Has there been any progress with the tegra2 limitations on high profile HD videos, especially with 3.2 or will this never be fixed?
there are way too many high profile hd videos out there for this to not work on any name brand tablets (except Archos ironically and jailbroken ipad1/2).
For 720p try diceplayer. Works for most MKVs and is the best we'll get probably...
akaria said:
For 720p try diceplayer. Works for most MKVs and is the best we'll get probably...
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is it hardware acceleration for high profile 720p videos?
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is it hardware acceleration for high profile 720p videos?
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Yes. It is. There's a thread in the app section somewhere where the dev is actively talking to people on xda. It's worth the $4. I play 720P high profile videos often, but it takes either a really good SDcard, or use the internal memory. A slow (aka <10 mbps I think...my 6mbps usd card doesn't play well) card will make it not work. For obvious bandwidth issues.
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Hi I just installed it and it works!
My high profile 720p mkv files are playing very smooth.
But I cannot understand WHY this the DicePlayer is the only player
that can play such files smoothly. Maybe it uses hardware decoding for video and software decoding for audio?
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Hi I just installed it and it works!
My high profile 720p mkv files are playing very smooth.
But I cannot understand WHY this the DicePlayer is the only player
that can play such files smoothly. Maybe it uses hardware decoding for video and software decoding for audio?
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thats exactly what it does.
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Yes. It is. There's a thread in the app section somewhere where the dev is actively talking to people on xda. It's worth the $4. I play 720P high profile videos often, but it takes either a really good SDcard, or use the internal memory. A slow (aka <10 mbps I think...my 6mbps usd card doesn't play well) card will make it not work. For obvious bandwidth issues.
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class 10 is 10 megabytes per second... in order for video content to exceed that bandwidth, it'd be 600 megabytes per minute of video, or 36gb per hour of video. Bandwidth is not an issue.
also keep in mind classes are WRITE speeds, not read, read is almost always faster than write.
I can't get the demo to play without sticking after a few seconds. Tried various 720p MKV's. Running off a class 6 MicroSD.
I tried this and now about 1/2 to 3/4 of my 720p files can be played smoothly.
Wondering though, the ones that do play, have a slight pixelated appearance to them, I was dissapointed in its visual appearance. I don't think its related to this player but the Tf in general? Perhaps bitrate is not high enough and that's why it was able to play?
The thing is if I play this on my archos 70 or ipad1 with XBMC, the picture quality is perfect, HD looking.
Anyone noticing this?
I find that curious as well. Noticed the same thing which wonders me since 720p should be mapped 1:1 on the transformer screen. But you can really notice the difference to a (baseline) encoded 1080p Video!
Can Dice Player play movies from NAS drive? And if you need thread about dice I think it is this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16273817#post16273817
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I tried this and now about 1/2 to 3/4 of my 720p files can be played smoothly.
Wondering though, the ones that do play, have a slight pixelated appearance to them, I was dissapointed in its visual appearance. I don't think its related to this player but the Tf in general? Perhaps bitrate is not high enough and that's why it was able to play?
The thing is if I play this on my archos 70 or ipad1 with XBMC, the picture quality is perfect, HD looking.
Anyone noticing this?
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I played Rango in a 720P DiVXHD the other day (in MoboPlayer I believe), and I was really impressed with the quality (playing over the network nonetheless)... I'l have to go back and try it again and really pay attention to the visual quality of it. Overall though, I thought it looked great, and noticeably better than any of the 480p videos I play on it.
When I was saying that video playback gets stuck I meant I was using the Diceplayer 3 day trial version. Everything I played that contained a AC3 or DTS track caused the video to freeze after a few seconds of playback. FF a bit and it plays then freezes again.
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When I was saying that video playback gets stuck I meant I was using the Diceplayer 3 day trial version. Everything I played that contained a AC3 or DTS track caused the video to freeze after a few seconds of playback. FF a bit and it plays then freezes again.
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Because the player is only using the cpu to decode the ac3 audiostream. Combine this with the load from the video-decoding and there is not enough cpu power. Even at 1500Mhz i have not enough power for all my mkvs.
