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Mobile Episodes

Ok, I have been googling both here and in general and cannot find the solution to my search. There are plenty of places to watch old TV episodes on my PC at home, such as surfthechannel.com, but I can't seem to find the same thing for mobile phones like ours. Anyone know of a good website that has old TV episodes that can be streamed over the data connection to our phones? I was almost all caught up with Dr Who and wanted to get in some additional watching while at work.

Download Skyfire browser and watch your shows on that site. Should work.
http://www.skyfire.com/

I agree...use Skyfire. I tried nearly every single shareware and freeware program that is supposed to let you watch TV and they all had major problems. The biggest issue is that Media Player cannot handle most of the video streams. I even tried Coreplayer and it busted out on most of the streams.
Regards,
Devin

seems to be working fine. Thanks. It was agrivating using IE and having it give me a mobile version rather than let me actually get to the video content like I wanted.
Update: I found the issue and the fix to no audio. In advanced settings make sure you don't have hint for mobil checked. Once you have made that correction do a soft reset and you should have audio. I have not gotten on surfthechannel yet to confirm if it fixes it there or not. Will update later today when I try that sight.

necromis said:
seems to be working fine. Thanks. It was agrivating using IE and having it give me a mobile version rather than let me actually get to the video content like I wanted.
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does your volume work on surfthechannel.com? i can't seem to get it to work... hmmf! the video seems alright, but useless without sound! i am addicted to house! =)

actually I didn't try it there yet. I was watching chuck on NBC.com yesterday. I will try out a Dr Who episode later today to see if sound works or not.

Make sure your audio is not muted (here will be a checkmark if it is muted). In Skyfire go to Menu -> Actions -> Mute Audio

actually it seems that today I am getting no audio either. Nothing is muted. I did a soft reset last night. I usually do to make sure the GPS is not running any more and since then it is not playing sound.

thank you necromis and segadc....but I beg you both to forgive my stupidity! lol =) I actually figured it out last night... it seems that my audio was muted thru the actions menu....hmmmmmf, go figure that would produce no sound!!! lol *blushing*

well I had put an update on here earlier but it didn't stick so I am posting it in a new message. I found the fix on here earlier for the audio, besides the obvious one you found. LOL It seems that if in the advance settings you have hint for mobile checked it won't sync sound. So make sure that is also unchecked and do a soft reset afterwards. Also the audio server is not always functioning or connected to properly. You can try to exit and reload skyfire to resolve it and hook up with the audio server properly that way.

[Q] Track/Artist Metadata Issue Over Bluetooth?

Hey everyone!
I'm having an issue that I can't seem to resolve. I have a Galaxy S5 that recently received the lollipop update. Prior to this update when playing music from Google Play Music the track/artist metadata would pass and show up on my car's stereo display. Post update I can still connect, play music over bluetooth, and control the music with steering wheel/dash controls, but the metadata no longer displays (using Google Play Music).
I did some different tests and if I play a mp3 file from the stock music app the metadata is passed. I also connected my wife's phone ( Moto X still on KitKat) and tried streaming music though GP Music and the metadata shows up as expected. I've tried deleting/pairing my phone again and even did a factory reset on my S5 last night, but nothing seems to resolve this.
I know there seems to be hit or miss with AVRCP. I haven't been able to find much in terms of actual information and thought I'd check in to see if anyone has had a similar experience or would possibly have a solution.
Thanks!

I am also having the same issue. Sprint basically told me that it isn't their problem and to wait it out. I've downloaded suggested apps and everything else except doing a hard reset.

MP3 metadata not showing over Bluetooth in car - T-Mobile
I just updated to the latest release for my Galaxy S5, Lollipop, and everything seems to work like a champ, except the streaming of music from my phone to my car's in-dash receiver. Prior to the upgrade, everything worked great. All metadata was passed along, as well as the track progress, and skip forward and backward. After the update, the music will play just fine, but I cannot skip tracks from my car stereo or steering wheel controls any more, I have to do it from my phone. Also, none of the metadata is passed along to my stereo.
I use the stock music app on my phone, but I also tried the Google Play Music app, and it does the same thing. The MP3 files are all stored locally on my SD card.
I'm hoping someone else out there has had this problem, and has solved it. Thanks.

