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Best software to connect WM6 device to PC?

Im looking for the best software out there that will let me access any of my computers files via my Wing (Herald) on the go.
I know there were programs you can emulate your actual desktop with, I used to have one on my PSP. It literally remotely controlled my PC, something like this would be nice, but I basically want to have easy access of all my computers files on my Wing.
Can anyone suggest where to start?

You can try www.LogMeIn.com I have not tried it personally but heard that they recently announced their mobile version.
Regards,
Carty..

thats pretty neat, thats like the PSP one I had. You can control the desktop and such.
Although something im more interested in is using files on my PC on my phone. Like music. I'd like to be able to launch my computers music onto my phone. Same with pictures and everything else.

If you want to stream music, movies and documents from your PC, you should look into getting orb http://corp.orb.com/download_orb It can even stream live TV like a slingbox if you have a TV tuner on your video card, and it's totally free

pee said:
If you want to stream music, movies and documents from your PC, you should look into getting orb http://corp.orb.com/download_orb It can even stream live TV like a slingbox if you have a TV tuner on your video card, and it's totally free
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I concur. Orb is the winner in my book. No software needed to install on your PPC to hog precious space. And it just works great.

to get desktop access
one can also use therminal services which is included in wm
or vnc which is a very popular tool with support from windows , linux and mac and prob others

Finally managed to stream videos to my Desire HD from PC via UPnP/DLNA

I know this has been a bit of a problem, but I've finally managed to piece together a decent method to stream things wirelessly from another computer on the network via UPnP (DLNA).
Unfortunately it's meant I've had to pay for some software - but it's software I used the free version of on a daily basis and in my opinion worth it!
Back when I had Windows Vista I used the built-in media sharing and it worked great sharing stuff to my xbox360/ps3.
Moving to Windows 7 the built in sharing has never really worked properly and I haven't been able to get it going properly. Instead I moved to TVersity which actually is a bit better as it supports built-in transcoding etc.
I discovered that the "Pro" (read: Paid-for) version of TVersity supports streaming to iPhone/iPad via a built-in web interface - so I figured, why not try it on the Desire HD.
In fact it works very, very well indeed. All you need is an app on the phone that can play the media types such as DivX and AVI.
Initially I tried VPlayer Beta, which worked quite well, but the interface is a bit confusing and it doesn't seem to be able to play MPEG files correctly.
Yesterday, however, Rockplayer was upgraded to 1.5.0 (and now 1.5.1) changing it to "Rockplayer Universal" - and this works absolutely perfectly with everything I've tried so far. It's very fast too!
So all I do is load the web interface for TVersity that is loaded on my PC and click the file I want to watch and it starts streaming almost instantly.
I am a very pleased boy!

Great news , it's very unfortunate indeed that htc provided players do not support avi, xvid and vidx, or there is no integration when it come to windows media servers .
why having dlna if you cannot see videos, I have similar case I hope htc will solve this issue. but i am not going to put an extra penny on technology .
BR

mexlamri said:
Great news , it's very unfortunate indeed that htc provided players do not support avi, xvid and vidx, or there is no integration when it come to windows media servers .
why having dlna if you cannot see videos, I have similar case I hope htc will solve this issue. but i am not going to put an extra penny on technology .
BR
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Install Gmote on the pc and Rockplayer or Vplayer on phone. Works perfectly for streaming avi. xvid from your PC. I even got it to work over 3g by port forwarding on my firewall.

[Q] MyNet, Windows 7 DLNA?

I cannot get my Windows7 PC to show up in MyNet or UPnP. I've read the threads here and my PC's network, streaming, and sharing settings are configured exactly how the various guides have suggested. (And other non-Windows devices appear and can stream also [e.g., WDLiveHub].)
The TF shows up as a Media Device in my home network, but that's it. I can access my computer via ES File Explorer and GMote, so it's not like there's no connectivity. I downloaded UPnP from the Market, but my computer shares still don't show up.
Interestingly, when I first tried out MyNet, my computer showed up briefly then disappeared...
I've tried everything and, for the life of me, cannot figure out why neither MyNet or UPnP are working. Any help?

