Allshare/DLNA busted on Note N8020 - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone,
I've been going through a nightmare with my note 10.1 (N8020) recently.
Allshare video playback from other devices over wifi just stopped working. It was totally fine and I have absolutely no idea what happened. It still plays music and shows photos and all the files stored on external devices. The only problem is that it won't play video. It plays video stored locally or on sd card just fine, but when I want to play anything from my note 2 (n7105) or my pc's allshare app, video player shows error message: "Cannot play video. This video cannot be played".
It plays the same files just fine, when I copy them to the device, so I think it might be the case of some transcoding error. It is not a case of network settings - I've checked on 4 different wifi networks and it's the same everywhere. My note 2 works just fine on any wifi and plays all video from tablet or pc. Here is what I tried so far, with no results:
1. Restoring to factory defaults,
2. Wiping cache and dalvik cache,
3. Flashing fresh stock rom,
4. Erasing all allshare apps and video player data
I'm running out of ideas how to handle this annoying thing. Please help, before I pull the rest of my hair out.
N8020 & N7105 (JB 4.1.2 rooted + stock)

I still can't figure this one out. I started using bubbleUPnP to replace stock allshare and I must say, it is great! It's far better than samlink. The only feature I miss is that when I watch photos on tv I can't zoom in with my tablet. Samsung's stock gallery has this feature.
N8020 & N7105 rooted&ready

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3) Music player initially has no problem loading the songs, but then fails to find anything from the sd card. However, MortPlayer works fine all the time.
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DLNA on ICS vs GB

So is it just me or with the new ICS (4.0.3 LP7) , a lot of formats (infact almost all) that could be played on GB have stopped working.
I keep getting "Unsupported File Format" for almost every video I could play on GB.
This is when using samsung allshare app which uses the default video player.
if I use skifta which lets me choose player, only rockplayer is able to play the videos, and that too not at all smoothly. All other players (mx, etc) just play a bucket load of distortion.
Weird thing is that on GB (2.3.6) , allshare itself played every god-damned format I threw at it.
maldyzooks said:
So is it just me or with the new ICS (4.0.3 LP7) , a lot of formats (infact almost all) that could be played on GB have stopped working.
I keep getting "Unsupported File Format" for almost every video I could play on GB.
This is when using samsung allshare app which uses the default video player.
if I use skifta which lets me choose player, only rockplayer is able to play the videos, and that too not at all smoothly. All other players (mx, etc) just play a bucket load of distortion.
Weird thing is that on GB (2.3.6) , allshare itself played every god-damned format I threw at it.
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Yep my observations also. I've updated ICS to XWLPF now so maybe theres been a fix, but I haven't tried as yet. However, I used Allshare on my brothers Samsung TV and it played native recorded videos just fine.
The device you're streaming to has to be able to display or support different formats also.
MX Player is awesome as always. No issues.
Yea which is why I'm wondering if ICS (or at least LP7) has this regression.
Fetching LPF now to see if it has fixed this
nope, factory reset and flashed LPF.
Videos via AllShare still throws "Unspoorted File Format" to all the videos I used to play via serviio before on GB

[Q] Files Streaming Issues through WIFI

Just got the S3 couple days ago and I have a problem with WIFI Streaming at home.
Previously, I have been using the Transformer to stream large video files over wifi without having any issues.
On the S3, I have tried ES File, and File manager to stream videos and transfer files that are over 500MB. Streaming stopped at various times and transferring large files always stopped at some point and eventually crashed the transfer. I don't know what's the issue is and WIFI seems to be stable and I never had an issue in regards to losing connection.
When the video is played, it would load to certain point, and then when the video reached that point, it would stopped.
This happened on MX Player and the default video player.
No problem at all when the same video is played from internal memory.
Transferring and streaming small files such as MP3 seems to be ok.
WIFI is set to always on during sleep.
I even tried to *#0011# method to turn off WIFI power save mode.
Anyone knows what the issue is?
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Anyone able to help?
Can someone please help? Thank you!!
Same video streaming issues. problem details.
Hi.
I'm just a week into Android OS but have good knowledge of Windows and networks.
I bought a Sammy 7" Tab 2 (ICS) last week and liked it so much, I gave it to my wife and got a Samsung 7.7 (Honeycomb). So, I have both OS's to play with. Both are WiFi only. Both have the same problem.
I have a large collection of old movies & tv (w/o DMR) on my W7 desktop's hard drives. I can copy the files via USB or over WiFi using "ES File explorer" with no problems. Once the files are on the tablets local drives, xvid, avi, wmv, mkv, and mp4 all play perfectly.
If I stream the video, using "ES File explorer", wmv and mp4 files play fine, but the other formats don't. I've tried Mobo and 2 other players with the same results. Most of my library is in xvid format. I can covert them, but that's a nutty solution.
Anyone have the same problem? Better yet, understand why and have a solution?
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[Q] Stock gingerbread playing videos off microsd card

