We have recently launched our new Tonido Android app optimized for video and music streaming. It is a perfect app to have in Nexus 10 to watch your video collection. We would like to have your feedback on how well it plays different video formats.
Using Tonido Android app, now one can watch videos (movies, recorded TV shows, home videos) from anywhere (Wi-Fi and Cell). It also streams most video formats (including AVI, MP4, MKV, VOB, XVID and WMV). There is no app in the Google Play store both in free and paid category that can do what Tonido offers for Free (Local and Remote Viewing, Live Transcoding of most video formats). There are also several new features including ability to create music playlists, file download support and more.
Demo Video
http://youtu.be/0fs61JhUchE
Tonido Features:
Automatic, multi-format live video transcoding and streaming (including MOV, MP4, M4V, MPG, MPEG, AVI, VOB, MKV, WMV, XVID, FLV, SWF, OGG, GP3, MTS, M2TS). Requires no manual conversion of video files for playback
Automatic multi-format music streaming and playlist support (including FLAC, OGG, WMA, MP3, and more)
Tonido companion server apps are available for all computer platforms: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
Plug- and-Play remote access. No fiddling with router settings
Easy to remember web URL access to your computer
Stream iTunes Playlist to your Android phones and tablets
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Win a TonidoPlug by providing constructive feedback
Hi,
We are looking for users to test the Tonido App in Nexus 10 and provide feedback on Video and music streaming aspects of the application.
We are offering a TonidoPlug for the Best feedback​
Rules:
Test the app and provide a honest feedback: Both Good and Bad.
Contest ends on May 2.
Post your feedback in this thread.
Shipment within US only
Can you put up a Google play link so we make sure we download the right one please? Thank you
thats a $120 piece of equipment...sweet!
Well i searched it and i think i found the right one there were only 2 lol. I'll start testing this weekend and report by the date. Id love to have on of those tonidoplugs. I didnt know what it was until google searching and it seems awesome.
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Well i searched it and i think i found the right one there were only 2 lol. I'll start testing this weekend and report by the date. Id love to have on of those tonidoplugs. I didnt know what it was until google searching and it seems awesome.
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here is the Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tonido.android&hl=en
Ok thanks i downloaded the right one already. Also ill be testing with stock rom and kernel 4.2.2 with root but no actual changes to system so it will be stock experience.
So far from home, on my Wi-Fi, its great! I used to use other apps like Splashtop 2 and the like, but I prefer to have it streamed to my tablet, rather than just mirroring my PC. I'm going into work overnight, so at that point I'll get to try it out with 3G/4G.
How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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He can plug a 3g dongle and use it on the tablet... :silly:
Yes, I meant tethering my tablet to my Nexus 4.
So over mobile data, it runs great, and as I mentioned before, it also runs well over Wi-Fi. When playing a song, I like how it runs in the background too!
The UI looks neat, and there's also a little sync functionality like DropBox.
Only irk for me is that occasionally when I seek, the video would freeze on one frame, but picking an earlier or later spot would set it right.
Also, with apps like Splashtop, I would get some serious performance decrease on my PC, but with Tonido, I can play BF3 on my PC and watch Married With Children on my tablet!
Overall I'm really loving this app!
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Yes, I meant tethering my tablet to my Nexus 4.
So over mobile data, it runs great, and as I mentioned before, it also runs well over Wi-Fi. When playing a song, I like how it runs in the background too!
The UI looks neat, and there's also a little sync functionality like DropBox.
Only irk for me is that occasionally when I seek, the video would freeze on one frame, but picking an earlier or later spot would set it right.
Also, with apps like Splashtop, I would get some serious performance decrease on my PC, but with Tonido, I can play BF3 on my PC and watch Married With Children on my tablet!
Overall I'm really loving this app!
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I used to have the iphone 3gs, but now i have a Samsung Galaxy with Android 2.1.
I had a great program called Air Video, it was so great, i almost chose not to upgrade to android cause it wasnt on the Andriod platform.
