Play HD movie on Xperia E1

In this article i would like to test xperia e1 movie playback capability, i'm going to test with some movies and some players to see which one is the best.

Is it possible to play HD movie on xperia e1? yes of course, with dual core CPU and adreno 305/302 GPU, i'm sure xperia e1 could play HD movies.

Now the question is...can it play 1080p movie or just 720p? well, here's the answer :

	Frozen MP4 1920 x 856	Wreck it Ralph MP4 1920 x 808	Kungfu Panda MP4 1905 x 1072
Stock movie player	smooth	smooth	not playable
MX player H/W	smooth	smooth	not playable
MX player S/W	smooth	smooth	sound delay, lag, frame drop
VLC player beta	smooth	smooth	sound delay, lag, frame drop
BS player	smooth	smooth	sound delay, lag, frame drop

My conclusion is that xperia e1 could not playback a real 1080p movie (1920 x 1080), but it can playback 1920 x 800 movie as shown above.

And if you want to play format other than MP4, like MKV, i suggest don't use the stock movie player, but use MX player, VLC, BS player or other third party player. 

By the way, BS player have unique feature, it can automatically search any available subtitle for the movie and download it from the internet.

MX player is great one, the UI is simple and easy to use, you can switch between H/W decoder and S/W decoder easily.

While VLC player is still on beta, but it has great potential in the future, once the developer get rid of the beta and release the final version.