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Can Xoom play .mkv video files?

Can Xoom play .mkv video files?
I have a lot of 720p .mkv movies. I was wondering if I can watch 720p .mkv movies on the Xoom.

Earthbrain said:
Can Xoom play .mkv video files?
I have a lot of 720p .mkv movies. I was wondering if I can watch 720p .mkv movies on the Xoom.
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i doubt the native player can but i wouldnt be surprised to see some to some support for it later in the app market. most players out of box dont support mkv i believe

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/221011-app-play-avi-mkv-files.html
Rockplayer, arcMedia, VPlayer, yxplayer just to name a few.
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I just tested Rockplayer and yxplayer on my CM7 Galaxy S and I can play my avi's now. It COULD work on honeycomb.

Prob not....
I doubt that the xoom will be able to play .mkv files right out of the box. But Im sure that there are other players in the market that will be able to. I used to have an iPad (but sold it to get the xoom) and that was one of my main problems, not being able to play .mkv, but the VLC app worked perfectly for me, the only problem was that the iPad wasn't powerful enough to run a 720p or an 1080p .mkv file. Kept lagging and the audio was out of sync. Hopefull with the tegra 2 processor and the 1080p support the xoom will be able to play my files.

robbiev80 said:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/221011-app-play-avi-mkv-files.html
I just tested Rockplayer and yxplayer on my CM7 Galaxy S and I can play my avi's now. It COULD work on honeycomb.
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I tested all of them on Dell Streak 5, Nexus One and Inspire 4G, they can play but with lags. Ironically, the cheap Archos can play the same file fine. Go figure.

just make sure theyre not more than 4gbs. damn android file size limitation.

robbiev80 said:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/221011-app-play-avi-mkv-files.html
I just tested Rockplayer and yxplayer on my CM7 Galaxy S and I can play my avi's now. It COULD work on honeycomb.
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Galaxy S has native Divx support and can play AVI and MKV through the built in video player. No need for any third party players. I doubt the Xoom will have divx certification, but it certainly should be able to decode 720P MKV files using a software solution through Rockplayer.

andycai said:
I tested all of them on Dell Streak 5, Nexus One and Inspire 4G, they can play but with lags. Ironically, the cheap Archos can play the same file fine. Go figure.
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none of these have dual core either so the xoom will be able to handle high def mkvs, we probably just have to wait for a player that take advantage of dual core to smooth out playback.

socomdark said:
none of these have dual core either so the xoom will be able to handle high def mkvs, we probably just have to wait for a player that take advantage of dual core to smooth out playback.
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I don't think it has anything to do with CPU as Archos doesn't have that issue (although it has many other issues)...

randytheshiv said:
just make sure theyre not more than 4gbs. damn android file size limitation.
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what does it use FAT32??

muyoso said:
Galaxy S has native Divx support and can play AVI and MKV through the built in video player. No need for any third party players. I doubt the Xoom will have divx certification, but it certainly should be able to decode 720P MKV files using a software solution through Rockplayer.
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Not if you are running CM7 (as I stated in my post). CM7 = AOSP based.

OR u can use Handbrake to help u convert mkv to mp4 for playback on your xoom

Beware, that's not true. Xoom has limitation for what kind of video files it can play:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/45753?tstart=0
This has been discussed many times, all the forum threads are still alive.
You can search and join the talk.
sunnyd119 said:
I doubt that the xoom will be able to play .mkv files right out of the box. But Im sure that there are other players in the market that will be able to. I used to have an iPad (but sold it to get the xoom) and that was one of my main problems, not being able to play .mkv, but the VLC app worked perfectly for me, the only problem was that the iPad wasn't powerful enough to run a 720p or an 1080p .mkv file. Kept lagging and the audio was out of sync. Hopefull with the tegra 2 processor and the 1080p support the xoom will be able to play my files.
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socomdark said:
none of these have dual core either so the xoom will be able to handle high def mkvs, we probably just have to wait for a player that take advantage of dual core to smooth out playback.
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But it will still be limited by the FAT32 file system. You can't play full length 1080p simply because the files are too big.

please stop spreading this nonsense. its not true. this is a horrible false news being spread way to much. i just dont get people.

Neo3D said:
But it will still be limited by the FAT32 file system. You can't play full length 1080p simply because the files are too big.
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Isn't the whole 32Gb formated in EXT4? Why would there me any use of FAT32!?

