having a bit of a spin with my xda2 regarding playing mpeg. first of all am i right in assuming that when you get your unit the first time around the rom doesn't have any application for playing mpeg files? with that in mind; i installed pocket tv and divx; at first i was able to play my old mpegs but lately the xda2 doesn't seem to recognize the files. i've erased and reloaded them on the sd card, still pocket tv doesn't seem to recognize it. when i use divx; i can play the mpeg files but there's a message on the screen saying "error in audio". did a couple of resets but still the files are not being recognized or played properly (when in fact they play fine through my laptop). lastly, is there another kind of mpeg player that i can install other than those 2 i've mentioned?
any help would be appreciated. cheers mates
robson
"pocketdivx" is over a year old, maybe more. It became PocketMVP and the latest version is available here: http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/downloads.html
If it still doesn't work, you might have to reencode on your desktop pc with a different audio codec (such as lame mp3 or something)
-arebelspy
hey,
thanks a lot for the info; i just removed divx and installed the mvp software. nice that one!
annnndddd...i'm not sure if it's common knowledge but i sure as hell didn't know about this one. when i downloaded mpeg files to my sd card, my laptop was on "mute"...volume was turned off. thus when i tried playing the mpeg files the unit didn't recognize them :?: but when i turned on the sound, transferred a file to my sd, it played fine with pocket tv. however, previously while the volume was turned off i transferred mp3 files but they weren't affected in any way. strange.
anyway, thanks a bunch for the link!
cheers mate
robson
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Good day.
Anyone tried to play MP3 files on an O2 XDA-II over the LAN? Just had this idea of 'wireless MP3 player' accessing a server over the network. I am using SanDisk Wi-Fi card (supposed to be 11b) and standard Media Player shipped with Windows PPC 2003 (T-mobile ROM V1.60). The source of MP3s is a Linux server with 100MB LAN connection and Samba 3.0. I am mounting a share using Resco file explorer and tapping on individual files. Unfortunately, there are 'click' sounds all the way around as if there is not enough bandwidth to play. I tried 224, 192, 128 kbps MP3s with same effect. Playing same files off a 512mb SDCard produces excellent results. The access point I am using is 3com OfficeConnect 11g. My notebook equipped with 3com OfficeConnect 11g PCMCIA card plays files perfectly (and xvid videos as well!). Any suggestions? Maybe there are third-party MP3 players doing some sort of buffering? Anyway - can't understand how an 11 megabit connection could not sustain network load of playing a 128 kbps MP3 file.
Have you tried running it off from your laptop or desktop computer running Windows XP/9x? Because I had the same experince when using Lunix, it was a Linux Mandrake 9.1 but should not have been any difference.
The other possiblity is the music player on the PPC, I encountered several unplayable MP3s (Yet it played fine on the PCs, don't ask why! :shock: )
Hope you got it resloved by now...
Yes, I did run same MP3 files off laptop with Windows XP and 2000 - runs fine. Moreover, tried SAME mp3 files off the SD card on O2 - plays perfect. It must be network, not Linux server. Unfortunately, got no solution yet.
karab95 said:
Have you tried running it off from your laptop or desktop computer running Windows XP/9x? Because I had the same experince when using Lunix, it was a Linux Mandrake 9.1 but should not have been any difference.
The other possiblity is the music player on the PPC, I encountered several unplayable MP3s (Yet it played fine on the PCs, don't ask why! :shock: )
Hope you got it resloved by now...
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This sounds cool! Too Bad it requires at least 250 kbs stream. Since I'm in the US and the universal does not support edge, that leaves only wfi. But I could still use it at home (garage) and at work or other wifi locations. I see it runs in windows media player, does it play in full screen mode or allow use of other players?
Try www.orb.com. tottaly excelent
i second that orb is outstanding
Yep Orb is great, not just for streaming to your XDA. The screen saver is pretty cool for streaming photos to your work PC for instance.
Although I've had no success so far getting my leadtek tv card working over it.
I have downloaded orb, but whatever I try to play from my pc (mp3 audio or video wmv,mpg) i get an error on the universal windows media player that "the player does not support the format you are trying to play"
What players on your universal do you guys use?
Thanks
Steve
Hi,
I tested different movies on my G1 (Dream 1.5) and on my Hero with the same microsdhc class6.
All movies played fine on the G1 but not on the Hero.
The movies on the Hero are interrupted every 2-3 seconds for a very small moment, but the sound works fine without interruption..
I think there is big problem with the SD access on the Hero.
Are there any patches out which solve this problem?
Michael
Looks more like a bug in the video player to me. It is not correctly buffering, perhaps dropping one frame from the video buffer occasionally? If you hook up the Hero over USB then the SD card read speed is more than sufficient to play the video on my desktop without any hitch.
