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Best video app?

Whats the best app for video? This is my first android so i don't know what is "best." i need it to play MKV, Mp4, AVI, etc.... all @ HD.

MX Video Player

Thanks i will try it.

MX works very good on Fire.
Just watched Modern Family mkv in HD (720p), hardware accelerated, without lags and nothing.
PS. The only problem was the audio channel that didn't work in HW mode. Just changed that to SW decoding and everything was fine.

Rockplayer
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manifest3r said:
MX Video Player
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Yep, MX Video Player is the best video player for the Kindle Fire.
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It's working on my mkv files very well. I also had to switch audio to software decode.
//Tapatalk.KindleFire//

what about vplayer?

I have always trusted in VLC Player, however, technically its still in closed beta for Android, and not available for direct download via the Market.
With the OP being new to Android, I guess I might be expecting a little too much to say, Google for it (VLC-neon.apk), and sideload it?! But I'm putting it out there anyway!

manifest3r said:
MX Video Player
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How do you get it to work where you the gray pullup bar on the bottom doesn't interfere with the onscreen controls? Also, do you know if it can stream from Dropbox/Sugarsync? I haved some vids on SS that I stream on Moboplayer, but can't get them to stream on MX.

HD Videos

How do I get a real HD Video on my note - first which PC software will convert it and 2 nd which app is the best for an HD video

peter7 said:
How do I get a real HD Video on my note - first which PC software will convert it and 2 nd which app is the best for an HD video
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try this
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_downloader/
Its free and it coverts best ... n use h.264 mpeg profile at 1280*720 or 1920*1080

Most of the video codecs are already supported by note or third party applications should be able to play almost all formats..if you are having issues transferring huge files enable usb debugging in the setting(for files below 4Gb). If you are looking for a good converter try handbrake its very good and free but if you are not familiar with encoding it may be slightly intemedating, look for tutorials online.
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Convert? "Convert"? Man, if you have to convert anything to play on the Note, you're doing it wrongz.

Install the app MX Video Player, it play most formats I throw at it.

eksasol said:
Install the app MX Video Player, it play most formats I throw at it.
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buddy go to application in setting's and click development mode and it normally transfer files ....
then download from market mx video player (the best) and it will play almost everything.

Dice player and RockPlayer are the best

this is the Samsung Galaxy Note - the stock player will play anything you throw at it. why encode in mpeg-4 when you can play .mkv? I don't see a point to downloading an external video player, period.

i have a lot of them and if you ned i can assist you with them.

Marchintosh said:
Dice player and RockPlayer are the best
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No way, MX video player is the best IMO.
The Gnote can play many HD content, but when it comes to lets say a 1080p profile [email protected] with 16 reframes, it can't handle it, but MX video player is the one that gives me the most acceptable frame rate play under such a heavy HD video.

[Q] SGR 1080P video playback

Hey guys I am having problem in playing a 1080p videos in my sg-r
since it's a dual core phone it should be able to play 1080p videos
can anybody tell me how to play ?

Download mxviedo player from market
Via galaxy s2 lite ......

try dice player or bs player ....
dont forgot to install arm7 plugin...
they r the best option as they are hardware accelerated....
njoy

I have tried these options but plyback is sluggish or laggy
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NEO-xx said:
I have tried these options but plyback is sluggish or laggy
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From what I have tried dice player runs 1080p .mp4 files pretty fine.
But it seems you are trying to play very high bit rate 1080p .mkv/.mp4 files which I guess gets a bit too much for R / most other smart phones to play.
If the above is true then you'll have to convert those videos to a lower bit rate format.
Hope it helps.

But those videos were running on my friends sgs2 properly without Any third party apps
And I have read that sgr supports
Full he playback and now the native player is not able to do so.
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NEO-xx said:
But those videos were running on my friends sgs2 properly without Any third party apps
And I have read that sgr supports
Full he playback and now the native player is not able to do so.
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becoz our tegra supports 1080 p video playing capabilities.... (as we can play in optimus 2x but only 24 fps)
butt somehow samsung has blocked some of the capabilities of sgr

1080p playback?
So in short we can't play 1080p videos on our SG-R?

hansg01 said:
So in short we can't play 1080p videos on our SG-R?
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We can play them buddy . . . !
I have played some good quality 1080p MP4 videos on my device. Its just that it shouldn't be a very high bitrate. I have yet to try any mkv files though, will try & update here.
Tegra 2 naively supports recording of 1080p videos which had been disabled by Samsung due to some reasons currently not clear.
But they can't block a device which naively supports recording 1080p videos from playing Full HD videos as it depends on which video player you use.
The generic Samsung player doesn't play 1080p videos but Dice player does and its currently free.
Hope this helped.

hansg01 said:
So in short we can't play 1080p videos on our SG-R?
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yup....we cant (only low birate videoz can be playble)...
until some dev here do some thing about it....

