I've been using Lineage/CM 13 since summer '16 but haven't really played around with watching non-streaming videos since I am always at WiFi. I'm gearing up for a family trip so I started loading them onto my SD card. Many of them are very choppy or do not play at all.
Here is the crux: same files played fine when I was using Civato's 5.0.2 ROM last May. Is this a known issue with the latest versions of Lineage, or was the LP ROM better suited for movies?
Possible issue with my tablet, maybe? Tried MANY different video players. Most with similar results. MX and Archos seem to be the best, but video is still choppy with each.
Switched to Civato's ROM last night. Playback remains choppy and unplayable. Looks like it might be an issue with my tablet after all.
Also, I tried putting the movies on a different SD and on Internal Storage. Same results.
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I have Core Player and love it's steaming capabilities. Doesn't skip and has plenty of feature to customize. The problem I'm running into is playing videos from my SD card. I have two TV show episodes loaded onto my microSD, 640x480. For some reason, Core Player skips a frame or two, sometimes, and freezes/lags for a solid 5-7 seconds other times.
I'm wondering if there are any fixes for this? What settings work best for the Core Player for the smoothest possible feedback?
Unfortunately...
This is not the answer that you want to hear (and I hope someone can prove me wrong) but you will probably will have to reencode those videos to a more CorePlayer friendly format if you want to use CorePlayer on your Raphael to play those files.
CorePlayer doesn't play nicely with H264 files yet on our Qualcomm chips. You can reencode to something like divx/xvid or wait until CorePlayer 2.0 to release sometime in 2009. They claim better hardware support will come with that version. Or you can reencode for WMP. Yeah, I know, kind of a bummer. =/
More info can be found on xda and fuzemobility. I think there is an xda thread started by k9tim regarding this issue if you want to read up on it.
One thing that helped for non H264 files was to increase the buffer size tenfold and decrease video quality to Medium or Low for better framerates. Didn't help me for H264 files but it did help me with some mpegs. I hope someone can prove me wrong.
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I watch movies and tv shows in xvid and divx with 1.25, default settings, high quality, with absolutey no slow downs at all. What exactly are you trying to play?
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This is not the answer that you want to hear (and I hope someone can prove me wrong) but you will probably will have to reencode those videos to a more CorePlayer friendly format if you want to use CorePlayer on your Raphael to play those files.
CorePlayer doesn't play nicely with H264 files yet on our Qualcomm chips. You can reencode to something like divx/xvid or wait until CorePlayer 2.0 to release sometime in 2009. They claim better hardware support will come with that version. Or you can reencode for WMP. Yeah, I know, kind of a bummer. =/
More info can be found on xda and fuzemobility. I think there is an xda thread started by k9tim regarding this issue if you want to read up on it.
One thing that helped for non H264 files was to increase the buffer size tenfold and decrease video quality to Medium or Low for better framerates. Didn't help me for H264 files but it did help me with some mpegs. I hope someone can prove me wrong.
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Well, you're right - It's certainly not good news. But the bold'd part made it that much better, so it evens out
As far as the info goes, I really appreciate it. It's really no problem for me to leave my computer on overnight with a whole queue of files to re-encode. It'd suck if I was trying to get other things done too, but a fan on high and a few solid hours overnight should (hopefully) take care of these issues. Thanks again.
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I watch movies and tv shows in xvid and divx with 1.25, default settings, high quality, with absolutey no slow downs at all. What exactly are you trying to play?
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You, or anyone else who reads this and has zero issues with playback, wouldn't happen to have drivers from this post installed, would you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2892184&postcount=357
I'm wondering if that's the issue - different drivers on different phones. I have a stock ROM Alltel HTC Touch Pro, with no real desire to upgrade/flash/change the PRL. I ***LOVE*** it the way it is and probably won't be getting a different phone for 3-4 years. 99.8% perfect in my book (with potential factored in, too)
I have a stock Fuze and can get good playback.
Again it all depends on the source files your trying to play. Some of my trilinear and high quality audio encoded files chop / lag every 60th frame or so but at high quality its worth it. Medium quality it does not slow down too much. Most play smoothly till high action in which case they will slow a little.
Increasing the buffer and playing with the method of drawing can increase your quality. If I was not half asleep and my phone in the other room (wife asleep) I would check my settings. If I remember I will post them in the morning. Most of them have not been changed though.
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You, or anyone else who reads this and has zero issues with playback, wouldn't happen to have drivers from this post installed, would you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2892184&postcount=357
I'm wondering if that's the issue - different drivers on different phones. I have a stock ROM Alltel HTC Touch Pro, with no real desire to upgrade/flash/change the PRL. I ***LOVE*** it the way it is and probably won't be getting a different phone for 3-4 years. 99.8% perfect in my book (with potential factored in, too)
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I have those drivers installed AND playback issues. But you should install them anyway.
I'm working out some methods of encoding at the moment and will get back to you. I tried to fight the transcoding, but am starting to give in. The device just doesn't have a lot of headroom as far as playing videos, with currently available players.
