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[BUG] PlayOn and MX Player

I thought I had used MX Player with PlayOn before, but now it is saying "can't play this video" on everything.............
Any suggestions??

I too can not play any videos. "Can't play this video" on any video file I try. Also I'm using galaxy s4 with kitkat.
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I too am wondering about this.

bitpushr said:
I too am wondering about this.
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@bleu8888 please take a look.

@ruskastud @P1_e85 @bitpushr
Enable SW Decoder (Network) from Settings 》Decoder
Then, Try again & report here....!!!
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ktsamy said:
@ruskastud @P1_e85 @bitpushr
Enable SW Decoder (Network) from Settings 》Decoder
Then, Try again & report here....!!!
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Nope......
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ktsamy said:
@ruskastud @P1_e85 @bitpushr
Enable SW Decoder (Network) from Settings 》Decoder
Then, Try again & report here....!!!
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Here's what I've found after enabling Network SW Decoder.
If I first open a stream with MX, it always times out.
If I first open a stream in the stock video player (Samsung), then back out of that and start playing again with MX, it works fine.

overground said:
Here's what I've found after enabling Network SW Decoder.
If I first open a stream with MX, it always times out.
If I first open a stream in the stock video player (Samsung), then back out of that and start playing again with MX, it works fine.
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I think the issue is with play on.
If there is a network playback issue with MX player, it's not suppose to play even when you tries after backing from the stock player. I have personally using MX player in http & smb (winows share). But, never had issues
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ktsamy said:
I think the issue is with play on.
If there is a network playback issue with MX player, it's not suppose to play even when you tries after backing from the stock player. I have personally using MX player in http & smb (winows share). But, never had issues
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Then why does the stock player even work?
It's like MX is having problems with the initial request.

overground said:
Then why does the stock player even work?
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I am not clear about the that.
There could be some other issues like authentication or session codes.
Does any other player works?
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ktsamy said:
I am not clear about the that.
There could be some other issues like authentication or session codes.
Does any other player works?
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Well, I don't have many installed, but an old version of VLC beta will sometimes start the audio stream.
Even that is enough to back out of and use MX just fine (again, on the same video). Very odd.

overground said:
Well, I don't have many installed, but an old version of VLC beta will sometimes start the audio stream.
Even that is enough to back out of and use MX just fine (again, on the same video). Very odd.
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If you have problem with vlc too, then the problem should be with play on.
In that case you have to contact play on support....!!!
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ktsamy said:
If you have problem with vlc too, then the problem should be with play on.
In that case you have to contact play on support....!!!
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Well I'm not so sure.
At least VLC completes the request and starts the audio. FWIW I haven't really gotten this VLC version to work on anything.
My thinking is, if it works with the stock video player, it should definitely work with MX pro.

This could be related to one of the known issues that MX has with network playback and (lack of proper) buffering.
Per my List of Bugs thread, it's the top issue on the list:
CDB-Man said:
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Bugs
Network streaming issues:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/yB9ebXlZhcI/discussion
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/9X5yp2y_HyM/discussion
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/PJb0NilkV6g/discussion
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I know that @bleu8888 is aware of the issue and is working on it, though I'm unsure of his current progress.

There is a issue with network authentication on hw+ and sw decoder.
If it only works with hw decoder, it will be this issue.
Please try hw decoder instead.
This is going to be fixed.

bleu8888 said:
There is a issue with network authentication on hw+ and sw decoder.
If it only works with hw decoder, it will be this issue.
Please try hw decoder instead.
This is going to be fixed.
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HW decoder always fails "cannot play this video".
SW decoder enabled on network will play only after the video has started in another player, backed out and then reopened in MX.

bleu8888 said:
There is a issue with network authentication on hw+ and sw decoder.
If it only works with hw decoder, it will be this issue.
Please try hw decoder instead.
This is going to be fixed.
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So, what this suggests is that in HW mode where the hardware handles everything from request to decode, there's no problem; however if HW+ or SW where MX is involved anywhere in the process, then the authentication will fail?
Also, is this specific to any device or android version?

There is missing link in hw+ and sw decdoing in network authentication.
As CDB-Man metioned before, it is under development.

[Q] MX Player Network Stream

Hello,
I hope someone knows a solution for the following.
I am using MX player on my NVIDIA Shield TV.
And I mainly use MX player to play video files that are stored on my network disk.
I am required to use the HW+ mode to get Dolby Atmos audio working.
This is all working fine, the only thing that is not working is fast forwarding and rewinding.
When I am using the same file on a USB stick it works fine, so it seems to be a issue when playing the files with the HW+ decoder over the network.
Does someone know a solution for this ?
I already installed the customer codecs btw.
Thanks in advance !

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51915844&postcount=1
Network playback buffering in general is a known issue, not specific to any of the playback methods. The developer aims to fix it in version 1.8 whenever that's ready.

