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Hey guys, just wondering what everyone is using for a video player? I tried vital player and v player and they both fc :/ any ideas for playing .avi on ics?
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I use MX player

Ive had quite good results with both the ones you've listed definitely faster frame rate with 1080p avi's with vplayer..

MX Player has been really good for me, for videos that play without sound in the Gallery you can enable audio software decoding and software decoding works well for video too.
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All these players dont fully stretch video image in the sides like the default player. You got full screen only in default player. In the other hand default player does not support str subtitles and also opes all videos with H/W decoder and as a result most videos lag....for example in MX Player you can choose S/W decoder and the video plays smooth like butter.

If you're willing to spend some money Dice Player works perfectly. It plays 720p mkvs fluidly and even supports embedded subtitles. It even hides the main buttons when it's in fullscreen for that 4.65 HD screen goodness : )
Theres a thread somewhere in here about it. There's also a demo version on the market:
https://market.android.com/details?...EsImNvbS5pbmlzb2Z0Lm1lZGlhcGxheWVyLnRyaWFsIl0.

tsunami1609 said:
If you're willing to spend some money Dice Player works perfectly. It plays 720p mkvs fluidly and even supports embedded subtitles. It even hides the main buttons when it's in fullscreen for that 4.65 HD screen goodness : )
Theres a thread somewhere in here about it. There's also a demo version on the market:
https://market.android.com/details?...EsImNvbS5pbmlzb2Z0Lm1lZGlhcGxheWVyLnRyaWFsIl0.
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Full version has been removed...where to find it?

DJTaurus said:
Full version has been removed...where to find it?
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Hmm. It just disappeared. I don't know

Mx Player FTW :-D

DJTaurus said:
All these players dont fully stretch video image in the sides like the default player. You got full screen only in default player. In the other hand default player does not support str subtitles and also opes all videos with H/W decoder and as a result most videos lag....for example in MX Player you can choose S/W decoder and the video plays smooth like butter.
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I use mx video player and it stretches to full screen, even when skipping through the video it shows no bars or anything just pure video
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How did you get it to stretch full screen?
The buttons are still there on full screen...

When I get home I'll find out my setting and what works
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They are for me too. Diceplayer got rid of them but I cant get the full version now. Hopefully it will turn up somewhere.

Diceplayer is the only one that goes true full screen as of now.
MX Player still shows buttons in full screen.
I think these two are currently the best. Both are worth trying out as each has it's own strengths, find out which works better for your files/subtitles.

The full version of Diceplayer is back up
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tsunami1609 said:
The full version of Diceplayer is back up
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Pops up an error when trying to purchase.
'Your Order could not be processed. Please try again.' And the description also says it cannot currently be purchased :/

Best Apps & Video Player for galaxy nexus: Supporting MKV or wmv

Hi ,
Yesterday , just got Galaxy Nexus by selling my Iphone 4s and thx for replying my previous question about gpu ,
Now , I wanna look at how galaxy nexus plays videos , I googled hd videos and download Nasa videos from Nasa , its 720p wmv , and my device didnt support this format and I downloaded 3rd party application which is called Mx video player and it opened the video but it didnt play , so I'm kinda disappointed ,
I also tried Vevo and imdb and the quailty of videos werent good , So any suggestions or recommendations for watching video on galaxy nexus ?
what application am i supposed to install ?
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Dice player and MX video player. my all time favourite while on AOSP roms.
i usually converted any video first though but it played pretty much everything without converting. i converted just to have a 1280 x 720 resolution.

I use MX Player. Great app. Can't fault it.
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Andrewgrace said:
I use MX Player. Great app. Can't fault it.
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you people just can't read .... op said that he used mxplayer and yet you still recommended it .... wtf?
Dice player all the way ...
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MattSkeet said:
you people just can't read .... op said that he used mxplayer and yet you still recommended it .... wtf?
Dice player all the way ...
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Thank you , it played the video

I too use MX Player on my GN and haven't had a problem playing any format of video, wmv included.

