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Trick's done on Commercials (send video to TV)

I'm sure you've seen at least 1 commercial for the SGS3... and near the end they always show the person sharing or sending the video to a large screen tv or whatever.... how is that done? BE SPECIFIC .... Thanks

Araltd said:
I'm sure you've seen at least 1 commercial for the SGS3... and near the end they always show the person sharing or sending the video to a large screen tv or whatever.... how is that done? BE SPECIFIC .... Thanks
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I may be mistaken, but i believe it's done either via AllShare Play app or via DLNA. (settings - more settings - Nearby devices). Your TV has to be DLNA enabled - that's a fact.

Wifi direct? Both have to have wifi

de.klox yes I believe its done via Allshare. Both devices need to have wifi and tv should be a "smart" tv.

VICosPhi said:
de.klox yes I believe its done via Allshare. Both devices need to have wifi and tv should be a "smart" tv.
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Don't think is possible thru a ps3 right?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

I'm not aware of it working through ps3 unless soneone writes a mod for PS3
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

I have a Samsung TV and both my phone and the TV are connected to the same network. When i play a video using the default video player a little icon pops up in the upper left corner. I tap that pick my TV and it plays just like the commercial.

New JB has TV Mirroring through WiFi?

How is this possible? I was watching Netflix on my 360 and while looking through some photos on my phone's gallery, I noticed an icon at the top right corner with a TV, the number 1 over it, and back/forth arrows. I click it, and it stops playing netflix and put up the picture on the TV. FYI, I don't have a Smart TV.
What a nice little surprise!
I tried doing this with a video, but I get a message saying that there wasn't an available player. (maybe it was a file type compatibility issue)

SiNJiN76 said:
How is this possible? I was watching Netflix on my 360 and while looking through some photos on my phone's gallery, I noticed an icon at the top right corner with a TV, the number 1 over it, and back/forth arrows. I click it, and it stops playing netflix and put up the picture on the TV. FYI, I don't have a Smart TV.
What a nice little surprise!
I tried doing this with a video, but I get a message saying that there wasn't an available player. (maybe it was a file type compatibility issue)
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Yeah I posted this about a month ago http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946006
It was there on ICS as well. Thing is, unless you had your Xbox on and happened to be looking at pictures at the same time, you would never even see it. Works for video's and movies as well although they have to be already on the phone and you have to use a Samsung app.

Man, I'm always late to the party! Hahaha

This is old technology. It's DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). It was introduced by Sony back in 2003. DLNA uses uPNP. Samsung started using this with the Galaxy s2 IRC.

For mirroring you need the allshare cast hub, dlna just streams content.
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[Q] Very weird problem with the wifi and my network

I have my tv, my pc, my nas, my WD live and my phone all connected under the same network of course.
As I was watching a tv show, I picked the phone to answer to a what's app conversation and the tv shows frozed for 5 seconds on the TV.
I thought it was a one time case. Tonight I was watching another tv show and the same thing happened! Once I pick the phone and use its connection it makes the WD live freeze!
This must be a problem of the Galaxy nexus because I just bought it and with my old Desire S I never had this issue.
I'm on Black Bean AOKP and it uses the franco kernel. Any idea on what the problem might be?
Many thanks.

bahamut88 said:
I have my tv, my pc, my nas, my WD live and my phone all connected under the same network of course.
As I was watching a tv show, I picked the phone to answer to a what's app conversation and the tv shows frozed for 5 seconds on the TV.
I thought it was a one time case. Tonight I was watching another tv show and the same thing happened! Once I pick the phone and use its connection it makes the WD live freeze!
This must be a problem of the Galaxy nexus because I just bought it and with my old Desire S I never had this issue.
I'm on Black Bean AOKP and it uses the franco kernel. Any idea on what the problem might be?
Many thanks.
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Looks like your phone hogs all the data when you use your phone. Maybe what's app is at fault. Try doing something else that uses a lot of data on your phone while streaming on your tv (say, watch you tube on the phone) and see if you get that sudden spike in usage. If it doesn't occur, could be what's app is the culprit and you need to contact the dev or find a new app

harveydent said:
Looks like your phone hogs all the data when you use your phone. Maybe what's app is at fault. Try doing something else that uses a lot of data on your phone while streaming on your tv (say, watch you tube on the phone) and see if you get that sudden spike in usage. If it doesn't occur, could be what's app is the culprit and you need to contact the dev or find a new app
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Will do tonight. It never occured to me that it could be a what's app problem. :good:
I'll post it if I have updates, you never know on the internet who might have your same problem.

bahamut88 said:
Will do tonight. It never occured to me that it could be a what's app problem. :good:
I'll post it if I have updates, you never know on the internet who might have your same problem.
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I reinstalled what's app, looks like doing so solved the issue.

device share

Hey everyone
I have the phone about 3 weeks now and have just noticed something missing.
Up to about a week ago I had an option to show pictures and videos on my samsung d8000 smart tv and now its gone. Another thing I noticed is the samsung tv controll app has stopped detecting my tv, it previously worked perfectly displaying the tv on the phone.
Has something gone wrong? I dont think anything has changed.

open allshare app once and then you will get that option again

pakure said:
open allshare app once and then you will get that option again
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Thanks mate but I just tried that and its still the same

is wifi on?

pakure said:
is wifi on?
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Yeah it is lol.. the only thing that I can think of is I changed my tv to wifi instead of wired.
Its still on the same network..
Its frustrating now lol

Smokie365 said:
Yeah it is lol.. the only thing that I can think of is I changed my tv to wifi instead of wired.
Its still on the same network..
Its frustrating now lol
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You may need to enable it on the tv again. I have the same tv although I'm still using it wired.
Sent from my Samsung Note II.

