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Network Drive Mapping on Rhodium?

Hey guys i want to know if its possible to map a drive on my network so that i can access the files via Coreplayer to directly watch it.
Has anyone done that before? Possible or not?
Please feel free to answer, infos, tips, anything
Nice evening guys.

it's pretty easy to do locally with a good file browser. I use resco, it's a paid app but it's great. map a drive like you would on a pc with your wireless connected to your local internet, as long as the drive or folder is shared on the host pc it works great. I can watch movies stored on my pc on my tp2.
as long as you have coreplayer set as the default mp3 or whatver player as well.

majorassface said:
as long as you have coreplayer set as the default mp3 or whatver player as well.
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Do i need a registryeditor for that?

maron1981 said:
Do i need a registryeditor for that?
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No, most all media players will have somewhere in their settings the option to set the player as the default handler for different media types (.mp3, .avi, etc). Whichever media player you use, just find those settings and make sure it's set to that for whatever media types you're trying to access over the network. That way, once you navigate to the files in resco file explorer, and click on them, that player should recognize them and open to play them.

To test it just open IE and type your networkpath as URL (\\your-pc\share\mp3) and the phone should open file explorer in the mp3 folder. select a file to play and coreplayer starts. If coreplayer isn't your default player the file will be played with WMP.

This should be usefull

[Q] Streaming music over wireless onto your desire?

I would like to know if there is any app that can stream music over wireless to my Desire.
I have my Pc in one room and a stereo with a line-in in the living room. So now I would like to be able to get the Mp3s from my PC to my desire so that I can hear it in the living room. Ideally I would like all sounds transferred, Mp3 player, youtube and the beep for incoming messages etc. but I would already be happy if its just the output of the mp3 player (i use winamp).
If I had to I would even install some other mp3 player on my Pc.
Sorry if this was asked before. I searched and did not quite find the answer.

If you have your music folder shared on your LAN, then EStrongs File Explorer is able to stream and play music on your phone.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.estrongs.android.pop
When the application is running, you can see a butten (typically) named "Local" in the top right corner. Press it and select "LAN". Then press menu --> New --> Server to add your music server to the phone. You can the explore the newly added server and stream music directly to your phone.
Of course, EStrongs File Explorer can much more than the above. It is a file explorer first of all. But a good one none the less

Ok, first off: good call on the File Explorer, that is pretty sweet.
Being able to get to all your shared stuff from your phone, top
Just one more question, when it comes to music, i navigate to the folder, click on the song and it plais, but only just that one song. Is there a way to use a number of files or a folder?
or can I make my standard music player on my Desire access a folder somehow?

EStrongs File Explorer is, to my knowledge, only capable of playing one song at the time. If you need playlist support, playing of folder etc., then you will need another program.
The application named EyeconTroller may be a possibility. I, however, have only used it together with a DLNA server (Windowns Media Player, Mezzmo etc) running on the computer where the music files are located. I am not sure if EyeconTroller can access shared folders on the LAN (folders not shared by DLNA).
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.eyecon.cloud

why not mount the music folder using cifs manager? it will give you transparent file streaming. i've used it to access my movie collection on my laptop.

w.0.o.t said:
why not mount the music folder using cifs manager? it will give you transparent file streaming. i've used it to access my movie collection on my laptop.
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That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)

Have you tried Subsonic (subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp )? With it you can stream music from your PC over the internet,from any web browser.It also has android app.It even can transcode FLAC to mp3.

ULJ said:
That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)
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yes i forgot to mention that. thank you.

Andromote streams music from pc via upnp

ULJ said:
That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)
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it does require a rom with Cifs too...

Look up Jinzora
It's a jukebox server you run on your computer. It's free, easy to set up and although you can access through a browser there's a client app in Market

dik23 said:
Look up Jinzora
It's a jukebox server you run on your computer. It's free, easy to set up and although you can access through a browser there's a client app in Market
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Ideally I'd like something that supports photos - it looks as if Jinzora doesn't at the moment?

[REF] Streaming media from SMB shares

This guide will tell you how to stream media from your SMB shares (eg. windows shares) and bypass that pesky allshare player wich is very broken at this time. It cant playback most files, no timeline skipping etc.
What you need:
Root @ your Galaxy S
Some sorta terminal application installed (eg http://www.appbrain.com/app/android-terminal-emulator/jackpal.androidterm )
cifs.ko kernel module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761414
Cifsmanager (sorta optional but beats doing this in terminal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756158
The phone i used in this guide is running Froyo JPA (not tested on other versions)
You need to download the file called froyo.zip from the 2nd URL posted.
This contains 2 files slow-work.ko and cifs.ko
Copy these 2 files into your phone, doesnt really matter where you copy them, as long as you remember where.
Open terminal emulator on phone:
su first
Then go to the path where you copied the .ko files
type
insmod slow-work.ko (slow-work MUST be installed first)
insmod cifs.ko
These modules should now get installed and you can exit terminal client
Install and open Cifsmanager
make a new mount by typing in the required information: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/sharename, username/pass etc
it will suggest a mountpoint wich you can use or make your own.
Pull up your favorite filemanager and browse your share, play videos and music without that pesky allshare player!
Enjoy!
All the credit goes to darkbyt3 for creating the kernel modules and f3d0r for making cifsmanager. Good work!

