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Just installed the pre beta of XBMC on the N7! For a pre beta, this app is really polished. Some buggy touchscreen things on the main skin but the touch skin works awesome. I set up my smb share and it recognized and downloaded all the info for my movies and TV shows. Can't wait to see how this app turns out when its out of beta!
Might I ask where you got the apk from?
I don't suppose its the same as this one is it?
Just about to try that on my N7...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772433</p><p>
Tested on N7
Tried it out, and it did work with SMB shares right away. Always have loved XMBC on many of my home network devices (wife does too). The resolution needs some work and it would not landscape correctly but all other loved XBMC options were there and it looks really promising! Nice work to the Devs!
Thanks for the heads up, this is exactly what I needed!
Love it!
New to xbmc..
If I'm running xbmc w upnp enabled on my Linux computer, how can I access my videos through the network with this app? Or is there a better way to do this
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jewnersey said:
New to xbmc..
If I'm running xbmc w upnp enabled on my Linux computer, how can I access my videos through the network with this app? Or is there a better way to do this
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You shouldn't need xbmc on another machine to get it to work on your android tablet, within xbmc video(or music and pictures), click on on add videos and the choose source and navigate(through SMB shares) to get to the share you want to add. This link will explain how to set it up: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_videos_to_the_library/Adding_media_sources
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You shouldn't need xbmc on another machine to get it to work on your android tablet, within xbmc video(or music and pictures), click on on add videos and the choose source and navigate(through SMB shares) to get to the share you want to add. This link will explain how to set it up: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_videos_to_the_library/Adding_media_sources
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Thanks was looking for this guide. Do you know if XBMC host will convert vids on the fly for better streaming thru 3g/4g hotspot to my N
7
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Thanks was looking for this guide. Do you know if XBMC host will convert vids on the fly for better streaming thru 3g/4g hotspot to my N
7
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xbmc is not a host/transcoder software. it plays media, it doesn't stream it to other devices. as another poster mentioned, you are accessing media directly from the smb shares.
OK thanks for your reply. I am relatively new to xbmc. I came from tversity due to the massively better library functionality of xbmc.
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I tried the XBMC on the N7 and agree it works well! Going forward, I doubt I'll use this because if I want to watch movies, I just play them via my JB'd Apple TV2 running XBMC. I do however love using the XBMC Official Remote app on the N7. Makes browsing libraries so much easier.
Everything works for me. I, using the channel one repository but I'm only getting the video yo play in SD.. how do I gry HD playback?
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Newer build running extremely well.
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/1/topics/136#post-1058
bclark said:
Newer build running extremely well.
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/1/topics/136#post-1058
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Found my Windows share and scraper worked. Playback is smooth even with my big 1080p mkv files.
Impressed.
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Found my Windows share and scraper worked. Playback is smooth even with my big 1080p mkv files.
Impressed.
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Can I ask how you got smooth playback? XBMC seems to be only working in software mode as my 720p files are very choppy in this yet smooth in BS Player.
Have anyone made hulu work on it?
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this is the first time i see somethign like this, just a quick question, can share video from my laptop to the n7?
goku16 said:
this is the first time i see somethign like this, just a quick question, can share video from my laptop to the n7?
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Yes you can share videos from your laptop - You can use SMB shares on Windows by setting up a workgroup. Have a look at the XBMC forums as they have a lot of wiki pages with a lot of info.
Hi,
I have Samsung smart TV at home. My other Android device (Samsung Galaxy S3) is able to stream on demand to the TV with the Samsung app named Allshare. But that's a DLNA application and we have other DLNA apps for non-Samsung devices like Nexus 7.
For example, iMediaShare is a good DLNA server app. I can connect to my Nexus 7 from my TV, when I run DLNA app on the NExus 7.
However, I can't send photo or video to the TV on demand, as in the Samsung DLNA app (Allshare)
Is there a good DLNA app for Nexus 7 which could do what Samsung Allshare does ?
