- The KalemSoft Media Player app does work, but, in a bit, I'll relate my bumpy first experience with it.
- No money was directly involved in getting it from the HP app catalog... Used part of my $50 early adopter credit from HP.
As mentioned, it was a bumpy first experience with this app. I loaded a .WMV file on my TouchPad that i had recently made in Windows Live Movie Maker. It played back at four to five times slower than it does on a PC or on YouTube.
After some basic troubleshooting and pondering, it finally occurred to me that the problem could lie in the settings of the file itself, rather than the player having a problem.
That was the trick!... My original file was created using custom settings, including 59.9 fps. I went back to Movie Maker and created a new version of the file and chose the canned settings for making a file for playback on a "computer" (the frame rate setting is somewhere in vicinity of 24 - 29 fps). The new file worked like a charm.
Going forward, I'll have to be cognizant that this player/app may be more "plain vanilla" as compared to its bigger brothers in the PC world. As of now, this isn't a dealbreaker for me... I want the ability to play more video formats than which the TP can natively handle.
I haven' t tried the streaming capabilities of this app yet. If/when I check them out, I'll post something here.
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