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Question about downloading media files other than images from the internet

I'm currently using Skyfire as my browser. The only other browser I've tried is Explorer. I have one complaint though. When you click on a link to a media file, Skyfire sometimes automatically starts playing the song, video clip, etc. and at other times it gives you the option to download the file to your phone's main memory or to your memory card. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. I would prefer to download the files and watch them later. Unfortunately, the only type of file you can manually download using Skyfire's menu is an image file. There has to be a tweak or a work around. Skyfire can download small files really fast (when it wants to), and I really enjoy this browser other than this one major drawback.
If there is a browser that will let you CHOOSE whether you want to play the media file within the browser or download it to your phone to play later, please let me know. I'd be willing to pay for it. I was reading on the Opera website, but I got the feeling it will only manually download images and not other types of media files, similar to Skyfire.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I am new to the world of mobile internet. I'm wanting to save NCAA basketball video highlight clips (mainly mpg and wmv) to my storage card, so that I can impress my friends.

Use opera 9.5 built QVGA
All Problem Solved at once, Have Fun

Installed Opera. Keyboard issues...
I like Opera. It responds well when using touchscreen, but it doesn't like the keyboard controls on my tilt at all. Is there a tutorial or a setting I need to change? Also, when I installed Skyfire, I made it the default browser. Is there a way to make Opera the default browser? Is there a setting like in the menu of Skyfire? Finally, someone warned (in another forum) that this version of Opera cannot be uninstalled once you have installed it on your phone. I haven't tried to uninstall it, but is that true? I was hoping to someday install Mobile Firefox and ditch my other browsers. I guess I would have to do a hard reset and start from scratch.

sorry this was a duplicated post so ive erased it

volumnus said:
I'm currently using Skyfire as my browser. The only other browser I've tried is Explorer. I have one complaint though. When you click on a link to a media file, Skyfire sometimes automatically starts playing the song, video clip, etc. and at other times it gives you the option to download the file to your phone's main memory or to your memory card. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. I would prefer to download the files and watch them later. Unfortunately, the only type of file you can manually download using Skyfire's menu is an image file. There has to be a tweak or a work around. Skyfire can download small files really fast (when it wants to), and I really enjoy this browser other than this one major drawback.
If there is a browser that will let you CHOOSE whether you want to play the media file within the browser or download it to your phone to play later, please let me know. I'd be willing to pay for it. I was reading on the Opera website, but I got the feeling it will only manually download images and not other types of media files, similar to Skyfire.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I am new to the world of mobile internet. I'm wanting to save NCAA basketball video highlight clips (mainly mpg and wmv) to my storage card, so that I can impress my friends.
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for video downloads try this its the best ive found!! i use it for youtube videos, its called Windows Video Downloader

How does WMD work?
Sorry...lol...meant WVD. Would I have to use Explorer to utilize it?

Cellular Video restored? How?

I'm using aruppenthals rom and would like ot get CV back on this device. There is a post on NAFT's thread (v3.2 ... 4 Flavors Total) where he says to go to post 4 and download the modified Opera.ini file, drop into Windows\Opera9 and install the cab file to make this feature work again. I can find neither file anywhaere. Can someone tell me where to find theese items and something a little more specific than 'somewhere in the 148 page thread.

you can use these two cabs and it should work again for you. one is the CV and the other is realplayer not to be confused with REALONE player. the actual controls will be a little garbled in the player since this was a cab Sakajati (chef) extracted for the tilt (qvga). vids play fine though.
http://www.4shared.com/file/78193529/f108c3fc/SJ_RealPlayer_1_0_18143028_00.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/78193281/73b5c1/ATT_Cellular_Video_v2.html

All in one solution
Use the attached file, it an all in one solution. It will install Real Player and Cingular Video and it's much smaller footprint. Just remember to change your user agent to HTC-8900 with Advanced Config and to run the Hidden proxy.

only problem with that cab is it will keep asking you to save them to the device first. my cab will stream them, no need to save them.

I've tried both with no success. Either way Real palyer does not even open. The 'Streaming Media' player opens and then errors out saying something about not being able to. I'm guessing that it is not set to be the default player in this rom. I'm using rup's 3.3 .

