Even before today's update 'Skifta' has always been my favorite DLNA software. Today's update improved the honeycomb supoort and added landscape-mode.
It is far superior to the bundled 'MyNet' software as it discovers more servers, is faster and more stable. To put it in simple words, it just works!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skifta.android.app&feature=search_result
I also use that DLNA Tool-grat app!! Now,with landscape support it looks nice too
MKV Files doesn`t works for me
leonore said:
I also use that DLNA Tool-grat app!! Now,with landscape support it looks nice too
MKV Files doesn`t works for me
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Great feedback - thanks for the comments - glad you're enjoying the product!
For MKV (or other non-handset native formats), you probably want to install one of the third party players (I like VPlayer, but I know RockPlayer/MoboPlayer also feature on the list of likes by the team here). If Skifta detects other players available, it'll give you the option to use them for video playback.
Let us know if this works better for you (either here or over at our forums - forums.skifta.com).
Allan (of the Skifta team),
Updated and still cannot see any video, just music. Have Skifta on Dell streak without any problem. Mobo, rockplayer and arcmedia installed.
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Well I'd uninstall and delete all data, cache etc of all of these apps (skifta, mediaplayers) and then install skifta and moboplayer only. These two work perfectly together for me (asus eee tf).
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It is far superior to the bundled 'MyNet' software as it discovers more servers, is faster and more stable. To put it in simple words, it just works!
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OMG, do you work for Skifta?
Well I gave it a try. Here it goes:
"Updating skifta" - no no no no. First launch did quite some download, but each time one starts Skifta an update check? And what happens when temporarily one has the INet down? Or some other connectivity problem? Well it did happen to me today; INet was up but the "updating skifta" was there just idle ... a good few minutes. No go exiting and relaunching Skifta ... always the update check. So in such cases the program is unusable at all.
Chose media source - "No media sources found". We wait and wait and wait... Aha! Found one server. But not the local MyNet which is always running. Oh, MyNet server appeared. And finally Skifta's own server. We need improvement with discovery. MyNet, ArkMC and UPnP are almost instantaneous.
On to video playback. We browse and select and ... have to select 3rd party player. No renderer function (at least for video). Sigh.
Images - buffering .... buffering .... buffering and image (turns out it's taking some time loading the icons images). But why is it so small??? Seems like 640x480 (sometimes 800x600) but _never_ fills the width or height. And it's not the server downscaling the images, try with the preinstalled on the TF101 local images like Boat, Bus, Cat. That's with jpegs, with gifs it does fit w or h. Lets zoom!!! Nope, no zoom A simple tif - black. Let's try a bitmap - black screen again. No message that unsupported, just black.
Audio. No ogg/vorbis support with builtin renderer. A very quick "unsupported" popup and automatically the next song is selected. Wav? Good they work. Seeking - nice, fluid. But ... with mp3 seeking is horrible, better if it was muted.
Overall it is very good that competition products appear. Skifter is still beta so much room for improvement. For the moment I'll stick with MyNet,
"to put it in simple words, it just works!"
Allan, after we users weed out the bugs, will the first non-beta be still ... free?
That's quite interesting. MyNet never worked for me but Skifta did out of the box. That's why I posted this thread, even though I don't get paid for it
Eventually everybody's gotta figure out what app is best for his hardware and software config, as it seems like right now there's no dlna app that works for everybody. Actually I haven't heard any bad reports about upnplay, but its UI is driving me nuts. Its all a compromise
Strange that MyNet didn't work for you. The more we get to chose from the merrier I do hope they will continue improving Skifta and keep the "low" (read: free) price tag.
Diodato - couple of points to make in terms of the issues you raise specifically..
On the update issues that you mention - Skifta checks for new fixes/functionality on each boot and dynamically introduces them if available. Primarily this is used for bug fies against specific devices/device classes. If there aren't any updates found, this should be pretty quick. Since version 0.72 the client has had the 'offline' mode built into it. Provided you've connected at least once before with an internet connection, it will startup without doing the check.
There was also a bug that meant that the app would sometimes hang on the 'updating' screen regardless of connection state - we think we've 95% fixed this, but there are still certain circumstances where it will happen - these occurrences are more likely around skifta app upgrades from the market if it's already running). There will be further bug fixes in this area as we narrow the causes down more.
In terms of the playback capabilities of Skifta - the app currently uses the native player (over which we have no control of codec support) or a third party player (in the case of video, if there are one - or many - installed). I know it's frustrating when your favourite codec X isn't in there (for us too), hence the introduction of the third party player option - there is a fairly large amount of choice here (vplayer being my current favourite and moboplayer getting a lot of good comments from our users).
Device discovery happens according to DLNA spec, but that sometimes means that you'll miss a broadcast and wait for the next retry. For the majority of devices, they'll respond to our first query and be instantly available - others won't and the app will discover them as they broadcast themselves.
We at Skifta very much appreciate all feedback, good or bad and as you probably noticed, try to respond with code drops, fixes, advice, etc fairly promptly - it is vital for the product as far as we're concerned to keep that feedback loop active.
