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Please help the newbie (Tilt)

Hi. Have looked all around, cannot find answers for this. I want to stream internet radio on my phone. I've downloaded TCPMP and Flash video bundle, installed, no problems watching YouTube videos. But when I go to various websites (Streamcenter, etc.) and click on links I get "player:audio codec (windows media audio)not supported by the player!"
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Also, is there a newbie step by step instruction thread for this, or just getting a radio to work?
TIA,
Patrick

masshlx said:
Hi. Have looked all around, cannot find answers for this. I want to stream internet radio on my phone. I've downloaded TCPMP and Flash video bundle, installed, no problems watching YouTube videos. But when I go to various websites (Streamcenter, etc.) and click on links I get "player:audio codec (windows media audio)not supported by the player!"
??
Also, is there a newbie step by step instruction thread for this, or just getting a radio to work?
TIA,
Patrick
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I've streamed internet radio on my Tilt with no hacking at all. I've tried XM Mobile, and Live 365. Live 365 had a lot more stations available, and was cheaper than XM. Live 365 also has about a dozen free stations that still work after the trial expires. I've never tired to stream radio over WMP, but I guess its possible, I just never tried it.
-Jay

I was looking to stream thru TCPMP, if possible. Checked out XM mobile, didn't have stations I was looking for.

When you try to stream it should create a file in \My Documents with an audio or video extension. You need to make sure that you have selected the file association in TCPMP options & then you can find this stream file & click on it & hold. Then select open with & browse to TCPMP. This may work depending on the format.
When posting about audio/video issues, it's always a good idea to let everyone know what format the file/stream is in. Makes it easier to offer help.

GSLEON3 said:
When you try to stream it should create a file in \My Documents with an audio or video extension. You need to make sure that you have selected the file association in TCPMP options & then you can find this stream file & click on it & hold. Then select open with & browse to TCPMP. This may work depending on the format.
When posting about audio/video issues, it's always a good idea to let everyone know what format the file/stream is in. Makes it easier to offer help.
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Sorry, had a feeling I was missing something when I started this thread.
I'm able to listen to stations that are mp3, getting error message when I listen to stations that use Windows Media Player. Is this not compatible with TCPMP?
I've read various posts about AAC codec not working with the version of TCPMP I have (0.72RC1), could this be a part of my problem?
Also, have not downloaded any new cabs, factory settings on still, except for a few demo bloatwares I was able to delete without resetting.
Rom v1.57.502.2
Radio v1.27.12.11
Hope this helps
Cheers,
Patrick

Windows Media Player on Kaiser

Hi everyone.
I was hoping someone could help me. I have a Kaiser and have tried to crush an .avi file with PocketdivxEncoder. Everything appeared to have worked fine, but when i tried to play the encoded file on the phone - i got the error message "Cannot Play the file".
Disheartening to say the least. I was wondering if anyone come accross thos or a similiar problem and had discovered a way to make it work. Is this codec issue or something more troubling.
Thanks in advance. Incidiently...yes I am very much a newbie - so hoping for the kindness of some strangers here!

you can't read divx with WMP.
Use TCPMP or CorePlayer to play them

TCPMP
I had a look at the TCPMP and there seem to be a helluva lots choices! Any pointers as to what i should be downloading - and what plugins?
cheers

the version you want is 0.72rc1, dont need any plugins if all you wanna watch is the divx files. however i can suggest flash video bundle, that would allow you to watch youtube and other flash streaming videos

Core will play video the best as they've added support for Tilt/Kaiser's "QTV" driver which gives about 35% better playback performance on my divx videos encoded with PDXE. It costs some money, but it's good stuff.
Here's TCPMP which will work OK as long as you keep your video's a reasonable size, say 320x240 with a total bitrate under 500kps.
For Divx you won't need any plug-ins, set to use "raw framebuffer" and you are good to go.

Brilliant
I unzipped the attached file and it doesn't seem to be recognised as an exe file once unzipped! Any help?

don't unzip the attached file. transfer it to your kaiser and run the cab file from there.

Nearly there!
Ok thanks for your help so far! The problem now is there is no sound and some of the sound options on the player are greyed out! Any help! I think its the final hurdle

TCPMP- File Associations

Does anyone know why TCPMP will not open when accessing mobile Youtube videos? When I try to open a link at m.youtube the stock HTC "Steaming Media" player always opens.
I have:
-a HTC S730
-WM6
-TCPMP Ver. .72RC1
-Installed FLV Plugin 0.4.2
-Associated Files-Flash Video, MMS Protocol, Mpeg, HTTP, AIF, M3U, NSV, OGG, Matroska, Musepack and PLS -and at one point all files
-Done a soft reset
-uninstalled and reinstalled both TCPMP and the plugin
I expect that the TCPMP would open...?? Please correct me if Im wrong.
The reason I want to use the TCPMP player vs the Streaming Media player is that the Streaming Media player has poor A/V quality and Im hoping TCPMP will improve it. Thanks.