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I cannot get my Windows7 PC to show up in MyNet or UPnP. I've read the threads here and my PC's network, streaming, and sharing settings are configured exactly how the various guides have suggested. (And other non-Windows devices appear and can stream also [e.g., WDLiveHub].)
The TF shows up as a Media Device in my home network, but that's it. I can access my computer via ES File Explorer and GMote, so it's not like there's no connectivity. I downloaded UPnP from the Market, but my computer shares still don't show up.
Interestingly, when I first tried out MyNet, my computer showed up briefly then disappeared...
I've tried everything and, for the life of me, cannot figure out why neither MyNet or UPnP are working. Any help?
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Did you try to install TVersity on your PC?

You need to install a UPNP server like XBMC, TVersity etc.
TVersity is supposed to transcode your videos on the fly.
But I never could get MyNet to play anything.
Try the app UPnPlay. I managed to play stuff but it wasn't smooth.
Couldn't get UPNPlay to use MoboPlayer which is supposedly good.
Edit: TVersity only transcodes as the PRO edition. Which sucks.
Anyone know of a free good transcoding server?

itay1 said:
You need to install a UPNP server like XBMC, TVersity etc.
TVersity is supposed to transcode your videos on the fly.
But I never could get MyNet to play anything.
Try the app UPnPlay. I managed to play stuff but it wasn't smooth.
Couldn't get UPNPlay to use MoboPlayer which is supposedly good.
Edit: TVersity only transcodes as the PRO edition. Which sucks.
Anyone know of a free good transcoding server?
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Try TV Mobili.

TV Mobili does not transcode...

If you load up Windows Explorer does it show under networks (Media Devices)? If not load up Windows Media Player, click the stream tab and tick 'Automatically allow devices to play my media'
Sometimes it doesn't work for me and I have to reboot my router and then it shows up.

maybe firewall issue?

itay1 said:
Try the app UPnPlay. I managed to play stuff but it wasn't smooth.
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I use a combination of UPNPlay and VPlayer Trial. Works so good I'll drop the $5 to buy the unlocked VPlayer.
I'm not using any transcoding software on my PC, and if I'm out and a friend has some files I can access I can..
It does kind of choke when 720p quality video. I think it's just that it's transferring slow (wifi).

itay1 said:
You need to install a UPNP server like XBMC, TVersity etc.
TVersity is supposed to transcode your videos on the fly.
But I never could get MyNet to play anything.
Try the app UPnPlay. I managed to play stuff but it wasn't smooth.
Couldn't get UPNPlay to use MoboPlayer which is supposedly good.
Edit: TVersity only transcodes as the PRO edition. Which sucks.
Anyone know of a free good transcoding server?
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It's not free, but Plex does a good job. The windows server application is free, but it costs 5 bucks or so for the android app. It also works remotely if you forward ports.
I use plex for when I am not at home and want access to my video library. Otherwise my Windows Home Server works with DLNA/UPNP apps. I don't have my TF yet, but mynet did work on the honeycomb rom for my nook color. Home Server doesn't transcode yet. We will have to wait for a working moonlight/silverlight implementation, so probably never.

MyNet now NoNet
MyNet worked in the previous firmware. Was able to steam multiple video files formats from my QNap file server.
Now with the 3.1 update it is broken and can not see $h!7. It can not see the WDTV Live Hub, either of the 2 QNaps or any of my 3 Systems (2 PC, 1 Mac).
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kinda upset personally

I wrote Asus with this problem and they told me that these problems to connect with the PC through MyNet were probably related to the new Android version. They told me that they were working on it, but I wouldn't expect much from them... Tis is what happens when companies try to be funny and put junk over Android... We'll see...

BUZZ Player works great for me (streaming from Win7 UPNP)

Options for free streaming video?

What are the best ways to stream video from my linux server to an N7, over the internet?
What are the best websites that stream free video to an N7?
Thanks!
tlc

Bump I'd like to know this too.
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I set up MiniDLNA on my Linux Mint box and I'm using BubbleUPnP w/ Dice+plugin on my N7. MiniDLNA is lightweight, doesn't offer any fancy interface stuff and doesn't do transcoding, which is exactly what I wanted. Setup was a snap, and it actually took longer to figure out what ports to allow through the firewall than to get MiniDLNA installed and configured. There is just one config file to modify to tell it where to get at your media and what media types you want to show from that location, and that's pretty much it.
I have it list my movies and TV shows that I have stored (avi, mp4, mkv, etc.) and the N7 plays everything perfectly, even the HD stuff that my SGSII won't do cleanly (unless it's actually on the phone). I haven't tried any 1080 HD video though, just 720p high profile, and that much is working fine for me. This is all for my LAN of course, I probably would have gone with a different solution if I wanted access over the internet (automatic transcoding would really be needed there).
Don't have an answer to your second question though, I'm currently looking for the same info.

