Well i have finally found a working app that allows you to control your windows media player from your today screen. attached is a image and cab to install. big thanks goes out to the guys over at Artemis forum especially tom_codon for the cab! doesn't do volume but maybe someone can take it apart and add that.
Pawel062 said:
Well i have finally found a working app that allows you to control your windows media player from your today screen. attached is a image and cab to install. big thanks goes out to the guys over at Artemis forum especially tom_codon for the cab! doesn't do volume but maybe someone can take it apart and add that.
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Spb ToPlay cab file
From here
yes i kow about sbptoplay but that does not control your media player. it gives you another media player. this is a imate plugin that allows you to control your media player from your today screen. allows change of songs and play/plause/stop controls.
Pawel062 said:
yes i kow about sbptoplay but that does not control your media player. it gives you another media player. this is a imate plugin that allows you to control your media player from your today screen. allows change of songs and play/plause/stop controls.
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It plays my WMP10 playlist so that's close enough for me.
not for me and probably others so here is another option for those that want full functionality.
After re-reading my response I realized that may have come across rude... didn't mean to!
I just meant that I thought it was a WMP plug-in.
its more of a htc plugin for windows media player. no prob
Pawel062 said:
Well i have finally found a working app that allows you to control your windows media player from your today screen. attached is a image and cab to install. big thanks goes out to the guys over at Artemis forum especially tom_codon for the cab! doesn't do volume but maybe someone can take it apart and add that.
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First off, I love the WMP application, awsome awsome appl, I really think that Microsoft will pick up this idea.
My reason for this PM is ask you how I can get my windows live search bar to be transparent. Donations will be in order. Please please please.
I installed it on my Black 2.5 phone, but the plugin doesn't show up under the Today plugins. It doesn't show up under the Remove Programs applet either. I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have soft reset immediately after the installation like it prompted me to (should have powered down, then powered up).
Can anyone who got this to work please describe how you installed it, and the OS you're running? Thanks!
im running black 2.5 but dont remember if i soft reset or not. i recently did a reinstall of black 2.5 because i had the lost memory card issue in media player and went to 3des.3 but switched back to black bc u know the saying back on topic. i reinstalled it i belive before the vingular video cab which does a soft reset. try to reinstall the app once more and soft reset afterwords if that doesn't work post again and we'll try to figure it out.
Nope, didn't work - subsequent cab reinstalls didn't even prompt me for a soft reset. I did a shutdown, then restart but that didn't do anything either. Installed it to both SD card and main memory.
i had the same problem when i took the cab out of the extended rom. i then downloaded this cab and it worked. hmm go to this thread and try it from there. who knows maybe itll then work. if not then well keep trying.
Yup, the link in that thread worked - the filesize for the CAB is different though. Thanks for the pointers!
updated firts post with correct cab. thats what u get for trying a few till you find out that works on hermes sorry guys!
It is importnat to note SPB program is 10 times bigger compared to this solution
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how do you change the skin of the windows media player???
tnx for any reply
hi, please run the media player first, then go to menu, option, and move the right tab few times until you see skin by default is 0, u dont have anymore choices..
to get some, go googling \... the keyword is "window media pocket pc skin" or something like that...
gut luck!!!
sKins
Hi, I had loads of trouble with WMP 10 skins, I downloaded the files to the relevant directory for the one and only other skin I had saw on google tohat was compatible with WMP 10 but it wouldnt work..
If you get some working on your compact let me know but from what I tried it was impossible.
If you want the album picture though, put a jpg file of it in the folder the mp3's are in then rename it folder.jpg you may need to do a reset but this will now show the jpg in the player... this will probably screw up if you change the skin...
Best to go for Conults pocket player instead or pocket music from pocket mind... they are better players and have skins. :wink: hope this helps
@ jstubbings:
sorry to say but @themoment, i have about 20 win media player 10 skins.. all of them WORKS fine in my mini
the good is, we can put them anywhere we want , and the wm10 will autmatically search for them! do you want try 1 of my collection?? here, for others, please do googling... i did that too/../..
Superb
Hi mate, thanks it worked any chance of you putting the link to a site were I could get them from or the key words as I could'nt find them when I googled !.. Cheers once again problem solved.
James
Plastic Fantastic QVGA version
Hi Mate, Thanks a lot got it working superbly, this is the best one I found ages ago and ive managed to get the QVGA version working as its a VGA format skin.. If you havent got it already then this ones superb.
I wasnt an IPOD one so if you see one for free thats going !.. Hope Australia is warmer than UK im freezing here !..
