Is that possible?
Often times, I play a video just for the sound/music but nothing (YouTube, video player) would let me turn off the screen or use other apps.
Now some of u might consider my question a dumb one and think it pointless. However, I have considered that already but I still want to be able to "multitask". I really do understand that doing that would contradict the meaning/purpose of video.
So would it be possible to at least turn off the screen?
What you could do is dl "you mate" from the market, and dl the songs directly to your /sd
But that's not what I want.
What if I want to watch/listen to a video once and not dl it?
seojuhwan said:
But that's not what I want.
What if I want to watch/listen to a video once and not dl it?
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You have that option, the app prompts you before each vid. Don't think you can have both and get the same out come, or at least there is no way that I know of.
I can't find that app... -_____-
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Hi guys
I've been wondering about this for a while now coz my phone browser doesn't load flash items.
Has anybody out there able to use flash player yet?
I seem to have the same problem. At first it shows just a timeglass, then it shows a "non-parking" sign..
Newer flash content doesn't work (that made with flash more than a certain version number, I don't recall right now what that is). Hopefully future updates will include a newer flash player when it is available.
See my Orange Update thread, same problem for me.... I get that window and hourglass, but Fox/Dave says he can view youtube desktop version, which I've never been able to get. I think some can/some can't.
Ok, going into YouTube and selecting the desktop version, when I pick a video I get the hour glass, which is then replaced by a normal YouTube video "window" with a large play icon. When I click on this, I'm taken to the "HTC Flash Player" (i.e. the video does not play in the window) and the video starts.
The one I've just tried can be found at this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgir4WlQ4U
Regards,
Dave
Nice vid! and totally believable
No, I don't get that on the HTC, it won't take me to the player. But there are loads of sites with Flash that it won't let me play either. Do you ever go to vids through the youtube app and still not get it to play? There's is a fair bit that won't play for me.
just to clear things up before my 101 arrives in a few days : is the cinema plugin needed only for the mpeg2/ac3 5.1 combo or also for mpeg2 video in combination with some other type audio, and ac3 5.1 audio in combination with some other type video? in other words, is any of the two in a media file enough for the cinema plugin to be needed or do they both have to be present? h.264/ac3 5.1 combo works without the plugin? i guess not but i'd like to make certain...
thanks!
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in other words, is any of the two in a media file enough for the cinema plugin to be needed
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yes.
pirecrompir said:
h.264/ac3 5.1 combo works without the plugin?
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no.
thanks for the answer!
now, i have several video clips with h.264/ac3 5.1 in an mkv container. i'm trying to transcode these clips into mkvs or mp4s with the same video stream (so, video direct stream copy) and transcoded audio to either ac3 2.0 or aac that archos supports without the cinema plugin. none of the transcoders i tried seemed to be able to do this: mediacoder, super, handbrake (i'm not even sure if handbrake supports direct video stream copy, i wasn't able to find it) - they all failed. has anyone tried to do this and can recommend a good transcoder? i don't want to re-encode the video, just the audio stream.
thanks!
try vlc, ok it's a bit complicated but it definitly supports reuse of streams on the fly.
and do not reencode to ac3, afaik ac3 is completely depending on the cinema plugin
You can also use rock player free, although it leaves buttons on edge
675 Trip said:
You can also use rock player free, although it leaves buttons on edge
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AFAIK no hw accel at all, right?
chulri said:
AFAIK no hw accel at all, right?
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yes, i read that everything above 540p is choppy without hw accel on a101.
i used a workaround that works but it's not ideal: i demuxed the ac3 5.1 audio stream from the mkv and re-encoded it into aac, then remuxed it back into the mkv. this works but it would be nice to have a one-step process to do this. i'm not sure what goes wrong with all the transcoders if you use direct video stram copying, i must be doing something wrong ... i'll be grateful if someone has any ideas. oh, and i haven't tried vlc yet - didn't even know it features transcoding, too...
thanks!
