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i know of 2 apps that video streaming on home network

I use upn play and mobo player to stream video over home network.

hello
I use also iMediaShare, and Skifta (both DNLA)

why wouldn't my streamer apps (UPNP, Skifta, clear.fi etc.) not detect the mp4 files I am putting into my servers shared video folder? The apps see a my other video files, like the avi files and mpg files, but none of my mp4's show up.
Does that make any sense? Does UPNP ignore mp4 files? yet it seems like everyone converts their files to mp4 (which by the way play ok on the device if I attach and play through usb.).
I just want to convert everything to something that I can both stream and put on hard drive and take with me...

[Q] play movie from networked PC on A500

I have a bunch of movies on an external hard drive connected to my home PC.
I want to be able to play the movies on my A500 whilst connected to the TV elsewhere in the house (over wifi)
I've played with clearfi with no luck. Is there an app that will allow me to do this easily with just a few clicks ?
Cheerz

I use PS3 Media Server on my PC and Bubble UPNP on my A500. Works great.

Thanks. I'll give them a try later. Will it play .avi files ?

I'm running off Thor's ROM, but I've had no issues streaming avi files via upnp.

The easiest method is BSPlayer, it actually lets you view movies from a shared folder rather than UPnP. You might have some lag with large files, but it does the job better than trying to get UPnP functionality to work 100% of the time.

There are a lot of options for streaming from PC. The easiest I've used so far is ES file explorer and MX video player. Just go to LAN in ES and stream via smb. MX streams/plays all the formats I have thrown at it.

If you have a custom rom with a kernel supporting cifs, you could try cifs manager. It create a shared folder on a specified location. It works great for music too. I can even scan my network shared music library with the stock music player (or other) by creating a shared folder on the sd-card.
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsIndzLnBsYXR0bmVyLmNpZnNtYW5hZ2VyIl0.
For movies, I also recommend MovieBrowser HD, a nice front end that scan your movie library and fetch covers and descriptions, opens with your fav movie player.
https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hZHJlZS5tb3ZpZWJyb3dzZXIiXQ..

tantrum829 said:
There are a lot of options for streaming from PC. The easiest I've used so far is ES file explorer and MX video player. Just go to LAN in ES and stream via smb. MX streams/plays all the formats I have thrown at it.
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Same here, es file explorer and mx or dice works great.

I'd second Diceplayer in a heartbeat if I could actually buy the full version. The trial played everything I threw at it including 720p avi and mkv files.

I just used File Manager HD to browse to folder and BS player to stream, very easy.

I tried a VLC app and it worked pretty well. Just make sure its not the remote app.

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I'd second Diceplayer in a heartbeat if I could actually buy the full version. The trial played everything I threw at it including 720p avi and mkv files.
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I was going to buy the full version but its saying the account is locked or something?
I'm going to spend this weekend trying all the suggestions - thanks

I ran into the same issue. I ended up giving BS Player a shot and it handled 720p mkv and avi files like a dream. Granted, it was playing them off an external HDD, but it's definitely worth a download.

Yes I think that FM HD is the best for LAN connection over wi-fi and xm player. But mx player cannot read subtitles from network drive.

Serviio for the pc (dlna server java software) and skifta on your A500.

[Q] Read MP3 from SMB to AirPlay

Hello,
I'm looking for an app' to do this job :
- Read from SMB network shares (Like ES Explorer app') (From my NAS, no DLNA)
- Manage playlists
- Stream audio to Airplay (Like Twonky app')
Thanks for your help

I found a ZappoTV app' who stream to AirPlay, but it's not working, it does not find my AirPlay device (french Freebox Player).

[root] xbmc - choppy avi playback solution - mount samba share - external mxplayer

