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[INFO] MX Video updated for ICS

Just updated to the new MX Video player.
My MKV's plays without issue, smother than Diceplayer!

Yes works much batter then dice. Just tested 720P mkv, plays smooth in hw mode with subs.
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no HW acceleration for me.

Me either.. Its abit choppy - SW decoder fast mode works best for me plays nice and smooth. Also if its been updated for ICS why do the buttons still remain on screen :|

same here HW doesn't work on 720p video

..couple of days I bought Diceplayer ,avi films works fine but after doesn't work anymore;-(I updated MX player and works amazing ;-)thx

Two things:
1. When I play 720p MKV file locally it plays nicely in HW. But when I play the same file from network share, only software decoder works and subtitle no longer loads.
2. TXT subtitle in the format beow does not display correctly:
1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,300
/Previously in "xxx"...
2
00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:06,800
Line 1,
Line 2.

Backo23 said:
..couple of days I bought Diceplayer ,avi films works fine but after doesn't work anymore;-(I updated MX player and works amazing ;-)thx
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send your avi files to diceplayer's dev ( [email protected] )
I'll fix it.

Will be interested to see how my batch of test videos goes on the Nexus with various players... will link to my findings here when I have them!

Yeah, diceplayer works fine with mkv files, but not so well with xvid avis. It is a bit choppy, and ac3 audio plays ahead of video. I bet there will be an update soon enough.
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jkoljo said:
Yeah, diceplayer works fine with mkv files, but not so well with xvid avis. It is a bit choppy, and ac3 audio plays ahead of video. I bet there will be an update soon enough.
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Probably depends on files, all AVIs I have tried played without any problems. But still, most of my files now comes in MKV format.
There is one MKV that no player can handle It's a free sample so it's ok to share: http://www.filesonic.com/file/4051381924/killa.sampla.x264.mkv

After last update, software buttons get hidden in full screen mode, nice.
Any chance for WMV HD hardware decoder support?

K wait so MX Video ... are they still inferior to DicePlayer because it isnt hardware driven? I have read the thread and saw Dice doesnt do well with some formats in some cases but.. I cant decide which to get.. MX Video looks a lot nicer but the DicePlayer market page says it drains less battery and it takes advantage of the Gnex's omap processor for video so.... ehhhh
any thoughts

If MX is said to do everything in software, than why does it show Software OR Hardware decoder option while playing files? Some files get played in Hardware, some in software, all depends on codec. Try both. In my case, subtitles support is important, so most of the time I use MX, but Diceplayer is nice too. Whenever file doesn't play in one, I try the other. Neither is perfect yet.

Dmw017 said:
K wait so MX Video ... are they still inferior to DicePlayer because it isnt hardware driven? I have read the thread and saw Dice doesnt do well with some formats in some cases but.. I cant decide which to get.. MX Video looks a lot nicer but the DicePlayer market page says it drains less battery and it takes advantage of the Gnex's omap processor for video so.... ehhhh
any thoughts
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I have problems with some xvid avi files with MX Player. But even so the decision is easy at the moment because the developer of Dice Player has problems with his checkout account and you can't buy Dice Player at the moment.

Try the free version. AVI's lag for me
Dmw017 said:
K wait so MX Video ... are they still inferior to DicePlayer because it isnt hardware driven? I have read the thread and saw Dice doesnt do well with some formats in some cases but.. I cant decide which to get.. MX Video looks a lot nicer but the DicePlayer market page says it drains less battery and it takes advantage of the Gnex's omap processor for video so.... ehhhh
any thoughts
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Try the free version of MX Player first and see how you like it. MX Player has lag for me in AVI's (standard def) with hardware decoding selected. I have to choose software decode (Fast) for it to play properly.

dirran said:
Try the free version of MX Player first and see how you like it. MX Player has lag for me in AVI's (standard def) with hardware decoding selected. I have to choose software decode (Fast) for it to play properly.
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I have the same problems with xvid avi files, but i can't enable software decode. Regardless of what options i choose in decoder settings, the xvid avi file is always played in HW mode (amazingly an h.264 mkv file is always played on Fast SW mode with the same settings).

Bierfreund said:
I have the same problems with xvid avi files, but i can't enable software decode. Regardless of what options i choose in decoder settings, the xvid avi file is always played in HW mode (amazingly an h.264 mkv file is always played on Fast SW mode with the same settings).
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Try play this MKV file locally from the phone, not over the network, it should play in Hardware. If it does, then mount your network drives with CIFS Manager and they will play in Hardware too.

