the real player handles video, music and photos...
I think it works very good for videos. the music player is too much like the default player and the photo browser pulls from a random folder rather than viewing all your picture folders.
anyways it is worth trying out
nooo, not real player on android!
Hope its not like the PC version at all.
http://www.real.com/realplayer/android
britoso said:
nooo, not real player on android!
Hope its not like the PC version at all.
http://www.real.com/realplayer/android
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lol i was thinking the same thing. All my real player did was freeze all the time on my PC
This response is to reinforce my distaste for RealPlayer, their business model, their apps, and their lack of openess since their earliest inception. I can only hope that Android people do not show any interest in RealPlayer and allow it to die through lack of support/interest by the community.
UI sucks, file management sucks, options(lack of) suck....this needs serious work. I have no idea why they would label this beta. It might be 'working', but I wouldn't want my name on it, that's for sure.
I dislike real too (have for at-least a decade), however since they have embraced android and took the time to create an app, I'm willing to give them a chance to redeem themselves.
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If you've previously written this app off for S2P or what have you, I suggest you check out the latest update to the software.
It's no longer JUST a media player. It's becoming more like an iPod Touch built into your WinMo phone. Check out the Facebook, Twitter and RSS apps built into it. The new like-an-iPhone-but-better interface (for the full effect, fill 4 pages of icons. Yep. Pages aren't just side-by-side, but above and below.) Plus, it has an program launcher which allows you to add your favorite apps to the home screen, along with your favorite music/video feeds and podcasts.
All it needs is a clock, weather and notifications and it's Kinoma FTW. If they take it as far as adding contacts, email and SMS, I'll never look at my today screen again.
I use a shortcut in Kinoma to iContact, another to my gmail inbox and yet another to SMS... sadly, the lack of a clock doesn't allow me to replace SPB MS3 with Kinoma, but I'd like to
Honestly, it IS the best WinMo app out there.. very very impressive.
How does it handle its core function - media? Last time I checked it out it couldn't do bookmarks well or play .avi files. Has that changed?
It's still pretty useless as a Video Player (laggy and no avi support) but for just playing music with a quick, slick repsonsive interface it's great. The added funtionality more than makes up for the lack of Video, use Coreplayer or TCMP for that. I've posted a Youtube clip on this thread of it running along side TF3D on my Touch pro 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3998812#post3998812
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How does it handle its core function - media? Last time I checked it out it couldn't do bookmarks well or play .avi files. Has that changed?
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You might also want to follow my articles - I've recently posted a mini-review & update to my prev, 1.x-related articles of Kinoma 2.
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It's still pretty useless as a Video Player (laggy and no avi support) but for just playing music with a quick, slick repsonsive interface it's great. The added funtionality more than makes up for the lack of Video, use Coreplayer or TCMP for that. I've posted a Youtube clip on this thread of it running along side TF3D on my Touch pro 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3998812#post3998812
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Yeah, for playing back video, TCPMP / CP are still better. However, at everything else, it rocks.
Really? I have to sign up for a offer to try out this thing? No thanks.
No, you dont.
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Really? I have to sign up for a offer to try out this thing? No thanks.
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Sorry, but you are going to have to pay for the full version if you want all the features. And you are complaining that they offered you a way to get it for free? Really?
The freeplay version is FREE, no time limits, and has many of the features of the paid version. But I dont know if it has been updated like the paid version yet.
I actually used the TrialPay to get RealNetworks (yuk) to pay for my copy. I was glad I didn't have to shell out my own $30, but it would have been worth it even if I had. Photos, music, YouTube, Orb, Audible, Streaming radio, audio and video podcasts in one app. And now they added Facebook and Twitter, and an RSS reader. The program is not perfect, but its getting close.
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The freeplay version is FREE, no time limits, and has many of the features of the paid version. But I dont know if it has been updated like the paid version yet.
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Not yet, but soon. That update will focus more on the performance and reliability/compatibility improvements we've made to Kinoma Play rather than new features.
