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[Q] Possible to port codecs from SGS? HD Video Player with Sub tittle

From what I have gathered the SGS supports a lot more video/audio formats than Nexus S out of the box (correct me if I am wrong). Will it be possible to port these codecs from the SGS over to the NS?

Video Player Nexus S
Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.

zomgzombies said:
Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.
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Probably just hasn't been updated for 2.3. Patience.
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[Q] How to play vidoes/movies on Nexus S?
So i was thinking about watching a movie this afternoon on my brand new Nexus S and started looking for some sort of video player under the appications. Is it true that the phone doesnt come with any kind of Video Player? How do i watch movies? What format to use for the movies? I download all my movies and they're all .avi. All the help, comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.

AVI is just a container. It can hold any kind of codec inside. I heard people reccomend rockplayer is good though. Try that and report back on how it works.

Rockplayer doesn't work. Lots of players crashes on the Nexus S right now. They all need to be updated.
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You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
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varungandhi said:
You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
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When I try to open a video file from astro, among the choices of program given to me is one called "movies"; this uses the same icon as the "gallery" proram, comes preloaded on the phone, and also fails to open most video formats.

Playing M4P via Meridian and it works great.
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Let me look up meridian. I guess I am gonna have to convert from avi to the extension you mentioned.
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Gallery is the video player.
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So is the issue that the nexus s doesn't come with an xvid codec or that apps with software decoding of the codecs like rockplayer just need to be updated ? Sorry if I'm a little dense about this.

I guess the 3rd party apps need to be updated.
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tominater12 said:
Gallery is the video player.
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So is there a specific file type that the galley plays? I just created a movie folder with 2 avi files but gallery isn't showing anything other than pictures on the same storage.
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M4P is a .h264 container. Most videos on the internet or torrents for phones come in M4P format. Best quality for the size.
Most phones can play M4P right out of the box. YouTube is a big supporter of the container.
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quick question regarding the camera, how do you upload videos to picasa.
I went to the gallery and hit menu to get the option to share, but I only see the option there when its photos. I thought you can upload videos also.

I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx

webplus said:
I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx
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Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3

thepoetvd776 said:
Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
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Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.

webplus said:
Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.
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Yeah I know.
BTW did you check the videos you uploaded on picasa from your nexus?
I just uploaded one using the same app you said, and it seems that the quality is not the same than that which was taken on the phone. Its a much lesser one.

Nexus s play hd?

im going to upgrade to a nexus s 4g this month, and i have 2 questions about playing videos on the phone:
from what i understand, the nexus cant shoot HD, but can it play HD videos that i load onto the phone?
is there an app that can play .avi cuz id really hate to convert my videos.

No I dont think HD video work, I forget the app but there is one to play .Avi it wasnt flawless tho

RockPlayer. AVIs are flawless, MKVs are flawless as well but there is a bug with no audio being outputted when hardware decoding MKVs. .AVIs have absolutely no problem
MoboPlayer is pretty good too

Ill havd to try rockplayer is it free? I tried a app that needed unlocking after 15 days
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Yes theres a free version available on the market. Moboplayer is reallh good too.
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thanks for the info

i meant really. rockplayer is still my recommendation of choice, paid app of course (you have to get it through his website)

I Dont know it man, trying the free version on the market and it keeps freezing every time I open a 720p AVI file

my nexus s love mobo player.
720p working great with it. (subtitle support also)

any good mkv video player apps?

is there any app for the g2x that would play hd mkv files without any slowdown? ive tried the majority of video player apps on the market and they all played the mvk file slow!

speedbreaker said:
is there any app for the g2x that would play hd mkv files without any slowdown? ive tried the majority of video player apps on the market and they all played the mvk file slow!
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Good question as I would also like to know since I'm really thinking of getting this phone... (I think I want it just to say I got a 2x core phone and I can't wait till the SGS2)
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Have you tried "rock player"?
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U can try VitalPlayer

Does anyone else have problems playing movies?

