Since you can't put 10 gb rips on your Android atm without splitting them I am looking for a media player that supports split files (meaning that it plays the two files as if they were one).
XBMC does this great but I think it is too heavy for a mob ile.
I want a player like VLC, lightweight and can play a lot of formats. I don't know how this TV out works, but that should also be supported.
Anyone that can share a good app tip?
If you formatted you sdcard to a ext filesystem you could have larger files I did this with a sdcard to use for Linux image files
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Oh but I have the one X, means no SD card :/
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Oh but I have the one X, means no SD card :/
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you should be able to still format the internal memory..not that I have done it before on a device with just internal
Yeah I also thought so but I searched and found one person here at the forum who had tried. The result was the phone complaining about corrupt storage etc. So no luck there.
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So i got my g tablet on black friday and love it so far as long as all i use it for is surfing the net... the tapntap is ok for now except that it does not see or recognize ANY of my media... only way i can seem to get it to work is with the.. es file explorer... it will open/play and see the media but in a completely un organized fashion. Id like to know if its just mine or is there a fix?? help?? ... cuz its going back if it is just mine or not fixable.. id love to change the ui like i have seen others do on here but im just not tech savvy enough anymore.. i haven't found any other threads with this issue so any help would be appreciated............. Thanks
Im totally new to this android thing.. i have a DROID but its always worked!! so lol never explored past the market...
throtlejock said:
So i got my g tablet on black friday and love it so far as long as all i use it for is surfing the net... the tapntap is ok for now except that it does not see or recognize ANY of my media... only way i can seem to get it to work is with the.. es file explorer... it will open/play and see the media but in a completely un organized fashion. Id like to know if its just mine or is there a fix?? help?? ... cuz its going back if it is just mine or not fixable.. id love to change the ui like i have seen others do on here but im just not tech savvy enough anymore.. i haven't found any other threads with this issue so any help would be appreciated............. Thanks
Im totally new to this android thing.. i have a DROID but its always worked!! so lol never explored past the market...
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Is your media on the microSD? If so, then this is a common with tablets (not phones). The apps are still designed with phones in mind, where the microSD slot is /sdcard. But, on our device, /sdcard is the internal memory and /sdcard2 is the microSD.
The zPad firmware manages to get around this issue by mapping the microSD card as a subfolder under /sdcard, so apps can find content there.
roebeet said:
The zPad firmware manages to get around this issue by mapping the microSD card as a subfolder under /sdcard, so apps can find content there.
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roebeet,
Is that a prossiblity in a futre upgrade to TNT Lite? I bought a 16gb microSD card yesterday and it's pretty useless other than a storage device.
mmracing said:
roebeet,
Is that a prossiblity in a futre upgrade to TNT Lite? I bought a 16gb microSD card yesterday and it's pretty useless other than a storage device.
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I tried doing this awhile back, but failed. I think that the TnT framework expects the microSD to be on /sdard2. It's a combo of the init.rc and the vold.fstab, so ideally we should be able to change it if TnT hadn't thrown us a curveball.
I personally am OK with it as /sdcard2. I play videos off file explorer and music off the app "Andless" (which can scan /sdcard2). And ACV for comic reader can also scan /sdcard2. So it really depends on the app.
I put the music on /sdcard2 , and /sdcard and when I open up the music player still it says no files found
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I put the music on /sdcard2 , and /sdcard and when I open up the music player still it says no files found
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Most music players (including stock) expect the music files to be on /sdcard. They can't read /sdcard2.
It doesn't matter where i put the media... it wont load it... ive pretty much decided im taking the tablet back .... i cant justify spending that kinda money on something that cant do what my phone can.... such as play music videos pictures ... and flash player... i cant for the life of me understand why any company would release a product like this that isn't even complete on the software side of things.
Never mind i didn't realize i had to reboot the thing after loading media on /sdcard ... opps totally forget that i cant change my card on my droid without pulling the battery... thus automatic reboot... total after thought told ya i was new to this lol
Any other music players
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I tried doing this awhile back, but failed. I think that the TnT framework expects the microSD to be on /sdard2. It's a combo of the init.rc and the vold.fstab, so ideally we should be able to change it if TnT hadn't thrown us a curveball.
I personally am OK with it as /sdcard2. I play videos off file explorer and music off the app "Andless" (which can scan /sdcard2). And ACV for comic reader can also scan /sdcard2. So it really depends on the app.
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Has anyone had luck with other music players that can be mapped to access /sdcard2?
Andless works (thanks for the recommendation Roebeet) but it really lacks any fun-factor! I'd like to see album art, use id3 tags, and use play my music from /sdcard2. Poweramp can't do this (folder options are hard-coded).
I'll try the new Winamp beta later on tonight and report back. Thanks All!
MortPlayer Beta reads /sd2
treenuts said:
Has anyone had luck with other music players that can be mapped to access /sdcard2?