I tend to forget that when I ran a 2.4Ghz AMD CPU on my desktop the highest res I could play were 720p MKV's most of the time. I am guessing some sorta hardware acceleration needs to be achieved in the codecs for it to play them smoothly?
I recorded a Full HD MP4 video with my Samsung Galaxy S2, where I can play back it absolutely smoothly. Then I copied it to my TF's internal SD card and it stutters like hell with the same player.
I would never have expected this, because both devices should have pretty similar performance hardwarewise.
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I recorded a Full HD MP4 video with my Samsung Galaxy S2, where I can play back it absolutely smoothly. Then I copied it to my TF's internal SD card and it stutters like hell with the same player.
I would never have expected this, because both devices should have pretty similar performance hardwarewise.
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Full HD is not good.
Tegra 2 only supports Baseline for Full HD. You should check the video and which profile it has.
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Full HD is not good.
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But it should be. If you search Google for "Tegra 2 Full HD Video" you'll find several hints, that it should work like a charm, like in THIS product presentation video. I wonder, which player they are using in this demo.
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But it should be. If you search Google for "Tegra 2 Full HD Video" you'll find several hints, that it should work like a charm, like in THIS product presentation video. I wonder, which player they are using in this demo.
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Tegra 2 is able to play Full HD but (and this is a big but) only Baseline Profile.
And that's the problem: Baseline is dying which makes Full HD on Tegra 2 a useless feature.
I think it's this device/Honeycomb. I had no issues playing main profile with B-frames (no CABAC/Weighted-P or B-frames) on my Elocity A7 (Froyo). Same files do not play on Transformer.
I could never get CABAC to work, but even 2.35 cropped 1080p files played.
I'm really impressed that Dice can do mkv. It's very computationally intensive as far as containers go. Might have to give it a try.
Something's jacked up and one day it will magicly fix itself.
The main info thread said that 3.2 was supposed to have better media support. What works better?
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Today I went outside and recorded some 1080P video of my son playing in the rain. However after I downloaded the video to my PC it appears to be really choppy. Though in the properties it says its 30 frames / second. Any suggestions. Also I am not sure what class my microSDHC card is, though its a 16 GB card. what kind of experiences have other Sensation users had with video recording?
Update, I didn't think the Class rating was on my microSDHC card, but after I removed it, I did find the class rating in a circle. I have a class 2 microSDHC card. Which according to the standards is only 2 MB/s.
Class Speed
Class 2 2 MB/s
Class 4 4 MB/s
Class 6 6 MB/s
Class 10 10 MB/s
Before I go out and blow the big bucks on a 32 GB class 10, could somebody please confirm that they don't have the video recording problems with 1080P using a Sensation?
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Today I went outside and recorded some 1080P video of my son playing in the rain. However after I downloaded the video to my PC it appears to be really choppy. Though in the properties it says its 30 frames / second. Any suggestions. Also I am not sure what class my microSDHC card is, though its a 16 GB card. what kind of experiences have other Sensation users had with video recording?
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Is it choppy if you playback on the phone? If it's smooth then the likely problem is the PC or the video player you're using.
Mine plays back smoothly on my PC. I have a class 6 16Gb SD. You could try putting the original SD back in as a test.
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Playing 1080p videos on a pc requires a high end pc. That may be the problem. Have you ever watchwd a 1080p movie before on your pc? I suggest you to download and install coreavc which is a codec especially for mkv files but it may help with any othet hd videos. And what are your computer specs hy the way? Ram cpu and vga?
My computer is an Intel Core i7 with 12 GB of RAM and is running off 3 x 60GB Vertex 2 SSDs in RAID 0. I somehow doubt its my computer.
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My computer is an Intel Core i7 with 12 GB of RAM and is running off 3 x 60GB Vertex 2 SSDs in RAID 0. I somehow doubt its my computer.
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Yeah, probably not. Does the video play smoothly on the phone? If not, try the original SD. If it's not the class 2 SD, then not sure what to say, except 1080p videos play fine for me with no choppiness.
Actually on my phone the video looks smooth. I am not sure what the deal is.
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Actually on my phone the video looks smooth. I am not sure what the deal is.
