In particular MKV files.
I have noted that if I playback an 720p MKV with AC3/DTS sound the video plays perfectly fluid. No microjudder or frame drops AFAIK. But there is no sound of course because the inbuilt player does not support AC3/DTS natively.
However add AAC 2.0 audio into the file (MKV or MP4 container it matters not) I see judder. Kinda like when you have 23.976FPS playing on a 50Hz PAL CRT.
I have tried muxing at various framerates and interestingly the judder gets faster the higher the FPS. Very odd.
I'm used to dealing with AV stuff as I use MPC-HC/ReClock/MadVR etc to my HDTV over HDMI (BTW my Panasonic G20 Plasma does not recognise the TF HDMI output. My PC monittor does however so the TF is outputting in an unsupported res/Hz for my HDTV obviously).
It's puzzling me how when the TF does not have to playback audio the video is perfect but as soon as it has to decode audio it throws a wobbly.
The other interesting thing of note is that Youtube vids at 720p and even 1080p (Big Buck Bunny for instance) play just fine. Methinks that Flash is optimized to the Tegra 2 chip whilst the inbuilt TF player (and all the other players) are not. Moboplayer, Vplayer etc are all a bit crap at it. There is one player called LittlePlayer which gives the option of hardware playback but it is no better than the inbuilt player as it does not decode AC3/DTS and it too judders when AAC audio is played.
Anyone got a clue why this is the case? I was wondering if it was a UK specific issue (would not put it past Asus to make it PAL centric) but then why would it play a 23.976FPS 720p x264 in MKV perfectly (sans audio obviously)?
Yeah I have a 720p mkv and it plays a little off with the sound but I play a higher quality move still at 720p and the sound is like a second off. And the 1080p vids I have don't play at all. What app do you use to play your videos?
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you must be doing something wrong with the muxing or the avc stream you ended up with is not extracted properly.
I encode movies with x264 (commandline), encode the audio with neroaacen(lc, cbr, 128kbit) and mux them with mp4box. The file plays perfectly with the built-in player, meridian or rockplayer in hardware decoding mode.
Most mkv TV series I can extract th evideo stream from and use it, but not all. Some use too many reference frames while encoding and the TF can't handle it.
X264 profile high, level 4.1, preset veryfast or medium. No other options except quality level ((crf 20 or 21 I use mostly).
I've tried MKVToolnix for straight muxing. A simple MKV to MP4 prog without reencoding called mkvavi2mp4. Handbrake (Used settings suggested on this forum). I've also tried some test clips from various sites. All of them judder when audio is being decoded. I am not talking about HUGE judder. I am talking about very small judder. The video is not 100% fluid. Some may not even notice it. I do because I am always messing with progs like ReClock and MadVR in order to get perfect 24p playback to an HDTV. I am also susceptible to phosphor lag, any audio sync issues and other annoyances. I am Mr Super Anal when it comes to perfect playback and have color calibrated all my displays with a colorimeter
But I digress.
If I play Big Buck Bunny 1080p in Youtube or in the default browser it plays fluid (well enough not to be annoying). Now if I rip that same Youtube clip down to my hard disk. Copy it to the TF and play it in ANY player (Moboplayer - with or without codecs packs, Rockplayer, Vplayer, Littleplayer or the inbuilt player) it will not play it without stuttering. What the hell is that all about? Flash player is better at video playback on the TF than Honeycombs implementation? Quite.
I wish I could figure out a way to load the MP4 files in Flash through the browser. I tried file://path to MP4 and it did not work.
If anyone knows a way to do that I would be interested. Maybe I should setup a web server on my PC and stream everything in Flash
P.S. If you wish I can provide you with two sample MKV's. One with audio the other without and you can directly compare the two and post your results. I see small juddering on the clip with audio muxed in every time.
The Youtube app is not using Flash. If it was, Youtube wouldn't play on the iPhone or iPad, and it most certainly wouldn't have played on Android devices before Android 2.2. If you want to see true Flash performance so far, load up Hulu and see if you can get a 480p stream to play acceptably. Edit: Since you mention the UK though, I probably shouldn't assume you're in the US. If that's the case, just load up any Flash-based video player besides Youtube. Sometimes it helps to set your user agent to Desktop, too.
