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HTTP MP3 Streaming

Hey guys,
I have my own HTTP MP3 Server set up that I would like to access remotely. The thing is, I use GSPlayer to copy and paste the link to stream the MP3, but is there some kind of plugin that when I click on the song it will automatically start streaming it. I pretty much would like to see something like the way YouTube works with TCPMP except with MP3s. Any ideas?

I think WMP should work, but EDGE is to slow for steaming media in my area, so I'm not 100% positive. However, when I open up my copy of TCPMP and look under file associations, there is an "HTTP Protocol" Try disabling GSPlayer, and going to the URL of your server in PIE, I beleive TCPMP should open right up and just start playing/

Urthwhyte said:
I think WMP should work, but EDGE is to slow for steaming media in my area, so I'm not 100% positive. However, when I open up my copy of TCPMP and look under file associations, there is an "HTTP Protocol" Try disabling GSPlayer, and going to the URL of your server in PIE, I beleive TCPMP should open right up and just start playing/
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It doesn't. It asks me if I want to save it. I just want to stream it. I'm on Sprint's EVDO with my Mogul and YouTube works flawlessly when I stream it. All I need to see is if there's a plug-in that will force IE or Opera to launch the URL in GSPlayer or TCPMP. I've tried searching all over, but I can't seem to find anything.

Hmm, that's interesting. Could you post the link so that we can try on our devices and see what happens?

Just try to go to any site that has an MP3 file there and see if it will ask you to save it or not. I don't want to post my HTTP File Server up here for everyone to access.

bump.. does anyone know of any RSS MP3 Players? I have some XMLs generated for those.

bump again

I believe SPB Insight has the ability to download podcasts OTA.

But it doesn't support MP3s.

bump.. to the top! Is this impossible as of now? I didn't think it would be since there's a YouTube plug-in.

hello.........?

Media Player capable of streaming AAC+ ?

I am trying to stream my premium account with a special url from www.di.fm My preferred audio format is AAC+ because at only 64k it sounds beautiful on my car stereo
Thus far, after googling, trying several apps, I am still unable to find a solution. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks

AAC
Try renaming the file to .mp3

loonie01 said:
Try renaming the file to .mp3
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no luck, still get an error message
Thanks tho

streamfurious does, but you need the pro version to add an url. I think I tried DroidLive lite in the end.

Allshare + Windows Home Server + MKV files

I have Rock Player installed, and I can see my Windows Home Server on the phone. I have lots of video on there, some in AVI and some in MKV. AllShare doesn't recognize the MKV files, only AVI files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

la fours said:
I have Rock Player installed, and I can see my Windows Home Server on the phone. I have lots of video on there, some in AVI and some in MKV. AllShare doesn't recognize the MKV files, only AVI files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't think there is anything you can do. AllShare won't play WTV or DVR-MS either and these are Native recordings on Windows Media Center.
Until Samsung publishes some specs we won't know what is supported.
The only solution i have see is to find a DLNA server software package that can transcode on the fly. There are 30 or so different ones, and some are free but i have not ventured down this path yet.

Try the vlc streamer app from the market, plus vlc player on your pc. Works beautifuly once you have everything configured right.
This transcodes on the fly, so you can play pretty much anything.

Thanks alphadog. I'll look into DLNA software for my server.

jsmith8858 said:
Try the vlc streamer app from the market, plus vlc player on your pc. Works beautifuly once you have everything configured right.
This transcodes on the fly, so you can play pretty much anything.
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That does sound promising, but I don't always have my laptop turned on in order to play the media. That is the appeal to AllShare was. I could stream music or a movie with out having to use my laptop.

Will VLC Stream and Convert work for you? It's able to connect to VLC running on a PC and tell it to stream and trasncode on the fly to the Captivate.

cheese74 said:
Will VLC Stream and Convert work for you? It's able to connect to VLC running on a PC and tell it to stream and trasncode on the fly to the Captivate.
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I guess if I install it on the server itself, it should work. Not sure why I didn't think about that when jsmith recommended it.

