DICE player for Android plays videos fine, after ICS, but there is no menu button anymore. No way to turn on/off subtitles, or choose subtitle files. Also, there seems to be no way to remove the bottom status bar while playing a video. Has anyone been able to find work-arounds?
This sucks.
Send a mail to the developer so he knows what he need to work on. Hopes its a easy fix for him. Diceplayer have been the best player just because of its many and easy settings when it comes to subtitle and more.
Does anyone find a workaround or it is up to the man behind Diceplayer that needs to fix it.
Start to miss HC more and more.
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Andreas527 said:
This sucks.
Send a mail to the developer so he knows what he need to work on. Hopes its a easy fix for him. Diceplayer have been the best player just because of its many and easy settings when it comes to subtitle and more.
Does anyone find a workaround or it is up to the man behind Diceplayer that needs to fix it.
Start to miss HC more and more.
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There's no need to panic, keep in mind all these apps were wrote for either gingerbread/honeycomb.
ICS has just been released (this is the second device)
for apps as popular as the dice player, I'm sure they'll be writing a version (or altering the old one) to play nicely with the new OS, just gotta be patient.
Yeah I know. Everything just need some time.
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Andreas527 said:
This sucks.
Send a mail to the developer so he knows what he need to work on. Hopes its a easy fix for him. Diceplayer have been the best player just because of its many and easy settings when it comes to subtitle and more.
Does anyone find a workaround or it is up to the man behind Diceplayer that needs to fix it.
Start to miss HC more and more.
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Already sent him an email. Have you observed the things I mentioned?
I have the same issues.
I disabled sub menus in dice player this afternoon and I had never even used it before. Poke around a bit., you'll find all the settings
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csmall said:
I disabled sub menus in dice player this afternoon and I had never even used it before. Poke around a bit., you'll find all the settings
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The settings are only viewable if you open the DICE player app by itself (i.e., not from a file manager). As far as I can tell, those settings are not doing anything.I changed the font size, and it has no effect when I actually play a file.
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I disabled sub menus in dice player this afternoon and I had never even used it before. Poke around a bit., you'll find all the settings
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Yeah, I know I can find the settings inside the application.
I talk about the menu/options key that you can access when you are playing a video. And the subtitle size can't be changed. Aside that the video playback works great as usual.
Have mail the developer and told him about the "problem".. So know we just wait.
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just a heads up
this is not specific to dice player.
about 40% of my apps no longer have menu buttons.
there is no alternative that I know of.
they just are not compatible with ICS
ICS is totally sucks. Did live up the all the hypes. I wish I never updated my to ICS. HC was working great for me. After updating to ICS, all kinds of issues...screen flickering very few minutes, some apps totally don't work anymore.....
ICS Feels more like a phone OS. HC felt more for tablets.
Now with ICS there no need for tablets specific apps because the phone app should work. This means that we won't see any apps that take advantage of tablets bigger screen. I still think it would been better if we got one OS för tablets and one for phone. Now we with tablet just will get phone apps because that's the idea with ICS that phone and tablet are the same.
Back to Diceplayer. Just received a mail from the developer and got a test version. Now we have menu button and the subtitle size can now be changed.
The status bar still shows. But that should be a easy fix. He don't have a ICS tablet so it's hard for him to test how it works. But now when he now about it I sure he can work something out.
Really hope he gets a paid version up on market soon, so he will get some $$$
We need to remember that ICS only been out for 1 month. And only runs on 2 device. Remember how long it took for HC to get good support. I am sure that if we just give the developers of apps time to fix and update there apps to support ICS it will become better.
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Im confused. I just used diceplayer on ICS and it worked just as before?
Same issue for me.
I tried MoboPlayer and Rockplayer and both work, but don't have sound for some reason. However, at least Rockplayer plays in hardware mode for me now.
BSPlayer lite seems absolutely fine.
Sokonomi said:
Im confused. I just used diceplayer on ICS and it worked just as before?
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When playing a movie tap the screen and look top right, there should be a menu button there. Now white ICS that is gone. But he is working to fix it asap.
The app works as before just that the menu button is gone and that the status bar don't go black
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Oooh ok now im up to speed, thanks.