You installed a client on the phone, and a transcode server software on your pc, and then the magic began, you could stream any kind of video format straight from your PC to your phone in realtime. It supported mkv, divx and a whole lot of other formats. I could even stream video from my satelite tuner straight to my phone with this software. It was totaly mindblowing, and it worked both on 3g and over wifi, you just adjusted the quality of the stream in the client program on the phone. I could lay in bed, and watch my whole video archive straight from my pc on my phone, i could watch it from work and anywhere with 3g coverage.
The great thing about this program, was that everything was on the fly, and went automaticly, you didnt have to convert EVERY video file to mp4 (or simular) before you started streaming.
Now im wondering, is there a good alternative(program or guide), that will work the same way on android phones?
PS Ive tried Orb, and it couldnt realy compete, at all
This sounds awesome...I want to know too.
I been talking with the developer of Mezzmo who working on his server app to support the Droid X, but I believe that is one of the few apps thats trying to work on something. I miss airvideo myself, his forum is filled with people begging for him to port it to android. I'm hoping Froyo will allow me to use either Mezzmo (he recently said that the phone is looking for the moov atom at the front instead of the end like how ffmpeg puts it. I downloaded a adobe air app to move it and still no luck streaming.
Airmote doesnt work
Using ES Explorer to connect to samba shares would be cool if I could figure out how to get a1video player to play the streamed file (but since the moov atom is at the end it would have to download the entire clip to view it first)
umediaplayer I can't find to test out, that or homepipe
Orblive is a joke on Android.
Tried Tversity to android reading a way to use the webpage frontend, but same streaming issue.
Only thing sucks as of now is the fact there is no real streaming from PC option that works well for the array of video types out there like airvideo.
I did find something interesting even though it only streamed a couple avi files. I loaded yxplay and pointed it to TVersity 192.168.1.101:41952.
I have the samsung galaxy s, and i heard that Samsung PC Share Manager + Allshare on the phone, would make streaming mkv from my pc easy.
I hurried up, and installed Samsung PC Share Manager, and got the error, "Server can`t start"
Another great piece of samsung software, almost as good as Kies
(Wich btw also doesnt work on my win7 64bit, no matter what i try)
I even tried Samsung Pc Share Manager on a Vista 32 box, same error there. Can`t start server.
Oh how i love Samsung software.
Have you had a look at Websharing?
Tried it briefly, no go.
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Try VLC
You can use VLC to transcode from a capture device, another stream, or media files.
I've used a Windows Media Server for years with my Windows Mobile Touch Pro (and its WiMo predecessors). I stream my police scanner, TV and music files but there's no working Android player. I left my WMS as is but run VLC on a workstation, taking the WMS stream and transcoding it to RTSP for the Android. It works just fine.
I suspect that this would be very difficult if not impossible to do on Android right now. Streaming support just isn't up to par within the core OS.
Try VLC Stream and Convert. (Developer's website)
It's not exactly simple or user-friendly, but it works wonderfully to transcode and stream any video (or audio) file on demand from my server to my Nexus One.
The server software is VLC, which is a cross-platform application and works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.
There is a free as well as a paid version in the market. The free version transcodes and streams without a problem.
I just have it set up to work over wifi, but it should work over 3g as well, if you adjust the quality down a bit.
VLC Stream and Convert
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Try VLC Stream and Convert. (Developer's website)
It's not exactly simple or user-friendly, but it works wonderfully to transcode and stream any video (or audio) file on demand from my server to my Nexus One.
The server software is VLC, which is a cross-platform application and works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.
There is a free as well as a paid version in the market. The free version transcodes and streams without a problem.
I just have it set up to work over wifi, but it should work over 3g as well, if you adjust the quality down a bit.
VLC Stream and Convert
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Sounds like a wonderfull app.
Can you share the settings on VLC to get the transcoding to work?
The app is not really user friendly on this aspect
Thanks
Powder79 said:
Sounds like a wonderfull app.
Can you share the settings on VLC to get the transcoding to work?
The app is not really user friendly on this aspect
Thanks
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Please do........
A small guide perhaps?
So you can choose wich files to stream from the pc from the phone? Or do you have to start a video file in vlc to able to stream to android?