All the best James
:wink:
thanks everybody.
p.s. its 38 degrees in the philippines.
its early winter in australia... coudlnt wait for my snowboard trip !! hehehe...
here what i found:
the lausy site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/windowsmobile/ppcskins.aspx
the so-so link:
http://www.pdagold.com/themes/list.asp?tp=8
and THE BEST one:
http://skins.deviantart.com/media/wmp/wmpppc/
happy skinning!
That's all great! Nice one lads.
Cheerio
Howard
Hi,
i know everyone seems to use TCPMP but i like using Windows Media Player 10, i have been trying for a very long time to change the skin to a realy nice one but i havn't found a way to do it, not even the windows site explanes how to do it, they just say download them.
If anyone managed it then could they reply with where the files are in memory and what is the name of the skin so i can try the same.
Thanks in advance and i know a few people have been looking for an anwser
I have tryed for ages to change the skin in media player but there is no way ive found.
i did notice that there is a *192.bmp file in the windows directory (windows\) that if you open looks just like the default skin. if i rename the default(portrait).skn file in the \Program files\media player\ folder then media player wont start in portrait mode so its definutly pulling the skin from there but all the different ways i put the skin files i have it just wont work, not even if i rename then the default(portrait) will it work.
Has anyone got this to work?
Well, I think a couple of Juni's skin suites have a WMP skin (Navigator certainly does). So someone must've used them, and I assume there are instructions on how to change them included with the suite.
Have a look over at the SBSH Software forum - in the "Pocketbreeze Resources" area, or at the Lakeridge Software Forum - in the "Wisbar 2.x Skins" area. I know I've seen threads about WMP skinning in one of those two forums.
Simple, I think you should just find a *.skn file and put it in the \Program Files\Windows Media Player. Then using the WMP to search for a new skin as clicking the button in WMP.
Then you will have a simple browse of your skn there, and choose them. They will be Ready for you.
Enjoy~!
Cheers
Julius
i downloaded this for wmp10; the skin transforms your player to look like an ipod. quite simple but i like it because the buttons are spaced in such a way that you don't depress 2 at a time (when using your finger). can't remember where i got it though. as my unit is connected to my car stereo; when driving the layout makes pressing the keys a lot easier as compared to the default skin.
what i did was; unzip the files and placed them in a folder i named "ipod". using file explorer; go to: my device->program files->windows media player. paste the folder. go to wmp10; menu->options->skins. give it a few seconds as it's searching for skins. the ipod skin should then appear.
the downside: when using this skin you cannot view videos. the sound will be heard but the screen of the ipod will not change. you will have to revert back to the default wmp10 player skins (the blue one). also; even if the ipdo skins is being used; switching to landscape mode will automatically change the ipod skin to the wmp10 default blue skin.
hope that helps.
cheers
rob
Thanks very much Robson, but i have already tied that method and but media player searches for a skin for about 3 seconds and then only gives me the opion of the defaulf skin, i guess if it works with your fine then it must be an error on mine, even after a hard reset this does not work, i have also tried this method on my M2000 (WM2003se) and it doesn't work either
I hope we can solve this
I will keep trying
Hi to all,
Robson, can you let as know where did you got the i-pod archive? Let as know more ways to make that way easy. Thank you in advance.
interesting how the player doesn't recognize the new skins in the library. after waiting for 3 seconds, i take you did try to press on the left or right directional buttons (to go to the next skin option). oh well, sorry to hear that. i'm attaching a snapshot of the website i got the ipod skin from. as you can see there are other wmp skins to choose from. as i mentioned; i opted for the ipod skin because the spacing of the buttons is far enough to allow me to use my finger when i want to pause, stop or skip tracks. the website is
http://browse.deviantart.com/skins/media/wmp/wmpppc/
FYI; do NOT use this skin:
http://www.freewareppc.com/misc/upodsilverwindowsmediaplayerskin.shtml
buddy of mine complained that it caused his ppc to hang thus resulting in a hard reset. go for the first link above 8)
hope that helps
Thanks a lot for the site. :wink:
it seems that these skins works for the wizard only, because when i saved them on my kjam they worked just fine, but on my jasjar it didn't recognize them at all, it gave me only the default skin, even if i innitiate it portrait or landscape.
thanks for the post though, i'm happy with them on my kjam now.
cheers.
Robson,
thanks for your replys, yes i did try and click left and right but they are both greyed out, i guess these are only for the wizard then, NONEED, have you actualy managed to get the ipod skin to appear on your jasjar? if you could send a screen shot just so that i know that im not wasting my time when i try to get this working
Thanks for your time
Hi, im just trying to keep this post alive because im sure alot of you would also like to have this option, i still havnt found a solution, in the registry it does show that you can change the skin to another one but when i do WMP10 just hangs.
