At home I have a lovely media server with 2TB of video served over the network/wifi to several devices - Sony Media Player on TV, Laptops, Macbooks, HTC Desire, and now to my two HTC One X's.
To serve the streams I use Mezzmo media server, which is excellent.
As an Android client I use MX Player Pro, which is also excellent.
Everything works perfectly, except the HTC One X's keep dropping out of playback. Not other device on the network has this problem.
So, I'm trying to work out if this is to do with my other wifi droppout problem listed elsewhere on this forum (unlikely it seems to me), or if the One X has some other problem with streaming large amounts of data, or if this is a bug or configuration issue with either Mezzmo or MX Player Pro.
Two other things of note:
- I also have a problem on th One X's with BBC iPlayer dropping out of playing programmes too.
- MX Player Pro will play a long local video file on the phone without failing.
- While the One X's fail to stream reliably, on the same network/wifi and the same time, my HTC Desires continue to stream the same content without a single failure.
So, all the failures are with streaming, and from two totally separate sources and only on the One X's.
NOTE: I have two independent One X's, so this is more likely a bug than any hardware fault.
Has anyone else had streaming reliability problems with the HTC One X?
I am running a similar set up to you and have experienced the same fault. I also have MX Player (free version) and Mezzmo.
I even went a bit further and configured a network link using the mapped server settings in ES File Explorer so that I could see my files bypassing Mezzmo.
The same thing happens (no matter how i try to stream it), I could be in the living room next to the wifi router, i still get dropped playbacks / freezes. One thing I've noticed is that every so often my wifi icon on the One X disappears and then reappears. Was chalking it up to my router, but then tested my HD2 running android (Sensation XL ROM) and it streams flawlessly over wifi using the same software.
Had the same problem. I think its a WiFi driver issue. Turning WiFi off and on again fixes it temporarily for me
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I noticed similar reliability issues with HTC one x's dlna middleware and/or wifi. Vry often, WiFi crashes when a DLNA client is scanning for dlna renderers. It's almost unusable ...
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I have a stock HTC Wildfire S that got the ota update to 2.35 er so. Before and after the update I am experiencing Streaming Video/Audio Sync Issues when trying to play video through my browser and the Netflix app. The audio rolls along with no hinderance or interference while the video stops, jumps, glithches or just plays but way out of sync with the audio. I have tryed several different websites to no avail. The craziest thing is, through the Youtube app, all videos play crisp and with no flaws. This is all being done over WiFi and has been tested on several different WiFi connections. On a side note, formated videos that are on my SD card also have no issues. I have the version of flash player for my version of android installed and 30-40mb of open internal storage.
Any idea would help, ty.
Same here. I wonder if overclocking is needed to get Netflix to play decently over WiFi.
Nick
Same here, I 'm even trying to get Skype to work. My wives LG Optimus Elite can stream Skype and Netflix video just fine even over a good 3G signal.
Yet on the Wildfire just trying to do audio with Skype wont even work on WiFi.
I am regretting this phone more and more.
Kevin
Hi,
Having recently got both a One X and a new Blu Ray player (Samsung BD E5500), I've been trying really hard to get DLNA sharing to work from the phone to the Blu Ray, with absolutely no success. They're both connected to the same router, the One X wirelessly, the Samsung wired. Third-party apps like Twonky work no problem, but I can't get the HTC sharing from the Gallery, etc., to work at all - I go to "Select Player", it clearly searches for a while, and then comes up with nothing. Conversely, where the Samsung normally lists all the media servers it can find on the network, there's never a hint that it can see the phone at all (unless, of course, I'm running the Twonky server).
I emailed HTC about this yesterday, and they responded by saying that Google had forced the ICS DLNA app to be restricted to WiFi-Direct connections only, that there was nothing I could do via a router connection, and giving me a handy link to where I could buy the MediaLink HD at great expense. I've been searching and I can't find any other reference to Google doing anything with regard to DLNA & WiFi-Direct. They also insisted that my GF's Incredible S, still being on GB, would work fine over my router's WiFi to talk to the Samsung player. Unsurprisingly (as I had in fact told them in the original email), the Incredible S displays exactly the same symptoms as my One X.
So, my question is, are HTC telling the truth about this? It seems that other people on here have managed to get some kind of DLNA sharing working, if I've read the threads right. Any tips? I could understand *adding* DLNA+WiFi-Direct support (now that that's part of the standard), but taking away the ability to talk to non-WiFi-Direct DLNA players? Doesn't make sense.
Anything else I can say that will add to this, please do just ask!
Hope someone can answer.
Thanks!
Have you turned on DLNA on your blu ray player (or is that automatically enabled)? Your One X has to push media to your blu ray player, not play it.
Automatically enabled. It seems that the Blu Ray player just regularly scans for media providers and shows them in a list on the main menu screen. Certainly, that's how it handles the minidlna server on my OpenWRT router, and how it displays the Twonky server on my One X (when it's running).
I have a PS3 and Apple TV. So far, I have been unable to get the built-in DLNA on my One X to see either. I installed iMediashare, which has always worked on my other android phones and it doesn't seem to work correctly.
At this point, I can't seem to push any media from my phone to other devices.
Anyone know of an app that works, or am I doing something wrong?
Update: I have tried pretty much every DNLA app on the Play Store and none of them work. Most of them lock up my wifi and I have to reset the connection to get internet working again. WTF? Why do the simplest things (voice dialing, DNLA, multitasking) not work on this phone?
