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Looking for a good movie player

Any recommendations on a good movie player app on my rooted Aria?

Rock player. there are 3 versions, i have V6+VFP installed (guess and check till one worked), and it's great. plays more formats than the stock media player, including avi.

cegna09 said:
Rock player. there are 3 versions, i have V6+VFP installed (guess and check till one worked), and it's great. plays more formats than the stock media player, including avi.
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I can second that, RockPlayer seems to be working quite well, though I don't remember which of the 3 versions I installed.

How big of a video file can the Aria handle. I recorded some HBO episodes of Entourage and other shows that I would like to play on it as well as some digital copies of movies. Can the Aria/Rockplayer handle that as well?

It sure can!
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Double Twist seems to work well as well. It converts the videos when you "import" them to your device.

i put a down converted star trek blu ray using handbrake in mp4 format on my sd card at about 800 megs and played perfect VERY nice quality

How come.MSN. videos doesn't work?? Any idea how to make.it.work??

I personally use Act 1 Video Player and it works out quite nicely, also the 3d gallery apps plays a lot of the movies files I have. So that might be an option if you want them all in that organization layout.

I just use the stock sense movie player. It plays awesome, seek and pause work great.
And it does a fixed ratio fit based on height or width.
Its just missing some fast forward. Multispeed ff would be a nice addition.

[Q] Please anyone help me with video playback on The Nexus one

I'm very disappointed with video playback on the N1. I thought it would handle video well, i mean this thing has 1ghz of processor after all.
Video player I've tried so far are arcMedia, mplayer, rockplayer, nemoplayer and of course the build in one. All of these does very bad job. They either don't have the codec to handle videos, playback but with grayish overlay, only sound and if the video is small, i can see pixel on the edges. Non of them can smooth smaller video.
My last 5-6 phones were all wm and with coreplayer installed wm can handle these vga or wvga video as if they were qvga. Plus, coreplayer can smooth out smaller video.
I really love the ui on N1 but if the video playback is this bad i may have to go HD2. So help me, I'm willing to try anyway anyway. thanks.
Oh I've googled for ways already with no luck and i know coreplayer is coming to android. I don't i want to wait. thanks again
Sorry for the long post. I've also kill every app and please don't tell me to convert all those video.

Interesting. I've used some of the apps you mentioned, and have always been happy with the playback quality...
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Always great to see fast fast replies. what are your file type? what resolution? Mine usually are mkv with 500 to 800p. any help? anybody?

I use VPlayer beta for playback + Handbrake for encoding (using stock iphone/ipad preset) and I get mostly good results. What bothers me is sometimes the phone will stutter and not play back but other times it plays the same video fine. I have mostly long concert videos (1-2 hrs created from a ts_video) and if it stutters and stalls I'll pause it for a minute then when I hit play the audio goes fine and the video will be in FF for 15 sec or so then sync up again. Sync is not great overall but I'm not going to worry about it.

VPlayer beta works for me .... could you be running too many widgets or not killing enough programs in the background?

Come one people could you not see the tears next to my question? How about paid app then? Is there any good one?

I was using Rock Player until I read about VPlayer Beta over here and installed it. Personally, I felt that VPlayer Beta is more feature rich and configurable then the Rock Player

Ah nice guys thanks so much. I would have never found this vplayer if i hadn't post this Q here. Although i hope coreplayer will be here soon.Anyway thanks again.

if you're trying to get a decent picture from a smaller sized video, it's going to suck. i usually rip dvd's with mencoder or handbrake, transcode to mp4 @ 800x480 (or whatever) and all the dvd's play back beautifully. sound is great (with passive cancelling earbuds) and the isn't a shimmy even when a phone call/sms/gmail interrupts with a notification sound.
maybe you have something heavy running in the bg ? sync messed ? dunno

VLC for Android coming soon
http://pocketnow.com/android/vlc-media-player-arriving-on-android-in-early-2011

[Q] Best Video Player is?

Been trying to find a good video player...all seem to lag quite a bit or are quite choppy...anyone have any luck with any working really good? If so, please share!

I like rockplayer. Used it for a bit on the plane yesterday.

Is there a certain resolution you encoding videos too or will rock player handle anything?

i have an android phone and I use both rockplayer and mvideoplayer. rockplayer handles avi files well but not mkv files. mvideoplayer handles both.
i don't have a nook color but I would assume if you have a rooted nook(and have access to market) you could get these players and they should work since the processing seems the same.
i'm interested in a rooted nook color but can't seem to find if anyone has actually tried these apps.

rockplayer on the nook can handle 480p non hd videos fine in the mkv or avi containers. anything higher than that and you start to get audio and video seperation because the proc cant keep the video going at the propper pace

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i have an android phone and I use both rockplayer and mvideoplayer. rockplayer handles avi files well but not mkv files. mvideoplayer handles both.
i don't have a nook color but I would assume if you have a rooted nook(and have access to market) you could get these players and they should work since the processing seems the same.
i'm interested in a rooted nook color but can't seem to find if anyone has actually tried these apps.
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im using mplayer on mine right now and watching some mp4 videos, not an hd file ... but the proper ratio and it looks killer ... totally worth 250 bucks

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I use Vplayer beta and i strongly recomend it. it plays most videos well and only lags a bit when you get to real high quality videos

i bought a nook color and tried it out...so far video playback is not that great.
mvideo player seems to have a very slight audio lag when i played a standard avi file(not converted or optimized for nook color) and no mkv files work on any of the players.
i think this has something to do with the internal videoplayer itself and not really the actually processing power of the nookcolor.
looks like i will have to just convert files to mp4...an extra step but I read more than watch videos.

If you are using anything other than an mp4 file extension then you're using software decoding. Software decoding will only go as smoothly as the CPU allows. I've found when using software decoding I can handle AVIs up to standard def in Rockplayer. (480) I get a tiny bit of stutter at the start, but it smooths out within 60 seconds.
However, if you use hardware decoding, (only works with mp4 files) you can probably push the resolution up a bit. I have a 720x400 file at a video bitrate of 800 that plays instantly and smoothly in the native player and in Rockplayer. I plan to go home and push the resolution a bit further and see where it starts to desync, so once I do I'll report back.
tl;dr: Anything other than mp4 has to be standard def or lower and played in a 3rd party player that can do software decoding, like Rockplayer. Anything in mp4 can be played in anything that does hardware decoding, and can probably go quite a bit higher than SD.

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urbanengine1 said:
I use Vplayer beta and i strongly recomend it. it plays most videos well and only lags a bit when you get to real high quality videos
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I encountered an error while installing vplayer beta. didn't you get any?

HDMI dock issue

When i connect the tab to my hd tv i get 1080p, but im not happy with the resolution is being displayed, like when i play a movie on my 46 inches screen it looks so pixelated, like if i was watching a low resolution image when you strech it, when i connect te ps3 looks so detailed and good, how can i fix this problem?
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Plus the other thing is when i use the native player it seems to run the movie smoothly but sometimes i download different file types of movies that the native player wont support so i have to use an alternative player to play it, so tose times i use the non-native player the video kind of plays choppy on the tv, framming every couple of seconds and freezing :/ and it doesnt mattr what kind of file its just that is not native, any solution for that problem?
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Plus the other thing is when i use the native player it seems to run the movie smoothly but sometimes i download different file types of movies that the native player wont support so i have to use an alternative player to play it, so tose times i use the non-native player the video kind of plays choppy on the tv, framming every couple of seconds and freezing :/ and it doesnt mattr what kind of file its just that is not native, any solution for that problem?
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For files that the native player can't handle, install and use moboplayer. It works better than the native player in my opinion.

" For files that the native player can't handle, install and use moboplayer. It works better than the native player in my opinion." Lucky_Charms
Does this moboplayer can handle the wide variety of formats that the QQplayer does, I ask about this because, the QQplayer seems to deliver bad video quality on some ocasions!

ADOLFOHERNANDEZ said:
" For files that the native player can't handle, install and use moboplayer. It works better than the native player in my opinion." Lucky_Charms
Does this moboplayer can handle the wide variety of formats that the QQplayer does, I ask about this because, the QQplayer seems to deliver bad video quality on some ocasions!
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I'm not sure which files you are talking about but give it a try and see.
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Video player / decoder?

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.

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

How do I set it to do this automatically?

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

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?

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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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 .

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