Develop Bugs

TCPMP will not stream AVI files?

Hi All,
I have TCPMP V0.72 (And 0.71) and sucessfully streamed MPG video and MP3 audio from my NAS box. However any AVI (No matter what codec has compressed it) just will not play..... it seems to load the ile correctly and everything looks ready to go but when you press play it just freezes...
I have tried this on WM5 Ultimate and WM6 Beautiful (Thanks KDS ) and they both seem to show this feature.
Any ideas?

Now, thats odd. I just watched an avi file compressed with divx codec(with mp3 audio stream) with TCPMP provided in V.72.
What codec are you using?

Hi KDS,
The files are compressed with random codecs the main ones i am trying are based on Core ASP (The compression was done on my linux box). The phone has all the codecs i could find installed
AAC
FFMPEG
FLAC
AC3 (audio only i think)
speex (no idea)
Vorbis (i assume for ogg audio)
I just tried an AVI with no compression and it worked (except for stuttering caused by the data rate)
I am new to the universal ROM cooking world. I think it used to work although very choppy when i tried a while ago..... (EDIT probably over a year On the standard Vodafone UK install and a previos version of TCPMP (no idea what versions though)

Gotcha!
I'd not installed any of those plugins to avoid extra space inside the ROM.
Just put the given below files inside the windows folder and try watching your videos/movies again.
Do tell me if they worked for you

Hi KDS,
Just tried a hard reset then installed TCPMP 0.72RC1 then copied the suggested files to the folder.
Then i used netuse to lock onto the local file and then opened a file in TCPMP.
Once again everything looks ok until i press play and nothing happens. It then freezes me out if i try and open another file.... These files open and play normally if they are on the SD card.
TO recap everything is fine until i try to load a compressed AVI (I managed to see an uncompressed one) Are these read or transmitted in a different way?
There are so many different things i could change but i would be stabbing in the dark not knowing what the issues are, should i look at something other than the universal to make this work (lan storage unit firmware etc,)
Any guidance would be appreciated as this is the final hurdle to getting the universal to be the centre point for my home entertainment system

You tried the files in abovementioned post?

Hi KDS,
Yes i did try but got nothing.
It looks like;
It is not TCPMP streaming over the network as this works (with uncompressed files)
It is not Compressed files as they play from the SD card properly.
It is not the version of WM5 vs WM6 or any OS related feature as in all the different roms i have tried it fails and works in the same way.
My final attempt tonight is to stream from a completely differnt source (a PC based SAMBA share) hopefully this will work and will be at least able to watch recorded TV and the most recently converted video.
Seems i have a strange one here....thanks for the help though
KDS would you think there would be any merit in changing the firmware on the wireless router?

I just proved everything works with a PC based SAMBA share. (through the wireless router)
So it leaves only the NAS box left to blame....i really wanted to have my media stored in this fashion as it means i do not need to have a PC on all the time.
Anyway thanks for a very good site, forum and members... and now i have my Univeral and Palm treo v750 on WM^ i am sure i will stick around. and get well and truely besotted with all things HTC.....
Til next time
@KDS Thanks for trying it is nice to have sucjh direct contact to a person in the know.

Glad that the things worked for you!

bigbadbilly said:
Hi All,
I have TCPMP V0.72 (And 0.71) and sucessfully streamed MPG video and MP3 audio from my NAS box.
Any ideas?
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just wonder how to stream using TCPMP?
btw, is there any way to browse the list of video files.

Help putting films onto my Blackstone

I've recently tried uploading media files to my phone but they won't play. The first film I uploaded was an AVI file. This didn't play because I don't have a divx player on the phone. Does anyone know where I can download a player for my phone?
Second film I tried to upload was a dvdrip in Mpeg~1 format. This didn't play in the media player either.
Could anyone tell me the best way to get some films onto my phone?
To transfer the files I have just been dragging and dropping them into the storage card.

First of, I would recommend Coreplayer to play divx movies and what not. It's smart to get the blackstone video converter which was in the rom section I thought, use the search function
Sorry for spellingerrors, typing this in the bus on myblackstone which is a tad bumpy! Cheers.

There is a video converter in this forum which converts many types into ones which the video player from HTC (from the album) can play.

