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Movies?

Does CM9 have any issues playing movies? I put a couple movies on my phone but can't get them to play. I'm on alpha 5 still. The movies used to work fine on CM7 but says they can't play now. Is there a trick or certain folder I should use?
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Spartacus916 said:
Does CM9 have any issues playing movies? I put a couple movies on my phone but can't get them to play. I'm on alpha 5 still. The movies used to work fine on CM7 but says they can't play now. Is there a trick or certain folder I should use?
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I've never had an issue with movie playback. Running cm9 beta0 at the moment. But I never had an issue with alpha5 either. Could be a codec?
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Spartacus916 said:
Does CM9 have any issues playing movies? I put a couple movies on my phone but can't get them to play. I'm on alpha 5 still. The movies used to work fine on CM7 but says they can't play now. Is there a trick or certain folder I should use?
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just for kicks, install mobo player, see if that does anything for you

LORDFIRE00 said:
just for kicks, install mobo player, see if that does anything for you
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QQ Player is good too actually plays AVI files unlike Double Twist, MX, etc...

Rooted phone and play movies and episodes

I have a nexus 7 which I used for netflix, since I had 25$ credit I bought breaking bad last season, since I like it, when I try to play it on my gs3 running aokp, it will tell me rental has expired, I flask tw rom(wicked) and it wouldn't let it pass 9seconds, for some odd reason, I Odin to completely stock and I have leave my phone like this for the last week, and I try to play movies app again and it works just fine on WiFi and network, I rooted stock rom just to check if it would work but it didn't, any reason why it doesn't work?, I know last year it wasn't supported at all but this year news came out that it was working on rooted phones, so does anyone know anything about this
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So a rooted stock rom won't play the movie correct ?
Ok so it's a rented purchase from the app store right ?
Is the playstore in the rooted rom up-to-date ? I know there is issues with roms not being able to play Netflix i.e. cm based roms and what not.
If you go back to a non rooted status it will work so if you're at that point can you just simply root and be able to apply a recovery. They will work out the bugs honestly don't waste your money if you don't have too. Our just mask a back up and revert to it when you want to watch them.
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einrae214 said:
So a rooted stock rom won't play the movie correct ?
Ok so it's a rented purchase from the app store right ?
Is the playstore in the rooted rom up-to-date ? I know there is issues with roms not being able to play Netflix i.e. cm based roms and what not.
If you go back to a non rooted status it will work so if you're at that point can you just simply root and be able to apply a recovery. They will work out the bugs honestly don't waste your money if you don't have too. Our just mask a back up and revert to it when you want to watch them.
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It doesn't work as soon as I flashed diferentes recovery even if is stock rom(without super user, my best guess is because status changed to custom), netflix works fine even on aokp now, but play movies doesn't, I actually don't rent movies from there because there expensive, but I do buy some tv shows sometimes, like I have the walking dead and breaking bad because my wife miss the beginning of the season
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Google Play Movies WILL NOT Play my Movies.

So I have some purchased movies from Google. I recently tried to play one. It loads up, starts playing, and plays the first 9 seconds, buffers, jumps back to second 8 and boot loops between second 8 and 9 constantly. I went to Play Store and tried everything they suggested to troubleshoot the issue. Cleared cache. Pinned(downloaded the movie) for offline viewing. I even deleted it from system and reinstalled it. Nothing works. It plays 9 seconds and bootloops. I searched Google and XDA and couldn't find any threads relating to this issue. I have contacted Google directly and am awaiting a response.
Anyone else who can confirm this issue? Im running stock rooted LG8.
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Could ve issue with that movie get yo money bak
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I thought Google play movies wouldn't work on a rooted phone
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I thought Google play movies wouldn't work on a rooted phone
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Correct Answer, you cannot play Google movies on a rooted phone or tablet, has to be stock. DRM(digital rights management) comes in to play which checks for root access, if root, then no play, because its easier to pirate a movie with root access
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Not true, movies work on my rooted nexus7 and this phone as well. Google updated play to stop root issues and playback a couple months ago. I'm using cm10 on my phone and just downloaded all my movies as well as watched one, tablet is on paranoid ROM.
Earlier I was on codename, which would not let me download any movies.
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dante32278 said:
Not true, movies work on my rooted nexus7 and this phone as well. Google updated play to stop root issues and playback a couple months ago. I'm using cm10 on my phone and just downloaded all my movies as well as watched one, tablet is on paranoid ROM.
Earlier I was on codename, which would not let me download any movies.
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Did not know this, still doesn't work on my Acer Iconia500, haven't tried on my GS3 yet.
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dante32278 said:
Not true, movies work on my rooted nexus7 and this phone as well. Google updated play to stop root issues and playback a couple months ago. I'm using cm10 on my phone and just downloaded all my movies as well as watched one, tablet is on paranoid ROM.
Earlier I was on codename, which would not let me download any movies.
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Google made a big point last year (or was it hte year before?) to say that rooted devices will not be able to stream movies from Google.
I wonder if maybe AOSP ROm's like CM10 don't include the DRM APK's that would report on root to Google?

Still no response from Google. Still no movies streaming.
Google does allow rooted devices to stream. Im now running a stock jellybean rom leak. Still having the same exact problem.

I'm facing this issue too.. rooted deodex'd LJ7 build. I've seen some ROMs have removed DRM or something... Is that a way to get around this problem?

