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Screencast?

Is there any way to do a screencast on an Android device... in particular the Nexus 7? I'm trying to put together a video and I wanted a clip that showed the U.S. and it zoomed into a specific city. Problem is, on the computer Google Earth is somewhat choppy despite having nearly brand new hardware, and Google Maps just does an instant snap to that location. Google Maps on my N7 on the other hand works JUST AS I WOULD LIKE... but I'm not sure how to capture it?
Any idea?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ms.screencast

JaSauders said:
Is there any way to do a screencast on an Android device... in particular the Nexus 7?
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Nexus 7 Features
CPU: Quad-core Tegra 3 processor
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** Root Needed
** Does not work on Galaxy Nexus or Tegra 2/3 yet
** Refund Policy: 24 hours
Screencast captures your phone screen at high frame rates into a high quality MPEG4 video with audio. It can also take snapshots of your screen by holding the search key on your phone.
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I want something like this, not to record a screencast, but to use as a way of having video out in lieu of not having hdmi. I have a pc hooked up to my hdmi display and was looking at the options. This app sounds like the best but doesn't work yet with tegra 2/3.
How fast is it with other devices? Like could a game be played at a smooth frame rate? Does it allow to stream live and not record a video?
Are there any other ways of doing this?

I've been searching for a while now with no luck. I record gameplay on my GNote with the afore mentioned app but seeing as the developer has all but vanished I'm guessing we won't be seeing Tetra support.
You'd almost think Nvidia would make an app to do this just so Tetra fans could make gameplay videos, thereby promoting their devices.
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There are some demo videos of stuff coming... Nivdia has one showing a playbook to a TV that has the Miracast protocol
and ESR labs has the following
Hopefully soon...
Unless you already have a TV with it built in, you will need a some some sort dongle that has WiFi and s HDMI output. I just got a raspberry pi to be used with the ESR labs Android Transporter when it come available.
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I just stumbled upon those videos yesterday. Very interesting stuff. I think I may grab a couple of raspberry pi's. I'm in Canada and I couldn't find it in stock right now. I wish they would build a cheap enclosure for it. I put a post on their website if they plan on making a linux client and not just for the pi. I would think it wouldn't take too much to make a generic version. I also noticed some hdmi outputs on tablets don't provide 1:1 mirroring. For ex, acer tablets cutoff the bottom menu. This I believe is for video playback, which makes sense, but I hope it's an option or in the spec of miracast to offer 1:1. I saw a TI demo of miracast as well, and they make mention of the display showing one thing and the tablet showing something different typical of normal wired hdmi outputs. Nvidia also has demo's of miracast as you linked, but I hope they make a windows client. It'll be a ways off before it's standard on TV's and it sounds like there will be dongle's available, but a lot of people have computers hooked up to their displays so it would be nice if there is a complete software solution as well.

Android Transporter for the Nexus7 and Raspberry PI
Hi all,
the video you showed in the one post is our old demo video.
Since yesterday we have a public preview. please see http://esrlabs.com/android-transporter-for-the-nexus-7-and-the-raspberry-pi/
regards
christian

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Is it possible without rooting and without PC? :crying:
(I'm looking for the way to make video lesson (like Khan Academy's) direct on my tablet)

mkchocolate said:
Is it possible without rooting and without PC? :crying:
(I'm looking for the way to make video lesson (like Khan Academy's) direct on my tablet)
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No, it's not possible. you need root or a pc (actually the root way to do it does not work atm)

Android 4.2 is supposed to include native support for Miracast devices. So we just need the Miracast set top boxes.

Does anyone know if Miracast carries over Audio?

