aMPdroid 1.0.1 Final (5 Viewers)

[Spooky]

Hehe, yes, I also think now, that this will fix it .

 

[DieBagger]

It does makes perfect sense to me , aMPdroid is not just a remote control app. It can also be used to stream media from your MP server and display it using a tablet's HDMI-out on your TV. So if your tablet is near your TV, it makes perfect sense to me to use a remote to control it . Although I don't think many people are using this kind of setup yet, let alone use a bluetooth remote with their tablet. But it does make sense, right?

That's not the functionality the poster was talking about. They were talking about the wifi remote part of ampdroid.

As for the HDMI-out stuff example you gave... I don't really see that as being a common scenario for MediaPortal users now or in the future. But that's a different topic really.

Both usecases seem a bit odd to me...

a) Control aMPdroid with a bluetooth remote
Why isn't the remote control just emulating key presses? Should I implement custom support for receiving bluetooth commands just for aMPdroid? It might make sense for voice commands, but that should be supported anyway when (at some point) I add support for google voice.

b) Relay the bluetooth commands to MediaPortal
Why not just connect the bluetooth remote directly to the pc where MediaPortal is running

Please correct me if I understood something wrong...

 

[ferzal]

Back to the Galaxy S2 ICS issues again...

I played around a bit and removed Samsung's default video player completely. Unless I install something like Vplayer no application will play video (except for youtube and the flash plugin).

Ampdroid, however, still can. So I get that 2 seconds or so of video playing then a freeze - the usual Samsung ICS problem. So it's not related to Samsung's video player. What exactly is it using to play video at that point? I'm trying to work out a way to get the internal playing working so I can have skipping/stepping again.

Clearly I don't know a hell of a lot about the android OS but I'm slowly learning (not such a leap coming from other linux based OS's).

 

[CypherMK]

Dice is the only player that works good with my sgs2 with stock ICS roms. All other players I've tried give me a bad picture.

 

[gurken]

Vplayer and Dice seems to be the only players which has a good .ts support - i have no problems with Vplayer on my Xoom Tab - no problems with default video formats, ts files or .ts LiveStream

 

[moryoav]

Thanks for the new version. Works nicely on a tablet... An issue I've reported back in the 0.8x days and still exists; in "TV shows" there are:
1) Both watched and unwatched shows, still no option to filter the watched ones out.
2) There are shows that don't exist on my hard drive any more. I've erased them, I still see them in MP-TVSeries Cofiguration but they're not visible in MP-TV Series GUI in MediaPortal (MP TVSeries must know which episode exists on the hard drive and does not display the ones that are non existent).

Solving #1 would actually solve all my problems, because I just usually delete episodes after I watch them, so filtering out the watched episodes will also filter out the non existent ones.

 

[DieBagger]

Back to the Galaxy S2 ICS issues again...

I played around a bit and removed Samsung's default video player completely. Unless I install something like Vplayer no application will play video (except for youtube and the flash plugin).

Ampdroid, however, still can. So I get that 2 seconds or so of video playing then a freeze - the usual Samsung ICS problem. So it's not related to Samsung's video player. What exactly is it using to play video at that point? I'm trying to work out a way to get the internal playing working so I can have skipping/stepping again.

Clearly I don't know a hell of a lot about the android OS but I'm slowly learning (not such a leap coming from other linux based OS's).

aMPdroid is using the videoplayer component that Android offers to developers. This is the same component that is used in the default video player. Uninstalling the default video player doesn't remove the internal component.

Other players (like vplayer/moboplayer) use open source backends (ffmpeg, mplayer) to playback videos and have a much wider support for file formats. None of these players can be integrated in another app (e.g. aMPdroid) though, so for internal playback you can only use the internal playback component of your device.

1) Both watched and unwatched shows, still no option to filter the watched ones out.
2) There are shows that don't exist on my hard drive any more. I've erased them, I still see them in MP-TVSeries Cofiguration but they're not visible in MP-TV Series GUI in MediaPortal (MP TVSeries must know which episode exists on the hard drive and does not display the ones that are non existent)

1) It's not an issue, it's a feature request... Filtering/Sorting will be added at some point.
2) That's something that needs to be done in MpExtended

 

[bhengeveld]

Getting happier and happier with this plugin. Got a Android ICS tablet just this week and everything is up and running. There are however two minor issues I'm dealing with right now.

- I sometimes like to listen to my turntable, which is plugged directly into my amp. So for listening to the turntable, the channel needs to be switched. I've written a little batch script that uses IRSS' IRblast.exe to switch the channel, wait for 'any key to be pressed' to switch the channel back and exit back to MP again. I've made a plugin using Multishortcut and a matching .xml file, which shows up in the 'plugin section'. Selecting it from within ampdroid results in running the batchscript, switching the channel and waiting for a keypress. This works fine, but I'd like to be able to use the 'OK' button of the ampdroid remote to kill it. Judging from the fact that my batchscript does respond to keys pressed on the ampdroid keyboard (menu -> keyboard), I guessed this can be done. But how? If anyone has a suggestion where to start, I'd be happy to know!

- When choosing a plugin (say 'phono') via 'plugins' (menu -> plugins (remote section)) Ampdroid shows the downloads screen. Is this usual behaviour? If so I'll add a feature request, if not, where can I change this?

 

[ferzal]

aMPdroid is using the videoplayer component that Android offers to developers. This is the same component that is used in the default video player. Uninstalling the default video player doesn't remove the internal component.

Other players (like vplayer/moboplayer) use open source backends (ffmpeg, mplayer) to playback videos and have a much wider support for file formats. None of these players can be integrated in another app (e.g. aMPdroid) though, so for internal playback you can only use the internal playback component of your device.

So there's something in the way that Samsung's kernels responds to this videoplayer component that's changed? Or is there is some other system middleware inbetween that I can take a look at? I'm pretty keen to try and find a solution to this since ICS is about to roll out on all S2 devices within the next month or so (it started officially a while ago and is ramping up now). So that's a lot of users who'll be automatically offered the update by Samsung's software checker.

edit: So Samsung are looking into some problems with the mediaplayer (with videoview code examples been given). I don't know if it's applicable to what ampdroid is doing but maybe they'll fix it or at least offer a workaround. I'll try to keep an eye on it. Devs were active on the topic a couple of days ago at least.

Someone mentioned Dice earlier. I've found, as a kind of workaround, that you can skip directly with that app with the gestures. It's fairly brutal but you can set the stepping time and, at least, skip backwards and jump forwards a bit rather than having to go back to the paused internal player to skip and jump out again. It must be limited to what it's buffered and I don't know how far you can skip back (yet) but it's better than nothing.

 

[Moelito]

Hi
Been using Ampdroid since the first alpha and are now running latest version from Google Play. I have a SE Arc (Still on GB) and for some reason the internal player doesn't work (it never worked for any previous Ampdroid version). I always get "MEDIA_ERROR_UNKNOWN".
Everything works fine when using VPlayer but I can't skip in the stream.

I'm also using MPextend and WEbMediaPortal and that works.
It seems to be something with SEs (sorry, it's Sony now) player. Anyone else with the same issue on SE Arc?