Can you collect the logs immediately after reproducing the problem & upload here.?
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ktsamy said:
Can you collect the logs immediately after reproducing the problem & upload here.?
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Sorry for the late reply, I was very busy with some family matters.
I made one mistake in my first post, I was using the normal HW decoder.
The HW+ decoder does fast forward and rewind, but does not give me the dolby Atmos sound I described earlier.
I don't know if this changes the situation or answer ?
I will reproduce the issue and upload the logs when I'm back home from work.
Thanks for all the help !
PS. I already tried the alpha version (1.8.0) of MX Player, but the issue persisted.

triphoenix1991 said:
Sorry for the late reply, I was very busy with some family matters.
I made one mistake in my first post, I was using the normal HW decoder.
The HW+ decoder does fast forward and rewind, but does not give me the dolby Atmos sound I described earlier.
I don't know if this changes the situation or answer ?
I will reproduce the issue and upload the logs when I'm back home from work.
Thanks for all the help !
PS. I already tried the alpha version (1.8.0) of MX Player, but the issue persisted.
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HW uses android's native mediaplayer api.
Seems that your system doesn't have native dolby decoders. But, your audio system supports dolby decoding. In HW decoder audio might be passed to audio system. But, in H/W+ it will use system decoders to decode. So, if your device doesn't support that codec, it will use ffmpeg to decode (i.e, SW audio). If you use cutom codec you will get stereo output. Else you won't get any audio.
Only solution is to get audio pass through feature. It's expected in further minor updates to 1.8. (i.e 1.8.x).
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ktsamy said:
HW uses android's native mediaplayer api.
Seems that your system doesn't have native dolby decoders. But, your audio system supports dolby decoding. In HW decoder audio might be passed to audio system. But, in H/W+ it will use system decoders to decode. So, if your device doesn't support that codec, it will use ffmpeg to decode (i.e, SW audio). If you use cutom codec you will get stereo output. Else you won't get any audio.
Only solution is to get audio pass through feature. It's expected in further minor updates to 1.8. (i.e 1.8.x).
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Thanks, that is a very good explanation !
I did not really understand the difference between the 3 different decoders, but now I do, so thank you very much for that !
I noticed when I use the native video player on my Shield TV it does play Dolby atmos, but it has the same issue with rewinding/fast forwarding.
So because HW on MX Player uses the native media player API the buffering is not working ?
I suppose I just have to wait till audio passthrough is available in 1.8.
Or buffering will be available in the native media player.

[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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Sync audio

Hello
My Mx player is losing the synchrony of audio relative to video
how can I fix this problem?
thank you

Can someone help me?
Already tried the 3 codecs and did not work
use the hw usually
There is another way to solve this problem ?

bilico said:
Can someone help me?
Already tried the 3 codecs and did not work
use the hw usually
There is another way to solve this problem ?
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Installing the unnecessary codecs won't fix the issue. It will just occupy your memory that's all.
If anything wrong in HW decoder, it's basically a ROM issue. In Simple words, HW decoder is nothing but android mediaplayer on MX Interface.
Kindly enable HW+ from Settings > Decoder & Play the video in HW+. In some device HW+ may not work. Than try to play the video in SW decoder.
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ktsamy said:
Installing the unnecessary codecs won't fix the issue. It will just occupy your memory that's all.
If anything wrong in HW decoder, it's basically a ROM issue. In Simple words, HW decoder is nothing but android mediaplayer on MX Interface.
Kindly enable HW+ from Settings > Decoder & Play the video in HW+. In some device HW+ may not work. Than try to play the video in SW decoder.
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Already tried the 3 decoders and does not work
there is another way to fix this problem ?

bilico said:
Already tried the 3 decoders and does not work
there is another way to fix this problem ?
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Problem might be from the video itself.
Can you upload the logs?
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[BUG] Alternate HW+ Decoder problem

when using the new alternate HW+ decoder no video shows embedded subtitles......... the old hw+ decoder plays the files perfectly with subs but this new one doesn't show subtitles whatsoever........

caspianprince said:
when using the new alternate HW+ decoder no video shows embedded subtitles......... the old hw+ decoder plays the files perfectly with subs but this new one doesn't show subtitles whatsoever........
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Can collect the bug report & share here.
FYI, now if you disable the subtitle on one video it will be disabled on further playbacks. You have to manually select the subtitle again. Once you select the subtitle it will be enabled everytime till you disable it again.
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ktsamy said:
Can collect the bug report & share here.
FYI, now if you disable the subtitle on one video it will be disabled on further playbacks. You have to manually select the subtitle again. Once you select the subtitle it will be enabled everytime till you disable it again.
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i know that and my subtitle is enabled....it's just that whenever i am using newer hw+ the subtitle doesn't show and whenever i am using older hw+ OR HW OR SW subtitle shows....... u don't have that problem???

caspianprince said:
i know that and my subtitle is enabled....it's just that whenever i am using newer hw+ the subtitle doesn't show and whenever i am using older hw+ OR HW OR SW subtitle shows....... u don't have that problem???
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No, I can't reproduce. Can you provide a sample clip?
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here is the log......... first i played the video with alternate hw+ and the subtitle didn't show..next i played it with older hw+ and subtitle showed........ then took the report

