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Hello Fellow Nexus Payer Owners! I have started a dev project to get MPEG2, VC1, and WMA hardware decoding working on the Nexus Player in hopes together we can enable this. I have never attempted anything more than built roms from asop with slight modification so Im going to need some assistance on this project
Description of Issue
The Nexus Player had great possibilities had it not been rushed to market with buggy applications and lack of hardware codec licencing. To me this product would be the perfect HTPC if Plex had worked with 5.1 audio (DTS/AC3) pass-through and MPEG2 hardware decoding for use with my HDHomeRun Prime for live TV. But Asus or Google dropped the ball as this is not enabled so the HDHomeRun View app has to fall back to software decoding which make the stream very choppy. Most cable companies are still using MPEG2 for now.
Here is a discussion on the Nexus Player over at the Silicon Dust's Forums:
http://www.silicondust.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=17894
Research into MPEG2 on Android
Searching Around the fourms I stumbled on this post enabling hardware decoding on the Nexus 7 2013 and other ARM devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2517925
It seems they pulled libOmxCore.so from Cyanogenmod 11 on various devices and edited the media_codecs.xml. Ive contacted both contributors in hope I can discuss this with them. Im not sure there is any x86 CM12 Devices we can extract the libOmxCore.so from to test on the NP and thats if they have even merged they media codecs in CM12 yet.
Here are some projects and discussion for building ffmpeg into android which may enable MPEG2 decoding:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4725773/ffmpeg-on-android
https://github.com/appunite/AndroidFFmpeg
https://github.com/guardianproject/android-ffmpeg
Ffmpeg on Android x86
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/blogs/2013/12/06/building-ffmpeg-for-android-on-x86
As of right now Im just gathering information to get started on this project so anyone with any input will be appreciated.
Once I get my Nexus Player the way I want it and if there is a custom recover (ahemm TWRP) I will post my personal build for you to try out.
*EDIT* Google has pushed Android 5.0.1 (build LRX22C) to AOSP with reports that it has fixes for "video issues". Fingers crossed they enabled MPEG2 hw decoding so I don't have to
XDA:DevDB Information
VC1/MPEG2/WMA hardware decode on the Nexus Player, Device Specific App for the Nexus Player
Contributors
WhiteWidows, whitewidows, god_md5, kennylam
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2014-12-03
Last Updated 2014-12-03
Very very happy to see I'm not the only one interested in this feature. I have a lot of dvd movies muxed into mkv in my plex server. My plex server does not have the power to transcode so to get Nexus player to direct play this is a huge step forward. Thanks!
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As an Nexus Player owner, and HDHomeRun Prime user, I'm also very interested in MPEG2 HW decoding.
For now I'm using my ADT-1's for TV... But who knows if Google will keep updating them... so far they are still on preview 5.0 builds.
Me too..
Add me to the list of people interested in this. There is a ton of MPEG2 content out there - US broadcast TV is all MPEG2. Enabling MPEG2 would open a ton of possibilities for this device.
Glad I wasn't the only one interested in this. I think its ridiculous to make a so called TV devices with no mpeg hw decoding
Update is I have been trying to build ffmpeg in to lollypop but it keeps failing. I going to at least try to build lollypop from source (arm) first because its been since jellybean I have done it. I'm a bit rusty ?
Plus one interested.any news?
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I'm still working on it I got x86 android to build. But with ffmpeg they fail. Work and holidays have been consuming most of my time but I try to put some time into it tomorrow.
We still need a custom recovery to simplify flashing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/general/nexus-player-mpeg2-hardware-decoding-t2996377
In the thread above, they claim that mx player is able to hardware decode mpeg2 with intel code plugin. Has anyone looked into this for a solution?
xomikronx said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-player/general/nexus-player-mpeg2-hardware-decoding-t2996377
In the thread above, they claim that mx player is able to hardware decode mpeg2 with intel code plugin. Has anyone looked into this for a solution?
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When the hdhomerun view app/googles live TV app launches a mpeg-2 stream which in turn uses androids default media player. There is no option to use MX or change to that. I wouldn't want to use MX as the over lays for the guide would not work. I tried another build last night but again it failed. Lat time I built android was back in the ICS daysband never with ffmpeg. I not sure I'm even going about this the correct way.