The Youtube app is actually using HTML5, with videos encoded in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and stereo AAC. The maximum bitrates supported are 5 Mbit/s and 152 kbps, respectively. You need to bear in mind too that by playing videos through the browser, the servers will recognize the device you're playing from and compress and optimize the stream accordingly. A full 1080p video at 5 Mbit/s would take forever to buffer on a tablet, so it's highly unlikely that you're getting the full quality over the network stream. Locally-stored videos, however, are free to be downloaded and played in their maximum quality, so it's understandable that you may see some stutter on large files.
deadman3000 said:
I've tried MKVToolnix for straight muxing. A simple MKV to MP4 prog without reencoding called mkvavi2mp4. Handbrake (Used settings suggested on this forum). I've also tried some test clips from various sites. All of them judder when audio is being decoded. I am not talking about HUGE judder. I am talking about very small judder. The video is not 100% fluid. Some may not even notice it. I do because I am always messing with progs like ReClock and MadVR in order to get perfect 24p playback to an HDTV. I am also susceptible to phosphor lag, any audio sync issues and other annoyances. I am Mr Super Anal when it comes to perfect playback and have color calibrated all my displays with a colorimeter
But I digress.
If I play Big Buck Bunny 1080p in Youtube or in the default browser it plays fluid (well enough not to be annoying). Now if I rip that same Youtube clip down to my hard disk. Copy it to the TF and play it in ANY player (Moboplayer - with or without codecs packs, Rockplayer, Vplayer, Littleplayer or the inbuilt player) it will not play it without stuttering. What the hell is that all about? Flash player is better at video playback on the TF than Honeycombs implementation? Quite.
I wish I could figure out a way to load the MP4 files in Flash through the browser. I tried file://path to MP4 and it did not work.
If anyone knows a way to do that I would be interested. Maybe I should setup a web server on my PC and stream everything in Flash
P.S. If you wish I can provide you with two sample MKV's. One with audio the other without and you can directly compare the two and post your results. I see small juddering on the clip with audio muxed in every time.
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Shoot them over
http://www.mediafire.com/?gp3bumw7qy9mppm
Check the panning of each. One has AAC audio the other not. Use the default inbuilt video player of the TF (Should offer if you click on the files if you have other players installed). The one without audio plays perfectly smooth on my TF. The one with audio has slight juddering.
deadman3000 said:
If I play Big Buck Bunny 1080p in Youtube or in the default browser it plays fluid (well enough not to be annoying).
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Just to clarify: You are talking about viewing youtube via the default _web_ browser, setting your user agent such that you get the desktop site and using the flash plugin to play the video? Rather then using the mobile youtube web site or using the built in youtube app?
FYI of your two clips the one without audio plays smoothly in the _default_ player and the one with audio chokes with "This video cannot be played" (This is assuming you tack ".mp4" onto the file names to fool the default media player into trying to play it)
Interesting... I just re-encoded the audio _only_ ("-vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame" in ffmpeg) and that plays smoothly.
Now mp3 audio isn't part of the mp4 container spec so you'll only get away with it in an mkv container (its flexibility is one of the things that makes matroska difficult to parse)
Ah... the video is High profile at 3.8Mbps that pretty much on the limit of what the tegra2 can do at the moment (I'd say it over it actually) so I'd say that the addition of a complex (relative to mp3) audio track is just too much.
I bet if you re-encoded that video to baseline at the same bitrate and copied the audio stream it would play fine, its just at the max computation threshold.
sub'd... I want to see what you guys are doing, I'd really like to play at least 720p peacefully.
I've tried reencoding using Handbrake and get similar results. Jerky playback with audio. Smooth without. It's like small juddering every quarter second or so. Ignore the web playback that's already been explained that it's HTML5 and is not sending me the full 1080p stream anyhow.
In fact. If someone can send me a 720p video clip with audio that they say plays 100% smooth on their TF I could see if it's not 100% smooth here. If not (as I suspect it won't be) then it's either my TF has issues. Your eyesight is not picking it up or I am going nuts
deadman3000 said:
I've tried reencoding using Handbrake and get similar results. Jerky playback with audio. Smooth without. It's like small juddering every quarter second or so. Ignore the web playback that's already been explained that it's HTML5 and is not sending me the full 1080p stream anyhow.