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I used the setup from here: http://sites.google.com/site/traveldevel/vlc-stream-convert/setup
And i was able to stream video via rtsp, the quality wasnt great but good enough, this is definatly a step forward
Edit2: Quality could be adjusted, and it looks great over wifi now, im so happy
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Edit2: Quality could be adjusted, and it looks great over wifi now, im so happy
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Dear |OP|
Could you please let me know what audio settings you are using? I get a picture that is good enough, but the audio is *noisy* to say the least.
Rgds,
NorTor
For just 'Audio Files', I have the Audio bitrate set to 128, 'Fake video' unchecked, and 'Keep stream open' unchecked. I haven't used that very often, so I can't vouch for the quality.
But under 'Video Files', I have the 'Audio bitrate' set to 96, and 'Synchronize on audio' checked. It sounds pretty good to me.
These are both under 'Stream rtsp' in settings, not the 'Stream http', as I don't use the HTTP streaming at all.
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Dear |OP|
Could you please let me know what audio settings you are using? I get a picture that is good enough, but the audio is *noisy* to say the least.
Rgds,
NorTor
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Default audio settings.
Thank you so much for this. I have been looking everywhere and this is exactly what I was looking for. I wish I knew about VLC's streaming capabilities a long time ago; I've been using VLC for years lol.
Now, I need to work out how to create a VLC library.
Hello,
I dont know if you find the right solution, but you can look at "vdr" and "vdr client for android". It is a server cient streaming solution.
my problem with vlc stream and convert it connects to my ubuntu 10.04 and vlc 1.0.6 and when I click stream via http the sound would come through and its perfect for streaming mp3. If I were to stream movies this way.. only the sound comes thru and not the video part.
If I were to stream through rtsp, the phone would stall on buffering.... and on the command line is
Code:
[0x8cd1568] main stream out error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0x8cd1568] main stream out error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host
[0x8cd1568] stream_out_rtp stream out error: cannot export SDP as RTSP
I tried posting to see if anyone could help but no replies yet. All share is great but its limited in the file types that it can play.. Have not found something that is similar to Air video as yet but if VLC stream and convert can be figured out that it would be just about perfect.
After some trial and error, I finally got vlc S&C to work properly on both WiFi and 3g. I have been able to watch good quality movies. It has been able to transcode all video formats I've thrown at it.
Although the dev states to use rtsp ports 554 or 5554, they only work on WiFi for me. I think the stream is trying to use a variable port selection and I am not opening my router for all ports. Also, my home ISP (Comcast) blocks certain ports (including 554). For my rtsp port selection I use 8081 and it worked like a charm. hope this helps
I have heard good things about Homepipe.
http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/08/...otos-remotely-pc-mac-iphone-android-homepipe/
Android app is supposedly available.
I haven't been too pleased with the video players on the Market. I watch a lot of anime and need something quick and can show subs. Someone mentioned this program in another thread and I have to say it is awesome.
Freemake
It is quick.
It has a built in Android option.
It has easy subtitle support.
It has settings to choose quality or size.
It has zero spam/malware/ads.
It is idiot proof.
The quick part is what bothers me most about converting videos. A 30 minute episode of Bleach shouldn't take 30 minutes, or even 20 minutes. And that's usually what happens on every other converter I've used in the past. Probably user error on my end, but this makes it simple. I give props to its developers. I don't have any affiliation with the developers or app. I'm just very happy to find something that handles video so well.
24 minute Bleach episode @1500kbps: 3 minutes
108 minute IP Man 2 @ 3000kbps: 20 minutes
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Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?
Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?
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Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?
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It hard codes them!
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Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?
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I don't believe this program has that feature. I'll check for something that will allow a movie poster type option and report back.
I think the reason it is that fast on mkv is probably because most anime mkv files are already encoded in avc or h.264 video and AAC audio with ssa or srt subs wrapped in the mkv container, and as such all this programs just does is transcode and wrap it in an mp4 extension. (My theory)
The fact that it also burns in the subs is very impressive. I have a fast high end Mac and i use Handbrake for this type of stuff. Still takes about 10 mins for an average half-hour anime with burned in subs (but that's because i choose to use the x264 encode, which takes a bit longer and more CPU power but higher quality and smaller file size at same bitrates and such).
