Hi guys,
just got a HP touchpad. now is there a video player on here? and if its there what format do they have to be in to view it. have tried a couple of different ones and cant get them up.
Is there a player app i can download onto it at all ?
thanks
there is a photos & videos app built in, but it's pretty poor for video.
you need to add your video files to the root of the built in storage (the tablet installs onto your computer as a removable drive).
i still haven't got my head around the video file support just yet, but it doesn't seem to handle .avi, divx, xvid etc.
mp4 seems to be the main format.
there are a couple of apps for streaming videos from a upnp media server, but nothing free as far as i can tell.
kalemsoft media player seems to be the best of these as it lets you load video files from the local storage on your tablet as well as browse for remote stuff.
i have successfully played an avi file using this app.
i've only tried the demo version so far which requires internet access in order to assess the trial period.
i don't particularly want to purchase the paid version just yet.
I used Handbrake and followed the instructions here: http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...n-resources/287212-handbrake-preset-dvds.html I just tried a short 45 minute kids dvd to see if it would work okay. It was about a 400mb file. Placed it in a folder called Videos on the root of the usb partition and it shows up fine in the Photos and Videos app.
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Placed it in a folder called Videos on the root of the usb partition and it shows up fine in the Photos and Videos app.
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see i tried doing that as well. creating a folder called videos on the root and it wasn't detected.
only when i added the file direct to root could i access it.
are directory names case sensitive?
a video player that allows you to browse and/or add directories would be much better.
EDIT: looks like i had a folder called video. changed it to videos and it shows up.
strangely enough kalemsoft creates a folder recordings. when i added a video file to that, it also showed up.
I have put my videos in the download folder and they show up in the stock player fine. Also converted DIVX avi files to MP4 with Handbrake. Used the ipad HD settings for nice quality.
Kalemsoft Media Player wil read a lot of video formats , you can find it on app catalog.
The kalemsof that i downloaded isnt displaying in full screen and sometimes will hang on my TP. Guess its still not compatible to TP yet?
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nunjabusiness said:
I have put my videos in the download folder and they show up in the stock player fine. Also converted DIVX avi files to MP4 with Handbrake. Used the ipad HD settings for nice quality.
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Thanx for the tip about Handbrake, nunja. I'll try it for conversions. I concur with the settings...
I'm on a Pre 2 and have no problems with mp4 playing (once you get the settings down it becomes rote). For my phone I use iPod settings...
For ripping from DVD I use DVDFab3 - I know there are way newer versions out there and I tried them but always go back to version 3. I just like the UI and it has never let me down. Point it at a DVD or ISO and under Mobile click Generic. You can configure it for generic mp4 and get a resolution up to 848x480 which should be alright on the TP screen. Your settings like Resolution, bitrate, volume level, subpicture - can all be saved as a profile.
DVDFab3 in a .rar file. Just extract and it will run out of the folder without install...
Hi,
I searched everywhere, either I did it wrong way or there is isn't any available.
A video player for avi/divx/mkv/mp4 formats with majority codecs supported?
Examples:
GoodPlayer for iPhone
DicePlayer for Android
Hope I have posted in the right section..
This is built into to Windows phone you just drag whatever format movie into your Zune then sync with device and bam it plays.
Laquox said:
This is built into to Windows phone you just drag whatever format movie into your Zune then sync with device and bam it plays.
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Agreed, but some media files zune will not add.
For Example:
AVI file with Xvid+AC3 = Zune says 'media type not valid'
MKV file = Zune will not allow to even drag drop this extension
So no option but to convert. Any one??
Even when you drag "compatible" video formats to the phone, Zune STILL converts them, so you may as well do it anyway.
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Even when you drag "compatible" video formats to the phone, Zune STILL converts them, so you may as well do it anyway.
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Thats what I don't want to do. Atleast for directly playable files.
Please suggest if there is any app vailable.
Not at this moment..
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that's the only thing i hate on wobdoes phone and the omnia 7. such a big screen and powerfull hardware, but most of my videos won't play. indeed most files are .avi coded with xvid/divx, and most files with higher resolution are .mkv.
even crappy bada phones play those files without any problems.
Big question here: Is it even possible that someone develops a videoplayer like moboplayer on android? or doesn't ms allow other media player or isn't there any access to necesarry api's? And if the published such videoplayer, how would we get these video files on our phones without itunes trying to convert them?
On itunes there was a possibility with vlc player until it had to be removed.
Are there any tricks to this that don't require me to copy the file? I found a file explorer that lets me mount network drives from my NAS, but I cannot run the avi/mkv from there.
