yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] craig14:
beats by dr dre

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/260909863391?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] HardcoreBoy:
Beats by dre for £23.95 and u believe these are originals ? Originals cost over 100$ so please stop promoting knock-offs.
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] Dios_Vengativo:
Did you notice that the price of headphones is higher than a new Galaxy 3?
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] HardcoreBoy:
Good earphones like headphones cost money, of course u can get new earphones for under 10$ but do you really want to use them ? I was just trying to help by saying what i have and that i'm satisfied with them.
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] anno1984:
If you want cheap and very great earphones, so take the wavemaster pure.. the sound is great..
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] PlumSauc3:
I'm one of those people that love music, so I'd recommend some average priced Sonys or Senheisers. You could probably pick up a pair of either of these for $50CAN (I don't know how much RS) but the sound quality is good on them. NEVER GET BEATS. THEY'RE EXTREMELY OVERPRICED!
[Galaxy 3 Accessories] simbawimba:
sorry i came into this thread late, but skullcandy and beats headphones are way over priced and hyped so exaggerate certain parts of the sound.

the poster above was right with recommendation of sennheiser, also audio-technica are very good headphones and lower priced models can out perform other headphones at twice the price.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Kelevstyle:
I have installed

[ROM][2.3.7]Compiled CM7 for Infuse - Updated 12/23/2011

And everything is Great! just perfect expect the speaker.

Speaker become very low quality and making bass noises like its goona exploid

Does anybody knows what can i do to make it normal?

Its seems like the codec is bad or somthing, but my knowlage is not good enough to judge, does anyone has the same expireance?

There is a fix for that?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chrscap:
I had the same prob. In the dspmanager, phone speaker, enable bass reducer. Fixed.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Kelevstyle:
chrscap

chrscap.

Thank you for your reply, I did it, but still speaker is playing very low, and there is anoyying noises!

I had before some another ROM, and the sound was very loud and clear.

There is another Fix?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] chrscap:
Dam. Only other way i would try to reflash after formating. Backup first.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ltilt2:
So is it perfect or not? Reflash again
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
Would any Prime owner play a 1080p MKV through HDMI to your HDTV, and confirm that it is indeed 1080p and not downscaled 720p?

Assuming that it is playing in software mode, can the Teg3 play a 1080p high profile video smoothly?

Lastly, again assuming SW mode, do you get 5.1 audio (AC3 or DTS) through HDMI?

To test for 5.1 audio, please play both the attached 5.1 WMA and AC3 clips through HDMI. The test clip will say "front left", "center", "front right", etc through only the respective channel. You should also hear an audible sound at the end through your subwoofer (assuming your setup has one).

TIA.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
the prime can play the 1080p profile you mentioned with no problem. as far as HDMI goes, not sure.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bd85:
can not answer the question about HDMI. But perhaps help when it comes to audio and video formats.

From swedroid.se test, and translated into English.

"As is the case for the music player, Asus do net onclude their own video players, but instead uses default player that comes with Android. This is a rather rowdy players who only manages one of our clip in the table below (# 9), but without any sound, because support for AC3 missing."

"The third-party video player dice player or MX Video Player, both of which are available in the Android Market, it is however full marks. ASUS Prime plays everything we feed it with, whether it is DivX, XviD or MKV / h (x) 264-films with soundtracks in DTS or AC3 format."

Resolution / Codec / Profile / Container / Bitrate / Audio / Results (MX Video Player

640x352	XviD / Simple@L5 / AVI	1 Mbit/s	MP3 2.0	OK

576x320	XviD / Simple@L5 / AVI	1,4 Mbit/s	MP3 2.0	OK

720p	h.264 / High@L3.1 / MKV 3 Mbit/s AC-3 5.1	OK

720p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	9 Mbit/s AC3 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	14 Mbit/s	DTS 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	19,2 Mbit/s	AC3 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	22,8 Mbit/s	DTS 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	25 Mbit/s	DTS 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	30 Mbit/s	AC3 5.1	OK

1080p	h.264 / High@L4.1 / MKV	42 Mbit/s	AC3 5.1	OK
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sontin:
Have anybody a 1080p High Profile Sample with 5.1 sound? I can't play my file with dice placer or bs player...

/edit: A reboot solved my problem. 1080p is playing very fine.

