Is anyone running the Plex Media Player successfully on the A100?
I am on the latest 1.12 ICS leak and when attempting to play a TV show from my library over my LAN I receive the following:
"We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play 'TV Show name here'
There was a problem with media playback."
For a song I receive:
"We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play 'song name here'
An error occurred (error 0x 17: UNKNOWN)"
I can connect to the server just fine and the content shows up as expected but playing the media results in the above errors.
I have tried all different combinations in the settings and think this may be an ICS issue. Unfortunately I never tried it on HC before I upgraded so I can't be sure if its the device or the android version.
I pretty sure it's not a codec issue because the content plays fine in PLEX on my other android devices and I believe the app itself installs the codecs.
Anyone have it working on either HC or ICS?
Thanks!
Well I guess nobody use this application?
As an update I have researched the issue further and through the PLEX forum's have determined that ICS Rom's in general ARE experiencing problems with this app. Some users are saying that if the device has received an "official" ICS (Ex. Galaxy Nexus, Moto Xoom, Etc.) that the application is working fine while users on "custom" ICS rom's are having difficulty.
The general belief is that the official ICS Rom's offer built in hardware acceleration and the custom rom's do not because they were not built from the official source.
This worries me because the ICS we are using is a leak of the official and I would assume hardware acceleration was already incorporated. Perhaps not and they will add it last minute prior to the official release but I'm doubtful.
Again, if anybody uses this app, posting your experience would be appreciated.
I have never even heard of this app before, try using more widely known/supported apps like MX video player, TTPod, and PowerAMP.
littleemp said:
I have never even heard of this app before, try using more widely known/supported apps like MX video player, TTPod, and PowerAMP.
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Thanks for the advice however PLEX is way more than just a "player". It is a complete media content system that is running throughout my house. It consists of two separate applications. One is a media manager and the other is the "player". Players can run on all different platforms and access the media being served up from the manager.
I currently run the players on a minimum of 6 different devices. Using a simple player like you have referenced (no matter how good they may be) is not an option for me.
I either need to downgrade to HC or wait (and hope) that the official ICS release will fix this issue. Or use another tablet.
For those interested see this LINK. Unfortunately the Android App is not free but the local media manager and players for Linux, MAC and windows are free.
Hi, did you manage to make things work with Plex?
I can not even log in the frakking server...lol
At first I thought Firewall was playing around after an update, but even diable was not able to log.
Any ideas? It is a really lovely app that one.
Do you know any other with similar results?
Tks brother!
It works fine on Cyanogen. Once I went to that ROM all issues disappeared.
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Land Master said:
Is anyone running the Plex Media Player successfully on the A100?
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Yes. I was having the same error as you and many other ICS users. There was an update to the server this week, and now it works. I am on stock 4.03.
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I upgraded to the T-Mobile 6.5 version, but can't seem to stream videos anymore. I get an error message saying:
"There is no application associated with "rtsp://stream.zoovision.com/.../***.3gp" Run the application first, then open this file from within the application."
I haven't had this problem in the past, only when I had upgraded. I also wasn't able to find anything else on XDA. Is there a different player I need to download? I know I can play 3gp videos, but not streaming ones I gues.
Thanks for any help.
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Any help at all?
You need to install a streaming media player.
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You need to install a streaming media player.
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Any suggestion on a free one? And why doesn't the upgrade come with one?
Thanks.
Use this: It's free, and it's the best
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=565653&highlight=tcpmp
Pay no attention to the poster saying not to use it for streaming sources - it works better than good for anything you throw at it.
Cheers!
Must be a TMobile thing - both VZW ROMs have a streaming media app that works with 3gp.
RTSP protocol not supported
I installed TCMP. It doesn't seem to do the trick. I click on the link in Opera and get the same message from my first post. I copy the rtsp link and write it into TCMP and I get the error that "RTSP protocol not supported."
So, it looks like the only way to do this is to download the videos. Is this the only way? I really am confused, since I could do it before on 6.1 version T-Mobile.
Ok, so I found the HTC streaming media player, I believe it is an older version, but not sure. It plays videos (awesome), but no sound (DANG!). So close. Anyone have expertise with this program or know why I am not getting sound?
I am so close!
Any ideas? Am I the only one with this problem?
Try this one.
Thanks! That did the trick. I am still puzzled why this wasn't included int the T-Mobile upgrade.
Thanks again!
Good day,
Can anyone with a real live Galaxy Nexus (or even another handset hacked and running Android 4.0) confirm if the music-playing-alphabetically bug STILL exists? If you aren't familiar, let me explain. This problem is well documented and has existed for years in various versions of Android. (Do a Google search for "android music alphabetical order" and you'll see years of posts from all over the Internet, about tons of devices, regarding this issue.)
