I have tried BSPlayer, MX Player and they both stutter on really high quality videos. However, I have ES File Explorer installed and it comes with its own video player built in. I decided to give it a try and ran a 1440p video of a timescape, and it ran flawlessly whereas the other two video players could hardly run it. Also, streaming files over my WiFi performed flawlessly as well, with virtually zero lag from what I could tell and it barely needed to buffer either. I think everyone should give it a shot and post their results in this thread to see if it works nicely for everyone else as well!
It also played mkv files fine, but we still need a way to decode DTS audio nicely. Is it possible to sw decode audio and hw decode the video?
1440p timescape test file: http://red.cachefly.net/TimeScapes4K2560p.mp4
Try this in all 3 of the video players and post your results!
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omgi0wn said:
I have tried BSPlayer, MX Player and they both stutter on really high quality videos. However, I have ES File Explorer installed and it comes with its own video player built in. I decided to give it a try and ran a 1440p video of a timescape, and it ran flawlessly whereas the other two video players could hardly run it. Also, streaming files over my WiFi performed flawlessly as well, with virtually zero lag from what I could tell and it barely needed to buffer either. I think everyone should give it a shot and post their results in this thread to see if it works nicely for everyone else as well!
It also played mkv files fine, but we still need a way to decode DTS audio nicely. Is it possible to sw decode audio and hw decode the video?
1440p timescape test file: http://red.cachefly.net/TimeScapes4K2560p.mp4
Try this in all 3 of the video players and post your results!
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How do you access the built-in videoplayer?
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If you just browse to the place where the file is on your nexus through es file explorer and then click on it. It should work then. I just wish there was stock decoding for dts audio, because it works for mkv files fine.
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If you just browse to the place where the file is on your nexus through es file explorer and then click on it. It should work then. I just wish there was stock decoding for dts audio, because it works for mkv files fine.
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Thanks.
The built-in ES File Explorer media player worked really good, but so did also MX Player with H/W-decoder.
Dice-player was locked to S/W decoding and stuttered.
And standard media player played it without hesitation.
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played in dice, mx player and regular video player with no issues. i have dts codecs for dice and mx installed.
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omgi0wn said:
I have tried BSPlayer, MX Player and they both stutter on really high quality videos. However, I have ES File Explorer installed and it comes with its own video player built in. I decided to give it a try and ran a 1440p video of a timescape, and it ran flawlessly whereas the other two video players could hardly run it. Also, streaming files over my WiFi performed flawlessly as well, with virtually zero lag from what I could tell and it barely needed to buffer either. I think everyone should give it a shot and post their results in this thread to see if it works nicely for everyone else as well!
It also played mkv files fine, but we still need a way to decode DTS audio nicely. Is it possible to sw decode audio and hw decode the video?
Try this in all 3 of the video players and post your results!
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It doesn't seem to play avi files. It simply didn't offer the option to play with its built-in player. It *did* open the m4v file however.
Played without a single hiccup everything stock here.
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It doesn't seem to play avi files. It simply didn't offer the option to play with its built-in player. It *did* open the m4v file however.
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If you hold down on the video file and then click "Open As" and then "Video" it will give you the option to play .avi files.
For me it's all the same. Every player that does hw decoding does not play *completely* smooth. Tried MX, Google, ES.
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If you hold down on the video file and then click "Open As" and then "Video" it will give you the option to play .avi files.
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"Media error: cannot play this video" was the msg I got when I followed the above instructions.
Thanks for the tip. For me ES Player worked perfectly (while Dice, MX, Stock Player, VLC, VPlayer) did not.
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played in dice, mx player and regular video player with no issues. i have dts codecs for dice and mx installed.
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Hey mate, where can I get the DTS codecs for Dice and MX do you know?
Cheers,
M
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Hey mate, where can I get the DTS codecs for Dice and MX do you know?
Cheers,
M
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/lnxw1y
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/lnxw1y
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Just downloaded them and thank you for that but not sure where to now put the files that are within the two zip files?
Cheers,
M
Would anyone know how to go about enabling dts in es media player?
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Just downloaded them and thank you for that but not sure where to now put the files that are within the two zip files?
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M
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i would like to know too
are these flashable or something?
Try this.
