Do any of you guys use your Nexus 7 2013 for 1080p videos? It seems that my device isn't able to play 1-2 hr 1080p resolution videos at all through VLC. VLC has no problem playing 720p videos. For 1080p, I get audio but the video doesn't play at all. If I decrease play speed to something less than normal speed, the nexus is able to keep up and play it at a reduced speed, so I'm unsure if it's a VLC issue or if the nexus is just not capable of doing 1080p.
Let me know what your experiences are with 1080p video playback!
I can't recall ever having issues but I'm also not 100% certain I've ever played a 1080p video. I'll toss one on and test it in a little bit. Is it only VLC that's having the issue? And what format is the video you're trying to play? I assume you've tested multiple video files and also played them on another device to make sure it's not the files that are bad?
Just tested a 1080p movie with VLC and it worked fine.
The 1080p videos I tried to play are mp4 files. I don't know enough about videos to find out encoding these files are in (if that even matterS), but they're pretty large at 1.8GB and 1.6GB. I will try another 1080p video I downloaded a while ago.
Out of curiosity, what version of VLC are you running? Mine is VLC v0.9.10 Revision 630a95b (2014-10-16)
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Just tested a 1080p movie with VLC and it worked fine.
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I just tested a different 1080p movie and it worked fine. I guess there's something wrong with some of these video files I have. Thanks for your help!
Yeah I figured that's all it was. Not sure what version VLC I'm on, but its the latest. Just reinstalled it the other day.
Try using Mx-player. So far it played everything I threw at it. (1080p)
ShannonAUT said:
Try using Mx-player. So far it played everything I threw at it. (1080p)
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VLC is MUCH better than MX Player. It's pretty much the de-facto king of video players, on any platform. Besides, he already solved his problem, it was a bad file.
That might be true on other platforms but on Android I had it constantly crashing or not playing some files whereas mx-player played everything.
Just saying you could give it a try. I've been using vlc since way back on pc and I am still using it, just not on Android. (but granted I haven't tried the last release)
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Hi everyone,
I first got to say that I have not yet purchased GalaxyNexus. However I have a big concern in regards to 720p HD video files from the net. I realized this on my Galaxy Tab10.1 after I bought it that most HD files need to be re-encoded in order to run without lag or being choppy. I was very disappointed with that.
Would someone tell me how is the performance of mkv files on GalaxyNexus.
Thanks.
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Yes, use MX Player from the market, it can run just about anything smoothly
Or try dice player, only problem is its not allowing me to buy full version after 3 days trial has ran out, anyone know a way around that?
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heck it plays 1080p mkvs flawlessly. I have a 11gb mkv of Drive that sits on my phone just to show off. Now to get that MHL adapter.
biggiestuff said:
heck it plays 1080p mkvs flawlessly. I have a 11gb mkv of Drive that sits on my phone just to show off. Now to get that MHL adapter.
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I tried a sample of 1080p mkv on mxplayer and it was choking on SW only (no HW available). What player did you use?
CrazyDelta said:
Hi everyone,
I first got to say that I have not yet purchased GalaxyNexus. However I have a big concern in regards to 720p HD video files from the net. I realized this on my Galaxy Tab10.1 after I bought it that most HD files need to be re-encoded in order to run without lag or being choppy. I was very disappointed with that.
Would someone tell me how is the performance of mkv files on GalaxyNexus.
Thanks.
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Whether it plays depends on a lot of things. The video format, (MKV is just a container), the audio format and most importantly the bitrate. A lot of desktop PCs will chunder along if the bitrate is too high for it's hardware to handle, so a phone will struggle even more.
The bottleneck seems to be the speed of the internal storage, for me. It plays stuff flawlessly, but if I play a 1080p file with a super high bitrate, it's all choppy.
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You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
I watched a 3 gig mkv file of a 1 hour season finale of flashpoint (anybody watch it BTW?) and it was flawless. Jules was as amazing as ever, and Ed was as bald as ever.
