Hi guys. We have 2 2013 edition LG Google Tvs in the house, what I want to do is
play a video recorded on the device and shoot it to the Googletv.
I used to use imediashare, but apparently that app is dead. and it was a bit clunky anyway.
What apps are you guys using to accomplish this?
I really Wish google would get on the ball and add chrome cast functionality to Googletv! argghh.
Thanks
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I just got my Note in the mail from Clove UK. And everything is great so far, and I dunno if this is and Android thing (This is my first Android device) or a Samsung thing. When I play videos from You Tube or videos that I encoded the blacks are heavily pixelated. (Not sure if that's a word). Am I doing something wrong? What program and/or setting is the best to get rid of that black pixel issue? The test video of the jelly fish works great. Noob questions I know! Thank in advance again for your help.
My guess is that its not directly your fault.
There are several aspects to think of here:
- It may be that artefacts (caused by video encoded in low bitrate) are more noticable on a screen like that of the galaxy note than others.
- It may be that youtube just delivers you the low quality version of the video.
- The video on youtube may be in bad quality to begin with, try other youtube videos and see if it happens only on a few ones or many.
- Note: I see now you already tried the video, so that is probably not a cause. (Your screen itself may have some flaws. Check on that for instance by using a screen test tool like "Screen Test" or playing the video already supplied with the Note (Open the standard video player app that comes with it and select "lightness & slimmess"))
When it comes to watching youtube on a mobile device I recommend (if you have a mobile data connection with enough bandwidth, such as good umts or hsdpa or Wifi) to enable high quality in the youtube app (whenever possible, use the youtube app, and do not play it in the browser).
To do this hit the options button in the youtube app, select settings and enable the first option to enable high mobile quality.
Secondly many videos will allow you to switch between lower and higher quality with the HD button on the upper left (visible at the start or when you tap the screen while palaying) - if you enable high mobile quality this should be turned on to high quality by default.
When it comes to youtube thats probably all you can do to improve quality.
When it comes to playing videos in general (excluding youtube) the standard player can manage most formats. However if you have trouble with some videos you may want to give Dice player a try!
Hope this helps!
Ok thanks, I will def try that!
I belive this is coursed by the hight res/density of the Note screen and low quality of the video in YouTube app, I think the highest quality of video in the YouTube app is only 480P.
I also noticed this problem while streaming old TV shows from PLEX to my Note, this is less noticeable with my Tab 10.1 with the same resolution but its screen is about 4 times larger.
You could use the stock or most aftermarket browser and watch 720P YouTube using Flash on normal YouTube site.
simple solution is to not use the app and just use a browser. ive had no issues watching 720p videos in youtube on the browser.
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I just got my Note in the mail from Clove UK. And everything is great so far, and I dunno if this is and Android thing (This is my first Android device) or a Samsung thing. When I play videos from You Tube or videos that I encoded the blacks are heavily pixelated. (Not sure if that's a word). Am I doing something wrong? What program and/or setting is the best to get rid of that black pixel issue? The test video of the jelly fish works great. Noob questions I know! Thank in advance again for your help.
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can you post the youtube link so u can test on my Note.
I have also experienced this on other vids and am convinced it may a bit depth limitation of the Note screen... but need to verify.
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younghov22 said:
I just got my Note in the mail from Clove UK. And everything is great so far, and I dunno if this is and Android thing (This is my first Android device) or a Samsung thing. When I play videos from You Tube or videos that I encoded the blacks are heavily pixelated. (Not sure if that's a word). Am I doing something wrong? What program and/or setting is the best to get rid of that black pixel issue? The test video of the jelly fish works great. Noob questions I know! Thank in advance again for your help.
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I've noticed this too with the You Tube app. The blacks sometimes are blocky. A good example is the Avatar 1080p trailer, especially around 15 seconds mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2RCBa3l-g
If I view the same clip on You Tube via a browser (720p settings) it looks better, but the browser is a fiddly substitute for the app on a phone. It does seem to be mostly a bitrate limitation though, so maybe Google or a.n. other hacker needs to modify "HD" on their app to mean a higher bitrate, now we're defining 1280x800 as a mobile screen resolution .
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Actually, if I watch that Avatar clip in the browser with a playback quality set to 240p or 360p it obviously looks pixelated, but doesn't show the blockiness that's in the You Tube app stream. Looks like the app either is handling the stream differently (badly) or the stream itself is different to that which is sent to the flash plugin in the browser. Wonder if Google is using a different codec for their app. WebM maybe?
Does anyone know beyond the fact that it is based off google cardboard how the VR keynote will work. I already have my viewer ordered but does anyone know how one plus pans to stream it . Are they going to use the 360 lenses that make 1080p 360 video or are they actually going to use a multi-camera rig?
I think it just going to be a standard conference that streams in 3D, I don't see them using 360 degree video.
I imagine you just download their app and watch the conference shot using 3D cameras.
This may help
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Does anyone know beyond the fact that it is based off google cardboard how the VR keynote will work. I already have my viewer ordered but does anyone know how one plus pans to stream it . Are they going to use the 360 lenses that make 1080p 360 video or are they actually going to use a multi-camera rig?
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They just launched OnePlus 2 Launch app on Google Play Store.
Anyone know where to get an invite? Pm me?
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me too
When I try and view movies or TV in he Movies & TV app the brightness is too high. It changes from normal brightness to very high while the video is loading to play.
Anyone else having this problem?
Same here, noticing high video brightness and washed out blacks in all apps except Kodi.
I hope Google will put their staged rollout concept to good use and stop the Marshmallow OTA in order to roll out a version where this is fixed instead. Let's see if they're professional enough to actually do that.