As briefly as possible, the bug is that media in non-MP3 format (notably M4A and WMA) ignores track numbers in metadata tags and instead gets sorted and displayed alphabetically. I had great hope that this would be fixed in Google Music, but can confirm that this application on my Galaxy S II running 2.3.4 still does this wrong.
To duplicate, just do the following: place a full, correctly-tagged, album in M4A or WMA format on the phone using any method you like (USB Storage or MHL via Windows Media, makes no difference) then attempt to play the album in real life track order. It doesn't work. Android refuses to read the tags on anything except MP3's and thus defaults to alphabetical order. (It ignores embedded album art too, for the record. And just to confirm: YES. All my music is meticulously tagged, and even a tagging app on the Android phone confirms that it sees the track numbers.) It's an M4A- or WMA-and-Android problem.
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
Thanks much,
Adam
it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me.*
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I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix
gokpog --
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten completely about the existence of MediaFix. It's even installed on my GS2, but I use the device so sporadically I forgot all about it. (As you may have detected from my post, I just picked it up again for the purpose of checking out Google Music.) I suspect you'd agree with me that such a utility shouldn't even need to exist, but hey, a fix is a fix.
Still, I'm quite interested to see if Google has addressed this properly in 4.0.
Again, thanks,
Adam
Hi
gokpog said:
I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix
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I'm going to check this out and see if it fixes the album art bug. I am anal about properly tagging my collection and it burns me that the media services screw up the album art all the time. I mean come on all the mp3 in each album all have the same art, album, and artist and it still assigns random wrong art to albums and tracks. I just don't get it.
EDIT: looks like it only works for mp4. Oh well.
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leew1979 said:
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
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Since when does iOS or Android support WMA?
Solved... ish...
It was really an accident that I learned about the WMA bit. Windows Media Player understands and syncs to the phone but insists on conversion of MP4 to WMA, with no way to turn this off -- as verified flatly by an official Microsoft answer. The Galaxy sees and will play the tracks but refuses to read the tags or album art in the WMA file. I would have been willing to (grudgingly) accept using WMA files on the phone, but not at the expense of making the original problem worse. Natch.
After some more research and testing I have ascertained that -- bafflingly -- the problem is directly related to the method of file transfer. MP4 files (but still not WMA as discussed above) which are put onto the phone using the MTP sync protocol get recognized fine, tags, art, and track numbers... All correct. The problem is therefore that files written using USB Mass Storage are the screwed up ones. (Sorry, DoubleTwist, you lose too.) So, in a roundabout way this seems it will be fixed with the Galaxy Nexus in that it only supports MTP. Someone geekier than me, please feel free to speculate or flat-out school me on why this difference exists. I do understand that MTP works at the logical file level rather than the lower block level of Mass Storage, and thus I can understand why the Galaxy Nexus can't support Mass Storage (no way to dismount the single partition)... but back to the Galaxy S II, I am still perplexed at how the phone fully understands files laid down one way but doesn't for the exact same files laid down another way.
So now, for me it's either manual copies in Windows Explorer (sucks, no way to easily and automatically add new albums using smart playlists, as I do with iTunes for my iOS devices and Zune for my WP7 phone) or use a media manager which supports MTP but which also doesn't force WMA conversion. This therefore knocks out WMP and Songbird. So far, then, this means it's either Kies (and hell will freeze solid before I use that garbage routinely) or MusicBee which seems to work fine, but damn, this has been a long way round a problem which shouldn't exist at all... And which would also seem to leave Mac and Linux users still out in the cold, as MTP is basically a Windows-only technology. Bah.
Any other suggestions, anyone?
Regards
Adam
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I rarely start any threads as I usually can find answers on my own.. but so far no luck in this case.
I used to use a Linksys WRT160NL as my media server to store and provide videos which worked great with my Motorola DEFY, Samsung Galaxy SLC, and recently HTC Desire S (ICS).
Now I got the HOX and to my surprise this quad core champ has an issue - it does not recognize any video files on the media server.
I also have my Windows 7 PC set up to stream media (Windows Media Player) and those videos are seen and played by One X just fine.
So I thought that since Windows 7 is OK and Linksys is not, then I should check another router. And so I did.
I got a pretty powerful Netgear WNDR3700 and set up a media server over there - but it's the same thing again.
All other Android devices (and the PC) can see all streamed content but not the HTC One X (only music and pictures are visible).
At the moment I'm running the ARHD 9.1.0 but I noticed the problem with SW 1.29 and later stock 2.17.
3rd party apps can read the media server fine - just not the stock application (Gallery).
Please post if you have similar observations - perhaps we can find a solution or pass it to HTC.
B.R.
Mike.
Windows media player transcode your videos. Your router can't. Use right video format.
