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Full screen movie on GIO

Sow i wanted to able to see a movie on my gio with out big black boarders on all sides. I dislike black boarders. After a bit of trying if found good settings.
I used the free program Format Factory
Use the option: All to mobile > Mp4 320x240 mpeg4 > 320x240 qvga
bite rate 384 ore better
fps 18 ore automatic
rato: 16:9
audio:
default ore nicer
I did play the movie file with: mobo video player pro and default player. Should work with winamp to if you are able to open the file with it!?
Testen on movie file: The.Walking.Dead.S02E06.HDTV.XviD
Happy movie watching on you're gio. Oh make me happy telling what settings worked great for you and what rom. I used stock rom 2.3.3 Dutch.

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[email protected] said:
Sow i wanted to able to see a movie on my gio with out big black boarders on all sides. I dislike black boarders. After a bit of trying if found good settings.
I used the free program Format Factory
Use the option: All to mobile > Mp4 320x240 mpeg4 > 320x240 qvga
bite rate 384 ore better
fps 18 ore automatic
rato: 16:9
audio:
default ore nicer
I did play the movie file with: mobo video player pro and default player. Should work with winamp to if you are able to open the file with it!?
Testen on movie file: The.Walking.Dead.S02E06.HDTV.XviD
Happy movie watching on you're gio. Oh make me happy telling what settings worked great for you and what rom. I used stock rom 2.3.3 Dutch.
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Weel I suggest use Rock Player. It play all reselution videos!

I use QQplayer.
Works like a charme.
For videoconversion i use Flv2Avi.
Most, so not al formats are present.

+1 for Rockplayer. It even has support for subtitles.

eightballbill said:
+1 for Rockplayer. It even has support for subtitles.
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Mx player is 2 times better thank Rock
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somehow i still using gio native player... i just converted all the videos that i want to watch on my gio with the kies things... i think that's optimized that way... but i'd like to try this to optimized with the other 3rd app player...

einsal said:
somehow i still using gio native player... i just converted all the videos that i want to watch on my gio with the kies things... i think that's optimized that way... but i'd like to try this to optimized with the other 3rd app player...
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Converting takes a lot of time, I am watching 2gb not converted .avi movies on gio full screen and no lag just with free MX player
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Avoid laggy video
kajjtan said:
Converting takes a lot of time, I am watching 2gb not converted .avi movies on gio full screen and no lag just with free MX player
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its about pixel man!
I experienced lag when playing high Res video in mx after watching xda noob vid when registering this account in tube mate with default res (no lag) and downloaded it with high Res and suddenly it remained laggy in mx
but when playing pretty big film after converted into Gio default (480*320) I have no laggy problem. it has NOTHING to do with SIZE, its about pixel...
here are some tips:
*the video ll not remained laggy in tge pixel res not too far away from default (480*320)
ex. 640*480 in some cases
*the high Res, ex. 1024*800, will remained laggy in ur gio device unless u convert to default...
*the size of video wont be the problem of lag, but it is because of PIX RESOLUTION
sorry for mistakes
thx...

trackidtracker said:
its about pixel man!
I experienced lag when playing high Res video in mx after watching xda noob vid when registering this account in tube mate with default res (no lag) and downloaded it with high Res and suddenly it remained laggy in mx
but when playing pretty big film after converted into Gio default (480*320) I have no laggy problem. it has NOTHING to do with SIZE, its about pixel...
here are some tips:
*the video ll not remained laggy in tge pixel res not too far away from default (480*320)
ex. 640*480 in some cases
*the high Res, ex. 1024*800, will remained laggy in ur gio device unless u convert to default...
*the size of video wont be the problem of lag, but it is because of PIX RESOLUTION
sorry for mistakes
thx...
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Its you who dont understand video format does very big difrence in perfomance for example I can run smooth avi xvid rips but .mkv video lags no matter which is resolution and some 720p works some lags its depends on format not resolution ofcourse bigger than 720p will lag no matter what format you choose because of our weak phone so I will stick with xvid rips in avi format and I covert 720p videos and mkv files
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hi! sorry...
kajjtan said:
Its you who dont understand video format does very big difrence in perfomance for example I can run smooth avi xvid rips but .mkv video lags no matter which is resolution and some 720p works some lags its depends on format not resolution ofcourse bigger than 720p will lag no matter what format you choose because of our weak phone so I will stick with xvid rips in avi format and I covert 720p videos and mkv files
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hi!
sorry man
i was just explaining about something i know, really... u didn't say that your avi. format is avi xvid rips...
im truly a beginner user android or smartphone so i dont mind at all
but can you mention about on which part my mistakes are?
and also can u explain on which format the 720p video will run well smooth on gio, im realy wondering now...