First off you need to change the Opera.ini file. Its located (some ROM's may vary) in the "Windows" under the "Opera9" folder.
Lately there have been a lot of errors "File re-entry not allowed" with Streaming Media Player. I think it is a compatibility issue with the ROM's.
If you are getting this error there is no need to change it to Real Player if you don't want to. I am not going to take credit for this, just in finding it. I would give the page where I found it, but unfortunately I cant remember where. Below is a cab, install it to your device and it should play video again just fine. The only problem right now is the fact that the player doesn't match the screen size, but at least the videos play.
Both these files are in my CAB FILES BELOW on 4shared under AT&T Fuze, cab's, "fixes".

karatche said:
I've tried both with no success. Either way Real palyer does not even open. The 'Streaming Media' player opens and then errors out saying something about not being able to. I'm guessing that it is not set to be the default player in this rom. I'm using rup's 3.3 .
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They won't work because streaming media player has registry settings to open when you click the button to stream the content. Most custom ROM's now come with it built in and make it uninstallable.
In order to change the "streaming content" to Real Player would require you to change those settings. Can be done, but without being able to delete the streaming media player, to me its just a waste of space.

KDKobes said:
First off you need to change the Opera.ini file. Its located (some ROM's may vary) in the "Windows" under the "Opera9" folder.
Lately there have been a lot of errors "File re-entry not allowed" with Streaming Media Player. I think it is a compatibility issue with the ROM's.
If you are getting this error there is no need to change it to Real Player if you don't want to. I am not going to take credit for this, just in finding it. I would give the page where I found it, but unfortunately I cant remember where. Below is a cab, install it to your device and it should play video again just fine. The only problem right now is the fact that the player doesn't match the screen size, but at least the videos play.
Both these files are in my CAB FILES BELOW on 4shared under AT&T Fuze, cab's, "fixes".
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So I'm resurrecting this thread because I'm sorta in the dark here. First off, it's taken me forever just to find a download of the AT&T CV cab file! (This is actually more about the blood feud between me and the XDA search engine. )
I seem to be missing something, though. Where do these two cabs, Opera.ini and Diamond Streaming Media, fit in the whole CV solution? Am I still supposed to install the 'ATT_Cellular_Video_v2.cab', but use this streaming media cab instead of the RealPlayer cab above? What if I already have streaming media installed? (Which I do. Using EnergyROM 3.0)
Also, for god only knows what reason, when I tried to start CV after installing the cab provided above, it started PIE, NOT Opera. And it said it couldn't find the "http://cingularvideo.cingular.com", which is what it defaulted to.
I've seen about a dozen postings about the Opera.ini file, but none of them tell you what to do after that! I suppose if you've gotten the "only on 3G" error, you're already far enough ahead of me to know that!
Anyway, If the CV app tries to get to a site that doesn't even exist, where do you go from there?!?
Hell, I don't even fully understand what the "CV" app itself does, if you can go through a browser and have some streaming video app installed, then what does this app do? Obviously, I've never even gotten that far!
BTW, I have tested to make sure my device it attached to the web. I can reach anywhere else. I'm also set up to use wap.cingular, and I have the hidden proxy installed.
Basically, I need help understanding which of the above installation files goes with which, and what the CV app is supposed to do when it starts, since I assume opening IE to go to an address it can't reach is not standard behavior!
Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks!
P.S. The Opera.ini cab above contains an "Opera.ini.txt" file. Shouldn't it just be Opera.ini?

Streaming Radio App? (i.e. Shoutcast)

Can someone recommend a streaming radio application for files such as Shoutcast? I cannot seem to find any, and I have also searched.
Thanks.

Resco Radio 1.90. If you do purchase it, I have modified the default skin to make it readable on VGA and to put 15 shortcut buttons on the screen instead of 10. Let me know if you need it.

If you have the stream-adress like
http://stream-hautdebit.frequence3.net:8000 or
http://house.mthN.net:8500
you can use MortPlayer.

nick007 said:
If you have the stream-adress like
http://stream-hautdebit.frequence3.net:8000 or
http://house.mthN.net:8500
you can use MortPlayer.
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Thats a good idea. Can I make a shortcut?

Smalls2 said:
Can someone recommend a streaming radio application for files such as Shoutcast? I cannot seem to find any, and I have also searched.
Thanks.
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www.condiuts.com
Pocket Player will do it and you don't even have to upload the links yourself. They have done the work for you. It works very nicely and Resco radio is also good. Just depends on what you want and for what. I have both and use both.

yatrg said:
Resco Radio 1.90. If you do purchase it, I have modified the default skin to make it readable on VGA and to put 15 shortcut buttons on the screen instead of 10. Let me know if you need it.
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Could you post a picture of your skin and does it work in landscape also?
I am using the default VGA skin and it is fine, but nothing really fancy about it.

