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Hey,
Wondering if anyone wants to recommend me a video app for the xoom.
Ideally, play files without converting (i.e. mkvs). also optimized for larger screens.
heard about rockplayer - but apparently you cant get the paid version. dont mind paying for no ads.
in the meantime anything else?
search is your friend; endless posts about this topic in the Apps thread..
I would reccomend Rock Player. It isnt in the market so you will have to go to their site to get it. It is free and will play pretty much any video file there is.
rockplayer. freecoder. org
dro1dfan said:
Hey,
Wondering if anyone wants to recommend me a video app for the xoom.
Ideally, play files without converting (i.e. mkvs). also optimized for larger screens.
heard about rockplayer - but apparently you cant get the paid version. dont mind paying for no ads.
in the meantime anything else?
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moboplayer
I also second Moboplayer -- it's been able to smoothly play videos rockplayer couldn't handle
I gave this a try and it does play things the stock player cannot. Although it still cannot play high profile 720p files properly, still, a very good player so far.
Yeah, It still fails on 720P high prof MKVs -- it's a bummer. But it handles AVI's better than rock player(though it chokes on 5 channel audio - 6channel is fine)
Moboplayer plays my avi, xivd perfectly but has issues with audio from MKV's. Sadly, I have to install multiple video players to play my videos. I have over 5TB worth of MKV's. I'm going to have to re-encode, if I ever want to play them on my Xoom on one video player.
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+1 for mobo
Vital player works great
bigslam123 said:
I would reccomend Rock Player. It isnt in the market so you will have to go to their site to get it. It is free and will play pretty much any video file there is.
rockplayer. freecoder. org
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thanks! i think they are waiting for android market in app payments.
moboplayer is great too
Moboplayer plays literally everything that I throw at it. I always dl movies and tv shows from all the file sharing sites and it literally everything plays smooth.
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Moboplayer plays literally everything that I throw at it. I always dl movies and tv shows from all the file sharing sites and it literally everything plays smooth.
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Any high profile 720p mkv file does not play with moboplayer. More specifically, it will try to play but without sound and severe stutter.
After trying numerous video apps, the best one I found is PlayOn. Early on I had issues with some video files but after updating to the latest server software, I was able to play all my video files (avi, xivd & mkv's) perfectly. PlayOn player is free but you have to pay for the server software.
I'm willing to pay if it plays all my video files w/o conversion but I found it best to convert it to the Xoom screen size & shrink down my 8GBs+ 1080p MKV's to 2GB+ for when I'm traveling or watching while eating lunch at work. I use DVD Catalyst to convert.
I've trolled this question hard and can't seem to find a solid answer. Anyone know of a way to convert your purchased itunes movies and shows to a format the Nexus 7 can read? It's easy to turn songs into mp3 from mp4, but having trouble with video. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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As far s I know DRM file protection would not allow for this.
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I looked even further and there are some programs that will strip the DRM for you. I do not consider this pirating in any sense because I paid the money for these items.
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Try playing the file with MX Player, first. Failing that....
Strip the DRM then use Handbrake to convert video.
Handbrake is the ultimate open-source video converter. Free, of course. Even has an Android preset.
I suggest using the MP4 container, or MKV container, with H.264 encoding. This is pretty standard stuff, and run it with MX Player and MX Player ARMv7 NEON codec pack. Its all Play Store stuff.
Cheers
is is worth buying the pro version of mx player? have to use my 25 dollars on something... also regarding the neon codec pack.. do you need to configure the player to use it or does it pick it up automatically?
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Try playing the file with MX Player, first. Failing that....
Strip the DRM then use Handbrake to convert video.
Handbrake is the ultimate open-source video converter. Free, of course. Even has an Android preset.
I suggest using the MP4 container, or MKV container, with H.264 encoding. This is pretty standard stuff, and run it with MX Player and MX Player ARMv7 NEON codec pack. Its all Play Store stuff.
