Hello my mates.
We know full screen and immersive mode in Android is something that should have been already long ago. However since I never had buttons on screen never needed it. Now I bought my beautiful Nexus5 but I can't find any apps/game using them already...
So I wonder, except play books, is there any app or game using this features?
Playing games with on screen buttons and watching videos is just awful...
Honestly don't know what the fuss about immersive mode is. Two video players have been able to play videos full screen, no home, back or recent apps buttons on screen for some time. They are Archos Video Player and MX Player. I have them both installed on all my devices and they play full screen on all of them.
mauriceheath said:
Honestly don't know what the fuss about immersive mode is. Two video players have been able to play videos full screen, no home, back or recent apps buttons on screen for some time. They are Archos Video Player and MX Player. I have them both installed on all my devices and they play full screen on all of them.
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Yep - agreed. MX Player works great for full screen video.
Games are a fail though. I too would like "immersive mode" for gaming
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I'm looking for a good video player app, one where i dont have to go through the gallery to get to my videos. (I watch movies on my N1 while on the treadmill). Ideally I'd like something like the iPod touch video player (it starts off from where I left off). Anyone got any suggestions?
act 1 video player is good, has the list of videos in app so no need for gallery. It has bookmarks but not sure if it picks up where you left off. Finger gestures, slide finger left/right anywhere on-screen to fast forward/rewind some other features I can't think of off hand. It is a paid app though, $1.99 I believe. It is worth the price.
thanks, i'll give it a try.
Just a note, since I see there is a lot of interest in streaming video content on the G Tablet, with a bunch of people excited that we had the TV.com app working now that we have full market access.
Though we still have no Netflix, and you can hack your way into making Hulu sort-of work, Amazon Video On Demand works as is - it's all Flash video, and plays just fine on my G Tablet.
I just watched the first quarter of Hellboy and then watched a full episode of Lie to Me Season 2, which I already had in my Amazon Video Library from purchasing for my Roku.
Make sure you are on the full desktop Amazon site, not the mobile site (may need to change your User Agent depending on your browser configuration). Just click on Full Screen once the video player loads, and you'll get the movie you want in full screen glory.
Also, as with everything video-related, after sleeping and waking up, the G Tablet is a bit stuttery unless you use OverclockWidget to force the min clock speed higher. If that happens to you and you don't feel like using OCWidget, a quick reboot should solve the problem.
rcgabriel said:
Just a note, since I see there is a lot of interest in streaming video content on the G Tablet, with a bunch of people excited that we had the TV.com app working now that we have full market access.
Though we still have no Netflix, and you can hack your way into making Hulu sort-of work, Amazon Video On Demand works as is - it's all Flash video, and plays just fine on my G Tablet.
I just watched the first quarter of Hellboy and then watched a full episode of Lie to Me Season 2, which I already had in my Amazon Video Library from purchasing for my Roku.
Make sure you are on the full desktop Amazon site, not the mobile site (may need to change your User Agent depending on your browser configuration). Just click on Full Screen once the video player loads, and you'll get the movie you want in full screen glory.
Also, as with everything video-related, after sleeping and waking up, the G Tablet is a bit stuttery unless you use OverclockWidget to force the min clock speed higher. If that happens to you and you don't feel like using OCWidget, a quick reboot should solve the problem.
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Are you saying that Amazon Video On Demand can be streamed on the G Tab?
wannabeatech said:
Are you saying that Amazon Video On Demand can be streamed on the G Tab?
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I can't imagine any other way to interpret the original post.
Just got my note a few days ago...in many YouTube videos I see people showing off a floating video player but I can't find it anywhere
You can make the stock video player float. But the ultimate floating media player app is "StickIt". Made by the same people who created "Overskreen" floating browser. They also make air calc. The floating calculator. They were the first on Android with floating apps, resizeable screens just like on a pc. You can have several different websites and videos playing at once on same screen. Add that to stock note multiscreen/multitasking and you have a multitaskking beast. The stickit and overskreen browser are well worth the price. Nothing compares to them.
