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HW Accelerated Media Player - DicePlayer

Incredible S can play H.264 High profile+DTS/AC3 MKV/AVI files.
You can download from Android market ( search "DicePlayer" ).
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Dice Player is hi-performance media player for android.
Nexus S/Galaxy S2/Gingerbread Galaxy S can play 720p MKV/AVI ( H.264 High Profile+AC3/DTS Audio ) files.
Spec.
* Supported file format : AVI , MP4 , AVI
* Supported Video Codec : MPEG-4 ASP / H.264
* Supported Audio Codec : MP3/AAC/AC3/DTS
* Supported Subtitle format : SMI / SRT
* Apple Http live streaming ( beta )
Tested Devices
1. Samsung Galaxy S variants : Gingerbread required
-> 720p play well.
2. Samsung Galaxy S2
-> can play 1080p
3. Moto Atrix
-> can not play H.264 High profile clips.
4. Desire HD : Froyo tested
-> H.264 High Profile level 3.1 can play well.
5. Samsung Nexus-S
-> 720p play well.
6. HTC Incredible S
-> 720p OK. H.264 High profile level 4/5 is not supported
7. Samsung Galaxy Tab
-> 720p OK / Partial 1080p support.
Limitations
1. S5PC11x Chipset can play 720p(h.264 high profile)
2. Tegra 2 based phone can not play H.264 high profile clip.
3. Froyo Galaxy S/Tab can not play movie. Gingerbread is required.
4. 2nd gen. Snapdragon can not play H.264 High profile level 4.0/5.0 clip.

good recommendation, tq......

Im gonna try it out
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No .mov support?

rename mov to mp4

juami said:
rename mov to mp4
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Didn't work for me...

I don't get very good performance with this player when streaming from a network drive. Personally I prefer VPlayer (search on the market)

My Samsung Galaxy s2 Stock Media Player dosent play ac3 Audi files or Mp4 FIles with Ac3 audio decoded. I was able to play those using Dice player or rockplayer.
The official Samsung Site or other specification says this (This is from Wikipedia)
For audio it supports (FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MID, AC3, XMF). For video formats and codecs it supports (MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, DivX HD/XviD, VC-1) and video formats (3GP (MPEG-4), WMV (ASF) as well as AVI (DivX)).
Issues:
1. Stock Media Player dosent play ac3 Audi files or Mp4 FIles with Ac3 audio decoded (Stock Media Player gives the Option 5.1 to be enabled but ac3 not playing)
2. Other players play it Under software decoding, But main Problem is 5.1 isn't working with Head phones
I googled and found some Users were able to Play it with stock media Players. Read something like "I dont have any problem playing those files, I just copy and play them"

Qqplayer is free and plays almost everything. works perfect for me.

veitograf said:
Qqplayer is free and plays almost everything. works perfect for me.
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QQ is free. but drains battery much faster..

Cheers. Great player
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Great app but it's no longer available on the market
Anyone know why the full version is now available and how to install the app having paid for it when it was available?
Free version shows
*** Currently can not purchase the full version because the checkout account is suspended.
This is the only video player I found that could playback 720p mkv through dnla on my Samsung Galaxy S. Here's my setup.
Samsung Galaxy S / Skifta / Diceplayer (Full purchased off the market in Nov 2011)
Server running Serviio dnla server
1080p stutters but I think that is down to the single core in the Galxy S. 720p smooooth.
I paid £3.35 in Nov for the full version of Diceplayer from the market but I now need to reistall since changing rom but can't download from the market?
I didn't backup my apps with titanium before doing the upgrade or I could restore app only.
Any ideas?
I have emailed the developer with my receipt but have received no reply.
cheers

for me RockPlayer Lite is the best deal out there. plays most of the formats.
no problems till now

[Q] Mkv support ??

Currently owning a vodafone smart II (really sluggish) , and I just found out this marvelous mobile . Well that said my only concern is will it play mkv on its default player ? I double checked their site (Sony) and found none info listed. Tried google and nada nada ... Well seeing this mobile has potential would be nice to know it supports MKV natively... Any one knows something please ????

zalman360 said:
Currently owning a vodafone smart II (really sluggish) , and I just found out this marvelous mobile . Well that said my only concern is will it play mkv on its default player ? I double checked their site (Sony) and found none info listed. Tried google and nada nada ... Well seeing this mobile has potential would be nice to know it supports MKV natively... Any one knows something please ????
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Yes it will Xperia 2012 devices already support mkv files
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It plays MKV out of the box, but audio support may be an issues. Either way MX Player plays MKV fine with support for most audio formats.

MKV is just a container so the real question would be it's audio and video codec.
Xperia Z/ZL or any high end android phones only support H.263, H.264, DivX, Xvid, 3GPP, 3GP2 I think that should be all the video codec it support. But as the other poster said... Just download MX Video player I use that over any stock video player 99% of the time.

MKV's work, but there are limitations. You can't select what audio track to play, it just uses whatever default track there is. Secondly there is a somewhat limited codec support. Many higher quality MKV's you find in less legal places of the interwebs use AC3 (Dolby) or DTS (or their HD variants) audio codecs which aren't supported. As far as I know it'll only play files with audio in MP3 or AAC, and I'm not sure about multi-channel AAC. Subtitles won't work either. And then some MKV files just randomly refuse to play, but I haven't identified what causes that problem.
There are two solutions:
Either just play everything with MX Player, with the HW or HW+ decoders you still have full hardware support and the benefits of Bravia Engine combined with full support for pretty much all audio codecs, multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitle tracks.
The other solution is to use software to remove unused audio tracks from your MKV's and if necessary recode your preferred audio track to stereo AAC. By far the best software to do that is Avidemux. It allows you to delete and recode streams without affecting other streams. Basically that means you can remove audio tracks you don't need and recode the one you want without having to recode the video, which is extremely fast and with recent CPU's only limited by the disk read/write speed.

Ambroos said:
MKV's work, but there are limitations. You can't select what audio track to play, it just uses whatever default track there is. Secondly there is a somewhat limited codec support. Many higher quality MKV's you find in less legal places of the interwebs use AC3 (Dolby) or DTS (or their HD variants) audio codecs which aren't supported. As far as I know it'll only play files with audio in MP3 or AAC, and I'm not sure about multi-channel AAC. Subtitles won't work either. And then some MKV files just randomly refuse to play, but I haven't identified what causes that problem.
There are two solutions:
Either just play everything with MX Player, with the HW or HW+ decoders you still have full hardware support and the benefits of Bravia Engine combined with full support for pretty much all audio codecs, multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitle tracks.
The other solution is to use software to remove unused audio tracks from your MKV's and if necessary recode your preferred audio track to stereo AAC. By far the best software to do that is Avidemux. It allows you to delete and recode streams without affecting other streams. Basically that means you can remove audio tracks you don't need and recode the one you want without having to recode the video, which is extremely fast and with recent CPU's only limited by the disk read/write speed.
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Wow such a huge explanation given , well I think my rips combined with MX player will do the trick then and that Avidemux is a little nice tool.
Thanks all ya for your reply , always appreciated.

Playing 2D/3D video files with AC3 audio

Has anyone been able to figure out how to play videos with AC3 audio inside Gear VR? When I play such (2D or 3D) videos, the video plays fine but there is no sound and I get a pop-up that the audio codec is not supported. In non-Gear VR mode, the stock video player can play such files with video only but the BS Player app can play such files just fine with both video and audio.
Since most of my videos have AC3 audio, it is a real pain if I have to convert the audio every time before copying such video files from the PC to Note 4 SD card.
Thanks,
Osho

I have read that ac3 codec is no longer included in factory rom because licensing fees. I think the only way would be to reencode movies to files with sound natively supported by Note4
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oshogg said:
Has anyone been able to figure out how to play videos with AC3 audio inside Gear VR? When I play such (2D or 3D) videos, the video plays fine but there is no sound and I get a pop-up that the audio codec is not supported. In non-Gear VR mode, the stock video player can play such files with video only but the BS Player app can play such files just fine with both video and audio.
Since most of my videos have AC3 audio, it is a real pain if I have to convert the audio every time before copying such video files from the PC to Note 4 SD card.
Thanks,
Osho
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Until Oculus or another developer includes more audio codecs, Gear VR supports only AAC and mp3 audio for now.
With Virtual Dub you can easily and fast convert your movies tho, when you set video to passthrough and only the audio to convert. Takes only a few minutes to convert a movie then.

Sounds easy enough but would you so kindly post slightly more details to doig this in virtual dub? (Not a bioshock reference)

Follow instructions here (same as note 3): http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/general/gn3-ac3-support-mod-pako777-t2867140
Must be rooted!!

holycow1 said:
Follow instructions here (same as note 3): http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/general/gn3-ac3-support-mod-pako777-t2867140
Must be rooted!!
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thanks it worked but is their a codec for DTS,i really need that for hsbs movies

HEVC Video Support?

Hello, I'm going to be upgrading from my Midnight Black Snapdragon S5 to the Ocean Blue 512GB Exynos Note9 and would like to know if it supports HEVC x265 video files (in .m4v & .mkv formats) ? I can play them on my PC via KMPlayer but would be great if the stock Video Player & Gallery on the Note9 support them as well so I wouldn't have to download MX Player instead. Any info is appreciated, thank you for reading
PS: Please quote my post when you reply as I don't check Note9 forums often (yet ).

koragg97 said:
Hello, I'm going to be upgrading from my Midnight Black Snapdragon S5 to the Ocean Blue 512GB Exynos Note9 and would like to know if it supports HEVC x265 video files (in .m4v & .mkv formats) ? I can play them on my PC via KMPlayer but would be great if the stock Video Player & Gallery on the Note9 support them as well so I wouldn't have to download MX Player instead. Any info is appreciated, thank you for reading
PS: Please quote my post when you reply as I don't check Note9 forums often (yet ).
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I haven't used this feature but tried to answer your question on my Eyxnos Note 9
It seems to have the option to select hevc in video recording settings of standard camera app.
A short test video , recorded on Note 9 with hevc option enabled was playable in both native gallery app and MXplayer.
Both players seemed to confirm hevc encoding

paul_59 said:
I haven't used this feature but tried to answer your question on my Eyxnos Note 9
It seems to have the option to select hevc in video recording settings of standard camera app.
A short test video , recorded on Note 9 with hevc option enabled was playable in both native gallery app and MXplayer.
Both players seemed to confirm hevc encoding
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I mainly would watch series in HEVC but if it plays recorded HEVC from the camera I don't see a reason not to play movies etc. Thanks for confirming

isint hevc just the encoding for the file container?
logically anything that has H.265 support can play it( which all modern players should be able to play/read)
btw file extensions(container) are almost meaningless eg: mkv, mv4,mp4 and dosent regulate if the actualy decoding is possible or not. they are just a name that allows the correct app to start and open the file. the header in the file probably is the important part.

New Chromecast with Google TV ads full support of HDR and Dolby Vision single track dual layer (FEL/MEL)

Hi everybody, surprisingly last february update of Chromecast with Google TV has brought full compatibility of this device to every Dolby Vision single track dual layer profiles, before it can only decode Profile 5 and some Profile 4 files (not everyone).
It also plays every HDR format:
HDR
HDR10
HDR10+
Dolby Vision single track dual/single layer (FEL/MEL)
HLG
I have tested with Makemkv and other test files and the Chromecast plays every of them fine and my Panasonic HZ1000 shows the Dolby Vision logo.
Playing with latest Plex and Emby beta for Android TV these are the results:
Dolby Vision profile P4 - OK
Dolby Vision profile P5 - OK, but some minor files don't show DV logo
Dolby Vision profile P7 MEL - OK
Dolby Vision profile P7 FEL - OK , but it can't fast forward or rewind, it can only play and pause.
Dolby Vision profile P8 over HDR - OK
Dolby Vision profile P8 over HLG (iPhone 12) - OK
It's mandatory that the reproduction goes direct without any transcoding on subtitles or audio (AC3 transcoding when audio format is not supported in Emby or optical AC3 conection in Plesk, must be disabled).
I've different issues in Emby an Plesk beta. The more stable playback is done in Plesk but the wide variety of formats supported is done in Emby.
It's a huge improvement, I'm sure in a near future both media servers/players will play everything without the actual minor issues:
Files with FEL layer have issues jumping on time or a concrete chapter, depends of the player and the file.
In Emby when it plays from the begining a file it began playing in DV mode but after a while (several minutes) it stutters a bit and change to HDR.
FEL Dolby Vision playback is a difficult task, I've run the tests proposed by MakeMKV to ensure if the device is capable of and this Chromecast seems to pass it.
Even the powerfull nVidia Shield TV 2019 can't play FEL files and have issues with the color management, and doesn't support HLG or HDR10+.
This little device is surprisingly amazing...

I have a New Chromecast with Google TV, and I test a fel dolby vision mkv video with plex, why don't fallback hdr10?
oh, yes, it can plya P7 FEL, but I don't know if it get the fel layer. could you please post the test file?

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I have a New Chromecast with Google TV, and I test a fel dolby vision mkv video with plex, why don't fallback hdr10?
oh, yes, it can plya P7 FEL, but I don't know if it get the fel layer. could you please post the test file?
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Just got a new CCgTV because it seemed to be the only streaming player to play proper FEL. I'm testing but on Plex most titles play as HDR10 for me. Seems to be videos with the HDR10 base layer.
You can check by turning off the "force Dolby Vision" in the CCgTV settings to off. Else everything will "seem" to play back as Dolby Vision even if it's not actually.
The real way to test for full FEL + profile 7 support is to try to playback these files as described here. https://www.avsforum.com/threads/du...onse-other-random-stuff.3188469/post-60582530
For me, on my CCgTV, the mkv file won't even play back
All to say: I think FEL playback on CCgTV is broken.

yossSP said:
Hi everybody, surprisingly last february update of Chromecast with Google TV has brought full compatibility of this device to every Dolby Vision single track dual layer profiles, before it can only decode Profile 5 and some Profile 4 files (not everyone).
It also plays every HDR format:
HDR
HDR10
HDR10+
Dolby Vision single track dual/single layer (FEL/MEL)
HLG
I have tested with Makemkv and other test files and the Chromecast plays every of them fine and my Panasonic HZ1000 shows the Dolby Vision logo.
Playing with latest Plex and Emby beta for Android TV these are the results:
Dolby Vision profile P4 - OK
Dolby Vision profile P5 - OK, but some minor files don't show DV logo
Dolby Vision profile P7 MEL - OK
Dolby Vision profile P7 FEL - OK , but it can't fast forward or rewind, it can only play and pause.
Dolby Vision profile P8 over HDR - OK
Dolby Vision profile P8 over HLG (iPhone 12) - OK
It's mandatory that the reproduction goes direct without any transcoding on subtitles or audio (AC3 transcoding when audio format is not supported in Emby or optical AC3 conection in Plesk, must be disabled).
I've different issues in Emby an Plesk beta. The more stable playback is done in Plesk but the wide variety of formats supported is done in Emby.
It's a huge improvement, I'm sure in a near future both media servers/players will play everything without the actual minor issues:
Files with FEL layer have issues jumping on time or a concrete chapter, depends of the player and the file.
In Emby when it plays from the begining a file it began playing in DV mode but after a while (several minutes) it stutters a bit and change to HDR.
FEL Dolby Vision playback is a difficult task, I've run the tests proposed by MakeMKV to ensure if the device is capable of and this Chromecast seems to pass it.
Even the powerfull nVidia Shield TV 2019 can't play FEL files and have issues with the color management, and doesn't support HLG or HDR10+.
This little device is surprisingly amazing...
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Does it still work for you? Seem my message above.

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Does it still work for you? Seem my message above.
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Hi, It continues working like a charm with DV FEL/MEL titles.
As I said: It's mandatory that the reproduction goes direct without any transcoding on subtitles or audio (AC3 transcoding when audio format is not supported in Emby or optical AC3 conection in Plesk, must be disabled).
You must ensure that everything goes in direct playback or DV processing didn't shows.