I see the MortPlayer music player supports bluetooth controls, but I have yet to run across a video player that uses the RW/P/FW buttons on my hands-free device. Any suggestions?
ANYONE?
I am ready to strangle Steve Jobs for causing the extinction of half the useful GUI features in the name of "simplicity" and then everyone else had to imitate the lack of capability.
The only way to control the video players I've seen is to drag my finger back and forth on the screen -- this is precisely USELESS when watching an hourlong video and needing to back up ten seconds to repeat what someone just said. The players before the "intuition" of the iPhone had icons called FORWARD and BACK that made the video jump X number of seconds in whichever direction.
The Mortplayer does what I need for audio -- if I hold down the direction on my bluetooth audio, it jumps 10 seconds, over and over as long as the button is held -- perfect. Unfortunately Mortplayer does not play video.
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Hey does anybody know how to use the forward and backwards with a bluetooth stereo headset? It works perfectly with WM Player, but CorePlayer give me an EQ and can get way louder than WM Player.
Anybody got any other program I could use then?
I am using POCKET PLAYER (as recommeded in the thread below), it does have full AVRCP - forward/backward (which is a 10 sec bump in the track, not a full track bump) stop/play. Pocket Player does not play AVI video's, so we had to re-convert some stuff. I would also note watching video's using BT was skippy (less skippy than WMP, but skippy enough I wouldn't use it that way).
See this link in another part of Xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279459&highlight=avrcp+media+player
I was going to try CorePlayer myself, but their website did not say it was AVRCP...so I e-mailed them and here is their response:
"Hello,
Thank you for writing to the CoreCodec Support Group.
Bluetooth has just been added to our last release. It may not support some of the functionality. We are still working on and hope to have all the bugs fixed in a future release!"
What are the player to play my AVI as i notice that it cant play my avi on wmp.
i use this - http://www.coreplayer.com/
however its commercial software.
im sure someone else would be able to recommend an alternative that is free.
Personally tried core player,it dropped frames. Played a Music video of 640*352 rsolution,24fps,.xvid encoded avi file,the result of first 45 seconds are like this-Played frame-25,Dropped frame-999. So how is that? I used the 1.30 version though,no idea about the latest version. I am selling it as soon as the Omnia Hd or Omnia 2 releases. I can't live without watching movies/videos on the go,so I need something where I will get the .divx and .xvid support out of the box.
Thanks.
I think it's a shame that CorePlayer don't do a demo since more than most software, you need to trial it before you know whether it will play your videos on your device, and no reviews or screenshots will ever tell you that.
Core media player (1.25) played a 23 fps 640*352 xvid (.avi) video file encoded at 133Kbps (about 90 minutes fo video in 700MB). This was downloaded as a "for PC" file and played like a dream.
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I found that divx has a mobile player and it seems to work great for avi and divx files. I tried installing both coreplayer and the freeware version TCPMP player and both crashed when I tried to run. If anyone knows of a fix to either of them crashing please inform.
Heres the link to Divx mobile. http://www.divx.com/mobile/
Hi all. I'm using core player and haven't had any problems - vid playback is good. I did use the divx player for a while but somehow preferred core player. One thing I dislike about them both is the lack of finger friendly controls - always need the stylus sooner or later.
I'm also using Core player and it works absolutely fine for me...But I found that there are no controls and seek bar when in full screen landscape mode. As soon as I touch the screen, it goes to portrait mode. So to move the movie forward or backward, it has always to be done only in portrait mode.
Is this a normal behavior, or there is some bug in mine?
Core player alternative needed
Core player plays everything fine for me, but it is very non-intuitive. Making playlists in the old version, TCPMP, was as simple as selecting, etc. I have not seen this ease of use in the new version. The lack of any good documentation does not help either.
It may be that I just have not figured this piece of software out, but the new version takes the ipod and Windows media player approach. This approach requires that it must know where all your files are all the time and be updated each time you add new media, then you are willing to spend a lot of time setting up playlists. I wife bought it and never uses it because it is a pain in the a$$. It seems to have a learning mode, but this is really annoyong when you know what you want. I am not willing to spend the time required for setting up playlists in the required manner before getting in the car or going for a run.
A simple program like the old TCPMP would be greatly appreciated. They had a winner before.
MPlayer is not yet ready for prime time, but shows promise.
