Any one know how to view your library from within the stock video players widget? I can't find any button or menu that will allow you to see the contents of your video library. Alternately whats a good video player for a tablet to replace the stock one? I've tried Mixzing but its not made for tablets so it doesn't have a widescreen setting.
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kzoodroid said:
Any one know how to view your library from within the stock video player? I can't find any button or menu that will allow you to see the contents of your video library. Alternately whats a good video player for a tablet to replace the stock one? I've tried Mixzing but its not made for tablets so it doesn't have a widescreen setting.
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I just use ASTRO and/or andexplorer and it goes right to my video files.
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I just use ASTRO and/or andexplorer and it goes right to my video files.
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I have a couple file explorers but I want to see the library from within the player itself. There are forward and back buttons on either side of teh play button to move between videos but you can't see titles doing it this way. I have about 40 video files in my library and its impossible to tell which one I'm picking to play within the player.
edit: found moboplayer to use, it at least opens up to a decent library at start but doesn't have a widget. Going to switch to MX Player its a lot better but still no widget.
I'm not sure what you are looking for. In the stock video player I can choose any video that I want.
If I misunderstood, please let me know.
Kuniokun said:
I'm not sure what you are looking for. In the stock video player I can choose any video that I want.
If I misunderstood, please let me know.
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I have the stock music players widget on my desktop, when playing a movie I cannot select another one by name as their is no menu to access the library. So I guess the topic should have included the widget part. I update the op to reflect this thanks for your help.
Oh, and I think that I understand that now.
Maybe this app could hep you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupVideo
Kuniokun said:
Oh, and I think that I understand that now.
Maybe this app could hep you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupVideo
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I tried it but still no way to access the library from the widget. Just going to stick to stock and will just have to close the widget and open the player app to get at the library.
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hey how know about a video player with full screen botton ?
have u tried nemo ?
Z51 said:
have u tried nemo ?
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yea but is to slow and when you push the full screen botton you only cant see a white screen with the sound and nothin alse not another player ?
Mplayer is nice
Act 1 video player is pretty good. Pause and play with a tap of the screen and ff or rw by sliding your finger forward or backwards. full screen works great on the nexus.
Personally I just use the built in media player, works in fullscreen and gets the job done just fine.
SBS_ said:
Personally I just use the built in media player, works in fullscreen and gets the job done just fine.
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Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
if your movie isnt playing in full screen, then you didnt encode the movie to the correct resolution. encode your movies whether they be rips or mkv's, make sure you encode at 800x480 mp4, 24fps, AAC 96, good to go. if you have no idea what i'm talking about, then do more reading
galaxys said:
Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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I want to ask the same question too
galaxys said:
Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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It's called "Gallery." Your videos are listed alongside your pictures. Or choose a video with any file browser.
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Ok I give, where is this video media player? what is the app name on the N1?
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
Act1 is great. I had a 640*480 video that needed to be stretched to the full 800 pixels for proper viewing and Act1's full screen mode did the trick. It also shows battery level and time without being obtrusive and has quick access to brightness controls.
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
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Thanks guys! Tested & Gallery seems to do the trick for now...cool
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Yeah, I should've mentioned where it was, not exactly intuitive in my opinion. As carnegie0107 says it's the gallery app. I had actually installed Act 1 Trial because I couldn't find the built-in one and when I launched a video file from a file browser it asked if I wanted to open it in Gallery so I gave it a go and it worked like a charm. So no need to spend money on a video player unless it adds support for more codecs
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No. It doesn't work. I hope it has a video player like apple's. After click a key, the picture will be stretched at top and bottom. The left and right side will be cut a little. Note screen is 1280*800, but the 720p is 1280*720. if have this, it will be full screen.
Try MX Video Player it has extra codecs and such. Runs fullscreen, easier fast forward and rewind.
Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.
jkbhso3 said:
Try MX Video Player it has extra codecs and such. Runs fullscreen, easier fast forward and rewind.
Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.
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Tried all five codecs, I think the 'crop' mode should work, but it's same as full screen, there has a problem.
double twist media player is out in market now! very nice UI. id say best looking player we have so far
btunes > double twist
It's stupid that you need their syncing software to add media. They don't even support linux
U dont. I just unchekd "auto USB drive" in settings, and it found all my songs.
it seems ok but I prefer 3 (cubed), I think its prettier ^^
Killer feature though is that when skipping through a track you can grab the position indicator and drag up the screen to change sensitivity just like on the iPhone. That and that alone makes this the best player for me.
Bring on an EQ and I will rejoice!
I think the best players are: 3, Nemo, and this. Anyone of them can be considered pretty.
I just discovered this music mod for the default music player.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690180
just installed it and I have to say its pretty.
My main player is 3 but I think i'll stick with this music mod.
DoubleTwist doesn't hold a candle to cacheinjection's stock music mod. Not even a flicker of a candle.
It would be great if it could sync with my Google Listen subscriptions fron Google Reader
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it seems ok but I prefer 3 (cubed), I think its prettier ^^
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Agreed =] 3 is my personal favorite.
Does it support srt files for videos? Can´t test becuse i´m at work
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Agreed =] 3 is my personal favorite.
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the only reason for why i dont like 3 (cubed) is that it doesnt have the option to show the list of song titles
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the only reason for why i dont like 3 (cubed) is that it doesnt have the option to show the list of song titles
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yes it does. menu - view - boring, then pick the artist/album and the song list pops up
I use Meridian. The only player that lets you browse by directories, and the only player that supports some other languages for song titles. I dont like playlists
Can someone post the APK for doubleTwist? I'm currently in asian and a TON of apps don't appear in the market.
Thanks in advance
The only issue I have with doubletwist is that it doesn't let me point it at a specific directory, and for some reason it makes and keeps it's own media library xml.
So far no problems here, for me the app is working perfect and love how quick it loads up the videos an I have 100's of them
HTC Incredible
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yes it does. menu - view - boring, then pick the artist/album and the song list pops up
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what i mean is showing all the song titles like the stock music app
DoubleTwist player lists your audio that's on the microSD card that's in \alarms, \ringtones, \notifications folders.
Very annoying if you have a lot of ringers.
Stock music app doesn't list those folders.
Seems like some video/music formats can't be played on this pad.
Anyone know a good program to download that will let you play all formats?
and is everyones facebook widget force closing on them? like mine it keeps force closing.
Transformer only opens mkv, mp4, mp3, ogg as far as I know (I don't have the device). To open other formats you need to download apps - look into the apps thread or to Xoom forum for some direction (or search on market for file types you like to open).
for music use power amp. It works.
Rock player works for video, so thats every format covered?
Popular (for music) are also APE and MPC but searching the market reveals many, many apps that play them (and personally I convert all the ape files I get to flac anyway).
And yes, the facebook widget and the application itself "force closes" almost immediately.
I looked for the friend stream widget that I have on my Desire HD rom, but I guess that is part of HTC apps.
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boiboi_67 said:
Seems like some video/music formats can't be played on this pad.
Anyone know a good program to download that will let you play all formats?
and is everyones facebook widget force closing on them? like mine it keeps force closing.
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rio911 said:
And yes, the facebook widget and the application itself "force closes" almost immediately.
I looked for the friend stream widget that I have on my Desire HD rom, but I guess that is part of HTC apps.
rio
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I assume this will be resolved in future HC updates....
I'm using tweet deck and it works well. widgets could be bigger.....
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vital player ( free ) is also working well for me.
however annoyingly when using MyNet ( dlna ) you cant choose a program to open the video files with so the file just errors with can play this video type
Currently trying to play a 1280x720 -x264- MKV file. Standard player is full of green blocks when trying to run it. Using Rock Player the picture is very clear but it's very jerky like the frame rate is about 5.
Am I doing something wrong? Surely it should play perfect?
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Currently trying to play a 1280x720 -x264- MKV file. Standard player is full of green blocks when trying to run it. Using Rock Player the picture is very clear but it's very jerky like the frame rate is about 5.
Am I doing something wrong? Surely it should play perfect?
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currently you can't by reading most forums. best to convert until something comes up.
Does anybody know how to exclude the gallery app from creating thumbnails of movie files? You can't use the .nomedia file because then the video player can't see them. Thanks.
Don't know the answer to your question, but I recommend QuickPic as an alternative.
its pretty sime actually. Use a file manager and put an empty file in the folder and name it ".nomedia", exactly the way i have it in quotes. It will exclude the contents of thay folder from viee in normal apps. Like ^^^ said, u can then use quikpic to view them
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Does anybody know how to exclude the gallery app from creating thumbnails of movie files? You can't use the .nomedia file because then the video player can't see them. Thanks.
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Can't have your cake and eat it too.
promiseofcake said:
Can't have your cake and eat it too.
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like ur username? i think not, mx player will do this, as well as quickpic
icenight89 said:
like ur username? i think not, mx player will do this, as well as quickpic
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Since he is talking about "the gallery app" I was under the impression he was planning on selecting his video files to play from within the Gallery App, yet hoped to prevent thumbnail creation. There was no mention of a 3rd party player as I am well aware that MX Video does this as I use it daily.
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Since he is talking about "the gallery app" I was under the impression he was planning on selecting his video files to play from within the Gallery App, yet hoped to prevent thumbnail creation. There was no mention of a 3rd party player as I am well aware that MX Video does this as I use it daily.
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fair enough, the pretext of my post was incorrect. If he dies want to both play videos in gallary and hide thumbnails, as u have said, it cannot be done. Only through 3rd party alternatives
My ICS gallery app keeps reading a folder with images that a game I installed created.
I tried creating a ".nomedia" file and copied it into the folder. I verified that it was in there and also rebooted. However, the stock ICS gallery app is still reading it?
I have it changed for when I'm browsing in files app but it doesn't change when using the Gallery app. I was hoping Good Locks would be able to make the change but can't that option.
Try mx player i used vkc for years and real player and settled on mx
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Try mx player i used vkc for years and real player and settled on mx
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Will it play automatically from the Gallery app?
Doesn't look like it's possible. The Gallery app is so bonded to the camera app it's probably like that for a reason.
Personally I don't use Samsung Gallery as a standalone app, there are far better and more powerful apps out there. I use F-Stop for all my media content.
When you click video in the gallery app it then should ask you to use the Samsung player you dont select that and just then select mx
liggerz87 said:
When you click video in the gallery app it then should ask you to use the Samsung player you dont select that and just then select mx
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it doesn't give you that option in the stock GALLERY app. it always uses the samsung built in video player.
i have since switched to Fstop it works great however whenever i select a photo from the CAMERA app it always uses GALLERY not Fstop. minor inconvenience.
Ye will do that im not sure if there is a way to change it unless modding lol