Video Playback Issues - Moto G5 Questions & Answers

I got a new Moto G5 here in the UK on O2 network 2 days ago. I've noticed an odd issue streaming certain HD channels streamed from my PC TV tuner, and playing back certain files too, using both VLC and MXPlayer. The players keep defaulting back to software rendering and, as such, the playback is very choppy and slow. I am wondering if this is a known issue with this phone, as someone has mentioned a similar issue over on another forum, though playback of the same stream and files is fine, and hardware accleration is enabled, on my friend's Moto G5 Plus.
I have a link to a short clip of that file I am having issues with but am unable to post it in here due to being a new user.

far78 said:
I got a new Moto G5 here in the UK on O2 network 2 days ago. I've noticed an odd issue streaming certain HD channels streamed from my PC TV tuner, and playing back certain files too, using both VLC and MXPlayer. The players keep defaulting back to software rendering and, as such, the playback is very choppy and slow. I am wondering if this is a known issue with this phone, as someone has mentioned a similar issue over on another forum, though playback of the same stream and files is fine, and hardware accleration is enabled, on my friend's Moto G5 Plus.
I have a link to a short clip of that file I am having issues with but am unable to post it in here due to being a new user.
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Post the link and I'll test it although I'm using lineageos 15
Just put spaces in the link if you can't post link
Iv never had problems with any kinds of streaming or video playback
I suggest not only do you install mx player but also install the armv7 neon codec
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.ffmpeg.v7_neon

TheFixItMan said:
Post the link and I'll test it although I'm using lineageos 15
Just put spaces in the link if you can't post link
Iv never had problems with any kinds of streaming or video playback
I suggest not only do you install mx player but also install the armv7 neon codec
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.ffmpeg.v7_neon
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I forgot to add I also installed the Neon codec from the link on this site (which includes DTS support)
The link is we dot tl/AbBUa1zayI

far78 said:
I forgot to add I also installed the Neon codec from the link on this site (which includes DTS support)
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Iv tested the file and it plays perfectly fine on my g5 although its playing on software decoder as hardware acceleration is not supported on this file on lineage 15 and I'll assume the same is true for stock
The only thing I can suggest is wiping the data of the mx player app in case you have changed some settings that have caused the issue
You can do this by going into settings - apps - selecting mx player - storage - clear data
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app will also do the same thing
I also tested it on vlc and it plays but is choppy I would avoid vlc and stick to mx player

