[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sw33t_Lov3r:
Razr i does best at playing 10 bit MKVs

Hi, I'd like to tell you. If you want to buy the S4 for its supposed highest processing power only to be able to watch your animes... you are better off converting those 10 bit releases into 720p Mp4 with some Nero low bitrate profile but high quality output to get the highest quality in the lightest video file so you can carry more videos in less GB of storage, because that should be the easiest you can do. All this tests made in this thread show that neither the S4 (nor other top smartphone yet) can play flawlessly 10 bit MKV 720p videos, and 1080p? Less.

So, why complicate your life if it won't get flawless playback, which is an stressful thing (at least for me). There are good converters available if you don't like Nero.

I can't help you with the encoding/trasnscoding but you can reseach. Nero profiles does a great job to get light but high quality HD output.

My following post might interest you.

Hi silversun.

I downloaded "Sword_Art_Online_-_18_[720p]" from a link provided at the MX Player Google Group and tested playing the video on my Motorola Razr i (stock, ICS), with MX Player, of course.

The video plays as usual, very good. I don't know,﻿ it must be the x86 architecture or whatever (?). But I'm very pleased with the overall performance of the Razr i, and now that it turns out that it can easily play these 10 bit videos, I'm most happy ^-^

And the video looks awesome! The quality is so good. Although seems like I don't fully understand the difference between 8bit and 10 bit videos. Ha. I'm used to watch this quality anime releases in mp4 too, so that makes difficult for me to realize if 10 bit is actually better.

In that thread at the MX PLayer Google Group the poster of the link said that the intensity of the animation in that chapter is good to get an overall idea of the performance a device can offer, so I tested with it.

Then, I've also downloaded "[UTW-Mazui]_Toaru_Kagaku_no_Railgun_S_-_03_[720p]" provided here, and the performance is the same.

I attach a picture so you can see the Razr i can play fine and with stylized subs too. But, can't see colors, don't they put colors to their subs?

What does this mean? What makes the single core Razr i playback so nicely this problematic videos that other top smartphones can't?

I do state that the Razr i plays 10 bit 720p videos as good as any other video I've played in it. Quite surprisingly, I think. I'd like to try with 1080p videos but don't have one right now. One is downloading from the link to a fansub provided here. It's the 6th movie from Naruto Shipuuden (1.4 GB). The download is very slow, their server is very slow or it's very, very far way from me (Lima, Peru), so I'll take some till tomorrow at midday to be ready, I'll be glad to report how the performance is.

Btw, can you upload some 10 bit 1080p video so I can try faster?

Hi, soraxd,

Can you please upload to Mediafire or another server that video so I can try it on my Razr i?

It's weird that model number "SAMSUNG-SGH-I337" for the S4 GT-i9505 (Snapdragon 600) Ha.

I agree that MX Player is the best. But your choices for upgrades seem a bit limited: Let me recommend you the Motorola Razr i. The only Single Core that easily scores 16000 on Antutu benchmark and 4500 at Quadrant, plus in real life performance it easily equals the performance of any quadcore available. You can check out comparision videos against Galaxy S3, Note 2, iPhone 5, etc. You can check them out here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazrGuy/videos

I have that device and it's simply one of the best available right now. Fast (2Ghz), reliable, durable. Not many have a Kevlar back and aluminium slim bezels. And a handsome desing! Ha

If you want more, and can wait a litte, you should go for its older cousin: the Lenovo K900. It has a second gen Dual Core 2Ghz Intel CPU. With its Hyperthreading feature it's taken by Android as a quad core. And if its score of almost 28000 at Antutu can't tell you enough, take the good reputation back up from the Razr i. Its desing is one of the best currently; tall, and slim. You may know it already.

You must like to check them out as you want to use the device to play 10 bit videos, and these seem the only ones actually giving a fine playback with your favourite video player, MX.

I recomend you the same as to silversun92. And can recommend you this converter too: SUPER © Video Converter http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html It does for FREE what other encoders CAN'T do for money. Ha

I'd like to know how to get the fps to show in the topright corner on MX Player, please.

I don't think the Exynos will outperform the Snapdragon 600. If it was true both wouldn't be very far apart in the 3DMark Benchmark ranking, although it benchmarks the GPU, anyway. The CPU still counts.

...I think we already have it. "An Android device + app than can rival the iPhone 5 in terms of playing 10 bit videos.": The Razr i.

If what I see in the Razr i is not what you are looking for, then you must be in love with the overrated devices like the S4. I'm not ssaying it's not worth it, but there are more to choose from! And in terms of what you are looking for; the Razr i already is playing fine the 10 bit videos you wanted an Android device to play someday.

To end this lengthy post. Can someone actually tell why does the Razr i performs that well? I watched carefully and didn't see any glitch not anything wrong. The MX Player controls were as responsive as always, I even put it aside a moment an send a text message then continued watching as usual. So, it does better at playing these videos, if not perfect. Weird, for a single core. It must be the codec pack from MX Player for the X86 CPU, can't guess anymore.

I hope I've helped ^-^

- L.

Pd: I'm going to get the K900 as soon as Lenovo awakes and launches an international version. LTE does not matter in my country, 3G+ is good. Everything else in the phone is so beautiful *-*