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Lumsdoni

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I just tested this 2560p Timescapes trailer on my Nexus 10 32gb. Used MX Player and the quality is fantastic. I noticed a very slight stutter but it wasn't as much as I expected. The quality on the screen is so amazing.

Here's the link for anyone else who wants to test it. Use MX Player and let me know how it goes.

http://www.timescapes.org/trailers/Download_trailer.aspx?email=bla@bla.com

Edit: Also testing a Spiderman Bluray rip (5.45gb MKV). Video quality is superb and completely smooth in both MX player and stock video player but I can't seem to get the audio working on either player. Audio is fine on my PC via VLC.

This one post has made me so please I got this device !

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akhan47

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This one post has made me so please I got this device !

Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk 2

I was initially pleased with how light and good the Nexus 10 was, then I was a bit underwhelmed as I've got a Nexus 7 and thought, 'there's nothing THAT much better except the actual size'. Once I played this video the sound and quality just blew me away. Now I'm in love.

Oh and the audio issue was due to MX player dropping dts codec support. The usual 720p MKV film rips work perfectly with most 3rd party players. (Using BS Player myself)
 

3473

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Beautiful tablet. LOVE watching videos on the 16:9 aspect ratio. I also have an iPad 4, but the Nexus feels a lot more comfortable... not cheap at all. Part of the reason for this is that's extremely thin

Anyway, am still searching for something that will play blu ray 1080p mkv with DTS.. will report back what I find

cheers
 

e.mote

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For those wondering why their video players can't play DTS, read the thread below:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831111

Synopsis: Players are threatened with lawsuit by the DTS license holders, and had to pull DTS support. For now, the best solution is VLC beta (freeware doesn't get sued I guess).

Workarounds mentioned including building custom ffmpeg lib (to include DTS) and adding it to your favorite player. The players' devs look to be facilitating this by allowing plugins to their apps.

For DTS-enabled Dice, check into this thread:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769799

For DTS-enabled MX, get the Neon download from this post:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31630879&postcount=41


>MKVs always have more performance issues on mobile devices than MP4s, I wonder why.

It's not just the container, it's the muxing and parsing (demuxing) of the various stream contents, some of which are considered "niche" (eg 10-bit encoding) and all of which aren't official standard. Let's be frank, MKV was made a de facto standard by the video warez scene, and I doubt large vendors will go out of their way to support it unless they have to. The video players are all from small devs that by and large rely on ffmpeg. VLC beta may become the exception, but it has a way to go.
 
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3473

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Thanks for the tip, though the fix for mxplayer didn't work for me.

Dice player fix worked and played the audio fine, though it could only play the video via sw so the video was still laggy

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crazyjoezx

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Any "Pulgins" for the mobo player? I like this player because when you hit the Home button it minimizes the video on to the home screen (kinda like the GS3 does)so you can multitask ...the audio works in SW but just not worth the lag..when i turn it to HW the picture looks fantastic..
 

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HI10P 720p sample file: http://hotfile.com/dl/148950242/e652ee9/
HI10P 1080p sample file: http://android.tnonline.net/Software/Video/Hi10P Software/hotd-op-1080p-hi10p.mkv

Can anyone try these two samples and tell us how it goes. Preferably with a 3rd party player.
Things to test are: SW decoding, H/W+ decoding (on MX player)

I'm aware that there are a lot of apps that are broken with 4.2 including MX player, so hopefully they get fixed soon.

Testing now

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I just tested this 2560p Timescapes trailer on my Nexus 10 32gb. Used MX Player and the quality is fantastic. I noticed a very slight stutter but it wasn't as much as I expected. The quality on the screen is so amazing.

Here's the link for anyone else who wants to test it. Use MX Player and let me know how it goes.

http://www.timescapes.org/trailers/Download_trailer.aspx?email=bla@bla.com

I'm a bit of a noob for this kind of thing; when I try to download it via the links on that page, it starts trying to play it instead. (This is using Chrome.)

How do you make it download instead of playing?
 

