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Xvid Playback?

is an app required? i have 2 xvid files on my sdcard and neither mvideoplayer or video player see them

use encodehd and convert them to mp4.

Relax Preppy said:
is an app required? i have 2 xvid files on my sdcard and neither mvideoplayer or video player see them
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Try "yxflash" from the market. It claims to be able to play WMV, DivX & Xvid... Haven't tried it myself though.

It's a $19.99 app that has to be purchased outside the market though... I don't like the way they're trying to conduct business.

Try meridian from the market. Haven't tested xvid yet but seems to play things otherwise built in on my mytouch couldn't haven't gotten that far.

InsightGoalie said:
It's a $19.99 app that has to be purchased outside the market though... I don't like the way they're trying to conduct business.
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Yea. They're kinda shady since they call it free then charge you to use it.

I'm guessing, if it does actually work, he doesn't want some rooted dirtbag downloading and refunding to add to the plethora of pirated apps. I haven't seen the app yet, but I figure if allows google checkout, it should be as safe as any other purchase via google checkout.
isn't there a samsung android phone with divx support builtin? I'm pretty sure I read that some where. Wonder if someone is working on some sort of port...

there are two android phones which play divx/xvid out of the box. one from samsung and the other from lg. getting the drivers/media player ported from either of these phones would be a big plus from me. i know i could convert media before hand, however i use my memory card as a "memory stick" which i bring in to work to watch on the PC during lunch. being able to play the same files on the phone when i'm on the bus/train would be so much easier.

try doubletwist if you're on Windows/Mac... no linux version yet
it will convert them to play on android by just dragging them over to the device...

I can confirm that yxflash works on my G1. I just download a divx movie (about 700 mb) and play it. Unfortunately the frame rate is about 15 f/s. Hope on Nexus One it will be much better.

InsightGoalie said:
It's a $19.99 app that has to be purchased outside the market though... I don't like the way they're trying to conduct business.
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btw, they still have xmas, you can get 50% off while using coupon code "xmas".
Still too expensive for my opinion, but hey, they come from the apple universum where all have too much money.

Now this post isnt going to be of much use because i couldnt find all the links i was after..... however
There were people requesting the samsung xvid/divx player be ported out back on the G1. Seems that one of XDA's members lbcoder has some decent incite on it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566591&highlight=divx
He posted
divx is just an implementation of iso mpeg4.
So...
to make it play you need to;
1) ensure that bitrate and resolution are low enough to be properly handled,
2) package it in a compatible container (mp4 works)
3) ensure that the AUDIO is encoded in a compatible manner (vorbis is great, but others also work, mp3, aac, etc.)
4) ensure that there is no crap in the file showing that it is divx because it simply doesn't know what divx *IS* -- make it read as mpeg4 -- this does NOT require reencoding the file, just using a SANE header.

brotbuexe said:
btw, they still have xmas, you can get 50% off while using coupon code "xmas".
Still too expensive for my opinion, but hey, they come from the apple universum where all have too much money.
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I thought $10 wasn't bad. It plays awesome on the N1. It takes me 10 minuted to download a Divx movie, but 30 mins to convert. Over the course of several months, I would save a ton of time converting movies. I can download directly to the SD card via browser and play with yxflash.
Yes, having to purchase outside the market is shady, but I have contacted them several times with issues and they resolved them within one day.

Found the app via market at first glance i thought nah **** it because of the bad rating.. at second glance i actually took the time to read the comments, turns out most of the comments where bad/laggy playback, witch was partly due to Magic / Heros hardware, and the resizing requirements..
ive installed the trial, and it plays beautifully.. although sometimes i do get some lines across the screen, but they are hard to notice...
Price is still a bit high thou! :/ im gonna give it a month or two to see if a cheaper alternative shows up, and hopefully by that time Google will have opened up the market in Denmark.

used yxflash to play an hd copy of ice age 3 in xvid, ran nearly perfect, every so often there is some frame skip

[REQ]Zune media player, possible or not

Now I am no dev but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a media player that can sync with the desktop zune software and have a similar UI that plays all my protected content. I love my zune hd but part of the reason I bought this phone is so I only need to carry one device for all my multimedia needs. If this is possible ad there are any devs willing to work I would gladly make a donation of $50-$100 for a working app
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I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.

