Hi guys
I have recently come from the Windows mobile systems to Android (because WP7 is kack), I used to log into my Windows Home Server and stream movies from it to my phone using WebGuide.
This method doesn't seem to work on Android, does anyone know of any applications for Android or Windows Home Server which will allow me to do this again?
Most movies are home made and have been converted to .mp4 or .wmv formats but I do have a couple of .avi movies too.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Terry
I have had luck with the mp4 streaming server from the tools4movies website. Streams well over wifi and will do 3G if the quality is reduced enough. It might suit most of your needs
Never found an Android app and was considering a Windows 7 phone since it is supposed to work well with WHS V2, I have decided to stick with Android.
terryd1980 said:
Hi guys
I have recently come from the Windows mobile systems to Android (because WP7 is kack), I used to log into my Windows Home Server and stream movies from it to my phone using WebGuide.
This method doesn't seem to work on Android, does anyone know of any applications for Android or Windows Home Server which will allow me to do this again?
Most movies are home made and have been converted to .mp4 or .wmv formats but I do have a couple of .avi movies too.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Terry
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If you can install VLC player on your server, you can watch your movies with VLC S&C Free app for your DHD. You can play anything with that - mp4, avi, wmv, mkv... you name it.
This is probably old news now but for anyone who wants to know, I finally found an app that works.
It's called Subsonic, it works on port 4040 on your media center/WHS box and streams perfectly for music and video - it doesn't say that it supports video as it was originally designed just for music but it works impressively none the less.
Subsonic also has a trick up its sleeve which allows you to watch live tv directly from your tv tuner, from what I can tell this only works from Media Centre machines itself with a HD Homerun box which allows TV over IP.
I hope this helps anyone who comes across this article.
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What media server is subsonic connecting to? I can't get it to see twonky
None, it just sits on my Windows Home Server and streams my personal music and movies directly.
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Hi there, I have tried to share my files in the DHD with PC using DLNA with Windows media player and there was no problem to see PC files in DHD., but can't see any from DHD on Media player... any ideas why DLNA works only one way? Thanks... (same with Nero mediahome too)..
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skifta Best DLNA server/client app that i have found for andrioid devices.
Ive been using Twonky since I upgraded my TV, use it on my LAN from PC and it works fine on on phone too
Never heard of Skifta though, will have to give it a try
..tried skifta too,but still...cant find player..again,can only operated with files from PC,watch them on the phone,can watch anything from phone on PC,WMP dont react..
I have and HD7 and have until now not been able to install or run DLNA.
After the Hub update which just appeared its now workin
its been working for me since shortly after the official release of mango.
it only streams music (MP3) to my Sony Blueray Player (BDV-E370). If i try Photos or videos, it fails. in the statusline it displays, that my player doesnt support this filetypes. But i i know that th eplayer can use JPG Files. Dows anyone knows a workaround?
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I have and HD7 and have until now not been able to install or run DLNA.
After the Hub update which just appeared its now workin
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DLNA doesn't depend on HTC Hub.
I found once I updates my drivers through Zune it then worked perfect.
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I have been running one of the leaked HTC Roms, not seen any update appear but should I be seeing one (european version)
same here, unable to install previously, now it can..
Can this DLNA app be installed on unlocked (dev unlocked) Samsung Focus v 1.3? If so, where to find this app? I can't find it in marketplace/xap.
What I would like to do is send files to my GN via my wireless network (movies, music files, pictures etc) and also stream files directly (i.e .mkv 720p video files). Would be very happy if you could point me in the right direction!
GN_ICS said:
What I would like to do is send files to my GN via my wireless network (movies, music files, pictures etc) and also stream files directly (i.e .mkv 720p video files). Would be very happy if you could point me in the right direction!
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I'm not so sure about streaming, but for transfer, Dropbox may help.
bennettm89 said:
I'm not so sure about streaming, but for transfer, Dropbox may help.
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Problem with that is, I first have to upload to the Dropbox servers and then download from the phone. What I want is a faster method since my upload speeds are very slow. I am thinking along the lines of a ftp server perhaps, but not sure if that is the best option?
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Problem with that is, I first have to upload to the Dropbox servers and then download from the phone. What I want is a faster method since my upload speeds are very slow. I am thinking along the lines of a ftp server perhaps, but not sure if that is the best option?
