Hi all,
I could not sleep thinking of using chrooted linux on my 47" 1080p LCD, fine, but we a re limited to the hdmi mirroring, which is 800x480 stretched to fill the screen.
Thinking about the video player, which does proper 1080p output I tried to fool the system somehow with video playing and task switching, menus, back btn presses, and found something:
Using temasek´s kang + ironkrnl #251 32mb hack, qemu lcd density 210
You start playing a video, can be through native video player or mxplayer, HW or SW mode, then you press menu once or twice to show the options, the video freezes for a moment. then you press back twice rapdly, VOILA, you have a working gallery (works until you flip the phone to portrait, this resets the display to normally scaled screen) in 1080p in the lower half of the screen.
If you were using mxplayer, the top half of the screen will have the player controls as they were on the phones screen during video playback. everything is repeated side by side almos three times (I think it´s the difference in resolution being compensated in the framebuffer or some sort of scaling bug).
All in all, does someone have any idea on how to invoke a mirrorless 1080p picture on hdmi? (or mirrored and downscaled/croppped on the phones screen), apparently only gallery is capable of displaying in 1080, any other app works in the phones screen but the image keeps frozen on hdmi with sound ok.
Imagine chrooted linux in 1080 with BT mouse and KB!
Pictures attached:
edit: tried with 1202221503-ETaNa_48 kernel and could not reproduce it, later will try with etana 64 and other ironkrnl
What a great little bug. It would be nice to have it actually run at 1080p for the Android screen and things like the word processor. Would make using the phone as a mini computer so much better.
Great find dude...!!
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Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
bollux78 said:
Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
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Not development. Moving to general.
I can only say that I wish I had the same amount of spare time as you
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Im thinking about adding a 7" lcd screen to my truck to act as a backup monitor and a larger lcd for GPS. I'd like to connect my Captivate to the lcd and using it for larger, set top viewing of the gps.
Would this work fine in terms of using the video out for gps only? http://www.ecbuys.com/car-lcd-and-c...-tft-lcd-car-headrest-color-monitor-p-52.html
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Im thinking about adding a 7" lcd screen to my truck to act as a backup monitor and a larger lcd for GPS. I'd like to connect my Captivate to the lcd and using it for larger, set top viewing of the gps.
Would this work fine in terms of using the video out for gps only? http://www.ecbuys.com/car-lcd-and-c...-tft-lcd-car-headrest-color-monitor-p-52.html
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Standard TV video - is 480 lines of resolution - so anything that can emulate a tv monitor (it has TV video in) should display fine. You will get the entire Captivate desktop on your TV - every move to every app is shown - just like having a bigger phone - but you have to touch the smaller screen.
alphadog00 said:
Standard TV video - is 480 lines of resolution - so anything that can emulate a tv monitor (it has TV video in) should display fine. You will get the entire Captivate desktop on your TV - every move to every app is shown - just like having a bigger phone - but you have to touch the smaller screen.
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Perfect that is what I need. I will be using the larger screen just to view the GPS and view the video player. I have microsoft sync in my truck and it streams bluetooth audio superbly, but it doesnt show who the artists is on the radio screen. So having a larger lcd on the dash for viewing song info/google navigator, pandora, and using for a backup camera would be great. I did a mockup of how big it would be and where I would put it here:
http://www.f150forum.com/f7/has-anyone-thought-aftermarket-lcd-upgrade-67384/
I think this would be a pretty sweet setup!
one thing to keep in mind - you will want some type of rotation lock feature - this is built in to 2.2. The autorotate is copied to the external screen, so portrait mode on the phone will give you black bars left and right on the right on the screen. You will probably want to lock the screen in landscape mode when connected to your monitor.
Ah yes I am running Cognition Beta 2.2. so I have the option. Good point
Followed the instructions from this link and I was able to download and install a Zune/WP7 style music player on my nook color. It's awesome!
Made my day!
http://www.stuff-review.com/2011-05/zune-and-windows-phone-7-styled-music-player-for-android/
[30 May 2011] Alpha 4 now out with widget and custom add to playlist!
Awesome thanks!
Will check this out.
Sent from my Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
NICE! Thank you much.
It'd be nice if it had an actual name and icon.
Like the article says...
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It'd be nice if it had an actual name and icon.
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"We did run into an occasional bug and forced closures but otherwise it’s quite functional, despite its alpha status".
