So I've checked through the forums quite a bit and I can't seem to come up with a really good way to stream movies or tv from my pc to my phone without the quality being absolute destroyed. (OrbCaster)
Is there any way of streaming from my PC to my phone without losing a ton of quality?
VLC can do it, and there's apps in the Market to remote control the program on your computer.
'Course, if you try to go beyond streaming on your LAN (ie, over 3G), forget it. Quality's pretty much always going to be crap, because consumer uplink connections suck, as does 3G in general.
Well, I have 2mbps upload at home, and at work, where I'd be watching this, I'd be on wifi with 30mbps down. Is that still too crappy to work?
Shushunmire said:
Well, I have 2mbps upload at home, and at work, where I'd be watching this, I'd be on wifi with 30mbps down. Is that still too crappy to work?
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Its not the download in most cases its the upload. I have 2mbps at home as well and a slingbox and it plays great over WiFi and OK over 3G. Consider getting a Slingbox best 100 bucks I have spent on anything like that. Works great.
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Are their any programs that allows me to stream the footy on bbc and ITV?
man i just saw my mate with a nexus one streaming it in his web browser and it was smooth as silk!! his running android 2.2 though with flash built in but our devices dont have flash!!!
http://yamgo.mobi should do you
Pretty sure there is. My provider (Optus) sent me an SMS today saying live streaming of the Fifa World Cup was free for Optus customers over mobile.
Where was he watching it? Every time I've tried watching a flash video on froyo its been like a watching a slideshow.
tvcatchup.com works on the iPhone (any freeview channel live), but not on android
That other link works though, pretty awful quality but it works
samac92 said:
That other link works though, pretty awful quality but it works
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No different to watching ITV via freeview on a normal tv then?
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Where was he watching it? Every time I've tried watching a flash video on froyo its been like a watching a slideshow.
tvcatchup.com works on the iPhone (any freeview channel live), but not on android
That other link works though, pretty awful quality but it works
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He was on vodafone 3g watching it from the same ITV website stream you watch from your pc.
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He was on vodafone 3g watching it from the same ITV website stream you watch from your pc.
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Thanks, I hadn't tried itv player yet. It's definitely far better than any other flash video I've tried so far, doesn't seem very choppy at all! The sound is out of sync with lips tho :/ but that doesn't matter when watching the football I guess
h**p://m.tvcatchup.com
The guess have got it working on 2.1 HTC Desire, watch over WiFi, great quality.
richt789 said:
h**p://m.tvcatchup.com
The guess have got it working on 2.1 HTC Desire, watch over WiFi, great quality.
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Doesnt work for me!
richt789 said:
h**p://m.tvcatchup.com
The guess have got it working on 2.1 HTC Desire, watch over WiFi, great quality.
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Got it working now. However, keep getting a weak signal notification and then the pic stops whilst the audio continues!
Anyone else finding this?
It's made my weekend already, now an England win tomorrow and that'll be the icing on the cake !!!
Any of you guys know how to make Netflix use less data? I'm willing to loose picture quality I burned to much data watching Netflix.
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On a computer go on Netflix and in your account settings you can change the stream quality
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Ya, looking for even more control with just my phone either throttling via a firewall or a modified Netflix app, when I had spring I could steam Netflix but the image was extremely pixilated and low qualify based on network speed. Looking for a way to reproduce this effect.
I don't want to change image quality with other devices on Netflix, would really like to have WiFi on my phone return to regular pic quality
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so i have a fairly new lg smart TV with built in chromecast..or their alternative..i can connect fine to it from my the phone, image comes up, looks clear, but its so choppy and stuttery that its unusable really..
the same thing happens with my asus memo pad..and one else experienced this or got any tips, cheers
I have had this problem when my internet speed just wasn't fast enough for streaming. We were suppose to have 30 mbps but in reality it was 2-3 mbps, Hargray said we lost all that speed due to it being a wireless connection. We got rid of Hargray, got TimeWarner, paid for 50 mbps, and in reality wirelessly we still got 50 mbps wirelessly and streaming was no longer a problem. This was not with miracast, but netflix and amazon streaming- but the principle is the same.
works very well with cm11.. yay
back to stock 4.6.1 and its ****, whats the difference between stock and cm11??
My WIFI internet speed test results:
Laptop (i5 4GB ram running Win7, Chrome ) - 1.08 mbps download
ZF2 (2.3GHz and 4GB ram, Chrome ) -1.3 mbps download
Even though the speedtest numbers are similar, my laptop is markedly faster in loading websites and streaming videos, especially when using multiple tabs. Actually i find streaming html5 videos relatively slow on my phone especially the initial buffer period.
For example, my laptop will start playing a video as soon as i click on it, while a similar video will take at least 40 seconds to start playing on my phone. Worst still, if i seek a different time stamp, it will buffer again wasting my time and annoy the heck out of me. Streaming HD videos, naturally is out of the question.
Is this normal or is there something wrong with my phone? I just upgraded from a galaxy s2 btw and so far, i find the upgrade rather unremarkable tbh.
Hey guys! I'm on a Verizon UDP rooted and tethering enabled. I have always tethered to give my tablet connectivity for Netflix. Previous phones (I.e. Nexus 6, 6p) my normal data usage was 40-50 GB per month. If I didn't watch a lot of videos it would obviously drop.
Anyway, I just wrapped up my first month on the Pixel XL. To my complete surprise, my data usage was 200+ GB. I checked the usage and it's all from tethering/portable hotspot. Yesterday alone, the usage was 8 GB. I was comfortable using 50 GB. I don't wanna be the guy eating up 200+ GB in a month though.
