Playing files over network with Rockplayer - Desire General

The latest version of Rockplayer is supposed to play files from a network whilst browsing it through a file manager (EStrongs and Astro) but I cannot get this to work. I click on the file, choose Rockplayer from the popup, but it wont play.
Ive tried it on LOADS on different types of movie files but no joy.
Anyone help?

Related

music

I have downloaded a load of tracks from Virgins web site and then copied them to my xdaIIi and they wont play.
is there a file format I can convert music too that will play? anybody had this issue?
thanks all

watching videos

Hi, I'm not very tech savy with my TP2 phone and was just wondering about watching videos on it. I've tried putting videos on my phone that I've downloaded from my PC and nothing ever works through the media player. Always get an error or a message saying can't play this type of format.
I've also tried RAR movie files and those are also a no go. Is there anyway media player that I can download that plays rar files? Is there anyway to watch these on my phone?
Thanks
One player on WM plays most of the codes. Core Player. It is a commercial product. It's well worth the cost.
You cant play rar files, instead the rarfile contains the video so you will have to unpack it with either winrar or 7-zip.
Rezz said:
You cant play rar files, instead the rarfile contains the video so you will have to unpack it with either winrar or 7-zip.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
okay thanks. This winrar, do I download it to me pc or phone? Probably the pc right and unpack the rar files on there and then load them on my phone?
Now once I've unpacked them will any player play them of just the core player?
HTCdano said:
okay thanks. This winrar, do I download it to me pc or phone? Probably the pc right and unpack the rar files on there and then load them on my phone?
Now once I've unpacked them will any player play them of just the core player?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, extract the contents of your RAR file on your PC to your phone. What player will play your file will depend on your file's format or codec. Coreplayer will play just about any kind of video file though.

[Q] Audio Book Files

Anyone know where downloaded audiobook mp3 files get stored after there downloaded. I can play them from a file menu after it downloads but if I close it
I cant find it again.

[Q] How to set a video player over SMB streaming in File Expert?

I'm using root file explorer to connect to my Samba shared NAS (goflex home).
If I copy a .mkv file to my local sdcard, when I click the file (in file expert) it gives me the popup of what program I want to open the video file in. I click mxplayer, it plays just fine.
But if I connect via SMB to my NAS, when I click the same .mkv file, it won't let me pick a video player; instead it says it can't find a default program for this type of file, do I want it to search for one or no thanks. Search for one fails, and no thank just returns me to the File Expert screen. If I want to take the time (and SPACE) I can copy that same mkv file to my sdcard and play it.
So, my question is, how do I get file Expert to give me the video player prompt when connecting via SMB?
As a side not I've tried ES File Explorer in Lan Mode and always get Login Failure connecting to the goflex_home NAS (even though I've triple checked the login credentials and am using the same as in File Expoer).
I've also tried Avia to use DLNA and it sometime works but it doesn't show my Samba shares, it shows my DLNA shares and for some reason doesn't show all of them, including the files I want to play (and yes I shared them already with the Goflex Home config panel.
tl;dr -- how do I tell file expert to use mxplayer when browsing SMB shares, instead of the popup asking to find a program to handle the file?
Edit: Made some progress; tweaked the ES File Expert connection settings to connect to the root of my share and can connect and it gives me the choice of what file player to use -- though it seems to fail streaming. the same file I can play fine from sdcard chokes and is unplayable over streaming.
Alternately, does anyone have a better solution for this problem entirely?
Edit2: Sorry a but more info. When the mkv file is on my sdcard and I click it, I get the same error popup. If I hold down on the file fore afew seconds, I can click "Open As" then "Video" then pick my player. But in SMB exploring, holding down doesn't have an "Open as" option in the menu.
i second this question... same here with samba!!!
anybody knows?
It gives me option to select the player.

