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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
Which functionality? I much preferred Core Player ;)

But really, which functionality? You want a video player on the phone that will decode and play any video you throw at it? If so, I would say your logic is flawed as WP7 doesn't allow you (out of the box) to put a 720p MKV, for example, onto it. Not only that, but the phone's hardware just isn't powerful enough to decode most, if not all, archive quality video anyway - which means you're going to have to transcode it somewhere along the line, and then why not do it while streaming directly to the device over 3G or WiFi?

In any case, where I'm going with this is to provide a streaming solution for, initially, myTV (a Windows Media Center app). Likely followed by a more generic solution which bypasses the MC7 dependancy to provide a backend for metadata _and_ media streaming over HTTP/json.

In an ideal world we wouldn't have to worry about this though as the phones would have quad core processors able to decode even high-rate 1080p HD ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralbaby:
Wait wait wait.. you are putting words into my mouth.. You asked which functionality, then you went on to assume it..

My logic might be flawed.. but in this topic I have not yet shown this. :)

TCPMP's project is dead, and has been taken over by Core Player. With that being said..

The functionality I was looking for, was to stream WMV's off of my Media Server, onto my WP7 device ( HD7 ).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgaust:
Pretty much, tversity does all the hard work transcoding files into a format playable on the phone and streaming it over. It's then played in a silverlight media element (which is the standard way all applications playback video).

I've managed to get 720p HD mkv's converted and streamed over 3G in great quality, but it's only early days in my development, and I won't be developing anything to compete with emigrating's application.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
LOL

Sorry, that was not my intention. I did even say "if so your logic is flawed" :)

But you're right, I assumed you wanted a mediaplayer with libavcodec support on the device rather than a streaming server.

If all you want is quick and dirty output from your media server, there are a couple solutions already, although nothing "native". What I'm working on is more specialized, and I'm assuming what dgaust is working on is a front-end for TVersity which should suit you perfectly.

I was thinking we should coordinate our efforts somehow, but the time difference would probably kill me :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgaust:
Yep, basically that's all it is... warts and all, it won't provide nice file names or any meta-data for files.

Well, with the new baby I was up all last night anyway :D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
This may be a super noob question...but how do you guys get the IE on WP7 to go to the server's IP address (with open port specified)? I keep trying it and if I leave out http:// it says its incompatible and if I put it in it just never loads it then says "can't display this page right now."
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
I'm soo not looking forward to that. I think. Might change my mind like :)

But I might shot an email your way anyhow, was thinking about some collaboration with the MC stuff.

If you get a "can't display" message it means it's unable to load for some reason. More likely than not you are using the wrong IP (perhaps your phone is on 3G and you're trying to connect using the internal IP?) or your router/AP or firewall is blocking the port used. If you're using Win7 the Windows Firewall is on and blocking by default.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralbaby:
Like said.. turn 3g off.. and make sure you are connnected to your WLAN.

Go into your router and port forward 80 to the ip address of the box you want to view content on.

There should be no firewall issue on the server becasue port 80 is open already. HTTP = web traffic

You will have to have a webserver listening on port 80 on your box.. if you are running any os other than win xp home... you could get IIS working with no problem.. then drop your files in the doc root and make a pretty index.html page with links to your movies..

I installed a wamp inviroment and by using PHP.. and doing some awesome things with css.. my webpage looks like the metroUI and I developed it for the multitouch interface.. works good.. except when I do stream.. since it is not transcoded.. my movie gets alittle choppy which is why I started in on this thread...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralbaby:
emigrating, dgaust,

Is there anything I can do to help? Can I work on the UI? I work as a web developer.. but my programming skill set drops off from there.. I have not any experience with working in C. or .NET, or Silverlight.. is there some sort of API to use?

Where would there be a good starting off point?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgaust:
Everything's based off silverlight so you'd need to get some grounding in that. It's not really that difficult, the UI is basically built with a form of XML called XAML.

Anyway, I've worked on it for a couple of hours today, so it's kinda functional but not super pretty (and only video works). It needs a lot of polishing and functionality added but it's doable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CJFHpsW94
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crsnwby:
I was also looking for this, I kind of assumed that DNLA would be default especially for windows phone 7. As coming from my N900 where it was standard and I could open media player pick my PC and play any video streamed from my PC. Sadly MS didnt think of embedding media sharing from there own OS to there own devices.:mad:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
Just to follow up on this - using Microsoft Expression Blend you can create fully working UIs. It's actually very nice to work with I think as you can have a designer work on the UI without hampering actual code development.

