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Hi,
I've been using trial version of Dice Player and I'm almost ready to purchase the full version. However, I just noticed 3 other players that might worth considering:
- MX Player
- PowerDVD Mobile
- VLC (free)
- Seaman Player
I'd like to take comments from people who are using these. Which one should I go for ?
I personally use Dice Player. Plays everything smoothly.
MX Player: good alternative for free, but doesn't play some 720p MKVs with crisp frames.
VLC: Very early stage, not daily-use.
Rest... I haven't tried them.
mrmrmrmr said:
Hi,
I've been using trial version of Dice Player and I'm almost ready to purchase the full version. However, I just noticed 3 other players that might worth considering:
- MX Player
- PowerDVD Mobile
- VLC (free)
- Seaman Player
I'd like to take comments from people who are using these. Which one should I go for ?
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I can't make up my mind what I like best, Dice Player or MX Video Player so I paid for both apps. The developers of each seem to be going head to head on what they can and cannot do. Both do HW playback which is what I like most about them. You wont be disappointed with Dice Player the least bit. They both seem to be the two best video players to date for Android.
thanks for your comments.
is there any experience with PowerDVD ?
that's a nice app on Windows. So why not the Android version...
Dice
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mrmrmrmr said:
thanks for your comments.
is there any experience with PowerDVD ?
that's a nice app on Windows. So why not the Android version...
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Well for one thing, PowerDVD Mobile is $20 and Dice Player and MX player are just over $5 and can play just about every video file type. So you weigh the odds. With Tegra 2 video is barely starting to break free of it's constraints so I wouldn't want to pay out the nose for a video player that might or might not play back my videos. IDK, that's just how I feel about it.
If you do wind up getting PowerDVD let us know how well it plays HW and SW video playback with multiple file types. I was reading and I didn't find if it will play .mkv files or not.
Personally, I would normally talk up Diceplayer, but after the last couple of updates, we've taken about 5 steps backwards. Whatever happened, it's gotten worse than it was before. I'm not sure what that's due to, but 720P videos no longer play as smoothly as they once did. Videos that used to play fine are now choppy and have bad audio. And these are the same videos, the only change is what version the player is running. I'd actually go back a few versions if I had made a backup of some kind.
Either way, I don't generally recommend Diceplayer anymore. I used to talk it up and down because it WAS a very good player, but things have certainly changed alot apparently.
darkhawkff said:
Personally, I would normally talk up Diceplayer, but after the last couple of updates, we've taken about 5 steps backwards. Whatever happened, it's gotten worse than it was before. I'm not sure what that's due to, but 720P videos no longer play as smoothly as they once did. Videos that used to play fine are now choppy and have bad audio. And these are the same videos, the only change is what version the player is running. I'd actually go back a few versions if I had made a backup of some kind.
Either way, I don't generally recommend Diceplayer anymore. I used to talk it up and down because it WAS a very good player, but things have certainly changed alot apparently.
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Yep very true. I have had the exact same findings. I've been talking to the developer and just sent him a 720p mkv today that used to work and now doesn't. He's testing it on his transformer to see if he can find the issue.
Power DVD is too expensive. Mobo is so far the best
Hopefully DICE player can fix it's recent bugs (he has been issuing updates like crazy anyway).
MX has mich better gui, but dice player still has much better playback. There is noticeable difference in frame drops between the two (dice being much, much better, even though both use hardware decoding).
i use vplayer and it does all videos and even allows streaming
Dice Player with tegra addon . Nothing to me is smoother.
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Moboplayer
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For me, dice player has the smoothest playback, too.
Hi,
I've tried PowerDVD mobile.
It has a very elegant GUI and nice features.
It serves music and photos in addition to videos and it also includes a DLNA player.
However, videos are not as smooth as MX Player or Dice Player.
Probably it does not support as much codecs.
bs player
i just found BS player for android its in beta right now but it works great
I wish I could get DICE player to work. Everytime I open it, it says "Sorry, this video cannot be played." I haven't even picked a video yet!
Having endless issues trying to play 720p mkv videos I have dice player, mobo player, and mx video player. When the video is smooth i get no sound and when sound works the video gets choppy during action/ fast scenes... any advice?
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I can't seem to get HW decoding to work with MX player. Is anyone using any custom kernels .. overclocking?