Any other thoughts on this or are we all just waiting on the next Core Player update?
Did installing the drivers help you at all?
I have been somewhat disappointed in video quality--some flash plays very choppy and stutters, as well as downloaded movies (AVI and WMV HD) I am suprised at this--I also have an Archos 101, which plays video very well. Is it the video player that I am using? I installed the latest TnT lite version (Thanks Roebeet). Any suggestions on how to improve video/streaming quality?
Not sure what the problem you may be having is, but 2.20 update plays higher def Flash video and all non Flash videos I have tried smoothly, except some H264 720p and above. No 1080p works or very well, regardless on the Gtablet (yet).
Based on PMs I am getting and posts at Archosfans, 101 Flash performance is FAR weaker than the Droid X which has the same chipset. The Gtablet plays Flash videos smoothly that the Droid X plays like a slide show.
Seems you have some issues with your rom install, since even prior to 2.20, the 2.04 build also played video far better than the Droid X, which has twice the ram and is not capped at 800mhz like the 101 is. Also spanks my Incredble too.
You may need to go into clockwork and clean cache then reboot. Your experience with Flash video is polar opposite of mine
HD WMV files are weak on the Gtablet, but like other HD content, I see no point since the files suck up too much space, drain battery more and all current tablets are "600p". What is point of 720p or better for watching on device with "600p"?
Hey all,
I used to own a xoom back when it was first released. I kept it for about 14 days and decided to return it due to honeycomb being generally slow and having almost no apps. But i did love honeycomb as an os.
Now i just noticed this transformer tablet, it seems like it has almost identical specs to the xoom but from the videos it appears to run MUCH faster. It looks like there is no homescreen lag and when you push a button, something happens.
Anyone who had both the xoom and this tab able to confirm?
Another issue on the xoom was we had to convert most, if not all, of our movies to some specific format because the xoom wouldn't natively play them. Is this issue still prevalent?
Would you guys reccomend this tab?
Thanks
I got the Xoom 3G when it first came out and returned it after a couple weeks. Then more recently I bought a Xoom Wifi, ended up returning that too. Now have the Transformer.
I'd say the performance feels the same between the Xoom and the Transformer. Scrolling through screens is okay, tiny bit of lag. And probably the only reason I notice it is because I'm coming from an iPad.
Application crashes have gotten better. The first Xoom 3G I owned had way too many application crashes for my taste. The browser would crash multiple times a day, the Market and YouTube apps would crash at least once a day. And installing apps from Market would get wonky about 50% of the time.
However with the more recent Xoom wifi and Transformer I notice stability has improved a lot. Particularly the browser that caused me the most trouble has now not crashed once on either Xoom wifi or Transformer. YouTube and the Market have crashed a couple times, but it's now a less frequent issue. The Market also still sometimes goes wonky while installing an app, but it went from 50% of the time down to maybe 5-10% of the time now.
So to me it feels like the software experience on the Xoom and Transformer is very similar in stability and performance. I just think Honeycomb has had a couple months to mature now and so feels a bit better compared to when the Xoom first came out.
PS. Forgot to answer the video converting question. That is still an issue. I have a hard time playing most of my video files on the Transformer. I installed Rock Player, YXPlayer, ArcMedia, Mobo Player, and vPlayer, and some of these do better than others at playing certain files. But I still get a lot of jerkiness, not supported, or out of sync voices. So I just need to Handbrake videos first.
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Hey all,
I used to own a xoom back when it was first released. I kept it for about 14 days and decided to return it due to honeycomb being generally slow and having almost no apps. But i did love honeycomb as an os.
Now i just noticed this transformer tablet, it seems like it has almost identical specs to the xoom but from the videos it appears to run MUCH faster. It looks like there is no homescreen lag and when you push a button, something happens.
Anyone who had both the xoom and this tab able to confirm?
Another issue on the xoom was we had to convert most, if not all, of our movies to some specific format because the xoom wouldn't natively play them. Is this issue still prevalent?
Would you guys reccomend this tab?
Thanks
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I have done a review of the tab here have a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060786
So, the I/O-speed often is the bottleneck for the tf300. I knew this already, just like the most of you probably. It didn't bother me too much, as I didn't have a lot of issues because of it.
Lately I did start to encounter problems with it, because I started to use my tablet for streaming video. The result is that I can watch about 30 seconds of video, have to wait 30 seconds while the device is buffering, can watch another 30 seconds of video, wait for buffering again, and so on.... It seems the device is not capable to buffer while playing video. Well, you can imagine I don't have the patience nor the wish to watch any video till the end under these circumstances.
As I see and know that the network connection is just fine for streaming video capabilities (it works fine on my laptop and phone for instance), I am pretty sure the problems I have on the tf300 are due to the I/O-issues.
Now my specific question is: is there any solution or workaround to avoid lagging video streams because of these I/O speed issues?
And on a wider spectrum: Is there any way to improve overall I/O-speed performance on the tf300?
