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gmote and video playback

Whenever I use gmote I can play back video on my pc, but not on my phone. The message I keep getting says "gmote is unable to find an android application to play this file type". Is this a limitation of gmote or do I need a media player with codecs for the phone? If I do need a media player what should I be using?
Thanks ahead of time

Test with .mp4 videos.

I am having the same issue on my Fascinate. Keep trying different conversions, but can't get any videos to play.

I uninstalled vplayer app now im unable to play videos on my phone through gmote. Ive installed qqplayer and meridian player but I get the "unable to find an android application to play this file type" can anyone help?

What video types are they?

its all file types. Ive tried reinstalling gmote. what would b e the best media player to install to use with gmote??

i dont think this has been addressed in another post but if it has im sorry. anyways the solution for this problem for my was installing mx player + codecs from the market. gmote streams to my phone fine now.

Play iPhone MOV files in Android?

My fiancee has an iPhone 4, and the other day sent me a video by email.
The file came over as a .mov file - which I couldn't play.
I had a search, and I read that RockPlayer played .mov files on Android, so I downloaded the demo. It gave me an error when trying to play.
I thought it was maybe because the video had been edited in the iPhones iMovie - so I had her send me another one that wasn't edited.
It produced the same problem.
Has anyone successfully managed to play a .mov file from an iPhone 4 - and what program did they use?
I'm trying to play them on an HTC Desire HD if that makes a difference?

rockplayer 1.6.1 works
Hey there,
I've used Rockplayer 1.6.1 - the full version, and it plays a 2MB clip from an iPhone4 user's email. My issue is that I'd love to permanently associate rockplayer with the filetype in Root Explorer.
I also find that 'opening' the file directly from the mail client is a no-go. I only got it to work after saving, then using RPlayer to navigate to the file.
good luck!
edit: and I just noticed - I have the same phone, Telus edition in Canada, unlocked, rooted on RCmixHD ROM 6.1.0.1

Same problem with iPhone messages
I downloaded rockplayer (lite) and meridian, neither play .mov from an email attachment. I also don't see a way to save the video attachment locally. How are you able to do this?
Using a new Nexus S.
Thanks
Shannon

download mov
OK. I downloaded an app called "Download All Files" from the Market. Now I can click an attachment, choose download, and it gets saved to my downloads. Then, I use Rockplayer lite to browse to Downloads, and play the file. Note: I had to choose software decoding in rockplayer.
Hope this info is useful.

I was able to play mov files from iphone 4 in my experia arc using free app mobo player

Try Real Player for android.

the best app i found for this is "MX Video Player"

jnicks510 said:
the best app i found for this is "MX Video Player"
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I can confirm MX Player works flawlessly for this purpose. None of the rest of players suggested in this thread worked, however.

Play video from UPNP and SMB with seeking

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.

rartino said:
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.

[Q] How to get DicePlayer to play MKVs off my NAS?

Purchased DicePlayer 1.5.2 last night, works a treat with local storage (MicroSD, SD)! Worth way more than $4.95 to me! My 720p MKVs play like they are supposed to. Perfect for when not at home. But when at home I would rather play them directly off my NAS like I do with my TV (DLNA) and Dune HD media player (DLNA or SMB/CIFS).
But I can't figure out how and it may need some more "middleware". I can browser to content on the NAS using ES File Explorer and Total Commander BETA with LAN plugin. But then it either gives an error or won't find/load the video. When using the same two apps to navigate to local storage it works, to the NAS via SMB/CIFS it does not How to hack this together??? Some how DicePlayer needs to notice the SMB remote mount like local storage for SMB? Or Dice needs to talk DLNA since my NAS is offering up content via SMB and DLNA?
Before finding/buying DicePlayer I had purchased the Plex app for Android as I can also run a Plex server on my NAS. That however is doing real time transcoding and the CPU limitation on the NAS means I have to transcode to the lowest video setting on the Transformer. Which still works, but doe snot look as good as native 720p does locally.
I hope this makes sense!

Get upnplay from the market and use that to connect to your nas since its broadcasting upnp. Just make sure your network can handle it.
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Root, install a custom rom that has cifs.ko then download cifsmanager so you can mount your nas. Of course your NAS has to support cifs.
I am running Freenas on an old p4 and can stream a good number of my mkvs this way.

Found UPnPlay, surprised I missed it, thanks! I will try that tonight. Sounds promising from the reviews. The other methods I have come up end up copying the files over to local storage which is no good.

That's strange - it works flawlessly for me browsing and opening movies on my NAS using ES File Explorer.
The only strange thing is that when I click an AVI it asks which app it should open the file with, while when I click on a MKV it doesn't seem to know it's a video file and says it can't open it.
So I have to long-tap the MKV, and select "open as video" - voila`, MKV playback!

