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One X as a DNLA/Streaming Client - reliability problems

At home I have a lovely media server with 2TB of video served over the network/wifi to several devices - Sony Media Player on TV, Laptops, Macbooks, HTC Desire, and now to my two HTC One X's.
To serve the streams I use Mezzmo media server, which is excellent.
As an Android client I use MX Player Pro, which is also excellent.
Everything works perfectly, except the HTC One X's keep dropping out of playback. Not other device on the network has this problem.
So, I'm trying to work out if this is to do with my other wifi droppout problem listed elsewhere on this forum (unlikely it seems to me), or if the One X has some other problem with streaming large amounts of data, or if this is a bug or configuration issue with either Mezzmo or MX Player Pro.
Two other things of note:
- I also have a problem on th One X's with BBC iPlayer dropping out of playing programmes too.
- MX Player Pro will play a long local video file on the phone without failing.
- While the One X's fail to stream reliably, on the same network/wifi and the same time, my HTC Desires continue to stream the same content without a single failure.
So, all the failures are with streaming, and from two totally separate sources and only on the One X's.
NOTE: I have two independent One X's, so this is more likely a bug than any hardware fault.
Has anyone else had streaming reliability problems with the HTC One X?

I am running a similar set up to you and have experienced the same fault. I also have MX Player (free version) and Mezzmo.
I even went a bit further and configured a network link using the mapped server settings in ES File Explorer so that I could see my files bypassing Mezzmo.
The same thing happens (no matter how i try to stream it), I could be in the living room next to the wifi router, i still get dropped playbacks / freezes. One thing I've noticed is that every so often my wifi icon on the One X disappears and then reappears. Was chalking it up to my router, but then tested my HD2 running android (Sensation XL ROM) and it streams flawlessly over wifi using the same software.

Had the same problem. I think its a WiFi driver issue. Turning WiFi off and on again fixes it temporarily for me
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I noticed similar reliability issues with HTC one x's dlna middleware and/or wifi. Vry often, WiFi crashes when a DLNA client is scanning for dlna renderers. It's almost unusable ...

Streaming Video/Audio Sync Issue

I have a stock HTC Wildfire S that got the ota update to 2.35 er so. Before and after the update I am experiencing Streaming Video/Audio Sync Issues when trying to play video through my browser and the Netflix app. The audio rolls along with no hinderance or interference while the video stops, jumps, glithches or just plays but way out of sync with the audio. I have tryed several different websites to no avail. The craziest thing is, through the Youtube app, all videos play crisp and with no flaws. This is all being done over WiFi and has been tested on several different WiFi connections. On a side note, formated videos that are on my SD card also have no issues. I have the version of flash player for my version of android installed and 30-40mb of open internal storage.
Any idea would help, ty.

Same here. I wonder if overclocking is needed to get Netflix to play decently over WiFi.
Nick

Same here, I 'm even trying to get Skype to work. My wives LG Optimus Elite can stream Skype and Netflix video just fine even over a good 3G signal.
Yet on the Wildfire just trying to do audio with Skype wont even work on WiFi.
I am regretting this phone more and more.
Kevin

[Q] DLNA only on WiFi Direct?

Hi,
Having recently got both a One X and a new Blu Ray player (Samsung BD E5500), I've been trying really hard to get DLNA sharing to work from the phone to the Blu Ray, with absolutely no success. They're both connected to the same router, the One X wirelessly, the Samsung wired. Third-party apps like Twonky work no problem, but I can't get the HTC sharing from the Gallery, etc., to work at all - I go to "Select Player", it clearly searches for a while, and then comes up with nothing. Conversely, where the Samsung normally lists all the media servers it can find on the network, there's never a hint that it can see the phone at all (unless, of course, I'm running the Twonky server).
I emailed HTC about this yesterday, and they responded by saying that Google had forced the ICS DLNA app to be restricted to WiFi-Direct connections only, that there was nothing I could do via a router connection, and giving me a handy link to where I could buy the MediaLink HD at great expense. I've been searching and I can't find any other reference to Google doing anything with regard to DLNA & WiFi-Direct. They also insisted that my GF's Incredible S, still being on GB, would work fine over my router's WiFi to talk to the Samsung player. Unsurprisingly (as I had in fact told them in the original email), the Incredible S displays exactly the same symptoms as my One X.
So, my question is, are HTC telling the truth about this? It seems that other people on here have managed to get some kind of DLNA sharing working, if I've read the threads right. Any tips? I could understand *adding* DLNA+WiFi-Direct support (now that that's part of the standard), but taking away the ability to talk to non-WiFi-Direct DLNA players? Doesn't make sense.
Anything else I can say that will add to this, please do just ask!
Hope someone can answer.
Thanks!

Have you turned on DLNA on your blu ray player (or is that automatically enabled)? Your One X has to push media to your blu ray player, not play it.

Automatically enabled. It seems that the Blu Ray player just regularly scans for media providers and shows them in a list on the main menu screen. Certainly, that's how it handles the minidlna server on my OpenWRT router, and how it displays the Twonky server on my One X (when it's running).

[Q] Tablet Talk and All Share App

Anyone using an Andriod phone with their Note 8.0 utilizing tablet talk and all share app? I have an iphone 5 jailbroken which I use for free tethering however I was thinking of getting an andriod phone to take advantage of tablet talk and all share apps. I had a BB torch with the BB Playbook utilizing the bridging functionality and it was great! Wondering if I will have the same experience if I went all Andriod or Samsung. Any feedback would be greatly aprreciated. THANKS in advance!

