Has video/media playback improved?
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I've tried Ubuntu Touch on this device in the past, and while the overall experience was good, the dealbreaker was unstable and/or choppy video playback, particularly on .mkv files.
Has this improved recently (particularly on 24.04), or is still a limitation? -
@hlbkv i do not have the device but as long as its not a spec problem video playback works, its a solved problem on pretty much all devices nowdays.
i can confirm video playback works on N100 and surely that is one of the more underpowered device that can run UT.
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@chromiumos-guy sadly that wasn't my experience last year, it was very hit and miss, and notably .mkv files never worked. I don't know if it's a codec issue, but if it's down to Hallium it's probably still the same in 24.04. Just wanted to check before attempting to install once more.
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Honestly, I don't know which handles which codecs UT supports. Is it in the Android stack or Linux/UT stack?
Recently, I encountered an mp4 file that's just black with sound during playback when played on a web based player. Local playback doesn't work at all. I edited a bit on Kdenlive and the resulting mp4 file played fine in UT. -
@hlbkv said in Has video/media playback improved?:
.mkv files never worked
do you have a link to a .mkv file that was problematic for you ? I'm willing to try it on my phone if yes.
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hmm, for lack of an answer, via matroska.org; I found 8 .mkv test files; 5 are playing fine on UT, 2 are failing because of a missing mpeg4 codec - I think that it is the same bug as this one in fact, the fix that is known in principle just needs to find a bit of storage space, and the test4.mkv has a broken structure - vlc can play it because it papers over the problem, but gstreamer on a standard Ubuntu workstation can't; it's a gstreamer limitation.
So Halium has very probably no relationship with problems reading .mkv files. That's entirely a linux level matter. -
Hello,
the native video player is not optimal. As a solution that actually always works I use mpv in liberline on the shell.
greetings
Charly -
mpv can also be installed via snap.
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@gpatel-fr it was about a year ago, I didn't do extensive testing, but none of the .mkv I tried worked, and .mp4 were very hit-and-miss. Good to know it isn't Hallium-related, perhaps there's hope to fix it on this device.
@Charly the issue w/ that is that, AFAIK, Libertine apps aren't hardware-accelerated, and video playback often gets choppy (it was one of the workarounds I tried). Didn't try the snap version though.
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So noone who owns this device can provide any feedback on media playback? I'm planning to reinstall UT anyway, but would rather avoid running into this issue.
