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[MX Player] vivan000:
The difference is very noticeable. Without dithering it's impossible to have smooth gradients on even true 8-bit displays. With it - even 6 bit displays are fine (especially with crazy DPIs). This is why dithering is important for playback.

Dithering is basically noise, which is barely compressible. So when you encode dithered gradient it smooths it out and you get banding. This is why 10-bit is important for encoding, especially for anime (which is full of gradients).

However MX (nor any other player on android) doesn't use dithering. This is why 10-bit videos have worse banding than 8-bit ones.

So feel free to reencode them with x264 (or any app that uses it), with high enough bitrate you'll get even better quality.

32 bit is 8 bit * 4 channels. But it doesn't say anything about the display itself - some screens are 6-bit+FRC (fancy word for temporal dithering) or even worse (e.g. on my Xperia Z3c on max brightness I have to add 3-bits of noise to get smooth gradients).
[MX Player] USBhost:
I was wrong

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#True_color_.2824-bit.29

From what I can get

The nexus 9 is 24bit or 16bit
[MX Player] vivan000:
24 is 8 bit per channel without alpha. 32 - with. Every display made in this decade supports it.

16 is 5/6/5, which is way too low and outdated. Nobody sane is using it.

Those are display formats, and, again, they have nothing to do with a real display bitdepth (well, apart from not supporting 10-bit rgb that android doesn't support anyway and which is not really important).

Of course every review will claim that display is perfect. Of course every manufacturer claim that they have at least 8-bit display ("capable of displaying 2^24 colors"). You can't find real bitdepth unless you know exact display model and have information about it. Which is probably only possible for desktop monitors.
[MX Player] turk.17:
Thanks man!

May I ask you what software you used to encode your Blu-ray discs?

---------- Post added at 04:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:44 PM ----------

Thanks for the very informative post! However, I'm less motivated in buying the Galaxy S6 now, because I could just encode all my anime in 8-bit and have better quality and H/W+ playback support, instead of getting the S6 to be able to play high-bitrate 10-bit anime without lag in S/W mode. I'll probably still buy it, though, because it's an amazing phone all around.

Anyway, what software do you use to encode your anime? Are there specific settings I should make sure are turned on/off in order to improve the quality? What bitrate should I encode at? I want to encode the Coalgirls 10-bit 1080p Hunter x Hunter BDrip (each episode is 23 minutes long and is about 1GB).

Again, thanks!
[MX Player] reimart660:
Why not download an already re-encoded file? It saves you the time of downloading Gigs of data and encoding them yourself .

I download my animes here Hi10 Anime.

They chose what they think are the best fansub for a specific anime so if you don't like the fansub they used or you don't like its quality, you can request it to them or that will be the time you download and encode your own. They do ongoing shows, BD 720p and BD 1080p. I think they will also move to 10-bit HEVC because some of their recent encodes have HEVC versions. A great site overall.

They also have the guide on how to encode 10-bit anime and some other stuffs.
[MX Player] Dante of the Inferno:
Greetings!

It's been amazing to see the extent of the research conducted by the XDA community since this question was posed a whole 3 years ago. So let's push recap.

Now that we (finally) have an ARM device (Samsung Galaxy S6) powerful enough to play consistent 1080Hi10p, H.264 10-bit hardware support be damned, I'd like for us to agree on "minimum hardware requirements" for running modern anime, which is Hi10p.

On the x86 side:

720p: Basically any dual core computer (Intel or ARM) running over 2 GHz (preferably at least 2.3 GHz). So, 2006 hardware onward with Windows 7 onward (untested for Vista). Note that single core 2.2 GHz machines CAN play files, but only up to 30 fps AND with low bit rate.