If you dont want to have to convert the films I would also reccomend using coreplayer. Its not free but it is worth paying for.
If you want a cheaper option you can download divx mobile player for free. It wont play the files as smoothly as coreplayer though.

Thanks for the advice. £20.00 is pretty steep. I don't think I would pay it. Are there any free versions of this software?
I remember converting media files for my Ipod once and gave up after 30 mins of converting a heroes episode hadnt finished the conversion. I'll give it another go on here though.
I'll try downloading the divx mobile.

Hey i'm absolutly new on this forum, just got my htc touch hd and i really like it. yes i was really frustated that it didn't play avi or mpg files, therefore i started downloading mp4 files when i came across this wonerful site, these files will play on your htc touch hd, the site is
http://www.vietfiles.org/phim-ma-downloads/40603-mu-high-quality-psp-movies-tv-shows-mp4-format.html

althought it's on megaupload which is annoying downloading one by one

Blackstone_travel said:
Thanks for the advice. £20.00 is pretty steep. I don't think I would pay it. Are there any free versions of this software?
I remember converting media files for my Ipod once and gave up after 30 mins of converting a heroes episode hadnt finished the conversion. I'll give it another go on here though.
I'll try downloading the divx mobile.
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It's up to you to decide whether £20 are too much. Anyway it does the job and does it quite nicely.
If not, you can try TCPMP - it's free, just google it up. I haven't tried it, though.

Do you need a membership to download films at vietfiles? i clicked on the film links and then there is no download icon on the next screen.

I've downloaded divx mobile. Extracted the files using WinRar and then dragged the two files, setupPocketPC and Divx Player onto my phone.
Neither of the two files will open on my phone. The setup one says its not a valid pocket pc application. The divx one says there is no application associated with the divx player it tells me to run the first file first then this one within it.
I then tried opening the file on my PC but it asked for Microsoft Active sync, however I can't upload active sync onto my computer because I'm running the dreaded Vista.
Help guys, anyone else faced this problem?

Blackstone_travel said:
I then tried opening the file on my PC but it asked for Microsoft Active sync, however I can't upload active sync onto my computer because I'm running the dreaded Vista.
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Vista is not to blame here. Active Sync is now called 'Windows Mobile Device Center'. Download it from Microsoft, install it in Vista, establish a partnership with the device, sync your device.
Then you can run the Divxsetup in Vista, it will call ActiveSync/MBDC and install the CAB file on your device.
I use the built-in HTC album player though. MPEG4-ASP compressed video in an MP4 container is the format that works best. Use the video converter frontend mentioned above.
Cheers
smil

Blackstone_travel said:
Do you need a membership to download films at vietfiles? i clicked on the film links and then there is no download icon on the next screen.
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nah when you click on the link it gives you, that should open a new window then in that window it goes to vietfiles then 3 secs later it should automatically redirect you to the megaupload site and download from there
if that doesnt work
try highlighting the link then pasting in your browser

Wma & DRM question

Hi y´all!
I´ve been searching for this but found no exact ansver.
I come from Touch Pro 2 and am seriously considering jumping ship to Desire.
One of the things that irritate me with respect to winmo is that you can´t download DRM protected music directly to phone. You have to download to a computer and then sync to phone.
Where i live there isn´t access to webstores that allow purchase of music in mp3 format and i don´t have a computer at home. At work media download is prohibited for economic reasons.
Is it possible to download DRM protected WMA files directly to phone and can they be played without further ado?
Please help!
Regards
ELO

Polar67 said:
Hi y´all!
I´ve been searching for this but found no exact ansver.
I come from Touch Pro 2 and am seriously considering jumping ship to Desire.
One of the things that irritate me with respect to winmo is that you can´t download DRM protected music directly to phone. You have to download to a computer and then sync to phone.
Where i live there isn´t access to webstores that allow purchase of music in mp3 format and i don´t have a computer at home. At work media download is prohibited for economic reasons.
Is it possible to download DRM protected WMA files directly to phone and can they be played without further ado?
Please help!
Regards
ELO
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Not so far. I was quite used to play all my Zune pass music on my WM phone. It is the only shortcoming I have had since I moved to Android...
Maybe at some point in the future someone will be able to implement a WMA codec, I'm not sure if requires licensing or not; but for protected WMA (like Zune's) I highly doubt it will ever happen :-/

