MK802: MX Player will only play in S/W Decoder mode

I started trying to use MX Player on a wide variety of video formats.  I started to notice that playing some of the videos performed pretty badly.  That is when I noticed that MX Player was in S/W mode.  It would not run in H/W mode.  I even tried H/W+ mode.  Instead of a random sampling, I decided to try out some of the videos that we tend to watch the most frequently.  Some of those performed so badly that they were not even watchable.  The Youtube seemed to have no problem playing any video, so I know the hardware decoder can be used.  I tried other apps like VPlayer, Mobo Player, BS Player, ES Video Player and a few others.  All seemed to have the same performance characteristics of MX Player.