Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

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Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 11 Jul 2012 03:51

My device is an HTC Rezound running Gingerbread.

What I'm seeing is that when I hold the device vertically (Portrait orientation) all video playback is perfect, but when I switch to horizontal (Landscape) I see the following.

1. Pauses and skips in playback - like the video is skipping in order to keep in sync with the audio.

2. Picture quality de-generates into random, blocky display, then fixes itself a few seconds later.

If I rotate back to the vertical everything is fine again.

Please let me know if I can provide any further detail to assist in debugging. Thanks!

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby edwardw » 11 Jul 2012 13:22

It would help us a lot if you could try and get a logcat log: http://wiki.videolan.org/Android_Report_bugs#Logcat_log

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 11 Jul 2012 20:43

I looks like the logcat output is only left by an application crash or "force close" event. In this case the app stability is solid, just a few glitches in playback.

Am I missing something?

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby edwardw » 11 Jul 2012 20:53

If you see further down to "Logcat log" you can also get debugging messages that will help us.

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 16 Jul 2012 05:30

OK, how do I submit it to you?

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby edwardw » 16 Jul 2012 12:08

Use any pastebin site e.g. http://pastebin.com/

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby XilasZ » 16 Jul 2012 12:56

looks like the cpu is at its limit, or another app is busy in the background, and sometimes vlc drops a few frames, causing some artefacts.


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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby edwardw » 17 Jul 2012 04:45

Seems to be missing the libvlc parts. Ensure that "Verbose" is enabled in VLC preferences.


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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 20 Jul 2012 05:00

Just to bring closure to this thread, I'm pretty diligent about killing background tasks and freezing non-essential apps. I've tried basically all the apps that have the ability to play flv's - VLC in portrait mode is the only one that doesn't skip or fall into slow playback / lose sync with the audio. I feel like it's "close" to being perfect. I see the same symptom with all file types (avi, mp4, flv, and webm) including files that the native player handles fine - except the native player only does mp4 and avi. I assume that the native (stock android) player is just a pass-through for native OS decoding (I'm still learning all this stuff).

Again, thanks for the help.

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 25 Jul 2012 05:59

Hey, I just grabbed the 2012-07-25 build and the problem is gone! What was the fix?

Thanks so much, I've waited a long time for this - 100% smooth playback of arbitrary flv files at HD - no one else has this, including the paid apps. :)

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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Jul 2012 23:49

And it does not work in 2012-07-24? Can you check?
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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Jul 2012 23:50

If it is for flv, maybe this is the fix of the main VLC repo, but I doubt it.
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Re: Playback issues on HTC Rezound - Portrait vs. Landscape

Postby RichardCA » 29 Jul 2012 06:06

No it's not just .flv, but that is what I test with most often because it has to be done in software.

Is there a way to get access to the nightly build history? I don't think I saved the .apk for 2012-07-24 so I can't do a real regression test. Or I guess in this case a "reverse" regression.


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