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Video on WMP

I'm having some trouble. . .
On my Wing, it seems that it wont really play any of the videos I store on my SD card. I've got maybe 300 gigs of media on my box, and I realize that the device supports 3GP, MP4, and AVI files, though I have no idea what versions of those extensions will play.
I have tried converting file types, file strengths (encoding, etc) to no avail. At one point I condensed an episode from my Robot Chicken DVD (picked for hilarity as well as small file size) and though the file was say, 50 MB on the computer (and played using WMP), and 50MB on the phone, it only played and scrolled as if the file was 5 seconds long on the phone.
Just like the blackberry, I assume there is a converter, or something I am otherwise missing here. All I really want to be able to do is to take a DVD, or take a file I've created, found, unearthed while deep-sea diving, etc, and play it on my Wing.
Where do I start?
EXTRA BONUS QUESTION: I installed Opera Mini as an alternative browser in root, which I now realize is IMPOSSIBLE to access. I believe a memory wipe should cure that. Would it be accessable if I store it on say, the SD card? Through file manager maybe?

8aneN3r0 said:
I'm having some trouble. . .
On my Wing, it seems that it wont really play any of the videos I store on my SD card. I've got maybe 300 gigs of media on my box, and I realize that the device supports 3GP, MP4, and AVI files, though I have no idea what versions of those extensions will play.
I have tried converting file types, file strengths (encoding, etc) to no avail. At one point I condensed an episode from my Robot Chicken DVD (picked for hilarity as well as small file size) and though the file was say, 50 MB on the computer (and played using WMP), and 50MB on the phone, it only played and scrolled as if the file was 5 seconds long on the phone.
Just like the blackberry, I assume there is a converter, or something I am otherwise missing here. All I really want to be able to do is to take a DVD, or take a file I've created, found, unearthed while deep-sea diving, etc, and play it on my Wing.
Where do I start?
EXTRA BONUS QUESTION: I installed Opera Mini as an alternative browser in root, which I now realize is IMPOSSIBLE to access. I believe a memory wipe should cure that. Would it be accessable if I store it on say, the SD card? Through file manager maybe?
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Media player sucks for viewing any type of video on your phone. I suggest you install TCPMP and you should be fine. Do a search on the forum and you should find it pretty easy. As far as your Opera Mini Question....you should be able to run it from your SD card just fine.

Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?

add the file to it's playlist

8aneN3r0 said:
Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?
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There is actually a open tab thing in TCPMP, on the botton control bar in the player, click on the first tab from the left and in there there is the open option. And if you want the files to automatically open with TCPMP when you acces them from the file explorer etc. then you go to the TCPMP sttings and then to file associations. IN there select the files that you want to be asociated with TCPMP, and i think after a soft reset, they will automatically be opened with TCPMP.

8aneN3r0 said:
Much appreciated, roman, I had figured it would be something like that. Glad to be rid of WMP too.
Clarifying question: How do I play the files through TCPMP? Ive tried from the file itself in file manager and it tries to launch WMP. I dont see a "file > open" type pathway within TCPMP itself.
What am I missing there?
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If you open TCPMP you will see file then open file.

well if this threads is relating to videos i have the wing and wat is the best video output u can use to have the best video no lagging experience on the phone!

cubican said:
well if this threads is relating to videos i have the wing and wat is the best video output u can use to have the best video no lagging experience on the phone!
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Most of my movies or videos are in AVI or MP4.

ES File Explorer

I had an old tablet that I would use ES File Explorer on and be able to connect to my home network. When I went to open anything from it, I'd get a menu pop up asking me what program I wanted to use to open the file up. My old tablet was underpowered though and couldn't really stream anything because of it.
I now have a Nook Color and I'm running CM7 on it. I've downloaded ES File Explorer, setup network access and I'm able to access my files. However, every time I try to access a file through my network, it tries opening up the file in ES File Explorer. I don't get any popup menu asking me what program I'd like to use. ES File Explorer won't let me stream any video files and I have several other programs installed and would like to try to stream through them.
Can anyone help me out here? What am I missing that would allow me to choose what program a file will run through?
Thank you!

I had the same issue awhile back. Just went back after reading your post and its no different. Since then I've been using TVersity to stream my video.

You can try to clear default action for es file explorer in the application manager under settings (sorry, my nook is in french, i haven't the real translation of menu names..)

I've been looking for a good program. I might try buying plex as it's on sale at amazon this week. But honestly, I can't give you any other advice. If i end up getting it, I'll let you know.
EDIT: Just read in it's description, not optimized for tablets or larger screen. So that's not going to work for us. Sorry.

onclebob said:
You can try to clear default action for es file explorer in the application manager under settings (sorry, my nook is in french, i haven't the real translation of menu names..)
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Did it work and allow you to select a new default player? It didnt work for me
Edit: I tried deleting and re installing. It allowed me to select a new default player for local files only. Still cant select new video player for network files.

Thanks for the reply guys. I couldn't get it to work either, so I ended up just installing cifsmanager and mounting my file server. I still then have to use a different file browser to select what video player I'm goig to use, but that's not much of a big deal.