MX Video for me
i started with Mobo since the stock player only reads internal files. but i wanted full screen with no icons on the bottom. i tried dice trial and liked it so i bought the full version than i saw mx video and bought it too. i like both, but dice player on lets me choose (ie: /Removable/MicroSD don't even try microsd).
whereas mx video lets me add several locations that i can browse too and i get full screen. i haven't had any problems with any video incls so far.
i just wish i could connect a protable dvd player.
i also like the easy way it handles subtitles and .vob
Hi all,
The stock player plays quite a few files natively but wasn't able to recognize the .mov taken with my friend's DSLR. I used to use MX player with my old phone and it worked great with HW acceleration but when I try to play the .mov (1080p) on the Note, only SW acceleration is available for the note which is quite choppy and it wont let me install any of the codecs from the market. Does anyone know of any other video players for the Note, or have got MX player working properly? I tried installing the ARMv7 codec on the note, is this the right version?
Thanks in advance,
Shaizer.
Im running DicePlayer which works great.
There's no problem playing mov-files in 1080p, I just tried a 1080p trailer in mov with DicePlayer and it worked perfectly. However I'm not sure what bitrate the your mov-file is?
I have Mx video player installed without any extra codec. Apparently the idea is you only need a codec if it actually asks for it.
I have so far tried various formats mp4, mkv (both 720 & 1080) and it has played them all.
I'm using QQ Player.
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I use dice player too. It works great with all my HD/SD videos with subtitles.
Awesome thanks all, will try DicePlayer and see how that goes. The bitrate of my .mov files are 46MBPS I guess its a raw format as it is straight from the camera.
Dice Player plays MKV's flawlessly.
Xaddict said:
Dice Player plays MKV's flawlessly.
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As does MoboPlayer and best of all it's free.
I haven't found Moboplayer quite as good as Dice Player, but I do use it occasionally (it's software decoding is a bit better than Dice Player's).
Also using MoboPlayer; it works well.
andyh said:
Also using MoboPlayer; it works well.
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Mobo is the only one that works for streaming from my NAS ... except the sound does not work!
No other player I have tried (including the ones mentioned above) will stream at all and I have yet to find one that works with the sound
Hey guys. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and I think the stock video player is ****. Then again, I haven't liked stock something in a long time in any of my phones.
I'd like to know which video player is best? One that handles all known video formats beautifully and taht plays even 720p MKV files smoothly or as smooth as can be.
Do suggest paid apps as well. I haven't had a good video player in ages, so I'm ready to dish out around 5 bucks for it. I'd want VLC, though, but it's been in development for ages and seems to never see light.
What about MX Player Pro???
MoboplayerPro or Rockplayer
Be warned,rock player ain't preety, but it's a format buster,mobo has a neater ui and works around about the same.
Another vote for moboplayer. One of the main things I do on my GS2 is to watch videos. I´ve thrown a bunch of different formats and codecs and I never had any issues. It also supports subtitles.
MX Player for me. Swiping for volume/brightness/scrubbing is awesome. It also has 200% volume boost via software encoder.
i'm using MoboPlayer, Think is best
interface +
compatibility +
Another vote for moboplayer!! It's pretty good...
Mx player.
$1 gets you a reply
MXplayer for me.. I would like to get the pro version.. But I dont use credit cards..
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Try diceplayer from market.
Diceplayer is the first HW accelerated video player in Android Market.
It support 720p H.264 MKV with OGG/FLAC/AC-3/DTS audio and embedded and external subtiles.
and SMB/FTP/HTTP support.
You can play video from your PC with SMB share with external subtitle.
I use MX Player & its the best player so far, it contains every feature I want... Best & fast...
Haven't really played alot of videos on my phone for a while now, but i use VitalPlayer by Ringo.
Found it to be one of the better apps for playing video. Tried quite a few before picking that one.
Free and Paid option is avaible.
chainrulez said:
I use MX Player & its the best player so far, it contains every feature I want... Best & fast...
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Agreed
Hmm, looks like I just went and bought MX Player Pro, after all. ^^
Pretty damn annoying - DICE can no longer play most of my videos for the last couple months. Ever since I upgraded to ICS (tried 4 different roms, no change). It used to play MKV's with hardware accelleration and decode the audio in software. No problem when you're overclocked to 1.7
Installed the new nvidia codecs, still no change. Any ideas?
