I just copied a few videos that I had on my old fascinate sdcard that would play them perfectly using HW decoder mode with MX player.
I tried it on Nexus, and very choppy, and these videos are not 720P, they are just standard SD
I tried the default video player and I guess does not support mkv files.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
That is strange, I play 720p MKV files in MX without any issues.
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure the app is fully updated?
I use DICE Player but I don't think anyone new can purchase their app because their payment is suspended.
MX Video Player is a good alternative and it's free. But if you've purchased DICE Player in the past, I'd use that.
Edit: https://market.android.com/details?...EsImNvbS5pbmlzb2Z0Lm1lZGlhcGxheWVyLnRyaWFsIl0. Looks like their trial version is now "Ad" supported?
Dice Player is the absolute best for MKVs. But as zephik said, you can't purchase right now.
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Dice Player is the absolute best for MKVs. But as zephik said, you can't purchase right now.
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Yeah looks like their "trial" version is a ad-supported version. So I think DICE Player Ad (trial) is now the full-version of the app but supported with ads as a workaround. I bought the app when it was still available and they still do update it, so I can't confirm but I believe that's how their Ad version is working.
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That is strange, I play 720p MKV files in MX without any issues.
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure the app is fully updated?
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I did not even install it myself I guess when I registered my device with my email it pulled everything down and saw MX player there already.
Let me try another video and see what happens.
I will try the DICE as well even though it has ads just to see if it even works.
OK I tested with the Dice ads player..and it works great!
So now I have to hope they get full version soon.
Anyone know how much full version was?
tannor said:
OK I tested with the Dice ads player..and it works great!
So now I have to hope they get full version soon.
Anyone know how much full version was?
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According to the receipt in my email it was $3.95. The ad version is better than the trial version they originally had.
the original trial lasted 3 days and then you had to buy it. so it's very nice that they've added this ads trial since their payment situation is all screwed up.
one thing though, i've had a lot of issues with AVI's in diceplayer, so i use MoboPlayer for them.
there is no hardware support yet. i've had to settle with using MX video player and set it to "software decoder" / "fast mode".
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there is no hardware support yet. i've had to settle with using MX video player and set it to "software decoder" / "fast mode".
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Dice Player has full MKV hardware support and fully supports 720p and 1080p MKV files.
it actually uses hardware for everything, which unfortunately fails with AVI files on my device.
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Dice Player has full MKV hardware support and fully supports 720p and 1080p MKV files.
it actually uses hardware for everything, which unfortunately fails with AVI files on my device.
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well, it cant play my .mkv's(720p ac3). upon trying the phone locks up and wont respond at all. i end up having to do a battery pull.
VPlayer works very well for mkv videos. Playback is smooth with HW Decoder and a high quality setting.
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well, it cant play my .mkv's(720p ac3). upon trying the phone locks up and wont respond at all. i end up having to do a battery pull.
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IDk what to tell you other than to message the developer. he's very helpful. i talked to him about issues before.
i've tested 6 MKVs from 720p to 1080p and all of them have worked perfectly without any issues with hardware decoding in diceplayer.
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well, it cant play my .mkv's(720p ac3). upon trying the phone locks up and wont respond at all. i end up having to do a battery pull.
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Doesn't seem to be the Apps problem if your phone is locking up. Are you using s custom rom or kernel?
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I'm trying to play some blue ray rips on the GN but the playback is a hit or miss. Sometimes I get sound, sometimes I dont. At times the whole handset crashes when I click the play button and I am forced to take the battery out.
I installed MX player from the market and now I can play them fine, but only in SW Decoder & SW Decoder Fast. The HW Decoder lags, does any one else have this issue? Shouldnt the hardware decoder be much faster ? Maybe my GN is faulty?
i have had 2 GN's now and both of them were choppy in in mxplayer on HW but fine on SW. so not just you.
