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Problem with playing .mp4 and .mkv video files

Okay, I am back.. With another problem and in a hope to get this resolved here
I have HTC TP2 as per the ROM details in my signature..
I am having problem to play .mp4 and .mkv video files on my mobile which is a bit weird..
I have a video song which is in .mp4 format and is 16MB in size..
** This song plays fine when I click on it..
But, I have another video file which is a movie and is 700MB in size. This is a mp4 file as well.. However when I play it, I can just hear the sound.. There is no video.. Infact, on the screen, it just shows the loading symbol as if it will load the video, but does not do so..
Third problem.. I tried using the TCPMP player that comes default with the Energy ROM, and tried to play .mp4 and .mkv files using that player.
However, in both cases, the player just plays the sound, but the video is garbage video.. I mean it shows weird blue lines as if the video quality is too bad..
Please help..

Man, I have the exact same problem. I just upgraded my T-Mobile version from 6.1 to 6.5 stock and now I can't play my movies anymore. Just sound and a blank screen with loading logo on the screen. They used to play just fine in 6.1, but now, nothing but sound.
Also, I've never gotten TCPM Core Player to work correctly on my phone after trying for months. I just gave up. Same blue streaky lines and sound. Uninstalled it. But I'm really concerned about the default HTC Album programs not playing my movies.
Update: I just got my video back, but only after letting it play for about 3 or 4 mins. I even tried it disabling Sense, but it's the same with the default Windows home screen. Something is definitely wrong.

Okay I managed to fix the problem partially by installing TCPMP player again on my mobile..
I downloaded the TCPMP cab available at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=634951
Now, the video is clear and both .mp4 and .mkv file can be played in my mobile.
BUT, the video now lags behind the sound everytime.. As if the video is played in slow motion, while the sound goes fine with the normal speed.. Hence, video lags behind the sound..
Please help.

Try different video settings on TCPMP.
Under Options>Video, I have GDI selected.
Also under Options>Settings>Select Page>Advanced, I have checked "Override AVI fram rate based on audio".

redpoint73 said:
Try different video settings on TCPMP.
Under Options>Video, I have GDI selected.
Also under Options>Settings>Select Page>Advanced, I have checked "Override AVI fram rate based on audio".
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Thanks for the help.. however, I did try to configure TCPMP as per your instructions.. but still the same problem..
When video plays it lags behind in with slow frames.. however sound goes fine..

samylines said:
Thanks for the help.. however, I did try to configure TCPMP as per your instructions.. but still the same problem..
When video plays it lags behind in with slow frames.. however sound goes fine..
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Use benchmark if available and check to see if your device is fast enough. Some need faster processor to play properly. Had to overclock to play some HQ vids using TP2.

[APPS] Moboplayer

Hasy anyone managed to get Moboplayer to work?
I installed Moboplayer from the market. After starting i get the following screen:
I should install armv7_neon Codec. The Market Link does not work, it seems not to be online in the market atm. The "DownloadFromMobo" Button works most of the time, it downloads the apk, but after download i get the error, that the downloaded apk could not be decompressed...
So I went to Mobo Website and downloaded armv7_neon-release.apk from there and installed the apk (it installed correctly, e.g. if i have a look at /data/data/com.clov4r.android.nil.armv7_neon).
After installing i still get the message from above, that i should install the codec. I even tried to put libffmpeg_armv7_neon.so (extracted from the apk) to different locations (e.g. /data/data/com.clov4r.android.nil/lib, system/lib, ... of course I corrected the permissions, too). I always get the message and cannot use Moboplayer.
Any ideas?

Download 'MX Video Player' (free from the market). It plays every video type and its just been upddated so now its fully compatable with Android 4 and it also goes full screen when playing videos (soft buttons dissapear).
MoboPlayer hadsnt been updated for ICS yet so it doesnt work.
Mark.

I confirm too MX player now supports full screen!

I already have MX Player installed, but it seems it only does SW Decoding:
I would prefer HW Decoding, which Moboplayer should do (or Diceplayer, but it is not available in the market atm and it is not free available).

Well MoboPlayer wont work with ICS right now so I guess thats your only option until its updated.
Mark.

Soon as I saw the thread that DicePlayer supported the Nexus I went out and purchased from the market. I hope Google doesn't screw something up and pull it off the market because it's getting regular updates. Something to do with their checkout account so you can't purchase at the moment. Definitely the best player I've tried so far. My only complaint is the what I will call the "time zone/license" quirk.....stupid.
I haven't tried MX but I got tired of Moboplayer on my Galaxy S with CM7.1. Just like QQplayer it only worked in SW mode and was slow/choppy. Diceplayer was the only player that worked in HW mode with that ROM on my old phone.

