Database Info

Video app only partially plays vids

Question: Hi there
the stock video app on my tab plays videos partially then stops and goes back to the video list. Is this a known bug and if it is does anyone know how to fix it? If i access videos via the file explorer it plays fine!
Also is there any way to play all videos continuously and randomly or a player that does this?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Hmm. Playing the video partially is weird. What if you keep tapping the screen? will it finish playing?
If you click on the menu button, there is a option that says "Auto Play Next".

Hi there
the video stops suddenly so i am unable to tap the screen. It then returns to video app screen. The same video will play fully if accessed via the file explorer, that's the weird thing. This means i can not use the auto play next feature within the video app although the video app is what plays the video when opened via explorer.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Does this happen on all video's?

Hi there yes it does?
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Have you tried any other video players just to see if it also happens outside of the stock player?

Yes, i jave tried numerous apps such as qq, zimly and mixzing and they all work fine. They just do not have what i need, which is the ability to arrange videos in various orders such as date or size as well as auto play next or random play. The stock player is perfect for this need. As above, if i open.the videos via the my files folder it uses the stock app to play the videos and the problem is gone. This would be fine but this way you lose the ability to auto play video. Its extremely frustrating! The video app seems to play about 2 mins of videos then audio goes slightly jerky and it stops and returns to app. Is there a way to re install the video app? Thanks
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

AMIAGEEK said:
Yes, i jave tried numerous apps such as qq, zimly and mixzing and they all work fine. They just do not have what i need, which is the ability to arrange videos in various orders such as date or size as well as auto play next or random play. The stock player is perfect for this need. As above, if i open.the videos via the my files folder it uses the stock app to play the videos and the problem is gone. This would be fine but this way you lose the ability to auto play video. Its extremely frustrating! The video app seems to play about 2 mins of videos then audio goes slightly jerky and it stops and returns to app. Is there a way to re install the video app? Thanks
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Reinstalling the video app would require Root. Have you done that or considered it?
By advised rooting does invalidate your warranty. Samsung issued a newsletter to all service centres advising them if they received any phones that had been rooted they were not to carry out repairs under warranty.
Anyway, has it happened all the time since owning the Tab or has it only started playing up recently?
If it has been playing up all the time it may be something to do with the codecs of the video where when you select direct from the player it picks up the problem but misses when you select the video using a third-party selector (My Files you mentioned).
If that is the case there is nothing you can do about it other than ensure your movie files don't have the same codecs.
If it has been playing up only recently it will be some form of corruption that has crept in.
The only way you are going to get around this is either root your Tab and reinstall the Player.app (providing you can get hold of one that is).... or carry out a Factory Reset that should clear the problem.

Hi thanks the advice. I will try a factory reset abd hopefully that will work as i do not want to root the device.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

AMIAGEEK said:
Hi thanks the advice. I will try a factory reset abd hopefully that will work as i do not want to root the device.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If it works can you please consider a vote of Thanks.
See my Sig, all votes go to Charity.

[Q] MyCloud/MyNet

Hi, noob here with his first thread. I've ordered my transformer with the dock and loved the idea of streaming from my laptop to my tablet but from the scarce reviews which I have read and seen the application doesnt work too well? Can any please look into this in a bit more detail and explain if it works or not?
many thanks

Not sure where you've seen it doesn't work well because I've got MyCloud up and running and was streaming music from my PC to my TF and had absolutely no probs. Smooth playback and only times it jumped were because my PC is having issues and was at stupidly high CPU usage. Other than that works a treat and even checked out a vid and looks to work really well too. Not worked out what I'd use MyNet for yet as couldn't get it working with my PC but seems to be for DLNA equipped devices as had a message to check DLNA devices so guess it's for streaming from the TF to a DLNA equipped TV or the likes.

Mycloud (Splashtop) works very well for me....I even played WOW a bit on my TF with the help of the docking stations, it's absolutely fine to do some simple daily quests on the TF..

ive never got it to stream videos smoothly. not sure if im doing something wrong but playing movies using mycloud is always choppy.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA Premium App

neotekz said:
ive never got it to stream videos smoothly. not sure if im doing something wrong but playing movies using mycloud is always choppy.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
in one particular review the application simply fails to stream any of the files, although after doing some more digging i have seen it working. So is it a case of incorrect set up or does the tablet support only a limited number of file formats? i mainly use .avi and .mkv, wil these work??

