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Okay, I've searched everywhere including Google's horrible support forums. I rented a movie to see if it is worth keeping my device unrooted for this functionality. The jury is still out on that one. I downloaded the movie to make it available offline and noted the impact on available storage which lowered by at least 1/2 gb. I have no idea where on the device the movie downloaded to. So I watched the movie and all was well, it played smoothly when I was out traveling out of range of any wi-fi. Now that I'm done, I'm looking to delete the movie from my system. There is NO delete function? I tried deleting from Market history (no option), from YouTube videos online (no option), searching the device itself for where it downloaded to etc. I cannot figure this one out. Any insight on this would be appreciated.
1) napster to go - subscription DRM music
2) stream netflix
3) pandora
4) render heavy splash sites well - my daughts is 7 and loves her disney.com, nickelodeon.com, etc
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file
1. Yes theres a napster subscription app you can download.
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes, games play fine, a little laggy sometimes, and since you dont have a keyboard while they are running you'll have to work something out.
5. Yes, Moboplayer and QQ Player seem to play everything out there.
thebrenda said:
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file
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Sorry to say but video support is limited.
Eg you download blue ray rip (even in 720p) then it does not play all the time.
In short Xoom plays H264 movies smoothly if encoded with baseline profile.
You can play 1cd dvdrips with Mobo or bs player.
You may be required to convert video.
thebrenda said:
1) napster to go - subscription DRM music
2) stream netflix
3) pandora
4) render heavy splash sites well - my daughts is 7 and loves her disney.com, nickelodeon.com, etc
5) have an app (pay or free) that can play almost any video file
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Yes, I think so...mostly.
1) I use Rhapsody to Go
2) Netflix--I don't use it
3) Pandora's fine
4)Yes, Disney site works fine, depending on your internet connection, of course
5)Mobo, Dice or Rockplayer lite seem to play just about anything
Xoom is great for most media as you can also load up a lot of fies on your sdcard (or usb drive if you root), so you'll never run out of space.
It seems like your major interest is in listening to and watching media files, andyou may also want to consider that the Xoom does so much more than play media and games---I believe the Xoom is the best overall tablet available. The Xoom is a serious working tablet computer that likes to have fun, too, so hopefully you have plans for it as well. It's also absolutely perfect when unlocked, rooted and customized...
Not sure how I will use the tablet, to be honest. Trying to find justification for it. But I know that my 7 year old will love using it and I love music and video. So those are must haves.
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Not sure how I will use the tablet, to be honest. Trying to find justification for it. But I know that my 7 year old will love using it and I love music and video. So those are must haves.
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If you mostly want something for simple, accessable media, you should probably be looking at an Ipad, though no flash, no sd card etc. The Xoom is very sturdy, but a smart and inquisitive child can do some pretty funky things to it, especially if you have root (which will give you most of the goodies, IMHO).
cartoon films look very good on xoom like planet51
So I just got the transformer infinity a few days ago and love it except I cant watch movies that I have bought using itunes. Does anyone know of a way to watch them? This is a big setback for me because I like to watch movies when I travel and dont want to carry my laptop anymore.
I have never bought anything of iTunes. Can you share what format the movies are in? You probably just need to download a video player that reads that format.
asg7861 said:
So I just got the transformer infinity a few days ago and love it except I cant watch movies that I have bought using itunes. Does anyone know of a way to watch them? This is a big setback for me because I like to watch movies when I travel and dont want to carry my laptop anymore.
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I want to say it used to be something silly like changing the extension naming from M4P to MP4.
Yes ; you can > but ....
asg7861 said:
So I just got the transformer infinity a few days ago and love it except I cant watch movies that I have bought using itunes. Does anyone know of a way to watch them? This is a big setback for me because I like to watch movies when I travel and dont want to carry my laptop anymore.
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I have had no problems WATCHING movie files from ITUNES or playing any of my itunes music - i even loaded itunes FOLDER into TF700 (sd card) These music and movies I already own
Depends on how you want to do this. movies cannt be downloaded. ALL moives comes in .mp4 format with DRM locked - thus making it easy to play on OSX systems. There are a number of Commercial tools avalible to 'convert' and refomat these movies to NON-OSX tablets Pc etc
I dont know how much of what tech knowledge you have - but its easy.
