https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free
boat browser w/ floating window feature
youtube will continue to play while also using any other app
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The basic Google Video Player app seems to be hidden on my Bionic (just bought it used, but did a master reset). It's not in the list of "all apps", it's not on any of my home pages. I can see it in "Manage Applications", and if I use the file browser to get to a video file and open it, it gives me the option to open it in the Video Player. But there is no way I see to get it on a homepage or open the app without first using a file browser.
Did Motorola do this to discourage it's use? Is it not missing for other people? I generally use Mobo, but there are times with the simple Video Player app is useful.
Any ideas?
How about this
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.videos
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Stock player kind of sucks anyways, Ive been using MX Video player, seems to work well.
its not an app that you can see in the app drawer. it only shows up when you select a video. i would recomend a different video player any way. arc player is really good.
I find Mobo is a great video app and mostly use that, but I do find the stock player useful at times and I don't like that any app at all is restricted to me. Fine if Motorola doesn't want to put it on a home screen, but why prevent me from doing so??! The app still gets used, why stop me from putting a link to it???!!!!
Just makes little sense. Restriction with no good purpose.
you can usually find your video in gallery and video player will open from there also
This is becoming a pet peeve. I open a link to a page, say on Gawker, on my Nexus 7. There is an embedded YouTube clip, and no direct link to the video. The only thing I can do when I tap the video is play it embedded. There is no YouTube button or title to click. If I long-press I get a menu full of options that don't actually work when I tap them. The only way to get it into the YouTube app (and hence into Chromecast) is to search out the video on YouTube manually or locate the link using a desktop browser.
Is there any easy way folks here have come up with, to quickly take an embedded YouTube clip and force it into the YouTube app for casting?
I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
hpcolombia said:
I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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seems like a pretty good option.. I will give a try this evening..
my friend was able to cast fullscreen without using this add on thru mac os, but I wasn't able to do from windows
Most players have the option to popout, I think you can convert popup window into a tab and then cast. Works well but I haven't done it for ages and can't give you exact instructions
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Open your browser (stock or chrome) from your android phone / tablet
Open any website that contains a video (live doesn't work)
Long press the video player box on the browser page (normally a black box with play icon)
You will see a pop up menu Open, Open in a new window etc.
Press Open in a new window
It will give you an option to choose your media player (I choose avia media plyer)
then cast to Chromecast
Tried this website einthusan com
Let me know if you find any other website
Some of you may know this trick already but thought of sharing this with everyone.
Hmm, did a good job of crashing my Android tablet.
After upgrade to lollipop for my note4, when visit youtube link at stock browser, it could not let me choose to playback at youtube app player and instead playback at browser directly. I have found that both stock browser and youtube app "clear default setting" are grey out. How can I setup to play all youtube link at stock browser with youtube app player which I can do at kitkat? Thx.