What do the people say?
Should I include ALLSHARE ? or is it trash?
i like the idea of all share but.... never use it
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Toss it...
me to.. i like it because its 'not in the market' but there are other apps that do the same thing in the market.
I never use it either, I personally think its bloat, but I see alot of other roms are including it so I figured I would ASK!
Thx! Plz vote!!
bloat, keep out
Bloat.
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Toss it. There is a better option.
UPnP and DicePlayer.
I have used AllShare A LOT. The problem is that it limits you to a stripped down version of Samsung "Videos" app. With an Exynos processor you'd never notice, but for the Skyrocket the Videos app doesn't work well with XviD. As a side note, to fix XviD choppiness, I run Gamecih 3.0 and set it to transparent, and all the lagginess is gone when playing XviD on DicePlayer.
Also, when you want to skip forward on DicePlayer when streaming over DLNA, it is simply stunning because it is so instant and responsive, unlike the Videos app which seems to have buffer issues.
Lastly, tou can download an updated AllShare from the Market if you really like AllShare or want to share your video on your phone to another DLNA device.
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From what I have gathered the SGS supports a lot more video/audio formats than Nexus S out of the box (correct me if I am wrong). Will it be possible to port these codecs from the SGS over to the NS?
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Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.
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Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.
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Probably just hasn't been updated for 2.3. Patience.
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[Q] How to play vidoes/movies on Nexus S?
So i was thinking about watching a movie this afternoon on my brand new Nexus S and started looking for some sort of video player under the appications. Is it true that the phone doesnt come with any kind of Video Player? How do i watch movies? What format to use for the movies? I download all my movies and they're all .avi. All the help, comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
AVI is just a container. It can hold any kind of codec inside. I heard people reccomend rockplayer is good though. Try that and report back on how it works.
Rockplayer doesn't work. Lots of players crashes on the Nexus S right now. They all need to be updated.
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You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
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varungandhi said:
You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
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When I try to open a video file from astro, among the choices of program given to me is one called "movies"; this uses the same icon as the "gallery" proram, comes preloaded on the phone, and also fails to open most video formats.
Playing M4P via Meridian and it works great.
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Let me look up meridian. I guess I am gonna have to convert from avi to the extension you mentioned.
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Gallery is the video player.
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So is the issue that the nexus s doesn't come with an xvid codec or that apps with software decoding of the codecs like rockplayer just need to be updated ? Sorry if I'm a little dense about this.
I guess the 3rd party apps need to be updated.
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Gallery is the video player.
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So is there a specific file type that the galley plays? I just created a movie folder with 2 avi files but gallery isn't showing anything other than pictures on the same storage.
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M4P is a .h264 container. Most videos on the internet or torrents for phones come in M4P format. Best quality for the size.
Most phones can play M4P right out of the box. YouTube is a big supporter of the container.
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quick question regarding the camera, how do you upload videos to picasa.
I went to the gallery and hit menu to get the option to share, but I only see the option there when its photos. I thought you can upload videos also.
I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx
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I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx
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Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
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Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
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Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.
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Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.
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Yeah I know.
BTW did you check the videos you uploaded on picasa from your nexus?
I just uploaded one using the same app you said, and it seems that the quality is not the same than that which was taken on the phone. Its a much lesser one.
I'm considering buying a Xoom, and I've been trying to read up on it, and it seems as though video playback has been discussed to great extent. Most of what I've read is about HD files (.mkv).
How is the video playback of .avi files on the stock player?
If it sucks, would you recommend any other apps? Or would I need to re-encode them?
I will use this when travelling, so I can't use any streaming software from my regular pc.
I have no problem with rooting and installing custom ROMs if that would improve anything!
Thank you!
Is it so much of a diffference it's worth doing it? Is it unwatchable if you don't?
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Is it so much of a diffference it's worth doing it? Is it unwatchable if you don't?
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In my opinion it is not worth doing. Just download Mobo Player from the market and you'll be fine. Not had 1 .avi that would not work with Mobo, nor noticed any difference in the quality.
No issues here either, there are a few things that I've reencoded due to size but not found any issues..
fyi I've been using freemaker video converter to reencode stuff if it needed doing.
On the xoom page on motos website it says that .ago is not nativly supported by the android OS, and that using decoders may reduce battery time if its not done on a hardware level. Any of you having trouble with battery life?
