RTE Player For Android?

livEwirE

Hi all,

Can someone please explain why there is STILL no version of RTE player for android devices? It makes absolutely no sense to me

http://www.rte.ie/extra/apps.html

irishgeo

livEwirE wrote: »

Hi all,

Can someone please explain why there is STILL no version of RTE player for android devices? It makes absolutely no sense to me

http://www.rte.ie/extra/apps.html

because you didnt need up until about last year when they dropped flash support.

Boo2112

livEwirE wrote: »

Hi all,

Can someone please explain why there is STILL no version of RTE player for android devices? It makes absolutely no sense to me

http://www.rte.ie/extra/apps.html

Channel 4 finally got their finger out and launched one only for it to only work off wifi! Makes zero sense. I'd expect something like that will happen with Rte aswel. Very frustrating.

hardCopy

irishgeo wrote: »

because you didnt need up until about last year when they dropped flash support.

You don't need flash to use the player, but a decent app would be better than the website.

kirving

I think that developing Android apps is more difficult since there's a range of different screen resolutions, and processors. In the mean time, http://www.rte.ie/playerxl/ is decent enough.

Alpha Dog 1

hardCopy wrote: »

You don't need flash to use the player, but a decent app would be better than the website.

You do need Flash afaik. Use another browser (not chrome) go to the site, bookmark it, add to home screen, bobs your uncle.

gbob

Try xbmc for Android, watch all live English and Irish channels over wifi or 3g. Plus stream or download pretty much any tv show or movie ever made. It needs a fair bit of setting up but well worth it.

Search Youtube for setup tips.

cullenswood

gbob wrote: »

Try xbmc for Android, watch all live English and Irish channels over wifi or 3g. Plus stream or download pretty much any tv show or movie ever made. It needs a fair bit of setting up but well worth it.

.

You can watch all these channels on your phone? How does this work. Downloaded xbmc on my one x but can't figure it out

gbob

cullenswood wrote: »

You can watch all these channels on your phone? How does this work. Downloaded xbmc on my one x but can't figure it out

Yes, on android phone, tablet, pc and xbox. Search how to install a repository. For Irish channels you'll need to install mosseys repo'. For English channels ive found notfilmon is best and you'll need mikey1234 repo. For movie and tv streaming theres 1channel, icefilms, navi-x.

It's well worth watching a few utube videos on installing these repos. I've cancelled my sky tv cause of xbmc.

If you get really stuck I'll try walk you through the setup.

irishpancake

gbob wrote: »

Yes, on android phone, tablet, pc and xbox. Search how to install a repository. For Irish channels you'll need to install mosseys repo'. For English channels ive found notfilmon is best and you'll need mikey1234 repo. For movie and tv streaming theres 1channel, icefilms, navi-x.

It's well worth watching a few utube videos on installing these repos. I've cancelled my sky tv cause of xbmc.

If you get really stuck I'll try walk you through the setup.

How much bandwidth per month do you use??

And what speed is your connection??

I'd say you would need a high monthly allowance??

ballsymchugh

gbob wrote: »

Yes, on android phone, tablet, pc and xbox. Search how to install a repository. For Irish channels you'll need to install mosseys repo'. For English channels ive found notfilmon is best and you'll need mikey1234 repo. For movie and tv streaming theres 1channel, icefilms, navi-x.

It's well worth watching a few utube videos on installing these repos. I've cancelled my sky tv cause of xbmc.

If you get really stuck I'll try walk you through the setup.

i take it all you can get with that re UK channels are what's on freeview??

for a minute i thought i'd be able to stream irish tv on my phone in the UK. unfortunately not!
thanks for the info though gbob.

listermint

You can watch Rte player through Mozilla Browser with Adobe Flash Player 11 plugin. Works a charm on the Nexus 7

gbob

irishpancake wrote: »

How much bandwidth per month do you use??

And what speed is your connection??

I'd say you would need a high monthly allowance??

Eircom broadband at home gives upto 15 mps, and 3mobile up to 7 mps, both unlimited.
I don't watch tv much but plug my s3 into the hdtv and its plenty good enough.

gbob

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i take it all you can get with that re UK channels are what's on freeview??

for a minute i thought i'd be able to stream irish tv on my phone in the UK. unfortunately not!
thanks for the info though gbob.

You're in the uk and want to watch irish channels ? I don't know if there is any georesriction in place, but if there's not then xbmc will allow you watch as long as you've an Internet connection.

