AC3 Codec Removed from MX Player! Need REAL Fix. - MX Player

MX Player Pro*Version 1.7.39 (ARMv7 NEON)
Today I attempted to play one of my older AVI files and realized that the AC3 codec support disappeared with the 1.7.33.
How many other video's won't i be able to play... Others are "patching" MX Player to enable AC3 audio to play. What is the Long Term fix for this codec issue that could disappear?
Thank you.
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As for now, only using a custom codec can help you.
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Just so you are aware the Codec patching never worked on my phone. The only thing that worked was to install MX Pro 1.7.32 - and it worked fine. It would seem that since my Nexus 5/OPO never had me install any external codec's - I don't have any lying around. It seems as thought on my phone when I install an external codec - It's not being used.
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Video player

Hi is there any player for tab which supports all formats,something like vlc player.
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yes, VPlayer, it works great ^^
Thanx
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Try Rockplayer as well. I used vplayer until it expired on me.
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kernelravi said:
Hi is there any player for tab which supports all formats,something like vlc player.
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You do realize VideoLAN will be releasing VLC Player for Android very soon.
Re VPlayer ~ since the dev went Paid only with this App it's caused quite a bit of negativity.
So, whilst waiting for VLC I would also recommend Rockplayer.
I used vplayer on the tablet, and noticed it was struggling with 720p MKVs, while the native video player was coping just perfectly.
Have now discovered mVideoplayer, which does handle MKVs perfectly, and is now my preferred video player.
Anyone tried QQPlayer???
http://android-apps.com/applications/media-video/qqplayer/
Mobile QQ player is one of the best video player application running on Android smartphones that supports all the popular formats of videos on the market, including RMVB, AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, MOV and etc. Its smart core technology auto detects video formats and makes it much easier for you to enjoy smoother, better quality videos with limited resources and smaller screen. Download from the Android Market for free now!
Mplayer was just ported to Android 1.6+. It was on XDA's twitter feed this morning. Haven't tried it yet on the Tab, but it should support pretty much every codec and container out there.
M player feels ok not really happy using it.
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You can compile vlc for android from source
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How do you comple and from where do i download vlc?
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I am not able to find good video player which can play 720p mp4 files. I have tired vplayer, rockplayer which does not work for these files. Default player and QPlayer work fine but no audio .
How do i get audio back on default player or Qplayer.
i watch 720p video files that are in the mkv container just fine on the sgs using rock player what are the video and audio codecs inside of the mp4
drksilenc said:
i watch 720p video files that are in the mkv container just fine on the sgs using rock player what are the video and audio codecs inside of the mp4
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I have tried rock player but it cant play videos properly. BTW here is the codec details
Video codec:- H.264 / AVC
audio code:- MPEG-4 AAC audio
Google it. To compile it you need the sdk
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factory player not play multichannel aac this is true and there are lot of such in typically mp4 container... the other problems is vplayer and rockplayer not use hardware accelerated decoding in native mode so with strong files you will in trouble... more over these I simply don't know that fir the original player seems to need just some correct splitters as seems the decoder is very good for almost everything... maybe core player will play everything with hw decoding... hope...
What´s the best player for dreamdoid? With vplayer de-interlacing does not work very well and i have FCs
tried it but didnt play mkv file, may be the file is bad as nothing else plays it well either.
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would recomend mVideoplayer,, it plays my 1080p files, i can get subtitles from mkv files too.

Movie plsyer

Currently running aokp build 40
Movies wont play longer thsn a few minutes and even then wont stay in landzcape mode.
Anyone else having this issue.
And what movie player are you guys using? Avi files seem to play back horrible
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mx player has played everything i have thrown at it....give it a shot.
its a very nice player, haven't had any problems with it.
however, not sure if i have tried avi...but pretty sure i have.
See my thread here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730177.
I've been using the Dice player and I've been watching my movies in .m4v format, plays good.
mx player here aswell it plays everything with out fault for me
vlc player is working good for me
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I need to try VLC, but I'm using Dice Player Ad from the market right now. Plays everything I've thrown at it so far. I tried MX Player first but I was having to use SW decoding to get audio to play with my mkv files, Dice doesn't have that issue.
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MX PLAYER really did good job on TF300T
audio in AC3 coded is not supported by the system default, MX Player could play that.
Is your player a free app or a pro apk?
My MX player pro that I got from google crashes every couple seconds
I downloaded the free version, which there is no difference besides a ad when you aren't watching