I haven't been streaming anything, but I was using ES for quite a while, and ended up trading it in for File Expert, which is a bit more polished and doesn't give me the issues ES did. I just tried, and wasn't able to stream media with Moboplayer, but File Expert did give me the option to choose an app, so maybe it would work with a different video player.
It was a little odd how it worked: navigate to video file, tap, and it prompts me to choose a web browser (?); once the browser opens, however, I get a new prompt to choose a media player. Like I said, Moboplayer failed to play the files (tried .avi and mp4), but you said you had other players that might work.

Taosaur said:
I haven't been streaming anything, but I was using ES for quite a while, and ended up trading it in for File Expert, which is a bit more polished and doesn't give me the issues ES did. I just tried, and wasn't able to stream media with Moboplayer, but File Expert did give me the option to choose an app, so maybe it would work with a different video player.
It was a little odd how it worked: navigate to video file, tap, and it prompts me to choose a web browser (?); once the browser opens, however, I get a new prompt to choose a media player. Like I said, Moboplayer failed to play the files (tried .avi and mp4), but you said you had other players that might work.
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Rockplayer Lite should play those files.

iggywh said:
Rockplayer Lite should play those files.
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You are correct, thanks I would recommend File Expert over ES in general, and it looks like it would also solve your problem, though I see you took other steps already.

Problem with movies being too big to transfer SOLVED!!

If the Movies is too big to transfer just use (HJsplit 3.0) and split the movie in half and then transfer it over to the tab, use wifi explorer pro to transfer it works flawless

they are never too big with adb push

apolloms said:
they are never too big with adb push
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Is that so? Even when pushing to /sdcard?

ivarson_swe said:
Is that so? Even when pushing to /sdcard?
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Unlike phone-derived Android, /sdcard on our devices isn't really an SD card. It's actually the exact same partition as /data.
It's just symlinked so that apps which expect /sdcard don't break.
As it's an ext4 partition, it doesn't have the 4GB file size limit of FAT.
This, by the way, is why our tabs don't support USB Mass Storage but instead implement MTP. USB Mass Storage exports the raw block device, MTP operates on files. This allows it to be used when other apps are also using /sdcard, and allows the ext4-ness of /sdcard to get hidden. The disadvantage is that it's far less standardized than USB Mass Storage. MTP seems flaky on our devices, but ADB (Android USB debugging) is nice and solid.

mehdi84 said:
If the Movies is too big to transfer just use (HJsplit 3.0) and split the movie in half and then transfer it over to the tab, use wifi explorer pro to transfer it works flawless
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Once you have the movie on your Tab (in a million or so pieces) how do you play it? I have done what you said but I can't get it to play in order -- just plays one file and quits...Please help

just transcode it with handbrake or dvd catalyst - problem solved! entire movie at manageable file size with excellent quality
mehdi84 said:
If the Movies is too big to transfer just use (HJsplit 3.0) and split the movie in half and then transfer it over to the tab, use wifi explorer pro to transfer it works flawless
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applehater said:
Once you have the movie on your Tab (in a million or so pieces) how do you play it? I have done what you said but I can't get it to play in order -- just plays one file and quits...Please help
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Just chose the next file i haven't managed to get them to play in order, working on it.

MKV solves ALL of these problems.
Download mkvtoolnix for your OS
This toolset allows you to do the following very easily:
Add any video/audio source to MKV container without compression
Split MKV into any size chunks
MKV split into chunks can be "linked" and if the player fully supports it, it will automagically find the next chunk to be played. I dont think diceplayer supports the link functionality of mkv. Boo hoo you need to pick the other chunk to play when one runs out. Not a deal breaker.

mehdi84 said:
Just chose the next file i haven't managed to get them to play in order, working on it.
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Thanks -- I originally didn't see that you could set the files to a 3GB file and I was just using the default of 1048k.....Now it is only in 3 files instead of a million!!

playing music from external hdd

I need an app that will allow me to play music from external hdd. Tried clear.fi, music, and winamp and none of them will let me set my music folder to the external hdd location. They all default to sdcard. Any ideas?
Edit: 5 more minutes of searching and i found music folder player and it works like a charm.
https://market.android.com/details?id=cyberniko.musicFolderPlayer&hl=en
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You should try TTPOD player.

You can also give MortPlayer (https://market.android.com/details?id=de.stohelit.folderplayer&feature=search_result) or Music Folder Player Free (https://market.android.com/details?id=de.zorillasoft.musicfolderplayer&feature=search_result) a try. I use both on my tablet.

You could just make a symlink, too.
ln -s /path/to/target /path/to/link

Using ttpod now and it is beast
Sent from my A500

netham45 said:
You could just make a symlink, too.
ln -s /path/to/target /path/to/link
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This would be really helpful for me, but I can't seem to get it to work. Here's what I did. I deleted the Music folder from my internal storage (it was empty anyway) so I could make a symlink to the same path pointing from my external hard drive, that way Hive Player will see my music. That's my theory, anyway.
In Terminal Emulator, I typed "ln -s /mnt/sda1/Music /mnt/sdcard/Music" and I got an error "Link failed Function not implemented" so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. My ROM is Taboonay 2.1b with richardtrip's kernel and the external drive is NTFS formatted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm comfortable editing system files if that's what I need to do.

