I need to play HD videos on my gTab. I have Vegan Tab gingeredition 2.3.5. I installed Kensed Player or something like that, it opened .mkv video but there was a lot of lag.
Can I play HD videos on 2.3.5 without lag?
gajaviki said:
I need to play HD videos on my gTab. I have Vegan Tab gingeredition 2.3.5. I installed Kensed Player or something like that, it opened .mkv video but there was a lot of lag.
Can I play HD videos on 2.3.5 without lag?
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Try VEGenTAB 7.1, It is the ROM that allows me to play H.264 stream smoothly. Seems like the gingerbread ROMs are better on video playback IMO. Btw OC to 1.5 will be fine. Good luck.
tsukaza said:
Try VEGenTAB 7.1, It is the ROM that allows me to play H.264 stream smoothly. Seems like the gingerbread ROMs are better on video playback IMO. Btw OC to 1.5 will be fine. Good luck.
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thanks for advice.
can you give me link of vegentab 7.1? and give me advise about kernel, which kernel is best?
I'm not sure if this will help, but you could try Summer Player. They keep changing the name of it but the version I have that is most stable is called best video player aka summer player. Its free.
This gave me the best video playback on my G2 running gingerbread. so maybe it will work for you.
Also plays 5.1 audio correctly.
update: I installed it on the Flashback 10.0 alpha rom (Honeycomb 3.1) annnnd it starts to play video then goes back to the file selection menu.
gajaviki said:
thanks for advice.
can you give me link of vegentab 7.1? and give me advise about kernel, which kernel is best?
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Here you go.
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/
You can use Pershoot's (1.4) or Clemsyn's OC (1.6) kernel for gingerbread.
Pershoot's 1.4 use as is.
Clemsyn's 1.6 you should undervolt it by .50mv for all speed above 1Ghz.
Use setcpu to manage the OC.
Good luck.
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Hello all,
I just got my device and my primary use is for watching video (I commute on the bus). Do you guys have any advice on which player is the best? Or which formats run the smoothest/best?
Any advice/experience helps. Thanks in advanced.
EDIT: I'm running Vegan 5.1
Moboplayer works well on my Nook. Vital player is also good as well. If you're stock rooted/2.2 based ROM, these are nice to have. If you're on 2.3 based ROM, you need to have these
Buildncastles said:
Hello all,
I just got my device and my primary use is for watching video (I commute on the bus). Do you guys have any advice on which player is the best? Or which formats run the smoothest/best?
Any advice/experience helps. Thanks in advanced.
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Which ROM are you running? And what is your primary video filetype?
Apologies, I'm running Vegan 5.1
As for video type, most of the times just .mp4
I've been using mPlayer. Adds some nice features over stock. It doesn't add any additional codec support beyond what is stock on the device, but it's played everything I've thrown at it so far. Well worth a free download!
My first post on forum, my first tablet and first android device in general =)
First of all, thank you guys for all that great job.
Now the question:
I flashed my G-Tablet with vegan-tab 5.1.1 + supplement update + pershoot's OC Kernel 1.4 (set it with setCPU)
Tried to test HD video on youtube (720 & 1080) but it is laggy as hell (image stutter, audio/video asynchron.), tried stock browser and dolphin HD. 480p plays fine.
I know that froyo ROMs shouldn't have problems with hardware decoding or flash video is another story and all that is normal for g-tablet?
Thanks for quick reply
I don't think hardware acceleration will help with flash content. But I could be wrong.
thank you
anyone else?
I've been wondering about this myself. Is there a native YouTube app that has an option for HD playback? I know there are froyo/gingerbread "YouTube HD" apks floating around from a few of the EVO roms.
It seems ridiculous that a Tegra 2 chip wouldn't be able to handle downscaling 720p to our 1024x600 screen.
I have gtabcomb 3.3 on 1.1 and I have the same problem
Is there an hc from that work?
I understand due to the lack of driver source code that Hardware acceleration will not work on our tabs past 2.2(froyo). But I am currently running Calkulin+Clemsyn 1.5ghz Froyo Combo VERSION 6: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024120 and I have tried at least 20 diff videos and diff formats using hardware codec and not one video played. I know you can use apps to play videos with software codecs but when you start going into 720p and 1080p videos the video slows way down. So is there something I'm missing? I thought the tegra 2 could handle 1080p decoding? If there is another ROM that can do HD decoding better please let me know cause video playback is what I use my tab the most for. Thanks for any help and sorry for the wall of txt lol.
Will punch the thanks button!!!
