MX Player plays MKV files in SW mode. Even after installing NEON codec, only HW+ works. It's normal for Nexus 7 with S4 Pro?
MX Player Codec for HW support
- Thread starter Winudert
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if mkv and normal,mp4 is work for both, and this s4 pro + gpu 305 only support mpeg2 480i hw decode....
Only understood your last part, but that is clearly wrong. It is branded an S4 Pro SoC, but it is an underclock S600 with 1.5GHz Krait300 CPU cores and an Adreno 320 GPU.
To the OP: .mkv files can be anything really, it is just a container. There are limitations to the HW playback of these devices, often times they don't accept anything h.264 above level 4.1. Maybe your encodes are just done for more advanced devices. But if hw+ works, why are you worried?
I did my own research and yeah, no problems with HW+ for me. Strange thing, btw. If I watch 1080p in SW mode, after 20-30 minutes Nexus 7 is starting to warm up (maybe that way S4 Pro SoC is used way more?). Nothing alike with HW+.
Not surprising at all. Since videos are compressed using specific rules, these rules can be implemented very efficiently in dedicated hardware. Nearly all SoCs in the last few years have some sort of video decoding abilities backed into silicon, which means they can use those very efficient hardware functions to decode your videos. But if your video is encoded in a format just a bit differently (for example h.264 lvl5 instead of lvl 4.1), that hardware cannot deal with it and you have to switch to software, which means the CPU cores get fired up and a software is running on them to decode the video. Using the CPU to decode is the most inefficient way to do it, GPU is slightly more efficient and dedicated hardware is the most efficient way. The flexibility of these methods is the other way around.
Did you modify the Viddec in the media properties xml? There is a guide somewhere. It enabled more HW decoding for me & I do not have any temperature or throttling issues.
my question might not fit 100% to op's. using mx player too. just a quick question. is there a good/proper way to get dts support?
thx in advance
thx in advance
Just add this plugin to MX Player.my question might not fit 100% to op's. using mx player too. just a quick question. is there a good/proper way to get dts support?
thx in advance
MX Player Custom Codec with DTS Support
stock 4.4.2 is remove mpeg2 480i decode..
cm10.2 is can hw decode mpeg2 1080i,but h264 is lag..
cm10.2 is can hw decode mpeg2 1080i,but h264 is lag..
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