Hello, since the last update the background play option dont work.
I play a video from web (stream) and turn off my phones display, after 4-5 minutes the player close itself.
MX Player Free
1.9.3 ARM V7NEON
Xperia X F5121
Android 7.1.2
The previous version works fine on the same phone and settings.
steve233 said:
Hello, since the last update the background play option dont work.
I play a video from web (stream) and turn off my phones display, after 4-5 minutes the player close itself.
MX Player Free
1.9.3 ARM V7NEON
Xperia X F5121
Android 7.1.2
The previous version works fine on the same phone and settings.
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kindly collect a bug report immediately after the issue & share here.
without it, it will be very difficult to understand the root cause of the issue.
where i have to send it?
Fixing MX player background play issue in Oreo
With the Oreo update every app now has Individual power saving settings. So if an App is using intelligent power saving Android will aitomatically shut down back ground running after a certain period of time or if multiple apps start running at the same time. So if you play Youtube while running MX player, Android power management can shut it down.
To fix the background play issue I tried the following
1. Open settings
2. Go to App Management
3. Find and open Mx player
4. Tap on power saving
5. Change from Intelligent control to Allow running in background
This worked for me.
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Each time I power my Android TV stick (Jelly Bean) on, having set MX Player to be the default player, I am asked by every app to select a player as default, it will then remember my choice, until I turn the Android off, them when I turn it on, the default setting is not remembered and I have to set it again. This happens only with MX Player.
I have tried clearing defaults, clearing data and uninstalling and re-installing.
It started after either of the last two updates.
Can you help?
Many thanks,
Sylar
sylar66 said:
Each time I power my Android TV stick (Jelly Bean) on, having set MX Player to be the default player, I am asked by every app to select a player as default, it will then remember my choice, until I turn the Android off, them when I turn it on, the default setting is not remembered and I have to set it again. This happens only with MX Player.
I have tried clearing defaults, clearing data and uninstalling and re-installing.
It started after either of the last two updates.
Can you help?
Many thanks,
Sylar
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If I am not wrong, MX player is nothing to do with default app selection.
Android controls the default app to be used. If you select always when the app list appears it will be remembered till you manually clear the default or till a new application istalled which can be associated with the same extension.
If it's not remembered even after selecting always, or being reset after restart then there may be chances of bugs in your android rom.
MX Player default app selection
ktsamy said:
If I am not wrong, MX player is nothing to do with default app selection.
Android controls the default app to be used. If you select always when the app list appears it will be remembered till you manually clear the default or till a new application istalled which can be associated with the same extension.
If it's not remembered even after selecting always, or being reset after restart then there may be chances of bugs in your android rom.
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That's the problem, it doesn't remember, and it only happens with M Player, and since the most recent updates, the android has never had a problem until then, nor has it with any other app, the button to clear the defaults listed under the MX Player is apps will be active once the 'select always' has been chosen, once it is switched back on it will not remember. Again i saw this is only with MX Player, not the android software, as it does NOT happen with any other, so its unlikely to be the ROM.
Can you advise any steps that may fix this problem?
Will resetting the Android do it?
Will a re-install fix?
Thanks,
Sylar
sylar66 said:
That's the problem, it doesn't remember, and it only happens with M Player, and since the most recent updates, the android has never had a problem until then, nor has it with any other app, the button to clear the defaults listed under the MX Player is apps will be active once the 'select always' has been chosen, once it is switched back on it will not remember. Again i saw this is only with MX Player, not the android software, as it does NOT happen with any other, so its unlikely to be the ROM.
Can you advise any steps that may fix this problem?
Will resetting the Android do it?
Will a re-install fix?
Thanks,
Sylar
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Clear data & uninstall
Reinstall from play store.
If you still encounter the problem,
Try to download the old version which is worked well earlier and check whether it's working currently or not?
If the old version is still working then report here with the working version number. It will be helpful to identify the problem.