I've used it to stream music to my Sony Bravia TV via DLNA and it works fine. I'll test some video once I get some onto the device and post results.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

jamieyates79 said:
I've used it to stream music to my Sony Bravia TV via DLNA and it works fine. I'll test some video once I get some onto the device and post results.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
cheers! it'd be a big disappointment if .avi and .mkv dont work
EDIT: youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8iBI_duJs this is the review i was referring to; skip to 3.30. again i dont know if he's got it set up properly but I saw this and began to worry!

Streaming to the tablet has no limitations with regards to file types, remember it's only displaying whatever's on the host so you can play anything your PC/laptop will play. Obviously if you're using your tablet as the host and streaming to your TV/PC/laptop etc then it's completely reliant on what the TF can do. I guess choppy playback and issues are all down to setup and quality of the network. If you have a good setup you'll not have any issues with streaming any files. I have a fairly basic setup with all devices on a WiFi N network and runs well enough

AvRS said:
Streaming to the tablet has no limitations with regards to file types, remember it's only displaying whatever's on the host so you can play anything your PC/laptop will play.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As long as your PC is transcoding, that is.

Alternative 3D video player

Here is good alternative video player. Original posted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1713726
Edit: new version:
http://db.tt/NFrmYEsh
Sent from my LG-P920 using XDA

downloaded and giving it a try.
Have some roms to test, but then i will reply, if this particular 3d player is as good or better, or worse than stock :cyclops:

i use mx video player. free in playstore.
Great touch/sliding features for brightness and volume plus works perfectly with non-DM locked 3D video files. :good:

3dvplayer is very good. Personally I use

MX Player on the market has also supported 3D videos for a while (no depth change option though)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad

I couldn't get a 3d player to work on CM7
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app

Of course you can't. That's because CM Roms don't support the 3D and HDMI features.

LeighR said:
I couldn't get a 3d player to work on CM7
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
mx player plays 3d videos in cm. also you take 3d photos and video but you cant view 3d photos

Good
it works pretty good on my o3d:good:

How do you get MX Player to do 3D? Also has anyone else noticed that CM7 doesn't play. Video in full screen properly? Sometimes too small sometimes offset left or low, sort of stopping me from using it. CM7 does seem buggy to me.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app

Bsplayer Free
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app

saint_cow said:
How do you get MX Player to do 3D? Also has anyone else noticed that CM7 doesn't play. Video in full screen properly? Sometimes too small sometimes offset left or low, sort of stopping me from using it. CM7 does seem buggy to me.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes i played 3d videos in CM7. I turned off auto rotation (system settings-display). after that select only 0 degrees and turned off animation (Settings-CM7 Settings-Display I dont remember it now") and Edit mx player settings to always use landspace mode while playing.
that is all. i can play 3d videos without bugs. ( If you dont turn off rotation video gets bug. video starts shaking)

srock61 said:
yes i played 3d videos in CM7. I turned off auto rotation (system settings-display). after that select only 0 degrees and turned off animation (Settings-CM7 Settings-Display I dont remember it now") and Edit mx player settings to always use landspace mode while playing.
that is all. i can play 3d videos without bugs. ( If you dont turn off rotation video gets bug. video starts shaking)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nice one, will have a play.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app

srock61 said:
yes i played 3d videos in CM7. I turned off auto rotation (system settings-display). after that select only 0 degrees and turned off animation (Settings-CM7 Settings-Display I dont remember it now") and Edit mx player settings to always use landspace mode while playing.
that is all. i can play 3d videos without bugs. ( If you dont turn off rotation video gets bug. video starts shaking)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That works for 3D but for all normal video (on my phone at least) the video is offset left and low. Not sure how to adjust this, anyone else have this problem? I attempted a screen shot but it just turns out black while playing video.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda app-developers app