You might want to take a look in This thread, might help.

Thanks for the reply. Ive read through the tread, different problem.
Ive downloaded the files and followed the instructions @ ytpocket again. Still opening files with Streaming Media..!!!! Its driving me nuts.

Hmm, if no one has responded by time I wake up i'll take a peak into it I never really use You Tube on my phone and if I do I find the default to be sufficient.
In the mean time double check all the menu options in it to see if you can change the default association, I know you mentioned associated files but the program needs to tell the OS that it will take over instead of the other, this might be accomplished with a simple registry change but again not sure.

Extending VLC

Is there a way to extend VLC to PPC? I have TV on network via RTP, and I want to watch TV on Kaiser while working on PC...

I can't find a mobile version it on their (VLC) site, but I have v0.8.5 that worked on my ipaq 2210 at least. I'll install it on the kaiser, and let you know.
I'm assuming that would meet your needs? (Will TCPMP not play RTP streams?)
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Although the project is now discontinued, this is the link you might want to check out. It seems to work OK, though I didn't have any streams to test that side of it.
Hope it helps. Do let me know if I've just misunderstood you.

scratch that
it appears there is no audio, at least from a few vids and wavs I tried.
sorry

Vlc did have a player for ppc but they discontinued it as ss says, but however tcpmp (which is also discontinued) should contain all the things u need, although it doesnt play tv, it can play good quality videos, the only issue is, is that the wmp codecs from wm6 dont like the program, but you can download those as a zip file (search for tcpmp wm5 codecs google for those ) and also the mpeg4aac codec was taken out ue to intellectual propety rights, (this is also downloadable but im not saying how as this comes along with a ban from here.

although i cant find away to get rtp on tcpmp may i remind you that coreplayer does offer this feature and more
coreplayer.com

M3U Streaming & Android & Nexus One

First off, would like to say thanks to all the great people here who have helped me over the years in unlocking, modding, theme-ing and generally hacking my various phones... I have never felt the need to start a thread as I could always find the answer somewhere in here - but this one has me stumped.
Since purchasing my NexusOne (running CM5.0.6), I have been searching for an app to replace Pocket Music Player that I used to use on my WinMo phone. Basically what it was able to do is read m3u files that had URLs instead of local file names. I think I have tried every Android media playing app and they are unable to read the file (except for one) - they actually delete the file from the SDCard after trying to play it! DroidLive was the only app I could find that would load and play the file, but provides no way to view the playlist, skip tracks or read any of the metadata (because I think it assumes its a live stream).
Why is this is important? I am currently running an apache webserver on my D-Link DNS-323 along with a bit of code called musicbrowser (open source project) that allows browsing, streaming (flash based), playlist creation & downloading of music on my home network. Basically, you navigate to the tracks you want, hit stream and it sends you an m3u file with the URLs of the tracks you queued. That way I always have access to whatever tracks I have recently purchased (not to mention the fact that I have ~ 200 GB of music, and some days still can't find something I'm in the mood for).
And just so people know, I have tried every alternative out there - orb (buggy as all hell, server crashes frequently), subsonic (the android app doesn't actually stream - it just downloads the entire playlist to your SDCard), & tonido (unstable as per orb). I was very happy with the way musicbrowser was working on WinMo and just want to get back there with Android.
And so... does anyone know of an app that will properly play M3U files with URLs in them?
(Sorry about the long-ish post, but I wanted to make sure people understood what I was asking for.)

Not sure if it will suit your needs but give steamfurious a shot

m3u Player
Can window media player play .m3u file as a online radio
Is any other software can play .m3u file for window mobile 6.5

Try http://www.gmote.org/faq for "Gmote".
In the FAQ it says:
Are music playlists supported?
Yes. Currently, the M3U format is supported. If your playlists are in a different format, it's possible to convert them to the M3U format. Try Googling something like "WPL to M3U". Also, please let us know what your favorite playlist type is so that we may add it to future versions.
Also, when you select a single song to play, all other songs in that directory will be queued and played after the selected song.

With froyo we get native support for music streaming but I have yet to see any details about the formats supported.

Streamfurious is a no go. Tried it, but thanks for the suggestion.
I'm not exactly sure what the WinMo question was getting at, but no - WMP would not play them but just about every other player did - Core, Pocket Music, Mort...
GMote is an app that controls a local source from a network location & and what I am looking for is to play networked music via a local source.
Perhaps I will just have to wait for 2.2 and hope that solves my problem.
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You could try Subsonic to stream your music. I tried it a few weeks ago, and it worked. Not as user friendly as most to set up, but it looks like you could handle it easily.

I have tried subsonic and while it claims to stream, all the android app does is download everything to the device (ie. it was trying to download my entire music collection OTA - not good for my data plan.)
I just flashed froyo to my device and while I am overall thrilled with it, I am unimpressed that the streaming m3u issue is still there...
Still looking for a solution if anyone finds one! Thanks for all the input thus far.

