[Q] How picky is the KFHD 8.9 about h264 video? - 8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Basically I'm looking for a cheap 9-10 inch tablet to watch downloaded TV shows on (720p h264 .mkv / standard definition xvid .avi). I currently own an Asus TF101 tablet (nvidia tegra), and it is somewhat picky about what h264 content it can play without stuttering, and typically fails to play downloaded shows due to specific requirements it has about how the h264 video is encoded (something to do with I-frames, not really sure on the specifics).
Anyway, I was wondering how well the KFHD8.9 handles h264 video, (and if it can still play standard definition xvid content like my TF101 can) with a player like MX Player. Does anyone use this tablet to watch downloaded TV shows, how well does it work?

So far I haven't had any problems watching h264 videos, but I've also got a copy of VLC on mine so between that and the Archos player, I'm pretty well covered for just about any codec.
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VLC media Player Alpha works

I installed the alpha version of VLC media player and was able to directly play a 1080P WMV file which is not currently supported by Amazon media player. Playback wasn't entirely smooth, but not sure if this is due to a alpha software that may not support the video accleration features of the Fire. In any case, this shows that VLC will allow us to play other formats than what Amazon is supporting.
Anyone try TetherGPS?
Has anyone tried a simple .AVI file?
yea, the bundled dash limits showing most video files moved to the device in the videos tab. This being said if you install mxplayer or any other relevant vid player and use root explorer or even go launcher playing most divx / avi videos is a breeze.
Well doesnt the nook Tablet have the same processor and stuff that the Fire does. I know the Nook Tablet can play 1080p so why couldnt the fire?
The VLC app for Android is in Alpha version so maybe trying another fully tested and released player known to work with Nook at 1080P is in order to compare apples to apples.
I wasn't able to play an XviD encoded AVI, but sideloading Moboplayer (com.clov4r.android.nil-1.apk) works great.
YellowRex said:
I wasn't able to play an XviD encoded AVI, but sideloading Moboplayer (com.clov4r.android.nil-1.apk) works great.
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Thanks for the tip. I downloaded moboplayer pro (free) from the Android Market and it played the 1080P WMV much smoother than the VLC player alpha.

Video playback performance for MKV?

Edit: Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366756
Hello, currently I am using the Galaxy S II (1.5ghz Qualcomm S3 version). It almost play 720p MKV videos with RockPlayer, but not quite, since the audio lags behind the video.
Can someone give RockPlayer a try with some hd MKV files on their Nexus and see if it can handle them? Low bitrates will manage, but I'm looking at 720p and 1080p MKV videos at 2000kbps or more.
I am interested in waiting for the American version of the Galaxy Note, but it will also use the Qualcomm S3 chip, which means even though it has a larger screen, it won't play be playing my videos. If the Nexus can manage these videos, I rather get it instead.
There are some legal hd videos such as big buck bunny, which can be converted from MP4 to MKV.
(PS. Yes I want to watch HD videos on my cellphone screen.)
I am the same way. I play 720P .mkv on my phone. i currently have the Rezound(the Nexus is not available in the US yet). When i was using the Thunderbolt, it would play these files, but unless i overclocked the phone it would play out-of-sync(but even then, it would still be slightly out-of-sync).
On the Rezound, 99% of the time the files play just fine(no sync issues). I found that the best player to use is 'Dice Player', followed by MX Video Player.
I did say "99%", and yeah.. for some reason, on rare occasions a video will start to slip out-of-sync, and when it does it's with MX Video Player.. but if do it through Dice Player it plays fine.
I will say though that having 'Sense' on this phone isn't exactly a big plus when it comes to try to getting the best performance out of it. Luckily, the Nexus doesn't have Sense.
I have done a few BluRay rips to 1280x720 (native nexus) and they play on the Galaxy Nexus perfectly using build in player. Much, much better than they ever did on my 10.1 tablet. No issues at all.
The scene I use for test is the bit in Inception where the tables explode in the cafe, this really makes some struggle. No prob on the nexus, very impressed.
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Galaxy Nexus 1080p FULL HD and 720p MKV Video Playback Test
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Posted Today, 01:39 PM
Galaxy Nexus 1080p FULL HD and 720p MKV Video Playback Test
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MX Player seemed to have more options on when to use hardware decoding than QQ Player has in that video. You could have hardware video decoding while also running software audio decoding.

HD Content on A100?

