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Hi all,
All of this talk about the video performance etc has me wondering.
I've tried encoding videos in the past to play on other devices, but I never have an appropriate time to watch them.
When do people watch these videos?
I guess whilst commuting?
I just never have the time for this, and when I do I'm at home so can watch on the laptop/telly.
Would appreciate some enlightenment !
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I think most people are looking for an all-in-one phone. I dont think one exists. Im like you and dont watch enough multimedia to matter, but some people do use that a lot. I dont feel like the HD is the one for all phone pda, but for me it does everything just well enough. I do agree if someone wants perfect playback or perfect screen or whatever, then they may not find it on the HD. I too would suggest a laptop to go along with the HD. To me, the HD does, (so far) a good job of everything, maybe not excellent in all areas, but it is approaching that. It all depends on what people want in a pdaphone. Im very happy with it, coming from a Touch Diamond.
I wouldl watch the videos whilst commuting yes.
I happen to travel through my city on average of 2.5 hours a day, sometimes even 3, and it just so happens that it's very boring on the bus and lately i find that with all the shows i'm watching, i just don't have the time to watch them at home, so an HD with smooth video playback would've been perfect for me, but HTC and Qualcomm had to ruin my dreams
Watched "Sunshine" on the train home today, was 98% perfect, avi was higher rez than the HD display and didnt drop a beat even in the mild fight seen...all good
dogbreath said:
Watched "Sunshine" on the train home today, was 98% perfect, avi was higher rez than the HD display and didnt drop a beat even in the mild fight seen...all good
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Was it DivX and MP3 audio encoded do you know?
This is encouraging. I have also seen many clips on youtube, of what looked like great quality video playing fine on the HD. I'm hoping that the debates over awful video playback are concerning those who wish for higher quality content than I use on my phone. I ordered mine this evening hope to have it saturday !!
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Yer...twas a divx and i think mp3, played around with coreplayer a bit and now working smooth, will try an action movie and post my settings, tiz good though, really notice the higher rez next to a iphone...can barely see the pixels on the HD gui
Whilst commuting, on lunch/breaks at work/school... I hate the fact I drive now instead of commute to work - but at least I still have my lunch half-hour and two 15 minute breaks!
I don't see what everyone's problem with the HD video playback is though! I watched Wolverine And The X-Men fine!
I never owned a table before, have had multiple droid phones and latest is Galaxy Nexus.
I am a commuter where I am on the train 1.5 hours each to work. Currently I watch videos on my phone, it looks great on this phone (video quality and screen is superb ) but would be nice to have a bigger screen.
How is the battery life? Will I be able to watch say 4 hours of videos without having to charge it? Or will I need to make sure I bring my charger to work?
My biggest complaint about my phone is battery life is horrible, even with 4G turned off.
My other questions:
I have an issue playing mkv files on my galaxy nexus, I have tried using DICE player, and every once in a while, the video freezes, or it keeps repeating itself. I have no idea if it a software issue with DICE, a hardware issue, or something else, happens on almost every MKV file at least once or twice while watching the movie. How does the Nexus 7 playback mkv files? Any issues?
Is there any place I can see a Nexus 7 in person to see what it like? I hate to just buy it blindly online.
it should last 4 hrs of video
i have gnex as well, with dice player, no issue, it is stock unrooted tho, maybe other video player causes that mkv problem?
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Regarding battery life, Google advertises something like 10 hours of video playback, and I'm inclined to believe them. Regarding mkv playback, I'm assuming that they're h.264 encodes? When playing them on your Galaxy Nexus, does Dice Player show a green [hw] in the upper left when you play it? It means that playback is being hardware accelerated, which greatly improves performance and efficiency. Every video that I've tried with the Nexus 7 has been hardware accelerated so far with Dice Player.
I use VPlayer on both my G.Nex & N7. Works with all files, no problems.
You can play with a N7 at Staples or Office Max or Office Depot.
tannor said:
I never owned a table before, have had multiple droid phones and latest is Galaxy Nexus.
I am a commuter where I am on the train 1.5 hours each to work. Currently I watch videos on my phone, it looks great on this phone (video quality and screen is superb ) but would be nice to have a bigger screen.
How is the battery life? Will I be able to watch say 4 hours of videos without having to charge it? Or will I need to make sure I bring my charger to work?
My biggest complaint about my phone is battery life is horrible, even with 4G turned off.
My other questions:
I have an issue playing mkv files on my galaxy nexus, I have tried using DICE player, and every once in a while, the video freezes, or it keeps repeating itself. I have no idea if it a software issue with DICE, a hardware issue, or something else, happens on almost every MKV file at least once or twice while watching the movie. How does the Nexus 7 playback mkv files? Any issues?
Is there any place I can see a Nexus 7 in person to see what it like? I hate to just buy it blindly online.
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Dice player perfectly plays 720p H264 .mkv files. I haven't tried 1080p, but I wouldn't be surprised if 1080p worked fine too [though you won't be gaining much, because the screen is only 720p].
Mx Player, my player of choice, however, often doesn't play the MKV files right [video plays fast, and then slow, and the cycle repeats.]
As far as battery life, I haven't really tested my battery. I always use my N7 on the charger.
thanks everyone for suggestions, I never heard of Vplayer will have to check it out.
