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[Q] Best video player for Transformer

Hi,
I've been using trial version of Dice Player and I'm almost ready to purchase the full version. However, I just noticed 3 other players that might worth considering:
- MX Player
- PowerDVD Mobile
- VLC (free)
- Seaman Player
I'd like to take comments from people who are using these. Which one should I go for ?

I personally use Dice Player. Plays everything smoothly.
MX Player: good alternative for free, but doesn't play some 720p MKVs with crisp frames.
VLC: Very early stage, not daily-use.
Rest... I haven't tried them.

mrmrmrmr said:
Hi,
I've been using trial version of Dice Player and I'm almost ready to purchase the full version. However, I just noticed 3 other players that might worth considering:
- MX Player
- PowerDVD Mobile
- VLC (free)
- Seaman Player
I'd like to take comments from people who are using these. Which one should I go for ?
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I can't make up my mind what I like best, Dice Player or MX Video Player so I paid for both apps. The developers of each seem to be going head to head on what they can and cannot do. Both do HW playback which is what I like most about them. You wont be disappointed with Dice Player the least bit. They both seem to be the two best video players to date for Android.

thanks for your comments.
is there any experience with PowerDVD ?
that's a nice app on Windows. So why not the Android version...

Dice
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mrmrmrmr said:
thanks for your comments.
is there any experience with PowerDVD ?
that's a nice app on Windows. So why not the Android version...
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Well for one thing, PowerDVD Mobile is $20 and Dice Player and MX player are just over $5 and can play just about every video file type. So you weigh the odds. With Tegra 2 video is barely starting to break free of it's constraints so I wouldn't want to pay out the nose for a video player that might or might not play back my videos. IDK, that's just how I feel about it.
If you do wind up getting PowerDVD let us know how well it plays HW and SW video playback with multiple file types. I was reading and I didn't find if it will play .mkv files or not.

Personally, I would normally talk up Diceplayer, but after the last couple of updates, we've taken about 5 steps backwards. Whatever happened, it's gotten worse than it was before. I'm not sure what that's due to, but 720P videos no longer play as smoothly as they once did. Videos that used to play fine are now choppy and have bad audio. And these are the same videos, the only change is what version the player is running. I'd actually go back a few versions if I had made a backup of some kind.
Either way, I don't generally recommend Diceplayer anymore. I used to talk it up and down because it WAS a very good player, but things have certainly changed alot apparently.

darkhawkff said:
Personally, I would normally talk up Diceplayer, but after the last couple of updates, we've taken about 5 steps backwards. Whatever happened, it's gotten worse than it was before. I'm not sure what that's due to, but 720P videos no longer play as smoothly as they once did. Videos that used to play fine are now choppy and have bad audio. And these are the same videos, the only change is what version the player is running. I'd actually go back a few versions if I had made a backup of some kind.
Either way, I don't generally recommend Diceplayer anymore. I used to talk it up and down because it WAS a very good player, but things have certainly changed alot apparently.
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Yep very true. I have had the exact same findings. I've been talking to the developer and just sent him a 720p mkv today that used to work and now doesn't. He's testing it on his transformer to see if he can find the issue.

Power DVD is too expensive. Mobo is so far the best

Hopefully DICE player can fix it's recent bugs (he has been issuing updates like crazy anyway).
MX has mich better gui, but dice player still has much better playback. There is noticeable difference in frame drops between the two (dice being much, much better, even though both use hardware decoding).

i use vplayer and it does all videos and even allows streaming

Dice Player with tegra addon . Nothing to me is smoother.
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Moboplayer
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For me, dice player has the smoothest playback, too.

Hi,
I've tried PowerDVD mobile.
It has a very elegant GUI and nice features.
It serves music and photos in addition to videos and it also includes a DLNA player.
However, videos are not as smooth as MX Player or Dice Player.
Probably it does not support as much codecs.

bs player
i just found BS player for android its in beta right now but it works great

I wish I could get DICE player to work. Everytime I open it, it says "Sorry, this video cannot be played." I haven't even picked a video yet!

Having endless issues trying to play 720p mkv videos I have dice player, mobo player, and mx video player. When the video is smooth i get no sound and when sound works the video gets choppy during action/ fast scenes... any advice?
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I can't seem to get HW decoding to work with MX player. Is anyone using any custom kernels .. overclocking?

MX Video for me
i started with Mobo since the stock player only reads internal files. but i wanted full screen with no icons on the bottom. i tried dice trial and liked it so i bought the full version than i saw mx video and bought it too. i like both, but dice player on lets me choose (ie: /Removable/MicroSD don't even try microsd).
whereas mx video lets me add several locations that i can browse too and i get full screen. i haven't had any problems with any video incls so far.
i just wish i could connect a protable dvd player.
i also like the easy way it handles subtitles and .vob

Best video app?

