A good Tablet for watching unconverted anime (.mkv,.avi, 720/1080)?

[risho]

I got gifted a Kindle Fire and it plays 720p mkv fine with the right sideloaded software. It's kind of a pain to transfer stuff too and from, though. Pretty much have one transferring while watching another, and delete what I've already watched. For some reason none of the players I've tried successfully steam stuff or require manually typing the full share path for every file.

Currently all the movie players I know of for android are kind of lacking.

might want to look into installing cyanogen mod on it... it really makes it a lot easier to do these things, plus if you install a custom kernel (with cifs enabled) or install a custom kernel module (a cifs module) you can connect your kindle to your at home samba server/ windows share folder and stream directly from it over your wifi without the hassle of transfering over and deleting when you're done.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1309 has pretty much all the information you would need and then some.

and from what ive noticed mxplayer is the best android player for anime.. dunno if it supports hi10p though.

[Bob2004]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

[vuzedome]

Been waiting to test out the new update from MX player as well. It used to throw fits with almost any video with ASS subs.

[Bob2004]

Been waiting to test out the new update from MX player as well. It used to throw fits with almost any video with ASS subs.

I've only tried it with Saki, which has some fairly advanced (static) typesetting, and no karaoke, but it worked really well. Drains the battery even quicker than it did before though, and I had to wait a bit for it to rebuild the font cache when I started the video (presumably so it could use the custom fonts).

[vuzedome]

Only my Galaxy Tab, it looks great, but 720p still stutters.
SD with a little high bitrates play fine but 720p needs really low bitrates, around 2500kbps average will do but sudden spikes will cause stutter.
Having a media server to transcode and stream still is the better option right now.

[kwlogato]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

MX Player supports 10-bit.
I watched Oreimo (http://bakabt.me/161799-ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-720p-10-bit-ane.html)
I have the asus transformer prime.
 

[namaiki]

I can't seem to get HW acceleration working in MX Player on my HTC Sensation. Always seems to fall back to SW mode which can be laggy.

I can get HW acceleration in Dice Player. It supports subtitles, but it doesn't keep/do the styles for subs.

[costi]

I can't seem to get HW acceleration working in MX Player on my HTC Sensation. Always seems to fall back to SW mode which can be laggy.

Same here on Desire Z, no matter what rom I try, hardware in MX Player is choppy. However, since the phone doesn't have an HDMI output, I solved the problem by not watching HD on a 3.7" 800x480 screen

[namaiki]

I can't seem to get HW acceleration working in MX Player on my HTC Sensation. Always seems to fall back to SW mode which can be laggy.

Same here on Desire Z, no matter what rom I try, hardware in MX Player is choppy. However, since the phone doesn't have an HDMI output, I solved the problem by not watching HD on a 3.7" 800x480 screen

True, but I'm not bothered to re-download or convert my 720p stuff. Dice Player plays 720p smooth in HW mode. Ideally I'd have an android app that does HW acceleration as well as SSA/ASS subtitles.

[tomoya-kun]

My motorola xoom decodes 720p mkv just fine.  And so does my blackberry playbook

[AnimeJanai]

Is it just me, but I am still interested in what the OP is using now.

[Spanks]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

MX Player supports 10-bit.
I watched Oreimo (http://bakabt.me/161799-ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-720p-10-bit-ane.html)
I have the asus transformer prime.

Are you sure MX player supports 10bit? I'm still getting color errors and artifacts when I try playing several different 10bit files.

I can though play 720p mkv anime on my Transformer prime perfectly, even over the wifi which I'm very happy about. Only file I have had problems with is a 1080p Code Geass, but I think that is just because it is very high bitrate, It only stutters a little bit so I'm hoping that can be fixed in the future.

[lapa321]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

MX Player supports 10-bit.
I watched Oreimo (http://bakabt.me/161799-ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-720p-10-bit-ane.html)
I have the asus transformer prime.

Are you sure MX player supports 10bit? I'm still getting color errors and artifacts when I try playing several different 10bit files.

I can though play 720p mkv anime on my Transformer prime perfectly, even over the wifi which I'm very happy about. Only file I have had problems with is a 1080p Code Geass, but I think that is just because it is very high bitrate, It only stutters a little bit so I'm hoping that can be fixed in the future.

Dunno about Prime. But on the TF101, when i play this DICE player shows artifacting, while MX player plays it back properly. It's very slow to the point of being unwatchable on the TF101 but the Prime may have enough power to run.

On the other hand, does this reflect on the power the tablets these days? What's the CPU requirement needed to play back 10bit in software mode? Core2Duo's right? So does that mean that if the Prime can also run 10bit in software mode (There's nor hardware support for 10bit) that it's now as powerful as a Core2Duo?

[Spanks]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

MX Player supports 10-bit.
I watched Oreimo (http://bakabt.me/161799-ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-720p-10-bit-ane.html)
I have the asus transformer prime.

Are you sure MX player supports 10bit? I'm still getting color errors and artifacts when I try playing several different 10bit files.

I can though play 720p mkv anime on my Transformer prime perfectly, even over the wifi which I'm very happy about. Only file I have had problems with is a 1080p Code Geass, but I think that is just because it is very high bitrate, It only stutters a little bit so I'm hoping that can be fixed in the future.

Dunno about Prime. But on the TF101, when i play this DICE player shows artifacting, while MX player plays it back properly. It's very slow to the point of being unwatchable on the TF101 but the Prime may have enough power to run.

