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[Q] [REQUEST] Alternative codecs combinations

Is it possible to create a wider codecs combinations for decoding posibilitie of MX?
For example: HW video with HW+ audio
Or create separate codecs settings.
On my Amlogic S812 there is problem with decoding MKV video file with HW+ decoder, video is twitching (or somewhat, I can't more correctly describe this effect) with 3 to 5 secs. Interval. With HW it's OK , but no sound.
Thank you for your help.

assaid said:
Is it possible to create a wider codecs combinations for decoding posibilitie of MX?
For example: HW video with HW+ audio
Or create separate codecs settings.
On my Amlogic S812 there is problem with decoding MKV video file with HW+ decoder, video is twitching (or somewhat, I can't more correctly describe this effect) with 3 to 5 secs. Interval. With HW it's OK , but no sound.
Thank you for your help.
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Just enable SW audio from audio track selection. You will get HW video & SW audio.
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ktsamy said:
Just enable SW audio from audio track selection. You will get HW video & SW audio.
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I allready tried it. But sometimes I got double sounding on AAC codecs while SW audio was set permanently.
Sets SW audio separetly for each MKV is not so comfortable for my opinion.
Is there some way exists to use only SW audio for all files, I think MX does not block HW audio if track was supported by HW in this mode, or it's a bug?

assaid said:
I allready tried it. But sometimes I got double sounding on AAC codecs while SW audio was set permanently.
Sets SW audio separetly for each MKV is not so comfortable for my opinion.
Is there some way exists to use only SW audio for all files, I think MX does not block HW audio if track was supported by HW in this mode, or it's a bug?
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I can't reproduce the double audio issue.
Can you collect the logs immediately after playing the file which leads to the double audio issue?
If it's possible kindly share a sample video.
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ktsamy said:
Just enable SW audio from audio track selection. You will get HW video & SW audio.
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Is there a way to do the opposite of that? I need SW video & HW audio.
When I play test files directly from the device, I can use HW decoder and they play flawlessly. But when I play files from my NAS with the HW decoder, MX Player buffers. If I use the SW decoder playback is smooth, but the audio is always downmixed to stereo. I have tried both the default and custom software codecs with the same results.
Also MX Player informs me that HW+ is not available on my device, if that make a difference in the decoder options I have selected? I have tried "HW+ audio on SW video" with "SW decoder (network)" but MX Player still shows playback to be HW with the results mentioned above.

[BUG] Incorrectly selects the audio stream (HW)

Hi. Android 6.0.1. Samsung Tab Pro 8.4. Mx player 1.8.x
In the video, two audio tracks (Russian-English). Launch the video plays the English track, but shows that the Russian track is selected. It helps switching to English and back to Russian. If you minimize and deploy an application, the audio track again slips into English. Please help, this is very annoying.
screen record - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35Mew37y2a_UE9HMXNJVVZCUnc/view?usp=sharing
Logs - View attachment report_2016-02-23_185728.zip
Sorry for my English)

Hello,
Similar problem here, only happens while using the HW audio decoder. In my case, the phone keeps changing the audio stream to "Disable", instead of "Audio track #1".
Choosing the SW audio decoder fixes the issue.
Android 4.2.1, bq Aquaris 5.7, Mx Player Pro 1.7.40 (ARMv7 NEON)
Best regards.

Any news from the developer?

In Cm13 build 24.05 fix a bug)

Alexey71 said:
In Cm13 build 24.05 fix a bug)
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If it's fixed after updating the cm probably it's a bug from ROM. HW decoder uses android mediaplayer class to play the video. Even though MX Player has some control on it, it's very limited. If HW+ is working on your device, you could use it. In most of the condition it will work better than HW.
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ktsamy said:
If it's fixed after updating the cm probably it's a bug from ROM. HW decoder uses android mediaplayer class to play the video. Even though MX Player has some control on it, it's very limited. If HW+ is working on your device, you could use it. In most of the condition it will work better than HW.
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HW+ does not work on all videos. Waiting for a new version with an alternative support for HW+ ...

