[Q] Can VLC be ported to SGS? - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi Guys & gals.
Since VLC player has already been ported to iPhone 4, & the sources available for anyone to comile it for any other platform of his/her choice, what's stopping someone from porting it?
Advantages:
- dont bother about conversion, can play all.
- many others that are not apperent to me as of now .
The source code page - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html
I know this thread doesn't belong in this forum, will be tossed to the appropriate one at appropriate time by appropriate people & I welcome it.

i still prefer mVideoPlayer

yeah, advantage "dont bother about conversion" is kinds pontless - we already can play everything.

would be cool if we could watch divx-streams

Thank you all for answering, but if its on iPhone 4 why not on my SGS?

ragin said:
Thank you all for answering, but if its on iPhone 4 why not on my SGS?
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same thing applies: we have something like mvideoplayer on SGS, why not on iPhone?

VLC uses software decoding/rendering to display movies. This sucks. Bad.
mVideoPlayer uses the on device codecs, which use the on device GPU to decode/render movies. This is way, way better.
So yeah, VLC can be ported, but I doubt anybody will put in the kind of insane work required when mVideoPlayer is available - with mVideoPlayer on an SGS being the best (by far) video solution for any mobile device available.

+1 for this

RyanZA said:
VLC uses software decoding/rendering to display movies. This sucks. Bad.
mVideoPlayer uses the on device codecs, which use the on device GPU to decode/render movies. This is way, way better.
So yeah, VLC can be ported, but I doubt anybody will put in the kind of insane work required when mVideoPlayer is available - with mVideoPlayer on an SGS being the best (by far) video solution for any mobile device available.
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Thanks for the info. Just because VLC has been my fav player on my laptop, so this question.
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ragin said:
Thanks for the info. Just because VLC has been my fav player on my laptop, so this question.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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To be honest vlc suks big time even on windows. You can download many-many players that look better, work faster, have more options, play same amount of file types and do it faster.

Window media player classic is a good one. Search for CCCP on Google. I only use VLC for region locked DVDs.

VPlayer is good enough?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/vplayer-alpha/me.abitno.vplayer
(unless you actually want the orange cone etc.)

+1 for Media Player Classic
The best one i've come across so far.

Thread moved to Q&A.

You can go to the VLC forum and see that they are working on it.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47310&start=20

+1 for VLC.
mVideoPlayer does NOT play all formats, like .rm (Real Media Codec) which VLC does.

dupel said:
To be honest vlc suks big time even on windows. You can download many-many players that look better, work faster, have more options, play same amount of file types and do it faster.
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Such as...?
/I don't want it on my Galaxy S since it won't be h/w accelerated, but I think it's a damn good cross-platform player

Yes. Such as? I don't know of a better video player on windows than VLC. Please enlighten us all of one that is better.

galaxyms said:
Yes. Such as? I don't know of a better video player on windows than VLC. Please enlighten us all of one that is better.
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Depends on your criteria. I personally prefer Media Player Classic Home Cinema with ffdshow.

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Good video playback on your Kaiser (Using Divx)

