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I just updated my tf101 to ics (ota official). On Honeycomb I think the YouTube app was the app I used to most, it could play HD content at full fps and there were no problems. Fast forward to ICS where every video either skips or lags when a lot of things are moving around on the screen. This has made the youtube app unusable.
When I still had CWM i was also using ICS roms, but they had the same problem, so, I went back to honeycomb and it worked fine again. For some reason I thought the custom roms were to blame so I tried the official ota.
So to my question, is anyone else having these problems? And if so did you solve it? Also, is there an alternative to the youtube app? (I have tried the web version but it's waaay slower than the app at playing video).
Thanks!
No problems here. You could try to goto Manage Apps and clear the cache for YouTube...and then if that doesn't work also clear the data. That would be the first step in trouble shooting.
for my case, is the 720p mkv files lagging, for youtube i notice some stuttering , not anything that obvious though. BTW many have reported video performance dropped dramatically on the ICS
So there is no way to fix this? I tried to download a trailer and it lags as well. So it is not just the youtube app. Shouldn't the tf101 handle videos pretty good?
I tried everything and finally...
I uninstalled adobe flash player, and it stopped skipping around. Wondering if there is a system conflict on this tablet as there is sometimes w/ desktop versions of google and the conflicts between shockwave and flash player... oh well, it worked. Super frustrating.
Hi using my new infinity and am trying to get amazon instant video either through the website or app with no success. App is crashing and while it looks as if I can watch video in a scaled windows at times on the website, if I try to go full screen it doesnt work at all. Has anyone tried using this and/or found a way to get it to work if you have the same problem? I was wondering if it was a browser issue and tried the stock, chrome so far.
Works on stock browser and dolphin for me. I've tried to get the "app" working before on other devices but never with success.
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Got it working last night on the website with Dolphin HD. Kind of lagged when I was multi-tasking (running speed tests). But after closing open apps and restarting the browser, it was very smooth and clear.
Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
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BritCrit said:
Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
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I have had more success with Dolphin lately although still buggy. when you expand to full screen you lose video until you pause and play again. Seems to work a little better now for some reason. Would be nice to have the app working.
frustratingly enough amazon saw fit to release the app for Ipad today while neglecting to release an android version. Terribly annoying because they've obviously had the app ready for android forever ago since it used by the kindle fire. Guess they want to force people to buy the kindle fire to get the app. Pretty stupid because they would make more money from the people getting prime to use the app than they would on the kindle fire sale.
Amazon streaming
New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
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breathlessasus said:
New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
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Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
I've never been able to get it to consistently work with no sync issues in a browser. The sync loss is minor, but it's just noticeable enough to be annoying. It's a flash thing, I'm sure, rather than a specific browser thing. Some day I'll get around to trying earlier flash releases to see if any are better. I've experienced a similar sync issue with splashtop too.
I was going to use XBMC + bluecop's repository + asus mynet, but I've been having all kinds of errors adding shows to a library where they would be accessible to other devices.
I was able to get the fire apk working when I briefly had a Nook Tablet running a slightly modified version of gingerbread (see my sig). From what I've read, no one has gotten it working on ICS+. My brief attempt just resulted in crashes when i tried to play a vid. Boy I wish Amazon would get their app up to date and release it officially for Android in general. I'd much rather use the app again.
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Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
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Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
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Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
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UPDATE: Tried using Boat Browser with flash setting to "on demand" and still got the same message - Adobe not installed. Don't think it's so much the browser as it is that Adobe no longer supports newer Android OS devices. Found list of those tablets which will work with Amazon's Prime instant streaming and TF700 is not one.
Could there be a difference in streaming vs. buying or renting a video?
Thanks again for response/help - appreciate it.
With the new Fire HDs coming, one would hope we can get at least yank an updated apk from them that will work in the next couple of weeks.
Amazon has been on a roll, laying out apps for PS3, 360, and the iPad. Surely they're at least working on a broad release of the easiest one of all, Android, one of the first they had working. Surely. If you haven't used their support form to request an Android app for all tabs, please do so now.
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
Lancerator said:
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I posted the same question regarding Amazon Instant Video lag in browsers on the TF700. My video lags about 1/2 second. Enough to be annoying. I've tried the stock browser, Boat Browser, and ICS+ to no avail.
Ironically, I had no issues streaming Amazon's Instant Videos on the Prime I returned in order to get my Infinity.
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Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I'm currently streaming Super 8 using Dolphin Browser without a problem (performance mode).
Dave
well I went to performance mode on dolphin and it does do a bit better. Its to bad I had no problem with the prime.
Amazon Prime sucked on my Xoom. Over at the Motorola Xoom Forum, a very knowledgeable poster (gmanapps) posted the following explanation for the Xoom issues:
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Prior to ICS, flash had support for each individual CPU/GPU combo with specific video acceleration code for each type of CPU/GPU (OMAP, Snapdragon, Tegra, etc) which meant that flash could totally take advantage of the hardware.
When adobe ported flash to ICS they used the new ICS API. Under ICS all devices are only required to support the lowest encoding profile, but may support the higher bitrate encoding profiles.