Very nice quick-guide
Worth mentioning you don't *need* to use terminal, you can set "Load via insmod' in the CIFSManager options. Personal preference really...
You set the path to slow-work.ko in CIFSManager, exit CIFSManager (properly, via menu), re-open the app, then set the path to cifs.ko, exit and re-open, then all your shares work.
To make it easier I've named then 1.ko and 2.ko and placed the files in the same folder, so you only need to change the number in CIFSManager each time you restart the device
Also there is a different CIFS.ko for Eclair, where you don't need to mess around with the slow-work.ko

This is very nice, have to look into this. Thanks for the reminder

Thanks for the post, works great! Allshare is a piece of rubbish compared to other native video players, and using this method means I can have all the functionality of the native players with streaming media

So can we acces shares on 3g, or do we need to be connected to wifi ?

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So can we acces shares on 3g, or do we need to be connected to wifi ?
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This depends on your network configuration really, one would need static ip or some sorta service like dyndns.org and routing set up correctly for it to work with 3g. But by all means its very possible. Guessing video streaming would be taxing on battery and your phonebill if you dont have a good dataplan Streaming music would probably work nicely on 3g.

I haven't tried Allshare, because I always access streamed media from EStrongs File Explorer. Is there some sort of difference from what I mean with streaming=opening a media file on my sgs from a samba shared folder when connected with wifi to my home router?

thunderteaser said:
I haven't tried Allshare, because I always access streamed media from EStrongs File Explorer. Is there some sort of difference from what I mean with streaming=opening a media file on my sgs from a samba shared folder when connected with wifi to my home router?
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With Estrongs there's a very limited media player, and from what I believe it doesn't stream to your phone and has to copy it locally to a temporary location first [tried it with a large file and it wouldn't play for a few minutes until the content had completely copied first]

The aim of this "project" was to be able to steam video and audio from my windows fileserver, started out with windows mediaplayer DLNA and moved on to Windows media connect because 2008R2 does not have the DLNA component in its windows media player. Moved on to trying other kinds of media servers with and without transcoding. With no particular success. Then i stumbled over these smb modules for the phone. It worked well with minimal effort. I have not tried EStrong file manager personally, but i was under the impression that the internal player did not handle SMB shares on its own. Perhaps it has some kinda SMB functionality? If you can open your mediafiles with it alone, that sounds nice. But it also sounds kinda too good to be true, perhaps it buffers the file locally somehow and its not actually doing true streaming?

jezza333 said:
With Estrongs there's a very limited media player, and from what I believe it doesn't stream to your phone and has to copy it locally to a temporary location first [tried it with a large file and it wouldn't play for a few minutes until the content had completely copied first]
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Oh, sure! It saves a local copy, so it's not actually streaming... Now I can understand the usefulness of this thread!

[Q] Display gallery photos on my PC?

I'm looking for an app that would let me display photos from my phone to my PC.
Specifically, I'm on my phone, I select photo and show it on a desktop.
Samsung AllShare does exactly this, but the interface is so crappy it's not usable. I mean who browses photos by filename??? Give me something like the android Gallery and I'd be good to go.
There are countless ways of browsing the files and photos FROM a PC and I even tried remote controlling the pc while it fetches the files remotely but the controller freezes too much while downloading the files. Surely someone has already created such an app... I just can't find it.

Have you tried imediashare? Its for free in market and shows you thumbnails of your photos on your devic. It have also some other nice futures.

I try to past .mkv files Movies folder, Windows Explorer crashes. :-(

I've tried a few times to copy a few .mkv files over to my Nexus and it continually crashes my Explorer. Details are:
- Connected via usb.
- Transfer method a simply copy and paste via Windows Explorer.
- Using Windows 7 x64.
- Already transfered .ogg, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg and no problems.
I saw this thread in the "similar threads" that popped up where there is a similar problem with the Xoom. I even tried using DoubleTwist but the newest version requires the device to be attached in mass storage mode. Bummer.
Has anyone had a similar issue? Apart from finding an easy transfer method (I'm currently setting up Songbird to try) I would like to know how transferring a .mkv file would crash Explorer. Please don't waste time saying Windows is crap (or any variant). It's not really that informative!
Any help appreciated.

Songbird doesn't support .mkv.

Google for "mkv windows 7 exlorer crash". It may be related to your installed codecs.

Ive had problems moving just small jpgs to the nexus from w7 64bit along with a few others, think one guy was even on a mac.
ive managed to move a mkv to the phone no probs tho.
when it does lock up while transferring i use wifi and this works fine, just not as easy as drag n drop in windows.

it's most likely the MTP which is blocking non recognized or non allowed extensions

I was able to use WiFi File Explorer to transfer my .mkv files. I'm guessing any similar manner would work as well.

Ditto
Just got my Nexus today. Naturally, the first files I tried to copy were a batch of 3 720p, H.264-encoded Matroska video files (.MKV). Explorer crashed and respawned.
Tried again. Explorer crashed and respawned.
Read this thread and renamed '.mkv' to '.mkv_'. No problems.
It seems already my gut reaction to the lack of a removable card and USB Mass Storage were justified...
(Now to see what codecs this device supports playback of...)

I've been able to put .mkv files in the movies folder just fine.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

its your divx codec, I had to uninstall all my codecs, otherwise it would crash explorer everytime i moved over a mkv video

you can rename the files, but a pure fix is to UNINSTALL DIVX.
after uninstalling it i have no issues with MKVs transferring anymore.
if your worried about that making you unable to play AVIs, go download the shark007 codec package. i have that installed and i can play all videos on my PC and can transfer everything without issues.

Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!

Vocko said:
Just a quick question... Can galaxy nexus play 720p mkv files by default, or do you have to install an external player? If so, which?
Thanks!
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it can't. best player is DICE Player, it's not free, but it's simply the best for MKVs. plays my 720p mkvs perfectly.