Not at all fluid playback with Gstreamer on android tablet

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2013-02-25 at 08:45 +0100, Böhr, Nico wrote:
> Andoni Morales wrote:
> > On Android you should try to use as much as possible the hardware
> > decoders, which are available through the androidmedia plugin and only
> > in Jelly Bean (Android 4.2). Your problem is that you are using a
> > software decoder like vp8dec and the device is not powerful enough to
> > decode it.
> 
> But that does not explain why I get 24 frames per second in excellent quality 
> if I remove the autovideosink and instead save them to the sd card.
> 
> To be shure I will try to run the application on a Android 4.2 device.

How many frames per second does your video have? If it's about 24 or
more the annoying behaviour you see can be caused by suboptimal QoS
behaviour.