<div dir="ltr">Can you put VLC for Android on that tablet?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:06 PM Jay Foster <<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@roadrunner.com">jayf0ster@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 1/16/2017 2:34 PM, John Pilkington wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> I mentioned in another thread that I had been trying to play content<br class="gmail_msg">
> from Myth on my underemployed Android 4.2.2 tablet. I started with the<br class="gmail_msg">
> thought that it might give me usable audio streaming. I haven't had<br class="gmail_msg">
> much Android experience, and may not want to actually use the tablet<br class="gmail_msg">
> for this in real life, but it's looking quite promising, with both<br class="gmail_msg">
> 0.28-fixes and 0.29-pre. Here's a brief report.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> The App info shows as com.ginkgosoft.dnla.ctrl Version 0.9.48 and the<br class="gmail_msg">
> main icon is called GinkgoDlna<br class="gmail_msg">
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> It seems to use a native Android Renderer to play Music content, and a<br class="gmail_msg">
> selectable video app to play video content. I'm using VLC.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I do have problems with the video display, as I mentioned in the other<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I found at first that, during playback, sound worked but the screen<br class="gmail_msg">
> was black except when the tablet was rotated. Then a good video<br class="gmail_msg">
> display would appear, rotate through 90 degrees with appropriate<br class="gmail_msg">
> change of scale,...and fade away again.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Later I found that h264 content displays properly - until it triggers<br class="gmail_msg">
> a hardware decoding error, when it falls back to software decoding<br class="gmail_msg">
> with the behaviour above. That is what I always see for most of my<br class="gmail_msg">
> content, which is mpeg2 encoded.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I tried one other video player but it seemed no better than VLC and<br class="gmail_msg">
> had intrusive ads.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I haven't yet found fast-forward or other controls of playback position.<br class="gmail_msg">
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FWIW, I have successfully used Kodi on my Samsung android tablet to play<br class="gmail_msg">
MPEG2 TV recordings.<br class="gmail_msg">
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