In fact. If someone can send me a 720p video clip with audio that they say plays 100% smooth on their TF I could see if it's not 100% smooth here. If not (as I suspect it won't be) then it's either my TF has issues. Your eyesight is not picking it up or I am going nuts
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try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
I am using the same profile settings in handbrake (high profile) and ALL my videos are really smooth! and YES...I did have judder/stutter before. download the sample files and you can test it on your TF.
the ONLY downside is that handbrake takes a while to encode but its worth it!
hope this helps.
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While I agree that, officially, Honeycomb doesn't support the mkv container. It must be able to parse it as it does support WebM and that uses the matroska container.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6553908/with_audio_mp3.mkv
This is the same video stream but with the audio re-encoded to mp3, plays nicely for me in the default video player it I tack ".mp4" on the end to fool the player into trying to play it.
I don't stream but everything e.mote said about hinting is spot on, also you may want to look at interleaving (a feature of the muxing that MP4Box can do) is you want to stream.
earlyberd said:
A full 1080p video at 5 Mbit/s would take forever to buffer on a tablet, so it's highly unlikely that you're getting the full quality over the network stream.
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Way too generalized. I have a Playbook and it plays 1080p Youtube in the browser flawlessly.
I played The Cape clip from the example Handbrake settings thread. The clip plays with micro judder like every other clip with sound. I am now using a Prime 1.4 rooted not the stock firmware and it still does it. It is like frame drop every half or quarter second. If you have ever seen NTSC 23.976FPS played back on a PAL 50Hz CRT TV you will know what it looks like. It is very obvious on pans.
Surely I cannot be the ONLY person who can see this??? Are your eyes really that bad?
EDIT: Tried the MP3 version you provided. Still there. You can count the judder. Tick tick tick tick... every quarter second.
EDIT2: I guess the only way to demonstrate this to you guys is by way of a video of it along with some audio prompting from me to point it out to you (excuse the d(t)icks). You will notice that the audio drops out for some reason during playback but when it does the video plays buttery smooth. No idea why the audio drops out. I was playing back the MP3 muxed version from the link above using Moboplayer but this problem - the juddering - occurs with any player I have tried. The juddering happens on every single video I have tested it on when it is decoding audio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfdQP8BtEA
I will restate however. Yotube playback looks much smoother than playing a file from the inbuilt flash memory or SD cards.
I am having the same problem as you and I see the judder on these clips as well. I posted my issues in the encoding guide thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825&page=9
It has nothing to do with the overall bitrate rate as many of my samples are <2,000 kbps, and just like you, if I remove the AAC audio, video is silky smooth. I assume it's just a software issue that should be able to be resolved, but I guess we'll see...
e.mote said:
BTW, if you recoded the clip, then I suggest using better settings. The settings used are excessive. When facing a device with marginal playback, there is less tolerance for bad encodes. If you're anal about playback, then you should be equally anal about your encode settings.
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Thanks for that. But since your video judders just like every other clip that means diddly squat. I don't see why I should have to reencode every video I have in order for it to playback on the TF either. It should be able to handle 720p at least. It does play it but only plays it smoothly with no audio playback whatsoever.
bartleyg82 said:
I am having the same problem as you and I see the judder on these clips as well. I posted my issues in the encoding guide thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825&page=9
It has nothing to do with the overall bitrate rate as many of my samples are <2,000 kbps, and just like you, if I remove the AAC audio, video is silky smooth. I assume it's just a software issue that should be able to be resolved, but I guess we'll see...
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Phew! Thanks for chimeing in! I am glad it's not just me. Do you live in the UK perchance? If not that would rule out any UK specific reasons.
Nope, I'm in the US. My TF is also running Prime 1.4. I've tried the "stock" kernel and the OC kernel and the problem is the same with both. I didn't think to test video before rooting and installing Prime, so I can't vouch for whether or not it happens on completely stock HC 3.1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfdQP8BtEA
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How... what...
Are you serious? I see literally no issue. Either my eyes or your camera, one of the two can't pick up this judder. And I did notice the compression in the better encode offered here (text, grappling hooks, lasers, pretty much anything like that. Not a bad result, but clearly visible)
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I've put this thread here to give you guys a variety of Video Players that you can use. I, like many of you, don't like using the Stock Video Players because it hasn't got the ability to customize it the way we'd like, so we'd like more of a choice. So rather than having to find them all over the place, I will keep everything here in one place.
If you notice any information in this guide which is incorrect, or any bad links, let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible. Also, I know that there are a load that aren't on this list, so if there are some which aren't on the list but you think they should be, let me know and I'll look into them and update the list.
