[Q] has anyone ever use ps3 media server? - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A

like the title says.. im currently(since last two years) having a problem with this ps3 media server. it does its job well on ps3 but failed to stream it to my phone eventhough there is a profile for android phone
details: it plays streamed video nicely but transcoded(video+subtitle) video is the problem. its either my phone says its not supported or it just give a blank video player.

I didn't know streaming from ps3 to Android was possible.... The other way yes, but so...
Android has quite low amount of codecs for video. MX Video player has more and can play lots of video formats.
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Someguyfromhell said:
I didn't know streaming from ps3 to Android was possible.... The other way yes, but so...
Android has quite low amount of codecs for video. MX Video player has more and can play lots of video formats.
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sorry for not explaining it well to you.. but the ps3 media server is a windows program which run on a pc(server), the PS3 and android phones act as clients. its using DLNA protocol and the stream is supposed to be played by android video player like mobo or mxvideo.

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[Q] Rzound and PS3 Media Server

Hoping someone can help me out with some info. I use PS3 Media Server to transcode files from my computer to my PS3. While playing around in the Gallery on my Rezound, I realized I could see my PS3 Media Server and all the movie/TV files that were on it. Problem is, I can't get any of them to play. It seems as it's streaming the incompatible .mkv file straight to my phone and not transcoding it. Anyone know what I can do to get this to work? Thanks!
same here.. it's because the ps3 codecs blow and can't handle avi files. try playing a 720p video you recorded on the phone... for some reason it'll work.. now try a 1080p... it won't work lol so it has to do with the fact ps3 can't handle certain codecs
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I know it's not a direct answer to the question but I use Twonky(which does the decode for you) and I don't have a problem.
jayochs said:
same here.. it's because the ps3 codecs blow and can't handle avi files. try playing a 720p video you recorded on the phone... for some reason it'll work.. now try a 1080p... it won't work lol so it has to do with the fact ps3 can't handle certain codecs
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I'm not sure it has to do with codecs or avi files. The PS3 Media Server will transcode ANYTHING to my PS3, including mkv, avi, mpeg, etc. It just seems as though it's not transcoding to my Rezound. It's streaming the files, and the Rezound can't play them natively. I need to trick PS3 Media Server into treating the Rezound like the PS3 and transcode everything before it is sent over.
MrSmith317 said:
I know it's not a direct answer to the question but I use Twonky(which does the decode for you) and I don't have a problem.
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I may look into Twonky if I can't get this sorted out. Thing is, PS3 Media Server should do what I want.
riot1031 said:
I'm not sure it has to do with codecs or avi files. The PS3 Media Server will transcode ANYTHING to my PS3, including mkv, avi, mpeg, etc. It just seems as though it's not transcoding to my Rezound. It's streaming the files, and the Rezound can't play them natively. I need to trick PS3 Media Server into treating the Rezound like the PS3 and transcode everything before it is sent over.
I may look into Twonky if I can't get this sorted out. Thing is, PS3 Media Server should do what I want.
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man, you must have a magical PS3 then, because my PS3 does not play certain AVI, MKV, MP4 files whatsoever, and says "file type unsupported" lol..just google it, you'll see thousands of threads
By no means am I an expert, but ps3 media server on my Windows xp computer will steam about anything I throw at it. Now if you download additional codecs from some of the ps3 hacking forums, you can stream live tv from your computer. The ps3 can have problems, but when you transcode from ps3 media server, I rarely have a problem. Will see if I can get it working at home in a little bit. Peace.
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I'm determined to get this working! I now see that PS3 Media Server is recognizing my phone as a Sony BluRay player, hence the reason it isn't transcoding to the phone. I now have to figure out how to make a conf file that properly recognizes my phone and transcodes to it instead of streaming.
jayochs said:
man, you must have a magical PS3 then, because my PS3 does not play certain AVI, MKV, MP4 files whatsoever, and says "file type unsupported" lol..just google it, you'll see thousands of threads
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"PS3 Media Server" is software that runs on the PC.
It uses the PC codecs to decode any media file then re-encode the media to a format compatible with the playback device, this is done on the fly.
ahhhhhhhhh lol my bad, i'm a tard.
perhaps i should get said media server. the way i've been doing it was just having my PS3 connect to my phone via DLNA; doing this, it won't play my phone vids unless they're 720..the others won't play
I don't use the PS3 media Server so forgive me if this is obvious, but does the "PS3" Media Server transcode to any and every device or just PS3's. My experience with Tversity (few years back) was that the user need to specify within the application, what to transcode for each device.

