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[Q] MKV Container support

Can some one give their phone a run through with some MKVs downloaded. I want to see if there is native support for the MKV Container with some common codec for internet downloaded files (Particulary interested in anime's)

.mkv isn't a codec, it's a container.

veli69 said:
Can some one give their phone a run through with some MKVs downloaded. I want to see if there is native support
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Im pretty sure it wouldnt come with native mkv support. I dont know off hand any handsets that do. I cant find out until I get my handset hopefully tomorrow but if it doesnt then its easy enough to get round it.
Mark.

mskip said:
Im pretty sure it wouldnt come with native mkv support. I dont know off hand any handsets that do. I cant find out until I get my handset hopefully tomorrow but if it doesnt then its easy enough to get round it.
Mark.
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The samsung galaxy s II does based on testing I have seen. It looks like the HTC Sensation does also with limited success

oscillik said:
.mkv isn't a codec, it's a container.
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Picky picky lol
Mark.

oscillik said:
.mkv isn't a codec, it's a container.
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Yeah I was lazy edited

You can get MKV compatible players from the market anyway so it's not really an issue.

veli69 said:
The samsung galaxy s II does based on testing I have seen. It looks like the HTC Sensation does also with limited success
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Those phones support playback of some .mkv files because the respective manufacturers have included support via their modifications to Android. The Galaxy Nexus is a stock Android device, and as such, will likely only have limited support for video and music files. If anyone wants additional functionality that stock Android doesn't offer, that is what apps on the market / ROMs are for
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Picky picky lol
Mark.
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hey, someone has to be right

Just posted that on another board:
mkv container: yes, as long as you use the google acquired vp8 codec. So thats most likely a "no" for downloaded mkvs since most of them will be h.264.
See here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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mskip said:
Im pretty sure it wouldnt come with native mkv support. I dont know off hand any handsets that do. I cant find out until I get my handset hopefully tomorrow but if it doesnt then its easy enough to get round it.
Mark.
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The Optimus 3D played MKV's with stock ROM and no extra apps with h.264 video, aac or ac3 audio (2D and 3D)
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gokpog said:
Just posted that on another board:
mkv container: yes, as long as you use the google acquired vp8 codec. So thats most likely a "no" for downloaded mkvs since most of them will be h.264.
See here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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so a simple remux to ts (a few seconds to do) would be OK but most would need audio transcoding too (creating sync issues)
can anyone recommend a decent, unrestricted, free video player for mkv with h.264 and will do aac, mp3 and ac3 audio?

gokpog said:
Just posted that on another board:
mkv container: yes, as long as you use the google acquired vp8 codec. So thats most likely a "no" for downloaded mkvs since most of them will be h.264.
See here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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Strange that they would limit container support based on the contents of the container. Makes no sense to me. We'll have to see I guess.

Tung_meister said:
You can get MKV compatible players from the market anyway so it's not really an issue.
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I know on my incredible (old I know) it cant do anything over 720p in software decode mode and that is pushing it.
I dont know if the dual cores can do better. It would be good to know that its no longer an issue.

Well at least it has more support than the iDevices
Mark.

veli69 said:
I know on my incredible (old I know) it cant do anything over 720p in software decode mode and that is pushing it.
I dont know if the dual cores can do better. It would be good to know that its no longer an issue.
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The IVA 3 multimedia accelerator integrated into the OMAP 4460 is capable of decoding 1080p30 video, providing an application is available to take advantage of this you should be able to play most HD content.

Xperia ion H.264 support

So I have been considering the Ion as an upgrade from my ATRIX 4g but I have one criteria than the next phone I get cannot fail, or else there is no point in upgrading my phone because overall, I am happy with my current phone. I was wondering if the ion has the ability to natively decode hi-profile H.264 encoded video in an .mkv file. I have literally thousands of files on my PC and I don't want to re-encode them, especially because most of them have subtitles and that makes them extra hard to re-encode.
So if someone could find and test out some h.264 hi-profile encoded mkv video in 720p or 1080p, and report back the results of how it played, I would be super grateful! (Just FYI most .mkv files are h264 and most videos encoded in h.264 are encoded in hi-profile, so the files aren't that rare in case it seemed daunting to find a file like that) Thanks so much!

