So I've been a customer of Zediva for a while and thought to try it out with the Droid charge to see if they would play with out that stupid filter blocking the movie. It worked! Well sort of. You can watch it, but the quality is very poor. So poor you can't watch it. Now the phone plays great with home movies taken with the cam on the phone, and even the videos. Looking at the web is great, but for some reason the quality of the movie doesn't stay the same for the movie. Has anyone else tried this and is there a setting that you have to make to watch it?
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has anyone actually used the kinoma play program on their phone there is an add for it here just wondering what others think of it
Yeah, i've tried Kinoma Play.
Good-looking player. But cant play movies.
U have to buy the pro version...
Plays almost anything.
I'm not sure what he's talking about it not playing movies. The only mobile format that I've had trouble with is AVI. I don't really undersatnd why it doesn't play it, but it doesn't. So I dl'd pocket Divx for those.
I use Kinoma for almost all of my YouTube watching, music listening, and picture viewing. I have an Audible account, so I use it to stream the morning paper every day, as well as audiobooks for the ride home. I also use it with my Orb software to stream music and movies from my home desktop. My only real complaint is that the menu system is kind of clunky. You have to press back, back, back to return to the main menu. There ought to be a shortcut to the main menu. Other than that, I'm very happy with it.
I did end up getting the paid version, but I didn't actually pay for it. They have a TrialPay link, so I signed up for a trial of RealPlayer, got the software, then cancelled the trial a couple days later.
Hope this helps your decision
If it can't play .avi files, I'd say that player sucks. Better check out Core Player first for your Pocket PC. Don't even waste your time.
I found this thread too, more information about it and the BUGS it has: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=433026&highlight=kinoma+player
They don't support any type of AVI files, if you read through Kinoma's forum the creators say that it is too much trouble to support AVI due to all the variants of codec. They also state that most movies/TV shows that are pirated are in AVI format and they seem to be taking the moral highground over supporting it.
Very good as a music only player though, very swish interface.
I absolutely love Kinoma. I bought the pro version since.. well, I love it. I don't like watching movies on my phone AT ALL, so that's not a problem for me. The Internet radio feeds, podcasts and Flickr, Youtube, Audible, Orb, idisk and other features are awesome. I'd gladly pay for it again.
I love it! I only use Kinoma FreePlay because the Pro version offers me nothing more that I need. Ever since I installed it and found old MacGyver episodes, I've been doing a lot less work.
Dave
Also see my related remarks in my past articles.
Has anyone else notices that once the Captivate hits 10% battery (or maybe it's less than 10%) you can no longer use the "Music Player" application?
Any way around this?
I wanted to continue using the Music Player in order to drain the phone to 0% but couldn't once I hit 9 or 10%. I could use Pandora though.
Yep, stock music player will not allow you to listen to music under 10%. I'm sure music apps will let you though. I'm using mixzing and it's pretty good. A bit choppy though if you let it update your album artwork all the time.
rurouni572 said:
Yep, stock music player will not allow you to listen to music under 10%. I'm sure music apps will let you though. I'm using mixzing and it's pretty good. A bit choppy though if you let it update your album artwork all the time.
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I wonder if the stock app can be hacked to disable this annoying "feature". Other than that I actually like the stock music app better than the couple other market music apps I've tried.
It also affects the camera and video player--which is annoying. I mean, I realize the battery is low, but I might still want to take a picture, or listen to music. 10% of the battery remaining should still be plenty to listen to music for a while.
Any apps outside of the stock ones don't prevent you from using them though. Guess I need to find a camera alternative.
The only reason I chose a third party music app was because my Captivate skips and stutters when playing music and I heard that mixzing/double twist don't do that. Otherwise I'd stick with the default player because it's pretty good.
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The only reason I chose a third party music app was because my Captivate skips and stutters when playing music and I heard that mixzing/double twist don't do that. Otherwise I'd stick with the default player because it's pretty good.
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Are you sure its not another program interfering with the function of the music player? I multi-task with the music player in the background often, and never had any skipping.
Do any of you guys using the music player have problems sorting your music by artist? How much music do you have on your phone? I like the stock player too, but its useless to me since it crashes every time I try to sort by artist.
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Are you sure its not another program interfering with the function of the music player? I multi-task with the music player in the background often, and never had any skipping.
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I'm pretty sure it's not another program that's causing the skipping. There are lots of posts about this on androidforums and most people are not running any background apps/used ATK to kill more resource intensive apps. I'm wondering if there are hidden system processes that make it stutter like that.
