I've been wondering for a while now about why when downloading music or videos through the browser that it fails and say something along the lines of "can't download file. file type is not supported." i'm downloading mp3 files and mp4 files in the right format so y do they not work? ne answers are appreciated.
Not really a fix at all but Steel browser will download anything.
At the moment the browser can only download files that your G1 can actually open... although mp3 and mp4 files should be ok. Weird.
Use Steel as mentioned above until it is fixed.
I still cant download videos from sites like ::cough::ifap::cough:: Even tho they are mp4 it just says "file cannot download" even tho I'm using the latest updated version of Steel
Someone just started a thread about T-mobile putting some sort of content filter on their account whereas they could not access porn sites or adult oriented sites. My account definitely didn't have this "feature" activated, so I'm not speaking from experience, but you might look into it. I've never heard of such a thing, but I guess it would make sense on a family plan or a teenager plan perhaps. Anyways, he states that in order to deactivate it you need to call T-mobile. I've never had steel give me any errors while downloading a file, and I've downloaded a lot of different filetypes using it (including mp3s and mp4s). Anyways, I know it sounds strange, but you might give it a shot.
Have you tried downloading it on your computer?
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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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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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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?
I'm having some trouble. . .
On my Wing, it seems that it wont really play any of the videos I store on my SD card. I've got maybe 300 gigs of media on my box, and I realize that the device supports 3GP, MP4, and AVI files, though I have no idea what versions of those extensions will play.
I have tried converting file types, file strengths (encoding, etc) to no avail. At one point I condensed an episode from my Robot Chicken DVD (picked for hilarity as well as small file size) and though the file was say, 50 MB on the computer (and played using WMP), and 50MB on the phone, it only played and scrolled as if the file was 5 seconds long on the phone.
Just like the blackberry, I assume there is a converter, or something I am otherwise missing here. All I really want to be able to do is to take a DVD, or take a file I've created, found, unearthed while deep-sea diving, etc, and play it on my Wing.
Where do I start?
EXTRA BONUS QUESTION: I installed Opera Mini as an alternative browser in root, which I now realize is IMPOSSIBLE to access. I believe a memory wipe should cure that. Would it be accessable if I store it on say, the SD card? Through file manager maybe?
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I'm having some trouble. . .
On my Wing, it seems that it wont really play any of the videos I store on my SD card. I've got maybe 300 gigs of media on my box, and I realize that the device supports 3GP, MP4, and AVI files, though I have no idea what versions of those extensions will play.
I have tried converting file types, file strengths (encoding, etc) to no avail. At one point I condensed an episode from my Robot Chicken DVD (picked for hilarity as well as small file size) and though the file was say, 50 MB on the computer (and played using WMP), and 50MB on the phone, it only played and scrolled as if the file was 5 seconds long on the phone.
Just like the blackberry, I assume there is a converter, or something I am otherwise missing here. All I really want to be able to do is to take a DVD, or take a file I've created, found, unearthed while deep-sea diving, etc, and play it on my Wing.
Where do I start?
EXTRA BONUS QUESTION: I installed Opera Mini as an alternative browser in root, which I now realize is IMPOSSIBLE to access. I believe a memory wipe should cure that. Would it be accessable if I store it on say, the SD card? Through file manager maybe?
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Media player sucks for viewing any type of video on your phone. I suggest you install TCPMP and you should be fine. Do a search on the forum and you should find it pretty easy. As far as your Opera Mini Question....you should be able to run it from your SD card just fine.
Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?
add the file to it's playlist
8aneN3r0 said:
Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?
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There is actually a open tab thing in TCPMP, on the botton control bar in the player, click on the first tab from the left and in there there is the open option. And if you want the files to automatically open with TCPMP when you acces them from the file explorer etc. then you go to the TCPMP sttings and then to file associations. IN there select the files that you want to be asociated with TCPMP, and i think after a soft reset, they will automatically be opened with TCPMP.
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Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?
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If you open TCPMP you will see file then open file.
well if this threads is relating to videos i have the wing and wat is the best video output u can use to have the best video no lagging experience on the phone!
cubican said:
well if this threads is relating to videos i have the wing and wat is the best video output u can use to have the best video no lagging experience on the phone!
