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[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 ?
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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.

Dexter Douglas said:
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.

Video player for kindle fire

I have new kindle fire in original form. I have not rooted it or made any changes. Can i use any video player like VLC or mobo player ?
I tried to download VLC and MX player , but are not working on my kindle.
please let me know any video player to use without rooting my kindle.
thanks in advance for all your help.

MOBO player is the answer
sideloaded it as soon as i got my Fire. Copy videos into whatever folder you want - presumbably "videos" folder, using USB connect to PC
ON you Fire, use File Expert or ES File Explorer to browse to file and play it.
ALSO, if you set up your WiFi and share you media folder on your PC, File Expert can browse to it and play you media files, using MOBO. you may be asked to open file with a browser [i think ES file explorer does that] just click ok and it will open in MOBO
with that and Netflix, i'm using my fire to watch videos all the time!

I tried rockplayer and BSPlayer, they both work fine, but you need to select software rendering, otherwise you can't watch videos.

I'm on stock 6.2.2 and MX Player works fine for me. I also use MoboPlayer.

I have tried MX player, Rockplayer, VLC for Android (alpha) and others I don't even remember now. All of them got freeze while watching mkv files.
Now finally happy with QQPlayer. Available free from market I can run all of my mkv/avi files without any problem.

KF can play 1080p & 720p very smooth no loop with GPU POWERVR SGX540 decoder. You can use stock, mobo, or mx player.
But:
With HW decode, you have to re-encode the video with the following link:
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825

Not able to stream media thru es file explorer after ICS upgrade

Recently upgraded to ICS. I have been able to stream media from my laptop thru Wi-Fi using ES file explorer when I was with honeycomb. I was u sing dice player and vplayer without any issues. Now whenever I try to stream media, dice player notifies me that the media is not supported and vplayer force closes. Anyone having similar problem? Any workaround for this problem?
I'm using baseband version p6800xxlpw.
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Manipur said:
Recently upgraded to ICS. I have been able to stream media from my laptop thru Wi-Fi using ES file explorer when I was with honeycomb. I was u sing dice player and vplayer without any issues. Now whenever I try to stream media, dice player notifies me that the media is not supported and vplayer force closes. Anyone having similar problem? Any workaround for this problem?
I'm using baseband version p6800xxlpw.
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Working fine here using BS player free in lan mode @1080p off nas on LQ1. Vplayer is a bit laggy with the same video. You might want to clear program settings and cache or give BS player a go.

Tried BS player and it worked absolutely fine. Now, what I'm at a loss here is that I can still stream audio MP3 files thru es file explorer and play it thru player pro. But for the life of me, I can't stream any video files. BS player also can't play the video files thru es file explorer even though it can do so on it's own.
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Probably some settings or config issues. Videos are playing ok here off es file explorer.

[Q] Play video over LAN share with Subtitles

After trying out different solutions including VLC Direct and trying to avoid Plex, I found my best solution for playing videos from the network on the tablet.
1. Set up an SMB/Samba share on your computer.
2. Connect to the share with ES File Explorer
3. Browse to the video file and open with MX Player.
MX Player works better for me on these files than the built in ES video viewer or the stock Video Player. Also, on the file I tried I got full hardware support in video and audio. I haven't installed any additional codecs, just MX Player itself.
Now, there's only one problem, subtitles don't come in this way.
A workaround would be to first copy the .srt file to the local storage and then open the video file over the network in MX and then add in the subtitles from the local browser in MX Player. But obviously this is a headache to do each time. Anyone know of a better solution?

play video from router share

my system is official，rooted。
i have neatgear wndr3400 router。
now i want to play the router shared USBstorage divice。can someone tell me ，how？ or use what apps

Es file explorer has a LAN mode. You can search for the shared hard drive. Once you find the video file, es file explorer will ask if you want to play the video with the built in video player or other video players on your device. I recommend bs player or mx player.
BS player also has a LAN mode.
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freshlysqueezed said:
BS player also has a LAN mode.
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BS Player looks really great! Maybe I should give it a try beside VLC.