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[Q] Playing Mp4 video files on Samsung Galaxy S

Hi,
I have downloaded a movie in MP4 format and while playing it on my Samsung Galaxy S, i can see the picture but there is no sound coming...
Picture quality for the file is very good no problem in it..only thing is sound is missing.
Is it some problem? Or some settings needs to be changed?
Seniors..plz advise.
Regards,
Anoop.

Remember that media volume is independent of ringer volume, so make sure you turn the media volume up.
I have run into a bug a few times where the sound on an mp4 won't play, but then I just exit the video player and try again and it works.
Otherwise, it may be the sound codec of the mp4 isn't compatible, although that is unlikely as the Galaxy S seems to support every major codec under the sun. Does the sound work on your computer?
I'm also unsure of if the Galaxy S is able to playback 5.1 encoded sound, so perhaps the sound is beyond the Galaxy S's playback capabilities. That would probably only be the case with a huge bitrate however.
Finally, you can always just encode the video into another format using a tool such as the excellent free Handbrake program (for Windows and OSX). Settings that work flawlessly for me are H264 .MP4 at 800 x 480 (the screen resolution of the Galaxy S, can crop videos if needed) with bitrates up to 2000kbps and AAC audio at 128kpbs, 48000hz stereo.

How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??
I had the same problem with some 720p Mp4 video,
I also tried Rockplayer, but the playback freezes badly,
with the default Galaxy video player HD video is smooth, while on my intel atom netbook, HD is unwatchable..
How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??

sonci said:
With the default Galaxy video player HD video is smooth, while on my intel atom netbook, HD is unwatchable..
How the f.. a 1ghz Humingbird can beat a 1.6Ghz Intel atom??
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Because the Hummingbird supports GPU hardware accelleration for H.264? ;D
Just grabbed myself a Galaxy S and im in the prosess of flashing official Froyo btw.
Best phone evah! (With lagfix)

Nice update now in Froyo,
I see my MP4 HD movies now have audio,
Well at least they did smth right..

The fact is Samsung can play most of MP4 files. Several special MP4 videos will not be played as MP4 is a container video format which may encode with a variety of codecs like H.264, MPEG-4, Xivd, DivX, MPEG-4 ASP etc. or with subtitles or multi-channels audio tracks. As MPEG-4 AVC H.264 codec, support is limited to the required specifications. If your MP4 files are using audio and video codec that Samsung Galaxy cannot support or your MP4 files cannot meet the supported specifications of audio and video codec, your Samsung Galaxy phones or tablets will fail to play MP4 files. Even you download different Android video player, they still fails to play.
In order to successfully play MP4 on Samsung Galaxy, a better solution is to convert MP4 to Samsung Galaxy supported MPEG-4 Video with require specifications. Google search TechiSky How to Play MP4 on Samsung Galaxy you will find the answer.

Try MX-Player

Does Samsung Video Player Have Hardware Acceleration?

Does the Samsung Video Player have hardware acceleration? It's the only explanation I can come up with because it can play 720P MP4 videos just fine, whereas video players from the Market can't. Plus, it seems that the battery life is much better if I use the Samsung Video Player to watch videos whenever possible.

geokilla said:
Does the Samsung Video Player have hardware acceleration? It's the only explanation I can come up with because it can play 720P MP4 videos just fine, whereas video players from the Market can't. Plus, it seems that the battery life is much better if I use the Samsung Video Player to watch videos whenever possible.
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Yes. There are several players from the market that can also use hardware acceleration (ie. RockPlayer, mVideoPlayer), but they can only do so with formats that the stock video player supports. If the phone doesn't support hardware playback of a certain format using the stock player, then you have to use a software playback with RockPlayer, QQplayer, vPlayer, etc. (which is very suboptimal for high-res video in terms of quality and performance).

Yes it does due to the framework that samsung uses. Thus video deciding is done by the gpu rather than cpu.
As long as the 3rd party video player you choose can use the default codecs, it will have the same performance as samsungs video player. However most are based on ffmpeg decoders.
If you plan to use a non samsung based rom. The open codecs will use ffmpeg decoder which will do processing via cpu.
Further explanation http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod7-for-samsung-galaxys/issues/detail?id=39

ohh nice to know...

[Q] divx/avi player for incredible s?

can anyoen recommend an avi/divx player for incredible s? Or is there an easy to use program to convert to whatever format android likes?