I prefer the BS Player with the Codec Pack, seems a little bit smoother than Dice Player for me.

MX probably the best for me now. No problem with it so far.
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MX Video Player is definitely my favorite as well. I do find that switching from HW decoding to SW Fast decoding works better a lot of the time for me.
If MX Video Player doesn't play my MKV files, then I try Rock Player. And if that doesn't work, then I just have to convert the file.

Dice Player to play mkv for me (haven't tried wmv), its hardware decoding runs smoothly with not too much heat coming from the phone.
MX Player's hardware decoding seems to be not working properly where it lags more than software decoding. But I have a lot of rmvb's and MX Player runs great with those.

Therollingstone said:
Hi ,
Yesterday , just got Galaxy Nexus by selling my Iphone 4s and thx for replying my previous question about gpu ,
Now , I wanna look at how galaxy nexus plays videos , I googled hd videos and download Nasa videos from Nasa , its 720p wmv , and my device didnt support this format and I downloaded 3rd party application which is called Mx video player and it opened the video but it didnt play , so I'm kinda disappointed ,
I also tried Vevo and imdb and the quailty of videos werent good , So any suggestions or recommendations for watching video on galaxy nexus ?
what application am i supposed to install ?
The best
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Therollingstone, there are two parts to your question that need attention.
Firstly you say that MX Player didn't play, the reason is that you didn't download the additional files needed to be installed to play the files - You need the ARM v7 Player Codec in addition to MX Video Player app - http://goo.gl/suhcr
Now VEVO and IMDB's disappointing video quality is not the fault of the stock player - It's VEVO and IMDB's fault. They are laying video files at a much smaller resolution (most often to cater to their iPhone customers who have much smaller screens and resolutions 960x640). Galaxy Nexus has a 720P HD Display so it scales up any video you're trying to play at a resolution of 1280x720. This is the reason you might be seeing a slight drop in video quality from these application or any other videos on the web that are streaming videos at a much lower resolution.
Hope this helps.

Unsupported audio codec??

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...

carlitos66 said:
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.

madsquabbles said:
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.

carlitos66 said:
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.

SlimJ87D said:
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

[Q] Video lag Issue with Google Nexus 7 2013

I've recently bought Google Nexus 7 32GB 2013. Facing some problem related Video Playing. Whenever I play any 1080p or even 720p video, my video start lagging (little shutter) after 3 - 4 seconds for 1 second. Can you please let me know how can i fix this lag? I am using MX player with updated codec. V4.4

I agree.
superbikez said:
I've recently bought Google Nexus 7 32GB 2013. Facing some problem related Video Playing. Whenever I play any 1080p or even 720p video, my video start lagging (little shutter) after 3 - 4 seconds for 1 second. Can you please let me know how can i fix this lag? I am using MX player with updated codec. V4.4
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My older Galaxy Note 2 Phone handles video (and most other things) a lot better than this Asus tablet. I am probably going to sell it. The KitKat rom is great, but the hardware kind of sucks.

Hardware Acceleration On?
superbikez said:
I've recently bought Google Nexus 7 32GB 2013. Facing some problem related Video Playing. Whenever I play any 1080p or even 720p video, my video start lagging (little shutter) after 3 - 4 seconds for 1 second. Can you please let me know how can i fix this lag? I am using MX player with updated codec. V4.4
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Did you enable hardware acceleration in the settings? I'm not sure about MX PLayer but I get much better video with VLC Player with hardware acceleration on then off. Or just try VLC PLayer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon&hl=en using hardware acceleration if you want. It doesn't need any codec downlaods to play files as they are built in. It's still beta but I've had zero problems with it. I watch 1080p mkv files mostly.
Peace.