Anyone else ran into anything like this? I don't know what could be different between the Pixel and the Nexus 6p that would cause Netflix to gobble up so much more data. My usage has not changed. I haven't tinkered with any data saving settings on Netflix or on either phone. I'm honestly not sure if it's an issue with the Pixel XL or something that happened in a Netflix update since Christmas. Since the tablet is wifi only, it doesn't have the Netflix cellular data settings in the app setting. I'm baffled...
Is it possible Netflix is just streaming at a higher resolution? Maybe you get better download rates with the pixel. Maybe they added a tower coincidentally at the same time you got the pixel. If you still have the nexus you could stream a movie and check your data usage then stream the same movie with the pixel to compare.
Could be Netflix running at a higher quality, however I have no way to change the quality...So that would be a Netflix update issue. It's definitely not a new tower boosting the network speed in the last month. I'm in a different city everyday, so they surely haven't added that much to the network. Maybe I can try the streaming from both phones this weekend. That would at least confirm if it's something with the Pixel, or some greater unknown problem.
I called Verizon asking about my plan the other day and asked if there planning to take my ud away anytime soon. She told me that they are sending out letters to people using over 100_150 a month. Taking them off ud or cancel them completely. Wonder if there's any truth to that
I read that somewhere as well. Yet another reason I want to figure what's changed and get my usage back down to a reasonable amount. Obviously I could just stop watching videos. I'd much rather find the cause of a 1 hour episode quadrupling in data usage from December (Nexus 6p) and January (Pixel XL).
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Anyway, I just wrapped up my first month on the Pixel XL. To my complete surprise, my data usage was 200+ GB. I checked the usage and it's all from tethering/portable hotspot. Yesterday alone, the usage was 8 GB. I was comfortable using 50 GB. I don't wanna be the guy eating up 200+ GB in a month though.
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Is your hotspot password protected or open? Could someone be connecting into your hotspot?
Have you looked in settings to see what cause your data to flare up?
Great thought, but yeah the hotspot is password protected. Setting shows basically all of the data usage is from tethering.
Apparently Netflix lists that HD shows over wifi use up to 3 GB per hour. This actually sounds in line with what I'm getting on my high usage month. I wonder if something changed in the Netflix app on my tablet (an update) where it's now streaming full throttle...Maybe before, it acted as though it was using cellular data and set to run a lower resolution. Now it thinks it's on home wifi and it's streaming full HD to my same old tablet.
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Great thought, but yeah the hotspot is password protected. Setting shows basically all of the data usage is from tethering.
Apparently Netflix lists that HD shows over wifi use up to 3 GB per hour. This actually sounds in line with what I'm getting on my high usage month. I wonder if something changed in the Netflix app on my tablet (an update) where it's now streaming full throttle...Maybe before, it acted as though it was using cellular data and set to run a lower resolution. Now it thinks it's on home wifi and it's streaming full HD to my same old tablet.
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That's pretty much what I was saying. Netflix will stream at the highest quality possible so it's likely that something changed, maybe related to your phone, around the same time you got the phone and Netflix noticed that it CAN stream at a higher vibrate so it did.
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That's pretty much what I was saying. Netflix will stream at the highest quality possible so it's likely that something changed, maybe related to your phone, around the same time you got the phone and Netflix noticed that it CAN stream at a higher vibrate so it did.
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Can you lower the stream resolution? I've never gone above 20....and since December I've been pushing @40. Only a few for tethering. I'm finding the NBC sports app is racking it up for me
On a wifi only tablet, the Netflix app does not have the option to adjust data usage by changing the video quality. There is an entire Netflix profile option to change the resolution. The downside is that this lowers the resolution for every device you steam to....So using low quality will suck when you go home and fire up Netflix on the 65" 4k TV.
Today I used 9gb of data while watching maybe 3 hours of Netflix video on my tablet. I phoned Netflix this past weekend to express my concern. The lady kept me on the phone for about an hour, and the final word was they hadn't made any changes on their end. I'm really convinced that going from the Nexus 6p to the Pixel XL would not cause the hotspot to use quadruple the data on Netflix.
I'm just completely bummed over this and at a complete loss.
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On a wifi only tablet, the Netflix app does not have the option to adjust data usage by changing the video quality. There is an entire Netflix profile option to change the resolution. The downside is that this lowers the resolution for every device you steam to....So using low quality will suck when you go home and fire up Netflix on the 65" 4k TV.
Today I used 9gb of data while watching maybe 3 hours of Netflix video on my tablet. I phoned Netflix this past weekend to express my concern. The lady kept me on the phone for about an hour, and the final word was they hadn't made any changes on their end. I'm really convinced that going from the Nexus 6p to the Pixel XL would not cause the hotspot to use quadruple the data on Netflix.
I'm just completely bummed over this and at a complete loss.
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Netflix should be using lower bandwith when connected through data. On Wifi it will whatever your settings are on the website account settings. I think you are going to have to change it up and down via the site when you are on the tablet or at home. You may also look for hotspot software that can restrict data rate to other devices.
Good Luck.
That's what I'm thinking as well. The unfortunate hassle of changing the account settings. It's just strange how it wasn't like this a month ago. Then something happens and the data use goes through the roof.
ctrl+alt+shift+s while streaming a video on netflix will bring up a menu which will let you change your video settings including video bandwidth and audio bitrate
At least they warned you, I remember when they used to sneak a fair use policy into the contract. Take the quality down a notch and you'll be fine.
Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem with my Pixel XL. I use tethering when traveling for business and notice too that just by doing my business activity I'm using more than double the data than on my Nexus phone. It is Andriod OS that is using about the same data then the tethering option. I called Google support and was told that this is a known issue and that Google is working on a fix