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[Q] Best video player for Transformer

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
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2

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

Mp4 video playback??

Trying to play some mp4 video podcasts from school but the audio is messed up and the video lags using the stock video player. Same problem with ES video player and MX video player... any suggestions?
Videos work fine in itunes and vlc on my windows PC

I've been using VLC player for Android (it's in closed Beta currently), but the APK (you want the neon one), is floating around the interwebs. Give that a go and see if it's any better for you.

This is the link to download VLC (neon / nonneon)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275241

There's also moboplayer, works fantastically well.

Yeah, I fiddled with Plex, VLC and then finally moboplayer. I like moboplayer a lot more than the other two. No streaming software is required on your Mac/PC to watch video on your Android device.

Praxcelis said:
Yeah, I fiddled with Plex, VLC and then finally moboplayer. I like moboplayer a lot more than the other two. No streaming software is required on your Mac/PC to watch video on your Android device.
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I have used Mobo on my Nexus and like it. The reasons are that it plays ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING (MOV, FLV, MP4, M4V, etc.).
For the KF, it could be great in theory since you can adjust brightness and volume with screen swipes (no volume rocker on KF makes this a necessity).
The main issue that I had with Mobo on KF (side loaded) was that it wasn't doing full screen. I have a bunch of Apple TV stuff in M4V that are at resolutions (720 x 480) below the KF max resolution. When I play these files in Mobo on the KF, there is not way to put it to full screen. It uses about 75% of the screen. I guess I could recode the stuff to the full KF screen, but then I'm saving multiple versions which is just a waste of space.
Anyone know if this is solvable? The Gallery video player will play these files in full screen, but what it doesn't have is the ability to play MOVs which I have a lot of as well. I tried the Quickpic video player and while it plays the MOV files, it doesn't have on screen adjustments for volume which makes it less than ideal. So I continue to search for the ideal player:
1. Plays MOV, MP4, M4V, etc.
2. Onscreen volume swipe (and brightness if available)
3. Plays files using full screen.
Anyone?

Best video player?

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..
Sent from my MK16i using XDA

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. ^^

[Q]Inquiry on specific video files

So MX player is great and all, and I download videos from youtube. Recently I downloaded one that MX player cannot really play using HW or HW+ and I'd like to find out why. Interestingly, the program I use to download videos from youtube (on PC) lists all the formats the video exists in, and there are two "1080p60" versions of different sizes. After opening them up with a program called MediaInfo, they seem to use different codecs/formats. One is AVC, the other is VP9.
When I said "MX player cannot really play" I mean "one video will show the first frame, audio will play normally, frames do not advance" (the AVC one). The VP9 one plays like a slide show with a frame updating every couple seconds, occasionally playing 2-3 frames at a time.
So yeah if anyone with more know-how could take a look at the video files in question, that'd be great. Here's the youtube video in question if you have your own way to download videos: SfjYhQ0dfCk
I WAS going to post dropbox links to 1) the two versions of the same video and 2) HTML files of the MediaInfo output and 3) The URL of the youtube video, but the forum is touchy about that apparently. Thank christ it doesn't complain about youtube video IDs.

H/W & H/W+ decoder uses android's internal decoder.
Looks like you device doesn't natively support playback @60fps.
S/W may play. But, it may be laggy if the processor is not powerful enough.

Ah okay. I thought it would at least play it very choppily but the video does not play at all. If I seek a few frames will play but then it will freeze again.
I'm also an idiot and forgot to mention that this is on a Galaxy S4. quad-core 1.8.

Majora_Luna said:
So MX player is great and all, and I download videos from youtube. Recently I downloaded one that MX player cannot really play using HW or HW+ and I'd like to find out why. Interestingly, the program I use to download videos from youtube (on PC) lists all the formats the video exists in, and there are two "1080p60" versions of different sizes. After opening them up with a program called MediaInfo, they seem to use different codecs/formats. One is AVC, the other is VP9.
When I said "MX player cannot really play" I mean "one video will show the first frame, audio will play normally, frames do not advance" (the AVC one). The VP9 one plays like a slide show with a frame updating every couple seconds, occasionally playing 2-3 frames at a time.
So yeah if anyone with more know-how could take a look at the video files in question, that'd be great. Here's the youtube video in question if you have your own way to download videos: SfjYhQ0dfCk
I WAS going to post dropbox links to 1) the two versions of the same video and 2) HTML files of the MediaInfo output and 3) The URL of the youtube video, but the forum is touchy about that apparently. Thank christ it doesn't complain about youtube video IDs.
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Would you share download link of both videos? Your link 'SfjYhQ0dfCk' is actually not a link.
There are many reasons why video not playing properly or not supporting HW acceleration.
Sometimes bug or limitation of device's media framework, sometimes bug of MX Player, sometimes corruption of video file, and so forth.

Multi-Video track feature ('Video' track selection, not Audio) on MX Player Pro

This is regarding some playback features that are unavailable, but partially visible through information menu.
On one hand, selecting information menu, all Video streams (or tracks), including Audio can be seen for an mkv container. Example as in shared attachment, Stream#1: Whiplash (2014)_FHD versus Stream#2: Whiplash (2014)_4k. However, there seems be no apparent way to select/switch to a specific Video stream. In this case Stream#2 - 4k HDR one over 1080p. It defaults only to main track 1 which is forced flagged. One can readily access/switch between Audio tracks, but is not given any such option for Video tracks.
Players such as KODI for example have this kind of feature for quite some time now. Playback of multi-video tracks is possible as one can seamlessly switch between stream using default keyboard shortcuts or Keymap Editor for custom keys/switches. Video stream switching can be done during playback, while maintaining played timeline status. Example, Stream #1 was playing at 32m:03s:500ms. When switched to Stream #2, it plays from the exact same position seamlessly. Another example of this is using more efficient players like MPC – BE on Windows, which works even more accurately. Both Videos are synced fairly accurately during switching.
I really like the playback efficiency of MX Player Pro over KODI which is bulky for most part. This is just one nagging issue that forces me to use KODI in such scenarios. Here, I am referring to playback from Media Servers such as Jellyfin with External Player support activated for MX Player Pro.
I would like to know if there is any such option or plugin that can make this possible.