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Ive just taken delivery of my new Streak, its running 2.1 and so far I am very impressed.
One thing I would like to do is watch movies on my phone, currently they are stored on my NAS drive which supports DLNA and SMB.
Does anyone know of a way of streaming directly from a NAS drive, I dont want to use VLC or anything similar as you need to involve the PC. I have tried an app from the market place called remote media BETA but it doesnt work, I can see the files but not play them.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
mrnorx said:
Ive just taken delivery of my new Streak, its running 2.1 and so far I am very impressed.
One thing I would like to do is watch movies on my phone, currently they are stored on my NAS drive which supports DLNA and SMB.
Does anyone know of a way of streaming directly from a NAS drive, I dont want to use VLC or anything similar as you need to involve the PC. I have tried an app from the market place called remote media BETA but it doesnt work, I can see the files but not play them.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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Try an app called ROCKPLAYER
Thanks, I have installed the latest version of RockPlayer, universal and ARM 7. I cant see the settings for network streaming. Is this version different as I have read the Beta versions were better than the current versions.
Hi,
What you need is the app 'ES FILE EXPLORER'
Works great for me to play video and audio from my NAS drive.
Let me know how you get on.
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Hi,
thanks for the input. Now finally I can see my share, but
streaming is not possible. I tried various .avi - Files. I always get the
massage that streaming is not possible for that filetype and the file
has to be cached (never waited that long....).
Any input?
Many thanks..
It will be a codec problem, I have problems some videos not sure which aren't compatable with streak : ( yet anyway.
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@stevenmcw
Thanks for the info, I can see all the files now. Doesnt seem to like AVI, as you say its likely to be a codec problem. A codec pack for android would be a great app.
What Video format are you using at the mo, I will convert a few of my movies.
I'm working on what codec works best, ill post my results soon.
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Hi
Done a bit of testing M4V seen to work has to be renamed to MP4
Going to some more testing.
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Thanks for the update, I'll convert a few avi's to m4v and see what settings work the best.
Ok a quick update,
If anyone has problems after encoding with it still caching video before it plays, download the util for pc called 'metadatamover 0.9' this fixes that.
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When I try to open any .avi video, I just get a "Sorry, not supported media type" error. But with Rockplayer, i am able to play avi files when on sdcard.
Can't I somehow send it to the rockplayer?
Converting the files is not an option for me.
Ye I tried it link to rockplayer as well I has no luck, it pretty sure that rockplayer Just doesn't have support for this yet.
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I've been through all of the same grief with AVI files and Rockplayer and never got it to work. In the end I decided it was easier to convert the files to mp4 and load them to the sd card.
The best converter I found was Format Factory, which is free. Takes some fiddling with the codecs to get precisely the right format for the streak, but works a treat.
If anybody wants the codec config file, PM me.
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isn't is possible that orb can do the job. www.orb.com
kasperke, unfortunately that reuires a running app on your pc. I'd like access remote disk on LAN without the need for a running computer.
try yxplayer
or vplayer
navrac said:
or vplayer
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strange, vplayer isn't working on my device....oeps i see..needs 2.1 and i'm still on 1.6. damn just have to wait a little longer.
have you tried AndroMote ? http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.czesla.android.remote
Hello,
Witch player is able to play movies with srt subtitles on, and also to play it from the sd card directly?
Anyone?
try MX Video Player. it is said to be working with both sd-card and subtitles.
Have not tried it myself yet. still need an sd-card
hempis said:
hello,
witch player is able to play movies with srt subtitles on, and also to play it from the sd card directly?
Anyone?
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moboplayer
Mx video player works with sd card and for streaming videos from your network. You need to add sdcard2 as one of the sources in settings. Hope it helps
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So does Mobo, and is far to more customizable.
Hah! Tie
insalubrious said:
So does Mobo, and is far to more customizable.
Hah! Tie
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Thanks. How do you connect to the network drives please. I tried mobo with bubbleupnp and it wouldn't play avi files.
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ps3taker said:
Thanks. How do you connect to the network drives please. I tried mobo with bubbleupnp and it wouldn't play avi files.
