Hey all, just asking about a problem that I have with the music player. I have an ipod, so I have to use itunes and have been ripping my CDs in apple lossless format. For some reason, despite the HD2 supposedly supporting the m4a format, the player just skips the song every time. Anyone know how to solve this (if possible)?
Sorry if someone posted this already. I don't think there is DRM if I rip it with my own computer.... right?
No, no DRM. (Note: even the stuff you buy through iTunes has been free of DRM for years.)
The problem here is that the HD2, like most non-iPod music playing devices does not come with out-of-the-box support for Apple Lossless.
Container != codec. The HD2 can handle the m4a container format just fine, but that doesn't mean it knows what to do with the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) stream inside.
Possible solutions:
1) convert files
2) find something that plays ALAC on Windows Mobile
If you happen to be using Mac OS X, the first option's easy using the awesome XLD. Not sure about easy Windows solution, but you can probably use iTunes to convert ALAC to WAV at least.
Second option, I have no idea.
Awesome. I'll check it out. Thanks!
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wich is the best program and why ?
should i keep my original windows-media player wich wont play mp3 or is there a better one out there .....???
The original Media Player DOES play MP3 files. However, I prefer WMA format at 64k, which doubles my storage space with very little loss in quality (as far as what you can hear from the PPC even with good headphones). Unfortunately, the two excellent aftermarket players do not support WMA. So, if you want to play MP3 files, I recommend withMP3 (expensive, more mature) or PocketMusic (free, good but not perfect, early version release). The URL for the latter is www.pocketmind.com; I don't recall the URL for the other one.
With the windows media player keep the bit rate below 160k and the MP3's will play without issue, or got to Tools setttings, Audio & Video and allow the device to play unsupported files.
Jason
Media Player
Hi!
My Choice is the PocketMVP Player.
He plays DIVX and all other formats.
And the Price is ZERO!!!
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Stevie
Well, the site is down so I can't go try it out. Does it actually play WMA format?
Media Player
Try This :
http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/index.htm
Stevie
I see no evidence that it plays "all other formats." In fact, considering the author's anti-MS rant, I see reason to believe it will NOT play WMA.
I did a "digital download" of a DVD to my PC, and then copied the .wmv file over to the /Android/data folder. The tablet recognizes the file (when I pull up the videos screen), but when I try and play, I get a "Media Error: Sorry, cannot play this video" message.
I'm brand new to the Tablet, so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what...
Thanks in advance!
Brian
Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.
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Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.
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Hmmm.... We've downloaded similar movies to the Ipod Touch... clearly not a windows product.
Quite unfortunate if "digital downloads" cannot be played on the tablet.
I won't say they all have DRM but many do. Googling "drm wmv" should give you some ideas as to how to deteremine if this is the case.
Thanks so much for your help!
Brian
WMV File
I had a WMV video that would not play on my Windows 7 PC with Windows Media Player.
It would play using DIV-X and some other movie players. I happen to have Camtasia Studio and I opened the file in Camtasia and created a new WMV file (took about two hours to complete). Much to my surprise the New WMV file created with Camtasia would now run fine on the New Windows 7 machine with Windows Media Player.
Just for fun, I copied the new WMV file over to the G Tablet and it played fine.
My guess is this is hit or miss depending on how the original file was created (I think this file was created with an old version of Window's Movie Maker in around 2007). Something else that is strange to me is the old movie format would play on Windows Vista but not on Windows 7.
Additional on the OP's question. You can check for DRM protection by clicking on the file properties in Windows explorer. There's a "protected content" statement, in one of the tabs. For WMA/WMV files, it should be able to tell you if it's protected or not.
If you had gotten it from Amazon, or from a DVD digital download, it is most likely infected with DRM.
Download rockplayer. Works for my phone. Should work for tablet as well
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I tried rock player but told me could not use hardware playback. When i tried software decoding I got large pixelated video not distinguishable. Please advise.
Sounds like DRM to me. I haven't used a WMV on my tab yet but I assume it will with RockPlayer.
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where is s flood place to download free movies for the gtab?
DRM protected videos can't playback on most devices, you must remove the DRM protection, but it seems there is no free tool to handle it
DRM protected videos can't playback on most devices, you must remove the DRM protection, but it seems there is no free tool to handle it
Download DVDFab HD Decrypter and use it to rip the video from the original DVD, then use Freemake Video Converter to encode it to the format of your choice. I use 960x540 res, original frame rate, bit rate of 1280 for the video and sample rate 44000, bit rate 128kbps for the audio... works great on my EVO 3D. Will test this when I get the G-Tab in the next few days.
This may be an issue of the codec used. There are lots of codecs out there and the extension doesn't always indicate one particular codec. Depending on the program I am using to create a video I can select different codecs for the same fle type. Though divx is pretty much a mpeg4 codec, so is some of the Windows Media Video files. I have found even on the PC I have to dowload and install a codec "super pac" in order to play al the various files I come in contact with even though they may have the same extensions. Most of your players include a number of codecs to play the files they support. In windows nce the codec is installed for one player it most likely will be recognized by another. I really have no idea if this is the case with Android, or Linux, but from what I have seen it may be entirely dependant on the player.