We're also constantly working on new features, stability improvements, device compatibility enhancements and behind the scenes features that should mean that the service keeps moving for you guys. It would definitely be worth you checking out the latest market upgrade (0.74) that addresses some of the items I've touched on above.
We're working on some particularly exciting features right now that I'll be able to talk to you about soon!
Allan.
UpnPlay is a good dlna client also. Mynet didn't want to list my files for some reason.
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On the update issues that you mention - Skifta checks for new fixes/functionality on each boot and dynamically introduces them if available.
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Well it's a personal thing. _I_ want to be in control when an application connects for updates. The Android Market will notify me anyway if there is an update available for Skifta, right?
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There was also a bug that meant that the app would sometimes hang on the 'updating' screen regardless of connection state...
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That's good to know that it was fixed.
atimms said:
In terms of the playback capabilities of Skifta - the app currently uses the native player (over which we have no control of codec support) or a third party player (in the case of video, if there are one - or many - installed). I know it's frustrating when your favourite codec X isn't in there (for us too)...
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No, I am not looking for a universal player. The native Android will do for me. But I didn't know that Skifta is delegating _all_ video rendering to an external player. Would be nice if Skifta supported also the video playback through the native renderer. Perhaps future releases.
For the moment you can try to fix playback of OGG (natively supported by the Android player) and images (full screen with zoom possibility)
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Device discovery happens according to DLNA spec...
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No doubt since you're DLNA certified.
atimms said:
We're also constantly working on new features, stability improvements, device compatibility enhancements and behind the scenes features that should mean that the service keeps moving for you guys. It would definitely be worth you checking out the latest market upgrade (0.74) that addresses some of the items I've touched on above.
We're working on some particularly exciting features right now that I'll be able to talk to you about soon!
Allan.
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Will keep an eye on Skifta.
Also, you can watch live tv
I have orb installed on my media center computer, I'm using skifta and moboplayer and now I can watch live tv on my TF. This is wonderful.
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Just wanted to let everyone knows that playon works great on honeycomb, even though it's not officially supported yet on it, I bought the premium license cause I had the basic one and to my surprise, everything streams and works great, hulu, Netflix and so much more, local wifi and remote wifi too.
I hope they will update it soon to support honeycomb with higher definition and better bitrate. But for now I love it, plus there is a plugin like tv show stream that pulls all shows and stream them.
What is the app for? Any link?
Edit: got it! Cool stuff, I'll give it a try!
I have a play on subscription and i can view all the titles but when i click to view video, it says failed to load
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I use PlayOn and even though the video quality is so-so and the videos take awhile to buffer it does work for me.
just got an email from Fred at playon support and honeycomb support with better quality is coming soon
PlayOn will currently work for Honeycomb, but we are working on changes that will improve the quality. As Honeycomb hasn't been out that long, we have had to adapt, and this should be out in the public soon.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you for using PlayOn!
Take care,
Fred
PlayOn Support
www.playon.tv
I paid for the premium support too. I sure appreciate how good their tech support it. They usually respond very quickly.
I paid for a one month sub to try it out but I found that I like Plex more. Just a personal preference. It would be awesome if PlayOn & Plex could be combined.
i think that once flash gets better and smoother on android, the picture quality will be better from playon cause it uses flash, i have it on my ipad2 and it runs smoothly and great image quality, also on remote wifi too, which plex couldnt on my pc
Play on app on Galaxy 10.1
I can't seem to get the playing app to play any videos....sees my channels but when i press it it just doesn't connect. The funny thing is that if i run it Thur the web browser it plays...I thing the app does not see my flash player.
any ideas
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I can't seem to get the playing app to play any videos....sees my channels but when i press it it just doesn't connect. The funny thing is that if i run it Thur the web browser it plays...I thing the app does not see my flash player.
any ideas
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Try doubletapping tthe screen. It works for me in full screen, but not when it's smaller (on TF, not Galaxy).
It works...
Thanks...I did that by chance and was glad to see it did work....Can't wait for Honeycomb Version.....Would be nice if it had a better looking Graphical Interface.
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.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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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...
Puffin617 said:
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:
There are official releases for neon and ICS+ devices over on xbmc.org.
For Tegra2 / GB devices I'm likely not going to be working on them much, if at all going forward. I no longer have a Tegra2 or GB device and version 13 of the upstream code base has some changes that will make it very difficult to support the Tegra2 going forward.
Thank you to staticaDK, repvik, lavero.burgos, and XBMC Android for their help with mirroring.
staticaDK has suffered equipment failure and his mirror is down. Any links / bookmarks to his mirror will no longer work. Please DO NOT use old links to this mirror
The xbmchub.com guys are launching http://www.xbmcandroid.com/. The forums are open for registration for anyone that is interested.
We also have a FreeNode channel #xbmcandroid for those that are interested.