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I actually used the TrialPay to get RealNetworks (yuk) to pay for my copy. I was glad I didn't have to shell out my own $30, but it would have been worth it even if I had.
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Thanks!
For anybody interested in Kinoma Play who hasn't checked out TrialPay: There's lots of different kinds of offers, so the odds a pretty good that you'll find one that's interesting for you. We've had lots of people "buy" Kinoma Play for free since we introduced it as an option, and so far it seems to be a win-win for customers.
-- Charles Wiltgen
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All it needs is a clock, weather and notifications and it's Kinoma FTW.
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BTW, the History icon now shows the current time if you have Advanced Settings installed.
-- Charles Wiltgen
Tried the free version quite awhile back. At the time, wasn't interested in paying $30 then. Looks more tempting now. I've also been wanting to try Audible.com, so I signed up with them via TrialPay. Waiting for the Kinoma registration, but TrialPay seems like a great idea if you can find something you're interested in "trying" out.
Charles,
Any chance of having trialpay working in China as at the moment it is not working. So hope you could look into it.
Thanks.
Hmm... The TrialPay process must be a bit delayed due to the US holiday, still waiting on the registration. Will be patient, it's a good deal.
In the mean time, loaded up the latest Freeplay version. It has improved a lot since the last time I tried it!
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Any chance of having trialpay working in China as at the moment it is not working. So hope you could look into it.
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I'll let the TrialPay folks know, thanks!
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I paid the $30 for the full version, but to be honest I'm disappointed.
No AVI support is huge. I don't think its Kinoma's place to make a user code a video a certain way before it is played.
The app store has the same apps you can get anywhere else and most of them are not free.
The skin is not very visually appealing.
It takes to long to launch.
I think it would be good for social web apps but I don't tweet or use Facebook so, to me it's useless.
I have a music player already.
It's sits in a forgotten cab in my PC.
I already uninstalled it from my mobile device.
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No AVI support is huge. I don't think its Kinoma's place to make a user code a video a certain way before it is played.
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I paid as well, but this is easily my biggest complaint. PLEASE add avi support!
It also does not autoresume where you last listened to a playlist or folder when restarting the app. So if you quit you must remember which song you were up to(my playlist is about 2000 songs). I went back to pocketplayer.
This blog reports that there is a new player floating around that can play DIVX and XVID on our devices, and it does it very well.
It is not clear who created it but i could not find it on the market.
Mods if this post is considered improper please close and delete.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698451
It is under hard development and will be published soon. There is a small group beta testing, and a group for user experience sharing at groups.google.com.hk/group/rockplayer
Mod. edit: As stated this is a beta, the developer didn't consent it's distribution. Pls wait for the official release. Don't distribute it.
sry to bring up resurrect this thread, but... when they were announcing Galaxy S on CTIA, that phone's video player looks EXACTLY same as RockPlayer. Conclusion: RockPlayer is a video player ripped from Galaxy S? if that's true... the app is nothing but a video player port and it's not exactly "warez" as we labeled it.
src: youtube (at 0:53)
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sry to bring up resurrect this thread, but... when they were announcing Galaxy S on CTIA, that phone's video player looks EXACTLY same as RockPlayer. Conclusion: RockPlayer is a video player ripped from Galaxy S? if that's true... the app is nothing but a video player port and it's not exactly "warez" as we labeled it.
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not quite the same but close i guess. and how do you know they didn't steal it from him?
App works perfect.
lol, that we will never know... tho looking that the player is fully functional there and it's still in beta here, i'm leaning toward the samsung gang being the originals
No. RockPlayer have no relation with samsung's built-in player. It just imitated icons and this looks like a bad decision. So the next public beta will change them.
No need to change it, unless you're worrying about samsung going after you. I like that skin, clean and simple, looks nice tho I still have to see a need for that right-most icon by the controls. Previously it toggled onscreen debug info, but now its just taking up space.
omg, thanks for the heads up.. this thing works flawlessly.. love it
Honestly i wanted to say, despite if it came from the Galaxy...who cares as long that ***** work on the phone w/o a trial i absolutely love it and its very useful...
