Hello
i have a smart tv qled 4k hdr with android tv 11.
is there any specific configuration in the mx player for me to watch 1080p and 4K movies in .mp4 and .mpk with maximum quality?
is there a way for mxplayer to save the audio and video synchronization settings, aspect ratio, and others for all the videos I open in it?
thanks
Can someone help me ?
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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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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.
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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.
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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?
Dear Friends
I own MX Player Pro and NVIDIA SHIELD. At the moment I use Kodi.
1. I own Epson EH-TW5300, which is still BT.709 (I would like to change it to Epson EH-TW9400 in the near future with BT.2020). I own backups of my physical BD and UHD on HDD. I would like to know, if there will be working in MX Player Pro conversion from BT.2020 to BT.709 on NVIDIA SHIELD. Will colors not be washed out, when watching movie with BT.2020 on my projector with BT.709?
2. I have lots of backups of my physical BD and UHD on my HDD, I have extracted PGS .sup files. Will MX Player Pro support external
PGS .sup files?
3. BD or UHD movies use 23.976Hz. Will MX Player Pro support 23.976Hz? Will it auto change to this framerate?
Thank you in advance for your help and support.
Sincerely
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Dear Friends
1. I own Epson EH-TW5300, which is still BT.709 (I would like to change it to Epson EH-TW9400 in the near future with BT.2020). I own backups of my physical BD and UHD on HDD. I would like to know, if there will be working in MX Player Pro conversion from BT.2020 to BT.709 on NVIDIA SHIELD. Will colors not be washed out, when watching movie with BT.2020 on my projector with BT.709?
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Unfortunately, it is not possible to BT.2020 to BT.709 without any loss. BT.2020 is capable of handling a much wider range of colours than BT.709. So, obviously, there will be some losses. However, we will highlight your request with our relevant team and will explore for the possibilities of proving an improved user experience.
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2. I have lots of backups of my physical BD and UHD on my HDD, I have extracted PGS .sup files. Will MX Player Pro support external
PGS .sup files?
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With regards to your query on external PSG files, You can already load the external PGS subs manually on the latest version of the MX Player. if you are facing any issues with that, kindly provide us with more information. We will investigate it further and get it sorted for you.
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3. BD or UHD movies use 23.976Hz. Will MX Player Pro support 23.976Hz? Will it auto change to this framerate?
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Yes. It can play movies encoded at 23.976fps seamlessly. But, the auto frame rate switching is not yet available on MX.
Dear MXPlayer
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Unfortunately, it is not possible to BT.2020 to BT.709 without any loss. BT.2020 is capable of handling a much wider range of colours than BT.709. So, obviously, there will be some losses. However, we will highlight your request with our relevant team and will explore for the possibilities of proving an improved user experience.
With regards to your query on external PSG files, You can already load the external PGS subs manually on the latest version of the MX Player. if you are facing any issues with that, kindly provide us with more information. We will investigate it further and get it sorted for you.
Yes. It can play movies encoded at 23.976fps seamlessly. But, the auto frame rate switching is not yet available on MX.
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I realize that, there will be loss in conversion BT.2020 to BT.709, but there is application for PC called madVR, which is also doing such conversion from HDR to SDR and movies with HDR looks amazing on SDR capable display, no washed out colors at all. I would be glad, if you will add such feature to your MX Player Pro.
I have not installed yet MX Player Pro on NVIDIA SHIELD, I have just ask about such feature support. So you have a big +, because Kodi doesn't support external PGS .sup files.
It also would be good, if you will add auto framerate settings. It's hard to change display settings to 23.976Hz everytime I would like to watch such videos.
I forgot to ask about support of audio bitstream of Dolby TrueHD/Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS:X? Is it possible with MX Player Pro?
Thank you in advance for your great support.
Sincerely
VAMET said:
I realize that, there will be loss in conversion BT.2020 to BT.709, but there is application for PC called madVR, which is also doing such conversion from HDR to SDR and movies with HDR looks amazing on SDR capable display, no washed out colors at all. I would be glad, if you will add such feature to your MX Player Pro.
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Thanks for the info. MadVR is a DirectShow filter and is not available for the Android platform. However, we will investigate further possible improvements on HDR -> SDR playback.
VAMET said:
It also would be good, if you will add auto framerate settings. It's hard to change display settings to 23.976Hz everytime I would like to watch such videos.
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In general, there is no need to change the frame rate until or unless you face some issues. MX Player uses the VSYNC methods suggested on the android documentation. So, rendering should be seamless in most of the conditions.
VAMET said:
I forgot to ask about support of audio bitstream of Dolby TrueHD/Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS:X? Is it possible with MX Player Pro?
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Yes. MX Player supports the audio passthrough. It will be automatically enabled if the receiver reports it's audio capability properly.
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Thanks for the info. MadVR is a DirectShow filter and is not available for the Android platform. However, we will investigate further possible improvements on HDR -> SDR playback.