Geniusdog254 said:
I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.
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But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?

muyoso said:
But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?
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I don't know. I find this easier than torrent sites TBH. I'm a lazy ass, and I paid for convenience lol. This way it keeps all the metadata, and I don't have to sort it manually, and I do feel better in that I did actually pay for the music in one way or another.

I don't subscribe to zunepass or anything, I just have a lot of songs and movies I've paid for and would like them on my phone, and TBH I really like the zune media player interface
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For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.

If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.

us3rX said:
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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Cool, I'll have to check when I get home to seeif I can transfer my files to my phone, I'll report back later tonight
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What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?

bigdbag said:
For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.
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Not sure how you could call it foolish? It is widely accepted that the zune hd has a great interface. It is also very simple and would be fairly easy for an android developer to make a clone of it. The fact that no one has is pretty surprising. Hooking in drm and zunepass is obviously not gonna fly with ms but that is not what the op wants, and that is not needed. If someone made a fluid zune clone for the marketplace and sold it for a few bucks a I bet they could make a killing.

zman519 said:
What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?
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I tried putting the songs I bought on my phone and they transfered overbut they wouldn't play on the stock player or mixzing, all I want is to be able to play the music I bought on any of my media players, plus a zune like interface would be sexy
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What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p

us3rX said:
What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p
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Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Sh0wNuF said:
Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Is it MP3 or WMA?

Geniusdog254 said:
Is it MP3 or WMA?
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They are WMA files, and now that I think about it that is probably the problem
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us3rX said:
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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not always, stuff my zune and amazon still have drm even if you buy it outright
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After reading what he said up there ^^ WMA is not bought and paid for... Everything I have paid for was converted to mp3. If it stayed WMA and with DRM, then it would be pointless to buy it. =p

[Q] Thinking about buying a Xoom - can it do this?

1) napster to go - subscription DRM music
2) stream netflix
3) pandora
4) render heavy splash sites well - my daughts is 7 and loves her disney.com, nickelodeon.com, etc
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file

1. Yes theres a napster subscription app you can download.
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes, games play fine, a little laggy sometimes, and since you dont have a keyboard while they are running you'll have to work something out.
5. Yes, Moboplayer and QQ Player seem to play everything out there.

thebrenda said:
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file
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Sorry to say but video support is limited.
Eg you download blue ray rip (even in 720p) then it does not play all the time.
In short Xoom plays H264 movies smoothly if encoded with baseline profile.
You can play 1cd dvdrips with Mobo or bs player.
You may be required to convert video.

thebrenda said:
1) napster to go - subscription DRM music
2) stream netflix
3) pandora
4) render heavy splash sites well - my daughts is 7 and loves her disney.com, nickelodeon.com, etc
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file
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Yes, I think so...mostly.
1) I use Rhapsody to Go
2) Netflix--I don't use it
3) Pandora's fine
4)Yes, Disney site works fine, depending on your internet connection, of course
5)Mobo, Dice or Rockplayer lite seem to play just about anything
Xoom is great for most media as you can also load up a lot of fies on your sdcard (or usb drive if you root), so you'll never run out of space.
It seems like your major interest is in listening to and watching media files, andyou may also want to consider that the Xoom does so much more than play media and games---I believe the Xoom is the best overall tablet available. The Xoom is a serious working tablet computer that likes to have fun, too, so hopefully you have plans for it as well. It's also absolutely perfect when unlocked, rooted and customized...

Not sure how I will use the tablet, to be honest. Trying to find justification for it. But I know that my 7 year old will love using it and I love music and video. So those are must haves.

thebrenda said:
Not sure how I will use the tablet, to be honest. Trying to find justification for it. But I know that my 7 year old will love using it and I love music and video. So those are must haves.
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If you mostly want something for simple, accessable media, you should probably be looking at an Ipad, though no flash, no sd card etc. The Xoom is very sturdy, but a smart and inquisitive child can do some pretty funky things to it, especially if you have root (which will give you most of the goodies, IMHO).

cartoon films look very good on xoom like planet51

[Q] How to put I tunes movies on a Samsung nexus

Hi guys,
I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions on what to use to put Itunes movies on a Samsung nexus.
Please help me.

