Hey everyone
I've been trying to get BBC iPlayer to work on my topaz today with little luck so far.
Initially I tried to access it through the browser and it tells me "Your phone is not supported" When I used my PC to get a list of supported devices, they say the Touch HD is supported, so I don't see why it shouldn't work on my Topaz.
So I followed some advice I found at a forum (this one), and set a Custom User-Agent to sgh-i900. Suddenly the website works and looks great, but when I try to play something, it opens the stream in HTC streaming media, and gives me a black screen within the player, shows the length of the show correctly and the track bar at sitting at the end of the program. When I pull the track bar back (rewind) it just shows a loading screen indefinitely. I get exactly the same result if I try to open it in CorePlayer 1.3
I notice somebody else with a Touch HD (in the link above) had the same problem.
So I try something else. I download myPlayer (found a link on these forums). The app works great (thankyou author!!!) But when it comes to opening the streams in CorePlayer, I get exactly the same problem.
I can download the streams using myPlayer and then watch them, but I really want to be able to stream catch up tv as well.
Do you think it's some sort of Codec I need?
The other thing. I can watch live tv off BBC, that works well. I just can't stream catch up TV.
Has anybody else with a Topaz or a Blackstone (with a standard ROM) been able to get this working?
Do you guys have any suggestions of what else I could try?
Thanks for your time.
Are you using myPlayer via 3G or wifi?
To stream the catch-up content via wifi you shouldn't need any additional codecs for CorePlayer. Your mobile should have the same connectivity as any PC on your network.
You could try loading this stream via a PC (using the VLC media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html) to test the connectivity:
rtsp://3gp-acl.bbc.co.uk:554/3gpclip/iPlayer/wifi_5381424370952762694.3gp
If you are streaming via HSDPA/3G it may be your phone provider blocking the RTSP port (554).
-Fry
Well I got to the bottom of it. Thanks for your reply FryWalker.
Interestingly it just doesn't work over my office wifi network. BBC iPlayer works perfectly on my laptop when connected to my office network (via lan cable) but not on my Topaz over wifi.
It worked on my Topaz when I got home (over wifi), so I can only guess that my office wireless router is blocking the port.
Any other theories? Either way... I'm not that fussed, so long as I can watch iPlayer from bed, or whenever I'm out and can find a decent internet connection.
AceofSpades25 said:
It worked on my Topaz when I got home (over wifi), so I can only guess that my office wireless router is blocking the port.
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Yes, it is likely that your office network / firewall is blocking access to port 554. You can try streaming through the myPlayer server as an alternative by selecting "Stream via myPlayer media server" on the Stream Settings screen - this will attempt to connect via a range of different ports.
Another thing you could do is download the iPlayer content for "offline" viewing via the episode info panel.
-Fry
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This sounds cool! Too Bad it requires at least 250 kbs stream. Since I'm in the US and the universal does not support edge, that leaves only wfi. But I could still use it at home (garage) and at work or other wifi locations. I see it runs in windows media player, does it play in full screen mode or allow use of other players?
Try www.orb.com. tottaly excelent
i second that orb is outstanding
Yep Orb is great, not just for streaming to your XDA. The screen saver is pretty cool for streaming photos to your work PC for instance.
Although I've had no success so far getting my leadtek tv card working over it.
I have downloaded orb, but whatever I try to play from my pc (mp3 audio or video wmv,mpg) i get an error on the universal windows media player that "the player does not support the format you are trying to play"
What players on your universal do you guys use?
Thanks
Steve
If so can you change channels. I can watch the last channel I was watching in media center but it doesn't change to the channel I select in the program guide on orb? Is there another software like orb that will stream the live tv to my 8525 or do I need to wait till I have the cash for a sling box.
Personally I use slingbox, and its frekin awesome! I have it coneected to my tivo, and slingplayer mobile allows for full control of your tivo with my 8525. I havent used orb, but when I was in your position researching it seemed like the video quality is about the same. AV quality is VERY good with wifi, good with 3g, and choppy with edge.
chrisryn said:
If so can you change channels. I can watch the last channel I was watching in media center but it doesn't change to the channel I select in the program guide on orb? Is there another software like orb that will stream the live tv to my 8525 or do I need to wait till I have the cash for a sling box.
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Although i currently don't have it set up at the moment due to rom upgrades, i did have this working previously and it changed channels no problem.
As long as you have the channels setup correctly in orb configuration this will work as you want.
Slingbox does a better job so far.
I just started with Orb streaming my media and pictures off of my server, but I haven't set up TV yet because I have a weak link in my cable so that when I split it to hook up my TV Tuner card, I lose about half my speed with my cable modem. Video from the PC has come across great with 2.0, I hope the same with the TV.
yes, it rocks
i've had it working for a few months. I use xp- not media center addition- just plain xp.
ati all in wonder radeon 8500dv
orb 2.0_latest release
I use the file browser to get gps maps, etc down to my 8525. play mp3, video, even look at my webcam, and watch tv (or listen to it while I'm driving). works on 3g and edge, even with an old pentium3 pc!
never tried a $lingbox, but my orb pc is free. sits there with no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse, just cable tv and lan.
Hi friends
Pardon me if this has been explained elsewhere, I did a search but due to the ubiquitous nature of the search terms, I could not find a plausible solution.
Is it possible for me to access the files in my wireless laptop with b/g connectivity using 1) Imate SP5 with wireless b or 2) over 3g connectivity with my Samsung Blackjack II (no wifi)? I know about Orb etc, but I am more interested in using the native clients for networking rather than install third party apps. Both phones are running WM 6, laptop has Vista Ultimate. Laptop is connected via WiFi WPA to home broadband router.
I am mainly looking to play my mp3 files using the phone via headphones and to play an occasional DVD using the laptop's drive and watching it on the phone.