There MUST be a way, im going to take the ultimute useless route to try and sort this out now, im going to call..........wait for it..........Orange Tech department!!!!!!, i am sure they wont even have a clue what im talking about but its the last route left to me
Orange Tech support here :lol: ;
Please try the attach file, I believe you'll find that it works. The problem is that the VGA screen of the Universal is 4 times as big as the screen on a normal Pocket PC so every thing needs to be doubled. This will not of course work on a normal QVGA PocketPC.
Have a nice day, and thanks for using Orange Tech support....
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!!!!
I have been to countless sites/forums/tech site to try and sort this out, i have to take my hat off to you and thank you yet again, you are a STAR!!, as you can tell-im exited, the skin is perfect!
dah54 said:
The problem is that the VGA screen of the Universal is 4 times as big as the screen on a normal Pocket PC so every thing needs to be doubled.
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i'd like to get the skin i got with MS Voice Command to work... so - i need to double every number in the skn file, then double the size of the images..... right?
(btw, i've not got the OzVGA hack changing my resolution - does that make a difference?)
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i need to double every number in the skn file, then double the size of the images..... right?
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poo.... guess not. :-(
after several attempts, i've got nowhere with this.... i guessed that the triplets of comma-separated numbers were probably colours rather than size/coordinates, so left them alone. but still, nada
Orange Tech Support here, :lol: in our always ongoing effort to satisfy our customers needs we are attempting to reach out to our customers wherever they may be. You might try this modified file.
No Guarantees on it.
yay - that's great, thanks!
dah54 said:
Orange Tech support here :lol: ;
Please try the attach file, I believe you'll find that it works. The problem is that the VGA screen of the Universal is 4 times as big as the screen on a normal Pocket PC so every thing needs to be doubled. This will not of course work on a normal QVGA PocketPC.
Have a nice day, and thanks for using Orange Tech support....
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How do you apply this skin? Will I still be able to view pictures in Pocket Internet Explorer if I use this skin?
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I hate to make a new thread but I posted for help a week ago on the s2p thread. ITs just so jumbled up there. But now everyone can post s2p or and s2 family program probs here a get some help. Heres my problem. My coverflow wont work. Ive got S2p 0.39. It worked fine and I went to bring up s2p one day & coverflow, where you can slide thru album pis wont come up. Images still show on the now plaing sceen. PLEASE!!!! Someone please take the time to help !!!!
Not exactly sure what you are having the issue with, but does v0.38 work for you? I had some bugs with the newer version running smooth, so I went back a version. Don't forget it's a work in progress, might not work 100% on all devices and ROMs.
Are you having trouble navigating to landscape mode?
Im having prob with coverflow. Before when a song was playing, i could run my finger down the right or left side of the screen and it would bring up a landscape view of all my album covers (coverflow) like it says in the readme file. Its worked fine since installed. I opened the program 1 day, tried it, and now its not working. Instead of bringing up all covers, it brings up on the one playing. I didnt move or change any folders or names. Ive tried to re install, but still doing it! someone please help! I love this feature!
certainly try to degrade and upgrade.. worked for me.
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Im having prob with coverflow. Before when a song was playing, i could run my finger down the right or left side of the screen and it would bring up a landscape view of all my album covers (coverflow) like it says in the readme file. Its worked fine since installed. I opened the program 1 day, tried it, and now its not working. Instead of bringing up all covers, it brings up on the one playing. I didnt move or change any folders or names. Ive tried to re install, but still doing it! someone please help! I love this feature!
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Trying to remove S2P registry, then restart your devices. don't know this can help or not, but if I having prob with S2P I always do that. I think S2P V.0.39 very hard when open song with 192kbps bitrate.
Please help me people, Videos and Audio dont start on my X1.
it just goes back to the menu.. can anyone help me..
sd card not present - happend to me yesterday
Has this worked in the past? Have you installed any other applications, there are a couple that are known to break mp4 playback...
Same problem here after i installed the youtube player,had to hardreset to sort this out..
Also mine...
There is a way for unbreak the mpX player?
I just hard rest my phone to get rid of that problem.. it seems like after i installed the album cab (manila) this problem started.. does the album cab help fix the freezes in TF3d manila when tryin to accesses the album, does any1 know?? anyway thx for the responses..
god bless..1
Darth Sith said:
Also mine...