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what do you mean usernet user? whats that? and my mkv files play fine 720p and 1080p
Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.
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Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.
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Not sure what player or videos are being used in this video but my 720 en 1080p MKV's are all working smooth on dice player.
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You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
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The first rule of Usenet is, you don't talk about Usenet.
Is there a trick to getting these super large files on your phone? Everytime I've tried to drag an 8GB file over it complains it only takes files under 4GB. Are you splitting them?
lettcco said:
I tried a sample of 1080p mkv on mxplayer and it was choking on SW only (no HW available). What player did you use?
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I used diceplayer trial. That app is great. hopefully they get it working soon so I can get the full version.
not sure what your guys issue with dice player is. I have it on mine and it plays mkvs, wmvs, avis flawlessly
Dice Player plays high bitrate 1080p flawless for me. The only problem is the trial is only available so you have to uninstall and reinstall every 3 days.
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not sure what your guys issue with dice player is. I have it on mine and it plays mkvs, wmvs, avis flawlessly
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The problem is the dev's actually. The account he was using to receive payment for the full version got suspended (for whatever reason), and due to that he isn't able to continue selling the full version anymore. If you were an early adopter (like I was, due to having a Asus Transformer), it's a non-issue because you already bought it. I'm not sure why the dev is taking forever to fix the issue.
EDIT:And on that note, I also must say that all MKV files I have downloaded work perfectly fine on my nexus using diceplayer. Both 720P and 1080P (only tried 1, just to see if it worked, since it is rather pointless unless you're outputting to a TV) work just fine and without any issues for me. I haven't tried any strangely encoded files yet, but so far all normal HDTV encoded files worked just fine.
cvbcbcmv said:
You a usenet user? Mkv files are all over that. (I hope you are, I wanna talk to somebody about how amazing it is!!!)
I watched a 3 gig mkv file of a 1 hour season finale of flashpoint (anybody watch it BTW?) and it was flawless. Jules was as amazing as ever, and Ed was as bald as ever.
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man I wish usenet was free
CrazyDelta said:
Thanks for the reply guys. Appreciate it.
However, I found this video review on YouTube and it kinda made me pessimistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eDnY_nZ2SiE
*I hope it is ok posting a link to a video here.
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It's smooth once it get's hardware decoded.
No smartphone processor can decode 1080p without lag, which is exactly why OMAP put an IVA-HD chip inside to do all the work.
Much like the rest of the members I use dice player and it plays everything i throw at it. I use to have an issue with 12mbps MP4 files but they seem to have corrected that and now it is smooth for everything i throw at it.
is there a place to buy the full version or obtain one by other cough cough means?
I cant, as the title says, get videos to play completely smooth on my fire. I know I am picky about stuttering when I am watching videos, but several of the videos I have converted are clearly not smooth on my kindle(they are on my pc).
I mostly tried with different versions of gedeROM and mxPlayer, but i have also tested with some other roms and videoplayers, and its almost the same. In handbrake I have tried to adjust codecs for video and sound, and bitrate and container. Some of the rendered videos are worse than other, but none are perfect.
Is there anybody which are experiencing the same problems? If not; what setting/players do you use?
I am using hw decoding and no overclocking
Have you tried using other files you haven't encoded yourself? I stream video over a home network with Bsplayer lite and samba share and a wide variety of formats and encoding profiles work fine.
I have used Handbrake though, the Ipad (1st gen) preset works well and is a good starting point if you're one of those people that has to tweak the hell out of everything .
Lotek, you are my hero! Thanks bsplayer worked way better than mx and moboplayer. The ipadpreset worked pretty well as well. Now i can enjoy videos on my Kindle
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 ?
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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.
Do you reencode HD video for the Note 2? If so, what have you found to be an ideal format and resolution? I mentioned in another thread that the native player and MX Player will play the video for my .MKV's but not the DTS soundtrack. I've fiddled with the settings on both players, but I'm not getting any sound at all for any of my blu-ray rips.
