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There's a new software wich can enhance the camera

In fact I'm not sure it is new, but I tried it and it works with our tabs.
The software name is "lgcamera" and it can replace the stock camera software.
I tried it yesterday and it is possible to record videos in 1024x600 using H.264 codec and MPEG4 format. It's also possible to chose the bitrate for the video and for the audio. The stock camera can only produce 720x480 videos so that's a nice enhancement. There's settings like sharpness that are not available in the stock app. I found the videos look slightly better with this proggy. Try it and come and report what you think.
You can find a free version on the market and it is fully functional.

Tried it and i got a bunch of FC of the app and at one point my tab froze. I removed it. Nice idea but it needs to be worked on.

adinis78 said:
Tried it and i got a bunch of FC of the app and at one point my tab froze. I removed it. Nice idea but it needs to be worked on.
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You're right, but I only got freeze when I tried to select wrong video size with wrong encoder types.
1024x600 using H.264 codec and MPEG4 format work well with no freeze and seems to be a real enhancement over what offer the stock app.
800x600 works well too.

Nice looking program but it crashed on me a minute into recording 1024x600 video. Not worth using if you can't depend on it to record when you really need to.

Working perfect on my latin tab
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why didnt they just make it 1280x720, then id be happy

Get Lag free 1080P (MX Player) Uber Guide ;)

Hello there folks!
My first thread so bear the simplicity I try to keep things minimalistic.
Here we go, I am a total video junkie got this 3TB hard drive full of HD Movies , HD TV series and what not, thing is when am away from my beloved Asus LED or on the move my Canvas 2 can't play the full 1080p properly while 720p runs just fine, so as I have all the content true1080p it was really frustrating.
Now no need to convert or wrestle with time or frame rate, with the following MX Player settings you can load up any content upto 1080p even Bluray source!
First things first you guys need the latest MX Player use Play Store if possible get the pro for no clutter ads.
You need:
MX Player 1.7.19 ARMv7 NEON
(Pro for no Ads rest is same)
Now just go to settings and then decoder set as follow:
0. Don't check H/w+ leave it unchecked
1. Uncheck correct aspect ratio
2. Check S/w decoder local,
3. Set CPU core limit to 2
4. Now the real deal, select 'Color Format' option and set 'YUV' it's experimental but it really does the trick!
(Using RGB 32 bit or 16 bit is more resource hungry and our device can't handle it so the
playback slutters)
5. Leave everything as it is I.e unchecked . Period!
All set now, fire up some eye candy and gaze through.
Tip: Go in settings then player check 'Quit Button' option every time you leave you should quit MX player to get it off the RAM otherwise if you leave by pressing back it lulls in the background.
Check some attachments, all content is full HD there is no single lag, voice drop, audio glitch whatsoever
whole deal is the new 'YUV' color format!
Enjoy ! Mucha gracias
Hit thanks, if you find my guide helpful. (It certainly is)

Will. Try n let u know...

it helped 50%
it helped much beter than before i did what you told but then too some of my mp4 vids lags any more setting u can tell me
i used 32 bit colour depth

jesuinodsa said:
it helped much beter than before i did what you told but then too some of my mp4 vids lags any more setting u can tell me
i used 32 bit colour depth
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You missed the most important step, set the color format to "YUV' using 32 bits stresses out the CPU its more resource hungry you will find this new color format setting only in the latest version I mentioned latter versions don't have it ..
Settings=Decoder=Color Format=YUV

In 4.2.1 m installed mx player pro but its say unsupported android version
Anybody help me plz m very confused????
Edit: prblm solve now

Anas6538 said:
In 4.2.1 m installed mx player pro but its say unsupported android version
Anybody help me plz m very confused????
Edit: prblm solve now
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if you must know the paid version check for registration if not found it gives u this error install free version from playstore
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Skyrazor said:
You missed the most important step, set the color format to "YUV' using 32 bits stresses out the CPU its more resource hungry you will find this new color format setting only in the latest version I mentioned latter versions don't have it ..
Settings=Decoder=Color Format=YUV
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thanks @Skyrazor helped alot

Anas6538 said:
In 4.2.1 m installed mx player pro but its say unsupported android version
Anybody help me plz m very confused????
Edit: prblm solve now
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Well, that sounds weird make sure you installed the correct version, for our device use 'ARM V7 Neon' check the OP for screen shots, I can't say about the WAREZ use store!

