When I was running ARHD on my Inspire, I was able to stream videos from my computer using ES File Explorer. I was able to play mp4, avi & wmv files without problems. The videos would play in either QuickPic, Streaming Media Player or ES Media Player & would start playing after a quick buffering of only a few seconds. Now I've switched to the Blackout ICS ROM and just discovered streaming video isn't working for all media types. It works for mp4, but not with avi or wmv. When I hit the file in ES, I see QuickPic start but then it immediately closes. If I long-press the file, I can Open As..>Video and select a player. But playback doesn't start immediately. It seems like it's transferring the entire file over to the phone before playing. If I copy the video file to my sd card, it'll play fine.
I tried uninstalling/reinstalling ES & QuickPic. I installed other media players as well. I tried with several different video files. Nothing seems to be able to stream the video over my LAN. I also restored a backup of ARHD just to verify it worked as I remembered. Everything played fine. Any ideas as to why this wouldn't be working with Blackout ICS or how I can get it to work? I have all the apps set up exactly the same as I did with ARHD. Could this be an issue with ICS compared to GB?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Have you tried another ICS or JB ROM?
bananagranola said:
Have you tried another ICS or JB ROM?
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That I haven't tried yet. At least not in connection with this issue. I've tried a couple of other ICS or JB ROMs in the past but Blackout was the first one that I liked enough to keep on my phone awhile. If I can't find a solution that makes this work with this ROM, I'll try another.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Hey Folks,
Has anyone got Vplayer running on the g-tablet ? I have rooted my tablet, and have access to the market etc. I also have the latest OTA from viewsonic.
Currently, if I try to run vplayer, it just tries to open the file (.avi in this case) and then closes ........ no errors
VPlayer sucks!
It plays NONE OF THE 13 Movies on my G-Tab. Even the listing of the folder is not sharp and clear. Like yours, it just opens and closes and never has any video.
Get Act 1 Video Player. It plays ALL the stuff I have Flawlessly. Just dfownload via the market to your phone, and G-Mail the APK file to yourself and open it on your G-Tab. It will have an "Install" option with which you can easily install the app. (you might have to save the file on your sd card before installing)
Aloha From Hawaii !
Vplayer on gtabletArrow
Thanks, ...... I will try that
Please look in the Themes and Apps section of this forum for multiples of discussions of video / audio players etc.
There are 3 candidates for top billing
Act Player
RockPlayer
Vital Player
(in Alphabetical order)
have you tried mVideoPlayer. I heard it works well.
Sm0k3d 0uT said:
have you tried mVideoPlayer. I heard it works well.
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My biggest issue with it was that if the device does not support a container (.ts, .ps, .mkv, etc) the player will not play it even if the internal codec itself was supported. ie h264, AVC etc.
Hi all
Yesterday I wanted to try and play some streaming videos using upnplay and moboplayer. However, whatever file I choose in Upnplay, moboplayer continues to come with an error message saying: can't load (insert filename) file.
Playing the video locally works normal, it seems to be a problem between upnplay/moboplayer.
If I choose rockplayer it works well, but rockplayer does not play mkv files very good.
I also tried diceplayer. This works excellent, however I only have a trial version, I can buy the program, but I think moboplayer should do the trick as well??
Any suggestions?
Did you load the moboplayer codecs?
If you did try removing and reinstalling it.
I did download the codecs. And I did uninstall and reinstall moboplayer itself, I will try to uninstall the codecs and reinstall. However, codecs work fine, since playing from tab itself gives no problems...
Did you also remove/reinstall upnp?
Try also clearing defaults & cache for both apps and test
Will try this stuff when I am home again, thanks in advance.
Had the same problem. Downloaded Daroon Player. Works like a charm and has much better UI imo. And its free
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Same here, this issue seems to occour after the 3.2 update. Not sure who is to blame. Upnp takes longer to load, and files which did load previously seem to fail now.
I did not yet install 3.2 and am reluctant to do that, so my problem is not related to this update
ok, maybe you just need to recycle your router/network. This sometimes resolves streaming issues. Since you already re-installed the apps. Have you tried this?
No, I did not reinstall everything yet, I will do that when I'm home again. Bedankt voor de tips
Ok I tried everything. Reinstalled everything, nothing worked. So I figured... Maybe it is my Upnp server. I tried using my PC as a server and.. It worked perfectly with moboplayer!
So I was a o look at the settings of my NAS. And I saw that there was a space in my folder name! I removed the space by using a underscore and.... Voila, it worked!!!