Video information

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 5mn
Bit rate : 10.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.280
Stream size : 8.84 GiB (75%)
Writing library : x264 core 61 r967M 869d5e4
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.0:1.0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10307 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
Language : English

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.33 GiB (11%)
Language : English

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.33 GiB (11%)
Language : German
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RussianMenace:
Curious, what did you use to pull media info?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sontin:
My Windows 7 PC and Media Player Classic. :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bd85:
Here's a tip of a program i think is good.

Media Info is a program that I using on my windows 7 computer. Really easy program to use. Just install and then all you have to do is to right click on the media file to get the info.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
Thanks for the responses. However, I'm mainly interested in HDMI output. The reason is that most HC tablets thus far can only mirror what's on their 1280x800 screen through HDMI out. Hence, they can only do 720p (the status bar portion is cut off). I'm curious if the Prime has worked around this issue. It hasn't been a big deal thus far, since most Android tabs are still Tegra 2, which can't really play 1080p anyway.

The other issue is 5.1 audio through HDMI. Every HC tablet to date can only output stereo sound.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bd85:
What I have understand and what I have read from a swedish Asus person that have answer some questions are the following.

Connected with Hdmi to external monitor and when you are on your homescreen/apps/games it will mirror that and you get 720p just like you have said.

When starting a movie that's is 1080p the Prime screen goes off and it will output the movie in 1080p to the external screen.

Also want to know if it can output 5.1 sound. Can't someone that have gotten their Prime test and see.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
I played a couple 1080p music videos over HDMI and my TV reports they display in 1080p. They play smooth and look great. Of course they look fine when shown on the prime display as well, just not full resolution. I used the free mxplayer app from the market.

Only problem is I only get one audio channel thru HDMI no matter if I use the TV internal speakers or my amp (PS3, Dish, etc all work fine thru HDMI, just Prime or micro hdmi cable issue). One channel sounds good, other is silent. No matter what I try. If I connect headphones then the HDMI video continues and I get stereo sound in the headphones. But to connect this to my amp requires changing how everything is setup. I would like to find a solution to the single audio channel over hdmi.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
It may be an issue with the software player. Try an MP4 clip with stereo AAC with the built-in video player and see if you can't at least get stereo sound through HDMI.

You can try any one of the clips from the link below. Suggest either the 1080p_max or the 1080p_master clip.

http://www.mediafire.com/?depxt4zyvpwel
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
I actually just did this and it does do 1080p ill post a pic so it makes things easier

if I play a 720p video it says 720
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tdrussell:
Yep. Video feed on the prime stops and it beams the 1080p feed to the external display.

TF201 / XDA premium
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
Yup. Using HW decode it will not display video on both.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xTRICKYxx:
The best player for smooth video and dual channel audio would be MX player. Select HW decoding for video and software decoding for audio. That seems to play the most.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
Tried some of those mediafire videos. The video plays fine in 1080p, still only one audio channel over hdmi. Tried default player and half a dozen other players.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
I played some Netflix video and I'm pretty impressed with the quality its outputting compared to my Acer a100. And no lag.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
@MrGiggles, or anyone with a surround sound HT setup

Would you play this attached test 5.1 WMA clip through HDMI and verify that you are getting actual 5.1? The test clip will say "front left", "center", "front right", etc through only the respective channel. You should also hear an audible sound at the end through your subwoofer (assuming your setup has one).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
Will Test right now.

it did not display 5.1 but it DID go to each channel and I could hear it. I do not know if my amp is up scaling the audio or if it is actually doing it from HDMI but it did come all 5 and sub
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tdrussell:
My thus far flawless prime is now artifacting heavily from the HDMI output. It will also freeze and reboot if I accidentally turn it to portrait with HDMI connected.

TF201 / XDA premium
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
I tested that 5.1 wma clip, reading this will give you a headache:

- daroon won't play at all?

-> stereo headphones plugged into the prime:

- built in video player, google music, moboplayer: very jerky (can't keep up with the file read?) front left, center, front right all sound good; rear left/right played equal thru both headphones, subwoofer effect heard on both headphones

- dice played smooth and clear, but front left was centered, center was on right headphone, front right was on left headphone, rear left was on right headphone, no rear right heard, heard subwoofer effect on left headphone

-> prime plugged in TV over stereo cable:

- built in video player, google music, moboplayer: jerky still, front left, center, front right all in correct spot, right left and right rear play low thru front L/R speakers, pretty loud thru center, all sounds heard at low level thru both rear speakers, low sw heard on all channels

- dice was smooth, front left on center speaker, center on right speaker, front right on left speaker, rear left on front right speaker, no rear right heard, sw heard on all speakers; front left/center/right sounds heard very low on rear speakers