(Q)transfering .mkv files from pc to phone

i'm having problem transfering .mkv video files from my pc to my phone. Everytime i transfer a file , windows pops up "windows stopped working" and then just closed everything out. I tried to transfer small .mkv video files and samething happened. But if i transfer .mp4 or any other file, it transfered just fine. I reinstalled the samsung drivers a few times and it still doesn't work. It will work through kies but i get no audio. The only option for me is to take my microsd out and transfer the .mkv movies over and put the microsd back in the phone. Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
I have the same problem with this, transferring mkv files, while connected via USB, shows an error.
Any solution for this yet ?
Chaldean710 said:
I have the same problem with this, transferring mkv files, while connected via USB, shows an error.
Any solution for this yet ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it happened on my galaxy s3 too. Haven't found anything solutions for a fix yet. Still waiting on someone here might have an answer or a wokaround to fix this problem
Just simple rename your .mkv to. .MP4 file via winrar or etc.
and rename again in your phone to .mkv via file explorer
Jeffrianz said:
Just simple rename your .mkv to. .MP4 file via winrar or etc.
and rename again in your phone to .mkv via file explorer
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
tried renaming to .MP4 and .AVI but it still didnt transfer, thanks for the suggestion though.
Oh and I also tried using a different file explorer (Total Commander), that didnt work either.
Chaldean710 said:
tried renaming to .MP4 and .AVI but it still didnt transfer, thanks for the suggestion though.
Oh and I also tried using a different file explorer (Total Commander), that didnt work either.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you have Kies installed on your pc? You can go in import/export tab, import a mvk file to your phone and see. I did it that way and it worked. I thought I didn't get audio because of Kies but I got no audio when I transfer it to my microsd card either. Maybe the phone doesn't bluray ripped audio or something. But you can try do it throughkKies and see if yours work.
try another file type not video format.. .txt,zip,rar,or something
This is a windows error type for .mkv files. It has to do with the divx codecs trying to render a preview thumbnail for the file. Google mkv divx windows codec transferring problem... it will tell you how to resolve... long story short... divx codec pack needs to be uninstalled. Then reinstall and disable thumbnail preview... worked like a charm for me.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
jdmadonna said:
This is a windows error type for .mkv files. It has to do with the divx codecs trying to render a preview thumbnail for the file. Google mkv divx windows codec transferring problem... it will tell you how to resolve... long story short... divx codec pack needs to be uninstalled. Then reinstall and disable thumbnail preview... worked like a charm for me.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I did that, checked the box "disable thumbnails" (but somehow I still have thumbnails) and when I transfer it, it tells me the size of the file is too big. A transfer of 100mb .mkv file worked
also tried to rename to .txt .doc and so on, still didnt work
Chaldean710 said:
Yeah I did that, checked the box "disable thumbnails" (but somehow I still have thumbnails) and when I transfer it, it tells me the size of the file is too big. A transfer of 100mb .mkv file worked
also tried to rename to .txt .doc and so on, still didnt work
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I too had been able to transfer a smaller file... it was the larger ones that crashed. I uninstalled the divx codec AND player, reinstalled and disabled thumbnail preview at the program level...NOT the windows folder view level. If you do it in just the windows folder view level, you will get the same problem. It is tied directly to the divx codec. Hope this helps you out.
Used dropbox to get mkv files to my phone.
sic_lic1o1 said:
i'm having problem transfering .mkv video files from my pc to my phone. Everytime i transfer a file , windows pops up "windows stopped working" and then just closed everything out. I tried to transfer small .mkv video files and samething happened. But if i transfer .mp4 or any other file, it transfered just fine. I reinstalled the samsung drivers a few times and it still doesn't work. It will work through kies but i get no audio. The only option for me is to take my microsd out and transfer the .mkv movies over and put the microsd back in the phone. Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Uninstall divx from your pc, it will then transfer fine.
I just put my microsd card in my computer and do it that way
Sent from my SGH-T889V using xda premium

Categories

Resources