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So I have been considering the Ion as an upgrade from my ATRIX 4g but I have one criteria than the next phone I get cannot fail, or else there is no point in upgrading my phone because overall, I am happy with my current phone. I was wondering if the ion has the ability to natively decode hi-profile H.264 encoded video in an .mkv file. I have literally thousands of files on my PC and I don't want to re-encode them, especially because most of them have subtitles and that makes them extra hard to re-encode.
So if someone could find and test out some h.264 hi-profile encoded mkv video in 720p or 1080p, and report back the results of how it played, I would be super grateful! (Just FYI most .mkv files are h264 and most videos encoded in h.264 are encoded in hi-profile, so the files aren't that rare in case it seemed daunting to find a file like that) Thanks so much!
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I have tried a few like that and they seem to work just fine using MX player on the Ion. The files I tried were at least 720p mkv files and h.264 encoded.

popfan said:
I have tried a few like that and they seem to work just fine using MX player on the Ion. The files I tried were at least 720p mkv files and h.264 encoded.
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+1 Confirmed. MX Player is the jam! I have yet to try 1080p personally, so I can't report on that. But all of my movies that are MKV H.264 720p, play just fine.

I use dice player and 1080p .mkv's are smooth as butter and even send to my bravia TV flawlessly
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Cool thanks for letting me know. The Ion is a definite possibility. It's either the Ion or the Samsung Galaxy S3.

the ion is free right now

killerskincanoe said:
the ion is free right now
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$0.00 or $199.99 ..... hmmm

Well, if you don't mind answering, for you, what are the things you find to be a negative aspect of the Ion? What about the phone arent you happy with?

i uploaded this to my phone,......and it runs pretty smooth on Hardware mode and Software mode,..... via MX Player
if you want me to test one of your own video / movie...... send me the file or link
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acidtreat101 said:
Well, if you don't mind answering, for you, what are the things you find to be a negative aspect of the Ion? What about the phone arent you happy with?
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The only thing that I don't like, is while on a head set call, the phone screen turns off at call end, even if you're using it during the call. Other than that, I love this phone.
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cHoLoCoY said:
i uploaded this to my phone,......and it runs pretty smooth on Hardware mode and Software mode,..... via MX Player
if you want me to test one of your own video / movie...... send me the file or link
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Could you go to http://www.h264info.com/clips.html and download the clip titled Serenity – 720p “On HD DVD” Trailer and tell me how it runs on the phone. On my Atrix, it lags a lot and the audio gets totally out of sync. Other videos, even in 1080p, I can play fine- so long as they aren't encoded in high-profile. Thanks.

acidtreat101 said:
Could you go to http://www.h264info.com/clips.html and download the clip titled Serenity – 720p “On HD DVD” Trailer and tell me how it runs on the phone. On my Atrix, it lags a lot and the audio gets totally out of sync. Other videos, even in 1080p, I can play fine- so long as they aren't encoded in high-profile. Thanks.
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I just tried this file, first video I play on my phone, and it played very smoothly, no lags or out of sync. Later I'll try it at home to the TV with the HDMI cable.
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It played perfectly to the TV through HDMI. Surprisingly, I was able to control the phone using my Samsung TV remote control.

josemald said:
I just tried this file, first video I play on my phone, and it played very smoothly, no lags or out of sync. Later I'll try it at home to the TV with the HDMI cable.
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Cool thanks!

I can't find a good music player for HOX

I don't think I am being picky but for some reason developers are more interested in features I consider useless, and don't seem to care aboue the features I'm looking for:
-doesn't use Android's cached album art thumbnails. they suck, they look bad and blurry. I want full rez, not downloaded either, I have my own. as far as I know, Neutron Player is the only one that does this. If you can't tell, delete the cached thumbnails and try again.
-presentable appearence, players like Power AMP, Lithium, Neutron. they would've been cool back in 2006, but it's 2012 and they look super lame.
-fast, responsive controls. You wouldn't believe how they would release apps that don't have proper controls. This one called DeadBeef for example, if you try to scroll fast in the song list, it counts as a side swipe and takes you to another screen, no matter how straight your swipe is. And Neutron Player, its swipe and kenetic scrolling algorithms suck they're inconsistent with Android and it only works whenever it feels like it.
-power efficient. Again, you just wouldn't believe it. this app called SimplePlay, it really is a pretty simple app, except it's a power hog in the background, heats up my phone in my pocket.
So I basically tried every single music player, almost 50 of them. none of them satisfied all 4 of these not very picky requirements. I don't understand! why is this so hard? How come the iOS music player just works like that? why can't we even get a decent music player?

I havent seen a player wit all 4 but cubed player has nice tiled feature for thumbnails u can give ashot
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Have you tested "MortPlayer Music" or "Winamp" too?
I'm using spotify premium so i havent much experience with android mp3-players ^^.
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cubed player won't even start without android media library.
MortPlayer won't show any album art for FLAC files, and it's too small anyway, you can't see the full resolution even if it did show them.
Winamp looks like crap, and the album art windows is too small as well.
Spotify requires you to login, I have no interest in internet streaming.

