CineXPlayer or alternative for iphone ?

iMax

CineXPlayer is a video player & file transfer utility that allows you to transfer & play avi files on an ipad without converting them to mp4.

As it's currently ipad only, does anyone know of an alternative to it for the iphone ?

wez99950

would anyone recommend an avi file converter (free!) for a mac???

scottyboy

I use oplayer. It is free and plays divx/avi files on the iPhone without conversion. You transfer files to the phone via the app tab on iTunes rather than dragging and dropping.

wez99950

i use miro to play avi files but recently the sound has been out of sync and it's really frustrating. i don't know if it's the file itself or miro. sometimes it will be in sync, others not. annoying

Fistycuffs

scottyboy wrote: »

I use oplayer. It is free and plays divx/avi files on the iPhone without conversion. You transfer files to the phone via the app tab on iTunes rather than dragging and dropping.

Looking forward to trying this!

If you have a jailbroken phone Mplayer works very well and has played every format I've thrown at it including flash files. You have to put avi/divx files into the root folder of your iphone so you need to be able to SHH into your iphone but that's very easy. It's the equivalent of using it as a thumb drive. There are loads of SHH guides on youtube. It's well worth it.

acalmenvoy

I got the ipad app cinexplayer working on my Iphone with this tutorial, phone must be jailbroken though.

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/15473

_Whimsical_

acalmenvoy wrote: »

I got the ipad app cinexplayer working on my Iphone with this tutorial, phone must be jailbroken though.

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/15473

Thanks for that I'll try it out tomorrow!

How do you add films to your iPhone using cinexplauer on iPhone?

acalmenvoy

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Thanks for that I'll try it out tomorrow!

How do you add films to your iPhone using cinexplauer on iPhone?

Same as the ipad thru itunes.

quintron

Emailed CineX yesterday re iPhone version.
Here is their reply:

hi,

an none official release work on Iphone

actually, the team work for optimize CineXPlayer for Iphone hardware

Cordially

CineXPlayer Team

PS: they are French..

Fat_Fingers

quintron wrote: »

Emailed CineX yesterday re iPhone version.
Here is their reply:

hi,

an none official release work on Iphone

actually, the team work for optimize CineXPlayer for Iphone hardware

Cordially

CineXPlayer Team

PS: they are French..

Once i noticed "Cordially" i was thinking they must be French..

_Whimsical_

acalmenvoy wrote: »

I got the ipad app cinexplayer working on my Iphone with this tutorial, phone must be jailbroken though.

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/15473

So I've tried this but I encountered a problem pretty early on at this part: When I go to the itunes folder on my PC and then to the Mobile Applications folder I only find the ipa for CineXPlayer. There's no rar file and no sign of any "plist" file to modify.
Did you find something what's described here ?
Am I missing something ?:o

4. In winrar open (double click) the folder named ‘Payload’, then ‘CineXplayer.app’
5. then extract the info.plist to your desktop (or where ever you want, i don’t care) and open it in a plist editor ( I used plist editor for windows)
6. Change:
<key>UIDeviceFamily</key> <array>
<integer>2</integer> </array>
To:
<key>UIDeviceFamily</key> <array>
<integer>1</integer> </array>

J-blk

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

So I've tried this but I encountered a problem pretty early on at this part: When I go to the itunes folder on my PC and then to the Mobile Applications folder I only find the ipa for CineXPlayer. There's no rar file and no sign of any "plist" file to modify.

The *.ipa file is essentially a folder - the files you are looking for are in it. On a Mac, you can right click an *.ipa and select "View package contents" to see the files within.

The link provided says to open the *.ipa with WinRar or an equivalent unarchiver on Windows. You then should see the files within, including the plist that you need to mod.

_Whimsical_

J-blk wrote: »

The *.ipa file is essentially a folder - the files you are looking for are in it. On a Mac, you can right click an *.ipa and select "View package contents" to see the files within.

The link provided says to open the *.ipa with WinRar or an equivalent unarchiver on Windows. You then should see the files within, including the plist that you need to mod.

Thank you very much. That really helped

I have run into another problem however. I finished the tutorial and the app appeared in installous* as a grey box with no label. I tried to install it anyway and got a message that it was installed but I have no icon for it all on my springboard. Not even a grey box. I've tried rebooting and respringing, even reinstalling but get nothing.

Anyone got any ideas what I might do about that ?

