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Orb streaming

I tried to search for it so I'm sorry if this is a repeat...
Has anyone else tried Orb streaming service. I think it's the best thing I've found since my WM6 Rom and of course it's free and requires no new install on the phone.
Once you download an app to your computer to allow it to stream media out, you can access media on your computer over the web. This isn't a new concept, but the thing that stands out for me is the fact that it works great with the hermes - streaming stored videos, pictures, and music from the PC (among other things)
If you have a TV tuner on your computer it's even better. It will let you watch live TV or previously recorded TV. It will even let you schedule a recording from the phone if you forgot while you were at home (albeit - not through WMC rather their own, but they usually play nice).
My only recomendation is to lower the expected stream speed to 40 or 80 kbps at the bottom of mobile website to eliminate chopiness. Also, if you have a media player other than WMP on the phone - make sure the stream goes to WMP (it works well in there)

i have been using it for a couple years, and its great for live tv and i have a few hundred divx movies on my harddrive that i can stream and its free!

Yes, it is a very nice program. I've been using it for a while, too. It even supports webcams. Probably one of the best programs I've ever used.

I just wish it was able to skip commercials on a recorded tv program or skip to a point in a recorded TV show...

yeah it is a great service! i've been using it even before i got into winmo (which was in '03!!)
GreyGabe, edit the comercials out on your pc with a vid editing software...

same here, using it for years. first started to stream with it on my MPX220 (non-edge) and i was blown away then. About to stream one of my shows in an hour or so at work....
Just for live TV, have a decent computer. after i did an upgrade to a better processor and ram, the streams coppyness/buffering almost dissappeared. Also, having something better than DSL helped a lot too...

Vlc steam app released

Check it out on the market, search for vlc steam & convert
some comments saying it worked on their galaxy s, I can't get it to work yet, gets stuck on buffering

Works fine for me. Nice app

Can you tell me how you got the vlc side of it working? What rtsp settings e.t.c
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android53 said:
Can you tell me how you got the vlc side of it working? What rtsp settings e.t.c
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All I did was added web interface and connected from phone it's working perfectly on my Galaxy S and absolutely love it!!!
Oooh wonder if I can stream DVDs to my phone? That would be epic!

What file formats work for you?
I spent hours trying to get the damn thing to work, port forwarding, rtsp commandline codes, telenet interface, web interface. HOURS and nothing streamed atall, not even music.
What exactly was it you did? mine gets stuck on buffering and no video or audio appears
Load vlc, web interface, open media file and it worked?

android53 said:
What file formats work for you?
I spent hours trying to get the damn thing to work, port forwarding, rtsp commandline codes, telenet interface, web interface. HOURS and nothing streamed atall, not even music.
What exactly was it you did? mine gets stuck on buffering and no video or audio appears
Load vlc, web interface, open media file and it worked?
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Well for me I opened VLC on my computer and added the web interface.
Then I opened VLC Stream & Convert on my phone, went to connect and clicked scan. It found my computer so I clicked connect then just clicked browse and picked any movie in different formats (wmv, mp4, mov, avi) and it played fine... Do you have a router? Maybe it's something to do with that, I don't know? Also the only firewall I have is just Mac OS X built in one

works perfectly.
Only 2 things to correct.
the apk will stay always on. Need a task killer do close the app.
and a strange error always showing:
INFO: a processing error occurred.
Tested in my lan and externally. working good.
Amazing app. now the only thing missing is a way to reproduce the my dreambox to vlc ( easy ) and then be able to open it with vlc in my galaxy...

Got it working, didn't realize it was something as simple as HAVING to use the in built browser... damn it lol
Few bugs, annoying bitrate limit, minor sound glitches, sometimes audio goes out of sync and audio wont play for some files
Otherwise a great app, wish VNC could resize subs though, causes some issues

For the audio sync problems (or no audio at all) I forced it to Stereo under rtsp video settings and now is playing all my files fine.

kinder__bueno said:
works perfectly.
Only 2 things to correct.
the apk will stay always on. Need a task killer do close the app.
and a strange error always showing:
INFO: a processing error occurred.
Tested in my lan and externally. working good.
Amazing app. now the only thing missing is a way to reproduce the my dreambox to vlc ( easy ) and then be able to open it with vlc in my galaxy...
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Hi if you hold long Play/Pause button this is equal to Stop and than "Back" button to exit the APP
Processing error bug me too.
I will like to use this app to stream my dreambox TV-outside home network. So i Have sugestion to have different profile to stream depending of internet speed.
kinder__bueno do you find how to watch dreambox stream on Galaxy S?

Excellent, dead easy to set up & works reasonably well. Watched a 90min film last night, the sound cut out for about 5 seconds 4 times during playback (no real biggie) Cant get sound from MKV files though, any ideas?

If the mkv have multichannel sound, you have to set channels to stereo in the settings to get sound on the stream to the galaxy s.

