Is there a such thing as "codec packs" for use with media players on Android platform devices or even a 3rd party player that has a larger format capability? (I did STFA with no luck, yes saw the Dvix player and yes I am a noob when it comes to Android devices, so a little patience please)?
I have an LG P999 (G2x) and the wife has a Samsung Galaxy 4Gs which were rooted in the first two weeks of ownership (both are simple rooted, deoxed Froyo OS set-ups, nothing special --yet), Yes the G2x has some quirks/issues but on the most part I am very pleased with the device. Neither my wife's or my phones wants to recognize or play certain file extensions (I.E. - .flv, .mpeg, - etc.) it does seem to play .WMA and .MP4 files ok , is there any add ins, codec packs, etc. that will expand the formats that can be played?
Thanks in advance for any help on this subject
use Moboplayer with Armv7 codec.. works well for xvid files.. but mkv still wont work..
mkv's work but in software decode only so no hd mkvs
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How do we get from point A to B with all of our other devices. My Telechip 8902 tablet can play unaltered 624x352 standard xvid files without a hiccup, right from the Gallery. Obviously they are including a codec or something somewhere that gets this working. Where do we start to extracting that info and cooking it into ROMs. The latest crop of players like Rock Player are ok, but even RockPlayer plays WORSE than the native gallery on my tablet. Even thumbnails work....
Maybe I am just being naive, but what's missing that we can't extract. My tablet is running 2.1 and it works perfect. For giggles I tossed in some mkv samples with aac and mp3 and they worked as well.
The chinese tablets has a DSP (digital signal processor) especially to process media files hence they are able to play back most video files without a hitch.
I have downloaded a few apps trying to convert a ripped DVD (the latest Star Trek flick) to MP4 format. I am looking for something that is freeware. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I tried "Any Video Converter" that I downloaded from CNet, but the formats available don't seem to cover the G-tab. I converted Star Trek using 720x580, but it's too small on the screen. The video plays nice and smooth, though.
The other thing I would "like to have" is a converter that converts all the .VOB files into a single .mp4. Right now I have about 15 .VOB files in a directory. Watching 15 minutes of a movie then having to double-click the next .mp4 isn't ideal. And yes, I tried selecting all of them and executing, but it only plays the first video selected.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I use DVD Catalyst, and have through many different devices now. It can convert to pretty much any popular format, and it has device profiles, many already preset. If it doesn't have a device preset for your device, you can easily create one. It is payware, but it is not expensive, and have have been very ahppy with its results.
I use Handbrake. It is free, and you can use presets, or can pick your own.
Handbrake works really well and it's default preset seems to be working fine for the tablet (only tried one video so far).
--Bill
Thanks, fellas! Handbrake works great! Exactly what I was looking for.
What settings did you use in Handbrake? I can't seem to get anything to play on this thing.
thanks
I just made sure that I was converting to MP4 format. I think it's the H.264 format.
handbrake
i used these settings..
http://www.funtechtalk.com/motorola...mat-conversion-settings-using-free-handbrake/
however i upped the res, my handbrake topped out at 720 though.. read the whole thing including the comments, something about handbrake and custom cropping, halfway down i think..
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I noticed some of the movies I ripped came out with an m4a extension which I couldn't get recognized. Renaming to mp4 had both Rockplayer and the native player play them with no issues. Both DVD rips at default resolution as well as a 720p MKV transcoded with Handbrake at whatever the default setting chose.
--Bill
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I use handbrake as well.
Is there a player with subtitle support?
i have some videos that are in the mkv format. i tried using rock player, but the video looks laggy and there's a discrepancy between the video and audio. it seems that the audio is ahead of the video. or is there a way to increase the frame rate for this format. i've tried almost every player in the market that came up under mkv and nothing that works right. my avi files work great though
I've tried all different players that play mkv and they are all laggy and the video is pixulated. I think the gtab is just not capable of playing them. But don't be sad the glorious opacity wont play them either results are the same.
Matt
i've been using rebox.NET found here http://www.videohelp.com/tools/rebox.NET, it basically re-muxes and converts audio to mp4 format from mkv, i've only tried 720p video so far, plays fine in rock player
I was reading the other day that an andriod version of VLC is being worked on. Hopefully that will do us right.
ILA970JOSH said:
i've been using rebox.NET found here http://www.videohelp.com/tools/rebox.NET, it basically re-muxes and converts audio to mp4 format from mkv, i've only tried 720p video so far, plays fine in rock player
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is this something you do on the tablet or you need to do it on a comp first?
why can't someone take the video player that comes with the archos101 and port into the gtablet? archos101 plays .mkv and just about everything else and I think the .apk is easily obtainable through archos101. I am not sure if the video player is what makes .mkv's work or if there is some system codecs involved. I used to have the archos101 and it did play .mkv's nicely.
yo do the conversion on the pc first, doesn't take but a couple minutes
The Archos player is probably optimized to the hardware inside the Archos which is different from ours.
