Video Flood HD kinda reminds me of the utility infielder a baseball team will carry on its roster... Able to play multiple positions and fill a hole in a pinch, but not an everyday player. A utility player needed in the daily lineup for more than the short term, usually has his weaknesses and limitations exposed quickly.
Nevertheless, I love utility players. They're a valuable and important part of the game.
After several days of use, yes, I see Video Flood as a classic utility player. It certainly fills a hole in my roster of TouchPad tablet apps, but isn't strong enough to play every day, meaning it won't replace or unseat my other sources for the same types of video content.
It can play video clips from categories like News, Entertainment and Technology... But it largely replicates what I can access on my Roku HD box or Windows 7 Media Center on my laptop.
When it comes to TV shows and movies, its the same story. There isn't enough "there" to make it an every day player.
Obviously, its biggest virtue is that it is a tablet app... That's what gets it on my roster and will keep it on my roster until that better player come along.
(Note: I have not yet tried the podcast and YouTube features of Video Flood.)
Batter up?
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
My TouchPad Today: KalemSoft Media Player - Money for Nothing?
Great title for a post, but wholly inaccurate and misleading on a couple of counts...
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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- 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.
Follow me on Twitter... @rnolan1087
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