Once it his the market I'll be buying it.
plays great
i like my animes play fine, all my movies its great
I NEED this app!!!!
Love this app. Works great!
Its really cool and works very week but conflicts with my rom and makes the camera not work
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hmmm, that would be weird, which makes me suspect that it's your ROM that breaks the camera, not rockplayer.
Camera worked fine before install then installed camera stopped working then uninstalled and voila camera worked I'm gonna try it again to double check then I will flash a new rom instead consider I really like this player just tested my rom conflicts with it well time for a new rom bummer
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I admit I've been out of the loop on everything now for at least half a year, but I attempted to write a video player for Android utilizing libavcodec/avformat/etc. and get it to an at least workable state a while back and figured it might be of some fun or use to others. It has no real controls (you select a video, it plays, no pause/seek/etc.) but does allow you to do a multi-touch zoom on the video while it's playing - and that's worth something, right?
Although this should run on any modern Android handset, I'm pretty sure I hard coded the screen resolution for the Evo in there somewhere.
There were slight alterations to avcodec to get everything up and running, and obviously I've linked directly to a good bit of code - so if you'd like a copy of the source for the entire program, just ask. For now I'm putting the upload off since it's quite a large amount to upload
You can find the apk for it here: http://cjmovie.net/MediaPlayerX.apk
It starts out with the directory listing of /sdcard. Use the .. at the top to navigate to a parent directory, not the back button. You can pan the video around by using two fingers and not moving your fingers relative to each other. Scale similarly, although if you don't move your fingers apart fast enough it'll assume you don't want scaling and you'll have to try again.
Also opens still-frames (so jpg, png, etc.) and lets you multi-touch zoom around on them.
It's very crash happy, but I've never had it cause any problems other than needing to re-open the app. YMMV
VPLAYER
Thanks for all the hard work your putting into an app as development is essential to this community. I do believe though that there is an app on the market that is similar to what your working towards/looking for. It's called VPLAYER and it's free on the MarketPlace and i've yet to find a file type that it will not play. I use AndTorrent a lot and it has been able to play every download i've ever had. Anyways, hope this is what your looking for and if not sorry for wasting space on your post. PEACE
would like to see this in a finish product.
like someone else said above, vplayer in the market already plays most any file type (admittedly without the panning or zooming features). I don't know if it's possible, but what would really make your app stand out is if you could get it to see and play media files on a shared drive over a home network. Just a thought.
Kudos though - it must have been a pita to develop.
And subtitles in an MKV file for us anime nerds.
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And subtitles in an MKV file for us anime nerds.
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+1 on this.
I was hyped for Rockplayer and then realized it wouldn't do subs for the anime I watch.
Is there something specific to the platform that is preventing enhanced .m4a support on Android? As far as I can see from scouring the internet, it looks like we don't have a single media player that supports the enhanced features of chaptering and embedded images offered by enhanced .m4a files. This is supported in every apple device, if I am not mistaken.
Any ideas?
Found One!
In case anybody is interested, somebody on reddit came through for me:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.akimbo.abp.trial&feature=search_result
Akimbo is an audiobook reader that handles .m4a chaptering and images pretty perfectly. Their library setup is a ****ty mess, but it has otherwise been strong so far.
yes this one works........ nearly.
The enhanced podcasts I use have several differant images per chapter, and the player moves onto the next image only at the next chapter so come the 2nd chapter it is several images behind.
.m4a files play just fine on the stock music player of my LG vortex, and the blur'd music player of the DX2. where are you encountering issues playing .m4a file?
the audio playback is fine on every player its the images encoded into the podcast that dont display properly
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yes this one works........ nearly.
The enhanced podcasts I use have several differant images per chapter, and the player moves onto the next image only at the next chapter so come the 2nd chapter it is several images behind.
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Same issue here. I want to access enhanced podcasts from Coffee Break Spanish but I couldn't. Those podcasts also have multiple images per chapter.
I'm very interested in this as well. I've been using Pocket Casts which is a great player but doesn't support the contextual images and links.
