Lately, I have a lot of troubles playing video on Samsung S3 mini (with unofficial CM11)
Main program to play video's: MX Player / MX Player Pro
Main problem:
(1) S/W decoder -> video and sound aren't synchronized. Sound is perfect, but video goes slightly too fast.
(2) H/W+ decoder -> MX player crash when starting player
(3) standard setting (right after reset settings; it should be H/W decoding) -> video crash after a few seconds of playing, but not with every video.
(1) I'm not too tech savy. But I do get that the problem with S/W decoding could be a wrong setting, or a "user mistake". At least, that's my interpretation from this line out of my logs. "04-29 17:07:50.438 W/AudioTrack( 2136): AUDIO_OUTPUT_FLAG_FAST denied by client due to mismatching sample rate (48000 vs 44100)"
(2) But I can't find any reason why H/W+ isn't working. I already tried different programs to playback video. They crash too. Plex gives me problems with certain video's, but I guess that problem is not related with this so I'll try to sort out that problem myself. Logs from MX player and Logcat are in attachment.
I would like to get any advise to sort out this problem.
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I use mobo player and sometimes when i watch video, the audio is not in sync with the video and I know that the video is lagging. So I would like to know what is the maximum specs of a video(eg: file type, video screen size etc) that the hardware can support so that in future, I can find only of that and below so that my video will not be off sync.
LexterAce said:
I use mobo player and sometimes when i watch video, the audio is not in sync with the video and I know that the video is lagging. So I would like to know what is the maximum specs of a video(eg: file type, video screen size etc) that the hardware can support so that in future, I can find only of that and below so that my video will not be off sync.
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Ace does not play HD videos(720p and above) properly. But 480p videos play smoothly.
Soft decoding is slow and causes that.
Yes, I use MX and there's an option between hardware and software decoding, first say not supported on your device.
This issue spans across different formats, of varying quality and occurs in all video players I have tried (including MX Player). About 90% of the videos I play, I seem unable to skip through - it won't skip to whichever part I chose on the playback bar, instead just skipping forward a couple of seconds.
The issue doesn't seem to occur using the beta VLC player, but this isn't helpful as VLC is useless in it's current state.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, cheers!
...no one has this problem? Surely I can't have a faulty TP, with the only faulty being video playback?
First thread and post! Hello everyone!
I have not found the solution to this problem on any thread on any forum yet, but here it is (with some back story)!
I had just got a Tab 10.1 P7510 (wifi only retail) running Honeycomb 3.2. To my dismay, video playback was choppy no matter what format I wanted to play, no matter what player I tried (MX, Dice, Mobo or whatever it is, native Video, etc).
I read here and/or elsewhere that Touchwiz was the culprit.
I read here and/or elsewhere that videos not encoded by a strict set of rules was the cuplrit.
Poppycock! I can play all the same videos on my Casio Commando in MX and on my kids' Archos 101 Gen8 tablets without a hitch using the stock video player. FLV, H.264 MP4, Xvid/Divx AVI, MP3, AAC, AC3. Doesn't matter! However, any video format I played on my SGT was choppy.
I was thoroughly frustrated by this point, as you can imagine.
To get around Touchwiz I flashed CleanROM Rewind 1.0 (HC 3.1). Problem solved! Except now when my Tab would go to sleep, waking it up presented scrambled video output, requiring a cold boot. I flashed CleanROM 1.2 (HC 3.2) and so, back to choppy video.
THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
The problem, as I serendipitously discovered it, was HARDWARE rendering! All I had to do was turn on software rendering in MX and suddenly my SD videos are playing smoothly, regardless of how they were encoded.
I didn't bother with the other video players because they did the same thing as MX, so I safely assume that those players have the option to switch between HW and SW rendering.
I hope this helps some folks out there!
As an aside, thanks to all of you in the Android community for helping me solve most of my other problems!
EDIT: I only had to enable software rendering, not turn off hardware rendering (I don't think you can disable HW rendering). In the case of MX Video Player, it appears that it will use HW or SW as it sees fit.
I am looking for something than can play wmv/ogm/mkv/xvid/mp4/etc supporting multiple audio streams and multiple subtitle tracks
Any suggestions? I would prefer something that is accelerated so the phone's specs will help video run well as the resolution and file-sizes of the video files are quite large
Dice player....
Sent from my EVO 4G LTE
Thanks
Works well, but my MP4 video 5.1 sound files have a horrible crackling noise when it gets to loud parts. Decreasing volume doesn't help.
Ack double post! Just wanted to update on my progress:
Mobo player - won't open video for some reason, says it "can't open /mnt/sdcard/extsd........" error. Doesn't seem to be codec/decoder related as it does it regardless
MX Player - Works only in software mode, regardless of which decoder I use the video switched to "SW (FAST)" mode and shows HW as unavailable
Dice Player - Like I said above works GREAAAT except for popping/crackling audio. Software decoding works with audio but makes the video horrible and slow and laggy.
[EDIT]
RockPlayer Lite - Will not play the video file
VPlayer - Crackling audio, slow video playback even with codec/decoder
[EDIT 2]
Dolphin Player - Will not play the video file
[EDIT 3]
QQ Player - Will not play the video file
Shameful triple-post thread BUMP
Desperate for a video player with HW acceleration that decodes 5.1 AAC without terrible crackling noise.
Other alternative is to re-encode all videos but that is waaaay too much work, and is only a last resort.
Must be something in the encode it doesn't like. Stock player should play mp4 just fine, dunno how it handles 5.1.
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I own a Galaxy Note and got a MHL cable for watching movies on my Sony Bravia.
I'm having some problems for playing it nicelly.
With hardware decoding:
Only the stock samsung "Video Player" is able to play at TV resolution with the subtitles. The problem is that it seems to have an annoying bug that makes the subtitles stuck. After someone ends talking, the last sub don't vanish/disappear, it keeps there on the screen until the next speech. It's discussed at another older thread but no one was able to provide solution at that time.
With Software decoding:
I can get the subs with a third party player (like MX Player), but it doesn't stream the video to the TV directly, like the stock video player does. What I get is a rescaled screen, like when not playing a video, just browsing Android, and as such, not only it's not playing 720p/1080p video, but also, I get black areas because the phone aspect ratio doesn't match the TV aspect ratio.
Is there a solution for this?
As can be seen in the mentioned thread, there was a "stuck subtitle" problem with another Samsung device. Is this a bug with all Samsung devices?
Is there an alternative player that can play videos with hardware decoding and also display subtitles? So it can take all my TV screen.
I've checked this thread too, but there was general misleaded advices...
No One?
No One to Help?
Some updates on this issue
Well, here are some updates on this issue that may help others (but not me currently):
MX Player states in its FAQ that it'll be supported later, I've asked for any status about this support in their forums.
There's an Android open issue (issue 32564) about this problem.
It seems that on Jelly Bean (I'm on ICS) there's an option that may solve the issue: Home > Settings > Developer Options > Drawing section > Disable HW Overlays