Hey there all!
I'm looking for something similar to, My Movie Library, but where I can view the library (on my tablet) with the poster art, description, ect and then choose the movie I want and it streams to that device. (over internal network).
I found a few options, but they arn't quite what I'm looking for, although I'll probably settle with one of them if I no one knows of anything else.
https://www.emitapp.com/more
http://tversity.com/
Are the two I've found so far....
If you know of any others (free or paid). Please, post them I'd love to see what else is out there.
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I'm sure many people have noticed this, but figured I'd start a little discussion on this.
For those that have not seen or heard about it: Amazon started offering a "cloud" service. Basically functions as a typical online storage service with a few neat features. Using the amazon mp3 player (free download), you can stream music files stored on the "cloud" account to your phone. Obviously this doesn't completely replace the functionality of having music stored on the device, as you wont have access if you don't have a network connection of some sort, but I know I can store more of my music on the cloud server and keep a limited amount of music on the phone for those instances that I wont have a network connection.
It looks like their basic/free service will provide 5 GB of storage, though you can get that upgraded to 20 GB for free with the purchase of an MP3 album. Obviously, not everyone will want to do that, but I had been looking at buying an MP3 album from amazon anyways (finding the actual CD was looking to be impossible or WAY too expensive) so it kind of worked out well for me. I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of innovative features, just a bit of innovation in combining features for convenience I guess. So, with my limited testing so far, I wouldn't call anything groundbreaking, but definitely nifty.
So far, it streams perfectly fine over both wifi and 3G which is to be expected. The player is fairly basic/minimalistic, but gets the job done. The widget also follows the minimalistic design. I feel that both are a bit too simplistic and prefer using winamp, but it's really just a preference thing. I can't really fault anything specific about the amazon player at this point other than being simple in design. The player also functions as an amazon music store so you can purchase music to be added to your cloud storage and you download the files directly to your phone. So far, I'd say the convenience is the best part of the service.
One thing I'm wondering about: Why didn't they combine the app store and music store into one app? I know it's not that difficult to switch between the 2, but it seems like it would be "cleaner" to just put both into one great package. I'm guessing they were concerned about it becoming cluttered, especially with search results, but it still seems like they could have worked the 2 together.
I tried this an it seemed to work good to me. The only thing that sucks is that my upload speed is terrible at home so uploaded 5gbs would take me forever, yet alone more GB.
Be sure to check here for some essentially free space.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/29/tip-get-20gb-of-amazon-cloud-drive-storage-for-only-0-69/
Good morning all,
I've been looking for an application that performs a similar function to the Apple TV and iPhone idea, where with one click you can transfer your pictures/videos to your TV/PC. Obviously I'd rather use DLNA and android!
I've found one or two apps where you can browse your phone and select pictures/videos etc, but I'm trying to find something more integrated, for example when browsing photos on the phone, I'd like a button that says something like 'show this on...'
Does this make sense?
Thanks,
Tom
Hi all,
I want to be able to stream 774 Melbourne on my Android. They have both pls or asx streams available.
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listenlive.htm#directlinks
Anyone know of a nice light weight app that can assist? I can seem to find ones with pre-defined streams though finding one that i can put in my own URL seems difficult.
Appreciate your help.
Theres not much out there for apps that allow custom streaming URLs. Really wish we had something like TCPMP/Coreplayer on Android. You could try Moboplayer but I've never been able to get much to work in it. It does work in Winamp Pro, an app I've been pretty impressed with.
I had to input the direct stream URL by opening the pls file in Notepad which is:
http://shoutmedia.abc.net.au:10350/
They have an iPhone app, but no Android app. You should complain, its not 2007 anymore.
thanks for the response.
I did find one its called Stream Media Player. Seems to work ok. though a bit heavy for my liking.
Ive also been told to try TunedIn Radio which already has ABC in its predefined list.
Hope it works out OK
Cheers! I would like some help with an idea for a simple applet for Android in general, and the HP Touchpad in particular.
There is an application called QVOD that downloads videos to a local cache on the Android device, and for many devices it works just fine. For many devices however. If the device is running ICS, frequently the playback features stuttering audio. I have found where QVOD saves the video files, although it separates them into several pieces, making it difficult to just browse to that directory and use an alternative player, such as MXPlayer. I have found that if you cat the files together into one RMV file, you can then watch it with another application and it plays just fine. That means the audio codec built into QVOD is almost certainly the problem.
What I'd like to do is build a simple graphical app that allows you to view the videos in that folder and automatically cat the files together so you can either save them or view them in another player. Having some background in programming, I understand the process flow of this is very simple. Unfortunately, I do not know how to program in java. If anyone is willing to help with this, there is a pretty good sized community that would appreciate the help. Ideally, it would be great if the makers of QVOD addressed the problem directly, but having spoken with them on QQ, it doesn't seem they have any interest in doing so.
I don't see this program taking more than a hundred lines or so, and would be a great contribution to the Android community. Please message me if you are willing to invest some time into helping with this problem. The application will SURELY get a lot of attention, because it will not only allow those with audio problems to enjoy their videos, but it will allow those that aren't having problems viewing to at least save the files and also have a CHOICE of what application to view them in.
thanks!
Write the details here or PM me, I might give this a try, though I cannot give any specific deadline times.
I'm setting up a TV in my kitchen and what I'd really like to do is install a touchscreen monitor and run Android on it. The idea is to be able to run Android apps such as Plex, Calendar, Google Keep and my Central Heating app as well as Music players etc, which will all link into my Chromecast Audio setup. I'm struggling to find a large enough tablet, which would have been the easiest option, and I'm struggling to find an easy way to do this.
Is it possible? If so, where should I start, I feel like I've been looking in the wrong places. If it's not possible, is there another way to get a similar result?
Thanks!