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d) SUBTITLE SCROLL - Scroll on subtitle text and playback position will be adjusted to match previous or next subtitle timing.
e) KIDS LOCK - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry about making calls or touching other apps. (plugin required)
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MoboPlayer
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The best video player on Android! Watch any of your videos on a phone without conversion, anytime and anywhere.
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All video formats (need to choose "software decoding" mode in most cases)
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VPlayer Video Player
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VPlayer drains less bettery than SW based players such as MX Video Player, MoboPlayer.
ICS devices can play 1080p files with full HW accelerations, Honeycomb tablets can play 720p MKV with Full HW accelerations.
If you use MIUI, CM7 or unofficial ROMs that can not play MKV/FLV/MOV/AVI using default player, VPlayer is the best solution.
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Formats
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Video Codecs
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Audio Codecs
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- Mutitle audtio tracks support
Subtitle
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- Unicode/Multibyte charset supported.
- Mutiple subtitle tracks support
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DicePlayer
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Wondershare Player
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• Voice commands for search
• Control playback when phone is locked
• Sharing on popular social media sites
• Move application to SD card
• Set your favorite song as a ringtone
• Headphones controls
• Auto bookmarking of videos
• Home screen widgets to control media
• Access any file format your device supports
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• Graphic equalizer with ability to save custom settings
• Metadata discovery using the Gracenote database
• Manual metadata editing
• Cross fading for a seamless music experience
• RealAudio and RealVideo (rmvb) support
• No advertisements
VLC Beta (NEON version)
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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
This is a BETA version of the port to the Android™ platform. It is intended for power users and hackers. This version is not perfectly stable and is slower than the final version.
Features include:
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This version is ONLY for devices with a CPU ARMv7 that will support NEON. Other devices will be supported by other applications, very soon.
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.
VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.
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As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release:
• The basic User Interface will change;
• Performance improvements are missing;
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• Other unknown issues.
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• It needs hardware control, in order to change the audio volume;
• It needs phone calls control, in order to pause the music when someone is calling;
• It needs full Internet access to open network streams;
• It needs to be able to read logs, during the beta version, to understand the issues;
• It needs to get access to the SD card storage, in order to allow deletion of files.
• It needs to get access to the settings, in order to change your audio ringtone.
Act 1 Video Player
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The best video experience on Android!
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✓ Playlists (with random play)
✓ Thumbnails (only on devices with Android 2.0 or newer)
✓ Video zoom options (aspect, full, custom)
✓ SRT subtitle support
✓ Bookmarks (up to 20 for each video)
✓ Home screen shortcuts to videos and playlists
✓ Play in the background while you run other apps or turn off the screen
✓ A-B repeat
✓ Video sharing
✓ On-screen clock, timer, and battery meter
✓ Seeking by seekbar, screen gestures, trackball, and D-pad
✓ Screen brightness and button brightness controls (buttons on Froyo only)
✓ Resume points remembered for all your videos
✓ Video sorting and grouping options
✓ Delete/rename videos
✓ Video streaming
✓ Lots of shortcuts, conveniences, and configurations
HD Video Player Free
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HD Video Player is the best video player and mp3 music player for Android.
Watch tv shows, movies, music videos as well as locally stored FLV and SWF flash video files. (You don't need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin.)
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Support sub: srt, ass, ssa, sub,txt, utf, smi, rt,aqt, jss, js, utf8, utf-8.
It load external subtitle with same name of video automatically and support .m3u playlist.
Seaman Video Player Free
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By using this free mobile media player, you can watch tv shows, movies, music videos on your Android phone as well as locally stored FLV flash video files (no need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin).
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Being based on the FFmpeg project, optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core video and mp3 player, Seaman Video Player has become more popular in the mobile video and mp3 player market.
No need to install any video codecs, all video and audio codecs are already built-in.
It's capable of playing incomplete or damaged video files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play partially downloaded files.
Features include:
Audio Formats:
MP3, MP2, AAC, WMA (1,2,3), Midi *, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM
Video Formats:
H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV (7,8,9), Theora *, Dirac *, MJPEG, MSVIDEO (1,2 , 3), rv (10,20,30,40), SVQ1, SVQ3
Multiplex format Formats:
FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS,, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV，rmvb/rm
Here are some key features of Seaman Video Player:
- Fluently play videos on mobile phone with no more transcoding: Seaman Video Player plays almost all video files on your PC, such as avi, rmvb, flv, mkv, etc. It's like watching live tv on your android.