Andless works (thanks for the recommendation Roebeet) but it really lacks any fun-factor! I'd like to see album art, use id3 tags, and use play my music from /sdcard2. Poweramp can't do this (folder options are hard-coded).
I'll try the new Winamp beta later on tonight and report back. Thanks All!
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After trying 4 different music player apps, I stumbled upon Mortplayer beta. It reads .id3 tags, displays album covers, and most importantly for VEGAn users, it can read files from the gtab's microSD slot. Have fun all!
I use winamp and the music app in tnt-lite. Both use microsd card, read tags and use album art. The music app doesn't show album art until you pick a song, tho.
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I use winamp and the music app in tnt-lite. Both use microsd card, read tags and use album art. The music app doesn't show album art until you pick a song, tho.
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Were you able to get Winamp to read .mp3s from sdcard2? I tried and failed.
I did some searching and didn't find an answer so I thought I'd ask. I've tried to play a couple of videos from the mini-sd card, one in .mkv and one .avi without success. I have Format factor so conversions aren't a problem provided I know what is needed. My questions are...
1. What is the best format and resolution?
2. Are there any particular storage location requirements, such as no SD card to have movies play properly?
3. Is there a player that I should be using other than the default.
FYI, I am currently on rooted stock 3.1
Thank you in advance for any help!
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I did some searching and didn't find an answer so I thought I'd ask. I've tried to play a couple of videos from the mini-sd card, one in .mkv and one .avi without success. I have Format factor so conversions aren't a problem provided I know what is needed. My questions are...
1. What is the best format and resolution?
2. Are there any particular storage location requirements, such as no SD card to have movies play properly?
3. Is there a player that I should be using other than the default.
FYI, I am currently on rooted stock 3.1
Thank you in advance for any help!
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Not a direct answer to your question, but I have found that there are very few video files that I can't get to play off of the microSD card between Moboplayer (with the codec it will ask you to add from the market the first time you open it up) and Rockplayer. I have tons of just random files in different formats that just seem to work in at least one of those players. Much easier to install those apps then convert a bunch of files.
Hope that helps enough, otherwise I hope someone can answer your more specific questions.
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1. What is the best format and resolution?
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Ideally it would be any format that can be played back with the default player via hardware acceleration, which in my experience would be MP4 for the smoothest playback. As for resolution I would try to stick to whatever resolution the original video is at for the best quality possible, although if the original is 1080p I find it's a bit hit and miss in terms of getting smooth playback (YMMV, of course). Anything else at 720p or less should be fine.
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2. Are there any particular storage location requirements, such as no SD card to have movies play properly?
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Not really. This shouldn't matter as long as the video is in the correct format.
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3. Is there a player that I should be using other than the default.
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What mcmikeal said.
Thanks for the help. I'm using moboplayer and all is well!
I'd like to start copying some movies from my laptop over to my SGS2 Skyrocket... however not sure what's the best way.
Or maybe I should say, what's the best settings to use when converting my movies? And the best software someone can recommend?
Thanks
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I'd like to start copying some movies from my laptop over to my SGS2 Skyrocket... however not sure what's the best way.
Or maybe I should say, what's the best settings to use when converting my movies? And the best software someone can recommend?
Thanks
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why not just plug it up to the computer and copy the files to a Created "Movie" folder. your phone WILL play most formats already. i use dice player to play them and it makes them look really good. but you dont really need an app or anything.
im not sure what you mean by settings though. what are you trying to set up??
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why not just plug it up to the computer and copy the files to a Created "Movie" folder. your phone WILL play most formats already. i use dice player to play them and it makes them look really good. but you dont really need an app or anything.
im not sure what you mean by settings though. what are you trying to set up??
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Ok cool, thanks. I just thought maybe there's certain settings (specs) to use to convert the movie files I have now to play on the SGS2 - kinda like "portable" specs so it won't take up too much space on the memory card.
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Ok cool, thanks. I just thought maybe there's certain settings (specs) to use to convert the movie files I have now to play on the SGS2 - kinda like "portable" specs so it won't take up too much space on the memory card.
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i mean you can always change the formats to something that takes up less space. i think mp4's are pretty small.
OR you can buy an external sd card (32gig) and just put them there that way your not using the phones memory....but the phone has 16gig. are you trying to use your phone like an external drive of some sorts. most movies in avi format are around 700-900meg.
Hi, my cell phone is Droid x, which has 8G ROM in it. except for the system itself takes a few space, the majority is wasted. and now i want to put my music ,films, and maps in it. then i changed the permission of /data to 777, and copy music, films, maps(data of a navigation software) to /data. but to my disappointed, though films can be played, music & maps cannot be identified. does everyone has some ideas to make the most of 8G ROM? as i know, many, many android phone has 8G, 16G, and even 32G, so it should be a method to full use the space, otherwise the superfluous will be non-useful.
