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New Youtube Mobile website Wont do HQ on Evo

I dont know if its just me but I dont see an option for HQ when playing videos which are available in HQ
Im running Fresh Rom .53
when I click a link it always launches in the browser flash. It automatically goes to landscape mode..
Is there a way to set it to launch the video in the youtube app or in the new HTML5 ?
Ive searched for this topic but have not found anyone talking about it so I assume maybe its something im doing

Whenever I watch something using the YouTube app, once it switches to landscape it shows the seek bar at the bottom, all the way to the right of that there is a HQ icon. If it is grey HQ is off, tap that icon and it will turn red indicating it is on.
The same applies if I go to YouTube through the internet browser.

vicko5000 said:
I dont know if its just me but I dont see an option for HQ when playing videos which are available in HQ
Im running Fresh Rom .53
when I click a link it always launches in the browser flash. It automatically goes to landscape mode..
Is there a way to set it to launch the video in the youtube app or in the new HTML5 ?
Ive searched for this topic but have not found anyone talking about it so I assume maybe its something im doing
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I think the explanation is that Android 2.1 Browser does not have HTML5 video capabilities. I've tried a 2.2 Froyo ROM on my Evo and it DOES show the HD option.

GReddy the YouTube site was updated yesterday. It runs using Flash now. I have the same problem as the op and I'm stock.
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Yeah I'm stock and when I use the youtube website it luanches the vid in HTC flash player so there isnt an HD option blahhh

Eek, you guys are right! I stand corrected. Even in the stupid video release by YouTube "Introducing the New YouTube Mobile Website" shows an HQ button that does not exist.

I dont know why I had to jump through hoops to get the HQ button but in the addy bar type "about:config" without quotes of course and go into settings and change UAString to Iphone, it throws up an occasional error but ive gotten most videos to play, the browser probably just needs some sort of update on the html 5 support

Some of the roms pop up a query box to open in Youtube app or HTC flash player. Obviously the flash player is the flash lite crap one so quality sucks. This can be changed by the developer.
eg. Nosense asop like does this. So all youtube, even launched from the web, plays in the evo player and you have the HQ option.

Aridon said:
Some of the roms pop up a query box to open in Youtube app or HTC flash player. Obviously the flash player is the flash lite crap one so quality sucks. This can be changed by the developer.
eg. Nosense asop like does this. So all youtube, even launched from the web, plays in the evo player and you have the HQ option.
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I get that when I follow q YouTube link from another site because those are links to full YouTube. The new mobile site is redesigned and doesn't offer this.
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Not to hijack this thread, but on my iPod Touch the HD ones show. So maybe it has to do with HTML 5 then?

I can select high quality on my moment. Have do go through the menu to do it.
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om4 said:
I dont know why I had to jump through hoops to get the HQ button but in the addy bar type "about:config" without quotes of course and go into settings and change UAString to Iphone, it throws up an occasional error but ive gotten most videos to play, the browser probably just needs some sort of update on the html 5 support
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when i type "about:config" i just get a blank white page with no options. are you on stock rom?
I may go ahead and try EVO-NonSense(AOSP Elements) rom.. i realize the first thing i do is get rid of sense when i install a rom so why have it there in the first place.. :-D

[Q] Embed windows media player ?

Hi to this great community. (this is my first post)
i searched in forum but could not find a close match so i started this thread.
i am running a local site which offer movies in a single html page which has windows media player embed in it. viewer can select a movie from drop down list and watch it in the embed media player. but i cant watch any in my galaxy s-i9000. not only my site but there are alot of tv streams which are available in wmp format.
i have already tried firefox, dolphin, opera but unsuccessful. searched for addons too but still nothing available.
so my question is, is it possible to watch embed wmp streams on galaxy s-i9000 ? or any developer here can make one app for this problem ?

you might be able to get it to work with skyfire browser from the market, not sure how it handles wmp. If at all possible, you should switch the embed format to flash or something, then android phones could see them along with Linux or Mac or anything other than windows.
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Thanks for the reply. Downloading skyfire and will post results.
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Alright good luck!
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No luck skyfire didnot recognize either
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Streaming of any media that isn't flash doesn't work [UPDATE: It was a Sprint error]