Will try this out on a Windows box i have lying around. Good find.
yeah seems like it's smart enough to transcode when it can.
Yeah, it also utilizes CUDA if you have an Nvidia GFX card. I happen to have a GTX 580, so that could also be why it's much quicker on my end. It just doesn't explain why other converters with the same Nvidia feature were slower.
@eric191
I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?
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I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?
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I tried using yours and couldn't get the subs to hard code. I don't know of any other app that'll do a quick remux from mkv to mp4, unless Handbrake has it?
So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.
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So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.
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I'll play around with it some more tomorrow. Have your thread faved.
The latest update to the mx player pro app is excellent! No more lag or using the software decoder (SW) since they finally optimized for Tegra 3! All my videos (720p, 1080p, mkv, 10-bit, etc) work flawlessly now on the new HW+ setting. Just thought I'd share this with everyone. In case anyone is wondering I'm not rooted, completely stock. Highly recommend for prime. Oh there's a free version btw in case anyone wants to try it out.
only thing that bothers me still is BSP is the only one with audio preamp =(, but this looks nice indeed, does HW+ work on the TFP?
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only thing that bothers me still is BSP is the only one with audio preamp =(, but this looks nice indeed, does HW+ work on the TFP?
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Yes it does very well. Leaps and bounds over what it used to do before with regular HW. It seems like they're finally using the processor correctly on the prime. No more crashes, lags, etc. It's now usable in terms of actually watching full length videos on. My 720p videos always crashed about 30 to 45 min into the movie. I'm referring to running them off the local storage as opposed to streaming....for some reason streaming was never an issue but playing videos off the device locally was.
I used to use MX player then switched to dice. However just tried the latest version of MX player and have to agree that it has improved alot. I especially notice that the audio volume has increased significantly which is a welcome change for the prime. I might actually be able to hear a movie in the car now. going to keep using MX player for awhile now.
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I have and love using the Basic Max player but I recently got a New HD camcorder and when I play the MTS video file on my Prime I get Video but no audio. Will Pro version allow me to get audio from MTS files or do I need something else?
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I have and love using the Basic Max player but I recently got a New HD camcorder and when I play the MTS video file on my Prime I get Video but no audio. Will Pro version allow me to get audio from MTS files or do I need something else?
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Never mind. Basic MX updated and I guess new Codec was added because I get audio now on MTS files.
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MX Player with DTS audio support just rocks. using custom codecs from XDA and everything is so smooth! love watchin movies while travellin with prime!
Tapatalked!
While the Update does do better when I watch 10BIT Anime MKV files I still get the weird artifacting that everyone gets. When I use SW it plays the video the way it should be but audio and subs are messed up. HW+ Plays perfectly but once again Artifacting or pixelation on the video which is better than before and at least watchable. Can't wait till its fully optimized
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Someone please tell me if its something I'm doing like maybe not downloading those other codecs in the market or something to fix it. Other than that just wait for a update i suppose
Nope ur doing things fine its just codec+HW issue, mine does the same but I can't stand SW speed so I just put up with the artifact look. Even on PC a poor player that will play 10bit can even artifact e.g. built in vuze player.
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Nope ur doing things fine its just codec+HW issue, mine does the same but I can't stand SW speed so I just put up with the artifact look. Even on PC a poor player that will play 10bit can even artifact e.g. built in vuze player.
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Agreed. I can deal with some slight artifacting versus actually being able to watch something on the Prime.
Thanks for the feedback guys atm if I don't want to deal with the artifacting I just download 480 releases which play fine if I can't find a 720 8bit file
TUTORIAL: USE LG L9 PHONE AS DLNA MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE TV TO PC.
THIS EXPLAINS, HOW DID I PLAYED THE VIDEOS SAVED ON L9, ON MY PC AND VICE VERSA, BUT NO WIRES ATTACHED AND FULL HD VIDEOS PLAYED.
DLNA of L9 with PC and L9 as Remote Control. It really WORKS well! "
Connect PC with your WireLess Router either with wire or wireless.
