[Q] 4 on demand - HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi I've been trying for hours to get 4 on demand on my hd2 working.
I've tried skyfire to no avail, and have installed the newest version of opera and turned plugins on to no avail.
Many thanks for any help offered.

Have you looked at myPlayer??? It allows you to watch loads of different TV channels - including 4OD.
Worth a look IMO....
Mark.

Thanks for this, Mark.
Yes I have tried it but it didn't work.
I didn't have coreplayer installed when I tried it though.
Is there something that does the job that coreplayer is meant to do but which is free?
Thanks again,
Harry

You'll have to ask on the myPlayer thread, but AFAIK the HTC StreamingMedia player will also work. You could also try TCPMP (aka free version of CorePlayer, minus some bells and whistles ).
Search for both of the above on the forums; chances are, if you've installed a custom ROM on your HD2, you've probably got the StreamingMedia player already (check in Start | Multimedia).
Hope that helps.
Mark.

Thanks very much Mark! With the built in HTC streamer and the TCPMP program, it all seems to work.
However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to navigate to 4 on demand content...
Thanks again!
Harry

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media center extender for athena?

please don't flame me for not searching the forums if such a topic has already been discussed - my search function simply isn't working. I have however browsed the forums with no luck. I was simply wondering if it is possible to use my athena as a media extender- not just control it but view videos, music and pictures the same way i would through an xbox or a pc.
leoni1980 said:
please don't flame me for not searching the forums if such a topic has already been discussed - my search function simply isn't working. I have however browsed the forums with no luck. I was simply wondering if it is possible to use my athena as a media extender- not just control it but view videos, music and pictures the same way i would through an xbox or a pc.
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Yeah please this would be cool feature
ORB is the answer you seek
Has Anyone Tried This?.......
spacecat said:
ORB is the answer you seek
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orb is ok but id prefer something to directly sync with my Media Center setup at home.
Also my Athena crashes whenever Media Player loads up. I've got PK's Black Touch 2.0. Applied the WM fix but it didn't work.
Wondered if anyone has tried this..... haven't had chance yet
http://www.getjar.com/products/11070/MobileMediaCenterBeta
Be interested to get some feedback
Try using Webguid on your media center pc. It integrates into the mediacenter application and is a ton more stable than Orb (especially on Vista). It's free for XP and Vista media center users and is very easily navigated on a laptop or handheld (more than Orb was anyway, and yes I've used both). Webguide is the closest I've come to turning my handheld into a media center extender as I can get.
I don't have the url, but a quick google for webguide+mediacenter should get you going in the right direction. Also, try using TCPMP to view the streaming on your handheld instead of WMP.
Good luck.
leoni1980 said:
orb is ok but id prefer something to directly sync with my Media Center setup at home.
Also my Athena crashes whenever Media Player loads up. I've got PK's Black Touch 2.0. Applied the WM fix but it didn't work.
Wondered if anyone has tried this..... haven't had chance yet
http://www.getjar.com/products/11070/MobileMediaCenterBeta
Be interested to get some feedback
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If it helps, I tried the various WMP fixes without success until I saw the one about previewing the skins. This is what worked for me:
1) In options uncheck open in library screen.
2) In landscape mode go to options and select skin tab. Wait until the skin appears - takes a few seconds
3) In Portrait mode do the same as for 2)
That worked for me. I don't think I did the "play a track from playlist" trick, but I did have a playlist set up. Reason I can't be sure is that this is the third time I've had to rebuild my Athena with PK2.0 because previous 2 versions got stuck during hard reset after I had set various things up.
Hope this helps someone

