[Quest] *Volunteers needed* Ogg playback in GB Roms - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Please help. This will only take a few minutes. Thank you.
I was trying to figure out why the background music won't play in Fruit ninja, when I noticed that the Samsung music player cannot play ogg music encoded at 44100 Hz. An error message will pop up saying that this type of music file is not supported. Instead, it can now only play ogg music files encoded at 22050 Hz.
Sample Music:
22050 Hz
44100 Hz
Can someone please test this on their Gingerbread phone (preferably a JVH/JVB based phone and not MIUI or CM7) and post your results. Also please post which rom version you are using.

I've had issues with ogg, too, in all GB roms I've tried (JVH/JVB/JVK). I'm not sure the sampling rate is the cause because I'm almost sure I used the same settings in foobar when I ripped my CDs. Some worked, and others didn't. I can't test them right now since I've already deleted those files.
Another problem I had with ogg were the tags in compilation albums. Normally, they'd be separate in the Artist heading, and under one album in the Album heading. With ogg files, they are separated. The player wouldn't file different artists under the same album.
Thankfully, I had only recently started encoding my CDs in ogg, so it wasn't a big deal to go back to mp3. But this can be a problem to those with a huge ogg library. After all, this was one of the reasons I went with the Galaxy S. The ability to play ogg and flac natively.

I'm using JVO with some tweaks from omator. Anyway I was able to play only 22050kHz file with default samsung player. PowerAMP on the other side plays 44100kHz without any problems.

Hi, i'm using the Ficeto Base JVH Rom with the Darkcore 2.4 on my I9000. For me everything works fine with the stock samsung player. All ogg and flac files are played without any problems. All ogg files are at 44100Hz and high quality.
Edit: Just downloaded your files and tried it. Youre right, the 22050 Hz worked, the 44100 Hz not. Perhaps its a problem with the low bitrate (about 67kbps) at the 44100Hz file? Have your tried a bitrate 128kps or higher?

beluthius said:
Hi, i'm using the Ficeto Base JVH Rom with the Darkcore 2.4 on my I9000. For me everything works fine with the stock samsung player. All ogg and flac files are played without any problems. All ogg files are at 44100Hz and high quality.
Edit: Just downloaded your files and tried it. Youre right, the 22050 Hz worked, the 44100 Hz not. Perhaps its a problem with the low bitrate (about 67kbps) at the 44100Hz file? Have your tried a bitrate 128kps or higher?
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That 44100 hz file was extracted directly from fruit ninja without any modification. I can try increasing the bitrate, but even if it works, that won't solve the fruit ninja music issue.
From what j.go said, it sounds like Samsung messed up ogg playback in GB without realizing it, which isn't too surprising considering that ogg is not too popular. I will make a request thread in development section once a few more volunteers post their results.
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No more volunteers for a simple test that will only take a few minutes? Really?

the 44100hz one didnt work on mine. music player just refused to even try.
JVB gingerbread

44100 would not play in the samsung player but played perfectly in poweramp (my default player)
JVH gingerbread with CF-root and the standard mods.

Tried on official JVK : won't play 44khz.
Ok, MusicPlayer.apk is not faulty.
I tried the one from Doc's JS5 => won't play 44khz.

44100 with poweramp and my custom rom based on jvh work fine.
Corgar slim rom ofc
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Poweramp probably has its own decoders (or whatever they're called). The galaxy s is supposed to do this natively via hardware. So, this might be a driver/kernel issue with the GB roms. I don't really know.

j.go said:
Poweramp probably has its own decoders (or whatever they're called). The galaxy s is supposed to do this natively via hardware. So, this might be a driver/kernel issue with the GB roms. I don't really know.
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Confirmed to be Samsung 's fault. I tried the test on stock rom.
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[Q] Problem playing FLAC files :(

