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Network Drive Mapping on Rhodium?

Hey guys i want to know if its possible to map a drive on my network so that i can access the files via Coreplayer to directly watch it.
Has anyone done that before? Possible or not?
Please feel free to answer, infos, tips, anything
Nice evening guys.

it's pretty easy to do locally with a good file browser. I use resco, it's a paid app but it's great. map a drive like you would on a pc with your wireless connected to your local internet, as long as the drive or folder is shared on the host pc it works great. I can watch movies stored on my pc on my tp2.
as long as you have coreplayer set as the default mp3 or whatver player as well.

majorassface said:
as long as you have coreplayer set as the default mp3 or whatver player as well.
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Do i need a registryeditor for that?

maron1981 said:
Do i need a registryeditor for that?
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No, most all media players will have somewhere in their settings the option to set the player as the default handler for different media types (.mp3, .avi, etc). Whichever media player you use, just find those settings and make sure it's set to that for whatever media types you're trying to access over the network. That way, once you navigate to the files in resco file explorer, and click on them, that player should recognize them and open to play them.

To test it just open IE and type your networkpath as URL (\\your-pc\share\mp3) and the phone should open file explorer in the mp3 folder. select a file to play and coreplayer starts. If coreplayer isn't your default player the file will be played with WMP.

This should be usefull

Best App for Streaming Video?

I have a collection of video files on my Windows XP PC that I would like to view on my A100 without downloading the multi-GB files to the Tablet.
What combination of PC server/Android player does the best job in terms of picture quality, user interface, file/format compatibility, etc.?

I use Gmote,it works great.you have the option to control the pc like a remote,or you can set it to stream from pc.uses wifi to connect.for my player i use Vplayer.
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Hooride707 said:
I use Gmote,it works great.you have the option to control the pc like a remote,or you can set it to stream from pc.uses wifi to connect.for my player i use Vplayer.
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Thanks for the reply!
I don't understand how you use Gmote - what do you run on the PC?
I will give it a try and report back..

I have been using Playon for a few years now. there are some open source variations, I'll see if I can find some links for you later today.

Update on Gmote:
You install a small Gmote server program on your PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) and the Gmote client on your tablet. You then browse the media paths you have configured on the server. You select whether to play the file on the PC or on the Android device. If you select to play on the "phone", you have to select which player app to use. I had installed Vplayer, and selected it.
Update on Vplayer:
It works, but just barely. Lots of pixellation on my A100. It seems to be designed only for playing local files from /mnt/sdcard, doesn't even "see" /mnt/ext_card.

dharr18 said:
I have been using Playon for a few years now.
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Me, too. I have the Playon server running on my Windows PC, and the free Playon for Android player "sees" the server OK. But I can't get the channels/plugins/files to play - there is no "Play" button on the Honeycomb screen!

Update:
I am having excellent results with:
- ES File Explorer to browse the media files on my PC. Once a film is selected, the File Explorer asks you which player to use.
- MX Player is the best option I have found so far. Very fast seeking, no pixellation.
Does anybody have good results with another program or programs?

Icestream is a great app to use to stream TV shows or movies. Works best with mx player or mobo player.
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I also have used vital player for the device,but i dont have any problems with the Vplayer.im using the full version,idk if that makes a diff how the player is.
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kascend video play not for tablet but it works great
even plays 1080p and mkv files

I am also having good results with Skifta (free on the Market). (www.skifta.com/)
The advantage with Skifta is it sees all of the media servers that are running on my PC (tVersity, Playon, Serviio) and lets me browse them for files and channels. For playback, I am still happy with MXplayer.

I use BS player. I can browse straight to my nas thru a file share and play a movie. No need to stream anything from a pc or upnp. Lite version is free and works great.
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+1 for BSplayer. It includes hardware acceleration for Arm v7. It has gesture control for volume, brightness, zoom.

Nice
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Any NAS drive playback app

Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4

boxer29 said:
Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4
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I don't have a NAS drive, but I'm using Tonido to access files on my home computer and external hard drive via my Tab Pro 10.1 and it works great, albeit a little slow. It is also free, has a built-in media player, and claims to work with NAS. Please search in the Play Store to make sure it comes up for your 8.4 first.
You will need to install/configure it on your computer first. It is cross-platform, and has a mobile app for Android, etc. By default it will let you access your entire computer, but you can set it to just look at specific folders/drives.
Hope this helps.

boxer29 said:
Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4
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I am using ES File Explorer to browse my NAS via SAMBA, it has built in picture viewer and media player. You can set it to play video by any other media player, as I use MX Player for video.

