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Netflix

I saw mention of a few people getting the Netflix app from the revolution system dump working on the fascinate. Did any of you have any luck? If so, what ROM are you using? I had no luck on AOSP.
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Yes I had great luck and it even installed perfectly on the fascinate. Only thing it doesn't do is stream video. Apparently it doesn't on any phone as of yet but you can at the moment check your instant and dvd selections perfectly.

I've got it installed and working fine. Streaming does get an error but I saw it may have something to do with current drm setup.
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Nothing is corrupt. It's just not fully finished yet and wasn't supposed to be leaked.

Some devs in the hacking forum seem to have tracked to a drm issue. I know in some of the later superclean roms there was an issue with battery drain from the drm service always running so Adrynalyne dropped it from the framework but created a patch to put it back if there was any issue. I'm on sc2.9v & I've got the netflix app installed & logged in to my acct. but can't connect to stream. Anyone not on superclean try the app with any success?

Ran the Netflix app under 2.9 and 2.9.1 successfully but with no video stream. All we can do for now is check DVD and instant queues.

It requires hardware DRM, and checks the cpu. No bueno.

adrynalyne said:
It requires hardware DRM, and checks the cpu. No bueno.
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Too bad. Thanks for looking into it.

Doesnt netflix instant require windows silverlight...
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I'm guessing beyond the DRM issue, Netflix simply hasn't activated the service on their servers yet for this app. So even right now on the appropriate hardware, it still wouldn't work.

Installed it on mine with rooted, personally cleaned out, stock rom - same result. Hoping that devs can get ahold of this and hack it up. Has anyone tried the playon sevice that is supposed to make hulu and netflix work?

I've tried the playon mobile but it definitely needs an upgrade do to it not having a wide range for working with routers. Believe me if anyone knows anything about networking it's me and mine is setup perfectly to run playon mobile. It has never connected for me at all. Which is a bummer because playon is on all my consoles in the house and it works great! I would try it out for sure because it is actually working for others on there router setups with playon mobile. I'm really looking forward to this netflix app though. I've been using it now for a couple of days and it works amazing except of course the "no streaming" not working right now. I've unpacked the netflix.apk and have looked at the coding and there's nothing we can do to make it work the way it should. In a sense netflix needs to click the "go" button if you will on there end to make it finally work.

I remember hearing that some new Android phones that will use the new (Qualcomm?) dual core chip will have something built in that will allow Netflix DRM to function and those that don't have it won't get that capability. I think it was from This Week in Google.

I use PlayOn for netflix.
I like it because it works but its a little slow.
Video Quality: 8
but being able to get netflix now:10

lambi1982 said:
I use PlayOn for netflix.
I like it because it works but its a little slow.
Video Quality: 8
but being able to get netflix now:10
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Does this convert the videos to flash I'm confused? I too witness silver light loading screens every time I'm watching nfx. How might this be possible
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I assume you have PlayOn installed on both you phone and PC, right?
I am pretty sure it is converting on the fly to flv or something.
When I select netflix and choose a movie I get a screen that says "buffering" for about 10 sec and then the movie plays just fine.
sound is a 9/10 and video 8/10
hope you get it working, if you like I can post a vid of it working

Can't wait to get a full netflix ported to this phone. Is this a codec issue?

Crackle - Free movies and tv shows

I didn't see a thread for the Crackle app from Sony that is free in the Market. This app gives you access to a lot of free movies and television shows. I have it installed on both of my gTabs (one running VEGAn 5.1.1 and the other running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 (stable)) and it runs great. I have noticed that during some times of the day it seems that the network connection between Crackle's servers and my house come to almost a crawl. Other than that it's another great free way to watch movies and t.v. shows on our gTabs.

Can you please share the latest version of the apk, all searches outside US gives us the 1.0 version (which don't run on the gtab).
TIA

aasoror said:
Can you please share the latest version of the apk, all searches outside US gives us the 1.0 version (which don't run on the gtab).
TIA
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Here it is.