Cheers
Wow. Another reason to hate Apple. Didn't realize that they made it so difficult to move to another device. It is 2012. Oh well I tend to stream almost all of my media I watch. Going to try the Google play store and see how that goes. I am interested to see how long it takes for me to pin a movie to my device
Well ill try and change the format. But most of my movies are digital downloads that you get with DVDs. Wish they made an app for that
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Those are locked to iTunes via DRM. Why would they want you to leave their ecosystem or share the movies with others?
Because I bought them from walmart and used iTunes to view them. So is there away to put my digital downloads on my tablet then ?
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sorry to revieve an old thread, but i used search and didnt need to start my own.
i am having the same issues. i have the digital downloads that come with my blu-rays, but only for ibarftunes. has anyone got a easy FREE drm stripper or converter or program they can recommend to do it? i am close to using torrent, but only for movies i own, its only seems fair to me.
Try dice player or mxplayer.
What format are these digital downloads in?
And this is exactly why piracy is so popular. It's ridiculous that you pay for something and then can't even use it because of the bloody 19th century DRM.
iTunes films are in the .M4V format with, usually, a H.264 codec. Third party apps can play this, but iTunes loves its DRM too bloody much. Which means you can't play it after all.
There are plenty of DRM removal tools. None of them are free. If they are, you get a watermark or a maximum resolution of 320x240, if you're lucky. Personally I don't deal with DRM at all because they can go to hell with it for all I care (Ah, Dutch laws...) but to remove the DRM I'd suggest Aimersoft DRM Media Converter. And no, this isn't free either.
You do realize that removing the DRM from a video is just as illegal as using a torrent to download it in the US, and still considered piracy...
I have verizon as an isp. Well, I bought a movie and I can't watch it on my tablet. Verizon wants to install silverlight, but it's not compatible with this tablet. Does anyone have any input on this? THanks
What is the movie saved as? .m4v .mkv?
If you have the actual file on your device then it should open with something like BSPlayer. Bsplayer plays every file type that I know of. Free from the Google play store. If you are trying to stream from online and it is asking for a desktop windows plugin that is not available on android then I am afraid I do not know how you can play it.
Where did you buy the movie from?
You can watch movies from a number of places. The easiest is to purchase the movie from the Play Store then it will show up on your "Play Movies and . . " app. Then you can stream it over wifi or download it and watch it offline later.
Give us a bit more info and I'm sure we can figure it out.
Dice Player ftw. It has gone free, has hardware-decoding ability, nice interface and is good to battery, has gesture control.
(I like vPlayer for its gallery features, but the last time I actually used it, it didn't play as many files as Dice does -- I just browse to them with Total Commander and set Dice as the default app to open the respective file extension with -- tadaah!)
EDIT: I have lots of local files to play, so I didn't get into the streaming part others already pointed out -- I don't have enough experience with it.
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I have verizon as an isp. Well, I bought a movie and I can't watch it on my tablet. Verizon wants to install silverlight, but it's not compatible with this tablet. Does anyone have any input on this? THanks
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Where did you get the movie? Sounds like you're trying to watch it through a web browser. My guess, you got it through some Verizon VOD service.
I bought it from the verizon site.
MN_Bug said:
Where did you buy the movie from?
You can watch movies from a number of places. The easiest is to purchase the movie from the Play Store then it will show up on your "Play Movies and . . " app. Then you can stream it over wifi or download it and watch it offline later.
Give us a bit more info and I'm sure we can figure it out.
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you have the option to either stream it, or download it. It would not let me download it because of drm problems. I'm running cleanrom 2.2. My wife has a stock tf300 tablet, not rooted, and she can play it on hers
I bought it from the verizon store,(vod).It's a drm problem. Like I said, my wife can play it on her tablet. Thanks for the input
Hi All. Just got the Note 10.1 and loving it so far.
