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So I'm planning on making a full video viewer/downloader for multiple sites and I decided to start with a porn site, tube8. I'm still learning a lot of .NET, and it's even harder when you're stuck with using compact framework 3.5. So go easy on me....
In any case, I've got a barebones app that will list all the videos on the front page of Tube8 along with a thumbnail when you hit "GO" at the bottom. (if you hit it twice, it might crash)
If you DOUBLE-tap the clip you want to download, the go button at the bottom will change to FLV. Hit that and the screen will freeze while it downloads the file to the ROOT of your STORAGE CARD. A popup will tell you it's done when it's done.
Sorry, this is bare-bones. I just want to confirm this works on all networks. I've only tried it over WiFi. I'll implement more menus, a streaming option, etc as time permits.
Also, I know that you can play FLV videos... my current device is giving me trouble with the version of TCPMP i have so if anyone can tell me if the FLV videos do play, that would be great. I know they play when copied to a desktop.
There's no CAB yet (still learning), but you can extract the zip and just run the exe file anywhere on your device.
FYI, the final program will be called 2Kinetic - Mobile Video Viewer.
(fun with physics)
New version!! See this post! (post 33)
So I'm planning on making a full video viewer/downloader for multiple sites and I decided to start with a porn site, tube8. I'm still learning a lot of .NET, and it's even harder when you're stuck with using compact framework 3.5. So go easy on me....
In any case, I've got a barebones app that will list all the videos on the front page of Tube8 along with a thumbnail when you hit "GO" at the bottom. (if you hit it twice, it might crash)
If you DOUBLE-tap the clip you want to download, the go button at the bottom will change to FLV. Hit that and the screen will freeze while it downloads the file to the ROOT of your STORAGE CARD. A popup will tell you it's done when it's done.
Sorry, this is bare-bones. I just want to confirm this works on all networks. I've only tried it over WiFi. I'll implement more menus, a streaming option, etc as time permits.
Also, I know that you can play FLV videos... my current device is giving me trouble with the version of TCPMP i have so if anyone can tell me if the FLV videos do play, that would be great. I know they play when copied to a desktop.
There's no CAB yet (still learning), but you can extract the zip and just run the exe file anywhere on your device.
FYI, the final program will be called 2Kinetic - Mobile Video Viewer.
(fun with physics)
I just received my got tablet via the woot deal. Have installed vegan, and all is well. One thing I cannot figure out is, how can I stream videos stored on a shared network drive to my g tablet? I have windows 7 on the pc. I can see the files using File Expert, but they will not stream. It seems like this should be a pretty straight forward task, but so far I have not found the right app. 90% of the files I would like to play are in .avi format. I have tried several media players, and none I have tried give me an option to view files on my network. Thanks for any tips!
Try playon. Bonus is it would alllow you to stream them from anywhere.
Bad part is the quality won't be as good as natively playing the file..
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I like qloud. It's free and allows playing across the Internet as well as across a local network.
http://www.playon.tv/playon
Thanks for the suggestions.
I actually already have Playon, and use it to stream Hulu & Netflix content. I did not see an option to stream files I have stored locally on my network though. I'm at work, so cannot check it out now, but I will look for this option when I get home.
I will look into Qloud also.
I too would like to stream media from my network shares. Idc about HD content so much, but being able to watch stuff on the tab when I'm not at my desk would be nice.
Is there a way to do this without putting a media server program on the computer end of things?
Free version of TVersity Media Server (from tversity.com) along with free MoBo player from android market do the job well. For some reason, sound volume is low.
You can use network shares using CIFS. Look for CIFSManager in the market.
It's a little cumbersome to setup if you aren't very familiar with networking, but very doable.
You will need a kernel that supports CIFS (Vegan 5.11 might - can't remember). Latest TNTL (4.4) does, but will likely not in the future. The stock kernel does not.
You can look in the dev section for Clemsyns and Pershoot's kernels. Note that Pershoot uses a modular approach, so you have to follow the instructions on downloading and adding the CIFS module. Clemsyn's should 'Flash and Play'
As for media player, I had trouble playing mpg's. I used Rockplayer Lite from the market and it was able to play them
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I too would like to stream media from my network shares. Idc about HD content so much, but being able to watch stuff on the tab when I'm not at my desk would be nice.