Adobe decided that since only the lower bitrate profile was guaranteed to work with hardware acceleration accross all ICS device, to only send the lower bit rate profiles through the ICS hardware accelerated API. Everything else is done as software decoding inside of flash. So while the Xoom hardware is capable of accelerating/decoding the higher bitrate encoded data, flash no longer sends it to the GPU for decoding and tries to do it in software which is slow.
Amazon's content is encoded in one of 4 different mpeg encoding profiles. One of the profiles goes through hardware acceleration and works fine. But higher bitrate data profiles get stuck getting decoded in flash's software decoder and looks horrible.
Adobe could have provided a configuration option, test or other method to allow individuals to enable decoding of the other profiles in hardware....or at least try it and see if it worked on their device. On many devices it would work. But they chose not to go that route.
So unless you are running a high end quad core device, with a small screen, the software decoding of much of higher resolution flash content is going to be painful to watch.
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Out of curiousity I just tried it with Dolphin on my Galaxy S3 phone - HD video of Downton Abbey looked beautiful and had no synch issues at all. But a very small picture ...
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Hi,
I have a p6210 running a rooted stock odexed ICS 4.0.4 UELPC (us XARLPC).
My first problem is that the device lags and stutts when I navigate between the menus like for exemple the apps drawers or the control panel, or when I scroll.
It seems to come from the hw acceleration since it lags as well when I watch videos (on both audio and video) and the only way to overcome this is to use mx player with sw audio and sw video settings.
I tried to tweak my build.prop with various values, enable hw acceleration, force gpu etc. but nope, it still lags and actually it gets worse so I went back to the default values.
I tried as well in the dev. options in the tab settings to force gpu but no results either.
The second issue is battery drain, my once long lasting tab has seen is autonomy reduced by approx. 50%, not nice.
The third issue, that might be related to the second, is that the tab heats more than it did previously.
Any idea or help will be highly appreciated, thanks in advance!
Well i didn't experienced this in my galaxy tab plus. Im using a stock 4.0.4 without root. Im not into rooting anymore because i experience bricked and some hack problems when root.
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I didn't experience such problems either. Did you delete/modify anything in system after rooting? Just rooting can not not harm your phone/tablet.
I deleted the gapps plus all the samsung bloatware but I don't think it's what causes the lags.
I deleted as well some permissions, lib and framework files like facelock recognition, network locator, google maps, minimode etc. but I have put them back and it still lags.
I think it's a hw acceleration problem, and I have seen elsewhere on the net that I'm not the only one experiencing such problem, other people complain as well about video and hw acceleration on games to have hickups.
When I tweaked my build prop to enable hw then it got worse, and the only way to have videos running without too many lags is to use sw decoding.
The same with mp3s, I had to enable audio buffer and audio thread priority, otherwise it skips like hell.
When I compare with my galaxy mini, whose specs are far lower but where everything is smooth, it's like day and night, even scrolling on the tab has hickups.
I may try v6 supercharger, but I'm not very confident about it since I used it on my galaxy mini without any noticeable effects...
Im not into rooting anymore because i experience bricked and some hack problems when root [/QUOTE said:
What hack problem did you experience?
Some serious ones?
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Hey there, its been bothering me.
When I play games, such like asphalt, batman, and subway surfer, the tab get heated after wuite a long time. About more than 20+ minutes.
But when i am using stock browser or dolphin browser, the tab get heated much faster.
Anyone know why does this happens? Does thisnmean that browsers use more CPU compared to games(asphalt uses internet too, also scrabble).
Please and thank you!
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I have a xoom UK WiFi. I'm running Omni 4.4.4 (I think).
I have an issue where any video I watch in any browser doesn't work properly.
Chrome/Chrome Beta crashes when I try
Firefox plays the video sound is fine but frame rate is like 0.5FPS
Stock Browser black window unless you go full screen, then it is the same is firefox.
Videos play fine in the Youtube app or from a file
I did a system update a while back and I think this is what screwed it up. It definitely worked before.
Any Ideas how to fix?
I am not sure the cause, but I have the same issues (with the exception of the 0.5FPS issue). If the videos work in Stock Browser, they play at the proper speed - sometimes I have to full screen them, other times not.
The resolution I've found for videos that do not play properly in the stock browser is to use Dolphin Browser and ensure that Flash is installed.
Chrome - I was having too many issues with it crashing/freezing (irrelevant of videos), so I gave up on it quite a while ago.
I haven't used Firefox enough to comment.
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I have a xoom UK WiFi. I'm running Omni 4.4.4 (I think).
I have an issue where any video I watch in any browser doesn't work properly.
Chrome/Chrome Beta crashes when I try
Firefox plays the video sound is fine but frame rate is like 0.5FPS
Stock Browser black window unless you go full screen, then it is the same is firefox.
Videos play fine in the Youtube app or from a file
I did a system update a while back and I think this is what screwed it up. It definitely worked before.
Any Ideas how to fix?
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hi everyone
so the past few months I discovered my phone was lagging a lot this is the 2 gb version.
most or the tile on apps like youtube and snapchat so found out a video on YouTube that helped me out.
you need to disable awesome player from the developers options on your phone then restart your device.
hope this helps others like me also out still not all lagg is fixed but at least snapchat and youtube are working better
Awesome Player is a legacy Android option, so disabling it on a recent version such as 5.1.1, it doesn't surprise me that makes your phone faster.
On my flex 2 is disabled by default. V 15e