...or i'll just buy the freaking cinema plugin, it's only 15€ after all ... it's just that i like fooling around with free tools before i buy something which is not necessary and is something which should've come free with the product imo... oh, well
cheers
You got two options:
a) transcode all your movies/videos and spend couple of hours fooling around (how much $$$ is an hour? )
b) spend 15$ and be happy with the best video player available on archos' android devices
Okay, I have to ask. Can someone give a link to where you can buy the cinema pack? I've been trying to find it at store.archos.com or whatever and I can't find it. And yes...I feel pretty stupid about it since it seems everyone else knows where to buy it.
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Okay, I have to ask. Can someone give a link to where you can buy the cinema pack? I've been trying to find it at store.archos.com or whatever and I can't find it. And yes...I feel pretty stupid about it since it seems everyone else knows where to buy it.
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https://store.archos.com/plugins.php
You have to put in your product key and it should give you the option for the plugin.
Don't feel stupid; the Archos site is awful and half the links don't work right. The above link that blazingwolf posted should work. Note that when you do successfully purchase the pack, you will get a download link presented on the web page - that one does NOT work, or at least it didn't for me... it kept saying invalid product ID.
I had to use the link in the email they sent out after the order was completed. That one downloaded fine.
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https://store.archos.com/plugins.php
You have to put in your product key and it should give you the option for the plugin.
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Thanks Wolf! Or is it Blazing? Either way, thanks. I'm tempted to get it, but on the flip side I'm not sure if I will keep the 101 or upgrade to the Xoom WiFi only tablet. I don't really NEED more than the 101, but you know...in reality I probably didn't even NEED the 101 to begin with. I'm kind of rambling...so I'll post now and put down the keyboard...
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Okay, I have to ask. Can someone give a link to where you can buy the cinema pack? I've been trying to find it at store.archos.com or whatever and I can't find it. And yes...I feel pretty stupid about it since it seems everyone else knows where to buy it.
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http://www.archos.com/store/plugsearch.html?prod=archos101it
Ok.. I tried searching for a answer but not coming up with good results..
basically I am running into a video that won't play and wonder if this is just not supported on ICS or if I need some kind of player.. I already downloaded MX player and it made no difference..
Does anyone know if it just requires some player or is it just not possible? In the right center of the below page I click the video to play it. I get a popup window and nothing.. I tried enabling popups but made no difference either.. Much appreciated if you could help out. Not the end of the world.. just a video I could not watch that I was hopeful for.
http://www.sunstreamcorp.com/floatlift.htm
I think something's just wrong with that video clip. I can't view it on my desktop either.
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I think something's just wrong with that video clip. I can't view it on my desktop either.
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oops! I didn't even think of trying the .. cough, cough.. desktop..
bad assumption..
thanks..
Desktop did not work for me either.. guess I need to not forget that
So here's the deal, I love a certain soundtrack on Mushroom Wars.
Someone uploaded a version of it from the PS3 version [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY54xegYEX4 ] but it seems the audio's been compressed by youtube. If possible I want to get the .ogg or whatever native format it's in, un-truncated.
So I've taken the .apk [ uploaded it here https://www.mediafire.com/?7vih6xsb0murslz ] and unzipped it and found ./assets/sound2/ which is about 11MB. I sorted by the highest size, and it shows several soundtracks, but none of them is the right one. The rest are short sound effects.
I know for a fact that the music has played on a multiplayer mode, on my tablet a couple weeks or months back. [I checked thenk, but same as now, couldn't find it].
If anyone can show me where the music file is or upload it, that would be great.
buump.......
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buump.......
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If you can record it with your phone and post that, I can get a high quality version (via ps3) if that helps?
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If you can record it with your phone and post that, I can get a high quality version (via ps3) if that helps?
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No, it doesn't really help because I never know when the soundtrack will come on [it's somewhat random which track will play, depending on the map, which is also random]. Even then, it would have game sound effects mixed in, and I just want the raw track.
I just cannot figure out where they are hiding that specific track, or why they would try to do it. The others are easily found but I'm still drawing a blank why they [Mushroom wars developers] would do that.
