Hi,
my girlfriend wanted to look her pictures from the PC on her smartphone.
So, I found that the Windows Media Player (WMP) supports DLNA and activated it.
On the SGS 3 I activated the settings for DLNA.
In the Windows Media Player I now can see the SGS 3.
And now?
How can I transfer pictures from WMP to Android?
I tried it with drag & drop but it didnt work.
So I tried some DLNA-Apps from the market.
But no one can see my WMP, only the FritzBox Media Server.
I deactivated the firewall but that didnt work either.
Last hope was the BubbleUPnP APP, but that App needs an server address, I guess from WMP.
Can anyone help me please?
You should try ArkMC
It automatically finds your PC in network (note, that they should be in same network)
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I am about to purchase a NAS device to act as a home media server.
So far my short list includes:
Synology Disk Station DS210j
QNAP TS-210 Turbo NAS
Some of them support iTunes server and can stream music to an iPhone. Surely there is a way to do this on the Eris! Is there an iTunes client for Android 1.5 or perhaps a better way to do this?
Any help appreciated!
dont know anything about android, but my nas drive packed in and i got a new one from pc world. i thought it was a nas drive but wasnt it was a network media storage, my ameo couldnt pick it up at all because it wasnt a nas drive, pc seen it fine and could map. hope this is of some help. make sure its nas.
Not sure if your NAS device supports Upnp, but if it does like windowns 7 and can share media as Pictures Music and Videos, I found a program on the market that I could access the files on the computer over my network, the music would work but I couldn't get the videos to play. Search for UPNP on the market, I'll post the program later when the gf brings her phone around. There was a similar program on the Ipod touch, although it was able to play the video files, probably missing a codec in android.
The program was Andromote... if you have windows 7 set up sharing all the media on your nas you would be able to access it.
if a mod reads this, can you pull the restriction.. I don't post much but have used the site for quite a while. Thanks.
It's not exactly graceful, but I use MPD (Music Player Daemon), PMix (an Android client for MPD), and A Online Radio to stream my music collection to my Droid Eris (via Icecast). Unfortunately, the native Droid media player doesn't support the usual streaming protocols, but the above combo works. When I'm outside my home network, I use a web based client for MPD and have my Icecast port forwarded on my router. If the NAS device you pick up supports Linux, you should be able to install MPD and Icecast (both are available in most distros); the Market has both PMix and AOR for free.
The protocol iTunes uses for streaming audio is called DAAP, but I'm unaware of any DAAP clients on the Android platform yet. Searching google for "Android DAAP" led me to a site which offers a client application to control iTunes from Android, but not client. Again, if the NAS system runs Linux but doesn't provide a DAAP server, you can possibly install Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daap) to mimic the fuctionality. However until there's a client, there is little point.
Hi,
Can anyone help with this conundrum? If i try to access avi files from my Windows 7 laptop via Connectify and stream it to my WinMo 6.5 WMP it gives an error "cannot open this file". rstp://...... doesnt work either. I've also tried it through Coreplayer, but no luck, since i cant access my laptop over the WiFi in Coreplayer... I went so far as to try TVersity to setup a streaming web access page, but my Opera wants to save the file, and not just run it...
Please can someone give me ideas? am i being blond, is there a better streaming app i can use, or a simpler way to stream media files from my laptop to my Leo?
Is it possible to connect to the media server on my PC i.e. i want to play music on my hd2 and the songs are on my pc network how can i play them. WIthout using a program like orb as it takes to long, i should be able to connect to windows media player and just play the files on my windows media library?
thanks any help would be much appreciated
Hello pplllzzzi just saw the allshare app on the galaxy player 5.0 us version and then i tried using is somehow but it didnt work. Has anybody tried it and succesfully used it?
The Allshare app uses DLNA. I have not tried it but my understanding is that DLNA is a media sharing protocol that works over UPNP. Basically, you need to have another device on your network that is sharing media files using DLNA. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but Playstation 3 uses DLNA right? I think there are DLNA servers for linux but I'm not sure about windows... Probably need to have UPNP enabled on router too...
If I am correct, Windows 7 comes with a DLNA server. The media player in Windows 7 can share music and videos with other DLNA devices.
You can also try something like Twonky, TVersity and many other DLNA server.
Ok thanks both of you
I'm trying to view photos stored on my PC with my newly acquired 16GB Tablet Z.
I already have a PS3 Media Server installed for using music & photo files on the TV via the PS3.
The tablet has connected to the PC with WiFi ok & the PS3 Media Server is showing in the My Albums option in the 'Album'
app. When I explore the folders - there are up to 5 levels for photos - the tablet only shows up to 16 sub folders and within those only a max of 16 photos.
I thought maybe it's a memory issue but it can take up to 30 seconds to load the 16 photos (say 70MB) so it is clearly accessing the pc storage.
How can I get to view all the folders & their contents on the Tablet??
I spent 20 minutes with the Sony support team & they had no solution.... hmmm, not impressed.
I hope you guys can do better!
Thanks,
Phil.
Hmmm - OK, surely I'm not the only one trying to view photo files held on my PC with the tablet, am I??
I thought I'd try a different route.
I'm now trying to set up Windows Media Player as the server, all looks ok but the only photo file it can pick up has a sort of 'mountain' icon rather than a photo. Really weird as everything appears to be set up ok.
Any ideas out there??
thanks,
Phil.
Now all sorted!!
The answer is... install 'Serviio' software on the PC which is a decent server app in contrast to Windows Media Player and install 'BubbleUpnP' software on the tablet.
From their website....
BubbleUPnP is a full featured UPnP/DLNA Control Point, UPnP Media Renderer and UPnP Media Server. Play easily your music, videos and images on your phone and devices on your network (DLNA TVs, XBMC, WMP, ...), from your external UPnP Media Servers. Play your phone/tablet media to those devices.
Browse and play your local phone/tablet and cloud media from other devices (PS3, ...).
It is brilliant. Now everything works a treat.
By the by... Sony Customer Service were no help whatsoever!