I have also broken out a lot of the information from this XDA thread as separate threads on xbmcandroid.com
Please note these are unofficial builds of XBMC, please report issues here or xbmcandroid.com ONLY
Builds are now auto-run every Sunday (through out the day). I will no longer be directly linking to the builds, please head over to the mirrors (links below) to download a given build.
XBMC, What is That?
XBMC is a media player / HTPC software package that does just about anything you'd want on a home theater box or a portable media device. See http://www.xbmc.org for more information.
Why Here?
I have been maintaining nightly builds of XBMC for Android and after a few requests and realizing my posts have been cross-linked it's time to create a central spot for the builds.
Schedule of Builds
Builds are now run automatically every Sunday.
What Is Special About These Builds?
I have re-built the CrystaX NDK that is required for XBMC from sources and made some compiler flag changes in order to improve NEON device support and to support the Tegra2 or other non-NEON devices. These are unsupported changes, particularly the Tegra2 and any other device without NEON. The official XBMC stance is NO device lacking NEON will receive support.
What Is / Is Not Supported
All builds are now built for 2.3.x (GingerBread) or higher devices. ARM ONLY. I will not be releasing MIPS or x86 builds.
Google TV devices are UNSUPPORTED. I do not know if / when the XBMC dev's will be supporting Google TV.
I will not be releasing aplayer builds. I will be leaving it up to Pivos to do releases. Please visit the Pivos forums for the latest builds with AMLogic hardware decode support.
Which Build Do I Want?
There are two builds, one for Tegra2 devices and another for NEON devices (see below for specifics). If you are not sure which type of device you have, try the NEON build and if it crashes, then use the Tegra2 build. If you have a non-NEON devices that is not the Tegra2, the Tegra2 build will run, but not all that great.
XBMC Compatibility List (Clickable link)
FAQ
Why is the APK so large?
This is a full build of XBMC including dependencies, resources and the like. There is a lot to the build and output. See http://pastebin.com/LgnWzdHW for a breakdown of what is contained within the APK including file sizes.
Does zipalign help with the size of the apk?
I ran zipalign and it didn't reduce the file size, likely won't help given what is packed in the apk.
Is there a better skin for touch screens?
Under the appearance settings there is a skin named "Touched" that works much better on touch screen devices than the default.
Does my hdmi out / dock / etc work for tv playback?
There are reports of this working properly in this thread and others.
Can I change the resolution for hdmi / similar playback?
Initial reports indicate this is not possible currently.
Does it work with CyanogenMod 10 (CM10)?
Maybe. Some users have reported success with CM10, others have had issues.
How do I get Fahrenheit Temperature?
Settings > System > International -> Change your region to USA if you want Fahrenheit
Common Problems
My screen starts flickering / freaking out: Kill the app, clear the app cache, restart devices, try again. Continue until the problem goes away.
I cannot play SD / 720p / 1080p content without stutters / dropped frames / audio sync issues / etc: Tough luck. Right now hardware decode support isn't complete, if your CPU can't process the video in software, you're stuck for the time being. The XBMC devs are working on hardware decode support and it will be done in due time. Do not ask for a deadline, there isn't one right now.
Battery life: Expect a pretty bad battery drain. This has been confirmed by a few others as well as the devices I tested. Given the project is targeting set-top boxes and similar equipment I would not expect this to be addressed until other, larger items are taken care of. Please do not complain to the official team about this item, complain here.
Resource utilization is high: This is known. Not going to change for awhile, do not complain to the official team, complain here.
Audio does not work: The XBMC audio levels and Android audio levels are not the same, you will need to adjust the volume in Android up to a higher level before launching XBMC most likely.
DVD Navigation may or may not work properly: This is known and being worked on by the main XBMC team.
/data is inaccessible: This partition is not accessible from XBMC.
Touchscreen Non-Responsive: Some users have reported the touchscreen taps aren't registering well or at all. The Toshiba Thrive 7" and 10" tablets seem to suffer the worst from this.
Tegra2 / non-NEON Problems (Must Read)
If your device does not have NEON, DO NOT COMPLAIN TO XBMC. Complain here.
Problems Under Investigation
XOOM 3g's running EOS ROMS appear to crash with a 0xdeadbeef pointer dereference
Working Add-Ons
1Channel -- Developer PM'd me and the choppyness is fixed in latest version (url in add-ons links below)
Anarcintosh's Icefilms
BBC iPlayer 2
dpstream
Freecable
fs.ua
FTP Sources
Icefilms
Navi-X
PBS
Samba Sources
Shared Library: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29899425&postcount=57
TED Talks plugin works great.
The Trailers plugin
Tuxbox
TVCatchup
Tvlinks
Broken Add-Ons
Bluecop's Amazon (crashes trying to unload librtmp.so -- symbol not found)
Bluecop's Hulu
MLBMC: Major League Baseball Media Center
myvideo.de
Trakt.tv stable. The version on github works on Windows, can anyone validate the version from git works on Android?
