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[Eee Pad Transformer General] jake21:
I can confirm that DTS does not work. I tested DTS under HC and it did not work (when i was playing with high profile/baseline encodings) I tried copying raw DTS tracks into the video; and determined quickly that i needed mpeg3.

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Btw as I said previously the major feature of baseline vs high profile is b-frames which the sample suggestions for encoding sets to 0. I forget where p-frames fit into the picture (can't remember if they worked or did not work if b-frames were disabled).

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Anyways for long 720P movies the savings allowed by b-frames is relatively minor (at least in the videos I tested).

There is a nice wiki page on b-frames/p-frames:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_frame#P-frame

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Mostly repeating what I said before; high profile did play under HC; but the artifacting was awful; if I played them with software-decoding the images were much better but obviously the play rate was very slow.

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My guess is that with ICS they corrected the image quality with high profile videos (consider it a bug) but the by product is that the playback is now slow/jerky.

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That is only a guess :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bighuta:
I have no issues with 720 high profile whatsoever. In fact its smoother than HC running at 1.5ghz. Did you guys bother to do a full wipe instead of just installing over like the roms suggested?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] incrjaysen:
is it probably because of the kernel?

i updated from the recent HC revolver rom to the ICS beta revolver rom and my videos keep stuttering like before. the mx player plays a smooth video without sound, while the dice player (including the tegra 2 plugin) is playing sound, but stuttering.

did play it locally from internal sd just to be sure no wlan inteference is harming this.

while i read some posts about succesfull 720p smooth and awesome playback:

is it probably the kernel that breaks the smoothness?

from my (not in the ics rom recently) revolver parts (specific rom market app) i do know, that it is possible to flash different kinds of kernel tweaks to the system.

maybe this is worth a tought
[Eee Pad Transformer General] diegosaravia:
Anyone find a solution for unrooted tabs?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bighuta:
There is no other kernel available for ics yet, except stock. Did you flash an ICS Tom that's not beta?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] shawt:
My Transformer after update ICS has same problem. I can`t play video 720 which recorded my Sony digital camera. My Samsung Galaxy S2 can play everything,even 1080 videos...no problem...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sfetaz:
Just wanted to throw this out there, have you guys tried QQ player?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jake21:
Can you make a sample of one of these high profiles available ? I want to see if it plays on my tablet and then check the encoding.

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btw I'm running the stock ota ICS; never rooted the device. My baseline 720p play fine so I'm not all that execited about doing a full wipe.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jwl12345:
Seems to be slightly better after flashing ARHD, but still sucks.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] maslinar:
Here is a sample of my recode that plays perfectly fine on my Transformer.Be sure to download it since Dropbox does not display full quality videos.Tested in stock player and dice player.Works great in both but I mostly use stock player to play recodes.

http://db.tt/DLjZaF7s
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
Volume is incredibly low.

incredibly bad pixelation even in 720p

no way to seek or jump ahead. just dosn't work.

worst lag i've seen in ICS.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jake21:
That plays fine on my tablet. One thing I noticed is that the stock video player can now play my mkv files. I had gotten used to using dice/bslite because the stock video palyer would not hardware decode my videos but under ICS I no longer need dice or bs lite!

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The one issue is the stock video player chokes on the video that has subtitle; for that one I still need dice but I only include subtitle tracks for movies with foriegn potions.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ill1:
This is a problem with the stock kernel. I had all the same problems on HC until I rooted and and ran an OC'd kernel then I found I could play any file on my TF101 without having to re encode it.

What I have done for a temp solution, is to make a Honeycomb back up with an OC kernel that can also run the voodoo sound hack. I just revert back when I know I want to watch a lot of video. Trust me I DO NOT like doing this but until we get OC kernels for ICS it will have to do. It's either this or bring my laptop with me, which is fine but the transformer is much less to lug around.

This and the low sound level are my only major gripes with ICS. I hope this helps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
Stock. Non-OC. 1080p movies. HDMI connect to 58" TV. No problem at all. You people need to get an ipad if you don't want to bother researching on the right video codec. Good grief...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ill1:
I'm not sure if this was directed at me, but let me clarify on behalf of "you people" with an OC kernel.

