Hi all,
I am using MX player to watch videos and it seems to lag with some MKV files. There is no lag on avi/mp4 files, and sometimes even some mkv's work. Recently though I am unable to play any MKVs without lag. I'm unsure if this is how the system works, but I am unable to use the HW/HW+ decoder on any MKV files.
Today I flashed a custom rom onto my galaxy tab 2 and tried overclocking, but I haven't noticed any difference. ( I may be doing something wrong). It seems that I have the same issue with other players too.
If someone could help me out, that would be great. I'm not sure if I need a settings change, new player, different overclock values, etc. Hopefully it's possible to watch my MKV files
Also if someone could also suggest if there is a certain rom that helps too I'd appreciate it.
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I'm having random problems with the stock player. It will work sometimes, but after watching a few trailers it will cause the tablet to lock up and I have to hold power to reboot.
I also have the rock player. It works sometimes, but other times it will also lock up the entire tablet.
I'm running the latest viewsonic update with the google apps and full market access.
Anyone else seeing these kinds of problems?
It is consistent on certain files? And certain h264 files in particular?
h264 high profile files don't work on the Tegra 2. They can be choppy and sometimes even freeze up the device completely.
I've haven't had any problem with h264 files, but any windows media player video files, I get audio but no video
Yeah, I'm still trying to decide if I should keep this tab or not. I want to be able to watch videos without some of them making the device lockup.
Does anyone know if this is a hardware issue with the Tegra chip or something can be solved with software or codecs?
Thanks
Is it possible to play .avi videos on Transformer? I have tried to play videos on MicroSD but have been unsuccessful.
Try using rockplayer?
flanny02 said:
Is it possible to play .avi videos on Transformer? I have tried to play videos on MicroSD but have been unsuccessful.
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Moboplayer, free from the Market, does a nice job.
Rockplayer seems to work, thanks!
AVI, the container, is fine and Android should have no trouble with. But, there's also the codecs that the video data is encoded in, as well as the codecs for the audio data.
Those may or may not be supported, especially if they're older files using some ancient and crappy codec.
Edit: Bah, OP responded as I was writing this
I know this is an old thread but hopefully someone can still be patient and help me out.
I just recently got the TF101. I think it's the plan TF101, not the "G" version. I got it through a Groupon deal so it didn't have a lot of technical details.
I'm brand new to Android and I want to watch AVI files on the Transformer using a microSD card. I've downloaded a bunch of the usual suspects (MoboPlayer, BSPlayer, Rockpayer, VPlayer) and so far I like MX Player and Dice Player the best.
Here's the problem:
I've formatted the microSD on my iMac as FAT32 and added tv show folders. **Only SOME of the avi files play without any "read" errors** I know avi's can have all sorts of codecs but for my collection of Friends tv show I personally ripped all the episodes from a dvd set using Handbrake and used the same setting for all the videos. So why are some working flawlessly and other videos can't play at all?
Is there something that I'm missing that I need to do to make all my avi's compatible? Do I need to download something else aside from the ARM codecs req by each app? Is it because I'm using a non-brand microSD?
All help is appreciated... Thanks!
Hi everyone. Recently I bought a new GT P5113. In all the tablet reviews they say that it can play easily almost all AVI, MKV, MP4 etc video files, but when I try to play them with the stock video player I get a message that video is not supported. I dont think that this is normal.
My tab is running the latest firmware update from Samsung ULGB2 4.0.4 or sth like that. Any ideas, except installing 3rd party players? Somebody else with the same problem?
Thanks!
what files exactly wont play and are they stored locally?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free&hl=en
try bsplayer, it should hardware playback files with a HW onscreen to let you know.
It plays all my upnp hosted video files just fine, i had some issues with streamed files with the stock player. assuming my p3110 uses the same decoding process.
Thanks for the info. It wont play divx and xvid avi files, also it doesnt want to play mkv and mp4, which is completely strange. The files are stored on the externsl microsd. I wonder if i need to make a hard reset...