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What video player are you using on the PC? Maybe a poor codec. Just guessing. Even with VLC, which isn't the fastest, on a PC with a lot less horsepower and RAM than yours, 1080p phone video playback is smooth for me.
Yes the problem may be related to codecs installed or the media player you are using
Try installing coreavc codec and playing the videos with the VLC player.both are free
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Yes the problem may be related to codecs installed or the media player you are using
Try installing coreavc codec and playing the videos with the VLC player.both are free
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Not to get sidetracked, but VLC can't use Coreavc. It could help with another video player but VLC uses it's own codecs. GPU acceleration is supported by VLC and might help depending on the HW.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=91102
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Not to get sidetracked, but VLC can't use Coreavc. It could help with another video player but VLC uses it's own codecs. GPU acceleration is supported by VLC and might help depending on the HW.
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Thanks a lot! did not know that.
Just tried VLC, and the video is much smoother now. I guess the built in Windows Media Player just can't pull it off. I really wish the camera on these phones had some kind of antishake feature, as its really hard to hold the phone steady when walking.
Thanks for all your help
thanks to samnada you get make it smoother by using coreavc codec with windows media player classic home cinema.
http://www.logichaos.com/joomla/gui...nfigure-media-player-classic-and-coreavc.html
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Do yourself a favor and get the K-LITE codec pack. No problems with full HD even on my weak 3 year old laptop. I have about 3 hours worth of 1080p video from the sensation .
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thanks to samnada you get make it smoother by using coreavc codec with windows media player classic home cinema.
http://www.logichaos.com/joomla/gui...nfigure-media-player-classic-and-coreavc.html
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Good info. Thanks.
so i was hoping that ICS would fix all the mkv issues since on my galaxy nexus every mkv i have plays perfectly.
but sadly that is not the case. MX and BS players are the best and only lag when theres a lot of things going on, like the final battle in thor.
anyway, my mkvs are all that high baseband or whatever, and i haven't bothered redoing them, or trying to convert them because i was hoping that ICS would actually allow them to play.
now that it hasn't, i guess it's finally time to convert them all so i can play them.
so i'm asking for help for a program that will allow me to convert all of these so that they can actually play on the transformer, but without any loss of quality, or any increase in file size. currently they're all around 7GB.
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This is probably not the exact answer you're looking for but you can read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
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Use DicePlayer, supports hardware decode
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@curti: not sure if that will do what i want, but i'll give it a shot. i'll try anything at this point.
@nxt: DicePlayer is unable to play high profile 720p mkvs on the transformer without lag. This is true in all versions of honeycomb and in ICS. and ICS makes it even worse. Only players that are even somewhat watchable are MX and BS, and both still lag.
quick smart arse answer- stop whining, recode your goddam videos and accept the fact that the Tegra 2 chip is and always will be underpowered to play mkv's.
question: who the hell wants to play mkv's on a 10inch tab anyway, get a TV.
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quick smart arse answer- stop whining, recode your goddam videos and accept the fact that the Tegra 2 chip is and always will be underpowered to play mkv's.
question: who the hell wants to play mkv's on a 10inch tab anyway, get a TV.
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if you bothered to even read my original post, i asked how to recode them.
And i want to play mkvs on a 10 inch tab because i can't carry around a tv to school or on an airplane, and my tab has an HDMI out that i can plug it into a TV to play said videos.
also make sure you have the tegra 2 plugin for dice player, works fine for avi and mkv on ICS.
I use xenonmkv to transcode. It leaves the video alone but repacks the video and audio in a mp4 format. More tegra2 friendly.
720p mkv should play natively on ics as of now.I got them playing though I encountered an issue with audio not working with the stock app.
@bob dylan: i have the tegra2 plugin installed. dice lags so bad everything is unwatchable.
@pongo: sounds like an idea. any changes in file size? my mkvs are around 7gb, i don't want them to get any bigger.
@DarkLG: not sure how your able to play them, myself and many others are unable to get them to work properly on any player.
Use handbrake to recode ur vids , soo many options so i betting ull find 1 that works for you
ive been using the high profile option in handbrake and i havnt had a issuse yet..