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In Kodi for NVIDIA SHIELD, there is Mediacodec and Mediacodec Surface, if both of them are disabled, then HDR to SDR is perfect, no washed out colors, but the movie playback of 2160p 23.976 BT.2020 10bit is choppy, not smooth. Maybe this will be a tip for your Team.
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In general, there is no need to change the frame rate until or unless you face some issues. MX Player uses the VSYNC methods suggested on the android documentation. So, rendering should be seamless in most of the conditions.
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I will check it, but why it's such problem to add this feature to MX Player Pro, all other players for NVIDIA SHIELD has already such option?
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Yes. MX Player supports the audio passthrough. It will be automatically enabled if the receiver reports it's audio capability properly.
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Thank you very much, I have already tested Dolby Atmos.
As for your last statement with support of external PGS .sup files, there are some .sup files, that are not recognized. I have tested them with MPC-HC on PC and everything is OK with them, only MX Player Pro has got such problem. All of them are extracted the same way via MKVToolnix.
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Hello!
I have a Q10 Pro Android Player connected to a FHD TV and would like to use MX Player only for SD video playback. These are most often 720X576 resolution interlaced videos with 25fps (that is actually 50fps due the deinterlace). Variously coded in MPEG, xVid or x.264 codecs.
I can see some options in MX Player that could probably impact the Picture Quality of the playback, like the options to choose from HW, HW+ and SW decoders, then choose 3 different kind of Deinterlace method, an also 3 option regarding the colorspace.
Regardless if it would be working fine on my Box or not, what would be the theoretically best setting for each upper option to get the best possible Picture Quality with these kind of videos?
Thanks!
No one?
Hi there, I am using S10e. It supports HDR10+. I was trying to play a file (VP9 HDR WEBM container) that I downloaded from youtube. But strangely MX player is not picking up HDR. Does it support HDR in VP9 Codec? I tried both HW+ and SW Codecs but no success.
I tried playing the file via Samsung Video App but it showed an error probably due to either VP9 codec or Webm container.
Strangely I tried to play it via the Browser (Samsung Internet) via entering file:///sdcard/ and browsing to the file and it played in the Browser and also picked up the HDR (Brightness was automatically increased)
So can somebody help me with this?
UPDATE: I didn't mentioned that the video don't have any audio file and I had the audio file separately downloaded from youtube as you can't download HDR Videos and audio as a one file.
So I used the FFMPEG to mux them together in a Mkv Container and now video is played via Samsung Video Gallery with no error. It appears apparently lack of audio track resulted in error.
But HDR is not turning on even in Samsung Video Gallery. This suggests some deeper problem with VP9 HDR Playback. But then how Samsung Internet Browser was able to turn on HDR.
Anybody knows something on this?
So I searched about the VP9 Codec and it turns out it supports HDR via HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) instead of HDR10. So the question really trickles to "Does MX Player support HLG HDR Videos?"
I tried searching Google about this but couldn't find anything. So if somebody knows answer it please.
And also Samsung Video Gallery does pick HDR. I missed it as I was able to manually adjust brightness which irc, you cannot in HDR10 Videos but maybe this might not be the case with HLG Videos. And Colors do looks washed out in MX Player as compared to Samsung Video Gallery.
Oh god this is confusing. Apparently Video is HDR10 not HLG and VP9 do support HDR10 (or PQ, I don't know).
I was really hoping Video be HLG as it answered nearly all of questions but it is not.
So why isn't MX Player turning on HDR. And why is there Brightness control in Samsung Video App and why it is not showing HDR Logo???
Goddamnit!!
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So I searched about the VP9 Codec and it turns out it supports HDR via HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) instead of HDR10. So the question really trickles to "Does MX Player support HLG HDR Videos?"
I tried searching Google about this but couldn't find anything. So if somebody knows answer it please.
And also Samsung Video Gallery does pick HDR. I missed it as I was able to manually adjust brightness which irc, you cannot in HDR10 Videos but maybe this might not be the case with HLG Videos. And Colors do looks washed out in MX Player as compared to Samsung Video Gallery.
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We apologise for the delayed response.
We would like to let you know that MX Player's HW / HW+ decoders make use of the hardware-accelerated decoders shipped with the device. So, the HDR support highly depends on the decoders in your device.
Could you enable the video enhancer on your device settings and try again on MX Player's HW and HW+ decoders? It may fix your problems.
No need to apologize.
I turned on the Video Enhancer and played the video but it didn't turned on the HDR.
Just now as I was about to reply, I played the video with HW encoder and surprisingly HDR was turned on. Video enhancer was off this time. But it is not turning on HDR with HW+ encoder. So something is not right there.
Tell me please how I can play the captured video on a PC and on android tv box? Neither Kodi nor VLС will be able to play the video filmed on mi10 ultra...
You have got the video settings set to H265 and not H264? Some codecs can't play H265.
I have H265 and I can't play these videos
Just go back to H264 in camera video settings