And ALL uk channels can be found if you're prepared to spend some time looking for them.

gbob

If you want an easy way to watch irish live channels go to aertv.ie and as long as flash works in your browser you'll have rte and tv3 etc live.

https://www.aertv.ie/#rte-one

Thargor

gbob wrote: »

Yes, on android phone, tablet, pc and xbox. Search how to install a repository. For Irish channels you'll need to install mosseys repo'. For English channels ive found notfilmon is best and you'll need mikey1234 repo. For movie and tv streaming theres 1channel, icefilms, navi-x.

It's well worth watching a few utube videos on installing these repos. I've cancelled my sky tv cause of xbmc.

If you get really stuck I'll try walk you through the setup.

Does XBMC hog the phones resources when you're not using it? I heard people complaining about that a lot in the early builds that it always seemed to be doing something in the background...

ballsymchugh

gbob wrote: »

You're in the uk and want to watch irish channels ? I don't know if there is any georesriction in place, but if there's not then xbmc will allow you watch as long as you've an Internet connection.

And ALL uk channels can be found if you're prepared to spend some time looking for them.

even sky subscription channels???

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Does XBMC hog the phones resources when you're not using it? I heard people complaining about that a lot in the early builds that it always seemed to be doing something in the background...

I use version 12.0 which is an early build, it seems more stable than the later "xmbc for android" touch friendly version. And no I haven't experienced any background resource hogging. It does of course use a fair bit of battery when streaming.

gbob

ballsymchugh wrote: »

even sky subscription channels???

They're there if you look hard enought. Not condoning such things but they're there.

Thargor

gbob wrote: »

I use version 12.0 which is an early build, it seems more stable than the later "xmbc for android" touch friendly version. And no I haven't experienced any background resource hogging. It does of course use a fair bit of battery when streaming.

Yeah I got it set up in a minute there and it works great, Got mosseys and Notfilmon installed and everything, I usually spend an hour banging my head against these things, this is really nice thanks, whats the best Android skin to make it into a proper media player though? Right now it seems to be hjust a list of menus, everything works but Id love to make it pretty and Ive seen some great looking XBMC setups?

I used to have XBMC running on my first Xbox and it was an excellent entertainment centre back when there was no better option besides building a small pc, had all the emulators and a huge game library and eveerything, really glad to see it still going.

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Yeah I got it set up in a minute there and it works great, Got mosseys and Notfilmon installed and everything, I usually spend an hour banging my head against these things, this is really nice thanks, whats the best Android skin to make it into a proper media player though? Right now it seems to be hjust a list of menus, everything works but Id love to make it pretty and Ive seen some great looking XBMC setups?

I used to have XBMC running on my first Xbox and it was an excellent entertainment centre back when there was no better option besides building a small pc, had all the emulators and a huge game library and eveerything, really glad to see it still going.

Haven't really messed too much with skinning, prefer to keep the installation as small and as stock as possible. But there are options within the settings to download skins.

Thargor

Yeah its all sorted now, theres a stock skin for touch devices already installed when you install XBMC and its nearly perfect, this is great, NotFilmon at 480p looks like 720p on my screen and it streams perfectly smooth over 3's unlimited data, same for AerTV, this is a major upgrade for my phone thanks!

Dudda

Jumping back to the original question RTE Digital told me on the 15th Feburary that they were working on an Android RTE Player but didn't have a date.
"no launch date yet".

Riesen_Meal

ballsymchugh wrote: »

even sky subscription channels???

*Cough*

In XBMC go to Programs - > Navi-X - > Media Portal -> Last 7 days

Thank me later....

*Cough*

It's an awful cough I have....

gbob

Dudda wrote: »

Jumping back to the original question RTE Digital told me on the 15th Feburary that they were working on an Android RTE Player but didn't have a date.
"no launch date yet".

Yeah sorry about the slight hijack

gbob

Fieldog wrote: »

*Cough*

In XBMC go to Programs - > Navi-X - > Media Portal -> Last 7 days

Thank me later....

*Cough*

It's an awful cough I have....

No shortage of good stuff in there...;)

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Yeah its all sorted now, theres a stock skin for touch devices already installed when you install XBMC and its nearly perfect, this is great, NotFilmon at 480p looks like 720p on my screen and it streams perfectly smooth over 3's unlimited data, same for AerTV, this is a major upgrade for my phone thanks!

We're here to please

Thargor

Hello there Navi-X...:D

EDIT: Hmmm seems to prone to crashing or else the UI wasnt designed for touch screens, I get stuck when I go into a video, theres no way out of it, back key doesnt work and theres no exit option...

