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DRM protected video not working

I decided to port a copy of a babylon AD to my diamond, worked fine etc only problem is i can hear it but i have no video, im using the standard version of WM player which came with the device but im rather miffed to say the least why its not working correctly, has anyone come across the same issues?

its the same as music from itunes, you have to burn it to cd then rip it as mp3 dont know if its the same for video?

Its weird and annoying, ill give it a stab and see,surely MS should have implemented something to allow you to watch DRM material if you hold the licence!

internet video playback

Hello I have a question or during playback via web browser (the factory) is seen a strange bar on the right. It is transparent so you can see a video of it, however, interferes to some extent. does anyone have the same thing? if so, how can anyone know how to make disappear?

[Q] Screen issue with FLASHplayer (only flashplayer)

Hi,
I have a problem with flashplayer on gnote.
When i look movies, (only witj flash player) on browser, 50% of the movie's display have à problem with brightness or something like this. There is a kind of blink, wave blink.
Sorry for my bad english.
I try some ROMs and Browser, try to delete flashplayer update, and i have always the same issue.
How ti fix it?
Thanks

Yes, I have exactly the same problem. When watching flash videos in browser it's like the top half of the video flickers constantly.
This happens when playing the video in both full screen and normally, it also happens in all browsers.
The problem doesn't exist when playing the same video streams in other players such as Dice or MX.

it's very annoying, I would really fix the problem, help me plz

Yet another software related problem... it is a rendering problem... most likely 16/24 bit problem.

It's possbile to change OpenGL setting for FlashPlayer with chainfire3D? flashplayer is a "sys" app, and not listed in chainfire3d's app list.
It's possible to set flashplayer at user app?

k, i convert flashplayer to userapp with Titanium BackUP PRO, and change app's settting with Chainfire3D, and try to change the ption "Depth Buffer". With any value, nothing change.

Anyone found a solution ?

I am having the same problem.. can anybody help?

Try iPlayer in Market.

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Windows Phone 8 questions

Based on what I've seen today it still has no:
- system dictionary for definition lookup(only for predictive text). The Kindle App does nothing when I press & hold on a word, unlike on my iOS device.
- hi-speed media scrubber for music. you know the little round knob on the progress bar that allows you to move the time index to any point in a song or video.
- unified search aka Local Search(apps, music, videos, contacts, emails)

The music app is pretty bad. I had several attempts to build a proper one, but the developer can not interact with the music library, other than playing existing playlists or songs.
You can't make custom playlists(actually you can, but it very, very, VERY complicated and prone to error and simply does not worth the shot), change the order of music inside the list and stuff like that for a third party app, and that sucks.
There are no new APIs for XNA (which is used to access the songs in the phone) so there is no way of making one.
If there is something I can say it is not right on WP, that's the music app.

mcosmin222 said:
The music app is pretty bad. I had several attempts to build a proper one, but the developer can not interact with the music library, other than playing existing playlists or songs.
You can't make custom playlists(actually you can, but it very, very, VERY complicated and prone to error and simply does not worth the shot), change the order of music inside the list and stuff like that for a third party app, and that sucks.
There are no new APIs for XNA (which is used to access the songs in the phone) so there is no way of making one.
If there is something I can say it is not right on WP, that's the music app.
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Does that imply that there´s the same limitation for video? ...and ...as a result of that a videoplayer with support for more codecs is very unlikely to ever happen?

TarKin said:
Does that imply that there´s the same limitation for video? ...and ...as a result of that a videoplayer with support for more codecs is very unlikely to ever happen?
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The File-Assosciation feature in WP8 works like this. Your App can define certain file endings (e.g. .mkv) which it can handle. If those are found on a SD-Card or downloaded the according registered App is then started for those files. The App can then do whatever it is it does as long as it keeps to reading the file (the original can't be manipulated although the app could copy it into it's isolated storage and manipulate it their). But there is one Caveat - there are several file extensions that are reserved for the OS which means that 3rd party Apps can't register for them. One of them is .mp3. Avi is another one of those (you can look them up in MSDN).
.mkv on the other hand is an extension that Windows Phone itself does not know so people could build Apps that would be able to consume them. Given that we now have Native Code capabilities writing a decoder or recompiling one written for another platform is possible, though it remains to be seen wether anyone will put the effort into it.

