Develop Bugs

Playing video on CM7

Is there a way to play video on CM7? I have Rock Player installed to play .avi movies. But they don't seem to be working. Does anyone know a solution.
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You should try arcMedia on the market....I can play .avi files with it

I downloaded and tried it. The video still won't play. It's like something is blocking it. It looks like it's gonna start but then it kicks me back out of the app.
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VPlayer.
How fast is your MicroSDHC card? I know I have problems with high-def video on the card that came with the phone. I hear that faster cards have better results.

jelucas30 said:
I downloaded and tried it. The video still won't play. It's like something is blocking it. It looks like it's gonna start but then it kicks me back out of the app.
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Also what type of video are you trying to play? I've had some issues with some formats...

I'm trying to play .avi files. They usually play fine with Rock Player.
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Can not play any video in CM7
If you use rockplayer in software decode mode, it will work... I was having the same issue..

jelucas30 said:
I'm trying to play .avi files. They usually play fine with Rock Player.
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What codec? What resolution? What bitrate?

I'm having the same problem, it looks like its going to start then back to the root of my SD. video format is not an issue because the same videos worked with the same version of rock player on MIUI, CM6, and stock.

So what's the best player that plays avi format files with CM7 rom?

VPlayer works fine for me. Been watching DivX DVDRips all the time with it.

drmacinyasha said:
VPlayer works fine for me. Been watching DivX DVDRips all the time with it.
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thanks buddy

Hey! I had the same issue but I downloaded the free version of rock player and that worked. Kinda weird but just thought I would let you know.
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jacoballen22 said:
Hey! I had the same issue but I downloaded the free version of rock player and that worked. Kinda weird but just thought I would let you know.
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Is that Rock Player lite in market?

Yessir!
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MKV player with .ass support

Could you please tell me app that can play mkv files and show .ass subtitles? I like to watch anime so that's very important.
I have mVideoPlayer and it works great but it doesnt show subs that translates for example signs.
I tried many others (moboplayer, Rock player, arcplayer, Meridian player)
but they all have the same problem)

Moboplayer works well for me.
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microspock said:
Moboplayer
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I already said that i tried it and it has same problem as mvideoplayer
EDIT: It doesnt show subs at all

lol.....ass support

I like supporting .ass.

Haha them ass files finally got the finger!
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Crotoni said:
I already said that i tried it and it has same problem as mvideoplayer
EDIT: It doesnt show subs at all
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try with Soft-decoding in Moboplayer

try a diaper at ur nearest supermarket....

Amrael said:
try with Soft-decoding in Moboplayer
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Now it can play ass subs but I have problems same as with mVideoplayer
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mmmh...mines are mkvs with hard-subs generally so have less problems than you i think.
if i remember well long press on the files let you choose the subs.
another way could be to set the encoding characters in mobo options.
UTF-8 generally solves it for me

Amrael said:
mmmh...mines are mkvs with hard-subs generally so have less problems than you i think.
if i remember well long press on the files let you choose the subs.
another way could be to set the encoding characters in mobo options.
UTF-8 generally solves it for me
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I dont think that you understand my problem. I can play ass subs.
When i watch anime and song starts playing it shows me lyrics of sonfs trnaslated in english but than it doesnt show subs of what are they talking because it shows lyrics. Lyrcs should be on top and here it shows on bottom. I hope that you understand.
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ha yes, i see ^^
had the prob too with some subs in MOBO and haven't found any solution for that.
As far as i know, those kinds of probs came from lazy subbers
i'm already happy to be able to play my files on my phone (saves me the pain to bring a laptop + hard drives at work lol ) so generally i don't bother to much for that on my phone when all is good at home on my computer with CCCP

Amrael said:
ha yes, i see ^^
had the prob too with some subs in MOBO and haven't found any solution for that.
As far as i know, those kinds of probs came from lazy subbers
i'm already happy to be able to play my files on my phone (saves me the pain to bring a laptop + hard drives at work lol ) so generally i don't bother to much for that on my phone when all is good at home on my computer with CCCP
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We can only hope that someone found solution for that.

