So I've checked through the forums quite a bit and I can't seem to come up with a really good way to stream movies or tv from my pc to my phone without the quality being absolute destroyed. (OrbCaster)
Is there any way of streaming from my PC to my phone without losing a ton of quality?
VLC can do it, and there's apps in the Market to remote control the program on your computer.
'Course, if you try to go beyond streaming on your LAN (ie, over 3G), forget it. Quality's pretty much always going to be crap, because consumer uplink connections suck, as does 3G in general.
Well, I have 2mbps upload at home, and at work, where I'd be watching this, I'd be on wifi with 30mbps down. Is that still too crappy to work?
Shushunmire said:
Well, I have 2mbps upload at home, and at work, where I'd be watching this, I'd be on wifi with 30mbps down. Is that still too crappy to work?
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Its not the download in most cases its the upload. I have 2mbps at home as well and a slingbox and it plays great over WiFi and OK over 3G. Consider getting a Slingbox best 100 bucks I have spent on anything like that. Works great.
Anybody here uses the Vulkano Player. Basically its another version of Slingbox.
Anyway when I stream video from it, it gets a little choppy on the Epic Touch. Doesn't matter if it is 3g, 4g, or wifi. It streams perfectly fine on HTC Evo, Motorola Photon, itouch, Samsung galaxy tab 7.0 plus, and etc. This is actually my third epic touch and all of them have the same problem. I've tried all version of the Vulkano and the problem remains.
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Anybody here uses the Vulkano Player. Basically its another version of Slingbox.
Anyway when I stream video from it, it gets a little choppy on the Epic Touch. Doesn't matter if it is 3g, 4g, or wifi. It streams perfectly fine on HTC Evo, Motorola Photon, itouch, Samsung galaxy tab 7.0 plus, and etc. This is actually my third epic touch and all of them have the same problem. I've tried all version of the Vulkano and the problem remains.
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I use the vulkano app on my epic touch. I came from an evo 4g and the video is noticeably smoother with less freezes. using either wifi or 3g. I assumed this was due to the faster processor in the phone. How fast are your data speeds?
My data speeds are 20 mbs wifi, 5 mbs 4G.
Here is a sample of my video clip streaming outputed with mhl mirroring. On my phone it actually says its streaming at around 2000 mbs. Also only the video is choppy the audio is perfectly fine and in sync.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgZ4jbjep_s&feature=plcp&context=C3957c0dUDOEgsToPDskJIS1c_wixPqpVDWUTXhN21
That's about the quality of the video I get on 3g (4g usually worthless in my area).
It was generally a lot worse on the evo.
My WIFI internet speed test results:
Laptop (i5 4GB ram running Win7, Chrome ) - 1.08 mbps download
ZF2 (2.3GHz and 4GB ram, Chrome ) -1.3 mbps download
Even though the speedtest numbers are similar, my laptop is markedly faster in loading websites and streaming videos, especially when using multiple tabs. Actually i find streaming html5 videos relatively slow on my phone especially the initial buffer period.
For example, my laptop will start playing a video as soon as i click on it, while a similar video will take at least 40 seconds to start playing on my phone. Worst still, if i seek a different time stamp, it will buffer again wasting my time and annoy the heck out of me. Streaming HD videos, naturally is out of the question.
Is this normal or is there something wrong with my phone? I just upgraded from a galaxy s2 btw and so far, i find the upgrade rather unremarkable tbh.
Hey guys! I'm on a Verizon UDP rooted and tethering enabled. I have always tethered to give my tablet connectivity for Netflix. Previous phones (I.e. Nexus 6, 6p) my normal data usage was 40-50 GB per month. If I didn't watch a lot of videos it would obviously drop.
Anyway, I just wrapped up my first month on the Pixel XL. To my complete surprise, my data usage was 200+ GB. I checked the usage and it's all from tethering/portable hotspot. Yesterday alone, the usage was 8 GB. I was comfortable using 50 GB. I don't wanna be the guy eating up 200+ GB in a month though.
Anyone else ran into anything like this? I don't know what could be different between the Pixel and the Nexus 6p that would cause Netflix to gobble up so much more data. My usage has not changed. I haven't tinkered with any data saving settings on Netflix or on either phone. I'm honestly not sure if it's an issue with the Pixel XL or something that happened in a Netflix update since Christmas. Since the tablet is wifi only, it doesn't have the Netflix cellular data settings in the app setting. I'm baffled...
Is it possible Netflix is just streaming at a higher resolution? Maybe you get better download rates with the pixel. Maybe they added a tower coincidentally at the same time you got the pixel. If you still have the nexus you could stream a movie and check your data usage then stream the same movie with the pixel to compare.
Could be Netflix running at a higher quality, however I have no way to change the quality...So that would be a Netflix update issue. It's definitely not a new tower boosting the network speed in the last month. I'm in a different city everyday, so they surely haven't added that much to the network. Maybe I can try the streaming from both phones this weekend. That would at least confirm if it's something with the Pixel, or some greater unknown problem.