No possible playing FLAC audio files on GALAXY S after FROYO flashing.If i have FLAC files on SD cards,and started standart Music Player,Galaxy frozen Another music players no working too.. On ECLAIR all playing without problem. Sorry about my bad english.
Hi,
no problem for me with standard player on JPM+CF_Root+voodoo.
vadda said:
Hi,
no problem for me with standard player on JPM+CF_Root+voodoo.
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Sorry for off tooic, but how did u put cf root + voodoo on ur phone? Cause 4 me voodoo overflashed cf root. Do u have 2e recovery on ur phone now?
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Hi,
Have you try to put your. Flac in the internal sd, for me it's working with docrom based on jm9
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Make sure the flac files are 16bit, as it will refuse to play 24bit files.
Tony
1. I have 2e recovery.
2. No want downgrade losless qualite my music(2.1 playing everything without problem).
3. rom - Goodbye RFS 0.2 (another 2.2 have this problem to)
I've got same problem with playing flac files... not all, but some of them, mainly Hemi-Sync records (90 mins long). With 2.1 no problem, with 2.2 phone crashes!
[OFF TOPIC/] Flac on a portable device is just .....
FLAC is scientifically not worth the hard disk space, if your only goal in encoding to this format is to listen.
The reasoning behind this fact stems from the intelligent nature of the lossy encoding process. If you take any MP3 or AAC file of standard encoding rate (192K or higher), and polarity inverse it with the same file as a FLAC, you will hear very little difference between the two. This is because even though you've taken a lot of information out of that lossy file to make it so compact, the frequencies taken out of a compressed file are frequencies the ear does not respond well to. No human ear can detect the frequencies removed from any 320K MP3 file because the frequencies are either extremely high-pitched (well above 22k) or extremely obscure and irrelevant (a very specific frequency like 12.5008k or something like this).
Anybody who says they can hear the difference between a standardly-compressed MP3 file and its FLAC counterpart is either lying, suffering from placebo, or needs to tell me where I can get a drug that would heighten somebody's senses that much.
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And we all know that the sound that come out from our SGS is far from perfect that why supercurio try to improve it but listening to something over 192Kbps on a mobile device is just waste of space. It's like saying that you want to use a 1920x1080 image on your sgs screen and that you can tell the difference ..... 192 and higher is not for listening.
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It doesn't work because it's Goodby RFS and sztumpy has given not enough memory to the system for flac music that might be why with a 20MB file it freeze the player
I have same problem on all 2.2 My solution is to use another player. It's working fine on player pro, and now on poweramp. There is one tip that maybe help you: player pro is crashing too when you try to play flac if you browsing your music library by albums. When you switch to folders without album arts is ok. I'm no longer investigating this since I'm on doc and kalpik froyo v5.1 and poweramp player. It's tiptop now.
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exadeci said:
[OFF TOPIC/] Flac on a portable device is just .....
And we all know that the sound that come out from our SGS is far from perfect that why supercurio try to improve it but listening to something over 192Kbps on a mobile device is just waste of space. It's like saying that you want to use a 1920x1080 image on your sgs screen and that you can tell the difference ..... 192 and higher is not for listening.
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It doesn't work because it's Goodby RFS and sztumpy has given not enough memory to the system for flac music that might be why with a 20MB file it freeze the player
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Yea i would disagree with that, you will definitely hear the difference between 192 and Flac is you use high end IEMs, even more if you listen to music through a good full size amp with speakers. Well that's my opinion at least
Back to the issue at hand, my flac files work fine and i'm under jp6 ("vanilla" jp6)
K0v4L said:
I have same problem on all 2.2 My solution is to use another player. It's working fine on player pro, and now on poweramp. There is one tip that maybe help you: player pro is crashing too when you try to play flac if you browsing your music library by albums. When you switch to folders without album arts is ok. I'm no longer investigating this since I'm on doc and kalpik froyo v5.1 and poweramp player. It's tiptop now.
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Tested this ROM today...
[ROM] Doc_Kalpik Froyo JP6/JPM V5.1.1 no change situation.Problem have to

What is the current status of video capabilities with rooted CN, esp 720p?

