I have been wrestling with this all day and I hope someone who has this setup can shed some light on it for me. I wanted to run Darwin Streaming Server on my dedicated box and stream video files to my phone. I got Darwin up and running no problem and can successfully stream with the rtsp protocol to quicktime on my home desktop.
The issue is no matter what file I try to get the Evo to play it just says "Media Type not supported" I have done my research and made sure the files were compatible (allegedley) using h264 and aac lc as the codecs as well as hinting them. I tried with Super/Quicktime/linux ffmpeg all to the same end. The files play fine from the sd card. Even the default array of samples included with DSS didn't stream (even after hinting them). I have tried .mov,.mp4, and .3gp just for good measure with no success.
I am running Fresh's latest (0.3) and having no issues with it if it makes a difference.
This is driving me crazy as it should be playing the files....any advice or insight would be appreociated.
I just tried my EVO with my copy of Darwin and everything I threw at it worked flawlessly.
A few points to note
1) Be sure you "hint" all your movie tracks
2) Ensure that you have the proper out bound ports opened in any firewalls, etc.
But I tried, MP4 containers with the following codecs (H264, H263, MP4V (Divx)). I tried 3GP containers and I tried a MOV container with H264 codecs.
Let me know if you are still struggling on your EVO.
Rick
Just out of curiosity, have either of you gotten this working over 3G/4G (not Wifi)?
And if so are you on Android 2.2 yet?
I'm having issues with other RTSP streamers (Haven't tried Darwin just yet) over 3G (no 4G here yet), and wondered if this app might work instead.
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I'm not sure how much people have tried this out yet, but has anyone managed to successfully play videos via dlna (connected media tab in galleries)
eg. i can play an avi file perfectly locally on the device.
but everytime i try to stream it via windows media server/orb media server, i get the message 'Sorry this video cannot be played'
anyone else?
maybe something htc needs to fix?
Tried resetting your router? Maybe thats it.
I tried this and had mixed results: Tversity on win 7 would serve up the videos but none would play. Normal shared folder would let me play .mp4 but not .avi
Ooer!
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lawrence750 said:
I'm not sure how much people have tried this out yet, but has anyone managed to successfully play videos via dlna (connected media tab in galleries)
eg. i can play an avi file perfectly locally on the device.
but everytime i try to stream it via windows media server/orb media server, i get the message 'Sorry this video cannot be played'
anyone else?
maybe something htc needs to fix?
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I am trying to figure out how to enable a 2nd player in the unit, on first run it pops up and asks me which player to use, but only the supplied mplayer is available, if i could get it to see say rockplayer, then these issues would go away
silashack said:
I am trying to figure out how to enable a 2nd player in the unit, on first run it pops up and asks me which player to use, but only the supplied mplayer is available, if i could get it to see say rockplayer, then these issues would go away
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I agree, I'm feeling this is another bug, mainly because the local video playback using htc video player (or whatever its called) is intermittently useless. sometimes it works, sometimes it plays the first five seconds and stops, sometimes not at all. All on the same video at different times.
vplayer works fine though..
also it seems unlikely that resetting the router will help, as airvideo via my iphone works fine, but i will try later on when at home again.
Haven't tried this yet, but have you checked that you have all the right codecs installed on your pc? I know windows media player has a hard time with certain codec's and file types where as vlc player doesn't, yet i don't know how this would sit when streaming video.
dladz said:
Haven't tried this yet, but have you checked that you have all the right codecs installed on your pc? I know windows media player has a hard time with certain codec's and file types where as vlc player doesn't, yet i don't know how this would sit when streaming video.
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I think this is an issue with playback of videos on the phone, not on the computer...
If the file plays back fine on the computer, then it's not gonna be a codec problem (from the computer's side anyway).
Having this problem too. Is someone going to contact HTC?
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I have very similar results. Using Windows 7's Media Player Streamer I can browse all my videos , music and photos , but none of these can be played (the server works ok,'coz I still can play videos and other media from other PC). I've some better results with XBMC's media stream (UPNP server) the photos works fine, but still can't play other media.
I can't manage to open the DHD's video, audio or images using DLNA connection.
At the beginning I think that the problem is with codecs, but since this media is opened with no problem once it copied on the phone I'm sure there is a problem with the player playing content over UPNP connection.
I had that kind of issues with an old ubuntu install, but all was fixed when installed VLC Player, so I hope someone can make a good port of VLC to android.
I've managed to playback mp3s and looked at pictures stored on my computer via my phone, so that part is OK, but videos are a no-go, which is a shame.
Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such
Never mind...
l1nuxfre4k said:
Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such
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Well that's just stopped me buying the HTC Media Link, like htcsense.com they big this up in their adverts and then can't deliver.
Avi seems not to work, but I've managed to stream to my phone .mp4 files.
l1nuxfre4k said:
Very simple answer to this people.
The Desire HD and Z does not support "Play To" Receiver
Because of this AVI wont work.
Just check DLNA's website.
Compare it to bluetooth,
Both are very sensitive to compatibility and such
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some avi files have actually started playing. most stop within a few seconds though.. if it can do this, why not the whole video?
Also i did check DLNAs website, and they've actually certified the Desire HD as a M-DMP device. I know they've only tested it with images (according to the certificate) however the description of a M-DMP device is:
These wireless devices find and play content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS).