Galaxy S5 SongTitle/Artis Display Problem
blinduvula said:
Hey everyone!
I'm having an issue that I can't seem to resolve. I have a Galaxy S5 that recently received the lollipop update. Prior to this update when playing music from Google Play Music the track/artist metadata would pass and show up on my car's stereo display. Post update I can still connect, play music over bluetooth, and control the music with steering wheel/dash controls, but the metadata no longer displays (using Google Play Music).
I did some different tests and if I play a mp3 file from the stock music app the metadata is passed. I also connected my wife's phone ( Moto X still on KitKat) and tried streaming music though GP Music and the metadata shows up as expected. I've tried deleting/pairing my phone again and even did a factory reset on my S5 last night, but nothing seems to resolve this.
I know there seems to be hit or miss with AVRCP. I haven't been able to find much in terms of actual information and thought I'd check in to see if anyone has had a similar experience or would possibly have a solution.
Thanks!
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I have exactly the same problem. After the lolipop upgrade of S5 I was not able to see the track/artist name on the display of my car anymore. However the there is no problem with streaming of music to car speakers. I'm using spotify but I tried playing mp3 files and different applications. None of them worked. Car display only shows the device name of the S5. I contacted Samsung support with the hope to get an answer and the first thing they asked was whether I tried the device with another bluetooth capable device. No way! I have another car but no bluetooth capability. Recently Samsung deployed another update after lolipop upgrade but the same again.
Having the artis/track name; does it contribute too much? won't make you fly but it was there when we had the kit kat on S5 and missing at the moment. Yes I have the same problem but don't have a resolution... Would be great to hear different ideas or a workaround from Samsung!
Thanks.

Same problem here on my Galaxy S5 with TW Lollipop. I'm so disappointed about all the stuff that changed (e.g notifications) or does not work like Bluetooth avrcp. I start to regret the update to LP. And I wated over a year...

A temporary fix could be to download Music mate from the app store, (it can pull songs from play music onto your device). Not sure if this would help you guys as it seems some of you have already got local access to the mp3s etc.
Just thought I'd say anyway just incase.
Good luck

Shaolin36 said:
A temporary fix could be to download Music mate from the app store, (it can pull songs from play music onto your device). Not sure if this would help you guys as it seems some of you have already got local access to the mp3s etc.
Just thought I'd say anyway just incase.
Good luck
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Thanks for the suggestion. Music Mate needs a Google Play account which I don't have. I tried another suggested app which should fix this temporary (Bluetooth something) but it did not work. Which I had suspected because the root cause seams to be AVRCP 1.5 inside Android Lollipop instead of older backward compatible versions 1.3 or 1.4. The suspicion is that Google's engeenier didn't have older / legacy / enough different Bluetooth car cits to test. Compiling the source code with a compiler switch, which disables AVRCP 1.5 leads to working meta information. Because Bluedroid is a new proprietary stack newly build by Google it doesn't help to have its source open. There is no APK which we can exchange with a working older version. Instead it seams to be compiled into core components of Android. So the only two chances seams to be:
1. Samsung / Your Handset provider pushes an update which fixes this
2. somebody finds a way through XPOSED to patch the relevant stuff into a life Lollipop.

B170 Bluetooth + WiFi

Hey there....
I just bought a P8 (GRA-L09). In general, I'm very happy with it, BUT I have the following issues:
* When I connect a bluetooth speaker or headphones, my WiFi has connection issues (youtube + amazon video + vimeo video streams first hang, then they stop completely). Same problem with other "streams" (radio etc.). As soon as I disconnect the BT device, the WiFi gets back to normal and runs smoothly again.
* Amazon Instant Videos in HD (Amazon video app) display with a green bar and wrong colors.
Does anybody else have the same issues? Do you think, it makes sense to wait for a new build to fix these issues, or should I better turn the phone in? Or is there even a solution by patching anything (new baseband or something else?).
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
heppa

Ok, apparently, this seems not only linked to the P8, but is a general problem with BT and WiFi, depending on the router and BT device. It is only very obvious due to the lack of 5GHz wifi band support in the P8. What a pity!
Anyhow, I would be very pleased to hear other opinions on this...
Many thanks!

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* Amazon Instant Videos in HD (Amazon video app) display with a green bar and wrong colors...
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Same problem with Amazon App here.
Gave feedback to the customer service.
We all should do if we all have this problem.
Only this way programmers of Amazon have to make an update.

Same problem.
While streaming via bluetooth, the wifi is very slow.
Nice to see when playing youtube and have the bluetooth speakers on.

Nexus Player- Netflix 2.3.0 Won't Play 5.1 Audio

Netflix Audio Woes
I know this has been talked about a lot, but nothing in the past month or so...
Netflix (ver. 2.3.0) won't play 5.1 audio but Kodi plays surround sound without problems. Netflix support also says it's not their app and that is it something lost in translation (maybe literally) when the NP outputs to the AVR. The AVR has not had any issues with the DD+ from Chromecast Netflix - I'm stumped.
Any thoughts? Anyone having similar issues? I just picked up the NP yesterday btw.
Thanks for the input!

