So I can play Avi files no problem on the Tab when they sit on my MicroSD card, but why can't I play them over my LAN?
I use EStrong File Explorer to browse to my file server on my home network, but when I tap the avi file it says it can't play that video file. Anyone know why?
AndyCr15 said:
So I can play Avi files no problem on the Tab when they sit on my MicroSD card, but why can't I play them over my LAN?
I use EStrong File Explorer to browse to my file server on my home network, but when I tap the avi file it says it can't play that video file. Anyone know why?
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Because it doesn't no how to handle a file that needs to be streamed. Try AndroStream Pro
Streamin avi/mkv via subtitle support.
That's the biggest loss in terms of apps compared to IOS. Air Video (for Iphone) is doing this extremely good. There are lots of Android users demanding its developer to support it for Android as well but no developments yet
AndyCr15 said:
So I can play Avi files no problem on the Tab when they sit on my MicroSD card, but why can't I play them over my LAN?
I use EStrong File Explorer to browse to my file server on my home network, but when I tap the avi file it says it can't play that video file. Anyone know why?
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For some reason I cant get very many of my avi movies to play. .are you using the stock movie player?
Yup, stock movie player.
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Anyone know of a program that will play MP4 video files on the Xoom? All my video files are in the format and I'd prefer not to convert them all when I put them on the Xoom.
I couldn't find the VLC Media Player for Android...
Any suggestions?
BBalz said:
Anyone know of a program that will play MP4 video files on the Xoom? All my video files are in the format and I'd prefer not to convert them all when I put them on the Xoom.
I couldn't find the VLC Media Player for Android...
Any suggestions?
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Rockplayer works fine.
QQ player is my favorite. XD
It plays my mp4 like none other can.
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Rockplayer works fine.
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Not for me. It plays the movie choppy and the volume sounds like a voice changer on a bad horror movie.
Comical... but not watchable.
Any other suggestions?
Make sure you are using the universal one, not one for a specific device.
http://rockplayer.freecoder.org/index_en.html
Yeah I tried the Universal one and hardware decoding. No luck still.
i have a question.....how are you guys transferring your files over to the xoom? i tried to drag and drop an mp4 to mine but i get an error message saying "this type of file is not supported on this device". is there something i'm missing.
jokeefe10 said:
i have a question.....how are you guys transferring your files over to the xoom? i tried to drag and drop an mp4 to mine but i get an error message saying "this type of file is not supported on this device". is there something i'm missing.
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Ignore it.
I thought mp4 was a supported android format? What format is needed for HD playback via the xoom's video player?
jparker36 said:
I thought mp4 was a supported android format? What format is needed for HD playback via the xoom's video player?
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You get the same error transferring mp3...think it's because of the way the pc sees the xoom. Just hit ignore.
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there is no ignore option....i only get "skip, skip all or cancel", no matter what i choose it doesn't transfer the file. i can transfer mp3's fine but no type of video file will transfer. i'm pretty stuck right now.
jokeefe10 said:
there is no ignore option....i only get "skip, skip all or cancel", no matter what i choose it doesn't transfer the file. i can transfer mp3's fine but no type of video file will transfer. i'm pretty stuck right now.
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This is what i get, i just hit yes and they play fine.
you can also try arc media from the android marketplace.
No special player needed. I just use root explorer, select the movie and it just plays... Natively...
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This is what i get, i just hit yes and they play fine.
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i'm still on windows xp so i don't get that message. frustrating!!
jokeefe10 said:
i'm still on windows xp so i don't get that message. frustrating!!
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Try renaming the file .zip then rename after the copy.
no luck renaming it zip.....i had to rename it .mp3 and it allowed the transfer. i renamed it back to mp4 but the video is choppy. i'm using rockplayer lite from the app market for now.
Can't you guys just open the movie in the Gallery and have it play using the built in video player?
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no luck renaming it zip.....i had to rename it .mp3 and it allowed the transfer. i renamed it back to mp4 but the video is choppy. i'm using rockplayer lite from the app market for now.
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I haven't found a single video player app in the market that work properly and I tried vplayer, Rockplayer and another one, I think it was called qqplayer.. The native player will recognize and play MKV but no sound and very choppy. I successfully played a couple of MP4 files though. Tried an AVI and it gave me the same error message and even though I got is copied to the Xoom, it never showed up in the Gallery.