My example Specifically is the "Rooster Teeth Podcast".
On my old iPhone the embedded images displayed perfectly in apps like Downcast and the native iTunes Player had functional Live links some of the time.
I'm desperately searching for one, but I've had no luck.
has anyone had any luck yet with this one? I am thinking about using my old hd2 just for m4a playback
I asked the developer of Pocketcasts about this. And it seems they're missing the tools to make this.
" We've been looking into it, but that format is a proprietary Apple standard that no one else has support for. So our iOS app supports it out of the box, because Apple has the developer tools for us to do that. On Android Google don't, and we've yet to find a third-party library we can use that does, which leaves us stuck. So short story: yes we'd love to, but we don't think we can."
Bummer.
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I asked the developer of Pocketcasts about this. And it seems they're missing the tools to make this.
" We've been looking into it, but that format is a proprietary Apple standard that no one else has support for. So our iOS app supports it out of the box, because Apple has the developer tools for us to do that. On Android Google don't, and we've yet to find a third-party library we can use that does, which leaves us stuck. So short story: yes we'd love to, but we don't think we can."
Bummer.
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The feature is supported by VLC on the desktop (and likely other open source desktop apps). Handbrake also supports it; it can encode the chapter data into m4v files. In reading about it, it seems like the chapter data is simply encoded into the file in plaintext. I don't know how easy or hard it is to read that data on Android, but it definitely seems do-able (seeing as how the above 2 open source apps do it).
Any update on this?
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Any update on this?
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I've had no joy. I have tried most new players added to the marketplace.
I don't believe that windows mobile has one up over android ??
It seems like Podcast Republic does the job ? unfortunately is has some bugs on my LG G3, like background play doesnt work, and rotating the devices skips chapters :silly:
Hopefully it will be resolved in a newer version.
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It seems like Podcast Republic does the job ? unfortunately is has some bugs on my LG G3, like background play doesnt work, and rotating the devices skips chapters :silly:
Hopefully it will be resolved in a newer version.
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This app is absolutely useless.!!! It has NO idea about chapters, let alone that there ARE chapters in the podcast....
I'm so vukking fed-up with Android's incompetence!!!!
The only way to even remotely use chapters is to play AAC files with an accompanying CUE sheet with PowerAmp...
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This app is absolutely useless.!!! It has NO idea about chapters, let alone that there ARE chapters in the podcast....
I'm so vukking fed-up with Android's incompetence!!!!
The only way to even remotely use chapters is to play AAC files with an accompanying CUE sheet with PowerAmp...
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Well, it Works for me with chapters for the few podcasts i subscribe to like Hardwell on air and Tiesto Club life.
So it might be useless for you .. but for me its the best player out there for android ..
Go buy yourself and iPhone or calm Down :laugh:
I found this thread and thought I would share. So far it has proven to be a good alternative to the default music player and has a real ICS style to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604504
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I found this thread and thought I would share. So far it has proven to be a good alternative to the default music player and has a real ICS style to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604504
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Nice find. I tried it, but it still needs some work. Had 3 FCs in 2 minutes. Plus it requests default actions when switching tabs, minor annoyance, but major if you screw up and select Google Music, then you get either FC on open or when changing tabs.
It does look promising, but I'm gonna stick with MortPlayer for the time being. If you have tons of mp3's, I mean like 10000+ mp3's, you really need something like MortPlayer or a folder music player. Loading and scanning all those id3 tags can take forever or crash your device.
I used to have 50000 or so mp3's and 1.5tb of Videos until I had a brownout doing a backup of all my data. The lesson---when backing up all your important data from 15+ years, hook your pc up to the damn generator 50ft away in the storage shed. I might be at 10% of where I once was, but at least I'm getting replacements with BD quality. There weren't bluray quality rips back in the day. Don't ask how cause I won't tell.
Anyone ever watched those old DBZ rips in rm format??? Something like 15mb an episode and horrid quality, and we were damn happy to have them. Dial up was a mf.
I'm gonna go play MW3 now. I'm Bravoed out for the day.