- Best Experience: With better performance, higher image quality, higher resolution! Seaman Video Player will reform your video experience on mobile devices! Watch tv shows, movies and music videos.
- Dual Core Playback: Beside the high performance engine built-in, Seaman Video Player also makes the most of the OpenCORE inside Android system; you may switch the engine freely.
- Handy Features: resume playing, subtitle support, battery prompt over the video view.
Requirements:
HTC machine (Android 1.6 - 2.3.3) test has been passed and has not tested other models, if any problem, please provide the model name, the system specific information, we will solve.
Moai FLV Player
Description:
Simple FLV Player on SD-Card.
Moai FLV Player is simple FLV Player on SD-Card.
need Adobe AIR2.7 and Android2.2.
When you select the flv file from File Manager, you can launch the app.
To enable this feature, please set the following settings Mime Type of File Manager.
flv.....video/x-flv
f4v.....video/mp4
Video Player
Description:
Videos is the best video organizer.
Features include:
* Sort by name, date, duration
* Thumbnails
No ads
Videos is the best video organizer for Android. Organize and play videos from your SD card and phone. Videos was designed to allow quick access to all your videos. Videos integrates with your default video player or any other video player you have installed.
* Sort your videos by date added, name or duration.
* Sort ascending or descending order
* Thumbnails of videos (only on Android v2.0 or newer)
* Name of video
* Length of video
* bookmark
* Remembers exit point for each video
* Will play all h264 & 3gp videos and any other video format your phone will support. Please check your phones documentation for full list of supported formats.
TPlayer (Video Player)
Description:
The best way to enjoy your movies.
The most powerful video player on Android!
Our player supports:
All video formats and protocols.
Best playback experience and quality with dual-engine.
Movies auto-detected and listed with thumbnail and details.
Manage your movies easily.
Features include:
Enjoy or download plenty of web videos free (when sky browser has been installed), including:
e.g. Youku, Tudou, Qiyi, Sohu video, Phoenix video, QQLive, Ku6, CCTV, PPlive, Yinyuetai, Sina video, LeTV, 56, 163, etc.
Mainstream handset based on android 2.x/3.x/4.x and Armv5/v6/v7 chipsets inside.
Optimize for your CPU fully.
aVia Media Player
Description:
aVia simplifies accessing personal media with one, easy to use, media player.
With aVia you can play, manage, and share your music, video, and photos from all of your Android-connected devices so that your favorite media is available anytime, anywhere.
Features include:
- Optimizations for Android tablets and smartphones, Google TV, and Kindle Fire devices
- Play music, videos, and view photos through a variety of sources including social media websites (Facebook and Google+)
- Easily Fling media between personal devices
- DLNA streaming capabilities allow for sharing between compatible devices within a network
- DLNA server capabilities built into the app
- Easily create playlists and rate content using the intuitive interface
- Support for video scaling and subtitles
- Support for video codes and audio
SuperPlayer Video Player
Description:
SuperPlayer Video Player, best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies
SuperPlayer - The best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies on Android platform.
Features include:
SuperPlayer can play almost every kinds of video format, including avi, flv, 3gp, mp4, rm, rmvb, mpg, mov, asf, mkv, webm ...
SuperPlayer supports multi-language subtitles, supports srt, ass, sub, smi format and video's embed subtitle.
SuperPlayer can play video smoothly, we use hardware decoder if there is one, otherwise we use software decorder (thanks to FFMPEG).
SuperPlayer is very easy to use: copy videos to sdcard, launch SuperPlayer, scan the videos and watch it. You don't need any setting at all.
(The first time you scan videos, it may take some time if there are many files on your SDCard).
Simple MP4 Video Player
Description:
Play your videos (mp4 and flv files) from your SD-card
with this simple player. This player supports only mp4 and flv video formats. Subtitles are not supported yet.
You don't need to install Flash® Player Plugin, any other codec or
any other plugin to use this app to play videos (flv and mp4 video formats).
Please support development of new features by clicking the +1 button.
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This free app is ad supported and contains ads in the notification tray which is not a virus. The ads help us create and maintain these free apps for you. This app doesn't contain any malware, virus or spyware. Please, respect the developer work. If you don't like notification ads, you can just uninstall the app, opt-out at http://opt.leadbolt.com/ or buy the paid version of this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.br.com.bitlabs.VideoPlayerAdFree
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[Minimum Requirements]
Need Android 2.2 or superior. ARMv7 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders and 256MB of RAM.