I think I know why it isn't working. I using my home server mostly as a file share and a way to do automatic backups of my laptops. So there are no codecs or software installed on the server to play the files. I bet if I install vlc and the cccp codec pack it will work. And if not, I can try the vlc streaming app.
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la fours said:
I think I know why it isn't working. I using my home server mostly as a file share and a way to do automatic backups of my laptops. So there are no codecs or software installed on the server to play the files. I bet if I install vlc and the cccp codec pack it will work. And if not, I can try the vlc streaming app.
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I wish you luck, but I don't think installing codecs on the server will affect what the phone plays. My machine plays every file under the sun, but the phone will only play certain file types - that is why something needs to transcode on the server to a format the phone will understand.
VLC or some DLNA server that will do this on the server side is a good way to go.
But I don't want to discourage you - let us know how your tests go.

la fours said:
I think I know why it isn't working. I using my home server mostly as a file share and a way to do automatic backups of my laptops. So there are no codecs or software installed on the server to play the files. I bet if I install vlc and the cccp codec pack it will work. And if not, I can try the vlc streaming app.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Sorry for my message earlier echoing the poster above me. didn't see it show up as I was preparing mine. Vlc doesn't require additional codecs to be installed. So it should work as long as you are able to install onto your server.

Yeah, just install vlc on your server, and as long as you have everything configured properly you should be fine.

Thanks everyone. Hopefully this weekend I will get a minute to look into this more and try it out. I will be sure to let you all know how it works out for me.

Mts File streaming over http having minor problem

Hi, I am helping out a math instructor to let his students watch videos that he recorded during class on their own phones, tablets.
And i found that the video format is MTS.
I got a internal network http file server system running and mounted all the files, mp4 file streams are looking good with MX player.
But when I attempt to open a link that refers to MTS files, they do not stream. They just download on the phones.
And it seems like it works when I paste the url on the app manually, but does not when I click the link on the browser... So I assume it is a problem that the browser cannot handle MTS files as video formats...
Q.Can I modify the browser(I'm using chrome, but I can let the students use any other apps) by some settings to associate the MTS file links to MX player?
P.S. I was not allowed to encode the files to any another formats, because those files need to be big enough (so nobody else could steal them easily&sneaky, the instructor is selling those videos to non-students, so stealing would be a big problem.), and all the computers they have literally suck at encoding. (Probably 1 : 2 / video runtime : rendering time ratio, even the server sucks.)
Sorry for the poor grammar and thank you!

jameskyer said:
Hi, I am helping out a math instructor to let his students watch videos that he recorded during class on their own phones, tablets.
And i found that the video format is MTS.
I got a internal network http file server system running and mounted all the files, mp4 file streams are looking good with MX player.
But when I attempt to open a link that refers to MTS files, they do not stream. They just download on the phones.
And it seems like it works when I paste the url on the app manually, but does not when I click the link on the browser... So I assume it is a problem that the browser cannot handle MTS files as video formats...
Q.Can I modify the browser(I'm using chrome, but I can let the students use any other apps) by some settings to associate the MTS file links to MX player?
P.S. I was not allowed to encode the files to any another formats, because those files need to be big enough (so nobody else could steal them easily&sneaky, the instructor is selling those videos to non-students, so stealing would be a big problem.), and all the computers they have literally suck at encoding. (Probably 1 : 2 / video runtime : rendering time ratio, even the server sucks.)
Sorry for the poor grammar and thank you!
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We have checked with the latest version of the MX Player with the latest version of the chrome. MX Player is listed properly when the MTS file link is clicked. In our tests, Firefox has shown the similar issue as Firefox uses standard mime types.
Kindly check it again with chrome.
If you prefer Firefox, assign a video mime (like video/mp2ts) for mts extension on your server. Then it will also work.

Thirumalai.K said:
We have checked with the latest version of the MX Player with the latest version of the chrome. MX Player is listed properly when the MTS file link is clicked. In our tests, Firefox has shown the similar issue as Firefox uses standard mime types.
Kindly check it again with chrome.
If you prefer Firefox, assign a video mime (like video/mp2ts) for mts extension on your server. Then it will also work.
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I have added the mime-type on the server and it worked.
Thank you!
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CDN-FastServer streams are not working on firestick with mx player

Any chance of getting cdn-FastServer streams to work in mx player
They work fine in vlc & yesplayer
When playing a video from a cdn-FastServer on my phone mx player can play it but on the firestick it just eventually comes up with unable to play video
However vlc player (and others such as yes player) can play the stream on the firestick without issue
See below post for logs/error report

Any reason why mx player won't play videos from cdn-FastServer
They play perfectly fine with vlc

TheFixItMan said:
Any chance of getting cdn-FastServer streams to work in mx player
They work fine in vlc & yesplayer
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Could you please explain the issues in detail? It will be great if you can collect a bug report from MX Player help menu immediately after the issue.
NB: Kindly post the issues in a separate thread. Otherwise, It will be very difficult to track us.