I just installed Screencast on my N7 with CM10.1 grouper nightly 12182012.
When I try to screen capture video in landscape or in portrait the audio saves properly, but the video is a static hodgepodge of TWRP Touch recovery in a purplish sepiatone

yo b1LL did you bother reading Screencast app description? doesnt support Nexus 7 nor any tegra 3 based devices

Here's one
There's another thread that has one, and it works for screencasting but it really only gets 1-2 fps. So if you're desperate:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663390

[Q] Kindle HD 8.9 problem with HDMI output resolution

I have a simple question and to be honest, I am a little surprised that googling the issue resulted in nearly no hits. So I am trying my luck now here in the forum:
Part of the reason to buy the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 was for me to be able to use it as a playing device for movies on my HDTV. I also bought the official amazon HDMI to Micro HDMI cable to connect the kindle with my TV. The problem I am now having is that my HDTV (Philips 52PFL9632D) produces two vertical black bars to the left and the right of the picture, i.e. it doesn't offer the full 1920x1080p resolution, but something a little smaller (I guess around 1700x1080p).
Yes, I tried all the scaling options on my TV to no avail. And my Xbox, my BluRay-Player and my Dell Notebook do produce a flawless Full HD 1920x1080p experience on that TV Set on the exact same HDMI port. So it must be a problem of the HDMI output of my Kindle.
I suspect that the reason for that behaviour is the fact that the Kindle 8.9 display features a resolution of 1920x1200, which is not 16:9 but 16:10.
So as a result my TV probably squeezes the picture to fit it and thus produces the black bars left and right. It also doesn't matter if I am playing a video using VLC, surfing the web with Silk or just display the Kindle App selection screen on the kindle. There are always the black bars left and right.
(BTW: amazon customer service acknowledged the problem, but couldn't find an immediate resolution and promised to call be back.)
Does anybody have any idea what I can do to get the full resolution on my HDTV? I was so looking forward to not having to unplug my Notebook everytime and hook it to the TV, but being able to use my Kindle for watching movies instead.
What I am really surprised about:
1. Why does amazon produce a default signal output on the HDMI port larger than 1920x1080 anyways? Most people probably would want to hook it up to their TV and except for some monitors I don't know any TV featuring a resolution of 1920x1200.
2. Why does the kindle not offer any configuration option to at least choose the HDMI output?
3. Why is the net basically not producing any results when I am looking for a solution for that issue? Am I the only one hooking up his Kindle to his HDTV? Or am I the only one having that problem? Or am I the only one being annoyed by seeing two vertical bars on the TV?
ANY help how I can get rid of the vertical bars would be greatly appreciated!

I am going to throw a guess at why its not full 1080, someone can correct me if I am wrong because like I said this is just a guess. From what I heard, the kindle fire HD 8.9" model uses a set amount of ram towards the GPU to render out in the resolution it uses, and from what I read it was just barely enough memory for it to use that resolution, so using anything higher than that would probably not be possible. Lemme see if I can find where I read this.
Edit: found it!
ignoramous said:
The wallpaper service public APIs were selectively disabled to alleviate the memory pressure on system_server. Amazon's default Kindle Launcher doesn't need wallpapers (yeah I hear you when you say apps with FLAG_SHOW_WALLPAPER however do need wallpapers... but that functionality was apparently deemed not *that* important).
We freed about 14MiB+ worth RAM from system_server. This change was primarily targeted at the 8.9 Kindles, as 1GiB RAM was barely holding up to Kindle's massive resolution.
I see that having a bool in framework had work cut out for you guys... so I guess props for us to have made it "configurable" eh?
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Interesting theory. But I read elsewhere that amazon claims the output of the HDMI socket of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 would be FULL HD.
I think that the output is in fact 1920x1200 (equaling the native resolution of the kindle display) and thus even MORE than full HD, which is only 1920x1080. And my TV is trying to sequeeze the full 16:10 information into the 16:9 screen and as a result has to display two vertical black bars left and right. So I am looking for a way to actually REDUCE the output of the HDMI socket to the lower (HD standard) 1080 instead of 1200 pixels.

Well I seriously have doubts about this working on amazon's stock os, but supposedly the full version has experimental support for HDMI resolution changing. Give it a shot, though if it doesn't work on Amazon's os I'm more so convinced it will on cm. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexter.miniscalerfree
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Same Issues
I actually have had very similar problems using my Sony television. I'm curious if you ever found a solution.

