Hi all,
I'm currently running DSC 1.6 and I cannot get plex to run on my Dell Streak.
My plex can connect to the server and play a video with only sound, no video. Has anyone
got a solution for this? Tried DSC 1.5 and LH 2.9.3 no luck.
Thanks
Plex?
I have never been able to get Plex to work on any stock or mod rom on the Streak. Tried all of the suggestions, and nothing has worked. On a stock rom, I would get video once in awhile. I ended up downloading Avia Media Player. It is able to connect to my Plex server and play my media files. The quality isn't great, but it works. The other solution, is to use ES file explorer to navigate to the files, and then play the media in the player of your choice. I like Avia for Plex, because you get the cover art for the media. If you do come across a solution, please post. I have tried Plex on DSC, Longhorn, and the Rogers stock rom, as well as 350, 360, and 407. I have ended up using Longhorn, because it crashes the least. It would be nice to find a rom that was stable, and all the functions worked. Did I mention how much I hate Captcha's. We need to start a movement to ban them.
dmc2012 said:
I have never been able to get Plex to work on any stock or mod rom on the Streak. Tried all of the suggestions, and nothing has worked. On a stock rom, I would get video once in awhile. I ended up downloading Avia Media Player. It is able to connect to my Plex server and play my media files. The quality isn't great, but it works. The other solution, is to use ES file explorer to navigate to the files, and then play the media in the player of your choice. I like Avia for Plex, because you get the cover art for the media. If you do come across a solution, please post. I have tried Plex on DSC, Longhorn, and the Rogers stock rom, as well as 350, 360, and 407. I have ended up using Longhorn, because it crashes the least. It would be nice to find a rom that was stable, and all the functions worked. Did I mention how much I hate Captcha's. We need to start a movement to ban them.
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My mum's stock Samsung Galaxy II works fine, just hoping its an easy fit for the Dell Streak. The best I can do now is using a windows program call "Mezzmo" for DLNA and have the Dell Streak use Bubble UPNP with MX Player since there is a profile already in Mezzmo. The good thing is that it works, and I can play MKV transcoded to my Dell Streak. The downside is I cannot get English subtitles.
I'll be happy to hear other solutions!
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First of all, I am grateful that the vibrant can play divx encoded video files; I don't think I could live without it. Unfortunately it cannot stream them.
A solution is to start downloading the Avi and then [while its downloading] switch over to the Files application, go to the ".downloadTemp" folder [you need to first enable "hidden files" in the options], and open the incomplete *.avi in the stock video player application. This works wonderfully and i can instantly start watching a video AS IT DOWNLOADS.
UNFORTUNATELY, the video player app will not let me fast forward. Sometimes it lets me rewind, but it mostly takes me back to the very beginning of the video if I even touch the trackbar. And yes, for those who are wondering, the Video WAS sufficiently done downloading to reach the part of the video i wanted to fast forward to. I obviously wasn't trying to forward to the end of the video with only 10% of it downloaded.
I looked in the android market for alternative video players, and the only one that REMOTELY worked was Rockplayer. It would let me fast forward and rewind, except it was really glitchy and full of ads. I prefer just watching it on the perfectly stable stock Player than to use a glitchy one.
So i come to you guys, hoping for a solution. Any Ideas? Are there any other Video Players that i missed that will let me fast forward and rewind incomplete video files as they download?
(Oh, and if you're wondering the source of the videos, i usually just watch divx movies and shows that have been uploaded to megaupload, such as: megaupload.com/?d=T5D3YV8R&w=719&h=349)
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Solved: VPlayer and Moboplayer support HTTP Streaming for DviX
I have read a few posts similar to yours, complaining about streaming divx avi files.
I myself do NOT have any issues with this and have tested a fair share of my 900gigs of divx avi's. I DO have issues stream MKV files while I have seen others report that they can stream MKVs.
What does this mean?