Just to add my experience here:
My Android 4.2.1 has been doing this also - and only since I updated to the Pro version from 1.7.35 release.
I've been trying to track down the reason - and recently read that the Pro release can have an issue where ALL settings are lost due to a flaw in Android
but in my case all other settings are remembered.
I reinstalled, I reset my Android TV, I only loaded two apps - MS Player and ES file explorer - I reset it again and formatted the SD memory card,
but it is still happening.
I select the default player for all the filetypes to be MX Player and it remembers it - but at some stage it will ask to select the media player app again
and my TV only has the web browser and MX Player shown - as I select the media from a HTTP server on my local machine.
The free ad-supported version didn't show this problem.
I'm just adding this in case someone recognises the symptom - and my Android system is terribly locked down Kogan 47" Agora Smart TV - in Australia.
I will roll back to the ad-supported version and report back in a few weeks (If I forget and someone is interested then please reply to remind me)
foxidriver said:
I will roll back to the ad-supported version and report back in a few weeks
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Just updating the thread: It's a week later and the issue hasn't re-occurred with the ad-supported version of MX Player V1.7.37
If others can report their Android version then it may show if it is a flaw in specific versions.
foxidriver said:
Just updating the thread: It's a week later and the issue hasn't re-occurred with the ad-supported version of MX Player V1.7.37
If others can report their Android version then it may show if it is a flaw in specific versions.
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If anyone is still reading this thread, a workaround to this very annoying problem, is with root, freeze all other video players, then Android has no choice but to use the one you left unfrozen, as the default, without asking
Thanks for your reply, Detection. It may help others,
I will add here that my Android machine is locked down and doesn't give Root permissions, but I also want to say
that my TV has problems with every other paid app I have tried (random rebooting, slow, flaky).
I have reformatted and tested a number of times, and loading a paid app causes it to do these things. My Android version is speshul.
Free ad-supported apps work quite well - something to do with authentication is borked.
Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
Issei Aono 17 said:
Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
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Or you can just use an app called NewPipe
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yamato047 said:
Or you can just use an app called NewPipe
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Yes (⌒‿⌒), but it is more comfortable, do it this way, than downloading another app .
Issei Aono 17 said:
Yes (⌒‿⌒), but it is more comfortable, do it this way, than downloading another app .
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Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
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Issei Aono 17 said:
Hello ,The trick works on the galaxy s8 and s8 +, with any official youtube version.
To be able to do the youtube trick in the background without root, do the following:
● Open the application in the normal way.
● Select the video of your choice.
● leave the video playback.
● Go to the beginning, without closing the multitasking.
□ Here are two options to activate youtube in the background:
1-Through the play button of the headphones that we have connected to the phone.
● Close the default music player on your phone, since it is activated; When you press the play button on the headphones, the music player will be activated and youtube will not be activated.
2-Lock the screen and move the clock widget to the left, the youtube widget appears on the play button and ready; This option works without headphones or headphones.
◇Important never close youtube in multitasking.
□Luck ^-^.
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Thanks that was useful
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yamato047 said:
Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
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I will try the application thanks .
yamato047 said:
Not really, app is very lightweight and is way mkre convenient to use without relying on any bugs in the system. It also lets you download the videos in multiple qualities.
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This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
tuk1maar said:
This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
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Never used this on my s6
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tuk1maar said:
This is not a bug. It has been there ever since the Galaxy S6 It's also there on Windows Phone and on the latest iOS ^^ It's a basic feature that is enabled in the exact way on all major smartphone OS'
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If it wasn't a bug, why would Google make it a paid option included in youtube red subscription? Windows phone doesnt even have an official app for youtube so developers have implented it into their apps long before it was a thing on Android. I havent had an iOS device but a friend of mine confirms that the official youtube app doesnt support background play either so he has to use either Safari or some third party app.
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why not youtube red. i havent paid for youtube red since it started. they always offer 4 month of googlemusic which include youtube red. just switch to different email. i have 3 gmail and i have been rotating everytime one expires. it says is for new user but if uhavent use the same email for over 6 month it will let u reuse it
YouTube red is not available in most countries.