I would think its because you deleted music folder. It cant make a symlink to something that doesnt exist. I may be wrong though
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no, before deleting the folder, I got an error that it already exists. Should have mentioned that. I think it may be something to do with trying to symlink between different storage devices, but I could be wrong

Definitely MortPlayer... It will actually search for your music, even if it's moved.

s_firestone said:
Definitely MortPlayer... It will actually search for your music, even if it's moved.
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well I paid for Hive Player so it would be nice to use I actually emailed the developer and he told me folder support will be coming soon, so that's good to know

[Q} Ahem...No way to transfer my MKV files over USB???

Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?

Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
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redmonke255 said:
Is it over 4gb? I believe it's formatted as FAT32 and 4gb is the max file transfer.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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No...they are all under 100 megabytes.

I should also note that I have to use MTP..because UMS isn't supported. But even if I try to sync them via windows media player it fails all the time.

Have you transferred other file types? This is most likely a stupid suggestion but maybe try renaming them first? Maybe it's something with the mkv extension or an illegal character in the file names. As I said, dumb suggestion, but once in a while those are the ones that work.

technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.

nusairh said:
technically, it shouldn't be a problem. Did you checked whether JB supports MKV files? Or did you tried to transfer another type of file this big?
Try to upload a single MKV to Google Drive and download it to N7 and then play. If it works, then transferring should not be a problem.
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I have it hosted on my local apache web server and I just browse to the webpage and tap on it and it loads right up and plays in MX player...However no matter what I do I CANNOT transfer the files to the nexus 7...

I just tried it out, copying a 720P MKV file from Windows 7 to the Nexus 7 over MTP. Worked fine for me.

Well no matter what I did it wouldn't work...I ended up putting the files in a .tar file and copying them over and extracting the archive...it worked then but its a HUGE pain in the ass.

Questions go in the Q&A section

[Workaround] Transfer MKV to Nexus 7
Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Found a workaround:
Change Usb settings to PTP
1. Menu>Settings>Storage>Menu>USB Computer Settings
2. Tick Camera(PTP)
3. Transfer to Pictures folder
4. Using a file explorer of your choice on the device, transfer to final destination folder
5. ????
6. PROFIT!!!1!

I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.

I can't get mine to transfer. Even tried the picture folder trick. Of course I have the .wmv digital copies of movies I'd like to transfer. Going to try and convert them to mkv at least.
Aside from dropbox, would google drive work as well for streaming?

Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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ExploreMN said:
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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I have both the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 and have the same problem from my Windows 7 Home machine, but at work my Windows 7 Premium machine copies MKV files without a problem - on my home machine it crashes Windows Explorer every time...
There are several ways I've found to copy the files without converting them to MP4/AVI files first:
Dropbox, Google Drive, AirDroid - all of them treat the file as a "captured video", but at least AirDroid doesn't NEED Internet access, while the other 2 do
I'm not sure if it's a driver problem within Windows, but if I find any further methods I'll post here...

Astraea908 said:
Yeah...I tried to transfer my MKV files to my nexus 7 which is 100% stock and every time I drag and drop the MKV files over (Doesn't matter if I drag and drop 1 or 50) Windows explorer crashes. Anyone found a way to fix it from doing this...?
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Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.

Using Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a laptop, no problems copying MKV files to a rooted Nexus 7 16GB running JB via USB. Even used ES File Explorer to copy, wirelessly, an MKV video file from the laptop to the Nexus 7. The video file (created with Handbrake from a ripped DVD) was 1.05GB. Screen captures of both the copying from Windows 7 and the file shown on the Nexus 7 attached.

rlreddy said:
I've successfully streamed mkv files to my N7 with Dropbox and using a local server and ES File Explorer. Haven't yet needed to transfer onto the limited flash of the N7 but I am sure that will happen for my next business trip so I will try it tonight to see if I have any issues with large files and smaller files.
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I was trying to do something like this. I tested out Google Drive and Dropbox, but both seemed to have issues, one of which was the file transfer rate. TOOK FOREVER. What video player do you use to watch the mkv files?

ExploreMN said:
Very odd. I get a prompt saying my device might not be able to play the file but do I want to copy anyway. I just click the "do this for all" and say yes. You on Win 7?
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Mine has a pop up, but there's no "copy anyway" option. Just "cancel" or "ok". Hitting okay just accepts the rejection message, it doesn't keep transfer.
It is Windows Home version though, so like the other post, this may be the issue.
My tablet isn't rooted yet either.

droidnext said:
Do your PC has Dixv Plus codec installed? If so, uninstall it will fix the problem.
There is another thing that cause window explore crash, some of the mkv files don't have header compression removed when muxing.
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Cool , it worked for me like a charm after uninstalling DivX plus. Thanks man )