Yes seeing that same thing happening. Unwatchable! I am so disappointed at this point. I had to buy another player just so my wife can watch Netflix after the last Netflix bug fiasco, and now this!? I was all excited and told her to watch nexus again and now this... Why do I keep hoping that they will get their **** together!!??!!
Same thing here. Also still not getting surround sound on Netflix through my HDMI switch -> optical receiver.
I just got the OTA upstate for 6.0. Can you guys show examples of how it looks?
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I see the difference now. I compared my 5.1.1 Nexus Player with my 6.0 Nexus Player. Not good at all.
Not good at all what are the chances Google will address this? I've contacted them via Facebook a few days ago but not reply yet.
Quite high, I would say. As the primary function of this device is to display video content and this is directly affecting this functionality, expect this to get fixed before any other issues get fixed. I'm just surprised that this update passed their QA process.
Okay. Google did *NOT* stop the OTA. Mine received it and now: Everything washed out, brightness +200% like.
Well done.
I'm having the same problem with the washed out video. This is ashame. I actually just went out and purchased the nexus player yesterday because of Android M and it allowing mpeg2 hardware decoding. I installed the plex and homerun apps and noticed the washed out. I though ny eyes were playing tricks on me and stumbled onto this forum. Sure enough. Same problem. I also noticed that KODI did not suffer the same problem. Its steange. I wonder if an mx player or vcl might fix the issue. I have. ot tried the homerun addon within KODI yet but will try it tonight
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HDHomerun within kodi looks a lot smoother to me. I can't tell if it's washed out or not as I'm viewing on a very old LCD monitor where everything is washed out and the motion blur is like GTA Vice City. But the VIEW app and w/in Live Channels the video stream looks a bit blocky, almsot not smooth and not crisp. WMC provided a much smoother picture for Live TV. Even w/in Kodi it looks fine. Not sure what's going on. It looked absolutely fine on Andriod M preview.
Yes, no doubt that the picture looks washed out via the TV Channels app. Comparing between Kodi and the TV Channels app, it is clear the picture in the TV Channels app has a huge brightness boost. I'm watching the ALCS tonight as my point of reference.
will certainly not upgrade mine, until I hear that this is resolved. Thanks for highlighting this (bad pun intended).
Can you prevent the player from auto-updating?
I was expecting Google to stop the OTA rollout, which is staged for exactly those reasons: in order to prevent *everybody* from receiving an OTA that turns out to be buggy. But they didn't do that; I received my update automatically after the problem was already known. Ridiculous.
Yep, video black levels are off on all Google-related apps: Play Movies, Youtube, Live Channels, and when casting from any app or casting screen. Currently all are unusable to me. Kodi and other apps with their own video codecs are fine, though.
It's so painfully bad that (yet again) I don't understand how Google engineers could have let this one slip through testing. It takes literally 30 seconds to notice the problem. What's the point of an achingly slow staged rollout if they don't actually fix these things?
Experiencing the issue here as well. What a pain.
I called Google about this and could not make the rep understand the issue. He kept thinking the video was in black and whtie or something. I called ASUS and they wanted me to send it in for service. I told them it was a software issue and that I'm not wasting my time sending it in. I have 3 units all exhibiting the same behavior so they should be able to figure this out using any unit they have in the lab.
have the same issue. Whenever an app uses HW accel. the blacklevels are off by a lot. I can replicate a similar behaviour on Media Player Classic with switching output range from 0-255 to 16-235. Searching for that google gives me something with RGB full and RGB limited. Not sure why this is happening but for the nexus player is horrible as video apps like netflix are unwatchable.
So it seems Menues are RGB full and HW video playback at RGB Limited
I can't believe we are still forced to put up with this. This is a simple (highly annoying) issue which should be easy to fix for Google. Does anyone have any news whether they're planning to ship a fix anytime soon?
No fix for this annoyance yet. There's also a forum under Google with people complaining about the same issue. Here's the link https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/nexus/B9w14NuBv5U
Apple TV 4 has gained Siri & App support and now are completing with the 2ed gen Fire TV, which one is the better streaming device ?
Here is the comparison / review , Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEO66Tbkrvo
Useful link:
Fire TV / Stick - Awesome setup and Must have apps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/fire-tv-stick-awesome-setup-apps-t3226418
How to Install Kodi (Very Fast)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/how-to-install-kodi-fast-t3218556
What camera do you use? Your videos always look so good. Nice editing too.
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What camera do you use? Your videos always look so good. Nice editing too.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it I use my old Canon T2i with 16 to 50mm Tokina
Best Apps on Apple TV 4K
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Hey guys...I just got this phone today because of the 240fps video capture, however when I gogo to play videos I can't do a frame by frame playback. I've taken slo-mo videos with an iPhone and the playback is awesome where I can scroll with my finger the exact speed forwards or backwards frame by frame.
Is there any kind of slo-mo player similar to the iPhone's for the nexus 6p? Even the one the Samsung note 5 was pretty good...but this photos player or anything that I've used in the play store sucks. the best would be if someone could get the iPhone's picture preview app to this phone.
Been looking everywhere online and there just isn't anything it there lol...why doesn't anyone make something like this? Is it that hard?
Seriously though even the one on the Samsung would be ok but this playback on Google photos suck
Ok so if anyones interested in using the slow mo for sports I finally found the best app for it to playback slowly frame by frame. The app is called coach's eye...ive now used it a few times and I have no idea why its only rated as 3.9 stars...to me its so nice and would rate it 5 stars.
The app is free if you just want to record and playback, but if you wanna start drawing lines and other options I think you have to pay like $15 or something. Either way the app is awesome and anyone that wants to use it for sports needs this app especially for golf =).