1080p: Any machine running 2014 Intel Atom Z3770 (code name: Bay Trail) can play extended files at 30 and 60 fps. Only the most merciless flies (simultaneous panning and zooming, hundreds of dynamic particles, grain/static) require anything more powerful. Note that for consistently graphically intense films, such as REDLINE, the chip will cause severe battery drain on portable devices (i.e. completely drained WHILE CHARGING within 1 hour). It is HIGHLY recommended that any device using this chip have open passive cooling and a 15W power supply (basically, a mini-PC, not a tablet or phone).

On the ARM side:

1080p: The 2015 Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7420, based on ARM v8 with a 14 nm process is currently the first and only available chip capable of perfect 1080Hi10p playback. The Tegra X1 by NVidia should not yet be considered, since as of its announcement at the CES 2015 keynote, its 10W TDP is designed to be the brain of semi-autonomous consumer vehicles that will rely on machine vision. As such, its power (and possibly cooling) requirements are too high for current "portable" form factors.

720p: pending investigation

Here's where I need your help. Despite scouring this entire thread and the original Google+ discussion, the minimum hardware requirements for this particular playback capability were never really made clear, as the focus then (as it is now) has been on full 1080p. While that would rule out FHD movies, many anime fans still watch their anime week by week at the broadcast 720p resolution (sometimes in groups, even), so this absolute base requirement still has merit. Furthermore, with the rise of low-end phones and super low-cost computing (such as the $30 Raspberry Pi 2 and the upcoming $9 CHIP), determining the base SoC necessary for this resolution can mean the difference between buying a phone or just plugging into a TV.

Since phones can vary in their capabilities (RAM, ROM, etc), let's instead base this on the SoC. We can start from a generally accepted SoC and work back from there.
[MX Player] reimart660:
Hey mate,

I wanted to buy an android tablet mainly for media consumption.

Did you test the latest Snapdragon 810 and compare it to Exynos 7420? I knew that Exynos 7420 is far more superior chipset than SD 810 but the rumoured successor of Samsung Tab S (which is the Tab S2) might use Exynos 7422 has an aspect ratio of 4:3 which sucks on movie watching. I might choose an SD 810 tablet with 16:10 aspect ratio.
[Verizon LG G2] JMacGill:
A simple question but why is the photo up top, in the Verizon LG G2 section of this forum not a picture of the Verizon version of the LG G2? The Verizon version has different buttons, a different design on the back, a different ring around the lens, a Verizon logo on the top bezel on the front, and some might say large 4G LTE and Verizon logos on the back.
[Verizon LG G2] DroidOnRoids:
I honestly think no one really cares lol As long as it's an LG G2, I could careless if it's the VZW variant. In my honest opinion, VZW should have NEVER had the phone's design/features modified...
[Verizon LG G2] trickster2369:
Larger battery and wireless charging were worth the minor design change.

Thanks Devs, from my LG G2
[Verizon LG G2] DroidOnRoids:
Yes you're right. Thank God for those additions but I was talking about the aesthetics of the Verizon variant. I just wish they kept the back buttons alone and didn't put their branding on such an odd place.
[Verizon LG G2] ooonimrodooo:
Thats ok. It also says that it was released on August 9th, 2014. Amazingly, we all have this phone, and it hasn't even been released yet! :laugh:
[Verizon LG G2] jayochs:
larger battery? all US variants are 3000mah. the only difference is verizon having wireless charging.
[Verizon LG G2] trickster2369:
Oops. I stand corrected. Not sure why I thought it had a bigger battery. I could have sworn it was 3300ma.

Thanks Devs, from my LG G2
[HTC EVO 3D] Kb cool:
Looking to get rid of my old Shift and Evo 3D that are flashed to Boost. What are the necessary steps to ensure the new owner has working Talk, text and 3g Data? IS it as simple as doing a profile update or more involved?
[HTC EVO 3D] Kb cool:
Well, after some test. Yes, the profile update is all that needs to be done! Thanks for everyones help!:D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Don164:
I am a 2nd year Forensic Computing student (UK resident/university) and I've been looking into a final year project which involves some form of forensic analysis of a computing system. Ever since I bought my HTC One and I rooted it, I've become quite interest in android as a whole. As of late, my HTC became carrier blocked (I bought it on contract from an eBay seller and they blocked it and won't respond back) so in essence I have a glorified media player but still a powerful device.