Any Player that supports subtitles?
pgu said:
I'm also using Core player and it works absolutely fine for me...But I found that there are no controls and seek bar when in full screen landscape mode. As soon as I touch the screen, it goes to portrait mode. So to move the movie forward or backward, it has always to be done only in portrait mode.
Is this a normal behavior, or there is some bug in mine?
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Well, I have the same issue. Whether we're calling this a bug , or normal behaviour is maybe up for debate, but in the real world its pretty annoying.
What I really want is a media player that intuitively knows when to play in landscape mode, can browse files easily and has finger friendly controls ... and if it's free, that's fine too
pgu said:
I'm also using Core player and it works absolutely fine for me...But I found that there are no controls and seek bar when in full screen landscape mode. As soon as I touch the screen, it goes to portrait mode. So to move the movie forward or backward, it has always to be done only in portrait mode.
Is this a normal behavior, or there is some bug in mine?
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CorePlayer works in landscape for me. When I rotate the phone, it updates to match portrait or landscape.
I think I had to force it to do this with G-Config.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487991
TCMP
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Hi
There is a version of TCMP (search this forum) wich support srt subtitles.
I also use Coreplayer but I must say that if the user interface is better with Coreplayer, TCMP play the same avi files (standard 700 mb divx) much better than Coreplayer.
I think Coreplayer need more fine tuning to work right.
OK, I've searched far and wide, and can't believe I haven't found an answer to this. So if I've just missed it, my apologies, please point me in the right direction.
I used to watch a bunch of podcasts on my iPod Touch full-screen, and the native video player had life-saving fast forward, rewind, next, previous, and pause options, as well as a navigation/time bar, so I can skip news stories I'm not interested in. On previous devices I could map the d-pad to fast forward, rewind, etc. But...not so on the HD2!
For the record, I've tried the DivX version 0.9 mobile player, and it does have a nav/time bar, but it is rudimentary and not finger friendly in my experience. It's also limited in what it will play. TCPMP has no screen controls in full-screen, and neither does CorePlayer 1.2.5 that I can find.
HOW do I ffwd/navigate in full screen?? What player is there that does not assume I have a keyboard and/or d-pad?? I really need some help here...
Thanks in advance...
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Nevermind, more_pizza is on top of it. Check out his on-screen D-pad (replace pipes with slashes):
http:||forum.xda-developers.com|showthread.php?t=658673
It's not a perfect setup (the video and D-pad fight it out), but it still solves the problem. Way to go, more_pizza...!
Just wondering what people are using for a media player primarily a video player?
I am using RockPlayer and to be honest it is faultless. Plays everyting I throw at it including h/x264 and ac3 sound.
There is one small issue and that is with configuration. I wouldn't mind a few more features like volume boosters etc.
I commute so tend to just drop videos on the phone to watch. Amazingly smoother and faster than winmo.
i personally use and like DoubleTwist. i havent' used RockPlayer yet.. but i have heard many good things about it.
Doubletwist is nice but seems to be okay with h264 but not xvid
Is there any app out there that lets you change the song in the middle of doing something like using gamedroid? Kinda like the home button on the ipod touch when you tap twice it brings up the media player?
i use mixzing for song playback. and i use mvideoplayer for video files (doesn't play divx but offers nice playback control and stuff)
Just so you guys know, there are Android general forums that might get you more replies and ideas.
Android General forums and Android Apps subforurm.
The only reason why i used rockplayer is cuz it plays rmvb and rm files (a MUST have for hardcore chinese drama lovers =P)
if anyone knows of another that can play realmedia files, please let me know cuz i'm also looking into other options
+1 for doubleTwist here
I use one called simply 'Music Player' (it was the top hit on the apps store). Excellent, fond my music straight away with no configuration, small footprint, instant start with no lag and a great FF/REW function. Unlike Windows Media Player :0)
so theres a promo for the Samsung Galaxy Player, the only thing that grabs my attention is evolution, it briefly shows a video with "unlimited media" in parenthesis and says without having to encode, anyone else think that this sounds interesting? i know theres rock base and another media player in beta right now but both struggle for me, the best way to watch videos so far has been double twist because it uses the system player but allows for resume, well i lost that feature awhile back, videos no longer resume and i hate the hassle with handbrake, but this sounds very interesting to me