Related

Diceplayer supports Galaxy nexus - plays MKV/AVI with Full HW acceleration

Diceplayer v 1.7.4 supports Galaxy Nexus.
It take advantage of OMAP4's video decoder.
720p H.264 High profile + DTS/AC3/Flac audio MKV with embedded subtitles works perfectly.
I'll post some test video on next Monday.
YES. YES. YES. That is awesome. My only reservation about the phone was codec support. Thanks for sharing Juami!
Awesome try some 1080p stuff. Also try mxplayer if you have the time
veli69 said:
Awesome try some 1080p stuff. Also try mxplayer if you have the time
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mx : not supported version popup
bs and mobo : couldn't play at all
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I think devs could not get Galaxy Nexus yet.
I got unreleased Galaxy Nexus for testing. so I could release diceplayer update for Galaxy Nexus.
Thanks for the update, been using Diceplayer on my tab 10.1 for a while now and it's been awesome. On the nexus however it seems it's missing some frame rates. Will try it with a few more vids and see how it goes.
Edit: Tried a 720p mkv and it was flawless. Avi's of TV shows are playing back at a low frame rate, and are noticeably choppy.
I can play 10gb 1080p rips without problem, Can't try anything larger as Diceplayer crashes when I try to play over my network so have only been able to play local files.
Plays local files fine but doesn't go fullscreen - leaves the onscreen buttons.
VPlayer seems to work nicely
The UI for Vplayer is defo not perfect.. the folders glitch, and the soft buttons stay lit, however the playback is smooth and in sync, so very usable for now.
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VPlayer seems to work nicely
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vPlayer have a good sw video decoder(ffmpeg) but
vPlayer can't use HW video decoder except native supported format(mp4).
SW video decoder use higher CPU power than HW decoder and drains battery too fast. and loose a color detail.
Great news. Loved the Dice player on my Asus Transformer. Sold my tablet though so I'm looking forward to using it on the GN
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Plays local files fine but doesn't go fullscreen - leaves the onscreen buttons.
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we update diceplayer to support full screen on Galaxy Nexus.
changelog of diceplayer v.1.7.5
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What's in this version:
Support full screen for Galaxy Nexus
Fix bug that sometimes continuation does not work properly for Galaxy Nexus
Fix bug that some AVI files are not played properly
Fix bug that aspect ratio is abnormal when orientation is changed
Add option that shows audio only files (default off)
Add option that saves the subtitle (default on, can move by touching subtitle while playing)
Fix minor bugs
Has anyone tried playing MKV's on the native ICS media player? I can play aac-audio h.264-video MKVs without installing any additional player
SilentMobius said:
Has anyone tried playing MKV's on the native ICS media player? I can play aac-audio h.264-video MKVs without installing any additional player
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after Honeycomb, Android supports MKV format ( not perfectly) but audio codec limited to AAC/MP3.
if you want to play AC3/DTS/Flac audio and embedded subtitles, you should install 3rd party player.
Just though id add my findings.
Ive tried dice player but as with Vplayer i have had mixed results.
Some of my Mp4 files play just fine whilst others fail to open. The player just goes back to the andriod home screen. The ones that fail have ac3 audio.
Im guessing its down to the audio codecs required to play the files.
I do like the look and feel of the app though.
Its a shame im having these issues as the galaxy s2 played them all natively.
Haven't bought Dice Player but I can confirm the trial will playback high profile MKVs in 1080p:
I tried Diceplayer on few local 720p MKV and these play nice.
But two things:
1. My TXT subtitles did not load.
2. When I tried to play the same file from network share, Diceplayer crashes.
I was just able to mount my network share drive via CIFS, so that it appears under /mnt/cifs/share
Then I tried Diceplayer and it did play my 720p MKV in HW with no delay on start.
If it only supported TXT subtitles... (it would probably need to handle different formats, as I have noticed sometimes different formats used in TXT file)
Will run my usual batch of test video files through the Nexus and Dice Player in next couple of days as I just got my Nexus. Expect it won't measure up to the Note/SGSII that I'm accustomed to, but if it can handle 720p I'll be happy enough...
Not sure If I posted this already, but Dice player was able to play 1080p mov trailer in hardware other players either could not play at all or used software and were skipping.