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Use handbrake to recode ur vids , soo many options so i betting ull find 1 that works for you
ive been using the high profile option in handbrake and i havnt had a issuse yet..
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that defeats the purpose of this thread.... even a Galaxy S1 can decode high profile 720p MKV with dice player and stock, there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
encoding a video takes too much time and it shouldn't be necessary.
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that defeats the purpose of this thread.... even a Galaxy S1 can decode high profile 720p MKV with dice player and stock, there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
encoding a video takes too much time and it shouldn't be necessary.
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actually zephik, my original post was asking how to reencode them to get them to work. so he was right in what he said.
I do agree with you though, there is no reason why the transformer can't do it other than issues in honeycomb and ICS. my galaxy nexus can play even do 1080p videos without any issues, but i'd much rather watch things on a 10" screen instead of a 4.6"
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there should absolutely be NO reason why a asus transformer on a duo-core can't process 720p mkvs when a single core can.
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I do agree with you though, there is no reason why the transformer can't do it other than issues in honeycomb and ICS. my galaxy nexus can play even do 1080p videos without any issues, but i'd much rather watch things on a 10" screen instead of a 4.6"
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Why the hell you keep comparing Tegra 2 with Nexus's TI OMAP cpu assisted with PowerVR GPU? Despite same Cortex-A9 "base" architecture those are totally different CPU/GPU systems. All you see is that marketing bull**** with "CORES! Ghz!"?!
Tegra 2 is missing SIMD-instructions block needed to succesfully decode high profile/high bitrate h264 video in hardware accelerated mode. And you have nothing to do with it. Point.
And talking about high bitrate - 7GB sized videos looks like 9-10Mbps video stream for regular 1h40m movies. Thats way too high for Tegra2. Its upper limit is somewhere near 5Mbps. And preferable Main Profile encoded.
But if you want - you can continue complaining and comparing your TF with nexus or whatever you want. Thats pointless.
So the bottom line is - reencode.
You can find Handbrake profile on this forum, for example. Or try to find best acceptable settings yourself.
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Why the hell you keep comparing Tegra 2 with Nexus's TI OMAP cpu assisted with PowerVR GPU? Despite same Cortex-A9 "base" architecture those are totally different CPU/GPU systems. All you see is that marketing bull**** with "CORES! Ghz!"?!
Tegra 2 is missing SIMD-instructions block needed to succesfully decode high profile/high bitrate h264 video in hardware accelerated mode. And you have nothing to do with it. Point.
And talking about high bitrate - 7GB sized videos looks like 9-10Mbps video stream for regular 1h40m movies. Thats way too high for Tegra2. Its upper limit is somewhere near 5Mbps. And preferable Main Profile encoded.
But if you want - you can continue complaining and comparing your TF with nexus or whatever you want. Thats pointless.
So the bottom line is - reencode.
You can find Handbrake profile on this forum, for example. Or try to find best acceptable settings yourself.
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i think the reason why people, myself included, assumed that is because the tegra2 was being shown off as being capable of playing HD video, which, it is, but just not all hd video, and not the most common form of it, in the high profile.
i do thank you for giving a technical reason though. i had always been under the impression that the tegra is simply the most powerful out there, when i got my Gnex, that was proven very wrong.
i've been looking into the reencoding, as well as reripping. and thanks to a few good posters i have some good setups. Now just to setup my laptop and hopefully that will be powerful enough so it doesn't take 20 hours to do one movie.
Hey guys, I'm waiting on my tablet to come in from best buy. In the mean time I'm getting ready to start converting movies to be ready to throw on when it gets in and I get a 64gb card for it (hope it works without too much fighting). So I'm hoping some of you guys can help me out with video settings. I want a balance of size/quality. and to keep size as far under 1gb each as possible for a standard 90 minute movie. I'm also a huge Futurama/American Dad/ Family Guy/ Simpsons/Southpark fan so obviously lower quality can be used, so if you have converted this type of animated stuff, what settings seemed to give the smallest size while retaining quality for the TF700? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hey guys, I'm waiting on my tablet to come in from best buy. In the mean time I'm getting ready to start converting movies to be ready to throw on when it gets in and I get a 64gb card for it (hope it works without too much fighting). So I'm hoping some of you guys can help me out with video settings. I want a balance of size/quality. and to keep size as far under 1gb each as possible for a standard 90 minute movie. I'm also a huge Futurama/American Dad/ Family Guy/ Simpsons/Southpark fan so obviously lower quality can be used, so if you have converted this type of animated stuff, what settings seemed to give the smallest size while retaining quality for the TF700? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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IMHO even for animation thats way to low a bitrate. I would go with handbrake high profile, shoot for 3-5mbps 720p if they are HD originals. If they are 480p originals then maybe you're ok with that bitrate.
