What do people use to play movie files?
I use moboplayer and the default video player. I like how the default clears the screen whereas moboplayer leaves the back/home/recent apps and menue button.
is there any way to remove these whilst playing video files?
Dice Player. It has played everything I've thrown at it.
I came across mx video player after reading another topic on xda and i love it. It plays just about anything i throw at it and uses H/W accelleration and has a screen swipe for fast forward and rewind and options on screen setup and layout. Best of all its free !
Jason.
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+1 Dice Player
dice player is good. i cant say it plays *everything* i've thrown at it though. most 720p scene encodes i've tried seem to struggle.
Unfortunately, I there is no one player solution for HC yet. Dice player and MX Player are among the good ones but neither play "everything".
str1nger said:
What do people use to play movie files?
I use moboplayer and the default video player. I like how the default clears the screen whereas moboplayer leaves the back/home/recent apps and menue button.
is there any way to remove these whilst playing video files?
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I've been looking for the same thing. I want the menu bar to clear. Dice player does it, but I've had better file playback with moboplayer. Dice player's UI isn't as nice as others but they do update frequently. I'm staying with mobo for now, maybe if some people bug them about clearing the screen on tablets, they will add it.
to save your battery, use diceplayer.
SW decoder based player like mobo/mx/vplayer need more battery than diceplayer.
SW video decoder need more CPU power & battery.
have a Question, have Tried standard Android player, MX player, Rock Player and Dice player. there is never no sound with my 720P MKV's (even though there should be) and i have a 720P MP4 that is Jerky as F***.
Also, with MX player and Diceplayer, whenever using HW rendering the video is fine but has no Sound, When SW Rendering is used its jerky With sound.. Lame !
Greenie-UK said:
have a Question, have Tried standard Android player, MX player, Rock Player and Dice player. there is never no sound with my 720P MKV's (even though there should be) and i have a 720P MP4 that is Jerky as F***.
Also, with MX player and Diceplayer, whenever using HW rendering the video is fine but has no Sound, When SW Rendering is used its jerky With sound.. Lame !
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Could you post your MP4 file's MediaInfo?
(Container / Codec info )
Daroon player... plays DVD's with Menu!
+1 DicePlayer
Plays most things I throw at it (more than the others I've tried)
Handles mutli-audio & multi-subtitles (even ass/aas MKV ones)
Streaming from ES File Explorer.
Damn good dev feedback
Happy.
I'm pretty sure mono has hardware decoding. It gets choppy for me when I use its software decoding.
juami said:
to save your battery, use diceplayer.
SW decoder based player like mobo/mx/vplayer need more battery than diceplayer.
SW video decoder need more CPU power & battery.
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Buzz player, V player, QQ Player.
With those 3 have played everything.
Dice player plays most files using hardware acceleration.
Worth every penny !!
+1 Dice player. It's very simple but for me is the best player for my transformer
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I'm pretty sure mono has hardware decoding. It gets choppy for me when I use its software decoding.
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Diceplayer can play any combinations of audio codec(aac/dts/ac3/flac) and containers(avi,mkv,mp4,mov....) with HW video acceleration.
But other players(QQ,Mobo,vPlayer....) can play supported format/audio codec by system with HW acceleration.
All of non supported combinations ( like a DTS+MKV, MOV,... ) are played by SW codec.
str1nger said:
moboplayer leaves the back/home/recent apps and menue button.
is there any way to remove these whilst playing video files?
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You could use Hide Bar for this.
Site: http://ppareit.github.com/HideBar/
Code: https://github.com/ppareit/HideBar
I used that until revolver incorporated a similar feature.
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New MX Video Player 1.3 is really nice. The UI has been redone quite a bit. The task bar now goes into the dim mode during playback (I think that's new). Playback is great for XViD... haven't tried any x264+AC3/DTS, but it should be pretty good since it is able to HW decode the video and SW decode the audio.
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I'm looking for a videop player that can play avi, mkv, m4v, and mp4. I'm currently using mVideo Player Pro, but it seem not to like avi, mkv, and m4v. Any help would be appretiated.
QQplayer
QQplayer android market
Try LittlePlayer, there's a free version that plays 5 mins of video to see if it will play what you want. It's the only video player besides stock (that I've come across) that fades out the status bar at the bottom of the screen, a MUCH appreciated feature. More video players need to do this or we need more people to support this player.
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QQplayer android market
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good find!
...are you from cuba?
I use Vplayer (from the market). Seems to work ok so far, I haven't tested all the file types yet though.
I try and use the default player if possible (as it using hardware decoding) but otherwise I use Moboplayer.
Rock player! it plays every format!
MoboPlayer, no lag with MKV files. Lovely
bud77 said:
MoboPlayer, no lag with MKV files. Lovely
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+1 for MoboPlayer, I've found it a bit smoother than RockPlayer in my experience.
bud77 said:
MoboPlayer, no lag with MKV files. Lovely
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i have played 4GB mkv , no lag and smooth but without sound . do you have this problem ?
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i have played 4GB mkv , no lag and smooth but without sound . do you have this problem ?
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i had it too...
yes from Havana and I live in Louisvile, KY
mVideoplayer is running fine. It plays all my 720p High Profile mkv's (re-encoded according to the guide @xda).
Moboplayer and Rockplayer were also playing the files, but together with subtitles (srt's) they didn't get the job done (smoothly without subtitles, but with much lag when subtitles where shown) where mVideoplayer does it right.
I will give Littleplayer a try, because of hiding the status bar. Hopefully it's capable of playing subtitles.
Unfortunately Littleplayer does not support subtitles, but I like the hidden dockbar very much. If I could mix Littleplayer with mVideoplayer I would have the perfect videoplayer.
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mVideoplayer is running fine. It plays all my 720p High Profile mkv's (re-encoded according to the guide @xda).
Moboplayer and Rockplayer were also playing the files, but together with subtitles (srt's) they didn't get the job done (smoothly without subtitles, but with much lag when subtitles where shown) where mVideoplayer does it right.
I will give Littleplayer a try, because of hiding the status bar. Hopefully it's capable of playing subtitles.
Unfortunately Littleplayer does not support subtitles, but I like the hidden dockbar very much. If I could mix Littleplayer with mVideoplayer I would have the perfect videoplayer.
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Sir, I have mvideoplayer as well, but will not play mkv's or avi's. How did you get your to play mkv's?
tdvc1986 said:
i have played 4GB mkv , no lag and smooth but without sound . do you have this problem ?
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I've heard ppl having the same issue, but never experienced it myself
Also, try to set the langages in the preferences before playing it
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Sir, I have mvideoplayer as well, but will not play mkv's or avi's. How did you get your to play mkv's?
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I don't know, it just plays all my movies from the start. I was experimenting with almost all players, but none of them were good for my demands (working subtitles). mVideoplayer plays every movie which I've encoded. I don't know in what way you open the movies, but I start them from an explorer, not from within the program itself. Maybe that works. I also had these problems with Rockplayer and Moboplayer. All my mkv's are re-encoded from the guide found here @ xda.
All movies should be re-encoded to change the ac3 sound to aac, otherwise you don't have any audio! I think this solves the no-sound issue with the mkv's.
Can you share this link for the guide?
My 720p or 1080p LOST Blu-Ray rips are playing in amazing quality on MOBO player but no sound unfortunately. I installed all the codecs from MOBO but still no luck. The picture quality is impressive though.
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Can you share this link for the guide?
My 720p or 1080p LOST Blu-Ray rips are playing in amazing quality on MOBO player but no sound unfortunately. I installed all the codecs from MOBO but still no luck. The picture quality is impressive though.
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Doing a quick search i came up with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092965
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102243
I meant this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
When you're on HC 3.1 you don't have to encode the video anymore, only the ac3/DTS sound to aac to have sound on the TF. Then, the guides above will also be good enough and these will take less time to encode. When you're on HC 3.01 you have to encode video too.
I just used the attached presets from my link and I got perfect videoquality and sound, with seperate srt's I also have subtitles.
I had been using RockPlayer on my Android 2.2 GTab and it was my best choice for video playback. When I got my Android 3.1 TF, RockPlayer Lite would work but you couldn't activate it because of the HC OS. They have a new HC 3.1 release now and it works perfect for me and activates perfect. (I did have to buy another license but a great program and worth the $9.99 for me...)
Can anybody tell me which video player they prefer between Dice Player and MX Player? I've already purchased Dice Player and want to find out if there are any discerning differences between the two before I decide to pay for MX Video. If you've used both and prefer one over the other please let me know why you made the choice you did.
Thanks.
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I've been using MX player with no issues with anything I throw at it, so it word for me, I haven't tried dice player though...
are you having any issues with dice that you are thinking MX player might not have?
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I've had a number of files that will play video but not audio with MX Player....same files work fine and great in Diceplayer.
MX might say it has compatibility, but apparently not as good as diceplayer does.
But as usual, YMMV. Just what I've seen.
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I've had a number of files that will play video but not audio with MX Player....same files work fine and great in Diceplayer.
MX might say it has compatibility, but apparently not as good as diceplayer does.
But as usual, YMMV. Just what I've seen.
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+1.. mainly MKVs.
DICE Player all the way for me.
Dice Player is the best for me.
Dice works best for me as well
That's exactly the answers I was looking for. Now I wont need to buy MX since I have Dice and it works great. I just wanted to make sure that MX didn't have something new to offer. Thanks guys.
Dice puts out quite a few updates, more than I've seen for MX. I'm satisfied with my dice purchase.
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The real problem I've noticed is that MX Player seems to have smoother playback, but I don't know if that's because it doesn't playback the audio as well, or if it's because it (supposedly) uses both cores. My personal opinion is that it's mainly because it doesn't playback audio as well.
Either way, I still prefer Diceplayer over MX Player.
Dice player works on HC3.2?
mine always FC on opening.
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That's exactly the answers I was looking for. Now I wont need to buy MX since I have Dice and it works great. I just wanted to make sure that MX didn't have something new to offer. Thanks guys.
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buy MX Player? I thought MX was free from the gecko.
@bradputt: yes. try uninstalling it and reinstalling.
zephiK said:
buy MX Player? I thought MX was free from the gecko.
@bradputt: yes. try uninstalling it and reinstalling.
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It's like $5 on the market but no worries, I like Dice Player anyways so I won't need to buy MX Player now. I finally tried an add-supported copy and I came to realize that it's no better than Dice player. All is well, thanks guys.
I've got a free MX player.. Not sure how. But anyways, I went into the options, checked "always use software decoding (Fast mode) and it works flawlessly. I was having alot of issues with the other players and mkv files quitting sound all the itme.
whats the difference between hardware and software decoding? Does it matteR?
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I've got a free MX player.. Not sure how. But anyways, I went into the options, checked "always use software decoding (Fast mode) and it works flawlessly. I was having alot of issues with the other players and mkv files quitting sound all the itme.
whats the difference between hardware and software decoding? Does it matteR?
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Although S/W playback will play more media formats than H/W will, H/W uses the Tegra dual core technology to playback a higher framework video than S/W playback can. I've played both S/W and H/W formats and Honeycomb tablets can utilize and playback 720p MKV files with Full H/W acceleration while playing S/W formats cannot. Plus H/W acceleration uses less battery power for playback than S/W playback
If your looking for a guide to encode your videos in H/W format for large video sizes you can check THIS thread here.
Since you already have MX Player you should be able to utilize the same principles as you would if you used Dice Player. So you should be good to go.
If anybody feels as if I overlooked something here please feel free to jump in.
Thanks...
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Dice player works on HC3.2?
mine always FC on opening.
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Update it. The Dev has updated it something like 5 or 6 times since 3.2 was released. I don't get many force closes anymore, only when I'm trying to play a high bit rate file and want to jump around alot. Has issues, but not as many as it used to, thats for sure.
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It's like $5 on the market but no worries, I like Dice Player anyways so I won't need to buy MX Player now. I finally tried an add-supported copy and I came to realize that it's no better than Dice player. All is well, thanks guys.
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Oh, https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
its the Ad-Free version.
@AcIdC0R3: Honestly, I find encoding to be ridiculous. You shouldn't need to do extra work just to get it working on a Dual-core device when single-core devices such as Hummingbird can process it just fine. DICE Player... no encoding needed.
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Oh, https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro
its the Ad-Free version.
