Asus TF300 HORRENDOUS video playback? Is this a JOKE?
?Sorry, cannot play this video? WHAT????
So having been a long time buyer of Asus motherboards, and not a fan of the overhyping and over-priced Ipads, yet still searching for a better value than Samsung's tablets, I look at what seems to be decent reviews of hardware that SHOULD blow the Ipads away (except for the Ipads higher screen resolution) and certainly meet my needs for multimedia playback-I didn't want just a portable web browser.
I do some research and everything seems to look ok, but after receiving the TF300 and trying to play videos I come to find that apparently this tablet has extreme difficulty playing just about any video format, and contrary to one user?s suggestion size doesn?t matter. I start doing searches for ?TF300 Sorry cannot play this video? and find I?m not alone.
The worst part? ALL the videos in question play GREAT from start to finish on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I was first clued in during the file copy process. Had the TF300 connected via it?s cable and began copying over videos in Windows Explorer, was constantly greeted with ?the file cannot be copied? or something like that. This is copying to a brand new 32 GB MicroSD card-the same brand new 32 GB card I use on my Galaxy S3.
So I put the card into a card reader and everything copies fine. Put the card back into the TF300, and every movie I attempt to play will play for around 10 minutes max, then it will start choking (as if I was feeding it full uncompressed HD video or something) then freezes completely and I get a ?The video cannot be played? error message. This happens regardless of ?balanced mode or performance mode? setting, and as you?ll see below regardless of file size.
The videos:
? Are all DVD or Bluray rips that play fine on my smaller, only DUAL CORE cpu Samsung Galaxy S3.
? Usually 1 GB or less in file size. 1 is only 500MB and one is only 600MB.
? Are in mp4 format mostly, and created with Vidcoder (based on handbrake) (some mkv, and I?ve read others having the same issue even with .avi) I used the ?Android High? preset.
The apps used:
Note that ALL these very same apps play these very same files just fine on my Galaxy S3.
I can?t FATHOM that anyone would buy a tablet, laptop, or any portable PC device and not expect to watch movies on it. This thing bills itself as a multimedia power house with quad core CPU etc. well multimedia is more than just games.
Anyone have recommendations for a better tablet that actually works properly besides the Ipad-(which is close to $700-800 last I checked with 64 GB memory!)
?Sorry, cannot play this video? WHAT????
So having been a long time buyer of Asus motherboards, and not a fan of the overhyping and over-priced Ipads, yet still searching for a better value than Samsung's tablets, I look at what seems to be decent reviews of hardware that SHOULD blow the Ipads away (except for the Ipads higher screen resolution) and certainly meet my needs for multimedia playback-I didn't want just a portable web browser.
I do some research and everything seems to look ok, but after receiving the TF300 and trying to play videos I come to find that apparently this tablet has extreme difficulty playing just about any video format, and contrary to one user?s suggestion size doesn?t matter. I start doing searches for ?TF300 Sorry cannot play this video? and find I?m not alone.
The worst part? ALL the videos in question play GREAT from start to finish on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I was first clued in during the file copy process. Had the TF300 connected via it?s cable and began copying over videos in Windows Explorer, was constantly greeted with ?the file cannot be copied? or something like that. This is copying to a brand new 32 GB MicroSD card-the same brand new 32 GB card I use on my Galaxy S3.
So I put the card into a card reader and everything copies fine. Put the card back into the TF300, and every movie I attempt to play will play for around 10 minutes max, then it will start choking (as if I was feeding it full uncompressed HD video or something) then freezes completely and I get a ?The video cannot be played? error message. This happens regardless of ?balanced mode or performance mode? setting, and as you?ll see below regardless of file size.
The videos:
? Are all DVD or Bluray rips that play fine on my smaller, only DUAL CORE cpu Samsung Galaxy S3.
? Usually 1 GB or less in file size. 1 is only 500MB and one is only 600MB.
? Are in mp4 format mostly, and created with Vidcoder (based on handbrake) (some mkv, and I?ve read others having the same issue even with .avi) I used the ?Android High? preset.
The apps used:
- Mx Player (on it?s own first, then installed ArmV7 codec pack per some suggestions-no change)
- BS Player Free
- Moboplayer (which seem to last a few minutes longer before it freezes and give the ?video cannot be played error)
- The built-in stock video player
- ES Media Player?s video player
Note that ALL these very same apps play these very same files just fine on my Galaxy S3.
I can?t FATHOM that anyone would buy a tablet, laptop, or any portable PC device and not expect to watch movies on it. This thing bills itself as a multimedia power house with quad core CPU etc. well multimedia is more than just games.
Anyone have recommendations for a better tablet that actually works properly besides the Ipad-(which is close to $700-800 last I checked with 64 GB memory!)
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