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[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] zephiK:
You guys need to stop criticizing a app. It is a new firmware update and its quite obvious that there were changes done to it.

CALM DOWN and take a breather. Everything will be resolved soon. Apps get updated, it's not like once a app is published, it remains that way. Just STOP!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Magnesus:
Have you tried on emulator? There is 3.2 in ADB if I remember corretly.

edit: but emulator is probably way to slow for testing video players.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wokao118:
liked how smooth dice player plays, but can't get any of the subtitle to work... i think i'ma hold on to my money for now lol.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
emulator only have sw decoder by google not NVIDIA tegra2.

we can't test with emulator.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
subtitle works well. we've tested about 10,000 subtitle files.

could you send me(dice.thkim@gmail.com) your subtitle files?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
Diceplayer v1.5.1 update

Diceplayer v.1.5.1 remove SDK limitations.

you can install diceplayer to Honeycomb 3.2 devices

(but not tested.)

add support MPEG-4 video codec in Tegra2 tablets.

you can play AVI(XVID+MP4,AC3) files.

Please, test diceplayer v1.5.1 with 3.2 version transformer device.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Updated to 3.2 last night on my transformer. Downloading the updated Diceplayer now to give it a try on a few files.....

Seems to work rather well. I really can't complain, the update to it worked well. It still seems as if there is a slight (say 100 ms perhaps) difference between the audio and the video. I'm not sure if that came up because now I'm not running at the faster 1.4 GHz that I was previously or not, but the video played and it was very watchable. Gonna have to try some anime yet to make sure, but I'm happy. Going to change my rating for Diceplayer (only bought it 2 days ago).
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
Thank you for testing and reporting.

I think that we can adjust av sync timing after we get transformer.

Please wait 5-6 days to fix sync problems.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sh337:
I tested the trial version with the same file I posted about earlier.

Same performance. Didn't see any difference between sound and video. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gtsfrost:
tested a 800+ MB 720p mkv video that is around 50 mins long

moboplayer - music plays, video lags at certain times only. frame rate not smooth. No subtitles

mxplayer - music plays, video lags lesser than mobo player. frame rate still not as smooth. subtitles on

diceplayer - music plays, video lags at certain point idk why, frame rate smooth. subtitle off. buggy when play start and stop apparently.

for some reason all the 3 players lag at the same point, i believe due to highframe rate.

imo the best player above is dice player, however its a paid player. was expecting more than to lag. will test with a different video but still 720p mkv format.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] leonpr:
All my subtitles are embedded in mkv container. Either ass or whatever the other one is... plus a lot have multiple subs in the odd player that does play them there is no apprant way to choose which one... same with files with multiple audio tracks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] zephiK:
Same. Mines are embedded within the mkv file not in an alternative spot.

Love the new DICE Player update, works with my .avi files! Bye bye Moboplayer, MX, etc.

I know some of you encounter problems with DICE Player, but a developer is in this VERY own thread and he's attempting to help you guys out solving your problems. So do him a favor and contact him and let him know what's going wrong. For a price of $3.95 and GREAT support from the developer, I can't see anything that would go wrong with DICE!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] newtybar:
can't wait to get home and test this out
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wokao118:
mine is embedded too, and it's in ass. i also have another video that has an external ass sub. it loads in mx player but dice won't display it. it will be nice if you are able to choose which sub file to show incse there are multiple one.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Hmm...it seems I'm having more issues.

Playing some MP4's I created from a DVD I own (using Handbrake) are now causing Diceplayer to force close for whatever reason. Not really sure why that is happening.

It also seems to have issues seeking and generally displaying the video now for some unknown reason on the same file I tried earlier (720p encode of Falling Skies TV show). Something strange is happening now since the last update. Not sure what yet, and I'd love to help out but my knowledge in dev work is very limited.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
Could you send me ( dice.thkim@gmail.com )

subtitle files,

MKV files ( or extracted sub file ) ,

handbreak profile

It help us to fix problems.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Well, if I try to use the hardware player from Diceplayer, it crashes. If I use the stock player, it plays it just fine (long press the file from the browser and select player). I'm not sure why it's causing the crash though.

I use a custom Handbrake profile. MP4 output file, MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) encoding, constant quality of 12, the rest are just the normal default settings. This seemed to work out really well for the Initial D (anime) DVD's that I was encoding, and played well in moboplayer and such. In either case, it seems that the hardware player didn't like the FFmpeg encoding. Wouldn't it be possible to detect what type of encoding a file has and automatically switch to the software/stock player if the hardware player doesn't like the encoding?