What nonsense?
dudeimgeorge said:
please stop spreading this nonsense. its not true. this is a horrible false news being spread way to much. i just dont get people.
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andycai said:
I tested all of them on Dell Streak 5, Nexus One and Inspire 4G, they can play but with lags. Ironically, the cheap Archos can play the same file fine. Go figure.
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my sentiments exactly, my Archos 101 can play every video file I thro w at it, I did purchase the $12 Cinema Plugin, the inability of the xoom to play some video files is what is keeping me from buying one, among other things

labbbby said:
Isn't the whole 32Gb formated in EXT4? Why would there me any use of FAT32!?
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Oh, I have an Evo and I think the file system on the SD card is FAT32. Can Windows 7 read EXT4?

Motorola's official word is to use <15MBps video on 720 and it will be fine.
Check the sticky faq here, it has the link to full Moto article.

Video player for MKV MP4 HD...

anyone know a decent video player for TF? wiht Tegra2 it even can play decent 720p MKV...

Haven't tried it for MKV containers but Buzz Player works perfectly with x264 encoded mp4 encodes.
Would love to find a player that dims the on screen Honeycomb buttons like the stock player though.

mobo player with codec
change the setting of mkv to software acc' in the setting

I use RockPlayer. Works perfect for me. Don't think its on the market though.
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Rosch89 said:
I use RockPlayer. Works perfect for me. Don't think its on the market though.
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https://market.android.com/details?...er.android.unified.lite&feature=search_result
Lite version is but not the full version. The watermark on the top left can be pretty annoying.

It's been mentioned in other forums- DICE Player works very well! The dev mentions in the app description that Tegra 2 might have some glitches, but so far it's been able to play most mkvs i throw at it- even those that mobo and mx (and others) play with no sound!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial&feature=more_from_developer

sadly tegra 2 is unable to fully decode HD using its hardware. dice so far has the smoothest frame rate in all the players out there, but it still lag at certain scenes where there is a lot of movement or fighting. hoping they be able to solve the problem.
anyway was wondering by increasing the processing speed of the tegra 2, will it be able to process mkv better?

gtsfrost said:
sadly tegra 2 is unable to fully decode HD using its hardware. dice so far has the smoothest frame rate in all the players out there, but it still lag at certain scenes where there is a lot of movement or fighting. hoping they be able to solve the problem.
anyway was wondering by increasing the processing speed of the tegra 2, will it be able to process mkv better?
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It has nothing to do with Tegra 2. Samsung's Galaxy S series are using Hummingbird and can fully decode 720p. It's all software and codecs.

You could always just convert your move to mp4, I've done it to loads of HD movies (LOTR and such) and they run great, even streaming through to the TV via HDMI.
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well mkv works the best in dice player atm. hopefully they can optimize it for tegra.

DICE Player is the answer to your problem concerning MKVs. Give it a try, the developer is VERY active on the XDA forums especially in the Transformer forum.
Converting something to another format is unacceptable in the hardware that we're getting. And honestly, it's a waste of time to convert. Just get DICE Player and you won't ever have to convert again.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16224858#
Go there. The developer is actively talking in that thread. Another new version was released today to fix some problems with subtitles and multiple audio streams in a single MKV. Honestly, it's the best player and well worth the $4US to the dev.

MX player is the best the guy above ^ is 100% right.

Market Movies

OK so I rented a movie from the Market. First I tried to play it back on my Viewsonic GTab and I get the "movie playback not supported on rooted devices (error 49)" OK no worries, I swapped the HDMI from my GTab to my TF and then the movie will start and I get no video from the actual movie frame from within the Video app although I can see all other information around the frame. I choose full screen and then a TV full of nothing. Well this sucks... I plugged in the Xoom and I am able to finally watch my movie on the big screen. Not real impressed with the Market movie (Video rental) app dictating what devices are allowed to playback my PAID rentals or the HDMI output issue on the TF. I'm lucky I have several options here or I would have been out a few dollars... WTF Google?

You got 3 tabs wow....
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So how did playback look on the transformer was it all choppy or anything. I was thinking about renting your highness HD but I don't wanna spend 5 bucks on a movie that's choppy
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Why in the world would you want to rent movies on market?

I think to watch movies on a rooted device, all you need to do is rename the su executable to mu, then rename it back after you watch the movie.

goodintentions said:
Why in the world would you want to rent movies on market?
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I dunno... because we can?

