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Tablet for media consumption?
wizisi2k:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on June 26, 2011, 09:14:25 PM ---What's media support like for the tablet version of Android (2.3 I think)? On phones it's quite limited, and due to the nature of the Android system, it's very hard to get more codecs without having to root the system first (which voids the warranty IIRC). Android 2.2 can play almost nothing by default; there's a media player called Rockplayer which is able to play h.264 reasonably, and actually supports the mkv container (still no flac audio though), but it's still completely useless for subtitles etc. I have to convert anime into hardsubbed 480p xvid to be able to play it reliably on my Android.
It doesn't matter how powerful the tablet is if it doesn't have the codecs for playing the videos, so it might be worth checking up on that if you can before buying one.
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the codecs may be there but you have to possibly hunt for the actual tech specs for the video (bitrate/x264 level setting, etc) but in general the containers that phones suppourt are poor in terms of subtitle format suppourt. If it suppourts .mp4, it'd be better to actually hardsub the video (if styled subs) than to jump through hoops to get vobsubs or .srt subs to show up
Sticks:
I think tablets use Android 3.0 Honeycomb, 'moboplayer' decodes video with its own codecs through software or hardware (if you select it). I'm not sure how well it'll work for unconverted MKV files on the tablets but it does have good subtitle support. mVideoplayer might also be something else to check out, it uses the phone/tablet's built in codecs to play, how well that'll work I dont know. I don't bother converting since my Galaxy S2 just plays whatever I throw at it 1080p or not, not much help from me, lol
kitamesume:
thats why i`d rather prefer notebooks over tablets, though tablets looks more neat.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: wizisi2k on June 26, 2011, 11:03:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on June 26, 2011, 09:14:25 PM ---What's media support like for the tablet version of Android (2.3 I think)? On phones it's quite limited, and due to the nature of the Android system, it's very hard to get more codecs without having to root the system first (which voids the warranty IIRC). Android 2.2 can play almost nothing by default; there's a media player called Rockplayer which is able to play h.264 reasonably, and actually supports the mkv container (still no flac audio though), but it's still completely useless for subtitles etc. I have to convert anime into hardsubbed 480p xvid to be able to play it reliably on my Android.
It doesn't matter how powerful the tablet is if it doesn't have the codecs for playing the videos, so it might be worth checking up on that if you can before buying one.
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the codecs may be there but you have to possibly hunt for the actual tech specs for the video (bitrate/x264 level setting, etc) but in general the containers that phones suppourt are poor in terms of subtitle format suppourt. If it suppourts .mp4, it'd be better to actually hardsub the video (if styled subs) than to jump through hoops to get vobsubs or .srt subs to show up
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I don't think vobsubs work at all; .srt subs sometimes do if they're not embedded. Since the majority of anime is softsubbed with embedded subs (and usually in .ass), it usually has to be hardsubbed to be played on Android, as you say, which means reencoding it to mp4 or xvid - so a tablet is probably not going to be great for watching anime, even if it is powerful enough to play HD video. A laptop would be better, though I guess it depends on exactly what Android 3.0 supports out of the box.
cloudtailx:
According to the developer page android 3.0 supports
Video H.263 3GPP (.3gp) and MPEG-4 (.mp4)
H.264 AVC Baseline Profile (BP) 3GPP (.3gp) and MPEG-4 (.mp4). MPEG-TS (.ts, AAC audio only, not seekable, Android 3.0+)
MPEG-4 SP 3GPP (.3gp)
VP8 WebM (.webm)
so i guess it can play mkv.
I know that android handles external subs reasonably well, and the default samsung player seems to handle dual audio/soft subs, can anyone confirm?
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