Thanks.
Maybe Skifta is what you are looking for
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Paulikid said:
Maybe Skifta is what you are looking for
Sent from my paranoid N7
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From what I read about skifta, I understand that it's not DLNA but uses a proprietary protocol, which works with only it's own server-client software. I need plain DLNA which works with TV's DLNA client.
Why dont you try twonky? Works fine for me
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brat komplex said:
Why dont you try twonky? Works fine for me
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does it have the capability of pushing a file (photo for example) from the Android device to a DLNA player (TV) ?
You can try BubbleUPnP. It sets your tablet as a UPnP server.
jhychin said:
You can try BubbleUPnP. It sets your tablet as a UPnP server.
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already tried. it's not what I'm looking for.
I need a DLNA server. But a DLNA server with push abilities.
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From what I read about skifta, I understand that it's not DLNA but uses a proprietary protocol, which works with only it's own server-client software. I need plain DLNA which works with TV's DLNA client.
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skifta can do all you need i'm using it on my gnex and N7 and connect great with my samsung smart tv es8000 allshare app.
you can send photo/video/music to the tv from n7....(open skyfta, select ource N/, select player smart tv, then browse your file and tap on the desidered )
or if you want to act from tv: open skifta on your n7, it will trasform your android device into a multimedia server named 'skifta'; open all share on sammy tv and you will see 'skifta' server, select it, browse your n7 files and play it! very easy man
after skifta installation, in the 'share menu' of your N7 will appear the entry 'skyfta' you can use it to share from gallery, file browser etc
sorry, it's only in Italian, but you can easly see how skifta work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWkTn0SY7M&feature=g-user-u
I HAVE A samsung with all share . bubble up will do the following ..
with bubble up connected to the tv thru wifi .. i can send video from my desktop pc wired to the same network. thru the tablet and output on the tv wireless.. it Just works... I do have custom kernel.. not sure if it has anything to do with it or not . Not tried it on stock.. I discovered this to work with my acer a500 . one day when i went to connect it i thought i had plugged in the cable watched a move then realized it was NOT Plugged in ..
SO im not sure how but it JUST WORKS. the all share does not really show where the connection is coming from.. Guess it would be in the settings but i have not really looked .
there is one called Via that also worked on my acer not installed it on the nexus
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Just tried using bubble up on my vizio tv .. dlna..
it works just the same. The reason i was able to stream movies to my tv thru the tablet was . ES FILE Browser launched before hand with the network drive MOUNTED.. way Bubble up sees the files as local on the device .. pushing them to the tv is easy just browse the menu on the tv . it will show the mounted resource.. on my tv it shows /mnt/bonniespc/m/movies..
the files are on the network on bonnies pc on a seperate drive called m in a directory called movies.. On the pc we have the samsung media share server program running under windows 7 64 bit.. The M drive is a 2 tb seagate drive all of this is connected thru a 45.00 netgear router. with a dlink 8 port switch.. the pc in question is on a dedicated ip as it also host our website and ftp...
anyway GOOD LUCK GETTING it to work . it can happen ..
Thanks.
Skifta really worked for me.
It can detect the TV and push any file (photo/video) to it.
sweetpiggy said:
skifta can do all you need
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Just got a Samsung series 6 and was so disappointed allshare does not work on my N7, N10 or N4
Came across this thread - wow skifta is awesome! Works an absolute treat.....Thanks you
Try using Twonky Beam.
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Has anyone setup snesx emulator yet? I can get it side loaded but I'm trying to connect it to xbmc with advanced launcher or the rom loader without luck so far.
Yes i have run snes emulator
just push roms with ADB.
i have a video on youtube of it running.
I got retroarch working. I used the arm7 v1.0.0.2-r34. The Amazon Fire game controller did not work with it but it worked great with the XboX 360 controller. Retorarch detect the amazon game remote and you can use the D pad but the buttons don't work. I got it directly from libretro.com
I put my roms on my google drive account and linked my google drive to es file explorer cloud and moved them to the fire tv that way.