Cool. Thanks for that. Any idea why this is happening ? Also I can't seem to make Mx player go full screen and hide the on screen buttons, It did it on first launch but not anymore
Have you tried using dice player?
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sgs064 said:
Have you tried using dice player?
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Yep, it lags as much as mx player does in HW decoding mode. Mx player with SW decoding is buttery smooth but I don't understand why
What file compression are you trying? I'm guessing you ripped it at 720 also?
dice player appears to play it fine on HW so im guessing its a problem with mxplayer.
also i have never got the menu buttons to go. it was bugging me also
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What file compression are you trying? I'm guessing you ripped it at 720 also?
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720p rip
naijishi said:
dice player appears to play it fine on HW so im guessing its a problem with mxplayer.
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Hmm, same file lags for me on dice and mx hw mode, but us smooth in mx sw mode. Im using dice player trial btw
I'm not sure if it would matter but do you know if its mp4 or .264? Also make sure you don't have any background operations happening.
yeah i was in trial mode also. dont know what to say. i was running a 720p mkv file as far as i know.
sorry.
naijishi said:
yeah i was in trial mode also. dont know what to say. i was running a 720p mkv file as far as i know.
sorry.
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Yea mkv runs fine in hw. Its avi thats acting up in hw.
I just tested a few videos and it they both worked flawlessly on the stock video player and MX. My best guess would be that you may have something going on in the background thats using your cpu as well.
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I just tested a few videos and it they both worked flawlessly on the stock video player and MX. My best guess would be that you may have something going on in the background thats using your cpu as well.
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I'll upload a sample of one of the videos that is choppy in HW mode. Could you test it out when It's uploaded please
bongadadu said:
I'll upload a sample of one of the videos that is choppy in HW mode. Could you test it out when It's uploaded please
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Sure
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Thanks man.
Try this, it lags for me in dice player and mx player HW mode as well as gallery. Runs fine in mx player SW mode
http://www8.zippyshare.com/v/25745618/file.html ~ 7 MB
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Thanks man.
Try this, it lags for me in dice player and mx player HW mode as well as gallery. Runs fine in mx player SW mode
http://www8.zippyshare.com/v/25745618/file.html ~ 7 MB
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I just tried it and I see what you mean by choppy playback. What software did you use when you ripped it?
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Also its not actually a HD video. - 624x352
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I just tried it and I see what you mean by choppy playback. What software did you use when you ripped it?
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Also its not actually a HD video. - 624x352
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Yea I know it's not HD but certain HD videos have same effect. Glad my device is not the only one that suffers on that vid. This was avi demux I believe.
Thanks for testing
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Yea I know it's not HD but certain HD videos have same effect. Glad my device is not the only one that suffers on that vid. This was avi demux I believe.
Thanks for testing
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No problem. If theres an option in avi demux to encode in mp4 or .264 or something try that. I've tested those types of encoded files and they work great at 720 res!
Hey guys!
I've had my Galaxy Nexus for a couple days now, and I was thinking of loading it up with some movies I have at home. The problem is, I've ripped the movies in 720p .mp4 format on my Mac - but it won't play with the stock ICS player.. Rock Player works sort of, it shows video but it doesn't hide the on-screen buttons.
Rip details is: 720p h.264, AAC audio
Any ideas?
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Hey guys!
I've had my Galaxy Nexus for a couple days now, and I was thinking of loading it up with some movies I have at home. The problem is, I've ripped the movies in 720p .mp4 format on my Mac - but it won't play with the stock ICS player.. Rock Player works sort of, it shows video but it doesn't hide the on-screen buttons.
Rip details is: 720p h.264, AAC audio
Any ideas?
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Yeah, stock gallery doesnt play wide range of codecs yet so I rely on MX player instead. But having the same problem tho about the on screen buttons :/
I find that the "dice" player from android market plays more stuff than any thing i can get straight .mkv files running perfect on my GN it is a paid app for the full version but im happy with it.
spiralz said:
I find that the "dice" player from android market plays more stuff than any thing i can get straight .mkv files running perfect on my GN it is a paid app for the full version but im happy with it.
