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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.
BilliamB said:
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.
Just got my Transformer yesterday and overall I like it but one of the biggest issue that I found is that I cannot stream mkv files from my HTPC to it (or haven't found a way to do it).
Is there a player that supports streaming of MKVs ? Also, other than using Plex is there any other option to do streaming ?
DicePlayer can stream MKV files, on a CIFS/samba share. I suggest you try the trial.
While Dice player can't play a single MKV I've thrown at it (and I tried a LOT of different files) and is, IMO, a complete waste of money I second the CIFS mount suggestion. that's the only way I found to reliably and painlesly watch movies from my NAS.
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While Dice player can't play a single MKV I've thrown at it (and I tried a LOT of different files) and is, IMO, a complete waste of money I second the CIFS mount suggestion. that's the only way I found to reliably and painlesly watch movies from my NAS.
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I tried Dice player and it did not even play my AVIs so I don't know why it is regarded as such a great player.
Is there a noob friendly guide of using CIFS somewhere?
Dice player plays all the MKV's I've thrown at it
Dice player work for me as well. Streaming using upnplay.
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Dice player works great on my htc sensation, i can play all my hd stuff, was rather annoyed to find out that my phone can play video better than my tablet though. Apparently tegra 2 struggles with high profile h264.
DICE plays all my anime mkv's, It's by no means the perfect application but it does a good job with support for certain audio streams. I don't regret the purchase.
No problem with Dice Player playing mkv. For streaming from HTPC i use Bubble UPNP or UPNPlay but i think Bubble UPNP is more userfriendly.
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steini81 said:
No problem with Dice Player playing mkv. For streaming from HTPC i use Bubble UPNP or UPNPlay but i think Bubble UPNP is more userfriendly.
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I just download the two apps. Bubble is more honeycomb friendly, but it will be a paid app in september.
But, Dice Player through Bubble or Upnplay can't show the subtitle included in the mkv movie file. I have to download the mkv file in order to have the subtitle. Is there another way to do it through UPNP streaming only?
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I just download the two apps. Bubble is more honeycomb friendly, but it will be a paid app in september.
But, Dice Player through Bubble or Upnplay can't show the subtitle included in the mkv movie file. I have to download the mkv file in order to have the subtitle. Is there another way to do it through UPNP streaming only?
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After a lot of trial and error I was able to stream mkv with the following combination
TVMoBili + Bubble + DicePlayer/Mx Player
Only with Dice player, the video does not shutter but Mx Player is the only one that shows embedded subtitles and unlike DicePlayer, I can skip ahead the video.
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After a lot of trial and error I was able to stream mkv with the following combination
TVMoBili + Bubble + DicePlayer/Mx Player
Only with Dice player, the video does not shutter but Mx Player is the only one that shows embedded subtitles and unlike DicePlayer, I can skip ahead the video.
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I use PS3 Media Server which work for ps3 and the ASUS tablet!
But MX Player (free version) is laggy when it come to play a 720p mkv video file. Dice Player is perfect with 720p file. It is a shame that Dice won't play subtitle when it play streaming videos.
Just saying. I'm watching a 720p video on my transformer right now using mxplayer and the armv7 codec for it and its running perfectly and no issues whatsoever.
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Streaming wise, I use Qloud and it is awesome.
I still cannot stream MKV.DICE was lagging even for normal videos when Rockplayer was able to make it work well. Will try mxplayer.
Please remember that MKV is just a container, inside that container you can have almost any combination of video codec and audio codec. MP4 is also a container but it has a very limited range of allowed video/audio codecs, so it's much easier to support.
If you are using the Android system video decoding (The only way to get hardware accelerated playback) you will be able to play some 720p h.264 video streams. If you are just using the CPU to decode then 720p will never be smooth.
All these video players can do is try to unwrap the containers (Like MKV or AVI) and _maybe_ do soft-decoding on the audio if the android system doesn't support the audio codec (Like AC3/DTS)
If the player does full CPU decoding for the video stream you won't be able to play HD content smoothly, ever (Things that claim "Optimised for the Tegra 2 CPU" are still just doing the work on the CPU).