TuneInRadio
WebDav HTTPS
Sources
XBMC
Official: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
My Fork (Includes Tegra2): https://github.com/mcrosson/xbmc/
Android NDK
Official: http://www.crystax.net/en/android/ndk/7
The above NDK is no longer used in my builds. I have tweaked the sources to include better NEON / Tegra2 support. My customizations are not available currently, but I am working on an NDK release based on the CrystaX changes and will be publishing my work once I am further along.
Add-On Links
lavero.burgos mirror: http://four-nineteen.com/veronica/XDA Developers/XBMC 4 Android/Addons/
1Channel: https://github.com/bstrdsmkr/1Channel -- Support: http://www.xbmchub.com/forums/1channel-plugin/
Jezz_X's re-touched skin
This is an alternative to the included "Touched" skin.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=128494
Builds (~50Mb each)
See above for compatibility. If you are unsure, try the NEON build first, if it works use it. Otherwise use the Non-NEON build.
Google TV devices are UNSUPPORTED. I do not know if / when the XBMC dev's will be supporting Google TV.
I will not build AMLPlayer builds, If you have a Pivos device, visit their forums for build information and releases
I will not build MIPS or x86
I have setup a goo.im mirror in addition to those below. It will contain the 2 most recent builds linked below. You can find the files here or within goo manager (devs/kemonine/xbmc and available in play store)
Mirrors / Builds
Builds are now auto-run every Sunday (through out the day). I will no longer be directly linking to the builds, please use the following mirrors to obtain a release.
Please note the box mirror contains every build that has been previously published and is more complete for legacy builds than the google code mirror
Box (link)
Thanks for getting it to work on non neon. I got the Toshiba thrive
Thank you!!!
Working good on my TF101
Cheers!
Great thread.
Is there any chance you can include a changelog of commits as you are building them then it will have all the information in one place without having to go to github etc.
Just a suggestion
flumpster said:
Great thread.
Is there any chance you can include a changelog of commits as you are building them then it will have all the information in one place without having to go to github etc.
Just a suggestion
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I will be calling out any noteworthy changes with the builds. Right now I haven't seen anything of note coming in on the commit logs. It looks like they are doing general cleanup and some under the hood work.
Thank you for bringing this to us Tegra 2 users. It works so damn well.
This is fantastic. Absolutely great. Is there anyway to import the visualizers from ProjectM?
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I will be calling out any noteworthy changes with the builds. Right now I haven't seen anything of note coming in on the commit logs. It looks like they are doing general cleanup and some under the hood work.
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Great mate.
It will help to keep things organised. No point in updating daily for minor things but I will definitely update weekly or when a major commit comes.
Thanks one again.
Thank you for this
Flyer
Can someone who has the files upload to adifferent location. I am interested in the tegra2 version
Thanks
hunkyn said:
Can someone who has the files upload to adifferent location. I am interested in the tegra2 version
Thanks
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Download works for me, I used the stock ICS browser (came with the ROM I'm using). Just hit download.
If you're websensed (at work/school, blocked by IT firewall/censored page), right click the link, copy link address, make a QR code here, install Barcode Scanner, and scan the generated barcode.
Testing on a Tegra 2 phone (it's the 3G version of the Sprint Motorola Photon 4G). I will edit/post with results. FYI, huge file size. Don't download on 3G/4G unless you're a light data user/you have a nice plan (US Cellular 5GB plan, FTW).
//edit: 48.82MB. Good lawd that's a big APK!
It starts...
It can play music... but it's kind of a PITA, vs. your favorite music app. First you have to add the source. Hit browse. "Android Music" is the place your music player is getting it from. It's a placeholder, like the Libraries in Windows 7/8.
You can launch apps from it. Neato.
Videos... Eh... They don't get added as easily as music. "Android videos" might refer to the camera roll, but it's not where I have my videos. I had to add that manually. I have a 720p MP4 of the Fallout 3 intro that MX Player plays like butter, but it plays like crap in XBMC. A 3GP video I took with a dumbphone of my niece b***h-slapping me (she was 2 at the time, and objected "but he's my friend" first, haha) played fine. A shorter 720p video, another MP4 from YouTube, but only 4.5MB as opposed to the Fallout video's 47.3MB, stuttered almost as bad as the Fallout video.
Scrolling is... um, difficult. On the main menu, and if you have to browse for anything. It's gonna fight you. Works if you can grab the itty bitty scroll bar. But if you just grab the directory tree and toss, it may work or it may not. Or it may open the folder you grabbed it by.
Basically... it's nice and fancy but not too practical. Can this receive streams from a PC or server?
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Download works for me
FYI, huge file size. Don't download on 3G/4G unless you're a light data user/you have a nice plan (US Cellular 5GB plan, FTW).
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Downloads were down earlier today. I had forgotten DropBox had limits to how much data can be sent via public links. I also didn't expect to get that many downloads in the course of a day. I've moved my file hosting to another provider that provides more transfer and a dashboard that should let me keep an eye on my limits better.
I have updated the post with links to include file sizes and made a note to see about decreasing the file sizes.
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It starts...