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You can try ES file explorer and tapping on the LAN tab. Then add the server you're trying to play the files from and you can then tap on a file to play and choose to open with moboplayer.
I am using MOBO player. It's working great. Free and easy to configure.
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hempis said:
Hello,
Witch player is able to play movies with srt subtitles on, and also to play it from the sd card directly?
Anyone?
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BS player has hardware acceleration and works great on Tablet S. I think it supports SD-cards, but not sure. The .srt subtitles work great though. It also has a function that searches subs for you online. No more searching!
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You can try ES file explorer and tapping on the LAN tab. Then add the server you're trying to play the files from and you can then tap on a file to play and choose to open with moboplayer.
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I use a similar setup as you. For my file manager I use HD file explorer for honeycomb and set up my network through the lan connection. Then I play the videos through MX player and music through Mobo. Some videos play better than others depending on the format but for the most part it works well. What I like about HD file manager is you can access everything from your network drive and it easy to setup. I just wish there was a way to create a play list for music files from my NAS without transferring files to my SD card. Any ideas on this?
Try CineXplayer I have had any issues also locates files for u when opening so no need to manually find files. No ads full screen no stuttering videos. Good quality picks up where you leave off in videos if stopped while viewing when opened back up.
Yes mobo player is pretty sweet, free and clean looking a must download if u wanna watch movies n things.
MX player does both (SD card, SRT titles) flawlessly. So impressed I bought the ful version.
no stop in mxplayer?
How can you stop video from playing in Mxvideo?
I do not see any stop button?
shuckle said:
How can you stop video from playing in Mxvideo?
I do not see any stop button?
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just tap the screen and there should appear reverse, pause and forward. just press pause´. There is no actual stop button.
u can change that in the settings actually I believe (i.e. always show controls). Can't imagine why its necessary, you want full screen video normally don't you?
Strange. So when I start a 3 hour video and notice after 5 mins that I have seen it...I need to look it to the end as I can not stop it. I need to try mobo....
Piar The vídeo A nd sub in the folder in self and rename The archive The same name grates
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Hi All
I was trying to load videos on to my XS, but for some reason whatever format i try and put on it doesn't play it.
I've tried mp4, avi, mov but none have worked.
is there a specific loaction I need to put it in? a specific format? please help
Try using Mobo Player?
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Abandoned-Trolley said:
Try using Mobo Player?
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Try an alternative player. I personally use dice player. It plays most files perfectly fine.
rajmistry said:
Hi All
I was trying to load videos on to my XS, but for some reason whatever format i try and put on it doesn't play it.
I've tried mp4, avi, mov but none have worked.
is there a specific loaction I need to put it in? a specific format? please help
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I put mp4 in video folder and they play fine with stock player.
augie7107 said:
I put mp4 in video folder and they play fine with stock player.
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I've installed mobo player.
i've just put on avatar, transformers 3 and warrior. as i dragged them across the pc started converting them. each of them looked ok in the folder. when i unplugged the phone and tried playing them they were just about 5 minutes long with just a bit of music.
i'm completely stuck and baffled...
just tried again, and again, only 4 minutes 51 secs of video played. i don't understand why. is it because i'm uploading using my pc?
why is the pc trying to convert my file format as i'm trying to transfer it? confused!!!
I play 720p mp4 flawlessly with Mvideoplayer. I wasn't promted to convert my MP4 files when I copied them from my PC to my phone, but it did come up when I did it with some AVI files. I clicked no to conversion and they play fine on my phone.
OK, so i've now tried loading another type of file, avi, to the phone. it was a 6.2GB movie. It didn't load, said it was too big!!! WTF!
this is some FAT32 issue right?
But this still doesn't solve my original problem.
I've loaded many different files, many types, different sizes.... But it seems like all the stock video player (and now MOBO Player) wants to do is play only 4 minutes 51 seconds........
but when you look at the file through astro or the pc, it shows the true length of the file.... thnk i'm missing something here, it may be basic, but please help someone. been at this all day with no luck!!
wmv
anybody knows about a player for wmv files? I tried using the Mx Video Player but it says it doesn't support it.
