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[Q] Flash Video Playback

Greeting from the Charge forum.
I recently tried out a Gingerbread based leak on the Charge and found the Flash video playback to be significantly slower on Gingerbread with or without Voodoo lag fix enabled or disabled.
I don't know if the problem is the leak, phone specific, Gingerbread, or Flash player. I just don't have enough exposure to Gingerbread.
Having said that, I know the Captivate is a much more mature device.
So my question is how does Flash video playback on the Captivate compare between Froyo or gingerbread?
Try this trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
On EE4 (Froyo) with or without lag fix I get smooth frame rates up to and including 720p.
On EP1W (Gingerbread) it's unplayable in 480p and okay (not perfect) in 360p.
Let me know if you get smooth frame rate in 720 or 480p.
Again, these test are in the browser, not the Youtube app. It requires your browser to be in desktop view mode.

If I turn my CPU up to 1440 its smooth. Anything lower its choppy in 720. Smooth at 360 no matter what I'm set to.

I assume you are runing on a Gingerbread rom/kernel. Do you or anyone else happen to have a Froyo rom/kernel for comparison?

Yeah I'm on miui right now. If no one shows up by end of night in a couple hours ill flash to a froyo n let you know.

I'm on stock KH3(latest leaked GB2.3.4) and no OC/UV and no lagfix as there isn't one for it at the moment! its fine at 720P
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b-eock said:
I'm on stock KH3(latest leaked GB2.3.4) and no OC/UV and no lagfix as there isn't one for it at the moment! its fine at 720P
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Great news. So we know that your getting hardware acceleration with Flash video playback. We know that Gingerbread supports hardware acceleration and Flash.
The question is what settings/configuration do you have on your phone that tells Flash to use your hardware (Hummingbird) to accelerate video playback.
Perhaps M3drvr and I can try build.prop edit?

I have used to V8 supercharger for the KAK tweaks and 3G booster and lag nuliifier
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I'm on apex 9.3 and do not have any issues with lag. Runs just fine in high quality.
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helboy618 said:
I'm on apex 9.3 and do not have any issues with lag. Runs just fine in high quality.
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You are running from the Youtube app. I am talking about running Flash video from the Flash player within your browser at 720p.
Try again, and report your results.

bunklung said:
You are running from the Youtube app. I am talking about running Flash video from the Flash player within your browser at 720p.
Try again, and report your results.
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You are correct in that I was using the YouTube app and I tried the mobile youtube website before as well without any issues. Although when I switched over to desktop mode, I can't select the 720p setting. I tried on the stock browser as well as DolphinHD browser and when I click on the quality button to select the 720p setting the menu flashes for a sec and then goes away. Not to sure why it does that. Never had that issue before.

b-eock said:
I'm on stock KH3(latest leaked GB2.3.4) and no OC/UV and no lagfix as there isn't one for it at the moment! its fine at 720P
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Can you post/host/upload your build.prop?
I'd like to see if I can trick Adobe Flash.
Thanks.

Is the flash performance really supposed to be so bad?

Sometimes even 480 p lags and 720 p is like a slideshow. I am using stock rom v20b 2.3.4. Is the performance so bad because of the stock rom or what?
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I have the same problem , tried with many versions of stock based roms and kernels and different flash player versions but no luck. Now using django manouche rom with stock kernel, best till now with flash player v11 but max 480p videos from yt. witch 720p it's terrible. anybody?
p.s. my friend has galaxy s and the same video from youtube in browser it's working very good even at 720p. Why?

kaspar737 said:
Sometimes even 480 p lags and 720 p is like a slideshow. I am using stock rom v20b 2.3.4. Is the performance so bad because of the stock rom or what?
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I'm using a modded stock rom and never lag at 480p so try a different rom.
Stop whining about 720p I've seen many vids of those so called sgs playing 720 and it does lag besides that you don't notice the difference on a small screen and for HDTV out it's upscaled so stfu about it. It lags because it's flash.....in a browser perfectly normal.
ICS with real hw acceleration might fix this but who knows and who cares.
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eraldo said:
I'm using a modded stock rom and never lag at 480p so try a different rom.
Stop whining about 720p I've seen many vids of those so called sgs playing 720 and it does lag besides that you don't notice the difference on a small screen and for HDTV out it's upscaled so stfu about it. It lags because it's flash.....in a browser perfectly normal.
ICS with real hw acceleration might fix this but who knows and who cares.
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I've been reading your comments over many threads, and seriously, you need to fix your attitude. And use proper sentences and commas.

eraldo said:
How about you stay on topic or use the PM system you grammar nazi.
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Sure. Let's have this topic locked as there is no constructive discussion going on.

