Ohi. Did some searching but couldn't find an answer to this question, so here goes:
Is there a Galaxy Nexus port of the TouchWiz video player app? I'm not necessarily talking about Galaxy S3's video player, I'd be okay with Galaxy S2's video player too. So, has anyone ported it yet? If not, is it possible to do?
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Ohi. Did some searching but couldn't find an answer to this question, so here goes:
Is there a Galaxy Nexus port of the TouchWiz video player app? I'm not necessarily talking about Galaxy S3's video player, I'd be okay with Galaxy S2's video player too. So, has anyone ported it yet? If not, is it possible to do?
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i'm not sure if it's anything like the galaxy s, but that player used codecs that were tied into the rom itself so i'm not sure such a thing would be possible.
Im interested in buying a Samsung bluray player and I know these days they are wireless, and some are compatible with allshare cast,play, blahblahblah. So my question is, what Samsung bluray player do you have and what exactly have you been able to do so far? Please include your model number to confirm features and how well they work. Thanks a lot.
I highly doubt the galaxy s3 interacts with bluray players, it can be used as a remote control for your samsung tv that supports it but bluray players and galaxy s3 have nothing to do with each other.
tony yayo said:
Im interested in buying a Samsung bluray player and I know these days they are wireless, and some are compatible with allshare cast,play, blahblahblah. So my question is, what Samsung bluray player do you have and what exactly have you been able to do so far? Please include your model number to confirm features and how well they work. Thanks a lot.
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I saw a youtube video where someone made their phone into a remote control.. I dont remember what they used or how they did it, but i do remember it was all done over Bluetooth. So there must be an app on the market to allow it to function as a bluetooth remote control.
OsmanMusa said:
I highly doubt the galaxy s3 interacts with bluray players, it can be used as a remote control for your samsung tv that supports it but bluray players and galaxy s3 have nothing to do with each other.
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I can control my Samsung bluray player with my phone... and stream via allshare. Where'd you come up with your answer?
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OsmanMusa said:
I highly doubt the galaxy s3 interacts with bluray players, it can be used as a remote control for your samsung tv that supports it but bluray players and galaxy s3 have nothing to do with each other.
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uhhh.... allshare ring a bell?
Samsung video player app came with this tablet can play mkv file but no sound. Is there a solution for this anyone?
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jimaginet said:
Samsung video player app came with this tablet can play mkv file but no sound. Is there a solution for this anyone?
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Try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore.
The stock player can't reproduce ac3 sound.
Sorry for my english.....
MX player is free and works as does Archos player, also free. Both can be found on the play store. You may need to also get the Archos free codecs and if you want DTS sound in MX then you need to download the custom codec (there is a link in MX player)...
Yes MX-video player will do the job but
Samsung video player on my note 2 can play mkv file with no issue. So there must be away to make it work.
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jimaginet said:
Yes MX-video player will do the job but
Samsung video player on my note 2 can play mkv file with no issue. So there must be away to make it work.
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mkv is just the container, samsung dropped ac3 support. You can strip the audio & remux or do as others suggested and use a software based player.
I used to use MX player but recenty found out clueful privacy advisor indicate it has the potential/risk of leaking the device unique ID. Currently using super video player/Gplayer using software decoder to be able to hear audio during video playback.
Dice Player gets my vote its excellent, but you need "libffmpeg.so" for DTS audio which I added in the thread below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48608356&postcount=13
Lets not forget XBMC if you want the full media center experience
Talk about XBMC. I also have audio problem. I can get it plays any movie but bad audio meaning I can hear sound but too much static... Is there any setting I need to do.
Xbmc 12.3 on Note 10.1 2014 and Note 2 same problem.
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bruce16878 said:
I used to use MX player but recenty found out clueful privacy advisor indicate it has the potential/risk of leaking the device unique ID. Currently using super video player/Gplayer using software decoder to be able to hear audio during video playback.
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Which is why I'm rooted, have xPosed framework installed and added xPrivacy....
If I were you I would skip the usual trash on market and go for VLC instead. Its free and opensource with excellent reputation of being the swiss knife of media players. Recently the authors made a sustained effort to bring it from PC to iOS and android.
