I have a US Xoom just updated to 3.2 I have a few videos in the Movies folder which I can see with EX Explorere and play with Rockplayer. But in the Gallery application there isn't even a movies folder to view the titles of the vidoes. It only show download and Camera.
I tried moving a video file into the download folder (avi DIVX) and it still won't show. Yet I was playing with a non US Xoom with 3.1 and it showed a movies folder with content on it.
Anybody know why this would be the case?
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What method do recommend in playing movies and other videos on the Nexus One from what files to play, how to transfer them to the phone, and how to play them on the phone.
I browse my movie files on Astro file manager or the stock Gallery app. NemoPlayer browses music nicely too. However, a dedicated movie player would be nice.
I also noticed that it doesn't play all of my videos. It's probably because of the resolution.
I use the paid for version of Act1. The program from what i see only plays video. The program tells you what time it is ie. real time. it also tells you how much battery power you have left as well. When you open the program it tells you what files on the phone/SD card that can be played. What i do is make sure the video file i have is already in HD most of the time 720p or 1080p. I use WinX Video Converter to convert the file to MP4. I set the res to 800x480. The video file plays with no skipping and no problems. The picture also looks really nice as well. If i had to answer your problem about it not playing the file i would say that is before the file is not support by the N1. I believe just MP4 and H.264 are the only supported files. It plays the same thing a Iphone can play and a Itouch pretty much.
Is there anyway to play files other than mp4. Such as wmv?
Someone knows how you can watch a full screen video in the stock video player without the black bands?
Other phones (HTC Hero for example) have a button on the player to resize the video.
Thx
josito_zgz said:
Someone knows how you can watch a full screen video in the stock video player without the black bands?
Other phones (HTC Hero for example) have a button on the player to resize the video.
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The default player won't do it. Act1 has a full screen option and it's a great app, as the previous poster detailed.
Thx! good player
Has anybody figured out how to do it? It seems that no matter what format I have my videos in, and no matter where I put my video files, they just refuse to show up on the Photos & Videos tab.
Sc4Freak said:
Has anybody figured out how to do it? It seems that no matter what format I have my videos in, and no matter where I put my video files, they just refuse to show up on the Photos & Videos tab.
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Works fine for me, but only MP4 files. Try using the album to find the folder with videos in and set it as your favourite folder to see if that helps. (Albums, albums, select the folder, menu, set album as favourite.)
Only MP4? That's a shame, HTC's website says it supports ".wmv, .asf, .mp4, .3gp, .3g2, .m4v, .avi".
I had tried .mp4 the first time, but it didn't work. It must have been because the resolution of the video was too high (720p). I copied a smaller (640x480) video and now it shows up under Albums.
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.
I have problems installing market apps -- I always get a notification that Installation is unsuccessful. I was trying to install video players like Moboplayer and VPlayer. Previous installs like CNBC worked fine.
Also, I was not able to find the stock video player. Where is it? Like to add a video player which support more type of videos like DIVX.
I did found out that I could not install any apps from Market when I have connection with my PC.
Thanks for your help.
ps: my new tablet, contrary to XOOM, is not supporting synch book marks with CHROME! Anyone know how?
where are you located at?
For movies, the Gallery app is the same as the movies app. If you go to File Manager and look for the movie you wanna watch (it can be saved on the TF hard drive or the microSD card foler), just tap on the movie file name and you'll get prompted to which application to use to play that movie. It will show "Movies" and "Moboplayer" as the options if you have MoboPlayer installed. If you don't, it shows as Movies and you click on it and you can start watching it provided it's a format that is supported.
I strongly suggest downloading MoboPlayer though.
I can't install moboplayer as it fails installing. Any idea why?
Found problem...
I ran out of 16GB file space....
Anyone let me know how to use CHROME bookmarks with browser....
Netflix is working good. However on a side note, my videos I loaded to the \videos folder don't show up in my library. I assume it is a format problem but they are all .m4v videos. I downloaded the only real player showing up in the amazon app store and it works fine for playing the videos. Now if I can just find out how to change the volume while watching.........
My books don't show up in the books when I add them. They show up in docs. They're .mobi too.
Only books that are purchased from Amazon will show up in the Books section. Even sideloaded Mobi files will appear in Docs.
treleung said:
Only books that are purchased from Amazon will show up in the Books section. Even sideloaded Mobi files will appear in Docs.
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Can you open them up and read? Or I assume we can Sidelood Nook and read the .epub files? Im switching over from an OC Nook Color and my Fire is here tomorrow.
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Can you open them up and read? Or I assume we can Sidelood Nook and read the .epub files? Im switching over from an OC Nook Color and my Fire is here tomorrow.
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I haven't tested side-loading the Nook app (I'm an Amazonian), but I'd imagine that would work.
The Kindle reader does not support .epub. Side-loaded mobi files open and read like Amazon purchased books.
My videos showed up in the Gallery app but it would not play them, it said it was an unsupported format. For now I'm going to just stream my own stuff to the Kindle using Emit which is available on the Amazon app store.
You can sideload the Aldiko ebook reader and the nook app without a problem.
I use calibre to prepare and load my books to all my kindles and book that I had on my previous kindle I just copied to \books folder on my Fire. it showed up in carousel and in books section. I was also able to use whisper sync to sync page read to my ipad2 kindle app as well as iphone app
I downloaded a .mobi from the internet. Put it in the Books folder. It shows up fine for me (with cover art).
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I downloaded a .mobi from the internet. Put it in the Books folder. It shows up fine for me (with cover art).
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My .mobi files placed in the Books folder show up in the Documents.
As for videos, thus far, I can use Root Explorer to find the content and play as long as it is .mp4.
.mov and .divx won't play with the default player.
fishfuzz said:
My .mobi files placed in the Books folder show up in the Documents.
As for videos, thus far, I can use Root Explorer to find the content and play as long as it is .mp4.
.mov and .divx won't play with the default player.
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If you remove the pdoc tag from your .mobi files they will load into your Books Library with cover art and sync as any other book. You can use Calibre to do it.
siafu said:
Netflix is working good. However on a side note, my videos I loaded to the \videos folder don't show up in my library. I assume it is a format problem but they are all .m4v videos. I downloaded the only real player showing up in the amazon app store and it works fine for playing the videos. Now if I can just find out how to change the volume while watching.........
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What I did was changed the extension from .m4v to .mp4 and my videos that I sideloaded show up and play fine.
They were HQ videos I converted for my iPad. Hope that helps
I am using rockplayer and it seems to reed most file and wmv and plays vey smooth...
rockplayer.com
I also have yxplayer but its a tad slow...
MX Video Player
I had a few .avi files (divx or xvid encoded) that I couldn't play. M4V, WMV, others played fine in the standard video player. MX Player from the Android Market worked like a charm, just the free version was needed.
This is my first post, so it won't let me post a link, but its easy to find.