I just got my Epic 4G Touch coming from an EVO 4G running CM7 and I'm having trouble with two of my favorite apps for streaming HD mkv video files from my computer which worked fine with my EVO. Can others test these apps to see if they're running into the same issues?
Emit:
https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wpn.biokoda.android.emitfree
The problem with this one is by default with "HTTP live streaming" checked in the settings it fails with an error of "something went wrong!". HTTP live streaming worked fine on my CM7 EVO, and it should work with the Epic 4 Touch since it's supposed to be a base feature of Android 2.3+ phones. With RTSP streaming the video plays but has severe tearing issues making the video unwatchable.
Qloud Media:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.qiss.vega.ad
This streaming has severe audio/video sync issues on the Epic 4G Touch. Compatibility mode in the settings menu helps a bit, but it gets worse if you try to seek the video file. Again this app worked fine on my EVO and TouchPad running CM7.
maybe try the rtsp 3g tweaks in ##3282# advanced - multimedia - change both the rtsp and httpd sprint URLs to 0.0.0.0 and both ports to 0 try that
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akaiNe-iSolutions said:
maybe try the rtsp 3g tweaks in ##3282# advanced - multimedia - change both the rtsp and httpd sprint URLs to 0.0.0.0 and both ports to 0 try that
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Thanks, but I already had those tweaks applied before even installing those apps.
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I have been wrestling with this all day and I hope someone who has this setup can shed some light on it for me. I wanted to run Darwin Streaming Server on my dedicated box and stream video files to my phone. I got Darwin up and running no problem and can successfully stream with the rtsp protocol to quicktime on my home desktop.
The issue is no matter what file I try to get the Evo to play it just says "Media Type not supported" I have done my research and made sure the files were compatible (allegedley) using h264 and aac lc as the codecs as well as hinting them. I tried with Super/Quicktime/linux ffmpeg all to the same end. The files play fine from the sd card. Even the default array of samples included with DSS didn't stream (even after hinting them). I have tried .mov,.mp4, and .3gp just for good measure with no success.
I am running Fresh's latest (0.3) and having no issues with it if it makes a difference.
This is driving me crazy as it should be playing the files....any advice or insight would be appreociated.
I just tried my EVO with my copy of Darwin and everything I threw at it worked flawlessly.
A few points to note
1) Be sure you "hint" all your movie tracks
2) Ensure that you have the proper out bound ports opened in any firewalls, etc.
But I tried, MP4 containers with the following codecs (H264, H263, MP4V (Divx)). I tried 3GP containers and I tried a MOV container with H264 codecs.
Let me know if you are still struggling on your EVO.
Rick
Just out of curiosity, have either of you gotten this working over 3G/4G (not Wifi)?
And if so are you on Android 2.2 yet?
I'm having issues with other RTSP streamers (Haven't tried Darwin just yet) over 3G (no 4G here yet), and wondered if this app might work instead.
listen i have been at this forever and finally found the best solution to watch streaming movies from my home computer....the software is in the market its called.......ready.....androstream there is a free version to test. pm me if you need (MORE) information...i can help
I just updated with the OTA to 2.2 this morning (8-03-10). Now I can not open any RTSP links with HTC Streaming Media Player, it times out and says "Unable to connect to server". I use this everyday to watch two security cameras and it has always worked fine (in 2.1). I tried two other links that i know are working and same thing.
rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVCrime3GPP296.sdp
rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVSciFi3GPP296.sdp
I did a hard reset after the update thinking something got messed up, still no go.
Can somebody try those links and see if you have the same problem? Does anyone else stream RTSP?
Thanks for any help or direction.
Not sure if it's exactly related, but using the HTC Evo 2.2 stock ROM (Rooted) and I can stream RTSP via VLC just fine over WiFi.. but not over 3G.
I tried your first link and it works over WiFi (Had to use default browser then select media streamer, Dolphin HD can't handle it at all).
Over 3G however the link gave me the same error.
It's as if RTSP was disabled over 3G.. perhaps it's not an OS but a carrier issue? (I'm using sprint)
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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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?
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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?
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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.
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i wonder if anyone can help, i FINALLY got my media link hd today and am having issues with video playback. The picture freezes every now and then - then restarts, but the audio is always out of sync when this happens. Ive tested dice, vplayer and the internal player with the same problem. Ive also tested on both networks, my 54g and wireless N network (i run two wifi networks).
ive even disabled one network to see if thats the issue.
Also the documents say you can check the firmware and update it with the advance settings, but when i access the settings "advance settings" is greyed out.
thanks for any pointers
hi, audiobookman
With the firmware update: you need to disconnect from the media link to get into the advanced settings.
And about the skipping: try a different file format. MP4 plays fine, but I'm having issues with AVIs so far (only using the gallery playback, since MX player didn't work at all).