[Q] cannot play videos via allshare or Skifta (Unsupported file format)

Region: AUSTRALIA
Provider: OPTUS
AVer: 2.3.6
BVer: I9100XXK14
Issue: When using allshare or skifta the native player says it cannot play my mkv's avi's that ive tried to play, they use h264 or xvid codecs so i dont see why the stock player cannot play them as i read in other posts that videos of these form can be played on the stock player. I connect to these videos via PS3-Media-Server for windows and sometimes wonder why it can't just stream it to my mobile like how it does for the ps3.
Also with skifta is there a app player that can play mkv's with soft subs? Ive tried mvideo and rock but they either stutter have HUGE colour artefacts or wont load the subtitles.
Renren1403 said:
Region: AUSTRALIA
Provider: OPTUS
AVer: 2.3.6
BVer: I9100XXK14
Issue: When using allshare or skifta the native player says it cannot play my mkv's avi's that ive tried to play, they use h264 or xvid codecs so i dont see why the stock player cannot play them as i read in other posts that videos of these form can be played on the stock player. I connect to these videos via PS3-Media-Server for windows and sometimes wonder why it can't just stream it to my mobile like how it does for the ps3.
Also with skifta is there a app player that can play mkv's with soft subs? Ive tried mvideo and rock but they either stutter have HUGE colour artefacts or wont load the subtitles.
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Are you trying to stream to your phone using the ps3 media server remote device using Allshare? That doesn't work for me, but if you enable media sharing in windows media player and access your files through the windows remote device in allshare that should work fine, (Open media player, switch to library, and enable the options under 'stream').
Alternatively download and install UPnPlay and MX Video Player from the Play store. If all your devices are on the same home network (local) and you have enabled media sharing / shared folders you can simple browse for the file using UPnPlay and play using MX Video Player, which also plays subs! This combination will play most things you throw at it, make sure you render to your device when playing, if you try rendering to a dlna enabled tv or something else etc you may get a 'file format unsupported' error.
Hope this helps. If you need any more help just drop a comment
I tried skifta with mxplayer and after a veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long wait it worked (had to enable subtitles myself but its no big deal). Is it normal to have that wait? is it different with unpnplay?
Thanks for recomendding MX player its sooo much better ill thank you once everything works out!
Renren1403 said:
I tried skifta with mxplayer and after a veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long wait it worked (had to enable subtitles myself but its no big deal). Is it normal to have that wait? is it different with unpnplay?
Thanks for recomendding MX player its sooo much better ill thank you once everything works out!
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Give Unpplay a shot, it's free so you've got nothing to loose, and no it's not slow at all. I use Unpplay to access media from my NAS drive. I didn't find Unpplay terribly intuitive to begin with (probably just me) but stick with until you're successfully streaming
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It works with both i tried =D!
But wezi i think i should recommend you skifta ! I think its much more to offer . But thanks for the MX recommendation i thank you very much.
Good to hear it worked, and i'll check Skifta out also

[Q] What do you use to watch media from your phone?

I like having my movies on my ad card cause when I'm sitting at people's houses and tell them "I've got _______ on bluray on my phone." And play it through the PS3, 360, or whatever. But the stock media player on the phone doesn't play all file formats. Any suggestions on what else I can use? Or and I S.O.L and better just keep being cool with playing it through other media outlets.....
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TW1L1GHT_K1N6 said:
I like having my movies on my ad card cause when I'm sitting at people's houses and tell them "I've got _______ on bluray on my phone." And play it through the PS3, 360, or whatever. But the stock media player on the phone doesn't play all file formats. Any suggestions on what else I can use? Or and I S.O.L and better just keep being cool with playing it through other media outlets.....
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there's a lot of good players on the market, but i use mobo video player pro... works awesome for me
HTC EVO LTE
RockPlayer Lite it's on the market and will play most anything.
I'm gonna try both of these out.....
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I use MX player
MX Player works wonders for all my HD content.
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+1 on MX Player
Ditto on the MX player
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i have tried almost every video player on the market and only one stands out of them.
i have alot of 1080p videos and hardware acceleration is very important to me as software mode is slow and eats up battery life when playback.
i tried mx video player, mobo player, etc... and they fail on some video files i have. they either has no (audio sound, no hw acceleration, etc...)
i have alot of onboard f1 videos directly stream sniped on f1.com and converting it to another format is not an option as they would introduce a/v sync issue
an example file would be this one http://www.mediafire.com/?zkpx798acmcdlb0
the only video player that works for hardware acceleration is Vplayer. though, i also keep a copy of mx video player as Vplayer lacks the seek swipe feature and it is sometimes slow on buffering.
maniakx said:
I use MX player
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I also use MX player. Seems to handle HD content the best, including my .mkv file extensions
+ 100000 on mx player
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Vplayer for hardware acceleration and screen lock (so my kid can't touch the screen and stop the vid).
MX player has a kidd plugin that makes shapes and noises when you touch the screen also locks it with out the plug in. its good for kids to watch movies and keep themselves entertained watching bunnies and stars appear wherever they touch while watching Toy Story https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.kidslock&hl=en

