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Media Player?

I have been looking on youtube everywhere but nobody has demo the music player so i'm guessing its the same as on the Hero.Evo owners can u tell me if it is the same or post a pic of the music player?

its the same

get real player beta hands down the best

the stock player is pretty decent, but the best music player i have used is MixZing. read the reviews, it's awesome.
for video playback get mVideoPlayer

does Mvideo play any container?(or most containers?)

avalst said:
does Mvideo play any container?(or most containers?)
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it is a thin wrapper around the android video playback architecture, so it will play what android normally plays. your best bet is h264+aac in an mp4 container with the proper settings (basically anything the iphone will play, without protection). it also adds some nice features the htc gallery app doesn't have, such as saving your spot in your videos, subtitle support, etc.

Cool thanks I was hoping for something that would let me play my files unconverted but with handbrake it's not much of a hassle to convert

It's pretty much the same as the Hero, but it seems to do steaming MP3s and whatnot now. Before with my Hero, it would have to download them, and then I would have to play them.

stock music i'm sure is the same.
there finally is a music player with an eq, but i don't remember where it is. i think the apk can be found in the nexus forums. seems to work okay.
right now, i'm kind of digging 'cubed' (actually named with a superscript 3 on the market, but if you search for cubed, you'll find it part way down the list). beautiful interface, and widget. i finally may have found an app worth donating to, lol

I like meridian .. have tried them all..

i don't have android phone... do any of the media players allow you to create playlists from the phone? that way i can dump all my music on my phone and organize it on the fly.

srtpusher said:
i don't have android phone... do any of the media players allow you to create playlists from the phone? that way i can dump all my music on my phone and organize it on the fly.
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yes, the stock app can do that.. and there are some free ones that do that too.

catpunt said:
the stock player is pretty decent, but the best music player i have used is MixZing. read the reviews, it's awesome.
for video playback get mVideoPlayer
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mVideoPlayer is great. cheers

Does anyone know of a way to tell the cubed player which folders to look for music in? It keeps pulling in game sounds from sniper vs sniper....

Which applications to install first?

I'll be new to Android, and don't really know what is available. I did a search for Android Marketplace, and got "This is a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available on Android Market. For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the tens of thousands of titles available, check out Android Market on your handset."
It's not particularly easy to find stuff, when you don't really know what you're looking for. I will find out tomorrow what the marketplace is like, on the EVO.
But, in the few remaining hours before that becomes possible, I wanted to find a few applications to install and play around a bit and try to get a feel for the system.
So, what should I/will you install tomorrow (or later)? I'm sure I'll find some cool stuff on my own eventually, but some suggestions from current enthusiasts would be welcomed by me, and others I'm sure.
I figure everyone's got a favorite app or 5, how about some suggestions?

one of the neatest, but only useful in clear sky at night, outside, preferably in the country, is google sky maps.
fring rocks for syncing up skype and gtalk. you'll dig it for the new vid call thing, i'm sure
weatherbug elite is my weather app of choice
andexplorer is what i use to navigate through my sdcard
cubed is a good music app. very nice looking (app actually spelled with superscript 3, if you go looking for it on market)
chrome to phone is good for sending links to the phone, but i think it needs froyo
google navigation should come stock, but it's a rockstar
vlc remote
terminal emulator
others - where, layar, wikitude, and adfree for sure, if you're rooted

Excellent list, thanks!
About this one...
timothydonohue said:
cubed is a good music app. very nice looking
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What formats will it playback? most, common?
.ape?
.flac?
.mkv?
.mp4?
.flv?

which media player?
Anyone know what player might play all/most/some of these formats?
thanks
JustinChase said:
What formats will it playback? most, common?
.ape?
.flac?
.mkv?
.mp4?
.flv?
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JustinChase said:
Anyone know what player might play all/most/some of these formats?
thanks
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yxflash
yxflash is the first and only Android video player that can play Mpeg1/2/4, Flash, DivX, Xvid, WMV and iPod format videos.

xiialive - streaming media player. also plays some sirius xm channels if you search for them

gjgraf91 said:
yxflash
yxflash is the first and only Android video player that can play Mpeg1/2/4, Flash, DivX, Xvid, WMV and iPod format videos.
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yxflash, from what i've heard, sucks nuts.

gjgraf91 said:
yxflash
yxflash is the first and only Android video player that can play Mpeg1/2/4, Flash, DivX, Xvid, WMV and iPod format videos.
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Thanks, but I'm not ready to drop $10 on this one just yet.
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xiialive - streaming media player. also plays some sirius xm channels if you search for them
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Thank, but I am looking for something to play my locally stored music and videos, not streaming.
I found and installed the cubed app, but it just says it can't find files in the playlist or some such thing, and the only choice I have is to exit. So a no go on that one also.
I'll keep looking

let me know when you find it the player!

im kinda disappointed that there is no flash viewer (*.flv) for files that reside on the sd card. unfortunately it looks like we have to wait for coreplayer to come out.
Qu1nn

Stock video player vs RockPlayer/VPlayer

Hey guys, I'm wondering... I can pretty much play everything with the stock Samsung video player, even 720p MKVs (would that be due to hardware H264 acceleration on the Hummingbird?), but I've been thinking... those other players, like VPlayer and RockPlayer seem pretty popular. Are they any better in quality, compatibility or take a lighter hit on battery? Are they worth my time and money?

