I have installed it immediately upon notice. There are some new bugs described here:
The update progress itself went smooth without problem, however the bug of playing YouTube Vanced has become worse. For 1080p videos there starts to be glitches on the right half of the screen, which becomes out of sync with the left half of the screen. The left half of the screen plays just like normal. This is 1080p. In version 7.5 the 1440p video plays nicely, but in 7.6 the 1440p video completely stops after a few frames of playing, just like what happened to 2160p videos in 7.5, which is the same in 7.6.
Further testing has revealed that using VLC to play local files result the same - left half plays fine, but right half glitches and out fo sync. But, if VLC is playing from SMB stream such as my NAS, everything plays smoothly. I have no 4K videos for test on NAS, so I just tried 1080p ones.
In the meantime I have seen some UI revamps and improvements such as the volume adjustment bars. Thus, it is reasonable to believe that it’s CrDroid that probably eats too much of CPU/GPU which makes the local playback including VLC and YouTube Vanced to glitch; but network streaming such as NewPipe and VLC via SMB plays as usual. NewPipe can even play 4K videos without problem.
This problem probably has a link of that known bug of application icon animation glitch - which can be cured by disabling the blurs at the system level. Presumably it uses a lot of GPU which hits the bottleneck of hardware. Thus, the solution of all of these problems is probably try to do some optimization of the system-level graphics resource control.
I have done some further testing with Vanced and found that the player can handle 1440p50 or even 2160p50 without problem, but there may be occasional stutter of video for 2160p50. For 2160p60 it just stops playing after a few frames. Switching back from 2160p60 to 1440p60 also results a full stop of picture motion just like 2160p60. Switching back to 1080p60 sometimes results a good motion picture but the right half stutter. Closing the video and re-playing from 1080p often provide a better but not always perfect result.
The update progress itself went smooth without problem, however the bug of playing YouTube Vanced has become worse. For 1080p videos there starts to be glitches on the right half of the screen, which becomes out of sync with the left half of the screen. The left half of the screen plays just like normal. This is 1080p. In version 7.5 the 1440p video plays nicely, but in 7.6 the 1440p video completely stops after a few frames of playing, just like what happened to 2160p videos in 7.5, which is the same in 7.6.
Further testing has revealed that using VLC to play local files result the same - left half plays fine, but right half glitches and out fo sync. But, if VLC is playing from SMB stream such as my NAS, everything plays smoothly. I have no 4K videos for test on NAS, so I just tried 1080p ones.
In the meantime I have seen some UI revamps and improvements such as the volume adjustment bars. Thus, it is reasonable to believe that it’s CrDroid that probably eats too much of CPU/GPU which makes the local playback including VLC and YouTube Vanced to glitch; but network streaming such as NewPipe and VLC via SMB plays as usual. NewPipe can even play 4K videos without problem.
This problem probably has a link of that known bug of application icon animation glitch - which can be cured by disabling the blurs at the system level. Presumably it uses a lot of GPU which hits the bottleneck of hardware. Thus, the solution of all of these problems is probably try to do some optimization of the system-level graphics resource control.
I have done some further testing with Vanced and found that the player can handle 1440p50 or even 2160p50 without problem, but there may be occasional stutter of video for 2160p50. For 2160p60 it just stops playing after a few frames. Switching back from 2160p60 to 1440p60 also results a full stop of picture motion just like 2160p60. Switching back to 1080p60 sometimes results a good motion picture but the right half stutter. Closing the video and re-playing from 1080p often provide a better but not always perfect result.