Is there a way to do this without putting a media server program on the computer end of things?
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Other than the CIFS route, I think every other solution requires something on the 'server' end. I have a Windows XP VM set up on my mythtv box for this purpose.
Here's a list of what I've tried:
Zumocast (works great on gf's iPhone, unfortunately no Android client yet, may work in a browser with flash, I couldn't get it with stock AOSP browser though)
Orb Live (couldn't get it to work)
AndrOrb (uses same Orb server, had mixed results)
PlayOn (works great for Amazon Prime, but had mixed results with local media. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't, although it is beta)
The following use VLC as a backend, so all have the same problem for me which is most of my mkv's are garbled (odd, since they play fine on the desktop):
VLC Direct
VLC Stream and Convert
Androstream (seems the best of the 3 as far as interface/reliability)
For this platform, I've been disappointed at android's ability (or inability) to reliably stream video (I wish audiogalaxy did video, that works PERFECTLY), yet the iOS platform has it working perfectly (even without RTSP support), not that I'm knocking Apple (not a fan either), it just seems their stuff "just works".
Sorry for the delay on the update. I first setup playon to steam from my local network, it worked well, but I hated the file navigation.
Next I tried qloud, installed the server on my pc and was up and running in minutes. It is extremely simple and works pretty well. I do get some occasional pixelation on sd video, but its not to bad, didn't even try hd because I'm sure the results wouldn't be good. Thanks for the tips.
Definitely QLOUD is the way to go.
setup is quick, and the video playback is good, everything is in sync.
i love the XDA community
Try plex, although it's not free and you need to set up a server
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It works perfect to mount all your network shares as local on your tab. The tab then treats all shared files as if they were on the tab. This includes streaming movies, audio, and ebooks, viewing pictures and editing docs. Apks stored on the network install as well. Works with VPN as well to have (slow) access from anywhere to home network.
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so I did a google search on cifs and got a lot of tech heavy results. Any chance threw is a setting up cifs for dummies web sure some one could share?
dlaciv12 said:
so I did a google search on cifs and got a lot of tech heavy results. Any chance threw is a setting up cifs for dummies web sure some one could share?
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Tech heavy?
What would you consider your tech-level?
Rom, kernal? Sorry if you already posted this info...
Edit: also, what kind of computer OS?
Check this link for any CIFS related questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756158
*Remember to donate if you like a dev's work
(seriously this app is the shiz)
dlaciv12 said:
so I did a google search on cifs and got a lot of tech heavy results. Any chance threw is a setting up cifs for dummies web sure some one could share?
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I am fairly new to all this, and i got it working without any problems. I am running TNT Lite 4.4. I assume you know about windows sharing and how to enable it on your other computer. Also you need to be rooted on the gtab.
1. Install cifsmanager from market.
2. Bring up cifsmanager and Settings -> "Add New Share". You will have to have to give superuser permission to cifsmanager when it asks for it.
3. Fill in the new share details. The first entry should look like
192.168.1.160/Movies where 192.168.1.160 is the LAN ip of your windows computer, and Movies is the name of the windows file share on it. It will automatically fill up the mount point to be /mnt/cifs/Movies.
4. Fill in username password for the windows machine. Leave options empty.
5. Save share, and you will see an entry inside cifsmanager.
The above steps need to be done just once per share.
6. Click on the share entry and it will try to mount it. If it succeeds the button on the right turns green. Long press will bring up a menu with "Unmount" on it when u want to unmount.
Now you can access /mnt/cifs/Movies. I like ES File Explorer (free from the market) instead of iFileManager to browse files as it lets me play movie files on a player of my choice. I use RockPlayer Lite as a player.
Caveats: I read somewhere that with the stock launcher you have one shot of correctly entering the share details. If you use Launcher Pro this is not a problem. Note that there is not transcoding going on on the windows side. So if you are on slow wifi you might see stalls.
And you can get to any files, not just movies.
hope this helps
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Most cifs programs require the gtab to buffer the entire video before it will play any large .avi files.
