management/file mgt 2) Keyboard auto correct. Updates seem to come out every 10 days to 2 weeks right now.
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That 5000 part is amazing to me. Having gone thru the Xmas 'recall' brouhaha, I had sometimes thought that there were like 10 of us Gtab users !!
Jim

[Q] Choppy video playback issues?

I just got my Transformer on Christmas. It was a Black Friday model, and I updated to the latest OTA since, at the last I had read, the root method asked for "the latest firmware." Oops. No root for me. Anyway, I have loaded up multiple episodes of multiple series of 720p subtitled anime MKVs. They all run terribly, stuttering and stumbling along, not keeping up in the least. I've tried using both QQPlayer (my old standby) and every other MKV compatible player on the Market. My old single-core Droid Incredible could handle these will significantly fewer stutters, and my new Rezound dominates them. Heck, even my Android-rigged HP Touchpad didn't blink. So, what's the deal? Is this normal?
EDIT: I've tried this off internal memory and the dock's SD card (class 10). No discernable difference. Tried on a fresh boot too for maximum available memory. Still no difference.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

Video playback is disappointing for me too
I tried to view a video in tegra zone and couldn't even play that... Even tegra zone is making this tegra device look bad lol
Then I tried to find a game called Real Racing 2 HD and it's not compatible....
So much for one of the top Android tablets.. .

Give BSPlayer Lite a go. It has hardware decode for TF. It plays 720P mkv on my TF smoothly. It is free too.

Can you try to view the video preview for The Dark Meadow in the tegra zone game section with bsplayer and let us know how you go.
I couldn't watch it and it's an mp4 video

Malandro2011 said:
Can you try to view the video preview for The Dark Meadow in the tegra zone game section with bsplayer and let us know how you go.
I couldn't watch it and it's an mp4 video
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Cannot find the preview video. Only found a few images in there.
Note: I am using the Revolver ROM that has the Tegra Game Zone removed, I went to the Market to re-install it. Don't know if it is the reason for not seeing the video.

Did the game you selected show a black icon?
Would be good if we can find a common 720p video we can all test to confirm if it just doesn't work on any Transformer regardless of ROM, h/w version, viewer, etc.
My TF is rooted and I tried with CPU at normal level then up to 1400 and it was the same

Malandro2011 said:
Did the game you selected show a black icon?
Would be good if we can find a common 720p video we can all test to confirm if it just doesn't work on any Transformer regardless of ROM, h/w version, viewer, etc.
My TF is rooted and I tried with CPU at normal level then up to 1400 and it was the same
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Yeah. Black icon, coming 2012. Is it the one?
If you can upload the video to one of the file sharing service, like rapidshare or fileserve, I can download it and let you know the result.
Alternatively, you can just install BSPlayer and the ARM7 codec and try it yourself. It is free.

kokopopz said:
Cannot find the preview video. Only found a few images in there.
Note: I am using the Revolver ROM that has the Tegra Game Zone removed, I went to the Market to re-install it. Don't know if it is the reason for not seeing the video.
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No such game exists on TZ.
Got aything else?

kokopopz said:
Give BSPlayer Lite a go. It has hardware decode for TF. It plays 720P mkv on my TF smoothly. It is free too.
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Ive possibly posted this a squillion times .. and im suprised it doesnt offer a more obvious fix but as ^^ above says "BSPlayer" is THE ONLY player ive used that will play 99% of movie files without hitch ... Including mkv's
IMO the only player youll need... and it is indeed free .. however i'd recommend a nice donation

Yeah I tried BSPlayer, Mobo, MX & the stock player and none of them would play it.
I'll see if I can take a video with my phone and try downloading the video somehow.

I appreciate the response(s). I'll try BS Player soon. Note that we can again, I'll be rooting, ROMing, and overclocking soon. We'll see how that helps. I just wanna use my tablet mostly for anime, internet, and some gaming. Basically, a bigger screen than my Rezound lol
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