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[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] hafai:
I've been using VPlayer for the past two days but it has issues. It is difficult to get the track bar to pop-up, seeking causes subtitles to disappear or become out of sync, and leaving the player and coming back tonight can cause the player to only display a black screen. Some of this may he due to file format (been using 720p mkvs), the fact that I'm still on android 4.1, or something else. I don't know, just my experiences.

I'm going to be trying mxplayer next.

Edit: when using mxplayer output stutters with the h/w decoder. The s/w decoder has artifacts but no stutter.

I should be using the armv7 with neon codec and have it set to h/w for video and s/w for sound, right?

Edit2: the artifacts in software comes from fast mode. But software decoding is not ideal due to aforementioned battery consumption...

Edit: I'll just convert stuff to mp4.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] scrizz:
VLC 4 me and no looking back.

gets my subs in the correct format and color.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] toker_X1:
I use BS player. The 10bit 1080p mkv plays without any issues.

I have also tested VC-1 and MP4 files at 1080p. Both played fine, DTS and AC3 stream plays fine.

I have tried the following....

BSplayer - 1080p mkv, wmv and mp4

MXPlayer - 720p mkv choppy

VPlayer - same as MX

VLC - did not even start just crashes at startup

This is the best player but lack interface design like MXPlayer

I have even paid for non-ad version.

I think this the best solution until xbmc is available.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Skyrocket2Paradise:
I use vplayer
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] limbonik:
The only player I've tried with subtitles and Bluetooth headphones that works great is Dice player.

With mx and others I lose audio sync when using my bt headphones.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] arvinderb:
I'm using MX player free with no codec packs and 720p mkvs are very choppy, using HW decoding. However the same file in dice player using HW decoding plays perfectly but doesn't support ass substyles. Any ideas what the problem is?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] arse87zx:
I've been using QQ player for years.It will play everything you throw at it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] toker_X1:
QQPlayer doesn't play HD content well, real slow and choppy - You must be only playing SD content
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] pxlitup:
I'm trying to watch a 4:3 mkv, but I can't find a player that hides the system bar (the black bar at the bottom of the screen).

At first I tried MX Player, Mobo Player, and Dice Player. I looked through their settings and didn't find a way to do this.

Here is what these players do.

Someone suggested BSPlayer, but it letterboxes the image by dividing the space that was occupied by the bar between the top and bottom margins.

The native player, fortunately, is allowed to use the entire screen. Here is a shot of the file converted to mp4 and played natively.

MX Player has announced that this functionality will be added in the next update (source), but for the time being I would like an mkv player that does this.

Does anyone know of one? And why is this not a standard feature?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Octhar:
I've been using VPlayer to watch 720p .mkv files from a usb drive through an OTG cable, not as smooth as can be but watch-able and you can hide the system bar (this annoyed me about other players too). I've had some issues trying to enable hardware decoding, but hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] pxlitup:
VPlayer exhibits the same behavior as BSPlayer.

The space that was occupied by the bar is merely split between the top and bottom of the screen. The size of the video does not change.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
Update: I am very impressed with MX Player and BS Player. When I made this thread I thought it would be hard to find a good video player like a year ago that can play most of the codecs out there as on a computer. I see BS Player more automated with its settings than MX Player. For 10 bits compression compared to 8 bits 1080p, a commenter said BS Player performs better. Can anyone verify this?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] t3ch7:
Doesn't matter what player you use for videos encoded in 10-bit as the Tegra 3 cannot hardware accelerate the video. No matter what player you use, if set to use hardware decoding, you'll see the telltale signs - funky colors and artifacting. If you don't mind, either BS or Dice has a better hardware decoder.

