Hopefully the powers that be don't do a DMCA takedown on my youtube video, but I've uploaded an example of a video playback glitch that regularly occurs on my device. Does anyone else see this on their Note 10.1 2014 edition? Very annoying... SM-P600, 32GB, USA version, MK1 firmware. Not rooted.
http://youtu.be/gU6x1CLGa8E
So far, I must be in the less than 1% that have experienced this problem...
you didn't include any info on the clip. audio codec, video codec, bitrate, profile, etc. what videomplayer are you using. is the glitch repeatable at that exact frame each time?
You can be sure that when somebody else had such problems, you will already find it here in the forum. So, no, never have such an issue. Also not over the network.
And, as mad squabbles already wrote: For more we need much more information.
madsquabbles said:
you didn't include any info on the clip. audio codec, video codec, bitrate, profile, etc. what videomplayer are you using. is the glitch repeatable at that exact frame each time?
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The movie was downloaded from Samsung Hub to the device. HD quality. The videoplayer was the only one that plays these movies (to my knowledge): The stock Samsung video player. The glitch is not repeatable at exact locations. I can go back and rewatch the same clip and it will not appear, which says to me that there is not a data corruption problem. It seems like an I/O or "interrupt" problem to me. I've run Androbench on the device and I get as good as or better than the Anandtech benchmarks for the device.
This type of glitch occurs on any kind of move I play, including those I put on the device (mp4, etc). For the ones I have put on the device manually (not through Google Play or the Hub), I've tried the following players: Dice, MX, Archos, and the stock player.
In all other respects, the device works flawlessly: no lag to speak of (except for the occasional stutter on the notifications pull-down, which seems to be the norm). It doesn't crash randomly and battery life seems normal (no less than 7-10 hours of screen on time, ~4% drain overnight. The only thing that I have that probably isn't too common is that I do have MDM software installed (MaaS360) so that I can sync with my employers Exchange servers using TouchDown.
sperho said:
The movie was downloaded from Samsung Hub to the device. HD quality. The videoplayer was the only one that plays these movies (to my knowledge): The stock Samsung video player. The glitch is not repeatable at exact locations. I can go back and rewatch the same clip and it will not appear, which says to me that there is not a data corruption problem. It seems like an I/O or "interrupt" problem to me. I've run Androbench on the device and I get as good as or better than the Anandtech benchmarks for the device.
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Normally I would expect that you have an background process which got more attention from Android then your video player. This can be anything. Did you have this issue also after a directly after a restart?
Elim said:
Normally I would expect that you have an background process which got more attention from Android then your video player. This can be anything. Did you have this issue also after a directly after a restart?
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Yes, I have the issue immediately after a restart.
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The only thing that I have that probably isn't too common is that I do have MDM software installed (MaaS360) so that I can sync with my employers Exchange servers using TouchDown.
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I just removed MaaS360 and rebooted. The glitch remains...
Factory resetting now. Will report back when I get it back online. I'll test video before installing any third party apps...
And.....it's still glitching after a factory reset.
First thing I noticed was that this scene is similar to super Mario live action movie
Second, this glitch can happen when you read from a slow SD card or can be reading and writing at same time, for example downloading from torrent or installing apps and playback movies from same location.
fantasmanegro said:
Second, this glitch can happen when you read from a slow SD card or can be reading and writing at same time, for example downloading from torrent or installing apps and playback movies from same location.
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Indeed. However, movies are playing from the internal memory without any other significant activity going on. (no D/Ls, etc. just normal device behavior that is native to the OS) going on in the background. I also have played video in airplane mode...
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Second, this glitch can happen when you read from a slow SD card or can be reading and writing at same time...
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and the media scan which have issues with scanning some files. Maybe you check which processes are running in the background?
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and the media scan which have issues with scanning some files. Maybe you check which processes are running in the background?
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There is always *some* process running in the background... I have cleared all other applications while playing a movie, but really, should this be necessary? (Problem still remains) I've tried playing movies without any non-stock apps installed. Problem occurs. I've tried freezing as much bloatware as possible without rooting before installing third part apps. Problem occurs.
What I would like to explicitly know is this: has anyone rented a movie from Google Play, played at least 30 minutes straight while doing nothing but watching the movie, and saw any stuttering whatsoever during that 30 minutes. I can live with it if it is a suboptimal experience due to firmware (I'm on MK1, btw) if this is "normal" for this device. I could only hope that it would be fixed in a future firmware update if that was the case. However, I have a strong feeling that if I sent this in to Samsung, they'll fiddle with it for 10 minutes, see that it "seems" to be fine (except for this glitch, the device performs completely as-expected for an Android device), then it be returned to me with no action taken. I can live without this thing for a few weeks, but it will be extremely annoying if nothing is actually done about it. Given that this glitch is not reproducible on command, I fear it will be an ongoing thorn in my proverbial behind. Unfortunately, my return window has expired or else it would go back in an instant.