DTS Audio for android == LAWSUIT

DTS audio *used* to work outofthebox in both DicePlayer (my old favorite), and in MX Player (my new fav), but both of them REMOVED the dts codec a few months ago apparently because of the threat of lawsuits from using unlicensed code.
(UPDATE: DicePlayer dev juami posted below that they were refused even the option to buy a license for DTS, because they prefer to deal with the big industry players instead; also, DicePlayer can still play dts IF you install an external codec plug-in)
Just curious what most people are doing out there in order to play their mkv videos with the very common DTS audio track (vs the less common AAC/MP3/etc audio tracks). Re-encoding phone-friendly versions with HandBrake; using an old app with DTS support; using a PAID app that paid the licensing fee (can't find one), or, something else...
EDIT: I'm going to keep a list here of players that are known to support DTS or not:
DTS IS SUPPORTED OTTB (for now):
VLC Beta - (h/w 1080p decode works! - BEST option, but, the app must be sideloaded, since it shows as incompatible with the US S3 in the Play store. See Time_Zone's post below for the attached VLC apk. Thanks!)
BS Player - (s/w ONLY (eats battery): h/w mode always falls back to s/w mode, but dts is ok. 720p s/w == ok; 1080p s/w == CPU can't keep up; too choppy)
Rock Player - (s/w ONLY (eats battery): no DTS when in h/w video playback mode, and s/w playback is blocky crap. Also, the app fails to playback a video when sent a video intent to play from another app)
DTS NOT SUPPORTED:
Video Player default - (Touchwiz, AOSP (CM10, AOKP, ...))
MX Player - (updated versions removed codec; google for old apk version)
Dice Player - (updated versions removed codec; google for old apk version (2.0.6), or try searching XDA for external plug-in support instead.)
Mobo Player
zmore said:
DTS audio *used* to work in both DicePlayer (my old favorite; discontinued), and in MX Player (my new fav), but both of them REMOVED the dts codec a few months ago because of the threat of lawsuits.
Just curious what most people are doing out there in order to play their mkv videos with the very common DTS audio track (vs the less common AAC/MP3/etc audio tracks). Re-encoding phone-friendly versions with HandBrake; using an old app with DTS support; using a PAID app that paid the licensing fee (can't find one), or, something else...
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VLC BETA... you have to search for it. It does work.
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VLC BETA... you have to search for it. It does work.
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Awesome. I'll give it try, even through from what I've read the beta is still very buggy & laggy.
Wonder how long they'll "get away with it" before removing DTS support too.
EDIT: VLC beta is currently incompatible with the US SGS3
FWIW, BS Player is one of the few I've found that can handle DTS Audio, however, it fails to playback do h/w accelerated playback of the video, and falls back to s/w, so it's choppy with 720p, and fails with 1080p
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Awesome. I'll give it try, even through from what I've read the beta is still very buggy & laggy.
Wonder how long they'll "get away with it" before removing DTS support too.
EDIT: VLC beta is currently incompatible with the US SGS3
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huh... This one seems to be working for me...
Time_Zone said:
huh... This one seems to be working for me...
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Whoa! That works! Wonder why the Play store shows it as incompatible...
So, after enabling h/w acceleration (disabled by default), my 720p & 1080p vids play without a hiccup. Smooth video & crisp dts audio. I'm not seeing all the bugs that are warned about. Thanks man.
If I try to skip ahead or behind off a cifs mount across network the audio goes out of synch... Thats the only bug I have seen.
zmore said:
DTS audio *used* to work in both DicePlayer (my old favorite; discontinued), and in MX Player (my new fav), but both of them REMOVED the dts codec a few months ago apparently because of the threat of lawsuits from using unlicensed code.
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Diceplayer is not discontinued. ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a&hl=en )
and there are a way to enable un-supported codec
search "xda diceplayer dts"
juami said:
Diceplayer is not discontinued. ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a&hl=en )
and there are a way to enable un-supported codec
search "xda diceplayer dts"
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The impression I got is that DicePlayer switched from AdSupported&Paid versions to DonationWare in preparation of becoming AbandonWare. In any case, they removed DTS, so it's out of the running, and from the comments I read about the external dts workaround you mentioned: it doesn't work as well. VLC wins for now. Thanks, though.
