mobile.HD Media Player Update - Microsoft Surface

Just noticed an update for the mobile.HD media player in the store. It now supports DTS audio. Works great, without any lag now!

Stickboy46 said:
Just noticed an update for the mobile.HD media player in the store. It now supports DTS audio. Works great, without any lag now!
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ooh! thanks for the headsup. Oddly enough, I'm running the trial and did not get an update notice. Wen to my apps, selected mobile.HD, and tapped install and updated. Works great now!

Also supports subtitles according to the release notes.
I haven't been able to test any files yet though since I'm not at home.

werk said:
ooh! thanks for the headsup. Oddly enough, I'm running the trial and did not get an update notice. Wen to my apps, selected mobile.HD, and tapped install and updated. Works great now!
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I didn't get a notification either, I just happened to look! I immediately purchased it after. Well worth the 3.49 now! Ran a 1080p version of inception and didnt have a single slowdown or anything.

I'm pretty sure, actually, that they increased the price a dollar with this update. I'm 99% sure that it was $2.49 when I purchased it.
It makes sense though, if they feel the app is now closer to completion.

Cool - Hopefully they will add Dolby audio as well. So MKVs are playing good through it with DTS audio. Maybe I will havbe to buy it.
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Cool - Hopefully they will add Dolby audio as well. So MKVs are playing good through it with DTS audio? Maybe I will have to buy it. I used my trial already when it sucked so now I can't try it again.

guitar1969 said:
Cool - Hopefully they will add Dolby audio as well. So MKVs are playing good through it with DTS audio. Maybe I will havbe to buy it.
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Cool - Hopefully they will add Dolby audio as well. So MKVs are playing good through it with DTS audio? Maybe I will have to buy it. I used my trial already when it sucked so now I can't try it again.
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Uh, Dolby Digital was already supported.
Unless you're referring to TrueHD or something, I guess.

It stutters on some of the super-high bitrate stuff I have, but most 720p and 1080p stuff now plays perfectly. (Edit: Stuttering was because of playing a file stored on the network, see below post).
I noticed that there's no option to turn subtitles OFF for episodes that have them embedded, though.
Also, now that I think about it, I wonder if it's possible to bitstream the audio via HDMI out.
Edit: There's also an x when you tap on the screen that lets you turn subtitles off. It's not obvious though; it would make more sense for "off" to be a section in the track selection.

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Uh, Dolby Digital was already supported.
Unless you're referring to TrueHD or something, I guess.
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Hmm - I must be getting this confused with another player in the store that only plays 2 channel audio, when I was on the search for an MKV player a few weeks back. All of my MKVs have both DD 5.1 and DTS tracks (when I encode them). Maybe it failed because of the DTS track being in there when I tried it out.
I will have to give this one another whirl.

I just connected to my receiver via HDMI. So basically what happens is that this player decodes the DD/DTS track to PCM, and then the 5.1 PCM is output to the receiver / TV. So, the Dolby Digital or DTS light won't come on on the receiver, but it's still 5.1 surround. It's just the decoding is done in the player, and not in the receiver. There shouldn't be much of a quality difference either way though, though it would be nice if it did support bitstreaming.
Also, I take back what I said above about it being stuttery. That was only the case when trying to play a 1080p file over Wifi. I copied that same file to a USB hard drive, and it played back perfectly. This is with a file that's at a ridiculous 12mbps bitrate.
So yeah, nearly perfect for me. All it needs is an option to turn off the subtitles, and it's perfect. Bitstream support would be nice too, but I don't actually see that as a necessity. And then it also needs "Play To" support.
Edit: Never mind, I found the button to turn off subtitles, it's a little x on the screen when you tap on it. It'd make more sense for OFF to be in the track selection menu.

Takes a while to load (1-2 minutes), but once it does it seems to be playing DTS movies just fine. Purchased it last night, I believe it was $1.80 or something. I haven't tried it on a receiver yet, though.

Hello all !
Yes i have resident evil Mkv movies and it work !
Thank !

I can't find this app in the store. I'm from Australia

robt772000 said:
I can't find this app in the store. I'm from Australia
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Switch your surface's language settings temporarily to English-US, then go to the MS app store, download the apps you want. you can switch back to English-Australia and the downloaded apps will still be there.

It's a really great app, but it's not showing my subtitles... Their codification is ANSI, not UTF-8, but even when I convert them to UTF-8, the subtitles are not working. Anyone know some solution?

robt772000 said:
I can't find this app in the store. I'm from Australia
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Turn your surface upside down

No no no. We are the right way up :silly:

Does the "try" version have all the features of the full version?
Because it doesn't show any of the subtitles, embedded or not.

lord69 said:
Does the "try" version have all the features of the full version?
Because it doesn't show any of the subtitles, embedded or not.
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yes, I have paid version and mine doesn't show subtitles either. at least audio works now. This app is amazing. Will be flawless once they add embedded subtitle support for mkv's.

nuprotocol said:
yes, I have paid version and mine doesn't show subtitles either. at least audio works now. This app is amazing. Will be flawless once they add embedded subtitle support for mkv's.
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It already has embedded subtitle support. Try tapping on the screen, and there's a button with either a bunch of rectangles or an x on the top right (under the volume) to turn subtitles on or off. You can also switch streams by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Otherwise, if that's not working, what format are your subtitles in?

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Video Player With Full Screen ??

hey how know about a video player with full screen botton ?
have u tried nemo ?
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have u tried nemo ?
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yea but is to slow and when you push the full screen botton you only cant see a white screen with the sound and nothin alse not another player ?
Mplayer is nice
Act 1 video player is pretty good. Pause and play with a tap of the screen and ff or rw by sliding your finger forward or backwards. full screen works great on the nexus.
Personally I just use the built in media player, works in fullscreen and gets the job done just fine.
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Personally I just use the built in media player, works in fullscreen and gets the job done just fine.
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Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
if your movie isnt playing in full screen, then you didnt encode the movie to the correct resolution. encode your movies whether they be rips or mkv's, make sure you encode at 800x480 mp4, 24fps, AAC 96, good to go. if you have no idea what i'm talking about, then do more reading
galaxys said:
Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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I want to ask the same question too
galaxys said:
Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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It's called "Gallery." Your videos are listed alongside your pictures. Or choose a video with any file browser.
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Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
Act1 is great. I had a 640*480 video that needed to be stretched to the full 800 pixels for proper viewing and Act1's full screen mode did the trick. It also shows battery level and time without being obtrusive and has quick access to brightness controls.
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
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Thanks guys! Tested & Gallery seems to do the trick for now...cool
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
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No. It doesn't work. I hope it has a video player like apple's. After click a key, the picture will be stretched at top and bottom. The left and right side will be cut a little. Note screen is 1280*800, but the 720p is 1280*720. if have this, it will be full screen.
Try MX Video Player it has extra codecs and such. Runs fullscreen, easier fast forward and rewind.
Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.
jkbhso3 said:
Try MX Video Player it has extra codecs and such. Runs fullscreen, easier fast forward and rewind.
Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.
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Tried all five codecs, I think the 'crop' mode should work, but it's same as full screen, there has a problem.

Is there any good movie player apps for it that will play mkv files?

I think someone told me of one that you have to pay for a few weeks ago, but wondering if there is some free apps now. For the pc there is a bunch like VLC, Gom and KM player that play every video format. It would be nice to be able to take advantage of the hdmi output.
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I think someone told me of one that you have to pay for a few weeks ago, but wondering if there is some free apps now. For the pc there is a bunch like VLC, Gom and KM player that play every video format. It would be nice to be able to take advantage of the hdmi output.
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That I know of there isn't an app out yet that plays mkv's
Just convert them. GOTsent works great and quick.
mkv player
There is VLC Player for Android and it plays mkv files
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There is VLC Player for Android and it plays mkv files
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No Way!!! I'm going to do a search and see if I can find it. It must be on the VLC website I imagine.
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There is VLC Player for Android and it plays mkv files
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I didn't see it on the vlc website. Do you know where to find it? I did a search, but nothing came up. It did mention the ability to play files from your computer remotely, but that is streaming so it wouldn't be HD or great quality I imagine.
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No Way!!! I'm going to do a search and see if I can find it. It must be on the VLC website I imagine.
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I've never been able to find this mystical VLC player for Android when I've looked.. Only VLC remotes. If you find it let me know.
RimkaIzumo said:
I've never been able to find this mystical VLC player for Android when I've looked.. Only VLC remotes. If you find it let me know.
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Same... there was one talked about for WM also, but never seen. Please share.
VLC hasn't been ported for Android yet.
That said, the guys that are releasing a PSX emulator and working on an Android N64 emulator, are supposedly going to working on porting VLC in their spare time. http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/04/playstation-emulator-coming-to-android-courtesy-of-yongzh-and-z/
Look for yxplayer on market... plays mkvs.
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Look for yxplayer on market... plays mkvs.
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I just installed yxplayer and it won't play a 1.4gb mkv file well at all. It is just a picture every few screens. Maybe the phone can't handle the file size, but my friend has an mkv player he got from china and it is bad a$$. It plays all file types and has mini hdmi out and I doubt it has a processor and ram as much as the evo. It's been out a lil while I'm sure. It has it's own screen but will output to an hd tv and looks just like you were playing a blue ray.
Probably thats the case... my mkvs were 640x480 anime shows. Havent tried anything hi-def...
On a side note, yxplayer is available as a trial only (2 min play time limit, tho some vids played for more and some reqlly did cut off after 2min), and if you wanna buy/pirate it - you won't be able to. The app for some dumb reason uses phone's imei for registration, which is gsm-only =O
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Probably thats the case... my mkvs were 640x480 anime shows. Havent tried anything hi-def...
On a side note, yxplayer is available as a trial only (2 min play time limit, tho some vids played for more and some reqlly did cut off after 2min), and if you wanna buy/pirate it - you won't be able to. The app for some dumb reason uses phone's imei for registration, which is gsm-only =O
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Ok, so I'll wait for vlc, or another player to come out. Although I really won't need to play many movies on my phone. I will use my laptop if anything.
Dont forget about CorePlayer... they're working on a version for android as well. CorePlayer for winmo played mkv and nearly everything else I threw at it (performance on the other hand was a totally different subject, lol)
Any idea of a release date for Coreplayer? I've been converting my files for the longest time now but sometimes I don't get a chance to in the case of downloading a football match.
Its been in development for year(s) now, waiting for better NDK on android... Froyo seems to be exactly what they were missing so we should be seeing the app in few months, i hope...

[Q] Lossless audio Flac support for htc sensation?

is there an app that would allow me to play lossless audio like flac? if not.. what format should i convert it to in order to maintain that quality?
or would wave.. be the only option to keep that quality?
PowerAMP is the only player I've encountered that can play FLAC, and the poor UI stops me from using it https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&feature=related_apps
Once we're rooted though, I'm told Cyanogenmod builds in FLAC support. Android 3.1 is the first version to officially build it in.
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PowerAMP is the only player I've encountered that can play FLAC, and the poor UI stops me from using it https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&feature=related_apps
Once we're rooted though, I'm told Cyanogenmod builds in FLAC support. Android 3.1 is the first version to officially build it in.
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Poor UI ? Really ?
I say PowerAmp is THE music app. Fully customizable EQ, flac support and much, much more. I have used it for over a year now and love it. Never listen to someone that says someone else told them. (quoted poster)
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Never listen to someone that says someone else told them. (quoted poster)
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Sorry, can't root my HTC Sensation so I can't confirm .
The app andLess plays flac. Free, simple interface, nothing fancy, but works.
samnada said:
The app andLess plays flac. Free, simple interface, nothing fancy, but works.
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and it plays ALAC hooray thanks for the tip, I'll have to give it a try.
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and it plays ALAC hooray thanks for the tip, I'll have to give it a try.
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Just came across another option listed in a different thread. AudioGalaxy is free, plays flac, and allows streaming all your music from your PC to your phone. I just set it up and it's very cool. Worth checking out.
I had a moment and found the discussion I had read previously regarding FLAC support in Cyanogenmod. It's there, as long as your FLAC files are 16-bit.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/1850-playing-flac/

Which Video Player and Encoding methods do you use

Hi all
Just thought i would share my findings.
I am using MX Video Player as my video player.
I use Mizzu Movies as the front end for it - it really is very very nice and will auto get information, reviews, trailers etc etc for movies.
To convert my Blu Ray mkv files, DVD rips or pretty much anything i use DVD Catalyst on Windows 7 PC
I use the asus transformer HQ settings and select partial border removal.
Using all the above results in very nice looking movies with flawless playback.
I travel abroad quite a lot and everyone who see's me using the Asus for movies on the plane is very interested in what i have.
For Blu-rays I've found DVD Catalyst 4 to be inadequate because of sync issues. I've also read that by turning off Blu-ray Telecine will correct this issue but it doesn't. So, I had to look at other software to rip and convert my Blu-rays. Also DVD Catalyst 4 set my Kaspersky Antivirus Heuristic virus detection off and said it was performing in a way similar to a virus or trojan.
I've found that Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper works really well and is my favorite. It has video acceleration and will utilize you're AMD (app acceleration) or a NVidia video card with (Cuda technology). It's normally $39 but you can get it HERE for $23.40 with the coupon code 'SMRT-ADEK'. HERE is a guide as to what settings to use for the TF. It tends to make my videos a little less in size than Pavtube does. i.e., Aieesoft Blu-ray Ripper will create a file say 2.5gb in size while Pavtube is a little higher. Also, since I have an AMD/ATI video card it will accelerate the ripping process to nearly half the time as Pavtube due to the fact that Pavtube doesn't support AMD/ATI acceleration, just NVidia Cuda technology. Also, Aieesoft Blu-ray Ripper will automatically preserve forced subtitles while Pavtube you have to actually check ON a tick box for it to pick up forced subtitles. Also it has a video preview while ripping while Pavtube does not. Incidentally you can turn this feature on or off, whichever you prefer.
Another great software would be Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate which runs $65 but you can get it for $37.70 HERE with coupon code 'SOFT-K8TT'. It makes flawless videos for the TF using the XOOM settings. HERE is a guide on how. It has video acceleration just for NVidia video card. It will also let you select not only different subtitles but allows for 'Only allow forced subtitles'.
Incidentally, both rippers have built in AACS ripper technology and can even rip the new AACS-24 copy protection which is the newest copy protection format. So there is no need to also run AnyDVD HD in the background while you rip to be able to rip. A huge plus in my book.
I use either Dice Player or MX Video to play my movies in HW acceleration mode.
This is the Pavtube settings. Right click on the picture and 'Save As' to download a short single chapter MP4 file to test on your TF.
This is the Aieesoft settings. Right click on the picture and 'Save As' to download a short single chapter MP4 file to test on your TF.
cheers...
EDIT: Please read further into this thread as things have changed drastically. Thanks
I use the extremely convenient VidsOpt script for reencoding and remuxing x264/MKV. I tried out some other ripping tools like DVD Catalyst and XviD4PSP but they were cumbersome and too heavy on my system (only 2.8GHz P4/1GB RAM). After this step, there is really no reason not to use the stock player since MP4 files can be HW decoded (video and audio). If I am watching something with subtitles or the occasional XviD I will use MX Video.
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For Blu-rays I've found DVD Catalyst 4 to be inadequate because of sync issues. I've also read that by turning off Blu-ray Telecine will correct this issue but it doesn't. So, I had to look at other software to rip and convert my Blu-rays. Also DVD Catalyst 4 set my Kaspersky Antivirus Heuristic virus detection off and said it was performing in a way similar to a virus or trojan.
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What Sync issues are you referring to AcidCore? I am aware of audio sync issues if you play the created video files on a PC using Windows Media Player, but this is due to some codec-issues with WMP itself. This is also mentioned in numerous locations on my website. For device playback as well as playback using Quicktime or VLC, the files should play just fine.
As for the Kaspersky, it doesn't like it when an app is running the conversion as a separate process. I have tried to work with them, but it is easier for them to mark something than to actually unmark something. DVD Catalyst is clean.
As for the links you provided, those articles are loaded with affiliate-links, meaning that those articles are mainly written to lure people into a purchase so that the guy who wrote them gets about 50% of the purchase price for the sale.
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What Sync issues are you referring to AcidCore? I am aware of audio sync issues if you play the created video files on a PC using Windows Media Player, but this is due to some codec-issues with WMP itself. This is also mentioned in numerous locations on my website. For device playback as well as playback using Quicktime or VLC, the files should play just fine.
As for the Kaspersky, it doesn't like it when an app is running the conversion as a separate process. I have tried to work with them, but it is easier for them to mark something than to actually unmark something. DVD Catalyst is clean.
As for the links you provided, those articles are loaded with affiliate-links, meaning that those articles are mainly written to lure people into a purchase so that the guy who wrote them gets about 50% of the purchase price for the sale.
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Actually, when I ripped the movie Wanted it played just fine on WMP but on both Dice and MX the audio was out of sync with the video. I felt like I was watching a dubbed movie or something. I tried three different settings with Catalyst and I got the same thing. Also when I ripped the movie Apocalypto which the whole movie is subtitled and Catalyst overwrote the subs with some kind of font that looked like it had some type of halo effect to it. I had to enable the Booster Pack 2 in order for it to pick up the subs at all. All other movies seemed OK though.
As for the links, I bought both Aieesoft Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube at a 40% discount each which was a big plus in my book.
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Actually, when I ripped the movie Wanted it played just fine on WMP but on both Dice and MX the audio was out of sync with the video. I felt like I was watching a dubbed movie or something. I tried three different settings with Catalyst and I got the same thing. Also when I ripped the movie Apocalypto which the whole movie is subtitled and Catalyst overwrote the subs with some kind of font that looked like it had some type of halo effect to it. I had to enable the Booster Pack 2 in order for it to pick up the subs at all. All other movies seemed OK though.
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Did you try the stock player?
The files dvdcat creates are optimized for hardware playback on the Tegra2. While MX and Dice can play a lot more video file types, their settings can get in the way of how the file plays. Using the stock player the videos should play just fine.
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Did you try the stock player?
The files dvdcat creates are optimized for hardware playback on the Tegra2. While MX and Dice can play a lot more video file types, their settings can get in the way of how the file plays. Using the stock player the videos should play just fine.
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I just tried playing it with the stock player and it's still out of sync.
My settings are:
Player Screen Size: 864x432
Video Quality: 2250kbps
Video Mode: 1 pass
Sound Quality: 160kbps
Audio Mode: stereo
Conversion Format: h264_xoom
Framerate: 30
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I just tried playing it with the stock player and it's still out of sync.
My settings are:
Player Screen Size: 864x432
Video Quality: 2250kbps
Video Mode: 1 pass
Sound Quality: 160kbps
Audio Mode: stereo
Conversion Format: h264_xoom
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What did you convert?
from Bluray using dvdcat's Bluray mode or using file-mode (just the m2ts file directly)
Besides the settings you mentioned, you also mentioned the telicine option. Are there any other settings in "Global" that you enabled?
Try resetting DVD Catalyst to its defaults:
* Make sure DVD Catalyst is not running
* Click on "START" > "RUN" (or hold down the windows-key on your keyboard and tap the "R" key)
* In the run dialog, type in:
%appdata%
and click OK
*delete the "DVD Catalyst 4" folder
After that, start dvdcat, and if you want to convert Bluray (icw AnyDVD HD or something similar), enable power user, and enable the checkmark in the Bluray tab in Global Settings.
Then just select your profile, and leave the rest of the settings as they are.
so far i have tried about 5 different methods to convert to mp4 from mkv etc
I have used dvdcat to convert about 10 movies so far and have not run into sync problems.
I have left most things on default so dont find it cumbersome at all, in fact I found it a lot easier to use than most others, i do have a quadcore 4gb windows 7 64bit system though so runs pretty fast. I use eset nod32 smart security which is a superior product to kaspersky without false positives.
I will also play around with more options in time.
Nice to see some alternative methods here though which I will also try.
Any other methods guys?
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What did you convert?
from Bluray using dvdcat's Bluray mode or using file-mode (just the m2ts file directly)
Besides the settings you mentioned, you also mentioned the telicine option. Are there any other settings in "Global" that you enabled?
Try resetting DVD Catalyst to its defaults:
* Make sure DVD Catalyst is not running
* Click on "START" > "RUN" (or hold down the windows-key on your keyboard and tap the "R" key)
* In the run dialog, type in:
%appdata%
and click OK
*delete the "DVD Catalyst 4" folder
After that, start dvdcat, and if you want to convert Bluray (icw AnyDVD HD or something similar), enable power user, and enable the checkmark in the Bluray tab in Global Settings.
Then just select your profile, and leave the rest of the settings as they are.
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Yeah, it was the first Blu-ray that I tried to transcode. Let me try your recommendation and see what I come up with. Thanks.
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Yeah, it was the first Blu-ray that I tried to transcode. Let me try your recommendation and see what I come up with. Thanks.
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You are welcome,
If you run into complications or have questions, rather than using this thread, maybe shoot me an email instead. I don't mind answering on forums, but I don't think this thread is the place for it though.
email is my username at gmail dot com.
I have to say that by taking your advice and setting things back to default that the Blu-ray rip came out perfect. It even came out smaller in size and the cropping was perfect. While most of my movies play in letterbox (black bars above and below the picture) that after ripping with DVD Catalyst and then playing in MX Video that I had no letterboxing. It played full screen. Stock video player and Dice Player both still played it in letterbox. The video setting was defaulted to 1280x720 and the video formatted out to 1280x544. There was no sync issues any more. Time to rip the movie Wanted using Aieesoft Blu-ray Ripper took a little over 2 hours and the time it took DVD Catalyst to rip the same movie was just over 40 minutes. Impressive to say the least.
Video player : Built-in video player
Encoder : FFMPEG (git-latest) command line. transcoding to playable MP4 format.
I just changed my dvdcat setup to just removing black bars from the video file instead of remove partial borders and quality is now better.
Removing partial borders lowered the resolution to 1072 x 512
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I just changed my dvdcat setup to just removing black bars from the video file instead of remove partial borders and quality is now better.
Removing partial borders lowered the resolution to 1072 x 512
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I always use "remove from file" (the default) myself. The other ones cut off part of the video to get more screenfill. If you use a video player other than the stock, you can usually zoom the video anyway if you want full-screen.
I've been re-transcoding my movies using DVD Cat and while the movie Underworld "Evolution" ripped perfectly using default settings Underworld did not. It's defaulted to just removing the black bars but it shoved the video to the left and it was severely cut off on the left. I looked all through the settings and couldn't find anything to fix this. Although when I went to 'Preview' the setting was defaulted to 1.33:1 and the first little picture with the borders was selected. I had to put it down to 1.35:1 movie default and choose the second little picture without the borders. Strange; as it made it 1280x405, so it was constrained but it fit and had no borders on the TF.
Needless to say, DVD Cat is going to take some trial and error to figure it all out.
Underworld is a bit tricky because it is so dark.
In Global > Borders, you can increase the scan-point count, which should eliminate the issue you experienced. It is quite rare, but its tied to the way DVD Cat actually detects borders on movies. Rather than using fixed values, it takes screenshots of the movie at 5 (default) points, and then looks for the actual borders.
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Underworld is a bit tricky because it is so dark.
In Global > Borders, you can increase the scan-point count, which should eliminate the issue you experienced. It is quite rare, but its tied to the way DVD Cat actually detects borders on movies. Rather than using fixed values, it takes screenshots of the movie at 5 (default) points, and then looks for the actual borders.
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I remember seeing that. It's set at 5 right now. Is that a setting under the borders tab that's selectable or is it always on? I'm at work so I can't look at the software at the moment.
its defaulted at 5, but you can change it to something like 7 or 8.
I've only ran into the issue 3 times.
twice with episodes of 24, where the shots were taken during the time-display part, and Underworld 1
So what setting do you recommend; 7 or 8? I guess I'll just have to tinker with it when I get home. What is your final file dimmensions on Underworld 1 after transcoding with DVD Cat?

