Google Play: Persistant "No Connection"

Found here, I thought I would perpetuate the answer to the following problem: one opens Google Play, encounters a  "No Connection" error, presses "Retry", gets the same; checks that wifi is on, it is, does "Retry" again, and still the same; closes out and opens the browser only to find that the connection is working just fine...

The answer there was to make sure the Android device system date and time are correctly set: in my case they weren't, due to a battery that decided to go unreliable.

An answer applicable to some others' situations can be found here, http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20855/why-does-google-play-show-a-no-connection-retry-error.

FFMPEG on Android

Awesomesauce:

The Google Search.

The Fruitful Results:

Pre-compiled and installable from Google Play (Beta), https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=roman10.media.ffmpeg&hl=en

Notes by a guy at Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4725773/ffmpeg-on-android

VLC on the Galaxy Player 5.0 Part 1

Actually this is just a post to introduce the next, one for documentation: I installed an Alpha of VLC for Android on the Galaxy Player 5.0 via an APK available at xda-developers.com and it runs surprisingly well. It does not play all video flawlessly, sadly, but the interface is beautiful, other functions work pretty well... couldn't wait until the Beta which, it turns out, was not, (and has not been), released for the American market at the same time (or yet).

Looking forward to getting it running, nonetheless, however, it being GPL and all. Perhaps not to become the primary multimedia tool given that Meridian already works spectacularly well.VLC would be great for streaming, though, and perhaps this is a forlorn hope, but for re-encoding things on-the-go.

Let's hope for something like command-line access and control, though perhaps one can already do that with FFMPEG? HEY, IT TURNS OUT ONE CAN!!!.