[Q] HW accelerated video playback - Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh

Has anyone succeeded enabling HW decoders in BS player and MX player on droid/milestone?
I installed both of them, installed the ARMv7 codec packs for their respective players, and tried many different videos. It always renders in SW mode. Is it possible at all to enable the HW mode on this chip?
Forgot to mention, I am using CM9 (9.1.0b) which afaik does support HW accelerated decoding.

I only managed to enable HW+ decoding in MX Player using CM7.
In CM9 and 10 it somehow doesn't work :/

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[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.

MKV playback

Can anyone test this file through MXplayer or any other app that supports HW+? Please post results
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=view&tid=441612
MX can't play it in HW or HW+, only SW. Animes usually use VFR as this one, so HW is toast. Pretty sure HW/HW+ only work on only normal (CFR) vids.
I played the vid in Dice, BSPlayer, and MX Player. All played it via sw not hw or hw+.
This was on a Nook HD+ running CM10.1.
The playback was smooth however.

MX player (HW decode) not support ??

tried to play mp4 video with MX player
HW+ / HW decode failed..... but SW decode succeeded
is nook hd+ not support HW decode ??
thanks
It does support HW and HW+ decoding, I've used it to play a number of h264 encoded videos.
Your issue may have to do with which h264 profile the video was encoded with. I know for a fact that it will fail to play 10-bit videos in HW/HW+ mode.
Vasaeleth said:
It does support HW and HW+ decoding, I've used it to play a number of h264 encoded videos.
Your issue may have to do with which h264 profile the video was encoded with. I know for a fact that it will fail to play 10-bit videos in HW/HW+ mode.
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that's mean not support mp4 video ?
I'd also recommend installing the MX Player ARMv7 NEON codec from google play store. I'm pretty sure that that one applies to the graphics chipset in the Nook HD+. all the mp4 videos I've tried playing worked in H/W+ mode.
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personally i dont care for mp4 but have tried huge 1080p mkv's and all play without a hitch (streamed from home network pc I might add)

H.265 hevc hardware decoding?

MT8127 Seems to have capability for h265 decoding, but every h265 file I tried, HW decoding didn't work. Is there any way to get it to work?
Giorgi-geo said:
MT8127 Seems to have capability for h265 decoding, but every h265 file I tried, HW decoding didn't work. Is there any way to get it to work?
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what rom are you on?
4t701 said:
what rom are you on?
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FireOS 5.1.1.
Why? is it enabled on any other rom?
Any ideas?
Oddly I can get HW playback on sample video files without any audio in mx player but the ones with audio knock it dead.
Which files did you try? I tested the 5mb file from here both with and without audio, and mx player pro 1.8.1 reverts to SW on both.
julianpaul said:
Which files did you try? I tested the 5mb file from here both with and without audio, and mx player pro 1.8.1 reverts to SW on both.
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Hang on, I meant to leave that window open in case asked, but closed it.
Hmm I do note that the page mentions x265 now though properties in mx player didn't show that, only noticed the HEVC before. So might well be my mistake there.
https://x265.com/hevc-video-files/
How did you make it play without audio as don't see any audio free files there?
I used mkvmerge to remove the audio track.
I did some testing.
Turns out it can HW decode h265 but it's buggy.
First I tried encoding to h265 with handbrake and it worked, but only in mp4/m4v. If I encoded in mkv container it fell back to SW. so that's pretty weird, container having that much impact.
After this I decided to move streams from downloaded 720p h265 mkv file to mp4 without touching the streams themselves. Extracted them with mkvextract, and put them in mp4 with mp4box. (file contained hevc video, aac audio and srt subtitles).
I tried playing it with mx player and voila, video played with HW, but now audio didn't work. I turned audio decoding to SW and that fixed it. BUT now seeking the video put decoding back to SW. I decided no big deal, and tried the same trick with 1080p hevc. but it just didn't play with HW, then I tried the previous file again and it too didn't work. And I haven't been able to play it with HW decoding since then. Not in MX and not in stock player.
Giorgi-geo said:
I did some testing.
Turns out it can HW decode h265 but it's buggy.
...then I tried the previous file again and it too didn't work. And I haven't been able to play it with HW decoding since then. Not in MX and not in stock player.
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That is decidedly odd.
Update from SlimLP rom.
Every 720p hevc file works with HW decoding, audio and video, regardless of container!!!
One 1080p file I tried went to SW decoding and said HW wasn't supported.
Other 1080p files loaded with HW without any warnings, audio played well but video was black. This turned out to be part of an issue of only playing a few frames than freezing at that frame, when you rewind the video you can see it more clearly.
I tried MX player 1.80 Nightly and Stock player, same results. HW+ decoding doesn't work but I think that's MX player's issue.
I think this is great news. The problems seem to be mostly software related and this gives me hope that maybe 1080p will also be fixed in the future.

x265 HW acceleration on MXPlayer

Hi
Is there any way to get HW acceleration for playback of x265 video files on MX Player on stock Marshmallow. It is only working in SW mode for me and resulting in choppy playback.
HW mode seems to be working on CM13 and the playback is really smooth.
Can anyone tell me why this is ?
Thanks in advance.

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