Try a different ROM. I am on free gs3 right now and just tested my movies, playback works fine.
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Well this is troubling.. I flashed a stock odex'd rom and still facing the problem.
flashing sextape's stock tar now.. :\ hoping this helps
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stock unrooted ROM did not present this issue.. Even after rooting no issue.
When I flashed a deodex'd rom is where I encountered this problem. This sucks lol

issues here as well
google play movies only streams for me again when i go back to stock kernal. doesnt work on custom kernal running stock rooted rom on the note 3

los82 said:
google play movies only streams for me again when i go back to stock kernal. doesnt work on custom kernal running stock rooted rom on the note 3
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I'm on a Galaxy S4 rooted deodexed and no custom kernel lets me play movies past 9 seconds besides stock kernel.

Netflix in HD with root?

Anyone here rooted and or with a custom ROM able to get Netflix to play at 1080p? Mine won't. Don't know of its because of root, deodex, not stock, slow internet, etc. Anyone able to chime in?
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The most I've gotten is 720p, but I've read in the CleanRom thread that Hulu will play 1080p. The problem is either Netflix or your internet speed.

Jayrod1980 said:
Anyone here rooted and or with a custom ROM able to get Netflix to play at 1080p? Mine won't. Don't know of its because of root, deodex, not stock, slow internet, etc. Anyone able to chime in?
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How can you tell if its playing in 720 or 1080 p? I just played the expendables 2 and it looks very good but I don't see where it said what quality.
So here is what I can tell you, you have video quality settings in your account on Netflix. Set that to best, then you have to have a high speed internet, even at that apparently to get HD your ISP has to have signed with Netflix for Netflix to stream it.

I noticed that my Google play movies will not play in HD on anything but the stock ROM. I can be rooted and get HD but not on a custom rom. Cleanrom won't even work. This is weird to me.
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Netflix will range from low quality to HD to 1080p(if supported). 1080p on a 7" tab is overkill and much more bandwidth intensive. It would be skipping all over unless you have an almost flawless connection.
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Netflix has been updated to work flawlessly on JB 4.3 !
Just update it

Does anyone know what shows/movie support 1080p right now?
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[Q] Why can't I watch my movies in HD on Google Play Movies with an AOSP ROM?

On every AOSP ROM I've tried, I can't seem to find a way to play my movies from Google in HD or download them in HD. They only play in sd quality. And download a file that's only 200MB prior to the HD file that's supposed to download which is 2gigs+ does anyone else have this problem or found a fix for it? I really like what AOSP has turned out to be but I keep coming back to TW cuz of my movies.
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XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
On every AOSP ROM I've tried, I can't seem to find a way to play my movies from Google in HD or download them in HD. They only play in sd quality. And download a file that's only 200MB prior to the HD file that's supposed to download which is 2gigs+ does anyone else have this problem or found a fix for it? I really like what AOSP has turned out to be but I keep coming back to TW cuz of my movies.
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Are you using an AOSP built for the new bootloader (4.4.2)? The new device tree has issues with hd
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Yes I am and even before that I couldn't watch HD movies. It's been like that since the old boot loader
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I had issues with watching HD Google play movies on AOSP with the old bootloader too but YouTube and downloaded videos were fine. Now I only experience the problem with HD on AOSP when on the new builds. I'm still on the 4.3 bootloader so I have the option to choose thankfully. I haven't tried Google play for videos lately though. I just use moviedroid for my video watching needs.
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Hmmm. How did you get it to work on the 4.3 boot loader?
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I haven't had Hd video issues on 4.3 AOSP since way early builds so I can't answer that. It was more a change done to the ROM by the developer.
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This is still an issue for me btw.

I'm in the same boat. Luckily, I can at least cast them to my Chromecast, but it does suck not being able to watch them on my device if I'm away from my TV.
I have this issue on both my 2012 Nexus 7 (running CM11) and my Droid RAZR HD (XT926) running CM11, Gummy, etc.
It only works when I'm on stock KK for both devices.
Not sure if it's an issue with AOSP in general (seems to be) or an issue with GAPPs. I don't think it's GAPPs as I've removed and reinstalled Google Play Movies from the Google Play store.
I also notice that I cannot send apps to my phone from the Google Play web page if I attempt to install from the web page.

XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
This is still an issue for me btw.
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I'm wondering of its because you're rooted. I remember when Google play movies could not play on rooted devices. I had to use voodoo to unroot & root again to get it to play.

nickster1 said:
I'm wondering of its because you're rooted. I remember when Google play movies could not play on rooted devices. I had to use voodoo to unroot & root again to get it to play.
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Ummm I don't think so because my note 3 is running a rooted stock ROM but I think it's a kernel issue because I put a custom kernel on my stock ROM and it made google play movies to stop playing completely

I just don't know what is making custom kernels not google play movie friendly

XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
Ummm I don't think so because my note 3 is running a rooted stock ROM but I think it's a kernel issue because I put a custom kernel on my stock ROM and it made google play movies to stop playing completely
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I agree. Under stock, I'm rooted and movies will play. Under non-stock roms, they won't work except via Chromecast.
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iBolski said:
I agree. Under stock, I'm rooted and movies will play. Under non-stock roms, they won't work except via Chromecast.
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Yea or anything with a custom kernel. This is the only phone that I have a problem with Google play movies playing. That's why I'm stuck in Stock rooted rom. The only rom that didn't cause trouble for me was wicked

XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
Yea or anything with a custom kernel. This is the only phone that I have a problem with Google play movies playing. That's why I'm stuck in Stock rooted rom. The only rom that didn't cause trouble for me was wicked
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I have the same issue on my Nexus 7 2012 tablet, not just my RAZR HD.
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iBolski said:
I have the same issue on my Nexus 7 2012 tablet, not just my RAZR HD.
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Custom kernel too?

XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
Custom kernel too?
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Cm11 kernel.
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