I want to make my final year project (Which accounts for roughly 40% of the degree) a forensic analysis of a rooted android phone.

I'm posting here (In the midst of developers) because I wish to attain advice and knowledge and some form of help (I'm not asking for anyone to do it for me, neither am I attempting to cheat) so I can produce a great project and a impressive dissertation.

Thank You
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
i changed my kernel and my rom with these one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2619282 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2607831 but my phone doesn't turn on anymore. i tried with odin, it doesn't work. i tried with recovery, is doesn't work either. what i can do in this situation? :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ast00:
99% chance that you have s5570i and you just bricked it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] NightRaven49:
And if so,

well

You just hard bricked it.

Good luck.

lol
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
if i use a usb jig can escape from brick and enter download mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Faiyaz5yaz:
device

wch device u hav ?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
i have a gt-s5570 or gt-s5570i :D i don't know sure but i think i have gt-s5570i because i can overclock to 800 mhz :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Faiyaz5yaz:
check behind the battery ..

and try to flash stock Rom with odin .

trust me ..if one port doesn't work ,try another usb port ..
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ast00:
S5570i has a stock clock speed of 832mhz.

Tapatalk-kal küldve az én GT-S5570-el
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
i've tried with odin. sometimes he doesn't see my phone and sometimes he see my phone but he stop at the point where odin "wait for device"
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
my phone have a stock clock speed of 600mhz so my phone is gt-s5570 right? :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Faiyaz5yaz:
first confirm your device Name and Ask for help..
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Petrut95:
i am sure that my phone is gt-s5570
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Faiyaz5yaz:
http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2011/08/upgrade-samsung-galaxy-popmini-gts5570.html?m=1
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ekoloud:
Hello,

I am currently running 4.4.2 cyanogenmod custom rom. I want to return to stock and unroot my device. I searched the internet for a lot of guides, but they were all unsuccessful. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AASonyKK:
In this thread you can find what you need http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-nexus/development/25-root-unroot-roms-cwm-stock-hotspot-t1828061
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadly Sto(R)m:
Hi,

Screen glass of my device was broken and i decided to change it. Unfortunately i broke the flex ( i dont know its name) which is in red area. Can someone tell me what that part is and what it does. Now how can i fix it? Can i replace it or have to replace whole lcd assembly screen? Please show me the way to follow. :(:(:(
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadly Sto(R)m:
Cannot anybody help?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazin99:
Try to reboot phone.. If its working fine no need keep it. If it didnt change it..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadly Sto(R)m:
Screen doesn't work :confused:
[Sprint LG G2] phillipsharp0827:
I am new to this world of rooting phones and flashing roms. I have a ls980zvc. I am rooted and i have backed up my phone with twrp. I know how to download wipe and flash roms i have this one question.

My question is if i flash one of these zva based roms such as optimus de, would i mess up my phone.And if it can mess up my phone, how can i go back to zva. Please try to break it down barney style. Thanks
[HTC One S] Cofreddi:
When ever i try to flash clockworkmod recovery touch i end up with very very dark screen. Looks black on first impression, but its just really really dark cant actually read or see anything, I have to hard boot the device and reflash the normal recovery.

Im on ViperOneS_3.1.3 hboot 2.15 unlocked and rooted. Any ideas how to solve it?
[HTC One S] LS.xD:
The display backlight has a bug sometimes. PhilZ CWM for ville works great :) Latest available is based on 6.0.4.7.
[HTC One S] Cofreddi:
6.0.3.1 working like a charm atm, but thanks ill check that outvalso
[Off-topic] jimmyhauser:
I have been reading through alot of posts here over the last couple weeks.