I just noticed a thread about a CM11 port for the GeeksPhone Revolution which runs an Intel® Atom™ processor Z2560. The processor is 32bit x86, but usually these things are backwards compatible. Maybe you can pull binaries from that image? I'd post a link to the thread and associated image, but since this is my first post on these forums it won't let me.
Any updates on this?
Did this project die?
No....its just my builds always fail compiling with ffmpeg into 5.0. I'm stuck. So if anyone can help !e out it would be appreciated
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.
Mihai B said:
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?
CDB-Man said:
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!
Mihai B said:
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?
Mihai B said:
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.
CDB-Man said:
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.
Mihai B said:
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.
Mihai B said:
Ktsamy, have you found the time to check the log I have posted a few days ago?
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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.
I just started using MX Player over VLC as MX Player has better playback on my Lenovo Tab 2 A10-70, but one thing I did like about VLC was that it allowed for audio offsets to adjust either badly synchronized source material or other situations like laggy bluetooth speakers. Is this a feature that the developers are interested in adding?
On my tablet vs my galaxy s7 it seems like the audio is correct on the s7 but lags one or two frames behind the video for the tablet. I have tried most different combinations of HW+, HW, SW acceleration for both video and audio without luck. If this is something that can be fixed without adding audio offset, I'd like to hear suggestions as well.
Thanks!
Edit: I notice this feature is available in the S7 version but not on my tablet. When I press the 3 dots at the top right of the video the menu options are Play, Display, Audio, Subtitle, Tools, Help on the S7 but on the tablet it is just Play, Display, Subtitle, Tools, Help. Same video file.
Edit: Resolved by downloading 1.8.4 nightly. Apparently 1.8.3 in the play store has a minimum version of 6.0 and I am running 5.0 on the tablet. Possibly an issue with the apk?
No, it's not an issue with apk. It's intentionally done by the developer. There are some of the old device issues which is yet to be resolved. If you sign up for beta testing you will automatically get the latest nightly on google play. For marshmallow it must be released to stable channel since it comes up with some specific fixes for marshmallow devices.
There are some more features in works like new HW+ engine which will be better compatible with most of the devices, better HW+ support for HEVC & more.
According to the information I have received from the MX Player developer, if everything goes as expected the pre marshmallow users will directly get 1.9.0 on stable channel. He is trying to align with the Android N public release.
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To reproduce (Pixel, running O preview):
Start playing a video
long-press on the recents button to enable split-screen
open a second app (e.g. chrome)
tap on the second app window to bring it into focus
audio keeps playing, and any on-screen controls in mxplayer stay (expected)
BUG: video is blank until tapping on the mxplayer part of the window to bring it back into focus.
Video goes away again when losing focus
This is a recent regression - it worked until I updated yesterday to version 1.9.5. It makes split-screen useless.
Happens with all decoders (SW, hw, hw+).
Bradley2468 said:
To reproduce (Pixel, running O preview):
Start playing a video
long-press on the recents button to enable split-screen
open a second app (e.g. chrome)
tap on the second app window to bring it into focus
audio keeps playing, and any on-screen controls in mxplayer stay (expected)
BUG: video is blank until tapping on the mxplayer part of the window to bring it back into focus.
Video goes away again when losing focus
This is a recent regression - it worked until I updated yesterday to version 1.9.5. It makes split-screen useless.
Happens with all decoders (SW, hw, hw+).
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Hi,
Our development team is already looking into this issue. We will try to fix it ASAP.
If you want to return back to the previous version till we fix the issue, You can get the previous releases from https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/system/app/pages/subPages?path=/download/previous-version.
Shame issue to me :-/
It was really annoying.. I hope it will fixed soon
I'm back to 1.9.3 and all working fine. Waiting for next release.
Oddly, latest mx player it's fixed, but not in the pro version I have!
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Oddly, latest mx player it's fixed, but not in the pro version I have!
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If you are a beta tester of MX Player, then you could have received the update of free version earlier.
We have already rolled out 1.9.7 to everyone.
You can get the pro version from Google Play.
Whenever I try to open any video file in any app using MX Player or MX Player pro. I get a message that says 'MX Player has stopped'
I have attached the logs. Start @ timestamp 13:07 for a test trying to play a video from the internal movie library
This is using Android TV x86 7.1.
VLC plays fine.
Tried MXplayer version 1.8.21. Same issue
Bump.... Anyone?
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Bump.... Anyone?
