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[Q] Video playback stoping every ~10min.

Hey everyone!
So I'm having this strange and annoying problem, every time I play video (let's say xvid .avi) the video stops after about 10min like it's finished playing the whole video file (goes back to menu or so). It happens with Mobo player, Mobo Video Player pro, Daroon player, MX Video player - those that I tried with. I thought maybe the CPU or GPU is overheating, but I really doubt on that, because the phone doesn't get hot, actually it gets more warm on a phone call, or when I surf the web. BTW, I don't think this problem is ROM dependent because I had this issue with the stock ROM and now I'm using the MIUI 1.11.25 ROM (Well didn't tested that on other ROM's that I tried, only those two).
So maybe somebody have the same problem and have a solution? Thanks!

720p video playback error on ics 4.04

Hey guys when ever i try to play 720p hd videos on my xperia active running ics 4.04
i get the error message "sorry,this video cannot be played"..and after this i wont be able to play any
videos till i turn my phone on again..and then for few minutes it plays smoothly and again it stops with that message..but in gb i never faced any such
issues with the same videos
i think it may be due to phones gallery app..so i opened those videos in MX player but there the video plays in S/W decoder mode and i cant change it
to H/W decoder mode because H/W decoder mode isnt available u can see that in the below screen shots.but after restarting everything will be ok ..
i formated my memory card but still the same ..only modification i made was that i rooted my phone..
PLEASE HELP...
screen shot when i opened 720p video in MX player(before restarting)
screen shot when i opened the same video in MX player(after restarting)
Error message while opening in default gallery app

Seems to be some kind of bug. Have you tried downgrading ICS from 4.0.4 to 4.0.0 (vanilla)? If you never encountered this problem before it's most certainly a software problem.
I don't know what kind of device you have, but there could also be some kind of compatibility issue. Try downgrading to vanilla or GB and see what happens:fingers-crossed:

I've experienced that on my S2 running 4.0.4 aokp.. but in my case it won't play 1080p high bitrate and .mkv videos.. tried mx player and i got the same problem.. on stock rom however, it plays fine and smooth without third party apps..
I think it's a matter of codec/libs that are require to play such file.. it's one thing that is still missing on aokp builds..
Swyped from my GT-i9100

[Bug] Android video driver crash under specific circumstances

Device Manufacturer & Model: LG Nexus 5
Android Version: 5.0.2
Rom Info: CM12 02/28 Nightly, tested also on CM12 02/15 Nightly
Detailed Problem Description:
Hi. I have encountered a very specific issue with MX Player. When I am playing full HD portrait video and next video is full HD landscape, the Android video driver seems to completely crash in the event when videos switch. E.g. when portrait one ends and landscape one starts playing. Sometimes the device freezes with corrupted graphics, sometimes it recovers, but graphics are shifted and reboot is needed to resume normal operation.
I have reset the settings to default when reproducing the issue and only setting I am using is Display / Settings / Screen / Orientation : Auto rotation. I am holding the phone in portrait, so basically the first video should be full screen on my phone and the second should be scaled down a lot to fit in portrait. It happens with both HW and HW+ codecs.
I have recorded two short videos which can be used to reproduce the problem. I have also recorded the behavior on the phone using another camera (this time the phone "kind of recovered").
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install MX player.
2. Set Display / Settings / Screen / Orientation : Auto rotation
3. Play attached videos when holding the phone in portrait, the crash should appear when the first ends and the second starts.
See recorded video for details.
Logs from MX Player
Video 1 - portrait
Video 2 - landscape
Issue recorded using another camera to show what happens on the phone
It works in default video player and does not cause anything similar. I did not have a chance to try it on stock ROM yet. However, I have a lot of videos with different sizes and switching between them does not cause the issue. Just full HD videos.
Let me know if any more details are needed.

It happens on stock 5.1 too. Very annoying if you have mix of portrait and landscape videos recorded.

fenikso said:
It happens on stock 5.1 too. Very annoying if you have mix of portrait and landscape videos recorded.
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It looks like ROM issue if HW has same issue.
FYI, HW is default media player actually which is provided by the OS.

bleu8888 said:
It looks like ROM issue if HW has same issue.
FYI, HW is default media player actually which is provided by the OS.
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I did some more testing. It happens on all factory images I had for Nexus 5, 4.4.4, 5.0.1, 5.1. All of them exhibit the same problem. I tried also the SW decoder, but that did not tell me anything, as SW does not follow the tag for portrait orientation, so the portrait video showed up as landscape anyway.
Now the interesting part is that default player does not crash like that, when switching between the videos. But it takes longer to switch. It seems that it deletes the whole drawing surface and starts it again. Contrary, when switching videos in MX Player you can always see last frame of previous video stretch to the following video size before it starts playing.