I am wondering if anyone else is having issues playing HD video on the A100. I have put multiple different HD files on the device itself and tried to play them in MX Media Player, but the playback is downright horrible. Even with hardware rendering. I really want to be able to play my media over my network, but right now, it is just waay too choppy to watch, even with it on the card. Is there something I am missing?
with HD you mean 1080p videos? if so, try Mobo Player, it works really god at fullHD videos (at least for me).
also streaming 1080p is sketchy at best on wifi..
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720p. And I am using mobo player
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720p. And I am using mobo player
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well it is suppose that acer a100 suports fullHD, so try killing processes or cleaning cache. what's your android version? (3.2 or 3.2.1)
What audio s used on the files, I have noticed that 720p mkv movies using DTS for example will outright kill performance.
Try using a 4GB 'scene' release with stereo audio if you haven't on MX Video to see if helps.
Look what i found, it may work.
Link.
I am using BSPlayer lite. This works the best for my MKV's with no audio loss. It loses some frames but plays more than MX Video or MoboPlayer.
You will need to get the ARM7 add on for it.
Try this out. I am able to stream my over 4gb MKV's from my server to my A100.
The tegra 2's only downfall... its horrible at decoding high profile HD video such as H264 video. Should be able yo run 720p just fine though depending on the type of video. I'd say try clearing up some memory.
I honestly don't see the point of playing 1080p video on a 7" tablet, seems like overkill. I can understand that its convenient to have 1 file that'll run on all your devices, but unfortunately that can't always be the case.
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Can the kindle fire play 720p MKV?

I'm thinking of getting a kindle fire for purely video playback (mostly because of the video playback issues - ref1, ref2, [url="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714]ref3[/url], [url="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354421]ref4[/url]).
Anyway, I am looking for a cost-effective way to watch 720p MKV files (though I guess I'd be willing to use ffmpeg to copy the video and transcode the audio to aac and put it into an mp4 container for playback), and I was hoping the Kindle Fire might be capable of 720p video playback without stuttering or lagging.
I thought I read somewhere that the cm7 build for the kindle fire supported hardware-accelerated decoding of h.264 video, so perhaps this is better asked of the CM7 folks? Just trying to do my homework before I shell out $199.
Thanks in advance!
Using an app like mobo player you can watch 720p or 1080p videos. I'm currently using mp4 video format. I love it.
jkc120 said:
I thought I read somewhere that the cm7 build for the kindle fire supported hardware-accelerated decoding of h.264 video, so perhaps this is better asked of the CM7 folks? Just trying to do my homework before I shell out $199.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm currently running CM7(from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390773) and tried a few video apps (fresh build of VLC, MoboPlayer, Rock Player). Hardware acceleration does not seem to work. I get errors saying "format is not supported with the system player"... and they switch back to software decoding which works, for low-bitrate files.
A couple of 720p show I had (all around 3mbps) would slutter or unsync after a few seconds. I haven't really dug to find out why it's doing that (x264 file?).
Anyone else could help here?
I have not been able to find anything that will work unless it's an x264 encoded MP4 stored on locally on the KF. It's easy enough to re-encode .mkv using Handbreak, it's just time consuming and kind of a pain due to the amount of local storage. I use Emit to stream over WiFi either at home or anywhere I have a WiFi connection and it works pretty well. It does have issues time to time with 1080p but 720p for the most part is perfectly fine.
Both Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD can only play MP4, 3GP and VP8 (.webm). That is, if we try to play other video formats like AVI, Xvid, DivX, WMV, MKV, FLV, MOV, M4V, MXF, WTV, MPG, ASF and etc on Kindle Fire (HD), it will ends in fail. Sometime, we even encounter difficulty in play MP4 on Kindle Fire.
Luckily, Bigasoft Total Video Converter updates to support Kindle Fire! Acting as the powerful Kindle Fire Video Converter, Bigasoft Total Video Converter can fast convert all kinds of videos including WMV, AVI, Xvid, DivX, MOV, MKV, MPEG, VOB, FLV, F4V, WTV, DVR, AVCHD, MXF, RMVB, RM, MVI, M4V, and etc to Kindle Fire or Kindle Fire HD supported MP4 format in SD or HD. It also enables to convert Kindle Fire unsupported MP4 to Kindle Fire friendly MP4. Besides, the powerful Kindle Fire Converter also helps to convert video or music video to Kindle Fire supported audio format or helps to convert other audio format like FLAC, SHN, QCP, M4A, AIFF, Apple Lossless and etc to Kindle Fire MP3 or WAV.
Just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Convert Video to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, MOV, FLV, and WMA on Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire with Bigasoft Total Video Converter
You will find a simple way
Try CM10 with BSplayer
jkc120 said:
Anyway, I am looking for a cost-effective way to watch 720p MKV files (though I guess I'd be willing to use ffmpeg to copy the video and transcode the audio to aac and put it into an mp4 container for playback), and I was hoping the Kindle Fire might be capable of 720p video playback without stuttering or lagging.
I thought I read somewhere that the cm7 build for the kindle fire supported hardware-accelerated decoding of h.264 video, so perhaps this is better asked of the CM7 folks? Just trying to do my homework before I shell out $199.
Thanks in advance!
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I got best results using free version of BSplayer and CM10 roms. AVCHD 1080 videos from SONY HD camera are played in slowmotion over WiFi, but had no problem with 720 videos.
Whaaat?
Using dice player I stream 720 x264 TVs/movies across my plan all the time. Framerate is always good though sometimes the sound doesn't work but I haven't investigated the audio codec that gives it trouble.
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I had always liked Mobo player it's free and has every codec I have ever herd of.
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As I know, most tablets and phones do not support to play MKV file. You have two ways to solve the problem
1.Download a MKV player in your kindle fire
2. Convert your MKV fles to the kindle fire supported format like mp4. and the transfer it to your kindle fire.
chris198810 said:
Anyone has the new Kindle Fire HD 6 want to put MKV files to Kindle Fire HD 6 for playback? Based on my experience, same as the Kindle fire, it can't support MKV format natively. What I can do is to download a mkv player for Kindle Fire HD 6 or convert MKV to MP4. Here is a simple guide for Kindle Fire HD 6, from which you can learn how to play MKV, AVI, VOB on Kindle Fire HD 6 without any incompatible issues.
http://brorsoft.com/device-tips/view-avi-mkv-vob-movies-on-kindle-fire-hd-6.html
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wrong forum brother. This is forum is for 3 year old kindles

