i have a private site and am wondering what is the best way to play videos from my site to my phone? i guess similar to youtube except for private/personal use (not to illegally stream movies to the public or anything). basically the purpose is to just use my unlimited bandwidth to post up movies instead of having my sd full of movies and just view them remotely from my site anywhere i am over 3g/4g.
unsure what format that makes a videos size small to be able to stream and is watchable on android.
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Hey guys have you ever clicked on a .mp4 or .m4v (iPhone video/website) link on opera mobile or IE and notice that it starts to download!?
well how do I make it so it will stream the video with Coreplayer instead of downloading the file?
it seem like a very common thing that the iPhone and Android do but not WINDOWS MOBILE!?
so any toughts will be highly apriciated, maybe editing the opera registry or so somethig??
thanks
BTW I've searched EVERYWHERE and cant seem to find a solution for this
ARE YOU SERIOUS GUYS!? NO! one
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Im in the same boat your in and nobody has an answer...i hate downloading it should stream like tyhe other phones do....somebody help!!!!
It's not that hard; what you need to do is look in your PIE cache for the file that starts the stream up. If you use the streams at TodayPda.com, for instance, you will find .asx files dumped for each stream you used. Just copy them to a folder on your sd card, then go to the file associations tabs in tcpmp's settings and check the box for metafiles. Then, you can open the stream up in tcpmp by clicking on the .asx file. If you go to shoutcast, a file called "tunein-station.pls" is dumped (I think in PIE it may ask if you want it downloaded, otherwise it's in the cache). You need to copy it and rename it (as all stations use the same file name). As long as .pls files are associated with tcpmp, then clicking on these files will open up tcpmp.
If you're talking about links that just download the entire video, you seriously have a problem with that? I'd call that a bonus, myself. The files usually download faster than they stream, and the video quality is better and you can watch them offline as much as you want. A lot of the 'streaming' vids that you see aren't really streaming, anyway. Somewhere on your device, a temporary file is being dumped and once the dump start, you start to view it. If you watch youtube videos over PIE, that's how it works. When the video is fully loaded, you can go to \windows\temp, and there will be a .tmp file that is the actual video.
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wow now u know a whole.lot...definitely gonna try that but what would be ideal is clicking on a video or link and to watch it streaming just like in an iPhone. that is what we are looking for...is there a EASIER way???????????
I get what you guys are sayingand I knew that info already (not trying to be rude)
HOWEVER
I'm currently thinking of building a website for streaming media not to download as some people would rather have the option of streaming the Videos.
I have SEARCHED months for Tv series to movies, something like south park family guy, House, law&order to many more. Some complete series other movies Ready for WVGA devices and more newer type off phones.
All together comes to thousands of GB worth of media. so NO! CRAPPY 3gp quality as there are many website already like that so its most in https mp4 not rtsp.
anyways I'm still thinking about it as everything should be Ondemand and FREE! ( with some ads )
I was thinking something like:
www.HD2media.mobi
you could code an app that sets off the video stream (no idea how though )
tuppaacc said:
I get what you guys are sayingand I knew that info already (not trying to be rude)
HOWEVER
I'm currently thinking of building a website for streaming media not to download as some people would rather have the option of streaming the Videos.
I have SEARCHED months for Tv series to movies, something like south park family guy, House, law&order to many more. Some complete series other movies Ready for WVGA devices and more newer type off phones.
All together comes to thousands of GB worth of media. so NO! CRAPPY 3gp quality as there are many website already like that so its most in https mp4 not rtsp.
anyways I'm still thinking about it as everything should be Ondemand and FREE! ( with some ads )
I was thinking something like:
www.HD2media.mobi
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...Still keepin an eye out 4 ur spectacular HD2 site......
i was wondering if anyone could help point me on how i could stream videos hosted on my personal website to my android. i basically have a website with unlimited bandwidth and 150gb of space and wish there was a way to stream movies to my phone. is there any pages that could help for this purpose? if converting the files to a streamable format is required thats fine aslong as they work and are viewable.
it would be cool if i had to make pages for each video and the android to recognize its a video like how it does with youtube and open on a video app.
I've got the LG G2x. I reckon the battery won't sustain watching a movie or tv show. But I'm game to try!
I see that I can rent movies from Android App Market but unless i am mistaken these are streaming. I travel often for business and would like to watch a movie or tv show on the plane without paying for wifi on the plane. Plus it is not available on all flights.
