When i first loaded CM onto the nook I was able to use Youtube on the browser (stock and dolphin) as well as some other services and sites.
now, youtube won't play vids- it either shows a blue brick with a "?" mark on it or loads into a 1 seconds non playing video. many other sites have broken parts with the blue brick or just not work at all.
Also, the browsers seem slow and something just don't load properly. I have tried different user agents on both browsers.
anyway to get the browsers working right again? or just optimized in general?
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Would anyone mind trying on uastring android?
When flash first came out I could watch flash vids on ESPN.com. now I can't, I've tried on stock 91, stock 33, and cyan 6 stable. I can watch if I change ua to desktop but until recently i could easily watch them like any other site. Its sort of annoying. its definitely good I can watch them but its a hassle to keep changing to desktop. I'm stock 33 right now. The vids show up but wont play.
Bump. I realize most people around here probably don't know what ESPN.com is so forgive me maybe if I keep bumping, someone who is familiar will happen across this. Thanks
I just tested it and they play fine for me. I am running the latest nightly but I doubt that matters. When I clicked the link it asked me if I wanted to play using double twist or movies. I picked movies.
I could watch in either android mode or desktop.
pwig said:
I just tested it and they play fine for me. I am running the latest nightly but I doubt that matters. When I clicked the link it asked me if I wanted to play using double twist or movies. I picked movies.
I could watch in either android mode or desktop.
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Thanks that's interesting. When I use desktop they work but don't ask what I want to use to play them. Come to think of it, when vids on ESPN used to work for me they never asked what I wanted to play them with. I wish I knew if clearing the browsers data or even wiping the phone could fix it, it would be a hassle but it'd be worth it. Oh well, its always something...thanks again
edit: they work when i have plug-ins set to "on demand", thats good enough for me i suppose
edit: now doesnt work "on demand" after the first time. This phone sure does test my patience frequently.
bump, just wondering if any issues watching espn videos have come up for anyone else? Im talking about the full site of course, not the mobile one.
Is there anyway the radio could be at fault? edit- nvm didnt work
Im grasping at straws here its just so irritating that the only website I want to use flash with is the only website I cant.
Im currently running a custom ROM and it still isnt working. Im on frg 33 but espn.com videos stopped working before I flashed it.
I am using Dolphin Browser HD and I watch the videos embedded in the page. They work great for me. The Volume buttons are set to scroll initially so you can go to the app settings and change it back so you can adjust volume while watching.
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I am using Dolphin Browser HD and I watch the videos embedded in the page. They work great for me. The Volume buttons are set to scroll initially so you can go to the app settings and change it back so you can adjust volume while watching.
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thanks thats interesting. I tried dolphin, i can watch vids on the espn mobile site but i still cant on the full site. I cant imagine what the problem could be since it spans stock/rooted, various roms, various browser apps and various radios, what the hell even remains consistent throughout all of that which could cause this? I love this phone but my technical difficulties sure are adding up...it would be cool if i at least had some number to call to get help with the $600 device i purchased. My fault though I did realize google wanted to forget the poor nexus one fairly early on...
Well, it is definitely slow to load up. I have dolphin set to Desktop UA. The page loads up. I click the flash player on-demand. The flash video box stays black for a little bit, then eventually the play button comes up and a commercial plays first. Then again the black box reappears and then the play symbol loads again. (this is with about 1mb/s connection or less). Its takes some patience, but its espn highlights on the go, for free, so I can't complain.
I also remember a newer version of flash player coming last week or maybe 2 weeks ago. You could try to uninstall and reinstall flash player.
When you say not loading, do you mean the flash area is black, or the area has an error message displayed?
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Well, it is definitely slow to load up. I have dolphin set to Desktop UA. The page loads up. I click the flash player on-demand. The flash video box stays black for a little bit, then eventually the play button comes up and a commercial plays first. Then again the black box reappears and then the play symbol loads again. (this is with about 1mb/s connection or less). Its takes some patience, but its espn highlights on the go, for free, so I can't complain.
I also remember a newer version of flash player coming last week or maybe 2 weeks ago. You could try to uninstall and reinstall flash player.
When you say not loading, do you mean the flash area is black, or the area has an error message displayed?
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i have same issue, it works on desktop but on android uastring the page loads and the first frame of the vid shows up but nothing happens
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Well, it is definitely slow to load up. I have dolphin set to Desktop UA. The page loads up. I click the flash player on-demand. The flash video box stays black for a little bit, then eventually the play button comes up and a commercial plays first. Then again the black box reappears and then the play symbol loads again. (this is with about 1mb/s connection or less). Its takes some patience, but its espn highlights on the go, for free, so I can't complain.