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Hello there Navi-X...:D

EDIT: Hmmm seems to prone to crashing or else the UI wasnt designed for touch screens, I get stuck when I go into a video, theres no way out of it, back key doesnt work and theres no exit option...

Yeah I've found that with navi-x alright.. sometimes it takes a while, usually I'll just fc it and reopen xbmc. To be honest I don't use navi-x too much cause I find what im looking for in 1channel or icefilm.

Thargor

Yeah I was just testing it out before unspecified sporting events at the weekend, looks good for that job though, download feature works aswell.

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Yeah I was just testing it out before unspecified sporting events at the weekend, looks good for that job though, download feature works aswell.

Download works very well, I download a very recent 3hr movie last night in around 40 minutes. And if you have downloaded videos with low sound you can play them with xbmc and boost the volume in the settings.. be careful you don't blow your speaker though.

Thargor

Icefilms working great now aswell, this is frigging brilliant Im shocked at how good it is and I just made a "Whats the best Android Media Player" thread on another forum aswell, XBMC is by a mile.

If it wasnt for the add-ons and repositories looking so complex at first glance everyone would be running it.

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Icefilms working great now aswell, this is frigging brilliant Im shocked at how good it is and I just made a "Whats the best Android Media Player" thread on another forum aswell, XBMC is by a mile.

If it wasnt for the add-ons and repositories looking so complex at first glance everyone would be running it.

Does take some fiddling to get it right well worth it. Are you running with or without the recommend MX Player, I've found it works best without.

acalmenvoy

Help!!!

When I click on a channel in notfilmon I get a dialog box saying "external player active" "click ok when playback has ended". Icefilms works fine.
My 'playercorefactory.xml' file is set up for mxplayer and mxplayer is installed.
I'm using a galaxy s3 with non-neon build of xbmc frodo.

gbob

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Help!!!

When I click on a channel in notfilmon I get a dialog box saying "external player active" "click ok when playback has ended". Icefilms works fine.
My 'playercorefactory.xml' file is set up for mxplayer and mxplayer is installed.
I'm using a galaxy s3 with non-neon build of xbmc frodo.

Yeah that me frustrated for ages.. here's how I fixed it.

Clear the cache for xbmc, uninstall xmbc and mx player, delete all files on your phone relating to xbmc, download and install xbmc v12.0 and reinstall your repo's, DO NOT INSTALL MX PLAYER. I dont know if that is the only way to fix it but it did for me.

I'm also using an s3, tried the neon and non-neon versions but nothing other than going back to v12.0 and removing Mx player worked.

This is the version I'm using and installation instructions contain no mention of Mx player..
http://xbmc.org/download/

gzoladz

On a somewhat related note, xbmc is testing hardware acceleration for Android. I have downloaded one of their nightly builds and it does not on my streams hd seamlessly, it also seems to have the new librtmp file that is needed to run justin. Tv and many other addons.

It works very well. Great way to start the weekend :-)

acalmenvoy

gbob wrote: »

Yeah that me frustrated for ages.. here's how I fixed it.

Clear the cache for xbmc, uninstall xmbc and mx player, delete all files on your phone relating to xbmc, download and install xbmc v12.0 and reinstall your repo's, DO NOT INSTALL MX PLAYER. I dont know if that is the only way to fix it but it did for me.

I'm also using an s3, tried the neon and non-neon versions but nothing other than going back to v12.0 and removing Mx player worked.

This is the version I'm using and installation instructions contain no mention of Mx player..
http://xbmc.org/download/

Thanx, that worked a treat, changed the skin to 'touched', lot of fartin' around to get things working, but when it's sorted it's a great piece of software.
Gonna put it on my Touchpad and the kids nexus's (nexi?):)

Thargor

gzoladz wrote: »

On a somewhat related note, xbmc is testing hardware acceleration for Android. I have downloaded one of their nightly builds and it does not on my streams hd seamlessly, it also seems to have the new librtmp file that is needed to run justin. Tv and many other addons.

It works very well. Great way to start the weekend :-)

Any details on the quickest way to upgrade without having to do all my repos again please because I just realised the XBMC player struggles with 720p video files which is a real pity, still an essential app for the tv streaming capabilities though and they promise improvements in the future.

gbob

Thargor wrote: »

Any details on the quickest way to upgrade without having to do all my repos again please because I just realised the XBMC player struggles with 720p video files which is a real pity, still an essential app for the tv streaming capabilities though and they promise improvements in the future.

I seem to remember seeing somewhere that MX player was recommended because of its h/w decoding and its 720p handling. . Just a shame it seems to break some playback.