I don't whether you guys looking for the free or paid apps
but
I personally using rockplayer lite and it does work with almost every thing especially if you use "play with hardware acceleration" then every thinh up to 3.5 gb film is work pefectly
I got also a PowerDVD mobile (violation of the xda ...) hacked one so it work well.
so i cannnot post a apk.
Try diceplayer
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I transferred movies onto mine, six files ranging from about 700mb to 1.6gb in avi format and they play without any problems on mobo player,I also have power dvd mobile legit version and that plays them as well, the only thing I find with power dvd is it stops playing now and again and I have to press play for it to continue.
I'm on windows 7 and that asks me do I want to convert it,I don't generally but with the planet of the apes I did but it played ok just a smaller file size.
The only thing I can suggest if you haven't already done so is instead of drag and drop, try right clicking on the file and copy/paste and see if that makes a difference??
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i tried like mx video player. mobo player etc almost anything with neon codec support. it can barely play a 720p wmv properly, audio just out of sync and video is laggy. something is not right here. however i try some other resolution like 480p and it works fine.
my ex optimus 3d can even play almost all video format with hardware acceleration support.
some media players does not use hardware acceleration!! thats is way is not work fluently
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I transferred movies onto mine, six files ranging from about 700mb to 1.6gb in avi format and they play without any problems on mobo player,I also have power dvd mobile legit version and that plays them as well, the only thing I find with power dvd is it stops playing now and again and I have to press play for it to continue.
I'm on windows 7 and that asks me do I want to convert it,I don't generally but with the planet of the apes I did but it played ok just a smaller file size.
The only thing I can suggest if you haven't already done so is instead of drag and drop, try right clicking on the file and copy/paste and see if that makes a difference??
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Thanks.
This was the kind of answer I was looking for.
I've spent al most 2 days trying to figure it out.
I've used mp4 files, other formats, normal transfer and transfer using pc companion.
I will try avi files, and no to convert.
hoping this works. stay tuned...
what kind of video can the galley-app play?
I would much like to stream to my Sony TV without HDMI-cabel, same way it works with pictures
Hi,
What is the best program to play movies and subtitles for XPS?
If you try to copy videos or audio it will sometimes ask you to format the file, simply don't allow this when the window pops up.
This will be different for every computer depending on what codecs you have installed.
Also sounds like your possibly not waiting long enough for the files to copy over? Might not be showing the progress bar for what ever reason, slow pc?
Replace the miniUSB cable perhaps with another.
Try a different computer to drag and drop the files across.
There's a 2gb file size limit with the fat file system, a 720p or lower avi movie that's about 700mb is plenty quality for a screen this small, you don't need large blueray 1080p clips taking up memory for a very minor difference in quality.
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Also you can put files anywhere on the memory, player will pick up the files automatically.
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If you use a combination of bubbleupnp and dice player you can play almost all movie formats just fine. It is perfectly possible to play videos from other dlna servers as well as play videos from the phone on other dlna renderers.
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What do you all use for a video player? Anyone know one that can play .mkv files? I'd love to be able to yank a TV show from my NAS and watch it on the subway or something without having to convert or re-download in a different format. Most of my shows are x264 if that helps...
I played around alot with my Evo3D and never could get playback to stop stuttering (can't remember which video player), but I figured this more powerful phone might be able to...
kornface13 said:
What do you all use for a video player? Anyone know one that can play .mkv files? I'd love to be able to yank a TV show from my NAS and watch it on the subway or something without having to convert or re-download in a different format. Most of my shows are x264 if that helps...
I played around alot with my Evo3D and never could get playback to stop stuttering (can't remember which video player), but I figured this more powerful phone might be able to...
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Try DicePlayer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial
It worked great for me on my EVO3D, haven't tried it yet on the LTE but it was the best by far for the 3D that I found.
Just downloaded it. Now I'm moving over some content and will try it out soon as I leave work. THANKS!
I'll update with the results later on.
EDIT: OUTSTANDING playback with DicePlayer. 2.2GB episode of Breaking Bad. Thanks so much!
kornface13 said:
Just downloaded it. Now I'm moving over some content and will try it out soon as I leave work. THANKS!