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No, it doesn't really help because I never know when the soundtrack will come on [it's somewhat random which track will play, depending on the map, which is also random]. Even then, it would have game sound effects mixed in, and I just want the raw track.
I just cannot figure out where they are hiding that specific track, or why they would try to do it. The others are easily found but I'm still drawing a blank why they [Mushroom wars developers] would do that.
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I was going thru the files (thanks for the apk) and noticed that on the music tracks, they're long and have like 10 songs in each track (or something like that). Basically, it's like 1 long file and every minute or so there's a new sound track in the file. Did you listen to all of them?
I swear that on PS3 there's a "CHICKIE" sound effect and in the apk I only found a "Chingie" sounding thing. I'm gonna have to play it on the PS3 and get the sound I heard cuz I want it for a notification tone
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Also, as for recording it, if you can get at least a 10 second snippet of the 'track' you want, I'm willing to hunt thru the apk for it. Wouldn't hurt, right?
i have found some soundtracks of mushroom wars on SOUNDCLOUD.
Not sure if this is the correct place for this....
But would some crafty developer PLEASE, PLEASE make a video player for the Gear S?
Thank you.
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Not sure if this is the correct place for this....
But would some crafty developer PLEASE, PLEASE make a video player for the Gear S?
Thank you.
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I'm thinking of try to do this, but curious how do you see this working? Playing videos on phone storage, like a standalone player? or browsing videos on the phone? or something else?
Let's be clear I can't write a netflix or amazon app or any other proprietary streaming service.
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I'm thinking of try to do this, but curious how do you see this working? Playing videos on phone storage, like a standalone player? or browsing videos on the phone? or something else?
Let's be clear I can't write a netflix or amazon app or any other proprietary streaming service.
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On the original Gear, i could simply transfer videos into the pictures folder on the Gear, they would show up in the Gallery, and then I could play them.
Very simple.
Thank you for considering giving this a try!
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I'm thinking of try to do this, but curious how do you see this working? Playing videos on phone storage, like a standalone player? or browsing videos on the phone? or something else?
Let's be clear I can't write a netflix or amazon app or any other proprietary streaming service.
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I would also like to see this happen. I do get some small video clips Texted to my by my daughter out of state and would love to see them on my Gear S even though they would be very small.
Hope it can be done.. thanks for trying
Jim
gottahavit said:
I'm thinking of try to do this, but curious how do you see this working? Playing videos on phone storage, like a standalone player? or browsing videos on the phone? or something else?
Let's be clear I can't write a netflix or amazon app or any other proprietary streaming service.
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There is a video folder on the Gear S already we just have to have it connected to the computer in order to use it so if you could unhide it somehow or integrated it with gallery
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There is a video folder on the Gear S already we just have to have it connected to the computer in order to use it so if you could unhide it somehow or integrated it with gallery
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That doesn't mean the Gear S can play videos?. I would think that the Gear would need a player of some type and maybe Flash or Java?.
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That doesn't mean the Gear S can play videos?. I would think that the Gear would need a player of some type and maybe Flash or Java?.
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Did I ever say it plays videos or did I say there is a video FOLDER on the GS yeah reread. Anyway there is Internet and WiFi should be able to play videos somehow it plays my mms videos just fine
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Did I ever say it plays videos or did I say there is a video FOLDER on the GS yeah reread. Anyway there is Internet and WiFi should be able to play videos somehow it plays my mms videos just fine
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I did take a video that I made and converted it to a 3GP format. Tried to send it to my watch using gear but gear didn't recognize the video so I emailed it to a buddy who in turn text me with the video as a attachment and you are right. it did play just fine on the Gear S.
If there was a App that could see the video files on the gear, I would assume that if it was saved in the 3gp format it would be able to play. not sure about other video formats, I could play around with it and see if it will play something other than the 3GP.
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I did take a video that I made and converted it to a 3GP format. Tried to send it to my watch using gear but gear didn't recognize the video so I emailed it to a buddy who in turn text me with the video as a attachment and you are right. it did play just fine on the Gear S.