I can still select audio/subs when it first starts the video, so its still very usable imho.
Just give it some time I suppose, same as with all other now borked apps.
jimbob1971 said:
Same issue for me.
I tried MoboPlayer and Rockplayer and both work, but don't have sound for some reason. However, at least Rockplayer plays in hardware mode for me now.
BSPlayer lite seems absolutely fine.
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The status bar still shows in BS Player lite.
Got a other test version from the developer of diceplayer. In this everything works like in HC. Can access menu when playing video and the Android status bar goes black as it should.
Haven't heard anything from the developer when he planning to update the app on Android Market. But sure it won't take long.
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Got a other test version from the developer of diceplayer. In this everything works like in HC. Can access menu when playing video and the Android status bar goes black as it should.
Haven't heard anything from the developer when he planning to update the app on Android Market. But sure it won't take long.
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I also got a test version, but it gives me an error: License not allowed, check your time and timezone on the device.
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Got a other test version from the developer of diceplayer. In this everything works like in HC. Can access menu when playing video and the Android status bar goes black as it should.
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Have sent an e-mail to the author - the subtitle font size doesn't work under ICS. Font family, color works as expected though.
Related
In this video, I review several more Android apps running on the Cyanogenmod Android Alpha for HP Touchpad.
I cover:
Youtube
Netflix
Swiftkey Tablet X Keyboard
MX PLayer for video playback
I also take a good look at the quality of playback for both 720p and 1080p video.
Wow, I really thought this would spark the discussion of "which keyboard is better".
Go figure.
reverendkjr said:
Wow, I really thought this would spark the discussion of "which keyboard is better".
Go figure.
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Yea, I expected more posts in general since CM7 was released but it seems like there are less. Maybe just me though.
Nice video btw. I like Swiftkey X but its kinda expensive for a keyboard.
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pside15 said:
Yea, I expected more posts in general since CM7 was released but it seems like there are less. Maybe just me though.
Nice video btw. I like Swiftkey X but its kinda expensive for a keyboard.
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I only got the trial for now. I'm not sure exactly which keyboard I will end up with, but Swiftky is pretty awesome so far.
CM7.1 on Touchpad and Netflix App
When I install the current Netflix app; I get a black screen with sound, when I try to stream a video. Any ideas?
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When I install the current Netflix app; I get a black screen with sound, when I try to stream a video. Any ideas?
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yeah me too!! its driving me insane, i have gone to older versions, messed with permissions, i cant get it to work.. any help?
I had backed up the previous version of the Netflix app using Titanium Backup so I just restored/installed that one back and it works. Not gonna be updating to the latest version until it works.
How did you manage to get it working? I can't download it via the market. Swiftkey X.
I came across this app by chance while bored and searching for new apps to play with and wanted to share with the community. If this has been shared before (did not come up in a search for me) my apologies.
While this app is still young and a little rough around the edges, it's still pretty awesome. It allows for a resizable and movable pop up window overlay (that's themeable!!) to play a video as you do other things like surf the web or play a game. Think Picture in Picture on your TV.
It even allows multiple instances of video under a lot of circumstances. Basic but useful multitasking all the way.
https://market.android.com/details?...sImNvbS5teWJveWZyaWVuZGlzYWdlZWsuc3RpY2tpdCJd
It's $1.50 in the android market and definitely provides something that made my iOS friends at work VERY jealous of today. I added some screenshots of it running on my TFP. Video ran very smoothly even with Fruit Ninja playing in the background or multiple tabs.
P.S. It also ran smoothly on my Epic 4G on Gingerbread though it's not as useful on a phone screen!!
Can you resize the video window?
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Can you resize the video window?
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Yes. You can manually resize by dragging the arrow on the bottom right corner or expand by pressing one of the soft buttons on the windows titlebar.
I actually was able to play 2 videos simultaneously on my Epic 4G's 480 x 800 display.
You can also position the window to any part of your desktop if it gets in the way.
Just ran across this yesterday. Pretty awesome!
They also have a nice free calculator app that floats on top too.
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This works great on the prime. Just got it and its cool as a mofo. Eat this apple....lmfao. this'll be great to show off.
dilligaf said:
They also have a nice free calculator app that floats on top too.