Please try this if you are suffering problems with video playback on your Kaiser (NOT VIDEO GAMES).
Go to the OFFICIAL DivX website and download the latest full package. Try out the DivX converter using the setting 'Mobile' (you can try it for a period then if you like it you can then purchase it).
This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site!
I can play any movie file over WiFi from my WLHDD2.5 in perfect rendition (for a PDA) after doing this with the basic TCPMP set to GDI playback.
JUST GIVE IT A TRY, you have nothing to lose!!!
EDIT..Use the .81 version of TCPMP if you can get it, buffer processing is faster.
Farsquidge said:
Please try this if you are suffering problems with video playback on your Kaiser (NOT VIDEO GAMES).
Go to the OFFICIAL DivX website and download the latest full package. Try out the DivX converter using the setting 'Mobile' (you can try it for a period then if you like it you can then purchase it).
This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site!
I can play any movie file over WiFi from my WLHDD2.5 in perfect rendition (for a PDA) after doing this with the basic TCPMP set to GDI playback.
JUST GIVE IT A TRY, you have nothing to lose!!!
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Again, we all know we can view videos at a good speed after having converted them. But our Kaiser should read them with no conversion at all.
We have enough solutions to convert videos, thanks for this one, but it is just one more ...
dizzy33 said:
Again, we all know we can view videos at a good speed after having converted them. But our Kaiser should read them with no conversion at all.
We have enough solutions to convert videos, thanks for this one, but it is just one more ...
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I can not assist the mentally blocked so please do not give negatives until people have had time to try it THANKS!!
One would like to ask where it is said that Windows Mobile plays un-converted files??? It is primarily designed to sync via Windows media player.(as is the iSpudge with its PC software)..All other video playback is user selected and not fully supported. No lawsuit here I'm afraid...
OH, and BTW, did you selectively miss this in the first post???
'This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site! '
deleted ....problem solved.... i am just too stupid lol
samlee860407 said:
hm....my kaiser cant play the file that i converted using divx ....
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If you used the OFFICIAL DiVx converter in the latest DiVx full package, it would play with any TCPMP! You have some setup problem there buddy...
Farsquidge said:
If you used the OFFICIAL DiVx converter in the latest DiVx full package, it would play with any TCPMP! You have some setup problem there buddy...
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yes...i just firgue it out that i cant double click the converted file and expect it to play @@
then i try to edit before you post...but then again i din click the post button...lol
anyway...thanks alot bro
the quality is good, just that nid to spend some time to convert
btw, Farsquidge, did you use core media player before?
samlee860407 said:
yes...i just firgue it out that i cant double click the converted file and expect it to play @@
then i try to edit before you post...but then again i din click the post button...lol
anyway...thanks alot bro
the quality is good, just that nid to spend some time to convert
btw, Farsquidge, did you use core media player before?
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No, I am stuck here with TCPMP until I get back to UK to purchase the new Coreplayer as my cred card wont work from the UAE online.
I am just trying to pass on any workarounds I find to others. I expect a massive factor of improvement when I get it but anything before that will also help others.
ah....massive improvement huh
is coreplayer really that good?
really wish to try it, only if i no need to pay 1st
but then the divx convertor is really easy to use, just that it takes time to convert
CorePlayer
samlee860407 said:
is coreplayer really that good?
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Definitely !
Cheers
hrb
samlee860407 said:
ah....massive improvement huh
is coreplayer really that good?
really wish to try it, only if i no need to pay 1st
but then the divx convertor is really easy to use, just that it takes time to convert
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Yep, it does!! But has patience been lost? We are developers... Not miracle workers.. Even iTunes takes full control of the other type of unit (COMPLETELY!) to convert...I think the fact we still have a factor of control on our devices to CHOOSE is befuddling people... If it was all fully auto then XDA would no longer exist!!!
ahh....hehe, good good
well...maybe coz i am converting prison break and stuff which is quite big in file....hehe
thanks all again
Farsquidge said:
One would like to ask where it is said that Windows Mobile plays un-converted files??? It is primarily designed to sync via Windows media player.(as is the iSpudge with its PC software)..All other video playback is user selected and not fully supported. No lawsuit here I'm afraid...
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Video??? I can't even get WMP to sync more than 30 songs before dropping the connection. It took me 5 nights of sitting there reconnecting every 90 minutes or so just to get 4GB of music synced up. I have to say, this is one job the iPhone handles WAY, WAY, WAY better. The whole MS thing is just sad and disappointing.