You might want to try the new version of dice player there are 2 apps one is labeled (old) now so maybe try the new one and download the tegra 2 plugin
mrevankyle said:
You might want to try the new version of dice player there are 2 apps one is labeled (old) now so maybe try the new one and download the tegra 2 plugin
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Unfortunately, already tried that. Also tried MX Player, MX Player Pro and Rockplayer.
f3tf said:
Unfortunately, already tried that. Also tried MX Player, MX Player Pro and Rockplayer.
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which firmware are you running?
MX Player removed DTS playback a couple of months ago due to licensing issues.
Maybe if you found a old release of the app you can play your videos again
refer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769799
Thanks for the work around. It works but a bit buggy. Each time you want to switch movies you have to uncheck and recheck the external codec. Also movies do not forward in dice player properly.
BSplayer still decodes DTS audio.
BlackAndGreyCat said:
BSplayer still decodes DTS audio.
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I can't get the same smooth frame rates as I can with Dice Player, still the best one in my opinion (for 1080p mkvs)
You can try...
TorontoR said:
Thanks for the work around. It works but a bit buggy. Each time you want to switch movies you have to uncheck and recheck the external codec. Also movies do not forward in dice player properly.
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You can try with the VLC beta on the Playstore. As far as I remember, it has DTS support and it's smooth (at least on my Galaxy S3).
I'm having trouble with the libffmpeg.so plug in.
The DTS files would cause the player to kick back out when libffmpeg.so plugin was enabled. Without it enabled, it'd just say that the video file can't be played.
I had to download Diceplayer 2.0.6 with the Tegra Plug-in in order to get the DTS movies to work.
Is anyone able to get libffmpeg.so working on their Transformer TF101 ?
I'm back on my 2 year old Galaxy S for a few months while I wait on a Galaxy Note II. I wanted to point out that while this thread offers a solution, I was still not able to find the best solution for a slower phone.
Dice Player (latest). Obviously doesn't work.
Dice Player with external plugin, is forced to do software decoding. Very choppy on a Galaxy S.
(stock) Video Player. Sound doesn't work.
BS Player (software decode), works, but very slow framerate.
BS Player (hardware decode), buggy. Screen blanks out every second or so. Too annoying to watch a video.
VLC Player (software) too choppy
VLC Player (hardware) video and sound is good (won't load subtitles)
I felt like Mario looking for Princess Toadstool.
So I've been on this quest. Finally found a working solution. Dice Player 1.8.2. Old version. Works perfectly without any tweaks.
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Lucidmike said:
I'm back on my 2 year old Galaxy S for a few months while I wait on a Galaxy Note II. I wanted to point out that while this thread offers a solution, I was still not able to find the best solution for a slower phone.
Dice Player (latest). Obviously doesn't work.
Dice Player with external plugin, is forced to do software decoding. Very choppy on a Galaxy S.
(stock) Video Player. Sound doesn't work.
BS Player (software decode), works, but very slow framerate.
BS Player (hardware decode), buggy. Screen blanks out every second or so. Too annoying to watch a video.
VLC Player (software) too choppy
VLC Player (hardware) video and sound is good (won't load subtitles)
I felt like Mario looking for Princess Toadstool.
So I've been on this quest. Finally found a working solution. Dice Player 1.8.2. Old version. Works perfectly without any tweaks.
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vplayer: sound and sub, slow framerate
rockplayer lite: no sound
mVideoplayer: no sound
Moboplayer: no sound
LittlePlayer free: error
DICE player 2.0.10: no sound
Dice Player 1.8.2: "Sorry, this video cannot be played" ... doesn't work.
I'm using KatKiss ROM.
I have installed Plea app to watch my videos from my has.
Most of the files containing ac3 or DTS audio streams.
If I use the default player I have no sound - if I use MX Player all works fine.
Is there a way to enable the default android player to play ac3 and DTS audio streams?
Al
AFAIK, The included Gallery is only set up to play MP4 files. Anything beyond that is not fully supported. IMO, I just stick with MX Player. It has far more support (including AVI and MKV files).
I have never tried them, but also keep in mind that KatKiss 4.3 does not yet have all of the codecs working. It is listed in the first post of the thread. If it works in KatKiss 4.2.2, then it should eventually get support in 4.3.
If it works in 4.2.2, you may want to stick with that until it gets added to 4.3 (watch the first post). If it does not work in 4.2.2, stick with MX Player.