I use Plex. It's especially handy if you want to use it outside the house as well

explorer for albums
kortik9 said:
I am using ES File Explorer to browse my NAS via SAMBA, it has built in picture viewer and media player. You can set it to play video by any other media player, as I use MX Player for video.
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I am also looking for an app that can play whole albums over Samba/ SMB NAS. EX works ok one song at a time, but I want to cue up an album. Plex and Tonido require a dedicated PC running server. I already have the files on NAS, but want to play from a directory. Suggestions please.

rogerebert said:
I am also looking for an app that can play whole albums over Samba/ SMB NAS. EX works ok one song at a time, but I want to cue up an album. Plex and Tonido require a dedicated PC running server. I already have the files on NAS, but want to play from a directory. Suggestions please.
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I believe, ES File Explorer allows you to queue folder(s)/file(s) for playback:
- long-press the folder - ES will go into the selection mode and add a checkmark to the folder;
- optional: tap other folders/files you want to queue;
- press the overflow menu button (3 vertical dots);
- choose "Play" from the menu.

Play ripped DVD (video_ts) using Kodi on FTVS?

So I just discovered Kodi and have it running on my FireTV Stick. .Avi and .Mkv play perfectly, streamed from a shared folder on my Windows PC. I hoped to also share a directory with a few subfolders containing DVD rips. But I cannot see anything in the folder. My guess is that Kodi doesn't know what to do with the contents of each video_ts folder.
Can this be done? Am I overlooking something ovious? Is there an add-on that I need to accomplish this?
Thanks for any guidance.

demlv said:
So I just discovered Kodi and have it running on my FireTV Stick. .Avi and .Mkv play perfectly, streamed from a shared folder on my Windows PC. I hoped to also share a directory with a few subfolders containing DVD rips. But I cannot see anything in the folder. My guess is that Kodi doesn't know what to do with the contents of each video_ts folder.
Can this be done? Am I overlooking something ovious? Is there an add-on that I need to accomplish this?
Thanks for any guidance.
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You should go to the source. Try these: http://kodi.tv/, http://kodi.wiki/, http://forum.kodi.tv/.

Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out the Kodi specific forum which led me to try converting the video_ts folders into .isos. Kodi sees and plays them perfectly!
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Kodi has its supported video formats like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, but VIDEO_TS is not one of them. You need transfer to Kodi accepted files like MKV, and then stream movies to play with Kodi via network. BTW, ByteCopy is the tool I used to save all my DVD to MKV.

kodi will play ripped dvd files if you go to video, then select files (not add ons) then locate the video ts folder, then select the first video ts.ifo and the entire dvd will play. you can also play individual vobs also

[Q] I am looking for an App

I am looking for an App that I can stream the media of music and videos I have on my PC and I have tried the Plex and not all of my media showed up though that App at all

If Plex didn't work then either there is an error somewhere in how you created the Plex Sections and pointed them to your media folders or your file names aren't close enough to the Plex conventions for Plex to identify them. It's also possible that the media is in a codec or container that Plex can't work with, like .iso or .rar.
Have you tried Kodi? Both Plex and Kodi are pretty flawless for me (pointed to the same folders on my PC), but my media is (1) entirely videos and (2) pretty vanilla in terms of codecs and containers.
Mizuu is also excellent for movies and TV shows (if they are named correctly), I'm pretty sure it doesn't do anything with music.

I have Kodi but I couldn't get it find my media on my computer

Have you Shared the folders on your PC that hold your videos and music? Then in Kodi, assuming you were using the default Confluence skin, were you able to go to Videos/Files/Add Videos (or Movies, then hit the double period a couple of times to go up the folder structure, then Add Videos), choose Browse and then choose Windows network (SMB) to find your PC and the folders on your PC?
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FYI, when I do that I have to log into my PC with my username and password (the first time, I make sure I check the box telling Kodi to remember it), and Kodi always says it fails. Then I exit Kodi and follow the same path again and it remembers and let's me finish adding the folder I want.

Terry T said:
choose Browse and then choose Windows network (SMB) to find your PC and the folders on your PC?
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This is what I kept missing. G
Should work fine using "Windows Network (SMB)" , then "Workgroup", then your pc \ laptop name.
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Or you can use bubbleupnp but there's a paid version and the free one might have limitations.