Extract the files from the Rar and copy them to your N10 internal storage. Then, in MX Player, Go to Settings -> Decoder, scroll all the way to the bottom, and tap Custom codec. Then, select the folder containing the codec files you copied over and tap OK. MX Player will then close, and after you restart it you should be in business.
Credit to Rootzwiki for that.
Not sure what the issue is on your end, but I ran that same 1440p Timescape video in the stock player from the Gallery and it works fine. No stutter, or lag even when skipping scenes.
I also tried MX and Dice player, no issues when them either. Stock N10 - 16GB.
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Try this.
Extract the files from the Rar and copy them to your N10 internal storage. Then, in MX Player, Go to Settings -> Decoder, scroll all the way to the bottom, and tap Custom codec. Then, select the folder containing the codec files you copied over and tap OK. MX Player will then close, and after you restart it you should be in business.
Credit to Rootzwiki for that.
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Thank you kindly
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I've recently tried watching a few videos on the vibrant and have noticed that none of them are displaying the subtitles. These are a menagerie of 480p and 720p mkv's. I have tried act video player trial, meridian, mvideo, stock video player and rockplayer but to no avail. I do have some mp4's that I converted from mkv and embedded the subtitles into the video and those work fine so I know that works but I'm really hoping I don't have to encode all these mkv's just for the subtitles. Any suggestions for video players with more comprehensive subtitle support?
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Try RockPlayer. The website states that it can display .srt subtitles.
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...I have tried act video player trial, meridian, mvideo, stock video player and rockplayer but to no avail...
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Did you actually read my post? Or just the title?
Like I said, newest version of arm7 rockplayer can't display the subtitles either.
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As far as I know, none of the players support internal subtitle (aka mkv). Hopefully someone can come and prove me wrong. Otherwise, hopeful thinking: that Samsung would add subtitle support to the native video player via selectable menu would be awesome.
RockPlayer works for me. Double check the name of the .srt file and try multiple formats.
I've been using MKVextractGUI to rip the hardcoded subs out of anime mkv's. rename the ripped subs file to match the mkv you ripped it from and throw both into a directory on your phone. Search for mVideoPlayer on the Market. This video player plays mkv's with the subtitles file perfectly.
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RockPlayer works for me. Double check the name of the .srt file and try multiple formats.
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What kind of movie format have you played alongside appropriately named srt files? Do you have to activate them through options or close the srt file manually or just place our in the same folder as a same named mkv/mp4/divx?
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What kind of movie format have you played alongside appropriately named srt files? Do you have to activate them through options or close the srt file manually or just place our in the same folder as a same named mkv/mp4/divx?
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Its a .avi format video and you don't have to do anything. Just place the .srt file and just copy and paste the name of the video to the .srt file to make sure everything matches. It should load automatically. It will say subtitle at the bottom of the video and then the subs will start. No need to enable anything or press any buttons.
Hmmm I guess I'll try ripping the subs out of the mkv's and using mvideoplayer then. Thanks for all the replies.
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DicePlayer works great on the Prime. MKVs are super smooth!
Thanks for taking down the warez in the first post
Dice Player ad supported version to go out on the Android Market soon, paid version probably to SlideMe (and/or Amazon).
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You should remove this (but thanks)
this player is perfect, nothing I have used can come close to matching its performance. 8 gig high profile 1080p movies play flawlessly with no lag at all skipping to any point in the movie. very cool
played 11gig movie from mxplayer over DLNA still smooth
I was trying to play some 1080p stuff on my prime and it was lagging and eventually just quit. It was a x264 mkv file with ac3 codex for sound). When I try to play it in mx player, so it's smooth with h/with acceleration but has no sound. The I tried running it on my pc and it worked fine.
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Haven't tried MX Videoplayer on the Prime just yet, but it's playback isn't as good as Dice Player on every other device I've used it in.
Video playback demo video - Dice Player playing everything:
I threw a 17gb 1080p MKV of Jurassic Park on my Prime and watched it with DicePlayer. Fantastic playback.
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I threw a 17gb 1080p MKV of Jurassic Park on my Prime and watched it with DicePlayer. Fantastic playback.
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How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
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How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
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I just hooked the USB cable up to my computer and navigated to the internal memory and dropped the file into the "Movies" folder. it took almost an hour to transfer it.
