Hey there, I currently use vlc to watch movies through HDMI connection from my tablet to TV but the screen size is a pain to configure. Does anyone know which video player is best used when using the her HDMI connection?
Basically when I watch DVDs or use the HDMI on my laptop I get a properly scaled screen (a bit of black above and below the movie) but with my nexus it takes configuring the screen size on the nexus and screen size on my TV to get it to look okay, but not how I'd like it.
Suggestions?
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It's because the nexus 10 doesn't scale... I what you see on the tv is a direct mirror of your tablet screen which is 16:10...your TV is 16:9... No matter what you do on the tablet you will have the black lines on the sides...
Currently google movies is the only app that scales correctly to the tv and it only works with movies purchased through Google play.. You can test this with the free Ice Age you got from them...
Some Tvs have settings that will allow you to stretch and squeeze to fit the screen but something always gets cut off...
I have emailed both mxplayer and Bsplayer to see if they could implement what google does in their app
mx player
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Hi Everyone,
I just got a Nexus Player and connect to my TV.
Everything is good except the resolution stays on 720P.
My TV does support 1080P, since all other devices use 1080P resolution.
And Nexus Player should also support 1080P.
Does any one know if there is a way to manually setup the resolution on Nexus Player?
Thanks a lot.
skyshocker said:
Hi Everyone,
I just got a Nexus Player and connect to my TV.
Everything is good except the resolution stays on 720P.
My TV does support 1080P, since all other devices use 1080P resolution.
And Nexus Player should also support 1080P.
Does any one know if there is a way to manually setup the resolution on Nexus Player?
Thanks a lot.
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The TV screen resolution will still stay at 720p, but the Nexus TV screen resolution should be 1080p ! Their is a way to verify this via the app Screen Specs found at the Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MTMDevelopers.ScreenSpecs ! If you cannot get this app let me know. Another way to verify this is via the AnTuTu BenchMark app!
AndroidTVTech1 said:
The TV screen resolution will still stay at 720p, but the Nexus TV screen resolution should be 1080p ! Their is a way to verify this via the app Screen Specs found at the Google Play Store ! If you cannot get this app let me know. Another way to verify this is via the AnTuTu BenchMark app!
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Hi, Thanks a lot for your reply.
However, if the TV screen shows the signal is 720p, that means nexus player sends 720 picture to the TV via HDMI, as a result, you will see a 720 picture, which I expect to see a 1080P picture.
I have no idea why these app shows 1080p in the system, but as long as it doesn't send 1080p to the TV via HDMI, we can't get 1080 quality, right?
If the TV is 1080, but received a 720 signal, that means it is not pixel to pixel picture, the picture is not clear.
Is there a way to force the player to send 1080P signal via HDMI? Will Root support this?
Thanks a lot.
skyshocker said:
Hi, Thanks a lot for your reply.
However, if the TV screen shows the signal is 720p, that means nexus player sends 720 picture to the TV via HDMI, as a result, you will see a 720 picture, which I expect to see a 1080P picture.
I have no idea why these app shows 1080p in the system, but as long as it doesn't send 1080p to the TV via HDMI, we can't get 1080 quality, right?
If the TV is 1080, but received a 720 signal, that means it is not pixel to pixel picture, the picture is not clear.
Is there a way to force the player to send 1080P signal via HDMI? Will Root support this?
Thanks a lot.
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Everything you are saying is correct, but the Nexus TV Player will not override the built in 720p TV Screen resolution ... Yes, the Nexus TV Player is sending a 1080p signal to your 720p TV, the 1080p signal is being down graded to 720p ... In order for you to get full 1080p screen resolution from your Nexus TV Player, your TV will have to support 1080p screen resolution.
Now if your TV supports 1080i/1080p and you have a cable service, their is a way to go into the cable box to change the screen resolution. Any other way, it would have to be changed via the TV settings.