How do I access menu?
Hi guys,
Now that mx player hides the soft buttons, how do we access the menu to change the options? I can't seem to find the … button anywhere.

schriss said:
Try play this MKV file locally from the phone, not over the network, it should play in Hardware. If it does, then mount your network drives with CIFS Manager and they will play in Hardware too.
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Played it locally, i don't use streaming... the mkv is played smootly in "SW fast" mode, but the xvid avi is not played smoothly in "HW" mode...

[APP] Vlc player Nightlies

Hi guys
You guys might be knowing that the vlc player beta on play store doesn't support tegra 2 due to lack of neon.The given link has nightly builds of vlc player, including for tegra 2 (mentioned as T2 there).
It won't detect any media on its own at first, you have to select the directories in settings.
Do give it a try.
(Works for me.)
https://code.google.com/p/vlcmediaplayer/downloads/list

I got Dice Player, it has built-in tegra2 support.
And it reproduces .mkv files as well, so I didn't feel the need to look further.

Altough VLC is the player for me when it comes to watching movies on my computer, I think im going to stick anyways to the MX Player on Android, it is pretty stable and optmized and works like a charm.

Alex2221 said:
Altough VLC is the player for me when it comes to watching movies on my computer, I think im going to stick anyways to the MX Player on Android, it is pretty stable and optmized and works like a charm.
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I experienced some issues with MX Player reproducing mkv files, reproduction went jerkily.
Dice Player does it flawlessly instead.

Are you guys talking about 720p .mkv's or smaller ones?

[Q] Player for Blu ray rip MKVs

Hello everyone, i have Blu ray rip mkv (from 20-40gb each mkv) in my usb hdd, when i play it on my Galaxy note 2 the video runs fine but without audio and when the video starts a msg appear at the bottom says something about only video is playing. I have MX player pro, PlayerPro, Real Player and i tried on all of them and on defualt video player as well. The funny thing is the tv series episodes like vampire diaries, mentalist, big bang theory i download in 720p rip mkv(from 900mb to 1.5gb) it runs perfectly. Is there some sort of codecs i need for the audio in Blu ray rips i'm trying to play or some other player.
I'll be very grateful for help.

zaselim said:
Hello everyone, i have Blu ray rip mkv (from 20-40gb each mkv) in my usb hdd, when i play it on my Galaxy note 2 the video runs fine but without audio and when the video starts a msg appear at the bottom says something about only video is playing. I have MX player pro, PlayerPro, Real Player and i tried on all of them and on defualt video player as well. The funny thing is the tv series episodes like vampire diaries, mentalist, big bang theory i download in 720p rip mkv(from 900mb to 1.5gb) it runs perfectly. Is there some sort of codecs i need for the audio in Blu ray rips i'm trying to play or some other player.
I'll be very grateful for help.
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try bsplayer.
I tried all the apps you mentioned with no luck. Bsplayer can play everything i got in my video library.

ok I will, Thanks.

I use dice player. It's played anything I've thrown at it so far and it has a pop up feature as well.

With MX Player Pro try going into settings and changing it from H/W to S/W.. That's what I use and everything I watched plays just fine

bs player handsdown. i tried them all, non of them would play DTS audio mkv file except bs player. unfortunately, stock samsung has better video quality but no sound lol

Actually the stock player should be able to handle them.
I have mx player installed and bs player also.
One thing that bs player has that others don't, playing videos over a Windows share. You can play music videos back to back without needing to select the next song.
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Both myself and my brother have played mkv files on our devices with no issues. I have the note II and he has an s III .... not sure what the issue is you are having but I don't think it is the video player... I use stock, so does he.

+1 for BSPlayer, also consider Archos with the additional Codec Add-on
I've found that on my version of the Note II, MXPlayer Pro, the default Video Player, IMToo, all did not work because of the lack of an AC3 codec.
The ones that worked were:
- Archos Video Player (with the Codec Add-On installed)
- BSPlayer
- VLC, however does not play .m4v files
- XBMC, however lags on playback
In the end it was between Archos and BSPlayer. The Archos Player has a better UI along with the ability to bookmark within the video. BSPlayer has the capability of resizing the video to any size, and locking the aspect ratio on-screen. It also connects to opensubs.org to download external subs on the fly, if needed.
Being an XBMC / OpenELEC user, since I'm comfortable with the interface and the plug-in system, I'm hoping that it will be optimized for Android in the future. When that day comes, I will switch back to XBMC. But for now, I flip back between Archos and BS Player.

Thanks for your help guys, my problem is solved

Mx player
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Archos Video Player now has a free version (with minor ads)

Apparently the $4.99 charge caused enough of an uproar with Archos customers and people wanting to use their Video Player (or even just test it out), so now Archos has gone and made an ad-supported version of their Video Player. As a disclaimer I have to say that I do find MX Player to be better overall in general, but I just installed this Archos Video Player (free version, obviously) and I've spent maybe 15 minutes with it on my Nexus 7 and I have to say one word:
Impressive.
Seriously, it is. No, it ain't MX Player but, as soon as I loaded it and then was able to see my network shares in a few seconds flat, then index those folders and grab the cover art - and even subtitles for some files - I was duly impressed as noted.
Second disclaimer: my Wife is deaf so pretty much everything I have already has subtitles but, it was pretty awesome to see this video player reach out for them just the same.
I'd never even heard of this video player before now and I try to keep up with Archos and their products, so I am definitely surprised with this little gem so far. I have some videos that have native DTS soundtracks and of course neither this app nor MX Player can decode DTS natively, they both require additional codecs, and I recently located the DTS codecs for MX Player and they work great. For this Archos Video Player, there's another app/installer called Archos Video All Codecs Plugin, which is also free and it's on Google Play just as well - that took all of 10 seconds to locate and install - you run it one time once it's installed on your device and then the Archos Video Player has access to the codecs.
I then hit my network share again and loaded the previously playable-without-audio files and it works, just as designed. Fantastic experience with this app so far, but I still have MX Player as well. I'll do more testing with various files over the next few days, but if it works as well over time as it does right now, I may just be using this as my primary Android video player from now on.
Links:
Archos Video Player Free
Archos Video All Codecs Plugin

br0adband said:
Apparently the $4.99 charge caused enough of an uproar with Archos customers and people wanting to use their Video Player (or even just test it out), so now Archos has gone and made an ad-supported version of their Video Player. As a disclaimer I have to say that I do find MX Player to be better overall in general, but I just installed this Archos Video Player (free version, obviously) and I've spent maybe 15 minutes with it on my Nexus 7 and I have to say one word:
Impressive.
Seriously, it is. No, it ain't MX Player but, as soon as I loaded it and then was able to see my network shares in a few seconds flat, then index those folders and grab the cover art - and even subtitles for some files - I was duly impressed as noted.
Second disclaimer: my Wife is deaf so pretty much everything I have already has subtitles but, it was pretty awesome to see this video player reach out for them just the same.
I'd never even heard of this video player before now and I try to keep up with Archos and their products, so I am definitely surprised with this little gem so far. I have some videos that have native DTS soundtracks and of course neither this app nor MX Player can decode DTS natively, they both require additional codecs, and I recently located the DTS codecs for MX Player and they work great. For this Archos Video Player, there's another app/installer called Archos Video All Codecs Plugin, which is also free and it's on Google Play just as well - that took all of 10 seconds to locate and install - you run it one time once it's installed on your device and then the Archos Video Player has access to the codecs.
I then hit my network share again and loaded the previously playable-without-audio files and it works, just as designed. Fantastic experience with this app so far, but I still have MX Player as well. I'll do more testing with various files over the next few days, but if it works as well over time as it does right now, I may just be using this as my primary Android video player from now on.
Links:
Archos Video Player Free
Archos Video All Codecs Plugin
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are you using an UPnP server to share your movies over wifi? Your subtitles are integrated into the video files, or are external files?( .srt usually)

I'm using the SMB support in the Archos Video Player, I don't use uPNP for anything (not that I have any such devices save for my cable modem/router), pulling MKV containers directly for playback. I embed the subs inside the MKV containers, butfor one or two of the videos that I have that weren't worth putting into MKV containers (they're old AVI files using the Xvid codec) they had sub/idx style subtitles and not srt so the Archos Video Player pulled down an srt version that works just as well.
I do all my own encoding probably 99% of the time and make sure the captions or subtitles are accurate and without issues, embedded inside the MKV containers so I know certain my Wife won't have any problems.

Very nice. Thanks for the share. So far diceplayer and this (both with ffmpeg added) are the only ones to play all my MKVs correctly with hardware decoding.
Mxplayer, even with ffmpeg, fails to do HWA audio in some of my videos.
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I run a Plex server from my ancient EeeBox for streaming videos to my Roku. I hadn't bothered buying the app for Android because it was five bucks. The Archos player picked up the Plex server lickity split....yay!

MKV files

I notice that my new HTC One won't play my mkv files properly with the stock video player (plays the video but not the audio). Surprisingly, DicePlayer won't play them properly either.
However, MX Player works absolutely fine (I have it set to use S/W for the audio in Settings).
Just a heads up.

delboy98 said:
I notice that my new HTC One won't play my mkv files properly with the stock video player (plays the video but not the audio). Surprisingly, DicePlayer won't play them properly either.
However, MX Player works absolutely fine (I have it set to use S/W for the audio in Settings).
Just a heads up.
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That HTC includes the Matroska media container is already a good sign, I am sure they can fix the small bug ...
MX Player is awesome, it can do everything just perfect!

Use BS Player, it is the best video player on Google Play Store

protomanp1 said:
Use BS Player, it is the best video player on Google Play Store
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Have you tried MX Player? I just looked at BS and to me it is very ugly. MX Player works perfect. Maybe BS does too, but it could not possibly be better, and to me it is ugly.

MX Player does the job for me here.

delboy98 said:
I notice that my new HTC One won't play my mkv files properly with the stock video player (plays the video but not the audio). Surprisingly, DicePlayer won't play them properly either.
However, MX Player works absolutely fine (I have it set to use S/W for the audio in Settings).
Just a heads up.
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MX Player is the best. You can use HD+ for the video in Settings too.

rpmccormick said:
Have you tried MX Player? I just looked at BS and to me it is very ugly. MX Player works perfect. Maybe BS does too, but it could not possibly be better, and to me it is ugly.
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I have used and extensively tested both. BS Player is the better one.
Few things that make BS Player stand out over the rest are:
Easily stream files from other device from your network.
Auto subtitle downloader. This particular one is amazing.
For instance you download a movie or tv show on your pc/laptop, you use BS Player to stream it and it will find the correct subtitle for that video and apply it.

Use BS Player, it is the best video player on Google Play Store.
I use BS player for me the best player..

I use Mobo Player ALOT, it's great, it plays almost everything, has some great settings, plus you can go back to your homescreens and it'll window the video for you so you can still watch whatever it is that you're viewing.
I've also been using VLC Player too, it's still in 'beta' but it's stable as hell and plays everything!
I had to use it as Mobo Player was messing up some of my anime subs.
<3 them both!

VLC
VLC media player does its best

Personally, I've found the Archos player to be leagues ahead of anything else.

Scottland said:
Personally, I've found the Archos player to be leagues ahead of anything else.
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Same here... Ive used MX, VLC and VPlayer.... Archos much better and also pulls in your shared network library of movies.
Defo worth trying out.

Ive had disappointing results with MX Player on the ARHD 7.0 - for some reason I cannot enable HW playback so my 720p videos stutter along in SW mode. They run fine on my Galaxy S2

Scottland said:
Personally, I've found the Archos player to be leagues ahead of anything else.
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Wow... Archos looks awesome... like XBMC (which is also an option for Android from xbmc.org, but not in the play store)
EDIT: Archos won't play my DTS encoded MKV without buying the codecs. Lame. EDIT: I stand corrected, I guess there is a free codec too.

rpmccormick said:
Wow... Archos looks awesome... like XBMC (which is also an option for Android from xbmc.org, but not in the play store)
EDIT: Archos won't play my DTS encoded MKV without buying the codecs. Lame.
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TOTALLY forgot about XBMC for android!!! I'm an XBMC junkie but haven't modified my HT setup for a while. thanks for the reminder! I just installed it and it looks just like the desktop app. I'll have to do some testing fir sure. if anyone else is interested, here's the link:
http://xbmc.org/download/
Easy to maintain settings as well according to their website. It saves it in user data so updates don't wipe them out.
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rpmccormick said:
Wow... Archos looks awesome... like XBMC (which is also an option for Android from xbmc.org, but not in the play store)
EDIT: Archos won't play my DTS encoded MKV without buying the codecs. Lame.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.m4rk3t.libcopy2