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Play video with TCPMP in HTC Video album

Hello all
After long search in this forum and in cruise's registry, I didn't find how to play video with tcpmp (instead WMP) in HTC Video Album.
TCPMP is correctly configured for play all media by default in my phone, (photo,music,video), since the explorer, by example. But not since HTC Video Album.
Someone could help me?
And I think it will be interesting for a lot of people!
THX a lot!
Bye

After one week of research, no solution...

possible fix
Hi,
I did the following with my device:
I opened the registry and browsed to HKLM\software\HTC\Biotouch\MediaHubMini\App1_3\ and edit Path. Insert the following value if you have an English device: \storage card\program files\tcpmp\player.exe
If you have a different langauge device you should replace the \storage card\ with the name of your card.
N.B. This only works if you installed TCPMP player with the default settings on the storage card.

NeoS2007 said:
Hi,
I did the following with my device:
I opened the registry and browsed to HKLM\software\HTC\Biotouch\MediaHubMini\App1_3\ and edit Path. Insert the following value if you have an English device: \storage card\program files\tcpmp\player.exe
If you have a different langauge device you should replace the \storage card\ with the name of your card.
N.B. This only works if you installed TCPMP player with the default settings on the storage card.
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Good suggestion, however this only gets you to open TCPMP through the cube "Videos" icon, not within HTC Album as requested by ZueBug - I think ZueBug meant that he wants to be able to click on a video from within the HTC Album UI and then have it call up TCPMP to play the video instead of WMP. This would be great since the HTC Album has a much better UI as compared with TCPMP for browsing through your video collection. I started a thread on this issue a while back, however no one has come up with a solution as yet.

Better yet, i don't even see any videos in HTCAlbum. That's why i changed the Video button in the cube. I wouldn't be able to view any videos, now i am. So for me it's a win-win situation.
But after reading your post i assume you CAN see videos in HTCAlbum?

TCPMP is my default music and video player. But my problem is: how to make TCPMP default player in HTC album!
THX!

Touch settings
Use Carlosp touch settings v 2.2 .
Works almost perfect for mine Cruise , except a message at the opening.
For wich I'm still waiting for a solution.

If you read my first post in this topic you'd have your solution to PCPMP player being defautl in the cube. But i guess reading is hard these days...

NeoS2007 said:
Better yet, i don't even see any videos in HTCAlbum. That's why i changed the Video button in the cube. I wouldn't be able to view any videos, now i am. So for me it's a win-win situation.
But after reading your post i assume you CAN see videos in HTCAlbum?
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Yes, videos are viewable in HTC Album for me after clicking on the Videos button in the cube. Apparently though, it only recognizes videos in MP4 format. Any videos in AVI format are ignored when placed in the folder from which HTC Album reads. I guess HTC Album was really designed specifically for the videos taken by the on-board camera and nothing else. So I assume this is why you can't see any videos - your collection is not in MP4 format, correct?
As a test, I converted an AVI clip to MP4 and, low and behold, it was recognized in HTC Album. However, I am not about to get started converting my whole video library to MP4 anytime soon!

Well, the fun part is, all video i have is made by the Polaris. So either the HTCalbum sucks balls, or there's something wrong with my ROM.

NeoS2007 said:
Well, the fun part is, all video i have is made by the Polaris. So either the HTCalbum sucks balls, or there's something wrong with my ROM.
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That is weird! Here is my rom info if it helps:
ROM Version: 1.25.405.1 WWE
ROM Date: 12/11/07
Radio Verision: 1.58.21.23
Protocol Version: 25.65.30.04H
Anyone else with my rom version able to confirm my findings? Anyone with NeoS2007's rom version able to confirm his findings?

THX for all, but my problem is still not solved...
(not possible to find the solution to play video with tcpmp or another soft since HTC video album, not f..... WMP... )
And NeoS2007 stop to talk if understanding (and reading!!!) my problem is hard these days...
I launch TCPMP from the cube.It's my default multimedia player.But when I'm in HTC album, videos are played in WMP. Voila le problème...

Help me clear a few things with Media data?

