I decided to let this subject get its own thread since I guess that it can be important.
I bought a 128 GB SanDisk Cruze and a USB-OTG cable (Startech) today for the Ultra and can report that it works perfectly. The drive mounts properly and everything seems to be perfectly OK.
To me, it is a great way to expand the storage capacity when needed and it is a great way to store media files etc and offload photos and videos taken with the camera to the flash drive when necessary.
Here is a picture of the Ultra with the Cruze attached.
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Well this is nice to know in case we are traveling and we want to watch a lot of (1080p) movies
Would the flash drive use more power vs using a high capacity microsd card?
File system?
What is the drive's file system? I just want to make sure... can it read NTFS drives?
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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Awww too bad... i was hoping it can handle NTFS... i know it is an android or kernel limitation..
If it was ntfs, no need to transcode files bigger than 4gb as the NTFS system would let you handle big files.
As for the video player, i just use BSPlayer.. never failed me..
Thanks for the reply!
I use BSPlayer too, it is great but it seems that there has been a Dolby licensing problem so the latest versions lack support for Dolby Digital. I hope they can resolve it.
I am transcoding my movies more because I think that 4-5 GB is a bit too big for the device when equal picture quality can be provided with 2-2.5 GB. So in my case, it is about using the space more efficiently.
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So I used TubeMate to download a 1280x720 video from YouTube. It's 120MB, and seems to have downloaded correctly (deleted and downloaded again to be fairly certain). But when I open Gallery and try to play the video, it doesn't show the screenshot like all my other videos do (all converted movies that I copied from my PC to the memory card via USB at home), and it doesn't play.
Found another post in a different forum, where the user was asking why he could play these files under 4.1.57, but not 4.1.83. The user was scolded for asking in the wrong forum, and the thread closed. But it doesn't appear anyone has addressed this issue.
Can't help but figure YXPlayer would probably work, but I haven't paid for it on my new phone. Any thoughts? Would sure like to get this working. Thanks!
Download GSpot here on your PC (it's not porn) ------->
GSpot Homepage
Open video file with GSpot. Post screenshot of the results.
Here ya go! Thanks for the help!!!
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Tried a bunch of different video playing apps, to see if I could resolve the issue. Moboplayer was the best, actually starting the video... but the audio and video got out of sync.
Something must be amiss, but it's VERY frustrating. Since MANY of the videos I converted to play on my Xoom show up and play FINE on the Atrix. Must be something about these YouTube videos that are different.
Are you trying to play just on your phone, or through the hdmi cable? I had the problem with it not playing videos in webtop or hd entertainment center. The fix is pretty simple and involves changing a value in the build.prop file.
Just trying to play it on the phone. I could download and watch in on PC's in all sorts of formats if I want to watch it elsewhere...
NOTE: Just tried downloading the 640x360 version with TubeMate, and it plays fine using the Gallary Media Player. Wonder why the HD version 1280x720 doesn't work the same way.
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Here ya go! Thanks for the help!!!
Tried a bunch of different video playing apps, to see if I could resolve the issue. Moboplayer was the best, actually starting the video... but the audio and video got out of sync.
Something must be amiss, but it's VERY frustrating. Since MANY of the videos I converted to play on my Xoom show up and play FINE on the Atrix. Must be something about these YouTube videos that are different.
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Look at the 720p I have in this post ----->
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13840116&postcount=106
Your kbps are way low, even when compared to my 480p video. Audio is also not at a standard bitrate. I doubt that has anything to do with it, but you never know. That could be your sync problem there if the Atrix isn't handling variable bit rate audio for example.
I'm having the same problem with the same program. It gives me the same error is about 3 different players. And I'm able to play the 640 version as well. It seems to be an issue with the encoding from the app on the higher quality videos. the 640 version looks decent on my phone and I guess I'll stick with that until there's a Tubemate update.
I haven't been too pleased with the video players on the Market. I watch a lot of anime and need something quick and can show subs. Someone mentioned this program in another thread and I have to say it is awesome.
Freemake
It is quick.
It has a built in Android option.
It has easy subtitle support.
It has settings to choose quality or size.
It has zero spam/malware/ads.
It is idiot proof.
