[Q] HQ Videos wont play! only audio... - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

High quality videos wont play anymore on my cdma htc hero. They used to work fine and very snappy at that. But now all i can see is usually a thumbnail or one or two frames and audio. This is for both youtube videos and normal videos that are stored on my phone.
Any help would be awesome.
thanks,
collin

It's a hit or miss. Some videos on YouTube actually have their file encoded at 480x270. While others do not. Those files we can't play.

Yeah the Youtube app only has 2 modes, "standard" and "high quality." Standard can be 240p or 360p. Unfortunately "high quality" includes 480p, 720p, and 1080p. Our Hero is not capable of playing video at 720p or higher And it's not just in Youtube, the same thing happens if you try playing a video file from the SD card.
So if the video is only available in 480p at the highest, it will be fine in high quality.

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Playing 720p videos on Milestone possible?

Hi everyone, I have a Milestone with the Leak 2.2 Froyo ROM from GOT, and I have it overclocked @ 1GHz. I thought it could play flawlessly 720p .mkv video files , but no matter what video player I've used, none of them can play the video without "freezes".. RockPlayer is really "close" to achieve it, but it the video loses frames.. Sound and subtitles are played perfect though.
Is it possible to play 720p on Droid/Milestone, has anyone of you done it already?
All my videos are in .mkv form, and the Series I am watching come out in 720p versions. It would be really nice if I could watch them on Milestone without having to transcode them.
Thank you very much for your time.
For what's it worth, I could never get the Galaxy S (several iterations) to run 720p MKV files without crashing/freezing after 30 seconds or so. Everything seems smooth, and then, the videos just freeze.
They were standard 720p TV shows that you download from Usenet.
Incidentally, my iPhone 4 played 720p MOV files without any problems.
I suspect that the Milestone/Droid is capable of running the films smoothly after overclock.
is there a player that can now play 720p on milestone?
Try VPlayer.

Play 720p mkv?

