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Looking for a decent video player!

As the title says, I am looking for a decent video player, I have tried most, if not all in the "Market", but none I have found, seem to offer what I had as standard on the iphone!
What I would like, is the following:
1. Thumbnail of each video, with it's title.
2. The ability to zoom correctly, with proper aspect ratio support.
3. Remember the exit point of each video.
Zimly, has the best interface, of the ones I have found, but it does not support aspect ratio zoom, neither does it remember the exit point! Otherwise, I think this app is definitely on the right track!
The standard app, is good, but it does not display the title, nor does it remember the exit point, and you have to go into "Photos" to get to it!
If anyone knows of such an app, I would be most greatful.
P.S. Would just like to add, that the screen on this is superb for watching videos, whites are properly white, and blacks are really black! Unlike the iphone, which is a washed out mess with absolutely no contrast! Woe betied anyone who complains to Apple about this, I was actually told by their customer services, that no one else has complained, and that "They are happy with it"!!!! Thanks a lot Mr Jobs!

Another problem with video playback is that you cant jump to middle of movie. You can only jump cca 7min into movie, it you try to jump more it resets movie, starts playback from begining.
Tryed default player and one free with full lenght movie.
Mp4 format, h264
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Meridian is the best I've used. Whilst it doesn't tick all your boxes (eg no preview), it does remember where you left off on each individual video. It also allows you to seek to particular point in the video far more effectively than the stock app.
Regards,
Dave

This is the best Video player you can possible have on a android phone. It has all what you seek plus more. http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.hyperaware.videoplayerfull
On the fly bringnes settings, aspect ratios and it does remember the exit point also. It tells you if a file is playable. Only thumbnails are missing.
The only bad thing is no divx support on this phones. So You have to convert every ****.

Balos said:
The only bad thing is no divx support on this phones. So You have to convert every ****.
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You can play XviD/DviX movies with yxFlash player. Although it is be no means a perfect player, it is the only one(or at least was for a while) that can play these formats.

YxFlash is buggy as hell though... it doesn't even let me navigate to find files to play.
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I am using Act 1 video player. IMHO it us awesome. Fast, remembers the position where you have left a particular movie, tells you whether the file is playable, shows batt percentage, clock etc..
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th3 said:
YxFlash is buggy as hell though... it doesn't even let me navigate to find files to play.
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i agree yxflash is buggy as hell...
very bad quality when playback mp4 movie.

YxFlash is buggy as hell though... it doesn't even let me navigate to find files to play.
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i agree yxflash is buggy as hell...
very bad quality when playback mp4 movie.
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It's also been renamed to yxplayer now BTW.
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temka said:
I am using Act 1 video player. IMHO it us awesome. Fast, remembers the position where you have left a particular movie, tells you whether the file is playable, shows batt percentage, clock etc..
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+1 from me also

Still no decent video players?
They seem to lack codecs or just be horribly made. I tried XYplayer but it's out of sync.

movies on evo

Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app

you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already

the best app i've discovered for PC is DVDDecrypter. it works perfectly. allows you to select by chapters, or the whole DVD. good stuff!

DVD Fab Platinum

you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already
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LOL, I help where I can, but I just didn't want to download a virus from a random site. Thanks for the response.
I asked about this before and just didn't see anything really mention dvd ripping
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http://www.knowyourcell.com/htc/htc-evo-4g/evo-4g-guides/487469/how_to_convert_videos_and_transfer_them_to_the_htc_evo_4g.html

i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well

Avalaunchmods said:
i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well
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just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?

GHOST99K said:
just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing

just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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you can keep the quality and reduce the file size by a large amount by using handbrake. No need to have a 4gb file.
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Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/

spurnout said:
Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/
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wow thanks i jus downloaded handbrake and im gonna apply those changes and c how it looks as soon as i get the EVO.

looneylu said:
Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app
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doubletwist

Doubletwist
Doubletwist is nice, for music and apps. But it rips movies 640 x 320 too small for the screen. There are no preferences I can find the change that. I am on a MAC and I have had great success converting my .AVI files with FFMPEG and the Mp4 presets. THe movies are about 800 megs and look great.

if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android

this is gonna sound weird, but AirVideo server for iPad(it streams videos to the iPad) it's the only app i've tried so far that will convert MKV with little to no quality loss. best part, it's free. just a suggestion.
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download.html

spyngamerman said:
if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android
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Try using mkv2vob

Avalaunchmods said:
4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display? 4.3gb sounds like a lot of wasted space for all those extra unused pixels.
For everyone else, handbrake is the free simple alternative. And for people that care to learn a few command line options, ffmpeg is fantastic. I get much smaller better looking files from the open source x264 compiled ffmpeg. But, configured correctly, handbrake can be a front end for ffmpeg anyway.