Beta version is available on the market and fresh apk nightlies can be downloaded from their servers http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-armv7/.
Even though still in beta, everything except hit and miss harware acceleration works.
Do I need any additional codecs for dice Player?
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Do I need any additional codecs for dice Player?
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No, unless your viewing something with DTS audio then you need "libffmpeg.so"
Ok, I just used the file from MX Player....I guess that didn't work.
Picked the file from your link now.
About MX Player. In LBE Security there isn't anything listed concerning the ID. Do you guys have anything to read up on this issue?
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You can try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore. However, someone says they may miss audio when playing MKV on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 with it. If you plan to put and watch MKV movies on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, converting MKV to MP4, which is the most suitable format for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 playback, may be the best method.
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BSplayer is working for me with all my videos, maybe you should try it.
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You can try diceplayer or mxplayer on the playstore. However, someone says they may miss audio when playing MKV on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 with it. If you plan to put and watch MKV movies on Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, converting MKV to MP4, which is the most suitable format for Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 playback, may be the best method.
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On MX you need to set audio decoding via software but sound works fine for MKV's...
Mx player can play anything. If it doesnt then just get the right codec. If it doesnt exist just write the right codec.
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I use archos and it works flawlessly. There is a set of free codecs for it and the additional network capabilities made it my go to.
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Lots of **** players being recommended here.
VLC Player is the only correct answer.
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I use archos and it works flawlessly. There is a set of free codecs for it and the additional network capabilities made it my go to.
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I have tried them all and Archos works the best.
Hello,
can you play H265 1080p files without stutter?
I'm trying to play a H265 1080p mkv file on my Exynos Tab S 10.5 running stock Lollipop 5.0.2 and checked with different players (built-in Video Player, VLC, MX Player, Kodi) but all drop frames and the reproduction stutters.
I've also checked the settings where possible to enable HW decoding but seems that HW acceleration is not available.
The ARM Mali T628 GPU should be perfectly capable of decoding HEVC/H265 using Ittiam OpenCL HW Decoders
http://community.arm.com/groups/arm-mali-graphics/blog/2014/02/28
but may be this decoders have been implemented by Samsung only on the Galaxy Note Pro series ?
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6438&idPhone2=5940
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab/SM-T520NZWAXAR-specs
EDIT: I have created a thread in the Samsung Tab Pro 8.4"/10.1"/12.2" section of XDA and asked if they can play HEVC H.265 with the stock player, At the Samsung website the specification of the Samsung Tab Pro 8.4"/10.1" say they can play HEVC, but it is missing from the 12.2"
Lets see if we can get any Intelligent responses.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-pro-12-10-8
The Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 on Samsung website say it plays HEVC H.265 and the Galaxy Tab S have the same cpu so the Tab S should play HEVC H.265 as well , we need to go to the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 XDA thread and check it out.
The Exynos 5 Octa 5420 , the SOC in our 8.4" and 10.5" Galaxy Tab S does not support H.265 hardware encoding/decoding , so the cpu`s have to do the work instead which is harder on the battery.
I have been messing about with H.265 encoding myself for the last week using my Notebook to do the encoding, I have been trying to reduce the size of my video files so i can fit more of my Anime series on my 64gb microsd.
About whether the Tab S can play an 1080p H.265 video i have not tried, I might download one to see how well it does, you will have to use MX Player or somthing else as the stock player does not support H.265 you just get an black screen with the sound playing.
EDIT: A bit jerky playing 1080p in MX Player, also it`s using a lot of power.
John
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Can somebody who has lollipop try see if an hevc h.265 video will play, As i am still on kitkat and i am not going to upgrade for something that does not work.
John.
Hey John,
I'm running stock Lollipop and no, HEVC HW acceleration is not available while trying with the mentioned players.
I've contacted Ittiam for informations but they asked me to sign a NDA to answer my questions!
I was asking about the availability of their codecs supporting the Exynos 5420 + ARM Mali T628, if they are partnering with Samsung or if they have a player with their codecs available on Google Play.