I'm sharing my personal experience with video playback on my transformer, It was not meant as rule or law by which all transformers will or should work.

My perspective is from some one who didn't want to keep converting videos from their native formats to one that works with the transformer. As I stated and others have also with a OC'ed kernel there was no need to convert to a particular codec. I stand by what I said.

It was just my experience that I offered in the spirit of sharing info that may or may not help someone. Further if you feel I need an ipad you are most welcome to buy me one, and I will also share my personal experience with that device also.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] oisindubh:
And so it goes on

This is a reworded repeat of a note i left just before a thread closed, so Im rewording in hope I find some solace.

Im trying to convert my Apple Mac Handbraked DVD rips- whatever I do the trans refuses to play them - that is except for one which runs fine.

I have no idea why just one works-

I have so far tried recioding with Handbrake and other trial software "guaranteed" to make it work, Xoom format, Mpd M4V doesn't matter Iam getting hte can't play this file error in mobo, Mx, stock.

Any clues? It streams demo vids from my pc, but not the dvd files which play fine on my pc.

Im trying not to whinge. It seems a terrific bit of kit, just highly unwilling to let me watch dvd.

Oh it streams from Crackle just wonderfully!

Help!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] maslinar:
Edit:nevermind.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] maslinar:
Well here is a 1920x792 video that I encoded plays smooth on my Transformer in stock player.

http://dl.dropbox.com/s/xml0iydqa197qyj/1920sample.mp4?dl=1
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ymirsson:
Not very surprising with a bitrate <4mbps ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] maslinar:
Also tried with 10Mbps,was smooth.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] oisindubh:
Well, it took a little time, and as the man says research, but not really a codec thing just a converter thingy.

I found an excellent little piece of software for less than 10 of my British Beer tokens and all is well.

DVD Catalyst 4 on the basic Xoom setting solved my troubles.

SO I can stream form my network drive with iMedia share and save (rip or converted) movies for on the go watching.

Bunny now ready forEaster- eg a Happy Bunny!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] FF666:
I also have problems with 720p flash in browsers. Also the youtube app skipps frames. All since ICS. New update from adobe today, but performance is even worse now...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tnimk:
hate to drag up an old thread but just wondering if people got 720p playback working on-the-job latest ics rom releases. I'm wondering if we got it working without converting.

Out town right now so can't try them out.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Goatshocker:
720p up to high@4.1 works fine in MX video player for me.

4.0 can be H/W decoded, 4.1 is best to S/W decode. Anything higher than that isnt very pleasant to watch.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] oldcpu:
Handbrake works well for me in creating playable 720p videos

Indeed I am an openSUSE GNU/Linux user, and I have the GNU/Linux version of Handbrake installed. I've applied those settings, and on my 3 year old PC (with an Intel Core i7-920 CPU) and Handbrake I find it quick quickly to convert videos with Handbrake using those settings.

The converted 720p videos play back well on my B7O TF101 Transformer !

Thank you for posting that.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BBXiong:
i noticed that on developer option there's a show CPU load option, and i turned that on and try on a few 720p videos(note, HW accelerated), but i saw that the CPU usage is also abnormally high, Dice(using system default hardware acceleration) can easily max out 2 CPU, while BS Player with their own engine too will load up all 2 cores on heavy scenes. I believe the temporary workaround would be overclocking. The true solution is to wait nVidia or Asus to come out with a better Tegra 2 driver

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and honestly, if we have the time to convert videos to the proper format, we might as well just watch it on PC already..

what we want here is just to play video contents without the need to convert
[Eee Pad Transformer General] oldcpu:
Its a planning issue not a time issue IMHO

I convert dozens of videos and don't spend any extra time to speak of. On my 3 year old PC its a planning issue. Its not a time issue IMHO.

First to clarify my view: I would suspect everyone would agree that the ultimate solution is to play video contents without the need to convert.