Also, since you're reading this, would it be possible to change the 'media folder' option to just work like a regular file browser? I hate having to switch between /Removable and /sdcard for files that I keep on the different places. Moboplayer and Rockplayer have similar interfaces for that, and it makes it much easier.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
Diceplayer v1.5.2 released

Fix the bug that some subtitles cannot be displayed properly.

Fix the bug that sometimes crashed while generating thumbnails on Honeycomb devices.

Could you test Diceplayer v1.5.2?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] leonpr:
Just tested a dual audio with subs anime episode (mkv) and it allowed me to select Japanese audio also correctly extracted and played the subtitles... great!!!

Now am I being stupid or is there no way to select external storage from diceplayer?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mug2k:
I noticed you said you've ordered a Transformer, will you be optimizing the playback for this device as I've noticed its not quite right yet. Some scenes in certain mkvs can cause major slowdown.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] drksilenc:
does ne1 know how to get to our removable folder cause i cant get dice to find it for anything...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
You have to go into the settings and change the media folder. It's a pain right now(one of the things I want to see changed) because it can't be used like a normal file browser, you have to keep all your media on 1 drive or you have to keep changing the folder that it saves to.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] drksilenc:
i cant even get the darn player to find the removable folder...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Ellingsoc:
Why can't I play a .MP4 video file on here any one have an idea.

Using any player that I have tried and video works great on my laptop
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Disket:
Would be great if we could find the Removable folder.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Sixe:
In Dice Player settings, go to "Media folder" and type "/Removable".
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] pissos13:
I found one: LittlePlayer (https://market.android.com/details?id=fr.mydedibox.littleplayerfree&feature=search_result)

It has the same dim option (status bar is not so visible) as the stock player and plays more formats than the stock.

The free version is only playable for 2 mins...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mddsd:
I've noticed that the default player and the stock player in Diceplayer does not perform equally. For instance if I try to play a clip which is MKV 720p with ac3 then the default player will struggle with some parts of the clip but this is no problem for the stock player... I thought that the default player used the hardware acceleration thus performing the same as stock?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] drksilenc:
... um yea that doesnt work h8 to break it to you tried it literally 10 times
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Did you make a capitol R? If you don't type it the EXACT same way he did it won't work...And I hate to break it to you, but I know for a FACT that it does work. Just make sure you type /Removable
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] klau1:
can vouch for it that it works, /Removable

make sure you delete the /mnt
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] leonpr:
Confirmed last night that the /Removable works - Make sure you use a capital R otherwise it wont.

Cheers guys.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wpkwolfseye:
By now i tried several players on my Asus Transformer @ Official Android 3.2 and whie some could at least play the files, they either had no sound or did only show a black screen. Considering the Hardwae in these tablets, i hve a feeing that even some phones that dont have the Nvidia graphics, can handle things better than these tablets.

Why is that ?

I certainly dont want to start to recovert my entire movie collection into a lower format quality just to watch them on my tablet. Very disappoiting if you ask me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Kermode:
A mediaplayer that wants to know your location???
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Phuongld:
I noted that MX player can play smother than Diceplayer. Maybe using software decode audio take some CPU process, and CPU not enough resource to decode video. If Diceplayer use both 2 CPU for decoding, they can decode video smoother. That own opinion. Hope they fix that soon!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gtsfrost:
cant wait for diceplayer to be fully ready on the tegra 2, especially the asus eee pad transformer. kudos to the team.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] zephiK:
dice player has been pushing a lot of updates. and price bumped up to $4 as to when I paid for it. definitely worth the money.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] reloadro:
<_<

Has anyone had any success while playing the dreaded tranformation scene from Mawaru Penguindrum ? :D

Not this particular youtube video , it plays ok for me.

I don't know how to extract the scene with the same settings used originally but i'll post here the settings used by the fansubbers. I don't even wanna think what will happen once fansubbers make the switch to 10bit h264 :D Gonna have to get rid of my TF as fast as possible and never invest in a Tegra SOC again.

