I've lost track a little bit about all new stuff and questions about Froyo so if this was already mentioned please ignore it, and it maybe deserves to go to some other thread but i felt it's really important.
I read people complained about issue where froyo now plays embeded youtube video in browser which is rather slow. And it still plays it this new way if you press full-screen button, but... it only does this if you are in portrait mode. If you are in LANDSCAPE mode and you press full-screen it lets you choose weather you want to play it using browser or youtube app, like it worked on 2.1. For me this is a great news. If you already knew it sorry for spam.
EDIT: You might need to hit play before clicking on full screen. Just tested...
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41799/145/
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After using it for a few mins... Cool new little app, but ide rather stick to using HTC streaming media/internet explorer combo.
Cons:
-Cant clear/erase any text in input boxes by hitting the back button, it will end up being used like a normal back button command and return you to previous programs/home screen. Very annoying, you will have to close the program and reopen it to reuse the search field.
-No option to sign into your own YouTube account like you can on m.youtube.com. I like being able to go to my favorites and my videos. You cant do this with this application.
Pros:
-Very fast and simple layout.
-The video buffers extremely fast and the video/sound quality is superior to HTC Streaming Media Player.
-Seems to be stable.
Youtube
Yes anyone whos new here u want HTC_Streaming_Media. Cab file, forget about anything else to use YouTube.
SvB4EvA said:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41799/145/
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After using it for a few mins... Cool new little app, but ide rather stick to using HTC streaming media/internet explorer combo.
Cons:
-Cant clear/erase any text in input boxes by hitting the back button, it will end up being used like a normal back button command and return you to previous programs/home screen. Very annoying, you will have to close the program and reopen it to reuse the search field.
-No option to sign into your own YouTube account like you can on m.youtube.com. I like being able to go to my favorites and my videos. You cant do this with this application.
Pros:
-Very fast and simple layout.
-The video buffers extremely fast and the video/sound quality is superior to HTC Streaming Media Player.
-Seems to be stable.
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works great
can you post the cab? id like to try for myself but the download links isnt showing up
fliparsenal said:
can you post the cab? id like to try for myself but the download links isnt showing up
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here you go
Seems like a nice YouTube app, except I can't get any sound on my Dash. Any suggestions?
Does this Youtube app, load an icon into programs? or does it make a folder in programs ?
Ghost of Jaco said:
Seems like a nice YouTube app, except I can't get any sound on my Dash. Any suggestions?
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Load a video then press up, mine had no sound til I pushed up on the D-Pad and got the players slid bar.
Not a bad app, but too limited, SvB4EvA review is spot on
HTCP4000PPC said:
Does this Youtube app, load an icon into programs? or does it make a folder in programs ?
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It loads a YouTube icon into programs, not a folder.
Bupahs said:
Not a bad app, but too limited, SvB4EvA review is spot on
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Thx Bup!
I was just wondering if there is a way to watch other videos than youtube using mobile??
If so could u tell me how to make it work?
you could try youtubeplay or skyfire browser
thx for sky fire. the quality is not the best but it works
yeah I know but if they just make it 800x480 native not stretched it will be much better
This isn't rom related and should be moved out of this forum. Please try and follow forum rules when posting.
sorry but tell me one more thing how can i enable sound to this movies??
So?? doeas eny one know how to give sound to videos in skyfire??
Sound
I have sound with Skyfire (v1.0) (There is an icon at the start of skyfire and at the start of video)
Do you know Web Video Downloader ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427702
It's a good soft.
just restart your device or just reinstall it it often shows that problem with almost every single people and another option before doing that u should carry out is go to setting advance option untick your hint to mobile device that should do i guess...
hope it works mate other wise only option is reinstall it and ya before and after reset.
its not working maby its cos i have duttys rom??:/
And tell me where on startup is this icon??
try mach 5, it's got the speed of skyfire (same technology) but with opera's resolution. It also sports a dedicated flash video player so youtube vids and the like will play without any problems (and look great when compared to skyfire).
Yeah its really really grate but its for cash:/
Skyfire
When it loads the home page and each time I launch a video I have an icon of a speaker to enable or disable sound. Do you have the latest version ?
Ok I'm coming from another phone where I'm used to certain things so I'm trying to figure out some things on the Incredible... any help would be appreciated.