Upnp/dlna Android app capable of streaming mkv

Hi all, would of put this in android general but can't seem to see it :-\
Anyway, I'm looking for the above, a uonp/dlna compatible app that is capable of streaming mkvs to a ps3.i can play them on my phone via mx player and the like but when it comes to streaming it fails, unsupported or corrupted data shows in the ps3 whenni know for a fact it can stream Mkvs. I have tried airsyncs airplay option, skifta and joses media server and none seem to work, anyone any ideas or other options I can try?
I'm running ParanoidAndroid and Siyah/twrp if that's any help.
Thanks in advance
And mods if there is a general android section and I've missed it feel free to move this
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hey had this problem a while back, after a lot of experimenting with different apps, it turns out none of the apps could successfully "beam" a mkv file, even if both the phone and xbox can support the file.
The workaround that i finally got to was to host a media server from the phone, and access the mkv file via the server. APP: Pixel-DMS.
Works great on my xbox !! should work on the ps3 as well
BubbleUPnP might.
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sfjuocekr said:
BubbleUPnP might.
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Mr.R™ said:
Hi all, would of put this in android general but can't seem to see it :-\
Anyway, I'm looking for the above, a uonp/dlna compatible app that is capable of streaming mkvs to a ps3.i can play them on my phone via mx player and the like but when it comes to streaming it fails, unsupported or corrupted data shows in the ps3 whenni know for a fact it can stream Mkvs. I have tried airsyncs airplay option, skifta and joses media server and none seem to work, anyone any ideas or other options I can try?
I'm running ParanoidAndroid and Siyah/twrp if that's any help.
Thanks in advance
And mods if there is a general android section and I've missed it feel free to move this
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Have you tried this ArkMC DLNA UPnP Media Center app.It really helps me a lot Because it allows us to easily access, stream, share, manage and enjoy multimedia content, such as pictures, music and videos throughout myhome network.Give it a try.Here is the Playstore
Im looking for something that works the opposite actually, Does anyone know of an app that will allow streaming from a pc to my galaxys3?
I used to use allshare when i was running official samsung rom, but now i use Paranoid android and unfortunately cannot use it anymore.
I use a program called ps3 media server, which allows any content even MKV files to be streamed, ps3 media server is veiwable on ps3, xbox 360 and i could see it and use it on allshare.
now all i need is an app to allow me to pick up this media server on my paranoid setup.
any suggestions? thanks. :fingers-crossed:
I use PS3MediaServer in conjunction with Serviio to steam to my Xbox and phone.
1. Download PS3MS and Serviio on PC
2. Stream to gaming console. For streaming to android, download Skifta or ServiGo on Play. You can manage your Serviio console from your droid using ServiiDroid.
MKV works flawlessly.
International S III 16GB / Dualboot 4.1.2 Stock & Cyanogenmod 10.1 / Gokhan's SK
iMedia Share can do it. Also stock samsung video player can do it too.
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My home environment is:
Laptop - with Windows Media Player and Foobar2000 as servers
Tablet (galaxy tab) - with ArkMC as controller, server and player.
Samsung TV (as player and renderer)
I had an issue - I was not able to "Play-to" and to share MKV files!
I have tried just siple renaming MKV to AVI, after this trick it was possible to use "Play-to" to send file to my TV. And it played back well.
Maybe this would work for you.