Plex
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mtrs said:
I set up MiniDLNA on my Linux Mint box and I'm using BubbleUPnP w/ Dice+plugin on my N7.
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This is all for my LAN of course, I probably would have gone with a different solution if I wanted access over the internet (automatic transcoding would really be needed there).
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Thanks. I clarified my first post to say I'm looking for something that streams my home media over the internet.
Besides the transcoding issue, IIRC, DLNA doesn't serve the WAN without VPN or ssh tunnels, right?

Plex is very good and in terms of the clients is very flexible (I have it running on my old Samsung blu ray player too!)

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tee el cee said:
Thanks. I clarified my first post to say I'm looking for something that streams my home media over the internet.
Besides the transcoding issue, IIRC, DLNA doesn't serve the WAN without VPN or ssh tunnels, right?
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Right. If over-the-internet is what you need then I agree with everyone else, just go with Plex.

Streaming movies from the web.. Look up Amo Navi-X in the play store.

Have a look at polkast, got it on my NAS and works great.

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Have a look at polkast, got it on my NAS and works great.
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I just sent mail to get the beta linux server.
ownCloud is a competitor in this space. Have you compared them?

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I just sent mail to get the beta linux server.
ownCloud is a competitor in this space. Have you compared them?
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No not looked at anything else as Polkast is built into my NAS, and I dont think I can change it

I haven't bought the plex android app yet, but I tried plex with my linux server and a macbook client. For me, it's a big PITA to rename & reorganize my video files and hope that plex matches them correctly. And it's all for a fancy UI that I just want to get past and watch the vids. I may do it eventually though -- some of the streaming plugins look cool. It'd be really cool if I could get that tivo plugin working.
Something I found that works for me today is Air Video. Air Video is designed to serve iOS clients and doesn't advertise a Linux server. But there are server jar files available here and someone rolled an Ubuntu PPA here. And the "Mirage" android client works with it. I've tested with iOS clients and the N7 and it works well for both.
Air Video serving home video to an N7 on the internet.
Pros:
Simple server, Ubuntu PPA.
Serves iOS clients too.
Don't have to rename/reorganize your vids.
Password protected access.
Cons:
Vids only.
Mirage client takes IP address not host name.
For the N7, Air Video may be unnecessarily transcoding to an iOS friendly format.
Basic folder navigation UI.

Give tversity a shot, has a web interface and does transcode if you need it
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I also use TVersity, streaming from a Windows PC. We usually watch videos on an Xbox 360 and TVersity seems to work best for that, but it also does a bang-up job with the Nexus 7. I use MediaHouse to discover it and MX Player to play the videos.
The only hitch is that DTS audio does not stream. TVersity transcodes, but I have not looked to see about changing the audio to something else.

Note 2 and Plex: WOW !

I saw a colleague toying with Plex at home, showing off his collection of videos on an Ipad at work (with a few decent black zones... LOL) over the 100 Mbit link we have there...
Well, just installed Plex media server myself on my PC, the Plex client on the Note 2 and it ROCKS !
Yesterday I sat at a coffeecounter in our mall, browsing via 3G, opened my OpenVPN to home and took a moment to view my videos at home in exquisite quality on the Note 2. My wife couldn't help herself seeing the videos and pulled it out my claws to go and watch herself...
Big screen, 16:9, good resolution and speed: all you need... :laugh: :laugh:

Yrcimim said:
I saw a colleague toying with Plex at home, showing off his collection of videos on an Ipad at work (with a few decent black zones... LOL) over the 100 Mbit link we have there...
Well, just installed Plex media server myself on my PC, the Plex client on the Note 2 and it ROCKS !
Yesterday I sat at a coffeecounter in our mall, browsing via 3G, opened my OpenVPN to home and took a moment to view my videos at home in exquisite quality on the Note 2. My wife couldn't help herself seeing the videos and pulled it out my claws to go and watch herself...
Big screen, 16:9, good resolution and speed: all you need... :laugh: :laugh:
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Why did you have to VPN??? Does Plex not allow for outside access?

