I have an HTC Evo, and installed the "arcmedia" media player because I needed something that would play .wmv video files. I installed dropbox as well, which is where the videos live. When I initially tried to play the video via dropbox, it said I didnt have a media player installed that could play the file. After I installed arcmedia, it will play, but only sound, via the default media player. If I download the video to the phone, and browse to the video with the arcsoft media player it will, in fact, play. So my question would be, how do I tell my phone that arcsoft is now the default media player? Anyone know? Should be possible, yes? Thanks!
Hey Folks,
Has anyone got Vplayer running on the g-tablet ? I have rooted my tablet, and have access to the market etc. I also have the latest OTA from viewsonic.
Currently, if I try to run vplayer, it just tries to open the file (.avi in this case) and then closes ........ no errors
VPlayer sucks!
It plays NONE OF THE 13 Movies on my G-Tab. Even the listing of the folder is not sharp and clear. Like yours, it just opens and closes and never has any video.
Get Act 1 Video Player. It plays ALL the stuff I have Flawlessly. Just dfownload via the market to your phone, and G-Mail the APK file to yourself and open it on your G-Tab. It will have an "Install" option with which you can easily install the app. (you might have to save the file on your sd card before installing)
Aloha From Hawaii !
Vplayer on gtabletArrow
Thanks, ...... I will try that
Please look in the Themes and Apps section of this forum for multiples of discussions of video / audio players etc.
There are 3 candidates for top billing
Act Player
RockPlayer
Vital Player
(in Alphabetical order)
have you tried mVideoPlayer. I heard it works well.
Sm0k3d 0uT said:
have you tried mVideoPlayer. I heard it works well.
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My biggest issue with it was that if the device does not support a container (.ts, .ps, .mkv, etc) the player will not play it even if the internal codec itself was supported. ie h264, AVC etc.
Does anyone have a solution on the eee pad for playing avi/xvid/etc videos over UPNP or SMB that allows seeking? I have tried all video apps I could find in the market, and found nothing that works well yet. The setup I am running works well when playing and seeking using XBMC on a PC, so it is technically possible.
Here are my observations so far:
Most video players only supports the natively supported video format (i.e. same as the gallery app), that is not really useful for me.
Of the other players, the ones that somewhat work for me are MoboPlayer, RockPlayer, QQPlayer, VPlayer, BUZZ Player, and yxplayer. Notable cases that
just crash: ArcPlayer, DreamPlayer, SeamanPlayer
For reading UPNP there is UPnPlay. However, in my setup, exporting over UPNP with ushare, it appears streaming only work with BUZZ player. MoboPlayer and RockPlayer (often reported to work wih UPnPlay) just seem to get stuck a long time when opening the file, as if they where downloading it completely before starting. Sometimes they play a few seconds of video after that, and then gets stuck again. Seeking does not work correctly with BUZZ player.
For reading from SMB shares, one solution is 'File Expert' which cleverly re-exports SMB-files via a local http-link. One opens the SMB share under 'Network' where clicking on a video file give a choice of browsers; I open in Dolphin Browser, which opens another file dialog where I can chose a video player. This I get to work with Moboplayer, Rockplayer, VPlayer, and BUZZ Player. However, none of them can seek in this stream.
Another SMB option is Astro file manager + Astro SMB module, which I assume is supposed to work the same way as File Expert. However, upon trying to access the SMB functionality in Astro, it just force closes.
Last, BUZZ player has built in functionality for accessing files through SMB and UPNP. I cannot get the SMB functionality to work (the player just don't play the file when clicked). The UPNP functionality plays the file, but seeking does not work.
Other than this I also note the following about the players:
BUZZ Player seem to have audio-video sync problems with many of my videos. It also tends to get stuck very long in "Loading. Please wait..." when accessing its built in network browsing, with no option to stop the operation.
yxplayer does not seem to register any file types at all, so it is a pain to open streaming links in it (figure out URL string and copy, open yxplayer, chose open URL, paste URL.) It also seems to have much less smooth playback than the other players.
Using cifs on Primordial 3.1 I have had great success streaming video over my wi-fi network and seeking works perfectly. I'm not sure if the player matters but I prefer Mobo Player as it seems to be the most compatible one I've found so far.
Ah, of course, I should root the pad to get this working as Linux has very nice remote filesystem abilities. Thanks for the hint.
But, isn't it odd that no one has pulled this off in a non-root market application? I cannot imagine that it would be horribly hard to do using http range requests. (Of course, if it was me, I would have gone for a port of libcurl using Android NDK.)
I finally found a solution for non-root upnp streaming with working seeking!
UPnPlay + LittlePlayer
LittlePlayer is a quite nice player with a software decoder that seems to handle most formats. It is also the first player I have found that uses the honeycomb 'Lights out mode' (the status bar gets blacked out), which is nice.
Now only remains to find a non-root solution for streaming from smb. I wonder why FileExpert's smb->http functionality does not work.
rartino said:
Does anyone have a solution on the eee pad for playing avi/xvid/etc videos over UPNP or SMB that allows seeking? I have tried all video apps I could find in the market, and found nothing that works well yet. The setup I am running works well when playing and seeking using XBMC on a PC, so it is technically possible.
Here are my observations so far:
Most video players only supports the natively supported video format (i.e. same as the gallery app), that is not really useful for me.
Of the other players, the ones that somewhat work for me are MoboPlayer, RockPlayer, QQPlayer, VPlayer, BUZZ Player, and yxplayer. Notable cases that
just crash: ArcPlayer, DreamPlayer, SeamanPlayer
For reading UPNP there is UPnPlay. However, in my setup, exporting over UPNP with ushare, it appears streaming only work with BUZZ player. MoboPlayer and RockPlayer (often reported to work wih UPnPlay) just seem to get stuck a long time when opening the file, as if they where downloading it completely before starting. Sometimes they play a few seconds of video after that, and then gets stuck again. Seeking does not work correctly with BUZZ player.
