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Orb and TMCMP problems...

Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.

theshrink said:
Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.
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I always use Orb and TCPMP and i've never experienced your problem.
What i do is:
- in TCPMP settings page i've associated the program with the streaming formats (don't remember exactly the extensions but, if you want to be sure, associate everything). This step must be done only once.
- with pocket Internet Explorer i open my.orb.com, login and choose the video to stream
- then, when i press the Play button, TCPMP starts automatically and plays the movie
that's all!

risidoro said:
theshrink said:
Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.
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I always use Orb and TCPMP and i've never experienced your problem.
What i do is:
- in TCPMP settings page i've associated the program with the streaming formats (don't remember exactly the extensions but, if you want to be sure, associate everything). This step must be done only once.
- with pocket Internet Explorer i open my.orb.com, login and choose the video to stream
- then, when i press the Play button, TCPMP starts automatically and plays the movie
that's all!
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I did just that and when it starts it freezes up for a bit, and then i get the stupid error... this is rather frustrating after reading all the good things about tmcmp... so Please someone help.

well seems that it doesn't wanna open anything... anyone know why? and the error is "Could not open URL!"

haha well finally i figured it out. I was on the BB plan and it would only work with the proxy "getmorespeed.voicestream.com" and i guess tcpmp doesn't support the proxy settings so now that i have the total internet plan it works. Anyway to get around the proxy setting?

HD2 and Online Radios

I'm not able to listen to online radios which I was able to do with my old T-Mobile Wing. What do I need to do?

tuss said:
I'm not able to listen to online radios which I was able to do with my old T-Mobile Wing. What do I need to do?
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You mean like Slacker? What exactly can't you do? (sound not coming out, no connection, etc)?

egzthunder1 said:
You mean like Slacker? What exactly can't you do? (sound not coming out, no connection, etc)?
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The website of online radios doesn't display correctly.It says something like this page is formatted by google. Do I need a flash player or something?

You should have a program called slacker on your phone

tuss said:
The website of online radios doesn't display correctly.It says something like this page is formatted by google. Do I need a flash player or something?
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what's the exact url of the site? and which browser did you use on your phone to access it?

As far as stopping Google from formatting your pages, do this:
Open opera and perform a google search
Scroll to the bottom of the search results and look for the link called "Settings"
(You may have to zoom in to click the link)
Under "Format web pages for your phone", click "Off"
(I also click "Off on "SafeSearch" and "Save Recent Locations")
Voila, all webpages will now be formatted via opera instead of Google.

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what's the exact url of the site? and which browser did you use on your phone to access it?
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Unfortunately, I am not allowed to post URLs, but I use Opera. I got rid of that Google formatting, but there is still no sound. It looks like Windows Media Player plug-in for Opera is missing. How to get it?

tuss said:
Unfortunately, I am not allowed to post URLs, but I use Opera. I got rid of that Google formatting, but there is still no sound. It looks like Windows Media Player plug-in for Opera is missing. How to get it?
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Ok, I got the URL you PM'd (http://local.trio.ee/ot/mp3/mp3player/elmarwmp.html) and opened it in my desktop browser first. It did just open a WMP plugin and started an mp3 stream, but it took quite a while to buffer at first, and kept needing to pause and re-buffer every minute or so...so it looks like the feed isn't that stable to begin with.
Now, I tried opening that url directly in WMP on the phone, and it wouldn't play it...it started to open, then just gave an "error has occured" message and wouldn't play it. So, even if there is a 'wmp plugin' for opera (I've never seen one), it probably wouldn't help in this case since the onboard WMP doesn't seem capable of playing it anyway.
Some of the other common media players (TCPMP/Coreplayer, nitrogen, etc) might be able to open that url and play the stream, but I don't have any on hand right now to test. Each of them has an option to "open URL", just find that and put that address in and see if they can do it any better.
EDIT: The stream that the player at that URL starts is this: http://striiming.trio.ee:8008/elmar.mp3?stream=elmar&format=mp3. I tried that in WMP as well, it said the file was corrupt or in a format it couldn't play. Opera offered to open the file, and did play the music, but it only played the current track being streamed (that stream seems to serve up a rotation of ~3MB mp3's) once it finished downloading the whole mp3.

sirphunkee said:
Ok, I got the URL you PM'd and opened it in my desktop browser first. It did just open a WMP plugin and started an mp3 stream, but it took quite a while to buffer at first, and kept needing to pause and re-buffer every minute or so...so it looks like the feed isn't that stable to begin with.
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Desktop browser? What is that?

tuss said:
Desktop browser? What is that?
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He meant he used his Desktop computer before he tested on his phone. Lol

sirphunkee said:
Ok, I got the URL you PM'd (http://local.trio.ee/ot/mp3/mp3player/elmarwmp.html) and opened it in my desktop browser first. It did just open a WMP plugin and started an mp3 stream, but it took quite a while to buffer at first, and kept needing to pause and re-buffer every minute or so...so it looks like the feed isn't that stable to begin with.
Now, I tried opening that url directly in WMP on the phone, and it wouldn't play it...it started to open, then just gave an "error has occured" message and wouldn't play it. So, even if there is a 'wmp plugin' for opera (I've never seen one), it probably wouldn't help in this case since the onboard WMP doesn't seem capable of playing it anyway.
Some of the other common media players (TCPMP/Coreplayer, nitrogen, etc) might be able to open that url and play the stream, but I don't have any on hand right now to test. Each of them has an option to "open URL", just find that and put that address in and see if they can do it any better.
EDIT: The stream that the player at that URL starts is this: http://striiming.trio.ee:8008/elmar.mp3?stream=elmar&format=mp3. I tried that in WMP as well, it said the file was corrupt or in a format it couldn't play. Opera offered to open the file, and did play the music, but it only played the current track being streamed (that stream seems to serve up a rotation of ~3MB mp3's) once it finished downloading the whole mp3.
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Well, for some reason, I'm not able to play any radio stations anymore. Please let me know what URLs work for you, so that I can test?