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Itunes Movie to Nexus 7
All -
First, thank you all very much for all the amazing work you do. I have an old kindle fire and I rooted it using directions from this site. I love it now - it is just like my daughters new Nexus 7.
My issue:
Daughter bought a nexus 7 - she does not want me to root it - so fine. She wants me to get her itunes movies from Mom's mac to her nexus 7.
I've trolled for 2 days all over looking of for a way to do this. I downloaded handbrake on Mom's mac and nothing happened - system crashed actually. Also, when I plugged in Nexus 7 to Mac via USB cord the mac didn't recognize as a device. Strange.
So I will now try to do the same on my Windows laptop - download Handbrake and try to convert movie.
Question: How do you get movie from handshake to nexus 7?
I'm sure it is easy and I feel like an idiot... but after two days I give in and need the experts to help me please.
Much appreciated.
dwayne
Hey,
I use minidlna server to stream content to my tv and tablet. The TV is capable of displaying subtitles also streamed by the server but the tablet isn't. I raised this question in the minidlna forums but the dev said this is dependent of the client.
Does anyone know if the nexus 7 (wifi not 2013 edition) is capable of processing the subs through some tweaks or something?
P.S. I am not referring to playing external subtitles, I know a lot of players can do that. I mean specifically to the subs streamed by minidlna
Thanks
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I am interesting in OUYA because it has a slim body. I dont want to play video game on it. The only thing I want to do is to play movie. I have a lot of movies stored in my laptop. The current way that I use is to connect my laptop to HDTV by HDMI. Can OUYA replace my current method? I can play 720P movie(MKV or RMVB) on my cellphone(Galaxy note 2). Ouya has the same equipment(Tegra3 with 1.7G). So I think it can play 720P movie smoothly like my cellphone. Did anyone here try playing moive on OUYA?
Yes the ouya plays 720p movies well. I use xbmc at the time. I was thinking about the ouya or the raspberry pi and I am glad I bought the ouya. The ouya, for my use and purposes, is an awesome media center. The internal storage is small but it has a usb port. Xbmc has support for a network attached storage (nas) which is what I use. The ouya also has the added benefit of games. For only $99.99, I recommend the ouya for your current situation. It also has low power usage and it is highly portable.
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if you want to use your ouya exclusively as mediacenter you can start xbmc with a autorun-app, don't know what it's called tho.
only culprit is that the button layout isnt quite optimal when using ouya controller but i'm using my cellphone with yatse installed and as a media-solution this couldn't be any better.
not only 720p but even 1080P movies (shared from my nas) are being played like a charm and if you*'e into 3D the ouya should be able to handle most formats, too...but didn't try that, since my tv doens't support it
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Yes the ouya plays 720p movies well. I use xbmc at the time. I was thinking about the ouya or the raspberry pi and I am glad I bought the ouya. The ouya, for my use and purposes, is an awesome media center. The internal storage is small but it has a usb port. Xbmc has support for a network attached storage (nas) which is what I use. The ouya also has the added benefit of games. For only $99.99, I recommend the ouya for your current situation. It also has low power usage and it is highly portable.
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Thanks for your reply. Does ouya support external SD card? Can I install app like YouTube on the ouya?
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Ouya can play 1080P movie? It sounds great. My laptop doesn't support 1080P very well. Not smooth. If ouya really can play 1080P movie(MKV) smoothly,it really exceeds my expectations.
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Alexsandra said:
Ouya can play 1080P movie? It sounds great. My laptop doesn't support 1080P very well. Not smooth. If ouya really can play 1080P movie(MKV) smoothly,it really exceeds my expectations.