I'm currently finding it very underwhelming. Though that my only be my over exaggerated expectations.
Hi folks,
I'm stumped on this one, wondering if anyone has seen similar issues or has any ideas.
Basically, many videos will playback with extreme stutter over wireless. I've tried every video player I can think of and I've also tried alternate sources (NAS vs desktop share). The reason I know this is only a wireless problem is I have no issues with identical clips once I copy them to a USB and play them using an OTG cable.
I thought at first it was a question of bandwidth, but I'm on wireless N and the problem persists on even a 640x480 .avi file @ 1250kbps, which wireless N should be able to handle.
Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
TLDR: Many video clips stutter only when played from a wireless source.
Bump! Anyone have any ideas?
I'm experiencing this problem to when streaming videos from the interwebz, opening them in MXPlayer.
Does anyone have a clue what this might be caused by?
Bump numero dos!
weird, i can't play youtube videos, stutters, not sure if if its the device cuz i have fast wifi connection speed, 150Mbps connection it says on my 5ghz N router
im thinking its device wifi hardware issue and not my actual home wifi network
Bump again. Find it hard to imagine nobody else is having this problem.
The stuttering is due to Google's poor implementation of video playback in the new youtube app. Uninstall all updates and use the stock youtube app for a better playback experience sans stutter.
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The stuttering is due to Google's poor implementation of video playback in the new youtube app. Uninstall all updates and use the stock youtube app for a better playback experience sans stutter.
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I don't have problems with Youtube though. Let me reiterate:
Using the same exact videos and apps:
Play a video saved to my NAS or a Windows share via wireless - playback that stutters
Play a video saved to a USB flash drive using USB OTG - playback is fine
Again, this happens even with a 1250kbps video over wireless-N, so I don't believe throughput is an issue. I get 35mbps up 21mbps down on speedtest.net over my Nexus 7's wireless.
Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.
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Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.
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Thanks, this is a good idea. I'll try a couple WAP networks at work tomorrow and report back.
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Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.
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I tried today using two different WAPs and the problem still persists. Any other ideas?
The only thing I can think of is to try a system reset. Be careful to back up your music/pictures etc.
OK, new development on this. Not sure why I didn't think of trying this before, but I did some testing with my 2012 Nexus 7. Has the exact same problem as my 2013 Nexus 7.
So at this point I'd have to think this is Android related and not hardware or environment related. Some sort of issue with passing data between the wireless hardware and the rest of the OS.
Thoughts?
Bump!
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Can you provide a little more information please? When you say you are playing it via network using the MX Player, are you supplying MX a stream url? or you simply browse to the LAN share via a file explorer and try to play the video directly?
Did you try changing the decoders in MX Player? HW/HW+/SW? HW+ works perfectly for me on Nexus 7 2013.
720p and 1080p worked just fine over network with my Nexus 7 (TP-Link 1043ND so nothing special, same old 2.4GHz N network) ..
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Can you provide a little more information please? When you say you are playing it via network using the MX Player, are you supplying MX a stream url? or you simply browse to the LAN share via a file explorer and try to play the video directly?
Did you try changing the decoders in MX Player? HW/HW+/SW? HW+ works perfectly for me on Nexus 7 2013.
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I'm browsing to the LAN share using ES File Explorer and using that to play from the shares. Do you suggest something different?
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I'm browsing to the LAN share using ES File Explorer and using that to play from the shares. Do you suggest something different?
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I have had great success with DLNA media servers. I have PS3 Media Server (totally free) installed on my server pc. My Nexus 7 has BubbleUpnP which picks up PS3 media server flawlessly. BubbleUpNp is by far one of the best UpNp and DLNA client and server I have seen till date for android device (just my humble opinion). I have set MXPlayer as the default player in BubbleUpnP settings. I can browse and play anything, and its without a stutter.
Here are the details of my setup:
-- PS3 media server installed on
-- BubbleUpnP installed on Nexus 7
-- MX Player installed on Nexus 7
That's all it takes. I have taken this setup a step further for my own needs. I store movies on my Nexus 7 since I travel in the subway and I like to watch movies on the go. Now I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and depending on where I am, I switch devices while watching movies. I would start a movie on one device and resume on the other, without actually having to store the video in both the devices. I tether a connection from my S3 and my Nexus 7 connects to the hotspot. I run BubbleUpnP on both Nexus and S3. The Nexus 7 acts as a server and sees the S3 as a client (renderer). I stream movies from my Nexus 7 to my S3. Tested with 720p movies and the result is flawless. No quality loss. Sometimes there is a momentary stutter but it goes away. It depends on how the video is ripped too.
You really don't need the S3 and N7 setup details. i just wanted to share it. Sorry for the long post. Hope it helps.