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Great Site For FLV Videos - Movies, TV Shows, Sports

I just found out about this site a few days ago. It's a lot like the old TV Links site. What's really good about it is that all the videos are FLV files, so you can download them and play them with TCMP.
Have fun.
www.surfthechannel.com

how do you download the flv file

Yeah, how do we grab and download the movie file?

Once, they created a site called www.google.com !! (joke)
It's the same protocol as Youtube
I use Orbit Downloader (Grab++ plugin) to download FLVs and other media from sites
But this site doesn't work on our PDAs, except if we have the new Skyfire browser.

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if we dont have the skyfire browser on our devices is/are there any other sites out there tht allow us to view movies and tv shows like this one on phones...?

timace said:
if we dont have the skyfire browser on our devices is/are there any other sites out there tht allow us to view movies and tv shows like this one on phones...?
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Don't think there is yet other than using tcmp with the flv pugin to watch stuff like youtube. Can't wait for skyfire supposidly it even works on hulu.com.

SKYFIRE ONLY
I'm dead waiting for this one to be released, as I didn't get my beta.

Not true. I can watch FLVs using Opera and flash player 7. You have to go to settings and choose Identify as a desktop computer.
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I use Realplayer to download the FLVs on my desktop and transfer them to my Tilt.
There are several Firefox extensions that allow you to download FLV files.

-haze- said:
Not true. I can watch FLVs using Opera and flash player 7. You have to go to settings and choose Identify as a desktop computer.
I use Realplayer to download the FLVs on my desktop and transfer them to my Tilt.
There are several Firefox extensions that allow you to download FLV files.
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Is the reading smooth?
For firefox use downloadhelper

killer_metallica said:
...I use Orbit Downloader (Grab++ plugin) to download FLVs and other media from sites...
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We know this, and you obviously haven't been/tried to download from this site either from your PDA or PC else you'd notice what we're all saying here...YouTube, MegaVideo etc and all those other great video sites all give an "info/more info" menu from which you can "grab" the download link for the video you want...this site does not.

Surfthechannel is really a good site. I had tried this site. But I think I have a wonderful site which is much better then this site and I always Watch TV Shows on otavo.tv.

Best Youtube Program?

Hello. I was wondeirng if anyone can recommend a good youtube program besides youtubeplay? youtubeplay is ok, but It doesnt let you list by date or relivance or whatever. Also, is there any program that plays or downloads veoh.com videos? Thanks

The best way to play ANY streaming media site on a win mo smartphone imho, is the skyfire webbrowser:
http://www.skyfire.com
use phelps8 to get an instant download.
Any streaming media site I've used works awesome with skyfire. Takes some getting used to. check the forums for details. But sites like hulu.com work AWESOME with it for watching full episodes or movies..
mycast.orb.com when set to stream in flash will open right in the browser too which is incredible for streaming off a home PC...
break.com,youtube.com,stupidvideos.com etc etc all work great.

I use CorePlayer and it works great

Skyfire works awsome!! feels like im on a PC viewing the many video streaming sites..only one that doesnt seem to work is veoh..doesnt load the videos

YouTubeplay

CorePlayer has a YouTube quick-button, with several quick choices, like "Most popular" and "most linked to." But beware: The program can hang your 6800 if you go full-screen, requiring a soft-reset.
I've read great things about the new multimedia player with the Japanese-sounding name (K-something?); can't think of it now. It was designed for rich Web content from the ground up.

Kinoma ?

Kinoma
That's it: Kinoma.
Thanks to this thread, I installed YouTubePlay. It works flawlessly; rotation and full-screen toggling cause no freezes. I'll still use CorePlayer for music. Mostly, I watch downloaded TV shows. For that, I prefer Windows Media Player because I've installed a plug-in that lets it remember where I left off...just as my Audible Player does for books I've bought at Audible.com.

bombzhome said:
YouTubeplay
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+1
I think it operates better in full screen mode as well.

youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.

Paul in Maryland said:
That's it: Kinoma.
Thanks to this thread, I installed YouTubePlay. It works flawlessly; rotation and full-screen toggling cause no freezes. I'll still use CorePlayer for music. Mostly, I watch downloaded TV shows. For that, I prefer Windows Media Player because I've installed a plug-in that lets it remember where I left off...just as my Audible Player does for books I've bought at Audible.com.
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Whats the plugin called?

Protonus said:
youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.
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Really? I will check again but I think I like the video better there vs skyfire, that is if that is what you are comparing it to. I will check again and report back.

rleejr79 said:
Really? I will check again but I think I like the video better there vs skyfire, that is if that is what you are comparing it to. I will check again and report back.
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since skyfire is a proxy/transcode browser it might be lowering the quality of the video
i use kinoma, for orb though since i dont care much for youtube, although ive used it to shut iphone fanboys up a time or two

RiftReaper said:
Whats the plugin called?
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Windows Media Player Resume Plug-In.

