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Hardware accelerated Video/Audio Codec for E4GT?

although the Epic 4G Touch could play most videos, some of my videos (mp4,avi,divx) could not be played(it has sound but no picture) and the way to solve it is to download a video player on market on use software decoding which eats up cpu usage which in turn eats up battery life
according to THIS, it should be able to play almost all format there is available but that isn't always the case.
so basically what i am looking at is
*hardware accelerated Video/Audio Codec
*convert the video to 480 x 800 (or close depending on the aspect ratio of movie)
*high bitrate (not too high that it would drain the battery life or the file would become too big and the quality is more like a placebo)
*Video/Audio Converter software that does the above list
i am thinking about h.264 but do not know what presets the E4GT supports

Check out vPlayer with unlocker as well, have that player as well add mkvideo, from play store and have had 0 issues with ANY type of video, as well as no battery drain issues with either, but my stock video player hadn't given me issues with any type of video file either...might want to have that checked
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[Q] Has anyone noticed this issue with YouTube app on KitKat custom ROMs?

I'll make it short and to the point.
When I play a YouTube stream at 720p over WiFi on the stock firmware the battery drain is about 1% per 3mins. But on just about any custom KitKat ROM out there the loss is much more heavy, it's about 1% per 1.5 mins.
The brightness was kept at 50% in all cases. I tried even lowering the brightness but it had little or no effect.
I am beginning to wonder if these are directly related to the changes Google made to Kikat's rendering engine for UI and everything else as part of their project Butter.
GSMArena for example noted in their battery tests for several phones after the kitkat updates from Jellybean the video play back time has suffered.
I have tested this issue extensively with multiple ROMs against the stock .96 and .211 firmwares
You guys know a reason for this? Is there a way get around this? I really like the various KitKat ROMs out there but YouTube battery drain is too much an issue now and everything else is just fine.
Previously YouTube app on android depended on Adobe flash right? Now how does it work? Is the whole YouTube app on android running on HTML5 backend?
Hope someone else has noticed this too.

i don't think so bro

galihsatriak said:
i don't think so bro
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:crying: Hoping someone has. It's easily noticeable when you play YouTube videos over WiFi with any of the custom Kitkat ROMs.
If there is a way to track something or someone wants me to put out some of the log dumps, do let me know what I need to do and I will try post them here.

Not only YouTube man its just when you play videos example: MX player you'll notice the difference
Sony ROMs are the best if the had the speed of cyanogen ROMs
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zaidx said:
Not only YouTube man its just when you play videos example: MX player you'll notice the difference
Sony ROMs are the best if the had the speed of cyanogen ROMs
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Did another comparison with stored 720p MP4 video
Stock ROM .96 stock Movie player from Sony ---> 1% for every 4mins
KitKat ROM stock Movie player ---> 1% for every ~4.1 mins
More or less the same.
So the curious thing is WiFi radios are the same in both cases when I play YouTube streams at 720p and the stock Jellybean does better on the same version of the YoutTube app while KitKat ROMs, all of them so far, eat too much battery playing the same YouTube stream on the exact same WiFi Radio.
This is why I am thinking it's something to do with how KitKat itself is designed to work now with various apps. Maybe something inefficient is triggered in KitKat while playing YouTube.
Could be it be that Hardware Acceleration is broken in KitKat for YouTube?
Anyway to track the levels of acceleration?

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Battery life in 4.4 using Youtube

At medium brightness, how long can you stream a Youtube video using the Youtube app in Android 4.4?

You should be able to get at least 5 hours. I do. I'm always watching YouTube videos.?

[Q] About 4K videos in MX Player

Hello everyone.
I bought a Xperia Z5 Premium Dual last month and I want to use it for movies. But the app Movies doesn't support DD 5.1 and AAC audio so I used MX Player. Do the 4K upscaling and Image Enhancements work in MX Player? Does the MX Player downscale 4K videos to 1080p? When I watch a 1080p video in MX Player, if I choose SW decoder, the details seem to be smoother (I can't see pixels), and if I choose HW/HW+ decoder, the details seem to be clearer (I can see pixels).
Sorry for my bad English.

That would be an interesting thing to figure out.
The only objective test I can think of doing on a single device is going into Airplane mode and playing a long(~30min) 4K video on both players with identical brightness settings (H/W and S/W on MX).
Afterwards compare battery percentage drop, or ideally measure power consumption with an external application for more detailed results
Whenever the power drain is less, should mean it's rendering at 1080p
If you have some time on your hands, go crazy. I can try it over the weekend

Just use tubemate app (search on google)
You will find the option to download videos in 4k mp4 because z5p supports mp4 format easily and after you will download you can see there will be a 4k lable in album apps (i mean on the latest file you downloaded)
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That or OGYoutube. OGYoutube is the normal Youtube app with a few extra features, such as downloading.

Music player and gaming issues.

1)My music player shows the thumbnails of the pics that were shot in camera in ALBUMS instead displaying the album's thumbnail itself.
2) Asphalt 8 is kinda laggy with lotta frame drops.
3) when started MC5, the cpu load goes to 100% without any background apps. and the cores at max, which makes the phone hot and all the sensore freaking out above 60s and 70s in CPU-z with the msm constantly above 46.
Stock ROM3.2.8, recently flashed from official site.