Whats the best app for video? This is my first android so i don't know what is "best." i need it to play MKV, Mp4, AVI, etc.... all @ HD.

MX Video Player

Thanks i will try it.

MX works very good on Fire.
Just watched Modern Family mkv in HD (720p), hardware accelerated, without lags and nothing.
PS. The only problem was the audio channel that didn't work in HW mode. Just changed that to SW decoding and everything was fine.

Rockplayer
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manifest3r said:
MX Video Player
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Yep, MX Video Player is the best video player for the Kindle Fire.
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It's working on my mkv files very well. I also had to switch audio to software decode.
//Tapatalk.KindleFire//

what about vplayer?

I have always trusted in VLC Player, however, technically its still in closed beta for Android, and not available for direct download via the Market.
With the OP being new to Android, I guess I might be expecting a little too much to say, Google for it (VLC-neon.apk), and sideload it?! But I'm putting it out there anyway!

manifest3r said:
MX Video Player
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How do you get it to work where you the gray pullup bar on the bottom doesn't interfere with the onscreen controls? Also, do you know if it can stream from Dropbox/Sugarsync? I haved some vids on SS that I stream on Moboplayer, but can't get them to stream on MX.

Watching movies on the Skyrocket?

I've never done this before.
I'd like to download some torrent TV shows and play them back on my Skyrocket.
What movie playback app do I need to do this?
Most torrent TV shows are .mpg/mpeg. I also rip .MKV files so want to watch those also.
Hopefully something that lets me adjust audio synch, since Netflix synch is out of whack when used with bluetooth to my car stereo. Off by about 1/2 second or more.
EDIT, looks like this was easier than I thought. Here is a player that says it does mkv:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DEsImNvbS5ic3BsYXllci5ic3BhbmRyb2lkLmZyZWUiXQ..
EDIT #2 - yep, plays back MKV non-HD perfectly. Have not tested anything else or bluetooth yet.

If I remember correctly VLC player has playback for literally everything
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kr3w1337 said:
If I remember correctly VLC player has playback for literally everything
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I used mobo player on my tablet it can play everything
CM9 Skyrocket

The best video player imo is MX player. Frequent updates and massive format support at the very least make it a candidate

icenight89 said:
The best video player imo is Max player. Frequent updates and massive format support at the very least make it a candidate
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you mean mx video?

Dice player is THE best. I have tried them all.

JL13 said:
you mean mx video?
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Edited

How about actually subscribing to a service?
Your movie viewing experience on your Skyrocket will be awesome.
I have Netflix, HBO Go, WATCHESPN, and Xfinity TV for streaming movies and TV shows.
I also, on occasion, rip DVDs that I buy if the Digital Copy is not included, load them on my Skyrocket.
Do yourself a favor, avoid the aggravation and actually subscribe to some service.
My 2 cents.
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Mx works great.
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Any video players with DTS support? Dice no longer working

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

mrevankyle said:
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.

f3tf said:
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

refer
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.

BlackAndGreyCat said:
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)

You can try...
TorontoR said:
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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Lucidmike said:
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.

[Q] No audio with BS player app

Hi all-
Has anyone used BS player with ripped TV shows? Don't have the tablet in front of me, but pretty sure the shows are MP4 format and play fine with MX player - no issues at all. I'm trying to use "BS Player Free" as it successfully gets subtitles online for the shows. However, these which play fine in MX, have video and subtitles in BS player, but no audio. I've tried tweaking/changing the settings but I can't figure out a successful one to get it right. And after a few tries, the player begins to crash immediately when launching a show, not playing at all.
Very frustrating. Any suggestions/advice?
Thanks all.

Hi There,
I have never had any trouble with BS Player, altough I prefer the look of MX Player so don't use it that often. Recently they have updated to remove support for Dolby AC3 audio codec as they don't have a license to support it. You may want to search for an older version and install that instead. I am on 1.9.150.
Unfortunately Dolby don't seem interested to license out AC3 to small developers like that do they really don't have a choice but to either remove support, or go undeground with it. A shame really..

Yeah, I'll try that. If the older version doesn't work, or if I can't find that version, anything else I should try??

I'll assume that you've tried all the obvious things such as having the volume turned up, not on mute etc etc. Try a file that you know should work, I think if it's AAC audio it should work, and if that works OK then you know it's not the tablet or any setting in BS Player.
Thankfully AAC is quite popular and normally I would try to avoid anything with AC3 because some players won't support it. When I can't avoid it I keep my trusty copy of BS player handy (and backed up). I'm not sure of any other decent quality player that supports it. Dolby only appear interested in DVD/Blu-ray manufacturers and the likes. If you find another good player that works then let me know!

Oh yes - volume up, not on mute, etc. The same file/show works in MX player, but not in BS player which I'm trying to use for the subtitle feature.