HooKy said:
I have tried subsonic and while it claims to stream, all the android app does is download everything to the device (ie. it was trying to download my entire music collection OTA - not good for my data plan.)
I just flashed froyo to my device and while I am overall thrilled with it, I am unimpressed that the streaming m3u issue is still there...
Still looking for a solution if anyone finds one! Thanks for all the input thus far.
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I've written and published a program called "Just Playlists" which reads M3U files and uses them to directly locate music files on the SD card via file paths. I'm close to releasing a new version that will also stream music pointed to by URL's within the M3U (or PLS) playlists. I added this feature to allow for playing SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, but it will also play remote audio files. This may help you out. The only caveat is that I don't get ID3 tag information from the streamed files and I re-connect to the server for each URL, so the gap between tracks may be a bit large.
Another issue you mention is that your M3U files are being deleted by Android. I can explain this one. When Android scans your SD card for media files, it reads the M3U files it finds and, if it can't find any tracks on your SD card corresponding to the file paths in an M3U file, it assumes the file is effectively empty and deletes it. To stop this from happening, place an empty file named ".nomedia" in the directory containing your M3U files. The media scanner will no longer touch this directory or any below it. The new version of "Just Playlists" has an option to create/delete these files, as well.
I hope to have the new version of my program released within a few days.

That sounds awesome! I look forward to release of your app!
I must say this has been most frustrating as this functionality is something I used my phone for the most (even more than the phone part!) and look forward to getting back to it.
Cheers,
H
EDIT: Just noticed your post was more than a few days old and you have released the new version! I am grabbing it now and will report back.

Just Playlists!
THANK YOU! I am literally almost in tears right now. I was so frustrated that I could not stream from archive.org (I bought a bluetooth receiver in my car specifically to be able to stream music in my car from my phone to the speakers). This has made my day. I will be donating after i give it a trial run. THANK YOU!

Try "A Online Radio." I like it better than streamfurious. Really, my only complaint is that it doesn't play WMA streams. I would KILL for a streaming audio program that did.

ftb23 said:
THANK YOU! I am literally almost in tears right now. I was so frustrated that I could not stream from archive.org (I bought a bluetooth receiver in my car specifically to be able to stream music in my car from my phone to the speakers). This has made my day. I will be donating after i give it a trial run. THANK YOU!
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I'm really glad to hear JP is working out for you! Let me know if you run into any bugs or quirks. Streaming under Android seems to be a bit flaky, so I'm working to make JP's streaming more reliable, or, at the very least, to recover from streaming dropouts in as many cases as possible.

HooKy said:
I have tried subsonic and while it claims to stream, all the android app does is download everything to the device (ie. it was trying to download my entire music collection OTA - not good for my data plan.)
I just flashed froyo to my device and while I am overall thrilled with it, I am unimpressed that the streaming m3u issue is still there...
Still looking for a solution if anyone finds one! Thanks for all the input thus far.
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Subsonic doesn't download your entire collection, it creates a database of your entire collection so you know what you have and what you don't.

reviving this thread xD
xiia plays m3u files can stream dnb radio now yay

alankstiyo said:
reviving this thread xD
xiia plays m3u files can stream dnb radio now yay
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not sure if this is relevant but sound cloud has awesome dub and dnb
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has anyone found a working soultion for this yet? I have a set of m3u and pls files which are saved URL's of online radio stations, some from shoutcast, some from other sources that on Windows Mobile I used GS Player to listen to
Just Playlists seems to come the closest out of any apps I've tried to working but either gives me an unexpected error message when trying to open the file or it looks like it has opened it but I get no playback.
I've tried StremFurious, VLC S&C and I think one or two others but no luck yet, curious if others have a solution
thanks!

alankstiyo said:
reviving this thread xD
xiia plays m3u files can stream dnb radio now yay
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Just installed XiiaLive Lite from the Market (free) It works very well and has a really nice interface. Thanks for pointing it out.

Streaming works but...
Hey streaming works well with Just Playlist but I was hoping to find music player which shows me the content of the playlist.m3u and you can pick from there the song you wanna play... I got my music on NAS but I can access NAS from 3G also and would love to stream my music on the road to my phone... Any ideas for this? I can access the files via http or ftp/sftp... Also if anybody knows good php based media library script with account managment, please tell me (with mobile-layout would be awesome)

Lazmo88 said:
Hey streaming works well with Just Playlist but I was hoping to find music player which shows me the content of the playlist.m3u and you can pick from there the song you wanna play... I got my music on NAS but I can access NAS from 3G also and would love to stream my music on the road to my phone... Any ideas for this? I can access the files via http or ftp/sftp... Also if anybody knows good php based media library script with account managment, please tell me (with mobile-layout would be awesome)
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try Mediastork.com (open source)
it is all custom and can be modded. it also automatically generates playlists of your mp3 folders