With all the new roms forcolor nook out what is the status of its ability of playing videos, especially 720 mp4 and mkvs downloaded from the internet without having to reencode the files?
Which rom/player combination is best for this?
I'd like to know also. Currently using Rockplayer on HC from the EMMC, and videos from my camera shot at 640x 480 and esp 848x480 are quite slow and jerky. Definitely not something to show someone else.
Anyone have recommendations?
DSP/HW accel is not working in all non-stock roms and is being worked on, but even in the stock rooted, I doubt it plays 720p well enough, unless it's been encoded into an mp4 or something that's natively supported.
timekeeper said:
DSP/HW accel is not working in all non-stock roms and is being worked on, but even in the stock rooted, I dou
bt it plays 720p well enough, unless it's been encoded into an mp4 or something that's natively supported.
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That is not true. Hardware decoding works in Froyo, just not in CM7 or HC.
It is true that files need be rencoding in compliant MP4 files for them to work. You need a dual core tablet for downloaded mkv support.
poofyhairguy said:
That is not true. Hardware decoding works in Froyo, just not in CM7 or HC.
It is true that files need be rencoding in compliant MP4 files for them to work. You need a dual core tablet for downloaded mkv support.
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My bad - I only tried nookie froyo on the SD and used it for less than 10 minutes.
I can't get hardware to work in Froyo on either Vital player or Rock Player. Anyone getting hardware decoding to work on Froyo?
How are you doing it?
no hardware accceleration on nookie froyo either for me. Able to play 720p AVI smoothly by using vital player neon on software decoding.
If working hardware decoding means that mp4 can be played with standart Movies application, than yes, it works for me in Nookie Froyo on eMMC.
Sounds like Nookie Froyo is the one to get (for now) if you want h/w acceleration for video.
I've been trying to get high quality video to run on my 2.1 NC for a few days and can't seem to get the audio to match up with the video. mp4 video, 800x480, 1200 bitrate, 25 gps looks great but the sound is off. Pissed.
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Paul Paulson said:
I've been trying to get high quality video to run on my 2.1 NC for a few days and can't seem to get the audio to match up with the video. mp4 video, 800x480, 1200 bitrate, 25 gps looks great but the sound is off. Pissed.
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That bitrate is slightly too high.
I tried all the video players I could grab from the market with my rooted NC.
Rockplayer actually doesn't seem to be very good. It lagged at times. I'm not sure it's using full hardware acceleration, or maybe it's not able to fully use or is not recognizing the NC's hardware acceleration.
The best player for getting finicky files to work was vPlayer. It has a "high quality" mode which I'm guessing supplements the hardware acceleration with software decoding to make up for features which the hardware doesn't support. It was able to play video files that the stock video player and others refused to play. I think it was playing them slower than full speed though - was hard to tell with the video samples I used.
It is a pay app with a free trial. When not in "high quality" mode, it would still play the finicky video files, but with visible errors in the decoding. A couple of the other players also did this. I guess instead of refusing to play, they just throw the file at the hardware and display whatever comes out. But vPlayer was the only one with an option to "fix" the errors. If you're not encoding your own videos, definitely give this one a shot.
I'm using mVideoPlayer for now. It's limited to the same file formats the stock player can play, but I really like the interface (swipe to seek forward/back, long-press in corners to adjust volume/brightness). And it automatically generates lists of videos from a customizable directory list. No more having to search through a file browser - my videos on both the emmc and microsd now show up in one big list.
The main problem is you need a back button to use it. If you don't hit back to stop playing a file, the next time you try to play any video file, it resumes playing the old file where you left off. But if you use softkeys to give you a back button, it puts an ugly circle on top of your video...
poofyhairguy said:
That is not true. Hardware decoding works in Froyo, just not in CM7 or HC.
It is true that files need be rencoding in compliant MP4 files for them to work. You need a dual core tablet for downloaded mkv support.
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Not really true. My Samsung galaxy plays 720p mkv's without issues. That's a single core phone.
I think in reaility we just have to wait for hardware decoding to be ported over.
really hope dev can get h/w acceleration going for custom rom, especially cm7. On related issue, my NC with cm7 can play flash video and frame rate is low though (looks like slide show with 360P video).
Not NC related (haven't rooted yet), but having just played with (thanks to this thread) vPlayer, I can say it is definitely the superior program. My EVO handled a 720p .mkv file that rockplayer gave 6-10fps on, it was watchable and had no sync issues besides the occasional slow-down.
+1 for the tip.
I believe hardware decode works on Android 2.1 Auto Nooter 3.0. I have that installed and it works in rock player and vital player.
One thing to note is the hardware decoder can only decode a max width of 854. So your 720p files will not work with hardware encoding. You will have to re-encode the files.
I used this guide http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...using-handbrake-convert-video-nook-color.html and it seemed to work fine.

[Q] Divx playback (neverending story...)