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You can make the stock video player float. But the ultimate floating media player app is "StickIt". Made by the same people who created "Overskreen" floating browser. They also make air calc. The floating calculator. They were the first on Android with floating apps, resizeable screens just like on a pc. You can have several different websites and videos playing at once on same screen. Add that to stock note multiscreen/multitasking and you have a multitaskking beast. The stickit and overskreen browser are well worth the price. Nothing compares to them.
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The only thing I see with stickit is that you can't play video files from the network streaming them can you? With the stock player I can. How can I make the stock player float?
Actually some streaming stuff does work through stickit. Like YouTube and other sites
But to make stock video player float, there should be little icon up top. Like a square with a little arrow on its corner or something. Its one of those little icons on the top. Once you press it, screen gets small and goes into floating mode. Same thing if you open up browser, then press multiscreen and choose video player. Then on video player side, youcan press the icon to make it float instead of split screen.
I'm pretty sure the stock floating apps on the original galaxy tab 10.1 were first but stick it is nice. But the nice thing about the stock app is that you can go back and forth between full screen and floating, I wish stick it could do that.
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Actually some streaming stuff does work through stickit. Like YouTube and other sites
But to make stock video player float, there should be little icon up top. Like a square with a little arrow on its corner or something. Its one of those little icons on the top. Once you press it, screen gets small and goes into floating mode. Same thing if you open up browser, then press multiscreen and choose video player. Then on video player side, youcan press the icon to make it float instead of split screen.
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Yeah I have stickit I just wish I could stream local content and float it.
Man....I am going insane I keep going over it but don't see what button to hit to make the stock video player float. Screenshots?
I mean I can root and install twrp no problem but can't find this easy thing
knives of ice said:
Just got my note a few days ago...in many YouTube videos I see people showing off a floating video player but I can't find it anywhere
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Maybe my video will help.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=1JOyJpNrSz4&v=1JOyJpNrSz4&gl=US
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Yeah I have stickit I just wish I could stream local content and float it
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I use supervideo from the market which can float any video, to stream from external sites such as you tube, you need to get the in app purchase to enable it. This app also allows you to maximise the video when needed to full screen.
I've added a screen shot for the native player that shows what you need to click to float the video.
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I use supervideo from the market which can float any video, to stream from external sites such as you tube, you need to get the in app purchase to enable it. This app also allows you to maximise the video when needed to full screen.
I've added a screen shot for the native player that shows what you need to click to float the video.
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Well...I have no idea how or why but I'm missing that button. Any ideas?
Here is the screenshot
When I use the player and float it, it then disappears, except for being listed in the tasks. I can switch to it but it disappears again.
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Got it to work, but only with the helicopter video.
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When I use the player and float it, it then disappears, except for being listed in the tasks. I can switch to it but it disappears again.
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Got it to work, but only with the helicopter video.
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Figured it out. The button to float isn't there when playing back network videos. I I do have the button when playing videos from the note. No idea why they exclude networked content from floating really dumb.
Thanks. At least there's an explanation. Does suck.
My Nexus player has been struck with the dreaded Soap Opera Effect. Essentially it's a motion blur type effect that affects streaming video. Netflix, Plex, etc.
This has been happening since updating to v5.1. Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas on how to fix it?
This video will give you an idea. To see the effect, I had to run at 720p 60fps or higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=882c25af2hM
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My Nexus player has been struck with the dreaded Soap Opera Effect. Essentially it's a motion blur type effect that affects streaming video. Netflix, Plex, etc.
This has been happening since updating to v5.1. Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas on how to fix it?
This video will give you an idea. To see the effect, I had to run at 720p 60fps or higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=882c25af2hM
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Isn't 60fps going to do that every time? Go back to 24fps and enjoy...
Maybe I'm confused...
Yeah sorry, I didn't explain clearly.
On the Nexus player we're not watching 60fps content. Just regular 24 or 30 or whatever.
I posted the youtube video so that you might see an example of what we're seeing on our TV. When watching that example video, I was only able to see the motion blur when I was watching it at 60 fps.