I also remember a newer version of flash player coming last week or maybe 2 weeks ago. You could try to uninstall and reinstall flash player.
When you say not loading, do you mean the flash area is black, or the area has an error message displayed?
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When its set to desktop I've gotten it to work. But videos on ESPN played when set to android uastring but this was with only the first couple of adobe flash versions. At some point, after some update I guess, ESPN videos stopped working...
All this hype around Android made me buy a SGS. Having flash on the browser was one big reason for acquisition. Soon I discovered that flash isn't what is promised, a desktop experience on my mobile device. I say this because most of the time (like 95%) the flash works so bad in my browser, that is barely usable. When trying to watch streams, mostly on news sites I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" and the playback is choppy, sometimes when seeking, takes 10-15 seconds until the choppy playback starts again. If I try to watch something in low quality it works fine, but most of the sites offer good quality video. I expect more from a 1Ghz cpu...
Is this a problem of my device or is it general ? I have the latest Adobe Flash available on the market.
What firmware and kernel are you using?
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Do some research... if you are using the Default browser, open it and in the address bar type:
about:debug
and hit go...
Now go into your browser settings and at the bottom there should be an option to set the UA String, select Desktop....
Downside:
some sites will still see your device as mobile.
you have to re do the fix Every time you load the browser...
Alternative:
try Dolphin HD broswer, it has a US string setting in the options already and only needs set once.
Downside:
Is a little slower to load pages than the default browser.
some sites will still see your device as mobile.
An another point, if you are using 3g... don't expect miracles!
sadly he's right ;( its not even working properly over wifi so i cant really say the net is the problem.
id say the problem lies in flash itself and/or its something in the memory management since ive seen stock roms delivering way better flashperformance than any custom so far, so possibility is that the stream freezes and has to rebuffer every time the memmngt cuts the memory, else you could just try to flash ubuntu and see if it works any magic ;P what do it know for all its worth it could be tha b0mb
good luck anyways !
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All this hype around Android made me buy a SGS. Having flash on the browser was one big reason for acquisition. Soon I discovered that flash isn't what is promised, a desktop experience on my mobile device. I say this because most of the time (like 95%) the flash works so bad in my browser, that is barely usable. When trying to watch streams, mostly on news sites I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" and the playback is choppy, sometimes when seeking, takes 10-15 seconds until the choppy playback starts again. If I try to watch something in low quality it works fine, but most of the sites offer good quality video. I expect more from a 1Ghz cpu...
Is this a problem of my device or is it general ? I have the latest Adobe Flash available on the market.
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Solution: Flash a custom JVK Gingerbread rom and DO NOT install the flash player from the market, but use the one that comes preinstalled! This way you'll have 720p flash videos playing smoothly.
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I get a message with "The video is not optimized for mobile" .
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I guess its rather a problem with some websites.
I never had problem with Flash player 10.1 or 10.2 (i am MIUI rom but i had previously JVK)
No problem with my SGS but i dont use flash that often so it could be as said some sites .
Use Dolphin HD browser mostly .
The video is not optimized for mobile" >> could that be the clue ???
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I have stock JS4 ROM, sorry forgot to mention this in the main thread. Also I am using flash only via Wifi. Actually I am using Opera Mobile and I've set the UA to Firefox Desktop one. Gonna try the idea with stock browser, maybe Opera has messed up something.
Hey guys im just trying to see if im the only one having this problem, whenever i watch videos on websites like androidcentral or some of my favorite music sites and play audio the whole browser seems to freeze, it will still click links but wont load anything just stays on the same page and if i click refresh it does nothing, the only way to get it working again is to go to into the built in task manager and end the application and when im there it will say the browser is at 70-75 percent.
I've installed and uninstalled Dolphin many times. It has some appealing strengths but also some annoying weaknesses on the NST. Here are the three big weaknesses as I see them (you can stop reading after that if they are "deal breakers" for you):
1. Like many browsers other than Opera Mobile, Dolphin has trouble updating an existing window with new content. For reliable browsing you need to open in new tabs which, sadly, are always behind the current tab.
2. Swipe scrolling in Opera Mobile is positively spritely compared to Dolphin and most other browsers. For Dolphin you have the option of using volume controls to scroll. I have set the lower hardware buttons to the volume controls using NTTM. I don't ever use them to change pages, preferring a gentle touch on the screen edge.
3. Dolphin is a pain-in-the-*** to zoom. Double tap has no effect. Turning on pinch-zoom button in Settings is ignored. Pinch zooming does not work (even with multi-touch enabled). The only way to zoom in or out is with a gesture. Took me awhile to even understand how that was supposed to happen. I finally made a "Z" for "zoom in" and a backward "Z" for "zoom out". The stock gestures for these functions are visually meaningless (to me).
