I was just looking to download a couple of films from Sony's Video Unlimited store and noticed they're only available to download in SD. The device can playback in HD, right? If so seems crazy that Sony's own store doesn't offer this option.
is there anywhere else I can download HD from but watch the film in the Movies app? From what I understand of the Google Play Store movies, they can only be played via Google apps...
We were only given the SD version, even if you install the Sony MediaGo desktop app on your computer you can only get the SD version for download on your computer as well.
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I have purchased an ePad 2.2 android tablet for my nephew. I've successfully loaded songs and music videos from my iTunes account to a micro sd card. I have been able to play them on the tablet with no issues. I also downloaded a couple of movies but I've been unable to get the movies to play. The odd thing is the file formats for the music videos are the same as the movies, (.m4v). Yet the music videos play and the movies do. I didn't convert any files to different formats. I'm only using the "My Video" app that came installed on the tablet to play the music videos. Yet the "My Video" app won't play the movies. I'm guessing it's because the movies have an index whereas the music videos are just plain videos. Also, to get my iTunes files from iTunes to the 16 gb micro sd card I simply did a drap and drop in folders I created called music, music videos and movies.
I've searched all day and have found nothing to help. Does anyone have any clue how I can get the movies to play? Is there an app I can download? I don't have access to download thru the Android Market. I've been using Amazon.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! U can email me at [email protected]. Hopefully I've included enough info to be helpful. Please ask questions if I haven't.
Thanks so much,
Dgj
The standard video app is rubbish but most video players like mx video player for example will play your files. Just try a few free ones and see what you prefer, you may find some at getjar.com which gives you free apps and is a respected site so you will find a lot of market apps free there.
Dave
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I can recommend Mobo Player too.
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play itunes videos on Android tablet
itunes videos are drm protected, you have to get a DRmare M4V Converter to help you remove DRM. check this: macobserver.com/weekly-sponsorship/sponsor-drmare/
Ok so the shine is already wearing off the new update that gives Australia the option to purchase music from Google play, I've just bought an album and downloaded it and I wanted to play it in Poweramp but can't find it? Can anyone tell me why
It will be played and stored within Google play music.
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It will be played and stored within Google play music.
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But what if I don't want to play it through Google Music app I did just purchase the album I should be able to play it through what ever i like
I believe it is because the files aren't actually downloaded. You stream them from the cloud using the google music player application.
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If you read the instructions some where it gives you the option to download as opposed to stream .Either for your uploads or paid for music .
jje
So I contacted google about this, yes there is an option to download through the apo or through your pc using music manager (googles answer to itunes I guess).
If you download directly from within the app on your device you can only play it through google music.
If you download it via your pc I usjng music manager you can side load it and play it though whatever you want ie poweramp.
Quite frankly I dont see why google have to make it so difficult and just allow us to download it directly to our Devices and play it how we want for gods sake
I use Google Play to store all my music on the cloud. I buy it all through Google Play so it's stored instantly. But I also use the Google Play Music Manager to download all my music. I'm getting a 64 GB SD card on Friday and was wondering if I should even be downloading the music through Google Play since I sideload all the content? I want to keep using Google Music Player for my music needs but I don't want to be streaming any of it. So how do I configure this setup?
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I use Google Play to store all my music on the cloud. I buy it all through Google Play so it's stored instantly. But I also use the Google Play Music Manager to download all my music. I'm getting a 64 GB SD card on Friday and was wondering if I should even be downloading the music through Google Play since I sideload all the content? I want to keep using Google Music Player for my music needs but I don't want to be streaming any of it. So how do I configure this setup?
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You can use offline mode
support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en
Sorry if this has been asked previously, I have spent some time looking for a solution.
Due to the Moto G only having small memory (in my case 8gb) and no expandable memory, I was wondering if there is some music / media player that will allow me to view and play my media from Google Drive?
Its a bit of a pain for me to go into the Drive app and scout through everything to find a song which then stops playing if I come out of the app. It would be much easier if all my media in Drive was to show up in a media playing app and play in the background.
So any ideas anyone?
TIA
feartheanonymity said:
Sorry if this has been asked previously, I have spent some time looking for a solution.
Due to the Moto G only having small memory (in my case 8gb) and no expandable memory, I was wondering if there is some music / media player that will allow me to view and play my media from Google Drive?
Its a bit of a pain for me to go into the Drive app and scout through everything to find a song which then stops playing if I come out of the app. It would be much easier if all my media in Drive was to show up in a media playing app and play in the background.
So any ideas anyone?
TIA
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ES Explorer - It can integrate with Drive (and other Cloud Services and SMB shares) and has a basic music player inbuilt that will stream from Drive, and supports basic playlisting. Alternatively you can send single music files to other installed music players on the device. It has a Picture viewer as well. For video it looks for video players on the device to use as the renderer.
Alternatively you could just use Google Play Music and utilise Google's generosity in allowing you to upload upto 20,000 of your own tracks to the Play Music Server to access via streaming. They don't eat into your Drive allowance either.
Don't want to trust the cloud - set up your own Media Server on a PC/Mac/NAS at home and stream from that. Plex is reasonably OK, but you'll need to invest some time in setting it up and I'm not wholly convinced this is without security issues for your home network.
The google play music manager for my PC is just what I needed ! thanks for that I didnt know it even existed
Ive just transferred all my music from my PC into the manager and now I can access them through the music app! Thank you very much :good:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, 7" in White with Samsung 32 gb MicroSD card installed. Using video services such as Google Play Movies & TV, VUDU, Disney Movies, etc. to download digital movies to the SD card for offline viewing. Can watch downloaded content offline using service specific apps. Want to view content offline in Samsung Kids Mode. Default Kids Mode video player will not detect downloaded content. Want to use MX Player as third party video app to view movies in Samsung Kids Mode. Kids Mode detects MX Player and will allow me to install it in kids mode. MX Player will not detect any of the movies I've downloaded from the aforementioned services (whether in kids mode or not). What am I doing wrong. Rank Amateur so please use lay terms whenever possible. Thanks.
I'm afraid that all those services use DRM protection, which means that you can view their content only using service specific apps.
Try finding actual video files on SD card (using any filemanager app or using pc) and try to play them - if video players will refuse to do so then it can't be helped.
Indeed, what vivan said. DRM = digital rights management, meaning that there likely are digital locks on the files, which only allow protected/supported apps to access the file.
As vivan said, if you download a file manager app, or connect your phone to your PC, and try to look for the files, perhaps you could find them. Though if they are DRM protected, you probably can't play them regardless.