If you haven't knowingly messed with any of the settings then I can't think of a reason it wouldn't work. Double check your preferences to make sure it is using HW decoder, and under playback preferences there are options for what codecs are supported, make sure MPEG4 H264 are checked. I guess that if those are unchecked it wouldn't play the video either. You also have an option during playback to select the audio stream. Normally there would be only one, but perhaps it is not sure which one to select and you need to manually tell it. To find that option open up the menu (top right) select audio, then audio stream. Might be worth a double check. I can't see any other settings that would affect it.
You're not using a bluetooth speaker are you? I have just double checked with mine and it seems to work OK for me over bluetooth.

Cool - will try/check those settings today. Will there be more than 1 audio stream to choose from? I don't think there were, but I'll double check. Audio didn't work with or without BT speaker, but works fine in MX player with or w/out BT speaker. I am using one regularly. But when I test tonight, I'll not use it and only use tablet speaker.
Thanks.

In case you cannot get your videos to work, you should consider Dice Player. Out of the box, Dice Player does not support those unlicensed codecs, but it supports custom plugins, which allow you play any videos with audio. As long as you know how to add a plugin, you should be able to play anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833704

huy_lonewolf said:
In case you cannot get your videos to work, you should consider Dice Player. Out of the box, Dice Player does not support those unlicensed codecs, but it supports custom plugins, which allow you play any videos with audio. As long as you know how to add a plugin, you should be able to play anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833704
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Will try that as well - thanks for the suggestion!

huy_lonewolf said:
\Out of the box, Dice Player does not support those unlicensed codecs, but it supports custom plugins, which allow you play any videos with audio. As long as you know how to add a plugin, you should be able to play anything.
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What? Diceplayer plays the videos just fine without plugins. I've never installed a single plugin and have yet to run into a video it can't play...
I second DicePlayer. All my videos are ripped(ahem... We'll leave it at that.) TV shows as .mkv, .mp4, .avi or .mpg with .srt subtitles.
Regarding the subtitles; You do know you can just get them from podnapisi, right? (there is nothing illegal about that.)
Then just name them identical to the videofile except for the extension, put it in the same folder as the videofile, and pretty much every player plays it automatically...

No, I've never heard of podnapisi. Cool - thanks. I'll try that too.
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Update - so When I got home and checked the ripped shows that work in both MX and BS, and compared it to the ones that only work in MX, I saw the pattern. Using a file manager app, I looked at the properties/details of the files/shows. Worked on both - audio was listed as MP3. Only worked on MX player - audio not listed. I don't know why its not on some shows, but obviously there is audio since it works on MX player. However, I could only get it to work on MX player by switching from HW decoding to SW decoding. Interesting and confusing for a newbie like me. Also, both shows are avi files so I couldn't see a difference there. Still puzzled but I will try Dice player next!!
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So, Dice Player works flawlessly as you guys mentioned. And I added subtitles to the folder and it found those too. Love this forum and all the help you guys offer. Thanks so much!!
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The trick for the subtitles also works for.sub files and all other subtitle formats if you ever run in to them, and they also work on a pc, media player, tv and dvd player this way.
As an added little bonus, diceplayer has a 400% volume boost as well. Which is useful, as the tf700 speakers are not exactly what you call loud.
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ShadowLea said:
What? Diceplayer plays the videos just fine without plugins. I've never installed a single plugin and have yet to run into a video it can't play...
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I am talking about audio codecs. For example, due to licensing issues, Dice Player removed support for DTS audio quite long ago (just like BS Player removed support for Dolby recently), so custom plugin is the only way you can get support for those audio codecs. Videos using those codecs will still play, just that there will be no sound.

jt1998 said:
Also, both shows are avi files so I couldn't see a difference there.
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AVI is just a container format - the codecs used for the audio and video streams inside the file make the difference whether you can play it or not.

Wish I knew how to open or modify it.
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huy_lonewolf said:
I am talking about audio codecs. For example, due to licensing issues, Dice Player removed support for DTS audio quite long ago (just like BS Player removed support for Dolby recently), so custom plugin is the only way you can get support for those audio codecs. Videos using those codecs will still play, just that there will be no sound.
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Ah. That's why I never noticed.
VLC (Beta, but works shockingly well) still has support for both those codecs. It doesn't like 1080 .mkv very much, though.
jt1998 said:
Wish I knew how to open or modify it.
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You'd have to re-encode it. If you have an Adobe package (not acrobat), Media Encoder does the trick. Otherwise, try Handbrake. It's open source.

http://www.bsplayer.com/android/source.html
to compile specific custom codec for bsplayer with AC3 and other.

If you want to see how your video is encoded download this for Windows:
http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
Then you'll be able to see how the audio was encoded in a video file.