I wonder if perhaps it was supposed to be, but then they used this as a convincer to get LG on-board. I know they [Microsoft] wrote most of the DNLA stack in WP7 for LG anyway.

I'm guessing we will see full compability in the Mango update (if real).

What is bugging me is there is no RTSP support in WP7 though, only http. It does smooth streaming, but still. Have yet to figure out [try] if it will do m3u8, but I hope it does.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
Thanks for the replies guys. I'm using both my 3G and WiFi connections. On 3G I enter my external IP plus the port (which I forwarded on the router) and on WiFi I use the internal IP plus the port, but both show the same damn can't display error. I confirmed I was using the correct IP addresses by logging into the server from other computers, which leads me to believe the issue is with my HD7...

Oh and as for the firewall, I use Windows 7 but without windows firewall. I use webroot and peerblock instead.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensboston:
Guys, take a look to the smooth streaming and third party SS solutions. Microsoft already released (for free) a SS client for WP7. Some third party solutions are free, and can be installed on any OS.

The major problem is to find a developer who will create the complete WP7 solution. It's a real problem 'cause it's a hard to find enthusiast able to do a hard work for free...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emigrating:
The built in player does smooth streaming for "free". The problem is getting your mkv, avi or wtv files transcoded on-the-fly while being delivered over http to your WP7 device.

Like I said, I have all parts of the puzzle working separately, but have so far been unsuccessful in having them work together.

There are tens if not hundreds of media servers out there that does, in some capacity, offer transcoding on the fly, but I have yet to find one that is lightweight, open-sourced and licence-compatible with commercial projects. If you know of any, do let me know. The key here is light-weight though, everything else can be worked around.

I even looked into a $400.00 transcoding engine to do the job as they promised me direct access to the transcoded output stream in C#. Turns out it didn't really do what it said on the tin - luckily they were nice enough about it and offered a refund.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davux:
Just an FYI guys - Orb works really well on WP7, but there is not a marketplace app yet.

I wrote one a couple days ago, I'll have it in the store for free in a couple of weeks. Orb's ASX stream (WMV/WMA) is compatible with the media player on wp7, and I've had great success so far. Seeking can be a bit flaky, but overall it works well enough with a bit of fiddling.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgaust:
I saw your ORB app at WMPoweruser. It looks good, personally I didn't like ORB when I last tried it, which is why I went the tversity route. But it might have moved on from when I last used it about 12 months ago.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
I decided to go astralbaby's route and setup a WAMP. Did some quick work on Dreamweaver and I'm liking how it looks :D Video comes in nice and clear too, even on 3G. Awesome!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralbaby:
Kewl!!

how big are the wmv's you are streaming?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralbaby:
the only 2 issues I am having with my solution via HTTP is seeking.. and streaming quality in direct proportion to video file size I guess.. over LAN.. this project is just for LAN only.. not to access via WAN
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldenpipes:
does anyone know how to get orb working? i am able to get on mycast.orb.com but anytime i try to load a video it says cannt play because ASX files are not supported by windows phone.... but tversity works with no problems except for no seeking.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldenpipes:
are you transcoding on the fly? or are your files already wmv?

all my files are either AVI or MKV.

so tversity works great. just with i could pause a show and continue later. the way it is now is that if i dont try to sit and watch the whole show or i get interrupted i have to start over, and i cant just seek forward either.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldenpipes:
any ETA on the frontend for Tversity?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapo80:
Hi guys..

I'm videocube developer. Is a WP7 application that streams video on your WP7. It's very simple to use.

Here's a description of the application:

wp7applist.com/app/11264/VideoCube

To view videos you have to download VideoCube Server:

indyloops.com/videocube

It's possibile to download a trial version (15 minutes of use) and try the app before buy.

Let me know what you think about it.

Bye.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkp1977:
Hell, Videocube is just what I've been looking for. Great app, I just bought it. Now all that misses is a working PPTP VPN application.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nok_fusion:
anyone can help me?? because i have install orb all works,i log in in my account on the web browser on my phone & works but when i tap on a video it's wrote " .asx files do not support "
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nok_fusion:
i try tversity but cannot arrive to play with it on my wp7...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
Bought Videocube and it works well. Great job. But is there anyway to increase resolution? Streaming from my wamp server produces excellent video quality, but through Videocube it's pretty low res. I'm not too familiar with ffmpeg so I wouldn't know how/if you can edit the video quality.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
Orb doesn't support WP7 yet. Or rather, WP7 doesn't support streaming through .asx or many other formats yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nok_fusion:
ok thankx for u answer,with a wampserver it would works?

but u have to re-format all u'r video to MP4?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bekken:
I just wrote an simple web application which browses folders/files which I host on my local desktops IIS and then on the WP7 I browse to that app.