A name and icon are in the works. Give it some time.
The app worked great...just looking forward to it's further development.
Ron
Yes I saw that, I was just stating.
sibyy said:
Followed the instructions from this link and I was able to download and install a Zune/WP7 style music player on my nook color. It's awesome!
Made my day!
http://www.stuff-review.com/2011-05/zune-and-windows-phone-7-styled-music-player-for-android/
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Here's the file I downloaded after following all the links. I guess its ok to post it.
If you're on Twitter, it's probably worth following the guy for updates. I did.
Same here, following dev on twitter.
As indicated above next alpha should include an icon.
probably not the right place, but I'll post my short blurb anyway.
like:
- clean uncluttered, only necessary information and buttons.
- fast, flipping between pages are nice.
- the typography
- how artist, album, etc is organized using alphabetical/large font is refreshing.
dislike (mostly related to smartphone to tablet screen scaling)
- I know this is for smartphone player, but when in "play mode" screen, the progress bar is only the size of small album cover. It's too small for practical use. Everything clumped together at bottom screen leaving huge empty space up top. (looks like something is wrong when there is no background image.) Maybe load a "default blank" image when there is no album image?
- bigger play/pause/next screen buttons? button size is too small for comfortable clicking for tablet. I think it's also mis-aligned. or at least the placement of buttons is spread out of context, not below the album cover in tablet screen. (maybe slice the screen into 4 quadrants, and fit all album/players controllers on bottom left corners)
- (setting is still blank. yeah I know work in progress)
- when inside "play screen", once getting out to browsing screen while playing, it's not possible to quickly get back to play screen without retracing path from song title. Also How about if I double/triple tap on the big image in play screen, It will bring me back to main browsing screen. How about scroll side to side? (play screen -- side swipe - browsing screen.)
- back button only bring me to previous screen. (so if I jump out of player, and back into play screen, if I hit back button, it will throw me out to external screen. and I have no way to get back to main browsing screen without relaunching the player.)
wish list ( I post one anyway.):
- button and font color option?
- in tablet, the super low rest/huge background image looks really blotchy for a lot of images. (for human face, it looks like somebody has bad skin disease or something. just ugly.) Can we have option, not downloading external images? force use internal default images.
- less aggressive use of wireless.
- equalizer
- widget
- playlist creation (I think it's still being build)
- a way to alter mp3 file label. (hey, not my music comes from stores. and a lot of my record label promo material has wrong labels. )
- I really liking this as a universal media file manager. How about video, ebook, "social" (as in libre.fm, last.fm, or whatever other social music), simple mp3 blog RSS.
Agreed with you bigbird.
Functionally my biggest issue is going back, especially when you are on a playlist you have to exit to get back.
An on screen back button + a way to get back to main screen quickly I think would be best.
Playlist creator
Scaling stuff could take longer to materialize but yes:
+ Bigger progress bar for Jumping/skipping song on + Bigger buttons
Why don't you send your recommendation to the developer via twitter?
I wish it did what Doubletwist does. If it's at the lockscreen, it shows the primary buttons and makes it click to unlock.
Alpha 3 just out and some of the issues above have already been dealt with. Back button from now playing screen, icon for the app, etc.
Download and what's new here: http://bit.ly/k0ZuU9
Instructions to install and screenshots here: http://www.stuff-review.com/2011-05/zune-and-windows-phone-7-styled-music-player-for-android/
Enjoy!!!
Good to see this is being worked on constantly.
how about the sound quality? Is it better than original music player?
Alexsandra said:
how about the sound quality? Is it better than original music player?
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I could be wrong but:
1. On the software side audio quality would depend primarily on the encoding quality, i.e. compression type, bps or lossless.
2. Then it would depend on your hardware, mainly the DAC chip inside your device.
3. Your earphones
I would guess on hardware (2) that the Zune since it's a dedicated MP would have a better DAC and audio line path. On the other two it should be the same.
Is anyone else getting audio dropouts on CM7 (beta nightly)
Love everything about this app, but seem to have some audio dropouts and pauses during playback.. Using the beta CM7 build with Dalingrinators OC.
PS. im using DSP to boost volume via eq settings.
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Love everything about this app, but seem to have some audio dropouts and pauses during playback.. Using the beta CM7 build with Dalingrinators OC.