Has anyone a solution to making the Video player find videos on the microsd card?
My daughter has a Galaxy Wifi 5.0" player running Gingerbread (the leaked official version).
Up till recently she's relied on the internal memory, but want to store more videos and music, so I bought a decent fast sandisk 16GB card for her.
I moved the videos off the internal directory (from /mnt/sdcard/Video to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/Video) and the video player seems to cache the old location and won't find the new, but gives a stupid misleading warning about unsupported file format.
I've searched the forum and elsewhere to find a solution but nothing obvious springs to mind.
I am surprised at the Gal Wifi's choice of mount point for the external card, is this normal?
Forget the stock video player, try <this one>
well, this is very odd. after much experimentation of moving the videos back to the internal flash and them not playing, I renamed them all by sticking i_ at start of file name.
I then copied them back to the "external" - microSD card - flash and stuck e_ at start of file name. I then removed the movies (which doesn't actually delete the files, it simply takes them out of the list). There's then an "add" function which adds movies back into the list.
I think by reconnecting as USB mass storage and copying files around, the movie player app then somehow reindexed the files and everything began to play.
So somewhere there's a cache of file names and locations and it got confused, so by renaming the files
zardak said:
Forget the stock video player, try <this one>
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thanks, I'll give MX Player a try.
I was going to try VLC too:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm9yZy52aWRlb2xhbi52bGMuYmV0YXY3bmVvbiJd
speculatrix said:
thanks, I'll give MX Player a try.
I was going to try VLC too:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm9yZy52aWRlb2xhbi52bGMuYmV0YXY3bmVvbiJd
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VLC is okay, but it is a beta at the moment so it crashes a lot.
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Samsung Fail
Samsung does a poor job in these updates.
I still use Froyo G70XXKD6 because all GB were a joke, including the latest G70XXKPL. Samsung started with lack of SOUND ALIVE, originally present in froyo XXKD6. And no, nothing could replace the sound produced by Sound Alive. I tried everything. I leave an honorable mention to n7player. Their equalizer was the most efficient for my ears. The other "famous players" are just cute.
In this latest update was the camera. If selected macro mode, after switching to the front camera this mode is locked.
Samsung updates are an eternal frustration.
Result: Back to good old xxkd6 with sound alive . For those who prize the main function of the G70 - PLAYER, this rom ends up being irreplaceable.

[Q] Mp4 sound but no vision on Video Player

Sound But No Vision
HD video mp4 files taken with my Samsung mini video camera have until a few days ago played perfectly well via Video Player on my Tab 10. (with ICS).
Since last week after downloading the files via the usb connection from the microsd card as usual, when I use Video Player I get a box saying 'play audio data only' so no picture just sound. Previous mp4 files already downloaded into Gallery all play properly. I have converted these latest mp4 files to .wmv and they play fine but it is a mystery why this should suddenly happen.
I doubt it is the camera or the card as all the files on the card play properly on my PC and my wife's Tab2 7.1. I can't recall making any changes to my Tab 10 but there is always a possiblity that I have, unknowingly - at least that's my story
Any advice would be welcome but please treat me gently and bear in mind I am a novice in things Galaxy Tab. Things like factory restarts scare the whatsit out of me
PS; I have searched among old posts but any vaguely relevant are old and refer to Honeycomb so perhaps are not applicable.
How about try mobo player?
lemoon said:
How about try mobo player?
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I have tried these players, MX, mobo, MVideo, Vplayer and HD player. It seems that my Tab does something to these later files which affects all the payers in some way although the Video Player that comes with the Tab is the only one that shows the dialog box saying 'play audio data only'
It sounds like an option has been made to only play the audio but I can't find it anywhere on the Tab or in Video Player that gives such a choice. Equally, there is the possiblity that I closed VP and stupidly chose 'force stop' which I understand may cause errors. What you do about that situation I don't know unless its possible to reinstall Video Player but I can't find a way of doing that as the app doesn't appear on Shop or Android apps stores.
I've had a look at the files using Cyberlink PowerDirector and it plays them perfectly and there are no queries with either its appearance or the 'techy' information presented for them.
I am no judge but perhaps it is one of those 'tap seven times in Settings' things that you read about in these threads.

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