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sdxda said:
can anyoen recommend an avi/divx player for incredible s? Or is there an easy to use program to convert to whatever format android likes?
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yes i find Mobo player is by the far and the best and is still being updated
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en
just download it and install it
im only getting 20fps on hd files tho but probably just because its bit rate is 6000 and i only have a class 2 card
but anything sd plays perfectly especially for all your 700mb back ups

+1 for mobo player, it's great!
Sent from my Incredible S using XDA App

Diceplayer
try diceplayer.
diceplayer can use hw video decoder for mkv,m2ts,avi,mov....
it use less battery than sw decoding player ( mobo / rock / vPlayer / QQ )
diceplayer can play 720p H.264 High + DTS/Flac/OGG/AC3
(H.264 profile are depending on HW decoder .. ) and have better video quality.

Diceplayer doesn't work well on my incredible s using virtuous unity 1.27. Crash when trying to open settings.
+1 for mobo player

QQPlayer and vPlayer both worked perfect for me even with HD files with the SD card I received in the package.

humm
juami said:
try diceplayer.
diceplayer can use hw video decoder for mkv,m2ts,avi,mov....
it use less battery than sw decoding player ( mobo / rock / vPlayer / QQ )
diceplayer can play 720p H.264 High + DTS/Flac/OGG/AC3
(H.264 profile are depending on HW decoder .. ) and have better video quality.
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Mobo player actrually has hard ware decoding for many different SoC's
has hardware support for
ARM V5te
ARM V5te_VFP
ARM V6
ARM V6_VFP
ARM V7_VFP
ARM V7_VFPV3
ARM V7_NEON
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Just a FYI

I prefer Rockplayer, I think it's the best player for android .

jul644 said:
Mobo player actrually has hard ware decoding for many different SoC's
has hardware support for
Just a FYI
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Mobo player use ARM's VFP/NEON instructions.
it is not HW video decoder. it is SIMD instructions like MMX,SSE.
HW video decoder is not ARM core.
Diceplayer use SoC's Video decoder and HW renderer like a Stock player.
but Diceplayer can handle many formats(MKV/AVI/MTS/MOV) and audio codecs (DTS/AC3/FLAC/OGG).

no for the IS
juami said:
Mobo player use ARM's VFP/NEON instructions.
it is not HW video decoder. it is SIMD instructions like MMX,SSE.
HW video decoder is not ARM core.
Diceplayer use SoC's Video decoder and HW renderer like a Stock player.
but Diceplayer can handle many formats(MKV/AVI/MTS/MOV) and audio codecs (DTS/AC3/FLAC/OGG).
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Dice Player is hi-performance media player for android.
HTC Sensation/Nexus S/Galaxy S2/Gingerbread Galaxy S can play 720p MKV/AVI ( H.264 High Profile+AC3/DTS/FLAC Audio ) files.
Spec.
* Supported file format : AVI , MP4 , AVI ,MOV , MTS , TS
* Supported Video Codec : MPEG-4 ASP / H.264
* Supported Audio Codec : MP3/AAC/AC3/DTS/FLAC/VORBIS
* Supported Subtitle format : SMI / SRT / ASS
* Apple Http live streaming ( beta )
* SW based format : FLV , rmvb
Tested Devices
1. Samsung Galaxy S variants : Gingerbread required
-> 720p play well.
2. Samsung Galaxy S2
-> can play 1080p
3. Desire HD
-> H.264 High Profile level 3.1 can play well.
4. Samsung Nexus-S
-> 720p play well.
5. Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1)
-> 720p OK , some 1080p works well
6. HTC Sensation
-> 720p OK , 1080p with some lag.
7. Xperia Arc,Play,Arco
-> 720p Supported.
8. Toshiba TG-03
-> 720p High 3.1 / may need libOmxVdec.so patch
9. Dell Streak,Venue,Nexus-1
-> 720p High 3.1 / need libOmxVdec.so patch
10. Moto Defy need Gingerbread.
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.
- Depending on the device will not work, so be sure to test Trial version and buy this version, please do.
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while this is true for some devices no the Incredible S

Optimus black video playback-updated

the lg optimus black has a ti omap 3630 chipset with IVA2+ hardware accelerator to decode video,unfortunately the iva2+ can decode only avc baseline profile at 720p and main profile at 480p, but the avc high profile is not support by IVA2+
Luckily the ARM CORTEX A8 CPU has a powerful media processing engine called NEON which can decode video using software codecs which can drain the battery quickly in case of decoding hd avc high profile videos
in the change log of gingerbread update for optimus black, they mentioned support of new media formats as avc,mpeg4 and some users reported that the phone can play hd 720p avc high profile videos, other users reported that it can play 720p mp4 avc high profile and 480p mkv avc high profile smoothly and that 720p mkv shutters or lags.
that means lg have added some neon optimized software codecs that use use the cpu to decode avc high profile video, resulting in faster battery drain than hardware codecs and also im not sure if 1 ghz cortex a8 cpu with neon can play smoothly 720p avc high profile videos because when i play a 720p avc high profile video on my laptop, it consumes more than 1 ghz on the cpu which is pentium dual core 2.3 ghz with ssse3 media processing engine which i guess is much more powerful than arm cortex a8 neon
so what do u think guys?