1. How do I send MMS video? No matter what resolution I take a video at, when I try to send it through MMS I get the message saying it's too large. It doesn't give me the option to edit it and send or anything.... When I used other android devices (Hero and N1) there was an option to take "MMS Video" which I thought was pretty poor way of doing things since I could be taking a video that I then wanted to later send as MMS but didn't have the option if it wasn't taken at MMS... Shouldn't it just convert it and send it for you or something? Anyhow, I don't even see the "MMS Video" option so I figured they had fixed this and made it so it converts it for you but no dice...
2. In the web browser I can't view videos like on Vimeo etc... For some reason I was under the impression that this phone did flash? But I can't get flash videos OR HTML5 embedded videos to load. :-( Now on Vimeo, the video does appear to be there but when I hit the play button the loading bar appears, loads up to 100% and then nothing happens... and hitting the full screen toggle in the corner of the video window doesn't make it full screen either... What am I doing wrong?
3. On the mail client it doesn't seem to be rendering HTML correctly. Some of the formatting is broken and I have to tell it to load pictures each time I open a message. Is there a way to change it so it always loads all HTML and pictures? Also when I do click to load the pictures, the rendering is off and not sized correctly; I have to scroll side to side as well as up an down to view the full email. Also a lot of the text is unaligned especially around pictures. This also happens in the Gmail app too. How can I improve this?
4. In the camera App, the app works fine actually it's just odd that the controls are stuck in landscape mode and when I turn the phone to portrait the controls don't change with it... Just seems like something that should be addressed especially in out of the box apps.
5. Is there a way to arrange the order my friends are in on the people widget?
6. What's the default movie player on the Incredible and does it support subtitles/chapters? How do I get them on the device?
7. What are some good task switchers you recommend? Other than the default long press on home task switcher.
try skyfire browser for vimeo.. works well but unfortunately does not work for hulu
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I've noticed on a few forum based websites when people imbed video clips such as youtube ones, I can't play them.
They either appear as a blank area which does nothing when I click on it or I just get an egg timer come up but the video never loads.
Only happens on my Desire and not on my laptop.
Phones arn't properly built to really play embedded video. Skyfire does play it a lot better than all other browsers but the website also needs to optimize it for phones but they don't. This isn't an issue as such, just something that needs to be addressed.
Thanks very much for the reply.
I noticed yesterday that even when I click on a link to a youtube clip (an address not just an imbedded video link) it seems to simply take me to a main youtube menu screen with a number of clips on it but not the actual clip I was linking to?!!
Anyone any ideas why that might be?
Download Miren Browser from the market en make sure you have flash installed. Then it should work
Then set the user agent to Default browser or Chrome. This way you can also view clips that are disabled for mobile view.
I have dl/ed Soul Player and Mvideo player to attempt to watch some of my movies, the movies play just fine in WinMo. I notice the movies (those that will load) will just do nothing, they do not give an error that the file can not play but they also do not play at all However the time does countdown on the file as though it is playing the file (like it will say 5 seconds into the movie). If I move the scroll bar the screen will show that particular frame then be stuck on that frame.
am i missing something, there doesn't appear to be a stock movie player with android.
this affects multiple movies btw and the quality is fine in winmo..
There isn't a 'stock' movie player that I know of.
This is expected behavior (if you will). The codecs in Android do not make full use of the hardware for whatever reason - hyc has pushed the libs a little farther than they are capable of currently, but he was never able to match WinMo... We're still missing something on the Android side of things.
HQ YouTube has this same issue - seems videos above a certain resolution do not play nice. I'll have to do some searching to find hyc's posts on this topic, something you should've already done...
I got a large number of hits on it when I searched the issue but nothing providing an explanation similar to what you have stated, I suppose I will just continue viewing videos in winmo then.
Thanks for the assistance!
MDavisiw said:
I got a large number of hits on it when I searched the issue but nothing providing an explanation similar to what you have stated, I suppose I will just continue viewing videos in winmo then.
Thanks for the assistance!
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Found hyc's post after a couple minutes of searching.
Searching and reading isn't easy or simple, I don't pretend that it is. Just an essential part of working with any open source project.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13834432&postcount=28
That post basically summarizes the conundrum we have with video playback in Android.