Hi all,
I'm looking for a device to do mainly the following things :
- play music from my laptop (windows 7), stored on a NAS. Via midows media player, VLC ... It's very easy to manage playlist with specific software audio on PC (sorted by albums, artists, or files ...)
- play music and/or videos from my laptop (windows 7), from youtube, deezer ...
- play photos & videos from my laptop (windows 7), stored on my NAS. Via windows photo viewer, picasa ...
- and incidentally play photos and videos from my phone S7 Edge
- and if possible, have the same image than my laptop : mirror
I would like to do something simple, but wireless. Indeed, I work today with Jack and HDMI cables between my laptop and my Yamaha amplifier ... But not practical.
Do you have an idea of which type of device I need to buy : chromecast, miracast, EZcast, chinese clone like that :
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/FORN...X-YouTube-Sans-Fil-WiFi-HDMI/32833140058.html
I will be good for a Chinese clone, the price is very interesting. But I dont know if it will meet my needs. But also be reliable
Thanks a lot for your help
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I am about to purchase a NAS device to act as a home media server.
So far my short list includes:
Synology Disk Station DS210j
QNAP TS-210 Turbo NAS
Some of them support iTunes server and can stream music to an iPhone. Surely there is a way to do this on the Eris! Is there an iTunes client for Android 1.5 or perhaps a better way to do this?
Any help appreciated!
dont know anything about android, but my nas drive packed in and i got a new one from pc world. i thought it was a nas drive but wasnt it was a network media storage, my ameo couldnt pick it up at all because it wasnt a nas drive, pc seen it fine and could map. hope this is of some help. make sure its nas.
Not sure if your NAS device supports Upnp, but if it does like windowns 7 and can share media as Pictures Music and Videos, I found a program on the market that I could access the files on the computer over my network, the music would work but I couldn't get the videos to play. Search for UPNP on the market, I'll post the program later when the gf brings her phone around. There was a similar program on the Ipod touch, although it was able to play the video files, probably missing a codec in android.
The program was Andromote... if you have windows 7 set up sharing all the media on your nas you would be able to access it.
if a mod reads this, can you pull the restriction.. I don't post much but have used the site for quite a while. Thanks.
It's not exactly graceful, but I use MPD (Music Player Daemon), PMix (an Android client for MPD), and A Online Radio to stream my music collection to my Droid Eris (via Icecast). Unfortunately, the native Droid media player doesn't support the usual streaming protocols, but the above combo works. When I'm outside my home network, I use a web based client for MPD and have my Icecast port forwarded on my router. If the NAS device you pick up supports Linux, you should be able to install MPD and Icecast (both are available in most distros); the Market has both PMix and AOR for free.
The protocol iTunes uses for streaming audio is called DAAP, but I'm unaware of any DAAP clients on the Android platform yet. Searching google for "Android DAAP" led me to a site which offers a client application to control iTunes from Android, but not client. Again, if the NAS system runs Linux but doesn't provide a DAAP server, you can possibly install Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daap) to mimic the fuctionality. However until there's a client, there is little point.
Hello!
Is it possible (in any way) to stream desktop PC to android device?
I am talking 1080p with solid movie stream capabilities
I am aware of Splashtop but movies are not playing fluently via my wifi
thank you!
partly solved: could be done via Miracast, if THIS would be possible.
I'm trying to view photos stored on my PC with my newly acquired 16GB Tablet Z.
I already have a PS3 Media Server installed for using music & photo files on the TV via the PS3.
The tablet has connected to the PC with WiFi ok & the PS3 Media Server is showing in the My Albums option in the 'Album'
app. When I explore the folders - there are up to 5 levels for photos - the tablet only shows up to 16 sub folders and within those only a max of 16 photos.
I thought maybe it's a memory issue but it can take up to 30 seconds to load the 16 photos (say 70MB) so it is clearly accessing the pc storage.
How can I get to view all the folders & their contents on the Tablet??
I spent 20 minutes with the Sony support team & they had no solution.... hmmm, not impressed.
I hope you guys can do better!
Thanks,
Phil.
Hmmm - OK, surely I'm not the only one trying to view photo files held on my PC with the tablet, am I??
I thought I'd try a different route.
I'm now trying to set up Windows Media Player as the server, all looks ok but the only photo file it can pick up has a sort of 'mountain' icon rather than a photo. Really weird as everything appears to be set up ok.
Any ideas out there??
thanks,
Phil.
Now all sorted!!
The answer is... install 'Serviio' software on the PC which is a decent server app in contrast to Windows Media Player and install 'BubbleUpnP' software on the tablet.
From their website....
BubbleUPnP is a full featured UPnP/DLNA Control Point, UPnP Media Renderer and UPnP Media Server. Play easily your music, videos and images on your phone and devices on your network (DLNA TVs, XBMC, WMP, ...), from your external UPnP Media Servers. Play your phone/tablet media to those devices.
Browse and play your local phone/tablet and cloud media from other devices (PS3, ...).
It is brilliant. Now everything works a treat.
By the by... Sony Customer Service were no help whatsoever!
Hi all,
I have a network drive with my media library attached to the router (belkin 600 play). Also I have Xperia z tablet and dlna enabled Samsung TV. Router is not a dlna media server.
I need a player for android that can
1)see not just servers but all shares of the local network. (bs player can do this the way I would like to)
2) play all formats is "a must"
3) cast playback to TV (as a dlna server)
So as for now there are tons of players with different combinations of these features, but none combine them all. I wonder if bsplayer pro can play to TV, but not ready to pay 7$ to get Answer))))
Thanks
Hi guys,
Previously I'd all my videos on my Macbook and I was using Videostream to cast everything to my Chromecast (with the Videostream app on my Android phone as remote), that was working fine but didn't work with DVD files and my Macbook had to be on when I'd like to watch something.
Yesterday I came across a old 400GB SATA harddisk of mine so I thought: what if I connect that drive to my TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND router which does have a USB port and build-in network share and dnla/upnp support. So I've connected everything with a cheap sata/usb adapter from Ebay, connected the network share to my Macbook and PC and copied some videos to it.
I can't run any applications on my router like Videostream or Plex so I need a app on my Android phone which can stream from my network share to my Chromecast. I've searched around and tried Allcast and Localcast:
- Allcast, I can't find a way to access the network share.
- Localcast, works great through samba and dnla/upnp! But... I can't get subtitles working which are builtin my mkv video files. I didn't try dvd files yet.
Also I'm looking for a functionality which can keep track on what movies I've watched.
Any tips?
Thanks in advance!
try airflow app
Airflow is only for music...
Don't tested with Chromecast, but Bubbleupnp is a nice streaming app. Give it a try.
BubbleUpnp