Why install this when you can just check "share" in windows media player and use built-in AllShare app? Or am I missing something?

brunes said:
Why install this when you can just check "share" in windows media player and use built-in AllShare app? Or am I missing something?
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Windows Media Player doesn't exist on a Linux system?

Wmp also doesn't stream many file types. Importantly not 1080p video.
Vlc encodes and streams everything
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I see in the market that there are 2 versions of "VLC Stream & Convert".
Can anybody tell me what exactly the difference is between them?
And is it possible to watch live Dreambox streams on my Galaxy S by using the VLC server and this app?
With Dogaplayer and a VLC server I can watch the current Dreambox stream on my Galaxy S over LAN, WAN and 3G/H. But I can't control it, the server only streams the Dreambox stream when it was started.

Very nice app
Minor problem (also have this with AllShare) is that I can't correct wrong aspect ratio, wide videos appear stretched (long faces).
Any way I can fix this besides re-encoding? The videos play fine (albeit letterboxed) in vlc and mplayer.

Whats the video quality like?
and does it give you a guide on setting up the web interface and all that?

works well with wifi at home but it doesnt when you try with 3g. It just stays with buffering message forever.

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Whats the video quality like?
and does it give you a guide on setting up the web interface and all that?
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Quality is good. (Air video was better)
No guide needed, just follow the steps on the page posted a few posts up.
Got myself an ipad the other day and installed Air Video on it. WOW what a great program, its so easy to use and quality is insane!!! I hope something this good will be made for android very soon.

[Q] Sorry this video cannot be played

I'm not sure how much people have tried this out yet, but has anyone managed to successfully play videos via dlna (connected media tab in galleries)
eg. i can play an avi file perfectly locally on the device.
but everytime i try to stream it via windows media server/orb media server, i get the message 'Sorry this video cannot be played'
anyone else?
maybe something htc needs to fix?

Tried resetting your router? Maybe thats it.

I tried this and had mixed results: Tversity on win 7 would serve up the videos but none would play. Normal shared folder would let me play .mp4 but not .avi
Ooer!
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lawrence750 said:
I'm not sure how much people have tried this out yet, but has anyone managed to successfully play videos via dlna (connected media tab in galleries)
eg. i can play an avi file perfectly locally on the device.
but everytime i try to stream it via windows media server/orb media server, i get the message 'Sorry this video cannot be played'
anyone else?
maybe something htc needs to fix?
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I am trying to figure out how to enable a 2nd player in the unit, on first run it pops up and asks me which player to use, but only the supplied mplayer is available, if i could get it to see say rockplayer, then these issues would go away

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I am trying to figure out how to enable a 2nd player in the unit, on first run it pops up and asks me which player to use, but only the supplied mplayer is available, if i could get it to see say rockplayer, then these issues would go away
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I agree, I'm feeling this is another bug, mainly because the local video playback using htc video player (or whatever its called) is intermittently useless. sometimes it works, sometimes it plays the first five seconds and stops, sometimes not at all. All on the same video at different times.
vplayer works fine though..
also it seems unlikely that resetting the router will help, as airvideo via my iphone works fine, but i will try later on when at home again.

Haven't tried this yet, but have you checked that you have all the right codecs installed on your pc? I know windows media player has a hard time with certain codec's and file types where as vlc player doesn't, yet i don't know how this would sit when streaming video.

dladz said:
Haven't tried this yet, but have you checked that you have all the right codecs installed on your pc? I know windows media player has a hard time with certain codec's and file types where as vlc player doesn't, yet i don't know how this would sit when streaming video.
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I think this is an issue with playback of videos on the phone, not on the computer...
If the file plays back fine on the computer, then it's not gonna be a codec problem (from the computer's side anyway).

Having this problem too. Is someone going to contact HTC?
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I have very similar results. Using Windows 7's Media Player Streamer I can browse all my videos , music and photos , but none of these can be played (the server works ok,'coz I still can play videos and other media from other PC). I've some better results with XBMC's media stream (UPNP server) the photos works fine, but still can't play other media.
I can't manage to open the DHD's video, audio or images using DLNA connection.
At the beginning I think that the problem is with codecs, but since this media is opened with no problem once it copied on the phone I'm sure there is a problem with the player playing content over UPNP connection.
I had that kind of issues with an old ubuntu install, but all was fixed when installed VLC Player, so I hope someone can make a good port of VLC to android.

I've managed to playback mp3s and looked at pictures stored on my computer via my phone, so that part is OK, but videos are a no-go, which is a shame.

Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such

Never mind...

l1nuxfre4k said:
Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such
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Well that's just stopped me buying the HTC Media Link, like htcsense.com they big this up in their adverts and then can't deliver.