For myself I have a backed up apk of the last MX Player to ahve DTS and I simply install that on new devices.
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The impression I got is that DicePlayer switched from AdSupported&Paid versions to DonationWare in preparation of becoming AbandonWare. In any case, they removed DTS, so it's out of the running, and from the comments I read about the external dts workaround you mentioned: it doesn't work as well. VLC wins for now. Thanks, though.
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That is your impression. but I am working for upgrading diceplayer. We do not adandon diceplayer. I am very upset and feel that I should really adondon diceplayer. Why do I do bothering jobs like supporting JB and fixing bugs and adding external codec features.
removing DTS is another problems. MX also remove DTS. we have same situations.
did you copy libffmpeg.so to /sdcard ( root of internal storage memory ). and enable custom plug-in and restart diceplayer?
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That is your impression. but I am working for upgrading diceplayer. We do not adandon diceplayer. I am very upset and feel that I should really adondon diceplayer. Why do I do bothering jobs like supporting JB and fixing bugs and adding external codec features.
removing DTS is another problems. MX also remove DTS. we have same situations.
did you copy libffmpeg.so to /sdcard ( root of internal storage memory ). and enable custom plug-in and restart diceplayer?
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I didn't realize you were one of the DicePlayer devs when I replied. So, sorry 'bout sounding as if I was bashing DicePlayer.
I used your app for over a year mainly because it was fast, played just about everything I threw at it, and because it was and still is the only player (afaik) that can browse & directly stream from windows network shares (without having to first mount samba/cifs in a separate app). It was just the loss of DTS and the (false) impression of it becoming abandonware that made me leave it.
Mind if I ask how much the lawyers were asking for a DTS licensing fee? And, how is it that VLC and others are getting away with it?
DTS deny to sell thier products to sw player makers.
We already contact them to buy license. But they refuse to sell.
They want to sell DTS license to hw vendor like samsung.
And Samsung don't want to buy to put it in their hardware... don't they know that make their handset sells even faster??
Trying out to video on Galaxy S 3 Jelly Bean (Omega V14)
Dice Player - Error prompt "Video playback Sorry, this video cannot be played." just by starting the app
MX Player - 1.6F show version not supported and close
VLC Player - Software mode playback on some videos ok, enable hardware with have choppy videos
Not sure is upgrading to JB worth it...
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Trying out to video on Galaxy S 3 Jelly Bean (Omega V14)
Dice Player - Error prompt "Video playback Sorry, this video cannot be played." just by starting the app
MX Player - 1.6F show version not supported and close
VLC Player - Software mode playback on some videos ok, enable hardware with have choppy videos
Not sure is upgrading to JB worth it...
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I see no Omega ROM in the dev forum... and when I google it, it says it's still ICS, not JB.
Anyhoo, VLC Player has been great for me, and it's all I use now since it plays everything I throw at it (like DicePlayer used to). My only minor gripe with it is that it's sometimes herkyjerky in the first 3 seconds of video before it 'catches up', so I can never see the first few seconds of some videos.
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Trying out to video on Galaxy S 3 Jelly Bean (Omega V14)
Dice Player - Error prompt "Video playback Sorry, this video cannot be played." just by starting the app
MX Player - 1.6F show version not supported and close
VLC Player - Software mode playback on some videos ok, enable hardware with have choppy videos
Not sure is upgrading to JB worth it...
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If rom is CyanogenMod ,ASOP/AOKP they won't have samsung media codecs. That's why hardware acceleration not working.
Flash samsung stock based rom with proper kernel i recommend this ktoonsez sammy kernel . And video playback will work properly.
very interesting thread, i hope mx player will be compatible with DTS audio in near future.
MX won't be compatible cause of the mentioned legal issues, but they added support for custom ffmpeg builds, which eventually might help adding DTS support back... if someone does it ofc.
might try Dice player again with the dts tweak, but i have been using vplayer for videos with DTS. Free in the play store and works rather well.
Well just like last time Dice player freezes and lags, with certain MKV files such as anime. BS Player is by far the best player around and love the LAN features, just wish the UI was cleaner.