I feel kinda stupid, but at least it works now! Although the MKV file still gave trouble for moboplayer. I had to use software decoding, but that gave a choppy mess... So I reconcider getting diceplayer instead since it worked flawlessly on the trial version. Damn buggers only increased the price yesterday from euro 2.69 to 3.30
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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daz_2000 said:
try es file explorer
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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.
Sent from my Captivate
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?
I transfered some 720p .mkv files to my tablet (external sd) and the video plays fine in both the built in player and in mx player but I don't get any sound. If I play a smaller .avi file it plays fine with sound in both players. Any ideas?
Sorry if it has been posted before.
try using another player like diceplayer. I used to have this problem when playing mini 720p with the stock player, but not with the diceplayer
I'll just leave this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686675
Long story short: use software decoding for the audio.
Dice player works fine. Can I somehow watch full screen with out the black row with the three dots in de bottom?
Starting to hate this tablet more and more every day..
If you're rooted, get GMD GestureControl from the Play Store, and install Busybox.
Im noot rooted. Will probably root when a good port of AOKP is out
Lirkaren said:
Dice player works fine. Can I somehow watch full screen with out the black row with the three dots in de bottom?
Starting to hate this tablet more and more every day..
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Why hate this tablet? it's the 3rd best atm!
And it's not the tablet's fault! Your video might have an unsupported audio format, or it may be corrupted.. Try playing the video from your tab on the pc. And can you precise what format is the audio?
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Why hate this tablet? it's the 3rd best atm!
And it's not the tablet's fault! Your video might have an unsupported audio format, or it may be corrupted.. Try playing the video from your tab on the pc. And can you precise what format is the audio?
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I hate the lag when i browse the internet, my SGS is faster when scrolling around on internet pages. The internet apps I have tried freezes up ang gives FC at least 5 times every time i on the internet.
And many other things.
The videos works fine on my PC. It worked once with dice player but now I don't get any sound with dice player =/
Lirkaren said:
I hate the lag when i browse the internet, my SGS is faster when scrolling around on internet pages. The internet apps I have tried freezes up ang gives FC at least 5 times every time i on the internet.
And many other things.
The videos works fine on my PC. It worked once with dice player but now I don't get any sound with dice player =/
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New device, new fw, new problems. Most will be fixed by updates. The build.prop tweaks, for instance, made my .17 DE internet browsing _in powersave mode_ totally lag free (!).
You should wait for firmware updates, though. I'm afraid of what will happen if you accidentally brick your device.
Sound in players is accomplished by choosing software decoding of the audio.
I use a registered copy of ChewTune to rip iTune TV shops for watching on my TF700.
The transfer will state completed and apepar the correct size but about halfway to three Q's through the show it will free with a loud buzz.
Nothing I have tried such as moving beyond the point will help.
Tried several movies players with same results.
My question is there software that would scan the movie file and report or fix coding problems?
Thanks
4Nails
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I use a registered copy of ChewTune to rip iTune TV shops for watching on my TF700.
The transfer will state completed and apepar the correct size but about halfway to three Q's through the show it will free with a loud buzz.
Nothing I have tried such as moving beyond the point will help.
Tried several movies players with same results.
My question is there software that would scan the movie file and report or fix coding problems?
Thanks
4Nails
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Sounds to me like you either have something configured incorrectly in the ripper, or its buggy, but in either case it is unlikely a simple edit will fix the videos. The problem isn't likely a playback issue on your TF700, but try playing the vids on a pc and see if they work. If they do you might need to encode them differently. If not, then you might need a new ripper.
I am experiencing similar thing, but any show/movie stutters from beggining.
I use BS Player which worked perfectly fine until 4.2 version of android.
I think it is the ROM, not the movies. As mentioned, they work fine on PC/BoxeeBox - and they worked just fine on infinity, too - but not anymore.
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I am experiencing similar thing, but any show/movie stutters from beggining.
I use BS Player which worked perfectly fine until 4.2 version of android.
I think it is the ROM, not the movies. As mentioned, they work fine on PC/BoxeeBox - and they worked just fine on infinity, too - but not anymore.
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Using MX Player on both 4.1 and 4.2 with no problems at all, perhaps your problem comes from BS Player.
I can second. I'm on CM10 using MX Player, and it can play my 1080p/5.1 bluray rips without any problems.
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I can second. I'm on CM10 using MX Player, and it can play my 1080p/5.1 bluray rips without any problems.
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Been there, done that! Guys, loose both BS and MX and get Dice Player and all your problems will magically just go away! Works flawlessly over wifi too. Took me a month to figure this out and I had all your same issues. Thanks @jtrosky!!