Generally I just grab the 720p version and leave it as is. The native player had an issue with one of my mkv files, but MX played it fine, no audio issues.
I generally download straight on the device, so to re-encode it would require transferring the file twice, plus the encoding time. Not worth it to me.
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Solved.
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Generally I just grab the 720p version and leave it as is. The native player had an issue with one of my mkv files, but MX played it fine, no audio issues.
I generally download straight on the device, so to re-encode it would require transferring the file twice, plus the encoding time. Not worth it to me.
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Look at Randles' two posts on this page.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831111&page=7
I tried running a 720p video using mx player (good quality video I think) from a plugged in usb flash key drive and kept getting frozen frames every few seconds though the sound was ok. I was considering asking the same question about how it should be encoded to play without stuttering. Then I played with the player and discovered I could pinch to zoom in or out of the image while it was playing and if I reduced the display a minimal amount it would play correctly. I changed it to 99% of normal size and no more playback problems. I don't know why this is but hope it helps someone...
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Good to know.
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I tried running a 720p video using mx player (good quality video I think) from a plugged in usb flash key drive and kept getting frozen frames every few seconds though the sound was ok. I was considering asking the same question about how it should be encoded to play without stuttering. Then I played with the player and discovered I could pinch to zoom in or out of the image while it was playing and if I reduced the display a minimal amount it would play correctly. I changed it to 99% of normal size and no more playback problems. I don't know why this is but hope it helps someone...
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Thanks. Most of my videos are 720P MKV's with DTS sound. After installing the codec above, I haven't had any issues, but if I do, I will keep your suggestion in mind.
I'm trying to play some 1080P videos on the ouya but they lag like hell on XBMC.
I thought the tegra 3 was fast enough to play full 1080 or am I incorrect?
Anyone playing full 1080p videos on it smoothly?
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I'm trying to play some 1080P videos on the ouya but they lag like hell on XBMC.
I thought the tegra 3 was fast enough to play full 1080 or am I incorrect?
Anyone playing full 1080p videos on it smoothly?
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I have heard people playing 1080p fine. Are you using the stagefright build? And what are you playing them off of (Streaming from computer wirelessly, USB hard drive, etc)?
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I have heard people playing 1080p fine. Are you using the stagefright build? And what are you playing them off of (Streaming from computer wirelessly, USB hard drive, etc)?
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I just tried playing a 1080p some movies using Dice player and it's able to play relatively smoothly (can't get menus to show up while playing).
I'm using the default xbmc-12.2-Frodo-armeabi-v7a and it's lagging like crazy.
Oh and i'm playing the videos off a USB hard drive.
You need to use the Gotham release with stagefright. It has hardware acceleration and should be able to play them fine. Try the newest one from here:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/android/
actually I think you need one from here that includes stagefright (so I assume the SF ones).
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
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You need to use the Gotham release with stagefright. It has hardware acceleration and should be able to play them fine. Try the newest one from here:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/android/
actually I think you need one from here that includes stagefright (so I assume the SF ones).
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
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Thx I'll give it a shot the next chance I get.
I hope I can get it to play 3d 1080p properly but I be happy for just 1080p atm.
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Thx I'll give it a shot the next chance I get.
I hope I can get it to play 3d 1080p properly but I be happy for just 1080p atm.
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Depends on what sort of "3D" you're talking about.
All the 3D releases I have are in SBS format, which means they're actually just regular 1080P videos with weird looking content.
Your 3D hardware is the thing that unpacks SBS video into actual 3D, so you don't need anything special on the player.
My Ouya can play my 1080P SBS videos just fine, and my projector handles the 3D part, works great
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Depends on what sort of "3D" you're talking about.
All the 3D releases I have are in SBS format, which means they're actually just regular 1080P videos with weird looking content.
Your 3D hardware is the thing that unpacks SBS video into actual 3D, so you don't need anything special on the player.