One plus one switch off when my video is played using my player hardware decoder meth

Hi all, when I tried to play mkv using mx player hw decoder, phone switches off, but works fine in sw mode. Trade off is sometimes some audios don't play...
Please help me out
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Not a opo problem. Mkv play fine in stock player which uses hw decoder. So either the video has some problem or its MX player bug. Please report to MX plater team.
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Thanks for the reply, I'll report them the issue...
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[Feature Request] AC3/DTS Passthrough

Hi !
In France , an ISP called FREE released a new TV BOX which is called the Freebox Mini 4K.
This box runs Android TV .
It has a Broadcom BCM7252 Brahma15 dual-core 1.5Ghz SOC .
Many users have installed Kodi but there have some problems .
Many users use MXPlayer because it is the best player on this Android Box, it is on the AndroidTV Play Store and it has the best video quality. But however KODI works with HDMI and S/PDIF passtrough in AC3 / DTS .
Is it possible to have this option with MxPlayer ?
Can anyone assist in the French community? = D
hi, i have the same problem here:
with the new Sony Android TV, i think that MX Player it's the only way to play videos on that tv (VLC actually sucks), but there's that problem with DTS encoding!
Can mx player developers fix it? :good:
Same here in the US. The default plex player does not support mkv, so I have to use mx player pro. Unfortunately MX player pro does not give me the ability to pass through audio! My receiver can decode DTS, Dolby, etc I just need the player to do audio passthrough!
v 1.7.40 can do this. My device have native support for ac3/dts but with 1.8.1 MX refuse to play ac3. Damn it
Hmm @sumantaadk I assume that when it previously worked, you were using HW, and not HW+ ?
@ everyone else, I assume you have already tried the custom audio codec? MX by itself does not support DTS.
CDB-Man said:
Hmm @sumantaadk I assume that when it previously worked, you were using HW, and not HW+ ?
@ everyone else, I assume you have already tried the custom audio codec? MX by itself does not support DTS.
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My device only support sw decoder for the video I have. I still can play ac3/dts with previous version but the beta completely remove the possibility. I think developer removed support due to copyright issue. So the current issue is bug or because of copyright?
AC3/DTS was support was removed by default due to copyright, yes; that's one of the main reasons to use the custom codec.
I would have thought that if you use HW and passthru to Android media framework to use the device's native render, that this method would have allowed for DTS...
sumantaadk said:
v 1.7.40 can do this. My device have native support for ac3/dts but with 1.8.1 MX refuse to play ac3. Damn it
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sumantaadk said:
My device only support sw decoder for the video I have. I still can play ac3/dts with previous version but the beta completely remove the possibility. I think developer removed support due to copyright issue. So the current issue is bug or because of copyright?
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Beacuse, you are using old custom codecs. If you want to play dts or ac3 you must use the custom codec compiled for the specific version of the player. After the update, if the old codec is found as incompatible it will be automatically unloaded. MX Player 1.8.x needs custom codec version 1.8.0.
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ktsamy said:
Beacuse, you are using old custom codecs. If you want to play dts or ac3 you must use the custom codec compiled for the specific version of the player. After the update, if the old codec is found as incompatible it will be automatically unloaded. MX Player 1.8.x needs custom codec version 1.8.0.
