Hi, Android n00b here. Looking at getting an Android tab -- wife has an iPad, I have an iPhone, but I am sick of the iOS walled garden.
A major thing that I want to use my tablet for is playing videos out to a projector, for shows that I do. It's important to me to be able to do these 2 things:
1. Play a playlist of videos in order, without further prompting once it starts.
2. Transition between videos cleanly and seamlessly -- no player controls or tablet home screen visible, even for a second. Nothing but black in between vids.
I've already got my mind pretty much made up about which tablet I'm getting... but I'm not ready to buy until I know there are apps that can meet those 2 requirements.
I've been told that the Dice, MX, and Mobo players will NOT do both of the things I'm looking for. I've gotten reports that Act1 can use playlists... but I haven't been able to find out anything about what the transitions between videos on a playlist look like.
Can anyone recommend a video player that has playlists, and transitions cleanly between videos?
UPDATE: I am hearing elsewhere that the Act 1 player may do everything I want. Haven't had a chance to try it out (since I don't have an Android device yet).
Thanks for the information.
I noticed the picture viewer will play m4v videos that I put on the device through USB, but not FLV videos. What video formats are supported?
Is there anything that will play .flv video files? Any recommendations for better video players?
Thanks
I just purchased KalemSoft Media Player from the App Catalog, the price a little high but it plays many more formats than the stock webos player. I am happy because it's playing my divx movies so it was worth the cost for me.
What formats is the stock software supposed to support?
tk_xda said:
What formats is the stock software supposed to support?
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Kalemsoft Media Player 0.3.4
Just a hint
Ell3X said:
Kalemsoft Media Player 0.3.4
Just a hint
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Good hint...
Thanks for the hint.
Anyone have a guide as to how to install .ipk files? I've been Googling but I'm not finding much.
voigts said:
Anyone have a guide as to how to install .ipk files? I've been Googling but I'm not finding much.
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Google "webos quick install" and "preware" or just go here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Applicationreware#Installing_Preware_with_WebOS_Quick_Install
Thank you. Easy as pie with the WebOS quick install program. I was Googling and Googling and wasn't finding this.
[Q] Video: Streaming via SMB
Hello world
how can I do to watch movies on my touchpad streaming via SMB?
Are there any applications for it?
I thank you for your help
guys,
i need help to find out a good app to play .avi files on the touchpad ...
i tried installing Kalemplayer, it opens up the file and plays it but the screen is pretty messed up ..
i also did the touchplayer, but i cant seem to make it navigate to any of the file locations.
any help would be greatly appreciated
Stream Video
I would really like to have a good video player on my touchpad which could stream over my home network (samba). The best program I've seen so far is the one which comes with the Archos tablets.
What do you mean you cannot navigate using TP?
for some reason the kalem video player in preware is messed up, you can get a good copy by going to the kalemsoft website and downloading it from there, preware should install it when you try to open it.
http://www.kalemsoft.com/site/downloads2.html
it should be the link highlighted in red
Unable to install Kalem media player either. I was able to download it onto my touchpad but says 'Cannot open MIME type'.
Was one of the many that got it on sale and still pretty new to it. How do I get around this and get it on?
Try the touchplayer. It's back up on Preware.
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When you install it, you have to make you are on 3.0.2. Also, your best bet, install Internalz Pro then install TouchPlayer, after they are installed reboot the device 2 times [for good measure]. They should install all dependencies that you will need.
Traxx67 said:
Hello world
how can I do to watch movies on my touchpad streaming via SMB?
Are there any applications for it?
I thank you for your help
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I cant tell you a way to do it via SMB, but even if I could then you would need to start worrying about compatible codecs.
I would instead suggest Kalemsoft media player. It is seven bucks in the market or Free for the older version on their website.
If you download the server app, setup a DDNS account and forward the default kalem server ports you can stream your home moves to anywhere you have internet access.
If all you care about is streaming while at home, then I would use UPNP...
http://www.webosbuzz.com/hp-touchpad-hd-apps/1245-[app]-bhomepro-upnp-media-player-v1-1-2-a.html
kalem soft works the best .. still no luck with touchplayer. thanks for the link duplissi
When you use Kalem, you're video isn't lagging at all?? I tried using Kalem and TouchPlayer. Honestly Kalem is better by far because at least it plays my video.... but otherwise, are those the only two video players out there ?
Hi all from Italy.
in a couple of days i will have my Nook Tablet from US and so looking forward to have some good news form the devs...
this is my very first tablet so sorry if i make some silly questions...
my priority will be watching episodes with subtitles with my nook during my business trips.
does i need to hardsub the ones or i can easily do as VLC so using file + .srt?
what's the player i have to use to see my series with subs?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Hi all from Italy.
in a couple of days i will have my Nook Tablet from US and so looking forward to have some good news form the devs...
this is my very first tablet so sorry if i make some silly questions...
my priority will be watching episodes with subtitles with my nook during my business trips.
does i need to hardsub the ones or i can easily do as VLC so using file + .srt?
what's the player i have to use to see my series with subs?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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MX player claims to have support for a few different subtitle formats. including mkv's whith them baked in. I don't think the stock video player is going to support subs, but since we can side load so easily you have many options.
MX Player is what you want
Yup i ve seen Mx specs and i read it has everything i need ( in particular avi + srt files without needs to be hard or softsubbed) so just to be sure ...just need to sideload opening the apk link from browser as per the launcher topic right?
Thanks a lot!
MX seems to play embedded subtitles in .mkv files for me but I have no idea on .srt external files. I will be checking soon though
Texx-it said:
Yup i ve seen Mx specs and i read it has everything i need ( in particular avi + srt files without needs to be hard or softsubbed) so just to be sure ...just need to sideload opening the apk link from browser as per the launcher topic right?
Thanks a lot!
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Yep, that will work. Just go to this link on your NT:
http://li362-167.members.linode.com/gapps/non_google/MxPlayer_1_4a.apk
If you have a launcher, it will appear in the app drawer.
If not, Just type MX, in the search after pressing the nook button.
I have an additional question about MX Player. Will it play videos using hardware acceleration like the stock player or is it all software decoding?
MX won't do hardware, afaik, but it's a fantastic player (and you should definitely sideload it or root the tablet). Subs, etc work very well in them - except there isn't a menu to select subs so they need to be named the same as the file. There's one called DICE player that will do hardware acceleration but I believe MX player plays h264s better anyway.
I use meridian player revolute and paid for the pro version verifier. I'm having problems with the videos freezing when I play a playQ or try to play videos in a folder. I haven't had this problem since i upgraded to ICS 4.0.3 and I was curious if anyone else has this problem or could test it. I have all videos in mp4 format, they play fine, but at the end of one, sometimes it just hangs till I hit Next on the screen.
I emailed the developer and he had no help for me, told me to make a music playlist and try playing that, which is nowhere near what I wanted to do. I want it to be video and it want to be able to randomize it. If anyone knows of a replacement app that could do this with ease, and load my video file list fast, let me know please!
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Hey
I've recently bought my self a transformer prime and my daughter loves watching movies on it. But I have to start the videos for her since she can't figure it out on her own (she's only 3)
But if there is someway to make a shortcut, widget or app to a specific video playlist I've already made that would be great. I've searched but i can't seem to find anything that will allow me to do so. Single files i know i can do with astro file manager.
Thanks in advance