HD 720p Video

Somebody suggest me to good video player for hd 720p video...
i am trying very player like mx player, mobo player, hd video player.
some player play video but audio and video not match.

dhaval_power123 said:
Somebody suggest me to good video player for hd 720p video...
i am trying very player like mx player, mobo player, hd video player.
some player play video but audio and video not match.
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U can try mx player but some videos will play with lag.... The best option is to try vlc beta with diffrent settings or u can convert the video
Why So Serious?!

thecoreguy said:
U can try mx player but some videos will play with lag.... The best option is to try vlc beta with diffrent settings or u can convert the video
Why So Serious?!
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yes you are right, mx player play video but with lag...
and vlc cant play video i think
if any setting is there so please share...
and i am serious because of i have two phone one is grand and other is core.
sometime share video one to another it work in grand smoothly but core cant play video.
any way thank you.

Core play avi 720p Video Smoothly with mx player
dhaval_power123 said:
yes you are right, mx player play video but with lag...
and vlc cant play video i think
if any setting is there so please share...
and i am serious because of i have two phone one is grand and other is core.
sometime share video one to another it work in grand smoothly but core cant play video.
any way thank you.
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AVI 720p Video Play smoothly on our galaxy core in mx player and for hd video playback please disabled the powersaving mode in your galaxy core.If you eanabled this option than Your hd video play with some lag.....And Some mp4 hd video also supported by mx player. And mx player is the best player for any android mobile. :good::laugh::laugh:

dhaval_power123 said:
yes you are right, mx player play video but with lag...
and vlc cant play video i think
if any setting is there so please share...
and i am serious because of i have two phone one is grand and other is core.
sometime share video one to another it work in grand smoothly but core cant play video.
any way thank you.
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Dude vlc can play videos..... its just that its in beta version
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Yes I am try this...Power saving mode off.
Its help me but not exactly work.
Some different between audio and video match.
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dhaval_power123 said:
Yes I am try this...Power saving mode off.
Its help me but not exactly work.
Some different between audio and video match.
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tilkesh nagda said:
AVI 720p Video Play smoothly on our galaxy core in mx player and for hd video playback please disabled the powersaving mode in your galaxy core.If you eanabled this option than Your hd video play with some lag.....And Some mp4 hd video also supported by mx player. And mx player is the best player for any android mobile. :good::laugh::laugh:
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Yes I am try this...Power saving mode off.
Its help me but not exactly work.
And what type of mx player decoder setting and codec like neon etc. you use.?
And I am not using avi file its mp4 720p.
Audio and video not synchronize properly. But playing the video is good.
Thanks ...

If mx or vlx can't play then it's better to convert

nikufellow said:
If mx or vlx can't play then it's better to convert
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Detail of Video:
Video
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Codec: H.264 /AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 Part10
Frame Rate:23.97602
Bit Rate:2.8 Mbits/sec
Audio
Codec:AAC
Sample Rate:44100 HZ
Bit Rate:192.0 kbits/sec

Also a reminder the s4 play series aka cortex a5 soc's are not renowned for their high res video playback capabilities

4K Video Playback with HEVC - 10bit

Hello everyone,
I have a few questions regarding 4K videos. I tried playing a 4K H265 10bit video on the phone using the native Sony Video app and, although it did play, it was slow as heck. Does the phone support such videos natively (i.e. Hardware Accelarated playback)? Is it an issue of the app itself? Since almost all 4k content, with or with HDR/10bit, is in H265 are we limited to Youtube and Amazon for 4K playback? Do I have to transcode all my 4K Blu-Ray movies to H264 in order to play them? Are there any third party players (e.g. bsplayer) that can play 4k videos (and utilize the phone's 4k resolution, not just play them in 1080p). Thank you all for your time.

I downloaded a 4k test sample encoded in x265 and played it with MX player app with hardware acceleration.
Worked perfectly. Smooth as butter.

fartyparty said:
i downloaded a 4k test sample encoded in x265 and played it with mx player app with hardware acceleration.
Worked perfectly. Smooth as butter.
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use mx player

Thanks a lot for your time. It seems that mx player does not use the phone's native 4K resolution though and displays a 1920x1080 image so there is no point in using it. My question is whether a video player app exists, besides Sony's native one, that is able to use the phone's 4K resolution, not just play 4K videos.