Oh, and in the Market there's "DicePlayer plugin for tegra2". I have that installed. See if that works.
Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428289
I removed DICE last night due to the LAN streaming limitations. BS Player worked so much better for me and played even more than DICE did for me.
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Check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428289
I removed DICE last night due to the LAN streaming limitations. BS Player worked so much better for me and played even more than DICE did for me.
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BS player is the ticket, especially with no paid version of dice player available.
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What LAN streaming limitations?
Just use ES File Explorer on the LAN tab create entries for your samba shares, navigate to your media collection and when you tap to play the movie you can choose which player to launch it with. Works great with DicePlayer.
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How did u put a 17 gig mkv file on ur prime? Did you split it? I tried playing ironman 2 at 1080p and dice player studdered a bit and just said unable to play video
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Did you copy it to internal memory or an SD card? If to an SD card how is it formatted? You may need to format the SD card as NTFS to properly support large file sizes on the Prime.
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What LAN streaming limitations?
Just use ES File Explorer on the LAN tab create entries for your samba shares, navigate to your media collection and when you tap to play the movie you can choose which player to launch it with. Works great with DicePlayer.
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Tried ES File Explorer, but the load time was too long to start a large file. With BS it is instant.
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Tried ES File Explorer, but the load time was too long to start a large file. With BS it is instant.
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Load time may be a little longer (by like 3-5 seconds) but BS Player is noticeably choppier when actually playing high def content (yes I have HW acceleration on).
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Haven't tried MX Videoplayer on the Prime just yet, but it's playback isn't as good as Dice Player on every other device I've used it in.
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What version are you playing with in the video? 1.8.3? Full version?
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What version are you playing with in the video? 1.8.3? Full version?
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Full version, most recent (at the time of filming earlier in the week at any rate, it updated today).
BTW everyone, an ad-supported version is now live in the Android Market.
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DicePlayer works great on the Prime. MKVs are super smooth!
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Merdian works great too. What is nice its a media player it does everything except windows. I have a window washer to do those
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BS player is the ticket, especially with no paid version of dice player available.
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BSplayer is good to. But I miss that there are no controller/option to adjust the subtitle sync.
There, both Dice and MX has an advantage that they have multiple settings for the subtitle.
Hey, so whenever I try to watch MKV videos that are 200mb or bigger, my GS2 will play the video for a couple of minutes, but then it freezes and I have to restart the phone. I'm currently using Unnamed ROM, but I've tried using other ROMs and the same thing happens. Can anyone help!? Thanks.
Odd... never had such an issues. also shouldn't this be under the Q & A section?
Are you over clocking/undervolting? This happened to me when I oc/uv a little too much with something that needs more power.
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Try using other video players such as mxvideo player or mvideoplayer.
mobo player works good too.
Dice player is the best player I've found that will play .mkv files. I've used Mobo too and Dice plays better IMO. If your OC/UV'ing, like mentioned, that will certainly play a roll. Try all stock voltages and see if you lock up.
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I made some files from an MKV BD rip to test out picture quality. I made 2 files each at 1280x720 and 800x480 in both MKV and MP4 containers. I wanted to see if there was any appreciable difference in viewing quality between resolution and see if, as you reported, there were any problem playing MKVs with the stock player. Well, I immediately ran into a problem. When I tried to drag and drop the 2 MKV files over it instantly crashed Windows Explorer. Every time. I tried using Kies, but it converts the files to MP4 when copying to the device. Strangely, it converted them fine and they played fine, as did the others. I don't know why an MKV file would cause Explorer to crash. In watching the files I could not see any noticeable quality difference between the Hi-def 1280 file and the native 800 file that would make it worthwhile to give up the additional storage space needed for the Hi-def file. I'd still like to know why I can't transfer an MKV file to the device, though.
