I did the manual Froyo update on my Moto Droid couple of days ago after following instructions on a reliable forum. However, I have been having problems like system hangs and video playback not smooth like before. I wanted to get back to my original 2.1 firmware and wait for the OTA update instead. Is there any way I can switch back to the old firmware update of 2.1?
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Someone posted this on androidcentral and I noticed it on mine as well. Has anyone noticed their video playback in the gallery is really choppy now? This is the only big problem I've had with the update so far but I gotta say it's a big problem for me because I take tons of pictures and record lots of video..
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI did the manual update and now when it boots up I do not get any network connection. When I go to the network connections it says that I am connected to the verizon network. But it will not show the bars or the 3G it just shows an x I am new to android. I used to update my Blackberry all the time I never had these issues. How do I get it back to 2.1 if I cannot get this fixed.
Also I went into my SD & Phone Storage Folder. And none of my SD or Phone Storage is available as if they r not even there. Now I am getting a window that pops up saying: Sorry System is not Responding force close/wait
I just manually updated to 2.2 (successfully) but I started to panic when I couldn't find the camera shots category in the new gallery app. I mounted the phone to my computer and found the photos on my phones internal memory, so they're all safe, but I still cant view them on my phone. Also, whenever I take a picture and try to go back to review it later, I get a "no photos found" error, and the new photo doesn't show up in the directory of the previously "lost" photos from prior to the update. It's safe to say that I'm utterly bamboozled. Anyone else experiencing this issue or know how to fix it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBeen struggling with this since receiving my X. Seems like no matter what player I use the playback is jerky. It's very subtle, almost as if the video is dropping a frame or so every second. I've tried the stock player, Astro, Rockplayer, mPlayer, Zimly, Act, and the list goes on and the problem still persists.
I've encoded (using handbrake) with all of the settings suggested on the boards and have tweaked things on my own trying to find the proper setting, but still no luck. The strange and frustrating thing is that the exact same files play just fine on my 1st gen iPod touch (clearly an inferior piece of hardware) and on my wife's incredible. These encodes are of standard def DVDs at average settings (a full movie is about 1.3gb, all h.264 mp4 files.
I was able to improve playback by rebooting the X and then playing the video, but this doesn't seem like an acceptable solution every time I want to watch something. I tend to encode and watch a lot of stuff on my commute to/from work, and I'd really like to replace my touch with the X, but the media capabilities are falling way short. Considering switching to the Inc as I know it's able to play my media properly, but I'd prefer to keep the X for the larger screen size (though the Inc does seem to feel better when using one-handed). I'm on the fence right now, but if the X can't function as expected then it might be going back. Unfortunately I only have until the 1st to return it so I don't think I can hold out and see if 2.2 fixes this issue.
I am giving product build in Android 1.6 in Ubuntu using make. First time it is fine. But next time onwards if I try to build it again without cleaning it, the system hangs after some time. Even if I try remove the out folder to clean, the system hangs. So every time a fresh build takes too much time. Did anyone face this issue? I am using 1 GB RAM, 1 GB swap space and 40 GB linux space(65% space is free).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am working on an porting an application supporting segmented video streaming to Android. For those who are not familiar with segmented streaming, it is when a complete video is divided into multiple segments. Each segment can then, for example, be encoded at different qualities to support different clients.
Anyway, my problem is that I am not able to get a smooth transition between segments. Currently, the only way I have gotten segmented streaming working, is to write the segments into independent, temporary files, and then load each file into the MediaPlayer once the previous has finished. This causes an interruption in playback between each segment, probably due to the I/O involved.
I have looked around for different solutions, among others, playlists and storing the videos directly in memory. However, none seem to work or be supported by Android. Also, I tried creating two MediaPlayer- objects and do something similar to double-buffering by preparing the next segment well ahead of the previous, but it only made the application unstable.
My question is therefore: Does anyone have any hints, tips or examples for how to do smooth transition between video segments? The segments I am working with are independent, so there is no dependency and they can be viewed as X number of independent video files.
I remarked to my wife that the video shot with my new EVO looked like home movies from when we were kids. I then saw that the EVO shoots at 24 fps which explains the home movie video look. Will/can the Froyo update improve the video and or camera quality? It's not a deal breaker but when you have kids it's nice to have a video camera with you at all times. I've got 3 more weeks left on my 30 day trial period. I know the i Phone 4 will shoot at 30 fps and the test images I've seen are considerably better than my EVO.
View 35 Replies View RelatedWhen trying to do 720p recording the camera freezes, turns black and requires a battery removal. I got about 3 seconds of 720p recording but even when I go in to view the video it freezes or lags severely to the point I need to remove the battery.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI did the manual upgrade to 2.2 Froyo last night and 2 applications have stopped working
-1) Ringo Lite is totally gone and will not install at all manually.
-2) Open Home is installed but cannot seem to make it stick as the default "home" application. Everytime I hit the Home button on my N1 it goes back to the 2.2 (froyo) default home screen.
I downloaded beebplayer straight away cause i am a frequent iplayer user, but beebplayer is 100% unwatchable for me. The video and sound stop and start every few seconds. Could it be because my wireless is Belkin Pre-N? If it is because of the router, is there anyway to fix it short of buying a new one, cause I cant afford it at the moment. Does Flash in the browser only work for certain things? I've been trying to watch some break.com, tvshack and megavideo (all flash) but all that seems to happen is the player itself comes up, loads, but never starts playing?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an application with a lot of media data (images and videos) that were previously stored on the sdcard. With that, images and videos are displayed fine in my app.