MX Player is not really an alternative. The 720p mkv (h.264 video) form the screenshot above was played in Software Mode ("SW Fast") but at least it played smoothly. An avi file (xvid video codec) is always played in Hardware Mode ("HW"), even if i select "S/W Decoder" as standard in the decoder setting. the problem is, the avid avi file is not played smoothly...
Moboplayer is completly unusable atm, Vplayer does not fade out the menu bar...
I think i have to buy DicePlayer and test that one

Sorry to ressurect .. an old thread but same issue with mobo again ... although not for ICS but for Jellybean on the Nexus Google Jelly bean Stock .. Diceplayer was my main app but this force closes , mobo is backup when a codec movie runs poor on dice ... (which seems to be more and more of late) runs but missing correct codec ... link doesnt take you anywhere in the market mx player is good but I have a paid version of Dice player that I like playing movies at 1.2x speed (gets shows finished within my train journey )
ANyone got mobo to work ...

it really does HW decoding try so videos types mpeg4 or avi (divx) and you see

Sorry to necromance the thread, but I came here with the same issue, looking for a MoboPlayer codec for my Gnex.
Anyway, I dont see the "neon" version of the codec posted in the market, but it is available from the MoboPlayer website, via SkyDrive:
http://www.moboplayer.com/plugin/page/product_en
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=385189ff7ade12df&id=385189FF7ADE12DF!113
I hope it isn't against the rules, I also attached it to this post for anyone else looking for it...

thank you:angel:

The best movie player for Galaxy Nexus?

Hi,
What is the best movie player for the Galaxy Nexus to play WMV, MKV etc...?
I have tried DicePlayer Trial version, and it works very good. But it expired now, and I cant buy the full version because the sellers account is suspended.
What would you recommend?

I've tried Dice Player, VPlayer and MX Video Player.
I didnt like Dice Player as the soft buttons always stayed on the screen, regardless of how big you made the video. The Hardware playback was jerky and software seemed to be nice and smooth. When I was watching a video, I'd have to pause the video first (which wouldnt work straight away). But when I clicked the home button and opened the video back up, it wouldnt remember where it was last paused.
On the other hand, MX Video Player is fantastic. It's on V1.5 at the moment and I've already watched 2 BluRay rips (4-6gb each!) and it's performed flawlessly. The screen expands to remove the soft buttons, you can increase the size of the video with pinch-to-zoom. If you slide your finger along the top of the screen, it fast forwards/rewinds the video in small increments. Along the left controls the brightness, along the right controls the volume.
When I pause, it remembers where I left off, and it's not crashed on me once.
All in all, for my purposes, MX Video is the best....

Interested as well.

I'm using MX player to play my AVI's, it goes full screen, seems fine (some play better under software mode rather than hardware mode).
I used to use rockplayer on my desire, but that didnt go full screen on the Nexus.

@ arun1uk
I just gave it a try. Its amazing
I got 1 question
What are these Decoders? And which one should I choose?
H / W Decoder
S / W Decoder
S / W Decoder (Fast)

Wishing VLC had an app!

don't get your hopes up...they've been "developing" one on and off since Android launched.

The decoder settings seem not work for me.
If have 2 xvid avi files and an 720p mkv (h.264 video codec) lokally on my GNexus.
Independent from what i choose in decoder settings (SW, SW Fast, Hardware is not selectable, i hope this is normal) the avi file is ALWAYS played in HW Mode and the mkv file is always played in SW Fast mode.
Even if i select SW, or SW fast, the avi is played in HW mode.
The mkv is always played in SW Fast mode, even if i unselect the Fast mode option. (HW mode can't be selected, but even if i disable SW mode completly it is played in SW Fast, so it seems not to be able to play it in HW mode).

I used mx player to play an avi it worked perfectly!

Diceplayer is the only one I've found that could play all of my video reliably, in terms of audio and whatnot, as well as handle playing 1080p videos with zero lag or any other issues. MX would be able to play the 1080p, but it would be playing so slow that the audio would get out of sync immediately.
arun1uk said:
I didnt like Dice Player as the soft buttons always stayed on the screen, regardless of how big you made the video.
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If you just give it a second once the video is fullscreen the buttons will go away

VPLAYER
VPLAYER is a good one

anyone ever tried mobo player?

nuumuun said:
anyone ever tried mobo player?
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Yeah, use it on my Xoom tablet. It's awesome and definitely one of the best (if not the best). But it's not optimized for ICS yet I believe. So for now, MX player and Diceplayer are very good alternatives.

