Option to show the resume position out of the video duration
An option in View -> Fields (or by default) to toggle an additional text field that shows the time the video will resume at, as well as possibly a progress bar at the bottom of the thumbnail that illustrates how much of the video has been watched. As reference, DicePlayer has this feature and for how relatively straightforward it is, it is very helpful.
Option/change to "finish watching" the current video when skipping to next
An option in Settings -> Player that either toggles between the current behavior and automatically completing the current video when skipping to next, or possibly a slider that automatically "finishes" the video if the user skips to next with the seek position at least 0-100% of the total duration. Skipping to the next video currently marks the current position in the video to resume at later, which has its uses but it poses a small, continuous inconvenience when used for entertainment in conjunction with always resuming. I typically don't even use the Next button anymore, instead manually seeking to the end of the video to mark it finished and reset if viewed again before continuing to the next video.
Option/change to more aggressively save resume positions
This may not affect others, but I have noticed that if the app is closed unexpectedly or perhaps if the device is shut down, the current resume position will remain the same and only updates when the video is paused or exited from within the app itself. While this doesn't occur often, it is still fairly inconvenient (especially for long videos, which would be annoying for things like podcasts or audiobooks). Either as a universal or optional change, update the resume position regularly (optional and/or longer intervals if it poses a performance/IO issue) as well as when the user "properly" pauses/exits the video.
I've used MX Player Pro quite a lot now, so I appreciate the work put into it. These suggestions are in response to some pet peeves I've had with resuming videos and would love to see any and all of the above implemented! Thanks!
I must thank you for this helpful post, let me try the instruction posted above!
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I must thank you for this helpful post, let me try the instruction posted above!
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Note that the post is suggesting the options/instructions listed. They're not implemented in MX Player as far as I'm aware. Sorry! I'd like to have them, as well.
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Other Known Bugs list will be updated near future..!
We are working on it.
Feature Requests
Note: the order of listing sort-of implies ranking of priority.
High Priority
DLNA/Casting/Chromecast - IN PROGRESS
SMB support
MKV Ordered Chapters and MKV Chapter Markers
Support for .m3u, .m3u8, .pls, and .wpl, including for playlist files with network streams in them: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/VG6LM3txHTQ/discussion
Medium Priority
Allow external audio streams to be passed to MX Player via API: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-external-audio-streams-t2784474
Manual Saturation, Contrast, Value, and Gamma Control
Additional controls for headphone in-line button: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3220442 - IN PROGRESS
UI improvements to file list:
For audio songs, add feature to sort by albums, artist, genre, etc
UI improvements for tablets/large screens: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/Y4uqkN4zgSk/discussion - IN PROGRESS
Built-in screenshot feature with button similar to the video-rotation button: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/HUAG7ACoeR4/discussion and http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/request-feature-screen-shot-to-mx-player-t3143132
Switch left/right audio stream when device is rotated 180 degrees: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-left-stereo-swap-rotate-t3123221
Switch left/right audio stream for (bluetooth) speakers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-swap-left-t2797750 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-screen-rotation-flip-t2865803
AVRCP Bluetooth metadata: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-avrcp-bluetooth-metadata-t2759314
Frame-by-frame stepping
Allow option to apply auto-hide interface timeout when paused: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/bug-interface-doesnt-auto-hide-playback-t3504885
Switch volume keys around in landscape orientation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-swap-volume-keys-t2741581
Ability to disable icons on playback UI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-optional-lock-t3067067
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/request-vr-controls-t3362581
Sync playback position across devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-sync-playback-position-t3053021
Ability to change background colour of player (ie for album art, cropped videos: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-ability-to-change-t3352945
Confirmation of exit from app: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/AW5R11oav7g/discussion
Filter/shader options, such as debanding, "16-235 -> 0-255 [SD][HD]", etc: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-debanding-filter-t2939323 and https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/76p1PxVy08I/discussion
IFO Support: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/ifo-support-t2877081
Pan on Note 10.1
Please add to the bug list the pan problem on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, detailed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/svXy0vhIUOQ
Hello, thanks for this great app.
I wanted to request something I think is a great feature, but then I was happy to see it already in the high priority list.
Popup Player: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/ws_voRX-MVc/discussion
But then I looked at the original thread and it dates back 2 years. Is there any word on development of this?
I see so many video apps successfully implement this and it seems to work wonderfully well for playing local files as well as streaming. For stress testing I even tried out large video files and heavy streams while loading up heavy apps and games and I never noticed lag or stutter, on my first generation nexus 7.
MX Player has always been my favorite android player since my nexus one, 4 years ago until today. And I would love to keep supporting it but I'm now downloading other players when I need floating video.