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I made some files from an MKV BD rip to test out picture quality. I made 2 files each at 1280x720 and 800x480 in both MKV and MP4 containers. I wanted to see if there was any appreciable difference in viewing quality between resolution and see if, as you reported, there were any problem playing MKVs with the stock player. Well, I immediately ran into a problem. When I tried to drag and drop the 2 MKV files over it instantly crashed Windows Explorer. Every time. I tried using Kies, but it converts the files to MP4 when copying to the device. Strangely, it converted them fine and they played fine, as did the others. I don't know why an MKV file would cause Explorer to crash. In watching the files I could not see any noticeable quality difference between the Hi-def 1280 file and the native 800 file that would make it worthwhile to give up the additional storage space needed for the Hi-def file. I'd still like to know why I can't transfer an MKV file to the device, though.
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How big is the file? And use the file explorer option in Kies Air. And I like the option of being able to playback 720p files so I don't have to go through the process of re-encoding everything just for my phone.
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How big is the file? And use the file explorer option in Kies Air. And I like the option of being able to playback 720p files so I don't have to go through the process of re-encoding everything just for my phone.
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The files varied in size from 100-200mb. I have yet to try KiesAir, but will do so. The file size difference between a 1280x720 and an 800x480 file is considerable. Enough to make a reconversion worthwhile. I use PavTube Ultimate and there's a preset for Samsung that makes it a practically 1-step process.
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Are you over clocking/undervolting? This happened to me when I oc/uv a little too much with something that needs more power.
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No, I haven't tried to overclock it yet.
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Try using other video players such as mxvideo player or mvideoplayer.
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I've tried multiple video players. Got the same results.
Try using MX Video player and change in the settings somewhere to use software decoding instead of hardware accelerated and see if that works.
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Try using MX Video player and change in the settings somewhere to use software decoding instead of hardware accelerated and see if that works.
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+1 had the same problem with done of my videos out of sync when I would resume them. Mx solved that problem with software encoding instead of hardware
Since I got my prime (Jan) it has always played MKV files (mostly at 720p) well using either Diceplayer or BSPlayer. It was recently RMA'd and after having had to re upload the apps MKVs are problematic. On BSPlayer there is a significant audio lag and Diceplayer won't play MKV files at all. I've also uploaded MXplayer and that plays the files but without audio. The stock player also plays the files without audio. Other files, e.g., mp4 720p seem to play fine. Any thoughts out there as to what may be wrong?
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Since I got my prime (Jan) it has always played MKV files (mostly at 720p) well using either Diceplayer or BSPlayer. It was recently RMA'd and after having had to re upload the apps MKVs are problematic. On BSPlayer there is a significant audio lag and Diceplayer won't play MKV files at all. I've also uploaded MXplayer and that plays the files but without audio. The stock player also plays the files without audio. Other files, e.g., mp4 720p seem to play fine. Any thoughts out there as to what may be wrong?
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For the audio issue, that might be caused by trying to play DTS audio. DTS codec has been removed from DICE & MX Player.
You can try using a custom codec with DTS enabled, see here.
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For the audio issue, that might be caused by trying to play DTS audio. DTS codec has been removed from DICE & MX Player.
You can try using a custom codec with DTS enabled, see here.
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I'm pretty sure they are all straight DD tracks...?
One thing I have noted is that if I click on the audio icon in MX player then the audio option radio button comes up as unchecked - if I try to check it then nothing seems to happen...
Also tried Rock and Mobo - no MKV audio, yet fine for other file formats.
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Also tried Rock and Mobo - no MKV audio, yet fine for other file formats.
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Have been through pretty much the whole playstore - only vplayer and qqplayer gave any audio, but both had really choppy video playback. What's up?!
safest bet as of right now is to convert everything to mp4....I loaded 32 gigs of different format movies for a week-long vacation and when I got on the plane every video player i tried played everything really choppy and slow...I had one mp4 on the sd card & that played perfectly....I tried the stock player, mizuu and mx...all failed miserably....and I was pissed....
I bought the Nexus 10 mainly for movie playback, I have downloaded several 720p mkv files and 1080p mkv files. The 720p mkv works fine in MX Player, but 1080p mkv does not work at all. (not only the sound but also the video), Ive also tried VLC player , BS player, Dice player, nothing works.
Its weird because Ive seen several clips on youtube where 1080p mkv files do work, but I dont understand how.
Can someone please help me???
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I bought the Nexus 10 mainly for movie playback, I have downloaded several 720p mkv files and 1080p mkv files. The 720p mkv works fine in MX Player, but 1080p mkv does not work at all. (not only the sound but also the video), Ive also tried VLC player , BS player, Dice player, nothing works.