Just tested iMediashare on my One X and it is working just fine. So it shoud work...
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MEasterEgg said:
Just tested iMediashare on my One X and it is working just fine. So it shoud work...
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Yeah, I got an e-mail from the Developer. Turns out, it was something wrong with their servers. It's odd, because my Nexus was working fine at the time the One X wasn't. It's working fine for me now, too.
you have custom or stock rom, what is it?
mine work fine, I play it every day
greyhulk said:
I have a PS3 and Apple TV. So far, I have been unable to get the built-in DLNA on my One X to see either. I installed iMediashare, which has always worked on my other android phones and it doesn't seem to work correctly.
At this point, I can't seem to push any media from my phone to other devices.
Anyone know of an app that works, or am I doing something wrong?
Update: I have tried pretty much every DNLA app on the Play Store and none of them work. Most of them lock up my wifi and I have to reset the connection to get internet working again. WTF? Why do the simplest things (voice dialing, DNLA, multitasking) not work on this phone?
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Don't know if any asker still needs this, but here goes. I was also quite stumped as to how to stream media from HOX to PS3.
After quite extensive searching high and low on the interjacks, I come to these conclusions/solutions:
1. HTC purposely make it difficult/impossible to simply share media with DLNA clients JUST TO SELL their MediaLink HD.
2. For those who wants to stream their media (videos/pics/music), especially to Playstation 3 (PS3 - [for search engines]) simply download the free SKIFTA from Google Play. Instructions are straight forward, I was playing silly videos and HD trailers off my phone in no time.
Press that little thanks button if this has been helpful Thanks.
Found this thread through a search.
How is browsing other devices' content via DNLA done on the One X?
Mine is stock, S720E, CID_001 running Android 4.0.4.
From the gallery, whether viewing a picture or a movie, More > Select player shows my TV (connected to the same SSID as the One X). Hit it and it the content on my TV screen.
However from the TV, I am unable to browse the One X, like I am able to browse my SIII (GT_I9300).
Could anyone help please?
hi just wondered if i need a codec to play avi/xvid on phone plays films ok but no sound?
Instal Mx player from Google play
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many players dude,
for one theres dice player my all time favourite, theres also BSplayer
then you got mxplayer, you got mobo player to.
The top two are mostly for hw playback, the other 2 mostly for sw play but remember playing from hw uses less battery. I use Dice palyer mostly.
HTC One X Video Streaming BUG
Android is having major accruing latency in publishing audio and video frames
- it only occurs when using cellular network connection, not WiFi network
- it only occurs from Android client on cellular network, never from iOS client on Wifi and/or cellular network or Android on Wifi network
- extensive testing across multiple networks and multiple Android devices on WiFi and Cellular and we get same result every time
- occurs for certain devices, but not all devices. for instance, HTC One X has this bug. Samsung Galaxy Note does not have this bug.
- Android is playing back audio and video in realtime from iOS client but iOS client is playing back audio 10+seconds late from Android client. Only when Android is using cellular, never on WiFi.
HTC One X specs:
PLATFORM OS Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), upgradable to v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Nvidia Tegra 3
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz
GPU ULP GeForce
In the past it has worked flawless playing 720p mkv files from my home server through WiFi over SMB using the Dice Player with hw rendering, but since quite a while back I've been getting annoying audio glitches in that player with some tv shows (I think it began after an update of the app some months back) and have used xbmc (with some lag due to software rendering). But since a couple of days (weeks?) I've been having big problems playing anything on the phone.
After several seconds Dice player plays for like 1-2sec, then pauses for a while and plays another second before it says it can't play the video, the same with xbmc. I then tried to connect to my smb share (on my Win2012 server) with ES File Explorer and tried to play it both with Dice player and MX player from there but still the same even after restarting the phone.
I then tried the app "bredbandskollen" (swedish bandwidth checker) and saw that the connection to internet through wifi was ok 20-30mbit/sec both ways. Then tried on my girlfriends Galaxy SII and it worked flawless to watch movies with Dice Player from my server through wifi.
Then I tried copying the file through ES File Explorer to the phone and got like 30-50kb/sec and it said it should take several hours to copy a ~500MB file (as opposed to 11MB/s and less than 1 minute to a wired Win8 computer and 7-8MB/s on a wireless Win8 laptop).
Playing HD music videos through YouTube or downloading files from the internet works perfect so it doesn't seem to be an issue with non-SMB stuff, also everything works fine on the other Android phone (and Win8 machines) so it doesn't seem to be an issue with the server or router, so I suppose it's something with my phone?
This is with the rom BugX 5.1 (I can't swear it worked after installing that in the beginning of May, but I really think it did and it did work on earlier BugX versions).
I have since full wiped and installed ViperX 3.7.0 and had the same issues. I then full wiped again and went back to BugX 5.1 and didn't install or Titanium restore anything, but just downloaded Dice player and ES File Explorer, but it behaved the same.
I've also switched the router to the less crowded channel 13, but still the same issues. Really annoying since it has worked before on the same mkv's/phone/router/server...
Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
Edit: Just tried with the latest Skydragon 18.6 and still the same. However I did realize that it worked just as well playing in Dice Player through FTP from the same server and that seems very smooth and fast (even without the audio glitches I mentioned). I just find it very strange that the SMB seemed to get unusable all of a sudden...