I had the same movies on the first atrix and they played flawlessly. They're .avi and either they won't play or they lag, and audio isn't synced. Please let me know if this can be fixed or if it may just be my phone. I have already reflashed my phone back to stock and it didn't fix the problem, thank you.
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Do you also have problems them playing with DicePlayer?

I normally don't use the stock player as sometimes it lags or doesn't play some files on my SD card so I used moboplayer
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Akbar1786 said:
I normally don't use the stock player as sometimes it lags or doesn't play some files on my SD card so I used moboplayer
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I guess I'll try downloading different players... also do you guys remember the way we could play music, videos, and see pics through HDMI on the ffirst atrix? I don't have that option, I can only mirror my display -_- and playing movies like that really screws with the quality
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Try .mpg/.mpeg and see if that helps.

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Try .mpg/.mpeg and see if that helps.
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Guess that's what I'll do... shame, the first atrix was great for movie playback.
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jstrayy said:
Guess that's what I'll do... shame, the first atrix was great for movie playback.
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Check the audio on the files, if the audio is 48hz then playback skip crazy like

I have the same problems. For some reason the Atrix 2's hardware decoders aren't adequate. I can play a 720p mp4 file perfectly but when playing avi files it gets really choppy.
I simply used MX Video Player. Great video player. It let's you select the folders that it scans for video files. The player tries HW decoding and if that doesn't work it goes to SW decoding. Since most avi's play in HW decoding just click the screen's HW sign to change it to SW or SW fast. Also, I found it better to leave the deinterlace option unchecked.
now, I just use this as my phone's go to "vlc player"

HD Streaming

Hey guys...
Anyone know how I can stream my 1080p mkv movie library from pc on the tablet? Tried MyNet to no avail sees files but no playback possible... Tried all sorts of DLNA capable players still nothing...
Please I need to stream some of my movies....
Thanks
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I've used BS Player on several occasions to stream videos from my PC.

Firebrazer said:
I've used BS Player on several occasions to stream videos from my PC.
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Does it play HD 1080p mkv files? That's my main question
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Just a heads up, this has nothing to do with development whatsoever. Questions are supposed to go in the Q&A section.

Not sure what your problem is...
I'm able to play 1080p movies from my network server:
- either using Es File Explorer to go to the share containing that movie and opening it with MX Player Pro
- or by using MyNet and connecting to the (Free) Serviio media server that is running on my server
Using the second method I'm able to switch the display to my 55 inch Samsung tv without any problems....
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Tek_No said:
Not sure what your problem is...
I'm able to play 1080p movies from my network server:
- either using Es File Explorer to go to the share containing that movie and opening it with MX Player Pro
- or by using MyNet and connecting to the (Free) Serviio media server that is running on my server
Using the second method I'm able to switch the display to my 55 inch Samsung tv without any problems....
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I keep getting black screen or unknown file format
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Is this happening for all your 1080p mkv movies?
Is 720p mkv working correctly? Then it could be that your wifi router is not able to cope with the data that needs to be streamed.
In MX Player Pro I have enabled every Hardware Decoding option, also for network based files so my 1080p mkv is being hardware decoded, not software wise...
Also check on the Playstore for the codec pack for MX Player...
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Tek_No said:
Is this happening for all your 1080p mkv movies?
Is 720p mkv working correctly? Then it could be that your wifi router is not able to cope with the data that needs to be streamed.
In MX Player Pro I have enabled every Hardware Decoding option, also for network based files so my 1080p mkv is being hardware decoded, not software wise...
Also check on the Playstore for the codec pack for MX Player...
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Well BS Player did the trick never knew it had a network mode... Is MX Player better than BS?
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I'm quite happy with MX Player: it's playing everything I'm throwing at it
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Tek_No said:
I'm quite happy with MX Player: it's playing everything I'm throwing at it
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Not here just tried it keep getting unsupported audio detected dts... Yeah my rips are 16gb on average... I keep 5.1dts audio... All are bluray rips... High quality
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PsyChoses said:
Not here just tried it keep getting unsupported audio detected dts... Yeah my rips are 16gb on average... I keep 5.1dts audio... All are bluray rips... High quality
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There is a known issue with certain mkv file types and audio. Have a search on XDA.