MX Player is still the best when it comes to software decoding 720p 10-bit video (forget 1080p) since it can use all four-cores to decode - still not the greatest performance though, but watchable depending on how the video is encoding. Unfortunately, you might run into the problem of the video just stopping since there seems to be a problem with the Tegra 3 and MX's software decoder.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] netter123:
Anyone know of a video player that allows zoom AND pan? I want to be able to zoom in, but then also pan to edges or corners of the screen while zoomed...or at least selectively zoom on edge or corner areas to begin with.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
MX player
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
Okay, either my videos aren't supported or I'm retarded... What codec pack on the market to install for MX Player, ARMv7, not ARMv7 Neon or any of the others, right? Every time I try to switch to HW Decoding it says "Cannot play this video with H/W Decoder".
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] netter123:
Random guess? Pan is not an option, and zoom is center only.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
Ya, if you got Nexus 7 for MX Player use MX Player Codec (ARMv7)

Too bad crop in MX Player doesn't work, zoom can max out 200% center. I saw it has crop, I was thinking to crop a certain part that you want and zoom in.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ecnahc:
wrong thread.. too late.. too many tabs open ><
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] micks_address:
Hi folks,

i downloaded some videos from youtube using tubemate - they are stored as mp4s = 12880* 720 - i am using mx player wtith MX Player codec (armv7 Neon)

When i play the videos first mx player tries to play them in HW decoding but they stutter from time to time - switching to SW Fast mode doesnt look great so i choose SW mode and the videos look good... should i be able to get HW decoding to work?

Cheers,

Mick
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
If you are using Nexus 7 and running MX Player use MX Player codec (armv7)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
k, thanks! At least I have the right one, must just be my videos.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] micks_address:
Thanks - removed the neon codec and replaced with arm 7 and HW decoding working well now.. how come the neon one doesnt work? isnt that for tegra 3 devices?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
No, the description said it's for Neon CPU.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Orbiting234:
All I know is exactly what I've known for the past year: I want to physically punch those moron encoders (i.e. those at anime fansub groups) who convinced themselves that encoding in 10bit was "better" than 8bit despite the fact that nothing exists that has 10bit hardware acceleration. Nevermind that they also said that 10bit files would be smaller when I've seen nothing but the opposite to be true. Fansub groups are worse than Apple users when it comes to being elitist a$$holes. </rant>
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] heyodee:
Dice player + ffmpeg FTW
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
Well to be fair, fansubs are like the tip of the spear. A couple of years ago when mkv files are new to mainstream torrent movies bluray rip format, fansubs were starting encoding using mkv when almost no one has codecs package to decode it or even a fast enough computer to run it (mainstream). Mkv does keep more integrity of the raw file, not getting too detailed into it; meaning better graphic. As i said on my first page playing mkv on android was lagging 2 year ago. Now same thing is happenings again 720p 10bit does compressed the file smaller but required more from hardware and software. My computer is quad-core 1.40 GHz can handle 1080p 10bit without a problem. Hopefully, its just software limit from current quad-core mobiles/tablet devices.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] androidgranny241:
^ This and, on occasion, MX Player Pro.

I've found they play every type of movie rip we have if they are actually on the Nexus 7 or via a USB-OTG cable + Sandisk flash drive.

The occasional problem only pops up when trying to stream certain movies from a pc to the N7 using Skifta.

1) Dice Player + ffmpeg

2) MX Player

:good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] toker_X1:
No one said 10bit encodes will be smaller than 8bit - 2bit of data is required per pixel expect 10bit encodes to be around 20% larger.

The device you used post this has 10bit HiProfile 40Mbits HW acceleration

Ipad3 with xbmc has 10bit HW

Intel iGPU HD2500 above had 10bit HW

Nvidia Gefore GPU with Purevideo2 has 10bit HW

You obviously don't know what your talking about you dumb a$$.

PS: I am one of those elitist a$$holes
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tigrexiao:
MX player is still having problems with S/W decoder - random quit which happens on tegra3 cpu.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] scorpeeon:
I tried some test videos (1080p movie trailers) and MX player couldn't play them HW accelerated so the were decoded with SW and were very sluggish. Now I tried Dice player and HW accelerated (seemingly perfect) playback is fully working. Thanks for the tip guys!