I loved mobo player on my Xoom. I use MX Video Player on my Galaxy Nexus...however the "decoder" options are just for show for me....hardware never seems to work as well as software....bit mad.

Dice Player. Seems to work for about everything for me.

MX Player is a great free player optimized for ICS and the GNex, but make sure you use Software Decoding for best results. HW Decoding slows it down and SW FAST just destroys picture quality. I tested a 720p MKV file with a generous bitrate, should be fine.
Dice Player is better than MX Player by options only, giving you brightness control and other tweaks. Unfortunately, it's a 3 day trail and the full version has been pulled because they are having problems with setting up their payment account.

dnlsmy said:
Dice Player is better than MX Player by options only, giving you brightness control and other tweaks. Unfortunately, it's a 3 day trail and the full version has been pulled because they are having problems with setting up their payment account.
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MX Player has also brightness control.... you need to swipe your finders on the left side of the screen (up or down)

dnlsmy said:
MX Player is a great free player optimized for ICS and the GNex, but make sure you use Software Decoding for best results. HW Decoding slows it down and SW FAST just destroys picture quality. I tested a 720p MKV file with a generous bitrate, should be fine.
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As i already posted here it's not always spossible to use software decoding. At least for me. my xvid avi files were always decoded in HW mode and are not played smoothly.

mx player seems to be the best option for now (only use sw decoding tho).
mobo player requires me to download some codec that doesn't work. can't get it past that installation screen.
tried on galaxy nexus with modaco custom rom.

I found MX Player, and I love it. But when I recieved 1.5 update, I can't reach setting menu (no SW button, no button on screen).

[Q] How to play 720p mkv smoothly?

Hello, my friends. I'm currently using ICS Arconium ROM (.64 baseband) in My Arc S and I'd like to know if is there possible to run mkv hd (720p) videos (movies, series etc) smoothly. When I try to do so, most of the times it goes laggy. Is there any app or tweak to fix this? Thanks.

Try MX Video Player, i can play my video smoothly with it

I tried this player, but it doesn't work very well here. It keeps laggy. I heard that DICEPLAYER is the best mkv player for android, and I just bought it (about 6 dollars), but when I start it, it crashes... =\ Thank you anyway

I have tried 1080p streams on the phone, and it was smooth, but I had the stock ROM when I tested that.

I believe our phone doesn't support .mkv out-of-the-box(correct me, if wrong), but you can get it work with RockPlayer(also plays .avis!)

I am using vplayer which can play most of the file formats.

I tested all of these, guys... Not successfully =\ Some of them screw up the subtitles (my native language is portuguese, they doesn't accept characters as ^ ´ ´ ~ etc) and in ALL of them mkv doesn't work well. I think that Arc S has a strong enough processor to run this format without any lag, but it's not working...

You can try MoboPlayer. But make sure, that you Enable "Soft decoding" in menu. If still doesn't work, you should try to download "MoboPlayer codecs" but you must download right version for arc S prosessor. I think it is ARMV7VFP3 but I am not sure of that.

Just tried Moboplayer... But no changes.
I'm sure that my Arc S is powerful enough to run this kind of video, but it's not working fine. The video/audio are pretty out of sync... The audio runs normal, but the video gets slow and/or laggy. I tried overclocking my processor to almost 2Ghz, but for nothing.
I contacted the developer of DicePlayer and he responded... He provided me with a working version of the app (no crash when starting), but the lag/sync problem continued.
See what he said: "I may need to check with the device, but currently I don't have the device. In my opinion, ICS needs more heap memory than Gingerbread, so the main problem is from lack of memory. Anyway I'll check it and try to resolve the playback issue."
Obviously the Arc S processor is nor guilty for the lag, but possibly the low level. Maybe a memory optimizer will answer my problem?

New response:
Hi,
The single core Qualcomm chipset has some weak point to decode the H.264 MP/HP video frames, so it may depend on the video files. I don't know that is the reason or not. I'll check the issue when I get the device, but I don't know when it is.

We can watch mkv videos @720p with hardware acceleration but most of the films and shows are encoded with profile level 4.1 and our phone can play only videos with profile 3.1/4.0. This levels can be changed within 1 second using H264LevelEditor. I always change it to 3.1 and almost every movie is running perfectly. With 4.0 I can't get it to play. But even with this change I couldn't play one video. Don't know why but the only one difference I noticed was "Format settings, ReFrames". Sometimes it is 5 frames and someetime 8 or 9. But dunno if it's the problem
I use diceplayer on arconium 7.2 with latest doomkernel.
btw. It was discussed before. Use search next time.