This means that there will _never_ be a Tegra2 Android app that can play _all_ MKV's it's simply not possible. This is why people are saying "Plays my MKVs fine" and other are saying "Won't play any of my MKVs"
After spending many frustrating hours trying to stream my mkvs, the only 100% working solution that I have found so far is to use MyCloud app an remote desktop into my HTPC. This way I not only have access to all my movies/tv shows I can play them with subtitles.
I know its not the best solution but at least it is a working one
I'm using Plex to stream movies, but I can't recall if I have tried any .mkv files. Can anyone confirm? If so, OP might want to try Plex... it's pretty slick.
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I'm using Plex to stream movies, but I can't recall if I have tried any .mkv files. Can anyone confirm? If so, OP might want to try Plex... it's pretty slick.
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Plex re-encodes on the fly so it'll play anything that the server can transcode in realtime. But the quality will be notably lower.
For SMB streaming I use ES File Explorer.
MX Player for avi's (SW).
MXP loads subtitles from the tablet.
Dice Player for mkv's (HW).
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".
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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.
EDIT: I apologize, the title should have been "Best 720P MKV Video Player"
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Dice Player so far seems to be the top player for 720P .mkv video files. Handles them flawlessly and there's never a sync issue. The only down side is the free version is only good for a few days and if you want to keep using it you have to pay $5.
If you are looking for something free, the next alternative is Kascend Video Player. It also does a good job with 720P .mkv files just that the menu system is a bit screwy and it ignores your brightness settings and will play videos at full brightness.
Additionally, as far as just a regular .mkv player goes(non 720P), RockPlayer is really nice.
Other players as you guys listed below; MX Player, Mobo Player, QQ Player, etc... all of those are decent to but will not handle 720P properly. they'll either play and not show the video or play out-of-sync. You have to use Dice Player or Kascend Video Player for 720P.
have you tried v player? I don't usually play 720p, but for all the t.v. shows and movies I watch it works fine.
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have you tried v player? I don't usually play 720p, but for all the t.v. shows and movies I watch it works fine.
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that doesn't handle 720P either.
if you don't care about 720P, but want to play .mkv, RockPlayer is very good.
if you don't care about 720P or .mkv, then Seaman Player is great.
MX Player and MoboPlayer work great with MKV...try those.
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MX Player and MoboPlayer work great with MKV...try those.
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Mobo player hands down best I've seen.
tbolt ^_^_^
QQPlayer is good for mkv or pretty much anything else you throw at it.
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Just downloaded QQplayer seems to work great on GG Anime releases. I will test out some other mkv's I have thanks a bunch
sorry dudes, the thread was supposed to be for 720P .mkv playback. i edited the original post but it won't let me change the subject title.
dice use less cpu ( it uses HW video decoder ) so, you can save your battery..
and dice gives better picture quality.
I wanna use Dice I might try the trial and see how well it plays then buy it 5 bucks is alot lol
Does Dice Player uses HW decoding on divx/xvid files too?
I have some file video hd 720 on kf. So what the soft for play that?
Thansk
you an try VLC Media
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275179
I use Moboplayer. Works well with all formats including Matroska.
yeah, you could try the MOBOplayer, works on many video formats well.
For playing videos onto Kindle fire, you should check the Kindle Fire support formats first:
Audio: AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV,
Video: MP4, VP8
Best Kindle Fire video formats for playback:
Video Encoder: H.264, Audio Encoder: AAC
Resolution: 800*480 , Video Bitrate: 2500 kbps
If you can't get any apps to play the videos on Kindle fire correctly, maybe you could try converting with tools like this:
http://www.marketpressrelease.com/Aneesoft-Released-Kindle-Fire-Converter-Software-1323134188.html
How did you get it to show up in your "Videos" listing? I copied a couple MP4 files to my "Videos" folder after downloading them into the "download" folder but it's not showing up when I hit the devices tab of the videos library. It still shows empty movies and TV tabs.