Liltman said:
Thanks a lot for your time. It seems that mx player does not use the phone's native 4K resolution though and displays a 1920x1080 image so there is no point in using it. My question is whether a video player app exists, besides Sony's native one, that is able to use the phone's 4K resolution, not just play 4K videos.
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I think you can change the phones overall resolution to 4K for that purpose: https://forum.xda-developers.com/xz-premium/themes/mod-change-default-resolution-to-4k-root-t3618843
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Liltman said:
Thanks a lot for your time. It seems that mx player does not use the phone's native 4K resolution though and displays a 1920x1080 image so there is no point in using it. My question is whether a video player app exists, besides Sony's native one, that is able to use the phone's 4K resolution, not just play 4K videos.
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Tried with Sony Xperia Video app and the 4K sample I downloaded runs the same as it runs in MX Player.

kot5nik said:
I think you can change the phones overall resolution to 4K for that purpose: https://forum.xda-developers.com/xz-premium/themes/mod-change-default-resolution-to-4k-root-t3618843
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Kot5nik, in my opinion, changing the resolution that android runs is not the proper way to go. Since XZ Premium is a device that supports 4k/HDR i shouldn't have to resort to "adb" to watch a 4k video in another app. Plus, by doing that, battery drain increases a bit, phone dialer app does not work, app switching does not show thumbnails etc.
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Tried with Sony Xperia Video app and the 4K sample I downloaded runs the same as it runs in MX Player.
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FartyParty, I stand corrected. You are absolutely right. I took screenshots of both MX and Sony apps and the look identical. Only one difference though. It seems that MX Player doest not utilize HDR. There is a noticeable difference in contrast. You can see the attachments if you want to.

Liltman said:
Hello everyone,
I have a few questions regarding 4K videos. I tried playing a 4K H265 10bit video on the phone using the native Sony Video app and, although it did play, it was slow as heck. Does the phone support such videos natively (i.e. Hardware Accelarated playback)? Is it an issue of the app itself? Since almost all 4k content, with or with HDR/10bit, is in H265 are we limited to Youtube and Amazon for 4K playback? Do I have to transcode all my 4K Blu-Ray movies to H264 in order to play them? Are there any third party players (e.g. bsplayer) that can play 4k videos (and utilize the phone's 4k resolution, not just play them in 1080p). Thank you all for your time.
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Here is what i found from testing the device for 4K HDR videos
the device can and will play 4K H265 10bit and even HDR videos but there are things that need to be done to play perfectly
first you need to check for the containers to be mkv or mp4
second using sony app will not allow to play surround sound file like dts, ac3, AAC 5.1 or AAC 7.1
third which i think is very odd and stupid from sony is that how such a powerful device can't play mkv with AAC sound track no matter what stereo or surround.
The trick for this to use software where they can switch container without the need for converting the whole file from mkv to mp4.

Hi everyone,
I have to also agree with @Liltman and say that the MX Player does play video content in 4k however there is a very noticeable difference between the stock Sony album player and the MX player.
Sadly the Sony video player doesn't support truehd aac files so the video will play flawlessly without the sound :crying:
The MX Player on the other hand WILL play the sound but the quality of the video seems to take a small hit as it's not as vibrant as the Sony album player. This is because MX Player supports 4k but not HDR
I hope that Sony added codecs to make TrueHD sound files compatible with the Sony gallery player on Oreo but I am not very confident about that.
I would appreciate it if someone can find a way around this annoying issue. What software is @HYPER-RX referring to?
Thanks!

Try VLC guys. When I played an HDR video in VLC it tried to force my brightness to max like YouTube does. However, it had to ask for som system write permission to do it and it didnt work completely. See if VLC does a better job though I found it to be pretty good.

MX Player definitely does support HDR. You can tell because in HDR videos, if you try taking a screenshot, the screenshot will simply come out as black, whereas in SDR videos, you'll get a normal screenshot.

RJASSI21 said:
Try VLC guys. When I played an HDR video in VLC it tried to force my brightness to max like YouTube does. However, it had to ask for som system write permission to do it and it didnt work completely. See if VLC does a better job though I found it to be pretty good.
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Hi I just tried VLC and you was spot on. I can see that it actually does support HDR however I'm still having audio issues with the sound. Especially the HEVC Atmos 7.1. Do I need to download a codec pack or something?
It's a shame because the video quality is incredible!

Working perfectly
I tried to play 4k hdr 60fps video using the sony video app. I had no issues with playing it. It was smooth no lags at all.
codec was hevc and bitrate was 75Mbps and audio was AAC.

nirai06 said:
I tried to play 4k hdr 60fps video using the sony video app. I had no issues with playing it. It was smooth no lags at all.
codec was hevc and bitrate was 75Mbps and audio was AAC.
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Thanks was this on Oreo? And the sound file was it 5.1 or 7.1?