It can play music... but it's kind of a PITA, vs. your favorite music app. First you have to add the source. Hit browse. "Android Music" is the place your music player is getting it from. It's a placeholder, like the Libraries in Windows 7/8.
You can launch apps from it. Neato.
Videos... Eh... They don't get added as easily as music. "Android videos" might refer to the camera roll, but it's not where I have my videos. I had to add that manually. I have a 720p MP4 of the Fallout 3 intro that MX Player plays like butter, but it plays like crap in XBMC. A 3GP video I took with a dumbphone of my niece b***h-slapping me (she was 2 at the time, and objected "but he's my friend" first, haha) played fine. A shorter 720p video, another MP4 from YouTube, but only 4.5MB as opposed to the Fallout video's 47.3MB, stuttered almost as bad as the Fallout video.
Scrolling is... um, difficult
Can this receive streams from a PC or server?
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Which skin are you using? The default in the build is confluence which is optimized for keyboard / remote usage. The settings area has an appearance tab that will let you change to the "touched" skin which is infinately more managable on a smaller screen.
Once you add the sources you can scan the items to the library (including auto-scans on launch) that greatly improves visibility and access to content.
Your success with video is pretty much par for course on the Tegra2. XBMC currently does not have hardware decode support and relys on software rendering. It has 1/2 of the floating point units (why it won't receive official treatment) that you would find on a newer chip which greatly impedes its ability to decode video content. Things will improve once hardware decode support is available (it's being worked on in mainline). I will be working on improving the builds as much as I can while the mainline devs finish up general hardware decode support.
You can setup smb / ssh / upnp / similar sources and they should generally work.
finding a bit hit and miss opening the app on a Tegra 3 - TF300
will try and reboot and see if it's any better - have tried the force close/reopen
anyone else with more luck?
Edit: Reboot has helped - app opens no issue anymore
Thanks for the NEON build - using the Touched skin
Confluence looks better, but Touch is more functional by far!
On a Tegra 3 TF300:
720p AC3 mkv - playback OK but not watchable - stutter. Audio appears to play mostly uninterupted.
1080p DTS mkv - playback OK but not watchable, but audio and video stutter.
Keep up the good work!
Looking forward to a stable build with HW acceleration!
Yeah, I wasn't expecting much out of XBMC. I knew the limitations going in. 0% of the blame on you. Some is on nVidia (Tegra) and Motorola (Photon 4G/Electrify) but some is also on XBMC themselves. MX Player plays HD video beautifully on my phone, although I do have it formatted for my screen. So it's scaled down to 960x540 (not 720p as I stated above). So video playback is possible in Tegra 2. Not sure if MX Player's drivers are open source. Might be worth looking into.
And I was using Confluence, didn't think to change the skin. I use a ROM that has a hybrid tablet mode, so I'm used to touching smaller screen items than many Android users, particularly those on stock builds. I actually had little trouble hitting the tiny touch controls for media on the main screen, and those were some tiny buttons, but I'll check out the other skin.
Other skin checked out, works a lot better, thanks.
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Not sure if MX Player's drivers are open source. Might be worth looking into.
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I will definitely have a closer look I think I ran across it at some point but didn't look too closely.
This works wonderful on my Atrix!
This is pretty awesome development to see bro, good stuff! Keep up the good work, will be tryin it out on my TF101 after work. Man, now I feel I'm really going to want to cop a hdmi mini adapter....
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Man, now I feel I'm really going to want to cop a hdmi mini adapter....
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I'd hold off until you know if it will perform or not. On the Tegra2's there is hit or miss support for even SD content. Support seems to boil down to container format and audio stream. I know my SD content stored in mkv with ac3/dts audio stutters badly at times. I've heard reports of xvid avi + mp3 audio being much better for playback.
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Other Known Bugs list will be updated near future..!
We are working on it.
Feature Requests
Note: the order of listing sort-of implies ranking of priority.
High Priority
DLNA/Casting/Chromecast - IN PROGRESS
SMB support
MKV Ordered Chapters and MKV Chapter Markers
Support for .m3u, .m3u8, .pls, and .wpl, including for playlist files with network streams in them: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/VG6LM3txHTQ/discussion
Medium Priority
Allow external audio streams to be passed to MX Player via API: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-external-audio-streams-t2784474
Manual Saturation, Contrast, Value, and Gamma Control
Additional controls for headphone in-line button: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3220442 - IN PROGRESS
UI improvements to file list:
For audio songs, add feature to sort by albums, artist, genre, etc
UI improvements for tablets/large screens: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/Y4uqkN4zgSk/discussion - IN PROGRESS
Built-in screenshot feature with button similar to the video-rotation button: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/HUAG7ACoeR4/discussion and http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/request-feature-screen-shot-to-mx-player-t3143132
Switch left/right audio stream when device is rotated 180 degrees: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-left-stereo-swap-rotate-t3123221
Switch left/right audio stream for (bluetooth) speakers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-swap-left-t2797750 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-screen-rotation-flip-t2865803
AVRCP Bluetooth metadata: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-avrcp-bluetooth-metadata-t2759314
Frame-by-frame stepping
Allow option to apply auto-hide interface timeout when paused: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/bug-interface-doesnt-auto-hide-playback-t3504885
Switch volume keys around in landscape orientation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-swap-volume-keys-t2741581
Ability to disable icons on playback UI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-optional-lock-t3067067
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/request-vr-controls-t3362581
Sync playback position across devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-sync-playback-position-t3053021
Ability to change background colour of player (ie for album art, cropped videos: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-ability-to-change-t3352945
Confirmation of exit from app: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/AW5R11oav7g/discussion
Filter/shader options, such as debanding, "16-235 -> 0-255 [SD][HD]", etc: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-debanding-filter-t2939323 and https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/76p1PxVy08I/discussion
IFO Support: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/ifo-support-t2877081
Pan on Note 10.1
Please add to the bug list the pan problem on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, detailed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/svXy0vhIUOQ
Hello, thanks for this great app.