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Do you have the stay-on-screen-buttons problem on Dice Player?
The only player that plays movies in full screen is Dice Player....but it has been removed from the market.
Have you tried Mobo Player? Works great on my Nexus S with mkv/mp4/whatever.
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Have you tried Mobo Player? Works great on my Nexus S with mkv/mp4/whatever.
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It needs some codec (which cannot find in market) to download first in order to use it...
Make sure you use the right mp4 level I think level 4 is the Max android will recognize all my encodes work so far
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I'm using MX video player and MX Video Player CODEC.
Doubletwist is also very good.
All available from the market and have had no issues playing anything so far.
SnowmanAndy said:
I'm using MX video player and MX Video Player CODEC.
Doubletwist is also very good.
All available from the market and have had no issues playing anything so far.
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Cool, I forgot about Doubletwist, thanks.
I currently use QQPlayer, Diceplayer premium and Rockplayer. They all seem to play some files and not others.
I tried Moboplayer but ran into trouble installing the codec during the install process (even when installing 'offline')
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jonnyguitar said:
Cool, I forgot about Doubletwist, thanks.
Jonny
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Update - I just tried Doubleplayer, and while it plays everything it stuggles at times. More jerky (lower frame rate?) than QQPlayer.
I'd be happy with QQPlayer but the seek doesn't play nice. So if I miss something I have to start the video from scratch. And like I say, Dice, Mobo, Rockplayer and Realplayer (yes I was desperate) all appear to have various problems of their own.
I do recall VLC being released a year or so ago. But I guess it was pulled too?
I'd love to know if anyone has found a decent video app... (*I have a 4.5 hour daily commute into London!*)
Dice Player ftw!
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Dice Player ftw!
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Many people reported that it crashes on ICS, is that happened to you too?
Trying to find the best MKV Player for Android, paid or free, doesn't matter. I am currently using MX Player but the volume is pretty low even using Volume+
Thank you
I've found DICE Player to be the best, I've yet to have an issue on my smartphone or tablet with it.
RMatt1992 said:
I've found DICE Player to be the best, I've yet to have an issue on my smartphone or tablet with it.
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I second this as Dice Player played a 4 gb mkv pretty well on my phone. You can always download the trial first as well.
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Thanks guys!
yeah when i was on my Rezound i found that both Dice & MX were the best(& only 2 at the time that could handle 720P).
oddly though, i can't seem to get 720P (ac3) .mkv files to play on my Nexus with any app... well, if i'm lucky, MX will decide to randomly pick one and play it in 'software mode'... but refuses to play in hardware mode period.
i hope there's a fix for this soon.
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yeah when i was on my Rezound i found that both Dice & MX were the best(& only 2 at the time that could handle 720P).
oddly though, i can't seem to get 720P (ac3) .mkv files to play on my Nexus with any app... well, if i'm lucky, MX will decide to randomly pick one and play it in 'software mode'... but refuses to play in hardware mode period.
i hope there's a fix for this soon.
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Tron works in 720p with all modes, but smooth in hardware. Looks PHENOMENAL.
I’ve been searching for a tool that can do that job. Although there are lots of MKV converters in the market, which one to choose is a big headache, because most of these programs have problems one or another like video, audio out of sync, quality loss… Well, Brorsoft Video Converter is a powerful MKV to MP4 converter which can fast convert MKV to MP4 with high quality.
I have a pretty big collection of HD movies with DTS soundtrack and none of the common media players like MX player or QQ player and even the stock samsung player could decode DTS. I looked around in the interwebs and came across VLC player beta which gets the job done. Also it is pretty good at playing back high bitrate videos where others players stutter a lot or wont even open the file. For example this 40 mbps sample
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/h264_1080p_hp_4.1_40mbps_birds.mkv
Just install as a regular app from any file manager.