Now, in order to secure the content more, I wanted to move the content to the internal storage / data dir of the app, which I did. I copied all media with a routine within my app to the data folder (/data/data/com.myapp/some/folders/video.mp4) and adjusted the path in my app so that it would look for the media in the internal storage data directory and not the sdcard anymore.
Everything works fine, images are being displayed (decoded) properly, but videos don't play. They files do exist though - I do not get a FileNotFound exception. But an IOException: java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFC
Why is that? Everything is handled within my one app and the videos have been copied with the same routine as the images, thus having the same permission settings. Looking at the stack trace, it all runs in process id 18060).
Why I cannot playback the video from internal storage? Or how can I?
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My phone wont start anymore and the update wont finish! Is there a way to reinstall the old 1.6 software!
View 4 Replies View RelatedA buddy of mine just got the Vibrant and he was asking me if there is a way to do a manual install of Froyo rather than wait for the update. Could somebody direct me to step by step instructions if they are available? Would he have to root? I searched for a bit but didn't find anything specifically for the Vibrant.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to build a live streaming player by downloading video segments (which are generated in real-time) and then playing them back in sequence. While I can get the segments to play, I need to get it so that there isn't a pause between playback of successive segments. I've tried using both MediaPlayer (with an appropriate SurfaceView) and VideoView, but there's always a small gap between segments.
If I try to load a new video into a MediaPlayer when the first segment finishes playing, it seems to take half a second or so before the next segment is loaded and starts playing. I have also tried having multiple SurfaceViews within a single ContentView (with only the active one being visible), but it seems like you can't prepare a video until the associated SurfaceView is visible. I also tried having multiple ContentViews that I switch between, but again, this has similar issues.
Any ideas or suggestions? Is it possible to somehow get the next segment to begin decoding as soon as the first one is decoded (which could be before it finishes playing)? Am I going to need to build a custom video player in order to do this?
I never used an android phone before and i'm thinking to get myself a samung galaxy, but before that I'd like to know a couple of things concerning video playback on android. First of all, is there any way to play DIVX and XVID on an android phone WITHOUT converting? Do you need some particular paid application from the market or you can do it with the default player? How much this application would cost?
Another question: lot of my movies are quite big in resolution (you know the normal size that you use for pc's). Is there any need of resizing the movie to let it play on an android phone? I used to have a samsung omnia (rip); winmo sucked badly but it can play any video at almost any resolution very smoothly with free players also.
I have noticed that during playback of video I take with my Motorola droid, I hear a sort of a pop every now and then. The first time I heard it, I thought it was something going on around me when taking the video, but it's not, it appears that the sound is coming from the droid, though I do not hear the pop when recording. There is no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes you don't hear it at all, sometimes it's every 30 seconds, and a lot of times, I hear the pop right at the end of the video, but sometimes it happens right in the middle.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently switched to CM7 on my Galaxy S I9000 and it seems I lost all the codecs Samsung bundled with their phone. Video playback is choppy and buggy. I have Googled for possible solutions and tried most of the available players on the market but the problem remains. So how do other non-Samsung Android phone owners cope with this situation?
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I am developing a video rating tools which use Android's MediaPlayer class to playback the video sequences. I used the APIdemo at Android SDK to playback my encoded sequences but the picture stalled at the first frame on the emulator. Since I didn't have the commercial Android phone so I don't know whether this problem comes from my video coding profiles or the emulator itself. Here are the two sequences I used to test:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5I4AGSCX [url] I use x264 to encode, with baseline profile and bitrate=400k, fps=30or25.
And by the way, how can I install an apk package to the Zoom2 MDP, besides using the adb tools. I am wondering there's someone who is familiar with Zoom2 and Android so I put the question here.
I am trying to play a video in my app. It has to be embedded.I am able to play my video using VideoView as mentioned in this discussion. But there are a few problems.
1. I need full screen video, how to stretch videoview to full screen ? will that stretch the video too ?
2. i dont need the default play forward stop buttons at all. basically I need continuous loop playing of the video.
What is the string format should look like if i have my video file in res/raw directory ? I really dont want video file played from sdcard. how can it be bundled along with the app ?if any of these 2 approaches works, i will be better off.
We have a clent that has videos online that stream. we are taking the same videos an converting them to MPEG4 for mobile playback. they work for fine for most of the phones that we tested except the Andiod Phone? Does anyone have any solutions. the test allowed audio playback but the video was black?
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow can implement video rotation during playback (or before starting playing)? I tried: private SurfaceView video = null; video = new SurfaceView(); video.getHolder().setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); video.getHolder().lockCanvas().rotate(90);
it gives me error: 12-08 15:39:54.551: WARN/System.err(17811): android.view.SurfaceHolder $BadSurfaceTypeException: Surface type is SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS.
If somebody could give me simple example or just references how to establish it, that would be great. Maybe Android does not support video rotation at all. Could somebody confirm that?
I am using Tablet skin for running emulator output. All the menu and list items are displayed properly e.g. Horizontally whereas Videos are being played vertically. How can I change the direction of video? Kindly reply as soon as possible.
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