I wanted to request something I think is a great feature, but then I was happy to see it already in the high priority list.
Popup Player: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/ws_voRX-MVc/discussion
But then I looked at the original thread and it dates back 2 years. Is there any word on development of this?
I see so many video apps successfully implement this and it seems to work wonderfully well for playing local files as well as streaming. For stress testing I even tried out large video files and heavy streams while loading up heavy apps and games and I never noticed lag or stutter, on my first generation nexus 7.
MX Player has always been my favorite android player since my nexus one, 4 years ago until today. And I would love to keep supporting it but I'm now downloading other players when I need floating video.
So I hope for some good news on development of this great feature, thanks!
Gix said:
Please add to the bug list the pan problem on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, detailed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mx-videoplayer/svXy0vhIUOQ
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Added.
Logic_ said:
Hello, thanks for this great app.
I wanted to request something I think is a great feature, but then I was happy to see it already in the high priority list.
Popup Player: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mx-videoplayer/ws_voRX-MVc/discussion
But then I looked at the original thread and it dates back 2 years. Is there any word on development of this?
I see so many video apps successfully implement this and it seems to work wonderfully well for playing local files as well as streaming. For stress testing I even tried out large video files and heavy streams while loading up heavy apps and games and I never noticed lag or stutter, on my first generation nexus 7.
MX Player has always been my favorite android player since my nexus one, 4 years ago until today. And I would love to keep supporting it but I'm now downloading other players when I need floating video.
So I hope for some good news on development of this great feature, thanks!
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I agree that this feature would be awesome!
This would be something for @bleu8888 to answer.
Feature request: Continuous folder to folder playing
[http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-continious-playing-t2741644]
Feature request: swap volume keys in landscape orientation
I have the Moto X. Since is shoots at a 16:9 ratio it won't go past 7.2mp. Is it possible to add full 10mp 16:9 support?
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I have the Moto X. Since is shoots at a 16:9 ratio it won't go past 7.2mp. Is it possible to add full 10mp 16:9 support?
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You are in wrong place.
It's MX Player support forum....!!!
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auto resume on startup
Hi
This player is awesome.
Here a feature needed for android car radio. Android car player are more and more popular, a nice feature would be an option when we start the player, the last played file start automatically on resume, like a normal car cd player do. (no need to start the application automatically, there is already an application for that).
Because each time the car is turned off, all applications are stopped by the android system. of course, if you use the integrated player it resume automatically, but it does not play all format and the interface is not good enough.
Thanks!
Cedric
@AlbertAS and @xenyz please make a new forum thread for your feature requests, then link that thread here, so that it can be added to the list. With a thread for your specific request, it is easier to keep track of each item.
@xenyz added.
mast3rbug said:
Hi
This player is awesome.
Here a feature needed for android car radio. Android car player are more and more popular, a nice feature would be an option when we start the player, the last played file start automatically on resume, like a normal car cd player do. (no need to start the application automatically, there is already an application for that).
Because each time the car is turned off, all applications are stopped by the android system. of course, if you use the integrated player it resume automatically, but it does not play all format and the interface is not good enough.
Thanks!
Cedric
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This is a great video player indeed, but as a car stereo app it's not ideal I'd say.. cause that's not its main purpose.
In my car I've been using PowerAmp for over 4 years now, it works great with everything you need from auto resuming to lockscreen controls etc. PowerAmp was one of the first apps to integrate all these things and still does it best imo. Although many other players have adopted the same functions.
Logic_ said:
This is a great video player indeed, but as a car stereo app it's not ideal I'd say.. cause that's not its main purpose.
In my car I've been using PowerAmp for over 4 years now, it works great with everything you need from auto resuming to lockscreen controls etc. PowerAmp was one of the first apps to integrate all these things and still does it best imo. Although many other players have adopted the same functions.
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Thanks I will try it!
Cedric
I agree that PowerAmp is probably one of the best music player apps out there.
Apologies in advance if I'm doing this wrong.
