Hello everybody.
i use the build in windows media player with my xda neo. bevor is start it, i have around 20mb free ram on my device. directly after the start, there are 16,5 mr ram free. no other application is running. after playing i while (around 2-3 hours). my free ram decreases very rapid. i have inly 1,6 mb free memory, the media player plays the music only with a stutter.
i will use no other player because i sync my library with media player 11 on the desktop and i have found no other player for the ppc, that can sync the playcount and ratings back to my pc.
is there a way to bypass this memory monster? or does anybody know a other media player for the ppc, that make use of the media player library and sync's the playcount and ratings back to the pc?
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I wonder if anyone can tell me... how to play mp3 files and movie files say avi , mpg etc with the new windows media 8.5? I don't seem to be able to use the xda to play a simple mp3 file after I use activesync to transfer the file into the xda. It may a be simple software problem or do I need special codecs for these files to be played?
Sorry if it is a silly question.
Cheers
Hi, if you have the pocket pc 2002, and windows media player 8.5, you should be able to play mp3 files without any issue.
Try downloading a small mp3 file from the net to check. sometimes, if you dont have an SD card, and only a limited memory, and you try and copy a large mp3 to your xda, it cuts off half way when you run out of storage memory. This leaves your file corrupted, and hence you cant play it.
Close all your running apps. Adjust your memory settings, to increase storage area. Choose an mp3 file that is much smaller than available space (eg. ringtone from some website) and copy that to your xda.
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Thanks very much for your reply. Thot nobody is interested to answer a silly question like that. Indeed I think the mp3 file I tried to play is corrupted. Got windows media player to play other smaller mp3 files after your advice. However, can windows media player play mpg files at all? Always seem to get message that the movie file cannot be played.
Thanks again.
Smaslift
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cant remember if media player 8.5 can play mpgs. However if you install pocket divx player, you should be able to play most file formats. Ofcourse it wont play all mpgs, or all avis, it depends on the codecs used, however common ones, especially divx are playable.
http://www.projectmayo.com/projects/detail.php?projectId=9
Just to let you know, Media player 8.5 can't play mpeg.
PocketTV is another alternative.
movie file size
HI
Thanks for info. Installed both pocket tv and divx and both are great. Only thing is size of movie files are too big. I have tried using VirtualDub to play around with movie compression but still hasn't found the optimal size to reduce a movie to be sensible for use in pdas. What is the screen size and how else besides the screen size can one use to reduce movie file size?
Cheers
Some good guides here:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/
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In virtual dub, you need to ensure that you are specifying a codec for video compression AND audio compression.By default virtualdub does not compress the audio, hence the file tends to be quite large.
You may want to install some more audio codecs to give you a better compression. Try installing the WMA codecs, or get Windows Media player 9 on your system.
WMA codes
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Thanks for replies. I have Windows Media 9 on my system; how to use it to get the audio compression with Virtual Dub?
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Vic
in the audio menu on virtuadub, you need to select Full Processing Mode. Then the compression option will become selectable. You can then pick an audio codec. Be aware not all audio codecs will be available on your xda. Use Windows Media Audio codecs, have a look at:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-wma.htm
tell me what player for listening music do you use, and how many memory it consumes!!! tnx for replay!!!
I'm using HTC Audio manager and that "eats" about 7% of RAM.
tnx for reply... right now, i am using audio manager too...
Today I tried Windows Media Player, and I don't like it... Skipping between songs is very slow, it eats about 10-12% of RAM.
Next I tried CorePlayer, it eats about 7% of RAM, it has good audio output sound, but it doesn't support manilla 2D. I stay with HTC Audio manager.
c mon, i wont to know what player do you use... does anyone listen music on wizard??? you can say what windows mobile version do you use, rom, and how much memory it uses... for great sound improvement use wow srs... it is great app...
One of the biggest selling points of the Archos G9 for me, was the ability to play all kinds of filetypes through the video and music players. I was somewhat disappointed though, when I found out that I had to manually browse through my external storage to play the files I wanted to play. My external hdd is set to autobackup my laptop so that means finding files is folder hell. I was wondering if there is any way to get my files to show up so that I could scroll through them just as if they had been on the internal storage. This would make things so much more convenient. Any suggestions?
Install player pro for music and voor video and also dvd files daroon player
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Install player pro for music and voor video and also dvd files daroon player
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Well I kinda want the default player because of its priceless mkv support. I've noticed in the file browser you can highlight an internal media folder (dcim, Music, Video) and select options in Media Share. These are the only folders that you can set share types, which I assume includes the folder into the media library. Maybe there is some way that we could give other folders special permissions to allow them to be shared like these.
I have exactly the same problem. Had in mind to use the G9 as multimedia devices streaming music and video from my NAS to my TV. I had expected that the G9 had native support for Network drives, but it doesn't. At least I could not find it. The best alternative I found is BubbleUPnP. This app detects my Synology NAS and I can start any video from it. For Video you can select which player to use. Music is played with the build in player, which I don't like. I prefer PowerAmp. An app that brings a kind of XBMC to a tablet is what I need.
I have music files in PC, and I want to keep them there but want to play through my device. I have turned on sharing for these files and almost all apps on my mobile can detect and play these files but these apps act more like file managers/explorers rather than music players i.e they do not have options to play next track, shuffle, etc. So I am in search for an app which is a music player and its source of data is DLNA (or PC sharing, whatever it is scientifically called). Please recommend me one if you know.
To start, I'm on a rooted LGG3 running AICP with Android 7.1.1.
I recently got a 64gb very high speed rated SanDisk card for pretty cheap. I filled it to about 54gb.
Now my media players are being very picky. After boot they show as empty and take a long amount of time to rescan because the Media Scanner app seems to try to update its storage every time the phone reboots. It takes about 20 minutes and its storage space crawls from 0 to 51 MB, at which point everything works properly.
Currently I'm using VLC since it keeps its own media cache and is therefore the only reliable media player, but it doesn't search for artist and album art like blackplayer does.
Is there an alternative to the media scanner app that isn't so finicky? All I could find is an XPOSED module but android 7 doesn't have XPOSED yet.
Perhaps a way to freeze the media scanner so it doesn't scan for new media ever unless you tell it to? Or even another music player that keeps its own cache?
Help appreciated, thanks a lot.
Music players with their own media scanners and db:
1. PlayerPro ($)
2. Foobar200 ($0)
3. Poweramp ($)
4. Neutron Music Player ($) Odd UI.
The above does not affect the Android media scanner, which will run on its own, but you can kill it, I suppose. I am out of my depth here.