Anyone got some good pointers, or even better - a step by step for new owners ?
Cheers!
try es file explorer
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try es file explorer
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That's the one I use for mounting the drive. Tried clicking, double-clicking, tapping, tapping it like I would tap a boy trying to date my daughter etc etc. Nothing happened...
I can play movies through that and it loads them in dice player. That's files off my shared folder on laptop on same LAN.
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I got sick of trying to get high def/720p content to play over my network without lag (or even play off SD). So I bought Splashtop Streamer (the tablet version) which is a remote connection app that has the unique ability to stream at almost a full 30fps without lag, including sound. So then I just start a show/movie on my desktop, connect in, and watch it. Almost lag free. Hiccup every now and again but its pretty smooth overall. Highly recommend it.
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This. Navigate to the folder, press and hold on the selected file, open as, video, and select a player such as mobo or dice.
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I've got VLC setup on my server, running in HTTP server mode, and I'm using VLC Direct (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlcdirect.vlcdirect&hl=en). Works very well, and no copying is required. As an added bonus, you can use it in Remote Mode as well (not just streaming, which for all intents and purposes requires the pro version).
Thanks, guys! Got avis playing fine, and I even got mkv opened with another player. The mkv must have too high profile or something as it wasn't even stuttering (the image switched every ten seconds, so 6 images in the sound and video had a one minute lag ) even thouh the DTS sound worked fine
Will the VLC server downscale on-the-fly? Are there any options to do this? One of the major reasons for buying this was to watch movies in bed - or on the plane.
Are there any programs that will downscale movies to play well wit the Transformer?
Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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Pinraiser said:
Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
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I use DVDFab to rip the DVD to my laptop as a .iso file type (about 7-8 GB). I then use DVDFab to convert the .iso to a MP4 file type and cut the file size down to about 2+ GB. Copy that to the external SD card for the tablet.
The stock movie player handles this just fine.
I use Handbrake, with the right support files installed (can't help you here, it Just Works on a Linux box with the Medibuntu repo added) it rips DVDs right off the drive with no problem.
I'll post my preset when I have some time.
I get my movies from thebay
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gronimo21 said:
Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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In what filetype must i switch?
My old Pentium computer with a 166Mhz CPU (and also my 1st gen xbox) can play DVD iso files so I can't understand why our tablets can't do it. Especially now when the file system on our MicroSD cards allow +4Gb files.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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why would anyone want to play .iso on our tabs? all an iso is is a replica of the entire dvd which is useless on a tab.
Pinraiser said:
Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
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if you're ripping the dvd's on PC I recommend using DVDfab - convert them to mp4, don't muck with the resolution but you might want to swith the audio from 5.1 to just stereo.
for the playback I recommend Super Video. After messing with various mobos, MX, real, and whatever else I got a hold of I was won over by Super with it's use of picture-in-picture, easy integration of subtitles, all the formats it can playback and built in screenshot tool (ya, I know, the tablet has one already). plus it has some nice sorting tools for the videos. The only annoying downside I found was that it'll list off what's in a .nomedia dir and doesn't have the option to ignore those directories.
here's to finding what works for you!
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Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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MrWall said:
if you're ripping the dvd's on PC I recommend using DVDfab - convert them to mp4, don't muck with the resolution but you might want to swith the audio from 5.1 to just stereo.
for the playback I recommend Super Video. After messing with various mobos, MX, real, and whatever else I got a hold of I was won over by Super with it's use of picture-in-picture, easy integration of subtitles, all the formats it can playback and built in screenshot tool (ya, I know, the tablet has one already). plus it has some nice sorting tools for the videos. The only annoying downside I found was that it'll list off what's in a .nomedia dir and doesn't have the option to ignore those directories.
here's to finding what works for you!
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Thanks
For the one who asked why i want to watch dvd files on the tablet? Simple i got some movies on USB and watch them on vacation On the tab.
The next downloading movies are xvid or avi files, then the problem seems to be solved
Tubgirl said:
My old Pentium computer with a 166Mhz CPU (and also my 1st gen xbox) can play DVD iso files so I can't understand why our tablets can't do it. Especially now when the file system on our MicroSD cards allow +4Gb files.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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A 166 MHz Pentium is nowhere near capable of MPEG-2 DVD playback - If a device like that was playing DVDs, it had hardware acceleration.