I try to past .mkv files Movies folder, Windows Explorer crashes. :-(

I've tried a few times to copy a few .mkv files over to my Nexus and it continually crashes my Explorer. Details are:
- Connected via usb.
- Transfer method a simply copy and paste via Windows Explorer.
- Using Windows 7 x64.
- Already transfered .ogg, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg and no problems.
I saw this thread in the "similar threads" that popped up where there is a similar problem with the Xoom. I even tried using DoubleTwist but the newest version requires the device to be attached in mass storage mode. Bummer.
Has anyone had a similar issue? Apart from finding an easy transfer method (I'm currently setting up Songbird to try) I would like to know how transferring a .mkv file would crash Explorer. Please don't waste time saying Windows is crap (or any variant). It's not really that informative!
Any help appreciated.

Songbird doesn't support .mkv.

Google for "mkv windows 7 exlorer crash". It may be related to your installed codecs.

Ive had problems moving just small jpgs to the nexus from w7 64bit along with a few others, think one guy was even on a mac.
ive managed to move a mkv to the phone no probs tho.
when it does lock up while transferring i use wifi and this works fine, just not as easy as drag n drop in windows.

it's most likely the MTP which is blocking non recognized or non allowed extensions

I was able to use WiFi File Explorer to transfer my .mkv files. I'm guessing any similar manner would work as well.

Ditto
Just got my Nexus today. Naturally, the first files I tried to copy were a batch of 3 720p, H.264-encoded Matroska video files (.MKV). Explorer crashed and respawned.
Tried again. Explorer crashed and respawned.
Read this thread and renamed '.mkv' to '.mkv_'. No problems.
It seems already my gut reaction to the lack of a removable card and USB Mass Storage were justified...
(Now to see what codecs this device supports playback of...)

I've been able to put .mkv files in the movies folder just fine.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

its your divx codec, I had to uninstall all my codecs, otherwise it would crash explorer everytime i moved over a mkv video

you can rename the files, but a pure fix is to UNINSTALL DIVX.
after uninstalling it i have no issues with MKVs transferring anymore.
if your worried about that making you unable to play AVIs, go download the shark007 codec package. i have that installed and i can play all videos on my PC and can transfer everything without issues.

Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!

Vocko said:
Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!
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it can't. best player is DICE Player, it's not free, but it's simply the best for MKVs. plays my 720p mkvs perfectly.

Throw and Media Server

Question:
How can you use media server and the throw features in the Xperia Ion running ICS (w/o new update)
What I Found:
Sony Site has been telling people to get a client software for computers...<---- What is this?
Edit Nov 10, 2012 More responses from larger community ?

I'm not sure what client software they would be talking about. I've seen the feature on video but not sure what devices it works on. I thought only the Xperia Tablet and select Sony TVs it worked on.
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ ion

Been mucking about with it for past few days, here are my findings:
"Play-on" for images works well, shares with my 2011 LG smart tv and Windows Media Player on Win7.
Throw for videos does not work at all. The receiver accepts the request to play media from the phone but after constant buffering and skipping doesn't actually play even a 10 second video taken with the phone.
I will try to play with the media server aspect of it too, basically turning it on in Connected Devices makes it visible to your DLNA players (so you initiate the request from your PC/TV/PS3). You then authorize it inside the phone... that's as far as i had gotten last night before the baby woke up
UPDATE: pretty much same thing with media server turned on. VLC doesn't even see it, WMP sees all the pictures and views them fine, if a bit slow. Music/Video doesn't even display the list of available files, just keeps spinning the status indicator. Also, looks like when the phone acts as the client for video streaming, it isn't aware of many different video formats. For instance, MKV files play just fine from SD on the Ion using MX player, and the Ion knows to launch MX player for all my videos (even using DLNA), but its the DLNA app that decides whether it wants to support a given format... basically, it won't send the file to MX if it doesn't like it, even if it can be played.

Nov 10, 2012 More responses from larger community ?
Hoping merge will resolve my question

My videos play smooth pictures work fine as well on att ion with .29 international deodexed and intd
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