mkv format is generally more cpu consuming than avi, because of the container the video is embedded in.
But of course the gio is not designed to do heavy cpu work, so 720 is really not the best resolution, better convert to gio resolution to avioid the downscaling process.

Dont really know about 720p I tryed randomly I think its better stick with xvid rips there isnt any purpose because of hvga on gio to watch 720p anyways and poster above one post you didnt made any mistake but I just think that video format is first point in performance and resolution is second
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kajjtan said:
Mx player is 2 times better thank Rock
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Why is it better that the Rock player?

trackIDtracker said:
its about pixel man!
I experienced lag when playing high Res video in mx after watching xda noob vid when registering this account in tube mate with default res (no lag) and downloaded it with high Res and suddenly it remained laggy in mx
but when playing pretty big film after converted into Gio default (480*320) I have no laggy problem. it has NOTHING to do with SIZE, its about pixel...
here are some tips:
*the video ll not remained laggy in tge pixel res not too far away from default (480*320)
ex. 640*480 in some cases
*the high Res, ex. 1024*800, will remained laggy in ur gio device unless u convert to default...
*the size of video wont be the problem of lag, but it is because of PIX RESOLUTION
sorry for mistakes
thx...
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Hej what program do you use to convert the movies?

+1 for MX video player.
It has support for subtitles, and can stretch the video to screen to avoid black borders.
If you can live with borders, you can use BS Player lite.
It downloads subtitles for movies automatically for user defined language!
Its very useful if you watch movies from Gio.
I dont watch any .mkv films, 'cause they are too heavy for Gio.
Best format for gio is .avi
You can use AVS video converter to convert videos, just dl it with torrent

[email protected] said:
Why is it better that the Rock player?
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Just try it.... its has a lot of options and is in market for free (plus adfree) while rock player not
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Mp4 files run fine
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HD Content on A100?

I am wondering if anyone else is having issues playing HD video on the A100. I have put multiple different HD files on the device itself and tried to play them in MX Media Player, but the playback is downright horrible. Even with hardware rendering. I really want to be able to play my media over my network, but right now, it is just waay too choppy to watch, even with it on the card. Is there something I am missing?

with HD you mean 1080p videos? if so, try Mobo Player, it works really god at fullHD videos (at least for me).

also streaming 1080p is sketchy at best on wifi..
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720p. And I am using mobo player
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stompysan said:
720p. And I am using mobo player
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well it is suppose that acer a100 suports fullHD, so try killing processes or cleaning cache. what's your android version? (3.2 or 3.2.1)

What audio s used on the files, I have noticed that 720p mkv movies using DTS for example will outright kill performance.
Try using a 4GB 'scene' release with stereo audio if you haven't on MX Video to see if helps.

Look what i found, it may work.
Link.

I am using BSPlayer lite. This works the best for my MKV's with no audio loss. It loses some frames but plays more than MX Video or MoboPlayer.
You will need to get the ARM7 add on for it.
Try this out. I am able to stream my over 4gb MKV's from my server to my A100.