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Well I seriously have doubts about this working on amazon's stock os, but supposedly the full version has experimental support for HDMI resolution changing. Give it a shot, though if it doesn't work on Amazon's os I'm more so convinced it will on cm. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexter.miniscalerfree
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My Kindle is rooted, so maybe it works. Thank you very much for the great tip.
I asked the question in the ROM-AOSP CM10.2 forum, since they even have a line under features saying
"HDMI video out is now correct and work across several resolutions. YMMV"
but so far nobody in that forum cared to answer...
I will try out your tip asap and report the results here.
Still I am wondering why I only found so few hits for this issue including in the amazon.com kindle discussion forum.
If nobody uses their kindle to connect it to their TV, why is amazon selling their own branded version of MicroHDMI-HDMI cables?

Ok. Time for an update. I think I am a step closer to a solution.
First I tried the app "Resolution Changer Lite" as recommended by stunts513. In theory it looked great. I was able to select a resolution 1920x1080 and as a result the kindle had a black bar at the bottom and only used 1920x1080 of the 1920x1200 pixels on its display.
So full of expectation I connected the Kindle with my TV. Unfortunately the TV still displayed black bars to the right and left but in addition now also a black bar top and bottom. So while it indeed reduced the displayed area, somehow the Kindle seems to still send the 16:10 information throught the HDMI port, making my TV scale down the picture. I tried all kinds of settings and resolutions to no avail.
As a next step I bought the full version of "Resolution Changer", because it was talking about an additional HDMI feature. Again full of expectation I started the app. Instead of selecting one out of several preset resolutions (like 1920x1080 or 1280x720) the app allows you enter any values for Width and Height. I again tried 1920x1080 with the exact same result as in the lite version.
But the full app has a second tab called "HDMI" and I did the same thing there. Unfortunately again to no avail. After some testing and reading of the description I came to the verified conclusion that all this additional feature does is DETECT if somebody connects a HDMI cable to the port of the Android device and then AUTOMATICALLY changes the screen resolution to the values chosen. So instead of having to invoke the app manually every time you in theory just set the wanted values on the 2nd tab and any time you plug in your TV your android device switches to the defined resolution.
Unfortunately there is no value to edit to stop the Kindle from sending out a 16:10 information to the TV or the app maybe doesn't even change anything that is sent to the HDMI port, but only influences the built-in screen.
But then unexpectedly Amazon's Customer Service sent me a message! They basically confirmed that if you connect your Kindle to a TV through HDMI it sends out it's 16:10 resolution and thus makes your TV scale down the picture.
BUT when you switch to the NATIVE INTERNAL VIDEO APP, the signal sent to the HDMI port automatically switches to 1920x1080 and a 16:9 ratio information. So as a result the native amazon services like "instant video" or other streams will be displayed without any bars. They claimed to even had it tested on a LG Full HD Plasma.
THIS EXPLAINS WHY MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS and thus you can't find much about in the forums.
I have to say I was sceptical, but since I had only used VLC so far to play back the movies, I now used the original video player. And to my surprise the black bars left and right went away and I had a full screen picture!!!
That's why I am saying, I am one step further!
Unfortunately this only helps me partly. For starters VLC plays a lot more formats than the native video player app. In addition I like to watch the movies with subtitles since I am not a native english speaker. VLC plays them automatically if the .srt-file is named the same as the movie itself, but of course the native video player doesn't. I don't even know it is capable of that.
Anyhow the big questions I have now:
1. does somebody know how to make the regular android Video Player display subtitles for example in the format .srt?
2. is there an option in the Android version of VLC (I don't think so, since it is still BETA) to configure the HDMI output?
3. Now that we know, that the regular Video Player can influence the format sent to the HDMI port, is there an app to set the HDMI output permanently to 1920x1080 and more important 16:9 ?
Again any help appreciated...