[Q] 1080p MKV / MP4 freezing

Hi,
i have problems with 1080p MKV and MP4 playback.
When i playback a movie with 1080p and Hardware Decoding, I get terrible blocking and freezing (strainge colours, green Pixel and so on).
I tested with MX-Player (H/W+), VLC Player, Plex and XBMC. The result is always the same.
When i use the same file in ts oder m2ts - Format, then everything is ok.
So i tested to create the mkv and mp4 File with different Tools: mkvmerge, ffmpeg, makemkv, mp4box and so on..
Always Errors and terrible playback.
Is there a trick or can the device handle HD only in *.ts without Errors???
stehohrhase said:
Hi,
i have problems with 1080p MKV and MP4 playback.
When i playback a movie with 1080p and Hardware Decoding, I get terrible blocking and freezing (strainge colours, green Pixel and so on).
I tested with MX-Player (H/W+), VLC Player, Plex and XBMC. The result is always the same.
When i use the same file in ts oder m2ts - Format, then everything is ok.
So i tested to create the mkv and mp4 File with different Tools: mkvmerge, ffmpeg, makemkv, mp4box and so on..
Always Errors and terrible playback.
Is there a trick or can the device handle HD only in *.ts without Errors???
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I'm able to play 1080p mkv files and mp4 files without issue. I actually download a lot of 1080p movie trailer in mp4 format to my tablet. However, I normally use Archos Video player or BS player though as the hardware acceleration appears to be better on them than other video players I've tried.
I use mx player and never have an issue, have you tried the software codec for mx?
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Try archos and the achos free codec pack.
MX player
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so, i tested more:
Archos has the best Performance. you only see sometimes litte stuttering. But the PGS-Subtitles are not shown -((
BS-Player has Picture -Errors
MX-Player in S/W and H/W Looks ok, but not enough Performance for full framerate Decoding.H/W+ Decoder has enogh Performance, but the same Errors in the Picture like BS-Player, Plex, XBMC abd so on.
I don't understand why... the Problem ist not all movies... and this are not the movies withe the highets Bitrate. convert to ts looks good.
I put a short sample online.. mail me, if you are interessed to verify and help... I can not post the link here.. (new user board-rule)
I just streamed a 1080p mkv from my WD Live network drive with no stuttering or sound issues. I use Archos player and the free codec pack.
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i have the P605 with quadcore. has this other gpu than the P600 octagon ?
stehohrhase said:
Hi,
i have problems with 1080p MKV and MP4 playback.
When i playback a movie with 1080p and Hardware Decoding, I get terrible blocking and freezing (strainge colours, green Pixel and so on).
I tested with MX-Player (H/W+), VLC Player, Plex and XBMC. The result is always the same.
When i use the same file in ts oder m2ts - Format, then everything is ok.
So i tested to create the mkv and mp4 File with different Tools: mkvmerge, ffmpeg, makemkv, mp4box and so on..
Always Errors and terrible playback.
Is there a trick or can the device handle HD only in *.ts without Errors???
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maybe is not the resolution but profile... 10bits encoding or 8bits encoding?
stehohrhase said:
i have the P605 with quadcore. has this other gpu than the P600 octagon ?
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hey, stehohrhase, has this resolved with different player? I am tempted to buy p605, but I don't want to buy one that has issue with video playback.
angilinmago said:
hey, stehohrhase, has this resolved with different player? I am tempted to buy p605, but I don't want to buy one that has issue with video playback.
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i guess is not the player... TS is just the container... this device can handle 1080p
no issues
I use MK player with no issues even in FULL HD movies!
Maybe your files (muvies) are stored in ExtStorage (microSD).
Have you check your microSD card speed?
Try Dice Player its one of the best players out there, but for DTS audio you need "libffmpeg.so" from the attachment below.
Other than that try a test sample with video stream only and see if it plays fine, if it does then mux in the other streams one at a time until the problem returns.
10 bits encoding maybe?

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