Here is an image of the modification I made to the default skin, and a zip file with the skin change. I did not modify the landscape mode, only the portrait mode. Basically, all I changed was the size of the fonts so they would be easier to read on the VGA screen, and I made 15 buttons instead of 10. Unzip the .zip file and put the default.rs file in \Program Files\Resco Pocket Radio\Skins\default_vga\
I would suggest copying the one that is there already to a temp folder first, so if you do not like mine, you can always go back.
The one problem with 15 buttons is that you get less space for names. What I did was modify the file \Program Files\Resco Pocket Radio\radios\user_presets_fast.rrd with a text editor (notepad in windows xp). There is a line in there for each button (0 through 14). A sample line is:
CAT "Cat3"
RAD "Radio (io) Classical Favorites" "io Classical Fav" "Radio (io) Classical Favorites"
STR "http://cast.voxcdn.net:8000/2917-MP3-RadioIO-Classical-Favs-128" "128" "MP3" a
END
END
The middle name of the three names in quotes is the display name on the button, so I edited it to be a shorter name. This is "Cat3" which means it is button 4 - or the first button on row 2.

I use the free version of kinoma which has no expiry, it works perfectly with all shoutcast and is searchable so all you have to put into it's search is either the name of the station you want or the genre of music.
It is excellent and pretty much trumps everything mentioned here when you factor in the price

How about Pandora? There's a cab floating around for that! It's not pretty (in VGA) but works...

Use MortPlayer, simply put yourself an m3u together, like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch1 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8100
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch2 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8200
#EXTINF:-1,.977 The 80s Channel
http://scfire-dtc-aa05.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040
#EXTINF:-1,.977 The Hitz Channel
http://scfire-mtc-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1074
and save it on your device or storage card.
Afterwards, add the m3u to your favorites, this way you can slide through your collection and all stations will become another playlist/album.

RiWaLE said:
Use MortPlayer, simply put yourself an m3u together, like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch1 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8100
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That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.

midi1969 said:
That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.
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I use TCPMP - works nicely, loads fast -

midi1969 said:
That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.
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Try adding the mms as a regular stream, you can do so under favorites. Or try adding it in the m3u. Besides: If you open a station in Winamp you get many servers sorted by their webload. So if you copy only one, like i did, you may lose it someday. This never happened to me, just as a hint.
I'm particulary looking for a way to download the pls with the servers generated by the station as you listen into it and add it as a new favorite. Maybe it is possible to link mortplayer directly to the pls. I will try this on my way to work.
Edit: If you run into trouble, because your 3G-Provider is BLOCKING the stream after a couple of minutes try to open a vpn-connection to your home or office-server and route your webradio-traffic through it.

RiWaLE said:
I'm particulary looking for a way to download the pls with the servers generated by the station as you listen into it and add it as a new favorite. Maybe it is possible to link mortplayer directly to the pls. I will try this on my way to work.
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Well, that didn't work, i'll ask in the mortplayer forums ... You can add the generated m3u as a link (fe http://etn.fm/playlists/etn2beta.m3u) and the "loading favorites structure" screen loads a bit longer, but no success, it doesn't show up.
Edit: Works now! Trying to set up a php script now that simply includes the server m3u's...

[Q] Things to know before beginning a music player app for WP8

First of all, hello to everybody. I have just joined xdaDevelopers.
To business now..
I recently bought my first Windows Phone (Nokia Lumia 520). One of the reasons for getting it was for developing my own WP8 apps.
I would like to start with a music player app - one that can play mp3 files from phone memory and SD card; arrange songs according to name, albums and artists; create playlists; have capabilties of fast foward and rewind (seeking); and recognise album arts.
What do I need to know before I can start building it?
I have zero experience in app development; I am a web designer.
I noticed that there are very few "polished" music players (which function properly as well as have a nice UI) in the WP store. Any particular reason for that (other than the platform being relatively new)?
I created this post mainly because the lack of quality music players appeared a bit strange to me. I have heard that a particular file type can be accessed by only one app (please correct me if I am wrong). So does it mean that one has to somehow uninstall the default music player in order to use the newly downloaded one?
For instance, I have "Adobe Reader" which can read PDFs from my MicroSD card. But the "PDF Reader" app (which I installed just yesterday) cannot even find them! So I had to uninstall the latter.
So I wanted to know if there was something about WP8 that doesn't allow such things - if these "security measures", which render apps like file managers less useful, are also responsible for the lack of music players in this otherwise very fantastic platform.
Please note that I come from Android, and am very new to Windows Phone platform. So kindly point out if there's something incorrect about my assumptions.
Thanks and regards.