Start WiFi on your L9 and let it connect to network as usual.
Start "Windows Media Player" (WMP).
Select "Stream" Menu
Select "Allow Remote Control of my player"
A dialogue box will appear asking "Allow Remote Control" Select "Allow Remote Control....."
Now you may see Phone Name "P765" in WMP Left side device list and now WMP can show any Photo, Video, etc saved in Phone. Full HD Videos and Photos.
Now lets use Phone as.....REMOTE CONTROL (Play from Phone to PC)
Now Run SmartShare App on Phone
Click "FROM" and select "My Phone"
Click "To" and select "My PC: MyHome PC" (whatever name of your pc)
Now you can see media folders (Video, Photo, etc)
Just Start playing anything (example, video) on Phone from these folders seen in smartshare and WOW...VIDEO WILL BE SEEN PLAYING IN WMP ON COMPUTER.
You can control (play, pause, next, prev) media from Phone.
Enjoy!!!
KNOWN ISSUE: One sided audio in Video and Audio Playback. Problem solved in V10E and later
PS: One more good one suggested by donk165 in this post but needs small windows installation.
TUTORIAL: USE LG L9 PHONE AS DLNA MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE TV AND PLAYER.
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OMG it works flawlessly, only about 5 steps, took 1 minute to set up, 1080p video streaming as smoothly as possible, just have to chech how much battery it uses ...
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OMG it works flawlessly, only about 5 steps, took 1 minute to set up, 1080p video streaming as smoothly as possible, just have to chech how much battery it uses ...
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DLNA is most ignored BEST WIRELESS MEDIA LINK between mobile devices and TV/DVDPlayers. I tested perfectly with PC and my SAMSUNG BD-D5300 Blueray player. Its really very easy and simple thing you can do with very few mouse clicks. Glad you tried.:good:
thanx bro for useful post. ..
Re: How to use DLNA and use L9 as Media Server and Remote Control of your PC?
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thanx bro for useful post. ..
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Oh please don't mention it. Just click it.
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NFC in P760 but not in P765?
A question comes in my mind, why did they give NFC on P760 and not on P765??? Well all hardware is same, except camera and NFC. Even the kdz can be flashed on each other.
Have someone flashed any kdz for P760 on P765 and test NFC? Nothing wrong in trying. What if it works on P765 too. lolz
Hi very cool that dnla thingy but can i stream games alsp?.
Because videos or music etc.... i dont care. Its more interesting if we can miror the screen on pc or what ever.!
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Hi very cool that dnla thingy but can i stream games alsp?.
Because videos or music etc.... i dont care. Its more interesting if we can miror the screen on pc or what ever.!
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There is one lenovo android phone which can stream video of Games to DLNA device. Dont have details at the moment, you can search in google and especially in YouTube.
I dont have much information about L9 but technically there should be a Driver Application which should stream the display of Games on TV via DLNA. It is also possible that some applications DLNA SERVER (http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/dlna) may help you in this case. Google it.
Eh, few questions:
1. For remote control, I use VLC Remote (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.peterbaldwin.client.android.vlcremote), is there any differences other than playing files ON your phone? Which leads to the 2nd question anyways.
1. Why do you store video files on your mobile ? All my video files are either rips (stored on PC, few GBs each) or my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where. And to access these file, I use Emit, uPnP or SplashTop.
I never used DLNA before, so pardon me for my lack of knowledge.
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Eh, few questions:
1. For remote control, I use VLC Remote (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.peterbaldwin.client.android.vlcremote), is there any differences other than playing files ON your phone? Which leads to the 2nd question anyways.
1. Why do you store video files on your mobile ? All my video files are either rips (stored on PC, few GBs each) or my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where. And to access these file, I use Emit, uPnP or SplashTop.
I never used DLNA before, so pardon me for my lack of knowledge.
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DLNA is only a wireless streaming of media files. Rest how you use it is your wish. It is not always necessary that I will stream it to my PC/TV at home. Suppose I am visiting my friend, relative, office, anywhere, etc. and I wish to share my KARAOKE video, where I am really singing well, I can easily stream it to the TV on large screen and hey!! Everyone (hundreds of them) can watch it and appreciate it. Most of us show Home/Picnic Photos, Videos, etc to friends on mobile itself wherever they go. What if DLNA allows you to share it on BIG screen. And yes, DLNA does not need to copy your files on recipient device, its just a SlideShow.
