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Can somebody port (or try to) the flash player to the armv6 processor?
It sucks be without flash... =(
cannot agree more!
If its possible on over clocked processors then please do that
Like if I have 1ghz above out will be enough for flash and phone too will be smooth enough
Not possible at all, the same thing goes on with Flash on iPhone 2G, 3G, iPod touch 1G and 2G. All those devices have ARM6 CPU's and it just isn't possible to backport it like that. If it was, it would have happened years ago.
GazaIan said:
Not possible at all, the same thing goes on with Flash on iPhone 2G, 3G, iPod touch 1G and 2G. All those devices have ARM6 CPU's and it just isn't possible to backport it like that. If it was, it would have happened years ago.
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but I've heard that iphone has some similar app for flash... something like "frash" maybe
brunoshady said:
but I've heard that iphone has some similar app for flash... something like "frash" maybe
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Frash also uses libflashplayer.so from the android build which is based on ARMv7 or later.
@everyone:
However, IT IS POSSIBLE to port Flash to ARMv6. However, it would be a lot of work and it will be really buggy and slow. A better alternative would be to encourage the development of GNASH which already works on ARM but doesn't have a browser plugin yet.
GNASH is also buggy but we do have the source. As for Flash, it has to be reverse engineered. Plus, Adobe itself is convinced that Flash is going to die in lieu of HTML5 and so they have started experimenting Flash to HTML5 conversion tools. Such a tool has already been released but sadly it works only with simple banners and not with games and such.
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Frash also uses libflashplayer.so from the android build which is based on ARMv7 or later.
@everyone:
However, IT IS POSSIBLE to port Flash to ARMv6. However, it would be a lot of work and it will be really buggy and slow. A better alternative would be to encourage the development of GNASH which already works on ARM but doesn't have a browser plugin yet.
GNASH is also buggy but we do have the source. As for Flash, it has to be reverse engineered. Plus, Adobe itself is convinced that Flash is going to die in lieu of HTML5 and so they have started experimenting Flash to HTML5 conversion tools. Such a tool has already been released but sadly it works only with simple banners and not with games and such.
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what is GNASH?
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what is GNASH?
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Open source Flash player.
http://www.gnu.org/s/gnash/
Check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155538
OK, it's been a long time since I've done anything here... and VLC for Android is still not public... yeah, it kinda sucks that it take so long, but it's not as easy as it looks... but things have been progressing...
I still see several builds of VLC floating around... but none of them are ARMv7 without NEON (yes, there is ARMv6 without NEON)... so I got the latest VLC code (as of 27 Nov 2011)... punched in my Tegra 2 optimised CFLAGS... i.e., ARMv7 + CORTEX A9 + NO NEON...
And finally, there is some much better documentation regarding building VLC for Android... this will tell you how exactly to get the latest
So I decided to take a look at making the changes needed for building VLC for the GTablet and other Tegra 2 devices...
http://wiki.videolan.org/AndroidCompile
Now I'm no expert in cross-compiling and building native NDK applications, so I just looked up some Tegra 2 CFLAGS and made the changes in vlc-android/extras/package/android/configure.sh. The changes are highlighted as bold text below.
Code:
if [ -z "$NO_NEON" ]; then
CXX_TARGET="armeabi-v7a"
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a8 -ftree-vectorize -mvectorize-with-neon-quad"
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--fix-cortex-a8"
EXTRA_PARAMS=""
else
[B]CXX_TARGET="armeabi-v7a"
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=softfp"
EXTRA_PARAMS=" --disable-neon"[/B]
fi
THE CHANGES:
armeabi-v7a which specifies ARMv7-A ABI build target
-march=armv7-a which specifies build for ARMv7-A architecture
-mtune=cortex-a9 which specifies optimise for Cortex A9
-mfpu=vfpv3-d16 which specifies use of vector floating points (with 16 registers) instead of NEON
-mfloat-abi=softfp which specifies use of software floating points instead of hardware floating points
This is still an open appeal to android developers or anyone with any knowledge and/or guts... Help me finalise a good configuration so that we can have the same merged into the official VLC GIT. Please let me know if you are interested in helping me out. I'm also looking for guinea pigs with other Tegra 2 devices... if you have any or know any who has one and is willing to test builds out, please let me know.