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Mobo does both hardware and software rendering and there are other players on the market that will use hardware rendering.
As for battery life, I cant honestly say that I have seen a decrease that would make a difference to my useage.
Thank you all!
Now I know what I'm gonna ask santa for this year
Wait for the prime my FRIEND!!! Tegra 3
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I'm pretty sure you can't normally do it, but are there any mods to do so? My girlfriend's never seen Forest Gump and I only have it on my phone through Media Hub, haha.
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I'm pretty sure you can't normally do it, but are there any mods to do so? My girlfriend's never seen Forest Gump and I only have it on my phone through Media Hub, haha.
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Anyone know the answer to this?
Man, the Q&A section seems very empty these days. No wonder so many flow into General, lol.
way back in the day gtg said something along the lines of "it doesnt look easy" unforunately nobody has a better answer.
the problem is that its not simply mirroring the home screen. the mhl output seems to have a resolution independant of the screen and it interfaces with the video player to change resoluion of the output and turn off the phone screen when a high res video is played. so the video player and mhl drivers all interface in ways that the devs dont have documentation on and its not simple to reverse engineer. i dont think anyone has even waisted time trying. it also interfaces with the tw launcher. i wouldnt even know where to start. do you try to mod the app? do you mod the kernel to try to force mirroring? how is the launcher involved?
best bet is to download the movie in as high a quality as the 4gb file size limit will allow and watch it that way.
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way back in the day gtg said something along the lines of "it doesnt look easy" unforunately nobody has a better answer.
the problem is that its not simply mirroring the home screen. the mhl output seems to have a resolution independant of the screen and it interfaces with the video player to change resoluion of the output and turn off the phone screen when a high res video is played. so the video player and mhl drivers all interface in ways that the devs dont have documentation on and its not simple to reverse engineer. i dont think anyone has even waisted time trying. it also interfaces with the tw launcher. i wouldnt even know where to start. do you try to mod the app? do you mod the kernel to try to force mirroring? how is the launcher involved?
best bet is to download the movie in as high a quality as the 4gb file size limit will allow and watch it that way.
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Haha, didn't think it'd be easy. Thanks a bunch for the thorough and detailed answer man!
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Haha, didn't think it'd be easy. Thanks a bunch for the thorough and detailed answer man!
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If you bought the movie, you could copy it from where mediahub stores it and just play it through video player and maybe the mhl adapter would work with the video player
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jesi.james said:
If you bought the movie, you could copy it from where mediahub stores it and just play it through video player and maybe the mhl adapter would work with the video player
Froggys go ribbet
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media hub has a proprietary format. if someone figures out how to read it and transcode it then maybe, but good luck getting that figured out.
Or stream it off YouTube. Lol. Its there.
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Hey I am wondering if there is a video editing software that also streams to Google devices. I have this one app tested on my phone called vplayer. and it changes the aspect ratio, but doesn't convert. And then there is this app called androtrim that changes the ratio. Which I may eventually buy. But can someone suggest an app that streams the converted video as well. I have downloaded some movies with bittorrent and I want to resize them to fit on my screen. I may have missed a posting similar to this, but I would love to know more. And I don't have this tab right now. That's a question i need answered so I can buy. Because I won't buy a tab if u can't do what I'd like to do.
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Maybe "Video Converter Android" (paid app) could solve SOME of Your issues (it always depends on the codecs used)
troed said:
Maybe "Video Converter Android" (paid app) could solve SOME of Your issues (it always depends on the codecs used)
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what do u mean "some" and also it doesn't really matter as long as the videos are avi, mkv, mp4. So on
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Just looking for some suggestions.
I have a pc hooked up to my tv now and it's really quite overkill. All we do with it is stream videos from other computers in the house and watch Netflix.
I'm sure these little android stick things are powerful enough to do this.
Can anyone recommend a good one to replace my puter? Just need to be able to stream HD Netflix and play videos.
Thanks!
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If it's just videos, probably any of the dual-core devices will do fine. You may need to use an Android 4.1 rom, as the Netflix app is broken on 4.2 for most or all of these sticks.
The mk808 and mk808b are both around $45; the former has slightly better support while the latter has Bluetooth. I have the b model, and it is great for Netflix. (I also use it with Debian in the background to run my IRC connection; it's got plenty of excess power for that plus videos.)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089407