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Sorry but I am not using any custom codec. I am using unofficial cm11 which have inbuilt support for ac3/dts. I have clean MX player. Current market version support both ac3/dts.
sumantaadk said:
Sorry but I am not using any custom codec. I am using unofficial cm11 which have inbuilt support for ac3/dts. I have clean MX player. Current market version support both ac3/dts.
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Can you play videos with dts/ac3 tracks in HW decoder?
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Make sure that you have enabled HW+ audio on SW video.
HW+ is broken in 1.8.x on some devices according the beta page. If HW+ is broken in your device, you may not be get the audio.
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ktsamy said:
Can you play videos with dts/ac3 tracks in HW decoder?
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Make sure that you have enabled HW+ audio on SW video.
HW+ is broken in 1.8.x on some devices according the beta page. If HW+ is broken in your device, you may not be get the audio.
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Yes. MX Play ac3 with hw decoder. I rarely use ac3 content so that's not the big deal for me. All other formats are suppoted with hw+ or sw.
sumantaadk said:
Yes. MX Play ac3 with hw decoder. I rarely use ac3 content so that's not the big deal for me. All other formats are suppoted with hw+ or sw.
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Can you upload logs..?
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ktsamy said:
Can you upload logs..?
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Audio is auto disabled by MX in HW+
Hi, I found this old thread by searching DTS / AC3 Passthrough. So is this feature active in Mx Player pro. I have the 1.7 version with custom codec, and when I play DTS or AC3 file, the audio is automaticly converted by MX player into a 5.1 output, if I select a 5.1 preset on my AVR I can here 5.1 sound, but I would like to have the audio be direct stream to my AVR, and AC3/DTS be converted by my AVR.
virtual_francky said:
Hi, I found this old thread by searching DTS / AC3 Passthrough. So is this feature active in Mx Player pro. I have the 1.7 version with custom codec, and when I play DTS or AC3 file, the audio is automaticly converted by MX player into a 5.1 output, if I select a 5.1 preset on my AVR I can here 5.1 sound, but I would like to have the audio be direct stream to my AVR, and AC3/DTS be converted by my AVR.
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Use HW decoder without custom codec. It will pass the audio stream to the audio receiver. If your receiver has dts/ac3 decoder, it will play true 5.1 channel (or whatever) present in the audio stream.
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Thank you for your answer it seems to work perfectly with HW, I have to try with HW+ to see if it works too.
virtual_francky said:
Thank you for your answer it seems to work perfectly with HW, I have to try with HW+ to see if it works too.
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It won't work with HW+ or SW currently. Probably it may be possible in the next version 1.9.0
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Ok, thank you for your help, and lets wait for the next version.
hello, i found the info in this thread very useful thanks. However i wasnt able to quite get everything working so i was hoping someone might confirm i am doing everything right.
i'm using mx player on a nvidia shield to play a stream of h.264 video and Dolby Digital audio, its from my tv server. i want to pass through the audio to my avr which can handle this and looking at posts above i need to use the hw decoder without the custom codec. unfortunately i get no video with the hw decoder. with both the software and hw+ decoders i get video and then with a custom codec i get audio but its downmixed.
is the hd+ decoder with custom codec and downmixed audio the best i can expect for now and is it likely that the 1.9 release mentioned may fix this?
thanks!