I use MX Player or Mobi Player to easily determine whether the video is playing in Hardware or Software. So far it played MKV and youtube FLV in software.

I've had mkv videos playing in HW mode on my MX Player and i'm on Zeus 6.11o. Although i did overclock it to 1.2GHz and it decided to reboot itself, it does do an AVERAGE job.
Sound and video quality is excellent only problem is, the longer you play the video, the less synchronous they become.
I think it will be a bit of a stretch to try and get 720p video and other high quality encoding on hardware such as the p970 but something could happen.

Did you install the MX Video Arm7 codecs too?

BoyBawang2 said:
Did you install the MX Video Arm7 codecs too?
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I as far as i know, I haven't installed those codecs because it didn't ask for them. They may have already been installed prior to download because i prefer to download apk rather than use my limited 3G connection.
Bu regardless, this phone plays video beautifully considering the high compression which even lags on my 3.2Ghz PC.

update
IVA2+ is based on TI C64x DSP which can be clocked to 800 MHz
ti.com/product/omap3630 , this means that it can support 720p avc high profile by default if it is clocked to 600 mhz or above
so if you try to play 720p avc high profile video in dice player and it worked, this means that lg overclocked the dsp in gingerbread update so that it supports hardware decoding of hd avc high profile videos

hi all,
Has anybody Experienced MXvideo played a video in Software but finally played it in Hardware after installing the optional Arm7 codecs?
thanks

BoyBawang2 said:
hi all,
Has anybody Experienced MXvideo played a video in Software but finally played it in Hardware after installing the optional Arm7 codecs?
thanks
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arm7 codecs are software codecs that use the cpu to decode video ,hardware decoding uses built-in codecs to decode video using the video decoder or dsp

[Q] Hardware Acceleration and video decoding

Hi all,
I have samsung galaxy s and i switched to ics rom from GB 2.3.6(very stable and awesome) and found there no built-in video player while gb has samsung video player which plays all format with hardware decoding and MX player hw decoder also works but in ICS there is no hardware decoder also MX player hardware decoding not works. sw decoder is very lagy and useless and live wallpapers is also lagy. While in Team ICSSGS RC4.2 says Full Hardware Acceleration so where is hw acceleration???

I'm using Dice player and it seems to handle most of the formats I have with HW acceleration. Give it a try.

I recently installed dice player, it only show HW icon like MX Player bt actualy does not do hw decoding. U can feel the result of, video is very lagy and sound is chopy. In GB there is no issue and i often watch HD movies, I don't know why anybody feeling this basic issue. Without HW acceleration ICS there is no fun thats y i was using GB with ICS moded them

I use BSPlayer lite + BSPlayer ARMv7 VFP CPU support

Now i tried this, player is very pathetic and if i m using its hw mode of bs engine then video works else system mode does not work. Y u r using BSPlayer ARMv7 VFP CPU support while only bsplayer lite playing mkv files?

I'm running CM9 + semaphore 1.2 kernel, Moboplayer and MX player is working only in software mode, but Dice player hardware mode is working!

I use MIUI.4-SpeeD rom and no problems with live walpapesr. Default player, integrated in galery, play mp4 without problem, mkv play withoot sound, avi not play. BSPlayer play all formatss what i need. Wen using software decoding, mkv drop some frames, wen using system HW decoder, screen is OK but no sound, when using BSPlayer HW decoder screen and sound is normal.

Thanks for all gud replys, Dice player is working good. But i came to point that ICS has not built-in support for HD videos or doesn't have HW decoder. Every player is using its own decoder and produce different result. I just wana know what is technical missing in ICS comparative to GB, because GB has everything built-in(hw decoder and codes) to play every type of file?

Was interesting and i flash phone back to GB rom XXJVU. Default video player not play avi, mkv play withou sound, mp4 play good. The same results I obtained with MIUI.4-SpeeD rom withou any external player and codecs.