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(ISSUE IS TO PLAY A WMV FILE ON PPC)
I Tried my best to play atached wmv file on my ppc wm6 even i tried wm video codecs in windows but my research failed and i need all genius users help,,
Me waiting who will first play this file.
Thanks in advance.
Munazzam.

Try CorePlayer 1.2
Try CorePlayer 1.2

Take VistaMediaPlayer Ver.11, it works here

but i need for POCKET PC.

one thread for one file, please stop this sh.....!

Its very urgent Please Help.....

strange file... even vlc cant open it...
try to convert it or make a screenshot & mp3 cause video is same all the time

Thanks someone tried to play it please keep trying to help me.

My i760 came with a small wav player that will pop up in Total Commander (or any file explorer) and play the file. I hear there are some "search" options available if I'm not mistaken HINT! HINT!

It is encoded with the latest WMV9 codec, you won't be able to play this on anything but Windows Media Player 10 or later.... NO PPC player will play it without conversion.... not even CorePlayer (it only supports upto WMV8)
If you really must get it playing on PPC go get a video converter and put it into a useful format like mpg or h264.

Sendaris said:
It is encoded with the latest WMV9 codec, you won't be able to play this on anything but Windows Media Player 10 or later.... NO PPC player will play it without conversion.... not even CorePlayer (it only supports upto WMV8)
If you really must get it playing on PPC go get a video converter and put it into a useful format like mpg or h264.
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But it is strange... It plays well in my device!

maybe becasue you device has WMP 11 or 10

aa125690 said:
But it is strange... It plays well in my device!
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Which device you r using?

if it works on pc windows media player, have u tried using windows movie maker/ windows media encoder to transfer to your phone, works for me

Oh, I see what you guys are saying... It is a *.wmv file!
Sorry, I only meant the audio part, not the video.

But i need video specially.

This should work on your phone. It worked on mine.
http://xpdnc.org/downloads/temp/ccent31.avi
I didn't mean for the file size to increase so much, but I wasn't sure what sort of codecs a PPC could handle. I tried a newer Xvid codec at first, and it didn't work. So I reverted to a PPC-specfic AVI container with a generic MPEG4 codec. Hopefully you have 5MB of free space somewhere.

dumpydooby said:
This should work on your phone. It worked on mine.
http://xpdnc.org/downloads/temp/ccent31.avi
I didn't mean for the file size to increase so much, but I wasn't sure what sort of codecs a PPC could handle. I tried a newer Xvid codec at first, and it didn't work. So I reverted to a PPC-specfic AVI container with a generic MPEG4 codec. Hopefully you have 5MB of free space somewhere.
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Very very Thanks to Mr.Dumpy for give your preciouse time to work for me can you tell me about the convertor you used for it.
Thanks.

Hey Thats Not Very Funny, When I played it I got this...
Here

munazzam said:
Very very Thanks to Mr.Dumpy for give your preciouse time to work for me can you tell me about the convertor you used for it.
Thanks.
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I used SUPER.
The download process is a bit of a pain in the butt because they hide everything beneath gigantic walls of text.
1. Go here: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Down
2. Click the link that says, "Start Downloading SUPER ©"
3. Click the link that says, "download and use"
4. Click the down arrow (
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), or just scroll to the bottom.
5. Click the link that says, "Download SUPER © setup file"
I know it's a ridiculous navigation process, but that's what they make you do. In exchange, you get a free program that does a decent job with converting files. Just toy with it. Test it on some small video files and see what looks best for you.

Great Site For FLV Videos - Movies, TV Shows, Sports

I just found out about this site a few days ago. It's a lot like the old TV Links site. What's really good about it is that all the videos are FLV files, so you can download them and play them with TCMP.
Have fun.
www.surfthechannel.com

how do you download the flv file

Yeah, how do we grab and download the movie file?

Once, they created a site called www.google.com !! (joke)
It's the same protocol as Youtube
I use Orbit Downloader (Grab++ plugin) to download FLVs and other media from sites
But this site doesn't work on our PDAs, except if we have the new Skyfire browser.

?
if we dont have the skyfire browser on our devices is/are there any other sites out there tht allow us to view movies and tv shows like this one on phones...?

timace said:
if we dont have the skyfire browser on our devices is/are there any other sites out there tht allow us to view movies and tv shows like this one on phones...?
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Don't think there is yet other than using tcmp with the flv pugin to watch stuff like youtube. Can't wait for skyfire supposidly it even works on hulu.com.

SKYFIRE ONLY
I'm dead waiting for this one to be released, as I didn't get my beta.

Not true. I can watch FLVs using Opera and flash player 7. You have to go to settings and choose Identify as a desktop computer.
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I use Realplayer to download the FLVs on my desktop and transfer them to my Tilt.
There are several Firefox extensions that allow you to download FLV files.