Volker1 said:
Looks more like a bug in the video player to me. It is not correctly buffering, perhaps dropping one frame from the video buffer occasionally? If you hook up the Hero over USB then the SD card read speed is more than sufficient to play the video on my desktop without any hitch.
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I think it depends on the firmware.. I tried different players...
If you use the card via USB you have a different driver. So that the reason for the speed.
I think it's a problem with the phone since I get the same stutter when I watch YouTube or beebPlayer (it's ironic that my Touch Pro 2 has better YouTube playback than an Android phone...)
mmanthey said:
I think it depends on the firmware.. I tried different players...
If you use the card via USB you have a different driver. So that the reason for the speed.
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Yeah all multimedia apps just hook into the same android api for video playback. Its probably an issue in the driver for the HW acceleration.
I'm getting the same problem with the video player. Glad it's not just me, thought I was going mad!:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544498
Hi,
I have been trying to watch videos streamed from my PC to my tablet but so far I have had little success...
I am using MX Player Pro to watch videos and ES Explorer to access my PC contents. I have no problems with opening any files including videos and streaming of small files (~300MB movies) works perfectly. The problem is - I would like to watch my Blu-Ray and DVD rips, which are 10GB +. Alas, in this case, it buffers 1 second of movie per 20 seconds in real life. It is unwatchable.
So, the question is - how I could I speed it up? The signal is full (I run the tests with PC and Nexus next to my router, Netgear), the PC has all other connections turned off (mail/browser, antivirus updates etc. all turned off) though it shows the connection speed of only ~80-120Mbps. I guess I am lacking ideas...
Thank you for help,
Theriel
theriel said:
Hi,
I have been trying to watch videos streamed from my PC to my tablet but so far I have had little success...
I am using MX Player Pro to watch videos and ES Explorer to access my PC contents. I have no problems with opening any files including videos and streaming of small files (~300MB movies) works perfectly. The problem is - I would like to watch my Blu-Ray and DVD rips, which are 10GB +. Alas, in this case, it buffers 1 second of movie per 20 seconds in real life. It is unwatchable.
So, the question is - how I could I speed it up? The signal is full (I run the tests with PC and Nexus next to my router, Netgear), the PC has all other connections turned off (mail/browser, antivirus updates etc. all turned off) though it shows the connection speed of only ~80-120Mbps. I guess I am lacking ideas...
Thank you for help,
Theriel
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Are your computer connected through wireless? If streaming BR movies you need a lot of bandwith which maybe you won't get if you have a bad wifi connection.
theriel said:
Hi,
I have been trying to watch videos streamed from my PC to my tablet but so far I have had little success...
I am using MX Player Pro to watch videos and ES Explorer to access my PC contents. I have no problems with opening any files including videos and streaming of small files (~300MB movies) works perfectly. The problem is - I would like to watch my Blu-Ray and DVD rips, which are 10GB +. Alas, in this case, it buffers 1 second of movie per 20 seconds in real life. It is unwatchable.
So, the question is - how I could I speed it up? The signal is full (I run the tests with PC and Nexus next to my router, Netgear), the PC has all other connections turned off (mail/browser, antivirus updates etc. all turned off) though it shows the connection speed of only ~80-120Mbps. I guess I am lacking ideas...
Thank you for help,
Theriel
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Have you tried VLC player? Don't know if it will help with your problem. I'll be getting my N10 tonight, so I'll be checking on that aspect of it for sure.
I have several mkv files on my 64GB sd card thats in my galaxy s4 and would like to simply use my nexus 10 with mxplayer pro and stream any of those mkvs from the phone to the tablet. I can't believe how unbelievably difficult this is. I do NOT want to transfer the file because there is no space on the nexus to copy any one of these mkv's over, is there anything out there that would allow streaming via wifi direct? Blows my mind how simple file sharing/streaming is made so difficult between android devices.
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I have several mkv files on my 64GB sd card thats in my galaxy s4 and would like to simply use my nexus 10 with mxplayer pro and stream any of those mkvs from the phone to the tablet. I can't believe how unbelievably difficult this is. I do NOT want to transfer the file because there is no space on the nexus to copy any one of these mkv's over, is there anything out there that would allow streaming via wifi direct? Blows my mind how simple file sharing/streaming is made so difficult between android devices.
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I'm new here and certainly no expert but I was trying to figure out how to get my s4 to connect Ad-hoc to my laptop. Finally after searching and being told it couldn't be done without editing code I realized I was going at it from the wrong side. I found a program that turns my laptop into a virtual router and I use Samba to make my droid visible on the network so I can stream or file share very easily. There are router apps on the play store. Though I have not tried it, it is worth a shot. GL.