I've searched around, tried QQPlayer, Kascend, Rock Player and Mobo and none of them can play the files properly. Either there is no sound or way too much lag.
Dice Player seems to be the only option out there, so since I'm a cheap bastard I want to see if there is a free alternative out there before I shell out the five bucks.
Have you tried mplayer? It's the only way to go on a linux desktop. I'd venture to say it would do well on our phones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077188
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Try daroo player in market.
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Just tried MX Video Player and Daroo...neither work.
on to mplayer.
Have you converted the files down to the res of the screen? Also for rockplayer you should try both the software and hardware decoding options before giving up
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hi..
follow this link to download free diceplayer.apk
saladtoss said:
Have you converted the files down to the res of the screen? Also for rockplayer you should try both the software and hardware decoding options before giving up
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Nah, I hate converting videos. Use to do that when I had a PS3 a few years ago. Pain in the ass.
I did.
I played around with all of the settings in every player I tried.
mrboy said:
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follow this link to download free diceplayer.apk
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Really? Is it buried in that thread for Mobile Network settings?
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How about mobo pro its free and plays everything I throw at it
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Tried a few and Diceplayer was the best in the end.
It supports HW acceleration and plays 720 videos really smooth.
Phil
bimzrus said:
How about mobo pro its free and plays everything I throw at it
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Tried it, doesn't work.
philje123 said:
Tried a few and Diceplayer was the best in the end.
It supports HW acceleration and plays 720 videos really smooth.
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Yup, the only that works for me. I'm just going to stop being cheap and shell out the $5.
I can't believe it's this difficult to get .mkv support. It's 2011, who uses .avi or .mpg anymore? EVERYTHING you download in high def is an .mkv Playing these files should be like being able to play an .mp3
Have you tried MX Video Player, there is a trial version available
that has ads, but I liked it so much I paid for it. I have managed
to get it to play 1080 mkv, it supports dual core decoding...
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Tried it, doesn't work.
Yup, the only that works for me. I'm just going to stop being cheap and shell out the $5.
I can't believe it's this difficult to get .mkv support. It's 2011, who uses .avi or .mpg anymore? EVERYTHING you download in high def is an .mkv Playing these files should be like being able to play an .mp3
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Wow, hadn't heard of .mkv. It looks good though, I need to investigate further. I guess there are many conflicting commercial aspects to it. A bit like FreeBSD/Linux in their early days vs AIX/SunOS/HPUX.....
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Wow, hadn't heard of .mkv. It looks good though, I need to investigate further. I guess there are many conflicting commercial aspects to it. A bit like FreeBSD/Linux in their early days vs AIX/SunOS/HPUX.....
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.mkv seems to be the standard with HD videos. I don't download anything unless it's 720p+ and every uploader chooses .mkv
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How about mobo pro its free and plays everything I throw at it
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Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Try it out, it's free and great.
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Any players to run AVI or WMV on the Evo? I pushed the video player from the Epic 4G via ADB but it didn't show up, so that's not gonna work.
Any alternatives? Takes me 3 hours to convert to mp4 -__-
RockPlayer
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RockPlayer
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I 2nd that...love this player. I used to spend hours converting now I just drop the AVI files into my SD card and play away. So awesome!!
honeyBfly said:
I 2nd that...love this player. I used to spend hours converting now I just drop the AVI files into my SD card and play away. So awesome!!
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Quick question regarding RockPlayer. Can you use the HDMI out with it??
Thanks
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Quick question regarding RockPlayer. Can you use the HDMI out with it??
Thanks
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nope not as of now unless by some new feature i missed lol
Rockplayer struggles with .mov files and typically FCs. AVIs have been solid...
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radiohead_freak said:
Any players to run AVI or WMV on the Evo? I pushed the video player from the Epic 4G via ADB but it didn't show up, so that's not gonna work.
Any alternatives? Takes me 3 hours to convert to mp4 -__-
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VPlayer Alpha works good for .avi's havent tried .mp4's yet
dan.kels.r said:
VPlayer Alpha works good for .avi's havent tried .mp4's yet
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+1 vplayer is also free!
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arcmedia works for me and it's free
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nope not as of now unless by some new feature i missed lol
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Yes, you can in the newer builds. It's called system mode.
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Super All In one Player 2.0
Theres also one called super all in one player it supports alot of things somethings I never even heard of lol.
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.
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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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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
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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.
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Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
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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.
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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.
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)
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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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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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"
I have the lorax blue ray rip. Its 720p, 3.5 gb large, .mkv file, and encoded in x256.
When i play it with rock player its all skippy and not even watchable, but it plays the audio just fine.
When i play it with the default player the video is just beautiful, no skipping at all. However no audio plays. What can i do to fix this? Other blue ray rips play just fine and the lorax i have plays fine in other computers.
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Just encode it into something that plays. Mp4 on a phone will still look beautiful. I use handbrake but there free or free to try out there. Check cnet downloads.
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I perfer mxplayer. I get 0 issues out of it
Motorola lied and I'm still locked mb865
Mx player is the best, even vlc plays a broad spectrum of formats. A HD movie in avi format wasnt playing properly in MX, which played flawlessly in vlc.
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+1000 for MX Player. It is so good I paid the $5.60 for the paid version, which does nothing extra except no ads. But I felt the Korean developer deserved some money because it is such a good product.
Dice Player is the best, at least on the Xoom.
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I perfer mxplayer. I get 0 issues out of it
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Ditto, i even buy the pro version it's so damn good
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I have the lorax blue ray rip. Its 720p, 3.5 gb large, .mkv file, and encoded in x256.
When i play it with rock player its all skippy and not even watchable, but it plays the audio just fine.
When i play it with the default player the video is just beautiful, no skipping at all. However no audio plays. What can i do to fix this? Other blue ray rips play just fine and the lorax i have plays fine in other computers.
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Ditto, i even buy the pro version it's so damn good
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Use MX player..if u still have problems change playing mode from HW to SW (fast mode)..will work fine