I believe they just give you more options like playlists and such. I personally have never found any need to download a third party player to date.

Pretty sure those exist because most android phones do not have the codec support the vibrant has out of the box. I haven't felt the need to get it.

mVideoplayer is the best third-party app among the bunch imho. It has playlist options, slide finger across the screen to forward/rewind instead of steady press on a button and such. Tap on one side to bring up volume rocker, tap on the other side for brightness settings, and on another for bookmarking a scene. Plus it remembers the scene from which you stopped watching on each and every video you have - which the native video player does only for the current video you are watching
And one more thing, it has better zoom options than the stock player. Some videos i downloaded via youtube play full screen where the native player only plays it with a letter-box.

I prefer the QQplayer: support also avi-files and srt-files

MoboPlayer is the best!
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i use only the stock video player, but I cant play .mov files, so I have to use rockplayer

Also the stock player won't play .flv files

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Also the stock player won't play .flv files
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My stock player plays them just fine...

Any player that will work with files having 6 channel audio? I could never find one.

Mobo is king of players, if it can't do it none can.
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Video player advice....

Hey does anyone know about a video player that plays VIDEO_TS.....I need to play some of my movies....?!
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vari9 said:
Hey does anyone know about a video player that plays VIDEO_TS.....I need to play some of my movies....?!
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look for MoboPlayer in the market....the best so far for me..

I'm using RockPlayer. Sweet~ And stable. Able to play Video_TS files like VOB and even rmvb.

MOBO I use it works very well and is available on the MARKET
François

I used rock player.....it doesn't play the video_ts folder as a whole...i have to select files....gonna try mobo now.....and the movie has a menu in the beginning...so how to select to play movie or view scenes...??..??
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I tried mobo....didn't work out for me...it cannot play the video_ts folder as a whole!
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i have alot of movies with -TS files, too
so this is something i'm gonna be looking into as well. i thought Mobo was gonna be the solution

anyone tried VPlayer ?

sanaell said:
anyone tried VPlayer ?
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I have. Plays AVI very well.

Try Mplayer. If it will be as good as the pc one it will rock. SO far it's a bit rough but will work where others fail.
Watch out what settings you tick, not all processing methods are supported by tegra.

I used MoboPlayer and when plays DivX video, the movie plays but the screen getting so dark. I almost couldn't see the movie.
MP4s or MPGs plays normally.
Any help?

Try RockPlayer, seems the best so far.

You don't answer his question.... he asked for a player that plays vob files in a folder. Not the best media player.

moboplayer dark screen
ahsya said:
I used MoboPlayer and when plays DivX video, the movie plays but the screen getting so dark. I almost couldn't see the movie.
MP4s or MPGs plays normally.
Any help?
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I have the same problem. mobo goes dark whenever I start a video..however the trick is the control screen for moboplayer that displays once after you install it and the correct codec.
Brightness control is done by using your finger to slide up/down on the left side of the screen ( landscape mode ).
volume is on the screen right side ( up /down) and forward back in the video is at the top ( left right)
After I reinstalled it and actually read what the control screen says instead of just clicking on pass I find it to be satisfactory to just bring the brightness back up.
I have only had my A500 for 2 days so I'm new. Hope this helps.

sweborn said:
You don't answer his question.... he asked for a player that plays vob files in a folder. Not the best media player.
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Neither did you, so stop being useless.
PS. I did mention mPlayer a few posts back, if that doesn't do it...

I favor Buzz however I haven't tried much else...

I'm new to android.Is it impossible to install movie codecs on android tablets so that we can play all movie formats.Like .ts .mkv etc.

I hope you don't torture yourself with updates on your pc when there's VLC and SMplayer.
No, one size should fit all, look for mplayer or rockplayer.

Thanks.I downloaded moboplayer and it seems for me better than other players i tried.

jbrownusn said:
I favor Buzz however I haven't tried much else...
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is there a vdo player that was built from ground up specific for the tegra processor as opposed to a regular android smartphone player?

Video Glitches

I am having some trouble with videos after the recent BlackBerry camera update. Everything time I take a video, it records and saves fine but when I try to play the video back, using any different video player it just looks like a green jumbled mess. It does this on the regular gallery, QuickPic and even Instagram. See the screenshot below.

Exleh said:
I am having some trouble with videos after the recent BlackBerry camera update. Everything time I take a video, it records and saves fine but when I try to play the video back, using any different video player it just looks like a green jumbled mess. It does this on the regular gallery, QuickPic and even Instagram. See the screenshot below.
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Are you using MX Player to play videos by any chance?

I am not. And I discovered that it also does it on other people's instragram videos and snapchat stories so it must be a playback or codec issues

Exleh said:
I am not. And I discovered that it also does it on other people's instragram videos and snapchat stories so it must be a playback or codec issues
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I have some music videos and I use MX Player to play them. In decoder settings of that app, there was HW+ option which I would enable on every phone that I had, but on Priv I had to select HW instead because videos came out green and distorted.

Charkatak said:
I have some music videos and I use MX Player to play them. In decoder settings of that app, there was HW+ option which I would enable on every phone that I had, but on Priv I had to select HW instead because videos came out green and distorted.
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I'll see what happens when I use it. I hope this stuff will be fixed in an update.
Edit: I'm an idiot and I had AwesomePlayer enabled in developer settings. Using NuPlayer fixed it.