I use TabletTalk all the time between my Note 8.0 and DROID Bionic. Unfortunately, in comparison to my Nexus 7,there seems to be more issues. The biggest one are the Bluetooth connection of one of the devices (not sure which one might be both) just kinda stupid working between the two devices. The device need a full reboot to connect. This is less frequent between a WiFi connection but still prevalent none the less.
It really probably had something to do with my phone or ROM though. Even when I Bluetooth tether, the device just craps out eventually.
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I find after X amount of time Bluetooth has to be turned OFF and then ON again for it to actually work. Otherwise e.g. Tablet Talk connection to my S3 will fail, my keyboard won't be able to connect, etc. Don't ya just love Android and Samsung's Bluetooth capabilities? >_<.
Past that I've had no issues, haven't tried audio or tether yet.
AllShare Play / Link works fairly well and unlike the version on my phone, is still able to see regular DLNA devices (without making me go straight to e.g. Video Player or Gallery). Using it with MiniDLNA on Debian stable, it can be confused and refuse to playback some files with a Foo.jpg cover art file assocaited with Foo.m4v, etc. Third party solutions for DLNA are widely available on Google Play.

Video playback stutters over wireless only

Hi folks,
I'm stumped on this one, wondering if anyone has seen similar issues or has any ideas.
Basically, many videos will playback with extreme stutter over wireless. I've tried every video player I can think of and I've also tried alternate sources (NAS vs desktop share). The reason I know this is only a wireless problem is I have no issues with identical clips once I copy them to a USB and play them using an OTG cable.
I thought at first it was a question of bandwidth, but I'm on wireless N and the problem persists on even a 640x480 .avi file @ 1250kbps, which wireless N should be able to handle.
Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
TLDR: Many video clips stutter only when played from a wireless source.

Bump! Anyone have any ideas?

I'm experiencing this problem to when streaming videos from the interwebz, opening them in MXPlayer.
Does anyone have a clue what this might be caused by?

Bump numero dos!

weird, i can't play youtube videos, stutters, not sure if if its the device cuz i have fast wifi connection speed, 150Mbps connection it says on my 5ghz N router
im thinking its device wifi hardware issue and not my actual home wifi network

Bump again. Find it hard to imagine nobody else is having this problem.

The stuttering is due to Google's poor implementation of video playback in the new youtube app. Uninstall all updates and use the stock youtube app for a better playback experience sans stutter.
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amdfanTO said:
The stuttering is due to Google's poor implementation of video playback in the new youtube app. Uninstall all updates and use the stock youtube app for a better playback experience sans stutter.
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I don't have problems with Youtube though. Let me reiterate:
Using the same exact videos and apps:
Play a video saved to my NAS or a Windows share via wireless - playback that stutters
Play a video saved to a USB flash drive using USB OTG - playback is fine
Again, this happens even with a 1250kbps video over wireless-N, so I don't believe throughput is an issue. I get 35mbps up 21mbps down on speedtest.net over my Nexus 7's wireless.

Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.

mmarquis said:
Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.
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Thanks, this is a good idea. I'll try a couple WAP networks at work tomorrow and report back.

mmarquis said:
Just a suggestion, but try your video on some other network to isolate to a Nexus problem or something else.
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I tried today using two different WAPs and the problem still persists. Any other ideas?

The only thing I can think of is to try a system reset. Be careful to back up your music/pictures etc.

OK, new development on this. Not sure why I didn't think of trying this before, but I did some testing with my 2012 Nexus 7. Has the exact same problem as my 2013 Nexus 7.
So at this point I'd have to think this is Android related and not hardware or environment related. Some sort of issue with passing data between the wireless hardware and the rest of the OS.
Thoughts?

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Can you provide a little more information please? When you say you are playing it via network using the MX Player, are you supplying MX a stream url? or you simply browse to the LAN share via a file explorer and try to play the video directly?
Did you try changing the decoders in MX Player? HW/HW+/SW? HW+ works perfectly for me on Nexus 7 2013.

720p and 1080p worked just fine over network with my Nexus 7 (TP-Link 1043ND so nothing special, same old 2.4GHz N network) ..

psychedelicNerd said:
Can you provide a little more information please? When you say you are playing it via network using the MX Player, are you supplying MX a stream url? or you simply browse to the LAN share via a file explorer and try to play the video directly?
Did you try changing the decoders in MX Player? HW/HW+/SW? HW+ works perfectly for me on Nexus 7 2013.
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I'm browsing to the LAN share using ES File Explorer and using that to play from the shares. Do you suggest something different?

Medrudrin said:
I'm browsing to the LAN share using ES File Explorer and using that to play from the shares. Do you suggest something different?
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I have had great success with DLNA media servers. I have PS3 Media Server (totally free) installed on my server pc. My Nexus 7 has BubbleUpnP which picks up PS3 media server flawlessly. BubbleUpNp is by far one of the best UpNp and DLNA client and server I have seen till date for android device (just my humble opinion). I have set MXPlayer as the default player in BubbleUpnP settings. I can browse and play anything, and its without a stutter.
Here are the details of my setup:
-- PS3 media server installed on
-- BubbleUpnP installed on Nexus 7
-- MX Player installed on Nexus 7
That's all it takes. I have taken this setup a step further for my own needs. I store movies on my Nexus 7 since I travel in the subway and I like to watch movies on the go. Now I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and depending on where I am, I switch devices while watching movies. I would start a movie on one device and resume on the other, without actually having to store the video in both the devices. I tether a connection from my S3 and my Nexus 7 connects to the hotspot. I run BubbleUpnP on both Nexus and S3. The Nexus 7 acts as a server and sees the S3 as a client (renderer). I stream movies from my Nexus 7 to my S3. Tested with 720p movies and the result is flawless. No quality loss. Sometimes there is a momentary stutter but it goes away. It depends on how the video is ripped too.
You really don't need the S3 and N7 setup details. i just wanted to share it. Sorry for the long post. Hope it helps.