I was wondering if anyone has trouble streaming free movies online as I do?
I have adobe flash installed as well as vlc player and it seems I can't stream free movies from sites such as
1channel
alluc
movie25
streams from source putlocker and sockshare will get a very blurry and stretched out pixelation
other streams from source gorillavid daclips don't even load
DeveloperOptions said:
I was wondering if anyone has trouble streaming free movies online as I do?
I have adobe flash installed as well as vlc player and it seems I can't stream free movies from sites such as
1channel
alluc
movie25
streams from source putlocker and sockshare will get a very blurry and stretched out pixelation
other streams from source gorillavid daclips don't even load
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It's very likely the connection to the server you're hitting up or the adobe flash player. The phone can decode HD mkv files with ease, so it definitely has the processing power. Adobe Flash may not be optimized for the mobile device, so it might be the cause of the problem. However, I'd venture to guess if you tried streaming on a computer to some of those sites, you'd have the same problem if the connection isn't strong.
This is often the case even with Icefilms.
back ground... For years I have used the native file play back capibilities of my LG BD390 and LG BD570 bluray players to connect to windows file shares, and play back video files (AVI, Mp4, MKV, M2TS and others). Basically, I setup a shared folder on my PC, put my media files in it, and used the menu on the BD's to connect to the share and play the file. No DLNA, no transcoding on the fly, etc.
I want to add that ability, along with netflix and amazon instant video, in two other rooms, but all the bluray players I can buy locally use DLNA now. There are some I can get mail order, but they are more expensive too.
If it matters, most of my MKV's were made using BD-Rebuilder or VideoReDo TVSuite. Some do have DTS, others DD5.1. The M2TS files were made using my Sony HDR-SR11 HiDef camcorder and my Hauppauge HD PVR (1212).
Output would be HDMI to a TV. If it works well enough, I'd get one for the basement too (where I'd hook it to a receiver via optical audio).
I know the Fire TV can be setup to do Amazon Instant and Netflix. But can it be setup to replace the BD's (minus bluray/dvd playback of course). To play those files without having to transcode, or use a DLNA server too? Could I possibly use Rhapsody too?
KidJoe said:
back ground... For years I have used the native file play back capibilities of my LG BD390 and LG BD570 bluray players to connect to windows file shares, and play back video files (AVI, Mp4, MKV, M2TS and others). Basically, I setup a shared folder on my PC, put my media files in it, and used the menu on the BD's to connect to the share and play the file. No DLNA, no transcoding on the fly, etc.
I want to add that ability, along with netflix and amazon instant video, in two other rooms, but all the bluray players I can buy locally use DLNA now. There are some I can get mail order, but they are more expensive too.
If it matters, most of my MKV's were made using BD-Rebuilder or VideoReDo TVSuite. Some do have DTS, others DD5.1. The M2TS files were made using my Sony HDR-SR11 HiDef camcorder and my Hauppauge HD PVR (1212).
Output would be HDMI to a TV. If it works well enough, I'd get one for the basement too (where I'd hook it to a receiver via optical audio).
I know the Fire TV can be setup to do Amazon Instant and Netflix. But can it be setup to replace the BD's (minus bluray/dvd playback of course). To play those files without having to transcode, or use a DLNA server too? Could I possibly use Rhapsody too?
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The Fire TV currently does not natively support playing videos of any sort from a shared PC folder. I am not aware of any "official" apps that do it either. By "official" I mean apps you can download from the Amazon appstore which display traditionally in the Fire TV "app" section. That said, there is XBMC (xbmc.org). XBMC runs beautifully on the Fire TV. You have to sideload the app, which is a simple process and does not involve rooting. The biggest disadvantage to XBMC over an "official" app or native solution is how you have to launch XBMC on the Fire TV. Instead of just going to the "Apps" section on the home screen, you have to dig down into a few menus. Specifically, you have to (from the homescreen) navigate to Settings > Applications > XBMC > Launch. It's a minor inconvenience, but it's worth mentioning. There are ways to make launching XBMC easier, but they are a bit of a hack involving other sideloaded android apps.