Download Daniusoft DVD Ripper.
It searches for your phone, connects, converts the movie and places it on your sd card in the correct folder. All by itself.

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Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display?
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Also consider the wall I hit when I first tried ripping--I ripped the DVD at 800x480 with all the correct settings, but when I tried to throw it up on my HDTV via the HDMI output, my TV would not recognize the non-standard size.
So you have a choice: 1) rip to 720p if you are going to output via HDMI or 2) rip to 800x480 if you are ONLY going to view the movie on the phone.

Do 720p mkv files work flawlessly without re-encoding?

Hi everyone,
I first got to say that I have not yet purchased GalaxyNexus. However I have a big concern in regards to 720p HD video files from the net. I realized this on my Galaxy Tab10.1 after I bought it that most HD files need to be re-encoded in order to run without lag or being choppy. I was very disappointed with that.
Would someone tell me how is the performance of mkv files on GalaxyNexus.
Thanks.
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Yes, use MX Player from the market, it can run just about anything smoothly

Or try dice player, only problem is its not allowing me to buy full version after 3 days trial has ran out, anyone know a way around that?
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heck it plays 1080p mkvs flawlessly. I have a 11gb mkv of Drive that sits on my phone just to show off. Now to get that MHL adapter.

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heck it plays 1080p mkvs flawlessly. I have a 11gb mkv of Drive that sits on my phone just to show off. Now to get that MHL adapter.
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I tried a sample of 1080p mkv on mxplayer and it was choking on SW only (no HW available). What player did you use?

CrazyDelta said:
Hi everyone,
I first got to say that I have not yet purchased GalaxyNexus. However I have a big concern in regards to 720p HD video files from the net. I realized this on my Galaxy Tab10.1 after I bought it that most HD files need to be re-encoded in order to run without lag or being choppy. I was very disappointed with that.
Would someone tell me how is the performance of mkv files on GalaxyNexus.
Thanks.
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Whether it plays depends on a lot of things. The video format, (MKV is just a container), the audio format and most importantly the bitrate. A lot of desktop PCs will chunder along if the bitrate is too high for it's hardware to handle, so a phone will struggle even more.

The bottleneck seems to be the speed of the internal storage, for me. It plays stuff flawlessly, but if I play a 1080p file with a super high bitrate, it's all choppy.

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You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
I watched a 3 gig mkv file of a 1 hour season finale of flashpoint (anybody watch it BTW?) and it was flawless. Jules was as amazing as ever, and Ed was as bald as ever.
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what do you mean usernet user? whats that? and my mkv files play fine 720p and 1080p

Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.

CrazyDelta said:
Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.
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Not sure what player or videos are being used in this video but my 720 en 1080p MKV's are all working smooth on dice player.

cvbcbcmv said:
You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
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The first rule of Usenet is, you don't talk about Usenet.

Is there a trick to getting these super large files on your phone? Everytime I've tried to drag an 8GB file over it complains it only takes files under 4GB. Are you splitting them?

lettcco said:
I tried a sample of 1080p mkv on mxplayer and it was choking on SW only (no HW available). What player did you use?
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I used diceplayer trial. That app is great. hopefully they get it working soon so I can get the full version.

not sure what your guys issue with dice player is. I have it on mine and it plays mkvs, wmvs, avis flawlessly