I have exactly the same problem. Netflix says, it correctly delivers 5.1 audio to the player, but my pioneer AV receiver just gets 2.0 PCM!
What I have tested so far:
Netflix-App on Nexus 5 -＞ Chromecast -＞ Pioneer VSX-924: DD+ 5.1 OK
Netflix-App on Nexus Player -＞ Pioneer VSX-924: just 2.0 PCM
Netflix-App on Nexus Player -＞ Onkyo TX-SR606: DD+ 5.1 OK
I have swapped cables and inputs.
Netflix blames Pioneer, Pioneer blames Google/ASUS, ASUS says "its a compatibility issue we cannot help"
simpsojp, what AVR do you have?

Hi,
Seeing an similar issue on my brand new Denon AVR-X2200.
Only getting PCM when choosing 5.1 in Netflix. Getting distorted sound.
Seeing the same problem in Plex on my Nexus player.
All other inputs works fine. Chromecast, tv tuner etc..
/Jo Christian

I have a Pioneer VSX-1019ah-k. I just naively tried editing build.prop to set media.aac_51_output_enabled=false but as one would expect, it was not that easy. I know my AVR (and probably yours chr1ssss) can't decode AAC 5.1 so if something in the NP is taking the Netflix audio stream and converting it to AAC 5.1, I would just get a stereo PCM audio stream. Other's with newer Onkyo AVRs seem to have success so it has to be a codec output issue.
I believe this is not a Netflix problem but an Android OS problem. I'm going to try flashing Marshmallow as another easy fix attempt but I'm not holding out much hope. If anyone has any suggestions to the proper use of the build.prop settings, I'm all ears. In no way do I want an AAC 5.1 stream leaving my NP!

I can happily report that Marshmallow worked!!! NP now let's Netflix pass through 5.1 DD+!! Now to get root back.

simpsojp said:
I can happily report that Marshmallow worked!!! NP now let's Netflix pass through 5.1 DD+!! Now to get root back.
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Thanks for your reply, I will update to Marshmallow asap.
I was emailing with Pioneer and chatting with Netflix multiple times - everybody keeped blaming the other company
Google never responded to any of my questions.

Marshmallow did it!
DD+ now works.

Glad it worked for you too!

Marshmallow fixed my issue too. Nexus Player + Pioneer Elite SC-67. I always just got static when trying to play 5.1 in Netflix before. Now it is fixed in 6.0

Did you have to enable a setting for pass through or did it just work?

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I can happily report that Marshmallow worked!!! NP now let's Netflix pass through 5.1 DD+!! Now to get root back.
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JohnnyKilo said:
Did you have to enable a setting for pass through or did it just work?
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AFAIK there are no audio settings which could be adjusted, neither in Android itself nor in Netflix. If the Netflixapp recognizes that your euqipment is capabble to play DD+ 5.1 it offers the audiotrack.

Unfortunately even after Marshmallow Netflix still wont play DD, as a test i installed the Archos Player and it played movies in 5.1 with no issues so it's not the nexus player, anyone have any ideas, something I could try?
thank you.

aciampoli said:
Unfortunately even after Marshmallow Netflix still wont play DD, as a test i installed the Archos Player and it played movies in 5.1 with no issues so it's not the nexus player, anyone have any ideas, something I could try?
thank you.
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What AVR are you using?
5.1 and DolbyDigital/DolbyDigitalPlus are not the same. I was able to play 5.1 PCM via Google Play Movies even with Lollipop.

chr1ssss said:
What AVR are you using?
5.1 and DolbyDigital/DolbyDigitalPlus are not the same. I was able to play 5.1 PCM via Google Play Movies even with Lollipop.
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I have Yamaha YSP-3000 it supports Dolby Digital Pro Logic II

Has anyone gotten any further with this? Is there some trick to getting it to work?

For most of us, updating to Android 6 fixed the issue.

Not for me, unfortunately - Kodi & Plex output DD, Netflix does not. Running 6.0.1. Anything else I could try to get it to work?

Swapping cables, resetting and updating devices you could try. As there is no setting to adjust or logs you could check, your options are pretty limited.
Contacting the vendorsupport might help too.

Image fault, is there a fix?

Newbie here, sorry if this is wrong place
see https://photos.app.goo.gl/B7XTxPn7fePLoMvT6
This is Eurosport Player on a bbox android tv. Full fibre. So you can see the video playing but every (10th~ ish sort of) frame is a still (unchanging) from the same program. It's just Eurosport Player that it happens.
They actually told me earlier that Eurosport Player isn't compatible with my bbox. Can't really understand what that might be about. It's a 4K box running FHD.
BBox comes with my internet package, what they call in France Triple Play, a WiFi Roiuter Modem, a TV decoder (in this case Android) and Phone. Maybe I'll buy an independent AndoidTv box. Maybe I'll use an old phone and chromecast it. Any better ideas please?