Used Kies to download and reinstall the MK1 firmware in case one of the OTA updates were corrupted. No joy. Still stutters. Samsung Live Chat help of no use. I expect a call or email from them telling me to send it in in the next 3-5 business days unless someone else states that they have the same tablet and sees this problem too, possibly confirming that it is a firmware/device combination issue.
Mmm this is weird, I have no problem with video playback (any supported format by this device)
I have no MK1 but MJ2 and maybe media scanner is working hard in background
Are you using external SD card and / or have many pictures?
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And.....it's still glitching after a factory reset.
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Try MX player if you just want to play it somehow
Sent from my GT-I9082
as far as i can remember with pc's.... if video card gets warm or hot, the screen starts to show glitches...
asifcheer said:
Try MX player if you just want to play it somehow
Sent from my GT-I9082
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MX player shows glitches as well on movies that it can actually play. i.e., MX player doesn't play nicely with rented (digitally rights managed) movies from Google, which is the primary problem. Perhaps Android tablet users just don't rent movies all that much?
media scanner is working hard in background
Are you using external SD card and / or have many pictures?
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Media scanner isn't working hard in the background as far as I can tell. No to the two questions.
HI , I have a Verizon Note 4 - Latest firmware.
I've had a few problems, one is the embedded Youtube Videos inside of Chrome Browser will not play audio. I can go into the application manager and clear data then it works. But after a day it goes back to no Audio. Resetting the Data every time is becoming a pain,. has anyone else experienced this issue, or any fixes?
Also, the "Contacts" app keeps force closing, It usually pops up Force Closed 2-3 times, then finally will open.
Any help ? thank you guys
Okay, this definitely falls under the "dumb question" category, but I'll ask it anyway.
After the lollipop update, Flash Player seems to have developed some strange behaviors that make it practically unusable. Dolphin is where it is least catastrophically broken, and even in Dolphin, it will only display one, maybe two frames of an animation or a video, before freezing. Interestingly, if it's a video, the audio will continue to play, and I can still interact with buttons in the player or game or whatever else have you, but no animations will play.
So is this truly the end of Flash for this phone? I know Flash is old and dead and nobody in their right mind should be using it, but...darn it, there are still sites I like that haven't implemented a more modern video player. Anyone have any input or suggestions? Has this happened to anyone else? For the record, I have cleared caches and uninstalled/reinstalled multiple times.
So this is a problem I've had since switching to the Note....videos play fine on youtube but eveywhere else, I get nothing. Some examples - if I load Facebook in the browser (doesn't matter which, I currently use Now), I get the video preview but when I press play, goes black. If I try to load a video through tapatalk, black. If i try and watch a youtube vid attached to a play store app, black screen (unless I jump over to the YT app). This also happens when trying to watch any video on a web page and in Reddit Now. Videos work just fine on Instagram.
I'm stumped. Ive switched the video player back and forth in Dev options with no success. Has anyone had this issue?
Try installing flash...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6opNIGQWcVYUUZyOTZtM0ZNN0E/view?usp=docslist_api
z31k said:
Try installing flash...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6opNIGQWcVYUUZyOTZtM0ZNN0E/view?usp=docslist_api
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Well that worked one time and then stopped. I was able to load an instagram video in the browser, but since then, its back to nothing working. Removed Flash as well.
I really dont want to reset the phone, and likely wont. Its more of a minor annoyance than anything else. Still sucks not being able to play any videos in a browser.
I recently went through a disaster of switching to AOSP 9.0 custom ROM and when I tried to revert, I got my encryption password messed up by the recovery.
Restored everything to stock and then just rooted with magisk.
Phone, now is acting crazy. I've done 2 factory resets (literally lost 3+GB worth of photos and documents due to encryption lockout).
In Google photos I see my things backed up just fine but they appear jibberish and noisey on my phone's screen. They are fine otherwise if I explore my backup on PC. (Some rendering issues maybe?)
Secondly, Google chrome randomly turns into black screen while the webpage is alive (playing audio/video etc).
I need to resolve this issue. I'm currently on MIUI 10 8.12.27 beta. I didn't have any issue previously on 8.10.22 ROM before all the custom ROM and encryption fiasco.
Anybody has a clue how to resolve these issues?
Also, device randomly jumps to lockscreen while I'm in the interface (doesn't do so when I'm playing a game)
There are no artifacts or abnormal behavior while playing games. Only for 2D render.
See attachment to have an idea