[BUG] Random crashes, freezing and audio stopping

Hello, since one of the latest updates I have been having a lot of issues with mx player acting up.
The problem started when I was listening to a video without the screen on and after around 30 seconds the audio would cut out but the video would continue to run. Either that would happen or it would freeze my device.
I have been unable to get a log of that issue but I just had a video freeze on me and the player crash so I will post it below. I have uninstalled and signed up to the nightly build but still getting the same issues.
Phone - samsung galaxy s7
Rom - stock unrooted
Version - 6.0.1
MX version - nightly Version 1.8.4.nightly.20160125 (ARMv7 NEON)
Log link = h**ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4WsG59vc5lNG9lV0psaUVTQnM/view?usp=drivesdk

Just encountered another freeze when the screen was off and managed to get a log.
Log file = h**ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4WsG59vc5lVTBVVW5DZ01IRk0/view?usp=drivesdk

@Penthus
The issue seems to be from system.
AudioPolicy Server & AudioFlinger dies while playing.
Does it happens with a particular file or everywhere?
Does it happen when the player is on foreground?
Does it happens when you use HW decoder (Seems that you are using HW+)?
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ktsamy said:
@Penthus
The issue seems to be from system.
AudioPolicy Server & AudioFlinger dies while playing.
Does it happens with a particular file or everywhere?
Does it happen when the player is on foreground?
Does it happens when you use HW decoder (Seems that you are using HW+)?
Sent from my SM-G900H using Tapatalk
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It happens to a whole range of videos I view using the player and have not been able to reproduce it as it seems to happen at random intervals and not in the same spot. It can happen 5 times in an hour or a couple of times a day.
It happens when running in the foreground but less frequently. I have disabled power saving on my device to see if that was affecting it but does not appear to have made a difference.
I have tried SW, HW and HW+ to see if any were better than the others and they seem to crash with the same frequency.

Penthus said:
It happens to a whole range of videos I view using the player and have not been able to reproduce it as it seems to happen at random intervals and not in the same spot. It can happen 5 times in an hour or a couple of times a day.
It happens when running in the foreground but less frequently. I have disabled power saving on my device to see if that was affecting it but does not appear to have made a difference.
I have tried SW, HW and HW+ to see if any were better than the others and they seem to crash with the same frequency.
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Does any other apps having this issue..?
It seems to be a bug from the system.
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It happens very rarely with my media player when the audio will stutter for a few seconds and the phone becomes unresponsive. It definitely happens a lot more frequently with mx player and it has only started the last couple of weeks.
Is there anything I can do on my end to see what might be causing the issue?

Just tried changing to HW again and got a freeze. The app recovered from the freeze and the video resumed but the audio didn't. I had to play some audio on my phone and then the video audio started again.
Log h**ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4WsG59vc5lX3F2Y281RUo3T1U/view?usp=drivesdk

Penthus said:
Just tried changing to HW again and got a freeze. The app recovered from the freeze and the video resumed but the audio didn't. I had to play some audio on my phone and then the video audio started again.
Log h**ps://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4WsG59vc5lX3F2Y281RUo3T1U/view?usp=drivesdk
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I have forwarded the issue to the developer.
He may find more information about this issue your logs.
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Thanks for your help so far.

@Penthus
Hi, would you try after turning off `Fade on start` and `Fade on seek` from Settings > Audio?
If audio crash continues, turn off Settings > Audio > `System volume panel` too.

bleu8888 said:
@Penthus
Hi, would you try after turning off `Fade on start` and `Fade on seek` from Settings > Audio?
If audio crash continues, turn off Settings > Audio > `System volume panel` too.
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Since turning off fade on start and fade on seek I have yet to have a crash or slowdown. I have been switching between sw, hw & hw+. So far so good, I will post back if I experience anything.
Thanks for all your help.