Tomo1971 said:
You may need to enable it on the tv again. I have the same tv although I'm still using it wired.
Sent from my Samsung Note II.
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Checked that aswell and it seems good..

funny, but it works without any issues on my dlna /wifi direct enabled sony bravia 52 inch lcd tv with wifi...no wires

pakure said:
funny, but it works without any issues on my dlna /wifi direct enabled sony bravia 52 inch lcd tv with wifi...no wires
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I know its mad. The worst thing is that it was working as the cool remote with the dual view.
First I bought the note1 and the tv app didnt work, then the galaxy nexus and that didn't work, then the S3 and that didn't work. I love this phone and it worked. And now it doesnt. Nothing is flashed or anything. Just straight out of the box

pakure said:
funny, but it works without any issues on my dlna /wifi direct enabled sony bravia 52 inch lcd tv with wifi...no wires
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I know its mad. The worst thing is that it was working as the cool remote with the dual view.
First I bought the note1 and the tv app didnt work, then the galaxy nexus and that didn't work, then the S3 and that didn't work. I love this phone and it worked. And now it doesnt. Nothing is flashed or anything. Just straight out of the box

Ok so I put my tv back onto wired connection and everything is back to normal.
Its weird but if anyone comes across this issue on the same tv let me know.
Thanks for all your efforts guys

[Q] Miracast on Tab S 8.4

Ive seen so many mixed report regarding Miracast. I really like the idea but am cautious. From what i understand Netgears Push 2 TV PTV3000 is considered one of the better dongles. Anyone got any recommendations or are currently using Miracast on thier Tab S? Not entirely sure if it is even compatible. Would appreciate any feedback on your experiences and any recommendations.

I've got it. I use it. It works.
I got it when I had my Surface 2, I've continued using it with this Tab. Connects perfectly. Only thing I've noticed is that after watching a few HD YouTube videos, the sound goes out of sync with the video. I've yet to fully investigate this phenomenon, whether it be the YouTube app, the Tab, background apps etc. but can't see it been anything to do with the Netgear. I'm off on holiday now so won't be able to look into that for another week.
P.S. not sure if you could use Chromecast in the same way, but if so it would be a cheaper option.

SteveYorks said:
I've got it. I use it. It works.
I got it when I had my Surface 2, I've continued using it with this Tab. Connects perfectly. Only thing I've noticed is that after watching a few HD YouTube videos, the sound goes out of sync with the video. I've yet to fully investigate this phenomenon, whether it be the YouTube app, the Tab, background apps etc. but can't see it been anything to do with the Netgear. I'm off on holiday now so won't be able to look into that for another week.
P.S. not sure if you could use Chromecast in the same way, but if so it would be a cheaper option.
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Many thanks for your reply, did you root your Tab S?

No. And it's the 10.5

My DLink Miracast adapter works perfect with the Tab S 8.4. Remember to update the firmware after you get the adapter home. Else it'll lag like hell. After the update it works like a charm.
And Tab isn't rooted.

geoux said:
My DLink Miracast adapter works perfect with the Tab S 8.4. Remember to update the firmware after you get the adapter home. Else it'll lag like hell. After the update it works like a charm.
And Tab isn't rooted.
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Update:
After the recent Tab S firmware update, it simply stopped working. Samsung, what did you do?
Update:
After a firmware update of the Miracast dongle, it started working again. Darn.

Ah, glad it's not just me then. I tried casting to the tv the other day (I'd just rooted the day before that) and I got an incompatible hardware issue or something, thought I'd broken something. I might have had an update in the background and it's ****ed it.
I'm using the Netgear PTV3000.

possible solution
geoux said:
Update:
After the recent Tab S firmware update, it simply stopped working. Samsung, what did you do?
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please see below...i know u say that you're not rooted but if u are using custom kernel or recovery then this pertains to u too
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Ah, glad it's not just me then. I tried casting to the tv the other day (I'd just rooted the day before that) and I got an incompatible hardware issue or something, thought I'd broken something. I might have had an update in the background and it's ****ed it.
I'm using the Netgear PTV3000.
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if u are using cw/twrp/philz recovery and/or the sky high kernel then the custom images have broken your wifi...u can either install my SuperSamung V2 rom with the fix already included or edit your build prop by adding the line wlan.wfd.hdcp=disable then save & reboot

Sorry to revive an old thread, but i'm considering getting a Miracast dongle to feed powerpoint presentations to an office projector from my Tab S. Couple questions though:
1. Will it work?
2. Am I better off going the wired micro-usb-to-hdmi route?
I'd really rather go wireless so I can walk around and not worry about yanking the cable off in the middle of a meeting with top execs.