However, for some reason, I can't get any avi or mp4 to play. These are files that play perfectly well on my Galaxy Tab 7", SGS2 and SGS3 but refuse to play on the Note. I've tried a few other players and they refuse to play the files as well.
Any thoughts, hints or tips?
Cheers
I had a similar issue with my optimus 2x files did not play only sound can try changing hardware accelaration settings. May be the way the video is encoded it is not compatible with note codecs
You clearly haven't tried BSplayer. It's like a real vlc for android!
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You clearly haven't tried BSplayer. It's like a real vlc for android!
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Unfortunately, BS Player didn't work either! All I get is Blue notification box with a warning triangle saying
Cannot play video
Sorry this video cannot be played.
Forgot to mention that the Heli vid plays fine.
Also, I am Stock out of the box flavour of Android.
MX Player works for me. Anything I throw at it. If it doesn't, just change codec to software from hardware.
And there IS a VLC for android btw...
How are you transferring the videos to the device?
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How are you transferring the videos to the device?
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Copying files onto files on micro SD card and inserting it. Tried copying files onto internal SD but this didn't make any difference.
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MX Player works for me. Anything I throw at it. If it doesn't, just change codec to software from hardware.
And there IS a VLC for android btw...
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Same thing with MXP.
Really has got me stumped
Cookie999 said:
Hi All. Just got the Note 10.1 and loving it so far.
However, for some reason, I can't get any avi or mp4 to play. These are files that play perfectly well on my Galaxy Tab 7", SGS2 and SGS3 but refuse to play on the Note. I've tried a few other players and they refuse to play the files as well.
Any thoughts, hints or tips?
Cheers
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this is weird, my Note 10.1 plays anything I have and Im using the built in video player. Can you you PM me a description of a file of what you are trying to play so I can test it ?
Dont post a torrent link here.
Try turning off the force GPU rendering setting?
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this is weird, my Note 10.1 plays anything I have and Im using the built in video player. Can you you PM me a description of a file of what you are trying to play so I can test it ?
Dont post a torrent link here.
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I know, never had this problem with any of my Samsung devices before. PM sent.
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I know, never had this problem with any of my Samsung devices before. PM sent.
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I just watched the movie you told me to try and everything is fine. I used the stock player btw.
Sounds like it might be a warranty job.... Most people I know had it up and running out of the box with no problems....
If this was a hardware issue we should see the videos playing using software acceleration in diceplayer, bs player and others. The fact that these videos wont play at all on this device suggest some soft of software / codec issue. You say they play fine on other Samsung devices, i'd try a full ROM reinstall first before doing anything else.
Even if this is a software problem it shouldn't be this much trouble to get your tablet working. I'd still take it back under warranty as the codecs should be preloaded...
You haven't mentioned if you have rooted or whether you are on a cooked ROM, if so taking it back as a first step might be more hassle. I'd still recommend a total factory wipe before taking it back.
If you can record video on your tablet and play it back it would suggest to me there is nothing wrong with the hardware which is why I believe a factory reset should resolve it.
Can you record and playback?
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I went back to basics and eliminated everything hardware wise that might have caused the problems. I then had the brainwave of sticking my micro SD card from my SG3 into the Note and lo and behold, I could play videos with no problems at all! So I re-formatted the card in my PC (originally I had formatted it in the Note) and stuck an AVI on the newly formatted card. This played perfectly :laugh:
I hadn't thought it was the SD card as I could play MP3s from it with no problems at all, just wouldn't play videos.
Once again, many thanks for taking the time to help me with this problem.
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I have a related problem.
I'm transferring MP4 videos from Windows 7 PC - Micro SD card in adaptor in the card slot on PC.
It will let me transfer about 5 and play them ok. Then it transfers the films, but gives the "Sorry cannot play this video" error message. When I look at the details of these none players, the resolution says 0x0 and the duration reads 00.00.
I have tried this on a Samsung 32gb disc formatted on the Note, and long format on a laptop running Vista. I've also tried a 16gb sd card. Same results every time.
Having read the thread, I tried recording video on the GN 10, it recorded and plays back ok.
Any suggestions would be welcome! I also hope this thread is still alive lol.