I have the 2013 Nexus 7 and clicking the link above for VLC says it's not compatible with my device and not available in my country. If anyone else has the same problem, you have to download the daily build here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-armv7/
People who are having problems with MX Player should try turning the "Software Decoder" on. The "Hardware Decoder" mode was lagging when I first used MX Player many months ago, but it doesn't lag when I use the Software Decoder. Maybe it's because the hardware in this Nexus 7 is not programmed to natively play every video format.

Play mkv file on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014

Samsung video player app came with this tablet can play mkv file but no sound. Is there a solution for this anyone?
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jimaginet said:
Samsung video player app came with this tablet can play mkv file but no sound. Is there a solution for this anyone?
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Try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore.
The stock player can't reproduce ac3 sound.
Sorry for my english.....

MX player is free and works as does Archos player, also free. Both can be found on the play store. You may need to also get the Archos free codecs and if you want DTS sound in MX then you need to download the custom codec (there is a link in MX player)...

Yes MX-video player will do the job but
Samsung video player on my note 2 can play mkv file with no issue. So there must be away to make it work.
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jimaginet said:
Yes MX-video player will do the job but
Samsung video player on my note 2 can play mkv file with no issue. So there must be away to make it work.
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mkv is just the container, samsung dropped ac3 support. You can strip the audio & remux or do as others suggested and use a software based player.

I used to use MX player but recenty found out clueful privacy advisor indicate it has the potential/risk of leaking the device unique ID. Currently using super video player/Gplayer using software decoder to be able to hear audio during video playback.

Dice Player gets my vote its excellent, but you need "libffmpeg.so" for DTS audio which I added in the thread below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48608356&postcount=13
Lets not forget XBMC if you want the full media center experience

Talk about XBMC. I also have audio problem. I can get it plays any movie but bad audio meaning I can hear sound but too much static... Is there any setting I need to do.
Xbmc 12.3 on Note 10.1 2014 and Note 2 same problem.
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bruce16878 said:
I used to use MX player but recenty found out clueful privacy advisor indicate it has the potential/risk of leaking the device unique ID. Currently using super video player/Gplayer using software decoder to be able to hear audio during video playback.
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Which is why I'm rooted, have xPosed framework installed and added xPrivacy....

If I were you I would skip the usual trash on market and go for VLC instead. Its free and opensource with excellent reputation of being the swiss knife of media players. Recently the authors made a sustained effort to bring it from PC to iOS and android.
Beta version is available on the market and fresh apk nightlies can be downloaded from their servers http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-armv7/.
Even though still in beta, everything except hit and miss harware acceleration works.

Do I need any additional codecs for dice Player?

Cirno5 said:
Do I need any additional codecs for dice Player?
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No, unless your viewing something with DTS audio then you need "libffmpeg.so"

Ok, I just used the file from MX Player....I guess that didn't work.
Picked the file from your link now.
About MX Player. In LBE Security there isn't anything listed concerning the ID. Do you guys have anything to read up on this issue?

Angela07 said:
You can try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore. However, someone says they may miss audio when playing MKV on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 with it. If you plan to put and watch MKV movies on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, converting MKV to MP4, which is the most suitable format for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 playback, may be the best method.
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BSplayer is working for me with all my videos, maybe you should try it.

Angela07 said:
You can try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore. However, someone says they may miss audio when playing MKV on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 with it. If you plan to put and watch MKV movies on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, converting MKV to MP4, which is the most suitable format for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 playback, may be the best method.
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On MX you need to set audio decoding via software but sound works fine for MKV's...

Mx player can play anything. If it doesnt then just get the right codec. If it doesnt exist just write the right codec.
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I use archos and it works flawlessly. There is a set of free codecs for it and the additional network capabilities made it my go to.
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Lots of **** players being recommended here.
VLC Player is the only correct answer.

moabizzi said:
I use archos and it works flawlessly. There is a set of free codecs for it and the additional network capabilities made it my go to.
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I have tried them all and Archos works the best.