If I click a movie file I launch VLC where I pass args like filename, transcodes settings and similiar, it starts to stream the movie to :8080/live.wmv and then do a response.redirect on the same host but to IP:8080/live.wmv which opens the videoplayer in WP7. VLC realtime transcodes mkv/divx on the fly to wmv.

The only thing I can not solve is that the player shows the control/navigation (with previous, play and next button) overlay during playback, extremly disturbing... anyone knows if this may be set somewhere to "auto-hide" after a few seconds?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgaust:
With the built in video player, you can't control it with you application. So it just exhibits its normal behaviour. But I thought it hid the navigation bars after a couple of seconds anyway.

For TVersity users, I released myMedia WP7 to the marketplace last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2OB_Om4BWc
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AleHop72:
I'm using myMedia on WP7 and TVersity on my Windows 7 HTPC. I've been testing it and it works great for media stored on the server. My problem is the internet live feeds like Veetle, UStream, Streami, etc... especially when they're embedded in a web page full of flash ads in frames. TVersity broadcasts the whole web page and not just the video content.

As TVersity works with a given http address I should be able to give the http:// of just the video stream, which I'm not able to do in most cases or TVersity programmers should do it on the server to make TVersity to just pick the appropriate internet video stream for every stream system mentioned above as they do with BBC iPlayer, Hulu, Youtube, etc.

Another problem is the TVersity server still broadcasting the feed once you've shut down myMedia on the WP7 device. Would it be possible for you to add that to myMedia in future versions?

P.S.- I'll buy both apps once I have the official Mango release on my Omnia7.

Please Microsoft, give us WP7 users DLNA and make our life much much easier!!! I don't think DLNA would solve my problems with internet live feeds though, would it?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spokanedj:
Remote Streaming Solution

For those still looking for a good remote Streaming solution, check out Remote Potato. It is a server side application that you can install on Windows XP thru Windows 7 and gives you full access to your media library via either HTML or a Silverlight interface. If you do not have Media Center, you can still use it to stream video, music and pictures. Remote Potato will transcode on the fly just about any video format that ffmpeg supports.

I wrote a client for Remote Potato called Smart Potato for Windows Phone 7 and there is a Free/Lite version of it available in the Marketplace. You can set the format and quality based on your preference. I use it regularly on AT&T 3G with great video quality results.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensboston:
Video quality isn't good (even in "Ultra High" mode), client too buggy - I've got a lot of exceptions, also very slow directory browsing (no cache). No options to save/download movie for off-line playback, no seek bar.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flaystus:
Glad to see progress in this area.

Frankly the lack of a program that can do this with the same quality as Air Video on the iPhone is whats kept me from sticking with either android or WP7... and I'd LOVE to be full time WP7...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spokanedj:
Have you tried messing around with the custom quality? I have a Core 2 Duo 3.0gzh Media Center and it can transcode 75% size, 250000 bitrate that is pretty good. Also, I have always had stuttering issues with Ultra High to my Phone. Typically high gives a better result. In a future version I hope to allow saving of custom profiles to make it easier to setup and use custom.

I have been working with Carl to bring the SilverLive client to WP7. This will allow for much better quality MP4 streaming and is very similar to HTTP Live Streaming that iOS uses.

I also updated Smart Potato last week to include Mango Fast App Switching and fixed a couple of remoted stability issues.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensboston:
If you asked me - I do have my own, h.264/aac based, HLS-like solution. But for some reasons unfortunately I can't publish on the marketplace or release for general public :(

And yes, I can do realtime, multi-bitrate transcoding; my $100 used core duo home theater PC is enough to transcode and stream full HD matroska rips.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spokanedj:
Because Smart Potato relies on Remote Potato (that I have no affiliation of), I don't have any control of what comes over the wire, short of the stream settings you can choose from.

I was more curious if you had tried different custom settings to see if you could achieve acceptable quality, and if so, what they were. The current low-ulta high setting presets are from Remote Potato. I'm looking for some custom settings users have found to work better to add in a new version.

If you need someone to publish an app or test in private, PM me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dendron:
Just grab Qloud Media, is by far the best thing out there...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sensboston:
I know that. it's definitely not your fault but the way how it's implemented on the backend.

Thanks for offering, I'm really appreciate that! BTW, it's not that kind of problem (actually I do have 2 dev accounts), it's a NDA and huge lack of time issue...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zokipirlo:
Emit application for WP7 is almost finished. We are planing to release it by the end of the next month. Will be announced here on XDA and on our website.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abhinavad3r:
Plex

This app called Plex works flawlessly for me.