Edit: Dice couldn't play some videos either. Now i tried BS Player, it played everything so far, HW acc working, full screen (in other players the navigation bar didn't go away only faded to dots), so far it seems to be the best for me.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] RedWingsFan:
I can't get Dice player to play MKVs from my samba shares. AVIs work fine. Any help
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Orbiting234:
The problem is that they assume that people are going to watch videos on their computers. BZZT! News flash for them, I'd rather be more comfortable watching them on my much larger TV and I'm not about to make a HTPC just so I can play their poorly encoded crap when they choose to ignore acceptable standards. All media streamers on the market can playback 8bit fantastically but obviously are incapable of playing back 10bit at all. If hardware decoding of 10bit video existed at all, I wouldn't care one bit which way they encoded things. But since they've decided to be complete dicks and omit the ability to playback on anything but a PC, I want them to die in a fire. It isn't "tip of the spear" tech, it is fansub groups overcompensating and trying to show how big their e-penis is or something.

---------- Post added at 01:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 PM ----------

You are either flat out trolling or so grossly misinformed it isn't even funny. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING has hardware decode acceleration for Hi10p. Not your phone, not your tablet, not even any video card on the planet. It can ONLY be done in software. Until you actually know what you are talking about you should really think twice before posting such fallacies.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] JediMasterASD:
MX Player is the best player I've found so far. Seems to play everything without a problem.

Does anyone know how to hide the nav bar when playing a video though? Seems weird to me that MX Player doesn't do that since many other worse video players do.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] altimax98:
I love using mVideoPlayer for my browsing and use the 'open with' function to open it with MX player. I'm also using Super video for pop up video playing.. I'm actually using it now while typing this post and watching The Hangover. Super video is the only one that allows resizing and moving the window without a stutter or skip and seem less. I enjoy it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] noobandriod:
I did a lot of testing and found out the MX Player is the best. Yes, MX Player will lag on some 1080p videos, probably do to the lack of HW decoding support on some video format and because it plays the video at high quality. BS Player will play 1080p files fine but at the cost of lower quality. In my opinion 1080p stuff played with BS Player looks worst than 720p and 1080p stuff played with MX Player with32 bit color depth selected.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] heyodee:
Dice trumps them both provided you have the plugin, and it also supports playback via LAN(windows share) and its now free with NO ads
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] noobandriod:
In my eyes the MX Player video quality is a tiny tiny bit better but overall negotiable and the pro of being able the play 1080p lag free on the Dice Player makes the Dice Player a better player (hopefully MX Player will remedy this with added HW decode support to more video formats). Had I tried out the Dice Player before purchasing the MX Player Pro I think I might have settle with the Dice Player.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] scrizz:
VLC keeps getting better!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thunder9111:
why does my mxplayer jump out of the video after like 2 minutes?

I'm playing flv videos I downloaded off youtube.

I also already downloaded the arm7 codec.

I'm going to have to try another player for now.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] micks_address:
tried vplayer last night but it was really slow to load and lagged all over the place.. is that normal? removed it and back to mx player...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] godashram:
My only issue is that Dice does not handle subtitles as well as MX player...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] _Mitya_:
Have the same problem. Don't know what to do. Can somebody help us with advise?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] heyodee:
In what way exactly? :confused::confused::confused:

Try dice + plugin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30235719
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] R3dbeaver:
still not available for Canadians. I keep side-loading the nightly build.

works fine though. major battery hog on 1080 .mkv files...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] espionage724:
Subtitles aside, what would be the best player that can fully hardware-decode video of 720p and 1080p nature?

I can "try" to live without subtitles with anime (I'm trying to learn Japanese :p), but having an overall great player that can play 720p and 1080p video of many different codecs would be ideal :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Serift:
Seems like you're talking out of your ass. 10 bit files are indeed smaller than 8 bit for the same quality, or they can produce better quality videos at the same size as an 8 bit video.

