Radio: Google Play Music, in addition to hosting tons of pre-built playlists, also features “radio stations,” which are essentially endless playlists curated around bands, themes, genres, etc. Apr 07, 2018 You can also find a range of digital entertainment - including movies, TV shows, and music - that you can access not only on Android but also on your Windows PC or Mac. The Google Play Store app. When you watch movies or TV on Google Play Movies, the movie player uses only a small part of the available space. This extension will make the movie player take up all available space on the page!!! A lot of us don't like to watch movies in 'Fullscreen Mode', because it hijacks one of your monitors in a weird way.
I was recently given a keynote presentation which contained a movie. When I played the presentation the sound worked but the movie was blank. It turned out the movie was not in a format that Quicktime could play. There are many such formats. When I tried to play the movie in Quicktime I got an error saying ‘The document could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands.You may need to install additional software to open this type of file.’
Here’s what to do.
To play movies in Keynote, iMovie etc:
Perian is a handy free program that allows your mac to play almost any movie format, including AVI files from a Windows computer. Perian just sits in the background and allows other programs (like Keynote) to play movies that they wouldn’t normally be able to play. It claims to play all the following movie formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW, MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture and DosBox Capture.
You can download it for free from perian.org. To install it simply click on the icon and it will install itself as a Preference Pane. It sits in the background – you don’t need to do anything. Your normal programs such as Keynote and Quicktime will now be able to play any movie format. You will need to quit and restart Quicktime or Keynote after you install Perian.
To watch movies in your screen in a player.
Perian won’t play every movie. Perian won’t play wmf files and some kinds of AVI movies. To play all files try out VLC for Mac OS X. VLC is awesome and allows you to watch any movie. The only problem with VLC is that it only allows you to watch the movie in it’s own player, not in Keynote or other programs.
There is no Google Play App for the original Apple TV, but you can still watch Google Play movies using Youtube. When you do a search in Youtube, any movies that you have purchased in Google Play appear in the Youtube search results. So even though Apple TV does not have a Google Play App, you can still purchase or rent a movie from Google and watch it on your Apple TV. Google suggest a way to do it by streaming the movie from your phone, but a far better way is to watch the movie directly in Apple TV via the YouTube app. Here’s how.
Google Play Movie Maker
1. Purchase or rent a Movie from the Google Play Store.
(The Google Play Store has Rotten Tomato Ratings as well as extra payment options such as ‘Use Telstra Pay’.)
2. On your Apple TV open the ‘YouTube’ App.
Go to the Youtube app to find movies you have purchased in the Google Play Store.
3. Go to the ‘search’ tab and type in the name of the movie you have purchased.
The movie you will appear in the search results. Click on the movie. If it’s a purchased movie you can watch it. If it’s a rented movie you’ll get the usual warning about the rental time, and you will need to click yes to confirm to start the rental.
Google Movies
Here is an episode of ‘House’ that I purchased from Google Play – it appears in the Youtube search results on Apple TV.