Thanks for reading
Regards
you should be able to connect via wifi or gprs using the built-in file explorer. Try 'menu' 'open path'
You should use Orb to do that. If you are under Vista and you have a TV card, you will even be able to stream DVB-H TV.
Go to www.orb.com
Thanks SToNeD, but as stated in the OP, I do know about Orb and have tried it in the past. I am trying to utilise the inbuilt resources of the phone for an occasional movie/music streaming, rather than running the resource hungry Orb 24/7 in my PC.
Awaiting further suggestions please
Has anyone managed to stream video properly from the S4 to a Samsung Smart TV? I can stream video to my UE55ES7000 using the Allshare option in the video app, but the video playback stops every 2-3 seconds and "Loading" appears on the TV screen. This is on short video clips of less than 15 seconds. As far as video streaming functionality goes this is pretty much a waste of time.
The TV is connected to my LAN via ethernet cable, and the S4 connected to a wifi access point which is plugged into the same switch as the TV.
Has anyone got this working acceptably?
same issue with s4 and ES6565, i believe it is because my connection are too slow.
fortunately i get a speed update tommorow, will report back if it solves the issue!
Plex
pzayx said:
same issue with s4 and ES6565, i believe it is because my connection are too slow.
fortunately i get a speed update tommorow, will report back if it solves the issue!
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I use Plex (http://www.plexapp.com/).
You install Plex server on your desktop and the client as an app on your Samsung Smart TV and it works pretty well.
Twonky is worth looking at as well.
cadbusca said:
I use Plex (http://www.plexapp.com/).
You install Plex server on your desktop and the client as an app on your Samsung Smart TV and it works pretty well.
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Will Plex allow me to stream content that's stored on the phone?
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Will Plex allow me to stream content that's stored on the phone?
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It will, but you need to install install it on your phone first:
http://www.plexapp.com/mobile/
I use Imediashare to stream content to my Samsung tv (not a Smart Tv) using dlna. Does a better job compared to allshare/samumg link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bianor.amspersonal
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Ok I just revisited the whole Plex thing (I remember trying it a couple of years ago). I remember uninstalling it last time because it couldn't handle my large music library (85,000 tracks) - whole chunks of the collection were missing after it had completed scanning.
Unfortunately my experience is no better this time. I set up the server, then installed the Plex client on the TV and connected it to the server. I could browse the video content on the server from the TV, but whenever I tried to play back anything it just threw up a blank screen that didn't go away (I waited 5 minutes, which I figured was long enough). Same thing on 2-3 different video files.
I also couldn't figure out any way to use Plex to play back video content from the phone to the TV (which was the whole point of this thread). Setting up the phone as a media server isn't a good solution, as it doesn't have a static IP address (it seems that the Samsung TV Plex client can only connect to servers using a hard-coded IP address). So it looks like I'll be un-installing Plex (again). I'm sure Plex works great in *pple setups but I have to say it's not ready for primetime with Android/Windows users.
So I tried installing iMediaShare, but it doesn't see the TV on the network at all.
I thought this would all be much easier, particularly as I have a Samsung phone as well as a Samsung TV :0(
I just tried the next potential solution, which was the upgraded Allcast app which was released today. This was able to stream a standard def video podcast uninterrupted for a minute (there's a 60 second limit on the trial version of Allcast), but when I tried to stream mp4 HD video which was shot on the phone I got the same problem with the video stopping every few seconds to buffer.
I'm pretty sure that I was able to stream HD videos from the S4 to the TV last summer, but can't remember what I used to do it. Now I'm wondering whether an Android update has introduced the problem - maybe Ice Cream Sandwich was better able to support HD video streaming than Jelly Bean? Any views?
Anybody had or having this issue? I am using TVMC, and I have my video library set up with an SMB share to the Nexus. I will start playing a TV episode and it will stop a few minutes in or halfway through and return back to the episode list. I don't think this has happened with a movie (yet).
I have tried messing with Hardware Acceleration vs Software (one actually works better for streaming sources from outside of my network). Tried clearing out the cache, purging packages. None of these have made any improvements. Thinking I may try to install a vanilla version of Kodi, and maybe also try Gotham.
Did a little searching and haven't found any solutions yet.
This is probably #3 in my disappointments with this device so far along with lack of apps, the Netflix bug, SlingTV's frame rate, and the Live Channels app. Starting to wish I opted for the Fire TV.
Yep Kodi runs like sh.. on my Nexus Player as well.
But on my Shield Tv it runs without any problems.
Video not playing on Kodi
Hi, I had the same problem. My video library is hosted on a Windows 7 PC and connecting over SMB to stream a film would work sometimes but not others. After much research I found the problem to be the network connection to the Windows PC. I found this out by installing ES File explorer on my Android TV and copying a large file to the local storage of the player. The copy would usually start then suddenly stop after a random length of time, additionally the bandwidth was very low. Try this to make sure you can copy a large file to the device without any problems.
I fixed the problem with a combination of solutions. I upgraded the network card drivers of the Windows 7 PC, I purchased an OTG LAN adapter for the Nexus Player and finally I used haneWIN to connect to my media library via NFS rather than SMB.
I now have a rock solid connection.
Hope this helps
Thanks for the responses. I have found that streaming the videos to Kodi via UPnP with Emby works fine. So I am thinking that is a network issue. I have DHCP set up, so I think what I will try is setting a static IP for the Windows PC
I also have one of these Ubee Modem/Router combos, but I have been using my own router. I didn't have the Ubee in bridge mode, which I changed last night. So I will get everything set again like I had it and see if it will play without stopping.
your problem is most likely trying to stream content over wifi. i dont care what anybody says, wifi + streaming media sucks. it can work fine 1 minute and then stop working another regardless of how good your connection may be.