Its weird because Ive seen several clips on youtube where 1080p mkv files do work, but I dont understand how.
Can someone please help me???
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MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
I don't know how relevant this is but...
I got "The Tunnel" free with uTorrent awhile back. Legally. I went to watch it on my older, last-gen A500 (720p mkv file) on MX Player. Didn't work with H/W at all. S/W, would play video and audio. Audio'd desync around 1 minute in with video slowing down. 2 1/2-4 minutes in, audio dies permanently. Didn't work through the HDMI or on-board screen. Could it be similar causes?
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MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
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Doesnt work.
lKBZl said:
MX player and BS player are the best... try with sw/hw decode.
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I don't know how relevant this is but...
I got "The Tunnel" free with uTorrent awhile back. Legally. I went to watch it on my older, last-gen A500 (720p mkv file) on MX Player. Didn't work with H/W at all. S/W, would play video and audio. Audio'd desync around 1 minute in with video slowing down. 2 1/2-4 minutes in, audio dies permanently. Didn't work through the HDMI or on-board screen. Could it be similar causes?
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Doesnt work.
Can only someone who owns a Nexus 10 reply.
Use dice player with the custom DTS plugin (guessing that's why its trying to force software playback). Its called libffmpeg.so - do a Google search for it, put it in root, then activate it in the settings menu in dice player. Should play in HW mode. No matter what peeps say, I keep using dice player (can stream over ftp shares!)
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Use dice player with the custom DTS plugin (guessing that's why its trying to force software playback). Its called libffmpeg.so - do a Google search for it, put it in root, then activate it in the settings menu in dice player. Should play in HW mode.
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Isnt DTS only for sound? the problem is also the video, there is no playback at all, so are you sure it will work? what is "put it in root" ???
Never try a 1080p mkv
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Never try a 1080p mkv
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why?
The mkv is made of two or more parts: the video, and the audio(sometimes multiple streams). If the audio is unsupported by the hw decoder, it will try to play via software (slower). Root directory /sdcard/
I recently started using dice player because it plays my mkv videos 1080p with dts sound.
Default settings used and no custom codecs.
Mxplayer doesnt support dts audio due to some licence issue otherwise I prefer Mxplayer
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I recently started using dice player because it plays my mkv videos 1080p with dts sound.
Default settings used and no custom codecs.
Mxplayer doesnt support dts audio due to some licence issue otherwise I prefer Mxplayer
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You did that with a Nexus 10?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254
Did you try mxplayer with the custom codec from this thread? 1080p mkvs work for me with this. Using h/w+ decoder , s/w audio decode and 4.0 compatibility mode in the settings.
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BS Player works fine for me on my Nexus 10. Have you ticked the "Use alternate HW decoding mode" under playback preferences? Sometimes when I do get the odd 1080p MKV file not working with this, I swap it to software decoding which then works fine.
Dude, HW+ and Software Audio Decoding in MX Player does the Trick... I even created a 2560x1600 h.264 mkv video (25fps) with high preset, and it works smoothly - however, you must have the exact pixel count. If the Nexus 10 has to do rescaling, e.g. because of the navbar, you will get horrible stuttering. Nevertheless, this is pretty impressive. It is all about proper usage.
Edit: 1080p can be scaled up without stuttering, of course.
i don't know what it is you're doing wrong, but MX Player and BSPlayer both play 1080p perfectly fine as long as they're in HW decoding mode. I prefer MX Player since BS is having issues with A/V sync when playing a lot of the smaller 720p videos i have tried. make sure to enable HW+ decoding in MX Player, add the custom DTS codec for the current version and get some proper 1080p mkv files and it will play pretty much anything perfectly.
What is the bitrate of your mkv?
I encoded the video using Handbrake at High Profile (CRF20), which produced 19mb/s in average, with peaks at up to 70mb/s.
My source file was "Redwood National Park" by Jacob+Katie Schwarz (you can find it on YouTube). I avoided letterbox with a combination of cropping and resizing.
Keep in mind that you have to match the native resolution if you want to enjoy insane video playback like this without stuttering. If you create a 2560x1604 file for example, you end up seeing one frame every three seconds...