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Everything you are saying is correct, but the Nexus TV Player will not override the built in 720p TV Screen resolution ... Yes, the Nexus TV Player is sending a 1080p signal to your 720p TV, the 1080p signal is being down graded to 720p ... In order for you to get full 1080p screen resolution from your Nexus TV Player, your TV will have to support 1080p screen resolution.
Now if your TV supports 1080i/1080p and you have a cable service, their is a way to go into the cable box to change the screen resolution. Any other way, it would have to be changed via the TV settings.
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Unless I'm mistaken you appear to be misunderstanding the original issue, his TV can support and other inputs work at 1080p with it, but for some reason he suspects that his Nexus is only outputting 720p, at least that is what his TV thinks its getting.
This appears to happen to other people also, without a decent resolution, hoping that M preview 3 will contain something positive.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/7A-snuOEYis
I get the same issues. I purchased two Nexus players today, primarily for running Kodi.
The first of these is connected via a Home Theatre receiver to a 1080p TV and is displaying the Nexus Player content at 1080p.
I have a second home Theatre Receiver connected to a 1080p projector and is using the following resolutions:
[li]720p : Nexus Player running Android 5.1.1
[li]1080p : Apple TV 3
[li]1080p : Sony Bluray Player
I also tried swapping the inputs to the Home Theatre receiver to see if the output resolution changes from the Nexus Player. The Nexus Player is refusing to show the content at 1080p. There is also no way to force the output resolution. It certainly makes the viewing experience terrible for HD content on the Play store or via Kodi.
The Nexus Player and Android TV really needs work to improve settings available for manually configuring the output resolution.
Hi Guys - I'm also stuck at 720p output from my nexus player. Have there been any developments on unlocking 1080p?
Does anybody know if there is a fix to this? I just bought a nexus player and it is outputting 720p to my TV. I've searched at various websites and I couldn't find any solutions to this. Any input is appreciated. Thanks!!
I'm having the opposite issue.. hooked up to a cheap 720p TV and it outputs 1080, which the TV fails to convert properly, so I loose an inch or so of viewable screen on many apps (launcher seems OK?)
..found some posts that suggest "overscan calibrator" can fix this problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3234854&d=1427641822
..It worked for my particular issue.
if someone cant answer this problem. I'm taken it back because the picture is horrible
same issue here ... running N preview
tried many hdmi cables
I can't even SEE a picture, because I cannot reset resolution from 1080 to 720 . And the many many many responses on xda have been deafening on this issue.
Is there ANY way to manually set resolution??????
Does any alternative ROM do this? Does the new developer preview? Can it be done with any 3rd party apps like overscan calibrator? Any sort of editor?
Folks,
Just to let you know, its now possible to stream pc games to your shield tablet with 1080p 60fps quality ! wireless ^^
You should now that your primary pc screen must be a 1080P resolution in order to stream 1080p60fps to your shield tablet, if your primary pc screen has a lower resolution than a 1080p for example (1650x1050) you will not be able to stream 1080p 60fps wireles to your shield tablet!
Root is not necessary, the shield hub works great with streaming but I prefer Moonlight !
Moonlight gives you a diverse option configurations compared to the shield hub, with the shield hub you will always have black borders when streaming your pc games, however with moonlight you can just adjust to fullscreen and also more options !
Enjoy the shield experience !!
thanks!
I remember back in the day there was a simple technician menu in all my android phones that lets you change tv out settings like resolution and FPS for when you connect your phone to a tv using hdmi cable.
I have a type c to hdmi and it works great and super smooth with no lag but my tv is 1080p at 16:9.
OnePlus 8 Pro has super wide aspect and i get black bars as well as not seeing the right side of the screen.
How can i change the tv output settings to 1080p at 16:9?
Where did all our old options disappear in these new android versions geez...
Thanks in advance
Bought HDMI cable that can do 4k and my tv is also 4k that got the specs for the cube to play at 4k but the fault is that when trying to click 4k settings it gose no singal and heads back to 1080P tried updating and changing settings but still wont work any advice