Ah, I wish I had known you were using vlc I would have suggested a few things. It didn't occur to me you might be using it because I got my from the play store, but it said it wasn't available in the USA, so I had to proxy through another country to get it. Anyways, I know in vlc's options there's a few different output methods, though I don't think that will affect it. Another thing I was thinking of is in vlc, u can change the aspect ratio, I believe the button is on the bottom left above the playback bar while playing a video, when u tap it it switches they various modes, don't know if this will affect the HDMI at all though, as I don't have a minihdmi cable because most of my TV's are CRT, only 2 of them have HDMI plugs, and of those 2 only one has 1080 capabilities, and its a PC monitor so it has no sound output.
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Hashcode's CM10.1 and HDMI 1920x1980
Hi Tronar,
Saw your post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45044803&postcount=579) but I'm not allowed to answer in that thread.
I have Hashcode's CM10.1 (20130812) running on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9. I connected the Micro HDMI port to my Samsung Full HD TV, and also saw the 2 vertical black bars (about 2 cm). Using apps like Resolution Changer doesn't help, as I get some weird screen flipping, turning landscape into portrait.
Cheers, S

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Ah, I wish I had known you were using vlc I would have suggested a few things. It didn't occur to me you might be using it because I got my from the play store, but it said it wasn't available in the USA, so I had to proxy through another country to get it. Anyways, I know in vlc's options there's a few different output methods, though I don't think that will affect it. Another thing I was thinking of is in vlc, u can change the aspect ratio, I believe the button is on the bottom left above the playback bar while playing a video, when u tap it it switches they various modes, don't know if this will affect the HDMI at all though, as I don't have a minihdmi cable because most of my TV's are CRT, only 2 of them have HDMI plugs, and of those 2 only one has 1080 capabilities, and its a PC monitor so it has no sound output.
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Well, plenty of stuff to respond to.
First of all VLC was available in the regular Kindle Store. So I didn't even have to root my phone and install the Google Playstore to be able to install it.
In addition VLC is still beta. The configuration options are quite minimal compared to the PC version.
And of course I tried the various screen size and ratio options in VLC. But they only affect the way the Kindle display of 1920x1200 is used, i.e. how the available pixels are filled with the video. So you can achieve all kinds of effects using only part of the Kindle display. But whatever option I chose, the black bars left and right always remained on my TV. To make it simple all I could do was further add more black bars by shrinking the image or distort the image by changing the ratio. None of it seems to have any influence on the HDMI output. I think it is a very special option or feature, the regular Kindle Video Player is using there and would have to implemented explicitly in the VLC player.
Nonetheless this gives me the idea to send some feedback to the VLC developers to add this feature to their wish list. :good:
Anyhow, I really appreciate your help. Please keep the good ideas flowing.

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Hi Tronar,
Saw your post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45044803&postcount=579) but I'm not allowed to answer in that thread.
I have Hashcode's CM10.1 (20130812) running on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9. I connected the Micro HDMI port to my Samsung Full HD TV, and also saw the 2 vertical black bars (about 2 cm). Using apps like Resolution Changer doesn't help, as I get some weird screen flipping, turning landscape into portrait.
Cheers, S
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Well, it seems like nobody is allowed to answer in that read, because so far I haven't received any answer.
Neither in the CM10.2 nor in the CM10.1 thread, where there seems to be at least some kind of life.
Thanks for confirming that the Resolution Changer doesn't help on the CM10.1 ROM. That saves me hours of work of trying out that app on this ROM.
But my question was actually a little more specific. The first page of the thread states under Features:
"HDMI video out is now correct and work across several resolutions. YMMV"
I was wondering if that means that there is some way in this CustomROM to change the resolution of the HDMI video out signal.