Exactly I am sitting in front of my perfectly capable 46 inch high def Samsung bigscreen and can order HD movies and yet here I sit watching a movie on my 10 inch tablet. Its because I can! Lol

If you really want to rent a movie on your TF, give mspot movies a shot.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mspot.android.moviesClub&feature=search_result
I don't know if they do HD movies; I haven't paid to rent anything. I have only checked out the free of the week to make sure it works, and it does. It has a nice tablet interface, and the rentals are cheaper than google in many cases. You can also buy rental bundles, which makes it even cheaper.

Mkv/720p or above movies

Hello, playing with my new toy. Have a DHD and quite experienced with rooting etc.
Im currently having some lag issues with mkv and or 720p or above movies. Tried mobo player and the normal one.
Currently have the revolver rom, feels quite good i like the update app which came with it. Going to try revHD rom later tonight to see if there is any improvements.
Whats a recomended video player or rom for movie stuff? Answers on a postcard, Thanks!
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Paid: Dice Player
Free: MX Video Player
Also, hd video is really difficult for the Tegra 2 that barely handles 720p. You can have 1080p, and smooth, but it will most likely need to be re-encoded so that the hardware will like it... you might want to try to overclock, often that solves the issue, even if not always.
If you go for the re-encode way, use h264 basic profile, that's the biggest deal.

Thats really a bummer since i thought the tegra 2 is well capable to display atleast 720p mkv videos having a hd screen. Is it the tegra Architektur which doesnt play nicely with hd mkv material or just software related?
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Really? The mkv videos I downloaded the other day works just fine.. but I guess it could be because I'm overclocking? I mean, it was 720 p and it was working way smoooth with Mobo so I don't know where your complaints come frmo..

It has to do with the type of encoding. You can get 1080p to play if you encode it right

just tried a 720p clip and it does play smoothly with HW encoding but can not play the sound back. Is it because of the sound track being dts 7.1 ch?
How long takes to convert a video with handbrake?
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Don't reencode the videos. Use a MKV -> MP4 Tool to reencode the audiostream to aac. It's way faster.

Have a look at my tests http://painfullyrandom.blogspot.com/2011/08/testing-android-video-decoding.html and/or search here on XDA for Tegra hd video. Sadly it's not the best choice for video play... It works but it's far from optimal.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again. Try Diceplayer. The only reason it won't playback ANY file well, is because the bit-rate is too high for Tegra 2. All the videos I download are 720P h264 and it plays them just fine. The only time it struggles is when there is fast panning (which results in a higher bitrate if it's a variable bitrate). All things said, I have no issues playing any videos, even those with 7.1 channel audio.
Also, use the search function. This is discussed at length in a few other threads in the transformer forums. I think it was specifically in the Themes/Apps forum.

darkhawkff said:
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Try Diceplayer. The only reason it won't playback ANY file well, is because the bit-rate is too high for Tegra 2. All the videos I download are 720P h264 and it plays them just fine. The only time it struggles is when there is fast panning (which results in a higher bitrate if it's a variable bitrate). All things said, I have no issues playing any videos, even those with 7.1 channel audio.
Also, use the search function. This is discussed at length in a few other threads in the transformer forums. I think it was specifically in the Themes/Apps forum.
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yes, Dice Player is the best so far. Playing videos is a hit / miss with the rest of the free players...

Paran0idAndr0id said:
just tried a 720p clip and it does play smoothly with HW encoding but can not play the sound back. Is it because of the sound track being dts 7.1 ch?
How long takes to convert a video with handbrake?
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same here but the audio is "only" AC3 5.1 the video is super smooth but there is no sound.

I don't know where you get your files, but I'm almost sure I don't want to go to that site.
Example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/420077/Indiana Jones 4_HD 1080base.mp4
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/420077/Indiana Jones 4_HD 720main.mp4
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/420077/Indiana Jones 4_HD 480high.mp4
those are a few seconds from the trailer of Indiana Jones and the crystal skull grabbed from the PSN "some time" ago. Play them at 1ghz on the Transformer with Dice (or whatever you want), and see what works well... I encoded this stuff in a way that shows my point. Same bitrate for all of them.
The original file is main profile, full hd and slightly higher bitrate. Still plays at 1ghz.
Keep in mind that if you make the file hard to decode, the size could be quite small, once I've watched a reasonably good dvd rip that was 250mb. That's the whole point of h264 vs divx, same quality, smaller file. Or same size better quality, depending on your point of view