I have MX Pro, and would like to see it brought to Google TV...namely the Sony NSZ-GS7.
It doesn't appear in the Play Store for GTV, and I have tried sideloading MX player and it offers a "not supported" message.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mx-videoplayer/google$20tv/mx-videoplayer/8FuwdbGMJo4/xV1anwFLUEIJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mx-videoplayer/google$20tv/mx-videoplayer/rCovIwz5yCE/I75B4w-suY0J
Although,
Technical Support said:
MX Player cannot run on Google TV because Google TV version of Android does not allow direct access of system module.
MX Player requires direct access of system module to speed up video decoding.
Thanks.
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So I guess it'll never work?
Thanks
@bleu8888 has anything changed regarding overground's question?
Add Feature
If you can add THE ABILITY TO Share video support like by Bluetooth and wlan direct .... etc
THANKS
Hello everyone,
As you all know youtube app on android and ios does not support Chromecast audio, so I've developed a new android app that let users cast youtube to Chromecast Audio. It finds only audio track, so you do not need to worry about network traffic, as the audio track size is usually much smaller than the video size. My intension is to support more websites, currently it works best for youtube.
Key features:
- Detect music audio tracks from the websites you visit and cast to Chromecast
- Support queue, so you can add many items once and let Chromecast do the rest
- Support repeat playback, repeat all/one/none/shuffle
- Support playback and volume controls
- Built-in browser with multi-tabs
- If websites contain both video and audio, this app will select only audio track, so you do not need to worry about network traffic, as the audio track size is usually much smaller than the video size, which is very efficient for Chromecast Audio.
The app works pretty the same way as Google Youtube App, you click on a video, it shows a dialog and let you choose to play or add video to queue, and it also allows you to move the queue items up and down, and play the queue on repeat (repeat none, all, one or shuffle).
It can also with normal Chromecast video, of course, but you only see thumbnail on the tv screen, and the music, not the video, as I already mentioned - only audio.
Here's the video demo on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGkoC6LPp0
And the app on PlayStore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sibimobilelab.castwebaudio
Great job!
What I miss:
-Add some way to store playlists
-Add whole playlist from YouTube (This could be too traffic intense and lead to banning the app that is already in gray area...)
drkbg said:
Great job!
What I miss:
-Add some way to store playlists
-Add whole playlist from YouTube (This could be too traffic intense and lead to banning the app that is already in gray area...)
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Hi,
The idea is to create playlists with your youtube account and I will implement the feature to add the whole playlist to the queue. I will try to do so in upcoming releases.
I know it's risky to do things with youtube, but how do you know it's in gray area?
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Hi,
The idea is to create playlists with your youtube account and I will implement the feature to add the whole playlist to the queue. I will try to do so in upcoming releases.
I know it's risky to do things with youtube, but how do you know it's in gray area?
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If you are asking yourself: "Is this legal?", then it is in the gray area.
You are providing easy way to get content without paying (YouTube red or ads).
-the playlist feature will be better if it works with playlists in general not just ones from your account.
-storage is local.
Because:
1.spares all the queries you have to make for each song in playlist every time you open it(there are playlists with hundreds of songs).
2.privacy concerns
Well, I think gg should provide youtube support for Chromecast Audio for free, just like they do with normal Chromecast, since they do not send ads to stream in normal Chromecast as well.
This app allows users to cast to chromecast audio only, not anywhere else, and not play locally or download videos/audios which I think will make it more "legal". So just let's wait and see
About storing the playlists, since I'm not using youtube API, and youtube is the only one of many websites this app supports, the video/audio links that I can get live only for a short time (approx. 1 day) then they will get expired, so storing playlists is not an option for me unfortunately. The official youtube app also does not store playlists locally.
Then make sure to not throw hundreds of requests at once when parsing the playlist.
And one small thing: the "playing" icon (the three animated bars) is annoying (at least for me). You have made plain simple UI keep it that way and just put the simple triangle thing without animation ( ▶ ). It's an Unicode symbol. (one less image to take care of).
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Then make sure to not throw hundreds of requests at once when parsing the playlist.
And one small thing: the "playing" icon (the three animated bars) is annoying (at least for me). You have made plain simple UI keep it that way and just put the simple triangle thing without animation ( ). It's an Unicode symbol. (one less image to take care of).
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Ok, thank you, I'll keep this in mind
This is GREAT! I purchased Chromecast audio only to find out I can't cast from Youtube app. Such a stupid move from Google
Perfect
@SibiMobile
1. is there a way you implement playing playlists from Youtube?
2. is there a way we can donate to you, as you're a life saver bro!
mig0r said:
@SibiMobile
1. is there a way you implement playing playlists from Youtube?
2. is there a way we can donate to you, as you're a life saver bro!
