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Thursday, November 8, 2012

MK802: Accelerated MX Player

Update: The new MK802 III supports H/W decoding for all files

In a previous post, I mentioned how MX Player wouldn't use the H/W decoder in the MK802.  The Play store lists codec packs for MX Player but I didn't know which one to use.  On top of that, the codecs say not to install them unless MX Player specifically tells you to install it.  MX Player wasn't telling me which one.  Instead of trial and error, I decided to just try different players.  One of the  I tried was called aVia.  aVia Wouldn't use the hardware decoder, but a popup came up telling me to install the Arm V7 Neon codec.  I installed it and aVia started to use the hardware decoder!  A quick check revealed that MX Player had a codec with the same name.  MX Player started to use the hardware decoder.  The hardware decoder wasn't used for xvid files, but the software decoder was now fast enough to play the files perfectly fine on my 720P TV.  MX Player still won't play video well enough on my 1080 TV.

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