With XBMC you can do everything your BD players could do. HDMI and Optical audio are available on the Fire TV. Multiple options for getting to your media over the network are available. No transcoding or DLNA necessary. MKV's play fine. DTS and DD5.1 get passed through correctly. I've never tried M2TS files myself, but I would be surprised if XBMC couldn't play them. If you provide me a link to a M2TS file, I'd be happy to try it out for you. There is no official Rhapsody app. You can sideload the Rhapsody app for Android, but you will have to use a mouse & keyboard plugged into the Fire TV to use it. I would expect Rhapsody will make a Fire TV app eventually since they already have a Kindle Fire app.
@fireTVnews.com thank you for the reply. Sorry I got a little side tracked.
it sounds very tempting
Samba player
Another apps are (sideloading only):
Dice Player - very nice, but has no good support of FireTV remote.
File Manager HD + MX Player - 2 apps, that's only minus.
Hello,
I dont know anything about Fire TV, but I am very interested in it!
Can I stream mkv files (x264 codec) and Blu-rays from my NAS to Fire TV?
Have you looked into Plex? Go to plex.tv for more info.
Damn straight YEAH...If you plan to get the AFTV chances are you will install XBMC/Kodi - all you have to do is use Samba (or whatever your share is) and add your NAS disks to your video sources...done.
If you don't want/need XBMC (are you kidding me? ) then use BSPlayer to play videos from the mapped drives...or use ESFile Explorer to map the drive then open the video with...any player you choose.
You have plenty of options, I would not consider Plex if you don't need it for streaming/transcoding. Why would I run a PC if I have a small/quiet Media Center.
I got the NVIDIA SHIELD TV few days back.
Have a Synology 4 bay NAS which has all my movies and music.
Without using KODI or PLEX how can I play the files from NAS? Is there an app where I can setup an NFS and play these files without going into KODI and Plex.
Since my files are huge <25 gb I don't want to do SMB.
Nobody?
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Nobody?
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Archos Player works great playing movies from my WD MyCloud drive. Has all the artwork and everything. And if you download their ALL Video Codecs you won't even need to use MX Player or VLC. Although you can use either if you like. Check it out.
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Archos Player works great playing movies from my WD MyCloud drive. Has all the artwork and everything. And if you download their ALL Video Codecs you won't even need to use MX Player or VLC. Although you can use either if you like. Check it out.
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Thanks Keith.
Have a Mede8er currently which I was trying to replace because it cannot do Kodi. Probably the best media player. Plays any format I throw in.
Trying to find something that has media player capability and kodi functionality.
Very disappointed with the Shield. Thinking about giving WeTek Play 2 a try.
My normal browsing experience frequently involves clicking media links that trigger third-party players. In particular, I click links for video files or audio files that play in VLC primarily. How do I integrate VLC into the Silk or Firefox browsing experience on the Fire TV? For example, I want VLC to be triggered as a player whenever I click a link in the Firefox or Silk Fire TV browser that ends in .m3u8.
Thanks in advance for the help. I'm quite surprised that I've hit a brick wall on this; I would have thought it would have been a standard part of the browser setup on the Fire TV, now that Firefox and Silk are both available for it. But apparently it is not.
By the way, I manually installed VLC by itself on the Fire TV and it works O.K. with some exceptions, though I still need to figure out how to integrate it with one or both of my Fire TV browsers. There are a few live video streams which VLC handles fine on my computer but where it has some problems when playing on a Fire TV (specifically, some live video streams use a segmented system, where the stream is not continuous but consists of small video files of ten or fifteen seconds, followed by another file of the same length, followed by another file of the same length, etc. etc. This segmented steaming system works fine in VLC on my computers but when these streams play back in VLC on the Fire TV, you can see the breaks/interruptions as each segment finishes playing and VLC loads up the next one). So I guess I'm also in the market for another video streaming player for my Fire TV, in addition to the VLC player, specifically a video player that can better handle segmented streaming in the Fire TV environment. Though I guess that second question may belong in a separate thread perhaps. (By the way, I just discovered that the VLC player does NOT have this problem on my regular plain vanilla LG Tribute HD phone (Android version 6.0.1) with live segmented streams. The VLC player's problem with live segmented streams seems to be confined to the Fire TV. Problem on the Fire TV or with VLC?)