Spread the word mate, @jesuinodsa

Nice finding, will try this tonight..

Is it compulsory to have the pro version?..

shreyas.kelshikar said:
Is it compulsory to have the pro version?..
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Nope use free version but ads will pop up if u pause the video when data or WiFi is on
Sent from my Micromax A110 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Well.. i have an ad-blocker installed.. .. anyways thanks for the reply..

will surely check...........
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will surely check...........good one

Not working mate...... Volume is still missing..... Any solution???

Mine is also sound is missing!!!
Any solution ?

it wont work..
Skyrazor said:
Hello there folks!
My first thread so bear the simplicity I try to keep things minimalistic.
Here we go, I am a total video junkie got this 3TB hard drive full of HD Movies , HD TV series and what not, thing is when am away from my beloved Asus LED or on the move my Canvas 2 can't play the full 1080p properly while 720p runs just fine, so as I have all the content true1080p it was really frustrating.
Now no need to convert or wrestle with time or frame rate, with the following MX Player settings you can load up any content upto 1080p even Bluray source!
First things first you guys need the latest MX Player use Play Store if possible get the pro for no clutter ads.
You need:
MX Player 1.7.19 ARMv7 NEON
(Pro for no Ads rest is same)
Now just go to settings and then decoder set as follow:
0. Don't check H/w+ leave it unchecked
1. Uncheck correct aspect ratio
2. Check S/w decoder local,
3. Set CPU core limit to 2
4. Now the real deal, select 'Color Format' option and set 'YUV' it's experimental but it really does the trick!
(Using RGB 32 bit or 16 bit is more resource hungry and our device can't handle it so the
playback slutters)
5. Leave everything as it is I.e unchecked . Period!
All set now, fire up some eye candy and gaze through.
Tip: Go in settings then player check 'Quit Button' option every time you leave you should quit MX player to get it off the RAM otherwise if you leave by pressing back it lulls in the background.
Check some attachments, all content is full HD there is no single lag, voice drop, audio glitch whatsoever
whole deal is the new 'YUV' color format!
Enjoy ! Mucha gracias
Hit thanks, if you find my guide helpful. (It certainly is)
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as u said changing rgb to yuv has no difference in c2 ,mk65xx devices are not basically 1080p video playback supported , only thing it can do is by reducing frame rate by 15. and yuv is a color model for a display device as our canvas 2 is basically 16m colors , and 480p res. dnt need to change to yuv . rgb is good and fine.finally 720p - 30fps / 1080p - 15fps is the default seting for all mk65xx devices .to check for urself google it , u will see all devices supports 1080p video playback in only low FPS

Anas6538 said:
Mine is also sound is missing!!!
Any solution ?
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Well, that is weird make sure you don't have S/w audio checked in decoder settings also make sure only thing checked in decoder settings is s/w decoder (local) color format set to YUV and CPU core limit set to 2 it works I can guarantee, I didn't post without toatally testing and figuring out also am on stock 4.1 are you on any custom ROM?

X_GOD said:
as u said changing rgb to yuv has no difference in c2 ,mk65xx devices are not basically 1080p video playback supported , only thing it can do is by reducing frame rate by 15. and yuv is a color model for a display device as our canvas 2 is basically 16m colors , and 480p res. dnt need to change to yuv . rgb is good and fine.finally 720p - 30fps / 1080p - 15fps is the default seting for all mk65xx devices .to check for urself google it , u will see all devices supports 1080p video playback in only low FPS
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Agreed I am also aware of mt6577 artitecture supporting 720p playback only, but using YUV to render vedios instead of RGB is helpful, RGB format does produce fine quality but is more intense on CPU and expenses RAM to a larger quantity and perhaps, I don't see any noticeable difference in rendering with YUV, On the other hand FPS of vedio can be different depending on the source , give it try though it works for me.