So I hope for some good news on development of this great feature, thanks!
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Please add to the bug list the pan problem on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, detailed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/svXy0vhIUOQ
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Added.
Logic_ said:
Hello, thanks for this great app.
I wanted to request something I think is a great feature, but then I was happy to see it already in the high priority list.
Popup Player: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/ws_voRX-MVc/discussion
But then I looked at the original thread and it dates back 2 years. Is there any word on development of this?
I see so many video apps successfully implement this and it seems to work wonderfully well for playing local files as well as streaming. For stress testing I even tried out large video files and heavy streams while loading up heavy apps and games and I never noticed lag or stutter, on my first generation nexus 7.
MX Player has always been my favorite android player since my nexus one, 4 years ago until today. And I would love to keep supporting it but I'm now downloading other players when I need floating video.
So I hope for some good news on development of this great feature, thanks!
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I agree that this feature would be awesome!
This would be something for @bleu8888 to answer.
Feature request: Continuous folder to folder playing
[http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-continious-playing-t2741644]
Feature request: swap volume keys in landscape orientation
I have the Moto X. Since is shoots at a 16:9 ratio it won't go past 7.2mp. Is it possible to add full 10mp 16:9 support?
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I have the Moto X. Since is shoots at a 16:9 ratio it won't go past 7.2mp. Is it possible to add full 10mp 16:9 support?
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You are in wrong place.
It's MX Player support forum....!!!
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auto resume on startup
Hi
This player is awesome.
Here a feature needed for android car radio. Android car player are more and more popular, a nice feature would be an option when we start the player, the last played file start automatically on resume, like a normal car cd player do. (no need to start the application automatically, there is already an application for that).
Because each time the car is turned off, all applications are stopped by the android system. of course, if you use the integrated player it resume automatically, but it does not play all format and the interface is not good enough.
Thanks!
Cedric
@AlbertAS and @xenyz please make a new forum thread for your feature requests, then link that thread here, so that it can be added to the list. With a thread for your specific request, it is easier to keep track of each item.
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mast3rbug said:
Hi
This player is awesome.
Here a feature needed for android car radio. Android car player are more and more popular, a nice feature would be an option when we start the player, the last played file start automatically on resume, like a normal car cd player do. (no need to start the application automatically, there is already an application for that).
Because each time the car is turned off, all applications are stopped by the android system. of course, if you use the integrated player it resume automatically, but it does not play all format and the interface is not good enough.
Thanks!
Cedric
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This is a great video player indeed, but as a car stereo app it's not ideal I'd say.. cause that's not its main purpose.
In my car I've been using PowerAmp for over 4 years now, it works great with everything you need from auto resuming to lockscreen controls etc. PowerAmp was one of the first apps to integrate all these things and still does it best imo. Although many other players have adopted the same functions.
Logic_ said:
This is a great video player indeed, but as a car stereo app it's not ideal I'd say.. cause that's not its main purpose.
In my car I've been using PowerAmp for over 4 years now, it works great with everything you need from auto resuming to lockscreen controls etc. PowerAmp was one of the first apps to integrate all these things and still does it best imo. Although many other players have adopted the same functions.
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Thanks I will try it!
Cedric
I agree that PowerAmp is probably one of the best music player apps out there.
Apologies in advance if I'm doing this wrong.
I have MX Pro, and would like to see it brought to Google TV...namely the Sony NSZ-GS7.
It doesn't appear in the Play Store for GTV, and I have tried sideloading MX player and it offers a "not supported" message.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mx-videoplayer/google$20tv/mx-videoplayer/8FuwdbGMJo4/xV1anwFLUEIJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mx-videoplayer/google$20tv/mx-videoplayer/rCovIwz5yCE/I75B4w-suY0J
Although,
Technical Support said:
MX Player cannot run on Google TV because Google TV version of Android does not allow direct access of system module.
MX Player requires direct access of system module to speed up video decoding.
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So I guess it'll never work?
Thanks
@bleu8888 has anything changed regarding overground's question?
Add Feature
If you can add THE ABILITY TO Share video support like by Bluetooth and wlan direct .... etc
THANKS
(skip to second paragraph if you're not interested in a mild rant)
In one of the recent updates for the YouTube app while streaming to the Chromecast it'll automatically add every video you've watched to the TV queue. That's fine as I don't mind having a list of the recent videos I've watched, but the part that bothers me (enough to create a thread, which I can't remember the last time I started one) is that the video is added to the top of the queue. This makes every video that you just F***ING watched play all over again! Again, I'd be fine with this if there was any type of preferences within the YouTube app to disable such an asinine "feature" that I'm pretty sure was solely created to boost the number of views of their videos (as I see no other purpose). It really feels like Google is going the way of taking away many options within their apps and it's bugging the s**t outta me to no end. The Chrome browser within Android use to have a plethora of options such as choosing user agents and things of that sort but that option is no longer available either. [/rant]
Is there any way to disable the autoplay "feature" of the TV queue while using the Chromecast, or the TV queue altogether if needed? My current version of the YouTube app is 5.7.41 and I'm not sure when this bug was introduced exactly.