I'll update with the results later on.
EDIT: OUTSTANDING playback with DicePlayer. 2.2GB episode of Breaking Bad. Thanks so much!
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Just curious, were you running your files off internal storage or an sdcard? I tried it off my SD card and actually had stuttering just now. I may just need to reformat and recopy it over.
Internal. Don't have an SD card yet...
Your question gets me to thinking though....it took like 45 minutes to transfer that 2.2Gb file over wireless. Should write speed be slow slow for internal storage?
Shouldn't be that slow but I would venture as to actually pulling out the micro sd card and using a card reader. That's what I always do much faster.
Edit sorry didn't see you had a sd card yet. Wireless itself is somewhat slow but this is flash memory should be fast.
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Dice was only one that handled MKV audio for me. Stock player and mx both play 1080p mkv no issue, but without ac3 audio.
I have a 32gb class 10 msd card. Hdmi out worked fine as well with all players barring audio issues with all but dice
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Interesting. I'm getting choppy playback on multiple types of .avi files. Anyone else experiencing any issues with DicePlayer? I've tried playing from the sdcard and internal phone storage. It starts stuttering immediately and continues throughout.
Ive been using MX Player with the Decoder setting at "S/W decoder (fast mode)" Works great with subtitles too.
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Shouldn't be that slow but I would venture as to actually pulling out the micro sd card and using a card reader. That's what I always do much faster.
Edit sorry didn't see you had a sd card yet. Wireless itself is somewhat slow but this is flash memory should be fast.
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I thought the flash storage would be pretty fast as well....I guess they use the cheap stuff...kinda like a cheap USB stick...it's nowhere near as fast as a high quality SSD...
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Dice was only one that handled MKV audio for me. Stock player and mx both play 1080p mkv no issue, but without ac3 audio.
I have a 32gb class 10 msd card. Hdmi out worked fine as well with all players barring audio issues with all but dice
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I could have swore I tried mx player and the stock player on my Evo3D, and neither would recognize .mkv files... If I ever have a problem with Dice, I'll check this out.
daleybox said:
Interesting. I'm getting choppy playback on multiple types of .avi files. Anyone else experiencing any issues with DicePlayer? I've tried playing from the sdcard and internal phone storage. It starts stuttering immediately and continues throughout.
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All this talk of stuttering makes me not even want an SD card...
Mobo player plays everything I've thrownat it...its in the play store
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Bralgar said:
Mobo player plays everything I've thrownat it...its in the play store
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It is?? Link? I can't find anything called mono player.
yeah it was supposed to be MOBO player but my phones auto-correct, auto failed...i did do an edit immediately though once i noticed it lol
haha. whoops. i'll check that one out as well. danke schon!
Hi,
Can anyone help with this one?
I've got a few video files in MKV format, which play fine if they are stored on the tablet (SGP311) or on the Micro SD card.
However, when I try to stream MKV files from my Windows Media Center (windows 7) library, I get the message "Cannot Show media. File format not supported"
MP4 files stream ok from the same location, so I'm confused.
I'm using the stock player. I have downloaded MXPlayer, but not worked out how to stream from WMC with that yet.
Can anyone explain why or suggest a solution before I convert the videos over to MP4 format?
thanks
Andy
Are yuou playing it right from wmc? If so, i think its in the software because it has to play within..
If you want to play the video from the location folder you can try gomplayer it plays a lot of video formats (even an mp3 file).. Currently using.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I'm trying to stream it from the HDD on the wmc PC straight to the tablet.
I've found something now which works well and seems to play everything. Using ES file explorer and mx player as described here.
http://apcmag.com/how-to-stream-video-to-an-android-device.htm
Use rockplayer. Mxplayer does stream mkv though, you do need a filemanager though.
Jequan said:
Use rockplayer. Mxplayer does stream mkv though, you do need a filemanager though.
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I use the DicePlayer, works well
I had the same problem and I didn't figure out what was that.
So I found a cool media streaming app called ArkMC. It supports all video formats. Works smoothly.