Hulu Plus is having issues on my P5113 device running custom ROMs, however, the issue is not present when running ICS or jellybean stock roms.
What's happening is that the video will basically shrink down to a half inch bar as is visible in the attached photo. The issue will persist until Hulu is either minimized or it switches to commercials, after which point the video playback will appear normal for a few moments and then the issue will return.
Ive tried all sorts of different ROMs: CM, PA, AOKP, but the issue occurs on all of them. I have also tried tinkering with some of the developer options like forcing GPU playback and disabling HW overlays, but nothing has worked. I am currently running the latest version of hulu available from the Play store, but i have also tried older versions. BTW, there are no sound issues and this issue does not occur in other video playback apps such as Netflix.
I tried searching for this problem, but did not come up with anything. Is anyone else out there having this same issue, or does anyone know what might solve the problem?
Thanks for your help!
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Posted a few hours before yours by me...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130021
It fixes the issue
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Having the same issue here, on my p3113 running cm 10.1. I installed the modded hulu from the posdt above, but the video quality in the app is terrible. Unless I'm doing something wrong? Any help would be awesome as I love this ROM, but really love hulu more haha.
Hello,
Since the recent 4.2.2 update for my Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition, both .avi and .mkv files cause an immediate "MX Player has stopped responding" crash on playback using HW+ decoding. HW and SW decoding still work without issue.
Thanks!
BeatSquid said:
Hello,
Since the recent 4.2.2 update for my Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition, both .avi and .mkv files cause an immediate "MX Player has stopped responding" crash on playback using HW+ decoding. HW and SW decoding still work without issue.
Thanks!
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It's a Samsung's bug.
We had the same issue on Galaxy S5.
It was fixed by an software update released before one week.
There is nothing to do with MX Player.
Wait for the update from samsung...!!
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See also this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52672845&postcount=13
CDB-Man said:
See also this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52672845&postcount=13
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Is there a fix for the Galaxy 2014 yet? No OTA update for Sweden. Has anyone got hw+ working on mx player since 4.4.2 update? Any ETA?
Babelbabel said:
Is there a fix for the Galaxy 2014 yet? No OTA update for Sweden. Has anyone got hw+ working on mx player since 4.4.2 update? Any ETA?
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Second that. Any news/fixes?
maniek7282
Good_vibes said:
Second that. Any news/fixes?
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after OTA update to kitkat 4.4.2 h/w+ mx player decoder also doesn't work on my Samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014. how long we can wait for samsung fix? maybe when I will change Rom for another one fix this problem?
maniek7282 said:
after OTA update to kitkat 4.4.2 h/w+ mx player decoder also doesn't work on my Samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014. how long we can wait for samsung fix? maybe when I will change Rom for another one fix this problem?
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@bleu8888
The problem is similar to the one which we have faced in S5. It seems that it's not yet reported to Samsung.
Can you report the same in Samsung developers forum?
maniek7282
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@bleu8888
The problem is similar to the one which we have faced in S5. It seems that it's not yet reported to Samsung.
Can you report the same in Samsung developers forum?
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Yes.I reported this problem to Samsung Developers forum today. Maybe our problem will be fixed....... Maybe someone finded any solution ?
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@bleu8888
The problem is similar to the one which we have faced in S5. It seems that it's not yet reported to Samsung.
Can you report the same in Samsung developers forum?
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Let me try it.
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maniek7282 said:
Yes.I reported this problem to Samsung Developers forum today. Maybe our problem will be fixed....... Maybe someone finded any solution ?
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Would you send me link for your report on Samsung Developers forum?
I will leave comment on this.
BTW, they may need exact model name and build number to fix it out.
maniek7282
Hello! I leave a message on samsung website (Email Product Support) I provided all detail about my device with serial number. I described my problem and I got general answer ( do factory reset and bleble....) I found some link to samsung developer forum
but I didn't know where exactly I can leave a message than I left information on support samsung website UK .Can You contact with Samsung and try help the fix this problem?Thanks! Best regards!
maniek7282 said:
Hello! I leave a message on samsung website (Email Product Support) I provided all detail about my device with serial number. I described my problem and I got general answer ( do factory reset and bleble....) I found some link to samsung developer forum
but I didn't know where exactly I can leave a message than I left information on support samsung website UK .Can You contact with Samsung and try help the fix this problem?Thanks! Best regards!
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Would you let me know model number and build number?
I will report again.
In addition, it will be help if you confirm if hw decoder does not work on other 3rd party video players such as BS, Dice, VLC
maniek7282
Model number of my samsung tablet is: SM-P605 (FCC ID:A3LSMP605). Android build number is: KOT49H.P605ZSUCNE3.I checked today and hw+ decoder does't work on MX Player, VLC Player, Dice Player and BS player. SW decoder is working for all theese devices.