For reading from SMB shares, one solution is 'File Expert' which cleverly re-exports SMB-files via a local http-link. One opens the SMB share under 'Network' where clicking on a video file give a choice of browsers; I open in Dolphin Browser, which opens another file dialog where I can chose a video player. This I get to work with Moboplayer, Rockplayer, VPlayer, and BUZZ Player. However, none of them can seek in this stream.
Another SMB option is Astro file manager + Astro SMB module, which I assume is supposed to work the same way as File Expert. However, upon trying to access the SMB functionality in Astro, it just force closes.
Last, BUZZ player has built in functionality for accessing files through SMB and UPNP. I cannot get the SMB functionality to work (the player just don't play the file when clicked). The UPNP functionality plays the file, but seeking does not work.
Other than this I also note the following about the players:
BUZZ Player seem to have audio-video sync problems with many of my videos. It also tends to get stuck very long in "Loading. Please wait..." when accessing its built in network browsing, with no option to stop the operation.
yxplayer does not seem to register any file types at all, so it is a pain to open streaming links in it (figure out URL string and copy, open yxplayer, chose open URL, paste URL.) It also seems to have much less smooth playback than the other players.
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Hi,
Maybe I miss something obvious but I have no issue streaming over Wifi with a combination of UPnPlay, RockPlayer (universal), mVideoPlayer, MoboPlayer.
Once clicks on a video file, UPnPlay browser allows selecting which player to launch (it is a pain that one do have to remember supporting formats for each player). Seeking within a video file does not seem to be a problem.
torrent_2004 said:
Hi,
Maybe I miss something obvious but I have no issue streaming over Wifi with a combination of UPnPlay, RockPlayer (universal), mVideoPlayer, MoboPlayer.
Once clicks on a video file, UPnPlay browser allows selecting which player to launch (it is a pain that one do have to remember supporting formats for each player). Seeking within a video file does not seem to be a problem.
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This is really odd. Have you rooted, or done anything else "odd" with your transformer? I know that the way you describe it is how it is supposed to work, but for me most players just stalls when they should stream (but, it does work with 'Little Player'). I just assumed that this was an issue with Honeycomb compatibility. But if it works for you, then maybe it is something else. What device are you streaming *from*? I am using ushare.
All this said, wasn't there an update for UPnPlay the other day? Maybe they have fixed this now.
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This is really odd. Have you rooted, or done anything else "odd" with your transformer? I know that the way you describe it is how it is supposed to work, but for me most players just stalls when they should stream (but, it does work with 'Little Player'). I just assumed that this was an issue with Honeycomb compatibility. But if it works for you, then maybe it is something else. What device are you streaming *from*? I am using ushare.
All this said, wasn't there an update for UPnPlay the other day? Maybe they have fixed this now.
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Prime 1.4 rooted
Streaming of an HP Mediavault MV2120 via Asus RT16 router.
title pretty much says it all, trying to view some videos sent to me via MMS from an iphone and they wont play. ive tried multiple video players: Mplayer, arcsoft, vplayer, rock player, act 1 player, yxplayer, and a few others i cant remember. i've tried to use other forums/threads to get an answer and nothing seems to work. what do you guys suggest?
try MoboPlayer
Moboplayer
moboplayer would help...but if rock player cannot play it, i guess your file has been broken while passing to your phone..
I'm using Podcast Addict. I prefer MX Players ability to swype for timeline adjustment. In settings I say I don't want to use Podcast Addict player and then a list of apps comes up but doesn't include MX Player. It used to but not now. It may have something to do with reinstalling MX Player? The reason I uninstalled it was because I was having trouble streaming urls from Youtube. I read about a workaround, UC Browser, which allowed me to eventually open them on MX Player. It started behaving erratically so i reinstalled MX Player. After that I don't see an option to open Podcast Addict streams with MX Player. Thanks for any info.
No hints?
ktsamy said:
I am on a vocation & couldn't check the forum much.
I will check myself & revert back to you..!
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I don't know if it's relevant but my phone is a Oneplus one. Android 6.0.1. It uses Cyanogen OS version 13.1.2. I've been using Podcast Addict with MX Player for several years. Now when I select a podcast it asks do I want to use the internal player of the app or Opera or Google Music. All of the various podcasts show the same two options except one which offers Amazon Music Player , Google Music or Music Folder Player (another app I have for my mp3s). Why it doesn't show my other browsers as player options I can't figure out. I looked in settings/apps/mxplayer and am not able to figure out what I might change there to make it work.
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I'm using Podcast Addict. I prefer MX Players ability to swype for timeline adjustment. In settings I say I don't want to use Podcast Addict player and then a list of apps comes up but doesn't include MX Player. It used to but not now. It may have something to do with reinstalling MX Player? The reason I uninstalled it was because I was having trouble streaming urls from Youtube. I read about a workaround, UC Browser, which allowed me to eventually open them on MX Player. It started behaving erratically so i reinstalled MX Player. After that I don't see an option to open Podcast Addict streams with MX Player. Thanks for any info.
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I finally figured it out myself. In the settings of MX Player there is an option to use it as an audio player. It was unchecked on mine. When I checked it MX Player began to show up as an option for podcasts.
Rav45 said:
I finally figured it out myself. In the settings of MX Player there is an option to use it as an audio player. It was unchecked on mine. When I checked it MX Player began to show up as an option for podcasts.
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Nice to hear that you have figured out yourself. Audio Player must be enabled if you wan't MX Player to play audio files/streams.