bump
i'm bored

Any solution for the ass problem?
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Skimi said:
Any solution for the ass problem?
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sry bro but no :S
try asking your doctor

LOL!
Classic

did they come up with an universal file extension for pr0n?
ah i see...subtitles....but....why would you need subtitles for pr0n

zerozoneice said:
did they come up with an universal file extension for pr0n?
ah i see...subtitles....but....why would you need subtitles for pr0n
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Asian pr0n

Still looking for player :S

Videos Dont Play when recorded PORTRAIT

when i record a video on PORTRAIT, it doesnt play on my computer. When recorded LANDSCAPE, it works.
THIS HAPPENS ON ALL ROMS I FLASHED.
any suggestions?

bstylz911 said:
when i record a video on PORTRAIT, it doesnt play on my computer. When recorded LANDSCAPE, it works.
THIS HAPPENS ON ALL ROMS I FLASHED.
any suggestions?
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My videos always play just fine when I record in portrait or landscape. I have not run into a ROM that has given me those kind of issues.

damn tried reformting sd card. but still doesnt work.

maybe its the video player? because the video plays on your phone right?

My wife had this problem cm7, it was really weird, the only way I could get it to play was to download rock player and I had to navigate to the directory and open the file with something like file expert and then select rock player.
But this was on the phone not on a computer.
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Update codecs on computer?
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thederekjay said:
Update codecs on computer?
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all codec are updated. its weird because it happened on my tmobile g2 too.
it was working before but than one day it wouldnt play any more.
only a black screen with sound. no video

Why is this posted in [myTouch 4G Android Development] ?

ps3play said:
Why is this posted in [myTouch 4G Android Development] ?
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opps sorry guys lol.
if any mod would be so kind to move this to the correct thread please do so.
sorry again.

Upnp or dlna app

I have a upnp enabled nas and all the apps i have tried are able to find the nas and video but cant play anyone of it. All my nas videos are .avi or .xvid format. I even tried using the stock player but same thing finds my nas but doesn't play anything:mad
Any help appreciated
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ak789 said:
I have a upnp enabled nas and all the apps i have tried are able to find the nas and video but cant play anyone of it. All my nas videos are .avi or .xvid format. I even tried using the stock player but same thing finds my nas but doesn't play anything:mad
Any help appreciated
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Im guessing nas is network attached storage.... I had the same issues going from my computer through dlna router to tv with those same type files.... it's because nothing had proper codecs... ended up installing divx codecs and allshare to fix it... don't know what your fix is, since its stored on external storage and i thought the s3 could play those files... but this search looks promising

Softmedia Player is what I used on the Samsung Vibrant for this purpose. I'll have the GS3 tonight and this will be one of the first things I'll be exploring. It's a bit overkill, but there is now an xbmc for android that I've tried on my wife's GS2. It works well and can use UPnP sources.

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Softmedia Player is what I used on the Samsung Vibrant for this purpose. I'll have the GS3 tonight and this will be one of the first things I'll be exploring. It's a bit overkill, but there is now an xbmc for android that I've tried on my wife's GS2. It works well and can use UPnP sources.
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tried but same thing for me cant play it the player sees all files
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Softmedia Player is working well for me for UPnP. I also installed MX Video player as well and when Softmedia Player asks, I use MX to play the videos. MX uses hardware decoding where possible and otherwise reverts to software.

Vids/pics/music on XBOX

Surprised no one has talked about this at all. Anyway, happened to be watching Netflix on my XBOX last night, and while doing so, was checking out some pictures on my phone. Saw a button I never seen before that kind of looked like a little computer screen with 3 lines kind of going through it. I guess it said something like "view on another player". This apparently being the first time I was using my S3 and XBOX at the same time. So I press the button, and it stops my movie, and shows my picture on my TV!
Did some fooling around. As long as I'm using a stock music, video, or gallery app, and the file is on the phone itself, it will stream through my XBOX at the touch of a button. The free Avengers movie in Media Hub didn't work, Netflix didn't work. USB transferred an episode of Hell on Wheels over to the phone, it asked if I wanted to convert it to assure it would work on the phone and said yes, tried it out and it worked pretty good. I can only imagine how nice it would have looked if I hadn't converted it, going to try later and see.
Was just curious if anyone else has used this feature at all? Seems pretty cool to me.