I just tried the dice player and it plays the test file without problems being 720p mkv. I think Asus should had intergrated such a mdiaplayer by default
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Blurry pixel screen when watching HD anime

Hello,
I'm new on this forum, so I will shortly introduce myself: My name is Ruben, I live in the Netherlands and I just bought a TF300t a week ago. Please, excuse me if I make some grammar mistakes.
I've got this weird problem: when I am watching my (downloaded) anime series, I sometimes get a blurry screen. This is mostly with dark colors, but sometimes with light colors too. There is no sign of any laggs. The "blurry pixels" just come and go. This might help you:
Using: MX player
Playing: HD anime (720p/1080p)
When does it occur: In H/W+ and H/W decoder enabled.
Let me tell you this, when I'm using S/W decoder, it's perfect. No blurry pixels but the problem then is that it is lagging.
I've tried a few other players, but neither of them worked. Just some little differences.
I've tried to change some settings in the MX player, but nothing worked out for me, unfortunately.
Watch the thumbnails for some examples.
I hope you can help me with this. It's very unfortunate I can't fully enjoy the HD-feeling on my new tablet.

It's certainly the video itself.. Possibly A bad conversion.
Definitely nothing to do with the tf300. Try other video players, like VLC and check if there's still the blurry pixels you say.
If it still persists, it's the video which is the guilty
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WIIstpM said:
It's certainly the video itself.. Possibly A bad conversion.
Definitely nothing to do with the tf300. Try other video players, like VLC and check if there's still the blurry pixels you say.
If it still persists, it's the video which is the guilty
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Well, it's with almost every video. Sw decoder works fibe. Is there a sollution for the lagg with sw decoder?
I am going to try VLC now.

VLC is working horrible. Cant even play a video. It's the beta in the Play Store.

Ruben Jb said:
VLC is working horrible. Cant even play a video. It's the beta in the Play Store.
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Try bs player mate it plays every thing for me, but when you get those blurry parts rewind the movie back to before it happens and if happens exactly the same every time its the video if it changes then it the player
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robgee789 said:
Try bs player mate it plays every thing for me, but when you get those blurry parts rewind the movie back to before it happens and if happens exactly the same every time its the video if it changes then it the player
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Both Bs player and Mx player show the same problems. EXACTLY the same. So the blurry parts come exactly the same time, every time. So you are saying it's the video, if this is the case? So what can I do? Download better quality, or lower quality? It's pretty sad, because I download the episodes when they just aired so I can watch them immediatly. It's always very good quality (720p or 1080p) and perfect on my desktop and for everybody else who are downloading the same torrent, but not for my tablet? I don't get why it's the video...
If the S/W decoder worked without laggs I would be satisfied already... Too bad it laggs. It doesn't show these blurry parts.

Ruben Jb said:
Both Bs player and Mx player show the same problems. EXACTLY the same. So the blurry parts come exactly the same time, every time. So you are saying it's the video, if this is the case? So what can I do? Download better quality, or lower quality? It's pretty sad, because I download the episodes when they just aired so I can watch them immediatly. It's always very good quality (720p or 1080p) and perfect on my desktop and for everybody else who are downloading the same torrent, but not for my tablet? I don't get why it's the video...
If the S/W decoder worked without laggs I would be satisfied already... Too bad it laggs. It doesn't show these blurry parts.
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I would say bigger is better (unless your streaming mate) ive had a few episodes of some programs that are 45 mins long and are 4GB in size and they play perfect,
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robgee789 said:
I would say bigger is better (unless your streaming mate) ive had a few episodes of some programs that are 45 mins long and are 4GB in size and they play perfect,
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I just sent you a private message. I'm not sure if you received it. My " sent folder " keeps telling me I didnt't sent anything to anyone.

I just tried 480p and the same video doesn't get blurry with 480p. But you can't possibly say I can't watch 1080p or even 720p with this tablet. Even my desktop which is way worse than the specs of this tablet can play 1080p anime series.

Ruben Jb said:
I just tried 480p and the same video doesn't get blurry with 480p. But you can't possibly say I can't watch 1080p or even 720p with this tablet. Even my desktop which is way worse than the specs of this tablet can play 1080p anime series.
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Try the hd anime files on a computer. I'm also certain it's the video file and not your device.
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elesbb said:
Try the hd anime files on a computer. I'm also certain it's the video file and not your device.
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Nope, my desktop plays it smoothly. Strange, isn´t it? :s

Robgee789 tried the same video's on the same tablet as me, and didn't get this problem. It's so strange.
I just downloaded a non-anime movie: Harry.Potter.And.The.Deathly.Hallows.Part.2.2011.BluRay.720p.H26
It didn't show any signs of blurry frames in H/W+ decoder. So I guess it's only my anime video's. But then again, Robgee789's same tablet doesn't have any problems with this.
Is it my tablet, or some settings?
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Harry Potter was a MP4 file, all of my anime series are .MKV
But, I tried a 720p .MKV movie (also Harry Potter) and everything went fine too. I'm not sure, but the resolution of this video says 1280 x 544 (so not 720p??) and my anime series say 1280 x 720. But then also I got one anime serie which I can play without problems (720p, 1280x720) while other series with the same 720p, 1280x720 resolution are blurry. And I'm talking about .MKV files. So where lies the difference?

Ruben Jb said:
Robgee789 tried the same video's on the same tablet as me, and didn't get this problem. It's so strange.
I just downloaded a non-anime movie: Harry.Potter.And.The.Deathly.Hallows.Part.2.2011.BluRay.720p.H26
It didn't show any signs of blurry frames in H/W+ decoder. So I guess it's only my anime video's. But then again, Robgee789's same tablet doesn't have any problems with this.
Is it my tablet, or some settings?
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Harry Potter was a MP4 file, all of my anime series are .MKV
But, I tried a 720p .MKV movie (also Harry Potter) and everything went fine too. I'm not sure, but the resolution of this video says 1280 x 544 (so not 720p??) and my anime series say 1280 x 720. But then also I got one anime serie which I can play without problems (720p, 1280x720) while other series with the same 720p, 1280x720 resolution are blurry. And I'm talking about .MKV files. So where lies the difference?
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It could be and most likely is the render that was used. If other formats are not giving issues my money is on it being the video file. I've already watched non HD movies and had the pixel faults. But, those same pixel faults were on my laptop as well.
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elesbb said:
It could be and most likely is the render that was used. If other formats are not giving issues my money is on it being the video file. I've already watched non HD movies and had the pixel faults. But, those same pixel faults were on my laptop as well.
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But how can you explain this:
My tablet shows these blurry parts, but my desktop doesn't.
And above all, this:
Robgee789's tablet (also TF300t) doesn't have this problems with the exact same file (I sent him the download link in private message).
Is my tablet broken? Maybe a full reset is needed?

Ruben Jb said:
But how can you explain this:
My tablet shows these blurry parts, but my desktop doesn't.
And above all, this:
Robgee789's tablet (also TF300t) doesn't have this problems with the exact same file (I sent him the download link in private message).
Is my tablet broken? Maybe a full reset is needed?
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this may sound stupid but try changing the file to .avi, just change the name it will it may corrupt the data but it will be fine and see if that works
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robgee789 said:
this may sound stupid but try changing the file to .avi, just change the name it will it may corrupt the data but it will be fine and see if that works
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Didn't work. But hey, watch your private message please, I think I found "something". I can explain it here too after you confirmed me something.

Take a close look at this picture.
Green: These files can be watched flawlessly. Great!
Red: Every file gives a blurry screen. Mind the different subbers (People who give subtitles to the episodes, so different uploaders).
Yellow: This is why I think I get a blurry screen.
Blue: The files which are working are all from the same subber: "HorribleSubs"
I now want to confirm if you dowloaded files from "Commie" or from "Horrible Subs". I forgot the link I sent you. It could be I changed by accident the links because either Horrible Subs as well as Commie both do upload the same series. If you downloaded from Commie, you "SHOULD" get a blurry screen too. If you downloaded from Horrible Subs, you shouldn't.

Actually this problem is caused by both device and video
I'm assuming that that video is an .mkv right? and the size is below 200MB?
okay, mkv is famous among pirated videos, in this case Anime (I don't stream, just download)
furthermore to avoid large sized videos (300 and sometime 400MB in 720) people encode them whether it's hVEC, h.264 or h.265... and that's where decoders barge in.
and due to android devices having weak capabilities of processing graphical memory (except snapdragon 830, that **** is godlike) in any form, u get that fuzzy blurry output using hw dec and lag using sw dec.
I haven't solved this issue yet so I try to stick to 480p if available

Hi,
does the problem still exist?
Can you check your files with MediaInfo?
I would like to know if the Format is
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Cheers