StevieBallz said:
The File-Assosciation feature in WP8 works like this. Your App can define certain file endings (e.g. .mkv) which it can handle. If those are found on a SD-Card or downloaded the according registered App is then started for those files. The App can then do whatever it is it does as long as it keeps to reading the file (the original can't be manipulated although the app could copy it into it's isolated storage and manipulate it their). But there is one Caveat - there are several file extensions that are reserved for the OS which means that 3rd party Apps can't register for them. One of them is .mp3. Avi is another one of those (you can look them up in MSDN).
.mkv on the other hand is an extension that Windows Phone itself does not know so people could build Apps that would be able to consume them. Given that we now have Native Code capabilities writing a decoder or recompiling one written for another platform is possible, though it remains to be seen wether anyone will put the effort into it.
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ok. i was mainly into psp dev. before, and never had a winphone in my hands so far.
but if you say that´s possible, then i´ll go for the lumia920, reg. for a dev account and see what i can do

StevieBallz said:
The File-Assosciation feature in WP8 works like this. Your App can define certain file endings (e.g. .mkv) which it can handle. If those are found on a SD-Card or downloaded the according registered App is then started for those files. The App can then do whatever it is it does as long as it keeps to reading the file (the original can't be manipulated although the app could copy it into it's isolated storage and manipulate it their). But there is one Caveat - there are several file extensions that are reserved for the OS which means that 3rd party Apps can't register for them. One of them is .mp3. Avi is another one of those (you can look them up in MSDN).
.mkv on the other hand is an extension that Windows Phone itself does not know so people could build Apps that would be able to consume them. Given that we now have Native Code capabilities writing a decoder or recompiling one written for another platform is possible, though it remains to be seen wether anyone will put the effort into it.
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I haven't had the chance to look over what the native code can do and what it can't do, but it is to be expected that it will have limitations, just like C# has.

You can render images (obviously) and output them using Direct3D which is pretty much what e.g. VLC does on the Desktop. You have complete read access to files on the SD-Card for your registered filetypes. MKV could be registered, MP3 or AVI could not (because they are in use by the system already).
But of course you would not be able to offload processing to the dedicated decoding units like with the built-in Codecs, which will mean more processor utilization and worse battery life. Still as a programmer I don't see too many actual road blocks (but it's a bumpy road to do this to be sure).
@TarKin: before you drop the money perhaps it would be best to start looking into the SDK. I'm not an expert in Multimedia-programming by any measure so you might be able to spot problems in there beforehand.
If you're still going for a L920 with these uncertainties for your use-case: welcome to the family, I'm anxiously awaiting mine.

[Question] Magisk equivalent to Media Scanner Optimizer?

Hi guys,
I'm new in this magisk thing, but loving it so far. I see that Xposed is still on early stages on Nougat, and there is a Xposed module that I really miss. and I after seeing that the functionality of some Xposed modules has been replicated in Magisk, I was wondering if there was an equivalent to it. That module is ThomasHoffmann's Media Scanner Optimizer v. 1.3. This module allows you to tweak how the scans for media in your device are performed, but the killer feature, in my opinion, is the ability to set the type of media in a certain folder and ignore the rest of it (useful, for example, to prevent album art from appearing in your gallery, but still scanning the music, something that adding the .nomedia file would prevent).
I did a quick search and come up with nothing. I know that Magisk and Xposed are totally different things and I understand that just because there is a Xposed module, that doesn't mean that there has to be a Magisk one, or that it isn't particularly easy to get something from Xposed replicated in Magisk, and I'm not asking for that. I just was wondering if somebody could point me to a way to get that functionality.
Cheers!

mundodisco8 said:
Hi guys,
I'm new in this magisk thing, but loving it so far. I see that Xposed is still on early stages on Nougat, and there is a Xposed module that I really miss. and I after seeing that the functionality of some Xposed modules has been replicated in Magisk, I was wondering if there was an equivalent to it. That module is ThomasHoffmann's Media Scanner Optimizer v. 1.3. This module allows you to tweak how the scans for media in your device are performed, but the killer feature, in my opinion, is the ability to set the type of media in a certain folder and ignore the rest of it (useful, for example, to prevent album art from appearing in your gallery, but still scanning the music, something that adding the .nomedia file would prevent).
I did a quick search and come up with nothing. I know that Magisk and Xposed are totally different things and I understand that just because there is a Xposed module, that doesn't mean that there has to be a Magisk one, or that it isn't particularly easy to get something from Xposed replicated in Magisk, and I'm not asking for that. I just was wondering if somebody could point me to a way to get that functionality.
Cheers!
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There are a lot of media scanner in the PlayStore?! or what are the difference?
or what about
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17928576/refresh-android-mediastore-using-adb

Thanks for your suggestions. The play store is full of media scanner apps, indeed, that cover part of the functionality of the module I mentioned (which is controlling when the storage is scanned for media, and also allows to do scans on demand, something that was a problem on kitkat/lollipop). With my old phone I had to block the startup scan, as it would take ages to scan my 64gb SD card. My new phone doesn't seem to struggle that much.
On the other hand, the Xposed module had another functionality, which is the one I'm looking after. There are certain folders that I don't want on my gallery (messaging apps' media folders). I can block them with the .nomedia file. Cool. I also happen to have album art of each of my albums, that clutter the gallery. If I use the .nomedia file there, the folders are not scanned and I loose the music too. The Media Optimizer allows to add a file on each folder telling the type of media to scan (so I can say that a certain folder contains only music, don't scan for pictures here), keeping the music in my library, but not the album art.
I reckon that it's a pretty niche use case, but I think that's literally the point of all this thing, isn't it? to scratch that particular itch that you might have here and there.