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
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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
silashack said:
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
mexlamri said:
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)
Hi
I have some issues in the video recorded by GS2 device. It works fine and excellent when i play it in my GS2. I copied the mp4 files to my laptop and when i play it using VLC media player, it plays fine for few seconds and it freezes. After some time it plays back fine. The freezing part if puerly random Its happening for all the mp4 files that i copied over to my laptop.
I dont have any issues playing other mp4 files from my laptop using VLC player. Is anything/any settings needs to be changed?. Do i need to use different player?. Please help.
Thank you
that's your laptop codec issue
download CCCP and install it
VLC is not the greatest player, i use Zoom player, or the plain media player classic included with CCCP
VLC is one of the worst player ever (IMO)
[Q] T-Mobile Galaxy S2 plays choppy videos?
I have the T-Mobile Galaxy S2 that I just got like 2 weeks ago.
I have played videos using the VEVO app, Youtube app, youtube on the web, and watching Netflix.
All the videos I play seem to play choppy videos. My friend said it might be my bandwidth. I tried on my wifi, and also when connected to HSPA+. But when I do speedtests on T-Mobile's network, I get as high as 21Mbps down. Videos still choppy at times.
Is it the phones screen, or TouchWiz UI, or the T-Mobile ROM itself? I want the videos to play clear like on my old Nexus One, ipad 2, and like on my PC.
See? The problem is you have an ipad, as soon as you get rid of it it will play videos like magic. Ipad sends signals in teh air!
Sarcasm
What?
I am watching videos from online. Not videos that Ive put on the devices.
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...
Hi,
I've noticed that while using netflix on my stock GPad (original not GPE), the audio and video do not properly match up. It's annoying to the point where I don't want to use the app. This also happens on the WatchESPN app, although I don't use that one as much so I don't really care. I even downloaded an older Netflix apk and it helped the problem slightly, but it's still noticable. The audio syncs fine in other apps and movies I have stored on my device. I was wondering if anyone knows about a solution to this that doesn't involve rooting.
I have noticed this so far in vevo and twitch apps, I can't stream videos on the high video quality level. I get audio but no video. I have a nexus 10 as well, and using the same apps, same wifi connection they stream perfectly fine, so it isn't the Internet connection. Both apps are up to date as well. Any idea what is going on?
Stock rom, rooted on both the note 10.1 and nexus 10. Something with the Samsung rom maybe?