MoboPlayer!
Have Moboplayer installed but it's very laggy when playing 720p video clip, any idea ?
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MoboPlayer!
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Love Mobo on my Nexus S. I can't get videos to go fullscreen when I sideload it onto the KF. Anyone else have this problem?
mx player is good for playing mkv/mp4 files you copy to the fire, but you have to get the apk from the android market. bsplayer is awesome on my phone but I tried it on the fire and it won't stream across smb
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How did you get it to show up in your "Videos" listing? I copied a couple MP4 files to my "Videos" folder after downloading them into the "download" folder but it's not showing up when I hit the devices tab of the videos library. It still shows empty movies and TV tabs.
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The videos in that folder are recognized a little differently; mostly that they won't be polled as library videos in the way you (and I) have tried. If you're using the native KindleFire launcher, you'll have to put them in a different folder and use a file browser app to locate/launch them. I've gotten them to show up on the shelf in the 'Photos' folder, coincidentally.
Bummer that BSplayer doesn't work on the Kindle -- it's the only app that can play all my high res videos on my phone, without trouble -- wmv, mts, avi, mp4, mpg, chews through any of them...of course 1080 doesn't count for much on a 3.5" screen, which is why I want so badly for bsplayer to be updated to work on Kindle Fire.
Maybe if more people emailed the developers asking for Kindle Fire support...
I think rock player is one of your best player...
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Mobo Player or Mx video Player
I think so, i used both of them . so good
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Bummer that BSplayer doesn't work on the Kindle -- it's the only app that can play all my high res videos on my phone, without trouble -- wmv, mts, avi, mp4, mpg, chews through any of them...of course 1080 doesn't count for much on a 3.5" screen, which is why I want so badly for bsplayer to be updated to work on Kindle Fire.
Maybe if more people emailed the developers asking for Kindle Fire support...
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BsPlayer does work on the Kindle, i use it, had played through 720p .mp4 , 720p.mkv and .avi
all of them worked fine..
I tried Moboplayer and MX player and both lagged as heck playing a 720p on KF.
I personally like Mobo player, i used it earlier for lower quality movies but for 720p its unusable...
Any other app that runs 720p without laggs?
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jb0ne said:
Bummer that BSplayer doesn't work on the Kindle -- it's the only app that can play all my high res videos on my phone, without trouble -- wmv, mts, avi, mp4, mpg, chews through any of them...of course 1080 doesn't count for much on a 3.5" screen, which is why I want so badly for bsplayer to be updated to work on Kindle Fire.
Maybe if more people emailed the developers asking for Kindle Fire support...
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Someone already did it:
http://forum.bsplayer.com/bsplayer-android/13208-amason-kindle-fire.html
While Kindle Fire not brought to Europe BSPlaer will not work. Or we can wait for the developers added the support for the OMAP 4430 ... Probably will work on our devices ..
Have any of you guys tried Diceplayer?
Dice Player don't support Kindle Fire yet. And if you load some video this crash system and reboot device. Oh and thumbnail must to be off.
Hello,
Did you guys manage to find any player that works good with 720p mkv? (interested in HW decoding)
I am on CM7 and struggling to make mxvideo work in HW decoding mode but it works only for some files, for the majority it still uses SW decoding and that is heating up the fire and eating up battery faster.
Movie playback is one of the main reasons I got the fire so if you guys have any suggestions I would appreciate them.
Also, BSplayer lite seems to fail completely on CM7, it crashes after opening. The same with dice player, which runs great on my HTC Sensation, using HW playback on almost all the formats.
Any feedback from those of you who still got stock rom or CM9 and tested video playback with mkv 720p? I didn't have a chance to test on stock as I installed CM7 almost right away.
Thanks
Thank god I am not the only one still looking for this..
I really need some App that runs smoothly in a rush, so if anyone have any app in mind to try out, don't be afraid to suggest!
On CM9 its pretty hopeless for now, as hardware accelerated graphics still doesn't work... ( i think )
I just switched back from CM9 hoping that I will be able to load some movies for trip...
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