In general I listen to music at work. I'm not surfing or multitasking on my phone. I'm only listening to music. Yet it still skips/stutters. I wonder if background processes like syncing or something is upsetting the music player but I doubt it. Besides, it just shouldn't skip to begin with.
This needs to be disabled, and now. It does the same thing to the camera, and I was at a concert last night and it wouldn't let me open the camera because I had less than 15% battery. I didn't give a **** about my phone for calling, I wanted pictures of the last 3 bands playing. To make it better, it had been bright as hell all day, and the last 3 sets were as the sun was finally going down and they had really cool stage setups that I would have loved to have been able to take pictures or videos of.
F*** you whoever thinks they should choose FOR ME what I should do with my battery. This is bull****. I'll use every last drop of power taking pictures WHILE listening to music if I want.
If I sound a little annoyed, it's because I am. I had seen this before, at least for the music player, but wasn't thinking about it. I watched my battery all day to make sure I had enough to get pictures of all the bands playing, and 15% was enough for a couple of pictures for the last few bands. So yeah, I'm annoyed. I don't know if this is a Samsung thing, or an Android thing, but it needs to be gone.
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This needs to be disabled, and now. It does the same thing to the camera, and I was at a concert last night and it wouldn't let me open the camera because I had less than 15% battery. I didn't give a **** about my phone for calling, I wanted pictures of the last 3 bands playing. To make it better, it had been bright as hell all day, and the last 3 sets were as the sun was finally going down and they had really cool stage setups that I would have loved to have been able to take pictures or videos of.
F*** you whoever thinks they should choose FOR ME what I should do with my battery. This is bull****. I'll use every last drop of power taking pictures WHILE listening to music if I want.
If I sound a little annoyed, it's because I am. I had seen this before, at least for the music player, but wasn't thinking about it. I watched my battery all day to make sure I had enough to get pictures of all the bands playing, and 15% was enough for a couple of pictures for the last few bands. So yeah, I'm annoyed. I don't know if this is a Samsung thing, or an Android thing, but it needs to be gone.
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The first time I use the stock app to record a video, i happen to run a music app on background. It turned out that the video included the background music. I think this is amazing. But when i did it again and again, i didn't get the music in the video.
Does anyone have any experience on this ?
no one ever try? just run any music app (tune-in radio, pandora, whatever) and make a short video and see how it goes. I want to know anyone got the same problem as me. Thanks a lot!
Same here, its not just you. I want to be able to do exactly what you said you actually did. But no luck finding an app that will do it yet. All I need is it to play music while it records video. I only have one device to bring with me on a trip and I want to listen to music, while shooting the sunrise ANNNND have the music playing in the video. SGS2
Right now, if I go to a site that plays videos in flash, like Break.com for example, it will play the video on the website as if it was a desktop. and there is almost no way for me to control it because the buttons are too small (pause/play, skip, etc). In iPhone that would pop out and be played with quicktime player or whatever that native thing is. anyway to do this on this phone?
I don't believe you can do this with embedded flash videos. And just for comparisons, neither could the iPhone (with flash videos, that is).
Yeah, iPhone couldn't play flash videos at all. Only I think HTML 5 videos.
I did figure something out last night though. In dolphin browser I set user agent to iPhone. I was able to get videos that iPhone would "pop out" to also "pop out" and play with MX Player. So that was pretty cool
I also found that if I hit the fullscreen button while watching actual flash videos, it seems Dolphin has a sort of built in tool for that and it actually shows full sized buttons for pause and stuff. Though it would be cool if any/all videos popped out to play on MX Player.
might as well change the thread title to "How can I watch porn vids"
^ lol. Upnplay + Dice Player works great. Another of my favorite players is Stick It. Allows a floating player window that you can move/resize.
So I tried playing a movie on play movies, and get great sound, and no picture whatsoever. Anyone else having the same issue? All other video as seen to be playing fine. Google play movies is the only issue.
Edit: So I tried to play my purchases movies through YouTube and same issue there. Sound but no video. All other videos play fine on YouTube. Could it be a drm issue?
Edit 2: Same issue with movies anywhere.
Edit 3: figured it out. Night mode was causing the issue. Once turned off everything plays fine.
I had a similar issue. There was a 4:3 black block to the left off center. Couldn't figure it out, almost took it back!! Thanks