This means that AllShare is no different then any of the other DLNA based streaming software out there, there are compatibility problems that need to be worked out. Usually this is sorted out on the streaming server side and not the player.
I am saying that the software you are using to stream is more then likely causing the problem.
Give Twonky a try. Thats what I use and as I said I can stream divx/xvid avi's without issue. The downside is that Twonky is not free, the upside is that there is a 30 day trial to test and see if it resolves your issue. If it does, I dont think the price for Twonky is that bad, I paid $15. If you want a free one (they update compatibility less frequently) just google search DLNA or UPNP streamers and test a few out. XBMC is a good open source alternative, but is really not an option if you are using a windows box. XBMC is a program and not a service so you would be running a full media player at all times. XBMC can be setup as a standalone in linux though, if you have a spare PC to use.
Good luck.
When I say "stream," I don't mean from a home network source, I mean from an http source.
Therefore, I don't think the DLNA solution applies (Although i'm probably going to end up taking your advice for when i want to play videos from my computer, so thanks for the tip )
But that still leaves the current issue. Any Ideas?
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When I say "stream," I don't mean from a home network source, I mean from an http source.
Therefore, I don't think the DLNA solution applies (Although i'm probably going to end up taking your advice for when i want to play videos from my computer, so thanks for the tip )
But that still leaves the current issue. Any Ideas?
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AHHHHH.... I have been looking for a way to do this as well. HTTP streaming should no longer be an issue when 2.2 drops as sites like quicksilverscreen and the like all work fine through Flash 10.1 in 2.2. I have tested this with a Nexus1 and it works beautifully even over 3g.
I still want to have access to my home server though as I have close to a terabyte of video and my system is setup to auto download shows as they come out.
I am hoping to get my hands on a deODEXed version of the AllShare app to see if I can remove the WIFI only restriction. After that it should just be a matter of setting up a VPN back to my server.
Right, megavideo should work fine once we get the 2.2 update (woot! cant wait till we get flash xD)
as for movies uploaded on megaupload, I guess i'll survive with the .downloadTemp folder trick for now. Thanks.
And if i may ask, what's the quality like on allshare and twonky? and how fast does it respond to fast forwarding/rewinding?
I would like to stream from a regular windows samba share over wireless. I can't even get that working properly. It appears to be a limitation with the player and not the OS.
Ive just taken delivery of my new Streak, its running 2.1 and so far I am very impressed.
One thing I would like to do is watch movies on my phone, currently they are stored on my NAS drive which supports DLNA and SMB.
Does anyone know of a way of streaming directly from a NAS drive, I dont want to use VLC or anything similar as you need to involve the PC. I have tried an app from the market place called remote media BETA but it doesnt work, I can see the files but not play them.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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Ive just taken delivery of my new Streak, its running 2.1 and so far I am very impressed.
One thing I would like to do is watch movies on my phone, currently they are stored on my NAS drive which supports DLNA and SMB.
Does anyone know of a way of streaming directly from a NAS drive, I dont want to use VLC or anything similar as you need to involve the PC. I have tried an app from the market place called remote media BETA but it doesnt work, I can see the files but not play them.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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Try an app called ROCKPLAYER
Thanks, I have installed the latest version of RockPlayer, universal and ARM 7. I cant see the settings for network streaming. Is this version different as I have read the Beta versions were better than the current versions.
Hi,
What you need is the app 'ES FILE EXPLORER'
Works great for me to play video and audio from my NAS drive.
Let me know how you get on.
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Hi,
thanks for the input. Now finally I can see my share, but
streaming is not possible. I tried various .avi - Files. I always get the
massage that streaming is not possible for that filetype and the file
has to be cached (never waited that long....).
Any input?
Many thanks..
It will be a codec problem, I have problems some videos not sure which aren't compatable with streak : ( yet anyway.
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Thanks for the info, I can see all the files now. Doesnt seem to like AVI, as you say its likely to be a codec problem. A codec pack for android would be a great app.