If there was a App that could see the video files on the gear, I would assume that if it was saved in the 3gp format it would be able to play. not sure about other video formats, I could play around with it and see if it will play something other than the 3GP.
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Ok I'm waiting for some feedback on my other app, so I'm gonna switch gears for a bit and explore the video aspects. I'll report back wehn I know something.
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So this how far I got in a couple hours.
Can access Video Folder
Can definitely write a video app to list and play videos from the folder
can rotate video to landscape or play portrait(Haven't figured out fullscreen yet)
Play MP4 with issue, should play MKV as well.
Plays Audio
We should easily be able t browse files on the phone as well and autodownload.
I'll do some more testing of video capabilities. More info to come.
You can see a demo here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tao8m9mkab5r69f/20141118_222440.mp4?dl=0
Now for the bad news, this type of app needs to go through the samsung app store and I'm still waiting on myb dev setup for this. As soon as I get set up I will clean this up and release it through samsung, but it may take a while
Fantastic!
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Ok I'm waiting for some feedback on my other app, so I'm gonna switch gears for a bit and explore the video aspects. I'll report back wehn I know something.
Update:
So this how far I got in a couple hours.
Can access Video Folder
Can definitely write a video app to list and play videos from the folder
can rotate video to landscape or play portrait(Haven't figured out fullscreen yet)
Play MP4 with issue, should play MKV as well.
Plays Audio
We should easily be able t browse files on the phone as well and autodownload.
I'll do some more testing of video capabilities. More info to come.
You can see a demo here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tao8m9mkab5r69f/20141118_222440.mp4?dl=0
Now for the bad news, this type of app needs to go through the samsung app store and I'm still waiting on myb dev setup for this. As soon as I get set up I will clean this up and release it through samsung, but it may take a while
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That looks great! You mentioned in your post about Portrait/Landscape....... If you do develop this, please let us have the option of either.....I prefer portrait, simply because when the watch is on your wrist, the is the normal viewing angle.
Thank you so much!!!!!
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That looks great! You mentioned in your post about Portrait/Landscape....... If you do develop this, please let us have the option of either.....I prefer portrait, simply because when the watch is on your wrist, the is the normal viewing angle.
Thank you so much!!!!!
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Yeah it's just so dam small in portrait. Lol
Clever guy
The video player has been submitted to the app store. This version will be free with no restrictions. If I make a more advanced edition it will be a different app, so you can continue to enjoy the free edition.
Now we're just waiting on Samsung......
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The video player has been submitted to the app store. This version will be free with no restrictions. If I make a more advanced edition it will be a different app, so you can continue to enjoy the free edition.
Now we're just waiting on Samsung......
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Come on Samsung he's trying to do your job for you the least you can do is approve his app fast
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Come on Samsung he's trying to do your job for you the least you can do is approve his app fast
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Yeah this is my first attempt at submitting to Samsung. I have not idea how long it takes or how often they reject apps and for what reasons. We'll see.
This one is pretty simple so hopefully it won't take too many go arounds.
I was surprised to find my app works just as well on my gear 2.
Thank you so much!!
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Yeah this is my first attempt at submitting to Samsung. I have not idea how long it takes or how often they reject apps and for what reasons. We'll see.
This one is pretty simple so hopefully it won't take too many go arounds.
I was surprised to find my app works just as well on my gear 2.
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Let's hope Samsung doesn't take too long! Thank you for doing this.
When you make a more advanced app, I will be first in line to purchase it!
What is the app named?
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What is the app named?
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Basic Video Player
Not very imaginative, but I don't get into names
Source code?
Would you be willing to post the source code if Samsung says no or takes too long?
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Would you be willing to post the source code if Samsung says no or takes too long?
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If they say no(I can't imagine why) I will post the code. The app has moved to the next step in their process. Still no idea how much longer it will take.
Update: It has moved one step further in the process. it is now in "Under test verification"