Hi,
I have a problem with playing 4k videos on my Galaxy S5, SM-G900F. Whenever I record something with 4k quality and play it, it's fine. But when I download a short 4k video and play it, it either stutters or plays it @ 1 FPS. That is, it shows a frame for a second and it disappears for a second and so on... Also it happens to have no sound at all.
What gives? Has anyone else had this problem too?
Thanks.
boris90 said:
Hi,
I have a problem with playing 4k videos on my Galaxy S5, SM-G900F. Whenever I record something with 4k quality and play it, it's fine. But when I download a short 4k video and play it, it either stutters or plays it @ 1 FPS. That is, it shows a frame for a second and it disappears for a second and so on... Also it happens to have no sound at all.
What gives? Has anyone else had this problem too?
Thanks.
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Just because it does not fully support all 4k video formats (codec).
Maybe the newer firmware will support more formats.
vndnguyen said:
Just because it does not fully support all 4k video formats (codec).
Maybe the newer firmware will support more formats.
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OK. Maybe I should try finding different codecs. I think players like BS Player and MX Player support custom codecs. If anyone knows of any good 4k codecs for Android I'd be grateful.
OK. Maybe I should try finding different codecs. I think players like BS Player and MX Player support custom codecs. If anyone knows of any good 4k codecs for Android I'd be grateful.
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Hi everyone,
When I play 720p.BluRay.X264 mkv file on my Galaxy S2 there is no sound. I tried the integrated player, mVideoPlayer and MoboPlayer. The sound track on MoboPlayer is shown as 1:6CH, 48000Hz. Do I need any audio codec to play the video with sound or there is nothing I can do to whatch theese files on my new Galaxy S2? Thanks for your answers in advance.
there is a test done before for mkv files playback..
dice player plays it the best..
sumeshd said:
there is a test done before for mkv files playback..
dice player plays it the best..
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Thanks sumeshd,
Unfortunately it is a trial version and not free. Do you know free player that will play the audio?
Check if it has DTS audio, the S2 has some trouble playing DTS audio. You should probably convert the audio to AAC or get video files that don't use DTS.
Yep, its probably DTS audio, in which case Diceplayer is what you need. Its well worth the price I think.
ssstoyanov said:
When I play 720p.BluRay.X264 mkv file on my Galaxy S2 there is no sound. I tried the integrated player, mVideoPlayer and MoboPlayer. The sound track on MoboPlayer is shown as 1:6CH, 48000Hz.
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Most likely the audio-stream is encoded with DTS, which isn´t supported by the Galaxy S II.
It can play AAC, MP3 or AC3.
Do I need any audio codec to play the video with sound or there is nothing I can do to whatch theese files on my new Galaxy S2? Thanks for your answers in advance.
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You can´t install any media-codecs on Android, like you can do it in Windows.
Obviously mediaplayers can bring their own decoders, but this means decoding on the CPU, which is slow and eats much more battery-power.
So it is best to encode the audio-stream in one of the supported formats
Thanks everyone. I will purchase Dice Player, tested and the audio works great.
Lol, but dice player is lagging... tried to watch another movie with dice player.. it lagged again
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jojo2peter said:
Lol, but dice player is lagging... tried to watch another movie with dice player.. it lagged again
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You mean video and audio is not synchronous?
That´s because, it plays video and audio separately. Basically the Player uses the media-framework to play the video without sound, so it can use the DSP.
Then it plays the sound separately, using a built in software-decoder.
This most likely also means reading the file twice, although some caching maybe prevents the need to actually read it twice from the permanent storage.
So it is a quite inefficient way to play the video. The player doesn´t know the internal timings of the media-framework, so it doesn´t really know when to play the audio. But most players should allow to set a custom audio-delay.
It is also possible that there simply isn´t enough CPU-power left to do the decoding in software.
jojo2peter said:
Lol, but dice player is lagging... tried to watch another movie with dice player.. it lagged again
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could you post your movie file info? and what is the diceplayer's version?
There are some known problems to play HD MKVs.
1. 24bit Flac Audio is not supported
2. microsd card class ( transfer rate ) issue.
3. Wrong MKV time stamp issue.
LightspeedGalaxy said:
You mean video and audio is not synchronous?
That´s because, it plays video and audio separately. Basically the Player uses the media-framework to play the video without sound, so it can use the DSP.
Then it plays the sound separately, using a built in software-decoder.
This most likely also means reading the file twice, although some caching maybe prevents the need to actually read it twice from the permanent storage.
So it is a quite inefficient way to play the video. The player doesn´t know the internal timings of the media-framework, so it doesn´t really know when to play the audio. But most players should allow to set a custom audio-delay.
It is also possible that there simply isn´t enough CPU-power left to do the decoding in software.