Watching ITV online

Hi all,
This is probably a British only question! I have been trying to watch ITV on line (British TV on line) on my Athena using AP 4.0 ROM. It uses an embedded video player and works great on the laptop as you would expect, however when trying on the Athena it tells me I don't have flash player installed. Now on my PDA I do have the mobile version running, but it fails to use this. Ive been having a play with it but I'm beginning to think its a lost cause. to save further strife does anyone know if I'm wasting my time on this one? I got you tube running a treat, but I'm to tight to subscribe to a pay for TV viewer
All the best
Jay
responderman said:
Hi all,
This is probably a British only question! I have been trying to watch ITV on line (British TV on line) on my Athena using AP 4.0 ROM. It uses an embedded video player and works great on the laptop as you would expect, however when trying on the Athena it tells me I don't have flash player installed. Now on my PDA I do have the mobile version running, but it fails to use this. Ive been having a play with it but I'm beginning to think its a lost cause. to save further strife does anyone know if I'm wasting my time on this one? I got you tube running a treat, but I'm to tight to subscribe to a pay for TV viewer
All the best
Jay
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The flash we have in WM6 is version 7. They probably use version 8 or higher, so no joy.
Tadeusz said:
The flash we have in WM6 is version 7. They probably use version 8 or higher, so no joy.
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I was thinking along the same lines that our flash player is not advanced enough to play this kind of video. I will have to get a shift. maybe the new Opera will work when its finished on a final.
Jay

PMP Rom

I would love to turn my HTC6500 into a personal media player (PMP) i have been looking around and havent found anything even remotely like this. the idea is to make it boot into a screen where i can navigate easily to movies and music, with the comm manager available as well. if this is already possible i would love to be pointed in the right direction. thanks guys
Yes, i've been looking for something like this a long time, too. For now I'am using TCPMP and Mort for Media Access, but a GUI like IPOD Touch would be nice.
Has anybody seen or produced am "Multimedia ROM"?
Greetz,
TSU

[Q] How do you watch F1 on HD2?

Hi,
I've had no luck trying to get a live stream onto HD2. When on the BBC website: Opera doesn't support Flash and IE just times out without getting a picture.
What's the best way to view F1 please? BBC show live streaming via the 'red button', can we get a feed from that perhaps onto phone?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Pete
You can do it by opening opera on your phone, typing 'opera:config' without the quatation marks into where you put the address. this gives you what looks like a webpage, and if you scroll down it says 'User Prefs'. CLick on this then scroll down to 'custom User agent', which has a box underneath where you have to enter 'HTC_Touch_HD_T8282' (again without quotes). As far as i understand this tells Iplayer youi're using a different version of Opera, the one from the Touch HD, as the HD2 version isn't recognised.
This comes from a great thread with loads of tips on it which you can find here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
Check it out, for most of it you'll need to know how to change registry values. You cn find that information on this forum or google easily enough, i knew nothing before.
alternatively put android on your SD card and use that, you get a higher quality stream on that and it streams the video directly i the browser.
As far as i know both methods work only on WIFI, and i can't take credit for any of this, all other people's work!
Hi will,
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I already had this reg tweek setup as you need it to watch BBC iPlayer (which works fine).
The trouble is, that with the BBC feed, they do it via 'flash player in a web page' (and not directly through the iPlayer). Even though I have tweeked the reg, the BBC website page for F1 (on HD2 via Opera) still shows the error message, "The media player requires Adobe Flash 9 or higher."
I'm not too keen on putting Android on SD card but I guess if there is no other way of watching it via WinMo then that's that.
Thanks again for your reply.
ATB,
Pete
PeteSweet said:
Hi will,
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I already had this reg tweek setup as you need it to watch BBC iPlayer (which works fine).
The trouble is, that with the BBC feed, they do it via 'flash player in a web page' (and not directly through the iPlayer). Even though I have tweeked the reg, the BBC website page for F1 (on HD2 via Opera) still shows the error message, "The media player requires Adobe Flash 9 or higher."
I'm not too keen on putting Android on SD card but I guess if there is no other way of watching it via WinMo then that's that.
Thanks again for your reply.
ATB,
Pete
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How about using manila TV (TV Tab) as in Omega ROM?

