OMC video performance, apps & settings

[Guest stoofer]

Hi all,

So my father wanted an MP4 player for Xmas, then wanted a tablet "but smaller than that one" - where 'that one' was a 7" galaxy tab... so started looking towards large screened phones and the OMC seems to fit the bill for a bargain price.

Can anyone advise me on video playback on the OMC, specifically:

- encoding resolution & settings

- best apps for playback

- general performance of the OMC as a video player

Cheers :o)

[Guest]

The omc plays video fine.

I watched a few films last week,transformers 3 & battlefield Los Angeles

Use moboplayer,best video player that plays any format

Edited December 6, 2011 by Guest

[Guest SWOriginal]

Most standard .avi .mp4 films should play using mobo player.. not watched a film using my skate yet but it worked perfectly on the blade.. just be aware that battery life will only be good for 1 or 2 movies.

[Guest D3abL3]

And, ofc, don't think of play 720p :P

[Guest Atomix86]

Rockplayer plays every filetype I've ever thrown at it.

[Guest Roph]

ffmpeg* plays most filetypes. There is little difference between third party apps that play "every" type of file, they all bundle libav and just defer to that for decoding.

The problem with that is that it will rape your battery, doing it all in software. Ideally, you should encode your videos so that they'll decode in hardware. H.264 baseline (with a sane resolution like 640x360) and LC-AAC audio will decode in hardware on the blade.

[Guest Atomix86]

Ideally, you should encode your videos so that they'll decode in hardware. H.264 baseline (with a sane resolution like 640x360) and LC-AAC audio will decode in hardware on the blade.

I never knew this, thanks for the info (I would add a thanks to your post but apparently you can't when using tapatalk!).

EDIT: Thanks added to the post.

Edited December 6, 2011 by Atomix86

[Guest stoofer]

Thanks guys, I picked one up today and am now "preparing" his gift. It may not be for me, but I still can't leave it locked and caked in Orange stuff. :-)

The Christmas bundle solved most of my packing issues, too :D

Only problem I have now, as a blade owner, is mild jealousy of the screen real estate the OMC has.

[Guest]

Only problem I have now, as a blade owner, is mild jealousy of the screen real estate the OMC has.

Coming from the blade,I feel sorry for you :lol:

Edited December 6, 2011 by Guest

[Guest dadashi]

look for mx video in market, downloads the newest codecs on first use...plays anything you throw at it...far better than mobo or rockplayer mentioned above...

[Guest arnookie]

Yes I agree mxvideo player outperforms all other players in speed and playback. It is also the best to use with streaming video. It plays everything you throw at it.

[Guest D3abL3]

Yes I agree mxvideo player outperforms all other players in speed and playback. It is also the best to use with streaming video. It plays everything you throw at it.

There's also a catch, while native player can play resolutions like 480p sometimes mxvideo player struggles to play them.

Apart from that is my choice as video player! Awesome design, plenty features and my favourite one: play external subtitles :)

Edited December 7, 2011 by D3abL3