Last update of 3dvplayer 4.0.0 has some bug 'cause can't play as "system player" (hardware) on O3D
I've [ROM] DNA_GB 3.3.3 V21E base.
Can anybody confirm this?
http://3dv.cn/ThreeDVplayer/index.html

Ver 4 No good here either... just keeps replaying that darned annoying intro over and over again if I try to play any video.
Sent from my LG-SU870 using xda app-developers app

With older versions, still could not stream with their network feature (only have sound) but manages playback of the downloaded video file OK with both moving pictures & sound. Proprietary .3DV extension for these files ? Seems very low resolution for the files I happened to try. But its free...
What is the experience for the rest of you?
Sent from my LG-SU870 using xda app-developers app

After the ICS update, I tried again and the network feature of this player is now working! I'm running an older 3.x version.
Also I came across a video file they hosted that was of decent resolution! If it's about 400M for 60min of 3D vid then it should look fine. It varies from 1 vid to the next so keep digging... they're not all low rez blurry messes!
Sent from my LG-SU870 using xda app-developers app

[Q] Videos won't play from apps or browser?

Hey I'm having a problem and wondering if anyone is experiencing the same thing or knows anything about it.
Whenever I try to watch a video I get some kind of playback error. I can play videos I already downloaded but if I try to watch from youtube or any other app or from a website in my browser, I get an error.
This started a few weeks ago and Its getting extremely annoying.
If anyone can help that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

Are you using a custom ROM?
Sent from my SGH-T839 using XDA

Oh yeah I'm running CM_Merged (the last release) sorry for leaving that out.
Thanks for the reply!

Youtubes broken, and video player is missing on rage, try using rock player for streaming and use youtube 2.1.6 apk, might work better than the current youtube app.

thank you so much! any ideas on other apps too? (like adult swim, onion, etc)
Sent from my SGH-T839 using xda premium

Not sure for the other apps.

Youtube App won't stream 1080p

Today, I got my Nexus 5 in the mail. So far I'm in love with the screen! However, every day I watch about 2 hours of YouTube vids on my phone and I can't seem to get 1080p video's. I've also tried the Viral Youtube app, but it only alows me to watch 720p. Every video I tried to watch in 1080p were 720p on my phone, but 1080p on my computer. Any tips?

The new Nexus 7 II also has the same problem. The only way to watch 1080p videos at the moment is to spend a few bucks for the paid version of the Viral player
thomasvant said:
Today, I got my Nexus 5 in the mail. So far I'm in love with the screen! However, every day I watch about 2 hours of YouTube vids on my phone and I can't seem to get 1080p video's. I've also tried the Viral Youtube app, but it only alows me to watch 720p. Every video I tried to watch in 1080p were 720p on my phone, but 1080p on my computer. Any tips?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Gorgtech said:
The new Nexus 7 II also has the same problem. The only way to watch 1080p videos at the moment is to spend a few bucks for the paid version of the Viral player
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your answer! Not really happy with Google for not having updated the app yet. However, Google had to perfectionize the phone so I don't blame them.

Gorgtech said:
The new Nexus 7 II also has the same problem. The only way to watch 1080p videos at the moment is to spend a few bucks for the paid version of the Viral player
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OGYoutube by OSAMA *(I forgot his other name) is also another way.
It is an older version of YouTube nodded but has advanced settings such as custom resolutions and downloading.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Use viral app it lets you and it's better
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Please correct me if I'm wrong but the native Youtube app doesn't allow 1080p playback on phones, does it?

In settings there is an option for HD on phones.

HughesNet said:
In settings there is an option for HD on phones.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it limits quality to 720p..
personally i find this enough often android seems to have issues buffering videos even on strong wifi connections.

Don't forget that it will only allow HQ on mobile data connections (unless I'm mistaken) it reserves HD for WiFi connections.

The Viral app lets u play in 1080 p
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Or you could install flash player and just directly go to the youtube website. I do this quite often.

I guess this is why when I share a video from youtube to XBMC via Yatse that it plays in 720p. Google really needs to fix this. I dont really care about 1080p on the device itself, even though it would be cool, but I use my phone to send youtube content to XBMC all the time and it sucks that its sending 720p instead of 1080p.