Protonus said:
youtubeplay plays the lower quality youtube streams, that's why it works "good". The quality is poor.
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well, if you watching it on your phone's bandwidth, you might not want to wait for a high quality file to stream over evdo, or use the extra data if you don't have an unlimited plan.
Skyfire plays embedded flash videos pretty well, but its at around 15 frames per second, so its not as smooth as watching it at home, or downloading it first.
TCPMP with the flashVideoBundle.cab installed works well with pocket IE and will give you the option of downloading the video to your phone (so you can watch it later), or streaming it right on the spot (after a short buffer), which works pretty well.

anyone got the latest cab for skyfire?

240sxer said:
anyone got the latest cab for skyfire?
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Edit: if you knew anything about skyfire, or bothered to do any reading, you'd know you need to sign up for the beta to be able to use it.

Hence me asking if anyone has the cab because I didn't.
Asswipe.

240sxer said:
Hence me asking if anyone has the cab because I didn't.
Asswipe.
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you can't use it without an account for the love of god. A .cab isn't going too help you. diaf.

Get Badaboom files to enable TouchHD profile!

Hi all
I've just finished editing the Defaults.xml and creating some basic graphics to enable the TouchHD profile in Badaboom!
You can now have GPU accelerated transcoding with ease.. just one click!
[size=+2]Tested only on Badaboom 1.1.1.194[/size]
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[size=+1]Video transcoding settings:[/size]
Profile: baseline
Level: 3.0
Bitrate: 650-900 VBR (default 750 - should be a good tradeoff between quality and size)
Audio: mp3 stereo 128kbps
Resolution: 720x480 (due to a limitation in badaboom you can't set this beyond the hardcoded resolution and that's the closest to our 800x480..)
[size=+1]Enable or disable deinterlacing according to your videos![/size]
[size=+1]Get the files here:[/size]
http://www.mediafire.com/?ji1gy5z3kg3

first and last UP just for letting more ppl see this post..

Cheers Eraser , works a bloody treat , you gotta love the speed that it transcodes files . Great work .

how's the image quality compared to x264 based converters at the same bitrate?

I kind of take it all back , converts super fast but slaps DRM over everything , won't let me play on my htc . bummer .
maybe i am doing something wrong but i can't find out how to turn DRM off .

~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.

mcdull said:
~.~ .. why it is so stupid that it won't use CPU...?
both cores were nearly idle while encoding.
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That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.

garybeaman said:
That is a joke isn't it? Badaboom is a GPU video encoder, the fact that it doesn't hog the CPU like most encoders is what makes it so good.
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Yes, and just try to encode some ~1hour from movie for my X1.
Quadcore CPU 6800 - 20mins
Nvidia GTX 260 GPU - 6mins
i hope badaboom will support xperia 800x480 resolution in next versions

Wow, this is awesome. Maybe 20 minutes or so for a normal movie for me. The end product is bigger in size than if you were to use one of the two "made for Touch HD" applications our members have created, BUT the movies look superb and play smooth as butter with no audio sync problems at all.
Pop your DVD in and after you've set up this profile for the HD click "Start", then copy the file over to your HD. Excellent! It also looks like you can do VOB directory too if you've already ripped all your media to harddrive, but I haven't tested it yet. I'll have to try that next to see if it's any faster than ripping right from DVD.
Thanks for pointing this out! Wonderful!

Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??

Thanks Eraser, this is great. It also works on the latest version 1.2.1
This would probably get more hits if it was posted in the Apps and Themes section though.

Charlie3999 said:
Looks great but everytime I instal and start up badaboom it restarts my system. Any clues??
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Anyone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like your video card has problems. Have you tried the latest drivers for your card?

HDMI out through the native video player?

Is it possible?
subscribed to JetFlix, in the market. (Jetflicks! TV - Android app on AppBrain) It is a $3 app with a $10/month subscription. I watch it on my phone in my car at the lake during my lunch break. I know that probably sounds sad, but it is AWESOME. I'm a manager in the dang corporate world, and I forget that I am at work by the time I'm done with a movie and come on back to the office. It's my dirty little secret.
ANYWAY, there are some great shows available on this application, and I was thinking of replacing my Netflix subscription with it if I could just stream it to my TV at home. But is anything "streamable" to the tv? I read that only pictures and videos that were shot with the camera stream though the HDMI cable. If that is the case, what is the point? I keep all that stuff on a hard drive anyway.
So my question: can I hook up an HDMI cable and stream Jetflicks to my TV? The Jetflicks movies play on the native player. So I guess a more accurate question would be: Does the native internet browser display on the TV through the HDMI cable? If so, is there audio?
I have an HDMI cable. When I hook it up and press "play," nothing happens on the TV, except that it goes dark. Am I doing something wrong, or is it just impossible.
Waiting with baited breath for someone to break the news to me.
Later

If the program you are using actually lets you download and plays video from the native player it should work. Also when you plug the hdmi cable into your tv and your phone. You should see an icon on the top left of the notifications bar and it should say hdmi
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G

I dont have that icon. Is there an hdmi setting somewhere I need to change?