Is it something I'm missing or can we not play drm video files on the atrix?
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are you asking about playing files that still have DRM protection intact? Did you really expect it to? You would need an app that has the right DRM privileges to play them. What exactly are you trying to play?
Can't play movies/videos downloaded from iTunes even though you paid for them.
They will sync over, but not play.
Sorry - was a bit brief
Was posting from my phone so didn't explain enough there...
I have a DVD with DRM digital content. I activated it with Windows Media Player on my PC so it plays just fine there. I then went to try and sync the file to get it over to my phone but WMP just comes back and says the phone doesn't support DRM.
Followed some directions here:
http://tsukata.org/2010/08/31/how-to-use-playsforsure-droidx/
Says it works on some phones and not others. Looks like you need "PlaysforSure" and I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with that yet on thier Atrix.
If it's not possible, then I'm looking for suggestions on the best way/settings/program to port a DVD over to my phone.
Android supports some DRM schemes, but not the MS WMA/V formats. "PlaysForSure" is also a MS format which you'll never see on Android devices.
There are plenty of ways for ripping DVDs (and BDs now for that matter) to the PC (ignoring any bonus 'Digital Copy' discs). From there you can reencode and transfer it all you want. Not all methods are easy to use, and in any case that's not a topic for this forum .. Google is your friend (DVD ripping and transcoding would be good search terms to start with).
Now, a more relevant question (which I haven't gotten to researching myself yet) would be:
- What file formats does Android in general, and the ATRIX in particular, support out of the box?
- What other formats can be played by installing third-party players or codecs?
DVDFab is a great program I use to rip my blu-rays since the included digital copies have incompatible DRM Schemes. The nice thing about that app is that it works with Nvidia Cuda which uses the graphics card to help transcode the video. I just select the iPhone setting and the videos look great on my Atrix coming off of blu-rays. (have not tried it with any dvds as I did not pruchase the dvd portion of it).
What audio formats does the Streak play?
I never had so much trouble looking up the answer to such a simple question.
So experimentation shows that it doesn't play lossless wma files.
Is there a lossless format that will play on it?
get PowerAMP it plays plenty of file types:
mp3, mp4/m4a (including alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta (* some wma pro files may require NEON support)
I love it, it's automated, so when I plug in my headphones (even BT ones) it resumes play.
the basic player is just that, basic.
I'd link it, but I'm new, look it up on appbrain.
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What audio formats does the Streak play?
I never had so much trouble looking up the answer to such a simple question.
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Good question. I can only speak for FLAC support as I don't use anything else.
The only Android media player that I know of that recognises FLAC is PowerAMP
http://powerampapp.com/
I second @bugmenotacc's endorsement.
I tried PowerAmp and it didn't play the album I ripped to flac.
I read the help section this morning (amazing what you can learn when you do that) and found out about selecting folders instead of the android library and lo and behold flac files play. Looks like I'll probably end up buying PowerAmp.
Yes it gets a bit confusing, glad you got it sorted too.
I loaded about 6 albums to my sd card today and set Android Settings to pull in the album artwork. Which all happened very quickly and seamlesly.
It is probably old fashioned of me but I prefer to set a Music folder rather than always have the app search my device for files.
Enjoy the app.
I'm trying to convert some files into formats that can be easily read by the Flyer's stock software. Maybe this is a pipedream, but I thought I'd ask.
Video:
We know that some formats are possible, and others are not (specifically .mkv seems to be a problem at 1080p). I have DVD's that I'd like to rip to .avi (perhaps .mp4 is better). I followed youtube directions at youtube.com/watch?v=R5fsz3TWuFk and that format isn't able to be played. Other AVI files are. Something about that is written here (forums.streamingmedia.com/thread-11192-post-12576.html) but I couldn't figure out what they were suggesting. Is it possible to get the movies I make into HTC Watch, or can I only watch them though the "Connected Media" app? If I need to use .mp4, can anyone recommend a good free file converter?
Books:
Similar story. I got .epub to work, but only on some files (converting from .pdf, .lit, .doc).
Music:
I use .mp3, so everything there works perfectly, but others might have questions.
I am in a similar boat. It is difficult to choose and manage which programs to use. I think both Google and HTC are great but HTC Reader doesn't sync with Google Books and the same with HTC and Google Music. I enjoy sense but also enjoy cloud services. Hopefully in the future HTC with sync with these cloud services and not have their own separate services.
I can 100% confirm that the HTC Flyer can support XviD in the avi container and h.264 in the mp4 container. Of course max resolution the device can support is 720p
Download and install Handbrake - easy to use, yet powerful encoding software.