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I set the air calc to search+c and i can pop it up whenever. its great!
Would be cool if you could run apps side by side(Netflix, web browser)
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very cool, was hoping to find something like this!
Aside from smoothing it out and getting rid of some small glitches I just wish it had the ability to go fullscreen.
Just tested this on my Galaxy S2 and its very impressive !
Great find, i cant wait to try this out when my prime comes back!
Thanks for the heads up! Just got it! Awesome!
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working perfectly on my galaxy note! Sent a message to the developer to add an"open URL" command.
Ernesto de Bernardis
[from my Galaxy Note]
Interesting to note that the next version of android with the help of Intel will finally have a windowed environment. (didn't say windows, as I don't want to get sued)
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My house has windows. They can sue that!
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watching a Movie now as I type this. I think the video format would make a big difference in the quality of play back. My current movie is a MVK (bluRay) file and it's incredibly choppy. But pretty impressive just the same!
It's not using the hardware videodecoder of tegra 3. I hope they can fix it. Because this app is really awesome.
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It's not using the hardware videodecoder of tegra 3. I hope they can fix it. Because this app is really awesome.
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I've had great success with 720p mp4's. If this is without hardware decode then I'd love to see what happens if they do eventually add it. Overall I am very pleased with the app and hope that they continue to improve it.
works great! I wonder if this can be done streaming a video from your pc?
I converted some mkvs to mp4s and they play very smoothly on my prime.
I tried playing a .3gp video on my Xperia play and it also played very smoothly.
somebody give this man a medal...extra smooth on the prime
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I converted some mkvs to mp4s and they play very smoothly on my prime.
I tried playing a .3gp video on my Xperia play and it also played very smoothly.
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What did you use to convert it? Any programs i try using (forget the name, derp) either come back unplayable format or really choppy or crap quality from blueray rips.
If i wanted to re-encode the movies i have to the exact resolution of the TF201 for best quality and lowest file size, what do you suggest?
Just wanted to give everyone a warning. If you leave dice player open and turn off the screen, it will crash and reboot. (It takes a few seconds after you turn the screen back on. Yes, it will still crash of you close it with the home button right after.)
Eh, no it doesn't... please don't state things like these as facts. Ask a question, sure... but don't say it like this is a universal thing because it works just fine here.
Just tried it and no rebooting here either. Dice player works just fine on my Prime.
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It does if u leave it all night, atleast for me... but dont care just close it before you turn it off
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i500 said:
Just wanted to give everyone a warning. If you leave dice player open and turn off the screen, it will crash and reboot. (It takes a few seconds after you turn the screen back on. Yes, it will still crash of you close it with the home button right after.)
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No *Thank You* points for you sir! Post some factual info first please.
Just to clarify, the situation is like this: I pause a .mkv file and turn off the screen. When i turn the screen back on, no matter what i do next, it will freeze and reboot the prime. Thankfully, these are the only crashes i get on it
Just tried. Worked fine for me. I'm not going to test the overnight. If it crashes cause I leave it on overnight my life will go on.
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Just tried. Worked fine for me. I'm not going to test the overnight. If it crashes cause I leave it on overnight my life will go on.
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And you have the same setup as me too...
I wonder what is causing it then. (And yes, i tried reinstalling)
i500 said:
And you have the same setup as me too...
I wonder what is causing it then. (And yes, i tried reinstalling)
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Tbh it's probably the way the movie is encoded. Mkvs have tons of different codecs. I reencode mine so they're less than 4gb so the fit on my micro sd. I tried just now with a 12gb movie. Still works.
I still bet it's the movie encoding.
Two things are still crashing my Prime, Youtube and Dice player. 90% of the time, Dice works great, but if I do something like pause, or maybe rewind, sometimes it crashes. I had one occasion where it just crashed right in the middle of a movie and I didn't do anything. It's so rare and random I figure it was a codec problems since I only watch MKV. I still think it's a great movie player. Youtube still sucks though.
Its cuz the hw decoding and video encoding. Watching animu mkv sometimes crashes my prime.
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i500 said:
Just wanted to give everyone a warning. If you leave dice player open and turn off the screen, it will crash and reboot. (It takes a few seconds after you turn the screen back on. Yes, it will still crash of you close it with the home button right after.)