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FTP seems that you would go through too much trouble setting it up just for that. I see your point about upload speeds though, and you are correct. I can't say I know of any other solution .
there's an app I use. its called wifi file explorer. you can use it to transfer files from your PC to the phone over wifi
If you are just looking to stream videos, look into mirage beta in the market, and use it in conjunction with a windows app called "air video server" it works great together, and it will even transcode subtitles, and transcode on the fly high res video down to something more compatible for streaming with. This setup is especially nice because you can stream your entire video collection at will to your phone, and not use up any space on the phone at all, (provided you have network)
For normal files, wifi explorer or dropbox work fine. If you want, you can even run a FTP server on your android device and connect into it from your computer using the IP address of your phone.
I use Plex - not only transcodes but the grabs box art, descriptions etc. and has a very slick interface. Might be overkill for your needs though...
Wifi file explorer is really nice for just getting general files to the phone. There's also a DAV server available (forget the name of it) so you could then mount the phone as a drive and copy directly.
ES File Explorer, all you needs in 1 app. Streams mkvs perfectly with dice player, no need for extra software on your PC
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ES File Explorer, all you needs in 1 app. Streams mkvs perfectly with dice player, no need for extra software on your PC
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Slightly off topic but can ES access twonky servers? Would be nice to have the dice player integration and avoid the twonky app.
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ES File Explorer, all you needs in 1 app. Streams mkvs perfectly with dice player, no need for extra software on your PC
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That doesn't seem to work on the GN. All that happens is you get a dialog that says 'Dice player has stopped' (the same file plays fine if copied to the phone).
Edit: Seems to be ICS compatibility issue..
Code:
W/dalvikvm(32485): No implementation found for native Lcom/inisoft/mediaplayer/MediaPlayer;.setDataSource (Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Map;)V
D/AndroidRuntime(32485): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(32485): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a531f8)
E/AndroidRuntime(32485): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(32485): java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: setDataSource
E/AndroidRuntime(32485): at com.inisoft.mediaplayer.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(32485): at com.inisoft.mediaplayer.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime(32485): at com.inisoft.mediaplayer.VideoView.p(Unknown Source)
Hi, try mobo player for the streaming part
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Does the Galaxy Nexus not feature dlna? That sounds perfect for OP's needs. Older androids feature this out of the box.
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Does the Galaxy Nexus not feature dlna? That sounds perfect for OP's needs. Older androids feature this out of the box.
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If you're talking about Allshare, that only comes with TouchWiz not stock Android.
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If you're talking about Allshare, that only comes with TouchWiz not stock Android.
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no I mean dlna, you use it to stream video, pictures or music over wifi. For example I connect my x10 to wifi and enable dlna and activate dlna on my TV and I can then browse through my phones media contents and play them.
Was just looking through the settings on nexus and couldn't see it but also found wifi direct here's a good http://www.wi-fi.org/Wi-Fi_Direct.php its not the same as dlna, can't find it anywhere in the phone. Surely it has it?!
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Does the Galaxy Nexus not feature dlna? That sounds perfect for OP's needs. Older androids feature this out of the box.
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I actually use Upnplay and Moboplayer on my Nexus S (and Ps3 media streamer on my PC) to stream MKVs from my desktop to my phone. Works pretty well and it's via dlna.
BinaryTB said:
I actually use Upnplay and Moboplayer on my Nexus S (and Ps3 media streamer on my PC) to stream MKVs from my desktop to my phone. Works pretty well and it's via dlna.
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No sign on any settings for dlna or galaxy nexus, should be under settings/wireless and networks. Unless those apps have some kind of dlna built in to them? I want to use dlna just I can't find it or know if its even supoorted
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I actually use Upnplay and Moboplayer on my Nexus S (and Ps3 media streamer on my PC) to stream MKVs from my desktop to my phone. Works pretty well and it's via dlna.
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do you mean ps3 media server? and if so, can you tell me how it works on your phone? I have it on my PC and it works great on my ps3
Don't care about not included DLNA Apps. So far my experience was that most of the DLNA Apps the manufacturer added were crap :/
But well, there is one which worked always pretty well for me. It's the app "Skifta" by Qualcomm
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skifta.android.app
Try this in combination with a good videoplayer (Diceplayer,Vplayer,Rockplayer) and it should work pretty fine. This way I could always stream my videos from PC to my Android phone without any problems. Just share the media in windows media player or any similar software which supports DLNA.
Couldn't test skifta on ICS so far because I'm still waiting for my phone but I hope it runs as well on ICS as it was running on older Android versions.