[Known Issues]
- Some Asus Transformer devices may play videos without audio.
- Devices with low processor power may experience poor video quality (delays).
[Usage Instructions]
1) Put your favorite mp4 and flv video files on your SD Card.
2) Open Simple MP4 Video Player.
3) Navigate to the video file you want to select.
4) Select the video file to watch.
☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player)
Description:
Do you want to keep using your device while watching movies ? Stick it! is the way to go! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device!
!!! YOUTUBE SUPPORT: READ THE FAQ !!!
Stick it! is the only video player of its kind : it can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features (browsing, emailing, texting...) while watching your favorite movie! Impress your friends with the MultiView™ feature !
Features include:
☆ MultiView™ : watch multiple movies simultaneously !
☆ Truly floating player : move, resize and minimize supported
☆ Background playing
☆ YouTube support (beta)
☆ Supports most video formats
☆ Streaming support (MMS, RTSP, HTTP)
☆ Built-in themes (Windows 7, Mac OSX, more to come)
☆ Built-in file browser
Download Links
MX PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
MoboPlayer Link to FREE version
V Player Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
DicePlayer Link to FREE version
BSPlayer FREE Link to FREE version
Super Video, Floating & Popup Link to FREE version
Wondershare Player Link to FREE version
RealPlayer Link to FREE version
VLC Beta (NEON version) Link to FREE version
Act 1 Video Player Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
HD Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Seaman Video Player Free Link to FREE version
Moai FLV Player Link to FREE version
Video Player Link to FREE version
TPlayer (Video Player) Link to FREE version
aVia Media Player Link to FREE version
SuperPlayer Video Player Link to FREE version
Simple MP4 Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player) Link to FREE version
Is there any Video players you guys use that are not on the list?
If so please let me know and I will have them added to the list.
DicePlayer has now been added to the OP
More to come tomorrow people.
Any suggestions will be added aswell
Thanks for the video guide bro. Maybe BS Player can be added?
Super Video, Floating and Popup
Wondershare Player
RealPlayer
VLC Beta (Neon Version)
Overall, I still prefer DicePlayer..
Nick Fury said:
Download Links
DicePlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
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Diceplayer is totally free and no ad.
PAID version is obsolete.
juami said:
Diceplayer is totally free and no ad.
PAID version is obsolete.
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+1
DicePlayer is now Donationware..
juami said:
Diceplayer is totally free and no ad.
PAID version is obsolete.
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Freddy1X said:
+1
DicePlayer is now Donationware..
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Thank you for that. Link will be updated today.
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BSPlayer
Super Video, Floating and Popup
Wondershare Player
RealPlayer
VLC Beta (Neon Version) Have now all been added to the OP
Keep the suggestions coming people.
Also if you have used any of these player before then please leave feedback for other users.
Thanks everyone
Hi just wanted to let everyone that I will be adding a load more Video Players to the OP today. So if anyone wants to add there suggestion then please do,
Act 1 Video Player
HD Video Player
Seaman Video Player Free
Moai FLV Player
Video Player
TPlayer (Video Player)
aVia Media Player
SuperPlayer Video Player
Simple MP4 Video Player
☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player)
Have all now been added to the OP
Enjoy
Just to let you all know Im online and going to be updating this Thread with new Suggestions so please if you have any you would like to see on here then please comment below to have yours added.
Thank you.
Can we play 720p videos on low end or mid end devices
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Can we play 720p videos on low end or mid end devices
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If the devices supports them but generally if you use MX Player then you will be just fine
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If the devices supports them but generally if you use MX Player then you will be just fine
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Mxplayer is perfect in every way. Love the touch controls.
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If the devices supports them but generally if you use MX Player then you will be just fine<br />
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Mxplayer is perfect in every way. Love the touch controls.
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I agree. MX Player is the one and only video player i use and is also capable of streaming live tv and video from the internet too.
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I agree. MX Player is the one and only video player i use and is also capable of streaming live tv and video from the internet too.
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But it needs to have pop up play and video speed control
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If the devices supports them but generally if you use MX Player then you will be just fine
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It plays videos but audio-video balance in not good.......audio plays at normal speed but videos is very slow.....so audio ends first n then video ends after some time
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