-haze- said:
Not true. I can watch FLVs using Opera and flash player 7. You have to go to settings and choose Identify as a desktop computer.
I use Realplayer to download the FLVs on my desktop and transfer them to my Tilt.
There are several Firefox extensions that allow you to download FLV files.
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Is the reading smooth?
For firefox use downloadhelper

killer_metallica said:
...I use Orbit Downloader (Grab++ plugin) to download FLVs and other media from sites...
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We know this, and you obviously haven't been/tried to download from this site either from your PDA or PC else you'd notice what we're all saying here...YouTube, MegaVideo etc and all those other great video sites all give an "info/more info" menu from which you can "grab" the download link for the video you want...this site does not.

Surfthechannel is really a good site. I had tried this site. But I think I have a wonderful site which is much better then this site and I always Watch TV Shows on otavo.tv.

Where are multi-format Video Players? Core? mVideoPlayer? BluMedialab Media Player?

Quite simply, I've wanted to play my downloaded itunes TV shows, which are in .m4v format. Searched high and low. I'm not a developer, just a savvy end user, but I was surprised at how few offerings exist for multi-format video players on Android.
Here's what I've found so far. What am I missing?
1. BluMedialab.com 's Media Player v 1.6 - costs approx $3.50 USD - claims to play .m4v files. I bought it, it doesn't. Uninstalled and got refund.
The player that plays more media on your DROID then other apps: from your SD Card or streaming from web.
SD card: WMA, MP3, MP4, M4V, (small!) WMV, MID, 3GP (some)
Streaming: WMV, M4V, MP4 (also non-progeressive!)
Has a built-in SDcard browser, video RSS reader and webbrowser with Google search.
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They say their new TRIAL version is more advanced... So why they continue to sell any version at all is beyond me. But they do. This should be highly discouraged in my view. The moment it's clear an app doesn't perform as advertised, to sell it in the store is morally wrong, and I think such app developers should be economically punished by horrible reviews, and hammered with email til they take down their pay versions. It's ridiculous.
Here is their Trial Version Media Player v 2.2
FIXED crashing!. Please upgrade and update your reviews!
Plays media from your SD Card or streaming from web.
SD card: WMA, MP3, MP4, M4V, (small!) WMV, MID, 3GP(some)
Streaming: WMV, M4V, MP4 (also non-progeressive!)
Has a built-in SDcard browser, video RSS reader and browser with Google search.
Remembers your recents!
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2. Core Player is coming, so they say: from Aug 2009:
While Android works great for many apps.... its A/V system designed by PacketVideo is far from robust enough to add onto no less use. David Turner one of the lead Android Devs even noted last week that there are major changes coming this way with each SDK/NDK release as it relates to multimedia, quoting: "(and believe me the graphics and media frameworks are under extensive changes at the moment, and will keep doing so for quite a number of upcoming releases)".
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AndroidForums and other sites announce that CorePlayer Mobile 2.0 is soon coming to Android OS!!!
And here is, according to that thread, a pic of a build:
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and here is another from sizzlecore.com:
3. mVideoPlayer for Android:
Some user comments from AndroLib.com :
Without a doubt the best app for the G1 no damn question.
by Brandon the 3/5/2010
I love srt support. Now it's my default video player. Five star well earn. Thank you, Nexus One
by Karan the 3/2/2010
Works great for mp4s I play on here.
by Izzy the 3/2/2010
I like the UI and the "watched" color coding. Please add an "any order defined" playlist function... No other video app is doing that - be the first!
by Hunter the 3/1/2010
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4. Everything Else....
I found this, Act 1 Video Player at hyperaware.com, and they say:
December 1, 2009 - There is a new version of the app called "Act 1 Video Player for And 1.5" which is intended for the Motorola Cliq and HTC Hero because they are currently stuck at Android 1.5. This version is equivalent to the old 1.13 version of the app and will receive no future upgrades, HOWEVER, you can feel confident purchasing this app because we will be issuing discounts to the latest version of the app when your phone's Android OS ugrades. When this happens, go ahead and purchase Act 1 Video Player then contact us with your Google Checkout order numbers for both "Act 1 Video Player" and "Act 1 Video Player for And 1.5". We will manually refund the difference in price between them.
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The comments from the Core Codec site explain why multi-format video players are not prevalent yet for Android. I have to say, really? After a whole year, and Google can't enrich their OS to play videos properly?
Someone please enlighten me. Where's that great app I am missing?

You forgot about the chinese app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=642713

video format?

If I want to view video files on my Hero what format do I need to use? The files I currently want to watch are in divx format.
Thanks, TL

Time_Lord said:
If I want to view video files on my Hero what format do I need to use? The files I currently want to watch are in divx format.
Thanks, TL
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If you download double twist to your computer, it will automatically format the video format to watch on your phone. Its super simple.

They need to be in mp4 format.

Time_Lord said:
If I want to view video files on my Hero what format do I need to use? The files I currently want to watch are in divx format.
Thanks, TL
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divx is a avi which is not supported. I think there maybe a app that plays them but im not sure that its stable. Covert them to mp4.

I believe Meridian Noble plays AVI, not sure about DivX encoding.