Skyrazor said:
Well, that is weird make sure you don't have S/w audio checked in decoder settings also make sure only thing checked in decoder settings is s/w decoder (local) color format set to YUV and CPU core limit set to 2 it works I can guarantee, I didn't post without toatally testing and figuring out also am on stock 4.1 are you on any custom ROM?
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M using typhoon rom 4.2.1 n its stock rom

Excellent !!!!!
Many many many many many many many
Thanx thanx thanx thanx thanx thanx
This thing I was searching from last one year
Really a very important thing u have come up with for canvas 2 users:laugh:
It is working for me on turbov3.1

[Q][Resolved] MX player and HEVC/H265 codec

when this app will support a 4K videos?
thanks:laugh:

The app can already play 4K video and HEVC. MX Player uses ffmpeg as a base decoder, so whatever ffmpeg can play, MX can play. Of course, 4K and HEVC support isn't optimal by anyone right now, so don't expect stellar results.

Expect hardware-decode of HEVC/X265
CDB-Man said:
The app can already play 4K video and HEVC. MX Player uses ffmpeg as a base decoder, so whatever ffmpeg can play, MX can play. Of course, 4K and HEVC support isn't optimal by anyone right now, so don't expect stellar results.
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When I play a 1080p vedio of HEVC/X265 movie with mxplayer 1.7.32, the player just only can play it using software decode, and the playing is very slowly.
I try to enable hw/+ mode but it failed to play.
So, expect that hard-decode can implement quickly~~~~

Hardware and/or hardware+ decode is not possible until manufacturers make chipsets that support HEVC. Those won't come for at least another year.
You can find a planned production timetable by Qualcomm here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57336946&postcount=119

Well, I have Qualcomm 801 that should support HEVC decoding (at 1080p), but it doesn't work. MX can't use HW(+) on HEVC videos, and it's not even in the list that I can get using Android API (MediaCodecList).
It seems that even if you have chipset with HEVC support you still may need to wait for manufacturer to get it supported. So player developers can't do anything about it.

Indeed, thank you vivan for the clarification!

Learned how to solve the slow film problem
you can solve the slow playing problem by going to this address on your phone : settings-developer settings - advanced settings - Enable OpenGL traces - systrace (graphics)
and its done , and your welcome

Leo_tm said:
you can solve the slow playing problem by going to this address on your phone : settings-developer settings - advanced settings - Enable OpenGL traces - systrace (graphics)
and its done , and your welcome
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I tried this, but it made no difference. The video playback is still slow, and periodically the sound stops playing for a few seconds while the video catches up.

Mistake
RashaMatt said:
I tried this, but it made no difference. The video playback is still slow, and periodically the sound stops playing for a few seconds while the video catches up.
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Yeah you're right it wasn't it
but i think it's supposed to be like this , i mean if you pay attention movies go slow when it's not that important , like when a conversation is going on it's good and when it ends and it shows for example "a house from a distance" it goes slow , you know what I meann ?!!!

Leo_tm said:
you can solve the slow playing problem by going to this address on your phone : settings-developer settings - advanced settings - Enable OpenGL traces - systrace (graphics)
and its done , and your welcome
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Dumping or enabled trace, live log etc will slow down system. You must know what you are saying man!

warvevo said:
Dumping or enabled trace, live log etc will slow down system. You must know what you are saying man!
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I just learned , thank you for telling me .