I've also contacted the Samsung customer service and they confirmed me that the Tab S is missing the necessary codecs to play H265, I then asked to submit this request to Samsung Global and give me a ticket to follow the request, they said "sure we'll do it, but that's an internal ticket we can't share" .... ahahahah sure..... what's sure is that the Tab S has 8 CPU cores + 8 GPU cores but can't play H265 1080p videos decently.
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wow this is very helpful.. I was having the same problems, I thought it was enabled by default
EDIT: It might be better to look at VP9 rather than HECV encoding, as VP9 seems to be a lot more wildly supported and it royalty free developed by Google.
EDIT: VP9 seems to be more for web video playback
It sounds like you are on top of the problem, hopefully you will get some useful information, as HEVC becomes more popular and they will improve the codecs hopefully and we can use it on the Tab S
I totally missed your comment about Ittiam using OpenCL to hardware decode the HEVC that is very interesting, as when i tried MX Player with 1080p HEVC my battery temp shot up due to the amount of power it take to software decode HEVC.
Samsung only seems interested in they new to be released tablets, It disgusting that the Tab S with the best oled screen if it does not get HEVC support.
Did you know the Tab S does not support AC3 audio, when the cheaper Samsung Tablets and Phones do, it looks like Samsung did not want to pay the royalties or they forgot to include it, luckily their is an hack to give AC3 support to the stock player but you have to be rooted.
Did you check the Tab Pro forum i linked in my post, add a post backing me.
John.
htrex said:
Hey John,
I'm running stock Lollipop and no, HEVC HW acceleration is not available while trying with the mentioned players.
I've contacted Ittiam for informations but they asked me to sign a NDA to answer my questions!
I was asking about the availability of their codecs supporting the Exynos 5420 + ARM Mali T628, if they are partnering with Samsung or if they have a player with their codecs available on Google Play.
I've also contacted the Samsung customer service and they confirmed me that the Tab S is missing the necessary codecs to play H265, I then asked to submit this request to Samsung Global and give me a ticket to follow the request, they said "sure we'll do it, but that's an internal ticket we can't share" .... ahahahah sure..... what's sure is that the Tab S has 8 CPU cores + 8 GPU cores but can't play H265 1080p videos decently.
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Did you check the Tab Pro forum i linked in my post, add a post backing me.
John.
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If I tap the link using XDA mobile app it gives me an error like "invalid thread id 8".
I'll search your post on the forum, can you check the link anyway?
Another thing... during my call to Samsung the support service said that they haven't received any complaint from customers about this problem. Let's see if we are the only ones to care.
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Link works fine for me, though i have not tried it on my Tab S, is it a browser problem, I have sent you an PM with the link.
You could check my last posts, and click on the one in the Galaxy Tab Pro section.
John.
htrex said:
If I tap the link using XDA mobile app it gives me an error like "invalid thread id 8".
I'll search your post on the forum, can you check the link anyway?
Another thing... during my call to Samsung the support service said that they haven't received any complaint from customers about this problem. Let's see if we are the only ones to care.
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Tinderbox (UK) said:
EDIT: It might be better to look at VP9 rather than HECV encoding, as VP9 seems to be a lot more wildly supported and it royalty free developed by Google.
EDIT: VP9 seems to be more for web video playback
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Search Google for "lollipop hevc", you'll find that supposedly the Ittiam accelerated codecs have been shipped as part of Android 5.0.
Apparently HEVC support is in Android 5.0 changelog (source: androidpolice.com) and an Ittiam press release claimed that their codecs have been included in the Android Media Framework.
If that's true, it should work also on my Lollipop updated Tab S, but it doesn't....
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Why do Samsung say that the 8.4" and 10.1" Galaxy Tab Pro support HEVC, when nobody in the world officially has lollipop they are all still on kitkat, and only lollipop is supposed to support HEVC.
Example the 10.1" Galaxy Tab Pro SM-T520, nobody in the world according to SamMobile is on Lollipop
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-T520/
John.
htrex said:
Search Google for "lollipop hevc", you'll find that supposedly the Ittiam accelerated codecs have been shipped as part of Android 5.0.