Why miracast instead chromecast? Chromecast works perfectly from the tablet or pc and has better support.
I just see miracast as a poor mans version of chromecast.

I'm also wondering about this.
For screen monitoring of e.g. games, photo viewing with Gallery of QuickPix, or tv streaming using an app provided by my cable company
I understood Chromecast is supposed to be especially good at showing content in the cloud. I forgot the exact list of supported services... Things like YouTube, picasa, Spotify, radio streams, Netflix? In this case, your tablet "refers" to the content, and chromecast does the actual downloading/streaming. Screen mirroring was added as an afterthought, and last I checked (hmm, 6 months ago) subject to a lot of disclaimers, supported only on some devices.
I understood Miracast is true screen mirroring, but the few receiver devices I looked at, mention technical limits, like (example) 15fps, which makes me doubt their use for video mirroring.
Thus I haven't bought anything yet :-\
More testimonies of miracast & Chromecast users could be interesting!

screen mirroring works fine with chromecast as long as you are not doing something effected by input/screen lag. Watching video from an app that is not natively supporting chromecasting (showbox...) is relatively simple. If you are on this forum you shoild have the ability to do it, just maybe not someone who can only facebook on their tab might have small issues. Casting pictures, slides, presentations or websites is fine too since there is no need to worry about the lag.
Gaming is annother story if you the person playing os wanting to use the tv screen then you have to pick a game with care. Any game that requires good to impossible timing (flappy anything or one finger death punch) is a great way for a masochist to have fun with out a sadist being in the room. Games that do not need fast timing like turn based strategy games or certain types of puzzle games are fine and work great. Even quite a few emulators work well like this but with the same game choice restrictions.
The screen lag you get is not anything like low fps it is input lag from the time difference it would take to simply send the information to your tablet vs the time it takes to send the information to your router and the router to send the information to the chromecast. I would assume miracast would suffer frome the same issues, though I haven't tried it yet.

acdbrn2000 said:
screen mirroring works fine with chromecast as long as you are not doing something effected by input/screen lag. Watching video from an app that is not natively supporting chromecasting (showbox...) is relatively simple.
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Interesting.
Is both screen + audio sent to the Chromecast then? Or are there audio/video sync issues... If video happens on tv but lags behind the video+audio of the tablet...

The audio went out of the tv when I did a cast using cast screen. Most of the casting I do from my device uses uPnPlay a wonderful free app that is as good as most if not all the paid upnp apps (bubble upnp/ allcast). I have never had any issues with audio desync using that app.
when I did a sceen cast with show box I did have a streaming hicup (a slight stutter) once or twice but that may have been due to my old router (wrt54g) and not so much the chromecast.

fred_be9300 said:
Interesting.
Is both screen + audio sent to the Chromecast then? Or are there audio/video sync issues... If video happens on tv but lags behind the video+audio of the tablet...
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Never had any sync issues casting with chromecast.
In most situations you would never have to screen cast as chromecast can pretty much cast anything web or local natively.
Presentations is really the only use I can see for screen casting.

ashyx said:
In most situations you would never have to screen cast as chromecast can pretty much cast anything web or local natively. Presentations is really the only use I can see for screen casting.
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as I mentioned earlier, my TV cable provider, has an app that streams live TV. We have a 2nd TV in the bedroom for which we don't have a decoder box, but I hope I could screenmirror the TV stream that I can get through the App (audio&video).

fred_be9300 said:
as I mentioned earlier, my TV cable provider, has an app that streams live TV. We have a 2nd TV in the bedroom for which we don't have a decoder box, but I hope I could screenmirror the TV stream that I can get through the App (audio&video).
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It should work fine for that then. You may get the occasional hiccup depending on many things but for the most part I do not see any reason why it would not work for you.

fred_be9300 said:
Interesting.
Is both screen + audio sent to the Chromecast then? Or are there audio/video sync issues... If video happens on tv but lags behind the video+audio of the tablet...
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So I caved and bought an Chromecast (CC)
Findings:
- screencast works fine most of the time. Transfers audio and video, and keeps good sync. But some applications cause a crash and reboot of the tablet (e.g. mirroring of MX Player playing a video)
- casting youtube works fine.
- the app I was most interested in (a TV streaming app of my local TV cable company) in fact does both Chromecasting, and works in screen casting mode. Hurray)
- good wifi reception is needed on both the tablet and the CC
and a general point
- according to reading around, it's not possible to use the CC without active internet connection, not even for local screencasting. Technically, it seems unnecessary to have an active internet connection on the WLAN that connects both the CC and the tablet (or pc), for local casting or screencasting. Read more at e.g. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/XRktmNTk0QY
Sorry to take the thread off-topic from Miracast - but I think it's interesting to hear testimonies of both Chromecast and Miracast, to compare
regards