There seems to be a lot of bickering, pointless debate, insults and flaming going on here. (I know am probably starting more with this post, but that is why I chose the off-topic forum) I know you get it on all internet forums, but this one seems to be worse than most.

I actually had someone pm me on something recently, I believe, because he was too afraid to make a post asking for help. I dont blame him. If someone here asks a question that may or may not have been asked months ago (therefore buried by 10 pages of more current posts) he gets flamed. I also notice he asks another newbie like me, instead of someone with a lot of posts, because they seem to be the most touchy.

And I know, that is why there is a search. But you know, search tools on forums like this are a joke. You are going to get a return of 1000's of posts, 99% of which have nothing to do with what you are looking for. And for me at least, half the time when I search, and I am rewarded with a blank page (in both mozilla and IE).

Just wanted report on what I see here. Maybe others see it differently.
[Off-topic] vijay555:
Jimmy - not to validate your argument, but I disagree with you!

Seriously, I respond to so many posts, probably even unnecessarily so sometimes, just because I like the community. The vast majority of us are here because we enjoy the community and are like-minded gadget freaks.

You do get some flaming, some *****ing, some idiots, some spam, some divas. But the vast majority, in my experience, are very nice, helpful and supportive of newbies. We were all one once, and I hope that I'd rather say nothing then something unhelpful.

Anyone can PM or email me any time. I can't respond immediately, but I will try to respond.

The usual "use the search, Luke", response is normally only fired out when you've got a very new member blurting out things like "How do I switch the phone off?". My reasoning there is, teach a man to fish, he'll help himself a lot more then just filling his gullet with answers. But, for valid, non knee jerk questions, most people will try to help.

I think it's better no one answers if they don't know, and if they don't, feel free to bump. But don't bump twice in 5 mins - "COME ON, DOESN'T ANYBODY

KNOW HOW TO SORT MY CONTACTS BY FIRST NAME??!?!?!??!" is not a way to make friends with me.

Anyway, I could rant all day, but I think the board generally speaks for itself. Most are helpful, most are nice, most are here because we want to be here.

You get some bad posts, but seriously, in my year on the board, I've only had two encounters that caused me to contemplate leaving...

V

PS this was an interesting thread:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=329718#329718
[Off-topic] jimmyhauser:
I know it is not everyone, my subject should not have been why are people so temperamental, it should have been why are SOME people so temperamental.

I agree with you, if it is a repetive question, just dont answer. I just think it is bad when people are pm'ing rather than posting because they are afraid.
[Off-topic] newbie2:
I gotta' agree with you on that thread, vijay. Those pics (the original ones) NEVER should have been posted. They provoked a LOT of ire from users and flaming, too. There's no room for politics on this forum. It's not here for that purpose and I felt like that was where that thread was heading. Even the world news networks don't show images THAT graphic!! Thanks for deleting them and putting that thread back "on course".
[Off-topic] Mac da Knife:
whos temperamental, you b@5t@rd!

STFU! you think your so godd@mn smart, coming here and reading entries and you probably dont know your @ss froma hole in the ground when it comes to pdas....

whos says people here are temperamental?
[Off-topic] vijay555:
Gosh, in countries where you actually poo straight into a hole in the ground, this might cause some rather embarrassing situations!

V
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
maybe i hang out in the wrong forums or my level of what is hostile is wayy different from yours

but this is one of the most friendly forums i come in

or have ever come in (and thats a great deal)

i dont see telling people to use search and the likes to be hostile

personal attacks is hostile
[Off-topic] HDuser:
Dont know what the problem is, sure once in a while people get pointed to search, wiki or spend some time reading. And yes once in awhile there are no flowers in that reply.

Sure even I have had the balls to move a post out of news and tell the guy to post in the correct, forum, read wiki and use search. It pisses of our other users who think news is news and not news being somebody asking how do I upgrade my device.