It's funny that everyone talks about how it is nice to be able to install 3rd party apps to make your device better. Yes, you can not yet install 3rd party apps on the iPhone, but the biggest point is, in many case you don't need to. The browser works great, chat works great, music playback works great, video playback works great, google maps work great, email works great, etc....
My suggestion for video on the Kaiser is, don't waste your time with it. I have wasted 10s of hours trying and it is just not worth it. I have tried 6 different encoders including DivX, Pocket Divx, Handbrake, 4 different file types and countless bitrates, framerates and codecs.
tbh,i would really wanted an iphone but there are some major flaw that why i din buy it although its my dream phone
1st, its not available in my place officially(only can get cracked version), no 3g, no mms,can edit word,excel and blah blah
and although i dont knw will i face the same problem when i am syncing songs, as i haven try yet
but no, you dont need to waste 10hours to get ur kaiser to play video
just downlaod tctm, install it in kaiser
download divx, convert it as the 1st post says so, then upload to ur device...done
less then 30minutes all done
jgermuga said:
Video??? I can't even get WMP to sync more than 30 songs before dropping the connection. It took me 5 nights of sitting there reconnecting every 90 minutes or so just to get 4GB of music synced up. I have to say, this is one job the iPhone handles WAY, WAY, WAY better. The whole MS thing is just sad and disappointing.
It's funny that everyone talks about how it is nice to be able to install 3rd party apps to make your device better. Yes, you can not yet install 3rd party apps on the iPhone, but the biggest point is, in many case you don't need to. The browser works great, chat works great, music playback works great, video playback works great, google maps work great, email works great, etc....
My suggestion for video on the Kaiser is, don't waste your time with it. I have wasted 10s of hours trying and it is just not worth it. I have tried 6 different encoders including DivX, Pocket Divx, Handbrake, 4 different file types and countless bitrates, framerates and codecs.
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OK, BUT, please don't express your opinion until you have tested this yourself and posted any problems with it! Let others decide???
Many thanks..
That's a great idea, Farsquidge!
I know this topic has been covered extensively (see here), but all applications which provide help to the user are welcome.
A freeware alternative is available, too, which you may be interested in (and requires a bit of tweaking for us tech-inclined): http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/
vpoet said:
That's a great idea, Farsquidge!
I know this topic has been covered extensively (see here), but all applications which provide help to the user are welcome.
A freeware alternative is available, too, which you may be interested in (and requires a bit of tweaking for us tech-inclined): http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/
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I hope some can use this to move forward.
Best thing I have from you is the sig tag... Just taken it as my mother died 15/01/08 of cancer so have joined your group.
Farsquidge said:
I hope some can use this to move forward.
Best thing I have from you is the sig tag... Just taken it as my mother died 15/01/08 of cancer so have joined your group.
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I am so sorry for your loss. My mother had breast cancer year before last, and my grandmother before her. It's great to know, though, that our children may have no need to worry about such a devastating disease with the research our generations are putting into this area. God bless you, Farsquidge!
vpoet said:
I am so sorry for your loss. My mother had breast cancer year before last, and my grandmother before her. It's great to know, though, that our children may have no need to worry about such a devastating disease with the research our generations are putting into this area. God bless you, Farsquidge!
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Thanks, I have her in my heart always, and, as we were both from Yorkshire, England...she would say, 'If you don't mean what you say, I will tan your hide!!'
She was a pearl!!!
I use a product called "Wondershare DVD Ripper Suite" (has a ripper and a converter) and it has a nice batch feature as well. I have also had success with "SPB DVD" and "DVD to PocketPC" by a company called Makayama. "Ashampoo Shrink and Burn 3" does fine for me as well. Also, I have noticed that Windows Media Player performs some type of conversion/compression when syncing. For example, "Star Wars 3" is a 855 MB WMV file, but when I synced it to my device it was only 359 MB. However, when I transferred the original 855 MB file to my storage card using a card reader it was still 855 MB - what is Windows Media Player doing besides syncing?
ellergek said:
what is Windows Media Player doing besides syncing?
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It is probably doing its best to convert a video file (of which there are MANY formats) to the preferred WM AVI PDA format. If you do not have the corresponding CODEC in your PC WM player it will not even try..Everyone has to try to standardise their media format for the player designate. If you expect the file you have on your PC/Laptop to play the same on your portable device 100% without conversion then I am afraid you are living in cloud cuckoo land! The processor speed and video codecs are radically different for WM devices against full Windows machines. (irrespective of any driver omission before anyone starts!!)
Aspect Ratio is not only for screen playback... it is for what you expect from your device....