I called Verizon asking about my plan the other day and asked if there planning to take my ud away anytime soon. She told me that they are sending out letters to people using over 100_150 a month. Taking them off ud or cancel them completely. Wonder if there's any truth to that
I read that somewhere as well. Yet another reason I want to figure what's changed and get my usage back down to a reasonable amount. Obviously I could just stop watching videos. I'd much rather find the cause of a 1 hour episode quadrupling in data usage from December (Nexus 6p) and January (Pixel XL).
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Anyway, I just wrapped up my first month on the Pixel XL. To my complete surprise, my data usage was 200+ GB. I checked the usage and it's all from tethering/portable hotspot. Yesterday alone, the usage was 8 GB. I was comfortable using 50 GB. I don't wanna be the guy eating up 200+ GB in a month though.
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Is your hotspot password protected or open? Could someone be connecting into your hotspot?
Have you looked in settings to see what cause your data to flare up?
Great thought, but yeah the hotspot is password protected. Setting shows basically all of the data usage is from tethering.
Apparently Netflix lists that HD shows over wifi use up to 3 GB per hour. This actually sounds in line with what I'm getting on my high usage month. I wonder if something changed in the Netflix app on my tablet (an update) where it's now streaming full throttle...Maybe before, it acted as though it was using cellular data and set to run a lower resolution. Now it thinks it's on home wifi and it's streaming full HD to my same old tablet.
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Great thought, but yeah the hotspot is password protected. Setting shows basically all of the data usage is from tethering.
Apparently Netflix lists that HD shows over wifi use up to 3 GB per hour. This actually sounds in line with what I'm getting on my high usage month. I wonder if something changed in the Netflix app on my tablet (an update) where it's now streaming full throttle...Maybe before, it acted as though it was using cellular data and set to run a lower resolution. Now it thinks it's on home wifi and it's streaming full HD to my same old tablet.
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That's pretty much what I was saying. Netflix will stream at the highest quality possible so it's likely that something changed, maybe related to your phone, around the same time you got the phone and Netflix noticed that it CAN stream at a higher vibrate so it did.
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That's pretty much what I was saying. Netflix will stream at the highest quality possible so it's likely that something changed, maybe related to your phone, around the same time you got the phone and Netflix noticed that it CAN stream at a higher vibrate so it did.
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Can you lower the stream resolution? I've never gone above 20....and since December I've been pushing @40. Only a few for tethering. I'm finding the NBC sports app is racking it up for me
On a wifi only tablet, the Netflix app does not have the option to adjust data usage by changing the video quality. There is an entire Netflix profile option to change the resolution. The downside is that this lowers the resolution for every device you steam to....So using low quality will suck when you go home and fire up Netflix on the 65" 4k TV.
Today I used 9gb of data while watching maybe 3 hours of Netflix video on my tablet. I phoned Netflix this past weekend to express my concern. The lady kept me on the phone for about an hour, and the final word was they hadn't made any changes on their end. I'm really convinced that going from the Nexus 6p to the Pixel XL would not cause the hotspot to use quadruple the data on Netflix.
I'm just completely bummed over this and at a complete loss.
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On a wifi only tablet, the Netflix app does not have the option to adjust data usage by changing the video quality. There is an entire Netflix profile option to change the resolution. The downside is that this lowers the resolution for every device you steam to....So using low quality will suck when you go home and fire up Netflix on the 65" 4k TV.
Today I used 9gb of data while watching maybe 3 hours of Netflix video on my tablet. I phoned Netflix this past weekend to express my concern. The lady kept me on the phone for about an hour, and the final word was they hadn't made any changes on their end. I'm really convinced that going from the Nexus 6p to the Pixel XL would not cause the hotspot to use quadruple the data on Netflix.
I'm just completely bummed over this and at a complete loss.
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Netflix should be using lower bandwith when connected through data. On Wifi it will whatever your settings are on the website account settings. I think you are going to have to change it up and down via the site when you are on the tablet or at home. You may also look for hotspot software that can restrict data rate to other devices.
Good Luck.
That's what I'm thinking as well. The unfortunate hassle of changing the account settings. It's just strange how it wasn't like this a month ago. Then something happens and the data use goes through the roof.
ctrl+alt+shift+s while streaming a video on netflix will bring up a menu which will let you change your video settings including video bandwidth and audio bitrate
At least they warned you, I remember when they used to sneak a fair use policy into the contract. Take the quality down a notch and you'll be fine.
Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem with my Pixel XL. I use tethering when traveling for business and notice too that just by doing my business activity I'm using more than double the data than on my Nexus phone. It is Andriod OS that is using about the same data then the tethering option. I called Google support and was told that this is a known issue and that Google is working on a fix
Was so glad to find out about Lineage... Lenovo left us with Android 7.1 and had so many issues, especially with the game Marvel Contest of Champions.
Installed the latest version of v16 and game now runs great, no extreme lag issues.
That said, I have noticed that it especially and a few other apps are getting 'connection lost' issues often. Especially MCOC, it happens so much the game some days is unplayable.
I have a 100MBps up/down fibre optic connection and a 10/100/1000 router about 6 feet from my tablet. When I run Ookla speed test with the tablet, I have full signal strength and around 50-60MBps speed. It's definitely not an issue about slow internet or a weak signal. If I use my phone, Android 9 on a Huawei P20 Pro, I have no connection issues at all and it's connected to the same WiFi.
Any ideas?