However the TF101 is here, today, and it does not have the capability to play back a number of the 720p and 1080p videos 'as encoded'. So if one still wants to play a 720p or 1080p video on the TF101 then I know of no other solution than to re-encode. And re-encoding works. It works well. The quality of video with the correct settings in the re-encoding is absolutely superb on the TF101.

I confess I don't spend time watching the encoding. I can't see why anyone would want to spend time and sit and watch the encoding. Handbrake can run in parallel with other applications. So IMHO rather its more a matter of good planning rather than wasting time. I have the TF101 compatible settings saved in Handbrake under a label 'transformer'. I launch Handbrake, open the video(s), select 'transformer' label', and select to start the encoding. Then I do something else on my PC (a > 3 year old PC with an old Intel Core i7 920 CPU).

With handbrake, I can set it up to encode over a dozen or more videos in a batch job. Thats easy to do. And runs on my PC in parallel while I do something else on my computer. For me its a simple planning issue, not time wasting.

I can see that those with a Core i3 or even some older Core i5's (or the AMD equivalents) would struggle here ...

But with even a very old Core i7 920, with the right planning, I find there is no time wasted.

I watch 720p encoded videos often on my TF101.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Goatshocker:
Actually there is one other option, sort of.

You can watch movies running on your PC through splashtop. It works very well tbh.

Of course, that forces you to have your PC turned on, and be on the same network (I cant imagine doing it over WAN lol). But its an alternative.

I find it very handy when I want to watch movies on my TV upstairs. Just hook up the TF to the TV and connect to the PC through splashtop, and start watching full-hd movies :p
[Eee Pad Transformer General] alexannoyed:
I am in the same boat, this stinks! Stock TF101, not OCed, not rooted.

Previously, everything was great with HC and Dice. See this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1201090.

I don't care what the posts say about 720p high bitrate files. IT WORKED under HC and not ICS.

Now the exact same 720p MKV videos play horrible in Dice, local storage or NAS/WiFi. Works perfectly fine still on my SGS2 Gbread phone!

What has happened with ICS to break what was working so well? I have talked to the developer but he seems at a loss as how to proceed.

This kills a must have feature I had gotten working that now is broken. Bah on Android and Tegra! How can we fix this ourselves??
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BBXiong:
that said, because you have a higher end CPU(at that age), as for me i am using a laptop with just an Intel P8400, which is aged around 5 years old now. For me, it's just a dual core, and encoding video means no more multitasking anymore. Believe me, I use to re-encode my videos to put into my phone, but it's too much hassle for me and too time consuming, and in the end i opted for TF101 which is the hope for my solution. For TF101 case, I'll blame nVidia for not throwing NEON in
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Goatshocker:
wait wat.. You can multitask at all on that? o.O

I got a Turion x64 dual core, and that damn thing goes emo If I open the webbrowser while having VLC or MPC opened lol (with no video playing)

Although Im running win7 on it, which is quite heavy compared to XP.

Anyway, Ive noticed that OC'ing does actually help with video playback (S/W decoding) in MX.

Setting the CPU to 1.6Ghz makes 1080p lag behind in video only around 3sec per 5min, compared to around 5-7sec per 5min on stock clock. And the audio doesnt stutter like it does on stock clock.

Still unwatchable nevertheless though :P

Maybe if we could push the CPU up to 2.5Ghz or something we could watch 1080p without having to reencode them :P
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ssl123:
When I'm watching videos on my tablet, I'm usually at home, so I stream videos from my fileserver rather than copying the large files over, deleting after watching, copying new files, etc. I use the Emit app and the Emit software for Windows for streaming, and that setup runs faster/smoother now for me under ICS than it did under Honeycomb. I've also used TwonkyMedia server for Windows with both the SoftMedia Player and the UPnPlay apps for streaming, and they work fine as well. Obviously, the server softwares do some transcoding, but it's all done automatically once you configure how you want them to transcode on their initial setups.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Anodibu:
Thanks for that! I've tried it with my linux pc and it works really well, even on 1080p movies (still on Honeycomb). In fact it works better than PS3 media server which couldn't handle streaming 1080p movies to my PS3. Easy to set up as well.