* just to say that despite talk of installous here it's not about using cracked apps etc. Only used as an alernative way of installing a free itunes app.

J-blk

TBH, I haven't tried this hack at all - I only have a lowly 3G at the moment (but the iPhone 4 should be shipping soon ) and it just wouldn't be worth it - plus, got an iPad anyway and CineXPlayer is very nice indeed...

Anyway, back to your current problem, I don't want to go into much detail here since it may be against forum rules, but you can get iTunes to sync unsigned apps to a jailbroken iPhone and as a result, you should be able to sync the modified *.ipa directly, without using the app which we don't speak of around here... It's only a guess, but should work.

_Whimsical_

J-blk wrote: »

TBH, I haven't tried this hack at all - I only have a lowly 3G at the moment (but the iPhone 4 should be shipping soon ) and it just wouldn't be worth it - plus, got an iPad anyway and CineXPlayer is very nice indeed...

Anyway, back to your current problem, I don't want to go into much detail here since it may be against forum rules, but you can get iTunes to sync unsigned apps to a jailbroken iPhone and as a result, you should be able to sync the modified *.ipa directly, without using the app which we don't speak of around here... It's only a guess, but should work.

Nice one on the ipad and the new iphone on the way! Ya lucky duck

Thanks for the advice J-BLK. I tried that but it didn't work. I then modified the info.plist file again to change it from OS 3.2 to OS 3.1. After that it did install and show up on the springboard but it the app itself will only launch for a second before crashing.

Seems alot of people have the problem.

As for your lowly iphone 3G I have a lowly ipod 2g! From what I've read it should work for 3g if you want to give it a go.

kjl

WOW, JUST WOW

I am highly impressed with OPlayer, full screen, great quality and ability to skip to the end, fully xvid supported, we should rename this thread and sticky it, the iPhone now has xvid support.

I actually delighted, this save me sooo much hassle, has anyone tried video out on it?

Fistycuffs

How did you transfer files to Oplayer ?

kjl

Fistycuffs wrote: »

How did you transfer files to Oplayer ?

in itunes, goto iphone then app, scroll down to the end and you will see oplayer, click on it and you can then drag and drop files into the iphone.

_Whimsical_

kjl wrote: »

in itunes, goto iphone then app, scroll down to the end and you will see oplayer, click on it and you can then drag and drop files into the iphone.

I checked this out but it seems I don't have the "file sharing" section in itunes that you need to transfer files for apps like Oplayer.
Are you on OS 4 ?

kjl

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I checked this out but it seems I don't have the "file sharing" section in itunes that you need to transfer files for apps like Oplayer.
Are you on OS 4 ?

yes, you can also add them through wifi, or if you are jailbroken you can add it through iPhone browser or ssh.

_Whimsical_

kjl wrote: »

yes, you can also add them through wifi, or if you are jailbroken you can add it through iPhone browser or ssh.

What folder do I put them in the iphone browser ?

It can't seem to find any of the media files I added through the var/mobile/media
which is where I'd generally add files to play in a JB app.

kjl

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

What folder do I put them in the iphone browser ?

It can't seem to find any of the media files I added through the var/mobile/media
which is where I'd generally add files to play in a JB app.

Its there, but not paticular folder.

its in /var/mobile/Applications/<random string>/Documents

you will have to look for it, but once you find it make a note of the folder

iMax

Anyone finding the lite (free) version of oplayer not working ?

I'm on 4.01 on a 3g & just jailbroken. I can see my avi file there, but whin I click on it to play it, the app crashes.

Fat_Fingers

kjl wrote: »

WOW, JUST WOW

I am highly impressed with OPlayer, full screen, great quality and ability to skip to the end, fully xvid supported, we should rename this thread and sticky it, the iPhone now has xvid support.

I actually delighted, this save me sooo much hassle, has anyone tried video out on it?

Yeah, OPlayer is very good. Much better then VLC.

iMax

iMax wrote: »

Anyone finding the lite (free) version of oplayer not working ?

I'm on 4.01 on a 3g & just jailbroken. I can see my avi file there, but when I click on it to play it, the app crashes.

Anyone ??

etcetc

Nice pop up warning when installing oplayer

application over 20MB use wifi or download on pc via iTunes

Fat_Fingers

i think i've read somewhere while back that 3G doesnt have proccessing power to run encoding/decoding of xvid/divx

iMax

Well bugger that then