So I finally got ext2 SD Micro cards working thanks to this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184767
This allowed me to test playback with my largest mkvs. What I found shocked me.
My largest 1080p mkvs play back perfectly on our phone. Smooth as silk.
The only issue is that tracks with DTS give no sound in the default player, so I invested in Dice Player that completely fixed this issue. Dice Player works well with the MHL cable so I am able to play the 1080p mkvs on my TV at 1080p.
This phone really is a dream!
I use my xbmc server to stream 720p mkv's with no problem here. Love it!
slowpc said:
I use my xbmc server to stream 720p mkv's with no problem here. Love it!
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How are you doing this? I have xbmc all over my house and would love to stream to my phone.
+2 for Dice Player. Ever other paid player should go out of business or add HW support. FFmpeg software decoding is getting OLD
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tboooe said:
How are you doing this? I have xbmc all over my house and would love to stream to my phone.
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Find a kernel that support NFS or CIFS, and map your shared directory
i do the same but with plex, it works pretty well
Thanks to the OP. good info here.
As the topic suggests. Why is dice player the only player we can use on the tab to watch mkv files natively straight from download?
Have they just got access to a certain code within Android that the people of moboplayer or the many others don't know about?
Just trying to understand why dice player is the only one on what I thought was a open source system.
Many thanks
Dan
I bit the bullet and bought it. Crashes a few times but just assume it's due to a bad mkv file. Still don't get why diceplayer is the only one who play stock mkv files from download.
I'm a developer of diceplayer.
We have very good relation with many vendors and carriers.
we can access to some devices before their release and get some help from vendors.
but I can not say anymore, because we have a lot of NDAs..
I've bought Dice player, but have just learned that BSPlayer lite (free) has now also HW acceleration. I've tried it and see no differences to Dice player. Made a quick test with 4 MKV files, a southpark and a simpsons episode (played fine on both) and the Another Earth movie and a Harry Potter trailer (about 3-5 second out of sync on both Dice and BS, plays fine with any Windows player).
Although I love Dice Player and it plays all my HD files, I couldn't watch my films when I was recently in a spot with no internet connection - because it needs to go online to verify the license
I also noticed that it failed to work if I didn't have my phone tethered. Seriously tho can I not use the program if I don't let my tablet go online?
Because thats outrageous seen as tho I've paid for it!
delboy98 said:
Although I love Dice Player and it plays all my HD files, I couldn't watch my films when I was recently in a spot with no internet connection - because it needs to go online to verify the license
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Sorry for inconvenience.
That problems comes from google license server.
we'll improve license check method.
delboy98 said:
Although I love Dice Player and it plays all my HD files, I couldn't watch my films when I was recently in a spot with no internet connection - because it needs to go online to verify the license
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It works without internet connection, just long timeout during attempt to check license or something...
I'm not sure if something else has changed in my setup, but the last release doesn't seem to be working as smoothly as before with the combination of Twonky Media Server, and Bubble UPnP. Xvid files often stutter and break up, and as far as I can determine nothing has changed in the other components - only an update to Dice.
Has anything changed in the latest release that might potentially cause this behaviour?
juami said:
I'm a developer of diceplayer.
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but I can not say anymore, because we have a lot of NDAs..
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But can you tell us when multichannel AAC streams will be properly demuxed?
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Sharky444 said:
I've bought Dice player, but have just learned that BSPlayer lite (free) has now also HW acceleration. I've tried it and see no differences to Dice player. Made a quick test with 4 MKV files, a southpark and a simpsons episode (played fine on both) and the Another Earth movie and a Harry Potter trailer (about 3-5 second out of sync on both Dice and BS, plays fine with any Windows player).
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That depends on the movie. I've tried also BSplayer and Diceplayer and there is no doubt that Diceplayer's performance is way ahead on several files.
It is almost as good as the original video player from the non-touchwiz firmware
Sometimes I'm thinking that a Samsung developer was hired by Inisoft and he intentionaly ommited HW acceleration for 720p from the included video player of Touchwiz firmware in order to boost sales of Diceplayer...
Gix said:
But can you tell us when multichannel AAC streams will be properly demuxed?
It is almost as good as the original video player from the non-touchwiz firmware
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I didn't know there was a better standard player. Is it possible to copy it from Xoom to the Galaxy tab?
Wait I thought the Mobo player could play MKV movies and files as well but its free?
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Wait I thought the Mobo player could play MKV movies and files as well but its free?
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I am using it and face no problems whatsoever.
we fixed multi-channel aac problems( ver 1.7.1 )
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falcon26 said:
Wait I thought the Mobo player could play MKV movies and files as well but its free?
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Mobo can't use HW video decoder & renderer.
SW decoder drains your battery too quickly.
juami said:
we fixed multi-channel aac problems( ver 1.7.1 )
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What problems did you fix? The latest version is 1.7.2 and still the channels are not correctly downmixed.
Usually the 6 channels are combined in the file like this (channel positions): Front = L C R, Side = SL SR LFE.
What Diceplayer is doing is sending the L + C + R channels on the right speaker and SL + SR + LFE on the left speaker. Which is completely wrong, all the main sound of the movie is heard from the right speaker and very often the sound is distorted.
A correct downmixing is (see http://www.ac3filter.net/wiki/AC3Filter:Mixer_page):
L’ = 1 * L + 0.7071 * C + 1 * SL + 1 * LFE
R’ = 1 * R + 0.7071 * C + 1 * SR + 1 * LFE
Or there are other options like Dolby Pro Logic:
Lt = L + -3dB*C + -3dB*(-Ls -Rs)
Rt = R + -3dB*C + -3dB*(Ls + Rs)
But I think you know about it, because 6 channel AC3 is correctly downmixed.