TIP: Enable HW acceleration in settings for smooth 1080p playback
VLC is not yet available in play store for US and Canada. Hope a stable version is released soon.
Your the man, been wanting this forever! I have a ton of high bit rate videos in mkv format.
Does it get updated constantly? Last time I tried vlc beta I was on the g2 and it honestly ducked. Coming from using vlc on all my computers it just Sucks on the phone.
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Does it get updated constantly? Last time I tried vlc beta I was on the g2 and it honestly ducked. Coming from using vlc on all my computers it just Sucks on the phone.
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Without a market link I have no way to tell if this is regularly updated. But the way it is now it comes handy for me due to the unique capabilities I mentioned in the OP, and I havent had any issues using it.
giving it a try, seems pretty good so far. I also tried it back on my GSII (tmobile) and it was buggy and unreliable
Really no need for this...V Player has been getting the job done for the past few years now
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Really no need for this...V Player has been getting the job done for the past few years now
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V player is a paid app, and it has some issues like audio out of sync especially if you play over network from a Windows share.
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Well, this player wont play my mkv's. Choppy, pixelated. The built in video player, believe it or not, is the ONLY player I can find that works. Not that that is an issue or anything, only sucks if I want to run CM10. Thanks for the post anyways!
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rashad1 said:
Really no need for this...V Player has been getting the job done for the past few years now
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V Player doesn't work for me either. Maybe my videos are to high def, IDK, but nothing will play them. They are all 720 and 1080.
setzer715 said:
Well, this player wont play my mkv's. Choppy, pixelated. The built in video player, believe it or not, is the ONLY player I can find that works. Not that that is an issue or anything, only sucks if I want to run CM10. Thanks for the post anyways!
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Did you enable hw acceleration in the preferences? I tried several formats including mkv, m2ts, mp4 etc and everything has worked well so far, 720p and 1080p. But anyways mkv is just a container and its possible your videos are encoded in some strange format.
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Found out today this player can even decode lossless multichannel formats like DTS master HD and Dolby tru HD. That's very impressive! Nothing it couldn't handle so far.
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How come VLC Player's official website didn't annouce it yet? Even if it's just beta..
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How come VLC Player's official website didn't annouce it yet? Even if it's just beta..
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Did you enable hw acceleration in the preferences? I tried several formats including mkv, m2ts, mp4 etc and everything has worked well so far, 720p and 1080p. But anyways mkv is just a container and its possible your videos are encoded in some strange format.
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Thanks, HW acceleration fixed it. My vids are h.264 MKV. Sometimes 720, sometimes 1080. App is working great now, thanks again!
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Works real nice for me with one exception on .3gp files. The sound is horrible with those files and I tried all three options for audio in Preferences. The only other thing that annoys is that box that opens every single time you open or back out. Any way to disable that, I can't find one? There was someone in France who was working on his own hack that I used on my Vibrant. I'll have to see if those will work for my S3. Anyway, I've got to keep an eye on this, it is really awesome although not finished.
I have found it doesn't work on S3 with hardware acceleration for certain codecs like wmv3.
Also, just FYI, if you have Settings > Sounds > Auto Haptic ON
VLC will vibrate entire time audio is playing (not movies), but this is also
true with winamp on S3.
Also note that you should get the VLC beta for Neon nightly builds and
that the Play Store is disabled for download from US and Canada until full
release, so you have to get .apk from the nightly builds.
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I have found it doesn't work on S3 with hardware acceleration for certain codecs like wmv3.
Also, just FYI, if you have Settings > Sounds > Auto Haptic ON
VLC will vibrate entire time audio is playing (not movies), but this is also
true with winamp on S3.
Also note that you should get the VLC beta for Neon nightly builds and
that the Play Store is disabled for download from US and Canada until full
release, so you have to get .apk from the nightly builds.