changed settings my Elephone P8000
phone : settings-developer settings - advanced settings - Enable OpenGL traces - systrace (graphics)
HEVC
now much smoother, but still slows

thank you very much

I found setting the number of cores to use (in MX player's settings) to match the number of cores in my device processor worked. Video was very jumpy and audio/video sync failed before, now 265 plays perfect. (Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8)

jlparsons2 said:
I found setting the number of cores to use (in MX player's settings) to match the number of cores in my device processor worked. Video was very jumpy and audio/video sync failed before, now 265 plays perfect. (Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8)
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perfect... I change the number of core to use, so it finally work with H265 HVEC codec

If didnt work, try in MX player play with settings there, for example what works for me (lenovo tab yoga 3 pro) was: limit CPU core to 8, YUV colours, and use tricks for faster play -> any one from these not set = video playback fail, all of them = absolute superb (even in battery saving mode); so keep trying, the hope is there

I tried everything above mentioned. I have OnePlus 2 and a custom RR 6.0 ROM, version of Android is 8.1. HEVC (×265) lag in mxplayer or any other player in my phone. So please someone give me solution for this. My phone has a SD 810 and SD 810 support HEVC but mxplayer doesn't use HW or HW+ at all it only use SW. So any developer develop any app that use HW to play ×265 or just they use software decoder for that.

patelDarshan said:
I tried everything above mentioned. I have OnePlus 2 and a custom RR 6.0 ROM, version of Android is 8.1. HEVC (×265) lag in mxplayer or any other player in my phone. So please someone give me solution for this. My phone has a SD 810 and SD 810 support HEVC but mxplayer doesn't use HW or HW+ at all it only use SW. So any developer develop any app that use HW to play ×265 or just they use software decoder for that.
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Please collect a bug report from the help menu right after playing the file that has issues & share with us here. It may help us to understand the issue better.

Thirumalai.K said:
Please collect a bug report from the help menu right after playing the file that has issues & share with us here. It may help us to understand the issue better.
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I want to attach a zip file of bug report but it shows bad request, I tried with separate file too. But it shows bad request. What should I do?
I can't share drive link too.

patelDarshan said:
I want to attach a zip file of bug report but it shows bad request, I tried with separate file too. But it shows bad request. What should I do?
I can't share drive link too.
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Looks it's due to the post count limitations. But, you can still share the drive link by simply masking to prevent the URL detection.
eg: use h**p://www.google.com instead of http://www.google.com

[Feature Request] Debanding filter / Custom Shader support

Most of 8-bit encoded anime suffers from banding. Debanding filter is supposed to improve such videos.
About a year ago shader-based debanding was implemented in madVR. I was using it since then and now it's hard to watch video without it With fastest settings ("High preset") it takes about 5ms to process 720p frame on Intel HD 3000, I believe that modern devices are fast enough to handle something similar to it.
Examples of what I'm talking about:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK_MX.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK_madVR_original.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK_madVR_debanded.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK.mkv
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK2_MX.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK2_madVR_original.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK2_madVR_debanded.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/AgK2.mkv
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/GnK_MX.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/GnK_madVR_original.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/GnK_madVR_debanded.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/GnK.mkv
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/ssW_MX.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/ssW_madVR_original.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/ssW_madVR_debanded.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16254258/android/mx/banding/ssW.mkv
P.s. I've noticed that colors are a bit off, presumably wrong colormatrix (BT.601 instead of BT.709) was used in MX case. I'll check it and will make a proper report in a sepate topic regarding this issue.

This is interesting. I'd like to see where this issues goes, or if @bleu8888 has any comments.
EDIT: Very marginally somewhat related: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/76p1PxVy08I/discussion

CDB-Man said:
EDIT: Very marginally somewhat related: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/76p1PxVy08I/discussion
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Hmmm, actually adding custom shaders support (instead of specific filters) seems to be a much better idea. That way anyone will be able to write/use any such filter.
It would be possible to port already exisiting shaders too, they're written in hlsl which is similar to glsl that Android supports.