Probly should email the developer and ask them if it's supposed to work or not?

I might just do that. I guess I might have given too much background information. A simpler question would be:
1. Is the native video player on the evo supposed to work with the HDMI out?
2. If yes:
a. Is there a setting to enable that function?
b. How can you tell which player (native or otherwise) the system is using?

Yes the native video player will use the hdmi out. It is automatic when you plug the hdmi cable into the device and open the video player and hit play the video will be outputted to the HDMI and the evo's screen will show the player function but no video. On the latest EVO update OTA 1.47.651.1 they added an HDMI settings to Force 720p or 480p output but since I haven updated to that rom version yet (still waiting on Fresh 1.0). What I believe that new setting will do is if your video isn't quite fully 720p but over 480p you can now force your phone to upscale the video to 720p output.

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm also on Fresh 0.5.3, waiting for 1.0.
Right now I can't do sh*t. If I plug the HDMI in, the phone freezes.

Sprockethead said:
Thanks, that makes sense. I'm also on Fresh 0.5.3, waiting for 1.0.
Right now I can't do sh*t. If I plug the HDMI in, the phone freezes.
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Your not using one of the FPS kernels are you? I think the first ones that were based on the hacked kernel with the broken camera break video playback using the stock player all together. at least it did for me when i tried it couldn't play any videos just got force closes and freezing.

P_Dub_S said:
Your not using one of the FPS kernels are you? I think the first ones that were based on the hacked kernel with the broken camera break video playback using the stock player all together. at least it did for me when i tried it couldn't play any videos just got force closes and freezing.
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I am, lol. Why can't I get a build where everything works!!??
I'll work on it in a minute. Right now I'm trying to improve megaflops...

Im on fresh 0.53 and my HDMI works fine no freeze. Just plug it in and a notification on the top says HDMI. Here's a screenshot
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problem in Facebook videos

Hi all
I have a problem with Facebook videos
As when I attend playing them the video player doesn't work and a strange player do the job
I want all videos of Facebook to open on default video player
Sometimes videos play automatically even after closing the window
Pics attached
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Any help please

sorry i couldn't understand anyhtings from the pics you have posted. I understand that you want all your videos in one player automatically.
Give mx video player a try. Its better than than the default in may ways. While opening the video you will get an options saying "just once/always". Select always and then choose mx player. See if it fixes your issue.

Droiderr said:
sorry i couldn't understand anyhtings from the pics you have posted. I understand that you want all your videos in one player automatically.
Give mx video player a try. Its better than than the default in may ways. While opening the video you will get an options saying "just once/always". Select always and then choose mx player. See if it fixes your issue.
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Thanks for your concern
I mean .. I already have mx player installed
But when playing videos on Facebook app I don't have any choices for video players ... videos play automatically with out my selection
I mean I cant choose which app would play the video ,even after clearing defaults .. and after reinstall the apps everything still the same
And the photos in op post for the app which usually plays the videos .. its like you know flash player plays all videos
Do you have any solution
Thanks alot

elemary said:
Thanks for your concern
I mean .. I already have mx player installed
But when playing videos on Facebook app I don't have any choices for video players ... videos play automatically with out my selection
I mean I cant choose which app would play the video ,even after clearing defaults .. and after reinstall the apps everything still the same
And the photos in op post for the app which usually plays the videos .. its like you know flash player plays all videos
Do you have any solution
Thanks alot
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go to app manager in setting and clear defaults for all the video players installed. See if it works..

The Facebook application now supports video playback in the timeline,so it has its own Facebook player and will not use other,however the videos in the Newsfeed can still use third pary players.

hagba said:
The Facebook application now supports video playback in the timeline,so it has its own Facebook player and will not use other,however the videos in the Newsfeed can still use third pary players.
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How can i still use third party players? Facebook always uses its own player now
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Evil_enc said:
How can i still use third party players? Facebook always uses its own player now
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
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Just like I did....
Downgrade the Facebook and u would be fine....

thanks!
thanks!