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go to youtube and search bhup408 and watch the video.....cool vid
any movie!!! its legit
bhupinder408 said:
go to youtube and search bhup408 and watch the video.....cool vid
any movie!!! its legit
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There are a couple of sites like that. I just don't like using flash solutions. It's clunky, downloads slower, and kills battery much faster than the old "iPhone friendly" streaming sites.
orb live, streams movies from my home pc, which has every movie and tv show worth watching
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There are a couple of sites like that. I just don't like using flash solutions. It's clunky, downloads slower, and kills battery much faster than the old "iPhone friendly" streaming sites.
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I tried the iphonevids.tv or whatever it is and used the miren browser as started in other threads and it will play about 5 minutes of video and then stop and say video cannot play. What is the best way to stream on the phone? I would really like to get something going because I use the hdmi to my tv and could watch movies on it.
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So, last night I decided to givemedia hub a whirl and downloaded 300 and watched the whole movie on the phone and I never realized how good this phones screen is for HD. It looks better than my tv.
But anyways, riht after the movie was done, I downloaded and watched V for Vendetta and fell asleep afterwards without charging, and right now I'm at 13hr 34min with screen on time of 5hr and 43 minutes.
Id say this phone handles media playback quite well lol
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Also just realized...tws is 53%...wtf lol
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Yeah its good to watch movies on this screen.I downloaded about 5 from media hub sofar.Dont forget the files are stored on your sdcard,I had to delete them manually for some reason.
I love using the tv.com app and watching STAR TREK: TOS episodes. Anytime they use a communicator, I feel a tremendous inner geek fire and oh how warm it is. Heh heh.
veoh.com/iphone is high on my list,that and I rip alot of movies to the phone in high qulity,about 1.3gb on most hour and a half movies.
I also highly recommend : Droid Streamer
it's free on the market and streams tv shows, movies, and anime @ 480i compressed. There's a Pro version, but i dont know what features you get with that.
How much gb is a movie file?
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droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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ecooce said:
droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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I wouldn't call droid steamer nice per se, but it is free and gets the job done when bored, altho the dev. needs to use a better player that can do aspect ratios.
Do Media Hub movies play @ 720p for 1gb -/+ files?
I think they are 720p native.
now if we could just find something that will allow us tpo play them through allshare woudl be great, i hate allshare can never get it to play any damn video
I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone
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I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone
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One cool feature i like is it lets you airsync your andriod to your itunes player. Do you know of a app that's similar to this but streams to WMP or VLC player?
Is there a trick to get the Nexus Q to play movies? I downloaded the Nexus Q app on my N7 but when I try to stream TF3, all I get is a constant spinning circle & then get the "there was a problem while playing" error message. And to top it off, I didn't get a HDMI connector with my Q.
NM, finally got it to work. I had to reboot both the N7 & NQ before it started to play movies. Now I need to get speakers for it. Daym you Google!
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NM, finally got it to work. I had to reboot both the N7 & NQ before it started to play movies. Now I need to get speakers for it. Daym you Google!
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Speakers are so expensive! I just decided to go with a digital optical cable and my old home theater DVD system
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NM, finally got it to work. I had to reboot both the N7 & NQ before it started to play movies. Now I need to get speakers for it. Daym you Google!
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Can you stream videos you have on the N7? Like videos made with the camera or video files you have on the table?
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no just google play movies for now. I set mine up HDMI to the TV, optical from TV to surround sound.
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no just google play movies for now. I set mine up HDMI to the TV, optical from TV to surround sound.
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Well, in that case there's no point in buying one. I live in Portugal, so I only have Google Music (hacked). If it could stream all the contents from the phone, it could be a nice substitute to the MediaLink from HTC.
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yeah, there isn't if you don't live in america or want to invest in playstore. I bought mine for the possibilities...You can always side load media sharing apps.
