since my question didnt get answered in the childish thread, here it comes again,
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anyways, a real question, why does it matter what resolution the phone has if it got TV-out, wouldnt it play the videos in their native resolution?
say I download a movie clip which is HR or standard US-tv "pixel/aspect ratio and what not"
if I play a tv serie on my old diamond 1 it plays fine, and that phone does not have the same resolution as the encoded video - so if the diamond were to have a TV-out, couldnt you plug it to the TV and watch native resolution, or have I missed something?
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Hey all,
I'm outputting video from my vibrant to my tv using a 3.5mm to rca cable. Video outputs fine, but I was wondering if there is anyway to turn off the phone's display while playing video or movie. By pressing the screen off button in the video player, all that happens is a touchscreen lock, that's it. So perhaps I'm missing something? maybe there's another video player out there that can achieve what I'm looking for? if anyone can shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated, thank you
Kevin
+1... i'd also like to know if this is possible... but hopefully a good video player that plays divx...xvid..and others alike...
I think you would actually need a video player that will actually support the vibrant's tv out feature. As of yet, there its no way to turn it off...how else would you control the screen then?...
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When I redirected my the output last night to my Sony Bravia, the dimensions on the screen were very thin/vertical, sort of like the phone. Is there any way to make it conform to true full screen / 1080p resolution? or is that just not possible?
What about if I have a high quality movie playing, ie: 1080p divx avi on the phone, and i want to mirror the output to the tv, to take advantage of the full screen 1080p bravia, and not that small smegment everything is chopped down to?
is any of this possible?
Got HDMI out from Korea, works beautifull. (Ebay). Needs charge plugged in!
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ivan552 said:
Got HDMI out from Korea, works beautifull. (Ebay). Needs charge plugged in!
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How much you paid for it, cause i believe th cheapest for these is about 15£, as mentioned in another thread.
I read the charger is needed to keep the battery full, as current tv usb ports are un-powered, but new powered usb tv`s are on the way that do.
I have a crazy idea .. Does anybody know if i plug hdmi out from my phone to my onkyo amp the sound on video playback will be 5.1? Or even play music will this work on the subwoofer unlike using 3.5mm jack. Thanks
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I did some testing with my newly acquired Samsung MHL adapter.
Here are some things i noticed:
Power:
You indeed need to have it plugged in, but you can use a normal computer USB cable to power it. Mind you, that the phone seems to use extra power when running with the adapter, getting more hot. Having it plugged into my PC, i noticed the power drain was high enough that the battery would actually (very) slowly discharge, if i was actively using the phone.
Resolution:
When sitting at the home screen, or any other screen excluding video playback, the picture will be a mirror of the phone. Output is 1080i but the picture is just the 800x480 picture upscaled. This means that you can't really use it to browse webpages in full resolution, and so forth. When doing movie playback, the movie will display in full resolution over hdmi.
Overhead controls will not show on the hdmi output. I've seen this mode active in the standard movie player, and in the youtube player so far. I can test any other apps if i requested. I'm guessing that when the hardware video decoder kicks in, it outputs directly to hdmi.
Unfortunately this also means that when using the gallery to display pictures/video on your TV, video recording will actually display in higher resolution then your pictures! Pictures are just displayed in standard upscaled 800x480, while video displays in full 1920x1080.
Sound:
When in mirror/upscale mode, sound is also "mirrored" to the TV, meaning you can use the phone as a music player or whatever to your stereo. I don't know if it does 5.1 when in video mode, as i only have 2.1 speakers, but i assume that it would.
I noticed one exception to this, which is the FM radio, which sadly only outputs to either headphones, or phone speaker. No option to play it over hdmi.
Let me know if there are any specific things you'd like me to test in regards to this.
I don't normally do a lot of videos from my phone due to the poor quality, but given that the 6P records in 4K I wanted to try it. I recorded my son's Christmas Musical. Once home I tried playing back via wifi to my TV. I got audio and nothing more. So I thought it was just a connection problem. I then tried on my computer. Again nothing but audio. Is there something simple and silly that I am missing here?
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I don't normally do a lot of videos from my phone due to the poor quality, but given that the 6P records in 4K I wanted to try it. I recorded my son's Christmas Musical. Once home I tried playing back via wifi to my TV. I got audio and nothing more. So I thought it was just a connection problem. I then tried on my computer. Again nothing but audio. Is there something simple and silly that I am missing here?
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I haven't tried recording in 4k on the 6p but I did on my lgg4. I could play the videos back on my phone fine but not on my TV or PC. I thought it was a software problem but when I was able to stream to a TV with a 4k screen it played fine. I didn't test enough to say definitively but Ive only been able to get 4k video to play on 4k capable screens.
I cant get a video output on lineage os. I am using an offical dock the usbs on the dock work just cant get audio or video. Update i get audio and a pure white screen on my other display. My 1440p monitor gets nothing and my 1080p tv just gets a white screen. can you change the output resoltution? seems like that might be the culprit
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I cant get a video output on lineage os. I am using an offical dock the usbs on the dock work just cant get audio or video. Update i get audio and a pure white screen on my other display. My 1440p monitor gets nothing and my 1080p tv just gets a white screen. can you change the output resoltution? seems like that might be the culprit
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Did you find a solution, i CAN get video output to my tv to work with the official nintendo dock, just not a 3rd party, though the 3rd party works fine for regular nintendo mode.
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Did you find a solution, i CAN get video output to my tv to work with the official nintendo dock, just not a 3rd party, though the 3rd party works fine for regular nintendo mode.
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I did kind of get it to work it was just incredibly finnicky I mainly wanted it for using the xbox gaming service and stream my pc. now moonlight is ported to horizion so you dont need android. I do hope to get another lineage build on my switch in the future though.