These days, hardware acceleration focus has changed - MPEG-4 is the dominant codec. While I think technically our devices support hwaccel MPEG-2, it's not a high priority/focus due to the fact that it delivers very poor compression ratios compared to MPEG-4 AVC. The VOB container format used for DVD, while derived from the MPEG-2 program stream container, is a complex mangled mess. Since no Android device has a physical DVD drive, no one bothers expending time to support this format since it's easy for a PC to transcode from VOB with MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio to a format more appropriate to mobile devices.
MPEG-4 AVC (aka H.264) when combined with AAC audio can easily compress a full length movie to <1GB and retain excellent quality. A DVD, on the other hand, will typically be 4GB or more. In fact, most Blu-Ray movies will compress to 720p H.264 at <2GB while retaining excellent quality.
A 4x or more improvement in compression ratio is worth the time spent to transcode to H.264+AAC. (especially since you can just stick the DVD in, kick off Handbrake, and go to bed.)
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For the one who asked why i want to watch dvd files on the tablet? Simple i got some movies on USB and watch them on vacation On the tab.
The next downloading movies are xvid or avi files, then the problem seems to be solved
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i said why would anyone want to play .iso on our tabs? it is completely pointless just rip the dvd to mp4 format.
Would I say it'd be impossible to play DVDs? No,nothing is, but it begs the question of why it would be needed, if developed when you can rip it onto a 32/64/128 gb microsd card.
I do have one idea why, and it is because it allows people to use their DVD collection on their Droid without all that work.
Considering that Droid devices like Samsung's have the capability to use external drives so long as they are self powering, it all comes down to the software end. Like an emulator, the app or mod will need to supply the drivers or BIOS suitable for DVD drives and I know where such thing could be sourced from. Linux.
I know that Linux can play DVDs , so they must have the drivers out there to port to the Droid OS to insert via a modded Rom that supports DVD drives and thus, DVD playback. A DVD/Keyboard hybrid and a dock connector to hold the tablet would be a cool thing to undergo , especially since it would give the Note 10.1 and other tablets a laptop-like ability.
In fact , Samsung has done the DVD part, called the SE-218BB DVD / CD writer.
While I love the top concept, it seems useless unless it went a step further and had a keyboard. The only obstacle is that the form factor of the Note 10.1 first generation would look f'ed up with such a setup but next gen? If they did or a third party went for this setup to accommodate the Note's form like a certain iPad keyboard, that would in turn be pretty neat because it would make the Note 10.1 into a netbook with a DVD wallop.
Buy a DVD player that has WiFi sharing capabilities, either Asus or Samsung make one.
Why is it so hard to understand that some people don't want to convert their ISO files to other formats? I have a massive DVD collection on my NAS and it would be nice to be able to play them on my Note. With the DVD format you keep the chapter information which is nice on DVDs with music videos and karaoke DVDs for instance.
The Note is definitely capable of playing the mpeg2 stream... no doubt about it.
I've got a 13TB NAS so space is no issue whatsoever.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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I need help setting up my se-218bb
Bystorm said:
Would I say it'd be impossible to play DVDs? No,nothing is, but it begs the question of why it would be needed, if developed when you can rip it onto a 32/64/128 gb microsd card.
I do have one idea why, and it is because it allows people to use their DVD collection on their Droid without all that work.
Considering that Droid devices like Samsung's have the capability to use external drives so long as they are self powering, it all comes down to the software end. Like an emulator, the app or mod will need to supply the drivers or BIOS suitable for DVD drives and I know where such thing could be sourced from. Linux.
I know that Linux can play DVDs , so they must have the drivers out there to port to the Droid OS to insert via a modded Rom that supports DVD drives and thus, DVD playback. A DVD/Keyboard hybrid and a dock connector to hold the tablet would be a cool thing to undergo , especially since it would give the Note 10.1 and other tablets a laptop-like ability.
In fact , Samsung has done the DVD part, called the SE-218BB DVD / CD writer.
While I love the top concept, it seems useless unless it went a step further and had a keyboard. The only obstacle is that the form factor of the Note 10.1 first generation would look f'ed up with such a setup but next gen? If they did or a third party went for this setup to accommodate the Note's form like a certain iPad keyboard, that would in turn be pretty neat because it would make the Note 10.1 into a netbook with a DVD wallop.
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Could someone please help me by instructing me On how to connect my galaxy note 10.1 to my Samsung se-218bb. Please someone help me
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Could someone please help me by instructing me On how to connect my galaxy note 10.1 to my Samsung se-218bb. Please someone help me
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I saw this on Amazon in the review section I hope it works for you.
(1) Install mxvideo player on your tablet.