Hmmm I'm trying to avoid copying the files to the firetv, not a lot of space so was hoping to do it within xbmc so it can access the files over the network.
probably a long shot but has anyone tried the dolphin emulator on this?
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probably a long shot but has anyone tried the dolphin emulator on this?
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I tried dolphin emulator but it forcequit immediately. I can upload the logcat if you're interested.
also you can use ES file explorer to associate the emulators with the rom file types, and browse to a network share and run the roms from there. this worked with emulators with roms below a certain threshold size (N64 largest that worked) but the Wii rom and dolphin wouldn't work
Loading ROMs ?????
DeVSS said:
I got retroarch working. I used the arm7 v1.0.0.2-r34. The Amazon Fire game controller did not work with it but it worked great with the XboX 360 controller. Retorarch detect the amazon game remote and you can use the D pad but the buttons don't work. I got it directly from libretro.com
I put my roms on my google drive account and linked my google drive to es file explorer cloud and moved them to the fire tv that way.
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Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
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Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
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If you have ROMs on a network share drive on you LAN you should be able to use ES File Explorer to copy them. Or - how about dropbox?
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Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
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With the limited space on the firetv you don't want to copy the roms to the device until they add the ability to use the USB port for extending the storage.
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dot19408 said:
Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
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As MrMichaelJames says space is limited, but if you aren't copying more than a couple of GBs worth then you should be fine. That's what I've done for now. As to how to get ROMs to the Fire TV, you can use push via ADB, but that is tedious IMO. I just side loaded an FTP server and fire that up when I want to add or remove files. Then you can connect from your PC with an FTP client and just drag and drop files.
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Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
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In ES File Explorer under like network you will see a cloud option. Choose that and tell it to add your google drive. I put the apps on my google drive account and then they show up in ES File Explorer so i can transfer them to the Fire TV.
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PHP:
As MrMichaelJames says space is limited, but if you aren't copying more than a couple of GBs worth then you should be fine. That's what I've done for now. As to how to get ROMs to the Fire TV, you can use push via ADB, but that is tedious IMO. I just side loaded an FTP server and fire that up when I want to add or remove files. Then you can connect from your PC with an FTP client and just drag and drop files.
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OOOOOooooo Thanks!
I just want to get my Old School on with some Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and PacMan. A few MB at most.
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OOOOOooooo Thanks!
I just want to get my Old School on with some Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and PacMan. A few MB at most.
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This one here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rapfox.ftpsvr
Nothing fancy, but it works well. I tried a some others, but many wouldn't recognize the Ethernet connection and kept looking for a cell/wifi connection. And in case you do not know already, you can aquire the APK for any free app on Google Play using this website:
http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/
Just enter the package name, in this case "com.rapfox.ftpsvr", and then click generate download link.
Reicast works, but for some reason, it will not start any game, although they are listed.
Snes9x works great, unless image effects are selected.
ppsspp works. Most 3d games are not playable (Tekken 6, GT), but some are (Patapon 3, Ridge Racer 2).
SuperN64 works, but framerate is not rock stable.
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OOOOOooooo Thanks!
I just want to get my Old School on with some Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and PacMan. A few MB at most.
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I got Nostalgia.NES (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nostalgiaemulators.neslite) working great!
I'm using the Nyko Playpad Pro and initially, couldnt get buttons working as I wanted with the default input, I then configured the PS3 input, remapped some keys and BOOM!
Old skool SMB, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaga etc..
They claim that Wifi control may work (using your phone as a controller for multiplayer) but have yet to try it!
Emulator Parameters
I have RetroArch, and all my roms installed on my media server (Windows 7), but have not been able to get it to launch successfully on my FireTV.
So far I have been attempting to use ROM Collection Browser (RCB) to manage and launch my roms, but have reached a point where I am now stuck.
If I use the autoconfig setup in RBC it defaults my application path to /usr/bin/retroarch. As you might guess, RetroArch is not installed there.