Hey guys,
I was thinking about buying a Nook color but I had one question.
Will the Nook Color be able to play 720p mkv files? With subtitles? I noticed that the archos 70 can play 720p mkv files and It seems to me the cpu is similar in both units.
I am pretty uninformed about this topic so I was hoping if anyone could enlighten me? I did not want false expectations that one day someone will be able to get it to work on the Nook Color.
Btw I know that Nook Color can not play it natively, but since the archos 70 I was wondering if the Nook Color could 2 in the future?
Thanks for your help!
is there an app?
At the moment, I don't believe the nook will play .mkv files without rooting it. I haven't rooted mine yet (waiting to see if 2.2 really does come out next month and what changes it brings, first) so can't say if there is an app that will play them.
I would think that it could, as long as the necessary app is installed and the codecs are available. The hardware seems like it would be perfectly capable of playing a 720p file, no matter the format, it would just be squished down to the correct resolution of 600 (or smaller depending on ratio).
Don't know about 720p, but as long as the video and audio streams are something the NC recognizes it should play an MKV (h.264, mp4 for video, aac or mp3 for audio). Although I had much better luck with just straight up mp4 files.
The built in player only even showed subtitles if they were hardcoded to the video.
i can play 720p mp4 files just fine with no lag what so ever.. Quality is awesome.. Rock Player doesn't like MKVs or AVIs, it will play them just really really slow..
ws6kid said:
i can play 720p mp4 files just fine with no lag what so ever.. Quality is awesome.. Rock Player doesn't like MKVs or AVIs, it will play them just really really slow..
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Are you using the stock player or Rock Player?
rock player plays mkv's fine on my evo but i cant get it to activate on my nook
mvideo player plays mkv 720p anime with subtitles that i have on my samsung captivate. (although it seems you have to start the video from beginning to end (ie: can't skip around) or the audio will get out of sync)
wondering if you download android market and get mvideo player if mkv 720p subtitles will work on nook color as well.
if so i would be interested in the ereader/tablet
Why? The root takes approximitly 15 to 20 minutes. Is practically completly automated, and improves the device 500%.
ws6kid said:
i can play 720p mp4 files just fine with no lag what so ever.. Quality is awesome.. Rock Player doesn't like MKVs or AVIs, it will play them just really really slow..
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I loaded up a 800mb standard def AVI and it played fine in rockplayer. Bit of stutter at the start but it smooths right out after about 10 seconds. Just FYI
smithgood9 said:
Nook Color can only play these video formats: 3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4V, and OGG. And supports MPEG-4 Simple Profile up to 854×480, H.263 up to 352×288, and H.264 Baseline profile up to 854×480. So if u want to enjoy video on Nook Color, u should convert video to Nook Color compatible formats. I suggest u a powerful video converter called Foxreal Video Converter, which enables convert all video formats to Nook Color with the optimized video format (MP4, 854×480, H.264 codec, 1500kbps avg bitrate, AAC 48KHz 160Kbps) to give user the best visual enjoyment.
U can try it, hopefully it can help u.
Tim
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You can download an app from market and then you can watch rmvb on Nook Color. So, your post is not 100% accurate.
There are a couple apps vplayer and rockplayer that can play just about every format on armv7l (our cpu)
More importantly I heard the ffree and awesome VLC player is coming to android VERY soon, that will be the best for the NC for sure
I have tried half a dozen video apps and have been unable to play 720p mkv.
720p youtube vids don't work
I tried downloading 720p and 1080p videos from youtube with tubemate and they wouldn't play. They'd skip and stutter - totally unwatchable.
Also just tried playing a 180meg 720p AVI of the office in VPlayer. The video plays fluidly but the audio is completely out of sync.
wy1d said:
I have tried half a dozen video apps and have been unable to play 720p mkv.
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Nook color's GPU limitation. Max it can play back is 854×480.
See 3 posts up.
From Nook color spec on nookdevs.com site.
GPU Processor: PowerVR SGX530 - Hardware Scaling: 854x480 scaled to 1024x600
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I'm afraid 720p and 1080p are out of the question.
What's the point of 720p on a 480p device? Do you just not want to convert your video files?
Sent from my Nook Color.
Vplayer works better than rockplayer. Plays mkv. Ratings are bad because developer said application would always be free than started to charge for it. Paid version is highly rated
Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk
Clienterror said:
What's the point of 720p on a 480p device? Do you just not want to convert your video files?
Sent from my Nook Color.
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Because the nook's screen is 600 pixels so 720 would be the smallest "standard" size that doesn't have to be up-converted.
I play mkv files on my HTC Desire - Rockplayer and others all stuttered and displayed a blocky effect.
Then I installed Vital Player (neon) and they all player wonderfully - even 70p ones! For some reason it struggles with 720p mp4 files but who uses those?
The chip that handles video on the NC wants to play video smaller than 854x480.
Any video larger than that will not go through the hardware accelerator.
I have a thread where I attached a handbrake preset for the NC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992214
If you use that preset, you have to set the video size yourself (defaults to original size)
Use the original size if it is smaller than 854x480. If it is larger (like 720p would be) then set it to 854 width with "Keep Aspect Ratio" and the video file that handbrake puts out will be nook hardware accelerated.
Also, MoboPlayer is much better than the alternatives as far as the player itself goes.
Juboha said:
Nook color's GPU limitation. Max it can play back is 854×480.
See 3 posts up.
From Nook color spec on nookdevs.com site.
I'm afraid 720p and 1080p are out of the question.
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I read entire thread but I really want to know why archos 70 or 101 (with same GPU!) manages to play 720p hardware accelerated.

[Q] Hardware H.264/MKV support...sucks?