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That's strange - it works flawlessly for me browsing and opening movies on my NAS using ES File Explorer.
The only strange thing is that when I click an AVI it asks which app it should open the file with, while when I click on a MKV it doesn't seem to know it's a video file and says it can't open it.
So I have to long-tap the MKV, and select "open as video" - voila`, MKV playback!
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Exactly, no issue with ES file manager probably the best dlna client out there, much faster than Unplay. The latter shows a delay in picking up files. With Dice Player had no issues picking up the stream from ES. Same issue of having to long press on MKV for it to play, weird . . .
OP, I would recommend looking at your firewall and router settings becuase something is blocking your connection.

Good stuffs here!
Let me make report for night. To recap. TF101 with HC 3.2 (stock) and DicePlayer 1.5.2 paid. NAS is ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus. SMB/CIFS and DLNA both enabled on the NAS and I stream to my TV directly (Samsung, DLNA) and media player (Dune Smart D1, SMB) just fine. To date, when I use ES File Explorer to browse a MKV on the NAS and select it says "Sorry, no application available"; even though by the icon it KNOWS it is a video.
So. I first tried UPnPlay. It worked! It asked me to chose a player program after pressing, I choose DicePlayer. It starts right away but only audio, no video. I have to skip back and forth some then things pick up OK. Happy!
So then I looked on the Android Market for other DLNA apps. I saw a Skifta Beta. I know the name Skifta from my ReadyNAS as I have seen a plugin for Skifta, never used it as I couldn't figure out what it would do for me past the builtin ReadyDLNA server the NAS has for DLNA. So I grabbed it. Interface of the app is more polished. But same problem with DicePlayer and the no video until I jigger the slider. Still happy though. 99% there.
Then I visit here and see about the long press from within ES File Explorer. Never thought to try that. Did it. Prompted me to pick a file type (video) which then prompted for a player (DicePlayer) and it worked! I can't recall if it had the same no video problem as before. Because that is when I decided to reboot the TF101. But now when I do the long press and open as video it dims the screen It never asks for a player and it stays dim until I hit anything else.
Watz the heck? Strange! So I have some progress. But would like to not use UPnPlay or Skifta if they are not needed and get ES to behave again!
I will maybe reinstall ES and reboot and muddle about.
But it's not a network/firewall issue at this point, that I does know
Thanks 2 all.

As make followup.
I would also like to add my unit started doing another weird "dim screen" thing the other day. When I get the task bar alerts for incoming GMail and click it to open (versus "x" for close alert) it does the same dim screen thing! Like somehow the requested app can or will not load.
Strangeness.

Thank goodness sake for Google search! I found this threads below from a search re screen dim:
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-general-discussion/7752-dim-screen-issue-3-2-a.html
My unit was docked and reorient did nothing but then I undocked and whacked it around and the dialog to pick came back for ES! Which now seems to work all OK! But I still get the audio+black screeen video in DicePlayer until I rejigger all around. Which is a bit annoying as it is now soooooo close. Mayhaps I reboot and start things from scratch again.
But good to know this dim screen issue is OS related so should be fixable as one mate said by 3.2.1

Oh, forgot to add like I have seen elsewhere re similiar issues for screen and DicePlayer here I have unchecked the thumbnail for video option early on in process tonight for black screen.
I saw the DicePlayer guy has a new support email and the price has gone up! Let's hope the support stays the same

[Q] Media player recommendations for HC that can play mkv's

Hello all,
I have finally made the jump into the honeycomb hideout from my rather comfortable gingerbread house (deck's stable evo build). On GB, the qqplayer was/is the perfect media player for most of my needs, plays mkvs,ogm,subtitles. On the newest update on our 7.0+'s, the player installs fine and can play videos that are placed on the internal storage (the program doesn't see the microsd for whatever reason), but the settings cannot not be accessed to change anything. I thought that the bottom status bar was hiding the options, but even with the bottom bar hidden with Honeybar, no options appear. I installed Rockplayer too, but had the same issue on not being able to access any options. At least Rockplayer sees the microsd and can play from it, although it won't find/play the embedded softsubs, like the qqplayer.
So, what media players are people using that work? Or can anyone think of a workaround?

I've been using MX Player, though I just picked one and it worked for 1080p mkv so I didnt bother looking further

found one!!!
I tried MX, it plays files, but didn't support internal subs. I have found a damn near perfect player, "mvideoplayer" version 2.91. Plays 720p mkv's with internal subs no problem.

Also there is Dice Play which let you play additional format regardless of system codecs

Have you tried Mobo?
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