Avi seems not to work, but I've managed to stream to my phone .mp4 files.

l1nuxfre4k said:
Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such
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some avi files have actually started playing. most stop within a few seconds though.. if it can do this, why not the whole video?
Also i did check DLNAs website, and they've actually certified the Desire HD as a M-DMP device. I know they've only tested it with images (according to the certificate) however the description of a M-DMP device is:
These wireless devices find and play content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS).
Examples: mobile phones and mobile media tablets designed for viewing multimedia content.
So it must be a HTC bug? (based on the fact that it DOES play the start of some files and that it is M-DMP certified..)
EDIT: well it must be a codec thing.. rockplayer plays all these files fine.. even locally the 'Videos/gallery' app can't play them all. Maybe HTC should use ffmpeg like rockplayer.. then it might just work

I spend many hours trying to figure this out , all but streaming video don't work ..any suggestions ?

Me too, but if only
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I spend many hours trying to figure this out , all but streaming video don't work ..any suggestions ?
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Me too, but if only there was a way of making vplayer (since that plays everything so far) the default player when a video is clicked on from the connected media view

Same problem here.
1. Connected Home on Samsung Omnia 2(Win6.1/6.5) works
2. Doest work on Samsumg Galaxy Tab (froyo 2.2)
3. Doesnt work on Desire HD (pic, music, video)
So can I assume its something to do with Android?

same problems here with the HTC Media Link. far too many video files play ok on my htc desire from win7 pc using Skifta.
i've been attempting to find successful filetype/bitrate settings through freemake video converter (which allows hard-coding of subtitles) with little success when pushing to the media link.
Q. does anyone know a guaranteed filetype, bitrate, size which works through media link?
Q. are there any XDA devs working on a rom to fix this thing? excellent hardware in need of a little homebrew tweak if ever there was

It works fine on my DHD with Sabsa Prime V16 no issues at all. (Audio /Video/ Photos)

[Q] VLC

Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone has managed to compile VLC for Android. From reading the forums, it seems it's getting pretty close, and I wanted to try it out, only I don't currently have a linux install to follow the comilation wiki :
http://wiki.videolan.org/AndroidCompile
Main reason is I want to be able to watch TV on my phone, as my French ISP (Free) allows streaming the IPTV using VLC. Works a treat on the PC.
So I thought maybe someone here has already done that and could share the install file.

Have you tried VLC Direct (from Market) to receive streaming media? If you are successful, getting the TV working shouldn't be hard.

Tried it, no good. If I enter the rstp address for a channel manually, it asks me what I want to open it with, it won't open it itself. And none of the players will accept it. I have vplayer, moboplayer, rockplayer and nothing works.
I could probably get it to work if I opened up the TV on the computer and then streamed it to VLC Direct, but that completely defeats the purpose.

Repurpose EVO as video streamer?

So I just picked up an HTC EVO 4G LTE, and I've got 3 OG EVO's that I'm not using. I have a few HDMI adapters as well.
Has anyone tried to turn it into a media streamer? I'm not having much luck, wanted to know what others have done.
I can use Tablet Remote to remote-control the original EVO with my EVOLTE.
I have installed HDMwIn to do native output via HDMI (and it works quite well).
The problem I am having is with the actual streaming. I've tried TVersity, PLEX, and VLC Streamer without much success. PLEX streams the video, but it looks pixelated and 'slow'.
Has anyone had success with this or is the OG EVO just not powerful enough to do this?
Most of my videos are XVID/DIVX and some MKV..

When the EVO 4G initially came out, CNet did some testing with the HDMI output and couldn't get it to play smoothly for higher resolution videos.
After spending some time encoding various file formats and sizes, we found that MP4 movie files performed the most consistently. Also, files rendered closer to the Evo's native 800x480 resolution worked best as larger videos stuttered and would not play properly on-screen.
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And this was presumably using the original HDMI-out support that HTC's API provided. I'm guessing your videos are higher resolution than 800x480? If so, a Raspberry Pi might be the right tool for this job instead of the Evo.

I have found that a server/app combo called "Emit" works extremely well for me. It's been the best solution for streaming media across my network to my EVO by far!
It plays practically anything I throw at it, handles subtitles well, and has had great video quality.

Thanks, I'll have to check out Emit to see if it's any better.
I'm currently using an older Xbox 360 with Tversity to stream my videos, but I thought it might be 'better' to use my EVO, but it's not.
I can get them to stream, they just don't look very good when output to the TV (as pointed out by the cnet reference).
No matter what I do, I get pixelation at the higher resolutions. Maybe someone will eventually make a Google TV ROM or something...it seems like all the hardware is there, just lacking the right software to get it done correctly.
Just for reference, I use PLEX to stream it, HDMIwIn to mirror the screen, and Tablet Remote to control the phone.
For just about everything else though, it works pretty well. Can run the other apps and such without any issues, it's only the streaming video. I wonder if I played them natively on the phone if they would be pixelated or not.