Indeed, I'd like to see this feature implemented as well.
Forgot to mention before, but this has been added to the feature requests list: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/sticky-running-list-feature-requests-t2718297

@vivan000 @CDB-Man
If I am not wrong, video processing filters are not possible in either H/W or H/W+ since both use native decoders.
It may be possible in S/W, but will lead to lot of performance related issues. As of now even most modern devices are struggling to play full hd video in S/W decoder without any filters. Adding filters will add further load to cpu. It will lead to freeze or ANR issues.

ktsamy said:
If I am not wrong, video processing filters are not possible in either H/W or H/W+ since both use native decoders.
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Well, it might be impossible to copy video texture to the cpu (or what you get from HW decoder), but it should be possible to process them with opengl (just like DXVA on windows - decoded image can't leave gpu*, but you can do some processing there)
OpenGL can be used to render the MediaCodec output to screen. It is also useful to add some video effect when doing playback. The key is SurfaceTexture class.
SurfaceTexture is included in API Level 15 (Android 4.0.3). Developers can use it to stream images to a given OpenGL texture. So, if configuring MediaCodec with SurfaceTexture, the output buffer will be rendered to an OpenGL texture but not to the device screen. Thus, video post-processing is required.
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ktsamy said:
It may be possible in S/W, but will lead to lot of performance related issues. As of now even most modern devices are struggling to play full hd video in S/W decoder without any filters. Adding filters will add further load to cpu. It will lead to freeze or ANR issues.
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But filters (shaders) run purely on gpu, and currently gpu is doing almost nothing during playback.
(*actually it could, but only with DXVA 2.0).

That's very interesting to hear.

[Request] 18:9 or 18.5:9 support in next MXPlayer

Hi Devs, can we get support for the LG G6 and Samsung S8 in next release pls? Specifically the new ratio screens 18:9 and 18.5:9 any maybe HDR support as well?

Kantana said:
Hi Devs, can we get support for the LG G6 and Samsung S8 in next release pls? Specifically the new ratio screens 18:9 and 18.5:9 any maybe HDR support as well?
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If the video does not support 18:9, the player cannot do much about that.

vietkao said:
If the video does not support 18:9, the player cannot do much about that.
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And what about HDR? It is unfortunate that being one of the most advance players it doesnt support HDR yet. Does anyone know if it will be support it soon in any future release?

eoga said:
And what about HDR? It is unfortunate that being one of the most advance players it doesnt support HDR yet. Does anyone know if it will be support it soon in any future release?
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HDR is device dependant. Based on some other reports, looks like s8 automatically adjust the dynamic range when HW decoder is used with a HDR video.
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Kantana said:
Hi Devs, can we get support for the LG G6 and Samsung S8 in next release pls? Specifically the new ratio screens 18:9 and 18.5:9 any maybe HDR support as well?
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vietkao said:
If the video does not support 18:9, the player cannot do much about that.
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Upcoming version 1.9.0 will support the more wide aspect ratios. Kindly be patient till we finalize 1.9.0.

Thirumalai.K said:
HDR is device dependant. Based on some other reports, looks like s8 automatically adjust the dynamic range when HW decoder is used with a HDR video.
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I have some HDR 10 videos and if I play them using samsung video player you can see that HDR is applied (you can see HDR legend) and the colors look wonderful but if I play them using MX player it doesnt matter what option on decoder I pick it doesnt apply HDR and the colors are all wash and not vivid when compare when running samsung video. So i guess MX player is still no compatible with HDR or with S8 either way I hope this will be added in a future release.

Was this ever solved? HDR for HDR capable devices?

ToonTonic said:
Was this ever solved? HDR for HDR capable devices?
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This is due to the HDR implementation on the device itself. When you use HW decoder, It just uses media player API implementation on the android itself. If the media player on the device is implemented to handle HDR, you should get HDR effects on HW decoder. It looks like Samsung has implemented the HDR support in their app instead of media player level. Otherwise, both HW & Stock video player effects should be similar.
Our team will further investigate this for the future improvements on the HDR Playback. Thanks for your patience.