OK I am a bit confused on how Pro handles Media data for its internal apps.
I don't want to use the internal 512MB storage for photos/videos and audio files, but my nice 8GB microSDHC.
I removed all demo photos (and demo video) from internal and moved them to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures (and My Videos) and the TF3D Photos and Videos doesn't see a thing.
Can it be that stupid?
I am afraid same thing will happen if I move folder "Music" from root (from root, why not in My Documents\My Music!!!), to the storage card.
So please, let me know, how (if possible) will I be able to use my storage card for my media files FOR the TF3D media apps? (because ok I know I can use third party but that is not what I'm asking)
And since we are at it, what's with the "Content" folder?
Please help me.

NOBODY can help?

Mine currently does that. Camera/Videos shoots and saves to \Storage Card\My Documents\, and touchflo pulls them off of there. Not sure what the exact settings are, but check these:
Camera > Config > Advanced > (2/5) Storage > Storage Card
Also try Advanced Config 3.1:
Camera > Save Location > My Pictures
Locations > Default storage location for (images/audio/videos) > \Storage Card\My Documents
Also, I don't think the music panel cares about the location of music files. Half of the sample songs were under \Content\Music, another half under \My Documents\My Music. I threw a bunch of songs into \Storage card\Music and it found them just fine. Separate songs into Artist\Album\Song.mp3 with a folder.jpg for album art (the rest of the info gets pulled from ID3).

will try that (and get back to you)
thanks

One thing at a time...
- I already had Storage Card in Camera settings.
- I have \Storage Card\My Documents\Mu Pictures (etc. respectively) in AC3.1, should I use \Storage Card\My Documents without further subfolders?
- Aaaargh! Things are even worse now that I have checked. Camera doesn't seem to store the photos anywhere!!! (cannot find them in both the card and the device) *** EDIT: Seems the photos are in \Storage Card\My Documents, so my settings above (to use My Pictures) are ignored and more importantly Album ignores them!
Let's clean this up and then I'll check out MP3.

To be honest I don't know which specific setting tells Tflo pictures panel to look under \Storage Card. And yes some of the configs are counter-intuitive or just plain backwards (which also confuses me).
My best guess is:
1) AC3.1 Camera > Save to My Pictures (instead of DCIM) will save pictures \My Documents\My Pictures and,
2) Camer app > Save to Storage Card "prefixes" that save location with \Storage Card.
Still, not really sure how I managed to get Tflo to look in the storage card. All I can do is provide what (relevent) settings I have.
If it helps (read: it doesn't), I have AC3.1 Locations > pointing to \Storage Card\Photos (not even \My Documents). I think we need a second opinion.

also I have noticed a bunch of entries in Camera registry that ends in _409, so could my problems be related to that my MUI is set to _408?

NLS said:
also I have noticed a bunch of entries in Camera registry that ends in _409, so could my problems be related to that my MUI is set to _408?
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Don't know about that. I have 411 IME installed, but my MUI is still 409.
My hunch is that it shouldn't matter. Probably another setting somewhere else that managed to get lost in the mess of things.

well it does
I entered the same keys but with _408, soft reset and seems ok with pics - now will check with videos
then will check out what happens with MP3
thanks I'll report back

ok newer news
videos fine
BUT
now I moved all Music folder in storage card (not \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music) andtf3d player cannot find anything (after soft reset)
also registry doesn't have any _409 entry related to music
finally, content seems to just hold some cache files in my case
any further ideas?