I never knew anything about Plex. What a very neat application to have at home and on mobile devices.
Thanks for sharing and I'll definitely be taking advantage of this once T-Mobile's note 2 is released. Thank God for unlmtd 4G data.

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Why did you have to VPN??? Does Plex not allow for outside access?
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Plex allows everything. It's just that *I* don't allow much: I use my LAN also for home office and as a networkmanager I have too much sensitive client stuff there. But OpenVPN has no human-measurable impact on the speed and a.t.m. you don't even need to root anymore to use it.
A tip: in order to get subtitles working you need to set Direct Play on Disabled in the Advanced Settings of the Plex client on the phone...
Have fun.
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Eh, I'll stick with Splashtop. You can view all of your videos, including DVD's burned to your harddrive. With Plex, you cannot.

Just got it set up myself. I really like it plays every video on my computer.
Any idea if it'll be updated for multiwindow?

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Eh, I'll stick with Splashtop. You can view all of your videos, including DVD's burned to your harddrive. With Plex, you cannot.
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Huh? Do you even know what is or what it's capable of? And I'd like to see you watch a 1080P video on your hard drive over HSPA using SplashTop. I have a terabyte of music, movies, and TV shows on my home server that I can access from anywhere. You can even share libraries with other people using Plex so they can access your stuff and vice versa. There are Plex clients for iOS (desktop and mobile), Windows (desktop and mobile), and Android. I have three Google TV's and stream audio and video from Plex anywhere in the house. It transcodes on slower connections so you can use it on as low as a 3-5MB connection. And as you can see its meta-tagging is unbelievable at indexing and organizing your media. Everyone I know that uses it swears buy it.
http://plexapp.com/

I'm using Plex for last 2 years and it's absolutely awesome and no comparison with any other similar media managers.
1. It's light
2. It's cross platform. You can have server in Mac, Windows, Linux whatever. You have clients in Android, iOS and most importantly and interestiny clients for devices, like Samsung TV, LG TV etc.
3. It's open source project
And so many other things. I have like 10TB of media and I use Plex with my Samsung LED TV, Note 2, Galaxy 10.1 Tab, MacBook Air and it is absolutely fabulous.
Please try it and I guarantee you'll love it.

i tried it and its crap . XBMC is 10 times better.

So this streams films from my PC to my phone?

I love Plex but for some weird reason I can't get stuff unless I am on the same Wifi connection, any idea what I need to change?

I used to use something very similar called Subsonic. Haven't ran it in a loooong time but it didn't support video nearly as well as Plex appears to.
Using a VPN is an easy way to setup a secure connection to your LAN while away from home without opening up ports etc. However not sure I want to jump through those hoops again with Plex and my Note 2. Wonder how hard it is to setup Plex to be open on the net? Hmm I'll look into it. Thanks for pointing out this app though OP. Looks 100x prettier than Subsonic ever was.
Aw lame, just tried installing the PC media server and it requires Bonjour. I hate Apple -_- refuse to install any of their stuff on my machine. Damn, that's a shame. The app looked really nice on Android.
Ok wow nevermind. I said screw it, installed Bonjour and setup the Plex media server. I then went into settings and disabled Bonjour discovery, then uninstalled it from my machine. I then setup Plex on Android and setup a myPlex account. Wow. On 4G right now testing at home, and man I can stream my movies in brilliant quality without any lag or buffer issues. AMAZING. This app owns Subsonic hands down.
Thanks OP!

