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mercury0x000d

The ultra-modern operator
I'm trying to play 1080p video using MXPlayer, and keep having lag in them. I'm running the latest Alien Kernel and my own ROM. I notice I can't use the HW or HW+ decoders, only SW for these videos. I read on the app's website that this can sometimes be caused by a "customization" of the media components of the phone by the manufacturer. Is there any way I can enable hardware playback for my videos?
 
If I may... :)

With 1080p video, you're looking at a few other jobs besides how the codecs involved are handled (h/w or s/w decoding).

First, at the beginning of the food chain is the fact that 1080p videos are going to scream in at anywhere between 10 and 30 Mbps of video and audio on its way to decoding.

On the back end, the 1920x1080 output needs to scaled by the video processor to 800x480 and respect aspect ratio while doing so. (1080p is 16x9, the Warp is 15x9)

So you have a lot of input/output and other processing going on, and going with h/w decoding is just shifting the load from s/w decoding.

Personally, I recommend two approaches -

First, try DicePlayer and see if it makes a liar out of me, that's done h/w decoding longer than MX Player.

Second, if that doesn't work and if you can, check out Handbrake on a pc to convert your 1080p stuff to something smaller and more manageable. It's free, works great and there are lots of Handbrake tips threads on the forums here.

http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Hope this helps! :)
 
Thanks for your help! I just tried Dice and it seems to do worse than MX. I do have Xilisoft Video Converter on my PC to reduce the media to something more manageable, but I just didn't want to have to convert all my stuff before putting it on my phone. Oh well...
 
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