Personally i shoot for 4gb movies.
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IMHO even for animation thats way to low a bitrate. I would go with handbrake high profile, shoot for 3-5mbps 720p if they are HD originals. If they are 480p originals then maybe you're ok with that bitrate.
Personally i shoot for 4gb movies.
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This isnt going to be my sole movie experience device. This is my travel and work companion. 1-1.5 is where I stick for a good action movie. But comedies and such I go lower. Animation I stick around 700mb. When im getting drunk on an airplane, I want to make sure my movies arnt blotchy and pixilated, but they dont have the be blue ray quality. I run a media server at home (plex) and that's where I keep the levels far higher.
I may have to give hand brake a try, I have been using format factory for years because I can make so many adjustments and chose the containers and formats.
get dvdcatalyst to convert your movies. It has a few presets for all devices. they can range from 1 to 4gb, depending on the initial size of the movie and the quality you want. i highly recommend it.
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I appreciate the advice. I don't have an issue converting, I'm just trying to get some feedback as to the actual presets your using as to ratio, bit rate, file type and container types, so on.
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Here's what I personally use, you can set what you like otherwise...
For TV DVD sources, I convert them from anamorphic to square pixel, and then crop widescreen movies as necessary. 640x480 SD videos I use a bitrate of 1mbps. Widescreen stuff I give 1.5mbps. These are the copies I watch on the TV, tablet, phone, whatever and I can't tell any quality difference between the original and the h264 encode. At these levels I can fit all of Home Movies, Futurama S1-5, The Office S1-4 and all of ATHF on one 64gb card.
For movies, since these are just portable copies and not my full versions for home viewing, I use the same standards above for SD sources, and for HD sources I scale it down to 720p, crop if necessary, and use a 2mbps bitrate. (you could insist on a 1080p encode, but on a 10" screen are you really going to notice the difference and need to add in the extra bps?) You get a little more pixelation at times, but nothing unwatchable. This keeps it light enough to stream over my local network and small enough that you can fit a lot on while still being a good watchable version.
All audio I drop to a 96kpbs stereo mix.
This is what works for me. What works for any of you may be different depending on what you use it for.
Exactly what I was looking for.
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what are the appropriate codec (video & audio) settings to get hardware acceleration and native player support?
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what are the appropriate codec (video & audio) settings to get hardware acceleration and native player support?
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For the native player you need h.264(avc) video and stereo aac audio.
i have movies that are h264 and DTS 5.1. I just drop them on my 64gb card (inserted into the doc) and they play fine, nice and crisp. No need to convert. They are about 4gb in size.
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i have movies that are h264 and DTS 5.1. I just drop them on my 64gb card (inserted into the doc) and they play fine, nice and crisp. No need to convert. They are about 4gb in size.
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Your playing dts on the native player? Me thinks not. BS player will however,but asked about native
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Your playing dts on the native player? Me thinks not. BS player will however,but asked about native
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yeah, sorry, using BS. native will play the movie, but no sound.
Does anyone have any problems playing 1080p videos on your TF700?
Thinking of getting one but not if there are any issues with 1080p videos.
I've tried streaming some 1080p movies off my local media server, didn't work too well (Straight DLNA, several players). It would play, but it was pretty choppy. Using the Plex app to transcode it, it would play fairly smooth but it was easy to tell it was dropping the quality to do so. I've got a keyboard dock ordered, will be in next week. I'm wanting to give it a try playing straight off a usb stick and see what happens. (Eliminate the Wifi).
I'm running stock, haven't had a chance to do much with customizing yet. I had high expectations with the Tegra 3, so I'm hoping I can get some combination to work.