Video

ID : 1

Format : AVC

Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile : High@L5.1

Format settings, CABAC : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames : 16 frames

Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC

Duration : 25mn 9s

Width : 1 280 pixels

Height : 720 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Title : Penguin Drum - 05

Writing library : x264 core 112 r1834+3 ef18685

Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.30 / psy_rd=0.40:0.10 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=5 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=19.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.60

Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] *Phi*:
Didn't see that? On mine it just shows internet and SD access.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] iGLOMP:
MX Player uses ads if you guys are wondering about the permissions
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] SoundSurfer:
I think 400 MB per episode is overkill ... I just reencode it or fastforward that scene... but it's much better the the original 3.0 firmware, I can watch most of the shows on the transformer
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] brunsbanjo:
DICE Player is working like a charm! nice
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GetLaid:
I don't understand what the big deal is about DicePlayer. I have compared it to the stock player using 720p high profile x264 encoded movies and the playback is just as bad. Are the DicePlayer supporters just happy they don't have to remux to MP4 container? Because as far as I can tell that is all it has going for it...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mddsd:
One important thing is the audio support in Dice Player which is far better than the stockplayer. Dice Player can decode AC3 and DTS the stockplayer cannot.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gottahavit:
will it decode ac3 while using hardware video playback? ive had no luck getting that to work
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GetLaid:
Which is basically what I said when I mentioned not having to remux to MP4, which means you've converted the audio track to AAC. DicePlayer seems to do nothing that the stock player can't do relative to video playback quality.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] locutus7o9:
What would you expect DicePlayer to do different when it's using the same libraries the stock player uses (because that's the way to get hardware-accelerated playback)?

The convenience of not having to convert the audio and container is perhaps the biggest advantage. Another advantage might be the subtitle support.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] leonpr:
Multiple language track support

Automatically extracts and displays embedded soft subs (MKV)

Those couplied with the fact I don't have to remux/reencode a large portion of my media collection before being able to play on tab is worth the £2 I paid for it.

I haven't done any in depth testing on playing but both me and a work mate have had more sucess with some files in Dice over Stock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
1. Multi-track

2. Subtitle

3. NO container conversion.

you can share your MTS files for PS3.

You can view your camcorder AVCHD file just after recode it.

4. NO AUDIO RE-ENCODE

2-4GB HD file conversion need too much I/O jobs. ( 4GB read / 4GB write )

5. stream MKV using CIFS/HTTP.

NO extra transcoding.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sontin:
And don't forget:

Less stuttering than the stock player.

I two question, maybe you can help me juami:

When i choose a video with an external file manager (Asus manager, File Manager HD...) the playback is not as good as with the internal file manager from the dice player. Is this normal behaviour?

I selected the "default player" as default player for videos. But everytime i use the "select player" option after a long press is showing me that the default player stays at "stock player". this only happen with mp4 files.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] fear_factory84:
It seems that opening files in that way has some overhead. In some video apps you can see that they are using an http url. So maybe the file manager is streaming the file via local http server. And that has an overhead.

Yesterday I've tried latest mx player version that has multi core software video decoding. 720p high profile was a bit slow, but more and more better than other software decoders.

Hardware decoding is always better..

Anyone noticed that stock player in the 8.5.6.7 rom version has mkv support? It works for me but only if video is h264 and audio is aac..
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GetLaid:
I am only talking about video quality(smoothness, no stuttering, etc.) of 720p high profile files. I understand that a player using hardware decoding should be the same as stock, but the posts being made about DicePlayer left the impression that it was flawless on everything.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] D4rkShaDoWz:
Of course its not perfect, but it's the best video play we've gotten so far for the transformer. It plays 720p Xvid/AVI files without a hitch so I don't even use mkvs anymore. Great job to dice for an awesome player .. I just wish it was a little cheaper
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] GetLaid:
That's good, but you're making a substantial trade-off in picture quality compared to x264/MKV
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] D4rkShaDoWz:
Not entirely. To me, at least, Xvids look great in comparison to the same bitrate h264 encodes. The files ate a little bigger but the quality is great. If I needed amazing quality movies, I would just put the MKV directly on my SD card
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
you are right.

stock and dice use same hw video decoder & renderer.

so video quality is same.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] :
Anyone tested vplayer? The unlocked version?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Sixe:
Not good. Video is slow motion, audio out of sync. Switching audio or video engine in Native of JNI mode doesn't change anything.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] smarron:
I got an update from Diceplayer yesterday and now this program works great! I already bought it a while ago, but I couldn't get the subtitles to work with mkv's, only with mp4's. And the subtitles with mp4's stayed visible untill the next line. That's why I still used Mvideoplayer for my movies.

With the update, this subtitle issue has been fixed, but most important ... mkv's (ofcourse with ac3 sound) are working with subtitles!! I tried 3 different TV-series and all "straight-of-the-internet" series played perfectly with working subtitles (srt). I'm a happy man and I can get rid of Mvideoplayer (which was the best so far imho).