(2) Plug your dvd writer SE-218 into your tablet via usb.
(3) Press the eject button to eject the tray.
(4) While the tray is open, press and hold the eject button until the green light on the tray stays lit. Then release. This brings your dvd drive into av mode.
(5) Close the tray.
(6) Now, eject and open the tray and put in a dvd.
(7) Your tablet will now recognize your dvd as a usb device. Your tablet will appear to be frozen for about 10 seconds. Don't panic! It's just reading the dvd disc. Just leave it alone until it's read it.
(8) Using a file manager, navigate into the usb device and find a vob file that is big, like a couple gigs or so. Play it with your mxplayer.
VOILA! You can now play dvd's on-the-go. Please spread the word. Amazon is only selling this puppy for 34 bucks. Well worth it!
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I forgot to mention. Every time you plug in your drive to watch a dvd, you will have to eject the tray and press the button for 3 seconds.
Can't get Power to even come on to dvd??? to follow instructions given...
Thanks for the feedback.... I tried doing as you instructed. I brought the Samsung Usb connector and connected the Dvd and I could not even get power to the Dvd player to come on.... So I checked to make sure that the Samsung Dvd was actually working..... I connected it to an actual power supply and the green light came on and I was able to pop open the Dvd tray. I disconnected it and went back to the usb connection and my device recognized that I had a High Power USB connector in but that's it.... No juice or No fire for the Dvd Player......no green light ever comes on....What am I doing wrong???? Or what do I need to do????
Thanks So Much for your help.........
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I saw this on Amazon in the review section I hope it works for you.
(1) Install mxvideo player on your tablet.
(2) Plug your dvd writer SE-218 into your tablet via usb.
(3) Press the eject button to eject the tray.
(4) While the tray is open, press and hold the eject button until the green light on the tray stays lit. Then release. This brings your dvd drive into av mode.
(5) Close the tray.
(6) Now, eject and open the tray and put in a dvd.
(7) Your tablet will now recognize your dvd as a usb device. Your tablet will appear to be frozen for about 10 seconds. Don't panic! It's just reading the dvd disc. Just leave it alone until it's read it.
(8) Using a file manager, navigate into the usb device and find a vob file that is big, like a couple gigs or so. Play it with your mxplayer.
VOILA! You can now play dvd's on-the-go. Please spread the word. Amazon is only selling this puppy for 34 bucks. Well worth it!
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I forgot to mention. Every time you plug in your drive to watch a dvd, you will have to eject the tray and press the button for 3 seconds.
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try mxplayer.
it can play many formats (mp4, avi, rmvb, .... divx, xvid)
BOStaurus said:
try mxplayer.
it can play many formats (mp4, avi, rmvb, .... divx, xvid)
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wondershare, free on play market, can play DVDs: just rip the dvd and copy to sd card or barely copy it to sd card,
or you ca use MakeMKV to create an mkv out of the dvd: it takes space but it's faster than converting in divx or mpeg
do not forget you cannot copy files greater than 4gb to sd card, so after mkv is create just split it in two (I believe you can do it with makeMKV otherwise try MKVmerge)
wondershare is faster: just copy dvd to sd card, makeMKV you can leave out unwanted audios, subs and extra features
Hello all,
I'm very new to Asus and Google OS but not new to the tech scene. I wanted to watch avi movies on my transformer so I loaded a few tv episodes onto a microSD (generic, 32gb class 4) but not all the files will play. I'm using MxPlayer and DicePlayer and neither are doing the trick. I've also tried MoboPlayer, BSPlayer and Rockplayer. None of these will handle all the avi files. Only selective files will play.
The plot thickens. I understand avi's can have a wide assortment of codecs but for one tv show (Friends) I personally ripped all the episodes myself from a DVD collection using Handbrake, with the same settings for all episodes (which now I forget because it's been so long). SOME of these episodes play perfectly without a hitch while others won't load at all.
Can anyone advise on troubleshooting? Could it be there generic microSD card? Do I need to download additional codecs from the internet or search other media players?
Thanks in advance!!
Asus Transformer TF101 + keyboard dock
4.0.3 ICS
MicroSD FAT32 using Disk Utility on iMac
It could be that some of them didn't copy over correctly. Check the file size of each episode to see if it matches on your computer ad the SD card. If it doesn't, that's your problem. If they do match, try playing them from the SD on your computer. If they don't play right, delete and copy them back over (or re-rip). If they all play fine, find someone who knows this better than I do. Oh, and MX will tell you the codec under Tools->Properties->More when you're watching them.