HD video on MX player

[julianpaul]

Ok, this is not specifically a Fire app, but just wanted to throw out there that the fire plays everything i've thrown at it - 1080p HD video too in Mx Player, with HW+ decoding, flawlessly.

Mentioning this because amazon's specs say it plays SD video, but the cpu seems very capable, and the screen isn't too bad either. Colors seem to have a bit of a yellow hue instead of pure white, but it's pretty good, especially at the price.

 

[Harry44]

It says it plays SD video since the screen isn't an HD screen. The screen on the Amazon Fire is 1024 x 600, HD is defined as 720p (1,280 × 720 progressive scan) 1080i (1,920 × 1,080 split into two interlaced fields of 540 lines) 1080p (1,920 × 1,080 progressive scan).

The hardware is capable of playing HD content. It just down scales it to fit the native hardware resolution.

 

[rybaryba33]

How did you get hw+ decoding? My movies are very laggy. Had to switch to software decoding...

 

[julianpaul]

go to mx player, settings, use hw+ decoder. I also checked everything in HW+ video codecs