Any reply appreciated.
You said films could be played... I would guess you can play/use the other media you have, but having the application find it would be more of a challenge (IMO). Try using a file manager that sees root and selecting the file there to see if it plays.
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Root explorer is a great app on the market that really gives you freedom, but you do need to be rooted to use it.
Thanks a lot.
maybe i should change a media player to play movies which in ROM. but i mean that, is there a app that can map ROM files to SD card files, making all installed apps
identified files in ROM correctly and use those files just as they are in SD card? and i dont need another apps such as root explorer to open it. i have been looking for the app for a long time but get nothing. am i the only one need such a app?
I have this weird problem. When i first got this device, i could drop a 4gb mkv (without conversion) on my memory card and watch it with no issues. As time went on, i havent been able to do so. Its hard to pinpoint exactly when this started happening. But heres the issue, i placed several mkv and mp4 movies on my memory card. I would go to play them using BS Player ( i also tried the stock app) and sometimes they would play, and sometimes they wouldnt. The times they would play, if i were to exit out of the movie, go to another app, and then go back to the movie, the movie would not play and the app would force close. I have tried putting my movies on different cards as well as directly on the device, and the device still wont play the movies properly. So, after the force close, about 5 minutes later, the tablet will reboot. I was having this issues before rooting (this actually made me want to root) and after. I just wanted to know if anyone esle experienced anything like this. I also tried playing movies from the USB port and SD card in the dock and still have the issue.
At first i thought it was a memory card issue so i went and got a 32gb, and still have the problem. The i thought it was a format issue. I formatted one to fat32 and the other to exfat, and still experience this. Then i thought it was the app itself, and i downloaded other alternatives and it still happens.
Also, let me add this one bit, is also happens with music that i have stored on the card and the device. Poweramp nor Google Music will play the music. I get the same force close and reboot each time.
I haven't tried playing a 4gb mkv file or anything similar, but I am able to watch smaller ~400MB mkvs off my microSD card (32gb) with no problem. I also regularly play music off of the microSD as well, and have never had a force close or restart because of it.
Have you tried a different memory card?
I have tried a sandisk and an aData. Question, do you keep your movies and music in folders on your memory card? If so, do you have a folder with the same exact names on your device? I had my movies and music in folders marked Movies and Music respectively on the memory card. I also had folders with the same name on my device. i renamed the ones of the card to Videos (there is a VIDEO folder on the device as well) and Albums and now the problem is not there. Might be a bug
I keep my music in a "music" folder in the root of my memory card, and my videos in a "video" folder as well. On my internal storage I have a folder named "Music" but its capital M instead of lower case. I do not have a video folder in my internal storage. Yet I haven't had any problems like what you mentioned.
But im glad its working now!
If it comes back I guess you could always do the common factory reset procedure to see if that helps. It doesn't seem like a hardware problem (like a device reader problem) because its persistent across different memory card types.
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I have tried a sandisk and an aData. Question, do you keep your movies and music in folders on your memory card? If so, do you have a folder with the same exact names on your device? I had my movies and music in folders marked Movies and Music respectively on the memory card. I also had folders with the same name on my device. i renamed the ones of the card to Videos (there is a VIDEO folder on the device as well) and Albums and now the problem is not there. Might be a bug
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Not a bug per se, however some apps might not behave nicely. Read this thread, it might help you understand the issue. So, to work around it, avoid having multiple directories that only vary in upper/lower case, when they are in the same directory.
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Not a bug per se, however some apps might not behave nicely. Read this thread, it might help you understand the issue. So, to work around it, avoid having multiple directories that only vary in upper/lower case, when they are in the same directory.
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Makes sense then. I still wonder if anyone else has experienced this.
Edit: this is not the issue. I deleted the folders from my device called Movies and Music. On my card, i now keep them in folders called Flicks and Albums. There are no duplicate files on the device, but yet i am still having this issue.
ok, so i renamed the folders on the card. performed a hard reset and installed only bs player and poweramp. No issues. I kept going in and out of the apps to make sure the issue didnt come back. After several attempts, it did not surface. I proceeded to install all of my apps and still no issue. I did all of this yesterday morning. Fast forward to now, and the issue still has not come back yet. I guess i solved the problem....for now.
timrock said:
I guess i solved the problem....for now.
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Great :good:
Maybe you can "mark" the topic as solved when it keeps running fine for a few days.
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Great :good:
Maybe you can "mark" the topic as solved when it keeps running fine for a few days.
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it came back. lol
I think Volume+ is the cause of the problem. I removed it for now. There is a notice that it doesnt work with JB, but it works on my nexus which is running JB.
I'm thinking some apps don't like the delay of the remounting of external storage when the app is running when the tab is put to sleep.
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