player for web streaming?

bbxrider · Jul 23, 2014

for my old beater htc inspire, 2.3.5, when trying to play content from pbs, frontline, nova, etc. I get this error: "error loading player no playable sources found"
the phone has some video player, the standard issue that came with the phone and android version, it plays videos taken with the phone camera, .3gp's and it plays other web video like from cnn news etc. never tried to play an mp3, etc.
what kind player do I need? are there free ones for now anyway? recommendations?
This all started trying to play content from my phone to my chromecast. which is turning out to be a project of sorts.

wizzrahdev · Jul 23, 2014

bbxrider said:
for my old beater htc inspire, 2.3.5, when trying to play content from pbs, frontline, nova, etc. I get this error: "error loading player no playable sources found"
the phone has some video player, the standard issue that came with the phone and android version, it plays videos taken with the phone camera, .3gp's and it plays other web video like from cnn news etc. never tried to play an mp3, etc.
what kind player do I need? are there free ones for now anyway? recommendations?
This all started trying to play content from my phone to my chromecast. which is turning out to be a project of sorts.

There are two video players that I usually use from the play store. They are both free.

1. MX Player
2. BS Player

Both will play almost any video file type.

bbxrider · Jul 23, 2014

installed bs player, same problem, is there somewhere in the settings I need to make it a default player? a default player for web streaming? this is problem with pbs? what is another website that you know has streaming vids that work with bs player, so I can compare, thanks

bbxrider · Jul 23, 2014

i can play content ok from the cw website, must be something funky and different for pbs

wizzrahdev · Jul 23, 2014

If you need to set a default player, just go to settings>apps>browser you are using> then reset the default preferences. This brings me to another point, what browser are you using? Have you tried another?

bbxrider · Jul 23, 2014

uhhh, its the android 2.3.5 default browser, so its google, but it doesn't say its chrome specifically, good idea I never thought of that, just assumed on android google would be the only choice, I will check that out, sent a message thing to pbs but not expecting an answer besides the auto reply

wizzrahdev · Jul 23, 2014

bbxrider said:
uhhh, its the android 2.3.5 default browser, so its google, but it doesn't say its chrome specifically, good idea I never thought of that, just assumed on android google would be the only choice, I will check that out, sent a message thing to pbs but not expecting an answer besides the auto reply

It might not make a difference, but try another browser.

scythefwd · Jul 23, 2014

Flash.. pbs pushes stuff via flash if I remember right.

bbxrider · Jul 23, 2014

so i installed ffox and it can play the pbs videos but with some annoying pixelation in panels to the right and below the movie panel.
i went looking for chrome in the playstore but nothing comes up?
is that for real?
no version of chrome for android?
I want to use it with chromecast so I push a chrome screen onto my tv? I can do it from my laptop, but don't really want to have laptop around to push chrome content onto tv.

wizzrahdev · Jul 23, 2014

bbxrider said:
so i installed ffox and it can play the pbs videos but with some annoying pixelation in panels to the right and below the movie panel.

i went looking for chrome in the playstore but nothing comes up?

is that for real?

no version of chrome for android?

I want to use it with chromecast so I push a chrome screen onto my tv? I can do it from my laptop, but don't really want to have laptop around to push chrome content onto tv.

Chrome is available on Android. Here's the link.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome&hl=en

bbxrider · Jul 24, 2014

thanks for the reply
for some reason google detects that I have an HTC 'desire' not a HTC 'inspire'
but only when it comes time to dl and install chrome
from the link you gave it comes back with an incompatible device
See attachments, first they detect I have the att htc inspire, then they come back and say I'm incompatible with an htc desire
yikes google has lost it!
I tried to manually select my phone, its there, I select it, but then the installer goes beserk

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