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Confirmed. I have this problem as well. Very annoying.
Had this problem once, didn't try again...
Another thing I noticed with dice was while using hdmi-out, the subtitles with srt or sub file stayed on prime screen but video went to TV.!!
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Yep it does happen on some Primes. For me happens 100% of the time
jdeoxys said:
Its cuz the hw decoding and video encoding. Watching animu mkv sometimes crashes my prime.
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I was watching anime too.
(Lelouch isn't dead!)
astrodomine said:
Had this problem once, didn't try again...
Another thing I noticed with dice was while using hdmi-out, the subtitles with srt or sub file stayed on prime screen but video went to TV.!!
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just noticed even the netflix app has this subtitles issue...its really strange!!
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is it right that Dice Player won't play off a microcard?
got my Prime yesterday, and can't 'access' the card via Dice Player
had I known about this, I wouldn't have spent £ 70 on a 64GB card
BiggerH said:
is it right that Dice Player won't play off a microcard?
got my Prime yesterday, and can't 'access' the card via Dice Player
had I known about this, I wouldn't have spent £ 70 on a 64GB card
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You can play of the SD card. Just use a file browser to find the file and open it.
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You can play of the SD card. Just use a file browser to find the file and open it.
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yep - tried that and selected Dice Player as app to play it back, but all juddery (unlike going thru the actual app)
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yep - tried that and selected Dice Player as app to play it back, but all juddery (unlike going thru the actual app)
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Ah all sorted now. Hadn't added the card as a source. Doh
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Has anyone been able to video call on Skype? I just tried it and it wouldn't work.
I have the option checked in settings. I tried clearing the data and cache. I even tried a reinstall after a restart.
Any time I try video, it tries to start up then just goes back to a regular call.
Autobots, roll out! Sent from my Transformer Prime!
Worked for me. I called my friend's ipod touch with skype.
No issues here as well. Used it several times.
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All you guys had to do was enable it in settings?
Just used it myself without any problems ... Don't remember any settings I made, it was pretty much just default after install
Idk. I tried everything short of doing a factory reset. It works until the other person answers.
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did you make sure to go into settings to enable it? go in there and check it off. prime is not a supported device but if you click video chat in settings, it will work. plus they just updated so it might work even better now.
If you read my OP, you would see that I do have the option checked.
As it turns out, it won't work at all with one person and it acts funky (upside down and at a 45 degree angle) with another until I go to the notification area and hit the video call notification.
although skype works fine,
ive had people on the other end complain that my camera keeps focusing in and out.
so sometimes they see me clearly, sometimes not .
anyone else faced this ?
I installed it and change nothing on the settings. It work right off the bat.
I'm rooted on .15
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PuroKaibil said:
I installed it and change nothing on the settings. It work right off the bat.
I'm rooted on .15
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Which versions of Skype are you guys using? Anyone tried GTalk or any other video chat apps on the Prime (TF201)..?
Edit: I'm on rooted stock .28
Cheers
Work 4 me even b4 rooting n unlocking my prime...
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Is anyone else still having problems with this? My video wont even initialize - I can see the other party fine though
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Which versions of Skype are you guys using? Anyone tried GTalk or any other video chat apps on the Prime (TF201)..?
Edit: I'm on rooted stock .28
Cheers
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Yes I use gtalk for video chat all the time.
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Skype works fine on prime. Just make sure you go into settings to enable video calling. As I believe prime isn't an officially supported device. But pressing THST option will enable video calling and it'll work.
Tango, Fring, & Oovoo video calling also works on prime.
I was able to make Skype video calls and use Google Hangouts, but the sound from my mic is really poor. Sounds a little like a mouth full of cotton. I was hoping to use my Bluetooth headset (Sony MW600, A2DP) , but could not find a way to get it to use the mic.
I haven't seen other comments about mic quality, do I have a hardware issue?
So now we have an XBMC .apk http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772433
Has anyone else tried it? It works well for me. It works well with my TV via HDMI
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I'm running andowook with _motley's latest kernel.
I get very low volume, even if I go into sound and bump it up.