Update:
I tried the App "MX Player" to see, if that app would behave more like VLC or more like the native Video Player.
I don't know if I should laugh or cry, but this is what happened:
I started a movie using the freshly installed MX Player and was happy to see, that the subtitles were showing on the Kindle Display. I connected my Kindle with the Micro-HDMI-Cable to my TV and was also happy to see that the vertical black bar were NOT showing, but instead it was using the full resolution of my TV. I was totally excited. And then it hit me:
While the subtitles were showing on the Kindle screen, they were NOT showing on my TV!!! Otherwise both screens showed an identical picture, but the subs were missing.
So I tried out all kinds of options in the subtitles settings. To no avail.
Then I tried switching from using the Hardware accelleration to Software accelleration. The app offers three modes called SW, HW and HW+
And here comes the funny part:
When I switched from any of the two HW modes to the SW modes, suddenly my TV was showing the subtitles. And for a moment I was like "Yeah, I finally found the solution". And then it hit me: now my TV was showing the vertical bars again.
My conclusion from this test:
When you switch to software acceleration, MX Player behaves like VLC. You get the subtitles on your TV, but you have to live with the vertical black bars effectively reducing the resolution.
When you switch to any of the two hardware acceleration options, MX Player behaves like the native Video Player and gives you the correct 16:9 1920x1080p output on the HDMI-out. But for whatever reason the subtitles are only displayed on the Kindle screen and not on the TV any more.
My guess: by using the HW acceleration, the app automatically triggers the built-in feature of reducing the resolution from 1920x1200 to the standard 1920x1080 on the HDMI-out. Apparently amazon has built in that feature into the Hardware acceleration of the Kindle.
I don't know why this kills the subtitles. Either it is a bug in the app or for some reason the Hardware acceleration does not allow the blend-in of the subtitles over the video.
And when you switch to SW acceleration, the Kindle apparently thinks of the app like any other standard app and sends the full 1920x1200 resolution not only to its own screen but also to the HDMI-out.
It would be great to know, if superimposing subtitles is technically impossible when using the HW acceleration because the Kindle chips do not support that at all or if it could be achieved with the right algorithm.

I am unsure if it is the exact same thing offhand but vlc has an option to enable hardware decoding, if it is the same thing try it and see if vlc works . also I don't know much bout HDMI, but if its a digital stream and subtitles aren't showing up, try enabling captions on your TV and see if anything happens, I would think that they would be part of the digital stream in one way or another.
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Thank you for the tip with Hardware Decoding option in VLC, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to make any difference. The picture remains shrinked with vertical bars left and right, no matter if you enable that setting or not. The subtitles also remain visible in both settings.
So my guess is that the current VLC beta isn't really enabling the Hardware Decoding on the Kindle. At least not the way, MX Player and the native Kindle Video Player seem to do it.
About the subtitles still being part of the digital stream in the HDMI output: sounds like a great idea as well.
So I tried it out by activating the subtitle setting on my TV. Unfortunately to no avail. It MIGHT be, that the way US-TVs receive and display subtitles from TV broadcasts is different than the one used in Europe (here subtitles are sent through a quite old system called Teletext oder Videotext (depending on the country)).
Or it might be, that the HDMI protocol just does not support this way of transfering subtitles to the TV.
In any case, unfortunately I am not any closer to solving the issue.
But thanks for the good ideas and tips, please keep them coming as I will keep attacking that problem.

screen mirroring and video streaming to HDTV?

I am looking to find a good device that's compatible with my 10.1 2014 edition Note, and will stream video, along with screen mirroring if possible, all to my HDTV. I have a 32" Samsung smart TV that does this flawlessly but I want to also be able to do this with my 42" Panasonic Plasma TV (It has USB ports but does not appear to have DLNA or any method of streaming video since it does not have wifi built in.) I know there's the Samsung brand Allshare device, but I've heard quite a bit of negative feedback about it. Ultimately I want something that will be reliable, and will also stream 1080p video. I saw that there are various Miracast devices, but many that I have seen do not have especially great reviews. I saw that the Roku devices can send video to an HDTV but it seems that they only do this with select Android devices, and I wasn't able to find a list of compatible devices on the Roku.com website. Lastly I was also thinking that I could possibly stream video to my Panasonic TV if I got a wifi USB stick, but I'm not sure if this would allow DLNA/video streaming. Any help with finding a device for my tablet that would allow me to stream video to my TV would be most appreciated.

