Before testing galaxy s2 I had galaxy s. I used to test allshare on galaxy s, and it was playing mkv files no problem from my pc. Today I tryed to play mkv on galaxy S2 and it cannot play it!! I didn,t like galaxy s allshare player because it lacked aspect ration etc. But this is insane! It can play 1080p and cannot play same files using allshare, shame on you samsung. Very disappointed, they are ruining such an amazing and powerful device with such things. Doss they even know about this?
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I'm in the same boat as you though what I find more annoying is the fact I can't stream movies from pc to my phone
Has anyone contacted Samsung about these issues?
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maximusl said:
Has anyone contacted Samsung about these issues?
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it's easier to complain
I have an 40" led tv from Sony with dlna, and I can't stream any movies from my phone to tv.
I've written a long long letter of complaint to Samsung about this and other dlna issues I had
So now I'm awaiting the answer.
P's. Also included my findings about the computer playback. As the same as you guys had.
smaberg said:
I have an 40" led tv from Sony with dlna, and I can't stream any movies from my phone to tv.
I've written a long long letter of complaint to Samsung about this and other dlna issues I had
So now I'm awaiting the answer.
P's. Also included my findings about the computer playback. As the same as you guys had.
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DLNA is a bit of a farce and one of the areas where Apple has absolutely nailed how it should work with AirPlay. With DLNA, you appear to be entirely at the mercy of the manufacturers regarding what formats you can stream.
I also have a Sony LED TV that supports DLNA. The TV itself is capable of playing AAC audio and H.264 MP4 video files - plug in a USB drive and away you go. However, it will only receive MP3 and MPEG2 streams via DLNA, meaning that half my music collection and all my videos can't be streamed.
Judging by this, there are very few formats that DLNA devices have to support. In fact, MP3 is even listed as one of the "optional" formats. Until the DLNA organisation mandates that commonly used formats such as AAC, MP4 and so on must be natively supported, it's going to continue to be a complete mess.
Incidentally, the link above also states that the transmitting device should transcode media into a format understood by the receiving device if the receiving device doesn't natively understand the format. As impractical as this is to do when the transmitting device is a phone, All Share should be doing this to be completely DLNA compliant.
Philips 32PFL9603 is supporting DLNA but which formats is supporting? Do you know that?
Cmon. Let's contact samsung and tell them to fix and improve their allshare. Right now it is useless.
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never streamed TO the phone, but with SGS i was able to stream FROM the phone without any problems using allshare. with GS2 however, that is not possible for .mkv files, just says unable to play format...
Really happy with allshare.
There is no other app with the same features AFAIK.
I have a server running minidlna and it picks it up quickly and even seeks and resumes media when multitasking.
In my experience other manufacturers dlna implementations are pitiful in comparison. Count yourself really lucky, I do.
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Cmon. Let's contact samsung and tell them to fix and improve their allshare. Right now it is useless.
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andrej.marinic said:
never streamed TO the phone, but with SGS i was able to stream FROM the phone without any problems using allshare. with GS2 however, that is not possible for .mkv files, just says unable to play format...
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The "unable to play format" message is because whatever you're streaming to doesn't support the file type. The only thing that Samsung can do is to implement transcoding in AllShare to convert files that are unsupported on the rendering device into one of the base DLNA formats that all DLNA devices must support. This would be very battery intensive on a mobile device, particularly when transcoding HD files.
otaku888 said:
Really happy with allshare.
There is no other app with the same features AFAIK.
I have a server running minidlna and it picks it up quickly and even seeks and resumes media when multitasking.
In my experience other manufacturers dlna implementations are pitiful in comparison. Count yourself really lucky, I do.
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I agree with you that AllShare is a pretty nice app to use, but the fact still remains that even with a great front-end on your phone, you can still be hampered by the DLNA implementation on the rendering device (in my case, my TV).
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I agree with you that AllShare is a pretty nice app to use, but the fact still remains that even with a great front-end on your phone, you can still be hampered by the DLNA implementation on the rendering device (in my case, my TV).
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Yes of course, I totally agree. But that's a problem with your TV, allshare cannot do anything to compensate for a poor implementation on the rendering device. Such is the nature of DLNA.
I also agree it should render mkv, my samsung TV does, well if you rename the file to .avi it does.
For an android dlna renderer though it is still unsurpassed.
You people are saying that my tv cannot render mkv? But it can! It rendered the same file with old galaxy s dlna, from flashdrive, from the same dlna server on my pc. So there is samsung galaxy s2 that buggeres around.
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works fine for me ... (720p mkv file, streaming xbmc server)
With my Sony tv(as above post) I was able to stream all known formats, BUT FROM OTHER PHONE AND PC.
So the bad boy is the SGSII...
Still waiting for reply from samsung.
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You people are saying that my tv cannot render mkv? But it can! It rendered the same file with old galaxy s dlna, from flashdrive, from the same dlna server on my pc. So there is samsung galaxy s2 that buggeres around.
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Remember that MKV is just a container format; the video and audio codecs in use can vary from one file to the next and it's possible that only some of those codecs are supported by your TV.
If you're telling me that you can stream a file from your Galaxy S but you can't stream the exact same file from your Galaxy S II then I'd agree that there's an issue with AllShare on the S II.
Also, as I've found out with my TV, there can be differences between what a device can play from a flash drive and what it can play via DLNA!
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Yes of course, I totally agree. But that's a problem with your TV, allshare cannot do anything to compensate for a poor implementation on the rendering device. Such is the nature of DLNA.