I think that's DLNA.

What tv do u have?
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RotaryXperiment7 said:
What tv do u have?
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The TV has nothing to do with it, it's going through my XBOX. It was just crazy to me because I've never been able to link my XBOX and computer properly, and I can see my computer in the gallery app sometimes but I can never see any files. I did happen to start a test on my battery while having basically everything running and all options available, so I have activated some options I normally don't use. I think one night I tried messing with the settings on my XBOX to get it to show my phone since it comes up on my roomie's PS3 although I've never tried using this feature on that before. Since I don't use my XBOX a whole lot lately, and I imagine it's possible others don't use it at the same time, I thought I'd mention it.
aNYthing, is that exactly what DLNA is? because, if so, there's a lot of people going and buying that allshare hub thing that wouldn't need to if they have an XBOX or PS3. Obviously Samsung is not going to promote that! I don't have the DLNA share option being used so it never occurred to me that it could be using it. I guess I assumed DLNA was something that was used to go directly to the TV, which in my case, is not what's happening, and definitely not possible.

Where was that monitor icon? On Xbox or phone?
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RotaryXperiment7 said:
Where was that monitor icon? On Xbox or phone?
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on the phone. XBOX was already playing a Netflix movie. Pressed it and it stopped the movie I was watching, and a few seconds later, it appeared on my TV. Swiped to another pic, and IT popped up. Watched a short video I took the other day, it looked GREAT! As I said, I'm not really sure what I changed or if I established a link between my S3 and XBOX before or not but hey, it was pretty damn cool to me, lol.

Try serviio on your computer and enjoy videos on your computer through Xbox and on your phone. I've been using it for years
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Yeah bro I use this feature a lot since I can't shell out the cash for the special mhl adapter. I watch videos play music and view slide shows on my xbox and hdtv through dlna.
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i have heard that ps3 media server works on xbox and you can do .mkv over it, also recently TVERSITY has been updated to supposedly do .mkv but I am yet to try it

It'll work on any dlna enabled device like my bravia tv
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Any setting I have to activate on my phone? Couldn't get it to work last night.
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No whatever device your trying to connect to must be on the same network as your phone.
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Doesnt the end device have to be codec compatible ?
I had issues with video stuttering or simply not playing on my Viera.
Have not tried my xbox but I will.

No it just streams it. If it stutters it might be ur connection or ur tv.
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xManMythLegend said:
Doesnt the end device have to be codec compatible ?
I had issues with video stuttering or simply not playing on my Viera.
Have not tried my xbox but I will.
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works great on my xbox. i'm sure the file has to be compatible but you probably won't get the other viewer option if it's not anyway.
My main purpose of this post was to find other people using the same feature and if they have any tips such as, what files will work for this or what apps can use it, etc.

had no idea i could do this until i saw this thread. thank you!

You have to be connected to the same Wi-Fi and it will work.
Or you can yes double twist and it does the same thing.
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tony yayo said:
works great on my xbox. i'm sure the file has to be compatible but you probably won't get the other viewer option if it's not anyway.
My main purpose of this post was to find other people using the same feature and if they have any tips such as, what files will work for this or what apps can use it, etc.
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I made a tut on how to do this on the PS3 but it didn't seem too many people were interested in it. Simple though get a video converter and convert the movies to mp4 standard and don't let the phone convert it on transfer leave it the way it is and it will work no matter what, the phone sends everything by means of media player so any device that allows media server wifi conection will play from this device.
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I use twonky plays perfect 1080p videos from my gs3
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has anyone tried wifi tethering to the device and seeing if it plays that way