MysteriousDiary said:
Don't care about not included DLNA Apps. So far my experience was that most of the DLNA Apps the manufacturer added were crap :/
But well, there is one which worked always pretty well for me. It's the app "Skifta" by Qualcomm
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skifta.android.app
Try this in combination with a good videoplayer (Diceplayer,Vplayer,Rockplayer) and it should work pretty fine. This way I could always stream my videos from PC to my Android phone without any problems. Just share the media in windows media player or any similar software which supports DLNA.
Couldn't test skifta on ICS so far because I'm still waiting for my phone but I hope it runs as well on ICS as it was running on older Android versions.
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Legendary, had an update 28/11/11 to support ics. Your a star for sharing, about to test now
It works!! Thanks man
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rock7632 said:
do you mean ps3 media server? and if so, can you tell me how it works on your phone? I have it on my PC and it works great on my ps3
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Whoops, sorry, yeah, that's what I meant. Let me check my settings... I installed it a while ago and once it worked, I haven't touch it since.
On my HTPC Server, installed it, pointed it to whatever folders I want to share (currently only video for when I'm in bed at night and don't want to wake the wife with an episode of whatever), set the transcoding settings to use multi-cores, almost everything else on default.
On upnplay on my Nexus S... (horrible GUI btw), started up the app, the PS3 Media Server I just set up shows up automatically (it's all on the same wifi network, haven't tried it via 3G), click on it, my folder shares show up, I click on a video and it starts up via moboplayer.
I use moboplayer, tried a few others, found moboplayer to be the most stable for me while playing mkvs and any other video I throw at it.
A tip. I found (this was months ago, maybe it's better now with new versions) that mkv streaming of high res video on the Nexus S was unstable or really slow. So I used Handbrake to transcode a season of a show at time from MKV/720p to MP4/800x480. It was super simple, they have a phone profile you click on and voila. Downside? a bit more harddrive space it used, upside? Instantaneous playback.
Also, streaming MP4 h264 videos (which are natively supported by the Nexus S) via Upnplay would sometimes just quit the app randomly. Moboplayer was more stable in that regard too.
Hi all I recently noticed that my HTC Medialink HD (after being configured with my one x) shows up in windows 8 devices and printers.
However when I click play to on the windows 8 video player it does not detect any devices to send to.
Does anyone know a way I could get this to work??
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Thanks for your help.
DJ-Mills said:
Hi all I recently noticed that my HTC Medialink HD (after being configured with my one x) shows up in windows 8 devices and printers.
However when I click play to on the windows 8 video player it does not detect any devices to send to.
Does anyone know a way I could get this to work??
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media link hd is for watching videos from hd tvs using medialink HD device wirelessly using ur one X
faxel said:
media link hd is for watching videos from hd tvs using medialink HD device wirelessly using ur one X
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it works for me (windows 7/8 and media link hd)
bit al little different
open media player ...
play a song or a picture
on the right you have three buttons : playlist, burn, sync
the line under this buttons you have: save list and the "play to button"
press "play to" and selct the media link
now you should be able to play photos and music on the media link
jonter said:
it works for me (windows 7/8 and media link hd)
bit al little different
open media player ...
play a song or a picture
on the right you have three buttons : playlist, burn, sync
the line under this buttons you have: save list and the "play to button"
press "play to" and selct the media link
now you should be able to play photos and music on the media link
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Thanks very much, you were right. Strange how it doesn't work from the video player and only from media player. Ah well at least it works. Thanks.
MediaLink HD with other Devices
DJ-Mills said:
Thanks very much, you were right. Strange how it doesn't work from the video player and only from media player. Ah well at least it works. Thanks.
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Hi,
is there any chance to make the MediaLink HD working with other android devices different to HTC.
On my Vista-PC I can see the WiFi-Network of the MediaLink but I can't log in (don't know the Password). The default should be 1234567890 or 1234567890HTC but both are not working.
Thanks
mastamov said:
Hi,
is there any chance to make the MediaLink HD working with other android devices different to HTC.
On my Vista-PC I can see the WiFi-Network of the MediaLink but I can't log in (don't know the Password). The default should be 1234567890 or 1234567890HTC but both are not working.
Thanks
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The password you can find using an HTC phone. On my One X it was under the Media Link settings. I don't know how to get it from a non-HTC phone, but maybe try to invite someone with an HTC phone over to your place once, it might solve the problem lol.
Thanks