I cannot remember what video it was, but it was an mkv, when playing a video the subtitles would show even though they were disabled, then if i enabled subtitles i would have two identical sets of subtitles, though one set was a few pixels apart from the other.
John.

caspianprince said:
here is the log......... first i played the video with alternate hw+ and the subtitle didn't show..next i played it with older hw+ and subtitle showed........ then took the report
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Subtitle rendering & Media Playback both are individual functions. It less likely to conflict.
Just downloaded the original video & tested myself. After test & trails I have found that "Improve SSA rendering" option in Settings > Subtitle > Text is somehow affects when using new HW+ decoder for video decoding. Report passed to the developer. Just disable it as a temporary solution till the developer fixes the issue.
Edit: Update from developer
@caspianprince
It's internally fixed & next update will fix the issue with SSA subtitle rendering issue when used with new HW+.

ktsamy said:
Subtitle rendering & Media Playback both are individual functions. It less likely to conflict.
Just downloaded the original video & tested myself. After test & trails I have found that "Improve SSA rendering" option in Settings > Subtitle > Text is somehow affects when using new HW+ decoder for video decoding. Report passed to the developer. Just disable it as a temporary solution till the developer fixes the issue.
Edit: Update from developer
@caspianprince
It's internally fixed & next update will fix the issue with SSA subtitle rendering issue when used with new HW+.
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Thank you man!

caspianprince said:
Thank you man!
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@caspianprince Would you try latest beta version? I think this issue is fixed.
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build

bleu8888 said:
@caspianprince Would you try latest beta version? I think this issue is fixed.
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
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Just tried it..... the problem is fixed...... nice work!! Thanks

Corruption in small to medium parts of the video is a reason i dont use HW+ i would rather use HW with lower volume.
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
Corruption in small to medium parts of the video is a reason i dont use HW+ i would rather use HW with lower volume.
John.
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Are you still encountering the issue even after updating to 1.9.3?
Instead of generic statements, Kindly report it along with sample video and bug report. It will be helpful to get the issues fixed.
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I am on the latest on Google Play, MX Player Pro 1.7.40 I am on kitkat v4.4.4 for the Rockchip RK3229
John.
ktsamy said:
Are you still encountering the issue even after updating to 1.9.3?
Instead of generic statements, Kindly report it along with sample video and bug report. It will be helpful to get the issues fixed.
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Tinderbox (UK) said:
I am on the latest on Google Play, MX Player Pro 1.7.40 I am on kitkat v4.4.4 for the Rockchip RK3229
John.
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New HW+ is available only to the devices with android 5.0+. Old HW+ method may not be compatible with old devices especially when the android media framework is modified by the OEM or by Rom developer in case of custom rom.
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So if you are on v4 kitkat or under MX Player is not interested in fixing bug`s most Android users are running kitkat 27.7% as of 2016
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
So if you are on v4 kitkat or under MX Player is not interested in fixing bug`s most Android users are running kitkat 27.7% as of 2016
John.
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It's not a bug. Android 5.0+ provides a official API to use system decoders in native programming language. When a particular encoding profile is not supported you may still have issues in new HW+ as well.
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This is on my MiniMXQ TV Box Android v4.4.4 - 1GB/8GB - Rockchip RK3229 SOC
MX Player Pro V1.7.40
Video file "Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica - 01 10bit H.264 AAC.mp4"
HW+ - Normal video speed and sound, but image has intermittent break-up from small to large areas.
HW - Frozen perfect image, if you select another point in the video, you get 1/2 second of playback and then a freeze, perfect image
SW - video and sound quality great, but video is very jerky
Thanks for the help
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
This is on my MiniMXQ TV Box Android v4.4.4 - 1GB/8GB - Rockchip RK3229 SOC
MX Player Pro V1.7.40
Video file "Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica - 01 10bit H.264 AAC.mp4"
HW+ - Normal video speed and sound, but image has intermittent break-up from small to large areas.
HW - Frozen perfect image, if you select another point in the video, you get 1/2 second of playback and then a freeze, perfect image
SW - video and sound quality great, but video is very jerky
Thanks for the help
John.
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It looks like a system decoder issue. If it's supported it suppose to be playable in HW decoder. When you have tried HW decoder, it hows thrown a unknown error. Does any other player works? I think that particular video will have issues with every player?
Can you try MX Player Pro 1.8.9 beta 2 & share the bug report again?
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I am on kitkat v4.4.4
MX Player Pro 1.8.9 beta 2 needs android v5.1 or above as far as i know.
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/download
John.
ktsamy said:
It looks like a system decoder issue. If it's supported it suppose to be playable in HW decoder. When you have tried HW decoder, it hows thrown a unknown error. Does any other player works? I think that particular video will have issues with every player?
Can you try MX Player Pro 1.8.9 beta 2 & share the bug report again?
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Tinderbox (UK) said:
I am on kitkat v4.4.4
MX Player Pro 1.8.9 beta 2 needs android v5.1 or above as far as i know.
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/download
John.
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Beta versions will work on Android 4.0 & above.
You can download the latest nightly version from the official beta webpage ( https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build )