The tegra 2's only downfall... its horrible at decoding high profile HD video such as H264 video. Should be able yo run 720p just fine though depending on the type of video. I'd say try clearing up some memory.
I honestly don't see the point of playing 1080p video on a 7" tablet, seems like overkill. I can understand that its convenient to have 1 file that'll run on all your devices, but unfortunately that can't always be the case.
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[Q] [MKV] Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding?

Hey guys,
I was wondering if there was a way of making the Arc use Hardware decoding for MKV video.
I've tried every last tip google can give me and every single HW ACC supporting media player in the market but they ALL fail to either enable HW and default to SW or just crash all together when trying to play MKV files.
MP4 files (i.e. Youtube 1080p via WiFi) run perfectly fine with HW decoding on MX Player only if I try to watch a 720p/1080p MKV file, mostly TV shows and movies, it stutters like mad and the audio lags behind on whatever player I grab. Some players work better then others and MX player performs the best but still unwatchable.
I'm running a Xperia Arc with the CM 7.2.0 FXP052 ROM and Kernel OC'd @ 1612Mhz. On stock speed it's MUCH worse but the kernel doesn't go higher then 1.6Ghz nor do I think the phone can handle anything more then that without messing with the voltages.
So, is there any way to make it run HW ACC mode for MKV or am i and the rest of the Arc users just screwed?

Looks like I have to bump it up a bit...

Have you tried other players too?
I've never watched *.mkv files, because I always use *.avi files.
And I never had any issues with watching HD videos.
Btw, I'm using QQ player.

xperia hadware doens't support mkv but you can try another players like rockplayer and run software decoding.

Imprezzion said:
Hey guys,
I was wondering if there was a way of making the Arc use Hardware decoding for MKV video.
I've tried every last tip google can give me and every single HW ACC supporting media player in the market but they ALL fail to either enable HW and default to SW or just crash all together when trying to play MKV files.
MP4 files (i.e. Youtube 1080p via WiFi) run perfectly fine with HW decoding on MX Player only if I try to watch a 720p/1080p MKV file, mostly TV shows and movies, it stutters like mad and the audio lags behind on whatever player I grab. Some players work better then others and MX player performs the best but still unwatchable.
I'm running a Xperia Arc with the CM 7.2.0 FXP052 ROM and Kernel OC'd @ 1612Mhz. On stock speed it's MUCH worse but the kernel doesn't go higher then 1.6Ghz nor do I think the phone can handle anything more then that without messing with the voltages.
So, is there any way to make it run HW ACC mode for MKV or am i and the rest of the Arc users just screwed?
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You can smoothly run H/W accelerated mkv 720p videos and other formats on your smartphone using Dice Player or BS player. These players support H/W ACC for mkv,avi,flv and others.

I use Dice player to play mkv videos but not all mkv videos can be played i H/W mode and I think I know why. Developer of DicePlayer wrote in description that Xperia arc can play "720p [email protected]/4.0(some Level 4.0 file have shutter problem)" videos. From what I know scene releases of tv shows and hd movies now need to be converted with 4.1 profile so our arc/arc s can't play it. There is no need to reconvert video to change Profile Level to 4.0 or 3.1 thanks to H264 Level Editor tool. It can change level within 1 second. Tested with justified.s03e04.720p.hdtv.x264-compulsion.mkv. Changed level from 4.1 to 4.0 and still couldn't play it via DicePlayer so I changed it to 3.1 and it worked like a charm.
Don't know why but video still can't be played in MX Video Player.
I just hope this can be usefull to somebody having touble with playing 720p mkv videos.