Again, does not work

Alexey71 said:
Again, does not work
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Hopefully it's only on HW decoder.
Does it reproducible in SW decoder (if HW+ not available)..?
Can try again after disabling HW audio track selectable from settings > Decoder..?
It will be better if you can provide a small sample clip. I will test myself.
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ktsamy said:
Hopefully it's only on HW decoder.
Does it reproducible in SW decoder (if HW+ not available)..?
Can try again after disabling HW audio track selectable from settings > Decoder..?
It will be better if you can provide a small sample clip. I will test myself.
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HW+ video and HW audio fine. But not all play video witch HW+
HW video and HW audio. It is not always correctly playing audio track
HW video and SW audio. Fine
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_bUdLVHlpcEdQSG8
Audio track #1 - Russian

Alexey71 said:
HW+ video and HW audio fine. But not all play video witch HW+
HW video and HW audio. It is not always correctly playing audio track
HW video and SW audio. Fine
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_bUdLVHlpcEdQSG8
Audio track #1 - Russian
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Can you share a small sample clip..?
Kindly provide a way to reproduce the issue.
It might be an issue with HW decoder. It just uses Android's native api. MX Player has limited control on HW.
Did you try again after disabling "HW audio track selectable". If it's an issue with Native audio track selection, disabling it may fix the issue.
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ktsamy said:
Can you share a small sample clip..?
Kindly provide a way to reproduce the issue.
It might be an issue with HW decoder. It just uses Android's native api. MX Player has limited control on HW.
Did you try again after disabling "HW audio track selectable". If it's an issue with Native audio track selection, disabling it may fix the issue.
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Logs http://pastebin.com/qGL2CD2q
Recorded video bug https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_LW8yRWpYSzBnWFk
sample download here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_bUdLVHlpcEdQSG8 Play sample: HW audio decoder - HW video decoder. When playing is Audio track # 1 - Russian. But the sound is the second track English
Briefly helps switching tracks on Audio track # 1 - English and back Audio track # 1 - Russian. After folding-unfolding or restart the program, again not correctly identifies the track
VLC - BS Player fine

Alexey71 said:
Logs http://pastebin.com/qGL2CD2q
Recorded video bug https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_LW8yRWpYSzBnWFk
sample download here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B35Mew37y2a_bUdLVHlpcEdQSG8 Play sample: HW audio decoder - HW video decoder. When playing is Audio track # 1 - Russian. But the sound is the second track English
Briefly helps switching tracks on Audio track # 1 - English and back Audio track # 1 - Russian. After folding-unfolding or restart the program, again not correctly identifies the track
VLC - BS Player fine
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It seems to be an device specific issue. it might be an issue with your hw decoder which is basically system decoder. When the "HW audio track selectable" is enabled, In my device it shows as English Track is selected & it plays the same.
When it's disabled the MX Bug comes into picture. It doesn't pick any track since both are ac3. But, if I select any track it can still play since custom codec is already loaded. Anyway it can be fixed by enabling "SW Audio" manually in Settings.
I will forward the informations to the MX Player developer.
FYI,
BS & VLC are using their hardware acceleration engines by default instead of mediaplayer based one. So, it will be like HW+ in MX. That's why the issue doesn't appear there.
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Mx player 1.8.5 not fix bug((

Alexey71 said:
Mx player 1.8.5 not fix bug((
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In my devices everything is fine on HW. it always selects the right track.
It's broken on your system (ROM). MX Player's control over HW decoder is very basic since it just uses mediaplayer API provided in Android.
Just use HW decoder with SW audio till MX Player gets new HW+. It's the only way to handle.
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[Bug]Video fast

The video is not playing properly in mx player.The video is playing fast.The same file is working perfectly in vlc.Select hindi audio.Sample file is attached

Someone

dhruvdave said:
Someone
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In the sample video, the video track (hi) itself has problems.
We have checked with VLC too, there is no audio at all (in both PC & Android) when Hindi audio track is selected.
HW decoder is basically a wrapper around Android's in-built mediaplayer. Looks like android mediaplayer couldn't handle such videos.
HW+ & SW are MX's Own implementation. You can check that when the Korean language is selected or audio track is disabled MX Player's HW+ & SW works well.

Thirumalai.K said:
In the sample video, the video track (hi) itself has problems.
We have checked with VLC too, there is no audio at all (in both PC & Android) when Hindi audio track is selected.
HW decoder is basically a wrapper around Android's in-built mediaplayer. Looks like android mediaplayer couldn't handle such videos.
HW+ & SW are MX's Own implementation. You can check that when the Korean language is selected or audio track is disabled MX Player's HW+ & SW works well.
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Ok.Thanks

I'm making a video chat app and need information on how to play videos depending on the device. Does MX Player work? Thank you!

Blurry video with hw decoder

Hello everybody, I have this problem:
When I use hw decoder I get perfect sound but video is blurry.
When I change it to hw+ I have perfect video but no ddp or dts sound. Any solution?

jotzim said:
Hello everybody, I have this problem:
When I use hw decoder I get perfect sound but video is blurry.
When I change it to hw+ I have perfect video but no ddp or dts sound. Any solution?
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Is it a local video or network stream?
HW decoder basically uses android mediaplayer API implemented on your device. If it is a network stream ( specifically HLS or DASH) it may happen due to adaptive playback. It will automatically select the best stream based on the current bandwidth. In HW+ or SW decoder, it will always play the first stream despite the bandwidth availability.