Simple answer is that you can't. iTune movies have drm so they only play on iDevices or in iTunes.

If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
What you wanting to do is illegal. No online purchased movies will allow you to transfer to devices.
You can watch online movies thru other services but only for streaming.
And don't talk about breaking or removing DRM's here!
Have fun.

Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.

Without opening iTunes program, see what folder ur iTunes movies are in. Then right click to see what format they are in.
Then Google a search for either a free converter or possibly an android media player that will play those type of files.
Most media players play MPEG4 so when u convert it, I'd go that route. Then just see what resolution ur phone uses. Converters are normally free for an X amount of time so if ur planning on doing it a lot, I'd would just pay the $20 and do it hassle free.
FabDVD worked good for me when I was a cell phone movie goer.
Good luck.
Vs Nexus S 4G

or buy elsewhere. Pretty sure Amazon Store does DRM free movies ?

Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.
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In a perfect world ? Sure. I personally would love that too. But it is as it's now, it is illegal.
As I said before,
If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
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is the most convenient way due to that are easy way to convert it to a format that your phone will work with. Not so easy to break a DRM on a itune or other online sites's files even when you do find them on your hard drive.
And let me repeat. I agree that you should be able to do with what you bought and own! Now it is not what we want? but what movie/music industry wants is true for now sadly.
Regards.
noob

Well I have apple tv so I rip my dvds to my computer so I can stream them to my tv, without having to deal with the disc. When I rip the movies to my computer I make the file in the apple tv format which is mpeg-4.
To watch them on the go with my phone, I just transfer them over via usb. Then I use the app called Dice Player to watch them. Dice player plays pretty much every video file.

how to watch movies on this tablet?

I have verizon as an isp. Well, I bought a movie and I can't watch it on my tablet. Verizon wants to install silverlight, but it's not compatible with this tablet. Does anyone have any input on this? THanks

What is the movie saved as? .m4v .mkv?
If you have the actual file on your device then it should open with something like BSPlayer. Bsplayer plays every file type that I know of. Free from the Google play store. If you are trying to stream from online and it is asking for a desktop windows plugin that is not available on android then I am afraid I do not know how you can play it.

Where did you buy the movie from?
You can watch movies from a number of places. The easiest is to purchase the movie from the Play Store then it will show up on your "Play Movies and . . " app. Then you can stream it over wifi or download it and watch it offline later.
Give us a bit more info and I'm sure we can figure it out.

Dice Player ftw. It has gone free, has hardware-decoding ability, nice interface and is good to battery, has gesture control.
(I like vPlayer for its gallery features, but the last time I actually used it, it didn't play as many files as Dice does -- I just browse to them with Total Commander and set Dice as the default app to open the respective file extension with -- tadaah!)
EDIT: I have lots of local files to play, so I didn't get into the streaming part others already pointed out -- I don't have enough experience with it.

wily5150 said:
I have verizon as an isp. Well, I bought a movie and I can't watch it on my tablet. Verizon wants to install silverlight, but it's not compatible with this tablet. Does anyone have any input on this? THanks
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Where did you get the movie? Sounds like you're trying to watch it through a web browser. My guess, you got it through some Verizon VOD service.

I bought it from the verizon site.
MN_Bug said:
Where did you buy the movie from?
You can watch movies from a number of places. The easiest is to purchase the movie from the Play Store then it will show up on your "Play Movies and . . " app. Then you can stream it over wifi or download it and watch it offline later.
Give us a bit more info and I'm sure we can figure it out.
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you have the option to either stream it, or download it. It would not let me download it because of drm problems. I'm running cleanrom 2.2. My wife has a stock tf300 tablet, not rooted, and she can play it on hers

I bought it from the verizon store,(vod).It's a drm problem. Like I said, my wife can play it on her tablet. Thanks for the input