I went into the VLC settings and enabled background playing, but every time I turn off the screen it still shuts off. I also disabled battery optimization.
Any solution?
With VLC after you select the appropriate setting, which you said you have, you have to minimize VLC first and then turn the screen off. That will work. I just tested.
Or just use MX Player. Go to settings, turn on the appropriate setting and you can turn the screen off and still listen to the sound of the video.
Just tested both right now, and both worked as discribed.
Is there way to do this with Picture In Picture mode as default? Is this a problem with VLC or with Android?
I can't get it to work with screen off if I chose PIP on VLC settings, but it works like I said in my previous post if you chose run in the background.
I'm note sure if the terms I'm using are correct. My VLC is not in English, so I'm translating.
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Hey guys!
I'm quite new to the android world. I'm very happy with my One S, but I haven't found a way, to stream videos from my NAS with the screen off.
(In order to improve my language skills I listen to english tv-series before sleeping. Before I got my new phone, I used my Ipod Touch with the "Video Lock" app from Cydia)
The only way i have found to do it is to use diceplayer. In the settings of diceplayer you can select Background Playback. That allows you to power off the screen and continue video playback.
My setup I have found works best. I use ES File Explorer to navigate to my NAS. When I select a video file, it asks what player to use. I select diceplayer and once the video starts, I turn off the screen.
I have found that sometimes my wifi will go into low power mode with the screen off and playback audio gets choppy, so I have to use a widget called WIFI High Performance Widget.
thx, it works. I was using mediahouse+mxplayer, mediahouse+diceplayer works for me now!
Hi,
In the Player Settings, I have Background Play enabled. I watch a video in portrait orientation and turn the screen off, so I can continue listening to the audio. When I turn it back on, the video aspect ratio is set to Stretch (filling the whole screen), making the image very distorted. I have to tap the lower right button until the video is set to Fit To Screen again. Given that I do this routine several times a day, it make it very annoying.
I have a Galaxy S2 with Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
Model number: GT-I9100M
In the Decoder section I have:
Use H/W+ decoded: unchecked
H/W+ decoder (local): is grayed out, but checked
Correct Aspect Ratio: checked
H/W audio track selectable: unchecked
Is this a know issue, and if so, is there plans to correct it? Please let me know if you need any additional info.
Best regards,
vincentroy22 said:
Hi,
In the Player Settings, I have Background Play enabled. I watch a video in portrait orientation and turn the screen off, so I can continue listening to the audio. When I turn it back on, the video aspect ratio is set to Stretch (filling the whole screen), making the image very distorted. I have to tap the lower right button until the video is set to Fit To Screen again. Given that I do this routine several times a day, it make it very annoying.
I have a Galaxy S2 with Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
Model number: GT-I9100M
In the Decoder section I have:
Use H/W+ decoded: unchecked
H/W+ decoder (local): is grayed out, but checked
Correct Aspect Ratio: checked
H/W audio track selectable: unchecked
Is this a know issue, and if so, is there plans to correct it? Please let me know if you need any additional info.
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@bleu8888
Can you look at the problem?
I can reproduce the problem.
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Actually I encountered same issue years ago with my first Android device - Galaxy S.
I tried many ways to fix it up but unfortunately cannot.
It looks like issue of early Galaxy devices.
I encountered this issue too with my andriod TV and even worse. MX can not play vedio without Background Play enabled in my andriod TV.So I must enable this option to play video. But the video aspect ratio is Stretched.
I press the right buttom corner button but no one brings proper ratio. When chose Fit To Screen the video play as 4:3 with letterbox surrounded.
Does OnePlus 6 also support HDR? I know it's not officially stated but YouTube supports HDR on OnePlus 6. I downloaded a few of the demos and tried playing them in VLC. Upon opening, VLC directed me to "allow modifying system settings" to change screen brightness, I'm assuming it was trying to set it to Max. I enabled it and the video is now playing at full brightness in VLC. I was using DCI-P3 color profile. However, after trying to play the video again the brightness is not set to Max. I tried reinstalling VLC and playing the video again, this time I didn't get the prompt to enable system modifications as it was off by default for new apps. So now the video on playing in VLC doesn't set the brightness to Max. Tried giving permission to modify system settings, still not setting brightness to max. I'm assuming upon brightness going all the way, HDR is triggered, as I don't have any other visual indicator in VLC to see if HDR is truly ON.
YouTube HDR works great everytime, high contrast and brightness set to Max automatically.
I don't know if the display of OnePlus 6 is 10bit but that's highly unlikely.
Tried restarting, reinstalling VLC and changing color profiles to DCI-P3. Auto brightness is off, some users reported on other devices it affected HDR auto brightness so I kept it off. Nothing puts brightness to Max upon opening videos in VLC.
I'm on latest OOS 9.0 Stable OTA. I am using 4k HDR demos from 4kmedia.org and I have 4k HDR movie on my device.
Does anyone have working HDR videos on VLC? How did you get it to work and how do you know that it truly is displaying in HDR?
I don't know if any other video player which can display HDR videos as intended on Android. If you know any other video player which works for OnePlus 6 to display HDR then please let me know (and drop a link of possible).
Since I did get the prompt for the first time upon opening HDR video on VLC to allow VLC to set max brightness, I believe that the device just might do it but I'm held back by some software bug.
Sorry for the long post! Just wanted to make sure I covered everything.
I really like PIP mode for multi-tasking, I also like being able to lock my phone and listen to a video's audio (i.e. Background Playback). What I don't understand is why I can't have both.
When I have PIP mode turned on in the settings of both MX Player and VLC both will pause playback when I lock my phone. Is this a technical issue and if so does anyone have a solution or alternative?
YouTube does not seem to have this issue, as they can seamlessly transfer between foreground, PIP and background playback.
I've searched the internet but no one seems to mention this (either that or I'm awful at searching).
Armand Bernard said:
I really like PIP mode for multi-tasking, I also like being able to lock my phone and listen to a video's audio (i.e. Background Playback). What I don't understand is why I can't have both.
When I have PIP mode turned on in the settings of both MX Player and VLC both will pause playback when I lock my phone. Is this a technical issue and if so does anyone have a solution or alternative?
YouTube does not seem to have this issue, as they can seamlessly transfer between foreground, PIP and background playback.
I've searched the internet but no one seems to mention this (either that or I'm awful at searching).
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Unfortunately, it's not directly possible at the moment. However, you can achieve something similar by combining the existing settings.
Set PIP/Background Play mode to Background Play
Play any video file
Enter into PIP mode by using the onscreen button
Hope this helps.
MXPlayer said:
Unfortunately, it's not directly possible at the moment. However, you can achieve something similar by combining the existing settings.
Set PIP/Background Play mode to Background Play
Play any video file
Enter into PIP mode by using the onscreen button
Hope this helps.
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Oh. That's a shame, but I didn't know about the button. I'll use that from now on. Thank you for the advice!
Hi
When watching a movie, the subs does not show up. If I bring the UI up, subs show but as soon as the controls disappear, subs does the same. I've played with every setting in both the TiVo and mx player, and the only way I can manage the subs to stay on, is going into custom zoom, and set it at 99%. Problem is that it seems there's no way to keep the zoom set at 99%. I need to adjust it manually for every movie. Any advice? Thanks in advance.
Heres a small video (not mine) showing the problem. Maybe this can help
https://imgur.com/a/q5krhJD
I have found a soiution for my problem. I ditched this piece of gartbage and switched to VLC player.
Thanks for nothing. Too bad i´ve paid for this.