Please note that the builds currently posted here use Tegra2/ARMv7 Cortex A9 specific build/make optimisations and will most probably not work on any other processor/chipset.
UPDATE (27 Nov 2011):
Synced the latest VLC code till date
Followed the new VLC build instructions
Build VLC using latest code using android-9 as the NDK version and android-10 as the SDK version (Gingerbread)
Froyo: Untested.
Gingerbread: SD Audio/video works fine. HD video decoding to slow, skips too many frames.
Honeycomb: Untested.
UPDATE (12 Sept 2011):
Reworked, updated & cleaned up build/make configurations
Rebuilt VLC using updated code from git repository using android-8 (Froyo) as the platform version
Created diff patch for configure.sh script with build/make configuration changes
Froyo: Video and audio working fine (tested upto 720p videos). This should apply to most, if not all, Froyo ROMs.
Gingerbread: Untested.
Honeycomb: Video works fine (tested upto 720p videos). Audio is broken.
UPDATE (11 Sept 2011):
Successfully built VLC using NO_NEON=1 and above configuration changes. VLC now works on my GTablet and no longer force closes.
Froyo: Video and audio working fine (tested upto 720p videos). This should apply to most, if not all, Froyo ROMs.
Gingerbread: Untested.
Honeycomb: Video works fine (tested upto 720p videos). Audio is broken.
DISCLAIMER:
This is an experimental discussion thread. You are free to use the builds posted here. But since this is a very, very early alpha, it may be very unstable and many things may not work. Do this all at your own risk. For the larger part of the general public, it is advised that you wait for official builds to start before using this.
DOWNLOAD [11/27/2011]
Reserved for possible future use!
Works on Beasty's!
I just installed it on my G Tablet running Beasty's rom. A 720p .avi played flawlessly with audio. Good job and thanks for porting this!
I have an Acer A500, and would be a willing tester. It is running 3.2, I have access to various media types as well.
@daveid... awesome... all you have to do is pick up builds that are share here... test it on your A500... and let us know what the results are...
Audio seems to be borked on my GTablet running Honeycomb (which is a ported build)... but let me know if it works on a device officially running Honeycomb...
Thanks! Video playback is perfect, but a no-good for audio. Running GTabComb 3.2.
Thanks again!
VOB play back works
I have some friends that wanted to know two things. Does it play ISO and VOB files from a DVD back-up? I didn't have any full DVD back-ups to test here at work. So I downloaded some VOB files from,
http://www.digital-digest.com/movies/movie_index.php?type=studio
All the VOB files played fine from the SD card with video and sound. Anyone been able to test if a DVD ISO will play?
mikiemon said:
I have some friends that wanted to know two things. Does it play ISO and VOB files from a DVD back-up? I didn't have any full DVD back-ups to test here at work. So I downloaded some VOB files from,
http://www.digital-digest.com/movies/movie_index.php?type=studio
All the VOB files played fine from the SD card with video and sound. Anyone been able to test if a DVD ISO will play?
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Yes, VOB files would play fine since they are in fact MPEG2 video files... but ISO will not work... rip the DVDs to play them from the tablet!
craigacgomez said:
@daveid... awesome... all you have to do is pick up builds that are share here... test it on your A500... and let us know what the results are...
Audio seems to be borked on my GTablet running Honeycomb (which is a ported build)... but let me know if it works on a device officially running Honeycomb...
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Same, video no audio. Also it is not finding my media, even though I set the folders in the options...
Video server playback
Hello
I have a video server with ~600 AVI files. Using my G-tab and ES File Explorer I can stream them using Mobo player or MX player. When I select a video file on my server it offers 3 options to play them Mobo Player, MX Player and the ES Media Player(tries to download rather then stream). Any idea why VLC is not offered as a player option?
Testing on my gtab. Everything I've played has been flawless.
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Im willing to help test for Gingerbread. Running faux123s build (G2X) . As an Ubuntu user, I know the greatness of VLC.
