I used to use diceplayer, it was my favorite and it played almost everything with HW support, but since I installed CM10 Jelly Bean on my glide, it just cannot play some of my videos (especially 60fps or HD videos). (Yea, I downloaded the tegra 2 plugin, too).
I also tried mx player with its arm v7 plugin, and so far it is the best for jellybean, however, HW accelleration doesnt always work with it either, but SW decoding seems fine.. Why does video playing suck on jellybean? on ICS it was perfect :\
is it the players (they simply dont support HW that much, they're not updated well?), or is it jellybean itself?
What videoplayer have you found as "best working" on JB?
MX player. I am on android 4.2
Simply the best player.
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i use VPlayer. seems to have all the proper codecs i need to play any and all video format i throw at it, including mkv files.
however, there is some fine tuning you must do to correct the video/audio sync issues when it plays mkv files.
i have the unlocked version which i bought when it was on sale via the google play store.
No problem on hardware acceleration in CyanogenMod 10 Beta 2. I have some HD video in the phone and it plays them fine, whilst Android 4.0 refuses to do very much in frame sync. Jelly Beans is much better, IMHO. I have no trouble with MX player on this firmware.
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Diceplayer v 1.7.4 supports Galaxy Nexus.
It take advantage of OMAP4's video decoder.
720p H.264 High profile + DTS/AC3/Flac audio MKV with embedded subtitles works perfectly.
I'll post some test video on next Monday.
YES. YES. YES. That is awesome. My only reservation about the phone was codec support. Thanks for sharing Juami!
Awesome try some 1080p stuff. Also try mxplayer if you have the time
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Awesome try some 1080p stuff. Also try mxplayer if you have the time
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mx : not supported version popup
bs and mobo : couldn't play at all
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I think devs could not get Galaxy Nexus yet.
I got unreleased Galaxy Nexus for testing. so I could release diceplayer update for Galaxy Nexus.
Thanks for the update, been using Diceplayer on my tab 10.1 for a while now and it's been awesome. On the nexus however it seems it's missing some frame rates. Will try it with a few more vids and see how it goes.
Edit: Tried a 720p mkv and it was flawless. Avi's of TV shows are playing back at a low frame rate, and are noticeably choppy.
I can play 10gb 1080p rips without problem, Can't try anything larger as Diceplayer crashes when I try to play over my network so have only been able to play local files.
Plays local files fine but doesn't go fullscreen - leaves the onscreen buttons.
VPlayer seems to work nicely
The UI for Vplayer is defo not perfect.. the folders glitch, and the soft buttons stay lit, however the playback is smooth and in sync, so very usable for now.
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VPlayer seems to work nicely
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vPlayer have a good sw video decoder(ffmpeg) but
vPlayer can't use HW video decoder except native supported format(mp4).
SW video decoder use higher CPU power than HW decoder and drains battery too fast. and loose a color detail.
Great news. Loved the Dice player on my Asus Transformer. Sold my tablet though so I'm looking forward to using it on the GN
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Plays local files fine but doesn't go fullscreen - leaves the onscreen buttons.
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we update diceplayer to support full screen on Galaxy Nexus.
changelog of diceplayer v.1.7.5
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What's in this version:
Support full screen for Galaxy Nexus
Fix bug that sometimes continuation does not work properly for Galaxy Nexus
Fix bug that some AVI files are not played properly
Fix bug that aspect ratio is abnormal when orientation is changed
Add option that shows audio only files (default off)
Add option that saves the subtitle (default on, can move by touching subtitle while playing)
Fix minor bugs
Has anyone tried playing MKV's on the native ICS media player? I can play aac-audio h.264-video MKVs without installing any additional player
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Has anyone tried playing MKV's on the native ICS media player? I can play aac-audio h.264-video MKVs without installing any additional player
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after Honeycomb, Android supports MKV format ( not perfectly) but audio codec limited to AAC/MP3.
if you want to play AC3/DTS/Flac audio and embedded subtitles, you should install 3rd party player.
Just though id add my findings.
Ive tried dice player but as with Vplayer i have had mixed results.
Some of my Mp4 files play just fine whilst others fail to open. The player just goes back to the andriod home screen. The ones that fail have ac3 audio.
Im guessing its down to the audio codecs required to play the files.
I do like the look and feel of the app though.
Its a shame im having these issues as the galaxy s2 played them all natively.
Haven't bought Dice Player but I can confirm the trial will playback high profile MKVs in 1080p:
I tried Diceplayer on few local 720p MKV and these play nice.
But two things:
1. My TXT subtitles did not load.
2. When I tried to play the same file from network share, Diceplayer crashes.
I was just able to mount my network share drive via CIFS, so that it appears under /mnt/cifs/share
Then I tried Diceplayer and it did play my 720p MKV in HW with no delay on start.
If it only supported TXT subtitles... (it would probably need to handle different formats, as I have noticed sometimes different formats used in TXT file)
Will run my usual batch of test video files through the Nexus and Dice Player in next couple of days as I just got my Nexus. Expect it won't measure up to the Note/SGSII that I'm accustomed to, but if it can handle 720p I'll be happy enough...
Not sure If I posted this already, but Dice player was able to play 1080p mov trailer in hardware other players either could not play at all or used software and were skipping.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I have both the A100 and A500 tabs. I love the A100 for portability. However I find that 720p MKV's are stuttering and audio sync issues occur. I have tried putting the MKV on the sdcard and streaming from my home server.