OK,so why bother with Dolphin at all? First, let me add that the new version 11 does not work well with the NST. You need something in the 10.x series (some old versions here).
Dolphin is an HTML5 browser with some limited (on the NST) Shockwave and Flash capability. With the possible Flash installation for the NST (see here, post #4), you get the ability to access some .swf files (embedded Flash players are a kind of .swf file--more on that below) and Flash 9.1x (despite the claim that you are getting 10.1. Adobe identifies it as 9.1x and various sites that reject anything below 10 also identify it as such).
I used to think no embedded Flash videos would play in Dolphin.Then I discovered that in Desktop mode it would "work" with most embedded players and you could start the videos.But you could not play them through. Although the buffer continued to fill, the video itself stopped after 10-20 seconds and the little running circle appeared in the middle of the image. You can restart in different spots, but you still only get about 10-20 seconds at a pop (examples here).
I have some short little Flash videos in a very simple swf player which I use on an educational site. I thought these did not work at all but with some fooling around in FastMode I was amazed to see that the player actually can be coaxed into working and the entire video plays (example here). Of course, everything works a little bit better in FastMode (except for display quality) but you can, if you work at it a little, coax the player into working in regular mode.
So, Dolphin can play "some" embedded Flash video. But not much.
The Desktop mode of Dolphin makes YouTube nuts. It tries switching back and forth between the mobile and desktop site and never gets anywhere. Anyway, that is not the way to go because HTML5 is a better choice--if you have a cooperative external player.
I've tried a few players. RockPlayer Lite is popular for the NST but is difficult to exit (always full screen) and seems stymied by HTML5. It does play a lot of other stuff, including some streams. I finally settled on MX Player (save yourself some time and download the the ARMv7 NEON codec at the same time because it will just send you back to the Market when you try to run it the first time). It can pinch-zoom (RockPlayer cannot) and handles HTML5 well (yes, YouTube!). I have my two lower hardware buttons assigned for long press as "back" and "menu". This provides two ways to get out of MX Player if you don't want to watch the whole video. At the normal conclusion, the player closes and you return to Dolphin. Nice.
Such a set-up works for YouTube (the mobile version),or at least for as many videos as are now HTML5-ready. Of course, you can also access any Flash videos that allow for a breakout from the embedded player. MX Player handles .flv files fine without any Adobe plugin. And it plays just about any other direct-link video you can find. Videos in the BBC News app work fine.
Daily Motion, Vimeo, My Vidster, Hulu---the list goes on---are no-go with this set-up.
But really, with no audio......If just a little audio were accessible to us mere mortals, it would be nice, but that mod is beyond my geek level
One bad thing: for some reason, the NST refuses to make MX Player (or any other player I tried) the "default". So every time you want a video you have to select MX Player from a list of hopefuls (QuickPic? Really?????). I've inspected the file where this info is stored (/data/system/packages.xml) and even cleaned it up, but to no avail.
One last warning: don't try this with Opera Mobile. As far as I can tell, one of the three Flash installations, maybe FlashLite, has a player which is invoked by some embedded videos in Opera Mobile.You touch the play triangle in the video and are rewarded with a much larger triangle. Don't touch that one! It takes you to a Flash player of some sort (you can see some control buttons if you touch the screen) with a black screen and there is no way out except for a forced shutdown.
I've searched multiple forums and attempted to work with Samsung support (they want me to send tablet to them).
If I try to load a video (not take on this device) from Google Photos app, the video preview comes up but the loading circle just keeps spinning. The same video through Photos app on my android phone on the same wifi connection doesn't have any problem and loads instantly.
I've tried some replacement apps and they seem to do the same or similar thing.
I have a fairly new SM-T810 (only a few months old) and this issue has always been this way...just haven't dug into the problem until now..
Overall, internet browsing on the table is relatively quick and if I go to a site like ESPN within Chrome and play a video on the page it loads fine.
I am currently using DHCP to my router, though I have tried manual setup. I am using a 192.168.1.XXX setup.
Through forums and Samsung, I've tried the normal clear cache/data, uninstall updates, restart tablet, factory reset tablet.....and nothing seems to resolve the issue.
If anyone has a suggestion, I'm certainly open to it. If more information is needed I can certainly make it available.
Thank you in advance.
The photos app is able to stream it direct from google servers, however I think it's only a preview and not full quality or it will play the local version.
3rd party apps will play it, but will download it first.
Samsung keeps saying the only way to fix this is to send them the device. I just find it hard to believe this is a hardware issue.
Seems like it's a software issue with the tablet itself or at least it's integration of handling videos. Smaller videos seem to load after a while (loading instantly on my android phone)...but large videos never load at all (after waiting minutes). Again, start playing within a second or so on my android phone.