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Sure. Let's have this topic locked as there is no constructive discussion going on.
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Best decision!

[Q] wathing hd films on x8.

Hi all xda members.I have a question about watching hd films on x8.Can i watch hd films (720p,1020p),when i can whith app is best for this.
Thanks for repiles.

I dont think so, maybe it will play but will be laggy. Try resizing the movie first. Theres a lot of converters out there.
For the apps I recommend MOBO player.

deedii said:
I dont think so, maybe it will play but will be laggy. Try resizing the movie first. Theres a lot of converters out there.
For the apps I recommend MOBO player.
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Can you tell me what FPS is suitable for our device ?

Mayank77 said:
Can you tell me what FPS is suitable for our device ?
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20-23 max, if you can overclock to 800mhz 25-26 max
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Thanks for fast help.

There is really no point in playing HD video on X8, because on 360p screen (480x360), you obviously can't watch 720p (1024x720) or 1080p (1920x1080) in their real resolutions
so for an example:
if you have one video in 360p, 720p and 1080p, and let's say that you want to watch this video on a device that supports 1080p but it has 360p screen (like X8),
you will end up with that, that you can't distinguish 360p from 1080p video
so my advice would be for you to resize it to 360p, put FPS on 20-23, maintain the sound quality, and that is as much as you can get on X8 regarding playing videos

use popular converter such as FormatFactory.
MP4 DivX Codec
480x320 WxH
20-30 FPS
Birate: 580KiB/s or higher until 2500KiB/s
Audio AAC
128 KiB/s

I never actually tried playing HD vids on my X8 before cuz I I know it will lag, but I think all the apps I would of recommended have already been mentioned
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Thanks now i resize films for my x8 in format factory and give 20-23-30 fps,360p.

przemek4113 said:
Thanks now i resize films for my x8 in format factory and give 20-23-30 fps,360p.
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Can you edit the fps?! Can you do this to games too?
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stamatis16 said:
Can you edit the fps?! Can you do this to games too?
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What is this I don't even...
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What is this I don't even...
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Frames Per Second, its measuring the frame rate/frequency in a moving picture.
Hope that helps and you understood, if not, google It, you will find more informations
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rockplayer

stamatis16 said:
Can you edit the fps?! Can you do this to games too?
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You can edit FPS when you're encoding video. You can't choose FPS in games.

VaskisCZ said:
You can edit FPS when you're encoding video. You can't choose FPS in games.
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there is absoletely no way? even a pay one, like armv7-armv6?
when you make a game dont you set the values of fps? so cant we edit it?

[Q] who tried mx video player on CM9 rom?

mx video player could use hw decoder on other ICS rom but CM9 rom.
Who experienced the same problem?

Using a Slim ICS based rom. Some vids h/w is available, some videos not
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adrianmak said:
mx video player could use hw decoder on other ICS rom but CM9 rom.
Who experienced the same problem?
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Me. The video playback is not that smooth :/
Thats why I flashed another custom rom

adrianmak said:
mx video player could use hw decoder on other ICS rom but CM9 rom.
Who experienced the same problem?
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what kernel?

yahyoh said:
what kernel?
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I tried to semaphore and mnics.

heyyimnew said:
Me. The video playback is not that smooth :/
Thats why I flashed another custom rom
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which custom rom are you using ?

adrianmak said:
I tried to semaphore and mnics.
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did u tried 720p patch

I'm having a similar problem too. Can someone pls tell me how to flash a "Kernel", as well as a download link for the 720p patch?

Seriously nobody helping?
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IMO the problem is MX player, hardware works great on every single format in VLC for me and playing 720p no longer lags, which it did with MX. I'm on CM10.1 but was the same on previous versions.
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Ok thats something to hear, but I tried Moboplayer and dice player and they all have the same results. Are you sure that vlc will handle it? Also what about 1080p? My gtp1000 can handle it on gingerbread. . .
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Why would you want to play back 1080p on an i9000?
Anyway i don't know, but I could test it later when I'm home if it's important.
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Just tried 1080p on vlc on the p1000, no joy whatsoever. I read from another topic that I have to use another kernel, here's the website:
http://www.humberos.com.br/p/android-ics.html. You think this would work?
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Yeah I just realized you're posting from a Galaxy Tab, and while we have much the same hardware you should take your question to the appropriate section...
When my phone was new, the Samsung stock player was perfectly able to play anything I threw at it, you don't seem to know much about flashing so I assume you're on a stock ROM, in which case you have the stock player. Use that?
Also, for viewing on your Tab anything more than 720p is completely useless.
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Yes that is true, it is completely useless. hmm anyways I just wanna know is there any app that could allow me to configure the white and black color density, just like in the stock Gingerbread?
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60 fps video recording?