WTF MP3!?!?!

So I tried purchasing an MP3 from Amazon and it downloaded fine and I put it in my "my music" folder. But it wont show up in my native Sense MP3 player. When I go in and explore the folder I see it and it will let me open it with windows media player, but it wont show up in the native sense player. Anyone else have this problem?
Also, what does everyone use for purchasing MP3's? Amazon says I need some MP3 downloader software otherwise it wont let me purchase the music? What gives?

The native Sense player has a "Purchases" section. The most far right tab I believe. Try checking there.

Yea, I just tried purchasing a song from there (its amazon), and it makes you download a .amz file and that starts your download. Unfortunatley the broswer doesnt do anything once you download it. DUMB!

This is like the first thing that has really upset me about this phone!!!! I cant download music on the go..... thats some BS!!!

1quickturbosix said:
So I tried purchasing an MP3 from Amazon and it downloaded fine and I put it in my "my music" folder. But it wont show up in my native Sense MP3 player. When I go in and explore the folder I see it and it will let me open it with windows media player, but it wont show up in the native sense player. Anyone else have this problem?
Also, what does everyone use for purchasing MP3's? Amazon says I need some MP3 downloader software otherwise it wont let me purchase the music? What gives?
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What exact folder does it put the music in? It could be that it places the newly downloaded song in the program files folder for the amazon download app, which is hidden from the sense music player indexing (all of the program files folder is that way).

Well I got that part figured out, I just did one of their free songs and got everything working.
But then I actually purchased one, which downloads this .AMZ file which is suppose to initiate the download of the actual mp3 file, but it doesnt seem to do anything. When I click on it it says there is no program associated with the file.

1quickturbosix said:
Well I got that part figured out, I just did one of their free songs and got everything working.
But then I actually purchased one, which downloads this .AMZ file which is suppose to initiate the download of the actual mp3 file, but it doesnt seem to do anything. When I click on it it says there is no program associated with the file.
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Ok I just googled it, and the .amz file requires the desktop downloader from Amazon...I don't know that Amazon has any method to download paid songs that don't require that app or a mobile client (like android has).

Wow, I cant believe that nobody has ever used that "shop music store" function in the native player!!!!?

1quickturbosix said:
Wow, I cant believe that nobody has ever used that "shop music store" function in the native player!!!!?
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I get the feeling it was just never fully implemented as amazon never produced a winmo client, and I've never seen any other direct-to-device MP3 stores for winmo.

This makes me sad pandas!

how to d/l .mov, view...and Twonky - wtf?

Seems like this problem should have a relatively simple solution, but after googling for quite a while, still can't figure it out.
A friend sent me a link directly to a .mov file. I thought I could just click the link and stream it. Instead, clicking the link in the browser brings up Twonky, which tries to get me to set up media sharing. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to just download (or stream) the .mov file to my phone.
If I can't steam, it looks like an app like arcMedia would allow me to view it once on my phone - but again, how do I get the browser to download instead of trying to open up Twonky when I click the link to the file?
Also, every time Twonky starts, there seems to be no way to close it except togo into settings/applications/running services and close it from there - is there an easier way?

Download act one video player. Works great with streaming media and videos on the sd card
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kitchencop said:
Download act one video player. Works great with streaming media and videos on the sd card
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Thanks for the response. I found out that apparently Twonky tries to launch any file that the phone doesn't recognize. I tried to download a few video players including Act 1 that appeared in the "perform action with" dialog when I attempted to open the .mov file directly by clicking it within the email, but none of them worked to actually play the file.
I figured out I could download the .mov file if I went to my email using my browser and long-pressing the link and selecting 'save link' (long-clicking didn't work from within the email program...from there, it just opened the browser and automatically initiated a short-press which tried to stream and brought up Twonky). Once downloaded, then I was able to play with an alternative player (in this case - Vplayer worked, although this particular player didn't seem to support streaming as it didn't appear as an option in the "perform using" dialog that opens when short-clicking the link).

i hate how twonky wont let you download files i have removed it. so i could at least snag the file and keep for when i get home...

Downloading videos

I'm having a horrible time trying to figure out how to do this on my tablet.
On my computer, I simply use a video downloader extension with Firefox.
I have the Flash Video Downloader app for Firefox Beta.
When I click for it to download something, a new window pops up of the file and the size of it.
When I click on that, it brings up my Antek File Explorer app but it won't allow me to save the file as is.
I've tried almost every app at the Google Play Store, websites and Web extension add ons.
What is the easiest way to do this?

Zippy the Wonderslug said:
I'm having a horrible time trying to figure out how to do this on my tablet.
On my computer, I simply use a video downloader extension with Firefox.
I have the Flash Video Downloader app for Firefox Beta.
When I click for it to download something, a new window pops up of the file and the size of it.
When I click on that, it brings up my Antek File Explorer app but it won't allow me to save the file as is.
I've tried almost every app at the Google Play Store, websites and Web extension add ons.
What is the easiest way to do this?
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Easiest way is to download on your CPU and move to your tablet or use a video downloader app though they don't work all the time and it looks as if you had trouble with them already by your post
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