I thank you very much for this.
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Audio is busted. Video plays and skips through with minimal video distortion.
Tested with . Ogv file
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Trying out a couple of things for a GB (and possibly a HC) version to fix audio!!
mr.frankm said:
Audio is busted. Video plays and skips through with minimal video distortion.
Tested with . Ogv file
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No sound for me either video can be choppy.
Tested on gharmony asop bl1.2 using Transformers.mp4
video is very choppy. can not watch anything, including simple profile 720p videos that play perfectly fine in stock player.
VeganTab 5.1
If you read the OP there are issues with anything outside of Froyo ROMs.
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Since audio still seems to be a no-go on anything other than Froyo roms... I decided it was time to get in touch with the VLC team...
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=89868&p=311409#p311409
Apparently, someone used my config and was the resulting build works on the Iconia A500 running 3.2... both audio and video... so now I need to dig in some more... and hopefully get some more help from the VLC team...
I wanted to give it a try.
Downloaded the NonNEON version but couldn't even select a movie to play...
How did you achieve that?
KameoRE said:
I wanted to give it a try.
Downloaded the NonNEON version but couldn't even select a movie to play...
How did you achieve that?
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You need to use the menu key to search for movies/media files on your gtab. Basically, you need to tell the player what directory the media is stored in.
If it helps, I will try to do a few screenshots of mine and post it up here.
-Mike
Well guys, I am running on unity now and I've got the beats addon. I like beats audio enhancement very much. But however the sense 3.0+roms are just too heavy for me to use, as it is laggy and I can't multi task(I don't want to use the sd partition as it damages the sd card)
I am a music guy so I need a good music output for my dz
Can someone recommend some roms that have a good audio output ,lite and fast? It can be any kind of rom except unity, dhd port sense 3.0 ,beatmod and runnymede,as I have already tried them. If by any chance somebody have a beats audio mod for sense 2.1, pls tell me, I'll be very grateful to you, thx.(it'll be best if the recommended roms run with sense)
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BTW, I don't want to use miui
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Download Neutron MP3 player app.
It is perfect for an audiophile.
Beats, to be honest, is a pile of marketing crap.
Doesn't sound nearly as good as the Neutron MP3 player.
Which ROM are you using?
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Use cyanogenmod 7, and use DSP manager, built in. Its brilliant. More bass than beats mode
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oddly enough I could never get cyanogenmod properly working, it would be stuck for hours on the cyanogen loading screen and wouldn't actually run.
Have you tried mexdroid? It's got the cyanogen dsp built in and sounds pretty good, but I have never used Beats so I can't compare it. I tried that recommended music app above and hated it.
+1 for mexdroid ghost chilli, if you really don't want MIUI or sense with sd ext.
Thx xT4Z1N4TRx,Well tried and the sound really is pleasing thx, but I just can't stand the stock android UI (poisoned by HTC Sense)
Seventhson998 said:
oddly enough I could never get cyanogenmod properly working, it would be stuck for hours on the cyanogen loading screen and wouldn't actually run.
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Well strange enough though = =
kingston73 said:
Have you tried mexdroid? It's got the cyanogen dsp built in and sounds pretty good, but I have never used Beats so I can't compare it. I tried that recommended music app above and hated it.
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Well absolutely agreed with you, the player really did SUCKED and the player pro is much better with a user friendly UI, and with themes XXD.BTW, If you hadn't tried beats, try it pls and I'd like to have some comment on the beats mod vs cm7 with dsp. ^,^
+1 on Neutron music player
It helps out your audio sound quality much more than the Beats silliness
and don't forget to use wav or other lossless music formats (such as flac) if you are serious about good sound, mp3's sound like crap if you are used to full CD quality such as a wav file.
Neutron is not free though ($5), Player Pro would be my 2nd choice, and it's also $5
keep in mind though, the difference in music players makes a small improvement, the difference between lossy formats (i.e. MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC) and lossless formats (WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, APE, WV, M4A, TTA) is HUGE!