I like n7 player its not perfect but it ticks all the boxes, it's smooth low usage responsive looks ok and uses my own images and can download others for you and can manually connect to servers to download album art of your choosing
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I'm using PlayerPro and I'm pretty happy with it.
Give it a try although if you have tried 50 already, you most probably came across this one as well.
I cannot say if it meets your requirements:
- full resolution covers? You want to be able to zoom in?
- power consumption is ok, haven't noticed any abnormal battery drain,
- ui is ok, functional and clean,
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I hope it helps

Try neutron player 64 bit neon Edition from market. For me best there is.
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I can play 720p video with MX player,dice player or default player.it lags a lot. I have chabged hw and sw in mx player but when video is smooth there is no sound. Please tell me what to do. This is my movie settings
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muid02 said:
I can play 720p video with MX player,dice player or default player.it lags a lot. I have chabged hw and sw in mx player but when video is smooth there is no sound. Please tell me what to do. This is my movie settings
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Which rom are you using?
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I am using cm10 A4.

muid02 said:
I am using cm10 A4.
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I have that issue to with MX player when using a Jelly Bean based rom. Try VPlayer instead
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Tingelholm said:
I have that issue to with MX player when using a Jelly Bean based rom. Try VPlayer instead
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Thank u sir

flummi3000 said:
Try neutron player 64 bit neon Edition from market. For me best there is.
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I know neutron player is the only one that displays full album art. but I am in a country without paied Google Play so I can't buy it.

[APP][Link]Modified Apollo for JB AOSP

I did not have anything to do with this other than providing the link, all thanks goes to BigSplit. I am posting the link because BigSplit is an awesome Dev and his work gets overlooked because he is on the EVO Shift (my old device). He added "tab visibility" to the settings of Apollo. He's also made some UI changes. Check it out:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151415
And don't forget to thank BigSplit!

bilgerryan said:
I did not have anything to do with this other than providing the link, all thanks goes to BigSplit. I am posting the link because BigSplit is an awesome Dev and his work gets overlooked because he is on the EVO Shift (my old device). He added "tab visibility" to the settings of Apollo. Check it out:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151415
And don't forget to thank BigSplit!
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Just checked it, kool as pie. Thank you my fren

Re: [Link]Modified Apollo for AOSP
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Just checked it, kool as pie. Thank you my fren
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Very cool, I can't wait to see what else he does with it... I've always thought Apollo could use some revamping.

Re: [Link]Modified Apollo for AOSP
App updated again, he added album art fetcher and other UI changes

Re: [APP][Link]Modified Apollo for AOSP
Bump

Thank you, checking it now

New version uploaded to thread in link...(ha... beat you to it bilgerryan)

BigSplit said:
New version uploaded to thread in link...(ha... beat you to it bilgerryan)
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Oh snap:thumbup:

Latest version works with themes. The black theme looks amazing! Also if you have the walkman installed with clear bass equalizer and you install this Apollo, when you select equalizer in apollomod it goes straight to the walkman equalizer and it actually works!
Apollomod plus clear bass equalizer equals PERFECTION!
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Bump. If you haven't tried this you're missing out.

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Bump. If you haven't tried this you're missing out.
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+1, the best music app for AOSP in my opinion. Thanks BigSplit.

Btw this also works with TW not just aosp. You have to use the version without the visualizer but it works great.

DEF3NDER said:
Btw this also works with TW not just aosp. You have to use the version without the visualizer but it works great.
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Sweet, the only qualm I have with Apollo (no fault of BigSplit) and actually every AOSP music app.. is the lack of .aac support. The only music players that I have come across that play all my music are the stock TouchWiz and stock Sense music players... half my music is compressed into .aac format. Maybe I should suck it up and buy a 32gb and switch everything back into .mp3, but I don't want to... it's a pain in the arse to convert that many files.