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i didn't have any issues with fullhd-mkvs yet. for all i know there are some culprits with surround sound, but didn't notice anything major up to now.
you can without any problem plug your sd card reader/usb-harddrive/etc to your ouya. the device will be mounted to /media/usb
if you want you could even use a dvd-drive for your ouya, as long as you are willing to compile the needed module for your kernel.
didn't try it yet, but atrix with tegra 2 was able to do this, so ouya with tegra 3 should be able, too
Will work fine. Look at getting a flirc device, so you can configure media centre remote to use with xbmc
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Will work fine. Look at getting a flirc device, so you can configure media centre remote to use with xbmc
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Or use Yatse from your phone/tablet which gives you many more controls and features.
I have ordered one from Amazon US and I am now eager to wait for shipping it to China.
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Hi,
Alexsandra said:
I am interesting in OUYA because it has a slim body. I dont want to play video game on it. The only thing I want to do is to play movie.
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Short answer: Better get an raspberry pi with Openelec.
Longer Answer:
yes, i do have 2 and did use one as mediaplayer using mostly XBMC (connected to a linux fileserver) at my home and using it with VLC when beeing at my girlfriends place with an 2TB HD.
Unluckily i really cant recommend it atm because the XBMC version for android/ouya is still lacking CEC support, means you cant use your TVs remote for controlling it and it cant do AC3 audio passthrough over HDMI (if i remember correctly). The XBMC for android still cant play a lot of movie files my Raspberry PI does play without problems. Therefore it makes a much better media player if its ok for one to not use the most fancy XBMC Skins. (I recommend Bello Skin)
In addition to this the Ouya lacks support for direct flashing and a lot of poeple find the companies politics highly questionable. The not acceptance of the last TOS locked my Ouya Console completely and not just the market. Its softbricked now. It has been sold as an "open" project but turns out to be as closed as "a nuns arse". Therefore its unluckily unlikely that we will see an Openelec port for the Ouya. Someone did port Debian to Ouya so there might be a solution using Debian and XBMC but AFAIK there are not all drivers and libs working atm.
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Tycho
Dont mean to be rude but i dont think you are objektive here.
I dont know what files you are unable to play but i am using mine a lot for Multimedia and didnt have any issues with audio at all. I know that some special dts Formats are incompatible for now.
Surly there are some things about ouya that many of us don't like but that's not the point here. Some are codec support and cec which are still under construction and might always be, but seriously: raspberry?
I really wouldn't want to have such a laggy interface and long folder loading times.
If you really want sth fully compatible with all major Codecs and cec and so on get a finished product like little black box or sth similar. Else be happy to have sth. to tinker with.
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I still hate that dts/multichannel audio ain't working on xbmc, it is worthless to me untill that is fixed.
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D3LTA said:
I still hate that dts/multichannel audio ain't working on xbmc, it is worthless to me untill that is fixed.
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Losing faith if I'm honest. I have been giving this project my backing because it seemed to have an enthusiastic following.
I'm not sure there is the focus on the issues that matter to ME, I'm not sure how many people wanted this little box specifically for XBMC but I suspect it was a few. I know the DTS/AC3 issue is an XBMC problem and nothing to do with OUYA but the several other little niggles that affect it are not being addressed.
I think I am going to sell it, I am done waiting for it.. the time multi audio is comming if it even is comming the ouya will be old. The lack of support and community is the other reason.
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Ok what I experienced so far is this :
Normally I have my ouya plugged into my TV which is set up to pass aby audio signal through to my home cinema center via optical output. There I never had any issues up to now. Lately I had plugged the ouya into the TV of our bedroom and with xbmc I get audio issues as well.
But vlc and I guess plex as well are able to play ball those files without any issue.
So i guess it's also up to your setup which audio technologies are supported.
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D3LTA said:
I still hate that dts/multichannel audio ain't working on xbmc, it is worthless to me untill that is fixed.
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I use xbmc on ouya and I have dts and DD passthrough at least on my sony 5.1 home theater. It seems that it depend also from your home theater and/or TV as if you connect the ouya directly to TV and TV doesn't have audio pass through, it will work only analog 2 channel audio.
Good to see someone agreeing to my experiences.
