Video player / decoder?

[rawfa]

I´ve just started playing around with the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and it surprised me very much that when I tried to open a MOV file and it told me no application was found to play it. I´ve instantly installed moboplay (which I use all the time on my GS2) and it could not play it either. The only time I could play it was when I clicked over the file and selected the "soft decode" option. Is this standard? It kind of sucks having to do this all the time.

 

[TeeeJaay]

have it set to automatically switch to software decoding so you don't have to manually do it yourself

also try DicePlayer and MXVideoPlayer they are the two i find great in playing videos

 

[rawfa]

How do I set it to do this automatically?

 

[Manipur]

Long click on the .mov file, and select open as video. After that options to play with all the media players installed in your device will pop up. Click the set a default box and choose your preferred player. Next time you don't have to go through the while process again.

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[rawfa]

I know how yo set an app to default, I wnt to know how to sey auto soft decode to default.

 

[BAD_BOY_KIEV]

Software Decode to default is always bad, cause it results loading your CPU pretty bad, hardware on contrary uses some low level installed drivers and GPU, thus you get flawless playback + free CPU. I have Dice player + Solid Explorer combo = best of the best, imo. Maybe you can try them?

 

[Manipur]

Exactly. ..setting your media to run in sw mode by default is not a good idea. You'll see that high quality videos begins to lag and stutter. Its always a good idea to keep the settings in hw mode. Dice player and vplayer gives you the option to run your media in either hw or sw mode by default in settings. You can check it out yourself. Sometimes when you play a .mkv file, you might have to switch to sw mode otherwise audio doesn't come out.

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[alibukhamsin]

I used MXplayer...it plays .mov perfectly (and every other format i threw in it perfectly)..it's free, light and you can add subtitle, change screen size quickly by tabbing the screen and it can scan your SD card and bring all files directly .

 

[dark__chaos]

Try Rockplayer off the market, I find it great for blu-ray rips or high res dvd-rips. Has book marking on movies or tv shows you have been playing also.. Has the option for hardware or software encoding