What Video format are you using at the mo, I will convert a few of my movies.
I'm working on what codec works best, ill post my results soon.
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Hi
Done a bit of testing M4V seen to work has to be renamed to MP4
Going to some more testing.
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Thanks for the update, I'll convert a few avi's to m4v and see what settings work the best.
Ok a quick update,
If anyone has problems after encoding with it still caching video before it plays, download the util for pc called 'metadatamover 0.9' this fixes that.
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When I try to open any .avi video, I just get a "Sorry, not supported media type" error. But with Rockplayer, i am able to play avi files when on sdcard.
Can't I somehow send it to the rockplayer?
Converting the files is not an option for me.
Ye I tried it link to rockplayer as well I has no luck, it pretty sure that rockplayer Just doesn't have support for this yet.
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I've been through all of the same grief with AVI files and Rockplayer and never got it to work. In the end I decided it was easier to convert the files to mp4 and load them to the sd card.
The best converter I found was Format Factory, which is free. Takes some fiddling with the codecs to get precisely the right format for the streak, but works a treat.
If anybody wants the codec config file, PM me.
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isn't is possible that orb can do the job. www.orb.com
kasperke, unfortunately that reuires a running app on your pc. I'd like access remote disk on LAN without the need for a running computer.
try yxplayer
or vplayer
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or vplayer
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strange, vplayer isn't working on my device....oeps i see..needs 2.1 and i'm still on 1.6. damn just have to wait a little longer.
have you tried AndroMote ? http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.czesla.android.remote
I've been looking for the best way to transcode and stream video from my file server to my Nook Color. (using handbrake to encode video for local playback works great... but until they sell 5 TB sdhc cards that's not going to cut it )
VLC Stream and Convert works (for every kind of file I've thrown at it... which is no surprise, VLC can handle anything pretty much).. but I haven't been satisfied with the quality. (and I've played with the h265 settings quite a bit). Does anyone have recommended settings for this app?
Also, I have Tversity... but I can't get it to work for all my videos yet.... Has anyone successfully configured Tversity to work with their Nook Color?
Are there any other solutions for this that anyone might recommend?
Thanks
Ive gotten PS3 media server to work with the nook. Its pretty similar to Tvsertity. Install UPnPlay on your Nook and try to access your Tvsertity server. It'll forward the stream to your player of choice (Rock player, etc.)
Only issue I've noticed is with files > 1gb.
has anyone tried twonky? i use it on my epic to stream from my server to phone... it will browse shared files on network and playthem.. or vise versa it can stream from phone to network... next time i have a nook here i can try it myself, but it is a free app so might be worth a shot to see if it will install and run on nook.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pv.twonkyremote
Subsonic is quite good. It allows you to stream music and videos, however it requires flash to stream videos so I'm not sure how well it works on CM7. It is also not free.
VLC Convert and Stream is the only program I've found that will stream all of the file types I have on my computer. Everything else you'll have to transcode non compatible files first, which may not actually be that bad if you have plenty of storage space and/or you only have a few files that need to be transcoded.
I have my convert and stream playback on phone settings set to 480 width with highest bitrate selected (I don't have pro version, I think you can get up to 640 width with that) and playback settings set to fit to screen so that the videos expand out. I get a few artifacts here and there but the quality is pretty good considering it's over wireless. Biggest problem I had was getting the sound sync'd up, that required some playing around with the delay settings as it was pretty far off at first. Do you have the pro version? That allows higher resolution and possibly higher bitrate (but I'm unsure on the bitrate). When I watched 720p source videos, it looked pretty good.
VLC
Thanks - downloading it from the app store now. I have 2.3.3 running (CM7). I will let you know how it goes. So far nothing else I've tried has worked ;(
I love this app. It works well over home WIFI, but for the life of me I cant get it to connect outside of my home network.