Also, a good option whould be to have a "swap L/R speakers" command in the menu. It is useful when watching movies with the tablet upside-down.
Thanks!
So the diceplayer can play MKV, XVID AVI etc much better faster than the Mobo? Or does it play it the same, but just use less battery?
I downloaded the trial version. I Also tried to play a MKV file for NBC's show Grimm. It was very choppy. Am I missing something here? Is their a setting I need to change on the Tab?
i cant install
i cant install the latest update for my galaxy tab.. sorry.. im kind of a noob... hehe
Oh, no! The latest update UEKMM for the US tablet, with Honeycomb 3.2, broke the fluidity of Diceplayer with some 720p movies. I hope the developers will fix that soon!
Has anyone yet tried to link their Xperia S to their PC via the (connected devices (DLNA link with PS3 Media server and Serviio), each time i try and play a basic avi file, i get a error message "Cannot show media. File format not supported", although in the stock video player it will play the same avi file downloaded to the phone.
Likewise when playing standard avi's via the stock video player, using the play on feature will again create a error, file format not supported.
Even if a record a movie from the phone itself it will not show on my bravia 46HX803 via the play on feature.
only images seem to work, which i will say the 3d camera images on my 3DTV look really cool.
The sony dlan is limited especially the older tv so you can play (dvd?) mpeg4, mpg, jpeg, mp3, m2ts, few more definately not mkv, avi, dvix xvid
sorry
for refference
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1308114
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-info.pl?info_id=799&mdl=KDL55EX720
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/tv-117-46-lcd/kdl-46hx803/tab/technicalspecs
look under section connectors-> dlan redenders
This is applicable for most of them even the 2012 tv
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Did you try DTS and dolby digital since since i got a home surround so I am interesting
Thanks for the info, the links helped in understanding why i cannot use the Play on feature with Avi's etc.. I will try and see if i can link up with my Blu-ray player. Shame this feature doesn't work and i didnt try a movie with a DTS audio stream.
Still not understanding why i cant stream from my PC DLNA server to the xperiaS via serviio or PSM, again cant play that format but it can if it is installed on the phone?
I basically use a combination of BubbleUPnP and DicePlayer. This will play most video files just fine.
Have any of you guys tried playing a video on YouTube (through Firefox+flash side loaded) at the Original (the one above 1080p) level?
I've tried recently, and the result was that firefox crashed and i had to send an error report, then shortly after the tablet reboots.
If someone knows more please share the info.
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Have any of you guys tried playing a video on YouTube (through Firefox+flash side loaded) at the Original (the one above 1080p) level?
I've tried recently, and the result was that firefox crashed and i had to send an error report, then shortly after the tablet reboots.
If someone knows more please share the info.
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Just tried a 1440p video in AOSP Browser. It does play without a crash, however it's very choppy (below 10 FPS).
ady_seray said:
Have any of you guys tried playing a video on YouTube (through Firefox+flash side loaded) at the Original (the one above 1080p) level?
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even if you could play the 4K videos through youtube the N10 cant play them smooth.
4K res videos on the N10 is only around 12fps.
still waiting to be able to OC the GPUs 2D mhz that handles the HW decoding
max res for videos that the N10 can handle at stable 23.9 fps is 1440p(2560x1440)
so what you could do and what i have done with amazing result is to download the "Original" video from youtube at keepvid
save them on your PC and encode and resize them to 2560x1440
search for user "jacobschwarz" on youtube
those videos are amazing in 1440p!
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bee55 said:
Just tried a 1440p video in AOSP Browser.
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i think you tried a 2160p(4k) video
1440p is no problemo
Patrik G said:
even if you could play the 4K videos through youtube the N10 cant play them smooth.
4K res videos on the N10 is only around 12fps.
still waiting to be able to OC the GPUs 2D mhz that handles the HW decoding
max res for videos that the N10 can handle at stable 23.9 fps is 1440p(2560x1440)
so what you could do and what i have done with amazing result is to download the "Original" video from youtube at keepvid
save them on your PC and encode and resize them to 2560x1440
search for user "jacobschwarz" on youtube
those videos are amazing in 1440p!
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i think you tried a 2160p(4k) video
1440p is no problemo
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I'm 100% sure it was 1440p. It might have been slow because of the lack of optimisation of the flash player. I think what you are talking about are h/w accelerated 1440p videos played from the device itself; those probably play much better than the ones streamed from YouTube.
Patrik G said:
even if you could play the 4K videos through youtube the N10 cant play them smooth.
4K res videos on the N10 is only around 12fps.
still waiting to be able to OC the GPUs 2D mhz that handles the HW decoding
max res for videos that the N10 can handle at stable 23.9 fps is 1440p(2560x1440)
so what you could do and what i have done with amazing result is to download the "Original" video from youtube at keepvid
save them on your PC and encode and resize them to 2560x1440
search for user "jacobschwarz" on youtube
those videos are amazing in 1440p!
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i think you tried a 2160p(4k) video
1440p is no problemo
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I'll definitely try it. Sounds like a legit way to make it work.
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What's the best way to stream video between Android devices? (wirelessly)
A bonus would be if I could choose where the video decoding happened (on the source or destination)...
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What's the best way to stream video between Android devices? (wirelessly)
A bonus would be if I could choose where the video decoding happened (on the source or destination)...
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u can use wi-fi media server!
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sofakng said:
What's the best way to stream video between Android devices? (wirelessly)
A bonus would be if I could choose where the video decoding happened (on the source or destination)...
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use wi-fi media server
Do you have a link to the app?
I see something called Media Server but I don't think that's the same thing you're talking about...