There are some issues, yes. If you kill off all bloatware, use BS or MX player, turn on performance mode and turn off ALL other apps, they'll run, but it might still stutter on occasion.
I couldn't get any 1080p MKV videos to play They played, but only showed a black screen. I had to use 720p MKV. Although, BS Player performed the best.
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I've tried streaming some 1080p movies off my local media server, didn't work too well (Straight DLNA, several players). It would play, but it was pretty choppy. Using the Plex app to transcode it, it would play fairly smooth but it was easy to tell it was dropping the quality to do so. I've got a keyboard dock ordered, will be in next week. I'm wanting to give it a try playing straight off a usb stick and see what happens. (Eliminate the Wifi).
I'm running stock, haven't had a chance to do much with customizing yet. I had high expectations with the Tegra 3, so I'm hoping I can get some combination to work.
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How about over a wireless network? What ROM are you using?
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I couldn't get any 1080p MKV videos to play They played, but only showed a black screen. I had to use 720p MKV. Although, BS Player performed the best.
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At all? Have you tried DICE video player?
Yes, Dice, Mobobplayer, BS, VLC nightlies, and a couple others I tried just for for testing. All played the standard stuff fine, VLC seemed to do the best with some of the other formats.
i play 1080 movies off sdcard via BS and MX and don't have any material problems with 'em.
doody.
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i play 1080 movies off sdcard via BS and MX and don't have any material problems with 'em.
doody.
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Thanks Doody, is that 1080p MKV files?
MrDoody said:
i play 1080 movies off sdcard via BS and MX and don't have any material problems with 'em.
doody.
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Which codec? Which framerate? Progressive or Interlaced? Pal or NTSC? All these matter.
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Which codec? Which framerate? Progressive or Interlaced? Pal or NTSC? All these matter.
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PAL or NTSC are 576i or 480i, but never 1080p. All other factors mentioned do matter, also: encoding bitrate.
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PAL or NTSC are 576i or 480i, but never 1080p. All other factors mentioned do matter, also: encoding bitrate.
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Sssst. Asking PAL/NTSC is my way of filtering out people who have no clue what they're talking about.
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Sssst. Asking PAL/NTSC is my way of filtering out people who have no clue what they're talking about.
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Ever heard about frame rate? 30/60 i/p for USA and Japan and 25/50 i/p for the rest of the world?
I had previously bought and returned tf700 because playback was choppy when playing my mpeg2 1080i video's. This is the format my videos are in and i dont want to re encode. I was also only getting 2 hr's. Battery life while watching my mpeg2's. Does that sound right? Ipickf i was to root and overclock would it make video playback much smoother? If so and im on ebay looking for tf700, do i need to ask anything to know its android compatible?
That doesn't sound right to me at least. Tegra 3 should support MPEG2 just fine (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28677759), but I can't say for sure because most of my movies are encoded in H.264. If you have a sample video, I would gladly give it a double check. Btw, just to be thorough, what player did you use? Did you play your videos with hardware acceleration? You will definitely drain your battery faster if you use software decoders to play videos (using the CPU) instead of hardware decoder (offloading the task to GPU).
As far as i know mpeg2 does not support hw acceleration. i use mx player. Basically im looking for a 10 inch display for the cheapest i can find that can handle my 1080i mpeg's, taken from TiVo. I thought tf700 might fit the bill?
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As far as i know mpeg2 does not support hw acceleration. i use mx player. Basically im looking for a 10 inch display for the cheapest i can find that can handle my 1080i mpeg's, taken from TiVo. I thought tf700 might fit the bill?
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If you look at Tegra 3's spec sheet on Nvidia website, it is stated that Tegra 3 fully support MPEG-2 decoding, so I don't think what you say is true. Regardless, why don't you provide a sample video or at least other information regarding your videos like bit rates, formats, profiles, etc...? And btw, MX Player has its own decoder called "H/W+", have you tried it? You should also give Dice Player and BS Player a try if you haven't.
If all else fails, just get a Nexus 10, people have played really high bit-rate videos on the Nexus 10 that far exceed any videos you encounter normally.