What port forwading settings would I add to get this to work? Wouldnt the rest be the same since at home I use internal IP, outside of home I use external IP? Then forward external IP to the internal one previously set up? Kind of new at this, I've set up live streams before, but cant remember and troubleshoot this properly.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edit 2: I have followed the directions for VPN and 3G methods but for some reason it wont connect.
Edit 3: Got it working, was missing a single digit in one of my forwards.
I recently tried Plex. That is an exciting app. I love the interface.
The only issue is that even though the streaming works, when I used it over my wifi the playback was laggy (even with overclock). I tried changing the settings and lowering the quality, but it still lagged.
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I recently tried Plex. That is an exciting app. I love the interface.
The only issue is that even though the streaming works, when I used it over my wifi the playback was laggy (even with overclock). I tried changing the settings and lowering the quality, but it still lagged.
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I noticed this with Plex as well. I already use it on my Galaxy S and it plays beautifully, but the NC seems to lag no matter what.
HOWEVER, the same video played over subsonic at maximum quality (Transcoded as .flv and embedded in the browser as a flash video) plays surprisingly well.
Any more knowledgeable members know why that is? I can't seem to figure out why.
I watch 720p mkvs transcoded over 3g running cm7 on my nc with no problems using subsonic. Best option I have found. Server is on a ubuntu 10 machine.
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I've been able to use Skifta with RockPlayer or Vplayer to stream from my Windows 7 box (since DLNA is built in). You need a separate video player app in CM7 currently since most codecs have been removed until they get DSP working.
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I've been able to use Skifta with RockPlayer or Vplayer to stream from my Windows 7 box (since DLNA is built in). You need a separate video player app in CM7 currently since most codecs have been removed until they get DSP working.
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Skifta worked for me first time!
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction
Qloud Media has worked well for me. It's extremely simple to set up.
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.qiss.vega.ad
For dlna streaming on my phone i use imediashare and it works perfectly so maybe give it a try on the nook color.
Would love to get XBMC on my NC. Do you think the guys at XBMC will do this? They did it for iOS.
I know for a fact they are working on it. It is harder for them than iOS so its going to be a long process.
With that said, the Nook Color doesn't have the power to do much with XBMC. You can already max the Nook with Mobo Player.
The best option for the Nook Color is the XBMC fork Plex. It transcodes the video to work better for the device. I use it almost daily.
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I know for a fact they are working on it. It is harder for them than iOS so its going to be a long process.
With that said, the Nook Color doesn't have the power to do much with XBMC. You can already max the Nook with Mobo Player.
The best option for the Nook Color is the XBMC fork Plex. It transcodes the video to work better for the device. I use it almost daily.
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Thanks! I wish I could watch my media via XBMC on my Nook. I still haven't found a way to stream my .avi files directly to my Nook. I got it to work for a little bit but can't get it to work again. I used File Expert App, Network Setup, and Rock Player. It worked twice but will not work again on my Nook. Weird thing is I can get it to work consistently on my China Epad.
I tried Plex but don't like to leave my computer on to do the transcoding.
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Thanks! I wish I could watch my media via XBMC on my Nook. I still haven't found a way to stream my .avi files directly to my Nook. I got it to work for a little bit but can't get it to work again. I used File Expert App, Network Setup, and Rock Player. It worked twice but will not work again on my Nook. Weird thing is I can get it to work consistently on my China Epad.
I tried Plex but don't like to leave my computer on to do the transcoding.
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I use Cifs Manager to mount my PC's shared drive to a folder on my Nook and from there i use Mobo Player to play the videos, but I'm sure other players would work. I haven't had any problem using this method to stream.
xbmc is the best
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Thanks! I wish I could watch my media via XBMC on my Nook. I still haven't found a way to stream my .avi files directly to my Nook. I got it to work for a little bit but can't get it to work again. I used File Expert App, Network Setup, and Rock Player. It worked twice but will not work again on my Nook. Weird thing is I can get it to work consistently on my China Epad.