Video stuttering

Hello everyone. At first I have to say that english isn't my first language so please be understanding.
I've just bought new Note 3 and was pleased with it, until I've found that something is wrong with playing videos. When I try to watch some videos(for example anime) online, it is stuttering. Audio is ok but video lags like hell. Lets take videos from www*auby*no/files/video_tests/ (sorry I had to change "." with "*" because I was unable to post link to another site )as an examples.First I tried playing them online using official player and MX Player(using hardware decoding and software decoding). Then I downloaded them and tried playing again. While playing online using official player, every movie except Shrinkage and Shrinkage 2 was choppy. Playing them with use of MX Player with H/W resulted int the same thing(video lags), but when I changed to S/W everything run smoothly(except first two movies). Next I downloaded them and again tried to play them with official player, and guess what? Everything was ok. The same was with MX Player with H/W and of course S/W.
I also tried to play movies online with worse resolution (480p) and they were ok but other videos with 720p were stuttering. I also tried to play video in 720p using mobile-friendly online player and had lags, but when I played THE SAME video using not mobile-friendly online player(with usage of Flash Player) it was ok...
So dear friends I don't know what to do so I am counting on your help, because I really want to be able to watch movies online on this badass screen.
Try DicePlayer. Still one of the best players IMO, and one of the few that can play videos directly off of Windows network shares (though I use ES File Explorer to browse and Dice to play)
No stutter here playing even 10+Mbps 1080p h264 over wireless from samba shares on my NAS. (Haven't tried 20Mbps yet)
Well, I've tried this DicePlayer and it is really nice but only with playing videos where I can choose which player to use. If I, for example want to watch a movie on dailymotion I can't choose if I want to use MxPlayer or DicePlayer or something else. I have to watch it using dailymotion player (right?) and using these kind of players make videos stutter. That's my problem.
Note 3 has a problem. Verizon and ATT versions also show stuttering when streaming video. I have it in YouTube and other videos that streamed from a website.
We shouldn't have to use third party players, especially when it's not even an option (can't choose one) or in the case of youtube it's an app. This is nonsense. Samsung needs to address this issue. How can we contact them? I've been trying to figure that out.
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Note 3 has a problem. Verizon and ATT versions also show stuttering when streaming video. I have it in YouTube and other videos that streamed from a website.
We shouldn't have to use third party players, especially when it's not even an option (can't choose one) or in the case of youtube it's an app. This is nonsense. Samsung needs to address this issue. How can we contact them? I've been trying to figure that out.
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huh i havn't run into this problem myself, can you give me a youtube video that does it for sure so i can see it too?
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huh i havn't run into this problem myself, can you give me a youtube video that does it for sure so i can see it too?
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I never said it was every handset. But I've seen complaints regarding this issue on t mobile, verizon, att and the international version. I haven't checked others.
Try any hd video. They show it the most. But if you don't have the issue I don't expect you to see symptoms.
Try another browser with java support like maxthon
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Ok. I've noticed another thing. Stuttering happens only with films in HD. For example I've played some film from vimeo in (probably) 480p and it was fine, but after playing it in 720p lags occurred. Also I've tried maxthon but it didn't help.
So, to sum up everything for now, stuttering occurs when I try to play HD films online, where I can't choose players like DicePlayer or MxPlayer and have to use "built-in" online players (for example on Dailymotion or Vimeo) and also when I try to play films online (which I can play using players on my note) using official player or MxPlayer with H/W or H/W+.
I talked to Samsung via Chat and the guy said he's never heard of this issue. I find that amazing since I've seen the complaints all versions of the Note 3.
We shouldn't have to watch videos in 480p and we shouldn't have to switch browsers. All this does is try to avoid running into a problem that shouldn't be there to begin with.
It's a high end device with a low end problem. Something is wrong. I suggest you all that are having issues to tell Samsung about it. Call or chat or do some type of communication.
I've talked with someone from samsung via live chat and he said that if phone doesn't have problem with playing films on sd card it isn't problem with phone itself. He also said that he will pass it to proper department. Also doesn't this problem seem like this one? Maybe it's not problem with note 3 but with JB 4.3?
Yeah you're right, can't stream some HD videos, especially on vimeo. Youtube is fine for me on full hd. Anything downloaded plays perfectly though.
I've had this issue on two different T-Mobile notes. HD videos in any browser for me stutter. I'm hoping its software related and can get patched soon.
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I'm hoping its software related and can get patched soon.
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I hope that it will come out soon if it's software related, because if it was hardware related I would have to change it and it restrains me for now from rooting it.

H265 issues? (medias from other phones)

Hello,
I've got a problem with some media files, I'm not finding any reasonable answers and my brain is gonna blow up!
I manually copied (I mean without smartswitch) videos from my old phones (P20 pro, mate 20 pro) on my note 10 plus. The gallery preview is working well, but I can't play them well. I have the sound but not the image.
I only encounter the issue with videos that have been encoded in h265, those in h264 are well played.
The h265 videos produced with the note 10 are played without any problems of course, and most of the h265 videos which are not from my old phones are fine.
I tried to install MX player with codecs, VLC, it does not solve the problem.
The best result is on MX player, by activating the SW decoder. I have the image, but not smooth at all.
Do you have any suggestions, ideas about the origin of the problem ? It's really painful not being able to consult all of my medias...
I put you a sample video that I'm not able to read, if you ever want to test on your device and confirm that it does not work either.
https://we.tl/t-Iu2aanB98E?src=dnl
I tested the clip you send and was having the same issues you said. But I have downloaded some h265 clips and it is working fine
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Thanks for trying. It confirms me that the problème comes from the file. And I played the same video in my old phone and my computer, and it's working fine of course.
I'm just wondering why a video recorded on a Huawei (aac, h265) couldn't be played on a Samsung which is using the same codecs to record videos...
Is there any reasons...? I'm lost.
H265 codec is very complex, for example it supports 15 different color spaces etc and not every option is implemented on every device, so I would speculate some codec setting in your old phone is not implemented in the new one. I would simply recode it on a PC to settings I know work on new phone, changing as little as possible to preserve quality. I use xmedia recode, with nvidia codec it is extremely fast and you can highlight multiple files and do all at once. You can probably finish recoding the files before you figure what in particular is not working and knowing the problem still doesn't guarantee solution. Who knows, the incompatibility may have been there even on purpose.
I was able to play your video clip with no issues on my note 10+ using both MX Player and Samsung Video Play. Both are set on default.
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Actually xfaega is right, your video plays fine on mine as well with stock Samsung player.
joining the party. works on diceplayer, MX player. didn't use stock player. unlocked note 10plus
Hummm.... That's strange.
Maybe the beginning of an explanation. I'm in Europe so my note 10 plus works with the exynos chipset.
Maybe you guys, have the snapdragon version?
I was waiting some système updates to see if it fix the problème... Still Not working
Have you tried using mx player?
Of course.
With mx player, It's working only with the software option. I've got an image but it's not working fine, really jerky.