Works like a charm.
Thanks,

works here too
I just loaded it on my gTab, with Ginger Edition, and seems to work like a charm. Thanks!

chucket said:
I just loaded it on my gTab, with Ginger Edition, and seems to work like a charm. Thanks!
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I'm runnuing BOS from Roe with the latest edition and this will load and install.
Had audio for a while and no video.
Now nothing but a white screen when I hit the watch now button for Silverado which was the first movie listed.
How's this supposed to work-download the movie or is it streaming etc??
Saw a add to Que but don't know how this works.

stsrep said:
I'm runnuing BOS from Roe with the latest edition and this will load and install.
Had audio for a while and no video.
Now nothing but a white screen when I hit the watch now button for Silverado which was the first movie listed.
How's this supposed to work-download the movie or is it streaming etc??
Saw a add to Que but don't know how this works.
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I've never ran that ROM so I can only speak to my experience with a gTab running CM 7.0.3.
It streams the video like Netflix/Hulu/Fox TV, it doesn't download it like the BlockBuster app.
Like I said on my original post, at certain times of the day or with certain videos it seems the network connection is super slow which can lead to white or black screens with only audio as the app is trying to buffer the video. Try it when you have the best WiFi connection possible. When at home I have 12 mb downstream and it plays fine for me 90% of the time.
As for the queue, it's just that, a queue like on Hulu. It's sort of a playlist so if you have several shows or movies in your queue they will play one after the other automatically.

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I've never ran that ROM so I can only speak to my experience with a gTab running CM 7.0.3.
It streams the video like Netflix/Hulu/Fox TV, it doesn't download it like the BlockBuster app.
Like I said on my original post, at certain times of the day or with certain videos it seems the network connection is super slow which can lead to white or black screens with only audio as the app is trying to buffer the video. Try it when you have the best WiFi connection possible. When at home I have 12 mb downstream and it plays fine for me 90% of the time.
As for the queue, it's just that, a queue like on Hulu. It's sort of a playlist so if you have several shows or movies in your queue they will play one after the other automatically.
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Well I'll try again and thanks for the info.

I must say, I'm pretty unimpressed with it. Its organization is a mess, and it looks like it just has rather unpopular shows and movies on it.
I might be wrong. But it seems to me that I'm sticking with Netflix for the time being.

Some of us are too cheap to pay for Netflix.
It's still got a few decent movies on there, and Seinfield and Married w/Children are a hoot for quick watching. It's at least worth a download, even if you only watch a couple of movies and uninstall it.

Pretty awesome Running G-Harmony and watching Ghostbusters as I type this! Thanks for posting!!

Thanks OP Great App. Works great on my GTablet and Droid X phone

Radon_22 said:
Some of us are too cheap to pay for Netflix.
It's still got a few decent movies on there, and Seinfield and Married w/Children are a hoot for quick watching. It's at least worth a download, even if you only watch a couple of movies and uninstall it.
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LOL Seinfeld and MwC...what else does one need
Works great on TNT Lite 4.4

stsrep said:
I'm runnuing BOS from Roe with the latest edition and this will load and install.
Had audio for a while and no video.
Now nothing but a white screen when I hit the watch now button for Silverado which was the first movie listed.
How's this supposed to work-download the movie or is it streaming etc??
Saw a add to Que but don't know how this works.
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It sounds like Crackle is using Flash. And it's a well known issue that flash only kind of works in Bottle of Smoke. Flash will play audio but not video. Knowing this I will not bother trying to install this on my tablet which is running GTabComb (which is a 1.1 bootloader derivative of BOS). The only reason YouTube app works on BOS is because it is probably using html5 instead of flash in the app.

Could you u post the latest version?
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I would if I could find where the apk was saved to. I didn't find it in the usual \data\apps folder like all of my other apks.

Like this app. Just watched Resident Evil. Good flick.
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Google Cast has crashed. Click this balloon to reload the extension."

Any time I try to cast from Chrome I receive this message. I have uninstalled all extensions, reinstalled just the chromecast extension, uninstalled Chrome, reinstalled Chrome, and at this point I'm hoping someone else has experienced this. Anyone think of a fix?
I have sent feedback multiple times.
help is always appreciated

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Any time I try to cast from Chrome I receive this message. I have uninstalled all extensions, reinstalled just the chromecast extension, uninstalled Chrome, reinstalled Chrome, and at this point I'm hoping someone else has experienced this. Anyone think of a fix?
I have sent feedback multiple times.
help is always appreciated
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Happened with me multiple times while casting from Chrome. I guess its just not stable/usable.