PS. im using DSP to boost volume via eq settings.
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I've noticed a couple of tiny pauses at the start of tracks but nothing too distracting. I'm loving the app though (the Zune interface is simply one of the best I've come across) and it complements Launcher 7 perfectly.
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I know many of you out there have been waiting for a widget for this, myself included.
The developer has just posted this as a preview for the upcoming next release.
I tried the tvout with the offical hmdi adapter but it mirrors the tablet including the system bar, and since the resolution of the tablet is 16:10 and not 16:9 I get two black vertical stripes at both sides.
Is there a way to change this behavior? Like a full 16:9 or a 1080p out?
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I tried the tvout with the offical hmdi adapter but it mirrors the tablet including the system bar, and since the resolution of the tablet is 16:10 and not 16:9 I get two black vertical stripes at both sides.
Is there a way to change this behavior? Like a full 16:9 or a 1080p out?
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You'll need to change the settings on your TV to stretch the picture or zoom it, most TV's have a setting to automatically do this to hide black bars, the only problem is it alters the shapes, people end up with odd shaped heads etc
So basically there is no way to play on a tv a 16:9 fullhd video or a slidewhow without status bar? I mean, is mirroring the only one mode?
You can set this up to hide the status bar, but 16:9 is always going to be an issue as the tablet is not 16:9
Yes, but still tvout is a limited feature since I can't have an extended desktop or i.e. a slideshow played on tv while working on something on the tab...
zooster said:
Yes, but still tvout is a limited feature since I can't have an extended desktop or i.e. a slideshow played on tv while working on something on the tab...
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Hang on......so you want to play a video to the TV in HD widescreen while still doing something on the tablet ?
I'm pretty sure there's no Android devices that do this
A kind of... My first aim is to play a slideshow on a tv in full screen mode, while seeing the slide's tree on the tablet and choosing which one to show in full screen on the tv.
Second aim is to disable tablet video and show only tv. It would be nice to play a 3d game on the tv, but as long as the video is doubled fps are so low that it's unplayable.
FPS won't be doubled as all you're doing is doubling up the video output, not the data going through the GPU, there's plenty of video's on youtube of folks using MHL adapters to connect to a TV to play games
Yes fps won't be halved but, since a tough game is very cpu intensive, doubling the video it lags a lot more the tablet. My tablet is much more laggy even simply swiping on the home screens or app drawer when connected to a tv.
Flash motley kernel and overclock to 1.4
I believe a Nexus Q will let you send video from the tablet to the TV whilst doing other stuff on the tablet, but it costs quite a lot.
Definitely hear some unrealistic multitasking wants. Also, doesn't ICS improve hdmi out options as far as full screen video, not just mirroring?
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The Galaxy note 10.1 has this function in the movieplayer to only show the video while controls are shown on the tablet. This is exactly what you are asking if i understand you correctly.
I'm also looking for more possibilities in this area. Being able to see the picture Gallery while only showing the last picture (or non at the start) would be amazing!
If i find anything i will share it here
I Just got my Chromecast today but when I play a video from my phone or desktop on hardwire I get flucreen (black bars on the side). I enabled 720p playback on extension, auto resizing with no results. the home screen is not widescreen and the youtube videos even 1080p ones are still in this squished fullscreen. how do I get it to resize?
I just figured it out, on my insignia I need to switch to wide mode. forgot I changed it do to Ouya.
Hey!
I recently downloaded a few mkv HDR files to the phone, but when playing the files, it didn't activate the HDR feature (washed out colors and bad contrasts) in VLC or the native Samsung video app. How come and how can I watch HDR content? (It does work on YouTube HDR videos...)
Thanks!
HDR content is HIT AND MISS. Some will look fine after adjusting the brightness and contrast, some devices require Auto Brightness and Iris to be turned off. and sometimes a codec can fix the problem....
Have you tried using KODI and adjusting the hardware and software codec settings?
But honestly, HDR on a 6 inch screen isn't doing you any good. 1080p Will consume far less data and will look the same on that tiny screen. Unless you're using HDMI out to a screen over 50 inches, i don't see the need...
HDR has nothing to do with the resolution (and the fact that you should be watching it on big screens). HDR is about dynamic range and the color range which is perfect to watch on a high-end screen of a premium smartphone display like Galaxy S10.