Mugenakuma said:
I am looking to find a good device that's compatible with my 10.1 2014 edition Note, and will stream video, along with screen mirroring if possible, all to my HDTV. I have a 32" Samsung smart TV that does this flawlessly but I want to also be able to do this with my 42" Panasonic Plasma TV (It has USB ports but does not appear to have DLNA or any method of streaming video since it does not have wifi built in.) I know there's the Samsung brand Allshare device, but I've heard quite a bit of negative feedback about it. Ultimately I want something that will be reliable, and will also stream 1080p video. I saw that there are various Miracast devices, but many that I have seen do not have especially great reviews. I saw that the Roku devices can send video to an HDTV but it seems that they only do this with select Android devices, and I wasn't able to find a list of compatible devices on the Roku.com website. Lastly I was also thinking that I could possibly stream video to my Panasonic TV if I got a wifi USB stick, but I'm not sure if this would allow DLNA/video streaming. Any help with finding a device for my tablet that would allow me to stream video to my TV would be most appreciated.
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I've the AllShare Cast Hub and if work well with Note 10.1.
Better than using S3 or S4. With them I've a lot of random disconnections.
Unfortunately AllShare Cast Hub stream only at 720p ancd not at 1080p. On the box I can read 1080p, but I've NEVER got this kind of connection with S3, S4 or Note 10.1.

Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely consider the Allshare box, although I may just go with a hard wired MHL2 connection since I really want to get 1080p.

Just found this IOGEAR box that isn't released till 12/20/2013, yet it looks like it may be exactly what I'm looking for! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815290053
Guess I'll have to wait till its released to see how it performs, and if it works well with my tablet.

It's not screen mirroring, but have you checked out Google Chromecast? I don't have one, but it looks promising and may be the simplest and cheapest solution for what you're looking for.

Do you have a Samsung smart tv? I have a 6500 and my s4 and this note 10.1 2014 screen mirrors fine in 1080. It may be the TV you have? If you don't have a Samsung smart TV the the All share hub is likely what you're looking at to achieve your goal.

zamboniman87 said:
It's not screen mirroring, but have you checked out Google Chromecast? I don't have one, but it looks promising and may be the simplest and cheapest solution for what you're looking for.
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I tried the Chromecast and wasn't satisfied. On lifejacket there's a good article about the pros and con's http://lifehacker.com/google-chromecast-does-it-deserve-a-place-in-your-livi-945082974
I think a Roku will be a good solution for many people, but if you take time to read about all the miracast products you may find a really good and inexpensive way to do it.
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I'm using this little guy: NetGear Push2TV
got mine at Amazon - can't provide the link since I'm too new here.
Works pretty well on any WiDi enabled device: tablet, phone, laptop, etc.

tjoebgen said:
I'm using this little guy: NetGear Push2TV
got mine at Amazon - can't provide the link since I'm too new here.
Works pretty well on any WiDi enabled device: tablet, phone, laptop, etc.
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I got the Netgear Push2tv, had it for a few days and returned it. Even with the latest firmware it frequently disconnected. I just got that iOgear box I linked above and it works flawlessly, all in 1080p.

I have been looking for a way to connect my note to my TV. My TV is 4 years old and not smart lol. So this IOGear box just streams files? or does it mirror the tablet on the tv? I use VLC player on my note. Is the playback sluggish or fast enough to watch large files?

Wilan84 said:
I have been looking for a way to connect my note to my TV. My TV is 4 years old and not smart lol. So this IOGear box just streams files? or does it mirror the tablet on the tv? I use VLC player on my note. Is the playback sluggish or fast enough to watch large files?
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I have an older plasma Panasonic that is somewhat "smart" but doesn't have built in wifi. The ioGear will work with just about any tv but I definitely needs an hdmi input, and I believe a usb input. Streaming runs beautifully even when running 1080p video files that are over 2 GB. I use MX player (the free version.)

Mugenakuma said:
I got the Netgear Push2tv, had it for a few days and returned it. Even with the latest firmware it frequently disconnected. I just got that iOgear box I linked above and it works flawlessly, all in 1080p.
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Does this support full screen sharing of just transmission of movies and pictures like all share. Could I for example share BBC iplayer or a video running inside the Firefox browser?
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dcoales said:
Does this support full screen sharing of just transmission of movies and pictures like all share. Could I for example share BBC iplayer or a video running inside the Firefox browser?
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Yes it supports all of that.