The quick part is what bothers me most about converting videos. A 30 minute episode of Bleach shouldn't take 30 minutes, or even 20 minutes. And that's usually what happens on every other converter I've used in the past. Probably user error on my end, but this makes it simple. I give props to its developers. I don't have any affiliation with the developers or app. I'm just very happy to find something that handles video so well.
24 minute Bleach episode @1500kbps: 3 minutes
108 minute IP Man 2 @ 3000kbps: 20 minutes
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Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?
Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?
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Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?
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It hard codes them!
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Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?
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I don't believe this program has that feature. I'll check for something that will allow a movie poster type option and report back.
I think the reason it is that fast on mkv is probably because most anime mkv files are already encoded in avc or h.264 video and AAC audio with ssa or srt subs wrapped in the mkv container, and as such all this programs just does is transcode and wrap it in an mp4 extension. (My theory)
The fact that it also burns in the subs is very impressive. I have a fast high end Mac and i use Handbrake for this type of stuff. Still takes about 10 mins for an average half-hour anime with burned in subs (but that's because i choose to use the x264 encode, which takes a bit longer and more CPU power but higher quality and smaller file size at same bitrates and such).
Will try this out on a Windows box i have lying around. Good find.
yeah seems like it's smart enough to transcode when it can.
Yeah, it also utilizes CUDA if you have an Nvidia GFX card. I happen to have a GTX 580, so that could also be why it's much quicker on my end. It just doesn't explain why other converters with the same Nvidia feature were slower.
@eric191
I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?
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I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?
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I tried using yours and couldn't get the subs to hard code. I don't know of any other app that'll do a quick remux from mkv to mp4, unless Handbrake has it?
So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.
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So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.
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I'll play around with it some more tomorrow. Have your thread faved.
Hello Xperia S Users...
I was Wondering if i can play DIVX Formats Such as AVI,MKV and other high end formats to justify my HD Display.
Is there a Solution to play Such Formats without Converting them,or can Rooting help...???
Thanx nd Regards
Sameer
Grab MX Video Player from Android Market.
That can play:
.3gp
.avi
.divx
.f4v
.flv
.mkv
.mp4
.mpeg
.mov
.vob
.wmv
.webm
.xvid
gurubumsmack said:
Grab MX Video Player from Android Market.
That can play:
.3gp
.avi
.divx
.f4v
.flv
.mkv
.mp4
.mpeg
.mov
.vob
.wmv
.webm
.xvid
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Tried almost all the Available players from the market...coud'nt really get the Smoothness and stability as like Samsung phones...!!!!??!!!!
Moboplayer works fine here.
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sameer869 said:
Tried almost all the Available players from the market...coud'nt really get the Smoothness and stability as like Samsung phones...!!!!??!!!!
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MX Player played a 720p 3.5GB mkv file incredibly smooth with no effort on my Xperia S.
No problem using MoboPlayer, perfect playback
could also stream 720HD from the PC over WIFI without any problem.
But the 1080 playback did struggle over WIFI
try to use the lite rock player with hardware accelation
When playing a m4v file format with the default player 720p it works perfactly but when it passes the 2,5g size it won't recognize it, and in the htc sensation android 4 it read the 3,5g file with no problem. So is it android os problem or xperia player? ??
Thanx
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MX player should work if you switch to hardware decoding. I noticed it just closes the file directly on some videos. If it does, open settings and try different ways of decoding as default (for both video stream and audio stream and see wich works, i dont remember wich settings i used to solve it).
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Can anyone please confirm that it will play MKV (720p or 1080p) encoded using the High @ L4.1 Profile?
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I tried that Terminator 2 clip with MX Player without any problems
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I tried that Terminator 2 clip with MX Player without any problems
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Excellent. Thanks added.
I use my phone with HDMI frequently so it has to be able to play any media I put on it. All the TV I download is MKV and most are switching to 4.1 for the best compression.
A video sample would be great if you wan xperia s user to test it
The inbuild video can play AVI isn't it?
I have no issue playing it...
Except when I play with 3gp there is no sound... But MX player fixed it
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Honestly I think everyone should try BS Player, I tried a lot of different players but BS was the only one really capable of playing 1080p video smoothly
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A video sample would be great if you wan xperia s user to test it
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You fail at reading.
As stated in my post, there's an entire folder of samples.