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i think that lag is not sync problem.
Put the newest build i could find for this guy. Bought him off ebay for a cool 135 free shipping and has turned out to be amazing. Using him with my old Tzones plan running NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA.
Everything runs great except videos. If I am streaming an MP4 its like an 80% chance the file will just be green and blurred like scrambled cable. Sometimes it will play just fine. Even crappy 240p files will be green in both the regular android player and MX Player.
Now I'm trying to see which type of 720p files the phone can play. After a couple of handbrake encodes it will play the 720p in MX Player but it will be frame ratey. The stock player wont even touch the file.
I check the decoding options in MX Video and only software decoding is enabled. Is there an ICS build capable of playing videos with Hardware Decoding.
Your thoughts guys !
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Tried with Mobo Player and still the same error.
Xplic1T said:
Put the newest build i could find for this guy. Bought him off ebay for a cool 135 free shipping and has turned out to be amazing. Using him with my old Tzones plan running NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA.
Everything runs great except videos. If I am streaming an MP4 its like an 80% chance the file will just be green and blurred like scrambled cable. Sometimes it will play just fine. Even crappy 240p files will be green in both the regular android player and MX Player.
Now I'm trying to see which type of 720p files the phone can play. After a couple of handbrake encodes it will play the 720p in MX Player but it will be frame ratey. The stock player wont even touch the file.
I check the decoding options in MX Video and only software decoding is enabled. Is there an ICS build capable of playing videos with Hardware Decoding.
Your thoughts guys !
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Tried with Mobo Player and still the same error.
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Install MX Player and install the Armv7 addon for MX Player (it will be in the related apps or something in the play store) and use software decoding. I have also found 720p playback to be atrociously laggy, but I tried Inception at 480p and it plays great.
Installed and it definitely seems to be working with the green videos but 720p seems like a no go...
Is it the rom or is it the phone ?
Xplic1T said:
Installed and it definitely seems to be working with the green videos but 720p seems like a no go...
Is it the rom or is it the phone ?
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Hmm, 720p playback is usually listed as a working thing but I don't see how NexusHD2 is in any way inferior to the other ROMs, it definitely has a comparable performance.
Recently purchased nexus 10, and videos from gopro3 1080p are not playing smoothly. Tried mx player, vlc beta and bs player all with hw+ decoder wont work. Upgraded to 4.3. Any solution how to get the videos to play smoothly? appreciate the help guys!
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In sw mode, theres minimal log, but video plays in slow motion.
Got the same problem. does anyone have an answer to that? I went through 15 diferent players - all the same....
faithc said:
Recently purchased nexus 10, and videos from gopro3 1080p are not playing smoothly. Tried mx player, vlc beta and bs player all with hw+ decoder wont work. Upgraded to 4.3. Any solution how to get the videos to play smoothly? appreciate the help guys!
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In sw mode, theres minimal log, but video plays in slow motion.
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same here
Sorry for reviving an old thread but I just got a nexus 10 and gopro. Any new ideas?
I recently transferred some videos to my note 3. These videos come in different formats like avi, mp4, mkv.. I experience no audio when playing back mkv videos. A pop up window informs me that the audio codec is not supported. Is it just my phone or has any of you experienced it also? How can I solve my mkv audio problem? Thanks for your help.
ttl8me said:
I recently transferred some videos to my note 3. These videos come in different formats like avi, mp4, mkv.. I experience no audio when playing back mkv videos. A pop up window informs me that the audio codec is not supported. Is it just my phone or has any of you experienced it also? How can I solve my mkv audio problem? Thanks for your help.
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My guess, without more information on your specific mkv file, is that the mkv file you are trying to play has a audio track with DTS,DTS-HD,DolbyTrueHD, or something along those lines which I'd assume the note is incapable of decoding. If your mkv had a stereo audio (mp3...ect) track my guess is you wouldn't have an issue.
Have you tried VLC or the other video players from the play store? A number of them come with their own codecs built-in. I have not come across an MKV file that I haven't Ben able to play.
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duckhater said:
My guess, without more information on your specific mkv file, is that the mkv file you are trying to play has a audio track with DTS,DTS-HD,DolbyTrueHD, or something along those lines which I'd assume the note is incapable of decoding. If your mkv had a stereo audio (mp3...ect) track my guess is you wouldn't have an issue.
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I'm not sure about the DTS, DTS-HD, DolbyTrueHD audio thing. I'm just a plug and play person. Now that you've enlightened me with all these complicated audio jargons I will have to do some research on it so I can better understand the cause of my mkv audio problem. As much as possible, I would really love to use all the default apps on my note3. If it turns out that the problem lies within the default video player then I have to search for other media player to play my mkv videos. Thanks for your prompt reply, I really appreciate it.:good:
P.S. Would love to receive feedbacks from fellow Note 3 users if they experience the same problem as mine. Thanks!