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ArkMC can use 3rd party players. I use Mobo Player and MX Player. So it supports MKV formats to. And ArkMC server can share MKV files to.
Plex media server
Alejandrissimo said:
iMedia Share can do it. Also stock samsung video player can do it too.
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No, it can´t. It can play avi but not mkv, 3gp or flv.
I am still lookin for solution to stream mkv files via Android to PS3.
I installed Bubble UPnP - PS3 can see it, but everytime I want to go to some videos, pictures or music, PS3 is giving 2101 DLNA Error (can´t even see the list of my multimedia)
PS3 is on the newest offcial ROM and router is D´Link Dir-600 - if that´s matter.
Any ideas?
BlueBlazer23 said:
No, it can´t. It can play avi but not mkv, 3gp or flv.
I am still lookin for solution to stream mkv files via Android to PS3.
I installed Bubble UPnP - PS3 can see it, but everytime I want to go to some videos, pictures or music, PS3 is giving 2101 DLNA Error (can´t even see the list of my multimedia)
PS3 is on the newest offcial ROM and router is D´Link Dir-600 - if that´s matter.
Any ideas?
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PS3 is not able to play MKV natively without transcoding. You must use a transcoding server like PS3 Media Server, Serviio, etc.
Odp: Upnp/dlna Android app capable of streaming mkv
Yes i know, i am using media serwer on my laptop and i stream mkv files, however when i stream movies, my laptop is over heating and shut down (is hot as hell) after an hour or so. Laptop is dual core 1.6 and the thermal paste on cpu is probably out. So i wanted to stream those movies via note 2. I thought there was an application with internal transcoding possibility like it's in media share on pc. So is it possible or not?
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Did anyone have a fix for this? The Note 2 ought to be able to do this.
Wondering if anyone found a way to transcode mkvs from a phone to be played on a ps3.
I'm yet to find one to be honest, I think plex did work but no longer seems to for whatever reason
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Mr.R™ said:
Hi all, would of put this in android general but can't seem to see it :-\
Anyway, I'm looking for the above, a uonp/dlna compatible app that is capable of streaming mkvs to a ps3.i can play them on my phone via mx player and the like but when it comes to streaming it fails, unsupported or corrupted data shows in the ps3 whenni know for a fact it can stream Mkvs. I have tried airsyncs airplay option, skifta and joses media server and none seem to work, anyone any ideas or other options I can try?
I'm running ParanoidAndroid and Siyah/twrp if that's any help.
Thanks in advance
And mods if there is a general android section and I've missed it feel free to move this
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I would suggest you ArkMC. It streams media files not only locally on your device, but also from your Smartphone to HD TV, MAC, PC, AllShare TV, Xbox360, PS3 or any other DLNA/UPnP devices. Love it!
ArkMC streaming media
KaFrEEkAbOom said:
Have you tried this ArkMC DLNA UPnP Media Center app.It really helps me a lot Because it allows us to easily access, stream, share, manage and enjoy multimedia content, such as pictures, music and videos throughout myhome network.Give it a try.Here is the Playstore
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I am using ArkMC. too. What I really like is that it supports many formats of video files.
Also the feature that I use the most is YouTube integration. You can use your phone as a controller and watch videos on a big screen:good:
I have bubble full version I downloaded arkmc which ultimately uses bubble what my question is how to view streaming videos on the P's3 because it recognizes bubble as a media server and only allows me to browse to my files rather then stream them