Why hasn't a Flash Player been developed??

All I'm looking for is a standard flash player that would play .flv, .swf and h.264 files from video channels like YouTube, Vimeo, Exposure Room, etc...
They all use a standard flash player which streams, or downloads the files so it shouldn't be that difficult to implement I would think.
The Hero rom has already shown a flash player that works, basically as a plugin to the browser, so there must be a way to port it to the other roms.
I'd like to see this too.
wait until October, which is when adobe will be releasing their flash player for the android platform. and btw the flash player on hero sucks and is utterly pointless. I believe its Flash 8 all the sites you listed req Flash 10.
I found the Hero one to be usable, but only just. The sound seems ok, but the picture is a bit stuttery. It will be interesting to see if it's really the old hardware used in the Hero that's not up to it, or whether a differnt app can do better. I hear that the beebplayer is also poor on the Hero - not tried it yet - so perhaps it's the hardware?
bbuchacher said:
wait until October, which is when adobe will be releasing their flash player for the android platform. and btw the flash player on hero sucks and is utterly pointless. I believe its Flash 8 all the sites you listed req Flash 10.
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can you please provide a link to this article?
there is one check the market
Yeah, I had no luck what so ever trying to play video from any of the top video sharing websites, due to the fact that the player version was 8.0. I did however have great success with viewing flash-based websites (typically exported as Flash 8 or earlier for compatibility).
That is going to be an issue that the Flash player will have to contend with when it is released in October. The player will have to be updated regularly everytime a new version of Flash comes out. Hopefully Adobe will stay on top of that, or the player will become obsolete very quickly.
I hope you don't mean the Android7 Flash Player in the market?
http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.android7.flashplayer
It will play an .flv and what not, but you would have to have the file locally on your phone.
It isn't a browser-based solution where you can click on a video link and then launch the player to begin streaming, or downloading the video like you can with the YouTube player.
That is what we need, only for any website that is hosting a flash-based video. Either that, or these websites have to begin offering free downloads of the original uploaded videos.
We saw a sneak peak of what's to come with the flash-enabled Hero rom, but like we all know, that is only for version 8.
Actually, the Flash Player in Hero is so far pretty sufficient, it actually can play YouTube videos, you just have to click on the video itself and it will open in the Flash player.
However, I do agree, further development would be nice. For example, when on sites like Myspace, I would like to hear some profile music playing, it would just in total add to the whole "internet phone" concept.
Do0zman said:
can you please provide a link to this article?
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http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/06/22/adobes-flash-10-for-android-a-big-win-for-mobile-web-apps/
the flash player on the hero rom is ok....it will be perfect one i can watch hulu bangros on my g1...lol
makes me sad...
yeah,
my friend recently got a HTC phone, don't remember which one though. it was for either sprint or verizon and he can go to facebook and play the actual apps on there like restaurant city and mouse hunt, etc. why is it that we don't have it yet?
Flash, being proprietary closed source crap, is contrary to the nature of android. Adobe has in the past been VERY slow in supporting new platforms, so quite frankly, it really should die altogether. There are plenty of open source alternatives for flash-type content that can be used instead. Instead of complaining here, you should complain to the content provider who chose to use that crap format.
Do0zman said:
can you please provide a link to this article?
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http://gizmodo.com/5300800/flash-for-android-webos-landing-in-october
tuto0503 said:
the flash player on the hero rom is ok....it will be perfect one i can watch hulu bangros on my g1...lol
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hulu blocked mobile devices. so no phone can veiw hulu anymore. i dont know why they would do that but sadly they did
kyleds said:
yeah,
my friend recently got a HTC phone, don't remember which one though. it was for either sprint or verizon and he can go to facebook and play the actual apps on there like restaurant city and mouse hunt, etc. why is it that we don't have it yet?
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if it was a winmo phone then he can do it because he was using skyfire. his phone doesnt have flash but skyfires servers do.
skyfire uses proxy servers to intercept browser requests which are then compressed and sent to skyfire enabled phones. the proxy server technology has the smarts to take flash video/games, java and other desktop class features that normally slow down mobile browsers dramatically, if those features are even supported, and render them correctly, truly giving mobile users flash.
The one on hero is pretty good, you can play games on sites and stuff, but looking forward to 10 coming out
kyleds said:
yeah,
my friend recently got a HTC phone, don't remember which one though. it was for either sprint or verizon and he can go to facebook and play the actual apps on there like restaurant city and mouse hunt, etc. why is it that we don't have it yet?
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Was he using skyfire? seems like it could be it as it was able to go on and watch hulu videos.
nupagadi1 said:
Was he using skyfire? seems like it could be it as it was able to go on and watch hulu videos.
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not sure, I'll ask him though.

Any video player app support .srt (subtitles file) playback?

I am thinking probably not but still thought I would ask...
Presumably VLC will when/if it turns up on the market, but until then any ideas?
mvideoplayer
Sent from a phone, playing a phone, disguised as another phone.
Awesome thanks!
Actually Moboplayer is better.
Mod Edit: No piracy in here, please.