I am still on HC 3.1 (Prime 1.6r2), so I don't know if it works on HC 3.2, which I read somewhere in this thread. But you can try the trial version just to test it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Esoth:
Diceplayer is fantastic, but it's a little buggy if you use hdmi-out. A big plus about the hdmi-out is that the screen on the tablet blacks out while it plays, to save battery.

Unfortunately, it also did this weird thing where the subtitles would only show on the tablet screen, but not the TV (mkv video). Hopefully they can fix that soon...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] 3kgt:
Mx video player is best for me, after that Mobo player..

But yet i miss a player wich can stream directly from the weeb or by a link.. for example i wana watch some free tv channels from the web and trying to open them with V player, mobo and others dosent work!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] FloridaK:
I had been using Mobo, but I've gotten really annoyed that it doesn't seem to resume, I really need that resume function. So, I've been testing out the others. Here's what I've found so far -

MXVideo - works pretty well, plays all the files I throw at it and resumes.

Dice Player - Dims the status bar, I love that, but can't play everything I throw at it, so that's a no go for me.

LittlePlayer - Plays everything I've thrown at it, dims the status bar. However, always ask if you want software or hardware decoding (haven't got hardware to work) and it wont play any of my files when launching via mizuu which is really annoying.

So, for now I'm going with mxvideo, but I'll keep checking Dice and Littleplayer as I really want that dimming status bar functionality

UPDATE

Since posting this Mobo player has now started to resume videos for me. Could it have been because I didn't set the media directory previously?

Florida
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Koyuki-kun:
Ive been using Mobo for a while and it was working fine for me. Now after reading this I fell in love with the Dice player as it plays .mkv 720p perfect! Pretty much everything I watch is in .mkv so this makes my life so much more easy.

Only thing that I didnt get to work yet are the subtitles inside of the .mkv files. Is there a way to get this working? Its not using an extra .srt file for the subs but its inside the .mkv itself.

Cheers
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Go into your settings and make sure the 'enable subtitles' and 'embedded mkv' are both checked. This should enable subtitles in MKV's. If you can't find those settings, update. The latest version on the market have those settings.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Koyuki-kun:
Ive already checked those settings but nothing changed. Fully updated as well (still trial version though)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] darkhawkff:
Not sure what your problem is then, cause on the purchased version works just fine. All the anime I watch works just fine. :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
send your mkv file , torrent seed, direct download link to me ( dice.inisoft@gmail.com )
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] ajamils:
After trying almost all the video players that I could find I have come to conclusion that there is not a single player solution for our TF :(. I've found DicePlayer and MoboPlayer to be the top players but both have their short comings. DicePlayer plays 720 mkv files but I've seen that sometime it takes it a while to catch up and get everything to sycn otherwise at the start video is slow and audio goes out of sync. Also, I cannot get embedded subtitles to work. Another short coming that I've found is that for some reason it does not play some of the AVI files.

As far as MoboPlayer is concerned, it works well with avi files but I get no sound with the mkv even though playback seems to be smoother and of better quality than DicePlayer.

I would love to see a media player that can play everything. Something like vlc player or MPC - HC.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] juami:
you can select SW player for diceplayer.

Long key -> player select -> SW Player.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Lizard:
It would be nice if dice player would work better with avi files.

When I want to jump to a specific point in the movie, the player stalls and the sound starts stuttering. Only fix is to rewind to the beginning or kill the player.

Also auto-detect of the subtitle encoding would be nice, like MX Player has.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Koyuki-kun:
I bought the full version and it works like a charm!

Very nice and great to see an active developer for a media player. Proper mkv / (full)HD players are rare and a hole in the market.

Well spend €3,30. Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Seppiesama:
Thought it was the trail version too that limits the subs but they dont seem to work when bought either :/

Like the latest Bleach anime with embedded subs they just dont showup even when setting turned on

Anythin ive missed?

But besides that its a very good player!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] AstroTrain:
Same here, I only got one anime show to appear with subs out of 20 I tried, the other ones either no subs or play in slow mo with Dice Player. This is all done streaming using ES file manager. While streaming there is no way I found you can change in Dice player -or any players for that matter- the options for subtitles or change audio track. Moreover for files such as avi with srt files I don't think ES file manager even picks up the srt file only the video file so therefore there are no subs.

Really wish someone could port the XBMC video engine to a player that definitively plays all files past and present. The XBMC community shows no intention of porting to android their platform, because they still believe Tegra 2 cannot do hardware accelerated high profile HD. sigh . . . Apple is there love child.