In Firefox you can longpress on a link and get a menu that offers "open with app" When the link is to a video file, the list used to include MX player. It no longer does.
Perhaps MX player isn't registered properly as a video player target? How would I fix this?
This is on a brand new Samsung Galaxy S6, so both Firefox and MX were installed last Wednesday and should be up to the latest version.
Thanks,
Ed Greenberg
Ed Greenberg said:
In Firefox you can longpress on a link and get a menu that offers "open with app" When the link is to a video file, the list used to include MX player. It no longer does.
Perhaps MX player isn't registered properly as a video player target? How would I fix this?
This is on a brand new Samsung Galaxy S6, so both Firefox and MX were installed last Wednesday and should be up to the latest version.
Thanks,
Ed Greenberg
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What's the file format (I mean the file extension)...?
If it's a m3u playlist,
firefox sends standard mime (i.e audio/x-mpegurl). But, audio mime is disabled by default for mx player.
This is basically due to the misuse of m3u extension. m3u is originally designed for audio streaming. later apple has improved it's in Unicode format to stream videos & audio. It's extension is m3u8. Currently people are using m3u for video streaming as well. This is were the issue starts. Since m3u is defined as audio mime only apps with audio mime will be listed.
When you enable Audio Player inside MX settings it will be listed in firefox.
FYI,
m3u related MIMEs are added internally on MX Player's manifests & some additional fixes added to pathpattern based filtering. So, next version of the mx player will add support for m3u without enabling audio player & will fix file association issues caused by poor MIME declaration of many other third party apps.
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MX Player is a good apps for playing video files. It support many video formats and subtitles.
MX Player also capable plying audio files. But I think, MX Player still lacks of feature as music player. One of them is, lyrics feature.
The lyrics can came from metadata tag from the audio file itself, or just like video subtitle (searching subtitle files in the file folder).
I hope MX Player will be able to show plain lyrics (.txt) and also lyrics with timestamp (.lrc) and common subtitles (.srt, .ass) while playing audio files.
Thank you.
MX Player is primarily a video player. If you want audio player features, you should go with something like Poweramp Music Player.
I like MX player since this has simple layout, but I purchased BSplayer because I had to, since MX player had no automatic subtitle download. Even prebuild samsung player on galaxy note 3 had subtitle download. Please add this feature I love MX player, and of course I buy it.
Its a great feature. I think it was alredy added to feature request list.
Lets hope it is added soon
I have a question you can add to the MX PLAYER startup options via video link:
If I have become fixed on the HTML page .... It is caused by the feature of → vlc: //
LINK:
vlc://http://something.com/something.mkw
Call up all the android player with support for VLC. Interesting that just running to play may KM PLAYER.
So I ask if he would go add support also MX PLAYER. And to make video play that way. Thanks
QuicksilverCZ said:
I have a question you can add to the MX PLAYER startup options via video link:
If I have become fixed on the HTML page .... It is caused by the feature of → vlc: //
LINK:
vlc://http://something.com/something.mkw
Call up all the android player with support for VLC. Interesting that just running to play may KM PLAYER.
So I ask if he would go add support also MX PLAYER. And to make video play that way. Thanks
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This method is used long ago. Eventhough It's supported by some third party browsers, Google no longer supports the custom schemes to call the app. It won't work on chrome as well from version 25.
Instead you can launch any app by using appropriate intents. MX Player supports various intenet parameters. You can call MX Player directly and pass more details like subtitles, titles, etc.
You can refer MX Player API page on official site for more information.
I have seen questions posted for three years about how to select the proper audio track on Android. I have installed the latest MX player version on my Android TV running my SONY, and with identical video files (AVI, MKV, M2TS), or the original M2TS (25+ gig) file from a decrypted BluRay, I still cannot select the soundtrack, but instead get the directors comments. My only solution is to have VLC to run the videos that MX player has problems with.
Is there a solution yet ? A simple drop-down to select the proper audio track ?
Thanks in advance
qawtbh said:
I have seen questions posted for three years about how to select the proper audio track on Android. I have installed the latest MX player version on my Android TV running my SONY, and with identical video files (AVI, MKV, M2TS), or the original M2TS (25+ gig) file from a decrypted BluRay, I still cannot select the soundtrack, but instead get the directors comments. My only solution is to have VLC to run the videos that MX player has problems with.
Is there a solution yet ? A simple drop-down to select the proper audio track ?
Thanks in advance
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Request you to contact us at [email protected] along bug report collected from MX Player at the time of the issue. We will be happy to assist you.
Thd audio
Me too I'm playing an HDR video that's playing fine but when trying to play the audio track that's a separate .thd file it's not even showing up in the files which means it doesn't recognise it as an audio track
Hi
This thing has been bugging me for a while, and just now I decided to gather enough info to be able to describe the issue properly.
The effect of the issue is that all the media i play back from my Serviio DLNA server on MX Player on my Android TV is named "ORIGINAL" as far as MX Player is considered — at least with regards to subtitles. If I pause playback, the top left corner will display the actual filename, e.g. "My Cool Video.mkv," but MX Player will suggest "ORIGINAL" as title when searching for online subtitles. I then have to manually correct the title to whatever the correct one is, and search for it. It will then download those subtitles as "ORIGINAL.srt," and play them back correctly.
However, as the next video that I play back is also seen by MX Player as having the name "ORIGINAL," it'll load those same subtitles download before that now don't match and that's no fun. Fetching correct subtitles online will overwrite the previous subtitles, etc.
I suspected the issue might be with how Serviio presents the media files, and surely enough, I can see that DLNA URLs are all of the form http://192.168.7.100:8895/resource/40385/MEDIA_ITEM/MATROSKA-0/ORIGINAL.
But, clearly, MX Player has access to more information than this, seeing as how it displays the actual filename in its UI. Am I wrong in assuming this is a problem on MX Player's end?
BTW, this combo of UPnPlay and MX Player on Android TV is friggin' awesome. Beats Kodi every day, MX Player is fantastic!
Cheers,
Daniel