Apparently HEVC support is in Android 5.0 changelog (source: androidpolice.com) and an Ittiam press release claimed that their codecs have been included in the Android Media Framework.
If that's true, it should work also on my Lollipop updated Tab S, but it doesn't....
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I would like to know this as well as all anime now encoded in Hi10P HEVC.... Its unplayable on both Note 3 and Tab S....
How can Samsung omit the decoder in the device in this caliber.... flagship without proper support.....
Lollipop is supposed to have HEVC decoder, maybe Samsung decided not to pay the royalty for the license, the same way to did not pay the royalty for AC3 audio decoding on the S1, but older tablets/phones have AC3 support.
John.
Crescendo Xenomorph said:
I would like to know this as well as all anime now encoded in Hi10P HEVC.... Its unplayable on both Note 3 and Tab S....
How can Samsung omit the decoder in the device in this caliber.... flagship without proper support.....
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Did you try the demo HEVC decoder apk , I have tried it but cannot get it to see the video on my microsd.
http://xhevc.com/en/downloads/downloadCenter.jsp
John.
Do you think that codec is HW accelerated?
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I'll try Hi10p HEVC in my Tab S 10.5 as I just update it to LL latest... I'll get back to you guys with the result later....
If it can play properly then I'll extract the codec for you....
So did you try to play HEVC at 1080p ??
john.
Crescendo Xenomorph said:
I'll try Hi10p HEVC in my Tab S 10.5 as I just update it to LL latest... I'll get back to you guys with the result later....
If it can play properly then I'll extract the codec for you....
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So did you try to play HEVC at 1080p ??
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yes, but sadly it can't... it just giving me stuttering video....
Even Hi10p 720 HEVC video is stuttering on certain parts....
If samdung not gonna release a proper codec for it's own flagship then I'll done with samdung devices.... Its ridiculous....
How about extracting codec from other devices like LG/Sony? Will it work on here?
The Samsung Tab Pro 7.4" and 10.1" is supposed to support HEVC according to the specs on the Samsung website, but HEVC is only supposed to be on lollipop and later when the Tab Pro is still on kitkat, very confusing, also device that support HEVC might only support 8bit and not 10bit according to what i have read.
Hopefully an HEVC codec that uses opencl will allow hardware acceleration on cpu`s that do not support native hardware HEVC decoding in the future, as software decoding is stuttery and a huge battery drain, we will just have to make do with H.264 at the moment.
John.
This I got from GSMarena's S6 review: Samsung Galaxy S6's video player supports up to 4K 2160p videos with the H.265/HEVC codec. There's no support for multi-channel audio or DivX, but subtitles are supported (with options to customize their looks).
Maybe we can extract the codec?
The Samsung S6 uses the Exynos 7420 which supports hardware HEVC decoding , Our Tab S uses the 5420 which does not have HEVC decoding.
So extracting the player from the S6 will not allow the Tab S to play HEVC, unless it supports software decoding as well.
Software decoding is what the Tab S will use to decode HEVC, which eats the battery and increases the Tab S temperature if played at 1080p with juddering, lower resolution might play better.
One ray of light, is an new codec that use the opencl decoder built into the Exynos 5420 to hardware decode HEVC, But i have not seen any real proof yet.
Also lollipop is supposed to support HEVC, but does that only work if you have an SOC that supports HEVC decoding? , Samsung SPECS mention Exynos 5420 in the Tab Pro 8.4" and 10.1" as being able to play HEVC which i suspect is an mistake as the Tab Pro is still on kitkat.
I cannot see Samsung paying for an new codec for the Tab S to decode HEVC, when they did not include the codec for AC3 audio in the stock video player.
So keep your eyes out guys for any news on the opencl hardware HEVC codec.
John.
Crescendo Xenomorph said:
This I got from GSMarena's S6 review: Samsung Galaxy S6's video player supports up to 4K 2160p videos with the H.265/HEVC codec. There's no support for multi-channel audio or DivX, but subtitles are supported (with options to customize their looks).
Maybe we can extract the codec?
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Thats why I hate exynos....
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