Video on Android

[Beinrich]

Hi.
I am trying hard to get video to stream to my android phone. So far without any success.
I am using the android app and when I try to start a video-clip all that is happening is that the web browser opens up with a black field (supposely where I should see the video) and a selection field for time and one for kbps.
The transcoding settings are pretty intimidating so I read all threads I could find about video transcoding here and just copied whatever setting where offered. I also tried it without transcoding at all. Still the result on the phone seem to be the same.

Has someone got working settings and is able to watch video on their phone with subsonic?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Tremendo Slap]

Which version of Android are you using? Is it rooted?

Might be a shot in the dark, but other than Subsonic, can you play any Flash videos at all on your browser? Or do they all show the black screen? Because if you're having a general Flash problem I might be able to help. A few months back I had a similar issue on my rooted G2, running CyanogenMod 7, where I would get sound but no video from any Flash videos, no matter which app I was playing them in (for example, as an embed in Dolphin Browser, or in the Pulse rss reader), and no matter which version of Flash I had downloaded from the Market. All I would see is a black screen, or maybe some glitchy and corrupted green and black screens.

It could be fixed by editing a file in the Flash plugin folder, for each app I was trying to use. You can use Terminal Emulator to input these commands:

1. su

This gives you appropriate permissions to get started.

2. cd data/data/com.dolphin.browser/app_plugins/com.adobe.flashplayer/.macromedia/Flash_Player

This changes the directory to the Flash folder inside of your app. Notice the part in green, that's interchangeable with whichever app you were using. They will all have their Flash folder located with that same structure. If it's the Dolphin browser, you would use com.dolphin.browser or if it's the stock browser you would put com.android.browser or if it's Pulse you use com.alphonso.pulse, etc. (you can find out what each app is called, by the way, by entering the command "ls" before you do step 2. It will show a list of all files in that folder, including all app names)

3. chmod 000 config.data

Hell if I know what this does, I just know that it works. Changes some kind of permission for the "config.data" file.



If you had typed everything exactly as written, then it would fix that Flash error that would occur with Cyanogenmod 7. Or who knows, maybe I typed all this up for nothing.

[brink]

chmod the config file didn't work, also experiencing the same issue, video freezes on a frame (often black because most video tends to fade-in) and you get audio but no further video. At first it only happened when I'd seek to a time, then it seemed to happen every time I'd load a video. In android browser now it no longer loads the video at all (no sound, frozen) - in dolphin you get only sound and the sound eventually stops. I had luck clearing the cache in Dolphin, which made video play for a short while and then freeze.

Cyanogen Mod 7.2
Flash 11

[Beinrich]

Im using Android 2.2 and it is not rooted.

Isnt there a way to not use flash to show the video and use a video player instead?
Flash-Videos work on other sites. Badly but thats due to my phone (HTC Legend). It seems it only has something like "Flash light".