And no device has 10 bit hardware acceleration.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ianflo:
just as a general note. i was really disappointed that MX player didnt go true full screen when playing videos (still had the 3 dots on the bottom), but their newest beta (not the one in the play store) actually does go full screen. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mx-videoplayer/wvRuu4z7bW4
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] androidgranny241:
I'm surprised MX player got so many votes..?

The old Dice Player (ad) with the ffmpeg plug-in blows MX out of the water. I have MX Player Pro and, although it looks nicer, Dice wins hands down for functionality.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] julien.me:
TRUE. Now I just wish DicePlayer could be updated to get rid of the clock/battery status bar along with the 3 dots of the soft keys at the bottom when on fullscreen...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] micks_address:
was using mxplayer but now on DICE... MX was stuttering in some videos for me, and always had to use Software decoding..
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] muretski:
+1 on this, im using this too,
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] irishrally:
I just did some quick and dirty video player testing on the N7. I tested the internal Video Player, MX, VLC, Dice and VPlayer. The source material is a ~10GB bluray rip, 1080P, DTS audio, etc. streamed over home wifi using the aMPdroid app that connects to MediaPortal on the PC.

First, I was surprised to find that all the bluray rips I tried worked just fine on the stock internal player.

Stock internal Video Player:

Excellent video quality with no artifacts

Decent sound quality

EDIT: I was able to get the status combo bar to hide when I launched the stock video player as an external player from within aMPdroid.

MX Player:

Average to poor video quality with many artifacts (SW decoding only)

Status bar hides

VLC:

Excellent video quality with no artifacts

Unable to hide status bar

Dice:

Excellent video quality with no artifacts

Status bar hides

VPlayer:

Average video quality with some artifacts

Status bar hides

BSPlayer:

Excellent video quality with no artifacts

Status bar hides

I'd say Dice, VLC, BS Player, and the stock player are all roughly as good video quality wise for this specific application. VPlayer is slightly worse than those, and MX player is the worst, probably because of the lack of HW decoding or some other compatibility issue with these types of files.

VLC does not seem to go full screen so that's no go for me. Hopefully they change that with upcoming releases.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] R3dbeaver:
most people prefer *click* install --> done, rather than downloading a codec, putting on the right location, load it, etc....

yes, it's very simple. but u'll be surprised on how many people got spooked just by seeing "manual plugin install".

and then there's people who think looking nice is most important, and MX plays all the videos they have.

until Dice can have all the plugins bundled into one easy install for each particular devices, it's not going to fly.

just wait until VLC is out of Beta....
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dooshy:
I voted Dice Player - mainly because I have a Logitech Mini Boombox to play the audio through via bluetooth. For some reason, Dice Player seems to be the only app where the audio doesn't lag several seconds behind the video.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] lellouchftw:
Dice player might be better with it's hardware acceleration, but I voted MX player because IMO it has more functionality (for me at least).

- Unlike every other player on the market, MX player supports subtitle styling. So when watching anime the subtitles appear as they should, and are not ugly and/or oversized like on Dice player.

- MX player supports 10 bit x264 files (though they're abit laggy).

I still use BSplayer to play DTS files and some 1080p ones, but MX player is still overall the best for anime watchers.

Could you please test BSplayer with the same video? Kinda curious to see how it stacks up against the rest.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] heyodee:
Dice can do all MX Player can and more. And that includes subtitle styling and DTS if you have the plugin. And it free. And no ads. And pop-up player. And....:p
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] R3dbeaver:
not really. i have a couple anime where the subs that has little circle going up and down on top (like karaoke) in the opening song, got really screwed up with Dice.

and one MKV (Summer Wars) that doesn't even play at all - yes, i installed the ffmpeg plugin so i can play my Aven....errr... a 1080p movie with DTS.

so what? there's yet another plugin to install? Dice is such a hassle just to setup. I don't get why they can't do it like VLC where it's one APK and it plays everything. too bad VLC subtitles is very basic.

im sticking to MX for anime/sub videos, and VLC for everything plus the kitchen sink.