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Hi,
Thank you for your offer, unfortunately this app development is suspended and I've removed it from playstore. Now I'm working on an replacement - Amaze Browser, it can also cast youtube to chromecast audio, however the queue function is not yet added, I do plan to add it in future releases.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-amaze-browser-auto-detects-audio-t3508876
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Hi,
Thank you for your offer, unfortunately this app development is suspended and I've removed it from playstore. Now I'm working on an replacement - Amaze Browser, it can also cast youtube to chromecast audio, however the queue function is not yet added, I do plan to add it in future releases.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-amaze-browser-auto-detects-audio-t3508876
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Great! I installed it and it works. Only thing I'm missing is playing Youtube playlists. That the app would automatically play YT playlist videos in a row... other than that, big up!!
mig0r said:
Great! I installed it and it works. Only thing I'm missing is playing Youtube playlists. That the app would automatically play YT playlist videos in a row... other than that, big up!!
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It would be a heavy request to google server and I avoid doing this to protect the app in play store . In fact I removed most of the things with YouTube - download, background playing, only leave the Chromecast feature.
Pls keep in mind that the queue feature is not yet added in Amaze Browser, continue to use Tubo cast if you need this feature.
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It would be a heavy request to google server and I avoid doing this to protect the app in play store . In fact I removed most of the things with YouTube - download, background playing, only leave the Chromecast feature.
Pls keep in mind that the queue feature is not yet added in Amaze Browser, continue to use Tubo cast if you need this feature.
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Tubo Cast was a great app so far!!! It would be great if you publish a hacked version out of the Play Store... I'd be glad to donate to you! Youtube playlist support is a must in my opinion... it'd be a killer feature for sure!
Maybe you could publish it on the Play Store "as is", and let we download an unofficial plugin that enables that feature!
Probably I'm only dreaming...
bart.found said:
Tubo Cast was a great app so far!!! It would be great if you publish a hacked version out of the Play Store... I'd be glad to donate to you! Youtube playlist support is a must in my opinion... it'd be a killer feature for sure!
Maybe you could publish it on the Play Store "as is", and let we download an unofficial plugin that enables that feature!
Probably I'm only dreaming...
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Hi, I cannot promise the playlist feature, what I have right now is a new version of tubo cast with the fix for the disconnection issue, I can upload it here.
Do you encounter the disconnection issue by the way?
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Hi, I cannot promise the playlist feature, what I have right now is a new version of tubo cast with the fix for the disconnection issue, I can upload it here.
Do you encounter the disconnection issue by the way?
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Mh... I'm a new Chromecast Audio user, since I bought it last week, anyway, I tried several way to cast youtube contents to that thing... and your app (I found it somewhere around the web after reading this post) is the best solution because it doesn't need a constant stream between phone and chromecast. It'd be absolutely perfect with playlist support... and I mean perfect indeed!
I didn't have disconnection issue till now... I'm having more issues with apps like Deezer, just to say, because it randomly disconnects, starting to play the sound from my phone's speaker...
By the way "I can't promise" means "no" or "maybe"!
bart.found said:
Mh... I'm a new Chromecast Audio user, since I bought it last week, anyway, I tried several way to cast youtube contents to that thing... and your app (I found it somewhere around the web after reading this post) is the best solution because it doesn't need a constant stream between phone and chromecast. It'd be absolutely perfect with playlist support... and I mean perfect indeed!
I didn't have disconnection issue till now... I'm having more issues with apps like Deezer, just to say, because it randomly disconnects, starting to play the sound from my phone's speaker...
By the way "I can't promise" means "no" or "maybe"!
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Means " no" for now
If you encounter the disconnection issue, follow the workaround mentioned in the home page to solve it
Again we published it to playstore, and also added premium verion.
Change log:
- Upgraded browser, added startpage, bookmark, history, search suggestion
- Use wifi wakelock to prevent disconnection issue
- Upgraded to more stable version of Google Cast API
- Added premium version
1.What is premium? Just supporting your efforts or something else? One can't really understand from changelog/app.
2.Is there a typo in the name? I see now TubCast instead of the previous TubeCast.
3.What is the difference to the other browser app that you are developing.
4.Is there a list of supported sites?
5.Any chance that vbox7.com can get into the list of point 4?
6.Youtube playlist support is not on the table anymore?
Thanks for update.
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1.What is premium? Just supporting your efforts or something else? One can't really understand from changelog/app.
2.Is there a typo in the name? I see now TubCast instead of the previous TubeCast.
3.What is the difference to the other browser app that you are developing.
4.Is there a list of supported sites?
5.Any chance that vbox7.com can get into the list of point 4?
6.Youtube playlist support is not on the table anymore?
Thanks for update.
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regarding your question:
1/ Yes premium is to add a little support for the development
2/ Tubecast is the name in playstore, in the app I made a tupo name Tubcast which is funny
3/ It supports queue, the other browser does not yet support queue, this one focuses on chromecast audio and shows popup dialog directly when it finds audio links, this app is also more lightweight and removed part of the UI in compare to another browser,
and the UI is more close to the youtube app
4/ It supports most of the sites except flash websites
5/ Will need to check with vbox7.com
6/ You still need to add songs one by one, adding the whole youtube playlist is not possible