It currently is at smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/RetroArch (where XXX is my IP address). I am able to set the path to the exe file, but the arguments
for the parameters are killing me.
In the documentation for RetroArch, it says the arguments should read:
-f -L /usr/lib/liberto/core_library "%rom" (where core_library is the approriate value for the system to be emulated)
So I tried :
-f -L /smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/ROMS "%ROM%" in order to point it towards my rom directory. Needless to say, this didn't work, and I really have no
idea what I am doing when it comes to arguments.
If someone could help square me away on setting the arguents to have RCB launch RetroArch from a remote location and have it load roms correctly,
you would be my hero. I have tried searching, but most of the help I find is directed at either running RetroArch directly from Windows, or through
Android, which I know the FTV is, but a very limited version of it.
firewire9979 said:
I have RetroArch, and all my roms installed on my media server (Windows 7), but have not been able to get it to launch successfully on my FireTV.
So far I have been attempting to use ROM Collection Browser (RCB) to manage and launch my roms, but have reached a point where I am now stuck.
If I use the autoconfig setup in RBC it defaults my application path to /usr/bin/retroarch. As you might guess, RetroArch is not installed there.
It currently is at smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/RetroArch (where XXX is my IP address). I am able to set the path to the exe file, but the arguments
for the parameters are killing me.
In the documentation for RetroArch, it says the arguments should read:
-f -L /usr/lib/liberto/core_library "%rom" (where core_library is the approriate value for the system to be emulated)
So I tried :
-f -L /smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/ROMS "%ROM%" in order to point it towards my rom directory. Needless to say, this didn't work, and I really have no
idea what I am doing when it comes to arguments.
If someone could help square me away on setting the arguents to have RCB launch RetroArch from a remote location and have it load roms correctly,
you would be my hero. I have tried searching, but most of the help I find is directed at either running RetroArch directly from Windows, or through
Android, which I know the FTV is, but a very limited version of it.
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Unfortunately dude, i've tried this many times and it doesnt work because the firetv cant launch files on LAN even though RCB is fully able to find the files. The furthest i've gotten was being able to import the roms and scrape the artwork but then after that you get a message saying that the fire tv cant launch the rom because it can't see the path
the only way it could is if somehow firetv got modded to mount network drives. otherwise your either going to have to go 1 of 2 routes
1) if your firetv is rooted, put the roms on a flashdrive and mount it onto the firetv - but doing that means u have to plug out the controller
2) ADB Push the ROMs or use cloud storage to download the ROMs to local storage
3) Use an addon to download the rom+scrape directly to the device, either advanced launcher or freeroms downloader
with that being said, if someone somehow figured out a way to mount network drives - this would be some nice information to share
EDIT: I suppose this could work as well https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lysesoft.andsmb&hl=en
I've found that all the .emu emulators work the best for the systems they're made for.
Snes9x ex is the same dev
The dev for fpse is sending me a test version to get triggers on the 360 working
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Unfortunately dude, i've tried this many times and it doesnt work because the firetv cant launch files on LAN even though RCB is fully able to find the files. The furthest i've gotten was being able to import the roms and scrape the artwork but then after that you get a message saying that the fire tv cant launch the rom because it can't see the path
the only way it could is if somehow firetv got modded to mount network drives. otherwise your either going to have to go 1 of 2 routes
1) if your firetv is rooted, put the roms on a flashdrive and mount it onto the firetv - but doing that means u have to plug out the controller
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I suppose if I went this route, I could install RetroArch directly to the FTV and hopefully avoid all these configuration issues. Do you know if sideloading RA for Android would work in this case, as it seems to be the easiest and best soultion. Plus I would gain an addition 64GB of storage from my thumb drive on the back, which would be awesome. Then I could keep all those games the I keep downloading, and move the XBMC thumbs to a remote location, freeing up additional space.