I tried Plex but don't like to leave my computer on to do the transcoding.
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I use File Expert and Rockplayer to stream media off my NAS (D-Link DNS-323). I don't do anything special - it just works, at least for me. Streams both video and music fine.
Would love to have XBMC on the Nook though .... still use XBMC on my Xbox1 once in a while
UPnPLAY works well. You just have to open up some ports in the PC. Uses the media server the come with windows.
I've tried to stream my simple DIVX AVI files over my wifi for days now. The files are located on a NAS with DLNA capabilities. I've tried different apps, but the same result with every app - does not work. The lag is defined as MAJOR. 0.5 sec of sound, silence for 5 sec, 0.5 sec sound, silence for 5 sec and so on.
The funny thing is, if I pick up my Samsung Galaxy S II - it works FLAWLESSLY! The stream picks up within 1-2 secons and plays just fine without any hickups at all.
How come it works like a charm with my S II, but not with my tab? FYI I've tried with the stock rom, now I'm using the Broodcomb ROM, and the results are the same on both roms. This can't be because the Tab 10.1 doesn't have an official support for DLNA, can it?
Any help would be appreciated since one of the reasons for buying this was to stream Big Bang Theory from my NAS into my bedroom so I can fall asleep to it! lol
What are you using as a player? I suggest Rockplayer which I have used to play DLNA streamed media just fine from my Galaxy S2 phone using Skifta beta (free) as the server. The lag problem may be issues with hardware decoding. If you are using moboplayer, there is a setting in the application to default to software decoding.
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Same as above, Rockplayer to solve the lag issues. Blame Tegra 2 though.
I've tried Skifta, default video player, Moboplayer, BubbleUPnP, SoftMedia Player and UPnPlay. Still major lag issues.
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WOOT! Tried with Rockplayer, works great! Thanks!
I'm using Skifta Beta to browse my NAS. Just in case someone else are having problems.
But why is this to blame on the Tegra 2, thought it was a kick ass CPU?
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I've tried Skifta, default video player, Moboplayer, BubbleUPnP, SoftMedia Player and UPnPlay. Still major lag issues.
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WOOT! Tried with Rockplayer, works great! Thanks!
I'm using Skifta Beta to browse my NAS. Just in case someone else are having problems.
But why is this to blame on the Tegra 2, thought it was a kick ass CPU?
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Tegra 2 is nice to have on a phone but not on a tablet. Its very old (almost 2 years) for tablet use and does not support many features to make a great tablet experience.
Gah! Bad Samsung! So it would be better if they used their own Exonys CPU instead? Well, let's just wait for the next one then, I'm sure they fix it. Samsung has done a lot of kick ass hardware the last years
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I have exactly the same problem. I have a Galaxy S II phone and this is sooo much better at streaming from my NAS.
I just assumed that the Galaxy tab 10.1 should be able to do this easily as well, I mean a tablet is perfect for this!
I have tried Moboplayer, UPnPlay, BubbleUPnP, Vplayer and none of them seemed to be able to manage it.
I will check Rockplayer using Skifta to browse the NAS and report back...
I can confirm that using Skifta as a DLNA app to browse my Buffalo NAS and Rockplayer to stream the video files works brillantly. This seems to be the only combo that is reliable.
Also just set up AndFTP to download files direct to Tab instead of Filezilla server on laptop which is slower transfer rate.
Cheers for the advice!
I have had the same problems. I tried MX player and it works. Its also free. Plays most videos and has a choice of encoders. I do hope Samsung sort this out.
Some upnp clients have the ability to 'download' the file from the dlna server (long press on the file), but when I tried this with UPNP Player, the download always fails. Skifta host does not have a download option and I could not find any other suitable candidate to try. Maybe the skifta dlna server does not support file transfers.
Rob
I'm using Buzz player and it's working fine with WDTV Live media server
I've had success with Skifta as well and UPNP to browse w/ mobo or V player as the player.