Media player for LG Optimus One

The stock media player in Android is just ok. It will not play all video files. If the resolution of the avi file is higher (resolution more than 640x360), it will give an error message "resolution not supported".

However, you can freely download Moboplayer. This is the best player I have tested. They say that it can technically play any file played by VLC media player, since they use the same codecs (FFDshow). Anyways, Moboplayer was able to play the files rejected by stock player. There was no "resolution not supported" messages anymore.

Note: Make sure your video file does not have AC3 audio. mp3 and AAC audio work fine.

How to get 5.1 surround sound from AAC file using spdif?

This is a tutorial to get 5.1 surround sound from your receiver (capable of handling AC3) from an AAC file. I tried hard to make this work and did lots of googling. Finally found success in doom9 forum.

Here we will be using Media Player Classic and ffdshow.

1. First install MPC and ffdshow.

2. Open ffdshow audio decoder and choose ffdshow to decode AAC (use libfaad2 for AAC in codecs page)

3. In the Resample page, tick the checkbox for Resample. Change "resample to" box to 48000 Hz. Make sure that "Resample always" radio button is checked.

4. In the Output page (under OSD), check AC3 (S/PDIF encode mode) under Supported output sample formats. Make sure the bitrate is 640. Check "Don't use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE header when not needed".

That's it. Press Apply.

Now your AAC will be passed (resampled) to your receiver as AC3 and your receiver will identify it as Dolby Digital.

Note: All the audio going thru ffdshow will be resampled. If you are using MPC for Ac3/DTS, this will reduce quality. I suggest you to use inbuilt MPC AC3/DTS decoder (which can send signals directly to s/pdif) or AC3 filter.