-> prime plugged into TV over HDMI:

- built in video player, google music, moboplayer: very jerky audio overall, no front left heard, all others heard on front left,center,right, L/R rear

- dice player: sounds nice and smooth and clear! But! front left, center and rear left are only sounds heard; and all come thru front left speaker only, a very tiny amount of those same sounds heard on front right and center channel; rear left comes out of rear left quietly

-> Galaxy S2 headphone jack into TV

- built in sound player played correctly thru all channels (L/R rear were the same, this is a common theme, must be my amp)

- dice player has same issues as on prime

-> Playing the file thru my Linux box going into the TV over analog stereo cables and then the amp (prime goes hdmi to tv and then same path to amp) I hear left front, center, right front perfectly. rear L/R seem to have the same sound and pretty much all of them at the same level. (but the front channels do get very quiet for rear left/right)

Obviously there is something wrong with the hdmi on the transformer itself. (don't know if hw or sw)

And the dice player has some other issue as well; I emailed the dice author directly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
>dice played smooth and clear, but front left was centered, center was on right headphone

Both Mobo and Dice use ffmpeg, along with most 3rd-party players. ffmpeg has a known bug with channel mapping for some formats. 5.1 AAC is a known problem, and apparently WMA as well. You can retry with the attached 5.1 AC3 clip below and see if there is any difference.

Android standard player, per its listed spec doesn't support surround audio.

Samsung is also a PMP vendor, and its player usually have added codec & format support.

I can partially answer your question of "is the problem HW or SW." In your case, it's probably SW--specifically the video player--since you can indeed get surround audio out of HDMI.

Unfortunately, 3rd-party vid players are still pretty primitive, so it's a case of waiting for the software to catch up with the hardware. VLC for Android has been in gestation for a while. Let's hope it shows up in the near future. CorePlayer for Android is already available (according to CoreCodec tweets), but is for OEM only. Once Android tabs get larger sales, there should be a good business case for its retail availability.

Edit: Oops, I just went over your test cases again, and apparently the HDMI out didn't get surround. So you're right, it can either be HW or SW.

BTW, audio-over-HDMI problems have been reported with the Xoom (low fidelity), may be other tabs as well. AFAIK, there was no resolution.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
so with the AC3 version:

- dice headphone out on the prime: left/center/right front all fine

- dice hdmi out on the prime: no front left heard/center on left speaker/right on left speaker/no rear left heard/rear right heard on front left speaker

yuck

Edit with dice over hdmi:

I just rechecked, the first file really plays left and center thru left speaker, no right heard.

Second file really plays right and center thru left speaker, no left heard.

Both files sound fine Linux out.

So dice really has weird issues with channels.

But, either way, no sound out hdmi on the right channel.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tdrussell:
Can you give BS player a shot?

DroidX | XDA App
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
I checked my reciver it in fact is going from single to 5.1 upscale.. dunno how but now im more impressed haha..

100% NO 5.1 from Transformer
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
bsplayer with wma (won't play ac3?):

- stereo out works fine

- hdmi: hear everything except front left thru the front left speaker! (don't hear front left at all and nothing thru other speakers)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
@MrGiggles

Upmixing (from the presumably downmixed mono) is standard for all Dolby formats. Then audio out is indeed mono w/o receiver?

@knoxbrder

Retry with different HDMI cable?

Re: Dice working correctly through headphone but not through HDMI - I'm guessing Dice/ffmpeg correctly downmixed, and your receiver upmixed from the downmixed stereo. For HDMI, each channel is sent discretely, and channel mapping is incorrect.

The nothing-out-of-left-speaker sounds like a device issue. It would be helpful to get more input from other users here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
This cable is from Radio Shack. I'll have to grab another cable in the next couple days from another store.

I keep hoping someone else will chime in with success or failure info.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
Appreciate that you and e.mote are digging in this.

Saw on the nvidia site that Prime has hdmi 1.4. Don't know if maybe you have a hdmi 1.3 cable and that can have something to do with your results?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
@ e.mote

Can your script be used to only convert audio on mkv files and leave the video untouched?

Maybe can save some space and make it easier form prime if remove audio tracks you dont need and convert the dts. 5.1 one u want to use to stereo.

Or is it just stupid to do this work or o you recommend a other program?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
New cable from Best Buy behaves the same way.

Micro HDMI was only introduced in the HDMI 1.4 spec.

And it is supposed to have all the pins just in a much smaller connector.