...so anybody knows anything?
I found two keys in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config about scan path that was set to \My Documents (not \Music) and changed those but nothing changes.
TF3D audio player seems to "search" for audio but very soon mentions that there isn't any...
Heeelp?

this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2535708&postcount=2
must be the solution

OK I am having a hard time figuring this out. I wonder if all you people don't have any problems with it (or just don't share)...
I am being pretty analytical to help people help me.
Briefing:
- I have moved all music away from \Content and from \Music
- I have a folder \Storage Card\Music where I have one MP3 in the form \Artist\Album\Song and two songs thrown in the Music folder as they are
- I have searched the WHOLE registry for folder references to Music and Content and if I found any (I think just two in audio manager config keys), I changed them appropriately to \Storage Card\Music
- I am not using WMP at all (because if I do and force it to scan library it starts scanning EVERYTHING plus the FULL microSD (with hundreds of audio files inside program folders)
- I am also not using Windows-side WMP to sync music (I might do it if instructed to, plus if it really puts my music in Storage Card somewhere and of course if it works with TF3D player) ...for now have just "dropped" the three files mentioned above by hand
So...
TF3D music player DOES NOT find ANY music.
WHAT should I do to make THAT player find and use MP3 in my Storage Card (a folder in my card in fact)?
How do you people do it? Have you played around with registry? Do you put MP3 in a specific path I cannot think of? Do you follow some specific procedure?
PLEASE help because it is driving me crazy.

I know it works because I have my music stored in \Storage Card\Music and TF3d picks it up just fine. But I didn't do anything special to my config (no reg edits, etc). Before I deleted the sample music, the Library picked up both the sample mp3s and the mp3s I loaded on to my microSD card, although it took a couple soft-resets to scan in the album art. Also, every time I soft-reset, the first time I go into the Music tab, it pauses with a throbber just under the Start menu as it scans for new files.
One thing I did notice is that the TF3d "music tab" doesn't load all mp3s by default. I have to open up the Library and find them there. Then after I select a song to play, the active folder or playlist is loaded into the TF3d music tab and begins playing.
IE:
- From Library, I select the playlist icon, choose a playlist, then choose a song; that specific playlist is loaded into TF3d music tab.
- From Library, I select an Artist, then hit the songs icon (thus showing all songs by the artist regardless of album); all of those songs are loaded into TF3d music tab.

ok thanks for the info I'll check it out

...in the meantime a question for TF3D audio library. Can I delete something from in there, without deleting it physicaly?

NLS said:
...in the meantime a question for TF3D audio library. Can I delete something from in there, without deleting it physicaly?
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The library has many ways to filter in/out different songs. From what I can tell you can't remove a song from the library (so that the file is still on your device/card, but doesn't show up in the library). But you can add/remove it from playlists -- which of course doesn't modify the music files themselves. In that way (as with many other mp3 players) you can choose which songs you want the TF3d player to play at any given time.

I solved the MAIN problem (now I can see songs) but...
The (newer) problem is that not all of those are real songs (just media files within programs folder) and some are physicaly deleted and still show.
I solved the second problem by deleting audiomanager_eng.vol and it recreated itself "almost correctly".
"Almost" goes to that it STILL gets some extra songs I have in the card in completely irrelevant folders (like \Storage Card\Program Files\xapplication\yfolderinapplication)!!!
Can I prevent this from happening?
The two path registry entries for audio manager are set correctly (I've set them to \Storage Card\Music and \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music respectively).
Weird?

Hi, I just finished setting up my device so it works the way I want it to work music wise.
What I did is the following
1. Copy everything under "My documents" to "Storage Card"
2. Go to HKLM\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory
I used CeRegEditor.
3. Change the value of “Folder” to “My documents”
4. Remove "My Documents"
5. (Hard)Reset the device (Touch Pro)
The "Storage Card" has changed into "My Documents". You see that the "Storage Card" doesn't excist anymore.
Now you will notice that the audiomanager has 2 entries for every mp3. This is because instead of searching "My Documents" and "Storage Card" it is searching "My Documents" twice. So you should change one of the "My Documents" to another directory
Go with a registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and or "device_scan_path_path_0"
These solutions I found by searching the internet and I just put them together.
Regards,
AJ

thanks I'll check the (first part) out too
I don't want to eliminate the whole internal "My documents"

Problems adding music to device?

Hi everyone,
Just got my Pro yesterday and generally loving it - with one major problem though.... I can't seem to add music to the device.
If I dump them straight on the memory card then TF3D music tab says "No Music Found", if I sync them over WMP11 to the device then it shows them - but no album art and their durations are all zero seconds. WMP won't play them either. They're just in MP3 format and play fine everywhere else.
Help?