For some reason anytime I try to stream something that isn't in a flash container just doesn't work. Music, videos whatever is in html 5 I guess. At first I thought it was just the youtube app that wasn't working, but when I use the browser (Dolphin HD and stock) and tried to stream content I would get an error. One site I used was giantbomb.com. All of their videos are html if you guys want to try. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a fix or something?
Edit: It's working again. From what I found online, Sprint ****ed up some numbers with the latest PRL and it blocked all streaming content on their android devices.
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Updated in previous post.

stock browser downloads and video playback

Not sure if it's just me or not but I'm having a lot of issues with downloading files over the air using the stock browser. Files whether they be apk's,zip,rar or mp3 rarely download successfully. I always have to use firefox browser for the downloads to complete. is anyone else having this issue? I have already reverted back to stock kernel to see if that may have been the issue. Also another problem that I been having is a lot of my videos (.mp4) that use to play just fine in the native video player don't play back anymore. I just get a black screen of it trying to load and have to use moboplayer which is fine since moboplayer works great but definitely annoying.
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je2345 said:
Also another problem that I been having is a lot of my videos (.mp4) that use to play just fine in the native video player don't play back anymore. I just get a black screen of it trying to load and have to use moboplayer which is fine since moboplayer works great but definitely annoying.
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Try accessing the videos using a file-explorer rather than using Gallery, so they start that way. Gallery can be a bit picky every now and then, especially if you move your files around a bit.

I have the same problem, it seems to me that direct links to file work ok (no matter what the file type is), but links with redirects don't work (it downloads the redirecting page not the file).

Problem streaming videos from web

Hi,
Read through video streaming search results and didn't find quite the question I have so here goes...I'm trying to watch some TV programs streaming from a website mobilev*ds.org and am having a problem getting some (most) links to play - some play eventually but after multiple efforts. I have tried a nunber of browsers (Dolphin, Chrome, Firefox with Flash side installed) but none are consistently working. I also use the same streaming site with my iPhone and the programs launch Quicktime with no problems. Any ideas what I might try next? I'd rather not download the material.
Thanks,
Jack

It appears that site uses Flash to stream the videos, at least that's what Chrome on my PC indicates. It appears the videos are in MP4 format which would explain why Quicktime would open and play it. Since Flash is not officially supported on the Nexus 7 people have had to try various workarounds to enable it. Generally it involves side loading Flash player version 11.1.111.5 or above. Do a search through the Nexus 7 forums here for "flash" and you'll see much discussion on subject.
Here is one such thread on sideloading Flash and using the Firefox Beta browser.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30973920
Two more threads (from other XDA Nexus forums) on the Nexus 7/Flash subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856912

bennor3814 said:
It appears that site uses Flash to stream the videos, at least that's what Chrome on my PC indicates. It appears the videos are in MP4 format which would explain why Quicktime would open and play it. Since Flash is not officially supported on the Nexus 7 people have had to try various workarounds to enable it. Generally it involves side loading Flash player version 11.1.111.5 or above. Do a search through the Nexus 7 forums here for "flash" and you'll see much discussion on subject.
Here is one such thread on sideloading Flash and using the Firefox Beta browser.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30973920
Two more threads (from other XDA Nexus forums) on the Nexus 7/Flash subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856912
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Thanks for the advice - bit strange that the vids are MP4 but will play on Chrome on iPhone which doesn't support flash either. Not sure how this all works....tried the sideload of Flash (11.5) but got a flash error on Firefox - maybe I'll try a later version of flash and see if that works...some of the vids work in Chrome on the Nexus 7 while some don't (I use only Videobam links). I thought Nexus 7 could cope with MP4 files?
Don't suppose there is a way to browse these files without downloading using say MX player?
Cheers,
Jack