[Q] Just got my first Android device - and I am lost :(

Hi,
just got myself first, proper Android device.
My Lumia has been passed on to my spouse and I am trying to get familiar with the system and device.
As you can imagine, after using iPad and recently Lumia I do feel a bit lost and overwhelemd by the amount of options, menus and submenus
As right now I am trying to dig through tons of posts, pages here and on other sites. Not an easy task to get to the essential information.
Perhaps you can help me be hinting some shortcuts or giving straight through answers?
My S3 is not branded and unlocked but not rooted, runnind Android 4.1.1
1. How do I get Flash working in Chrome?
2. How do I get Market Enabler app on it?
All my tries and downloads has not been succesful so far
galtom said:
Hi,
just got myself first, proper Android device.
My Lumia has been passed on to my spouse and I am trying to get familiar with the system and device.
As you can imagine, after using iPad and recently Lumia I do feel a bit lost and overwhelemd by the amount of options, menus and submenus
As right now I am trying to dig through tons of posts, pages here and on other sites. Not an easy task to get to the essential information.
Perhaps you can help me be hinting some shortcuts or giving straight through answers?
My S3 is not branded and unlocked but not rooted, runnind Android 4.1.1
1. How do I get Flash working in Chrome?
2. How do I get Market Enabler app on it?
All my tries and downloads has not been succesful so far
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1.Officially flash player for jellybean does not exist on play store ...but you can find the flash players here on xda (or pm me and ill send u the apk)
2. Market Enabler has official website you can access it from here (i think it needs root im not sure)
http://me.rac.su/
Or you can pm i will send it to you..
Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
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Oh and btw welcome to our community
Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
Also, on my iPad I was using an awesome video player - Buzz Player.
It plays mkv (iPad can't do it smootlhy but that is different story), divix, avi... anything really.
What is mor eimportnat it was able to stream those videos from my NAS drive - old WD My Book World via smb (samba).
I tried Buzz for Android but it is truly terrible . Nothing like app on iOS + very expensive to buy.
Would you have anyy suggestion - what I should try? (BTW: option for Windows Store - "try" before "buy" is really helpfull - would love to see it on Google Play!).
And what is the best (free) barcode scanner as there is no Bing in S3.. ?
galtom said:
Also, on my iPad I was using an awesome video player - Buzz Player.
It plays mkv (iPad can't do it smootlhy but that is different story), divix, avi... anything really.
What is mor eimportnat it was able to stream those videos from my NAS drive - old WD My Book World via smb (samba).
I tried Buzz for Android but it is truly terrible . Nothing like app on iOS + very expensive to buy.
Would you have anyy suggestion - what I should try? (BTW: option for Windows Store - "try" before "buy" is really helpfull - would love to see it on Google Play!).
And what is the best (free) barcode scanner as there is no Bing in S3.. ?
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I really have no idea for streaming my s3 plays mkv movies from stock..but you could try "vlc direct pro free" i think you will be ok!
As for the barcode try quickmark for more options or barcode scanner for simple use
Sent from a modified Galaxy S3 using Swift Key.
As far as I'm aware chrome doesn't support flash anyway, try dolphin browser hd. Market enabler does require root access. As for the video player try MX Player from the play store it plays pretty much everything, possibly the best video player for android.
Hope I could help
Sent From My Omega'd Galaxy S3 ...
xmrenegade7 said:
As far as I'm aware chrome doesn't support flash anyway, try dolphin browser hd. Market enabler does require root access. As for the video player try MX Player from the play store it plays pretty much everything, possibly the best video player for android.
Hope I could help
Sent From My Omega'd Galaxy S3 ...
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Playback itself is half of the problem.
Are my movies are on my NAS (network attached storage) and as with iPad or laptop I want to have access to them there. Downloading them first to phone i silly.
Especially since it is DLNA device...
But player has to work with samba protocol
flash player for websites and videos...
originally posted from galtom:
1. How do I get Flash working in Chrome?
Hy im a newby here and also in android, comming from iOs too....
my phone is rooted and i managed to install the so wanted flash player from Adobe v11(not sure the version, its been a long time)
it works great in my Galaxy S3 ... i open internet sites and videos using Opera (or Chrome which i like a lot but havent tested it yet)
look for your version of system/phone in Adobe site and you will find the right flash player, just download the file and follow the instrutcions on the site.

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