I use Dice player to play mkv videos but not all mkv videos can be played i H/W mode and I think I know why. Developer of DicePlayer wrote in description that Xperia arc can play "720p [email protected]/4.0(some Level 4.0 file have shutter problem)" videos. From what I know scene releases of tv shows and hd movies now need to be converted with 4.1 profile so our arc/arc s can't play it. There is no need to reconvert video to change Profile Level to 4.0 or 3.1 thanks to H264 Level Editor tool. It can change level within 1 second. Tested with justified.s03e04.720p.hdtv.x264-compulsion.mkv. Changed level from 4.1 to 4.0 and still couldn't play it via DicePlayer so I changed it to 3.1 and it worked like a charm.
Don't know why but video still can't be played in MX Video Player.
I just hope this can be usefull to somebody having touble with playing 720p mkv videos.
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THIS! THIS IS IT! I spent a couple hours poking around for the answer and found thread after thread of people suggesting 'hey have you tried this player yet?', but THIS IS THE ANSWER!
Thank you so much!

Hi all, I wanted to ask if anyone found a way to play 720p .mkv files (mainly TV Scene Releases) on our Xperia Arc and with what settings (ROM, Kernel, CPU Frequency, etc) and which Video Player.
I've read that you can do it with changing Profile Level of the .mkv but I am a Mac user and can't run H264 Level Editor. Can we do it perhaps with another mac-compatible application?
Thank you for your time.

Babis_ECE said:
Hi all, I wanted to ask if anyone found a way to play 720p .mkv files (mainly TV Scene Releases) on our Xperia Arc and with what settings (ROM, Kernel, CPU Frequency, etc) and which Video Player.
I've read that you can do it with changing Profile Level of the .mkv but I am a Mac user and can't run H264 Level Editor. Can we do it perhaps with another mac-compatible application?
Thank you for your time.
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I just tried, with an 720p episode of fringe, encoded in level 4.1 and 8 r.f. I'm on stock 2.3.4 (firmware. 62) and used dice player. The episode plays but not smoothly. As for a suitable program to change level editor is
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chandoliasnikos said:
I just tried, with an 720p episode of fringe, encoded in level 4.1 and 8 r.f. I'm on stock 2.3.4 (firmware. 62) and used dice player. The episode plays but not smoothly. As for a suitable program to change level editor is
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Hi Nikos, could you mention again the "suitable program", because you must have deleted it by accident.
Thank you.

Babis_ECE said:
Hi Nikos, could you mention again the "suitable program", because you must have deleted it by accident.
Thank you.
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I forgot to write it but I see now you are using Mac, so it wont be any help, the program is for windows, it's called Ripbot264.
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Movies on ascend P6

I have a problem. I copied 2 movies on sd card and tried to watch them today. One was brrip of 1.40gb and one dvdrip of 1.40 gb. Both movies were frameing with the default player. With mx player the things improved only a little when i was using S/W decoder but it still wasn't near to being fluent. What's the problem with this device. I thought it plays even 1080p videos fluent. Can somebody help me with an advice?Maybe i did something wrong?

decomarius said:
I have a problem. I copied 2 movies on sd card and tried to watch them today. One was brrip of 1.40gb and one dvdrip of 1.40 gb. Both movies were frameing with the default player. With mx player the things improved only a little when i was using S/W decoder but it still wasn't near to being fluent. What's the problem with this device. I thought it plays even 1080p videos fluent. Can somebody help me with an advice?Maybe i did something wrong?
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Certain codecs are missing from android, meaning that h/w can't be used to play them. 1080p is not that easy to play when there is no GPU supporting the CPU. *.mkv and *.mp4 files should play fine, since those both are usually h264.
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

So this means .mkv and mp4 will play fluid till 1080p and files that are lower resolution than hd but are .avi will play jerky? No solution for these ones to play fluid? I tried with mx player (arm v7 neon) but almost the same.only a bit better.

decomarius said:
So this means .mkv and mp4 will play fluid till 1080p and files that are lower resolution than hd but are .avi will play jerky? No solution for these ones to play fluid? I tried with mx player (arm v7 neon) but almost the same.only a bit better.
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C'mon man. FullHD AVI files even on some PC will stutter with playing. Download some h264 video and then compare.