Have you tried changing your user agent in dolphin browser to iPhone or iPad? Some websites automatically assume that since you're using an android tablet to browse the site, you can watch videos in flash. I've found that changing the user agent to an idevice will often force the site to switch to HTML5 video.
If switching the user agent doesn't immediately work. Leave the user agent as iPhone or iPad and reboot. Then try it again. That has helped me before.
If any more experienced members want to weigh in on this question, please do.
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RockNrolling said:
Have you tried changing your user agent in dolphin browser to iPhone or iPad? Some websites automatically assume that since you're using an android tablet to browse the site, you can watch videos in flash. I've found that changing the user agent to an idevice will often force the site to switch to HTML5 video.
If switching the user agent doesn't immediately work. Leave the user agent as iPhone or iPad and reboot. Then try it again. That has helped me before.
If any more experienced members want to weigh in on this question, please do.
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Thanks - I'll try that later. Did a root around and have a few things to try later on one of them being the above. Perhaps (though I'm not sure quite how) MX player would be an option, couldn't find a Nexus 7 example but have seen it play an online stream - not sure how this would work on N7 as when opening the MX Player app I didn't find an option to browse or enter a URL. The example I saw showed a user browsing a site and launching a vid and then being asked which player to use, something which doesn't happen when I launch that particular mobile video site. Perhaps there are some settings within the browser that I can play with as you've indicated above....If I have any success I'll post and let you know, anyone else feel free to suggest a workaround....
Thanks,
Jack

Jacksuarez7 said:
Thanks for the advice - bit strange that the vids are MP4 but will play on Chrome on iPhone which doesn't support flash either. Not sure how this all works....tried the sideload of Flash (11.5) but got a flash error on Firefox - maybe I'll try a later version of flash and see if that works...some of the vids work in Chrome on the Nexus 7 while some don't (I use only Videobam links). I thought Nexus 7 could cope with MP4 files?
Don't suppose there is a way to browse these files without downloading using say MX player?
Cheers,
Jack
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I side loaded the install_flash_player_ICS.apk (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/...roid/11.1.115.17/install_flash_player_ics.apk) before installing the Firefox browser. Then visited the site and successfully streamed several TV shows.
I would assume that you would have to download the video to have MX Player launch the file. Might want to try VLC Player and see if you can stream content the way you're trying to stream it.
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MX Player can stream from a network location. You do need put in the full network path to the media file.
Edit to add: I took the streaming file link for one show, http://mvds1.org/media/tv/grimm/Grimm.S02E04.Quill.HDTV.x264-2HD.mp4.php, and dropped the .php when pasted in the MX player network stream entry box and was able to stream the video.
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bennor3814 said:
MX Player can stream from a network location. You do need put in the full network path to the media file.
Edit to add: I took the streaming file link for one show, ], and dropped the .php when pasted in the MX player network stream entry box and was able to stream the video.
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Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the help - I tried 2 methods last night and was successful in both (mostly). I downloaded the Boat Browser from the play store and it played the videobam links, albeit not great quality but acceptable enough. The mobile video site also had links to another stream (show was B Bad) which I could never get to play in Quicktime (it stuttered all over the place) and while I could copy the URL to MX Player, remove the .php extension and get it to load, it had the same stuttering issues (but the video playback quality was better). I tried the videobam link in MX Player and couldn't get it to work - the videobam links don't give the fill file extension, just videobam.com/GFQ.....(no MP4 as with the link posted by the user above.
So I'm quite happy with the Boat browser for viewing these vids and hopefully it will work with other sites, MX Player has a nicer look/feel to it but I am not sure how to find the proper links from videobam to play the vid in there - any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks for all the help to those that made suggestions,
Jack

Do you have a link to the video your trying to play from the videobam site or a link to the main media site that streams videos from the videobam site? The videobam site appears tobe a hosting site where people host video that they then link to from other websites. See the videobam/faq page for more information. You may be able to stream or download directly from the videobam site if the download link is available on the page that is streaming the video. See the videobam demo page for one such example.
Some streaming sites do not provide easy access to the streaming file to prevent users from doing what your attempting to do by streaming to MX Player. They generate money they use to operate by having users view the video with advertising embedded on the streaming web page.
As to the issue of video quality. Many factors can affect the end user quality. They range from poor recording quality, poor encoding quality, poor internet connections between your broadband provider and the site that streams the content, and your overall broadband speed. Trying to stream high definition content through a low speed broadband connection can contribute to a poor streaming experience.

Good to know. Ima try that ics apk cus um havin issues too
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