Thargor

Do you have to load it in Navi-X when you want to use it everytime though? The MX player on the Play store plays it perfectly so Ill just use that if theres no way to get it to play in MX player when you select it from videos in XBMCs start page, is there?

Ste-

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Help!!!

When I click on a channel in notfilmon I get a dialog box saying "external player active" "click ok when playback has ended". Icefilms works fine.
My 'playercorefactory.xml' file is set up for mxplayer and mxplayer is installed.
I'm using a galaxy s3 with non-neon build of xbmc frodo.

Galaxy S3 has neon.

Also for sports fans check out sports devil on xbnmchub or the fusion repo.

gzoladz

Any details on the quickest way to upgrade without having to do all my repos again please because I just realised the XBMC player struggles with 720p video files which is a real pity, still an essential app for the tv streaming capabilities though and they promise improvements in the future.[/QUOTE]

Go to this link

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/

TO download the latest file name hwaccel... And just install it directly.

None of your current settings or addons will be affected. I did it yesterday.

gbob

Ste- wrote: »

Galaxy S3 has neon.

Also for sports fans check out sports devil on xbnmchub or the fusion repo.

Sportsdevil was always broken for me, I'll give it another go.

Thargor

gzoladz wrote: »

Go to this link

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/

TO download the latest file name hwaccel... And just install it directly.

None of your current settings or addons will be affected. I did it yesterday.

Thanks but that seems to be the exact same as what I had, is there something I need to activate in settings or something to tell it to use MX Player? Do I install the MX player app on the phone aswell or anything like that?

Thargor

Thargor wrote: »

Thanks but that seems to be the exact same as what I had, is there something I need to activate in settings or something to tell it to use MX Player? Do I install the MX player app on the phone aswell or anything like that?

Scratch that, got it working, put the xml file mentioned in this thread in the proper place:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=153734

And installed MX Player from the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en

Finally I had to set MX player to software decoding because in hardware decoding mode there was no sound for some reason.

But after all that XBMC is now playing everything I can throw at it flawlessly, this is really an excellent bit of software, cant wait to see what they do in future...

Phoenix Park

gbob wrote: »

Yes, on android phone, tablet, pc and xbox. Search how to install a repository. For Irish channels you'll need to install mosseys repo'. For English channels ive found notfilmon is best and you'll need mikey1234 repo. For movie and tv streaming theres 1channel, icefilms, navi-x.

It's well worth watching a few utube videos on installing these repos. I've cancelled my sky tv cause of xbmc.

If you get really stuck I'll try walk you through the setup.

Bit of a novice question no doubt, but would a nexus have to be rooted before starting all these? Cheers

gzoladz

Thargor wrote: »

Scratch that, got it working, put the xml file mentioned in this thread in the proper place:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=153734

And installed MX Player from the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en

Finally I had to set MX player to software decoding because in hardware decoding mode there was no sound for some reason.

But after all that XBMC is now playing everything I can throw at it flawlessly, this is really an excellent bit of software, cant wait to see what they do in future...

You no longer need mx player of you use that version of the nightly build as xbmc can hardware de is decode it. Same with the librtmp file... No more need to replace it.

groom

Just had the rugby playing at a birthday party using Mossy's repo. Match got turned the TV and phone and TV were in sync. Another guy streaming it on his iphone was 60 seconds behind.

Quality thread. Thanks all

gbob

Phoenix Park wrote: »

Bit of a novice question no doubt, but would a nexus have to be rooted before starting all these? Cheers

No rooting necessary

Phoenix Park

gbob wrote: »

No rooting necessary

Cheers, making my way through it now using YouTube, have xbmc on and can access plenty of US stuff, i'll try Mossy's repo now.

Thargor

gzoladz wrote: »

You no longer need mx player of you use that version of the nightly build as xbmc can hardware de is decode it. Same with the librtmp file... No more need to replace it.

Ah sh1te yeah I see what you mean about MX Player interfering with other stuff, had to get rid of the xml I added earlier .

I see an option to turn hardware encoding on and off aswell in the video settings of the latest XBMC but unfortunately it only makes a tiny bit of difference to playing 720p files, nowhere near as good as MX Player, surely someones written an xml somewhere that says only switch to MX if playing a video file from SD and use native XBMC for everything else? Doesnt matter anyway I only watch videos on my phone once a month when Im traveling.

Another good thing in XBMC to skip navigating menus everytime is you can long press on basically everything selectable and hit Add to Favorites so I have all the Irish, UK and a few good US streams lined up in that menu to jump straight to them from the homescreen