4.1, 4.0 or 3.1 or even 3.0 mkv 720p videos are running exacly the same way... It plays, the audio is OK but the video is laggy and slow, what makes them become out of sync with the audio...

Because you are playing videos with app that plays it in software mode, not in hardware mode. It's normal that phone can't decode 720p video with software mode. You need to get videos to play in hardware mode. BSplayer has it's own hardware support but it's still not what it's suppouse to be. The only app that play in hardware mode mkv videos with profile level 3.1 for me is DicePlayer. And it's doing it without any glitches or lags. It's perfectly A/V synced

I bought DicePlayer yesterday, I'm running my videos on it. All levels are now in 3.1, and I realized that some of them run in SW mode, and some in HW mode. When it runs in hardware mode, everything goes pretty fine... When in software mode, I get the problems. How can I "force" HW mode? Is there a way? Thanks.

You can't force hardware mode. I don't know why some videos can't be played. It must be something with encoding videos, some settings. You can compare parameters of videos that are working with those played in software mode. There must be some difference and maybe there is a way to change it fast.

I also use MX Video Player with the additional codec on my LT15i but experience no lagg at all.
I watch mostly The Walking Dead in 720p MKV
I am at 1.5 GHZ on doomkernel so maybe you could consider overclocking.
Greetz

MX player. No lag at all. I am watching Bleach episode right now

Alright, some updates.
All my mkv files are level 3.1 level now... But still some of them can't run in HW mode. The video starts to play (diceplayer, of course) in HW mode but 1 second later it gets an error and returns to SW (laggy) mode. Half of my 720p mkv videos can run like a dream in hardware decoding (3.1 level), but some of them just can't, even in 3.1 level.
For example, The.Big.Bang.Theory.S05E05.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION can run very smoothly. Hardware deconding. Butt The.Big.Bang.Theory.S05E17.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION can't do the same, it goes only in SW.
What's the difference?!?! What else can I change?
Thanks.

Maybe is because your video was compiled in 10bits, nothing to do until somebody releases a player that supports 10bits well
But you can try MOBO, it lags at the start but after 2mins start running normal

I think you have to play it with MoboPlayer dude

[Q] terrible MKV playback?

So I've been searching for about a day now for a solution to this problem. I've been trying to play MKV files on my phone, but every single player i've tried (mobo, mx, rock, vlc nightly, bs, dice, and vplayer) have been really stuttery and the audio desyncs massively.
It seems that most people are able to play MKVs but for some reason I can not get it to play smoothly at all.
Has anyone come across this and know a solution?
(the file I'm trying to play is a 720p h264 mkv with aac audio. I would put up all the file information if I knew how, so I can if someone shows me)
I'm really sorry if there is an answer to this somewhere, but I tried a search here and only got a thread talking about how everyone can play MKVs smoothly

Are you running a stock Rom or one of the aokp or cm roms? With stock I haven't had an issue with any mkv even on my previous sgs and sgs2. Are all mkvs having problems or is it just the one ?
Sent from my SGH-I747M using xda app-developers app

dude i can stream mkvs without problem
mx player by turning the software decoding on in settings
or vlc player beta

It seems like it only happens on 10bit MKVs. MX Player is the best with software decoding but there are still some dropped frames. I saw a video of someone playing 10bit perfectly fine and a thread saying the S3 can handle 10bit so I'm not exactly sure whats wrong.
I'm running TuchMi 5.0 so I might try to go back to full stock just to see if that helps.
I would try the VLC beta but US can't get it from the play store and the nightly crashes constantly for me.
EDIT: full wipe didn't help

make sure you got the 1.7 update, for me the audio would get out of sync on any anime but with H/W+ that is now solved and i got back DTS thanks to custom codecs.
Software is horrible for me it plays fine, but everything gets artifacts and colored blocks etc. At first i though it was the device that god it wasn't

I have 1.7. H/W+ works for you? it keeps telling me that I can't play the video with it. Can you give an example of and episode that works for you?

Actually I'm curious about this too. Just tried to stream Planet Earth from my PC and I had huge lag because if you are streaming on MKV it uses software decoding...
To be fair I might have to push up my VSEL values...but I really doubt that's the case. Another thing I'm going to try is PS3media server which TRANSCODES (meaning your computer does the coding) for all media files...so it is streaming everything converted for your phone. The annoying thing about it though is that it won't automatically start with my computer
A third alternative is to setup a vlc media player server.