Screen Mirroring over WiFi-Direct
I got it working with my Note 3, I can connect my Note3 via WiFi Direct to my TV
BUT.....
Is there way to turn off my display of Note 3 ?

I use Screen Standby... takes a little bit of setup, but works well.

AestenD said:
I use Screen Standby... takes a little bit of setup, but works well.
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For screen mirroring ? (without using hdmi cable)
can you please write what you setup ?

I use my ps3 and I know Xbox works as well. Install skifta and you can move all your media files to you movie folder and it works perfect for what I use it for. Which is watching torrent movies in 1080p on my 60inch TV
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RussellEstridge25 said:
I use my ps3 and I know Xbox works as well. Install skifta and you can move all your media files to you movie folder and it works perfect for what I use it for. Which is watching torrent movies in 1080p on my 60inch TV
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I tried this but only get "Playback errors" when try to play a video or movie.
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jjdevega said:
I tried this but only get "Playback errors" when try to play a video or movie.
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I recently stopped using skifta cause of that. Just turn on near by devices under settings/connections and then go to video on your ps3 and learn in media servers
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3D movies using Kodi on Fire TV

Not sure if my issue is Kodi related or Fire TV related, but 3D MKVs (1080p SBS) do not work well on my Samsung TV in 3D mode through Kodi. They do display in 3D once I change the TV into that mode, but there's ghosting. Playing the MKV using the TV's built in Media Player has always worked fine. I suspect Kodi isn't converting the SBS video completely correct. OTOH, I had to calibrate the Fire TV due to my TV's overscan, so perhaps that has something to do with it? I'm not sure. Does anyone have any tips for getting 3D video to work?

You´re TV is using additional filters etc. when the playback is run internally but the TV does not use these for external input via HDMI. It´s most likely you would see this also with other external players.
Concerning overscan: when you don´t need it (for e.g. you´re not using any analogue video inputs), set it to 0 in you´re TV or deactivate overscan. It´s the better solution than to calibrate all attached devices for overscan which isn´t needed for digital HDMI input normally.

Calibaan said:
You´re TV is using additional filters etc. when the playback is run internally but the TV does not use these for external input via HDMI. It´s most likely you would see this also with other external players.
Concerning overscan: when you don´t need it (for e.g. you´re not using any analogue video inputs), set it to 0 in you´re TV or deactivate overscan. It´s the better solution than to calibrate all attached devices for overscan which isn´t needed for digital HDMI input normally.
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That's interesting because I have two different TVs connected through HDMI that both required the image to be reduced 2-3% with the Fire TV. That ought to be digital. Am I missing something?
EDIT: Okay, here's what I was missing. Both TV sets were NOT set up to the optimal screen settings. The Samsung was set to 16:9, which you'd think would be the right setting, but it's not. The "User setting" with the option to move the picture horizontally and vertically is the "correct" one to use. On the other TV that I was using overscan on had a similarly poorly worded option called "Fullscreen 100%" or something like that that gave the actual resolution instead of the default "Normal" setting. Unbelievable!
The happy ending to this story is that 3D movies work perfectly. I hear there is a plugin for Kodi to automatically switch the TV into the correct 3D mode assuming the MKV file has the 3D encoding option specified. (I went through and fixed all the MKV metadata to include it.) I'll try to find it and test it out.

Those overscans mechanism do imply scalers which may also corrupt the proper displaying of 3D content. I wonder why still today TVs are preprogrammed with overscan for digital inputs.
But you´re 16:9 issue isn´t clear for me. A 16:9 TV should display everything at 100% or is it a non 16:9 TV, for e.g. with 21:9 aspect ratio? In that case the TV probably tried to stretch the 16:9 content instead of letterboxing which may also lead to a bad 3D behaviour.