Any help is much appreciated.
FYI: My tf300 is rooted, but not unlocked. I prefer to keep it this way, unless there is no option at all to get around these issues without an unlocked device.
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So, the I/O-speed often is the bottleneck for the tf300. I knew this already, just like the most of you probably. It didn't bother me too much, as I didn't have a lot of issues because of it.
Lately I did start to encounter problems with it, because I started to use my tablet for streaming video. The result is that I can watch about 30 seconds of video, have to wait 30 seconds while the device is buffering, can watch another 30 seconds of video, wait for buffering again, and so on....
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i/o can be a problem but this is a bit extreme even for a tf300, what kind of bitrate has that video? raw 4k?
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i/o can be a problem but this is a bit extreme even for a tf300, what kind of bitrate has that video? raw 4k?
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:laugh: No, it is not raw 4k.
The video-stream has a bitrate varying from 0,8 to 1,5 Mbit/s.
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:laugh: No, it is not raw 4k.
The video-stream has a bitrate varying from 0,8 to 1,5 Mbit/s.
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I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.
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I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.
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Me too. never had streaming issues on my tab
rickykemp said:
I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.
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Those youtube videos don't play well on my tf300 either, I always have to 'untick' the HD or HQ button in the videos to play them smoothly.
Do you run stock Android with latest OTA updates on your tf300?
I do run stock indeed. Only rooted.
Well, I'll give it a try by completely factory-resetting my tf300. I doubt it will make a difference, but without trying I'll never know.
Resurrecting I see this thread was never resolved, and if the streaming was addressed elswhere I couldn't find it.
Picked up this tablet recently, 4.2.1 rooted stock. Youtube streaming is unwatchable in HD - not enough buffer, but handles HQ or lower fine. Can stream 1080P fine on my desktop, and HD fine on my Razr I and Arc S. Which makes me question, why the inability to cache enough of the video on the TF300T?
Learn from linux
Hmm I stumbled across a few articles, how to improve linux for netbooks. Some involved lowering the writeback to get better I/O-speeds while batterylife gets improved. Maybe one could figure out how much of this applys with Android and the eMMC drive in our tablet and tweak it accordingly.
Best regards.
Kalle.
I had no issues with surdu_petru's overclocked kernels, got around 10000 i.o (sio scheduler) in quadrant, in saying that that kernel got me a score of 7100 on quadrant overall which must be close to the best for tegra 3s?
I just wanted to find out everyone experience with this game in terms of performance. I have a Snapdragon S8+ and notice that the game can stutter very noticeable at times even though most of the time it runs at 60 fps. My understanding is that it dynamically loads/streams content in which could explain the temporary dips in fps. I played the game when I originally got the S8+ and I don't recall having any stutter at that time. However, I went back to it recently and have noticed it now. I just wanted to confirm that this is a common issue with this game or if it's something specific to my device.
I'm having the exact same problems, certain parts are unplayable (where you rescue the girl and wander through the frozen palace).
Did you install via Play or from elsewhere? I picked it up as part of a humble bundle so I'm curious to see if the latest play store version is the same.
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I'm having the exact same problems, certain parts are unplayable (where you rescue the girl and wander through the frozen palace).
Did you install via Play or from elsewhere? I picked it up as part of a humble bundle so I'm curious to see if the latest play store version is the same.
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I purchased and installed it from the play store. Its version is 1.0.0 and no updates since May 05, 2016.
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I purchased and installed it from the play store. Its version is 1.0.0 and no updates since May 05, 2016.
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The same version as mine then.
It's a really good game, just virtually unplayable in parts. How far did you get?
El Presidente81 said:
The same version as mine then.
It's a really good game, just virtually unplayable in parts. How far did you get?
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I didn't get too far into from the first time I played it (I was still in Chapter 1). When I went back to it recently it was lagging with almost every step I took.
After playing around with a few things on my device yesterday I mentioned in order to get rid of the stutter I was seeing. I downloaded a software update HQH1 which appears to contains only the August 1st security update. I also uninstalled a few apps since I was running low on internal space. I also uninstalled Samsung Game Live since I kept getting a memory low warning message that was related to it and I wasn't using it in any event. After doing that and starting a new game, the stutter went away! I will play through the game and see how it goes but there was definitely something that appeared to be causing an issue. My suspicion is that the Samsung Game Live may have been causing an issue even though I wasn't actively using it.
Played this game on steam before. Sad ending
I was able to narrow down the issue with the constant stutter I am getting in the game. If I'm connected to a Bluetooth audio device such as my wireless headphones the stutter disappears right away. However, if the audio is playing through the S8+ speaker or even if connected to my headphones using the audio jack, the stutter returns which in turn makes the game virtually unplayable. At least now I have a work around to the issue. This reminds me another game, Badland, that has a really bad audio reverberation when connected to Bluetooth but the audio plays normally otherwise. I recall the developer for that game acknowledged that it was a bug in the audio driver they were using that it appears to have never been addressed.