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kennyminot · 07-16-2011, 01:17 AM

I also highly recommend splitpersonality's instructions. My guess is that it has something to do with the file name.

Once you've got these installed, just remember that your ability to watch videos will still be somewhat limited. You're never actually going to be able to play videos that require Flash. However, you can get YouTube movies to work by installing Google's YouTube application. If you want to figure out how to do this, just follow the instructions for installing the gapps in the tweaks thread. If you want, you can just install YouTube, or you can also add Gmail and other such applications.

You're probably never going to be able to run Netflix. From what I understand, the company has been including video codecs with DRM support for particular processors. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a rather weird processor (the Marvell PXA168), which never got widespread support by other manufacturers. As such, I'm guessing Netflix will never think to write a codec for Marvell devices. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and I regularly check the site to see if the xda folk figured out a way around the DRM restrictions.

07-16-2011, 01:17 AM	#26
kennyminot Groupie Posts: 183 Karma: 90022 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Louisville, KY Device: HTC EVO View 4G, HTC Wildfire S, Asus T91MT	I also highly recommend splitpersonality's instructions. My guess is that it has something to do with the file name. Once you've got these installed, just remember that your ability to watch videos will still be somewhat limited. You're never actually going to be able to play videos that require Flash. However, you can get YouTube movies to work by installing Google's YouTube application. If you want to figure out how to do this, just follow the instructions for installing the gapps in the tweaks thread. If you want, you can just install YouTube, or you can also add Gmail and other such applications. You're probably never going to be able to run Netflix. From what I understand, the company has been including video codecs with DRM support for particular processors. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a rather weird processor (the Marvell PXA168), which never got widespread support by other manufacturers. As such, I'm guessing Netflix will never think to write a codec for Marvell devices. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and I regularly check the site to see if the xda folk figured out a way around the DRM restrictions.