uncholowapo
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I'm not sure how many of you use your phone to watch Hi-Def videos. I don't but I was bored today on my day off and had an urge to see if this phone can handle some heavy content. I had a 1080p copy of Sintel on my flash drive so I put it in my phone and like Cave Johnson said ,"We're throwing science at the walls here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do."
Interestingly, the stock android video player FC's right after I select the video from the menu which is pretty weird. Only difference between this one and one recorded off my phone is the audio (and resolution obviously). Both are in H264 format with an mp4 container. The cam audio is AAC and Sintel is AC3 but I wouldn't expect it to FC, maybe throw out an incompatibility message though.
So I download MX Player because it advertises multicore decoding and CPU optimization and voila, it plays smoothly. You can give a nice thank you to the help of hardware acceleration on the phone. That Adreno 220 does wonders. Frames don't look like they skip at all. Just for the lulz, I disabled hardware playback to see if 2 cores are adequate to play 1080p. Answer is a disappointing no. There's massive frame skipping and audio waiting for video which gives reason to why LG only capped video recording to 720p. Playing a cam video in software mode didn't produce any of those problems. Its enough for me though. I don't really care about recording in anything higher
tl;dr if you like watching high definition stuff on a small screen then go ahead
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Interestingly, the stock android video player FC's right after I select the video from the menu which is pretty weird. Only difference between this one and one recorded off my phone is the audio (and resolution obviously). Both are in H264 format with an mp4 container. The cam audio is AAC and Sintel is AC3 but I wouldn't expect it to FC, maybe throw out an incompatibility message though.
So I download MX Player because it advertises multicore decoding and CPU optimization and voila, it plays smoothly. You can give a nice thank you to the help of hardware acceleration on the phone. That Adreno 220 does wonders. Frames don't look like they skip at all. Just for the lulz, I disabled hardware playback to see if 2 cores are adequate to play 1080p. Answer is a disappointing no. There's massive frame skipping and audio waiting for video which gives reason to why LG only capped video recording to 720p. Playing a cam video in software mode didn't produce any of those problems. Its enough for me though. I don't really care about recording in anything higher
tl;dr if you like watching high definition stuff on a small screen then go ahead
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