Wasn't sure whether to make a new thread or post in this one again. Seeing as the issue is similar I thought I should add to this one. Since having my last issue fixed things have been going perfectly until a few days ago when my videos started crashing with HW+ decoder. It was happening fairly frequently so I decided to to try out the other decoders and they all had issues.
HW+ as I said would hard crash out to the main menu with the crash report. HW would freeze and then start the video from the start. SW would have the video continue but the audio would freeze and then the video would roll back to sync up with the audio. It also seems to happen more frequently when I have headphones attached to the phone but that might just be statistical bias as I use headphones 99% of the time with my phone.
I have been using SW as it allows me to still watch videos although it can be a bit annoying as this can happen every couple of minutes or as frequently as every 5-10 seconds.
I have got log reports from each of the different decoders.
HW+
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5leEt3bVdfc3NpX1k
HW
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5lVlE2cFAtUFo1WDA
SW
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5lYklqekQtbDNCY3M
If anyone can help me out with this is would be greatly appreciated.

Penthus said:
Wasn't sure whether to make a new thread or post in this one again. Seeing as the issue is similar I thought I should add to this one. Since having my last issue fixed things have been going perfectly until a few days ago when my videos started crashing with HW+ decoder. It was happening fairly frequently so I decided to to try out the other decoders and they all had issues.
HW+ as I said would hard crash out to the main menu with the crash report. HW would freeze and then start the video from the start. SW would have the video continue but the audio would freeze and then the video would roll back to sync up with the audio. It also seems to happen more frequently when I have headphones attached to the phone but that might just be statistical bias as I use headphones 99% of the time with my phone.
I have been using SW as it allows me to still watch videos although it can be a bit annoying as this can happen every couple of minutes or as frequently as every 5-10 seconds.
I have got log reports from each of the different decoders.
HW+
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5leEt3bVdfc3NpX1k
HW
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5lVlE2cFAtUFo1WDA
SW
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4WsG59vc5lYklqekQtbDNCY3M
If anyone can help me out with this is would be greatly appreciated.
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From Logs:
AudioSystem: AudioFlinger server died!
IMediaDeathNotifier: media server died
AudioSystem: AudioPolicyService server died!
The issue happens with HW as well.
HW decoder uses the mediaplayer API provided by android. The is used in the stock video player as well.
From the logs the The AudioFlinger & AudioPolicyService Server both has died for an unknown reason. So, mediaserver is also died. [all are system services.]
In some devices when the volume is changed very aggressively it may lead to the issue. This was the issue with OP. But, in your case you have already disabled audio fading. So, the reason is unknown.
Could give some more details....?
Does this happen with all videos or only in certain videos or certain formats..?
Could you try Stock Player for the same file in which HW decode crashes..? Let me know whether it has the same issue or not.
Can you provide a sample file in which it crashes..? We need to check it with our other samsung & nexus test devices.
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Bug video freezes

While playing video freezes sometime.It happens with any of the files.I have attached 2 bug reports of 2 different files

dhruvdave said:
While playing video freezes sometime.It happens with any of the files.I have attached 2 bug reports of 2 different files
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HI,
Looks like you were playing in HW decoder. HW decoder uses android mediaplayer API. It's known that under some unkown circumstances it may lead to such freezes. It will happen with all apps that use the mediaplayer API (Like Stock Gallery, Google Photos, etc). But, It will continue to report to the calling app as playback is in progress. Just restart & check again. It will go away.
If the problem continues, use HW+ as default. It will work.

Thirumalai.K said:
HI,
Looks like you were playing in HW decoder. HW decoder uses android mediaplayer API. It's known that under some unkown circumstances it may lead to such freezes. It will happen with all apps that use the mediaplayer API (Like Stock Gallery, Google Photos, etc). But, It will continue to report to the calling app as playback is in progress. Just restart & check again. It will go away.
If the problem continues, use HW+ as default. It will work.
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Using Hw+ by defuault and using A7 2017

I have the same problem with mx player using HW+.
When playing stream the image just freezes, sound wil continue.

mauricewal said:
I have the same problem with mx player using HW+.
When playing stream the image just freezes, sound wil continue.
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It is Fixed after oreo update

dhruvdave said:
It is Fixed after oreo update
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Not for me. I'm using a Nexus 6P, latest Oreo update and it's still doing this whether in HW or HW+ mode.
I can't be certain for sure but I think I recall testing it in SW mode a year ago and it also had this issue.

James_LX said:
Not for me. I'm using a Nexus 6P, latest Oreo update and it's still doing this whether in HW or HW+ mode.
I can't be certain for sure but I think I recall testing it in SW mode a year ago and it also had this issue.
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We couldn't reproduce such issues on our Nexus 6P.
Can you please share a bug report with us?