[How-to]Online videos and radios with M8

Found this method on the chinese bbs, and it works pretty well!

edit: works with mp3 streams too!
edit2: works with flv videos too!

1. Online radios:
First you need to create a file with "asx" extension in whatever folder you want on your M8, and then input the address and the name of the online radio like this:

Code:

<ASX Version="3.0">

<Entry>
<MR2 Petofi Radio>
<ref HREF="http://stream001.radio.hu:8080/mr2.mp3"/>
</Entry>

</ASX>

After you did this go to the directory you've put the asx file and select it. The music player will start and soon you can listen to your favorite station

2. Online videos:

Open an empty notepad, insert the address of flv file (maybe works with other formats too) then save it as Example1.flv
When you select this file from the browser it will start the video player and you can watch online videos!

Warning: Use WIFI or otherwise it could be a very expensive experiment!



Here's an asx file for example.

Audio (mp3) works not over Edge ?

Works with wifi for me, it that's what you're asking. It should work over Edge too, but that could be very expensive.

@nicetoknow_u: can you give an example for the online video as you did with a asx. file?

Thank you, the asx file is working like a charm

Yes I can! It's on a hungarian server, and maybe the wifi speed is not enough so don't be surprised if it lags...

Wont work for me.. I tried some radio`s but i see there other formats.

Like: <ref HREF="http://www.omroep.nl/radio3/live64.asx"/>
And: <ref HREF="mms://funx.xs4all.nl/funx"/>

Whats good or wrong?

Thanks Maikel

The second one works for me like this:

Code:

<ASX Version="3.0">

<Entry>
<!something>
<ref HREF="mms://funx.xs4all.nl/funx"/>
</Entry>

</ASX>

The first one loads too but the music won't start. Is it working on your computer?

@nice2know_u: which explorer do you mean, the standard, the explorer.exe in the windows folder or opera?

Yes i can: you sound like obama XD

They work on www.nederland.fm
On my phone they load but wont play music. the circle goes round and round but nothing happen.

Update: Wo your like uri geller! It works! i just have pressed the play button again and again and it plays music

@LVL
Haha, I meant the meizu filebrowser

@MaikelRunia
I'm glad it worked

IT WORKS

IT DOESNT EVEN LAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need to find a way to do that with youtube!!!!

Btw: funny people the movie seems nice

Where can i extract the url for youtube, so i can do the same with this?
If meizu would know this, they could create sort of an option so you can watch youtube on opera

Tried to make it work with youtube, but the urls where you can get the videos from are a bit strange and not recognized by the M8's video player

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

Tried to make it work with youtube, but the urls where you can get the videos from are a bit strange and not recognized by the M8's video player

The url has to end with .flv, else it doesnt work, probably it also works with other extensions. Ill try that!

If the opera browser on the M8 cant display the video(flash player needed), maybe it CAN show the url, and maybe from there you can open the video player on the M8 to open it

Maybe something to try: use GooTube FLV Retriever. You can copy the url, and it will create the direct download url for it. If you can copy an url in opera from youtube, you can past it in the empty bar and then you are at least able to download it

I'm working on a Youtube player right now, it will be similar to the one used on the Iphone, and HTC devices. So Far alot of the work is already done because I'm using alot of the framework built into the TouchHD. Alot is the same, alot is different. Its a work in progress

Thank you for your work on the youtube player, it will a great thing to use youtube on this amazing phone

I'm waiting for a nice Browser with flash 10.0 in :-)

right if you want a direct link to the flv file on youtube do this >>>>

1.go too www.file2hd.com

2.input the url of the youtube video

3.then click accept terms

this will then take you to a page with direct download links to the FLV file (ending in .flv) and also a high quality .mp4 version of the file.

not sure if it will work as it is usually used just for downloading but worth a try anyway. Works with any embedded audio or video too.

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Trying since long this link for me is not working...Can any one try to get this solve or give me a Solution ??

I tried the webradio, works great !!!

Then I tried to make an icon for it on the desktop, but does not work

Icon work just for .exe files, right???

Hi,

I've tried streaming some various files :

In my experience, ( haven't tried much yet ), only .wav files stream.

You click a link in the web browser, and music player opens up, and starts playing the file. With a .mp3 file, the music player opens as well, but it hangs.

Anyone else had some other experiences ? Tried the .flv link into notepad method for youtube links, that doesn't seem to be working, neither is the high qual mp4 link.