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Those overscans mechanism do imply scalers which may also corrupt the proper displaying of 3D content. I wonder why still today TVs are preprogrammed with overscan for digital inputs.
But you´re 16:9 issue isn´t clear for me. A 16:9 TV should display everything at 100% or is it a non 16:9 TV, for e.g. with 21:9 aspect ratio? In that case the TV probably tried to stretch the 16:9 content instead of letterboxing which may also lead to a bad 3D behaviour.
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The default option on my Samsung 55" TV is "16:9". There's also "Wide" (4:3 stretched to fill the screen) and "Zoom" (4:3 zoomed so the top and bottom are cropped). It's not until you go to the "User" option that you realize that the default "16:9" option (the first setting) is actually zooming the image 2-3%! I can only suspect that Samsung assumed people would be watching a mix of analog and digital sources. You'd assume the cable company's box would take care of any issue with displaying analog signals to a digital TV, but I guess not. The moral of the story here is to not assume the TV isn't implementing an overscan on ALL signals by default.
EDIT: Apparently, my TVs are the only ones like this: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

Galaxy Tab S mirroring problems

I have a Galaxy Tab S (Android 5.021) and am mirroring to a 58" HDTV using Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter.
The picture looks fine on the Tab S but is compressed 3 inches on each side of the TV (vertical black bars).
Additionally the sound lags the picture by about a half second or more and the picture occasionally judders, both of which can be seen on the tablet screen. I've experienced 2 lockups while trying to get things working. Will these problems be corrected with Android 5.1 and when will it be available for the Tab S?

Screen mirroring sucks for trying to stream video, I've never had any success with it on any Samsung device. Personally I'd just get a cable.

No problems with chromecast mirroring, but I wouldn't mirror anyway because you don't need to with a chromecast.

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No problems with chromecast mirroring, but I wouldn't mirror anyway because you don't need to with a chromecast.
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The Tab S mirrors flawlessly with my Windows 8 .1 laptop.

So what am I missing then? Because I tried with a Galaxy S3, S5 with Chromecast and a Tab S and none of them streamed video without screen lag.

bartleby999 said:
So what am I missing then? Because I tried with a Galaxy S3, S5 with Chromecast and a Tab S and none of them streamed video without screen lag.
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Streamed or mirrored?

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Streamed or mirrored?
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Mirrored. S5 to Chromecast, Tab S and S3 with straight to TV with standard mirroring.

bartleby999 said:
Mirrored. S5 to Chromecast, Tab S and S3 with straight to TV with standard mirroring.
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Can i ask why you mirror rather than stream direct?

How do you stream direct? You mean with WIFI Direct?

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So what am I missing then? Because I tried with a Galaxy S3, S5 with Chromecast and a Tab S and none of them streamed video without screen lag.
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Not talking screen lag, which microseconds, I am referring to sound lagging the picture - i.e. severe lip-sync.

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How do you stream direct? You mean with WIFI Direct?
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What I mean is, for what reason would you ever have to use screen mirroring when everything can be streamed directly?
Anything local, anything on a media server and anything from the Internet can all be streamed directly.

Well, I was emulating SNES games via my GS3 and was going to play the old Mario games on a TV bigger screen - But couldn't because of the lag.

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Well, I was emulating SNES games via my GS3 and was going to play the old Mario games on a TV bigger screen - But couldn't because of the lag.
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I see, you'd probably be better with an mhl adapter.

Yeah tht's what I was going to do, then I got a tablet. 10.5 inch screen is big enough to play some retro snes on.

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I have a Galaxy Tab S (Android 5.021) and am mirroring to a 58" HDTV using Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter.
The picture looks fine on the Tab S but is compressed 3 inches on each side of the TV (vertical black bars).
Additionally the sound lags the picture by about a half second or more and the picture occasionally judders, both of which can be seen on the tablet screen. I've experienced 2 lockups while trying to get things working. Will these problems be corrected with Android 5.1 and when will it be available for the Tab S?
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Yesterday, I discovered that the tablet aspect ratio 16:10 vs 16:9 on the TV - which explains the black bars. Dumb mirroring devices do not adjust the tablet's aspect ratio to fill the TV screen as casting devices, such as Chromecast, do. However some android apps will resize their output so that it will fill the screen even with a mirroring device such as the MWDA.
For some unknown reason, my other problems have disappeared (for now).