Question Dolby Vision files are not displayed correctly

Hi,
does anyone else has a problem with playing dolby vision movies? Normal hevc 10bit hdr files are playing fine (although very dark). But dolby vision files ether don't have the correct colors (the typical purple/green color issues)
https://imgur.com/8Y8oUhH
or, if dolby vision gets recognized, it gets cut off on the top and bottom. The resulting aspect ratio is something like 1:6, so it is really really bad
https://imgur.com/1jtUhTb
both screenshots from the same movie
I tried the different dolby profiles using the dolby muxer from thier github (dvhe.05,dvhe.07,dvhe.08...).
Also i tried of course different players (kodi, kodi hdr edition, mx player, mpv, build in) but they all just use the hardware decoding and therefore have the same problem.
Also the ONLY file that i found that worked correctly was a demo from netflix (http://download.opencontent.netflix.com/?prefix=TechblogAssets/Meridian/encodes/)
Container also doesn't matter (thinking that metainfo has been given to the hardware decoder for correct aspect ratio). I tried ts, m2ts, matroska, mp4...
The same happens to me, unfortunately. Tried Plex too and has the same crop/colors error.
i found a solution for a few movies (e.g. some movie about a guy that has a license to kill).
If you have a movie in DV in an mkv container and the pad does not recognize it (puple/green colours) look first with mediainfo for the codec id. If it says on Codec ID dvhe this will not work, if it says V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC the following will work. (Both videos report the same HDR format "Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, dvhe.05.06, BL+RPU")
demux the mkv to a hevc and audio/subtitle files (ffmpeg, tsmuxer,...)
mux it to an mp4 using the dolby muxer from github
mp4muxer --dv-profile 5.09 -i video.hevc -i audio.ac3 -o out.mp4
Add subtitles or whatever you want.
I have no clue why the aspect ratio is wrong on the dvhe files, i blame the HW decoding driver of the Pad.
Did you download the extensions?
1. Dolby Vision Extensions
2. HEVC Video Extensions
Available on windows store
Make sure to play DV files using windows video players, since DV is proprietary, most video players don't support it (even if you've got the extensions installed)
manu_jedi said:
Hi,
does anyone else has a problem with playing dolby vision movies? Normal hevc 10bit hdr files are playing fine (although very dark). But dolby vision files ether don't have the correct colors (the typical purple/green color issues)
https://imgur.com/8Y8oUhH
or, if dolby vision gets recognized, it gets cut off on the top and bottom. The resulting aspect ratio is something like 1:6, so it is really really bad
https://imgur.com/1jtUhTb
both screenshots from the same movie
I tried the different dolby profiles using the dolby muxer from thier github (dvhe.05,dvhe.07,dvhe.08...).
Also i tried of course different players (kodi, kodi hdr edition, mx player, mpv, build in) but they all just use the hardware decoding and therefore have the same problem.
Also the ONLY file that i found that worked correctly was a demo from netflix (http://download.opencontent.netflix.com/?prefix=TechblogAssets/Meridian/encodes/)
Container also doesn't matter (thinking that metainfo has been given to the hardware decoder for correct aspect ratio). I tried ts, m2ts, matroska, mp4...
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Use aPlayer (available on Play Store). Works fine with DV files.
joy_2001 said:
Did you download the extensions?
1. Dolby Vision Extensions
2. HEVC Video Extensions
Available on windows store
Make sure to play DV files using windows video players, since DV is proprietary, most video players don't support it (even if you've got the extensions installed)
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You are talking about a windows PC, this is the xiaomi pad 5 forum.
hackslash said:
Use aPlayer (available on Play Store). Works fine with DV files.
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On my device aPlayer shows a black screen on DV only files (i didn't test it with files which contain as a fallback normal hdr, like 4K BD)