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yeah, there isn't if you don't live in america or want to invest in playstore. I bought mine for the possibilities...You can always side load media sharing apps.
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Yes, but for that I think I'll choose a cheaper alternative or wait to see if the price drops.
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haha, I understand you... i'm just a Google fanboy though. =/
I dumped my iPad1 to pick up the N7 (love it, despite being on my 3rd, soon to be 4th, because I keep getting N7's the fracking annoying screen separation).
Just wondering if there's a cheap, good quality, android equivalent to what I was using on the iPad to stream videos from my media computer to my tablet. I used to use Air Video Server. So if anyone can point me in a good direction, I'd appreciate it!
And it only needs to stream on wifi. Don't care to be able to stream stuff to my cell when away from home.
Yes.
Search for Plex.
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I've tried plex before. HUGE resource hog on your media computer (couple hundred MB footprint). Any other servers? What I liked about AVS was that server application was really lightweight.
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And oh wow, I just tried it again (it HAD been a while, so I figured I'd give it another shot). It's absolutely horrendous. Media management is a ****ing joke, scanners can't find files if in certain layouts, and it's slow. I will however say that they worked on the weight a bit, though still heavy, chugging ~174MB of ram.
Hey no one ever recommends this here... but qloud media server is what your looking for (I promise)... my biggest problem too when coming from crappy iPhone lol
Agree. Plex server is ****. Media management is slow as hell. But I don't know any other else.
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Hey no one ever recommends this here... but qloud media server is what your looking for (I promise)... my biggest problem too when coming from crappy iPhone lol
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Nice find Synx. Checking it out right now. Seems to be pretty good!
vPlayer works for me.
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Just wondering if there's a cheap, good quality, android equivalent to what I was using on the iPad to stream videos from my media computer to my tablet. I used to use Air Video Server.
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The "Mirage" player works with Air Video!
I use ES File Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en
You can search for computers on your network, add them and them stream all the content you like using a video player. I use BS Player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free&hl=en
Works a treat
Try out Emit
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Or if you're willing to make a purchase you can pickup a router with "cloud storage" and attach a USB stick/hard drive(up to 500gb) at be able to steam outside your home as well. I own the newer model. It even has an android app
http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Wirele...1346142750&sr=8-2&keywords=dlink+cloud+router
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Just use dice player to stream over SMB and not have to run anything on your PC, Oh and now you can even have it in a floating window on the device
Smb while local, play on while remote.
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I use I media share to connect through WIFI to my XBMC running on my tv... I have 800 plus blueray rips. and tv shows. between the wifes ipad and my nexus i can stream anything from it.. works like a champ..
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I dumped my iPad1 to pick up the N7 (love it, despite being on my 3rd, soon to be 4th, because I keep getting N7's the fracking annoying screen separation).
Just wondering if there's a cheap, good quality, android equivalent to what I was using on the iPad to stream videos from my media computer to my tablet. I used to use Air Video Server. So if anyone can point me in a good direction, I'd appreciate it!
And it only needs to stream on wifi. Don't care to be able to stream stuff to my cell when away from home.
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Bubble uPnP as the client and just the uPNP parts of windows. I use it to stream video, photos and music from a NAS drive and before that my PC (Windows 7). With MX Player Pro to do the actual playing I have no problems at all. There are a few uPnP servers - Twonky is one I've used too.
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Try out Emit
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This. Emit is awesome and simple.
I have played with a lot of the servers and I keep coming back to Emit. It is not the highest quality, but it is a small footprint and it is very reliable. When local I have recently been testing out using Bubblepnp to connect to my plex server and then play the video with whatever my player of choice is, Dice, BS etc and that is putting out some really quality results for me so far. I just wish I could use the PS3 Media Server to transcode to my Nexus 7, but no luck as of yet.
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The "Mirage" player works with Air Video!
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Doesn't play on Jellybean, crashes in SW mode, and just has a loading icon that goes on forever and ever and ever in HW mode.