Examples: mobile phones and mobile media tablets designed for viewing multimedia content.
So it must be a HTC bug? (based on the fact that it DOES play the start of some files and that it is M-DMP certified..)
EDIT: well it must be a codec thing.. rockplayer plays all these files fine.. even locally the 'Videos/gallery' app can't play them all. Maybe HTC should use ffmpeg like rockplayer.. then it might just work
I spend many hours trying to figure this out , all but streaming video don't work ..any suggestions ?
Me too, but if only
mexlamri said:
I spend many hours trying to figure this out , all but streaming video don't work ..any suggestions ?
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Me too, but if only there was a way of making vplayer (since that plays everything so far) the default player when a video is clicked on from the connected media view
Same problem here.
1. Connected Home on Samsung Omnia 2(Win6.1/6.5) works
2. Doest work on Samsumg Galaxy Tab (froyo 2.2)
3. Doesnt work on Desire HD (pic, music, video)
So can I assume its something to do with Android?
same problems here with the HTC Media Link. far too many video files play ok on my htc desire from win7 pc using Skifta.
i've been attempting to find successful filetype/bitrate settings through freemake video converter (which allows hard-coding of subtitles) with little success when pushing to the media link.
Q. does anyone know a guaranteed filetype, bitrate, size which works through media link?
Q. are there any XDA devs working on a rom to fix this thing? excellent hardware in need of a little homebrew tweak if ever there was
It works fine on my DHD with Sabsa Prime V16 no issues at all. (Audio /Video/ Photos)
Hi.
I recently upgraded from a hero to a desire, android 2.2, htc sense, and am having some issues with video playback.
I'm trying to play bbc iplayer tv programmes on the desire. This has so far been completely unsuccessful. I've downloaded both windows media player and portable device versions of various show's wmv files and copied those to the desire. No joy. I've tried with the stock android (sense) video player as well as moboplayer, rockplayer, act1. I've tried playing the wmv file and I've tried converting to mp4 format using AVC. In each case I have played the first few seconds of the wmv file in windows media player on the pc, presumably to pacify the drm.
If I try and play an iplayer show on the desire I either get a message along the lines of "sorry, unable to play this file", or the video player starts up, blanks the screen for a few seconds, then exits, or some kind of unintelligible graphical garbage appears with or possibly without sound.
Surely it shouldn't be this hard Is it even possible to play iplayer downloads on the desire? Can someone put me straight on this please.
TIA
Does it work in VLC player on your PC? If it does then maybe a codec error or something. Try redownloading it. I haven't tried it personally but I will try it now to see if there is anything wrong with it.
OK, have just downloaded the current episode of outnumbered from iplayer, the 'for portable devices' version. I played for a few seconds on pc with windows media player, to acquire the license, which was fine, but no joy in VLC. After a few seconds of displaying screwed up video VLC crashed.
Maybe this helps:
http://www.smallsoftware.co.uk/bbc-iplayer/converting-iplayer-video/
Its just the file format used. They should of used mp4
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I followed the Forum Rules and searched but can't find anything on what surely must be a very frequently asked question.
I got a 3-month free trial of Google Play Music. Works fine on my phone so bought a chromecast audio and connected to amp+speakers, now I can cast and streamed music works as expected. BUT having unplugged my local media player I can no longer listen to my local media.
It's inconvenient having to plug and unplug all the time. How do I hack the chromecast audio device to stream from local machines as well as from Google Play Music?
Bubble upnp
https://github.com/acidhax/chromecast-audio-stream
It will stream a PC's audio to chromecast
The easiest solution if probably just to upload your music to Google Play Music. This will also allow you to initiate playback using a Google Home if you ever buy one.
it doesn't support directly playing local tracks, it requires uploading music to your library for playback.
see:
nateliv said:
it doesn't support directly playing local tracks, it requires uploading music to your library for playback.
see:
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yea even i had that problem later i figured out.
The answer is in the first reply. Go read the thread on Bubble UPNP.
Hi! I have this External Hard Drive where I used to watch my movies for more than 2 years on my TCL c815 TV.
The other day, I decided to update my firmware to v715 android 11, I was really impressed with the changes made by the upgrade. However, I noticed that suddenly, video players like MX Player, VLC, Just Player, or most video players cannot see the videos on my Hard Drive., some see the Movie Folder name, but when I opened the folder, there's no movie file to be found. Although the Built-in Media Player can see and play movies, we all know that TCL's media player is not really 100% great as for some reason, the media player overstretched some movie types which sucks that TCL hasn't resolved yet. After more checking, I found out that only Kodi can see & play the movies from my hard drive, but Dolby Vision is not supported
I made re-installed the mentioned video players and made sure it has permission to access my files, etc. But with the same result. Also, whenever I open my MX player and clicked the USB storage, my External Harddrive will suddenly like be forced to eject or something, and cannot totally detect the hard drive. I have to re-plug it to be able to see the files again.
My question is: has anyone experienced this issue before?
Does formatting the drive would do? (Though I don't wanna lose the movies, it's kinda large
Downgrading the firmware work?
The external Hard Drive is Seagate with NTFS format
Thank you to anyone who's going to share their experience and solution!