Let me know if there's more information needed, I've been out of the modding scene for awhile (I'm actually pleased with stock Android on my Nexus devices).
Thank you for any assistance that can be provided, even if it's the version number that I can roll back to before the TV queue.
Just to say that i also think its fu..in anoying! I was searching for some kind of solution and found this thread. Only thing left is to hope that youtube will change that in the upcoming update...
Well, I appreciate seeing that I'm not the only one being bothered by this. I had forgot about this thread do to the (seemingly) lack of interest and I was reading comments on my tablet while a video played on my Chromecast, when the video ended it changed to the next video on my tablet and gave no ****s as to what I was doing. Android/Google used to be the king in my book as they gave options for everything, but they seem to be following in the same footsteps as Apple nowadays and it is sorely disappointing.
Ok, this has got to be affecting more people now. I thought my newest mishap was just a glitch, but even after reboots the bug (feature) exists now anytime I stream anything from my laptop as well! The goddamn problem is also WORSE than the tablet issue because at least the tablet takes you to the video it is streaming so you can stop it an remove it from the queue. Apparently that wasn't a big enough F*** UP(!) for Google so now if you play a youtube video from a laptop that is part of a playlist, then play a different video that's not within that isn't within a playlist, when the non-playlist video is over the previous playlist will start playing again. ARE YOU ****TING ME!?!?! Now I have a playlist playing on my Chromecast that the ONLY ****ing way I can get it to stop is to start playing another video and then stop it!. Please inform me that the lead developer/designer setting the path for Chromecast has autism or some other disorder they have a legitimate reason for being this ****ing stupid.
I totally agree with you guys, it doesn't make any sense why it behave that way!!
bumping this, as i'm bothered by this as well
wonder why it doesn't affect more people though... it's probably not a widely used feature
I am also very pissed off with this! Every now and then, in the middle of the video, it pops up.
It stays there for hours (at the minimum) and it lowers that brightness and has the annoying symbol for it covering the content of the video!!!
This is extremely disappointing!
Bothered by the same thing. The problem was fixed a while ago, but now it seems it's back. As soon as I want to play/cast a video, the TV queue is populated with all other videos in that playlist. I would like it to play THAT video, then stop. :/ I can removed one and one video, but that sucks when it's maybe 60 videoes in that list.
I'd love a (hopefully simple) feature that simply lets MX Player list the contents of a standard video folder in a random order (which changes every time I start the app) :good:
I've got a fairly large folder of videos that I often watch, but I currently have to scroll down & randomly stop & select one to watch, which is a pain as I'm sure I miss many, but if they were displayed in a totally random order, selecting one from near the top would make my life so much easier!
I've currently got it to display by frame rate as opposed by name, which gives a different (but fixed) order, but this is not really what I want.
Have I missed something & my request is already in the latest MX Player Pro (on Android) ??
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I'd love a (hopefully simple) feature that simply lets MX Player list the contents of a standard video folder in a random order (which changes every time I start the app) :good:
I've got a fairly large folder of videos that I often watch, but I currently have to scroll down & randomly stop & select one to watch, which is a pain as I'm sure I miss many, but if they were displayed in a totally random order, selecting one from near the top would make my life so much easier!
I've currently got it to display by frame rate as opposed by name, which gives a different (but fixed) order, but this is not really what I want.
Have I missed something & my request is already in the latest MX Player Pro (on Android) ??
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You can achieve the same by following.
Just open any video, then ooen menu > Play & enable shuffle. Now just long press the video folder that you want to play randomly & tap on play from the top toolbar. It will play a random file for you.
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When playing livestreams over the internet, it’s possible to press PAUSE in MX Player.
The stream will pause and you can later press PLAY to resume from the moment you were paused at!
But this is super mysterious to me?
- WHERE is it buffering? To RAM? To hard disk?
- HOW LONG is the pause buffer? After a while the RAM/HD will become full! But MX Player doesn’t indicate that space is running out! And of course, pausing a HD stream would need a lot more data (per second) than an SD stream. But right now there’s no indicator at all for how full the buffer is. Not even a ”132mb of 400mb used” indicator.