Chrome caches on Windows 8
admin856 said:
Happened with me multiple times while casting from Chrome. I guess its just not stable/usable.
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Chromecast was working great, than all a sudden it started crashes with some sort of balloon message saying that the chromecast has crashed and to click on the balloon to restart it. I've heard that it's a damaged profile for the current user.. When you re-install Chrome, it uses uses the profile that is there, uninstalling Chrome doesn't do delete the profile. You can create a separate user and see if that works, or you can delete the profile for the current user and chrome creates it again. I haven't tried it because chromecast started crashing yesterday. I can't watch Netflix, YouTube, or cast anything. I just have a useless dongle.

mtlmec said:
I haven't tried it because chromecast started crashing yesterday. I can't watch Netflix, YouTube, or cast anything. I just have a useless dongle.
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It's just your Chrome browser extension that's broken, right? Things work okay if you use an Android/iOS device to cast to Chromecast, right?

bhiga said:
It's just your Chrome browser extension that's broken, right? Things work okay if you use an Android/iOS device to cast to Chromecast, right?
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Just the chrome browser the rest work fine....
Issue started a week after they released Google Cast Beta.
So I suspect they broke something...

chrome does not crash on Android
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Just the chrome browser the rest work fine....
Issue started a week after they released Google Cast Beta.
So I suspect they broke something...
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This is a problem that I have on Windows. On Android it's not a problem for me. My Samsung s4 and my Goggle tablet work just fine.
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It's just your Chrome browser extension that's broken, right? Things work okay if you use an Android/iOS device to cast to Chromecast, right?
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The chrome browser works great. It's just the chromecast extension that crashes.This is a problem that I have on Windows. On Android it's not a problem for me. My Samsung s4 and my Goggle 7 tablet work just fine.

mtlmec said:
This is a problem that I have on Windows. On Android it's not a problem for me. My Samsung s4 and my Goggle tablet work just fine.
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The chrome browser works great. It's just the chromecast extension that crashes.This is a problem that I have on Windows. On Android it's not a problem for me. My Samsung s4 and my Goggle 7 tablet work just fine.
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On Android your not actually using the Googlecast Extension...They merely coded the Cast capabilities directly into the browser.
It may very well be working on Android's version of Chrome Beta...
But then again if I'm using my Android I don't need the Chrome Browser to cast much anyway. LOL Most of what I watch has an App that supports it.
(And yes I know the Browser will support websites that do not have apps, I'm just saying that because I don't really watch a lot of videos on other websites)
I am curious if it will work on the TV Networks Webpages though...

Thanks for telling me how Chromecast work on Android
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On Android your not actually using the Googlecast Extension...They merely coded the Cast capabilities directly into the browser.
It may very well be working on Android's version of Chrome Beta...
But then again if I'm using my Android I don't need the Chrome Browser to cast much anyway. LOL Most of what I watch has an App that supports it.
(And yes I know the Browser will support websites that do not have apps, I'm just saying that because I don't really watch a lot of videos on other websites)
I am curious if it will work on the TV Networks Webpages though...
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Well, I tried everything and the Chromecast still crashing. I must be using the latest version of Chromecast and the latest version of Chrome (probably the cause). Google updates something (Chrome or Chromecast) and then things you depended on stop working.. I'm also using Android. And yes, used to work on TV Networks Pages, but you have to put Chromeast on 480p, The 720p setting stutters both in sound and picture. But then, it is a Beta, so we have to be patient. Do you know where I can fine previous versions of Chrome? (I use Windows to play TV Network pages and movies not found on Netflix.)

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Well, I tried everything and the Chromecast still crashing. I must be using the latest version of Chromecast and the latest version of Chrome (probably the cause). Google updates something (Chrome or Chromecast) and then things you depended on stop working.. I'm also using Android. And yes, used to work on TV Networks Pages, but you have to put Chromeast on 480p, The 720p setting stutters both in sound and picture. But then, it is a Beta, so we have to be patient. Do you know where I can fine previous versions of Chrome? (I use Windows to play TV Network pages and movies not found on Netflix.)
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I'm also not convinced this isn't due to some wonky behavior in Google Services.
It happens totally at random even when your just reading a web page which says to me it has something to do with scanning for units or connecting to GServices that seems to set it off. Cause it sure isn't doing anything else when it crashes.

Chromecast
Asphyx said:
I'm also not convinced this isn't due to some wonky behavior in Google Services.
It happens totally at random even when your just reading a web page which says to me it has something to do with scanning for units or connecting to GServices that seems to set it off. Cause it sure isn't doing anything else when it crashes.
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It has do something that Google did in the greatest and latest version of Chrome or Chromecast (thanks for the tech explanation, Asphyx) . It was working just fine on the old what I guess was a old version of Chrome for more than 2 months, that's when a got the Chromecast dongle.Is there any way of getting older versions of Chrome? I'd love to fix this problem since I watch a lot of movies in the browser, it's the only way. I'm one of those strange guys who got rid of cable and just use the antenna, and Netflix and free movie sites. Hey, I save $65. Thanx for the help.

mtlmec said:
Is there any way of getting older versions of Chrome?
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http://www.oldversion.com/windows/google-chrome/

bhiga said:
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/google-chrome/
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I currently have V33.0.1750.146 m of Chrome and have this issue...
But I just checked and it is doing an update so maybe they fixed it in this new version...Lets hope so.
Ok my Chrome is now on Version 33.0.1750.149 m
Lets see if that solves the problem with the crashes.

