I have seen a few builds with these massive library's that you can access most movies without opening an ADDOn. Is this done by importing an xml or can you add a folder from an ADDON like genesis " new releases" for example.
Probably not the right place for this but yes look for addons that do "subsciptions" like genesis.
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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 ?
Hanness said:
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?
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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!
I have the photos & video widget on my homescreen & noticed a paramount logo video there.
Knew I hadn't put any movies on phone recently, clicked on it & low & behold, a trailer for spider man, I quite high definition (I'm guessing my bandwidth has been used to download it).
Just now another video clip appeared.
This time a commercial for Dorito's.
Checked in my gallery & there's a folder titled 'videos' with the above commercials & a couple more for what looks like a video & mobile games.
There must be an app I've installed downloading these videos but I've no idea what.
Anyone else had this?
Using Astro, I found the folder containing the videos.
Folder on SD root titled Tapjoy.
Doing a file search for Tapjoy showed no other entries & no apps that Ive recently downloaded reference Tapjoy either.
Found this somewhere: The files you are seeing are video advertisements provided by Tapjoy. They are cached to your device when you use an app that has Tapjoy integrated into it so that if you choose to view the ads they’ll play automatically rather then making you wait for them to load.
This is easy to turn off and you can opt-out at any time. Please visit our Privacy Policy, scroll to the bottom, and enter in your device ID to opt-out so that you will no longer see Tapjoy ads. You can find our Privacy Policy at:
tapjoy.com/privacy.html
So I have a Surface Pro and have my Movie and TV show library on an external HDD. I can get the files to show up in the video library by adding the folder to the library in explorer. My question is this. Is there any way to make windows 8 categorize these files or specify for each folder that one is movies and one is TV? Right now they all show up in the all section of the video library but nothing shows in the movies or TV. I'm assuming that these categories are for purchased media from the Xbox market. I have a lot of movies and TV shows that I have ripped from my collection over the years and it would be nice if I could trick windows into organizing it. I haven't been able to find anything in my searches on here or google.
Thanks for any help in advanced.
As far as windows cares you just have 2 video files. It has no way to distinguish between it being a movie or TV show. I use VLC as my media player and personally I just keep things seperated manually.
The existing movies and TV folders are probably for content purchased via windows 8 yes.
OK yea that's what I thought. I ended up downloading xbmc and just using that to organize the files. Was hoping there was a way to trick it. Oh well.
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So I just discovered Kodi and have it running on my FireTV Stick. .Avi and .Mkv play perfectly, streamed from a shared folder on my Windows PC. I hoped to also share a directory with a few subfolders containing DVD rips. But I cannot see anything in the folder. My guess is that Kodi doesn't know what to do with the contents of each video_ts folder.
Can this be done? Am I overlooking something ovious? Is there an add-on that I need to accomplish this?
Thanks for any guidance.
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So I just discovered Kodi and have it running on my FireTV Stick. .Avi and .Mkv play perfectly, streamed from a shared folder on my Windows PC. I hoped to also share a directory with a few subfolders containing DVD rips. But I cannot see anything in the folder. My guess is that Kodi doesn't know what to do with the contents of each video_ts folder.
Can this be done? Am I overlooking something ovious? Is there an add-on that I need to accomplish this?
Thanks for any guidance.
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You should go to the source. Try these: http://kodi.tv/, http://kodi.wiki/, http://forum.kodi.tv/.
Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out the Kodi specific forum which led me to try converting the video_ts folders into .isos. Kodi sees and plays them perfectly!
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Kodi has its supported video formats like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, but VIDEO_TS is not one of them. You need transfer to Kodi accepted files like MKV, and then stream movies to play with Kodi via network. BTW, ByteCopy is the tool I used to save all my DVD to MKV.
kodi will play ripped dvd files if you go to video, then select files (not add ons) then locate the video ts folder, then select the first video ts.ifo and the entire dvd will play. you can also play individual vobs also
Since the whole amazon/plex debacle I tried to load my work out videos into Kodi and it sees my shares and acts like its loading them but then NOTHING shows up. So basically I cant get this thing to load NARY A VIDEO.
Anyone have any idea what it could be? Are there codec packs I need as well or something?
thanks
for those wondering I did also post a modified version of this in another thread with the IPTV thing but really wasnt sure where to post a question like this/not sure if its related at all so I just plopped it in both
You need to post more information such as how you are accessing the videos (smb, nfs, etc,) and how you are loading them into Kodi. You probably should create a Home Video folder on your computer and attempt to load that.
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You need to post more information such as how you are accessing the videos (smb, nfs, etc,) and how you are loading them into Kodi. You probably should create a Home Video folder on your computer and attempt to load that.
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well most videos originally were through iptv and other add ons
yesterday they are just regular SMB shares from my video server in their own folders.
I Can see all the folders but none of the videos in them ever appear.
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well most videos originally were through iptv and other add ons
yesterday they are just regular SMB shares from my video server in their own folders.
I Can see all the folders but none of the videos in them ever appear.
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Ah. I don't know anything about IPTV.
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Ah. I don't know anything about IPTV.
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the problem was first apparent with IPTV but i see now its every video throughout even on my local network.
think i got it, apparently my windows firewall was left on