It has to be encoded as mp4 and not divx or xvid. There is no codec in android currently to read a divx or xvid file.

ElAguila said:
It has to be encoded as mp4 and not divx or xvid. There is no codec in android currently to read a divx or xvid file.
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Video support in Android just plain sucks in general imo.

i think yxflash supports divx, not sure how well it plays though and you have to pay for it

katmandu421 said:
Video support in Android just plain sucks in general imo.
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Not necessarily any developers fault (not that you where blaming one) but its difficult to make an Android app run native code which is needed for decoding. The JVM from what I understand cannot handle that kind of work so it is passed on thru Native Code. Not impossible, just difficult.

Something to clarify: The difference between audio/video format and file container.
MKV, AVI, MP4, 3GP .. these are all containers. This DOES NOT specify the video or audio format.
I believe the best core supported media format is h.264 AVC video with AAC audio in the MP4 file container. You might be able to use different file containers or audio/video formats so you will just have to experiment.
I have not tried doubleTwist for video encoding yet, but you can find A LOT of info on video encoding over at the doom9.org forums. MediaCoder is also an excellent freeware application which has some device specific versions.

taken from my post in PPCGeeks
So far Format Factory seems to be the ticket for me with these settings. Played with Meridian of course
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http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1744509&postcount=15

venumx said:
i think yxflash supports divx, not sure how well it plays though and you have to pay for it
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that app doesn't work on the hero at all.

.mp4 format is the proper format I do believe.
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[Q] mpeg2 codec question

When MS gave away Media Center for free I did not get it because I do not use media center. Today I have a need to use Movie maker and found that Movie Maker cannot read mpeg2 file unless I install Media Center, however Media Center is no longer free. Is there another option that can allow Movie Maker to read mpeg2 without costing money and safe (virus free)?

otnos said:
When MS gave away Media Center for free I did not get it because I do not use media center. Today I have a need to use Movie maker and found that Movie Maker cannot read mpeg2 file unless I install Media Center, however Media Center is no longer free. Is there another option that can allow Movie Maker to read mpeg2 without costing money and safe (virus free)?
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Tried any of the codec packs out there, like k-lite?

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Tried any of the codec packs out there, like k-lite?
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Yes, K-Lite allows playback of mpeg2, but Movie Maker still cannot open mpeg2.

>Yes, K-Lite allows playback of mpeg2, but Movie Maker still cannot open mpeg2
I would stay away from any codec pack, incl the popular ones like K-Lite or whatever. The preferred filter set at the moment is LAV Filters (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191) which uses libavformat (from ffmpeg). It's been out for over two years, and is still under active development.
Secondly, use http://codecguide.com/windows7_preferred_filter_tweaker.htm (also works for Win8) to remove extraneous codecs (say, from codec packs), and to prioritize desired codecs.
Lastly, suggest moving away from the built-in bundleware you get with Windows. The codecs may be there, but the software may be hardwired to work only with other MS stuff. For free stuff, a good place to start is here,
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-video-editor.htm

Shark007 Codecs are what I'd recommend for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Plus he provides excellent support on the forums.

>Shark007 Codecs are what I'd recommend for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Plus he provides excellent support on the forums.
Shark007 has switched to LAV Filters. The author, nevcairiel, is actively engaged in LAVF's thread on Doom9 (last post of today). That's the best place for support, since he's the dev. One caveat is that Doom9 is fairly hardcore, and noobs who don't search before asking questions aren't treated kindly. In that, it's probably better to use a "downstream" support source like Shark007.
This isn't a slight against Shark. He's been a respected member of Doom9 for a long time. I was using his custom matrices for DivX and XviD way back when.

e.mote said:
>Shark007 Codecs are what I'd recommend for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Plus he provides excellent support on the forums.
Shark007 has switched to LAV Filters. The author, nevcairiel, is actively engaged in LAVF's thread on Doom9 (last post of today). That's the best place for support, since he's the dev. One caveat is that Doom9 is fairly hardcore, and noobs who don't search before asking questions aren't treated kindly. In that, it's probably better to use a "downstream" support source like Shark007.
This isn't a slight against Shark. He's been a respected member of Doom9 for a long time. I was using his custom matrices for DivX and XviD way back when.
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Yea, he has his own support forum on his website, and has spent a long time working with me to overcome various issues.

I installed K-Lite, it uses lav, but still no mpeg2 decoding in movie maker.

Starting with Vista, MS' intention is to gradually replace DirectShow with Media Foundation. While LAVF supports some of MF's elements (DVXA 2, EVR), it doesn't currently support MF, although the dev said that was on the list of to-dos. It's likely that Movie Maker, being a built-in Win app, uses MF instead of DirectShow. The other possibility is that it's hardwired to WMC, as already said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Foundation
Codec problems can be troubleshoot with GraphStudio or GraphStudio Next (2nd being an updated fork of 1st). Google for these. These are technical tools, and there is no support for them.
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In any case, the end solution probably remains the same: Ditch Movie Maker, or cough up the $10 for WMC.