Thirumalai.K said:
Could you please explain the issues in detail? It will be great if you can collect a bug report from MX Player help menu immediately after the issue.
NB: Kindly post the issues in a separate thread. Otherwise, It will be very difficult to track us.
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Here are the error logs (in attachment)
If I play a video that is hosted on a cdn-FastServer on my phone in mx player it plays fine but on my firestick the buffer circle just spins and eventually says cannot play this video
However if I open the same video stream in vlc on my firestick it plays fine meaning its not a firestick limitation but a problem with mx player playing these streams on a firestick

TheFixItMan said:
Here are the error logs (in attachment)
If I play a video that is hosted on a cdn-FastServer on my phone in mx player it plays fine but on my firestick the buffer circle just spins and eventually says cannot play this video
However if I open the same video stream in vlc on my firestick it plays fine meaning its not a firestick limitation but a problem with mx player playing these streams on a firestick
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It's strange. According to the logs, HW Decoder which is based on the android mediaplayer API implementation in your firmware has failed to play with unknown error. And FFMpeg has returned with 404 (File not found). Both are completely independent. Need to check whether there is something that is intercepting or blocking the connection of MX Player.

Thirumalai.K said:
It's strange. According to the logs, HW Decoder which is based on the android mediaplayer API implementation in your firmware has failed to play with unknown error. And FFMpeg has returned with 404 (File not found). Both are completely independent. Need to check whether there is something that is intercepting or blocking the connection of MX Player.
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Any suggestions because like I said - the video plays fine in other players so it's not my Internet connection or anything on the firestick blocking it
MX player can play all other streams except from cdn-FastServer on the firestick
MX player can play cdn-FastServer streams on my phone
So there's something that mx player does differently on the firestick compared to my phone
The firestick is android 5 and my phone is android 7 both using the custom codec
So unless there are missing codecs that are native to android 7 & not 5 or just missing from the firestick I don't know what the difference is

TheFixItMan said:
Any suggestions because like I said - the video plays fine in other players so it's not my Internet connection or anything on the firestick blocking it
MX player can play all other streams except from cdn-FastServer on the firestick
MX player can play cdn-FastServer streams on my phone
So there's something that mx player does differently on the firestick compared to my phone
The firestick is android 5 and my phone is android 7 both using the custom codec
So unless there are missing codecs that are native to android 7 & not 5 or just missing from the firestick I don't know what the difference is
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are your Mobile and Firestick on the same network?
can you change the MX Player user agent (Check general Settings) to something like your mobile & check again?
FFmpeg should work as long as you are using the right version for your CPU architecture. If your CPU architecture is different, MX Player itself will show the error.
The logs from FFmpeg was clear that it has received 404. But, we couldn't reproduce it any of our devices. We have even directly tried FFmpeg command line version on desktops. It also works. Even if it's an FFmpeg fault, It will affect only HW+ & SW decoders. HW decoder is independent. As we said earlier, it's just a wrapper of android mediaplayer API implementation on your device. So, MX Player does not have many controls. But, It is also having the issues.
It is the clear indication that there is something that is preventing MX from connecting to the CDN. If it possible, can you use any debugging proxies & check the connection logs of yours firestick? In our tests, it receives 302 (Moved Temporarily along with the new URL) and then it connects to redirected URL properly.
If You clearly receives 404, then there might be some server configuration which might be preventing you from connecting to the server.

Thirumalai.K said:
are your Mobile and Firestick on the same network?
can you change the MX Player user agent (Check general Settings) to something like your mobile & check again?
FFmpeg should work as long as you are using the right version for your CPU architecture. If your CPU architecture is different, MX Player itself will show the error.
The logs from FFmpeg was clear that it has received 404. But, we couldn't reproduce it any of our devices. We have even directly tried FFmpeg command line version on desktops. It also works. Even if it's an FFmpeg fault, It will affect only HW+ & SW decoders. HW decoder is independent. As we said earlier, it's just a wrapper of android mediaplayer API implementation on your device. So, MX Player does not have many controls. But, It is also having the issues.
It is the clear indication that there is something that is preventing MX from connecting to the CDN. If it possible, can you use any debugging proxies & check the connection logs of yours firestick? In our tests, it receives 302 (Moved Temporarily along with the new URL) and then it connects to redirected URL properly.
If You clearly receives 404, then there might be some server configuration which might be preventing you from connecting to the server.
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Both firestick & phone are on same network
Both have exactly same settings in mx player
Both are arm v7 neon
It doesn't explain why other players can play the cdn link on the firestick but mx player can't
Surely if something was blocking the link it would block it across all players unless it was an app specific block & I have set up no such block of apps either individually or globally
Equally if there was a server configuration block I don't see why they would block mx player connecting & not other players on a firestick especially as it works on a phone
I don't know if this would help but Iv attached the log of vlc whilst playing the stream on the firestick