Hi!
I have been struggling with this topic for a few days now. Read most of the threads written here on this too. I know about the limitation of hardware accelleration, and understand it. I have created presets for Mediacoder (+CUDA) perfectly working so that I can quickly convert what I want to a video format being very well played by on nook with hw accelleration.
I am aware of the fact that videos encoded with xvid/divx can only be played with software decoders. It's been reported here such videos are pretty well handled by players like Rock-,Mobo-,YXplayer and so on; I assume nook's CPU has enough power not to have issues with ~620x350 XVid encoded video. Well, mine seems to have one.
I tried out a couple of different .avi's I have. Just one specific example:
an episode of some TV show:
Video: 310 MB, 1037 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 624*352 (16:9), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio: 38 MB, 130 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3
This one is being played fine even on my old PPC Axim 30 (Intel XScale PXA270 at 624MHzwith TCPMP), but with no means on the nook. Test results:
- RockPlayer -> slide show
- YXPlayer -> slide show
- YXPlayer Neon -> slide show
- MoboPlayer - almost the one. The only one which plays completely flawless video, but the sound is out of sync, about 1 sec behind the video
What am I missing/doing wrong? Such a file should be a walk in the park for a Cortex A8 at 800MHz, shoudlnt' it? Is it about me using a rooted stock nook? Would froyo did the trick?
Regards,
Maciej
So you're on stock? Have you overclocked your setup? If so do you have governor set to Interactive and the Min. Cpu set to atleast 800mhz?
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25.0 fps
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Found your problem. I find that the nook can only do 24fps or 29.999999fps. You must be trying to play a European program. Re-encode in Handbrake and change the "Framerate" drop down box to the NTSC Video setting.
While you are at it, in Handbrake and all, you might as well re-encode using x264 to take advantage of the Nook's hardware decoding...
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Found your problem. I find that the nook can only do 24fps or 29.999999fps.
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Generally? Or in terms of software divx/xvid playback? I re-encoded the file to H.264 WITHOUT changing the framerate and it works smoothly. For the hardware accel the framerate is not an issue.
I wonder what the problem could be: the sound isn't stuttering, the video is smooth, they are simply not synchronized. It cant be due to lack of power,can it?
Regards,
Maciej
The NC supports hardware decoding of MPEG4 (i.e. Divx/Xvid) Simple Profile but it has to be in a MP4 rather than AVI container. Unfortunately MP3 audio is incompatible with MP4 containers so the typical AVI needs to have at least the audio re-encoded for hardware playback on the NC.
It's not unusual to have poorly muxed AVI files where the audio and video end up out of sync when re-encoded. I'm not sure about Mediacoder but Handbrake does not easily allow adjusting the audio offset to compensate for that. You might try aviDemux (open source) as it does allow adjustment of audio offset. Unfortunately, it's trial and error to figure out the proper offset. If your Divx file is MPEG4 SP then you could just set up aviDemux to copy the video, re-encode the audio to AAC and mux in an MP4 container with the appropriate audio offset.
Matchay said:
Generally? Or in terms of software divx/xvid playback?
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For me just software divx playback. My 25 fps files just never play well.
For x264 you can do any framerate up to 39 fps I think, as long as the bitrate is low enough. For me in Handbrake the magic number is a Constant quality of 22
@razmajazz
Sorry for the confusion. I have no issues with any x264 re-encoded file, as mentioned in my first post - my Mediacoder preset does its job perfectly.
I mean MoboPlayer plays the original Xvid video and audio very smoothly, they are simply out of sync, which doesn't look like a CPU power issue to me. As poofyhairguy said, it must be about the framerate and some incompability.
Re-encoding doesn't bother me, I only wanted to avoid it if possible for lower quality divx/xvid films. And the MoboPlayer seemed to be only an inch far away from the right solution.
I will do some testing in the afternoon.
Thanks,
Maciej
Are You playing videos on stock, rooted Nooks?
Or Froyo/CM7?
rooted stock
Try summer player, I tried many movies with that player and all seem to work well
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angel7000 said:
Try summer player
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Interestingly, Summer player plays all my files in fast forward mode
DSP drivers/Hardware video decoding is critical for smooth playback.
I dont know why the CPU cannot do it fast enough. (software decoding)
Thats why I'm on nookie froyo
No sync issues or anything with normal res videos from the interweb, no recoding needed, any decent MPEG4 player plays smooth.
Matchay said:
@razmajazz
Sorry for the confusion. I have no issues with any x264 re-encoded file, as mentioned in my first post - my Mediacoder preset does its job perfectly.
I mean MoboPlayer plays the original Xvid video and audio very smoothly, they are simply out of sync, which doesn't look like a CPU power issue to me.
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Indeed I was confused. I thought both the original and re-encoded files had audio sync issues. As long as the video stream is MPEG4 SP, you may still just want to copy the video, re-encode the audio to AAC and mux in a MP4 container. It's pretty fast since you only have to convert the audio, you don't lose quality from re-encoding video and it plays back with hardware decoding on the NC.
Success!
Yesterday I ran nookie froyo from SD. MoboPlayer plays all files perfectly, no out of sync! It was that simple...
Thank you all for your suggestions!
Cheers,
Maciej