BluechipJ said:
(Use MediaInfo to find out which codec or download some MKV samples here.)
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That's why kn11ggg was able to test it...
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I tried that Terminator 2 clip with MX Player without any problems
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The latest update to the mx player pro app is excellent! No more lag or using the software decoder (SW) since they finally optimized for Tegra 3! All my videos (720p, 1080p, mkv, 10-bit, etc) work flawlessly now on the new HW+ setting. Just thought I'd share this with everyone. In case anyone is wondering I'm not rooted, completely stock. Highly recommend for prime. Oh there's a free version btw in case anyone wants to try it out.
only thing that bothers me still is BSP is the only one with audio preamp =(, but this looks nice indeed, does HW+ work on the TFP?
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only thing that bothers me still is BSP is the only one with audio preamp =(, but this looks nice indeed, does HW+ work on the TFP?
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Yes it does very well. Leaps and bounds over what it used to do before with regular HW. It seems like they're finally using the processor correctly on the prime. No more crashes, lags, etc. It's now usable in terms of actually watching full length videos on. My 720p videos always crashed about 30 to 45 min into the movie. I'm referring to running them off the local storage as opposed to streaming....for some reason streaming was never an issue but playing videos off the device locally was.
I used to use MX player then switched to dice. However just tried the latest version of MX player and have to agree that it has improved alot. I especially notice that the audio volume has increased significantly which is a welcome change for the prime. I might actually be able to hear a movie in the car now. going to keep using MX player for awhile now.
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I have and love using the Basic Max player but I recently got a New HD camcorder and when I play the MTS video file on my Prime I get Video but no audio. Will Pro version allow me to get audio from MTS files or do I need something else?
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Thanks
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I have and love using the Basic Max player but I recently got a New HD camcorder and when I play the MTS video file on my Prime I get Video but no audio. Will Pro version allow me to get audio from MTS files or do I need something else?
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Thanks
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Never mind. Basic MX updated and I guess new Codec was added because I get audio now on MTS files.
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MX Player with DTS audio support just rocks. using custom codecs from XDA and everything is so smooth! love watchin movies while travellin with prime!
Tapatalked!
While the Update does do better when I watch 10BIT Anime MKV files I still get the weird artifacting that everyone gets. When I use SW it plays the video the way it should be but audio and subs are messed up. HW+ Plays perfectly but once again Artifacting or pixelation on the video which is better than before and at least watchable. Can't wait till its fully optimized
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Someone please tell me if its something I'm doing like maybe not downloading those other codecs in the market or something to fix it. Other than that just wait for a update i suppose
Nope ur doing things fine its just codec+HW issue, mine does the same but I can't stand SW speed so I just put up with the artifact look. Even on PC a poor player that will play 10bit can even artifact e.g. built in vuze player.
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Nope ur doing things fine its just codec+HW issue, mine does the same but I can't stand SW speed so I just put up with the artifact look. Even on PC a poor player that will play 10bit can even artifact e.g. built in vuze player.
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Agreed. I can deal with some slight artifacting versus actually being able to watch something on the Prime.
Thanks for the feedback guys atm if I don't want to deal with the artifacting I just download 480 releases which play fine if I can't find a 720 8bit file
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thats a $120 piece of equipment...sweet!
Well i searched it and i think i found the right one there were only 2 lol. I'll start testing this weekend and report by the date. Id love to have on of those tonidoplugs. I didnt know what it was until google searching and it seems awesome.
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Ok thanks i downloaded the right one already. Also ill be testing with stock rom and kernel 4.2.2 with root but no actual changes to system so it will be stock experience.
So far from home, on my Wi-Fi, its great! I used to use other apps like Splashtop 2 and the like, but I prefer to have it streamed to my tablet, rather than just mirroring my PC. I'm going into work overnight, so at that point I'll get to try it out with 3G/4G.
How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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He can plug a 3g dongle and use it on the tablet... :silly:
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The UI looks neat, and there's also a little sync functionality like DropBox.
Only irk for me is that occasionally when I seek, the video would freeze on one frame, but picking an earlier or later spot would set it right.
Also, with apps like Splashtop, I would get some serious performance decrease on my PC, but with Tonido, I can play BF3 on my PC and watch Married With Children on my tablet!
Overall I'm really loving this app!
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