XBMC Running on the Nexus 7

pretty cool just found this on youtube is a nexus 7 running xbmc media center
look like its running pretty smooth
cant wait to have this
http://youtu.be/SZPsB9WHcKw
radiohead7778580 said:
pretty cool just found this on youtube is a nexus 7 running xbmc media center
look like its running pretty smooth
cant wait to have this
http://youtu.be/SZPsB9WHcKw
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Noob question alert!!!
Will this app allow me to stream music from my PC to my tablet?
yeah... not just music but hd video in all sorts for formats
cg.voabc said:
Noob question alert!!!
Will this app allow me to stream music from my PC to my tablet?
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Yes, only if your computer is running XBMC at the time and yo have UPNP sharing turned on.
However, you don't need the XBMC program on your tablet to stream music or videos from your XBMC library on your PC; You can use UPNPbubble from the Play store to access the shared library and MX Player (or any other player) to play them.
i have an iomega nas drive and its streams great from it to the nexus 7 ... the only thing with videos its still software decoding not gpu yet
pretty laggy
radiohead7778580 said:
i have an iomega nas drive and its streams great from it to the nexus 7 ... the only thing with videos its still software decoding not gpu yet
pretty laggy
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Hopefully we get Teg3 support on XBMC when it hits beta. There is definitely not going to be Teg2 (h/w decode drivers) for XBMC Android, but theres a chance we could see Teg3 fully supported. :>
That is fantastic! Can't wait to try it.
They really need to work on a touch friendly skin for xbmc though, I can see him struggling to hit list items.
theres two skins cooked in to the (precompiled apk) download build, confluence and a touch friendly theme for smaller screens
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Yes, only if your computer is running XBMC at the time and yo have UPNP sharing turned on.
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Not true. I've been using a beta version I found somewhere around here, and it works exactly like XBMC on a PC. You can add sources from several kinds of network shares or local stuff on your device. I stream all my stuff from simple windows/smb shares, with no special sharing program running on the PC, and it works great.
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Not true. I've been using a beta version I found somewhere around here, and it works exactly like XBMC on a PC. You can add sources from several kinds of network shares or local stuff on your device. I stream all my stuff from simple windows/smb shares, with no special sharing program running on the PC, and it works great.
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Confirmed as true. I am using Xbox only nexus and able to connect to b share on my NAS drive.
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Is there an apk out there for this yet? I saw that source code is available, but that's a bit beyond me.
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Is there an apk out there for this yet? I saw that source code is available, but that's a bit beyond me.
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I installed the APK from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772433
It struggles with 720p MKVs right now, but I don't think it's optimised for the Tegra 3 chipset yet.
yup, it's software only decode for now.
even so, it's still a very awesome build for a pre-alpha :>
Tried it out last night and work really well streaming from my Nas.
Anyone have a link to getting LiveOnlineFooty on XBMC
Danwms said:
Tried it out last night and work really well streaming from my Nas.
Anyone have a link to getting LiveOnlineFooty on XBMC
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http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/download/
Under sports addons
Sent from my Nexus 7
Anyone manage to play HD flawless?
killbox said:
Anyone manage to play HD flawless?
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There's no HW decode for Tegra3 NEON yet..
i never understood the whole point of XBMC .. so it allows you to stream movies/music to a device correct?
yup, that is kind of the best bit of xbmc, means you can store your movies on a central server and access them on multiple devices throughout your house. Mind you the awesome plugins that stream from external sources is a very close second.
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i never understood the whole point of XBMC .. so it allows you to stream movies/music to a device correct?
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I use XBMC as my main media centre in my house, usually I use androids and iphones as the remote controls for my TV with XBMC running on it, this way is a bit around the wrong way but I can see it being awesome for things like the nexus Q and TV's with embedded android who can suddenly grow full featured media centres

The definitive AVI thread (with sample file)

