topic Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage in Android

Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:54:57 GMT

I am using Galaxy S4 with Android 4.4.2

I have a video file in .mpg format stored online in Onedrive. I want to play it on my S4 but when I try to open the file only 4 possibilities are offered as shown in the image-

The apps mentioned, Photos, Quickpic and Video Player say they cannot play the video - and the same thing happens if I try to open any mpg video file stored locally on my phone.

I have another app called "Video Player for Android" (strangely enough) and that does play mpg files satisfactorily but as it doesn't appear in the "Complete Action Using" window I cannot use it to open files in Onedrive.

Is there any (easy) way I can get "Video Player for Android" to be included in the "Complete Action Using" menu?

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

viridis — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:04:09 GMT

Try mx player, that seems to be recognised as a streamer fine.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

viridis — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:13:22 GMT

Basically Gerry, you don't need a player that plays mp4 etc, you need a player that supports url streaming.
Imo mx player is the best player and streamer with support for a large selection of file types.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:53:53 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Basically Gerry, you don't need a player that plays mp4 etc, you need a player that supports url streaming.
Imo mx player is the best player and streamer with support for a large selection of file types.

Many thanks for the suggestion @viridis . I downloaded and installed the mx player and whilst like the others it will play a video that is stored on the phone it will not stream. Also says that some H/W + decoder is not supported!

No doubt I am doing something wrong.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

viridis — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:07:10 GMT

Go in app settings and change decoders to software

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:18:13 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@viridis wrote:
Basically Gerry, you don't need a player that plays mp4 etc, you need a player that supports url streaming.
Imo mx player is the best player and streamer with support for a large selection of file types.
Many thanks for the suggestion @viridis . I downloaded and installed the mx player and whilst like the others it will play a video that is stored on the phone it will not stream. Also says that some H/W + decoder is not supported!
No doubt I am doing something wrong.

UPDATE - Not quite sure what I did but it is now working. Something to do with the decoder I think - but it is working and that is all I want. Very many thanks again for pointing me in the right direction @viridis

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

viridis — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:19:01 GMT

No problem Gerry.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:50:51 GMT

@viridis wrote:
No problem Gerry.

That's a great wee app @viridis - Works a treat and allows zoom, rotation etc. If I were into Kudos I'd send you a bucket load!!

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Cleoriff — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:30:06 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@viridis wrote:
No problem Gerry.
That's a great wee app @viridis - Works a treat and allows zoom, rotation etc. If I were into Kudos I'd send you a bucket load!!

Well I did it instead @Anonymous as I found the whole thread interesting...and it taught me something new...:smileywink:

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

anticpated — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:06:30 GMT

You may have to download the codec for some video playback and the author of MX Player obviously aren't contractially allowed to include it in the program by itself for some reason. Also Android has some constraints about what formats it can support.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:59:13 GMT

@anticpated wrote:
You may have to download the codec for some video playback and the author of MX Player obviously aren't contractially allowed to include it in the program by itself for some reason. Also Android has some constraints about what formats it can support.

Thanks @anticpated Won't pretend I understand all that - but at least I know where to come if any more problems arise.

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

anticpated — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:08:30 GMT

For simplicity, if your operating system or can't understand a media format then you need a code-decoder (codec) to read the file format. When I used MX Player, I needed to download the extra software to play certain video formats.

Any happy videos....

Re: Viewing Video from Cloud Storage

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:52:47 GMT

@anticpated wrote:
For simplicity, if your operating system or can't understand a media format then you need a code-decoder (codec) to read the file format. When I used MX Player, I needed to download the extra software to play certain video formats.

Just for information and completeness @anticpated - I checked (using Application Manager) and noticed that in addition to the MXPlayer App there are indeed two MX Player Codecs listed, viz:- ARMv7 and ARMv7 NEON . So you were spot on!