In the TF3d music tab, click on the Library softkey. You should be able to find them in there (under artists, albums, etc). Once you select a song, it will then load into the TF3d music tab. Hope that helps.

Thanks, I can get them to show there but without album art and the duration is zero seconds... WMP Mobile shows an error "access denied" when i try to play them there, if that helps.

I have no problem accessing my mp3s, but I did not use WMP11 to sync them.
I just copied mp3s right onto my microSD card, separated into folders by album (eg: \Music\artist1\album1\song.mp3), with a folder.jpg image for the album art. TF3d/Library recognized the files and the album art with no problem.

Hmmn, tried that, still the same thing. Just hard reset the device and still a no-go. This is beginning to really bug me very badly (like sending the device back kinda bad).

Double post to update:
So, I find that I can add WMA files without a problem. So at least I have a viable work-around for the problem. This doesn't actually help me sort out what the problem regarding mp3s actually is.
I thought it may be something to do with the File Associations, that I broke them somehow by installed Coreplayer, but I'm less sure now that a Hard Reset didn't solve the problem. It still could be, I see others have had similar problems relating to the registry (although their problems always came after installation of a different media player, rather than on the devices stock ROM). Does anyone know where the pertinent registry values are, and what they should be? Or perhaps others have some different solutions?

Double post to update:
So, I find that I can add WMA files without a problem. So at least I have a viable work-around for the problem. This doesn't actually help me sort out what the problem regarding mp3s actually is.
I thought it may be something to do with the File Associations, that I broke them somehow by installed Coreplayer, but I'm less sure now that a Hard Reset didn't solve the problem. It still could be, I see others have had similar problems relating to the registry (although their problems always came after installation of a different media player, rather than on the devices stock ROM). Does anyone know where the pertinent registry values are, and what they should be? Or perhaps others have some different solutions?

Have you tried soft resetting and deleting the file
\Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol
before switching to the TouchFlo Music tab?
Found I've had to rebuild my library in this way each time new mp3s have been added.
(I assume the mp3 aren't DRM protected - copied a number over myself by mistake which caused a similar problem.)

Probably a silly question,
When i synced my phone with Windows media player 11, all the tracks went across but not the artwork. Having looked in the folders on my pc, i see that the folder has an image, but there is no image file to transfer to the TPro. How do i get the artwork across and does this have to be a manual process.

If the album art is in the folder and named folder.jpg it automatically picks them up ardsar.
Thanks for that Lazy Slug, I'll give it a go.

NZtechfreak said:
If the album art is in the folder and named folder.jpg it automatically picks them up ardsar.
Thanks for that Lazy Slug, I'll give it a go.
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Fancy seeing you here, and sorry didn't mean to hijack your thread, it's a great forum eh!

im using vista with wmp v. 11 and wmp cannot see my touchpro even if it is connected (via bluetooth). i've got no problems syncing mails, calendars, etc. i just cant seem to sync audio files using wmp.
thanks.

Well, my problem is sorted (kinda). I backed up my mp3's to a different external hardrive, something has happened in that process that means they only work on my PC - my PS3 can no longer stream them, my N82 can't play them, my Touch Pro can't either. I'm still trying to work out how to fix them (although when I have time I'll dig up my old drive and see whether they work from there). So good news: nothing wrong with my PS3, N82, Touch Pro.
Regarding your issue dido-11 - have you set up the Touch Pro to sync in WMP11? Instructions are in the manual for how to, if you haven't already tried.

NZtechfreak: indeed, it's in the manual. sorry, quite excited to use it right away without looking at the manual.
fhsieh: thanks, ill try that method as well.

NZtechfreak said:
Hi everyone,
Just got my Pro yesterday and generally loving it - with one major problem though.... I can't seem to add music to the device.
If I dump them straight on the memory card then TF3D music tab says "No Music Found", if I sync them over WMP11 to the device then it shows them - but no album art and their durations are all zero seconds. WMP won't play them either. They're just in MP3 format and play fine everywhere else.
Help?
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Did you try to reencode one mp3 in standard 128 (not VBR) and see if is played?