Apps for Video Playback?

Hey guys, which video player do you use with your TF300T?
I am still on stock ROM 4.1
Thanks
I like MX player.
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try out BSPlayer Free, and get the correct codec too
+1 For MX Player.
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Definitely MXPlayer Free. The pro version only deletes the Ads, so it is not needed.
O like MX Player better. It also works great when you stream video from LAN. Also, you can use ffmpeg codecs, found here on XDA, so you can decode DTS, that currently is not officially supported by any decent player, 'cos some lame copyright legal bullfeces.
Video Player
I use the Archos media Player from play store to watch videos. Can also smb Protocol and upnp. With the archos codec i can play all files from my nas !
budalageo said:
I use the Archos media Player from play store to watch videos. Can also smb Protocol and upnp. With the archos codec i can play all files from my nas !
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Does it play DTS without any need of extra/external codecs? Does it work like a media center, with a library and all that?
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+1 for bs player and +1 for mx player
Both have theeir adventages and disadventages so i use both to be sure that i can start every file
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budalageo said:
I use the Archos media Player from play store to watch videos. Can also smb Protocol and upnp. With the archos codec i can play all files from my nas !
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It works great, though I hope they allow me to acquire info for anime titles.
mizifih said:
Does it play DTS without any need of extra/external codecs? Does it work like a media center, with a library and all that?
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I haven't tested DTS but I do have to straight Bluray to M4V rips that work perfectly with it. It reminds me a lot of Windows Media Center or XBMC.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mediacenter.video
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mpeg2plugin <- $5 plugin (sadly I bought this before I realized that there's a free codec plugin pack)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.m4rk3t.libcopy2 <- free alternate codec pack (I need to test this)
Is there any that can load subs
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It works great, though I hope they allow me to acquire info for anime titles.
I haven't tested DTS but I do have to straight Bluray to M4V rips that work perfectly with it. It reminds me a lot of Windows Media Center or XBMC.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mediacenter.video
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mpeg2plugin <- $5 plugin (sadly I bought this before I realized that there's a free codec plugin pack)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.m4rk3t.libcopy2 <- free alternate codec pack (I need to test this)
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Gave Archos a try. Played my downloaded movies and TV Shows after installing the proper codecs. It's a damn good media center, but it make more sense if you have a large hard drive attached or if you have a Android Media Center attached to your TV. The SMB/Shared Folder feature is really cool to access and index videos stored on a NAS or remote PC. Overall it's a good player, but I would recommend MX Player, it's free, codecs are free and you can play pretty much everything with it.
Archos have a subtitle downloader tool, but for Brazilian Portuguese, it doesn't make any sense, since the App doesn't distinct Portugal Portuguese from Brazilian Portuguese, at least it didn't when I tried.
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mizifih said:
Gave Archos a try. Played my downloaded movies and TV Shows after installing the proper codecs. It's a damn good media center, but it make more sense if you have a large hard drive attached or if you have a Android Media Center attached to your TV. The SMB/Shared Folder feature is really cool to access and index videos stored on a NAS or remote PC. Overall it's a good player, but I would recommend MX Player, it's free, codecs are free and you can play pretty much everything with it.
Archos have a subtitle downloader tool, but for Brazilian Portuguese, it doesn't make any sense, since the App doesn't distinct Portugal Portuguese from Brazilian Portuguese, at least it didn't when I tried.
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If you happen to have or acquire the keyboard dock, you could have a total of 128GB additional space (64GB MicroSDXC + 64GB SDXC). That's plenty of space for me to store a good mobile video library w/o breaking a sweat. If you happen to have more, portable HDD/SSD solutions are getting cheaper. I hope that Archos does improve upon their title searching & brings in a better subtitle downloader.
MX player all the way, plus Adaway makes it MX Player Pro.
ricco333 said:
MX player all the way, plus Adaway makes it MX Player Pro.
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+1 That is what I was going to say :good:
I use MX Player for most video files and for the odd files that it wont play I've found VLC Player will play them.
CrimsonKnight13 said:
If you happen to have or acquire the keyboard dock, you could have a total of 128GB additional space (64GB MicroSDXC + 64GB SDXC). That's plenty of space for me to store a good mobile video library w/o breaking a sweat. If you happen to have more, portable HDD/SSD solutions are getting cheaper. I hope that Archos does improve upon their title searching & brings in a better subtitle downloader.
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Yeah, but MX Player can also access portable USB-HDD, so that make more sense on the tablet, to be honest. Archos Player have indexing problems on the TF300, for instance, every time I close the lid, or put it to rest, videos stored on the external media (SD, microSD and USB-HDD) are lost from the library and then added again, but when that happen, that's pretty much every time, bookmarked times are lost and resume time states are also lost, so it's not really that practical, with MX nothing like that happens.
So, again, it's beautiful, have a very useful network (LAN) content indexing tool to add remote stuff to your library, but it's not that practical, on the TF300T at least. But if you have a Media Center Android that doesn't unmount external media every time it's put to rest (idle), go for it, it'll be perfect actually.
Just a heads up, XBMC is already available for Android, not every hardware handles it yet, but once it spread it's wings, oh boy, we'll be in for a treat
And if you don't know XBMC, drop dead! (or read more about it at xbmc.org
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smokarz said:
Hey guys, which video player do you use with your TF300T?
I am still on stock ROM 4.1
Thanks
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I am using VLC beta. Working on stock 4.1.1, 4.2.1, Hydro 7
ryuken11221 said:
Is there any that can load subs
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MX Player does it... and it works great!
Actually glad this thread is up.
Having some problems with my video playback.
I'm rooted and unlocked on stock rom JB 4.1 I picked up screen standby and mx player what seems to be going on, in both stock player and mx is that the video will randomly stop during playback. I don't understand why but I have to tap off screen to get it to playback or for mx it pauses randomly ao I just hit play again. But anyways have any remedies or insight on this?
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