I'm trying the free version of viral from the play store, but it's only doing 720p.

Got the Viral Pro app, which had te 1080p button indeed. However, once pressed, the video keeps loading and loading. The app does show what the length of the video is, but it doesn't seem to load.
Just to be clear, the video I watched could be streamed in 1080p on my computer.
Hope someone can help me out with this one!
Edit: Found out that also 480p doesn't work.

How do you see the resolution? I only see an HD.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

thomasvant said:
Got the Viral Pro app, which had te 1080p button indeed. However, once pressed, the video keeps loading and loading. The app does show what the length of the video is, but it doesn't seem to load.
Just to be clear, the video I watched could be streamed in 1080p on my computer.
Hope someone can help me out with this one!
Edit: Found out that also 480p doesn't work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same thing, if I choose 1080p it never loads the video. Another one I play for my kid won't play at 480p, but will at 360, not sure why. Need to test on my One when I can.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Megiddo2000 said:
Or you could install flash player and just directly go to the youtube website. I do this quite often.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, Flash player do not work with Android 4.4.

eksasol said:
No, Flash player do not work with Android 4.4.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you sure about that?
Install the Flashplayer.apk and use a flash enabled browser.
Seems to work fine for me.

Megiddo2000 said:
Are you sure about that?
Install the Flashplayer.apk and use a flash enabled browser.
Seems to work fine for me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you on KitKat and what browser and Flash version are you using? I'm using the version 11.1.115.81 for Android 4.0, it doesn't work on KitKat.

thomasvant said:
Today, I got my Nexus 5 in the mail. So far I'm in love with the screen! However, every day I watch about 2 hours of YouTube vids on my phone and I can't seem to get 1080p video's. I've also tried the Viral Youtube app, but it only alows me to watch 720p. Every video I tried to watch in 1080p were 720p on my phone, but 1080p on my computer. Any tips?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm going to chime in here because ever since the new 5.xx YouTube app came out, 1080p playback has been disabled. I've been using a rooted and CM10.1 installed ROM on my Nook HD+ for a few months now and when the update from 4.5 to 5.x came out, the videos on the 1080p display were very pixelated and worse than the 720p video I would see using IMDB.com app in watching trailers.
I ended-up finding a 4.5.x YouTube app, uninstalling the 5.xx from the Nook, install the 4.5.x and disabling all updates on the YouTube app. Well, that has worked nicely and on my Nexus 4 the new 5.xx looked fine on the 720p so I left it alone. Now I have the Nexus 5 and we are back again with the pixelation. I tried uninstalling the 5.xx YouTube app... not possible. I tried to install the old 4.5.x and that didn't work, so I'm pretty much stuck unless I can find another YouTube app that will properly stream 1080p youtube video.
What's also troubling is that the videos on my Nexus 5 appear to be choppy even with 720p playback. Mind you, I'm watching dash-cam videos that are not very popular, and I have to admit that at times non-popular videos seem to load SO MUCH LONGER than all the popular ones. Seems like Google gives priority to the popular videos and makes you wait for all others.
Anyways, I'm very disappointed and hope someone can find an alternative or get Google to address this issue.
EDITED:
Added some screenshot samples, for the following YouTube videos, which I would recommend clicking on to see them at 100% resolution:
http://youtu.be/WU95IjhVDV0
NEXUS 5:
WINDOWS 7:
---------- Post added at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:17 PM ----------
PiCASSiMO said:
Added some screenshot samples, for the following YouTube videos, which I would recommend clicking on to see them at 100% resolution:
http://youtu.be/WU95IjhVDV0
NEXUS 5:
WINDOWS 7:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
By the way... the above screen shots look the same on my 1280x768 screen, so as mentioned above I recommend downloading the originals.
---------- Post added at 03:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:02 PM ----------
I've downloaded VIRAL for my Nexus 5 and played back the video in 720p. The 720p made the YouTube HD playlook look that much worse. As if the YouTube is not even 720p.
Viral 1
Viral 2
Consolidated: