[Q] BBC iplayer lip-sync loss after JB - Asus Transformer TF700

Is it just me or has the sound/picture sync been lost from BBC iplayer - running Flash on Stock Browser in JB?

dgjl said:
Is it just me or has the sound/picture sync been lost from BBC iplayer - running Flash on Stock Browser in JB?
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I was finding that even on ICS. Seemed to have been anything using Flash that did it.
Using TVCatchup on JB I get a just perceptible sync error, but far better than Flash.

Iplayer definitely had lip sync issues on ICS as well.

Ah, I've only used the tf700 on JB; there were no sync issues on ics with the tf201.

I just tried it out. I'm finding it's off about half a second. I remember it being a bit more off on ICS.
On side note, apparently the BBC updated things and now need the BBC Media Player. I just don't get why the BBC iPlayer just launches the browser to the iPlayer website. At least on the inifinity. I haven't tried on the phone for a while, but it didn't do that on the Evo 4G.

Just checked on my old tf201 now running Jb and there are no iplayer lip-sync issues. A real bummer that the infinity is worse. Maybe it's the HD screen?

could be. Maybe flash player too. Flash Player works on the infinity, but it's really quirky. A lot times when I go to full screen, it gives sound, but no audio. I get that on MotoGP and a few other sites. WatchESPN seems to work ok, which uses it as well.

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Which MOD Plays Iplayer !!! Help

Hi Guys please give me some help with this, I have flashed my phone to CM 7 .1.0.4 all is well but media is an issue, Mainly Iplayer, on stock it worked fine no issues, but now the iplayer runs very jerkly and at 400kbs it does not run at all only runs at 500kbs and above (well tries to).
Ive tried clearing cache and tried both the app and through opera, its just unplayably slow !!!
Whats happened to cause this, I am having a similiar problem on my LG 3d optimus, once flashed both itv player doesnt run at all, green screen etc.
Can someone put me out of my misery of this, I love wtaching the iplayer whilst working and its just not worth the bother !!
Are their any roms that work with Iplayer or fixes as I cant be the only one surely.
ATB
Paul
try using the iplayer on the web, the app for both itv and bbc are rubbish.
Thanks for the reply, tired in opera dolphin and std browser all have broken framerate, tried changing virtual memory heap and scripts in booting to improve performance nothing seems to work ! the bbc iplayer app runs at the same speed as the browsers and its the same with the wifes milestone with CM 7 version, worked fine on stock and my droid 3 works ok on stcok so its not a wifi issue i dont think.
thanks
What ROM and what speed? You tried it on stock browser. The iplayer app has 3 stars because its bad. The web can be out of time a bit though.
Try FroyoMOD. Close to stock as its 2.2

Amazon instant video (app or website) work?

Hi using my new infinity and am trying to get amazon instant video either through the website or app with no success. App is crashing and while it looks as if I can watch video in a scaled windows at times on the website, if I try to go full screen it doesnt work at all. Has anyone tried using this and/or found a way to get it to work if you have the same problem? I was wondering if it was a browser issue and tried the stock, chrome so far.
Works on stock browser and dolphin for me. I've tried to get the "app" working before on other devices but never with success.
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Got it working last night on the website with Dolphin HD. Kind of lagged when I was multi-tasking (running speed tests). But after closing open apps and restarting the browser, it was very smooth and clear.
Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
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BritCrit said:
Probably worth mentioning works great on splashtop when streaming from the desktop too. (using the unbox app not looking to be super redundant) Splashtop is included with the TF700 under the MyNet application.
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I have had more success with Dolphin lately although still buggy. when you expand to full screen you lose video until you pause and play again. Seems to work a little better now for some reason. Would be nice to have the app working.
frustratingly enough amazon saw fit to release the app for Ipad today while neglecting to release an android version. Terribly annoying because they've obviously had the app ready for android forever ago since it used by the kindle fire. Guess they want to force people to buy the kindle fire to get the app. Pretty stupid because they would make more money from the people getting prime to use the app than they would on the kindle fire sale.
Amazon streaming
New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
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breathlessasus said:
New to Forum and just tried to use Amazon's prime streaming through Dolphin Browser installed on my TF700 but when logged in, got a screen message that Adobe Flash wasn't installed and therefore it wouldn't play. I read somewhere Adobe wasn't supporting newer tablets as TF700 which have updated Android OS. Am I missing something here?
Any and all help/comments will be greatly appreciated. :fingers-crossed:
Thanks all. SIZE]
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Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
I've never been able to get it to consistently work with no sync issues in a browser. The sync loss is minor, but it's just noticeable enough to be annoying. It's a flash thing, I'm sure, rather than a specific browser thing. Some day I'll get around to trying earlier flash releases to see if any are better. I've experienced a similar sync issue with splashtop too.
I was going to use XBMC + bluecop's repository + asus mynet, but I've been having all kinds of errors adding shows to a library where they would be accessible to other devices.
I was able to get the fire apk working when I briefly had a Nook Tablet running a slightly modified version of gingerbread (see my sig). From what I've read, no one has gotten it working on ICS+. My brief attempt just resulted in crashes when i tried to play a vid. Boy I wish Amazon would get their app up to date and release it officially for Android in general. I'd much rather use the app again.
buhohitr said:
Make sure you have flash installed and your browser configured for flash. I'm using Boat browser and go to settings then set flash for "on demand" works fine with Amazon instant video streaming.
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Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
breathlessasus said:
Thanks for the response/help. Never heard of Boat Browser but will give it a try.
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UPDATE: Tried using Boat Browser with flash setting to "on demand" and still got the same message - Adobe not installed. Don't think it's so much the browser as it is that Adobe no longer supports newer Android OS devices. Found list of those tablets which will work with Amazon's Prime instant streaming and TF700 is not one.
Could there be a difference in streaming vs. buying or renting a video?
Thanks again for response/help - appreciate it.
With the new Fire HDs coming, one would hope we can get at least yank an updated apk from them that will work in the next couple of weeks.
Amazon has been on a roll, laying out apps for PS3, 360, and the iPad. Surely they're at least working on a broad release of the easiest one of all, Android, one of the first they had working. Surely. If you haven't used their support form to request an Android app for all tabs, please do so now.
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
Lancerator said:
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I posted the same question regarding Amazon Instant Video lag in browsers on the TF700. My video lags about 1/2 second. Enough to be annoying. I've tried the stock browser, Boat Browser, and ICS+ to no avail.
Ironically, I had no issues streaming Amazon's Instant Videos on the Prime I returned in order to get my Infinity.
Lancerator said:
Let me get this straight some of you are streaming on the tf700 on amazon prime instant video and having no sync issues? Cause I just upgraded to the tf700 and mine is way out of sync.
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I'm currently streaming Super 8 using Dolphin Browser without a problem (performance mode).
Dave
well I went to performance mode on dolphin and it does do a bit better. Its to bad I had no problem with the prime.
Amazon Prime sucked on my Xoom. Over at the Motorola Xoom Forum, a very knowledgeable poster (gmanapps) posted the following explanation for the Xoom issues:
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Prior to ICS, flash had support for each individual CPU/GPU combo with specific video acceleration code for each type of CPU/GPU (OMAP, Snapdragon, Tegra, etc) which meant that flash could totally take advantage of the hardware.
When adobe ported flash to ICS they used the new ICS API. Under ICS all devices are only required to support the lowest encoding profile, but may support the higher bitrate encoding profiles.
Adobe decided that since only the lower bitrate profile was guaranteed to work with hardware acceleration accross all ICS device, to only send the lower bit rate profiles through the ICS hardware accelerated API. Everything else is done as software decoding inside of flash. So while the Xoom hardware is capable of accelerating/decoding the higher bitrate encoded data, flash no longer sends it to the GPU for decoding and tries to do it in software which is slow.
Amazon's content is encoded in one of 4 different mpeg encoding profiles. One of the profiles goes through hardware acceleration and works fine. But higher bitrate data profiles get stuck getting decoded in flash's software decoder and looks horrible.
Adobe could have provided a configuration option, test or other method to allow individuals to enable decoding of the other profiles in hardware....or at least try it and see if it worked on their device. On many devices it would work. But they chose not to go that route.
So unless you are running a high end quad core device, with a small screen, the software decoding of much of higher resolution flash content is going to be painful to watch.
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Out of curiousity I just tried it with Dolphin on my Galaxy S3 phone - HD video of Downton Abbey looked beautiful and had no synch issues at all. But a very small picture ...
Dave

Verizon 7.7 Amazon Instant video moving in slow motion on every browser after ICS

After I updated my Verizon 7.7 tablet to ICS, it has been running awesome and fast (Even stopped using my nexus 7). Netflix and Google Play works great with movies as well as sling player and Dice player. The only problem I experience is when running a video through the browser via Amazon. With honeycomb, it worked great and streamed better that netflix with 3g, 4g or wifi. I have tried on both speeds and the video acts as though it is moving in slow motion. I have verizon fios and it still runs sluggish. I tried Dolphin hd, opera, stock, chrome(no flash) xscope, and boat browser and still have the same issue. I tried both versions of flash 11, but no difference. Is anyone else having this issue and is there a work around?

[Q] Browser Audio streaming problem

Hi,
I am having difficulties streaming audio through my browser(s). I sometimes like to listen to a certain radio station where I grew up, and they only stream it on their website. I can't get the stream through Tune-In or iHeart. So, I am stuck with the browsers to stream. The problem is that no browser that I have tried actually will stream it. I have tried Chrome, Dolphin, Stock Samsung, UC Browser, and Opera. All don't play it. The weird thing is that the stock browser used to play it, and now it won't. I have a Razr Maxx for work (all stock), and all the browser play this stream, so it is the S3 that has the problem. I have re-installed, cleared caches, cleared data...all that stuff.
I am rooted, running CleanRom 5.6 with LeanKernel 1.6.
What the heck is wrong with this thing?
Just letting anyone know if they came across this looking for a fix, I came to the conclusion that it was the lack of flash player in JB. The only odd thing, is that I have flash built into the rom (CleanRom 5.6), but it only worked on the stock android browser. I ended up trying the flash fix for JB for Dolphin Browser, and it worked. So, I believe it was flash related.

[Q] Video issues in web browser

I have a xoom UK WiFi. I'm running Omni 4.4.4 (I think).
I have an issue where any video I watch in any browser doesn't work properly.
Chrome/Chrome Beta crashes when I try
Firefox plays the video sound is fine but frame rate is like 0.5FPS
Stock Browser black window unless you go full screen, then it is the same is firefox.
Videos play fine in the Youtube app or from a file
I did a system update a while back and I think this is what screwed it up. It definitely worked before.
Any Ideas how to fix?
I am not sure the cause, but I have the same issues (with the exception of the 0.5FPS issue). If the videos work in Stock Browser, they play at the proper speed - sometimes I have to full screen them, other times not.
The resolution I've found for videos that do not play properly in the stock browser is to use Dolphin Browser and ensure that Flash is installed.
Chrome - I was having too many issues with it crashing/freezing (irrelevant of videos), so I gave up on it quite a while ago.
I haven't used Firefox enough to comment.
chris-red said:
I have a xoom UK WiFi. I'm running Omni 4.4.4 (I think).
I have an issue where any video I watch in any browser doesn't work properly.
Chrome/Chrome Beta crashes when I try
Firefox plays the video sound is fine but frame rate is like 0.5FPS
Stock Browser black window unless you go full screen, then it is the same is firefox.
Videos play fine in the Youtube app or from a file
I did a system update a while back and I think this is what screwed it up. It definitely worked before.
Any Ideas how to fix?
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