Edit: Ok after several trial and error's on trying pershoot's kernel I decided to go ahead and re-encode my videos using Freemake video converter. It works and the quality actually looks better! This program is free and it has Android presets for our tablets so that you get the best video quality at our resolution! Now I would still like to use pershoot's kernal but I can't find any froyo roms that has his/her's kernel already packed into the rom. If some one could please help me with finding one that would be super! Thanks soooo much!!!
stock rom works...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884103
works ... i test 1080p
browse internet low....
chacaldecg said:
stock rom works...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884103
works ... i test 1080p
browse internet low....
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Hmmm....well I guess I'm gonna have to choose between video acceleration or a stable ROM? :/ lol is there a custom rom with hardware acceleration? Thanks so much for the answer
I used Calkulin's ROM along with whatever current kernel Pershoot had and I never had any issues with and HD videos. You might want to give one of Pershoot's kernels a shot.
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I used Calkulin's ROM along with whatever current kernel Pershoot had and I never had any issues with and HD videos. You might want to give one of Pershoot's kernels a shot.
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Thanks I'll try that! also what player are you using? If its a stock player, could you post the apk? Thanks so much!
BLT24 said:
when you start going into 720p and 1080p videos the video slows way down.
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Why not re-encode to a lower resolution? The GTab can't even play 720p without resizing, which is what's killing you.
1024x600 - that's the screen size. Re-encode your HD video to be under that. It will play like butter. And be considerably smaller.
schettj said:
Why not re-encode to a lower resolution? The GTab can't even play 720p without resizing, which is what's killing you.
1024x600 - that's the screen size. Re-encode your HD video to be under that. It will play like butter. And be considerably smaller.
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Why would they say you can play up to 1080p video, if you really cant? lol Also does it matter if its 600x1024 or 1024x600? The reason I ask is because I see it different all the time lol And one more thing, What program would you suggest to re-encode? Thanks so much for everything!
Edit: Ok so I tried pershoot's newest kernel out and I love it! I get some video acceleration back and it also fixed some sound issues I was having. The only problem is that after I install the kernel it boot's up fine but if I reboot, it gets stuck in a boot loop. If I do a factory reset it will boot back up again. but if I reboot then it gets stuck in a boot loop again. So with that said I don't think this kernel is meant for this ROM. What is the best froyo ROM that includes pershoot's kernel? Thanks for everything!!!!
I run Overcome 2.1.1 with pershoots kernel on an overclocked tab (1,4 GHz). Everything is fine besides flash video playback. Quadrant score is above 3.000.
I tried the videos from www.gamestar.de or www.laola1.tv. Preroll-ads are being played flawlessly but the real video is laggy and stuttering (music/speech is fine). I tried both the stock browser and Dolphin HD.
Any ideas? Thank you very much!
it does that to me too, for examle @ gorillavid, it continously looses framerate throughout the video 'till its unwatchable, but thats just because the certain servers i'd say
Hi!
My 2 cents:
I can play flash video on the tab and on tv without lag with the original rom and kernel 3.2.
But if I install pershoot kernel or a rom without the original kernel I get some lag
It gets worse if I conect the tab to the tv with the hdmi adapater.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Everyone can watch flash videos without lag or drpped frames?
I can with the stock rom, but can't with the developed roms
Right now I have my GTab running Cyanogen 7, which is a solid daily driver. However, it locks up when I try to set the internal memory as the primary device. More importantly, the VLC I have running is quite studdery on high quality movies and refuses to play some formats.
Most importantly to the rom I want running is Skype support. Video in and out, sound as well. I see a very limited number of Froyo roms with a Skype fix. Has this been brought to any other versions of android? Obviously I would prefer ICS with VLC and Skype, but I see the roms out do not support the camera.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds like you will want to go with a Froyo rom for now to get what you want. I am sure they will get the camera working for ICS soon, but right now it's not working and who knows if Skype will work when it does. I like CM7 for it's stability but no HW acceleration means no HD video and poor gaming.
Since you are running CM7 are you on 1.1 or 1.2 bootloader? There is a new version of CM7 for the Gtablet, but I don't know if Skype works or not. My favorite Froyo rom for 1.2 is Beasty, very fast and stable. You can use any Froyo rom that doesn't include the Skype fix by flashing this kernel in CWM.
For better video playback in non Froyo roms, try MXPlayer. It can use software decoding that is optimized for ARM7 (Gtablet) so video playback is much better without working hardware acceleration. By the way where did you get VLC from?
Sorry for taking so long to reply. I'm going to flash Beasty when I get my hands on the tablet again. I'll apply the camera fix as well if need be. Any recommended tweaks to Beasty other than that upon a fresh install?
CM7 RC3 is out now as well, if Beasty isn't all it's cracked up to be I'll load it up. I'm kind of excited for Beasty though, looks great.
Also the VLC version I have is admittedly a little outdated, so I'll definitely be trying a new one. MXPlayer was studdery as well on my CM7 so I'll try on Beasty with overclock.