The problem occurs with local videos, mkv with ddp or dts sound. It is quite strange: Videos look like being projected on a screen with retention problem with hw. With hw+ videos are fine, but no sound

idn, but may restart will help?
idn, but may restart will help?

Low video quality unsing HW+ decoder

hi,
I have an Minix U9-H box (android 6.0) and when I play full HD streaming files from my ip tv provider using HW+ decoder, the video quality is poor. It's working fine with HW or SW decoder (The codec used by mx player is ARM V7 NEON).
I checked also in perfect player and when using HW+, it seems the player downgrade the video resolution to SD format.
Any clue ?
Chris

rusukof36 said:
hi,
I have an Minix U9-H box (android 6.0) and when I play full HD streaming files from my ip tv provider using HW+ decoder, the video quality is poor. It's working fine with HW or SW decoder (The codec used by mx player is ARM V7 NEON).
I checked also in perfect player and when using HW+, it seems the player downgrade the video resolution to SD format.
Any clue ?
Chris
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It should be a bug in the system decoder. In HW+, MX Player passes the frames to the system decoders to directly decode. Probably, the resolution of the decoded frame might be low. We have encountered a similar issue in the past especially when the stream is interlaced. If it's the root cause, then it has to be fixed on the firmware. You will notice similar issues with all major video player apps which makes use of similar technology.

rusukof36 said:
hi,
I have an Minix U9-H box (android 6.0) and when I play full HD streaming files from my ip tv provider using HW+ decoder, the video quality is poor. It's working fine with HW or SW decoder (The codec used by mx player is ARM V7 NEON).
I checked also in perfect player and when using HW+, it seems the player downgrade the video resolution to SD format.
Any clue ?
Chris
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HW and HW+ uses GPU for H.264 decoding. They performance much better from SW which uses CPU for decoding. HW can perform better than HW+ in most of the Cases, but there is a chance it does not work smoothly on many devices.

Same
Same problem. SW is better than HW and HW+. (Android tv 8.1 - Mibox 3s)

lighthousehn said:
Same problem. SW is better than HW and HW+. (Android tv 8.1 - Mibox 3s)
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It may happen when the Hardware Accelerated Decoders implemented on the device itself is buggy. Can you please contact us with screenshots of the playback on HW/HW+ and SW along with a bug reported collected from MX right after playing the file? It will help us to confirm the same.

There is no error, just low quality. HW and HW+ is same. SW is good.
The problem only occurs when viewing iptv (multicast - udp), watching the file on the hard disk is ok

lighthousehn said:
There is no error, just low quality. HW and HW+ is same. SW is good.
The problem only occurs when viewing iptv (multicast - udp), watching the file on the hard disk is ok
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It is one of the known issues on Xiaomi's TV boxes with Oreo and Nougat firmware. Based on our past investigation, it has been found that the hardware accelerated decoder's output resolution of the video frames is much lower than the actual frame size. As both HW and HW+ relies on the decoders shipped with the device, you can notice the issues on both. Request you to contact the device manufacturer so that they can fix the same on their firmware.
If it is possible, kindly share a link with us on PM or at [email protected] so that we can also escalate the same from our end.

I also tried on my phone (Mi Mix 2s - Android 9, MIUI 10) and it gave same results.
multicast links on private network, so you can not access it: https://textuploader.com/dlohs/raw

lighthousehn said:
I also tried on my phone (Mi Mix 2s - Android 9, MIUI 10) and it gave same results.
multicast links on private network, so you can not access it: https://textuploader.com/dlohs/raw
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Can you please try any non-xiaomi device and check again? Can you also check whether it happens if you copy the stream to a file using FFmpeg? Without a sample clip or a link, we may not be able to seek the assistance of the Xiaomi team.

MXPlayer said:
Can you please try any non-xiaomi device and check again? Can you also check whether it happens if you copy the stream to a file using FFmpeg? Without a sample clip or a link, we may not be able to seek the assistance of the Xiaomi team.
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I don't have a non-xiaomi device. These are sample files. I saved them with VLC
http://www.mediafire.com/file/71cnwgwzsgw674b/test.ts/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wjhcmec367uhwxr/test1.ts/file
Let me guess a bit: The format of the service provider is 1080i, this issue relates to the deinterlacing algorithm. With HW decoder, resolution halved.

maybe recode your video?