I'm a heavy video watcher, so I naturally loaded up my Captivate with tons of videos, thrilled at the idea that I didn't need to convert them first...or so I thought.
While playback performance is superb on even HD content with subtitles, it seems that hardware acceleration will only work with files encoded at 23.976fps Playing files encoded at other framerates (like 30fps, or a few variable-framerate files) results in completely out-of-sync video and audio.
Now, I can maybe excuse lack of VFR support, since timecode implementation might not be so simple (I wouldn't know), but why can't my Captivate play videos at their correct framerates? Videos are perfectly in sync when playing in software mode (using players like VPlayer and RockBox), but performance is poor in comparison. That leaves me to re-encode a good portion of my videos using AviSynth--hours and hours of setup and encoding time--just to end up with a workable framerate for my Captivate.
I just want to make sure this isn't just an isolated issue, as I've had this problem on both my original and my replacement Captivates. Anyone think this should be fixed by Samsung in their Froyo release?
I convert lots of videos (BD and standard DVD discs) for use on my Cappy. Some I leave at 23.97, others I switch to 30fps. All play fine in both mkv, divx, mp4 and h.264 formats. I use PavTube Ultimate Video Converter as it reads BD discs, even those with copy protection (The Dark Knight, for one, as well as rental discs). Works great and the vids look stunning on my Cappy.
Miami_Son said:
I convert lots of videos (BD and standard DVD discs) for use on my Cappy. Some I leave at 23.97, others I switch to 30fps. All play fine in both mkv, divx, mp4 and h.264 formats. I use PavTube Ultimate Video Converter as it reads BD discs, even those with copy protection (The Dark Knight, for one, as well as rental discs). Works great and the vids look stunning on my Cappy.
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Hmm, interesting. The files in question are all mkv's that have framerates of 29.97 (constant framerate) or 23.976 (variable framerate). They have various resolutions and audio encoding. Every single one of them is heavily out of sync on my Captivate, even after remuxing into an mp4 container, although they play fine on my laptop. Using AviSynth and FFDshow to convert the framerate to 23.976 (constant) allows the videos to play fine on the phone.
A small bump: Another major issue I have with H.264 content seems to be seeking. Although I can't figure out whether this is caused by the video itself or the phone (since the videos always play and seek fine in VLC), the issue only seems to occur with H.264 videos in MP4 containers (not with MKV's).
The first set of videos are all MP4's made by extracting the H.264 streams from MKV's (all 23.976fps), re-encoding them at 800x450 resolution (using AviSynth and FFDshow on my desktop), and putting them into MP4 containers. The reason I converted them was to embed .ass softsubs as styled hardsubs (since styled .ass support is lacking in Android video players). Every single one of these videos will not manually seek past around 14:06 on my phone (they seek and play fine on my computer). If I seek to around 14 minutes and let the video play (or just let it play from the beginning), it will play through just fine, but attempting to seek beyond that causes ANY video player on my phone that relies on hardware acceleration to freeze (software codec players like RockBox and VPlayer will seek fine).
The second set of videos are exactly the same, except they are 640x480 resolution and they were encoded on my laptop (still using AviSynth and FFDShow). These videos will not seek past 3:25 seconds on my phone without freezing the player (once again, they play and seek fine on any computer). On top of that, these videos will NOT play through on their own: at some random point in the video (different each time), I get an error message saying "Sorry, the video cannot be played" (in any player relying on hardware acceleration), and then the video frame will freeze while the sound continues to play in the background.
Note that this only happens with MP4's: the MKV's have no problem playing or seeking, but they are out of sync if they are not at 23.976fps (constant) and I want my styled subtitles. Can anyone else reproduce issues like this? This has happened so far on TWO Captivates, whether on stock or running custom ROM's (I've used Cognition, Cezar's and Darky's with various kernels). I'm very confused and running out of ideas, I've already been asking about this on video encoding forums and haven't found a solution.
Edit: Nevermind these additional issues. I solved them by using FFmpegSource instead of DirectShowSource, now all my videos play and seek fine. However, this doesn't solve my issue with different framerates being out of sync.

can 2X play FHD videos which are not produced by itself?

I have downloaded some FHD Videos from youtube, when I play the files with the official player, FHD videos cannot be played while the lower resolution ones do.
and I have also try some 3rd party video player( mobo player), it can only be played under soft decoding while the quality is terrible (serious lag)
does anyone know how to play these files or it cannot be played smoothly at the moment?
Convert the 1080p file as MP4(Xivd) and 10Mbit/s. It play smooth on 2x.

[Q] Getting better video quality?

Is there any way to improve the video playback quality?
I'm a heavy user of Voddler (a swedish Netflix) and Plex (video streaming from computer). When I watch the movies I have a little problem with the quality. Small blocks appear on the screen during playback. Is there anyway to make them disapear?
Or maybe it's just my Wifi connection too slow?
But this also appear when I play videos from the SDcard. These clips are in 720p, but the phone should manage to play them better, right?
Hope you can help me!
Best Regards
Jimmy
Try MX Player to play videos. and of course WiFi bandwidth matters for Quality video playback.
Those spot depends upon the bandwidth you are using and stored videos depends upon the bitrate which used to decode the video. Try to use more than 3mbps bitrate videos and higher bandwidth for streaming.. You won't see blocks in these setup.

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