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Technically, it could transcode the media, but that's a dumb solution (albeit the only one that fits within the DLNA spec). As for that being the nature of DLNA, you're completely correct, which is why it's so much poorer than AirPlay.
Galaxy S with firmware 2.1 could stream using allshare, after an update it cannot either.
I recorded a video with the SGS2 and was able to stream it to a Sony Bravia TV with AllShare.
A day later I tried the same and the SGS2 said 'file could not be played'.
I found out, the cause for this was the Kies software. It converted all my movies from "video/mp4" to "video/3gpp" automatically. The "video/3gpp" is not supported by my TV so it could not be played.
Try opening a video in the SGS2 standard videoapp and open menu->details
what's under 'format' ?
if it says 3gpp, try converting it back to mp4 (xmediarecode can do this without really recoding everything) and send it again to the tv.
otaku888 said:
Really happy with allshare.
There is no other app with the same features AFAIK.
I have a server running minidlna and it picks it up quickly and even seeks and resumes media when multitasking.
In my experience other manufacturers dlna implementations are pitiful in comparison. Count yourself really lucky, I do.
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How nice for you not a usefull post on this topic at al.... and does mkv work via for you on your SGS2(Samsung Galaxy S 2) without atleast that much info your post is useless
I have this at home on my Roku, and the Android app is so good you need to check it out.
It does cost $4.99, but its so worth it if you have a large selection of movies on your home computer.
I'm using it on my Mac and not only does it give me unreal streaming of the movies, but music and iPhoto as well.
Super great app for the 7.7
Hey,
I use minidlna server to stream content to my tv and tablet. The TV is capable of displaying subtitles also streamed by the server but the tablet isn't. I raised this question in the minidlna forums but the dev said this is dependent of the client.
Does anyone know if the nexus 7 (wifi not 2013 edition) is capable of processing the subs through some tweaks or something?
P.S. I am not referring to playing external subtitles, I know a lot of players can do that. I mean specifically to the subs streamed by minidlna
Thanks
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I use xfinity tv now to watch TV shows and movies. It actually is better quality than streaming xfinity on my laptop. Is there any way (with or without wire) to clone what is on my phone to my Samsung smart tv? I know I can mirror my own pics and vids wirelessly but I don't know a way to mirror streaming movies on xfinity tv go. Thanks.
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Google chromecast ? Maybe
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I don't think chrome cast sends.commercial stuff but maybe someone who has it can chime in?
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I mirror it via wifi....but i do have a smart tv capable of it. Hope it helps some
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Details of how to mirror xfinity tv go streaming movie to samsung smart tv would be great
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Chromecast will not work with the xfinity app. You need a mhl adapter.
Galaxy Note 3, HTC Rezound, HTC Evo 3D, HTC Evo, HTC Touch Pro 2, LG Voyager
Haven't tried it but it looks likes PLAiR2 stream Xfinity.
"Using a Chrome plugin (for the web browser version of Chrome) you'll be able to "beam" content from your smartphone, tablet, or notebook computer (or desktop computer, for that matter), from websites of all kinds."
http://www.dvice.com/2013-11-1/plair-2-android-videos-games-and-music-beamed-hdtv
Chromecast definitely does not stream web pages from mobile browsers, only from Desktop browsers. Maybe someday...
And with mhl to hdmi xfinity app will stream to tv? Will it be 1080i?
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recDNA said:
Details of how to mirror xfinity tv go streaming movie to samsung smart tv would be great
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Smart view mirrors tv on phone. I want to mirror streaming movie on phone to samsung smart tv.
Xfinity tv go is an app. You can't stream xfinity movies from browser.
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Oh well. Doesn't look like either of them work very well anyway.
I'm pretty content with just streaming Xfinity and everything else from my laptop virtual desktop I guess.
Although I have good Internet speed from xfinity their windows browser app stutters badly on my laptop and is virtually unwatchable on my tv. Ironically it is fine on the note 3 but I'd prefer to watch a 55 inch screen over a 5 inch screen
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Twonky + Roku = perfection for casting/streaming local videos in the bedroom, but I would love to find a solution for the living room where the humongous tv is. I get that I can buy Chromecast or such and stream that way, but with a tight budget we're hoping to run the blu-ray player til it dies The blu-ray player streams youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc, and I've gotten so far as to download one app, PlayTo Sony, which displayed the name of my device on the screen, but showed no media to play, so got part-way there but no cigar.
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Twonky + Roku = perfection for casting/streaming local videos in the bedroom, but I would love to find a solution for the living room where the humongous tv is. I get that I can buy Chromecast or such and stream that way, but with a tight budget we're hoping to run the blu-ray player til it dies The blu-ray player streams youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc, and I've gotten so far as to download one app, PlayTo Sony, which displayed the name of my device on the screen, but showed no media to play, so got part-way there but no cigar.
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does your tv have wifi? I think there are android apps that you can share content on your phone to the tv through wifi
jjb7733 said:
does your tv have wifi? I think there are android apps that you can share content on your phone to the tv through wifi
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Only the Blu-ray player has wifi. TV isn't a smart TV.
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Only the Blu-ray player has wifi. TV isn't a smart TV.
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is the blu ray DLNA compatible? I think that is the only way it will work, if it is DLNA you can try the Skifta app
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is the blu ray DLNA compatible? I think that is the only way it will work, if it is DLNA you can try the Skifta app
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Yes, BDP-S570 shows DLNA yes. I got skifta to go so far as displaying all my musical artists/albums on the TV, no luck with the video section and wouldn't play any music files either says no file to play.
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