Thanks for your help!
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Model number of my samsung tablet is: SM-P605 (FCC ID:A3LSMP605). Android build number is: KOT49H.P605ZSUCNE3.I checked today and hw+ decoder does't work on MX Player, VLC Player, Dice Player and BS player. SW decoder is working for all theese devices.
Thanks for your help!
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Yes, It won't work in any player due to the change in media framework by Samsung.
I wrote a report on Samsung Developers forum and waiting response:
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/...essageNumber=8924&listLines=15&startId=zzzzz~
maniek7282
hello! Did you get some answer from samsung developers in our case? any update on our devices? mx player h/w+ still doesn't work on my device samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 P605 kit Kat 4.4.2 When I come back to android 4.3 is hardware acceleration will be work? Somebody told me when I upgraded my device to Kit Kat, downgrade to 4.3 is not possible.Is that true?
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hello! Did you get some answer from samsung developers in our case? any update on our devices? mx player h/w+ still doesn't work on my device samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 P605 kit Kat 4.4.2 When I come back to android 4.3 is hardware acceleration will be work? Somebody told me when I upgraded my device to Kit Kat, downgrade to 4.3 is not possible.Is that true?
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As we have already told there is nothing to do with mxplayer or any other software player. Only Samsung can fix the issue with hardware acceleration. He has raised the problem in their support forum & I have mailed to the samsung developer support team too.
Since samsung is already testing on 4.4.3 update, they may fix this issue with next 4.4.3 update. But, there is no guarantee.
By the by in S5 & Note 3 almost everything is working in HW mode which is highly efficient. I can't understand why you are running behind HW+.
Regarding downgrade, it's better to ask it in a Note 3 forum. So that you can get the better support.
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The hardware decoding doesn't work with any player except VLC with software decoding and stockings.
It's a very big bug, I think.
(I have an Austrian Note 10.1 2014)
Familienpapi said:
The hardware decoding doesn't work with any player except VLC with software decoding and stockings.
It's a very big bug, I think.
(I have an Austrian Note 10.1 2014)
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there is a difference between HW & HW+.
I thing you are talking about HW+. It has to be fixed by samsung.
MX Player also works well in HW & SW mode.
No. It doesn't. Also the internal and the ES Player don't play anymore.
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No. It doesn't. Also the internal and the ES Player don't play anymore.
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Are using any custom rom?
Read the first post...
After 4.4.2 update many people facing issue with HW+ which is a samsung bug.
As per the usee report HW & SW mode is working well.
1. Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 wifi (SM-T520)
2. Android version: Kitkat 4.4.4
3. Official CyanogenMod 11 nightly 11-20141209
4. When I play some videos and using HW and HW+ decoder, I experience video is out of sync. It looks like there's frame dropping. Problem also exists on my Xperia V with latest CM. I use on both devices custom codecs from this forum. While using SW decoder everything is fine.
Logs are here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqvra9vqkefynrl/report_2014-12-13_085318.zip?dl=0
Yeah, I was constantly having the same bug on my stock Android 5.01 Nexus 7 2013. HW mode is not even available for most of my high quality mkvs, while in HW+ mode playback is choppy. In the end the solution was painful, but simple: I gave up Mx player pro and returned to bs player pro. Playback is a lot smoother now with HW mode in bs player. After more than a year with mx player I must say it's an extremely overrated piece of software with a non-existant price/performance ratio. While I like a lot it when it works, it has too many annoying bugs to recommend it anymore.
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Yeah, I was constantly having the same bug on my stock Android 5.01 Nexus 7 2013. HW mode is not even available for most of my high quality mkvs, while in HW+ mode playback is choppy. In the end the solution was painful, but simple: I gave up Mx player pro and returned to bs player pro. Playback is a lot smoother now with HW mode in bs player. After more than a year with mx player I must say it's an extremely overrated piece of software with a non-existant price/performance ratio. While I like a lot it when it works, it has too many annoying bugs to recommend it anymore.
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I just checked BS Player (free version) and on my Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 it was just as choppy as MX Player. Maybe there's a bug in CM 11?
Did it previously work on older versions of your ROM? If yes, then it's likely a ROM issue.
@Mihai B mind posting the media info of the problem videos in question? Was this on stock ROM for the 2013 N7?
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Did it previously work on older versions of your ROM? If yes, then it's likely a ROM issue.
@Mihai B mind posting the media info of the problem videos in question? Was this on stock ROM for the 2013 N7?
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Yes, I am using stock Android 5.01 ROM with a Nexus 7 2013 WiFi only, 32 GB, rooted with chainfire's autoroot, stock recovery, waited for OTA to arrive, factory reset with clear cache partition after applying the update. Worth mentioning that on KitKat 4.4.4. playback was much more smoother on the same files, with the same settings in MX Player. I only have a few applications, nothing that could conflict with MX Player. Here you will find an example of a file lagging when played. Basically every high quality mkv stutters like hell. If you need a file, I can upload it somewhere.
Thank you for your help!
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Yes, I am using stock Android 5.01 ROM with a Nexus 7 2013 WiFi only, 32 GB, rooted with chainfire's autoroot, stock recovery, waited for OTA to arrive, factory reset with clear cache partition after applying the update. Worth mentioning that on KitKat 4.4.4. playback was much more smoother on the same files, with the same settings in MX Player. I only have a few applications, nothing that could conflict with MX Player. Here you will find an example of a file lagging when played. Basically every high quality mkv stutters like hell. If you need a file, I can upload it somewhere.
Thank you for your help!
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Is it happens with HW?
If it's so,
Have you tried the same video on Stock Player?
The same should happen with stock player too as HW basically uses android's standard mediaplayer interface.
So, if it stutters on HW, Possibly there might be some issues with in the rom itself.
Have you tried SW decoder?
It might work well since it's based on ffmpeg
HW mode doesn't work at all (mx player says decoder is not supported or something like this), therefore stock player is unable to play it, too. Battery drain is huge with SW mode, what's the purpose of buying applications like MX player that offer accelerated HW decoding then? But just FYI, software mode plays the file flawlessly. The ROM is the purest Android experience one can get right now, so this should not be a problem either. If HW+ mode doesn't work as it should even on stock Android, with developer previews available since months, I don't want to think what will happen with custom ROMs.
We are far away from highly compressed formats like divx, xvid or wmv, high definition content is the present and it seems Mx player with its HW+ decoder can't keep the pace.
I wrote about these problems ever since Android 5 was officially launched a month ago and still no fix was issued.
Mihai B said:
HW mode doesn't work at all (mx player says decoder is not supported or something like this), therefore stock player is unable to play it, too. Battery drain is huge with SW mode, what's the purpose of buying applications like MX player that offer accelerated HW decoding then? But just FYI, software mode plays the file flawlessly. The ROM is the purest Android experience one can get right now, so this should not be a problem either. If HW+ mode doesn't work as it should even on stock Android, with developer previews available since months, I don't want to think what will happen with custom ROMs.
We are far away from highly compressed formats like divx, xvid or wmv, high definition content is the present and it seems Mx player with its HW+ decoder can't keep the pace.
I wrote about these problems ever since Android 5 was officially launched a month ago and still no fix was issued.
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HW+ uses the same native codecs to decode. Only difference is that H/W uses android media framework and mx player uses its own media framework which itself depends on another android library. So, if any issues on codec configuration will affect both.
MX Player was working well on L preview (except the last one in which google hasn't released the sources).
Do you think your device doesn't has enough power to decode a 720p video natively?. Then, have ever thinked about why your stock player can't play the video?
Just google. MX Payer is not the only product. You will see the very large list of complaints all around the world. You are supposed to blame on Google for the semi baked ROM rather than MX Player.
Look at the article from famous Android Police Portal
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...o-playback-issues-after-updating-to-lollipop/
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HW+ uses the same native codecs to decode. Only difference is that H/W uses android media framework and mx player uses its own media framework which itself depends on another android library. So, if any issues on codec configuration will affect both.
MX Player was working well on L preview (except the last one in which google hasn't released the sources).
Do you think your device doesn't has enough power to decode a 720p video natively?. Then, have ever thinked about why your stock player can't play the video?
Just google. MX Payer is not the only product. You will see the very large list of complaints all around the world. You are supposed to blame on Google for the semi baked ROM rather than MX Player.
Look at the article from famous Android Police Portal
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...o-playback-issues-after-updating-to-lollipop/
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Thank you for your answer, Ktsamy.
My device is powerful enough to play a 720p video, as in KitKat there were no problems in doing this. I know about the issues mentioned in the link you posted, but they refer to Android 5.0, and as far as I know, this is one of the reasons Google halted 5.0 OTAs, fixed some of the bugs reported by early adopters and then updated most of the devices directly to 5.01. The video issues found in Nexus 7 2013 were supposed to be fixed in 5.01.
So what has to be done? Should we all patiently wait for Google to eventually fix the native android codecs/libraries problems you say they generated in Lollipop? And while we are waiting, applications like MX Player and other similar products are right now useless for the unlucky ones who have Android L installed?
I mean: ok, we do have a problem, but what about everyone (Google, paid app developers) working on a solution instead of blaming each other?
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Thank you for your answer, Ktsamy.