There is a way for unbreak the mpX player?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446692
try the two CAB file that's attached to the thread, to see if you can patch the break w/o hard-reset. The worst case is for you to hard reset, and install the right youtube CAB file (also found in the thread, there's a link to the full CAB). It will not break your audio and video for sure.
unfortunately many people has gone through the unnecessary route (i.e. install the wrong version and having to patch/recover/hard-reset) when a fix is already in place.
Hi,
Here it is, the Youtube Panel!
If you want to use it, first you have to install Youtube of zenkinz:
zenkinz said:
I think I may have found the fix. It's a combination of registry plus system files.
If anybody has done his/her research in this area, please share as well.
Otherwise, I will test out further before sharing the fix.
Update 11/12/2008:
Minor update to the CAB, CAB no longer hard code to \Windows directory, but I have not tried if it works on storage card.
The cab file can be found here
Update 26/11/2008:
I have created a patch CAB to restore the 8 system files that were overwritten by the original Youtube CAB. This is probably the last resort before having to hard reset to get Youtube working (if you had previously installed Youtube before)
Update 18/11/2008:
I have created a patch CAB, if you do not wish to hard-reset your Xperia to install the X1i-Youtube.cab. But let me know if it works for you, because while this patch CAB does correct the problematic registry entries, it does not correct the 8 system files that the original youtube CAB has overwritten.
Update 17/11/2008:
Build a CAB that works fine after I hard reset my phone (after umpteen times of hard reset!)
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And now you install the YouTube.cab!
At least you can choose the Youtube Panel normally in the Panel display.
Nice work.. But I'm having trouble getting to work. Can you specify exactly which files to install and in what order.
The panel loads, it says "opening" at the bottom for a few seconds and then the desktop goes all white. The taskbar and bottom bar are still visible so it's not a system hang or anything. I just think I may have missed to install something.
You have to install first the Youtube file of zenkinz!
You have to instal it on the device not on the storage card.
And you have to change the youtube.409.mui to your countrycode (for example germany = youtube.407.mui).
You find this file in the windows directory!
Then you install the panel and it is running for me!
I hope it works for you, too!
Thanks, works great you´re the man!
The official youtube panel is not far away anyway.
Which official youtube panel?
YYYYY said:
Which official youtube panel?
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I think he's taking about the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRy9IYHDVJo
at 0:45 there's a youtube panel.
Not sure if that proves a youtube panel is in the making though.. Could be just for illustration purposes.
There will almost certainly be an official Youtube Panel soon. Youtube is owned by Google, who own a rival OS, but this hasn't stopped them making apps for other mobile OSs.
Cheekbone said:
I think he's taking about the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRy9IYHDVJo
at 0:45 there's a youtube panel.
Not sure if that proves a youtube panel is in the making though.. Could be just for illustration purposes.
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False advertising! Since when does the X1 perform THAT smoothly???
Question:
I have the youtube program installed and works great. What does the other youtube.CAB do? just turn it into a panel?
or does it add something worthy by turning it into a panel?
Just asking cuz i dont need to turn it into a panel if the app works just fine.
Thanks btw.
rotsu said:
Question:
I have the youtube program installed and works great. What does the other youtube.CAB do? just turn it into a panel?
or does it add something worthy by turning it into a panel?
Just asking cuz i dont need to turn it into a panel if the app works just fine.
Thanks btw.
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1. It loads the panel > starts the youtube app.
2a. If you close the youtube app, you get a blank panel.
2b. If you hit the X-panel button, the youtube app keeps running and you go to the panel page.
Is there anyway to update the cab so that youtube automatically quits when you change panels?
When i run the panel it's keep white...
I can't find the youtube.409.mui and i don't know the countrycode for france . I've already installed the first cab...
help plz
[EDIT] no its ok now... Work like a charm
Great panel thanks!
Noob question: How do you edit the .mui file ? I tried with ActiveSync but it doesn't let me do it.
YOu only have to rename it! In the windows directory...
Quick question.
The youtube app referenced on post 1 works great, apart from the annoying 1 pixel white border left and bottom on full screen (on the X1).
Does this panel display version fix that?
Freakin Awesome.. Works great!! thanks guys!
xperia youtube panel
heey
i"ve got the same problem with that white screen
and i did first instal the zenkins and then the panel but i can't find where i can chance my countrycode ( netherlands)
I forgot to change the code and installed both .cab files. Youtube panel is working but when I select a video it just stays on the 'connecting' screen after turning to landscape mode.
Is this because I didn't rename that file?
If so, anyone have a dummies guide to changing it to the UK code?
Thanks
A X1 noob..