Ahh yeah that's understandable. I'm old school and just a few months ago finally got around to taking my giant CD case and ripping it all to mp3's. Not even familiar with other audio formats. My external SD is dedicated to music storage.
I'd like to actually switch to the cloud thing but sprint is so bad here that streaming my music is next to impossible.
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You could try this when you get a bigger SD.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MediaConverter

DEF3NDER said:
Ahh yeah that's understandable. I'm old school and just a few months ago finally got around to taking my giant CD case and ripping it all to mp3's. Not even familiar with other audio formats. My external SD is dedicated to music storage.
I'd like to actually switch to the cloud thing but sprint is so bad here that streaming my music is next to impossible.
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Same here with the external sd for music only(basically, I keep a couple nands on there just in case). Ditto to the music cloud too, never would work for me, my main music time is driving. aac format is about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of an mp3 (depending on the song), which equals more music on my sd, I've got 10 gbs of music on there now (and it's compressed). I need to go back and rip all my cds again (I haven't used them in so long, maybe I can just pull the mp3s that way instead of reconverting)... computer crashed and I lost everything (really long story)... I use MediaCoder on the computer, lots faster... I use the app if I just wanna do one. Pretty cool the stuff you can do. You can turn a pdf into an e-book! Switch video formats, really cool stuff once you learn how it works. I never knew there were so many file formats... it's crazy.

Tubemate 1080p + redesign concept

Hi. When I received HTC One I've noticed that tubemate lacks support for 1080p devices + buttons there are rather ugly, so I thought that it'd be cool to have some fresh redesign which I made...If creator of tubemate would have replied, I think we could get it to work
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Tell me if you have any suggestions

What is a tubemate ......mate?

Nice idea :thumbup:
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jags_the1 said:
What is a tubemate ......mate?
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Google it.. with the help of tubemate you can download videos from youtube.
Boomed From My Boombastic !!HTC ONE!!

Tubemate is better at playing videos than Youtube and the only reason I don't use it is because of the gross UI. I support this

Where is the download link please....
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mathrania said:
Where is the download link please....
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There is no download YET. There will be probably SOON, if creator of tubemates will give me an answer. (I've already sent him messages on facebook, mail, google+ but no answer yet)

Wasnt aware the Api was sorted now. There wer major issues recently, Youtube not giving all access and all that.
Good to see it up and running again. :good:
Looks good. Will give it a try when you get the green light for a release.

Broken images unfortunately :/
But I'm sure it's good. Almost anything is better imo
I'll keep an eye on this thread
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I am able to download videos in 1920x1080 if is available, so do you mean PLAY the video in 1080 right there, not download it, do you?

SLver said:
I am able to download videos in 1920x1080 if is available, so do you mean PLAY the video in 1080 right there, not download it, do you?
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yeah I'm curious about this too

From what I understood: he refers to the user interface of the app which is NOT optimizied for 1080p screes

Have you guys looked into this modified version of YouTube that also allows you to download videos in all qualities?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945

Tubemate doesnt support 1080p playing on the HTC One
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Have you guys looked into this modified version of YouTube that also allows you to download videos in all qualities?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945
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I own an unlocked HTC One like I assume the author does too. I think that the problem he is trying to solve is, that Tubemate doesn't support 1080p playing/streaming on the HTC One. Downloading works, even though Tubemate has to convert the Video after it is downloaded, for some reason, and it only works with the Armv7 Codec and you have to tick a box in the settings to enable HD download. For this tubemate then uses the free app "Mp3 Video downloader", which is clearly also used to now actually convert Videos into MP3 instead of just renaming the download MP4 video file into a Mp3 file, like it was done in previous versions. This is not a problem of the player used (android player or tubemate player) but more a problem of the app itself not recognizing that the HTC One has a 1080p display. See, if you select "1080x1820 high end devices only" it gives the message "Not Supported". This makes sense, since on this page: http://slideme.org/application/tubemate-2 there is a list of resolutions available and there it says
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[Available resolutions]
1920x1080(Full-HD): GalaxyTab, Galaxy S2, PC
1280x720(HD): high-end devices
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So clearly the tubemate developers enabled 1080p playback on Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy S2, but not for the HTC One. Weirdly on my previous phone, a HTC One S, I could always select 1080p playing and it would always work, even though the HTC One S has only a 720p display, so that's kinda strange..
Also, I don't really think that a redesign is necessary, i am kinda happy with the current design.
Also, the app the guy right before me linked also only supports 1080p download but not playing so it offers the same as Tubemate.
And there is also another Youtbe HD playback app but that doesn't get updated anymore, so It actually works with an old and less functional version of the android YouTube player than the current one link is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715.
I am really interested in this idea of adding this feature, and possibly add even more devices with 1080p screens, since there are way more auch devices available and I am assuming most of them can't play 1080p videos, since the native YouTube player (at least in my HTC One) only supports resolutions up to 720p and I would really like the developers of Tubemate to find this and work on this issue.
Btw, I don't know if it matters but my devices (HTC One and HTC One S) were both rooted and on the newest available stock Rom which is on my HTC One S currently android 4.3.