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I haven't found a single video player app in the market that work properly and I tried vplayer, Rockplayer and another one, I think it was called qqplayer.. The native player will recognize and play MKV but no sound and very choppy. I successfully played a couple of MP4 files though. Tried an AVI and it gave me the same error message and even though I got is copied to the Xoom, it never showed up in the Gallery.
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I just put an Avi on mine, and used rock player and it worked just fine.
I use upn play and mobo player to stream video over home network.
hello
I use also iMediaShare, and Skifta (both DNLA)
why wouldn't my streamer apps (UPNP, Skifta, clear.fi etc.) not detect the mp4 files I am putting into my servers shared video folder? The apps see a my other video files, like the avi files and mpg files, but none of my mp4's show up.
Does that make any sense? Does UPNP ignore mp4 files? yet it seems like everyone converts their files to mp4 (which by the way play ok on the device if I attach and play through usb.).
I just want to convert everything to something that I can both stream and put on hard drive and take with me...
Im new to xoom guys. I used to play video files with opening them in astro file manager with smb. Seems smb is not working in astro, tried also on desire hd, but on my hd2 with core droid works fine. The other file managers are preferching the files to my tablet, so takes a long time to watch even a few hundred megs movie... how could i mount my network shares onto my xoom?
Another issue is with mkvs, no sound, onli the movie, moboplayer, factory video player either... any ideas for the above issues? Tks in advance guys.
Drop SMB and go with splashtop HD. Well worth the five dollars. Your desktop does the processing and streams the video and sound to the xoom.
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Drop SMB and go with splashtop HD. Well worth the five dollars. Your desktop does the processing and streams the video and sound to the xoom.
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Unf, i can only have SMB, no other options.......
Tks.
Ok, in th meantime i found the best video player, named dice player. 3 bucks, but this worths. No need to convert your hd movies anymore. Matroska + ac3 is working very well. Just tap on any mkv file and will pla it smooth. The video encoding is done by the hw and sound by pure cpu, but with dual core it's working fantastic.
Still no info on any smb program which wud work without prefetching... any ideas?
AndrewBoy said:
Ok, in th meantime i found the best video player, named dice player. 3 bucks, but this worths. No need to convert your hd movies anymore. Matroska + ac3 is working very well. Just tap on any mkv file and will pla it smooth. The video encoding is done by the hw and sound by pure cpu, but with dual core it's working fantastic.
Still no info on any smb program which wud work without prefetching... any ideas?
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you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...
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you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...
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I think he said that he couldn't get mobo to play MKV's over the network without either copying the whole file to the Xoom first, or not getting audio.
You can use cifsmanager to mount network shares. Also, Astro has a module to read SMB shares. It's a separate download in the market.
Cifs is the way to go. It'll treat the shares as local folders and open the files accordingly without buffering.
Do a search around here for the cifs.ko and instructions on how to use it.
Also, I'm going to check out Dice player to see if it'll play high profile mkv.
I tested Dice Player last night with some HP 720 mkvs. Some minor hiccups on a few files but it played great. I play all my media off of twonky server on a linux machine.
I'm definitely thinking of buying the full version. I wanted CorePlayer to come out, but seems like that isn't going to happen. Wasn't impressed with moboplayer or rockplayer, and mx player didn't even register to open mkv's for me.
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I think he said that he couldn't get mobo to play MKV's over the network without either copying the whole file to the Xoom first, or not getting audio.
You can use cifsmanager to mount network shares. Also, Astro has a module to read SMB shares. It's a separate download in the market.
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Astro smb is working only on froyo, not on gingerbread or honeycomb.
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you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...
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Mobo and others cannot handle ac3.... so now i dont have to convert my regular shows into mp4..
I checked these cif managers. I dont want to root my device..... i dont want to wipe my data and restore everything
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I checked these cif managers. I dont want to root my device..... i dont want to wipe my data and restore everything
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Well... I think you're out of luck then unfortunately. If you NEED this to be SMB and can't use a media server like Twonky or a streaming option like Splashtop then you'll need to root I think.
ES File Explorer recently added SMB streaming capability. Works fine on my Xoom, I can browse to a WHS network share via ES, and when I tap a video file, it asks me which video program I want to play it back through... Works great for AVI's for me, but I was having trouble getting MKV's to work right. I'll have to try this Dice player.