Well if you dont share your music, photos and videos, with your friends/relatives/office pals, THEN DLNA IS USELESS FOR YOU. YOU MAY SAFELY FORGET IT. :laugh: Lol
EDIT: In my city I noticed all BlueRay Players from branded companies, are DLNA-certified.
cmahendra said:
Well if you dont share your music, photos and videos, with your friends/relatives/office pals, THEN DLNA IS USELESS FOR YOU. YOU MAY SAFELY FORGET IT. :laugh: Lol
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This is where the part "my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where" come in handy . I assume you know about Google Plus automatic upload feature, it is good for back up and SHARING as well :highfive:. Of course, not every smart TV can show music, photos or videos from google plus, or not everyone (your friends/relatives/office pals) might know about G+ I guess.
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chicguy said:
This is where the part "my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where" come in handy . I assume you know about Google Plus automatic upload feature, it is good for back up and SHARING as well :highfive:. Of course, not every smart TV can show music, photos or videos from google plus, or not everyone (your friends/relatives/office pals) might know about G+ I guess.
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Yes I know automatic upload service of G+
Well people who know DLNA in phone know DLNA in TV or BD/DVD players too.
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I went to my friends house and i showed him a video captured from my phone on his WMP, with almost no setup ( just the one step, Allow other devices... )
mitraark said:
I went to my friends house and i showed him a video captured from my phone on his WMP, with almost no setup ( just the one step, Allow other devices... )
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Great. He might have surprised how it happens so quickly without wires.
Re: How to use DLNA and use L9 as Media Server and Remote Control of your PC?
Another way to control your PC with your L9 is to use Unified Remote. It doesn't have a live preview of the screen, but you can use the touch screen as a touch pad, and bring up the on screen keyboard of the phone to type on the PC. There are also remotes for media keys, WMP, VLC, YouTube and a few more. You can get it on the play store.
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donk165 said:
Another way to control your PC with your L9 is to use Unified Remote. It doesn't have a live preview of the screen, but you can use the touch screen as a touch pad, and bring up the on screen keyboard of the phone to type on the PC. There are also remotes for media keys, WMP, VLC, YouTube and a few more. You can get it on the play store.
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+1 Hey, thanks for http://www.unifiedremote.com/
VLC and WMP remote apps were already there since quiet a time. All useful. Thanks.:good:
With ArkMc app I stream video from my phone to TV also, you could try
Bill Fresher said:
With ArkMc app I stream video from my phone to TV also, you could try
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seems good by description, but its paid app.
I decided to let this subject get its own thread since I guess that it can be important.
I bought a 128 GB SanDisk Cruze and a USB-OTG cable (Startech) today for the Ultra and can report that it works perfectly. The drive mounts properly and everything seems to be perfectly OK.
To me, it is a great way to expand the storage capacity when needed and it is a great way to store media files etc and offload photos and videos taken with the camera to the flash drive when necessary.
Here is a picture of the Ultra with the Cruze attached.
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Well this is nice to know in case we are traveling and we want to watch a lot of (1080p) movies
Would the flash drive use more power vs using a high capacity microsd card?
File system?
What is the drive's file system? I just want to make sure... can it read NTFS drives?
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
E90 Commie said:
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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Awww too bad... i was hoping it can handle NTFS... i know it is an android or kernel limitation..
If it was ntfs, no need to transcode files bigger than 4gb as the NTFS system would let you handle big files.
As for the video player, i just use BSPlayer.. never failed me..
Thanks for the reply!
I use BSPlayer too, it is great but it seems that there has been a Dolby licensing problem so the latest versions lack support for Dolby Digital. I hope they can resolve it.
I am transcoding my movies more because I think that 4-5 GB is a bit too big for the device when equal picture quality can be provided with 2-2.5 GB. So in my case, it is about using the space more efficiently.