Dice Player plays high bitrate 1080p flawless for me. The only problem is the trial is only available so you have to uninstall and reinstall every 3 days.
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neok44 said:
not sure what your guys issue with dice player is. I have it on mine and it plays mkvs, wmvs, avis flawlessly
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The problem is the dev's actually. The account he was using to receive payment for the full version got suspended (for whatever reason), and due to that he isn't able to continue selling the full version anymore. If you were an early adopter (like I was, due to having a Asus Transformer), it's a non-issue because you already bought it. I'm not sure why the dev is taking forever to fix the issue.
EDIT:And on that note, I also must say that all MKV files I have downloaded work perfectly fine on my nexus using diceplayer. Both 720P and 1080P (only tried 1, just to see if it worked, since it is rather pointless unless you're outputting to a TV) work just fine and without any issues for me. I haven't tried any strangely encoded files yet, but so far all normal HDTV encoded files worked just fine.

cvbcbcmv said:
You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
I watched a 3 gig mkv file of a 1 hour season finale of flashpoint (anybody watch it BTW?) and it was flawless. Jules was as amazing as ever, and Ed was as bald as ever.
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man I wish usenet was free

CrazyDelta said:
Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.
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It's smooth once it get's hardware decoded.
No smartphone processor can decode 1080p without lag, which is exactly why OMAP put an IVA-HD chip inside to do all the work.

Much like the rest of the members I use dice player and it plays everything i throw at it. I use to have an issue with 12mbps MP4 files but they seem to have corrected that and now it is smooth for everything i throw at it.

is there a place to buy the full version or obtain one by other cough cough means?

Movie Maker ala iMovie for Nexus 7

hey...
any movie maker ala iMovie
i tried magisto, but it does not take the file format that i imported.
Video format: H.264 codec, .mp4 file format
anyone know of any other app that can do this?

Just use a player with multi-codec support.
I wonder why you'd be trying to convert the video. If you're just trying to watch then I'd suggest MX Player or VLC which can play (almost) any video format.

Sorry, there are no good movie editing apps for Android. Use a PC.

androvid, vidtrim, converter pro.
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I wonder why you'd be trying to convert the video. If you're just trying to watch then I'd suggest MX Player or VLC which can play (almost) any video format.
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i am not trying to convert the video. I am trying toedit the parts that I do not want...maybe add in some works and title or different parts of the clips. Then maybe post it online... much like what iMovie can do on an ipad

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androvid, vidtrim, converter pro.
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Good stuff on the android and vidtrim. Nice and fast.
Still do not have adding title or adding music. The pro version?

Movieaid looks a bit duff at first but works well tbf with titles and audio overlay capability, etc. free version limits length.
Would be good if Google whipped up a nice editor, best thing when ive been around iPads was the ease of movie making.
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what about window movie maker, sony vegas, adobe premiere, avid, fcp, fce and etc

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what about window movie maker, sony vegas, adobe premiere, avid, fcp, fce and etc
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On a nexus 7?!?!

WeVideo?
I do regular web searches to see if anybody has developed a viable video editor / movie maker for android, and finally there's some hope.
Just came across this tonight - http://blog.wevideo.com/bid/272187/WeVideo-Launches-iMovie-Competitor-App-for-Android
It's a new app called WeVideo (just released, so it's still in BETA), and it's pitching itself as an iMovie-like editor for ANdroid, with some cloud-based features and other differences, but what's important as it appears to provide full "movie making" capabilities across various Android devices.
I just tried it out and it works well, with a few oversights like:
- No transition control
- No volume control for music tracks
- No local, uncompressed storage of published video (not that I've found anyhow)
Just for starters. But, if you don't mind using their simple theme, and don't want to include your own music, it works pretty well.
It's also nice that it supports publishing of your videos directly to YouTube, despite not exporting to sdcard etc.
I'll post this reply in a few other threads asking about better video editors for Android as well.

I'm gonna add my voice to those who wish there was a solid video editing app for android. Video apps seem to be an area where android falls down completely. Of course there are quality players, you'd be worried if their weren't but I can't help feel like there's a massive gap in the market. Is it that its just too hard to create such an app on android?
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damagedgoods said:
I'm gonna add my voice to those who wish there was a solid video editing app for android. Video apps seem to be an area where android falls down completely. Of course there are quality players, you'd be worried if their weren't but I can't help feel like there's a massive gap in the market. Is it that its just too hard to create such an app on android?
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It's because editing videos is a really taxing process for computers already as it is, and any aspiring video editor requires like a billion features to be any good. It's simpler on iOS where everything is a video camera and the iPad is a kind of standard thing everyone has had. It's only within the last year or so that Android tablets are even decent like the N7, so it's not too surprising to not have any amazing editors yet. I give it another year and we'll have apps competing with iMovie.
Also it just seems way easier to use a laptop/PC to edit videos which are 99% of the time recorded on phones or separate cameras.