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Apologize for the delay.
We have tried to reproduce the issue on the android emulator with android TV 7.1.1 firmware. But, we couldn't reproduce the issue. Can you please collect the complete system logs using ADB?
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Apologize for the delay.
We have tried to reproduce the issue on the android emulator with android TV 7.1.1 firmware. But, we couldn't reproduce the issue. Can you please collect the complete system logs using ADB?
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Did another bug report which includes the system logs, and used adb logcat for another log report. If there is any other log you need, you will have to give me instructions on how to get it.
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Did another bug report which includes the system logs, and used adb logcat for another log report. If there is any other log you need, you will have to give me instructions on how to get it.
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We have investigated from our end. But, couldn't reproduce the issue.
Have you rooted the device and changed anything on system partition?
In your logs, we have noticed crashes on some other media related system libraries as well.
We have checked on the Google Play data as well. There weren't any similar crashes reported on the nexus player. MX Player uses several android internal modules for performance reasons. Since you are facing the issues with even older versions, it looks like some firmware bug triggers the issues on MX and some other system libraries that rely on some particular modules. can you please update your firmware to the latest and check again? It may fix your issues.
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We have investigated from our end. But, couldn't reproduce the issue.
Have you rooted the device and changed anything on system partition?
In your logs, we have noticed crashes on some other media related system libraries as well.
We have checked on the Google Play data as well. There weren't any similar crashes reported on the nexus player. MX Player uses several android internal modules for performance reasons. Since you are facing the issues with even older versions, it looks like some firmware bug triggers the issues on MX and some other system libraries that rely on some particular modules. can you please update your firmware to the latest and check again? It may fix your issues.
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No I haven't rooted anything, not even sure how to do that. Just installed the Android TV and added apps. Using a third party launcher called 'Top TV Launcher 2'. Also have VLC and mpv players (both work fine)
When you say firmware, are you referring to the computer BIOS or the Android TV? Both are at the latest version I can find, which is not that easy to find for Android TV. Can you PM me a link to the version you are using and I will try it. Thanks.
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No I haven't rooted anything, not even sure how to do that. Just installed the Android TV and added apps. Using a third party launcher called 'Top TV Launcher 2'. Also have VLC and mpv players (both work fine)
When you say firmware, are you referring to the computer BIOS or the Android TV? Both are at the latest version I can find, which is not that easy to find for Android TV. Can you PM me a link to the version you are using and I will try it. Thanks.
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Are you using the android TV firmware on the PC? Can you provide us more info?
As we have mentioned, MX Player uses several android internal modules to improve the performance. So, if some system module is broken on your Android TV ROM, it will affect the apps that make use of them.
Yes, the Android x86 for PC is the base OS on the PC. I tried other flavors of Android TV and MX Player doesn't work on any of them. I even tried using a different PC with different specs with same results. MX Player crashes as soon as it displays an image or plays any media.
Bump... MX Player still not working. Where do we go from here?
All the Android x86 for PC OS'es are already rooted. None of them will run MX Player. Also Amazon Prime Video and Google Video fails exactly the same way. They must use the same libraries that MX uses. What logs or info can I upload to get this resolved?
All other apps I have tried work fine. VLC, MPV, Archos, ES Player, Kodi.
Any help on this is appreciated. Tell me what logs or info I can upload.
How can I see which modules are crashing? I am not that familiar with the Android OS. Minimal Linux knowledge and a guru with Windows.
Here are the debug logs
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How can I see which modules are crashing? I am not that familiar with the Android OS. Minimal Linux knowledge and a guru with Windows.
Here are the debug logs
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Since it's a crash caused by the android internal libraries, it is very difficult to fix this until or unless we find a way to reproduce. Unfortunately, we couldn't still figure out a way to reproduce the issue. We have even tested on the Android x86 (7.1-r2 from http://www.android-x86.org). But, MX Player works as expected. Have you tried this one on your PC?
Yes I have this is the one I am using right now, so I have to assume it is a hardware/driver related issue. I am using a Dell Optiplex 9010 with i5-3570 4GB memory and 128GB SSD drive. What are the specs of the hardware you have used and I will try to duplicate it?
One other clue is that besides MX Player Pro, Amazon Prime video and Google video also crash as soon as you try to open a video. VLC, MPV, Kodi, ES Player, EXO, and Archos all work fine. I am sure the issues are related.