If you're getting any sort of frame-interpolation on video playback it is more likely that it is being done by your TV (if you have a 120Hz+ television) then the Nexus Player itself, because as far as I know the player does not have the software or hardware capabilities to do so and even if it did it wouldn't showup as a bug it would have to be enabled with some sort of third-party hack or application.
tl;dr: if you're seeing frame-interpolation in your videos, check your TVs settings and ensure "Smooth Motion" or "True Motion" or anything with that sort of name is disabled.
We're looking into that. It's an old POS TV that does 1080p, and not much else. We looked through the menu's and online, but found nothing about motion or any sort of video processing.
I'm going to test the Nexus Player with another TV and see what happens.
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It's not the TV can confirm after the update the nexus player is experiencing soap opera effect. are there settings to disable the effects?
The same thing is happening to me since the Android 5.1 update on my Nexus Player, but only under certain circumstances. The tv it is attached to is 1080p 60hz.
If i cast from plex to the Nexus Player, I get the soap opera effect, however if I use the plex app on the Nexus Player itself, I do not get the effect. Its infuriating. Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?
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The same thing is happening to me since the Android 5.1 update on my Nexus Player, but only under certain circumstances. The tv it is attached to is 1080p 60hz.
If i cast from plex to the Nexus Player, I get the soap opera effect, however if I use the plex app on the Nexus Player itself, I do not get the effect. Its infuriating. Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?
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I have the exact same issue. And my TV is an old Sharp 60hz which has none of that Motion/Flow technology. It only happens when I cast. No issue if I use the app. I am not sure I like this effect.
Ok....well this brings up my question....
I installed showbox via air share. ...I was seeing how well it works (testing it) it I notice on the whole horizontal bottom...2inch thick it's black/white. .........all of the movie is colored but the 2inch thick whole bottom is b/w. ....I also notice after 25 to 30 min into the movie it buffed and went to the beginning of movie (played on movie) haven't tried a different movie yet
It seems the soap opera effect only happens with apps that use the native android media player (i.e. Showbox, Starz Play, Encore Play) and it is in fact, VERY ANNOYING. I know Chainfire has a tweak that allows you to change the Hz for playback, but I haven't tried it yet.
i actually would like soap opera effect on my android tv box (mk808b plus)..any idea how the nexus player does it?
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i actually would like soap opera effect on my android tv box (mk808b plus)..any idea how the nexus player does it?
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I'm also keen on trying to port it to my device, I did some digging and found the SDK responsible for it, sadly it's intel, so unless it can be ported to some other system it's essentially useless to us.
It seems to rely on some sort of ISV lib, probably standing for Intel Smart Video, so I presume it'll be a lot of work bringing it to other devices.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/frame-rate-conversion-frc-in-intel-media-sdk
https://android.googlesource.com/device/asus/fugu/+/master/video_isv_profile.xml
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/96342/3/device.mk
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...n/utils/+/ce70dcd/ISV/profile/isv_profile.cpp
Pleaaase i would love video interpolation on my Nexus 6p!!!!
That is the only reason i prefer watching stuff on my pc(with SVP interpolation) even though my nexus AMOLED is awesome(on srgb of course)
Hello,
I've been using MX Player Pro for years and often listen to videos with my phone's screen off using the background play functionality. In the most recent update (MX Player Pro 1.46.10) the background play options in the settings were changed to either background play or picture in picture. Once I figured this out and selected background play I was able to listen to videos with the screen off again, however the Picture-in-Picture button no longer works while playing a video. In previous versions when I had background play configured, the PiP button in the on-screen controls during playback still allowed me to use the PiP functionality on the fly.
Can you please fix the PiP button so that it still works even if I have background play configured as the default in the local player settings? Otherwise it seems like the only option is to revert to 1.42.13 and never update the app again.
Thanks!
having the same issue, this on top that since like a year ago, the headset Bluetooth buttons don't work for forwarding or rewinding 5 seconds as it used to (it works only when video is playing in background or PiP) this is extremely frustrating
newest version got it solved.
ComunixtaAteuzinho said:
newest version got it solved.
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I'm still only seeing 1.46.10 on Google Play. There is no newer version available for me.
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
dhruvdave said:
The lastest beta version is 1.48.1
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Gotcha. Sorry, I wasn't aware of the beta program. I'll look forward to its forthcoming release on the Play store.