My device is powerful enough to play a 720p video, as in KitKat there were no problems in doing this. I know about the issues mentioned in the link you posted, but they refer to Android 5.0, and as far as I know, this is one of the reasons Google halted 5.0 OTAs, fixed some of the bugs reported by early adopters and then updated most of the devices directly to 5.01. The video issues found in Nexus 7 2013 were supposed to be fixed in 5.01.
So what has to be done? Should we all patiently wait for Google to eventually fix the native android codecs/libraries problems you say they generated in Lollipop? And while we are waiting, applications like MX Player and other similar products are right now useless for the unlucky ones who have Android L installed?
I mean: ok, we do have a problem, but what about everyone (Google, paid app developers) working on a solution instead of blaming each other?
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all lollipop devices aren't affected.
Reportedly Google is aware of this issue.
second thing, Since Google is controlling the ROM, app developers can't fix the issue lies on ROM. But, developers can look for temporary workarounds to resolve the issue. But. No guarantee that all bugs will have some workarounds.
Well, stock 5.0 ROM for Nexus devices is fine, so it might just be a recompile or other issue for 5.0.1. @bleu8888 mind taking a look to see if it's just a simple versioning issue with 5.0.1? The updated OTA was released a few days ago for Nexus devices.
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Well, stock 5.0 ROM for Nexus devices is fine, so it might just be a recompile or other issue for 5.0.1. @bleu8888 mind taking a look to see if it's just a simple versioning issue with 5.0.1? The updated OTA was released a few days ago for Nexus devices.
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CDB-Man, the problem was present on 5.00 as well. I flashed the factory image, posted info about the stuttering in the Android 5 topic, Ktsamy pointed me and others affected by this problem to the same link he provided yesterday. In the mean time Google halted the OTAs for 5.00, fixed some bugs, including the one with the video lag present on the Nexus 7 2013 and directly released OTA 5.01. Unfortunately the stuttering in playing high quality mkvs is still present in MX Player, no matter if the ROM is stock 5.00 or 5.01.
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CDB-Man, the problem was present on 5.00 as well. I flashed the factory image, posted info about the stuttering in the Android 5 topic, Ktsamy pointed me and others affected by this problem to the same link he provided yesterday. In the mean time Google halted the OTAs for 5.00, fixed some bugs, including the one with the video lag present on the Nexus 7 2013 and directly released OTA 5.01. Unfortunately the stuttering in playing high quality mkvs is still present in MX Player, no matter if the ROM is stock 5.00 or 5.01.
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If it's fixed it supposed to playable in H/W decoder or by Stock Video Player. But, none of these are working.
Can you do the following?
Long Press the video, Play using H/W decoder. if it says H/W decoder is not supported or automatically switches to S/W, close the playback. Collect the logs & upload here.
BTW, According to leaks Google is planning for another major update to 5.1 in Feb 15 to address the major bugs exists in lollipop
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Well, stock 5.0 ROM for Nexus devices is fine, so it might just be a recompile or other issue for 5.0.1. @bleu8888 mind taking a look to see if it's just a simple versioning issue with 5.0.1? The updated OTA was released a few days ago for Nexus devices.
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As I have said already, the issue doesn't appear on all nexus devices. Most of the reports are from Nexus 7.
Thanks again, ktsamy, for your help. I was not very sure about how to collect the log, hope it is okay. It said decoder not supported, then switched to sw.
Same here on stock 5.0.1. But the same player is smooth on 4.4.4. So I guess it's Google's problem.
Ktsamy, have you found the time to check the log I have posted a few days ago?
I have an nvidia shield tablet LTE and can confirm HW+ makes video stutter on my device. Was working perfectly prior to the lollipop update. Hope Google, MX Devs or whoever can resolve the issue. Noticed that SW mode is a HUGE battery drain!
I guess it seems that Google really rushed the release of Lollipop.
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Ktsamy, have you found the time to check the log I have posted a few days ago?
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@Mihai B @isamu99 @kneep
I've tried some high resolution videos on Nexus 7 2013 5.0.1 but can't reproduce this issue.
So it looks not like happening with all videos.
So I've tried download one of files having this issue -- The.Secret.Life.of.Walter.Mitty.2013.BluRay.720p.x264.DTS-HDWinG.mkv -- but it is taking forever.
Would someone send download link or torren file having enough seed?
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@Mihai B @isamu99 @kneep
I've tried some high resolution videos on Nexus 7 2013 5.0.1 but can't reproduce this issue.
So it looks not like happening with all videos.
So I've tried download one of files having this issue -- The.Secret.Life.of.Walter.Mitty.2013.BluRay.720p.x264.DTS-HDWinG.mkv -- but it is taking forever.
Would someone send download link or torren file having enough seed?
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Bleu8888, I have PM'd you with the link to the file. If you can't download it, please let me know.