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Most of my movies or videos are in AVI or MP4.
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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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)?
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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.
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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?
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Desktop browser? What is that?
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He meant he used his Desktop computer before he tested on his phone. Lol
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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.
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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?
I am new owner on an EVO 4G. One of the first things I tried on my new EVO was to go to a website that I subscribe to and download an MP3 (Howard Stern ). It downloaded directly to the phone and I was extremely happy as I could not do this on my Palm Pre. Now, when I try to download an MP3 from the same website only days later the phone thinks it's trying to play a video. It starts to load up the file and then it says "Cannot play video" .... "Sorry, this video cannot be played". It’s definitely an MP3 and not a video file.
How as I able to successfully download this MP3 just days ago and now I cannot? I don't recall changing any settings that would cause this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You are right, for some reason the phone is thinking its a video, or may a streaming file, when it isnt. Try long-pressing the link, and in the pop up menu hit Save Link, or Save Target. that will automatically download the file to the sd card. Just remember, anytime you cant figure out how to do something in an app, try long pressing, its the same as right clicking in windows.
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You are right, for some reason the phone is thinking its a video, or may a streaming file, when it isnt. Try long-pressing the link, and in the pop up menu hit Save Link, or Save Target. that will automatically download the file to the sd card. Just remember, anytime you cant figure out how to do something in an app, try long pressing, its the same as right clicking in windows.
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That worked. You ****in rock. Thanks
Just a heads up - MX video player has officially updated and now has native Honeycomb support, many more decoding options, a much better user interface, and generally is the most well rounded video player I have ever used.
Give it a shot if you find yourself using your Iconia for video playback!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en
I was wondering...
I have been changing ROMS this week and I couldn't remember which players I had. I hated not being able use one player, imagine my surprise when MX Video played all my files.
I have two sports files that could not be... not sure of the word, but they had to be watched from beginning to end, couldn't skip the commercials. Now I can.
The improvements are substantial.
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I was wondering...
I have been changing ROMS this week and I couldn't remember which players I had. I hated not being able use one player, imagine my surprise when MX Video played all my files.
I have two sports files that could not be... not sure of the word, but they had to be watched from beginning to end, couldn't skip the commercials. Now I can.
The improvements are substantial.
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Glad to remind you. It plays pretty much every video file I have thrown at it.
just installed it and holy crap it's damn smooth. Not a bit of lag when jumping through the movie and it picked up every file i had immediately, now if it could play files from my pc on the tab ....
That's the best videop player for playing 720p mkvs so smooth. Plus it's free.
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just installed it and holy crap it's damn smooth. Not a bit of lag when jumping through the movie and it picked up every file i had immediately, now if it could play files from my pc on the tab ....
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It can! Snag a copy of es file explorer, make sure pc is set to allow sharing for guest user for the folder containing the video files, click the LAN button up top, menu, new, new scan - this will show you all network devices on your lan. Find the correct system, open the video folder, tap the file you wanna watch, open with mx video player
Hope that made any sense
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It can! Snag a copy of es file explorer, make sure pc is set to allow sharing for guest user for the folder containing the video files, click the LAN button up top, menu, new, new scan - this will show you all network devices on your lan. Find the correct system, open the video folder, tap the file you wanna watch, open with mx video player
Hope that made any sense
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Now that is good to know, I've gotten as far as scan and finding my laptop but it says login failed try new login and password, which I'm presuming is my user account or admin password on windows but I can't remember the damn thing! I haven't set up pc to allow access from my tab ( haven't figured out how to do that yet) could that be a problem too?
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Now that is good to know, I've gotten as far as scan and finding my laptop but it says login failed try new login and password, which I'm presuming is my user account or admin password on windows but I can't remember the damn thing! I haven't set up pc to allow access from my tab ( haven't figured out how to do that yet) could that be a problem too?
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Yup. You need to futz around with filesharing a bit - enable the guest annount, and when sharing the folder make sure it is shared with the group "everyone"
Also on newer versions of windows, make sure the files are not in a protected location (c:\users, c:\documents and settings) as you will not be able to access them.