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The "Mirage" player works with Air Video!
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This. Emit is awesome and simple.
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My Air Video server wouldn't show up in Emit.
I currently have multiple Chromecasts, a laptop, and rotate between Androids and iPhones.
What can this do that I cannot do with the above?
I see this is on sale for 69 bucks at best buy, and I believe it is rootable, many of the reviews say its ok but literally just a chrome cast with a few more limited apps.
IS it worth the buy or is this another Google item that we are just Beta Testers for?
I just got one and will be keeping it. Here's what it has over just using Chromecast with phones:
1) You can play games from the Nexus Player. You can't really enjoy a game like NBA Jam from your phone while trying to cast the screen. But Nexus Player can play NBA Jam and many other games natively. So you get to play possibly some of your Android Game library on the big screen easily. The only other way I've been able to do this, is hooking a cable into the TV from a device. So Nexus Player makes playing some games much easier.
2) Suggestions from apps on the Player Home screen. The more content you play on the Nexus Player, the better the suggestions on the Home Screen get. For content you may want to see. The suggestions can be disabled per app.
3) Easier to have other people use than your phone/table, when they want to watch something on your TV. And Nexus Player supports Restricted Profiles.
Far as streamers go, I use my Roku more because it has way more channels. But the Nexus Player has better games than Roku. And the channel apps that are supported on the Nexus Player, look nicer than their Roku equivalents. The only thing Nexus Player needs to be make it better than Roku, is more channels. Especially since Roku has nothing such as Restricted Profiles.
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I just got one and will be keeping it. Here's what it has over just using Chromecast with phones:
1) You can play games from the Nexus Player. You can't really enjoy a game like NBA Jam from your phone while trying to cast the screen. But Nexus Player can play NBA Jam and many other games natively. So you get to play possibly some of your Android Game library on the big screen easily. The only other way I've been able to do this, is hooking a cable into the TV from a device. So Nexus Player makes playing some games much easier.
2) Suggestions from apps on the Player Home screen. The more content you play on the Nexus Player, the better the suggestions on the Home Screen get. For content you may want to see. The suggestions can be disabled per app.
3) Easier to have other people use than your phone/table, when they want to watch something on your TV. And Nexus Player supports Restricted Profiles.
Far as streamers go, I use my Roku more because it has way more channels. But the Nexus Player has better games than Roku. And the channel apps that are supported on the Nexus Player, look nicer than their Roku equivalents. The only thing Nexus Player needs to be make it better than Roku, is more channels. Especially since Roku has nothing such as Restricted Profiles.
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Are you referring to side loading games and playing them via emulators you side loaded, or games actually made for/compatible with the nexus player via the dedicated app store?
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Are you referring to side loading games and playing them via emulators you side loaded, or games actually made for/compatible with the nexus player via the dedicated app store?
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Games actually made for the Nexus Player/Android TV, and are in its play store. There are emulators there too, but I don't use them.
Be sure you get the Game Controller when buying a Nexus Player. Or you won't be able to enjoy many games.
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Games for Android TV/Nexus Player
I bought a Nexus Player to cut the cord. I installed Kodi on it, and enjoy it mostly for streaming of video through that, Plex, and Netflix.
I think it brings everything together nicely and easier to navigate than say a PC.
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I bought a Nexus Player to cut the cord. I installed Kodi on it, and enjoy it mostly for streaming of video through that, Plex, and Netflix.
I think it brings everything together nicely and easier to navigate than say a PC.
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Yea, I use things like Popcorn time and stuff via chrome cast from my Mac, never used Kodi, but I hear its set up where you have "live channels" and such.
I use Kodi(XBMC) on mine as well. There's a Kodi add-on called US TV VOD which basically lets you easily stream shows off of the TV Stations' websites. It's pretty slick. So with the NP, I have a single box that does everything we need (Netflix, Hulu, youtube, chromecast, games, music, and Kodi for local streaming and current TV episodes). If you have a backend DVR like MythTV, Kodi will also stream live TV and any shows that you've DVR'd. The only thing missing is Amazon Prime, but we don't use it very often.