@AcIdC0R3: Honestly, I find encoding to be ridiculous. You shouldn't need to do extra work just to get it working on a Dual-core device when single-core devices such as Hummingbird can process it just fine. DICE Player... no encoding needed.
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Just curious, but what file type do you use and do you not use H/W encoding? Do you see no discernible difference between S/W and H/W playback?
The only work I do is convert a VOB file to an .m4v file and then transfer to my removable media. No extra work is needed. I let Dice player do all the hard work.
Thanks...
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Dice player works on HC3.2?
mine always FC on opening.
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if you use Diceplayer 1.5.3 (from Market militia), It never works.
Download diceplayer from Android market.
Diceplayer is the only HW video player.
MX Player has very optimized ffmpeg codec.
But MX is not H/W video player, it is well optimized S/W video player.
MX use multi-threads , VFP3 , ARMv7 optimized codec but it is HW optimized SW codec.
Diceplayer use Tegra2's HW Video decoder engine. so Diceplayer has problems from Tegra2 HW Video decoder ( NO Weighted Predictions )
Galaxy S2 shows what is difference of HW optimized SW codec and HW video codec.
In Galaxy S2, Diceplayer can play 1080p/i with Full HW Accelerations, but no one that use SW codec(even NEON version) can handle 1080p/i.
I bought my Eee Pad this friday, and I've been trying to get some 720p playback. It seems from searches that .mkv 720p playback isn't possible, so I tried some .mp4 720p files instead. Picture's running great, but when running HW decoding I get no sound - I have tried a bunch of players, I think almost everyone in the market. I've searched the forum, but can't seem to find any solution that works.
Dice Player, YX Player, MoboPlayer, Rockplayer - neither of them does the job.
I find it frustrating, since video playback is one of the main reasons I bought this device.
Check the sound settings of the .mkv and .mp4 files. The transformer doesn't do 5.1 digital. If your files are that type, there are quick programs that can recode just the sound, and leave the video the same(quick, as in 10-20 minutes).
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Check the sound settings of the .mkv and .mp4 files. The transformer doesn't do 5.1 digital. If your files are that type, there are quick programs that can recode just the sound, and leave the video the same(quick, as in 10-20 minutes).
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Says it's 6-channel sound, so that must be the problem - which programs should I be looking into?
Also try MX Player...
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Also try MX Player...
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I did actually try MX Player too - I've tried so many players that I don't remember names on all of them.
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I did actually try MX Player too - I've tried so many players that I don't remember names on all of them.
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I have faced the problem with many files, MX Player usually works if I switch to SW decode. Look for the HW icon on top right, this is a toggle if you press it will switch to SW decode and you should get audio.
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I have faced the problem with many files, MX Player usually works if I switch to SW decode. Look for the HW icon on top right, this is a toggle if you press it will switch to SW decode and you should get audio.
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Yes, correct - MX Player does give me sound in SW decode, but it also gives me laggy video and sound isn't synced properly.
I just did a conversion using AVIdemux 2.5, to reencode the sound to stereo - plays as supposed to now, sound and smooth image. Took somewhat 20 minutes to reencode a 2½ hour movie.
I have been having the same problems as well iam hoping that they fix it soon
Pretty damn annoying - DICE can no longer play most of my videos for the last couple months. Ever since I upgraded to ICS (tried 4 different roms, no change). It used to play MKV's with hardware accelleration and decode the audio in software. No problem when you're overclocked to 1.7
Installed the new nvidia codecs, still no change. Any ideas?
You might want to try the new version of dice player there are 2 apps one is labeled (old) now so maybe try the new one and download the tegra 2 plugin
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You might want to try the new version of dice player there are 2 apps one is labeled (old) now so maybe try the new one and download the tegra 2 plugin
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Unfortunately, already tried that. Also tried MX Player, MX Player Pro and Rockplayer.
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Unfortunately, already tried that. Also tried MX Player, MX Player Pro and Rockplayer.
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which firmware are you running?
MX Player removed DTS playback a couple of months ago due to licensing issues.
Maybe if you found a old release of the app you can play your videos again
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769799
Thanks for the work around. It works but a bit buggy. Each time you want to switch movies you have to uncheck and recheck the external codec. Also movies do not forward in dice player properly.