TheFixItMan said:
Both firestick & phone are on same network
Both have exactly same settings in mx player
Both are arm v7 neon
It doesn't explain why other players can play the cdn link on the firestick but mx player can't
Surely if something was blocking the link it would block it across all players unless it was an app specific block & I have set up no such block of apps either individually or globally
Equally if there was a server configuration block I don't see why they would block mx player connecting & not other players on a firestick especially as it works on a phone
I don't know if this would help but Iv attached the log of vlc whilst playing the stream on the firestick
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There are plenty of ways, a server could block a particular device or app.
Have you tried after changing the User Agent on MX Player to something like in your mobile or something generic like MXPlayer/1.9.24 ?
Unlike others, MX Player generates a unique user agent for every device model based on its build properties. If the CDN's redirect conditions block the particular UA string, then it could happen. As it works everywhere except Firestick, it could be a possible reason.

Thirumalai.K said:
There are plenty of ways, a server could block a particular device or app.
Have you tried after changing the User Agent on MX Player to something like in your mobile or something generic like MXPlayer/1.9.24 ?
Unlike others, MX Player generates a unique user agent for every device model based on its build properties. If the CDN's redirect conditions block the particular UA string, then it could happen. As it works everywhere except Firestick, it could be a possible reason.
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Yes Iv changed it & it made no difference
Apart from the Android version & the build name they both use mozilla 5.0
I changed it to the generic string but it made no difference
Guess I'll just to use vlc for these streams

TheFixItMan said:
Yes Iv changed it & it made no difference
Apart from the Android version & the build name they both use mozilla 5.0
I changed it to the generic string but it made no difference
Guess I'll just to use vlc for these streams
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Can you collect the network data using a debugging proxy? It will help us to understand better.

Thirumalai.K said:
Can you collect the network data using a debugging proxy? It will help us to understand better.
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Not sure if this exactly what you wanted as I can only use apps which I find (no pc)
Iv captured the packets whilst playing the stream in mx player & vlc
You can see that vlc redirects to a different server where as mx player fails to redirect & says file not found

TheFixItMan said:
Not sure if this exactly what you wanted as I can only use apps which I find (no pc)
Iv captured the packets whilst playing the stream in mx player & vlc
You can see that vlc redirects to a different server where as mx player fails to redirect & says file not found
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Thanks for your efforts.
In fact, MX has tried the redirected URL. It looks like a server side restriction as we have expected.
If you look at the #1 of MX & VLC get requests, both MX & VLC has sent a GET request for the same URL.
Code:
GET: /storage_movie/1/194057/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang%206/1.6/Watch%20World%20of%20Dance%20-%20Season%202%20For%20Free%20On%20yesmovies.to.mp4
HOST: cdn.vidnode.net
If you look at the Server Reply, Both has returned with 302 (i.e redirection). But with the different target location
For VLC, the server has returned with a valid video URL which is same as what we are receiving on our mobiles.
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Location: https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_403505290165887_8647744692890370048_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJybHIiOjIwMDUsInJsYSI6NDA5NiwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJzdmVfaGQifQ%3D%3D&rl=2005&vabr=1337&oh=70cdf02f8b7a517206ca3be7918d6a2e&oe=5B18F57C
But, For MX, the server has returned with a URL which does not exist.
Code:
Location: http://cdn16.micetop.us/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang 6/1.6/Watch World of Dance - Season 2 For Free On yesmovies.to.mp4
Then both VLC & MX has tried whatever URL it has received. As VLC has received a valid URL, it has played the file. But, MX has received an invalid URL. So, it has failed to play.
Can you provide the actual source of the URLs?
MX Player API allows passing any HTTP headers which are required for the connection. The application which calls MX through intents sends the referer as "https://vidnode.net/". When MX Passes the received referer on the GET request, the server returns with the invalid redirection URL. If there is no referer is passed on the headers, server properly returns the valid URL.
So, there might be some configs on the server which decides the redirection URL based on the Referer. We are not sure whether it's intentional or mistake.
So, it is something that has to be fixed on the app which calls MX Player or on the server end. We can't drop the HTTP referer on the GET requests as it will break the apps that genuinely rely on it.
You can confirm this by directly inputting the URL on the MX Player's network stream option.
Code:
http://cdn.vidnode.net/storage_movie/1/194057/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang%206/1.6/Watch%20World%20of%20Dance%20-%20Season%202%20For%20Free%20On%20yesmovies.to.mp4
If this works, Kindly contact the app developer of the parent app which is calling the MX.