Bug: MX player Pro build 1.9.5 dropped WMV support?

Hey, I was using MX player Pro build 1.9.3 without any issues.
Today it updated to 1.9.5 from Play Store.
Since the update, I cannot play any video that contains a WMV1 or WMV3 video stream.
The player tries HW decoder, then SW, then gives an error:
"This video format (wmv3) is not supported."
All those videos used to play back perfectly in the past up to (and including) build v1.9.3.
What's going on...?
I'm on Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. I launch videos using ES File Explorer.
This setup has worked absolutely flawlessly in the past for WMV files or AVI files containing WMV video tracks.
Ps24u said:
Hey, I was using MX player Pro build 1.9.3 without any issues.
Today it updated to 1.9.5 from Play Store.
Since the update, I cannot play any video that contains a WMV1 or WMV3 video stream.
The player tries HW decoder, then SW, then gives an error:
"This video format (wmv3) is not supported."
All those videos used to play back perfectly in the past up to (and including) build v1.9.3.
What's going on...?
I'm on Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. I launch videos using ES File Explorer.
This setup has worked absolutely flawlessly in the past for WMV files or AVI files containing WMV video tracks.
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Message itself clear. Looks like MX Player has dropped support for some more codecs.
May be yet another patent issue. Anyhow, Custom Codec will work as usual with all codecs.
Not happy with this either. Especially for an app I paid for.
Hopefully just a bug they will fix.
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Not happy with this either. Especially for an app I paid for.
Hopefully just a bug they will fix.
Just hit this too, this is a problem. Is there a codec I can load somewhere that will enable wmv3?
same problem with mpeg2 hopfully thy wil fix it soon
I got this problem today, when upgrading from 1.9.3 to 1.9.8
The installation of the latest version of MX Player Custom Codec With DTS Support helped
TheDoka said:
I got this problem today, when upgrading from 1.9.3 to 1.9.8
The installation of the latest version of MX Player Custom Codec With DTS Support helped
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Well can you be helpful and tell us where to get it instead of teasing us?
Gailthesnail said:
Well can you be helpful and tell us where to get it instead of teasing us?
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....player-custom-codec-dts-support-t2156254/amp/
Use Mango player apk , it's supports all type of formets
Dear jguy, the solution you supplied doesn't work. I followed it to the letter. Version 1.9.3 was flawless. I'm sorry I upgraded. I'm a paying user. I use my tablet to make a living. I use video to teach English. Not being able to employ my collection of WMV3 files blows a hole in my resource collection. If only I could reinstall 1.9.3.
Edward Lorence said:
Dear jguy, the solution you supplied doesn't work. I followed it to the letter. Version 1.9.3 was flawless. I'm sorry I upgraded. I'm a paying user. I use my tablet to make a living. I use video to teach English. Not being able to employ my collection of WMV3 files blows a hole in my resource collection. If only I could reinstall 1.9.3.
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You sure you picked the right version for your device? It worked for me with a Pixel xl. Also, not my solution, just provided a link for a previous post a few up.
MX player no longer plays WMV3
jguy said:
You sure you picked the right version for your device? It worked for me with a Pixel xl. Also, not my solution, just provided a link for a previous post a few up.
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Sorry, the solution provided doesn't work. Right code for my Lenovo tablet is ARM7 neon: installed. I'd just like to go back to 1.9.3.
Edward Lorence said:
Sorry, the solution provided doesn't work. Right code for my Lenovo tablet is ARM7 neon: installed. I'd just like to go back to 1.9.3.
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You do a restart?
jguy said:
You do a restart?
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Restart app, restart tablet, reinstall app & codec: did everything. Letting it go. Installed media player classic, works, end of trouble.
use custom codec. it's in the stickies.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sho....php?t=2156254
Supports WMV, MPEG DTS, all the stuff MX Player no longer supports or never supported.
jguy said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....player-custom-codec-dts-support-t2156254/amp/
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Thanks for this, worked like a charm!
For anyone else, I originally tried the codec from the Play Store and didn't work. I uninstalled it and downloaded the custom codec from the link above and installed thru the app and works perfectly.

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