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Hi peeps, just curious to see if anyone knows of a media player that plays. Mp2 files. I have a tv decoder which records and can export via a usb socket. But when I copy the video files over nothing seems to play them. They list as Mp2, any helps good thanx in advance.
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mp2 is an audio only format, isn't it?
Can you play the format on a desktop machine at all? What application do you use to playback?
Maybe you could try use a piece of software to analyze the file? Maybe Gspot.
Hi, back again.Tried what you suggested.I can play it on a PC using VLC and after running it through GSpot i get this info.Any ideas?
File Type: MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Mime Type: video/mp2t
Sorry, not sure what will play that back, maybe RockPlayer... However they are actively working on a VLC android port. Not sure about ETA but the last I heard (December 2010) was "very soon".
Until then, maybe try converting the file to something more common. There are plenty of free convertors out there.
@stigslim:
You try to play Mpeg2 Transport Streams ( mp2ts ).
And because MPEG2 needs extra licenses you have to buy the Cinema Plugin.
You can also try Rockplayer or Vitalplayer from the market.
And dont forget to rename the files to .ts
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@stigslim:
You try to play Mpeg2 Transport Streams ( mp2ts ).
And because MPEG2 needs extra licenses you have to buy the Cinema Plugin.
You can also try Rockplayer or Vitalplayer from the market.
And dont forget to rename the files to .ts
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Mpeg2 does not need cinema plugin. Only mpeg2 when sound is encoded as 5.1 ac3 sound does it need cinema plugin. Mpeg2 with any other audio track plays fine. It is actually the ac3 5.1 coded that cinema plugin supports not specifically for mpeg2 at all.
John
The Cinema Plugin is needed for AC3 ( you are right ) and MPEG2.
http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/specs.html?country=gb&lang=en
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The Cinema Plugin is needed for AC3 ( you are right ) and MPEG2.
http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/specs.html?country=gb&lang=en
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It is not needed for mpeg2 at all. Every mpeg2 will play except an mpeg2 that has 5.1 ac3 sound in it.
Ac3 will also play without plugin if it is 2.0 it's only 5.1 that needs the plugin.
Try an play an MPEG 2 field that does not have an ac3 5.1 audio track and see what happens.
John
I have tried MPEG2 and MP2 files without AC3 and they are not played. A message is shown, that I would need cinema plug-in to play those file formats.
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Hi, back again.I tried Rockplayer with no luck so I gave vitalplayer a go and it seemed to play it pretty good but had a bit of a problem with timing but that could have been a corrupt video file.I will try another clip and be back to let you know how I get on.
Frelix said:
I have tried MPEG2 and MP2 files without AC3 and they are not played. A message is shown, that I would need cinema plug-in to play those file formats.
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Second that. With an 101 with Firmware 1.0.84 (I'm holding out until they release the official flash support). Doesn't play mpeg2 files without plug-in!
To the thread starter: Just spring that 15 quid. Just thinks of it as a final installment to get all the features of the archos
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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chandoliasnikos said:
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.
Babis_ECE said:
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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Hello every 1,
first of all, i know theres many threads about "playing wmv on android devices" on this forum , but none of them helped....
Since 3 days I'm trying to play an HD wmv video on my GN , so far I've tried MX, Mobo, Dice and many many other media players with no luck
(The video plays flawlessly on my PC)
Mobo plays the viode with f*cked up sound..
Dice & MX play the video with the high fps and almost no lag BUT the sound starts to mess up after few seconds ( it either completely stops or it get sluggish ) and the video just continue on playing without sound/ with sluggish sound.....
Otherwise I've tried HW/SW/fast SW/ decoding settings but with the same results :'(
Any idea what else can I do (other than converting the vid) ??
Best regards
try daroon player or export your file to a new format like mp4
Rock player plays pretty much every video format
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Dice player or mx video player.
I prefer dice
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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.
Hello everyone, i have Blu ray rip mkv (from 20-40gb each mkv) in my usb hdd, when i play it on my Galaxy note 2 the video runs fine but without audio and when the video starts a msg appear at the bottom says something about only video is playing. I have MX player pro, PlayerPro, Real Player and i tried on all of them and on defualt video player as well. The funny thing is the tv series episodes like vampire diaries, mentalist, big bang theory i download in 720p rip mkv(from 900mb to 1.5gb) it runs perfectly. Is there some sort of codecs i need for the audio in Blu ray rips i'm trying to play or some other player.
I'll be very grateful for help.
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Hello everyone, i have Blu ray rip mkv (from 20-40gb each mkv) in my usb hdd, when i play it on my Galaxy note 2 the video runs fine but without audio and when the video starts a msg appear at the bottom says something about only video is playing. I have MX player pro, PlayerPro, Real Player and i tried on all of them and on defualt video player as well. The funny thing is the tv series episodes like vampire diaries, mentalist, big bang theory i download in 720p rip mkv(from 900mb to 1.5gb) it runs perfectly. Is there some sort of codecs i need for the audio in Blu ray rips i'm trying to play or some other player.
I'll be very grateful for help.
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try bsplayer.
I tried all the apps you mentioned with no luck. Bsplayer can play everything i got in my video library.
ok I will, Thanks.
I use dice player. It's played anything I've thrown at it so far and it has a pop up feature as well.
With MX Player Pro try going into settings and changing it from H/W to S/W.. That's what I use and everything I watched plays just fine
bs player handsdown. i tried them all, non of them would play DTS audio mkv file except bs player. unfortunately, stock samsung has better video quality but no sound lol
Actually the stock player should be able to handle them.
I have mx player installed and bs player also.
One thing that bs player has that others don't, playing videos over a Windows share. You can play music videos back to back without needing to select the next song.
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Both myself and my brother have played mkv files on our devices with no issues. I have the note II and he has an s III .... not sure what the issue is you are having but I don't think it is the video player... I use stock, so does he.
+1 for BSPlayer, also consider Archos with the additional Codec Add-on
I've found that on my version of the Note II, MXPlayer Pro, the default Video Player, IMToo, all did not work because of the lack of an AC3 codec.
The ones that worked were:
- Archos Video Player (with the Codec Add-On installed)
- BSPlayer
- VLC, however does not play .m4v files
- XBMC, however lags on playback
In the end it was between Archos and BSPlayer. The Archos Player has a better UI along with the ability to bookmark within the video. BSPlayer has the capability of resizing the video to any size, and locking the aspect ratio on-screen. It also connects to opensubs.org to download external subs on the fly, if needed.
Being an XBMC / OpenELEC user, since I'm comfortable with the interface and the plug-in system, I'm hoping that it will be optimized for Android in the future. When that day comes, I will switch back to XBMC. But for now, I flip back between Archos and BS Player.
Thanks for your help guys, my problem is solved
Mx player
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