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this and I realize this is really a Chrome issue but perhaps we can work it out. No one I know in person can get an AVI file to play in chrome and hence cast to Chromecast.
Here is a 20mb sample file.
Can you download it or stream it in Chrome ? If you can tell us your setup.
Personally I have DIVX and VLC installed and it won't play. It just downloads.
Try it and let us know
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1330792/Sample Video.avi
It just dls from dropbox, haven't tried messing with it locally because dropbox is really slow right now lol.
What happens if you rename it to .mp4 or open it in chrome with ctrl+o?
Whatever you do it just downloads.
you can always use plex
I don't really know what that means but I've read performance is not good.
OK so i just uploaded an avi file to my google drive and played it in google viewer, casted in with the chrome extension and it streams flawlessly to my chromecast!
Well that's interesting. Worked for me also but not a very practical solution but it probably tells us something important.
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I don't really know what that means but I've read performance is not good.
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first google result of the word "plex"
i don't know where you see performance is not good... plex is fine for me but YMMV
(i don't actually know that it works with avis because i only use x264 mp4s or mkvs but it should work)
Well thanks so much, given that I already said I heard performance was bad I guess I already knew that much. Anything else to contribute ?
homemadehitshow said:
Well thanks so much, given that I already said I heard performance was bad I guess I already knew that much. Anything else to contribute ?
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You can try not contradicting yourself in your post... just because you heard performance was bad doesn't mean it will perform bad for you.
What do you lose by trying?
Why do you feel it necessary to pick at a post rather than contribute?
For the comprehension challenged, I know what Plex is, I just don't know how to set it up our if it's worth it.
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Why do you feel it necessary to pick at a post rather than contribute?
For the comprehension challenged, I know what Plex is, I just don't know how to set it up our if it's worth it.
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I am contributing, I'm using plex and it's working swimmingly, that's my contribution.
It seems like you're the one picking at MY post.
If you wish to wait for another solution be my guest but the only other solution will be waiting for some media player (like VLC) to integrate a casting option...
So you know about Plex, you've been given it's website, so how about reading the how-to?! (Or are you going to have a snotty answer about that, too?)
As to slow, that depends entirely on what you're running it on. As it can run fine on a Raspberry PI it obviously doesn't require huge resources. It's run very well in the background of my five year old Mac without issue.
But I'm sure this answer won't be to your satisfaction either. Or maybe you'll learn please & thank you, never too late...
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Man such a friendly and welcoming place.
I will check out Plex, I promise. But my actual question is how to play AVI files directly in Chrome directly since I can't have Plex in every scenario. I'm confused why some people say it works and many others don't.
homemadehitshow said:
Man such a friendly and welcoming place.
I will check out Plex, I promise. But my actual question is how to play AVI files directly in Chrome directly since I can't have Plex in every scenario. I'm confused why some people say it works and many others don't.
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plex is very versatile, i can't imagine a scenario where it wouldn't be viable.
i only push this because as far as i can tell it's impossible to just add support for **** inside of chrome without patching in support in the chromium source...
id love it if someone can correct me and tell us how to play avis and ac3 audio in chrome natively though!
PhantomGamers said:
plex is very versatile, i can't imagine a scenario where it wouldn't be viable.
i only push this because as far as i can tell it's impossible to just add support for **** inside of chrome without patching in support in the chromium source...
id love it if someone can correct me and tell us how to play avis and ac3 audio in chrome natively though!
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It's really odd that it will play from Drive and some people claim it works.
As for Plex. 3 main problem cases come to mind
1} I cannot install it on my work computer that I travel with
2} Someone wants to show a video from their laptop. I can't tell them to install Plex
3} I tried to install on my laptop at home and it's not working. It will not play videos
There's a lot of reasons Native chrome would be better.
I should also note WMV doesn't work either. Plays in the browser but black on the Chromecast.
homemadehitshow said:
It's really odd that it will play from Drive and some people claim it works.
As for Plex. 3 main problem cases come to mind
1} I cannot install it on my work computer that I travel with
2} Someone wants to show a video from their laptop. I can't tell them to install Plex
3} I tried to install on my laptop at home and it's not working. It will not play videos
There's a lot of reasons Native chrome would be better.
I should also note WMV doesn't work either. Plays in the browser but black on the Chromecast.
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I haven't actually tried but it seems like Drive has its own media player, that would explain why it works with drive...
As for your first two problems you have completely valid points but I'm sure your third issue is resolvable with more information.
I don't suggest plex as a permanent solution but as a temporary workaround.
I expect the issue is that AVI is a *container*: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave
Content inside can be encoded using numerous formats, some of which are likely supported directly by the Chromecast device (if it has the proper codecs), in other cases there may be external transcoding for the Chromecast happening (possibly GDrive is doing some behind-the-scenes optimization like it does for PDFs uploaded as books.)
In any case we're in early days yet, doubtless there are dedicated Chromecast streamers & optimizers in progress on many a dev's plate.
I agree on the container but I am using very common one's DIVX for example and testing with various one's. It's possible some obscure one's will work but that seems counter intuitive.
I do agree that this will be made to work at some point soon but this actually appears to be a Chrome problem not a Chromecast problem.
Possibly, or a Chrome + specific DIVX implementation issue.
The truth is DIVX is a commercial, patent-encumbered, codec. There are several slightly different implementations of varying legitimacy. It is entirely possible that some variants, or even specific implementations (this DLL vs. that DLL) are more & less Chrome compatible.
Also, for those that might be unaware, I'll note that both AVI & DIVX have been widely superseded by other, more efficient & versatile encodings. There is a great deal of legacy material out there, but more modern files are typically MP4 or Matroska using H.264 compression.
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