So the cable should be fine.

Definitely in the prime. Either hw or sw (or defective unit).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
@bd85

Need a larger sample size to tell, but HDMI-out does look iffy. As knoxbrder has shown, one workaround is to use headphone-out to get stereo downmix, which should be upmixed by the receiver back to 5.1. You lose fidelity, but you should get (faux) surround.

>Can your script be used to only convert audio on mkv files and leave the video untouched?

Yes. Set video convert to "no."

>remove audio tracks you dont need and convert the dts. 5.1 one u want to use to stereo.

The script converts only the first audio track (to 2.0 AAC) and ignores any following. If audio is already AAC, it is passed through as-is.

To get a different audio track instead of the 1st, use MKVToolnix (included in the package) to remux with just the desired track.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] infinitemethod:
I recall some reviews said micro and some said miini, which is it?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
Micro

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
@bd85

Off topic, but how did you get xda app to work well on the prime?

Keeps crashing for me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ankhazam:
Maybe an offtopic but what bout DLNA? Won't it allow to bypass the limitations of the HDMI on ATP?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
@ankhazam

My two year old TV has pretty cruddy DLNA. I would have to install a transcoder on the prime to convert everything to mpeg2 I think.

And that would only be for simple local video files; wouldn't work for Netflix, Google Videos, etc.

It sounds like a pain.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wokka00:
Video:

HDMI output to a Samsung LCD and a Sony WEGA CRT TV worked fine for video. HDMI --> DVI converter --> LCD Monitor did not (No signal).

Audio:

Left channel always louder than right on both TVs. Sound was fine through headphone jack --> RCA mono cables.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxbrder:
Hmm, so there was "some" audio on the other channel over hdmi though?

Would you try the wma audio clip in this thread to see if you actually hear the other channels or if it just bleed through.

I wonder if it could be as simple as a mixer setting for the hdmi channels??

I was hoping to avoid rooting until after the ICS update, but I may need to root sooner than later so I can hack on the mixer and see if that is all it is.

---------- Post added at 07:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 PM ----------

Over HDMI:

I unplugged my "front left" speaker, installed an equalizer app from the market, cranked everything up full in the equalizer and my amp.

Now I can hear a dim output on all speakers of all the WMA channels except "front left"! Crazy. And I mean all the others come out over all the speakers. Must be the amp letting stuff bleed thru?

---------------------------------

I also noticed that notifications of some type come out over all speakers loudly.

I played with a few volume sliders that play a tone everytime you change them and these caused a loud bleep on all speakers.

So it is something in the prime mixer then? Maybe something to do with the way they only have one physical speaker on the device?

I couldn't yet find an app that lets you set volume per speaker channel.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] e.mote:
@ankhazam

DLNA only works over a network. The Prime's only network connection is wifi, which has low and unreliable bandwidth. That said, HDMI 1.4 now incorporates 100Mbs Ethernet (HEC), so DLNA-over-HDMI is at least theoretically possible, although I doubt that the Prime supports it. Empirical findings welcomed.

Secondly, unless the DLNA client supports all the containers & codecs used in your videos, the Prime (DLNA server) would need RT transcoding, which it isn't powerful enough to do for 1080p.

@knoxbrder

Drop a note if you find a solution. The Prime is the first Android tablet powerful enough to play 1080p MKVs and has HDMI-out, so no one has dealt with this issue yet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jptech:
try mediainfo http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RussianMenace:
I've tried that a little while ago, but I found that MPC provides much more detailed info. But thank you for your feedback, appreciate it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kerryking1:
Do u have to buy the wire to to hook up to a tv?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Itaintrite:
I watch a LOT of movies/tv shows in bed via directstreaming from my PC so I definitely wanted to upgrade from the GTab 10.1 which can only play certain 720p files with some stuttering.

Yes, unless you have a new TV with DLNA. Then you can set up your Prime as a media server to share the videos.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
Have been using this version.

Download link in #9 post

[Tip]Tapatalk HD for Tablets for free
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Magnesus:
If stereo is enough for you as far as I understand you only need to connect HDMI for video and audio cable to audio out of the tablet to get stereo, right? For me it would be OK, I only have stereo speakers.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
HDMI does both video and audio. If the TV has an HDMI input, it can receive audio over HDMI.

HDMI supports up to 7.1 channels, but whether the TP delivers that many channels is another question in and of itself. I haven't really watched a lot of thread about HDMI information, so I don't know if it does do 7.1.