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I suppose if I went this route, I could install RetroArch directly to the FTV and hopefully avoid all these configuration issues. Do you know if sideloading RA for Android would work in this case, as it seems to be the easiest and best soultion. Plus I would gain an addition 64GB of storage from my thumb drive on the back, which would be awesome. Then I could keep all those games the I keep downloading, and move the XBMC thumbs to a remote location, freeing up additional space.
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it would work for sure..
only reason why i havent done this is because it would sacrifice the use of a bluetooth keyboard/mouse (unless there was one that could natively pair with the firetv without needing a dongle)
Hi everyone. I just noticed that my xbmc fire tv can't download subtitles in the movie folder over SMB. Seems like a write permission issue but it works with other machines running windows. Maybe its an android issue?
I can delete a file just fine with xbmc. It's just the subtitle addon that i have a problem. I did a search about this issue and couldn't find a solution. Maybe using NFS to share my files but that seems too complicated on windows. Or use a local folder inside the fire tv to save my subtitles but thats not ideal since the subtitle wouldnt be available to my other machines.
Anyone have this same problem?
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Have you tried different subtitle sources? I've had trouble in the past downloading subtitle, but apparently it's just right at the moment when the server I'm downloading from was down. I added a different source and that one worked.
The problem is not with service. But xbmc for some reason cant save the subtitle file on the movie folder over smb. Even though i set the permisions for this.
Anyway i gave up trying to fix it and just learned how to create a NFS share in windows using haneWin NFS. Now everything is working fine.
Thanks
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Ah okay. I guess I saw the thread title and then just tuned out your actual message I myself have been using smb without a problem so it's good that you've found a solution!
I have the same problem.
XBMC cant access my SMB share for writing. XBMC has all the rights. I seems it has something to do with the firetv. Now i have to download the subs again when i want to re watch the video, its really annoying.
Does someone have a solution?
In the end i use the NFS protocol in my windows pc to share the folders. This way i can write the subs file just fine.
I tried a LOT to see if i could fix thr smb permissions but in the end i gave up. I am using haneWin NFS to share my folders using nfs. It works fine.
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Ok. I will try that thank you.
thats weird, im using SMB share and it has no problems with subtitles. you shuold double check you have the right permissions in XBMC
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thats weird, im using SMB share and it has no problems with subtitles. you shuold double check you have the right permissions in XBMC
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Are You sure you dont have any issues? because the subtitles work fine until you watch the movie again and realize there is no subtitle because it wasnt actually saved in the same folder.
And are your movies shared from a windows pc? Anyway i havent tried it again to see if this issue was fixed recently. It can be a lot of things (windows version, wifi settings, permission seyyings etc etc)
But like i said its working fine now but im using nfs
Which Windows Version do you have? I have Windows 8.1.
EDIT: Ok I tried NFS. It works fine now. TY. Strange why it doesn't work with SMB although I set the right permissions..
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Are You sure you dont have any issues? because the subtitles work fine until you watch the movie again and realize there is no subtitle because it wasnt actually saved in the same folder.
And are your movies shared from a windows pc? Anyway i havent tried it again to see if this issue was fixed recently. It can be a lot of things (windows version, wifi settings, permission seyyings etc etc)
But like i said its working fine now but im using nfs
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no problems, i can see the subtitles are getting written on the folder of each movie/episode and rewatching them loads them up automatically.
not using windows pc, i have a router (RT-AC68U) sharing a hard drive., currently using wired lan, but i had no problems with wifi before i switched
Ok thanks for your reply. Seems like the problem is maybe sharing from a windows pc. I use windows 8.1 too.
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Been trying to get this working for a while now. My goal is to have an SMB share on my Nexus 5x that I can access from ie my PS2/PS3. I have some movies on my n5x I want to stream.
I've tried sambadroid, Samba server, Samba filesharing, andsmb and many other apps.
Is there a way to achieve this?
Why don't you use DLNA instead?
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Why don't you use DLNA instead?
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DLNA doesn't work on PS2.