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I actually found two other non-official versions (one is the nightly) and one of those is running really well although I'd really like to disable the Toast Frame that says it's a Beta. I may try Andridu's version that I used to have on my Vibrant. It didn't have that.
My videos in stock player play fine, but I get this error message "unsupported audio codec" - and I have no sound.
They play ok in Galaxy Note 2, and everywhere else. Tried MX player, same thing. Video is ok but with no sound.
Any solution to this?
carlitos66 said:
My videos in stock player play fine, but I get this error message "unsupported audio codec" - and I have no sound.
They play ok in Galaxy Note 2, and everywhere else. Tried MX player, same thing. Video is ok but with no sound.
Any solution to this?
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Your video probably comes with DTS stream that cannot be decoded. Google MX player DTS you wull find the proper codec.
If you are using Mx player you need to check off the audio codec in the settings. I would keep it that way forever.
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I actually loved the stock samsung player on th gn10.1 2012. it played everything. the first vid I tried to play on this one and it won't play ac3 audio. so I've started using archos and the old bs player again.
Bsplayer got hit with ac3 problem when dolby demanded royalty fees, maybe samsung did to?
+1 for mxplayer
Speaking of players, can this thing play 4K videos?
madsquabbles said:
I actually loved the stock samsung player on th gn10.1 2012. it played everything. the first vid I tried to play on this one and it won't play ac3 audio. so I've started using archos and the old bs player again.
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me too, weird why Samsung changed this. One of my main reason to buy this tablet - put anything on SD card and play without converting with Hand Brake etc...
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me too, weird why Samsung changed this. One of my main reason to buy this tablet - put anything on SD card and play without converting with Hand Brake etc...
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I believe it was due to legal issues.
SlimJ87D said:
I believe it was due to legal issues.
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for a $600 there shouldn't be any legal issues. pay the royalty and be done with it.
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for a $600 there shouldn't be any legal issues. pay the royalty and be done with it.
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I bet from a business standpoint, the amount the royalties cost per a device wouldn't have been worth it compared to the actual amount of people that would really take advantage of it. But yes, it would be cool to have had it out of the box. But I believe it works fine with MX Player from my testing, and it really wasn't that hard to get MX Player.
I had the same issue with unsupported audio codec, solved with VLC player.
I've paid. for just about every player, mobo, dice, bs.. right now my favorite is archos. it's a mix of mizuu and bs. I havent had a single video that it couldnt play yet.
Are those your recommended players to watch most content? I really want to buy one but in the past have ran into audio issues.
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I like archos because it can download movie info, tv series info, and play about everything. I use he archos free codecs and everything plays fine. I've always liked archos media player from when I used to have the archos 101.
I know you can use other media players, but the point of using stock player is that it plays videos with the help of hardware, thus less battery consumption, versus if you use software decoding by other apps. Or at least It was like that on Nexus 10.
Has anyone tried to contact Samsung about this? My old galaxy 7.7has ac3 support.
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I know you can use other media players, but the point of using stock player is that it plays videos with the help of hardware, thus less battery consumption, versus if you use software decoding by other apps. Or at least It was like that on Nexus 10.
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the other media player can use hardware decoding if available. archos does ac3 fine with hardware decoding. i'd supposed the old bs player will to but i've not used it yet.
but it was nice having a great player that played everything built into the system.
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If you are using Mx player you need to check off the audio codec in the settings. I would keep it that way forever.
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If you download MX Player's NeoN-driver (you'll find the download link to the .zip in the settings), you can use HW+ for video and audio (DTS supported). Using this you are in audio/video heaven with the new Note 10.1. You can even play 2 full HD movies, one with MX Player and one with the built-in player (in pop-up mode) at the same time without any hickup. And if you so desire, open up an internet or file browser while you are at it - screen area allowing.
I see so much talk of lag and other supposed deficiencies here, while so far I have been in honeymoon state for 8 days solid.
lord69 said:
Speaking of players, can this thing play 4K videos?
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Yes with mx player