My Ouya can play my 1080P SBS videos just fine, and my projector handles the 3D part, works great
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Well 1080p is now playing properly with the new experimental version of XBMC.
I tested the 3d 1080P version of avatar that I have and unfortunately it lags. Has a slight constant stuttering in the video.
That film in particular gave me trouble even on my computer (with 16 GB of RAM and an i7 CPU). Something about the audio track in the two releases I got.
I was able to fix it by taking the DTS track off the 2D version I have and combine that with the 3D SBS video track.
I don't honestly know why it was jacked up. You using a Side-By-Side encoded copy, or what?
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That film in particular gave me trouble even on my computer (with 16 GB of RAM and an i7 CPU). Something about the audio track in the two releases I got.
I was able to fix it by taking the DTS track off the 2D version I have and combine that with the 3D SBS video track.
I don't honestly know why it was jacked up. You using a Side-By-Side encoded copy, or what?
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Yes it was a Side-By-Side encoded version.
When I get some time I'll test out some other 3d movies to make sure it's not just some one off problem. But like I said, my wdtv live plays it fine.
Thank you
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You need to use the Gotham release with stagefright. It has hardware acceleration and should be able to play them fine. Try the newest one from here:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/android/
actually I think you need one from here that includes stagefright (so I assume the SF ones).
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
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Skurvy_Pirate said:
You need to use the Gotham release with stagefright. It has hardware acceleration and should be able to play them fine. Try the newest one from here:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/android/
actually I think you need one from here that includes stagefright (so I assume the SF ones).
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
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Are you actually able to play back any 1080p vc-1 videos. I installed this build which works fine on h.264, but vc-1 gives black screen with audio. bsplayer does same.
Both apps work well on tf700 tegra3.
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Are you actually able to play back any 1080p vc-1 videos. I installed this build which works fine on h.264, but vc-1 gives black screen with audio. bsplayer does same.
Both apps work well on tf700 tegra3.
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I don't have any vc-1 format videos, but plenty of 1080p, and I have only had issues with one which was 32+ GB. The video would go corrupt every 5 seconds but it streamed at high fps and good audio, so I am guessing it was some kink that has yet to be worked out or an oddly encoded video file. I have played others that were ~17 GB and they play fine. Which build of Gotham are you on?
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I don't have any vc-1 format videos, but plenty of 1080p, and I have only had issues with one which was 32+ GB. The video would go corrupt every 5 seconds but it streamed at high fps and good audio, so I am guessing it was some kink that has yet to be worked out or an oddly encoded video file. I have played others that were ~17 GB and they play fine. Which build of Gotham are you on?
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Most of my bluray rips are vc1.
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Most of my bluray rips are vc1.
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I know vc1 interlaced video are difficult to play even vlc on my pc gives me corruption.
From testing the two versions I have found the Gotham release appears to support more encodes but stagefright plays them better. I do have slight stutter while playing some 1080p files
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I know vc1 interlaced video are difficult to play even vlc on my pc gives me corruption.
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Whats odd is that both xbmc and bsplayer work with hw accel on my tf700 which is basically the ouya with an lcd.
Thanks Gotham build did the trick for my .264 1080p vids.
Hi, I have install Gortham build and all my video lag (hd and SD) any idea plz ?
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Hi, I have install Gortham build and all my video lag (hd and SD) any idea plz ?
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I am also getting stutter on any video type, from a 1080p HD to crappy SD rips. I am using the latest gotham_alpha5SF build from 7/3/13
Update: I rolled back to alpha4SF from 6/4/13 and it seems to have smoothed it out.
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I am also getting stutter on any video type, from a 1080p HD to crappy SD rips. I am using the latest gotham_alpha5SF build from 7/3/13
Update: I rolled back to alpha4SF from 6/4/13 and it seems to have smoothed it out.
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So going to try it now
Edit : 6/4 work fine thx
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