Chrome app "Videostream for Google Chromecast™" (rebranded "Chromecast Video")

Chrome app "Videostream for Google Chromecast™" (rebranded "Chromecast Video")
Chromecast Video v1.0.1 is gone from the Chrome Web Store. It has been replaced by Videostream for Google Chromecast™ 1.0.4:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromecast-video/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl
or
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-google-ch/ebfagpccbccalgocgjlfkahogjfhliab
I guess the only difference is apps name.
A Chrome App That Streams Local Video From Your Computer To Chromecast™
Temporary until Google gets everything back together.
Original link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromecast-video/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl
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1.0.4
After some Google drama, we're back up and running. Turns out they hated that our icon was so cleverly similar to their Chrome icon. We're back now, better than ever after being pulled for 3 days.
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Earlier Chromecast Video thread link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2654944
BTW: you can have both version installed.

Too bad, I though the old name was kind of catchy.
No other changes? I guess we can wait for the next update then.

DJames1 said:
Too bad, I though the old name was kind of catchy.
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The old name violated Google's Terms of Service I would imagine as well.

It very much violated many Google's branding guidelines haha.
Edit:
The latest update basically just updated the icons, etc... and added some share buttons.

Is there any way to control Videostream from a remote device? I've dabbled with RemoteCast but it didn't seem to pick up on the Videostream content.

Great app! Keep up the good work!

Anyway to add time stamps along with forward/rewind 30 seconds etc
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Can't get it to work
I'm trying to launch the app from my chrome browser and it keeps giving me an error saying that we can't connect to your chromecast. I checked the list and I have Chrome browser installed on my laptop, google cast extension as well and both are using the same wifi. I just don't know why it is happening to me. I even disabled my kaspersky internet security, but no luck at all....Is anyone having the same issue with me ?

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I'm trying to launch the app from my chrome browser and it keeps giving me an error saying that we can't connect to your chromecast. I checked the list and I have Chrome browser installed on my laptop, google cast extension as well and both are using the same wifi. I just don't know why it is happening to me. I even disabled my kaspersky internet security, but no luck at all....Is anyone having the same issue with me ?
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I got the same error message. I do not have a antivirus.
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Another vote for adding times on the timeline.

App Needs Launch Button
Great aoo Works flawlessly but have to go to Web Store to launch. No launch button in chrome toolbar,

I really like the app Videostream for Chromecast. However, there is not a button on the toolbar that allows me to launch it from chrome directly. I have to go to the Play Store and launch from there. Anyone else have this problem? I have not been able to find any references about this problem on any forums.

It's an app not and extension. I find the open apps button on the bookmark bar, and it's there.
More info HERE or you can add a button HERE

I see we have an end time on the timeline now!

Oh-- it should be in your Start menu / Spotlight.

Question Android 12 Plex App Issues?

Hi does anyone here use the Plex app? I've used if for months to watch stuff on my home Plex server. I did the android 12 update yesterday...
Today if I play a file in Plex it works ok. But if I pause/exit the app and go back to it I can no longer resume playing. Even if I force close the app. The only thing that works is rebooting my phone.
Anyone else that can confirm this? Just so I know it's not a config issue my end.

ephumuris said:
Hi does anyone here use the Plex app? I've used if for months to watch stuff on my home Plex server. I did the android 12 update yesterday...
Today if I play a file in Plex it works ok. But if I pause/exit the app and go back to it I can no longer resume playing. Even if I force close the app. The only thing that works is rebooting my phone.
Anyone else that can confirm this? Just so I know it's not a config issue my end.
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I can't even get mine to play a movie or tv show. A lot of people are complaining on the Plex forums about this issue. One person factory reset their phone, didn't fix the issue.

Android 12 and UI4 have bugs, lots of them, nowhere near stable based on the many conflicts being posted. I'm not upgrading at this time, maybe never.

ephumuris said:
Hi does anyone here use the Plex app? I've used if for months to watch stuff on my home Plex server. I did the android 12 update yesterday...
Today if I play a file in Plex it works ok. But if I pause/exit the app and go back to it I can no longer resume playing. Even if I force close the app. The only thing that works is rebooting my phone.
Anyone else that can confirm this? Just so I know it's not a config issue my end.
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i was watching plex fine on s21u a12 beyond rom in my car to my home server. playback works fine. im using version 8.25.1.28703