So how can I download content to the Android phone and watch it not streaming?
I've researched some and most threads talk about pirating and converting, etc. I'm looking for legal and easy.
Thanks in advance!
Well you can still purchase dvd's...either standard or blu-ray and rip the movie onto your computer as a backup, and it's 100% legal. Then you can buy a program that will convert the file into a more compressed format...again, legal. Then you can purchase a large sdmicro card to put the file onto your phone. Then you can find an app on market that plays the file format you have converted to.
All of this would be legal. Now the specifics on HOW to do it, are a bit more complicated, and you would really be better served doing some research on forums dedicated to video converting.
Personally, I use a program called AnyDVDHD for the ripping part. Then I use Pavtube for the converting part...I like it because it lets me specifically choose container type, audio bitrate, video bitrate, etc...it's more customizeable than others that I've tried. As far as playing the converted video on the phone, I use Moboplayer or Arcmedia, depending on the file.
mmapcpro said:
Well you can still purchase dvd's...either standard or blu-ray and rip the movie onto your computer as a backup, and it's 100% legal. Then you can buy a program that will convert the file into a more compressed format...again, legal. Then you can purchase a large sdmicro card to put the file onto your phone. Then you can find an app on market that plays the file format you have converted to.
All of this would be legal. Now the specifics on HOW to do it, are a bit more complicated, and you would really be better served doing some research on forums dedicated to video converting.
Personally, I use a program called AnyDVDHD for the ripping part. Then I use Pavtube for the converting part...I like it because it lets me specifically choose container type, audio bitrate, video bitrate, etc...it's more customizeable than others that I've tried. As far as playing the converted video on the phone, I use Moboplayer or Arcmedia, depending on the file.
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What file type are you converting too? also whats best for phones? audio and video bitrates?
http://handbrake.fr/
For all your video-converting needs. Windows /Mac /Linux
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Most dvd's and blue ray's are now are coming with a digital copy. I guess they include this as a option for people like you.
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DVD Catalyst is the best IMO.
So no easy way it seems. I guess this is another reason iPhones are so expensive!
Opera Mini will download streaming videos. You can go to youtube and search for free movies, they got some good ones such as "They Live" and the last one I just watched "Sex & Consequences", or just go to any other site that streams video and you can download it using Opera Mini browser to watch at your convenience. Simple...
EDIT: in order to download from youtube you need to change to desktop view. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the site from within opera mini then choose desktop.
Handbrake for the win! Pop in a DVD, select the output method hit start, 30 mins later your dvd has been ripped to you desired video format, best of all it is totally free for both Mac and PC
I ripped some of my favorite movies from my DVD collection into AVI..bought an 8GB Class 10 Micro SD card = total of 16GB... and transfered 10 movies into there... if I get bored I just delete and put another movie in there...
I am having a app called "Zenga TV AajTak" it used to show a live stremaing of the hindi news channel aajtak..i am having a samsung galaxy fit which does not have flash...but then also the streaming works well...
recently i saw a site "espnstar.com/live/" that streams a cricket channel...when i open it in my mobile's browser it says it requires flash...can i make a app like "Zenga TV AajTak" to watch the stream without flash...
please help..I have never developed a app if you can please develop it...and give me the link...
if you can watch it direct of the web use the Opera browser you dont need flash to stream videos of there browser they convert the video for you so it can be played
It depends how it's streamed. It may be a flash player embedded in the web page that shows the stream, where some sites will just link you directly to a stream so that your dedicated video player can play it instead.
Install Fiddler on your PC and when it's running open the website and watch the video. You should then be able to see in Fiddler's log the URL of the stream that the Flash file plays. You may be able to stream directly from that URL to your phone. If that doesn't work then I'm afraid it's only available through Flash, and quite probably their own Flash player so there would be no way round it.
Alternatively, get in touch with the site admin and ask them how you're supposed to watch the stream when you do no have Flash. They may just give you the stream URL.
If all that fails, try Skyfire browser as that renders the page on the server and then streams it to you so Flash is always available, regardless of your device...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skyfire.browser
Is it possible somehow to play videos you stream online on a media player of choice? Right now it streams internally and I don't like the way you fast forward.
Do you have an external media player? A lot of sites ask me what app I want to use, but will depend on the website and how they stream.
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Is it possible somehow to play videos you stream online on a media player of choice? Right now it streams internally and I don't like the way you fast forward.
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i think chrome doesn't allow external apps to play media. I want it too