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dalamario said:
I use xbmc on ouya and I have dts and DD passthrough at least on my sony 5.1 home theater. It seems that it depend also from your home theater and/or TV as if you connect the ouya directly to TV and TV doesn't have audio pass through, it will work only analog 2 channel audio.
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Really? Xbmc on ouya can decode DTS and output 5.1 channels to home theater? I saw a lot of people complained of decoding DTS failure. Be honest, I am frustrated when I saw these comments, because I just ordered one from Amazon and I have a lot of 720P DTS MKV movies. My original thoughts is that connecting ouya to 5.1 home theater. I did saw ouya can output 2.0 or 5.1 surround sound effects on their website. Hoping XBMC V13 could be more perfect.
For some ppl it is working indeed, by switching of amp and turn it on again.
But not for everyone... When I try it I just get same static noise as before...
I never had 5.1 working whatever I tried.
Tried several options in xbmc but it would not change anything
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Really? Xbmc on ouya can decode DTS and output 5.1 channels to home theater? I saw a lot of people complained of decoding DTS failure. Be honest, I am frustrated when I saw these comments, because I just ordered one from Amazon and I have a lot of 720P DTS MKV movies. My original thoughts is that connecting ouya to 5.1 home theater. I did saw ouya can output 2.0 or 5.1 surround sound effects on their website. Hoping XBMC V13 could be more perfect.
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Ouya can decode DTS mkv, I just tested it and my home theater received a PCM audio stream (analog settings on xbmc audio output) and then tested the same mkv with digital signal pass through to my home theater (digital HDMI audio output in xbmc settings) that decoded it fine.
Only thing is that if ouya decode the DTS signal, I have PCM 2 channels audio, if my home theater decode it, I have DTS 5.1 channels audio (my HT is only 5.1).
For the records, I use xbmc 13.0 alpha6 from july 14 2013.
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D3LTA said:
For some ppl it is working indeed, by switching of amp and turn it on again.
But not for everyone... When I try it I just get same static noise as before...
I never had 5.1 working whatever I tried.
Tried several options in xbmc but it would not change anything
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You get static noise because your ouya is passing through the digital signal to your TV or HT to decode the signal. And clearly your receiver is not able to decode the audio stream. You have to change the audio setting output of xbmc to "analog" in order to let xbmc decode it before sending it out to your TV or HT.
Twonky + Roku = perfection for casting/streaming local videos in the bedroom, but I would love to find a solution for the living room where the humongous tv is. I get that I can buy Chromecast or such and stream that way, but with a tight budget we're hoping to run the blu-ray player til it dies The blu-ray player streams youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc, and I've gotten so far as to download one app, PlayTo Sony, which displayed the name of my device on the screen, but showed no media to play, so got part-way there but no cigar.
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Twonky + Roku = perfection for casting/streaming local videos in the bedroom, but I would love to find a solution for the living room where the humongous tv is. I get that I can buy Chromecast or such and stream that way, but with a tight budget we're hoping to run the blu-ray player til it dies The blu-ray player streams youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc, and I've gotten so far as to download one app, PlayTo Sony, which displayed the name of my device on the screen, but showed no media to play, so got part-way there but no cigar.
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does your tv have wifi? I think there are android apps that you can share content on your phone to the tv through wifi
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does your tv have wifi? I think there are android apps that you can share content on your phone to the tv through wifi
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Only the Blu-ray player has wifi. TV isn't a smart TV.
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Only the Blu-ray player has wifi. TV isn't a smart TV.
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is the blu ray DLNA compatible? I think that is the only way it will work, if it is DLNA you can try the Skifta app
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is the blu ray DLNA compatible? I think that is the only way it will work, if it is DLNA you can try the Skifta app
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Yes, BDP-S570 shows DLNA yes. I got skifta to go so far as displaying all my musical artists/albums on the TV, no luck with the video section and wouldn't play any music files either says no file to play.
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