Now to find a decent remote desktop solution without lag which runs on linux...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
euh then there is something wrong with your ps3 media server. No problem at ALL with PSM. Streaming is great. 720p wireless but 1080p wireless is some of a problem (using G) streaming to the ps3, witouth a problem. 1080p with 30-40 mbps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tekkitan:
Not to mention most fat Americans are tech geeks, me included. lol
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Hseihmichael:
Dice player works

Hi all, I'm new to this forum as I only had my asus transformer purchased and got my hands on it for 2 days.

I've updated to stock ICS and also been trying the docking keyboard as well. I found out that the stock video player cannot play some of the 720p files I got on my external HDD. (I'm actually not sure about the file format of the video: they are not necessarily the same file format, some are avi, some are mkv. all I know is that video files that are HD or 720p or higher resolution cannot be played very smoothly, or not even playable.)

I've tried reading through the thread and tried a few different apps.

BS player didn't work.

Dice player works much better. I downloaded the app and ran it immediately, then a message pops up telling me to download another plug in: plugin for tegra2. installed it and videos that couldn't be played are now running much much better.

I didn't try other apps and I'm not that much knowledgeable like fellow users here in the forum, just reporting what I've encountered.

Really love this tablet!!!

update:

I found that files over 3Gb still has some issues playing.

Guess I should research more.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Someone09:
I am pretty sure I will stick to HC.

I tried several ICS ROMs 2 times now. But my videos just won´t play fluidly.

On HC my vids usually are a bit out of sync and/or lag a bit only for the first 10 seconds.

On ICS, it needs around 1.5 minutes to play properly.

I might give CM9 a try the next weekend, but so far I will stick with HC. Probably until I get my next tablet...or padfone.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
You haven't tried test 15 yet do you? This fixes your issue ;-)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Someone09:
Might give it a try.

But unfortunately, that would most definately lead to Voodoo not working any more.

So, I´d be trading one issue for another one.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
Voodoo is working great on Test15.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Someone09:
Really?!

Looks like I will be spending my next weekend flashing, again. ;)

If that actually works, there would be only one ICS-related problem left for me. Yay!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
Don't expect any cool features but the mean voodoo feature is in there ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24650801&postcount=464

only the slider is working as of now. Only "down side" of it is you will need the paided app from Voodoo plus to use this one. But it is worth the money!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Someone09:
Just tried video playback on the Codename Android v1.5.5.3 ROM and I was really surprised how well it played.

Not only did BS Player played fine but also Dice Player played all of files (with sound!) which it hasn´t done with any other ROM.

Unfortunately, there still are too many bugs on the ROM for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] shawt:
I am back to Honeycomb and happyagain.no reboot and no problem with video playing :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Someone09:
Yep. Me, too.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Saav:
Running ARHD 3.2.1 with test16 kernel. Kind of disappointed with video playback so far, I can't even run 1080p mp4 files smoothly which even my old galaxy tab 7 ran fine.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gkillerx:
lol are you sure? I don't know what for specs this one had but I bet it didn't had a HD screen. not that that says anything but nvidiea realy need to get there act to gether! I know a tegra 2 could play 1080p low profile just great but it doesn't :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Saav:
Yeah, pretty sure. Both stock and ICS AOKP build #29 with humberos kernel for the tab played 1080p files fine, mp4 at least. Mkv's were limited to 720p. I even tried some of the same files i played on the tab and were noticeble laggier. And I think I've tried every player out there.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rjarl:
ICS Video Playback is bull--it

Hi,

With HC my TF101 was able to play smooth 720p mkv throught samba.

I started ICS "calvary" with TeamEOS ROM Nightlys, and Samba Streaming mkv video 720p with DICE Player was awesome, smooth and very good (better than HC). But I had to change ROM becouse of serious wifi issues, web browser freezes and because EOS kernel doesn't support Voodoo... and also Roach2010 is missing (so he doesn't wrote more post since he send his tablet to repair...).