Try Mx Player and software decoding in it.
Regards
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aegeuss said:
Try Mx Player and software decoding in it.
Regards
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+1
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aegeuss said:
Try Mx Player and software decoding in it.
Regards
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if it doesn't work try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254
I use MX player + this codec patch + software decoding...
Thanks for all your feedbacks and suggestions! Still waiting for other note 3 users to share their experience when playing mkv videos on their default video player.
ttl8me said:
Thanks for all your feedbacks and suggestions! Still waiting for other note 3 users to share their experience when playing mkv videos on their default video player.
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if u have MXPlayer installed already, play the video, press menu button, Tools -> Properties, tick the more button, and scroll until the Stream where type is Audio, and see what type of codec it is. It's like many have said here, chances are, it's DTS, or something that Note 3 does not have any codec, and we cant help u unless you can confirm that
I think unlike some other video players, default video players have only as many codec as the OS natively support, so maybe just try opting 3rd party video players with software audio decode capability for higher compatibility. I think some one-time configuration should be worth the effort since you're a plug and play guy
ttl8me said:
Thanks for all your feedbacks and suggestions! Still waiting for other note 3 users to share their experience when playing mkv videos on their default video player.
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if it doesn't work on stock video player in first try chances are it won't work ever.
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Try Diceplayer. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.a
BBXiong said:
if u have MXPlayer installed already, play the video, press menu button, Tools -> Properties, tick the more button, and scroll until the Stream where type is Audio, and see what type of codec it is. It's like many have said here, chances are, it's DTS, or something that Note 3 does not have any codec, and we cant help u unless you can confirm that
I think unlike some other video players, default video players have only as many codec as the OS natively support, so maybe just try opting 3rd party video players with software audio decode capability for higher compatibility. I think some one-time configuration should be worth the effort since you're a plug and play guy
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Thanks BBXiong for your help. :good: As per your suggestion, I downloaded MX player. At first launch the mkv video still played without sound, what I did was to press the back button, go to settings -> decoder. I checked all the Hardware decoder box (there are 6 of them), also I checked all the Software decoder box (there are 3 of them). Then I go back to play the mkv video, this time the audio is working! I'm posting all the pertinent datas found in the Stream #2 which hopefully will help you figure out my problem:
Type : Audio
Codec: ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 5.1 Channel
Bit rate: 384.0 kbits/sec
Stock vidéo player used to décode AC-3 on galaxy note 1.
I do not know what they did for Gn3 but they need to change it!
Just like in PC.. VLC media player.. Plays everything straight away w/o patches or need for other codecs.. And it's free
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joexda75 said:
Stock vidéo player used to décode AC-3 on galaxy note 1.
I do not know what they did for Gn3 but they need to change it!
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Two words: Copyright Maffia.
ShadowLea said:
Two words: Copyright Maffia.
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ah ah ah very nice but it sucks
joexda75 said:
ah ah ah very nice but it sucks
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Oh I quite agree, it is highly frustrating and completely pointless. But there's little to be done about it..
Try to install a video player app on your Galaxy Note 3. If it still didn't work, you can find a video converter program like Brorsoft's Video Converter to convert MKV to Galaxy Note 3 most compatible H.264 .mp4 video.
Howdy Folks,
Ive recently changed from a Galaxy S3 (which played video I could through at it without a problem) to a Note 3 and it seems that AC3 isnt supported natively for it. If I run the Video with MX Player's software decoder it all works fine. Its a major annoyance though having such an expensive replacement that doesnt perform the same functions as an older unit.
Anyone else able to confirm it wont play AC3 Natively, is there some codec app I can install that works with all video player apps ??
eqjunkie said:
Howdy Folks,
Ive recently changed from a Galaxy S3 (which played video I could through at it without a problem) to a Note 3 and it seems that AC3 isnt supported natively for it. If I run the Video with MX Player's software decoder it all works fine. Its a major annoyance though having such an expensive replacement that doesnt perform the same functions as an older unit.
Anyone else able to confirm it wont play AC3 Natively, is there some codec app I can install that works with all video player apps ??
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To be honest it's just as easy to use VLC or MX or something similar, native video player is limited (slightly) I can't really comment as to what it plays cause I have yet to use it, Straight to MX for me.
radicalisto said:
To be honest it's just as easy to use VLC or MX or something similar, native video player is limited (slightly) I can't really comment as to what it plays cause I have yet to use it, Straight to MX for me.
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Why Samsung chose to drop AC3 native support from the Note 3 is beyond me, I think even the Note 2 had AC3 support out of the box as did the Galaxy S3 & 4.
here's the solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/general/gn3-ac3-support-mod-pako777-t2867140