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i tried it and its crap . XBMC is 10 times better.
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Care to elaborate? Maybe a few pros and cons? "It's crap" and "10 times better" aren't very descriptive to people interested in understanding the differences between the multiple approaches to storing, cataloging, and accessing their media.
AjunNg said:
So this streams films from my PC to my phone?
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IamPro said:
I love Plex but for some weird reason I can't get stuff unless I am on the same Wifi connection, any idea what I need to change?
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I'll post some newbie tips later...

ok, i tried with my movie/tv/music collection as there is an app on my NAS for it. The scrapping i found was poor compared to xbmc. playback was abit poor on 1080p and the deal breaker was my music. i have loads of compilation albums and it showed up as seperate disks.
tried to find a way of installing a player on my win7 laptop but it seems only the server got installed.
I spent 4 hours playing around with and that was enough for me

djashjones said:
ok, i tried with my movie/tv/music collection as there is an app on my NAS for it. The scrapping i found was poor compared to xbmc. playback was abit poor on 1080p and the deal breaker was my music. i have loads of compilation albums and it showed up as seperate disks.
tried to find a way of installing a player on my win7 laptop but it seems only the server got installed.
I spent 4 hours playing around with and that was enough for me
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These type of programs try to be easy for an end user to understand, but at the end of the day you really are setting up a streaming server that has a database of files and has to transcode them on the fly. Unless you are very familiar with how these things work, you probably shouldn't be the one to set it up.
Granted once someone who knows what they're doing gets it setup, its easy for an end user to connect and enjoy their files in great quality all over the air. I myself streamed Star Wars in 720p with really high bitrate over 4G yesterday and had no hiccups. And that's not even on my Note 2, it was on my Thunderbolt that struggles to play 360p videos on Youtube. So the program and buffering IS efficient and quality, it just requires the proper setup.
As for music goes, I am a little concerned. My Thunderbolt apparently doesn't support WMA music files, and since most of my audio collection is just that, I am sorta screwed. Hoping my Note 2 which is out for delivery as we speak, has some form of WMA reading capability or else that's that

DaRkL3AD3R said:
These type of programs try to be easy for an end user to understand, but at the end of the day you really are setting up a streaming server that has a database of files and has to transcode them on the fly. Unless you are very familiar with how these things work, you probably shouldn't be the one to set it up.
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This.
For Plex to metatag and display everything correctly your files and folders have to be organized and structured a certain way. It was a huge pain in the ass and took me several days to rename and reorganize my media initially so Plex could tag it. I didn't have to, but I wanted the UI to look pretty, clean, and professional so I made the commitment. Anything I added after the one-time organization was easy because I new the naming convention and structure to use. In a way, Plex made me more disciplined about how I stored my media which wasn't a bad thing.
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The scrapping i found was poor compared to xbmc.
i have loads of compilation albums and it showed up as seperate disks
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You can manually tag stuff that wasn't found properly via Media Manager on the server side. It's not perfect but it's no less perfect than other PC and Android taggers I've used.
playback was abit poor on 1080p
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Odd. It shouldn't be over a fast connection if Direct Play's enabled. It only transcodes when it detects buffering and even then adjusts up if the signal improves.
and the deal breaker was my music.. tried to find a way of installing a player on my win7 laptop but it seems only the server got installed.
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Their website's not the most intuitive. A lot of people mistake the Media Server for Media Center which is the client. Here's the link to the client if you ever want to try again.
http://plex.r.worldssl.net/plex-laika/0.9.5.4/Plex-Media-Center-v3213059-en-US.exe
People should use what works best for them and for you that seems like XBMC. Like DaRkL3AD3R said, getting Plex and your media files set up initially is a chore. Friends ooh and ah when the see Plex on my devices and want it too. When I tell them what's entailed they get less enthusiastic. That's why it's great to have so many different choices.

Would love to get this to work....be VERY nice to stream my vast move collection right to my note 2. I played with it a few hours with different settings and it still stutters the playback every few seconds. My wi-fi streams netflix fine...(scratch head).

Well good news. Got my Note 2 today and setup Plex on it, and success: I was able to stream WMA music files without error.
Back on my Thunderbolt I would get an invalid file type error. It just couldn't play them.

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Back on my Thunderbolt I would get an invalid file type error. It just couldn't play them.
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HTC does funky things to their video and audio players that deviate from stock and Plex craps out because the files it's looking for aren't in the correct system directory. I briefly had a Jetstream and couldn't get it to work and Plex support was kind of baffled by what HTC was doing based on the logcat I sent them. Plex worked great on my One X so I'm guessing their newer devices are following standards.

I tried plex on my ipad and it worked great with my htpc. However, now that xbmc has come for Android, I doubt I'll use plex again, simply because of how efficient networking, scraping and syncing between platforms work in xbmc. And of course because the rest of my million boxes all run xbmc
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