3473

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The best option I have found so far:

Download VLC for android beta from Google play. Go to preferences, tick enable 'hardware accelerated decoding' (release notes say that it supports A15)

Should play all video and audio fine

Let me know what you think

Thanks

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BoneXDA

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The best option I have found so far:

Download VLC for android beta from Google play. Go to preferences, tick enable 'hardware accelerated decoding' (release notes say that it supports A15)

Should play all video and audio fine

Let me know what you think

Thanks

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You let us know what you think. :)

What are those with issues, what are those that play smoothly. Were you able to play back video from external storage somehow?
 

3473

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You let us know what you think. :)

What are those with issues, what are those that play smoothly. Were you able to play back video from external storage somehow?

I tried uncompressed blu ray mkv's, seemed to play both video and audio perfectly fine (provided that hardware acceleration was enabled)

Haven't tried external storage (yet)
 

jboy001

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I had that country problem with VLC too, I was ale to bypass it by grabbing an apk directly from their nightlies site

I can't post links but search for it, you want the armv7-android-neon version
 

jboy001

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I didnt see a arm9 version on the list. the arm7 neon version worked flawlessly with the 1080p mkvs I tried

Their site only lists the following for android
Android (ARMv6 with FPU)
Android (ARMv6 without FPU)
Android (ARMv7-A)
Android (x86)
 
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crazyjoezx

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    For those wondering why their video players can't play DTS, read the thread below:

    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831111

    Synopsis: Players are threatened with lawsuit by the DTS license holders, and had to pull DTS support. For now, the best solution is VLC beta (freeware doesn't get sued I guess).

    Workarounds mentioned including building custom ffmpeg lib (to include DTS) and adding it to your favorite player. The players' devs look to be facilitating this by allowing plugins to their apps.

    For DTS-enabled Dice, check into this thread:
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769799

    For DTS-enabled MX, get the Neon download from this post:
    http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31630879&postcount=41


    >MKVs always have more performance issues on mobile devices than MP4s, I wonder why.

    It's not just the container, it's the muxing and parsing (demuxing) of the various stream contents, some of which are considered "niche" (eg 10-bit encoding) and all of which aren't official standard. Let's be frank, MKV was made a de facto standard by the video warez scene, and I doubt large vendors will go out of their way to support it unless they have to. The video players are all from small devs that by and large rely on ffmpeg. VLC beta may become the exception, but it has a way to go.
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    I made a video of my findings so far, I used various 720p and 1080p samples and files I had to hand.

    http://youtu.be/o-mVUl5omHw
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    Thanks, was finally able to get **** to work by using ES Explorer to find files on my samba NAS and got them to play in MX Player with H/W video and SW audio.

    H/W+ and HW audio didn't work.

    Same here, here's a video of of setting up dts on mxplayer

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6sl1MtBybE

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    I placed a 1080p rip of Planet Earth on the Nexus 10 and it played fine. High profile h.264 @L.5.1 in mkv format. Hits CRAZY high bitrate at the bird scene as well, but it played perfectly smooth.

    Mxplayer BTW.

    Edit: During the bird scene of the first episode of Planet earth, a peak bitrate of over 51,000 kb/s is achieved. And the Nexus 10 plays it flawlessly. Thats pretty impressive to me.

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    Came across something interesting.

    I have a bunch of movie trailers (downloaded from apple), so they're mov files. When using MX Player, they play in software mode and for the most part play smoothly. Based on data from mediainfo (AVC video and AAC audio), and even from MX Player itself, they should be playing in hardware mode.

    If I remux them into mp4s (ffmpeg -i <file.mov> -acodec copy -vcodec copy <file.mp4>), then play those, they play in hardware mode. Sometimes I'll get a small stutter near the start, not sure what thats about.

    I'm guessing MX Player still needs some updates to be fully functional on this tablet?

    Also, VC-1 based videos (WMV) won't play in hardware mode either, I know there aren't many of those, but I like throwing every format at it to see what i can do. These files range from more or less smooth playback to total choppyness.

    From what I can find, all of these should play hardware accelerated, unless I'm missing something.