BSplayer still decodes DTS audio.
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BSplayer still decodes DTS audio.
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I can't get the same smooth frame rates as I can with Dice Player, still the best one in my opinion (for 1080p mkvs)
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Thanks for the work around. It works but a bit buggy. Each time you want to switch movies you have to uncheck and recheck the external codec. Also movies do not forward in dice player properly.
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You can try with the VLC beta on the Playstore. As far as I remember, it has DTS support and it's smooth (at least on my Galaxy S3).
I'm having trouble with the libffmpeg.so plug in.
The DTS files would cause the player to kick back out when libffmpeg.so plugin was enabled. Without it enabled, it'd just say that the video file can't be played.
I had to download Diceplayer 2.0.6 with the Tegra Plug-in in order to get the DTS movies to work.
Is anyone able to get libffmpeg.so working on their Transformer TF101 ?
I'm back on my 2 year old Galaxy S for a few months while I wait on a Galaxy Note II. I wanted to point out that while this thread offers a solution, I was still not able to find the best solution for a slower phone.
Dice Player (latest). Obviously doesn't work.
Dice Player with external plugin, is forced to do software decoding. Very choppy on a Galaxy S.
(stock) Video Player. Sound doesn't work.
BS Player (software decode), works, but very slow framerate.
BS Player (hardware decode), buggy. Screen blanks out every second or so. Too annoying to watch a video.
VLC Player (software) too choppy
VLC Player (hardware) video and sound is good (won't load subtitles)
I felt like Mario looking for Princess Toadstool.
So I've been on this quest. Finally found a working solution. Dice Player 1.8.2. Old version. Works perfectly without any tweaks.
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I'm back on my 2 year old Galaxy S for a few months while I wait on a Galaxy Note II. I wanted to point out that while this thread offers a solution, I was still not able to find the best solution for a slower phone.
Dice Player (latest). Obviously doesn't work.
Dice Player with external plugin, is forced to do software decoding. Very choppy on a Galaxy S.
(stock) Video Player. Sound doesn't work.
BS Player (software decode), works, but very slow framerate.
BS Player (hardware decode), buggy. Screen blanks out every second or so. Too annoying to watch a video.
VLC Player (software) too choppy
VLC Player (hardware) video and sound is good (won't load subtitles)
I felt like Mario looking for Princess Toadstool.
So I've been on this quest. Finally found a working solution. Dice Player 1.8.2. Old version. Works perfectly without any tweaks.
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vplayer: sound and sub, slow framerate
rockplayer lite: no sound
mVideoplayer: no sound
Moboplayer: no sound
LittlePlayer free: error
DICE player 2.0.10: no sound
Dice Player 1.8.2: "Sorry, this video cannot be played" ... doesn't work.
What's the best option for playing MKV DTS movies on the TF300? All the new players won't do DTS audio, but I hear that older versions of some software, like Dice will. But, I'm not sure that the older versions will support/use the Tegra 3.
Thanks in advance.
Found solution, but shuttering: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34649108&postcount=16
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
Says it does multi-core decoding. I'd like know how well it plays your mkv files.
MX Player with h/w+ decoding plays mine just fine. I use DSP Manager for all my Audio.
Thx, but VLC doesn't play MKV DTS videos.
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MX Player with h/w+ decoding plays mine just fine. I use DSP Manager for all my Audio.
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So you have no shuttering issues even with 1080p KMV DTS videos?
The shuttering is probably network related as I'm streaming it over WiFi, especially large files.
There's also XBMC for Android, I haven't tried it yet, but going to now: http://xbmc.org/download/
XBMC for Android works but isn't great at playing MKV files, really slow, shuttering.
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XBMC for Android works but isn't great at playing MKV files, really slow, shuttering.
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Have you found a reliable option mate? I tried MX, Dice, VLC and all have problems with DTS. There is an option to use external filters in MX, but its unreliable. I tried several files, with bitrates from 2-3k to 20+k. MX with HW+ encoding plays smoothly, but no sound.
I think I tried SopCast player and it might have played DTS, don't really remember, maybe you can give it a try.
I'm using Galaxy Nexus. If you've found a solution, don't hesitate to PM me.