35 minutes into the movie, the app stopped for no reason.
docking and undocking seem to close the app
I haven't got green flickers yet, but I get the green flickers in openelec all the time, so thats not android specific.
For me it the audio on it is crap and sometimes the whole app flickers rapidly.
Maybe I need to reboot...
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For me it the audio on it is crap and sometimes the whole app flickers rapidly.
Maybe I need to reboot...
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Exact same here.
Can we move this to the Themes and Apps section btw?
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Exact same here.
Can we move this to the Themes and Apps section btw?
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I have tried it, mainly streaming video from my Serviio server and it works like a charm. What an amazing app. And it can only get better,
Definitely reboot. About the 3rd time I fired it up after installing some add ons it began running like a charm. The first time you use it there may be a very long start and turn off period. That's ok.
The XBMC interface is running smoothly on my TP.
When i try to stream (WiFI) a X264 movie with DTS over SMB it stutters like mad.
I hope this is because of network speed. I'll try to play the same movie over USB, i hope this works better.
But overall, it's its nice to see XBMC on my Prime
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Oh yeah, isn't it software decoding only? For now anyway
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The XBMC interface is running smoothly on my TP.
When i try to stream (WiFI) a X264 movie with DTS over SMB it stutters like mad.
I hope this is because of network speed. I'll try to play the same movie over USB, i hope this works better.
But overall, it's its nice to see XBMC on my Prime
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x264 skips like crazy with local files too.
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Oh yeah, isn't it software decoding only? For now anyway
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As far as I can tell, software only.
Installed the icefilms repo and watched full episode of Eureka. it took a restart of xbmc b4 it worked though. I am ging to try t compile this for my google tv. If it compiles i'm throwing my appletv through a window.
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It is software only. I have always used it as a content streamer though, not much as a local player.
I wonder if this can and will support HDMI CEC.
I gave it ago on my Prime running the stock rom, i was quite impressed with how well it worked.
I could map my SMB network shares on my Windows Home Server perfectly and XBMC would stream anything SD fine, 720p MKV played some what ok with random frame drops / jerkiness every couple of seconds, 1080p video was very jerky and not really any watchable.
Plugins such as the BBC iPlayer worked (sometimes buggy), YouTube and Ted Talks also worked very well.
Video overview of my experience here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmttML0LNm4
Very impressed so far, a big well done and thanks to the XBMC team :good:
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For me it the audio on it is crap and sometimes the whole app flickers rapidly.
Maybe I need to reboot...
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It does the flicker part on my TFP only if I go to the "Settings" option. Other thatn that it works.
I tested MP4, AVI and MKV formats yersterday. It lags with the MKV playback.
I am also getting alot of background flicker in xbmc. Then sometimes the screen goes black. Going to try a reboot to see if it goes away.
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with stock ROM 720p mkv is not watchable on my prime. Maybe final apk from xbmc.org will solve this
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with stock ROM 720p mkv is not watchable on my prime. Maybe final apk from xbmc.org will solve this
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I may be wrong but I believe that these versions of XBMC don't support hardware acceleration just yet. I haven't been on top of the development of this app but that tidbit was enough for me to wait for the final release.
github is here: https://github.com/xbmc/android/commits/android-rebase-8/
There are two builds AFAIK
zefie's: http://files.persona.cc/zefie/files/cell/androidapk/xbmc-unofficial/?C=M&O=D&S=&P=
and the one on miniland: https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/1/topics/136
and no hardware acceleration.
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Exact same here.
Can we move this to the Themes and Apps section btw?
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I had the same issue... It's because somehow it doesn't work when your volume isn't at anything but 100%. If it's set to the loudest it can be, the sound works fine.
It's not dead yet. Plenty of ROM development going on in the dev section.
Sent on the mobile device (there might be more mistakes).
XBMC 12 Frodo
Has anyone tried XBMC 12 Frodo RC3 on ATP? I have a TF201. I'm a long time user of XMBC since the original Xbox, and the app looks great. I'm very happy to see this. But unfortunately, with this version, the videos lag quite a bit and I get absolutely no audio. I've tried changing the audio out options and playing music/video with no luck. I did not yet try pushing the video/music out through HDMI yet, but not really much point yet.
Anyone else trying have experience with this?