Tried es file explorer both on my xoom and sensation. On the phone es file exp offers the possibility to choose player or set one as default. On my xoom the factory player starts but nothing happens since cannot handle mkvs. I cannot chose dice, not even with open as video or other stuff. How can i delete default video player from my xoom? I cannot even find any factory playback **** in application manage(((
Maybe clear data for ES on the xoom or failing that uninstall and reinstall?
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uninstalled astro, now working fine finally can watch mkvs from my server tks guys!
I have a bunch of movies on an external hard drive connected to my home PC.
I want to be able to play the movies on my A500 whilst connected to the TV elsewhere in the house (over wifi)
I've played with clearfi with no luck. Is there an app that will allow me to do this easily with just a few clicks ?
Cheerz
I use PS3 Media Server on my PC and Bubble UPNP on my A500. Works great.
Thanks. I'll give them a try later. Will it play .avi files ?
I'm running off Thor's ROM, but I've had no issues streaming avi files via upnp.
The easiest method is BSPlayer, it actually lets you view movies from a shared folder rather than UPnP. You might have some lag with large files, but it does the job better than trying to get UPnP functionality to work 100% of the time.
There are a lot of options for streaming from PC. The easiest I've used so far is ES file explorer and MX video player. Just go to LAN in ES and stream via smb. MX streams/plays all the formats I have thrown at it.
If you have a custom rom with a kernel supporting cifs, you could try cifs manager. It create a shared folder on a specified location. It works great for music too. I can even scan my network shared music library with the stock music player (or other) by creating a shared folder on the sd-card.
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsIndzLnBsYXR0bmVyLmNpZnNtYW5hZ2VyIl0.
For movies, I also recommend MovieBrowser HD, a nice front end that scan your movie library and fetch covers and descriptions, opens with your fav movie player.
https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hZHJlZS5tb3ZpZWJyb3dzZXIiXQ..
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There are a lot of options for streaming from PC. The easiest I've used so far is ES file explorer and MX video player. Just go to LAN in ES and stream via smb. MX streams/plays all the formats I have thrown at it.
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Same here, es file explorer and mx or dice works great.
I'd second Diceplayer in a heartbeat if I could actually buy the full version. The trial played everything I threw at it including 720p avi and mkv files.
I just used File Manager HD to browse to folder and BS player to stream, very easy.
I tried a VLC app and it worked pretty well. Just make sure its not the remote app.
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I'd second Diceplayer in a heartbeat if I could actually buy the full version. The trial played everything I threw at it including 720p avi and mkv files.
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I was going to buy the full version but its saying the account is locked or something?
I'm going to spend this weekend trying all the suggestions - thanks
I ran into the same issue. I ended up giving BS Player a shot and it handled 720p mkv and avi files like a dream. Granted, it was playing them off an external HDD, but it's definitely worth a download.
Yes I think that FM HD is the best for LAN connection over wi-fi and xm player. But mx player cannot read subtitles from network drive.
Serviio for the pc (dlna server java software) and skifta on your A500.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to get this to work? Most apps stutter too badly to watch and the ones that are clear can't play sound.
I tried,
MX
Vlc
Bs
ES media player
Arches
I was hoping that this would be an all around solution but it just doesn't have the power, I think.
Are you trying to stream 720p MKV files over your local network? If so, use ES File Explorer to navigate to the computer and directory that contains the file you want to watch and use Kodi to play it. That works for me.
http://kodi.tv/download/
I recommend the Kodi v15.0 beta x86 version for the best performance.
use kodi, i have no issue playing 1080p or 720p video files. you can set kodi to read the folder you are sharing so you dont need to use any other app to get to the file
GabbyWC said:
Are you trying to stream 720p MKV files over your local network? If so, use ES File Explorer to navigate to the computer and directory that contains the file you want to watch and use Kodi to play it. That works for me.
http://kodi.tv/download/
I recommend the Kodi v15.0 beta x86 version for the best performance.
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that's amazing thank you so much. I couldn't believe but this device couldn't process 720
Using the newest KODI I have streamed 1080p mkv files with no issues of any kind
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Using the newest KODI I have streamed 1080p mkv files with no issues of any kind
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what size were the files on average?
gingi999 said:
what size were the files on average?
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4GB