A couple of years ago I released a free activity for Android that allowed developers to play YouTube videos or playlists on devices that didn't have the stock YouTube player. It was also nice for embedding instructional videos in the app without all of the viral junk that Google's YouTube app carries.
There's been a LOT of demand for the Activity, but unfortunately, YouTube changed their APIs last year and things stopped working. I hadn't had time to update things (since I no longer used the activity myself) but a kind user recently submitted a patch that fixed the incompatibilities with the YouTube APIs.
If you're looking for a way to play publicly accesible YouTube videos from within your apps WITHOUT depending on the stock YouTube Activity, then this is a good place to start. Apache 2.0 licensed, use it how you want, just throw me some thanks or click me some love. You can find information here: http://keyeslabs.com/joomla/projects/youtube-player
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I can't stream none of the video from youtube via htc streaming media.
Is there a fix for this? May be i installed one of the cert files wrong?
And what other sites does htc streaming media work on. I wish to test it
Hello –
What videos are you trying to stream?
I am one of the developer who worked on Avot mV which runs on most of Windows mobile 5.0 and newer phone with the idea of searching and playing any video from video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Videos, DailyMotion and other web locations.
Since you’re interested in streaming videos, you might want to download this application and provide the feedback to improve the product.
You can download the application by pointing the mobile browser to http://avotmv.com
Your program is very brilliant and its very efficient in some ways but needs work done for more control of its options.
Downloaded files should store on Card
I think its best for the program to download its video content onto the memory card instead of the internet explorer cache. I was wondering why my phone was becomng so slow and i kept getting these prompts about memory usage. I was looking in the folders for stuff to delete so that the phone wont be slowing down anymore, its was only till i realise it would have to be in the cache. A average user wouldn't have thought of this!
Stop & pause don't respond immediately while playing
I was trying to stop a video from streaming and it wasn't stopping, it took about 10 seconds to respond. I only had avotmv and PIE running.
Playing videos directly from youtube and other sites
It takes a while for the page to load on youtube and it never played. One time i heard the audio playing when i was using dailymotion.com but i never saw the video.
Suggestion: List the respective channels by their website name
I wish there was an option to list the respective channels by there respective name in the channels list. User would like to search by youtube alone instead of every video site. That option would be great for just searching one video site alone.
Its a gem in beta so far, if you wish me to keep working with you on feedback please leave a link to your forum and i'll appreicate it if you offer me a free copy of the software
I am just curious. It would be great to create and edit like the imovie app.
WeVideo?
I do regular web searches to see if anybody has developed a viable video editor / movie maker for android, and finally there's some hope.
Just came across this tonight - http://blog.wevideo.com/bid/272187/WeVideo-Launches-iMovie-Competitor-App-for-Android
It's a new app called WeVideo (just released, so it's still in BETA), and it's pitching itself as an iMovie-like editor for ANdroid, with some cloud-based features and other differences, but what's important as it appears to provide full "movie making" capabilities across various Android devices.
I just tried it out and it works well, with a few oversights like:
- No transition control
- No volume control for music tracks
- No local, uncompressed storage of published video (not that I've found anyhow)
Just for starters. But, if you don't mind using their simple theme, and don't want to include your own music, it works pretty well.
It's also nice that it supports publishing of your videos directly to YouTube, despite not exporting to sdcard etc.
I'll post this reply in a few other threads asking about better video editors for Android as well.
thelastgoodbrother said:
I am just curious. It would be great to create and edit like the imovie app.
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I've just downloaded AndroMedia. Seems pretty fully featured
For those who seek it, true airplay compatibility would be a simple, implemented service throughout the device using it's stock media players.
When I play a video I transfer onto my device, there is a share button on the top right. When I click see all, I noticed that Evernote and a few other downloaded apps are in the menu. Also true of youtube videos, which can be shared to a number of applications.
My question may be obvious now, but is there a way for an app to run in the background and enable a list of airplay devices from that menu?
Or maybe a simpler solution would be Doubletwist player (or another airplay capable player) to be one of those share sources, being a quick shortcut. I just hate having a bunch of players for different scenarios. I would love that process to be a bit more tied together.
Just stirring the pot.
Does any one know of a good looking video widget like this ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34335039) that shows videos stored on the device i think it would look really good and havent been able to find anything like this .
Any other good looking video widgets would be much appreciated.
Thank You
feves said:
Does any one know of a good looking video widget ...
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I believe that the widget displayed in the link is from MovieBrowser UPnP/DLNA and is titled "MovieBrowser Carousel". Note that only the paid version has the widgets included "THIS IS THE PAID VERSION WITH UPnP/DLNA, SAMBA AND WIDGETS". I have this app and use those widgets. I also like the widget "MovieBrowser Next Episode" which analyses your collection for TV shows and displays upcoming episodes in a scrollable list. It is useful and attractive.
Another app that has both TV and Movie widgets similar to the app I mentioned above is Mizuu. I was using a beta verison so cannot remember if the widgets are resticted to the paid version. The beta version is months old and was supposed to work better on tablets. I suspect that beta is over and has been released by now.
Last is the native Google media widget that comes preinstalled with the Nexus 10. I do not use Googles media services so removed those apps.
I no longer use either of the for mentioned apps (just the TV episode widget), as my collection is too big for one and/or the update time is way to long to use for video playback. I do use an alpha XBMC with video HW acceleration but it does not have any widgets and being alpha occassionaly crashes during playback. It can easily handle my full video collection and has reasonable update times when started.
I just noticed that not only the Native video player offers a pop-out / video-overlay function (not to be confused with multi-window!), but also other apps do. Precisely those that use the Native Samsung video player to play their videos, instead of some proprietary crap.
There were only two apps I found that did this: BBC News and Naver (a Korean news portal and e-mail company, compare Yahoo!).
Neither any the other news apps (I tried euronews, FT, Guardian and CNN) nor YouTube can do this, even though it'd be genius.
(I'd use the apps more often.)
Is this feature really official yet? I know it's available already on the Galaxy S3 (and maybe even S2), because I saw it on the subway in Korea.
As an example, see the attached screenshots.