Hi,
Welcome to Windows Phone. The Lumia 520 is a great choice in my humble opinion. In regards to why there are so few music apps, there are probably several reasons. One such is the fact, that the easiest way to make one is to integrate with the built-in music features, which however limits you in several ways, like not being able to add more file types, not being able to customize the experience too much, playlisting is limit as far as I know, which basically puts you in the position, that the only actual improvement you can do upon that is implementing a new streaming service. The other route is to implement your own music player, but then you're going to have issues making it work in the background (not to mention, that implementing a music player isn't entirely simple).
gdebojyoti said:
What do I need to know before I can start building it?
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1. Make sure you have hardware for it. I recommend a minimum of Windows 8 Pro 64bit, but you can find instructions for Windows 7 on this forum as well. You'll need VT-x support on your CPU, plenty of RAM.
2. Download and install the WP8 SDK.
3. Once you open Visual Studio, you can start by creating a new project, you'll need a UI project (I recommend Windows Phone App or HTML5 App templates) and a music playback project (WP Audio Playback Agent -OR- WP Audio Streaming Agent).
4. For tutorials on how to get started I usually go to Pluralsight.com, because I have a subscription there, and they're plain awesome, but I'm sure there are a bunch of other sources as well, which are for free.
gdebojyoti said:
For instance, I have "Adobe Reader" which can read PDFs from my MicroSD card. But the "PDF Reader" app (which I installed just yesterday) cannot even find them! So I had to uninstall the latter.
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If you have both Adobe Reader and PDF Reader installed, once you tap on a PDF file (say after downloading one in IE) an option should appear for you to select which app you wanna open it with.
gdebojyoti said:
So I wanted to know if there was something about WP8 that doesn't allow such things - if these "security measures", which render apps like file managers less useful, are also responsible for the lack of music players in this otherwise very fantastic platform.
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You can install and use as many audio/music apps you like, but obviously only one can have the background music feature used at one time. (You can only have one music playing in the background).
Also:
"Developers must pay an annual subscription fee of $99, (this, according to Todd Brix, the General Manager for Windows Phone Apps and Store team, is currently on an ongoing promotion at $19) to become an App Hub member and submit apps to the Windows Phone Store. There's no limit on the number of free submissions for paid apps. There's a limit of 100 free submissions for free apps; thereafter, there's a fee of $19.99 per submission for free apps." - Wikipedia
Hope I helped, and happy coding!
:fingers-crossed:

@TheGoldrocker: Thank you for your reply. It did clear up quite a few things.
As of now, I am okay with "integrating with the built-in music features" as you said.
What I want to do is modify the UI and UX a bit. Some of the features can be as follows -
1. Introducing a scroll bar;
2. Option to get rid of the grouping system by name;
3. Control over the font size;
4. Allowing the currently playing song to continue if I select the song (currently it starts playing from the beginning);
5. Enabling the seeking feature (tapping the timeline of the song so as to play from that point of time);
6. Having a tile feature in the start screen with options to pause, change song, etc (number of options would depend upon the length of the song);
7. Showing the album art of the currently playing song in the tile;
8. Having an animated background in the app (just a wide photo which slowly slides from left to right).
Am I allowed to do the above?

You're welcome.
"Integrating with the built-in music features" doesn't mean you get to rewrite the UI/functionality of the current Music+Videos app. What it means is, you get to use the built-in classes for simplifying music playback in your new app. You'll still have to build up a new UI around your classes, you'll also have to write quite a few lines of code for the playback functionality (but obviously way less than if you tried to write your own music player from scratch).
Now sadly I cannot answer all of your questions with absolute certainty, because I haven't tried writing a music player yet, but I'll give them a shot.
I numbered your list:
gdebojyoti said:
1. Introducing a scroll bar;
2. Option to get rid of the grouping system by name;
3. Control over the font size;
4. Allowing the currently playing song to continue if I select the song (currently it starts playing from the beginning);
5. Enabling the seeking feature (tapping the timeline of the song so as to play from that point of time);
6. Having a tile feature in the start screen with options to pause, change song, etc (number of options would depend upon the length of the song);
7. Showing the album art of the currently playing song in the tile;
8. Having an animated background in the app (just a wide photo which slowly slides from left to right).
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1. Yes, since you'll have to make a new UI from scratch, and you'll have the ability to include any logic behind it you want.
2. Yes, the grouping can be avoided AFAIK.
3. Same as 1.
4. Same as 1.
5. Don't think so. Someone else with more knowledge will have to answer this to be sure, though.
6. If you mean a tile on the start screen, which, when tapped will play/stop/next/prev/whatever and STAY on the start screen? No. Tiles (sadly) always open a program (even if for only a millisecond). You can use this for deeplinking to favorite songs/playlists/streaming services though, which is cool.
7. Same as 1.
8. Same as 1.
Hope I helped.