Maybe this is just my imagination, but 1080p video recording on 4.4.1 seems to be smoother than 4.4 by an order of magnitude. It's darker than before, but If I'm not mistaken, it appears to be recording at 60 fps (which is a feature of the Snapdragon 800). Really cool and interesting.

maxpower7 said:
Maybe this is just my imagination, but 1080p video recording on 4.4.1 seems to be smoother than 4.4 by an order of magnitude. It's darker than before, but If I'm not mistaken, it appears to be recording at 60 fps (which is a feature of the Snapdragon 800). Really cool and interesting.
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That's odd, I thought the Nexus 5 didn't support 60FPS @ 1080p

Jimlarck said:
That's odd, I thought the Nexus 5 didn't support 60FPS @ 1080p
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I haven't looked at the EXIF data so I could be wrong, but give it a shot - it's waaaay smoother than before the update. This phone has a SOC that supports 1080px60 recording, so it's not outside of the realm of possibility.

My video recording seems broke now,. Pressing the red button doesnt do anything within the camera app any ideas? Cleared cache dalvik and camera app data. Photos are working fine however
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Video recording remains [email protected] It's been improved so it doesn't drop frames as it did before the update.

bloot said:
Video recording remains [email protected] It's been improved so it doesn't drop frames as it did before the update.
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Is there a way we can verify the framerate on-device? It looks smoother than 30fps to me.

emerica243 said:
My video recording seems broke now,. Pressing the red button doesnt do anything within the camera app any ideas? Cleared cache dalvik and camera app data. Photos are working fine however
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I have the same probem. So it's not just you.

maxpower7 said:
Is there a way we can verify the framerate on-device? It looks smoother than 30fps to me.
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Install MX player, play video in MX player, during playback go to menu button on the top right. Click tools then properties or details then in the pop up click more
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psychoace said:
Install MX player, play video in MX player, during playback go to menu button on the top right. Click tools then properties or details then in the pop up click more
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"Unsupported Android version"

emerica243 said:
My video recording seems broke now,. Pressing the red button doesnt do anything within the camera app any ideas? Cleared cache dalvik and camera app data. Photos are working fine however
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Make sure you're on a stock 4.4.1 kernel. I was on Franco r17 and had this happen also.

RussianBear said:
Make sure you're on a stock 4.4.1 kernel. I was on Franco r17 and had this happen also.
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Thanks
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maxpower7 said:
"Unsupported Android version"
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Yep, MX player is unsupported on 4.4.1 at the moment. Found "BPSplayer free" and when tapping on info button shows that my video recordings are averaging around 30fps with 4.4.1. It looks much smoother to the eye and preforms extremely well for a smartphone. But no 60fps based on these results.
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bhake said:
Yep, MX player is unsupported on 4.4.1 at the moment. Found "BPSplayer free" and when tapping on info button shows that my video recordings are averaging around 30fps with 4.4.1. It looks much smoother to the eye and preforms extremely well for a smartphone. But no 60fps based on these results.
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Well, correct you are. Disappointing, but still a huge improvement.

I really dont understand why Google chooses not to leverage the hardware they put in their devices. Our phone is capable of doing both 1080p60 and 4k30, but it supports neither.

maxpower7 said:
Well, correct you are. Disappointing, but still a huge improvement.
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Considering how well this update looks and performs on the N5 camera/video, I can see why one would think it was 60fps. I wouldn't be disappointed. I'm impressed.
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We could give it a try guys.. who is ready to test?

muyoso said:
I really dont understand why Google chooses not to leverage the hardware they put in their devices. Our phone is capable of doing both 1080p60 and 4k30, but it supports neither.
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I'd imagine it has to do with proprietary binaries from Qualcomm. Android likes everything to be open source, with access for all of us to modify/tinker, but putting all their special "tricks" which may not exist on other platforms (exynos, mediatek, etc) into open source code would potentially allow competitors to reverse engineer their methods. If you're familiar with Nvidia graphics cards on Linux it's the same thing. You can use TRUE open-source graphics drivers that are essentially terrible (no gpu video acceleration for video playback) but have source code available for, or you can use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers that arrive as binaries, no source code, but everything works perfectly on with great performance. They do this so ATI can't reverse engineer their drivers, essentially. There's also the possibility that Qualcomm charges based on which features they enable (they did this WAY back in the day on the HTC Mogul, not including hardware graphics acceleration drivers because HTC didn't want to pay extra).

I also noticed that right away much smoother video! +1 here
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after the 4.4.1 update video recording has a lot of disturbance in the audio.....anyone else faced the same issue?

maxpower7 said:
Is there a way we can verify the framerate on-device? It looks smoother than 30fps to me.
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I've checked it on VLC player computer version.