Cheers! I would like some help with an idea for a simple applet for Android in general, and the HP Touchpad in particular.
There is an application called QVOD that downloads videos to a local cache on the Android device, and for many devices it works just fine. For many devices however. If the device is running ICS, frequently the playback features stuttering audio. I have found where QVOD saves the video files, although it separates them into several pieces, making it difficult to just browse to that directory and use an alternative player, such as MXPlayer. I have found that if you cat the files together into one RMV file, you can then watch it with another application and it plays just fine. That means the audio codec built into QVOD is almost certainly the problem.
What I'd like to do is build a simple graphical app that allows you to view the videos in that folder and automatically cat the files together so you can either save them or view them in another player. Having some background in programming, I understand the process flow of this is very simple. Unfortunately, I do not know how to program in java. If anyone is willing to help with this, there is a pretty good sized community that would appreciate the help. Ideally, it would be great if the makers of QVOD addressed the problem directly, but having spoken with them on QQ, it doesn't seem they have any interest in doing so.
I don't see this program taking more than a hundred lines or so, and would be a great contribution to the Android community. Please message me if you are willing to invest some time into helping with this problem. The application will SURELY get a lot of attention, because it will not only allow those with audio problems to enjoy their videos, but it will allow those that aren't having problems viewing to at least save the files and also have a CHOICE of what application to view them in.
thanks!
Write the details here or PM me, I might give this a try, though I cannot give any specific deadline times.
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Hi,
Thinking to develop am android app to display a video or part of the video on mutli-android phone device. It will support sync video and play it at the same time.
Anyone can give me some advice or idea how i can do it?
Thanks.
Im not really sure what you are trying to do. You want to display "part of a video"? Are you trying to output video from the device to a screen? Or from another device to the phone?
Anyway, I suggest you get the Android SDK from google. They basically tell you how to write apps. There are also books or classes you can take too.
So your wanting to make an app that allows you to share and play(synced) video over multiple phones?
Yes as above said you will first need to get the Android SDK, but to write this program you will need to be very skilled programmer with alot of times on your hands...
You will first need to know alot about networking, allowing you to connect to other phones and i assume create a buffer system then have all phones play at time that the buffers are reached to maintain steady flow based of network stats.
If you want to do streaming you will need to know even more, not to mention you will need to probably write your own video playing software.
OR you could simply write a program that links the x # of phones together and then streams from phone a to phones x-n through a 3rd party stream capable video player.
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Blinkendroid has been found but I'd like to watch a movie on my Android device and broadcast / stream it on other Android device synchronised.
ie :
=> I own 2 tablets 7"
=> I want to watch to a movie / TV Show with subtitles
=> My girlfriend want to watch to the same program... but without subtitles
Is there anything yet for this requirement ?
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Now, before I get flamed, I know that there are plenty of bluetooth remote control apps for controlling your PC from your Android device or controlling your Android device from your PC etc. What I was wondering was, is there an app that allows your to control one Android device from another Android device? Would that be useful, especially with all the tablet devices that are coming out now? How cool would it be to connect your phone to your tablet via bluetooth for the purposes of sending and receiving texts, or making and receiving phone calls etc? Is there any development on such an app?
Comments? Thoughts?
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I don't have an answer for you but I've had the same thought as you that this would be a great app.
I've released two data transfer apps that are used to send data between Android devices, (BlueMuze and Listables if you're interested).
The reason I mention this though, is because I think that for specific tasks like sending music or a photo, or as you suggest, making a phone call, the tech is there. But full-on remote control of another device is a bit more difficult. I'd imagine it would require root and possibly some very clever hacking of the Surface Fliger and Event stream.
That's not to say it's impossible, but it would be a really decent technical challenge. There certainly is a permission related to injecting events into the event stream, that could be a good place to start (if anyone wants to try this).
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#INJECT_EVENTS
hope that helps
Another quick thought, it's also entirely possible someone will port a VNC server to android someday. There are already VNC clients available...
alostpacket said:
Another quick thought, it's also entirely possible someone will port a VNC server to android someday. There are already VNC clients available...
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That would certainly be cool! However, the functionality you mentioned in your previous post is something I think would be more functionally useful. Like, say your phone rings, but you answer can answer the call on your tablet as if the phone saw the tablet as a hands-free device, or just answer on the phone (whichever you prefer). Or you dial on your tablet, and then it engages the phone to place the call. Or SMS strings automatically synchronize, and you could answer/respond on either device and they mirror each other in their own respective SMS clients.
That sort of thing I think would be beastly! Y'know, something that gives your tablet and your phone more of a synergistic relationship to each other. Like, rather than two separate devices that fill specific functions, it'd be more like two devices complementing each other and working together to cover all your bases seamlessly.
I just wish I had the knowledge and development-fu to do it myself...
I have also been looking for this kind of thing - primarily so I could run videos from my tablet to my TV, and then use my Android HD2 to control the playback from the comfort of my sofa.