I have been using Gmote on my gtab with vegan 5.1.1 now for 2 months with no problems at all. It says it doesn't work with avi files but I've never had a problem with them.
cbay said:
4. Fill in username password for the windows machine. Leave options empty.
5. Save share, and you will see an entry inside cifsmanager.
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Username and password for the admin account on the windows machine? I don't have a password set up as it is a HTPC with all of our moveis and recorded TV. I keep getting that the mount has failed due to I/O error.
Or is it looking for the password to enter the family group?
BTW, thanks for the walk through. I always hated dealing with this kind of Windows BS but glad Windows has this ability.
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Username and password for the admin account on the windows machine? I don't have a password set up as it is a HTPC with all of our moveis and recorded TV. I keep getting that the mount has failed due to I/O error.
Or is it looking for the password to enter the family group?
BTW, thanks for the walk through. I always hated dealing with this kind of Windows BS but glad Windows has this ability.
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.. Of the user owning the share, in your case the admin account.
Check if it works if you set a admin password on your HTPC (and Cifsmanager). Maybe there is a CifsManager limitation on empty passwords.
There are ways I think to auto login into a machine with a password, in case you don't want to type a password out of sleep and/or reboot.
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i have a question i am hoping someone may be able to answer. i am currently without high speed internet at home. so i use my vibrant tethered to my pc (mobileap). i usually do a lot of video streaming to watch my favorite tv shows and movies (no cable either). i usually use firefox with the download helper plugin to download embedded flash files from any site with flash, not just youtube or megavideo.
my problem doing this on my phone uses alot of bandwidth and i get capped very quickly. i have a a few places near me with free wifi, but since my pc is a desktop, i cannot easily take it with me to download videos. unfortunately, i can use my phone to connect to the wifi and stream the videos on my phone, but i have yet to find a way to actually download the embedded flv files to copy to my pc and watch on the big screen with friends.
are there any apps or scripts i can use to do this? if i installed ubuntu, firefox, and the downloadhelper plugin, would it work? or am i asking to much? has anyone ever achieved this?
I had a galaxy s2 and used all share on the phone to remote play video from my PC to my phone. By pressing remote device and browsing my windows media shared videos.
Why on earth does this not work on the s3? It just shows no videos on my pc......
I use my DLNA router enabled every day or so without problem. Browsing NAS shared folder with Solid or ES File explorer and watching movies. Or Dice player directly for example. Must be a config problem.
I use ArkMC (available on the Play Store) to stream stuff from my pc to my I9300. Very straightforward app, no setup whatsoever and works flawlessly for me so far. Give it a go, you might just need to reboot the phone after install tho for the app to actually take in account whatever is available in your WindowsMediaPlayer library & If I recollect correctly, i had to do that before being able to use see my media files through the app. Hope this heleped and if it did please hit the thx button
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I use ArkMC (available on the Play Store) to stream stuff from my pc to my I9300. Very straightforward app, no setup whatsoever and works flawlessly for me so far. Give it a go, you might just need to reboot the phone after install tho for the app to actually take in account whatever is available in your WindowsMediaPlayer library & If I recollect correctly, i had to do that before being able to use see my media files through the app. Hope this heleped and if it did please hit the thx button
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Hello, I have several questions:
What do you use as a server on your PC?
And how is it going with HiDefinition video, is it plays good?
letrouble said:
Hello, I have several questions:
What do you use as a server on your PC?
And how is it going with HiDefinition video, is it plays good?
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Hey letrouble, only saw your message today...
Anyways bout your two questions, for this app to work, like said previously you won't need anything setupwise, windows media player is the "server" so you only need to add your files to its library, install the app on your device, reboot it and that's pretty much it...
Concerning your second question, yes, HiDef files run flawlessly with it, on devices that actually support such a definition of course, ie galaxy S3 and many others... tried on my old galaxy tab P1000, they will load but the framerate will not be high enough to take pleasure in watching your content...
Hope that helped & hope all of u guys had a good Xmass and will have an even better NYE
UPnPlay and BubbleUPnP work great