Android N Support?

Hi All,
I'm curious if MX Player is compatible with Android N.
There are a few reports that the Pro version crashes as soon as it is run.
Can anyone confirm if this is true on the Pixel C running Android N?
Many thanks!
nramalama said:
Hi All,
I'm curious if MX Player is compatible with Android N.
There are a few reports that the Pro version crashes as soon as it is run.
Can anyone confirm if this is true on the Pixel C running Android N?
Many thanks!
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Yes. Unfortunately pro version has broken.
Google has implemented the new restrictions which prevents the developers from accessing non public APIs.
Pro version is crashing while checking the license.
Android N is on early preview for developers & not for the daily users. OTA is doesn't check the prerequisites. It has hard bricked many devices.
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Also I'm not getting any audio running (non-pro) mx player under Android N on a Nexus 6.
For those of you running Android N on a Nexus 6, just an FYI that VLC works, though it can be choppy at times.
satadru said:
Also I'm not getting any audio running (non-pro) mx player under Android N on a Nexus 6.
For those of you running Android N on a Nexus 6, just an FYI that VLC works, though it can be choppy at times.
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Probably your video might have ac3/dts audio track. Kindly download custom codec from my custom codec thread.
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I have the AIO 1.8.x custom codec installed. Looks like network streaming a file with an AC3 audio doesn't show the audio stream, but locally playing a file locally with AC3 audio works. (Same file both times.) So I don't think it's a codec issue.
VLC is playing the audio stream from the network streamed file fine.
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I have the AIO 1.8.x custom codec installed. Looks like network streaming a file with an AC3 audio doesn't show the audio stream, but locally playing a file locally with AC3 audio works. (Same file both times.) So I don't think it's a codec issue.
VLC is playing the audio stream from the network streamed file fine.
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Can you try the following
Go to settings > Player & Disable "Remember Selections" & then try again.
If you still encounter the issue, kindly collect the logs (help > bug report> save to file) immediately after playing the file & upload here.
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I must admit, I really miss having HW+ decoder on Android N. Hopefully the dev can make an update soon.
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I must admit, I really miss having HW+ decoder on Android N. Hopefully the dev can make an update soon.
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Google has restricted usage the non public APIs. So, the existing H/W+ method may no longer possible. The developer is already working on alternative method. It may take some more time to land on beta channel.
Till that we have to wait......
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Sounds good! Thanks for the prompt updates.
Android N feedback. When MX Player is in multiwindow it stops whenever anyone interacts with the other app. It starts playing again when touched again.
I assume that it an interaction with the Multiwindow lifecycle which causes other apps trouble as well.
See http://developer.android.com/preview/features/multi-window.html
Willing to test and send logs if of use.
Using a Google Pixel C.
mattaw2001 said:
Android N feedback. When MX Player is in multiwindow it stops whenever anyone interacts with the other app. It starts playing again when touched again.
I assume that it an interaction with the Multiwindow lifecycle which causes other apps trouble as well.
See http://developer.android.com/preview/features/multi-window.html
Willing to test and send logs if of use.
Using a Google Pixel C.
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It's because of the way multi-window implementation in Android N. When you interact with other apps it switches other app in pause state. The player needs to be changed to work on pause state.
BTW, enable "Background Play" from Settings > Player. So, MX Player will continue to play even when other apps are set to Top.
One more thing if other app also using some multimedia content like audio/video playback MX will loose audio focus. So, it may pause. If you want to play despite of audio focus, disable "Play Alone" from Settings > Player.
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Can you try the following
Go to settings > Player & Disable "Remember Selections" & then try again.
If you still encounter the issue, kindly collect the logs (help > bug report> save to file) immediately after playing the file & upload here.
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Can I send the log to somebody via private message?
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Can I send the log to somebody via private message?
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You can send to me.
If It's possible I will provide the solution, else I will forward the issue to the developer.
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with the build 3 of Android N.. mxplayer player fails to play the audio of x265 videos. in audio tab it shows disabled. and you cannot select the audio track. also using custom codec or using sw/hw options don't help. funny it worked great in build 2 of Android N
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with the build 3 of Android N.. mxplayer player fails to play the audio of x265 videos. in audio tab it shows disabled. and you cannot select the audio track. also using custom codec or using sw/hw options don't help. funny it worked great in build 2 of Android N
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Could you share the mediainfo of the file..?
I will check it out on my nexus 6P
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Audio play issue with build 3 of Android N.
Mx-player fails to play the audio files (songs) using sw codec. It only play them with HW codec.
It worked great playing the same songs in build 2 of Android N.
The files are a mix of mp3 and flac songs.
another questions, is how can I force Mx-player to use hw codec for songs, it kept reverting to sw codec and I had to manually change codec for each song.
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Audio play issue with build 3 of Android N.
Mx-player fails to play the audio files (songs) using sw codec. It only play them with HW codec.
It worked great playing the same songs in build 2 of Android N.
The files are a mix of mp3 and flac songs.
another questions, is how can I force Mx-player to use hw codec for songs, it kept reverting to sw codec and I had to manually change codec for each song.
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I am sure third party music players will handle such files better.. Rocket player is good
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I used Google Play Music app up until I switched to N preview and Google bloated GPM app (it constantly crashed my device and has issues with Bluetooth play).
Mx-player was my main video player and now serve also for audio play.
I will give Rocket player a try, thanks.
Mxplayer was my main app for all videos.. I went back to marshmallow today because beta 3 screwed it up very bad
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E.Vogel said:
Audio play issue with build 3 of Android N.
Mx-player fails to play the audio files (songs) using sw codec. It only play them with HW codec.
It worked great playing the same songs in build 2 of Android N.
The files are a mix of mp3 and flac songs.
another questions, is how can I force Mx-player to use hw codec for songs, it kept reverting to sw codec and I had to manually change codec for each song.
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Goto Settings » List » File Extensions
Select the file extensions. From the bottom toolbar tap on decoder & select the decoder you want. That's all.
BTW, can you provide more details about the issue..?
Device...?
Any Error Messages..?
It will be better if you can post the logs too.
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kk12002 said:
Mxplayer was my main app for all videos.. I went back to marshmallow today because beta 3 screwed it up very bad
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Can you provide more details about the issue..?
I will try to reproduce it on My Nexus 6P.
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