I have seen a lot of threads, a few things I did not like to see, a few I have killed. I have seen nice, not so nice and far form nice askers and also answerres.

In general you get a lot more help here than on other places (yes I have had to look other places).

But hell its a free word, if anybody thinks this site is not good to or for them, well its a click of the mouse to solve that problem.

Mean while will I point a user to the answer of his question which in fact is the same question in 4 different sections. Hum let me think about that one.
[Off-topic] PPCNUT:
Personally I find most people on the forum very friendly. You always get a few who are a bit temperamental but that is life. But on the whole this would have to be the most helpful and friendly forum around.
[Off-topic] shogunmark:
I will have to agree and disagree with this.. i havent been a member that long and i did take the smart route, i actually read this board over and from top to bottom for months before making a single post, what stopped me from making a post right away was most senior people's complaints about newbs not searching, etc.. so i did just that searched and read... and here i am 3 months later of my first post and have made well over 500 now.. (i have point to all of this somewhere here:D ) This site can be a little confusing to newbs, but most of the confusion comes from other newbs making the same posts over and over again, you might search for one thing and come up with 50 posts of the same problem, however 49 of them are flames telling them to search to find the answer... and this is where it also gets frustrating for the senior people, people who have already answered this once before causing the temperamental flames.. Now i do try to answer what i can, we were all newbs once and i still consider myself one and i answer many pm's of people who are afraid to be flamed (which if they would have searched they would have found the answer) but im also not their personal wiki... ok, im done, oh yeah, vote for me for president :eek:
[Off-topic] prestonmcafee:
I agree with jimmy hauser

I came here from treocentral, which was much more supportive on average. Sure, there are some good-spirited and helpful people here, but it is overall much more antagonistic than treocentral.

As a practical matter, the search engine isn't very good and the recent upgrade of the forum didn't make it easier. It took me a few weeks to think of googling with the site:xda-developers.com, identifying the appropriate thread and then searching for that specific threads. Otherwise, one gets too much. Yes, we all find it annoying when someone starts a new thread that has already been answered fifty times, but on the other hand, there are pretty many 20+ page threads. It might be helpful to suggest to someone what they should have searched for, and try the search to see if it works. Just today I was trying to find the registry tweak that would eliminate the roaming indicator, but I couldn't remember what the thing did, so it took forever to find the registry tweak, and this for something I knew I had read on the board at some point in the past.

Here is what I think is actually better than most sites: the wiki. The wikis are uniformly high quality and some people have written fabulous how-tos.

My pet theory is that it is windows at fault. Things like activesync being so hilariously dysfunctional and the X meaning minimize on the PPC cause tempers to rise just a little too easily. Palm users are happier.

On the other hand, without XDA-developers, my MDA would have been approximately useless. The list of problems that were answered, either directly or indirectly, here is huge. Everything from ROM upgrades to TodayAgenda to 2.47 radio rom to wifi settings to wm5newmenu, I got them here. It is a wonderful resource.
[Off-topic] darky:
I came here from esato, former sony ericsson user ditched it with the p990

if you really want to get flamed say I didn't like the p990 on esato or god forbid the tytn is better than it (I had both got rid of the p990) :P basically compare anything or say anything is better than a S.E. phone and you'll get your diehard fanboys by the dozens.

anyways some people get flamed here beacuse they are total noobs who don't bother to read anything, I agree they shouldn't get flamed that bad but they should do a little reading, there is a wealth of information in these forums,

as for asking I try to reply to anyone who asks something I know and if anybody needs anything please feel free to pm me I will answer when I can, although posting a forum gives more views as well as future reference for future noobs :P
[Off-topic] PPCNUT:
I think this site provides so much useful information and it has kept many devices going when they would have gone in the bin. It has allowed a lot of older devices to still have the current operating system. I think half the time people have got home from work and are on a short fuse any way and any little thing pushes them over the edge and that is what causes the bickering. Just my thoughts on the matter.