Any good Video player for nexus 2013?

MXplayer-----The dark scene is bad, it's too bright and shows a lot of black block
Stock player---The dark scene is good, but it can't show built in subtitle, and also no subtitle on/off?
Any other good video player to try?

Try Dice Player or a VLC nightly.

I always use BSPlayer - never a problem. I used to use MX Video Player but had a few minor problems that BSPlayer solved.
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Archos player and codecs now available on Play Store (highly rated video player) and I am using that now. I keep BSPlayer installed as backup tho.
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MX player always good. But Archos just released one called ArchosVideoPlayer. If anything, Archos has always been known for great video playback capabilities.

Dice player for me
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I posted this in another thread but here is the bs player apk (ver.1.9.150), it's the older version that has Dolby support enabled as the newer version had to remove it for now. http://db.tt/WM51HEcl
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VPlayer Pro.

bsplayer you either dont upgrade and use SW decoding or upgrade for HW decoding and lose dolby audio
(bs is my favorite because it supports windows filesharing and I can access my home NAS without using a third party app like DNLA streaming or cifs/smb file browsers)
MXPlayer works well
VLC nightlies work well
VPlayer isn't as good as any of the above IMHO but still decent.
Did DicePlayer finally get its dolby support back?

I use MX pro..I don't have any issues.
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The best is MX Player with the dedicated plugin
Or you can try VLC Media Player

The blocking you are seeing is encoded in the video you are watching. Try using encodes with a higher bitrate.
The fact you see those blocks in the black background is testament to Nexus display's excellent reproduction of near black levels. Many other devices you don't see the blocks is likely as a symptom of their poor displays.

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The blocking you are seeing is encoded in the video you are watching. Try using encodes with a higher bitrate.
The fact you see those blocks in the black background is testament to Nexus display's excellent reproduction of near black levels. Many other devices you don't see the blocks is likely as a symptom of their poor displays.
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No it's not good to have those blocks, if you look at Sherlock Holmes movie 2 from 9:30 to 11:00, you will know the blocks are not part of the movie.
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I figure out this problem. Mx player allows to change the bright, if I change to darker, those block will not seen. Bsplayer can't display my buildin subs.
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I use gplayer myself. I used to use mobo player on my evo3d because it could save streaming videos and could be played in a floating window but when I tried getting mobo on my n7.2 it seemed like it was an older version full of bloatware so I tried gplayer. Now gplayer doesn't have a save as feature but it is a stand alone YouTube player. So if you click on a video link in tapatalk it will just launch a resizable floating video player so you can still read the forums and watch the video at the same damn time. BTW the portrait keyboard on this n7.2 is really comfortable. I can type a long response and not break a sweat. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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No it's not good to have those blocks, if you look at Sherlock Holmes movie 2 from 9:30 to 11:00, you will know the blocks are not part of the movie.
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I didn't say it's part of the movie, I said it's part of the ENCODE you have.

Obveron said:
The blocking you are seeing is encoded in the video you are watching. Try using encodes with a higher bitrate.
The fact you see those blocks in the black background is testament to Nexus display's excellent reproduction of near black levels. Many other devices you don't see the blocks is likely as a symptom of their poor displays.
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The problem is iPhone and computer both can't see blocks. Do you mean nexus's display better than those? For watching movie, no blocks obviously better?
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davidebeatrici said:
The best is MX Player with the dedicated plugin
Or you can try VLC Media Player
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Which plugin?

Try rock player 2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036107
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chris198810 said:
MX Player, BSPlayer, VPlayer 3.x are all the apps I've tried yet. Get more info from:
http://video-playback-tips.com/video-player-apps-for-google-nexus-7-get-video-playback-tips/
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You didn't notice the black blocks problem?
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Basically computer LCD is better than cellphone's. that the reason for black blocks. iPhone doesn't have this problem, maybe it's screen is better.
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