Tried just player?
Just (Video) Player – Apps on Google Play
Open source video player with no Bluetooth lag and support for various codecs
play.google.com
Rkm94 said:
Tried just player?
Just (Video) Player – Apps on Google Play
Open source video player with no Bluetooth lag and support for various codecs
play.google.com
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Yes, same result.
manu_jedi said:
Yes, same result.
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same result as in wrong colour or aspect ratio?
also specify the OS version you are on, because that's weird.
Rkm94 said:
same result as in wrong colour or aspect ratio?
also specify the OS version you are on, because that's weird.
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Sorry i gave up on DV. This thread is now a year old and i am on a custom rom. So i don't really want to say that it does not work as i didn't try it for some time with miui (like half a year). But Just Player uses Exoplayer which is used by a lot of players (exceptions are mpv and vlc i think).
Currently on ArrowOS:
mpv (by far the best player in my opinion): wrong colors, the fix is afaik not yet merged in the android release https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7326
although this does also not work on my pad
vo=gpu-next has no effect on DV format files with hwdec=mediacodec-copy · Issue #10287 · mpv-player/mpv
Important Information Reproduction steps I'm using a custom build mpv-android with the latest libplacebo (> 4.192.0) and ffmpeg (>5.0). The build is from the following locations: https://www.reddit...
github.com
vlc: wrong colors
just player (and any exoplayer): black screen on Arrow (but i think it had wrong colors on miui)
Thanks for your reply anyways
manu_jedi said:
Sorry i gave up on DV. This thread is now a year old and i am on a custom rom. So i don't really want to say that it does not work as i didn't try it for some time with miui (like half a year). But Just Player uses Exoplayer which is used by a lot of players (exceptions are mpv and vlc i think).
Currently on ArrowOS:
mpv (by far the best player in my opinion): wrong colors, the fix is afaik not yet merged in the android release https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7326
although this does also not work on my pad
vo=gpu-next has no effect on DV format files with hwdec=mediacodec-copy · Issue #10287 · mpv-player/mpv
Important Information Reproduction steps I'm using a custom build mpv-android with the latest libplacebo (> 4.192.0) and ffmpeg (>5.0). The build is from the following locations: https://www.reddit...
github.com
vlc: wrong colors
just player (and any exoplayer): black screen on Arrow (but i think it had wrong colors on miui)
Thanks for your reply anyways
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Well, this is embarrassing. I only looked at the month and replied since it was Nov. Thank you for all the additional info
manu_jedi said:
Sorry i gave up on DV. This thread is now a year old and i am on a custom rom. So i don't really want to say that it does not work as i didn't try it for some time with miui (like half a year). But Just Player uses Exoplayer which is used by a lot of players (exceptions are mpv and vlc i think).
Currently on ArrowOS:
mpv (by far the best player in my opinion): wrong colors, the fix is afaik not yet merged in the android release https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7326
although this does also not work on my pad
vo=gpu-next has no effect on DV format files with hwdec=mediacodec-copy · Issue #10287 · mpv-player/mpv
Important Information Reproduction steps I'm using a custom build mpv-android with the latest libplacebo (> 4.192.0) and ffmpeg (>5.0). The build is from the following locations: https://www.reddit...
github.com
vlc: wrong colors
just player (and any exoplayer): black screen on Arrow (but i think it had wrong colors on miui)
Thanks for your reply anyways
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is it worth to go for the ArrowOs ? The latest MIUI update worsen my tablet performance, it's so frustrating

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