Well I don't mean to insult any neutron player users, but I personally really don't like that player, the scrolling is buggy and the UI is very ,you know, somehow not good, that's why I gave up the player at once
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Seventhson998 said:
oddly enough I could never get cyanogenmod properly working, it would be stuck for hours on the cyanogen loading screen and wouldn't actually run.
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to use CM7 you need to do a full wipe. (do a nandroid first!)
the nightlies are good stuff.
to the OP: try cyanogenmod7 nightlies, they have DSM manager.
So is the sound quality in miui roms really not that good? I heard that they suck LOL
I really want to go to miui for sometime but am I am not sure about the sound quality and I don't have the time to check out every rom by myself. I hope someone can give some advices.
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s09227 said:
So is the sound quality in miui roms really not that good? I heard that they suck LOL
I really want to go to miui for sometime but am I am not sure about the sound quality and I don't have the time to check out every rom by myself. I hope someone can give some advices.
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MIUI is pretty crap on sound output, although, the performance is pretty zippy but faced more FCs compared to CM7.1. Went for Bulletproof MIUI, but the general issues are inherited from the MIUI base.
Recently, I have moved to ILWT CM7.1 and used multiple versions from ILWT. This seems to be the best for me yet and plan to stick to it. Couple of things that made me move include much much better sound, more stable, less FCs and OS environment native to android.
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Seventhson998 said:
oddly enough I could never get cyanogenmod properly working, it would be stuck for hours on the cyanogen loading screen and wouldn't actually run.
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Try the ILWT CM7.1. Simply go to your CWM Recorvery, do a full factory wipe, dump your cache and install the rom zip. This has always worked for me for most roms - generally the miui or cm7 based roms worked flawlessly using the above method.
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OK thanks for the advices guys , just a few questions to ask. Is it fine if I am using 4EXT recovery than CWM to flash? And how is the sound volume? Cuz on sense roms the sound volume is really low.
Thanks.
Desire Z TRANS-AM sense 3.0
And can someone tell me what player are you on cm7
HTC DZ with Sense 3.5
s09227 said:
OK thanks for the advices guys , just a few questions to ask. Is it fine if I am using 4EXT recovery than CWM to flash? And how is the sound volume? Cuz on sense roms the sound volume is really low.
Thanks.
Desire Z TRANS-AM sense 3.0
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I don't think that should be an issue.
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I try many roms but the steaming is still bad.
I never found Roms on 2.3.x with smooth video player.
Please suggest me for the roms.
Thanks.
Currently running amaces oreo rom for both devices and well, they aren't completely stable with bugs for wifi and video, and it has been a number of years since i moved on from android 5, 6 and 7.
I'm looking for something for 1080p playback, if possible, on the hd+ and solid wifi. With no show stopping bugs.
Maybe android 6 or 7?
Thanks.
Currently running the last Nougat rom on both Hummingbird and Oviation.
No wifi issues on both. HD playback works great on both. Full hd playback plays on hummingbird with issues, oviation however is not able to.
Maybe a MM rom for both.
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Currently running the last Nougat rom on both Hummingbird and Oviation.
No wifi issues on both. HD playback works great on both. Full hd playback plays on hummingbird with issues, oviation however is not able to.
Maybe a MM rom for both.
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My husband ran the last version of CM 13 (hummingbird) with HDMI-out capability for several years before moving on to different hardware. Other than the shutdown issue it performed very well for him with both MX Player and Kodi.
nmyshkin said:
My husband ran the last version of CM 13 (hummingbird) with HDMI-out capability for several years before moving on to different hardware. Other than the shutdown issue it performed very well for him with both MX Player and Kodi.
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Thanks for the info!
I'm currently running amaces last aosp mm rom on the oviation and fullhd playback isnt an issue on vlc and newpipe for youtube. Just needed to downgrade twrp and install it alongside magisk for root.
I was planning on getting a newer device, which would have better hardware obviously, but i'm reluctant to contribute to ewaste when i have a working device.
i'm keeping the hummingbird on nougat since i don't really need it for media usage.
Both devices still work incredibly well as ereaders, duh, when paired with the fantastic app Koreader. Which is what i mainly use them for.
Thanks and i hope this helps someone.