Thank you for your reply.
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6. If you mean a tile on the start screen, which, when tapped will play/stop/next/prev/whatever and STAY on the start screen? No. Tiles (sadly) always open a program (even if for only a millisecond). You can use this for deeplinking to favorite songs/playlists/streaming services though, which is cool.
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By "deeplinking", do you mean pinning songs to the start screen by 'long pressing' on them?
I do hope that Microsoft introduces interactive tiles in some future update. Sort of start screen widgets.

gdebojyoti said:
By "deeplinking", do you mean pinning songs to the start screen by 'long pressing' on them?
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Deeplinking is launching an app with a link toward a specific page with parameters. Imagine it as a URL to a specific page on a website. If your app and pages support it, you could tap on a tile (say on the start screen), which opens your app, and instantly navigates to a playlist, album, song, whatever you made that tile link to.
Pinning items to the start screen can be triggered by anything you want. You, the coder, decides how you're gonna allow the user to pin their songs/albums/playlists/artists/whatever.
Here's a little tutorial on this topic:
http://wp.qmatteoq.com/first-steps-...-links/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Okay, thanks. I'll have a look at that.

To make a media player for windows phone is to know insanity.
Why we no join forces?
There are a couple fo things the guys here forgot to tell you:
You can not read Mp3 files from SD card.
You can not read mp3 files from the user music folder.
You only have access to web resources or your app's isolated storage.
You basically have to engineer a way to get them to the app storage.

mcosmin222 said:
To make a media player for windows phone is to know insanity.
Why we no join forces?
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I don't think I have enough knowledge to be able to help you. I am just a beginner.
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You can not read Mp3 files from SD card.
You can not read mp3 files from the user music folder.
You only have access to web resources or your app's isolated storage.
You basically have to engineer a way to get them to the app storage.
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Well, that's why I will try to "integrate with the built-in music features". Hopefully it will be okay then.
I am not trying to make the next best thing in the music player app category.
I am just trying to make one which has a slightly different UI and is able to play mp3s.
Sort of a project of mine.
By the way, can someone please tell me if I can use technologies like HTML5 to create this app? Actually I don't know C#.
Or should I learn C# before attempting this app?

gdebojyoti said:
I don't think I have enough knowledge to be able to help you. I am just a beginner.
Well, that's why I will try to "integrate with the built-in music features". Hopefully it will be okay then.
I am not trying to make the next best thing in the music player app category.
I am just trying to make one which has a slightly different UI and is able to play mp3s.
Sort of a project of mine.
By the way, can someone please tell me if I can use technologies like HTML5 to create this app? Actually I don't know C#.
Or should I learn C# before attempting this app?
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You can not integrate with the built-in player.
There are too many limitations to explain. You will see.
Yes, learn C#

Okay.

[APP][NST/G] CBSN or CBS News

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Yes, that's right, the online 24/7 news outlet of CBS News.
Well, this is just for fun, but it is interesting in its own way and was very easy to do, so I did it (cooped up for weeks.....).
Requirements
1. This is a Tasker app and has a dependency on two library files which are part of a GApps installation. If you don't have GApps or one of my other Tasker apps already, you need to copy the two files in the zip as below:
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
Set permissions for both files to rw-r--r-- and reboot. Without these files resident, the app will not install.
2. MX Player or some other video player capable of playing network streams. Here's a link to the appropriate MX Player version and for the custom codec package. You need both.
3. Realistically, either NoRefresh or FastMode, unless you like the flickering video effect.
4. USB Audio, unless you are really good at reading lips. I actually tried to turn on the CC for the stream, but it seems they do not CC everything anyway, so I gave up. Just for fun
Installation
Install apk as normal from a file manager or via ADB. On first run (don't forget WiFi!) it may ask what app you want to use to play the stream. On my device it gives MX Player and Opera (nope!) as options. The screenshot below shows that MX Player automatically goes to landscape (although the device remains in portrait mode) when playing the stream. This is a freeze-frame screenshot, without NoRefresh, so it looks really great (and is actually in color when you take the shot). I find that the contrast on NoRefresh has to be adjusted quite a bit on the + side from default to get something watchable, but there is a limited range of grey and it's easy to wash everything out looking for that perfect spot. My kernal doesn't support FastMode but from my memory of it I would expect a lot of ghosting.
In theory it would be possible to extend this app for general IPTV use by providing a text file containing stream URLs and creating a menu system to choose one. But I'm not that bored (or crazy) yet