goce.nakov said:
C'mon man. FullHD AVI files even on some PC will stutter with playing. Download some h264 video and then compare.
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The problem is they weren't even hd. this is the file name "Jack.Reacher.2012.BRRip.XviD.AC3.RoSubbed-playXD.avi" 1.46gb and i verified also its resolution which is 720x300 or something like that. That's why i am confused. Low resolution like this should play without a problem even if it does use software decoding right?

decomarius said:
The problem is they weren't even hd. this is the file name "Jack.Reacher.2012.BRRip.XviD.AC3.RoSubbed-playXD.avi" 1.46gb and i verified also its resolution which is 720x300 or something like that. That's why i am confused. Low resolution like this should play without a problem even if it does use software decoding right?
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It should, even with software decoding. Seems weird, I have no idea.

Try watch movies with VLC for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon&hl=fi
I have watched films without lag with it.

One more question. What type is our processor? Is it armv7 or armv7 neon or armv6? i am asking this to know what codecs to get for mx player.

decomarius said:
One more question. What type is our processor? Is it armv7 or armv7 neon or armv6? i am asking this to know what codecs to get for mx player.
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armv7 neon, I believe

I have even one more question) . It says on gsmarena that it has temperature sensor. Is it true?

decomarius said:
I have even one more question) . It says on gsmarena that it has temperature sensor. Is it true?
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I think it only shows battery temp.

I use mine for playing movies and have not had any problems even with the avi. The only issue I have is when streaming anything that is 720 or over. The nexus 7 seems to be able to play anything I throw at it over the network when the P6 some times stutters.
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What are other people's experience with streaming movies? I am on b116
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Best way to play 1080p MKV video with 5.1 AC3 video?

Is there a way to properly play this type of videos on Android, furthermore our Nexus 7? The video is 1.7GB heavy, when playing in MX Player, it lags, VPlayer crashes, VLC lags as well. I'm thinking it may be too heavy. Is there a player, kernel, kernel with OC which could help here?
Thank you!
Btw, to convert it is too much, just so happens my external HDD is full of videos encoded this way. Playing it directly from HDD (mounted with OTG and StickMount) and playing a copy on device's memory gives the same result.

JavaJunkay said:
Is there a way to properly play this type of videos on Android, furthermore our Nexus 7? The video is 1.7GB heavy, when playing in MX Player, it lags, VPlayer crashes, VLC lags as well. I'm thinking it may be too heavy. Is there a player, kernel, kernel with OC which could help here?
Thank you!
Btw, to convert it is too much, just so happens my external HDD is full of videos encoded this way. Playing it directly from HDD (mounted with OTG and StickMount) and playing a copy on device's memory gives the same result.
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Have you tried Diceplayer with the tegra 2 plugin?
Free from Google Play.
I have had it running a few decent sized mkv's and avi's with no problem, and at the end of the day its a free app so nowt lost in trying it.

I just download videos (multiple formats) 720p/1080p and play it via mxplayer over wifi or usb otg and have yet to find a clip that didnt work. I download movies from torrent so most of them are properly ripped with decent bitrates.
Please ignore my spelling mistakes. English is not my native language.

Did you activate hw +
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JavaJunkay said:
Is there a way to properly play this type of videos on Android, furthermore our Nexus 7? The video is 1.7GB heavy, when playing in MX Player, it lags, VPlayer crashes, VLC lags as well. I'm thinking it may be too heavy. Is there a player, kernel, kernel with OC which could help here?
Thank you!
Btw, to convert it is too much, just so happens my external HDD is full of videos encoded this way. Playing it directly from HDD (mounted with OTG and StickMount) and playing a copy on device's memory gives the same result.
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Try Archos Video Player with all plugins installed.

if VLC doesn't do it then I'd try diceplayer with the proper plugins...

I seem to have forgotten turning HW+ on. It's working flawlessly! Thanks!
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