i'll take the MX's ads during pause over Dice convoluted installs.

sorry, heyodee, it sounds like im attacking you :angel: but im just sharing my experience with Dice and it's such a bad one. i dont have time to find the plugins, put it in a dropbox, or search the market, then install dice, configure plugin, test with anime/dts/HD to make sure everything works, troubleshoot, etc....

i (and many people who i believe voted MX) want something they can go to market, search, installed, and be done with it.

sure, some people have some DTS 1080 (even though Nexus is only 720) that they insist on playing, or some weird subtitling or wacky codec they got off some illegal torrents somewhere, and those people can go ahead and enjoy Dice and its plethora of optional plugins or VLC nightlies. (silly VLC Beta doesn't allow Canadians to download through market?)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] irishrally:
I updated my post. BSplayer performs as well as the other top contenders for this specific application.

Yes, I insist on playing/streaming my existing 1080P/HD Audio movie and tv series collection on the Nexus 7, and am thrilled that they all work well with no modification needed. It would suck to have to send all media through handbrake or some other converter to get them to work on the N7 and then have duplicates of everything.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] GizmoTheGreen:
anyone tried littleplayer by cpasjuste?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] scandalousk:
MX player works fine here on my nexus 7 and SG2. The 720p and 1080p content plays smoothly and I have no problems what so ever when watching anime that require subtitles. I installed the additional codecs tho'.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] androidgranny241:
^ We used to use Skifta to stream media from our HTPC while around the house but, it's become hit-n-miss with a few straight Blu Ray rips using it for some reason...sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Same containers/codecs--weird stuff. Could never figure out why some movies just wouldn't play. Had something to do with Skifta though....

We ended up using Handbrake to cut down some of our favorites to 720p & about 3-3.5 GB and keep them on flash drives for when we are on the move.

Lot easier just to stream the straight rips though.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] irishrally:
I haven't tried Skifta, but aMPdroid connected with Media Portal has been flawless so far. Everything I've tried has played fine as is. The layout of the app is nice and, in addition to steaming, it functions as a living room media guide for an easy remote way to figure out what you're going to watch without having the tv set to PC. It can stream TV too if you have that all set up on your PC.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] irishrally:
Big update for MX today and codec packs. There is a new hardware decoder (hw+) that works well and fixes the issues I was having with HD media above. The software decoder seems better too but it still glitches for a couple of seconds at the beginning of a video, then recovers and plays well. New icon looks nice too.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
Update1: As of 9/14/2012 1080p 10bit video color is still a bit distorted on HW+ MX Player but as far as i know no player can handle 10bit perfectly yet. Good job to the guys at MX Player.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] GnobarEl:
Hi,

Can someone upload, or tell where to get it, a list of samples for all codecs.

What is the best way to test codecs on any android?

Imagine I have a Chinese tablet android. How can I know witch codecs are supported? With some samples would be easier don't you think?

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] adamantell:
Dice player, very good app or VLC player (beta) is ok as well

Sent From Nexus 7 XDA Premium HD App
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] androidgranny241:
Thanks. I'll look into that.

The beauty of Skifta is that it was super easy to configure and pretty handy because it could handle most everything...it just kinda hit a wall there so we dropped it.

Definitely going to give aMPdroid a look. :good:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tort_74:
VLC Player - neon on nexus 7 works great
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Lw00d:
latest Diceplayer with Codec plugin.

streaming all my blue rays i have in HD. with diceplayer built in samba server
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] recz:
I want to buy nexus 7 but i start to read from page 1 but still confuse.

I want some one to confirm that nexus 7 can play 720p hi10p.

If can please recommend the best app for play 720p hi10p.

thx
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Capt.PP:
These are the distorted i was mentioning on page one when playing 10 bit 1080p mkv video. There are no lags in the video from MX Player.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] recz:
You mean that Nexus 7 can play 720p hi10p with no lag.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] keyra74:
bsplayer handle it without glitch but change embedded subs to white ones