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I use Kodi(XBMC) on mine as well. There's a Kodi add-on called US TV VOD which basically lets you easily stream shows off of the TV Stations' websites. It's pretty slick. So with the NP, I have a single box that does everything we need (Netflix, Hulu, youtube, chromecast, games, music, and Kodi for local streaming and current TV episodes). If you have a backend DVR like MythTV, Kodi will also stream live TV and any shows that you've DVR'd. The only thing missing is Amazon Prime, but we don't use it very often.
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Do you run your games via emulators? Outside of Casting, netflix, and Kodi I would like to be able to run emulators and games (Reicast for Dreamcast stuff would be the biggest thing I`d want along with other stuff). From what I understand the Nexus Player only has 5 or so gb out of 8gb total of free space, and you CANT expand the storage, is this true? That would be a deal breaker compared to me just getting a tablet to use as a Nexus Player type device.
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Do you run your games via emulators? Outside of Casting, netflix, and Kodi I would like to be able to run emulators and games (Reicast for Dreamcast stuff would be the biggest thing I`d want along with other stuff). From what I understand the Nexus Player only has 5 or so gb out of 8gb total of free space, and you CANT expand the storage, is this true? That would be a deal breaker compared to me just getting a tablet to use as a Nexus Player type device.
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I don't use emulators on my NP. Can the storage be expanded via and external drive or thumb drive on the USB port? I know the NP will recognize a USB hub, but I've only used that for network adapters and keyboards/mice.
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I don't use emulators on my NP. Can the storage be expanded via and external drive or thumb drive on the USB port? I know the NP will recognize a USB hub, but I've only used that for network adapters and keyboards/mice.
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AFAIK, you can't expand the storage. I've read plenty of attempts, but nothing I've read is reliably successful. Storage is the one matter to keep in mind with the NP. Although it's a 8GB drive, only 5GB is supposedly usable. But I just got another new NP yesterday. Soon as I did the initial setup, I checked storage and only 4GB was free, since 1GB of that "5GB usable" had already been consumed by auto-downloaded stuff. And I didn't want to remove the auto-downloaded stuff, it was stuff I wanted. So pretty much out the gate, 4GB for me for other software.
Imagine a phone or tablet with just 4-5GB of space. How much can you get on it? You won't have some of the big apps you may use on a phone or tablet, like GPS navigation map apps. But there are some games, that can consume half or nearly all of the available space. Especially since some games in the Play Store may claim to use maybe 500MB, but after startup, they take up over 1GB additional.
Having said all that. I've read that Android M may bring some reliable expandable storage support. But there's no telling for certain.
It's good enough for me and the kids ,so I'll be getting more. I already have plenty of Rokus. But the Roku can't do what the NP does. And I doubt channels like Haystack TV will ever be implemented on Roku. So I'll have to enjoy the best of both NP and Roku and have both.
If you have extra money, and you want the Nexus Player Experience and then some, go with the Nvidia Shield Android TV. It's got everything the Nexus Player has and then some.
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If you have extra money, and you want the Nexus Player Experience and then some, go with the Nvidia Shield Android TV. It's got everything the Nexus Player has and then some.
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Sure does, and there are games such as Sonic, which appear from advertising to play on the Shield, but not NP.
I went ahead and bought 2 nexus players, since Best buy has them for 69, and I had a 10 dollar coupon. Signed up for Sling TV which seemed cool, will look more into the Hacks too
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I went ahead and bought 2 nexus players, since Best buy has them for 69, and I had a 10 dollar coupon. Signed up for Sling TV which seemed cool, will look more into the Hacks too
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Amazon has them for $66.83 and Best Buy does price match. Maybe you could get a little of your money back ?