They're all constant bitrate, they work when converted to WMA. I don't think its a problem with encoding though, since they worked fine with everything previously.

NZtechfreak said:
If the album art is in the folder and named folder.jpg it automatically picks them up ardsar.
Thanks for that Lazy Slug, I'll give it a go.
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I am syncing my music with Windows Media Player 11 - it syncs over fine and the image art is there when playing the music in the windows media player on the fuze, but not present in the cover flow app. Where are these images stored? There are no jpgs in the directories where the MP3s are.

Windows Media Player in WM 6.1 not saving the playlist correctly

I am sure someone beside me (and the other person which posted in the link below) have the problem of windows media player in WM 6.1 saving the playlist incorrectly by adding "/Playlists/" to the path inside playlist.asx
i.e. the correct path would usually be something like "/Storage Card/Music/mysong.mp3", instead windows media player would save the path inside the playlist.asx as "/Storage Card/Playlists/Music/mysong.mp3"
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsmobile/thread/b683fa42-d381-4e84-b786-45863141a2d2
It doesn't happen all the time but it happens enough that it's annoying that you have to open a txt editor on the phone to delete all the extra "/Playlists" word being incorrectly added to the path of the mp3 files.
Anyone have any solution? Thanks

No one else has this problem? No one else want to confirm that they have this problem also?

I have a problem really similar to this... or may be related.
I have all my music stored in a custom folder structure on my PC. I have created playlists using Windows Media Player... then synced to my HTC Touch Pro 2.
Everything copies over perfectly and all playlists are copied... but when I try to play the playlists, it says it can't find the files?
I opened up the playlists in a text editor and it seems as though the path seems fine, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
Occasionally, the playlist will play fine!

I'm having the same problem in wm 6.5.5 (touch 2), doesn't have a fix?

Videos don´t show up in in "Coverflow" anymore!?!

Hey guys, I hope someone of you can help me,
all of a sudden the videos I have on my storage card of the HD2 don´t show up in the album "photos & videos" anymore. It just shows the photos, the videos have "vanished"....but they still are on the storage card and they play just fine, but I have to manually go to the storage card folder they are in to play them, but i want them to be displayed in the "photos & videos" tab of htc hd2 sense.
Can anyone help me, this is really frustrating
switching on and off the hd2 doesn´t help either....

what have you installed or changed lately?

I converted a movie file with the videora htc hd2 converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/htc-hd2/ (note that I converted it to match the htc touch hd, because the htc hd2 is not listed as "mobile phone profile")
I once tried to sync it with windows media player, and already didn´t show up in the "photos & videos" tab. Second time I just drag & dropped the movie file onto the storage card into "storagecard/dcmi/100media/..." Both times I could play the movie out of the windows explorer on the hd2 but never showed up in the "photos & videos" tab....
I started to sort the files in the "100media" folder on the storage card by name, date etc because I thought that could have been the problem. Then I selected "show all files" in that "100media" folder.....nothing, so I reversed everything to its initial status like it was before I changed.
Now even the videos shot with the HD2 camera won´t show up, but they are there......

Oh sorry I forgot, I installed lately a custom taskbar, maybe that is the problem? but I deleted it now...

Some video files won't show up, but it largely depends on the format and encoding options. So just use the settings suggested in the HD2 video encoding thread and you're good to go!

yes ok thanks for the help, but it even doesn´t show its "own" videos, I mean the videos shot with the camera of the hd2....I don´t think that it has to do with video formats?.... I think that would be too simple....

ilovem said:
yes ok thanks for the help, but it even doesn´t show its "own" videos, I mean the videos shot with the camera of the hd2....I don´t think that it has to do with video formats?.... I think that would be too simple....
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Gonna try it myself, but none of my videos have ever been shown in coverflow(isn't this the music player btw?). I think what you're referring to is called "Album".
Edit: My own recorded videos do show up in the album so you've either got your storage location set to something other than the default folder or something is messed up in your manila files.