Edit: BSplayer plays videos only in SW mode
celeronix said:
Thanks for the info. It wont play divx and xvid avi files, also it doesnt want to play mkv and mp4, which is completely strange. The files are stored on the externsl microsd. I wonder if i need to make a hard reset...
Edit: BSplayer plays videos only in SW mode
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yeah something is not right mp4 should be the tester as they always play no matter what. try it and let us know
I fixed it with a simple restart. Firmware bug obviously Now we are OK
why not give Dice Player a try?
I used to have MX Player but switched to Dice Player.
I've come from a lot of Samsung devices, and I decided to jump that boat as soon as I was no longer able to install CM on the Note III.
I have a Samba/FTP server, and I like to stream videos from Samba to my phone, like all the time, like 90% of the videos are h.264 mkv. I used DicePlayer on my Note III to stream, and it was pretty awesome. When I tried this on my OPO, it wouldn't work, presumably because the OPO doesn't have the proper codecs, so I went to the settings in Diceplayer and changed the setting for mkv to play under "software player" instead of default; This worked, but I only got like 2 FPS, literally. So I rolled my eyes and went and got VLC. VLC can't open network folders, so I had to use some other obnoxious app to open the files. This works, but its so crappy compared to Diceplayer, it skips/stops every minute or so.
I am wondering if anyone knows any way that I can get it all working with Diceplayer, or if there is a better app that I can use that works just as well. I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but it seems to me that the OPO doesn't have the proper codecs, and Diceplayer doesn't work well enough with the phone that it can make up for lack of said codecs.
Try using MX player. It runs everything and can use hardware and software codecs. It can also stream from a network though I have never used that feature.
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Try using MX player. It runs everything and can use hardware and software codecs. It can also stream from a network though I have never used that feature.
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I think I tried that one on my Note, it works, but its buggy, and to stream you have to open it via url which is annoying. But I will try it.
Hi, how it works?
I have problem with playing 720p .mkv movies (for example The.Flash.2014.S01E06.720p.HDTV.X265.mkv ).
It plays video slower than audio ( there is one second of audio freeze every five seconds). I have tried to install additional codecs, but it didn't help. It plays on SW decoder, HW/HW+ shows only error and switch to SW.
Also try to install VLC player, but it didn't work too.
480p mkv files are played ok, even via WiFi.
OPO and MX player are actual, phone isn't rooted.
Thanks for any advice
Install the necessary codecs. http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/mx-player-custom-codec-dts-support-t2156254
That should fix any codec issues.
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When playing MTS files from my Sony HandyCam on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 using MX Player, I get horizontal lines that degrade the quality of the video. I tried some other Android players and they were even worse. I've sometimes seen a similar thing in Windows Media Player on my Win8.1 computer. In researching it, I'm finding that it seems to be a problem going back quite a ways that may be related to the file format more than any particular device. It also seems it may have to do with interlacing. Has anyone seen this in MX Player with MTS files? There is a setting that indicates you can deinterlace, but it only works with the SW Decoder, which I turned on, but then there is a different problem - choppy playback (always) and distorted images (at times). I'm hoping for a better solution. Is there one?
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When playing MTS files from my Sony HandyCam on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 using MX Player, I get horizontal lines that degrade the quality of the video. I tried some other Android players and they were even worse. I've sometimes seen a similar thing in Windows Media Player on my Win8.1 computer. In researching it, I'm finding that it seems to be a problem going back quite a ways that may be related to the file format more than any particular device. It also seems it may have to do with interlacing. Has anyone seen this in MX Player with MTS files? There is a setting that indicates you can deinterlace, but it only works with the SW Decoder, which I turned on, but then there is a different problem - choppy playback (always) and distorted images (at times). I'm hoping for a better solution. Is there one?
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As you said Deinterlacing will only works with SW. SW decoder uses ffmpeg. So, it may render well in many occasions. But, it needs lot of cpu power. So, it may laggy in high definition videos (depends up on your hardware).
Both H/W & H/W+ uses system decoders. So, MX Player's control over it is very limited.
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