It looks like disabling hardware acceleration and not choosing multi-threaded decoding helps with this problem.
see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2796356
edit: 6/26/14 - It looks to me like xbmc for ouya does not have this problem with xvid playback with libstagefright turned off (software decoding?) so I am going to try launching xbmc for ouya as an external player and see how that works.
Other than remuxing files into mkv format, I did not find another solution for choppy xvid playback in xbmc gotham 13.1.
Redardless, I posted this info so that there is more information on how to mount a remote share on an android device and have the share visible for android apps.
I ended up using mxplayer android app to launch when playing xvid files, or invoke it manually through the "play using" option in the context menu. Having a mouse handy may be needed to scroll to some options during app setup.
I have my firetv rooted, and as the default launcher following threads on this forum. I installed SSH and use SFTP to put files on my FireTV
This is the only way I could get any app to mount a remote share and have android apps see the share.
The first step is to install mxplayer and the custom codec (I believe this helps with AC3 passthrough)
sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/download - MXPlayer downloads page
I downloaded and installed the second option (free neon edition)
then I downloaded the custom codec (for neon) found in the link at the bottom of the codecs section and followed the directions, putting the file in the data directory.
I put the file in /sdcard/Android/data/ and pointed mxplayer to the file, as per directions in the xda custom codec thread.
wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Use_external_players_on_Android - HOW-TO: Use External Players on Android
following those directions I made a playercorefactory.xml file and put that in the xbmc userdata directory.
/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/
Code:
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="mxplayer" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad</filename>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<playcountminimumtime>120</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule videocodec="xvid" player="mxplayer"/> <!-- launch mxplayer to playback xvid files if xbmc knows already -->
</rules>
</playercorefactory>
restart XBMC after putting playercorefactory.xml in the userdata directory
The mxplayer would not launch on files using only this method, as the NFS or Samba share I was using was not usefully passed along to mxplayer, so I had to find a way to mount a share in android and use that mountpoint as my video source.
from your terminal on your pc (not using ssh, using adb) - This is for mounting a samba share (windows share). I saw a lot of problems trying to use NFS shares.
replace the IP addresses with your servers IP Address, and username,password
Code:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb connect 192.168.0.xx (put your IP address of your file server here)
adb shell
mkdir /mnt/obb/nas
su
mount -o noperm,unc=\\\\192.168.0.xx\\putsharenamehere,username=putusernamehere,password=putpasswordhere -t cifs none /mnt/obb/nas
add that video source in XBMC, by navigating to root filesystem, and /mnt/obb/nas
verify that it works by going to video->files and seeing the share
In mxplayer, I had to select Hardware decoding for video, not Hardware+, and Software Decoder for Audio
If XBMC knows the file is xvid video it will launch mxplayer automatically otherwise you can use the context menu and choose mxplayer
caveats:
messing with the settings in mxplayer will cause AC3 streams to not passthrough, but I don't always have the mouse hooked up to navigate to the proper settings and fix them back up, but it looks promising so far. I do have smooth playback for xvid files (avi containers) and passthrough of AC3 audio to my receiver.
I don't believe the mountpoint will survive a reboot at this point, but I believe it would be easy to put a script in an init file somewhere to do this, as long as we find the right file that is invoked after bootup.
navigation using the fire tv remote is OK in mxplayer for basic playback, and disabling subtitles in settings if you have to (I chose a default directory with no subs)
if we use this mountpoint as a media source, scan into the library, and don't make it persistent after reboot, we will have problems. But I have mostly x264 files in my library, and they play fine normally with XBMC so this is only useful for .avi files for me.
If anyone wants to find a way to make the mount persistent after reboot this would help me out. The mounting of remote shares for android apps took a day of googling for me to nail down, not sure if there is an easier way, but nothing else worked.
with mxplayer set to decode files this way, I have trouble playing mkv files (I believe with AC-3) with it but I don't use mxplayer for those files.
UPDATE: I am not able to play files with AC3 and use passthrough without losing seeking function in mxplayer, might try bsplayer next or another android app. The difference as far as the video is concerned is night and day though.
I think with the mount options that I found it would be possible to use CIFS Manager app to automate the mount, but I would probably still have to make the directory before mounting. This is just a temporary solution for me until hopefully we get linux on the fire tv and can solve some of the playback issues I see. I don't wish to re-encode files that I ripped 15 years ago, and merging them in mkv format makes no difference.

I don't have any avi files that are that big, the biggest I've got is probably 90 minutes and a size of 3 gig. I just tried it in xbmc 13.1 and it seemed OK to me.
Are you connecting your Fire via wifi or ethernet? I put mine onto ethernet very quickly after putting it in the living room, and it seems very helpful to do so.

My files range from 300MB to 3GB and I see jitter during pans and normal scenes that occur visibly on files that are .avi and/or originally encoded as xvid. I tried to look for a number of settings that would help, but never did. I am looking at the long thread on the xbmc forum and seeing if I get any pointers, might try a nightly build. When I load the same file in mxplayer I don't see the jitter. Thanks for your input.
I am connected ethernet, SMB or NFS shares.
what are your settings for acceleration, and your other settings regarding audio and video in system, and video tabs?
thanks

FTVS - DLNA / UPnP - Codec support

Hi,
Wondered if someone could help me with getting my FTVS to play recorded TV shows / live TV from my PVR?
I have a Panasonic HWT130 PVR that acts a DLNA server on my network. I can use android apps like Archos player and iMX Player to browse the file directory but I can't play anything (Kodi also won't play them). From what I can tell the files are MPEG-TTS format.
Does anyone know of any codec pack that would support this file type? I don't mind if the device needs rooting or if I need to flash the kernel.

If you can browse to them with ES File Explorer, you can use "open with" and choose the FTV picture viewer (it also plays video) and see if it will play them.
MPEG-TS container with h264 encoded video is listed as a supported file type by FTV.

Ah I didn't know it had native support. Well I installed the Archos all codecs pack last night and live TV started working in Kodi but it recognized recorded shows as an audio file
Are you aware of a DNLA file viewer app that has a simple GUI? I like Archos but it doesn't support external players and doesn't playback live or recorded content.

dannyspanish1 said:
Ah I didn't know it had native support. Well I installed the Archos all codecs pack last night and live TV started working in Kodi but it recognized recorded shows as an audio file
Are you aware of a DNLA file viewer app that has a simple GUI? I like Archos but it doesn't support external players and doesn't playback live or recorded content.
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Vimu might, of course there is always Kodi

You mentioned MX Player in your original post, if you go to: Settings > List > File Extensions, you can set .ts file extensions to use HW+ or HW (HW facilitates .ac3 passthrough) decoders which will use the system decoders in FTV.