So far DICE was the only one that I was able to find that would even play them/
What mostly happens, is I will be halfway through and then the screen would pause, I would unpause, and then it would start playing the same frames over and over again..only way to fix it, was to kill DICE, go into settings, apps, and clear all data and cache. But then when i start it over again have to find where I was watching.
Last night I finally upgraded from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1 and tried watching it today on the way in, I did notice it was using SW in the upper left hand and the lock was unlocked.
Only thing that happened today was while playing about maybe 30 minutes in, screen went total black, and then brought me back to the Home screen, from there I had to go into settings and clear data for DICE, or everytime I tried to it start it automatically closed it.
I think I will be buying Nexus 7 this week, any recommendations best play to purchase that has a good exchange policy in case I run into hardware issues like I keep reading about the screen popping off or something like that?
Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
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Since buying the phone (couple weeks ago), I haven't been able to steam any videos on HD (720P and above) without the video buffering numerous times. I streamed movies from Google Play Movies and Netflix. I don't know if the resolution is going down to allow me to stream the videos, but I'm getting very frustrated. My LTE is full, never had a problem in my area with other phones. It's hardly better on Wi-Fi
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Any one have any ideas?
Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.
Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.
This was happening to me as well. SD820 variant. On WiFi. A restart seems to have fixed the problem...for now...hopefully.
Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Okay I can see what you're talking about now. I just watch this video. Its default was like 720. I changed it to 1440 and it froze. Sound continues video stops. I minimize the video and closed it then reopened it it stayed 1440 and ran fine.
https://youtu.be/RCgPD2sfbAQ
Not sure what's causing it but I can definitely see the problem. I don't want to have to close and reopen a video to get it to play properly.
These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ
zathus said:
Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.
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That video may not be long enough... it happens after a minute or two on my phone, and that video is only 1:45 long.
This 1440p issue happens on my LG G4 as well. I'm getting my Exynos S7 Edge on Friday
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These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ
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Just watched both of those on 1440p, no glitches at all. YouTube 1440 vids have been smooth as butter since my restart.
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Brava27 said:
Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Maybe not.
dodgeboy said:
Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.
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Happens on my V10... there are multiple threads in the V10 forums about the issue.
Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.
I get extremely choppy and dropped frames on 1440p. Also no 60fps option at all something is definitely wrong. My s6 edge was able to play 1440p 60fps with no issues at all.
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Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.
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I'm on T-Mobile, but in my case, it is not related to BingeOn. I have BingeOn disabled, and this was on WiFi. As I said in the original post, it isn't a buffering issue because the audio keeps going. Also, as others have noticed, if you minimize it and come back, the video will go for a little bit and then stop again.
https://youtu.be/iNJdPyoqt8U
Tested this ^^ and worked fine for me..I don't have any 60fps option though but it seems it plays the 60fps on the highest setting any way, just don't mention it .
Anyone try uninstalling YouTube updates and going back to the version that shipped with the phone? Since it's happening with other phones it could just be an app bug introduced with the latest update.
All videos play perfectly on my Exynos gs7 edge at 1440p
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Definitely a Youtube issue as it's happening on too many different devices. I noticed it on my wife s6 edge + but not yet on my s7 edge.
All 1440p fine on exynos
useless reply, but I followed the link for the "2K" video sample (couple minutes long) and that played without issue via the YouTube app.
After that there was a link for a 4K Video Beauty of Nature video (about 31 minutes long) and THAT locked up after a few minutes of playback. (addendum: I'm a sucker for good Nature, but holy crap is that a pretty video.)
AT&T GS7E, all current updates, playing over mobile data. SpeedTest.net reports > 50Mb/s downstream at my location so bandwidth is probably not a factor.
Firefox plays the video without issue it seems, 13 minutes in without issue. Of course I can't be sure it's playing a 1440p stream, but it looks the same to my old eyes. :^(
I've played all Youtube videos linked and have no issues. Tried many thers via the Youtube app a7 1080p and 1440p and found no issues on my Exynos S7E
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.
If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?
Vanquiz said:
If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?
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I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?
jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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It was pausing for me on his new video also, so I searched other 2k videos and all the others played fine. I think it is just his video.
Yes. 2k videos freeze on me occasionally. I really am curious what could be causing it. I also had my entire phone freeze once when playing a video in the Break app. It totally froze and the speaker was emitting a crazy high frequency sound. I just held the power button until it rebooted
I can't say for sure, heard that they reserved the right to throttle any crazy suspicious usage, but so far I haven't got one.
I use 25GB just this couple weeks, it's just because I'm taking a break from work, and watch too much K Drama, lol. But usually every month, I used 15-25GB.
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I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.
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you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light
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I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?
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i got the unlimited 4glte and going to verify this now. in wifi play ok. this is (un poco extraño)
jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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I had this issue but it appears that the recent update I applied today has fixed it.
jiovaxrs said:
you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light
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No problem....Yea, depending on my signal, I used to have 1080 YouTube videos freeze on me before I canceled Bing on.
The latest update seems to have fixed this
I think it has something to do with the updated modem, prior to update I was getting 7 -12 MB download at home, now back to normal 25-30mb.
And when i tried to play gta san andreas in full resolution break the game. Anyone?
I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:
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hi
i dont see that option in my setting.
youtube/setting
i see
*get youtube red
*general
*connect TVs
*privacy
*notification
*caption
*about
JDMDC2 said:
I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:
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So far this worked for me.
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Wait, what... How come some of us don't have this option, lol
I don't see the option either.