Thirumalai.K said:
Thanks for your efforts.
In fact, MX has tried the redirected URL. It looks like a server side restriction as we have expected.
If you look at the #1 of MX & VLC get requests, both MX & VLC has sent a GET request for the same URL.
Code:
GET: /storage_movie/1/194057/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang%206/1.6/Watch%20World%20of%20Dance%20-%20Season%202%20For%20Free%20On%20yesmovies.to.mp4
HOST: cdn.vidnode.net
If you look at the Server Reply, Both has returned with 302 (i.e redirection). But with the different target location
For VLC, the server has returned with a valid video URL which is same as what we are receiving on our mobiles.
Code:
Location: https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_403505290165887_8647744692890370048_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJybHIiOjIwMDUsInJsYSI6NDA5NiwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJzdmVfaGQifQ%3D%3D&rl=2005&vabr=1337&oh=70cdf02f8b7a517206ca3be7918d6a2e&oe=5B18F57C
But, For MX, the server has returned with a URL which does not exist.
Code:
Location: http://cdn16.micetop.us/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang 6/1.6/Watch World of Dance - Season 2 For Free On yesmovies.to.mp4
Then both VLC & MX has tried whatever URL it has received. As VLC has received a valid URL, it has played the file. But, MX has received an invalid URL. So, it has failed to play.
Can you provide the actual source of the URLs?
MX Player API allows passing any HTTP headers which are required for the connection. The application which calls MX through intents sends the referer as "https://vidnode.net/". When MX Passes the received referer on the GET request, the server returns with the invalid redirection URL. If there is no referer is passed on the headers, server properly returns the valid URL.
So, there might be some configs on the server which decides the redirection URL based on the Referer. We are not sure whether it's intentional or mistake.
So, it is something that has to be fixed on the app which calls MX Player or on the server end. We can't drop the HTTP referer on the GET requests as it will break the apps that genuinely rely on it.
You can confirm this by directly inputting the URL on the MX Player's network stream option.
Code:
http://cdn.vidnode.net/storage_movie/1/194057/cdn2_vidcdn_pro/movie/hoaphuong/Thang%206/1.6/Watch%20World%20of%20Dance%20-%20Season%202%20For%20Free%20On%20yesmovies.to.mp4
If this works, Kindly contact the app developer of the parent app which is calling the MX.
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Yes inputting the stream directly into mx player alows it to work
So the app that calls mx player to play the link is doing something to stop it working
It's odd because on my phone that same app which calls mx player allows it to play fine
Thanks for your help

TheFixItMan said:
Yes inputting the stream directly into mx player alows it to work
So the app that calls mx player to play the link is doing something to stop it working
It's odd because on my phone that same app which calls mx player allows it to play fine
Thanks for your help
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In fact, the calling app sends the full set of http headers to be used (including the user agent string). As the app has requested, It will be used on http connection despite your custom User Agent settings. You could see a Windows UA on the http logs.
As the invalid redirection URL also a media url, it could be even a conflict on server which is triggered when using the referer. So, we are not sure that whether intentionally done or not.
Btw, Can you specify the name of the app?
It will help us to provide a better support for those who has similar issues.

Thirumalai.K said:
In fact, the calling app sends the full set http headers to be used (including the user agent string). As the app has requested, It will be used on http connection despite your custom User Agent settings. You could see a Windows UA on the http logs.
As the invalid redirection URL also a media url, it could be even a conflict on server which is triggered when using the referer. So, we are not sure that whether intentionally done or not.
Btw, Can you specify the name of the app?
It will help us to provide a better support for those who has similar issues.
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Imagine if there were hardly any planets in the planetarium
Bit cryptic but you should be able to work out the app from that lol as I can't post it here for obvious reasons

Volka IPTV crush
I have a similar issue, my iptv application "Volka Pro2" keeps crushing on amazon Fire stick but not on my Mobile phone. I get an error " error creating player"
Anyone with similar problem who have figured out the solution?

Mndj said:
I have a similar issue, my iptv application "Volka Pro2" keeps crushing on amazon Fire stick but not on my Mobile phone. I get an error " error creating player"
Anyone with similar problem who have figured out the solution?
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It seems to be an issue with the app. As this subforum is dedicated for MX Player related queries, request you to post your query in an appropriate section for better support.