[i9001] 720p mkv playback problem

Guys, i have a problem with my i9001.
My phone is rooted and i installed the gpu "new" drivers from the development page. I have upgraded from 2.3.3 that comes default when i buy it to 2.3.5 through KIES, not through ODIN, so it's with vodafone ****s or whatever.
Anyway, the problem is the following:
I want to watch some mkv .720p tv shows on it (like dexter, supernatural, etc) and i tried with a couple of players but every single player will decode the mkv in "SW mode" not hardware, so it won't play properly and it will lag. I tried with bsplayer, mx video player, mobo player pro and even DICEPLAYER (the full version).
So, any ways of playing 720p smooth ? i guess it's because of Adreno 205 which is weaker than Galaxy S gpu.
Come on, 130 views and no replies? sorry for double posting.
Oh, and i didn't installed any "speed" scripts like adrenaline shot or whatever.
Fact is i just bought the phone and i don't want to lose my warranty already. Do i lose it when i install adrenaline shot for instance ?
Update: My actual ROM is I9001BUKP2, which is Vodafone branded and my phone is simlocked (most likely).
Can this be the problem ?
Update 2: Very weird thing happened. I put an episode from The Walking Dead, 350 mb .avi to run with MX Video Player and surprise, even .avi LAGS in hardware decoder, but i'm lucky that MX Video Player got S/W Decoder FAST and it played almost smoothly (95%, still little fps drops).
After that, i tried with an episode of Grimm, this time 720p, .mkv but WEB-DL (even more better than normal 720p releases of groups like IMMERSE, CTU, etc) and the HARDWARE DECODER went AVAILABLE this time, but it lags terribly. I tried with S/W Decoder FAST and lol, it worked almost smoothly.
So, what the hell is the problem ?
Could it be my I9001BUKP2 firmware ? it's official, updated with KIES, i guess it's the same as this one on XDA.
bumpy ^^ ........
still bump .... come on :|
Update: I am now with XXKPS 2.3.6, still the same problems. MKV 720p are laggy, and every single .avi movie is laggy in hardware decoder as well. only softare decoder can decode avi movies to be smooth, but 720p still be laggy.
hey guys .. i curently have feamod v.1.3 based on CWM 5 0 2 7 .... what change if i flash 1.4 ? i use cranium RC7 update 1 with kernel v6 cranium 1900 ghz
but i wanna flash broodrom RC2 final but i don'w know what kernel to use... is v6 1900 cranium ok wit broodrom ?
Well then, how about re-encoding your movies using e.g. xmedia recode or SUPER or whatever? Choose a lower resolution. That's a phone, don't expect it to play HD content - on the small screen that does not make any sense at all.
Well, for others it works perfectly, only i seem to have problems. And anyway, samsung is reporting that this phone can run 720p movies without a problem.
@arialth, GET THE **** OUT.
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same issue here, i tried a 720p movie on my i9001 and it used SW decoding in mx player.
I noticed one thing though, after installing mx, it didnt ask for any codec to be installed, i expected it to ask me to install the ARM7 codec??
Same problem here, the moment you want to watch a 720p mkv video you can't use HW decoder.
I am using 0.1.0 cm10 ROM from Ivendor with 3.0 Kernel.
Use VLC, it supports hardware decoding of all media formats.
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Use VLC, it supports hardware decoding of all media formats.
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Already tried that, I've done some search around and I think it just can't handle a 720p mkv.
Bear in mind that the I9001 has a better CPU but a worser GPU, so it's possible the I9000 is able to handle 720p mkv better.
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And anyway, samsung is reporting that this phone can run 720p movies without a problem.
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Also, Samsung does indeed report that the device can run 720p movies in mp4 or whatever format.
Seeing as they're own video player doesn't have a mkv codec it is possible there just isnt mkv hardware support.

[Q] 720p Mkv laggin

Sorry for starting a new thread, but I searched and couldn't find answers.
I'm trying to play 720p mkv files and they are all stuttering in my CM7 kang and etana kernel. Youtube 720p videos are ok, but the only way I could find to play my files was converting then to 640x480 (someone wrote that in some thread).
Is there any other way to play these files?
Maybe not enough ram. Tuurn off some apps
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which player are you using? Try using MX Video Player or Mobo player.
Try bs player lite
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I've tried all them, but have no luck. Do you really can always see any kind of 720P?
filipelq said:
I've tried all them, but have no luck. Do you really can always see any kind of 720P?
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The built-in player (and all other players usig "hardware acceleration") works for some videos, for some others software-decoders work (mx player has a pretty good one).
BUT, you will not be able to play everything on this phone. "Hardware decoder" only supports up to a certain specification and "software decoding" is limited by the processor (overclocking might help a _little_ here).
filipelq said:
I've tried all them, but have no luck. Do you really can always see any kind of 720P?
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Weird, I have same rom and kernel right now, plays ok even in HDMI the only problems this have is with 1080p with high profile, or some main (see bitrate), simple profile plays good.
when i play 720p mkv files i get a little stutter and audio-video sync problems. A 720p mp4 files plays perfectly though.

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