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Windows media player transcode your videos. Your router can't. Use right video format.
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OK... and in such a case how do you explain that my Desire S on "stock" ICS 4.0.4 and DEFY (2.3.6) have no problems playing video streams from the same router?
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OK... and in such a case how do you explain that my Desire S on "stock" ICS 4.0.4 and DEFY (2.3.6) have no problems playing video streams from the same router?
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But you're not using stock on ONE X are you?
Maybe it's a ROM issue?
Try going back to stock on ONE X first.
Personally I'm using BubbleuPNP on my HOX, and it's streaming (incoming) everything I can throw at it, video included.
Try putting a mp4 file in the shared folders.
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Hi,
I have the same issue on a HTC One S (S4 - Stock Firmware 1.78.401.2) playing from a Buffalo Linkstation so I presume it's incompatibility. I can play the files locally (on the device) and I've checked that they are of a standard type. These files stream using DLNA to other devices without any problems (PS3 / Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1). I was also going to buy another DLNA server as I though this was at fault at first.
As you have found it works fine from Windows Media Centre without problems. It will display photos and play MP3 over DLNA and I can browse directories. If I can find anymore info I'll post here.
Crossman.
I have the same issue. I suspect it has a problem using anything but the default Window Media Streaming port. I am running serviio, and same issue with HTC One X. LG Home Theater can see and play the files just fine.
Update: The following makes it work however: BubbleUPnP. Used it with MXPlayer Pro. And with Serviio, it plays anything, unlike the crippled Windows Media Services
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I have the same issue. I suspect it has a problem using anything but the default Window Media Streaming port. I am running serviio, and same issue with HTC One X. LG Home Theater can see and play the files just fine.
Update: The following makes it work however: BubbleUPnP. Used it with MXPlayer Pro. And with Serviio, it plays anything, unlike the crippled Windows Media Services
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Sorry for the bump, but the stock app is still a no go for me. I can try to fix this (I've done several mods to stock apps in the past) if you could elaborate a bit more about the issue you are guessing.
Thanks.
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?
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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.
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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.
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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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Hi,
I am having serious issues playing videos on the device. The stock players (photos and movies apps) won't play anything I get through whatsapp (mostly sent from iOS devices), many vids from YouTube, nor the sample videos which were pre-loaded on the phone (?!?).
I downloaded MxPayer and VLC, which mostly solved the problem, but I'm still having problems with the YouTube app. In case it helps, here is an example of a video I can't watch (my one-year old's favorite): http://youtu.be/VMl0GbiVEyA.
The phone is brand new, arrived 4 days ago. I'm running the latest firmware (Kit Kat, build 14.4.A.0.108), which the phone prompted me to install. It is not rooted and I hope to keep it that way, at least for a while.
Any ideas? Is anybody else experiencing this?
Thanks!
vlc
anabellita said:
Hi,
I am having serious issues playing videos on the device. The stock players (photos and movies apps) won't play anything I get through whatsapp (mostly sent from iOS devices), many vids from YouTube, nor the sample videos which were pre-loaded on the phone (?!?).
I downloaded MxPayer and VLC, which mostly solved the problem, but I'm still having problems with the YouTube app. In case it helps, here is an example of a video I can't watch (my one-year old's favorite): http://youtu.be/VMl0GbiVEyA.
The phone is brand new, arrived 4 days ago. I'm running the latest firmware (Kit Kat, build 14.4.A.0.108), which the phone prompted me to install. It is not rooted and I hope to keep it that way, at least for a while.
Any ideas? Is anybody else experiencing this?
Thanks!
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I use vlc as only videoplayer (deleted all others), vlc plas all videos for me. The video you mentioned I can't see here in Germany due to copyright issues.
Thanks, but what about YouTube? How do you force the YouTube app to use VLC as the default player?
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Thanks, but what about YouTube? How do you force the YouTube app to use VLC as the default player?
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i use firefox as browser and use youtube from there. I don't use the the you tube app.
Ah, ok. Well, if anybody has a solution, that would be great. I really like using the app, would be a shame to have to use the browser.
I'd do full wipe of the Phone and start over by flashing a ftf. Z1 Compact Resource Thread -|-Rooting-BL Unlocking-Firmware & More...
Thanks, but as I said, not rooted, and trying ypto avoid going down the road of endless tweaking and customization.
I downloaded a few alternative YouTube players, and they all work fine. I'll choose one and see how it goes. Want to know if I can go " average Joe stock" user this time around.
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Thanks, but as I said, not rooted, and trying ypto avoid going down the road of endless tweaking and customization.
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You don't need to be rooted to flash your Phone, the flashtool would be pointless otherwise. Install the flashtool, flash a ftf, done, it's as simple as that.