- WHAT happens if the buffer gets 100% full? Does the video auto-begin playing again (slightly before the buffer is completely full) to prevent 100% full RAM/HD? If not then MX really would benefit from code that auto-plays as soon as the buffer is 90% full, to avoid system crashes or data loss from being completely full and not leaving anything left for the rest of the system!
Very curious!
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When playing livestreams over the internet, it’s possible to press PAUSE in MX Player.
The stream will pause and you can later press PLAY to resume from the moment you were paused at!
But this is super mysterious to me?
- WHERE is it buffering? To RAM? To hard disk?
- HOW LONG is the pause buffer? After a while the RAM/HD will become full! But MX Player doesn’t indicate that space is running out! And of course, pausing a HD stream would need a lot more data (per second) than an SD stream. But right now there’s no indicator at all for how full the buffer is. Not even a ”132mb of 400mb used” indicator.
- WHAT happens if the buffer gets 100% full? Does the video auto-begin playing again (slightly before the buffer is completely full) to prevent 100% full RAM/HD? If not then MX really would benefit from code that auto-plays as soon as the buffer is 90% full, to avoid system crashes or data loss from being completely full and not leaving anything left for the rest of the system!
Very curious!
Best Regards
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MX Player never loads the complete file into buffers. The buffer size is dynamically determined based on the available RAM. So, it's less likely to cause such system-level crash or data issues. If you are facing any issues, please provide us with more details so that we can assist you better.
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MX Player never loads the complete file into buffers. The buffer size is dynamically determined based on the available RAM. So, it's less likely to cause such system-level crash or data issues. If you are facing any issues, please provide us with more details so that we can assist you better.
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Thanks for clarifying that it uses RAM and that it limits itself to prevent crashes! Great!
Well I did some testing to see what happens if I leave the player paused for a long time, on live TV streams: When I try to resume it fails to continue pulling data from the stream, and I end up with a black screen.
This makes me worried about pausing and makes it hard to relax. Do you think it would be a good idea to add an optional setting to allow MX to auto-resume when the buffer is full in LIVESTREAM mode (only)? So that the person no longer risks losing their whole playback if they wait too long.
Basically: User pauses live TV for a few minutes, and the buffer becomes full so it auto-plays and continues from the buffer, while continuing to buffer new livestream data, to ensure that the user never gets a black screen/data loss gap.
I would also think a pause buffer % display would be useful when pausing livestreams. So the user can see it fill up and estimate how much time they have left to pause.
Lastly, the ability to fast forward in the livestream pause buffer would help too.
Well this is sounding like a list of feature requests. Hehe...
Anyway, try playing live TV streams and pausing in MX. You’ll see that the experience is pretty unreliable. Oh well it’s not a huge problem.
Even as an 5+ years' MX Player Pro user, I still struggle with the limited options available for the end of video behaviour, which are:
(a) return to the media list, or
(b) run into the next unrelated video(*).
They go well along with media junky habits. However, both options feel awkward if you want a smooth, immersive, zero distraction experience, watching nothing but this one deeply moving masterpeace, today.
There definitely should be an option that
(c) simply halts playback at the end, showing a still image of the last frame
- just as you see a still image of the first frame at the beginning, i. e. before starting playback.
I'm stunned that apparently, this natural preference is neither considered nor discussed (publicly). I would greatly appreciate if it was implented!
Thank you!
(*) with or without having to anwer a popup question
(note: I've made a similar post to the FAQ thread, it didn't get blessed with an answer.)
It's a trip no one has responded to this. I have exactly this same wish. Every other video player I've used has an option to simply stop the video at the end or repeat it. MX Play has neither option. Don't
know why.
MikeO89 said:
It's a trip no one has responded to this. I have exactly this same wish. Every other video player I've used has an option to simply stop the video at the end or repeat it. MX Play has neither option. Don't
know why.
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Thanks for your valuable comments. We would like to let you know that MX Player already has the option to loop the current file. Request you to enable the loop one function from the quick shortcuts on the screen or from the play menu.
With regards to stopping it on the last frame, we regret to inform you that it is not prioritised as we found it useless in most of the common use cases and will unnecessarily keep the decoder component active. However, you can enable the "back to list option" to close the player and return to file list on completion of the playback.
Trying to get used to this app and just can't do it. As far as I can tell this app wants you to do everything within the app like start a movie for example. It doesn't work as well when starting a video from outside the app. For example clicking on a movie from say the Gallery app. After playing a video, I want it to return to the app I came from but mxplayer wants to return to it's own videos list. I have tried to get a refund but the option is no longer there in the Google Play Store. I have uninstalled this app. Can I get a refund?
Edit: Never mind, got a refund. I'm good.