It doesn't work on latest update S8 stock ROM...EU
Hello, I have a problem: I have a huawei phone with android version 4.1.2 (there is no custom rom to upgrade it) and when I play some video with vlc 2.0.6 (shown as "dark widget" in task manager), the phone becomes slower even once the video is closed, which makes even the browser annoying to use. It is very likely caused by vlc that is still opened and using 59.8% of the cpu and no task managers are able to kill it so I'm forced to reboot the phone every time and actually if I don't the phone itself will instantly reboot after a few minutes.
So I'm open to any way to solve this, an actual way to kill it, another player that wouldn't have this issue or an updated version of vlc that doesn't have this issue but still works on android 4.1.2. If I need to download something, please give me a link to the apk directly, as I also have the issue with google play that shows "your device is not compatible with this item" for whatever app I try to download, which I don't mind since I very rarely download any new app and it seems to be hard to solve this.
I think you should try installing *mx video player* instead of vlc.
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Thank you, it takes a bit longer to open but it doesn't have the problem which also caused the phone to heat a lot, using battery and phone for nothing.
I use the next and back buttons on my Bluetooth headset to act as fast forward and rewind.
For this purpose, I have enabled 'Media buttons' and 'Next/Prev → FF/Rew' in the settings,
but when the app is running in the background, 'Next/Prev → FF/Rew' does not work.
When it is in the background, it is not converted and simply works as 'Next/Prev'.
Also, when the app is in the foreground, it will work as 'FF/Rew' as expected.
Note that the 'Double/Triple Press → Next/Prev' option has nothing to do with this behavior,
and will behave as described above whether it is on or off.
Additionally, the above is how it works in the conventional video player. If you open an audio file in the 'NEW PLAYER', it will behave like "Next/Prev" regardless of the app status.
Huawei Mate 10 Pro BLA-L29 EMUI 10.0.0.180
MX Player Pro 1.35.8
SONY MDR-AS600BT
HI @panam510 ,
Please try this build and report back if this fixes your problems.
https://mxplayer.s3.amazonaws.com/test/pro/Player_pro-neon_direct_v8-release-36ef9331ea.apk
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HI @panam510 ,
Please try this build and report back if this fixes your problems.
https://mxplayer.s3.amazonaws.com/test/pro/Player_pro-neon_direct_v8-release-36ef9331ea.apk
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Thanks for the fix!
That build worked fine as 'FF/Rew' both in the foreground and in the background (in Conventional Video Player).
Hi, i had the same problem and this apk fixed it, many thanks!
I noticed that now a few official updates have been launched on GPlay - but this bug is still present in the newest version, therefore i still have to use this slightly outdated APK. Is it going to be fixed on official installation in Google Play?
Hello,
I've been using MX Player Pro for years and often listen to videos with my phone's screen off using the background play functionality. In the most recent update (MX Player Pro 1.46.10) the background play options in the settings were changed to either background play or picture in picture. Once I figured this out and selected background play I was able to listen to videos with the screen off again, however the Picture-in-Picture button no longer works while playing a video. In previous versions when I had background play configured, the PiP button in the on-screen controls during playback still allowed me to use the PiP functionality on the fly.
Can you please fix the PiP button so that it still works even if I have background play configured as the default in the local player settings? Otherwise it seems like the only option is to revert to 1.42.13 and never update the app again.
Thanks!
having the same issue, this on top that since like a year ago, the headset Bluetooth buttons don't work for forwarding or rewinding 5 seconds as it used to (it works only when video is playing in background or PiP) this is extremely frustrating
newest version got it solved.
ComunixtaAteuzinho said:
newest version got it solved.
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I'm still only seeing 1.46.10 on Google Play. There is no newer version available for me.
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
dhruvdave said:
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
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Gotcha. Sorry, I wasn't aware of the beta program. I'll look forward to its forthcoming release on the Play store.