I'm right now Using Megatron 1.0.4 ROM with Kernel test 19.1, video playback is a **** **** ****, wifi quality is awesome, and browsing the web is.. well... working, but in terms of Video playback i try: DICE, MX, BS (armv7 also installed) and all of them play the 720p videos but every 4 seconds it freeze and continue play smooth but once again freeze for a second and again and again...

Anyone found a combination ROM+Kernel wich allow best 720p mkv playback??

Or maybe I miss something?

Thanks!

Rjarl
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Shunun:
Hmmm...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rjarl:
??? Shunun...

Anyway...

I'll try to copy the file to my SD card... but i don't think it can be a transfer speed problem...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jrsalda:
Well it's tegra 2 fault, plain and simple It's hard to believe some people here claimed being able to play 720p avi and mkv movies perfectly. I never been able to play 720p movies in mkv encoded with h.264 files smoothly, neither HC nor ICS, rooted or not(tried several roms), overclocked or not, never reached over 25fps, always had audio/sync issues. I tried a lot, and I used to make a living editing professional videos. when I got my tegra 3 device(tf300t), it does play the same 720p movies in mkv format almost perfect(99% satisfied). occasional glitches and/or audio pop ups still occur. Those 720p mkv and avi clips(h.264) are 800mb - 2.1Gb file size each. at the end the only viable option for tf101 w/ ICS would be to re-encode their mkv movies/videos(handbrake).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sbliner:
Well it does have something to do with whats inside the mkv. I used to be able to play 720p baseline mp4's fine in HC. Not in ICS. I think if we all used the same MKV sample file from dropbox, we'd have similar results.

Of all the media devices in my house (Sharp TV, TF101, Playbook, Touchpad ICS, Galaxy Skyrocket)...the TF101 is currently the worst.
[HTC Sensation] Ov3rbyte:
Ok So my friend from work wanted his sensation rooted after I did mine. He has S-OFF and has sucessfully permanently rooted it with the SU-bin 3.03 blah blah zip file. I've succesfully rooted my own with CID of 11111111 and used 4EXT recovery to install the 3.24 firmware. He, however, gets the known boot loop problem, which I know is due to firmware not being upgraded. I can't for the life of me connect his phone and have ADB connect to it to change his CID.

I've got the same exact model phone, down to the same carrier, so I have the HTC sensation USB drivers (HTC sync) installed on my pc. It won't detect it though because of it not being able to boot into android's OS.

I'm attempting to download a rom that is based off of the stock firmware hoping this will solve my problem, but wouldn't mind any insight on it.
[HTC Sensation] daddoso:
Well, if i got it right you just need to pick a firmware flashable for that phone without supercid, am i right? In that case there's the topic where you can find all firmware adjusted to a particular CID, grab that from your phone, put into your sd (you may want to put a ROM to flash too), then put your SD with the matching firmware onto his phone, reboot and it's done! Finally swap again the SD card.
[HTC Sensation] Ov3rbyte:
Yes I would think so, but I can't figure out what current CID he has on his phone because I can't boot up into android's OS and connect to my phone on my PC with ADB (adb devices shows up, but when I try to set the CID it wont work).
[HTC Sensation] daddoso:
Fails to "set" or fails just the command? Because if its only a "set" issue, the command may (unlikely) work and show you the cid! Or we can try to find it out with some info like brand/country/etc ..
[HTC Sensation] Ov3rbyte:
Figured it out, had to do with the sync cable I was using. used a different one and i was able to set the CID to 1111111 or w/e. Installed the new firmware and the silly boot loop stopped.

Sent from my Asus Transformer of The Prime Kind.
[HD2 General] McHeiSty:
Hi, I recently bought an HD2 for 80 bucks from a random guy, and I forgot to check for mountain damage before buying.

The phone keeps restarting very often and crashing and overheating... But other than that, the phone works great.

Is there anything I can do? Im willing to sell it at a loss...

Any advice?
[HD2 General] enigma1nz:
How bad is the damage, e.g how corroded are the internal components? Can you see the corrosion on the micro-USB port? Any spots on the screen? I might be interested in getting it off your hands. PM me if you want to part with it. Thanks.