What would be ideal for me would be someone knocking up a bluetooth (or Wifi) solution which sends control commands to something like VPlayer, QQPlayer, MoboPlayer, RockPlayer whatever
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I have also been looking for this kind of thing - primarily so I could run videos from my tablet to my TV, and then use my Android HD2 to control the playback from the comfort of my sofa.
What would be ideal for me would be someone knocking up a bluetooth (or Wifi) solution which sends control commands to something like VPlayer, QQPlayer, MoboPlayer, RockPlayer whatever
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I pretty much already to that with my SGS2 by using a bluetooth mouse. I know it's not the same as pushing a specific button and having a specific action happening on the other device, but the effect is similar enough.
Bump! Trying get some visibility on potential devs for this idea.
any news for android-android remote access?
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Ive also been looking for a app to control my xoom tablet from my HTC phone,there are a couple of simple apps on the market such as "tablet remote" but im looking for one that has more media (music/film) capabilities,i guess the app would involve installing it one both devices then syncing via bluetooth
then you could control the playlist of music,stop pause fw rw any film,the ability to actually stream the music from your phone to table would be awesome !
in my personal situation my tablet is docked with speakers attached,i like to be able to access its music playlist then control that play list with my phone,and maybe even add extra tracks from my phone to the tablets playlist
is there already an app out there that will allow me to do this via bluetooth or wifi ?
has been years since this thread exist, any news?
Hi all,
I want to be able to stream 774 Melbourne on my Android. They have both pls or asx streams available.
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listenlive.htm#directlinks
Anyone know of a nice light weight app that can assist? I can seem to find ones with pre-defined streams though finding one that i can put in my own URL seems difficult.
Appreciate your help.
Theres not much out there for apps that allow custom streaming URLs. Really wish we had something like TCPMP/Coreplayer on Android. You could try Moboplayer but I've never been able to get much to work in it. It does work in Winamp Pro, an app I've been pretty impressed with.
I had to input the direct stream URL by opening the pls file in Notepad which is:
http://shoutmedia.abc.net.au:10350/
They have an iPhone app, but no Android app. You should complain, its not 2007 anymore.
thanks for the response.
I did find one its called Stream Media Player. Seems to work ok. though a bit heavy for my liking.
Ive also been told to try TunedIn Radio which already has ABC in its predefined list.
Hope it works out OK
Guys,
I've been tasked to produce an Android app as part of my Final Year Project.
The Project requires the app to be able to playback video from a streamer on a Windows PC equipped with one of the following streaming programs:
a) XSplit Broadcaster
b) Livestream Procaster
In addition, it should have a chat function in the form of a drag down menu such that one can interact with the streamer. It does not have to be a two-way interaction - ideally the user of the mobile device will ask a question/post a shoutout via the chatbox and the streamer will answer from his computer in some way or form.
I have tried reverse-engineering an app which you can find on the market (it's called GGWORLD) and it's quite similar to what we're doing, except it's aimed at gamers and pulls streams from twitchTV and whatnot.
My app on the other hand, has to pull footage from the user's Livestream account page, should the user choose to use Livestream Procaster.
I have managed to make some sort of a UI using Eclipse. I've also found out that we need this thing called 'webview'.
Now, as I'm extremely poor at programming, one humbly asks what this webview is about, and is there any need to manually code in Java or HTML5 or XML to pull videos, as from my understanding most videos streamed on the web are in the form of a flash app.
Many thanks, and thanks in advance for answering my questions if you do.
Hello!
I recently started developing on a web project, which is a universal YouTube media converter and downloader. Since I am a video editor for a YouTuber myself, downloading, converting and extracting all sorts of media has been a chore for me, especially because there are no decent applications or web apps available. Either they are severely limited, or they are ridden with annoying, bait ads, possibly even malware - or, they are payware.
So I decided to start a PWA web project. A universal YouTube media downloader and converter, with advanced and very useful features.
Batch download videos, playlists - or even channels!
Download, convert, edit and extract videos directly in your browser. Cut videos or audios directly, or convert clips to a GIF, or extract original video frames.
And - it's the best of native apps and web apps - also called, a PWA. It supports a lot of native features on Android, which is a huge focus for me, since there is no good app for that.
Installable like a native app directly through your browser. Auto-paste links directly, share media directly with everyone. Integrates with the share API, so you can even directly use YouTube's share feature to directly go to the app! Notifications, offline cache.
The best part is, you can even use the app offline! Well to download you need to go online of course.
95% is done natively, in your browser using WebAssembly and native browser APIs. Awesome huh?
Since this is a bigger project, I am searching for any kind of tester. Everyone is welcome!
It will work on any major modern browser (except Safari, because Apple), but since Google loves PWAs, they made it possible a while ago to create native APKs from PWAs. So there's that!
So, I'd appreciate it a ton if you want to join the team to test it. Also, all ideas and feedback are very appreciated!
Wanna join? Join my project Discord: https://discord.gg/kRkYQH3gH7
-DK
I would be happy to test, but I'm not on Discord. I'm interested to see where this project goes!
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I would be happy to test, but I'm not on Discord. I'm interested to see where this project goes!
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No problem! I will make a Telegram group and Twitter if enough interest is there
Would also like to test, but do not use Discord.