Its available in the windowss market place.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreenMnM588:
Can someone who has created a successful custom boot animation please email me? I have all the files necessary but I keep getting a blank start-up screen, and I can't find anything wrong. I appreciate any help!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davados:
Ok so it could be a few things but most likely the text file. For example it should be called desc and it will look something similar to this. 450 854 30 p 1 0 part0 p 0 0 part1. If this still is no help have a look at one of my bootanimations to get the feel of how it should be.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meechto:
I have absolutely no idea about developing boot animations but what I can say from my experience of using custom boot animations is that you would usually get a black screen while booting if the boot animation is slow. Happened to me when I installed the BIOS boot animation. Nexus One is a pretty fast phone. I had to install its faster version in order to get it to work. May be you could try increasing its frame rate (not sure if that is what it is called) step-by-step and see ;)
[Droid X General] The5ickne55:
I want the 'search' button to open a google search with dolphin, how can I do this?
[Droid X General] ncdub:
Change the shortcut in settings. Or there's an app for remapping the hard buttons too I believe. May be here on XDA.
[Droid X General] arminsoyka:
Any chance od finding the thread for me? Might be a working workaround for a dead nexus over power button...
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] botnryan:
What exactly would have to be changed to port them over? theres a butt-ton of D2 themes but only 2 or 3 for D2G, its slightly depressing lol. if it wouldnt take much to do it why doesnt someone do it. if i had the know-how i would but i hardly understand how to use terminal so modding system files probably wouldnt be something i should do.
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] draya1986:
When the sbf comes out, I'll do a few... Just don't want to risk bricking someone's phone atm.
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] botnryan:
understandable. i hadnt considered that aspect of it.
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] rusty815:
There's an sbf out now, any chance of porting the themes now?
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] javroch:
I don't generally port other people's themes, but I make the Black Out theme if you'd like to check it out. I'm always open to suggestions/recommendations
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] rusty815:
thats actually what i have installed right now :D

i would like some better transitions, thats about all i would like in blackout, i have the version with the 10% battery meter installed on the d2g
[Droid 2 Global Themes and Apps] pswin09:
Can you make a theme for original deodexed D2G?:D
[General Questions and Answers] baalcat:
Hi All,

I've been reading this forum for a good few days now as I am trying to get my Kyros functioning the way I need it to. However, I've run into a few problems and am not 100% sure as to what to do. Before I go on, I'm not very techy, so I would be very greatful if replies could be as straight forward as possible, without much jargon as that really loses me :)

First off, we've just managed to install the windows and ADB drives. I'm following all the instructions from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858952. That took some hacks our side, but is now working.

I'm pretty stuck on the clockwork reboot though. Again, followed the instructions from the link above. When it initially rebooted, it went straight into the Android System Recovery mode (the robot with the triangle opening screen.) I've tried it over and over, following the directions exactly as explained in the link, but all I'm getting is the generic Androis system recov.

The Recovery zip file is on my SD card. Do I need to unzip it to get the recovery.img to show? Is that something that I'm doing wrong? I also updated the OS (I guess) from the coby site before I started working on these other changes.

So basically, this is the issue right now. Trying to get the clockwork to run and all I'm getting is the android system...and that's when it doesn't just reboot back to the home screen directly.

Any advice would be great. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] baalcat:
And out of the blue, after an hour of angry TV watching, it's now worked. I can't tell you what I did differently as I followed all the same steps as before. Must just have been lucky I guess.
[General Questions and Answers] jelouane:
I am having the same issue, and i tried to unzip the update.zip but i boot back to the recovery mode, can someone assist me with this, i have a galaxy s (Vibrant).

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] concac858:
Try going to your sd folder and delete the clockwork recovery folder then uninstall rom manager and redownload it from the market after it installs open up rom manager and click on flash clockworkmod recovery and let it download the update.zip file and your done
[General Questions and Answers] concac858:
Oh yeah after all those steps and you still get back into the stock recovery system click on reinstall package and it should boot into cwm I hope that helps
[General Questions and Answers] mai77:
ASR

like this ?
[Epic 4G General] DiGi760:
:p I know it isn't normal.

I swapped batteries two nights ago. I have spare parts installed. My wifi has been on the entire time. GPS was on for 6 hours today when I forgot to turn it off. I work in a basement.

I'm about to go for a walk and listen to music, but I'll be back in an hour. Ask your questions. I don't understand why some of you are having such a hard time with your battery life. I'm not doing anything too weird or even putting my phone in airplane mode.