I just flashed my A500 with Thor rom. Using BSplayer and DicePlayer I am able to play my MKV's pretty smoothly both off sdcard and streaming from my home server.
Is the reason I can play them on the A500 is because of the overclock on the Thor rom? Or could it be that the Thor rom is based of ASUS stock rom which might have better MKV codecs?
Is there a way to overclock my A100.
Can you try to run the official ICS ROM on the A500 and test this please?
I use mx video player. mkv movies are stutering when using sd encoding, whit hw encoding it is smooth even streamed over my home network. Audio is synced. But my mkv test movie is not 720p quality..
I found that dice player is the only one to play videos smoothly for me. Mx video plays choppy in software mode, and hardware mode plays in fast forward. It's pretty weird.
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I don't know if anyone here has tried this, but what about VLC for Android, it's far from official or stable but it does work, built from the vlc-2.0 tree, compiled and packaged nicely for us by adridu59 elsewhere on xda
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517415
Have no mkvs on my tab atm, but will load up some Gundam 0083 and try that and report back
When playing videos from my sd card the stock player would work fine until five min into the video then it would start to lag. MX player in sw mode fixed this for all file types. Strange how others are saying it only works in hw mode, for me only sw works.
Quick question for you gentlemen regarding video playback. I have some 720p mkv files on my media server and am having issues playing them back on any ics rom. They play perfect on nearly any player on touchwiz and flawless on vplayer in hardware mode on cm7. Anyone have any ideas on what I could do for cm9 to have the same playing capability? I hate touchwiz but the camera and video work flawless on it and seems like it may be the best bet for me atm.
have u tried flashing some of the other kernels?
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have u tried flashing some of the other kernels?
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That won't matter
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As marc said it doesn't matter but yes I have since I like to play with most major roms and kernels released. About to test miui b1 in a bit but I doubt it'll make any difference still I was just hoping a dev had some insight on this.
does cm9 not do hw decoding?
the option is greyed out on mine
on vplayer it allows the option and seems like it tries. mx player not so much. not having much luck with vlc either.
That's weird because they work fine over here on mx player.. did you search mkv video player in the market
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well again ill say I've tried mx player (with codec packs and without(, the latest vlc nightly, and I own the pro version of vplayer. I tried with vplayers old codec packs and its built in. hw displays 0 picture with vplayer and stutters heavily on vplayer. the isn't that it can't play the file, the issue is it doesn't play it as it does on cm7 and tw. these are 720p video files with fast action. and not anime stuff.
vplayer works great on cm7 but doesn't play in hw mode on cm9. the stock video player on tw works best, but vplayer also works on tw pretty well too. mx is lame sauce.
i get a no picture on vplayer also
the video im using doesnt have any weird encoding options either; its just a video i downloaded off of youtube, so pretty standard
is this just a bug with cm9? maybe it needs to be reported. i dont see anyone mention it in the tracker
Hi,
I was just curious as to why the Full HD 1080p videos (for e.g. H.264 trailers from Apple) refuse to play smoothly on any CM9 and CM10 custom ROMs (with Moboplayer, Acer Media), while the same videos play buttery smooth with the same players on the official stock ROM? Do I need to tweak any settings or install any add ons in the custom ROMs to enable such playback. I am assuming that it is a hardware-acceleration issue because the setting for software decoding in Moboplayer has been turned off. However, 720p videos play fine.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I was just curious as to why the Full HD 1080p videos (for e.g. H.264 trailers from Apple) refuse to play smoothly on any CM9 and CM10 custom ROMs (with Moboplayer, Acer Media), while the same videos play buttery smooth with the same players on the official stock ROM? Do I need to tweak any settings or install any add ons in the custom ROMs to enable such playback. I am assuming that it is a hardware-acceleration issue because the setting for software decoding in Moboplayer has been turned off. However, 720p videos play fine.
Thanks.
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Never had this issue, 1080 plays fine for me. Is this over HDMI or doesn't matter, just always? I use dice player and occasionally mx player, both play OK for me.
Some are encoded differently then others so some may need a bump up in CPU frequency but most generally play fine at 1ghz with deadline. Of course this is my device with my movies on my build, any number of things vary between the files and roms and players used.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
Thanks..
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Never had this issue, 1080 plays fine for me. Is this over HDMI or doesn't matter, just always? I use dice player and occasionally mx player, both play OK for me.
Some are encoded differently then others so some may need a bump up in CPU frequency but most generally play fine at 1ghz with deadline. Of course this is my device with my movies on my build, any number of things vary between the files and roms and players used.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
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OMG Thanks.. DicePlayer works like a charm. :good: :good: :laugh: The files I use for standard video play testing are Apple Movie Trailers 1080p H.264 / AAC 6 channel MOV files.
Now I am observing a very interesting development in the latest CM10 preview. Acer Media and Acer Video Player won't even detect the MOV video files. MoboPlayer and MxPlayer detects the videos but shows laggy playback on the device screen as well as over HDMI.
Only DicePlayer plays them like a charm, without hiccups or lags and going to be the only player I will ever use from now on. I think the issue is probably some proprietary codec related because when I am on the official ICS ROM, all these players detect and play those same MOV files smoothly both on-screen as well as over HDMI ..
Glad it works for you, it seems to "force" hw decode more reliably then other players so far and seems almost infinite in what it will play. MX in fast software fills in where dice fails for me, which is rare. MX seems to handle web streams better though.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.