On the other hand, does this reflect on the power the tablets these days? What's the CPU requirement needed to play back 10bit in software mode? Core2Duo's right? So does that mean that if the Prime can also run 10bit in software mode (There's nor hardware support for 10bit) that it's now as powerful as a Core2Duo?

I guess Ill have to give the 10bit files another go. You cant really compare the two cpus as they have completely different command sets that are better at some things and worse at others plus some hardware may be used even in software mode. But no I doubt 4 1.4ghz arm cores could out perform say a 2.8ghz core2duo in computational power.

[lapa321]

MX Player doesn't support 10-bit AFAIK (I don't think there are any mobile players that do), but - as of the latest update - it does now have full typesetting support, which is brilliant, since you can now play pretty much any video without having to convert it first (except for 10-bit, and those with ordered chapters, of course), and it'll play perfectly, if you have the processing power. I don't know of any other players for Android/iOS/Kindle/etc which can do that (though I'm sure there must be a few by now).

MX Player supports 10-bit.
I watched Oreimo (http://bakabt.me/161799-ore-no-imouto-ga-konna-ni-kawaii-wake-ga-nai-720p-10-bit-ane.html)
I have the asus transformer prime.

Are you sure MX player supports 10bit? I'm still getting color errors and artifacts when I try playing several different 10bit files.

I can though play 720p mkv anime on my Transformer prime perfectly, even over the wifi which I'm very happy about. Only file I have had problems with is a 1080p Code Geass, but I think that is just because it is very high bitrate, It only stutters a little bit so I'm hoping that can be fixed in the future.

Dunno about Prime. But on the TF101, when i play this DICE player shows artifacting, while MX player plays it back properly. It's very slow to the point of being unwatchable on the TF101 but the Prime may have enough power to run.

On the other hand, does this reflect on the power the tablets these days? What's the CPU requirement needed to play back 10bit in software mode? Core2Duo's right? So does that mean that if the Prime can also run 10bit in software mode (There's nor hardware support for 10bit) that it's now as powerful as a Core2Duo?

I guess Ill have to give the 10bit files another go. You cant really compare the two cpus as they have completely different command sets that are better at some things and worse at others plus some hardware may be used even in software mode. But no I doubt 4 1.4ghz arm cores could out perform say a 2.8ghz core2duo in computational power.

Rather than downloading the whole series in the link i gave, there's a file there "[ANE] Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai - Full Length Opening [BDRip 720p x264 Vorbis].mkv" that's only 150MB, that i can attest does work on the TF101 MX Player, and you can try it on the Prime. Also let me know if it's playable on the Prime. It's lag city on the TF101.

[Spanks]

I guess Ill have to give the 10bit files another go. You cant really compare the two cpus as they have completely different command sets that are better at some things and worse at others plus some hardware may be used even in software mode. But no I doubt 4 1.4ghz arm cores could out perform say a 2.8ghz core2duo in computational power.

Rather than downloading the whole series in the link i gave, there's a file there "[ANE] Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai - Full Length Opening [BDRip 720p x264 Vorbis].mkv" that's only 150MB, that i can attest does work on the TF101 MX Player, and you can try it on the Prime. Also let me know if it's playable on the Prime. It's lag city on the TF101.

Oh sweet, 10bit does work now with MX player(and it looks really nice). But as you say its a bit laggy, guess they haven't refined the code enough but even if they did it still might not work as well as 8bit files as I think there is still a degree of hardware acceleration even when using software encoding which wont work for the 10bit files.(I don't know enough though)

[lapa321]

I guess Ill have to give the 10bit files another go. You cant really compare the two cpus as they have completely different command sets that are better at some things and worse at others plus some hardware may be used even in software mode. But no I doubt 4 1.4ghz arm cores could out perform say a 2.8ghz core2duo in computational power.

Rather than downloading the whole series in the link i gave, there's a file there "[ANE] Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai - Full Length Opening [BDRip 720p x264 Vorbis].mkv" that's only 150MB, that i can attest does work on the TF101 MX Player, and you can try it on the Prime. Also let me know if it's playable on the Prime. It's lag city on the TF101.

Oh sweet, 10bit does work now with MX player(and it looks really nice). But as you say its a bit laggy, guess they haven't refined the code enough but even if they did it still might not work as well as 8bit files as I think there is still a degree of hardware acceleration even when using software encoding which wont work for the 10bit files.(I don't know enough though)

Okay.... <me> waiting for Tegra 4.

[namaiki]

I just recalled this thread after noticing that MX Player updated itself.

The latest MX Player seems to be awesome. A lot smoother now and completely usable on my HTC Sensation for the anime I tested + the styled subtitles look perfect as well. I haven't tested any 10bit stuff though.

I can't seem to get HW acceleration working in MX Player on my HTC Sensation. Always seems to fall back to SW mode which can be laggy.

Same here on Desire Z, no matter what rom I try, hardware in MX Player is choppy. However, since the phone doesn't have an HDMI output, I solved the problem by not watching HD on a 3.7" 800x480 screen

True, but I'm not bothered to re-download or convert my 720p stuff. Dice Player plays 720p smooth in HW mode. Ideally I'd have an android app that does HW acceleration as well as SSA/ASS subtitles.

[MRI]

Any tablet with Tegra 3 installed .

Tegra 3 have 4 core cpu plus it have Neon thingy which do only decoding video, only shot for 10bit .

as for mkv and simple videos then every dual core tablet will work.

p.s.  do only HW decoding since it save power and more quality colors , and SW only for 10bit crap.

[Rizirdo]

i have a cheap Velocity Cruz tab. wors good with the 780P get digital blocks discoloration on 1080. but its good for being $100. Plays MKVs and other formats.