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why can't someone take the video player that comes with the archos101 and port into the gtablet? archos101 plays .mkv and just about everything else and I think the .apk is easily obtainable through archos101. I am not sure if the video player is what makes .mkv's work or if there is some system codecs involved. I used to have the archos101 and it did play .mkv's nicely.
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I think a couple people have looked at doing that without success. I know I love the player on my little Archos5. It plays very nice, and also has the built-in upnp capability.
MKV (Matroska) support is compiled into stagefright/opencore on the devices that support it (Along with AC3, DTS, etc). It isn't just build into the player app.
Remember that matroska is just a container. being able to parse video streams out of an MKV won't magically give the Tegra2 enough beef to render 5.1aac+h.264 High-profile 1080p, in fact with the Tegra2 userspace libs in their current state you'll be lucky to get 1080p Main profile and only sure of playing Baseline profile.
Look at the video you want to play if its already High profile 1080p it will _never_ play on a Tegra2 device.
Remux (not re-encode) the MKV into an MP4 container, it it still doesn't play nothing short of updates from nvidia will change that.
ArcMedia
I've been using arcMedia and it runs flawlessly. Here's the apk. runs directly from Astro file manager. Long press on the video file, open file using archmedia. check the default box and every video file opened by arcMedia directly.
Is it possible to play .avi videos on Transformer? I have tried to play videos on MicroSD but have been unsuccessful.
Try using rockplayer?
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Is it possible to play .avi videos on Transformer? I have tried to play videos on MicroSD but have been unsuccessful.
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Moboplayer, free from the Market, does a nice job.
Rockplayer seems to work, thanks!
AVI, the container, is fine and Android should have no trouble with. But, there's also the codecs that the video data is encoded in, as well as the codecs for the audio data.
Those may or may not be supported, especially if they're older files using some ancient and crappy codec.
Edit: Bah, OP responded as I was writing this
I know this is an old thread but hopefully someone can still be patient and help me out.
I just recently got the TF101. I think it's the plan TF101, not the "G" version. I got it through a Groupon deal so it didn't have a lot of technical details.
I'm brand new to Android and I want to watch AVI files on the Transformer using a microSD card. I've downloaded a bunch of the usual suspects (MoboPlayer, BSPlayer, Rockpayer, VPlayer) and so far I like MX Player and Dice Player the best.
Here's the problem:
I've formatted the microSD on my iMac as FAT32 and added tv show folders. **Only SOME of the avi files play without any "read" errors** I know avi's can have all sorts of codecs but for my collection of Friends tv show I personally ripped all the episodes from a dvd set using Handbrake and used the same setting for all the videos. So why are some working flawlessly and other videos can't play at all?
Is there something that I'm missing that I need to do to make all my avi's compatible? Do I need to download something else aside from the ARM codecs req by each app? Is it because I'm using a non-brand microSD?
All help is appreciated... Thanks!
I've been trying to play any and all videos that are stored on my computer, and None of them work with the stock video,mx video, or vplayer apps using hardware decoding. Youtube videos DO work that were downloaded off of youtube (.mp4) but any video I encode from whatever format they were originally to something my previous phones, the AT&T galaxy s 2 and captivate, would play with no problem. I've looked at the hardware. I would say it's almost the same as the blackberry playbook and archos 80 gen9 I used to own, the same cpu/gpu from ti, same amount of ram (the archos had half, not even 512mb). Sure the clock speed was different between the atrix 2,archos 80 gen9, and playbook, but the tablets and galaxy s 2 phone could run mp4's with 5.1 channel AAC audio set at high profile at 1080p, but I usually make a second copy at 720p with ripbot264, it saves space.
I know it says on motorola's device page (android core formats) meaning no real mkv or avi support, but I've tried baseline mp4 with stereo aac audio, NO GO.
I don't get it.
I've been researching the software (3 hours at 3:30 est). our atrix 2 can play it back, it's just refuses to. I guess motorola didn't bother with codec support that's right in front of them. also I've wondered if we can take or compile a ducati-m3.bin (the firmware that lets the device decode video) and omx files(libstagefright.so and corresponding files for handling?) and just zip them into the system, I did stupid and started replacing .so libs and replacing the ducati bin, had to reflash my ics 3 times and restore once, before I was too tired to care.I did it to see what would happen.(I've gotten fairly good at restoring phones that I've bricked or boot-looped just my personal phones though)
Anybody have an Idea what I'm talking about? basic mp4 with 5.1 audio playback. I've tried remuxing stereo only videos, didn't work either.
Also I'm complaining, but Not willing to give up my phone without trying to fix it.