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Windows Media Streaming

Hi, I have looked everywhere for this problem but no solution. I have a wizard and I want to stream windows media music and videos from my computer thru wifi. but it keeps saying ''parameter is incorrect''. I've always played music from my computer with other pocket pcs but not this one. has anyone found a solution or tweak to do this? is it a windows mobile 5 problem? thanx for any help.

How are you streaming? Using SMB shares or are you using Windows Media Encoder or the like of? If SMB shares, check you can browse the directories first.

As far as i know, Media Player can't handle networking.
I use Conduits Pocket Player. It's not free, but IMO it is the best i have tried. It's has the best format support, handles gapless playback and has plugins for album art etc.
There are free good players around, but i have not tested them with streaming, although i believe GS Player can.
TCPMP is free can also player files accross a network, but it's more of a video player really.

Does anyone get DNLA to work ?

Hey, any1 using the DNLA yet ?
if so, how do you get it to work ?
Mine can't find the destination media, only the phone show up.

What are you using? I use my PS3
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Connected yes, actually play anything with any watchable quality no.

I used Media Player 12 in window 7, but it doesn't work.

I've also used it on my PS3 but it tends to have some issues from time to time.

Working great through wifi using iMediashare tool on my Desire and LG BD390 bluray player. No special options though.
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Yes, fully functional.
1 Desktop/Server
1 Mediacenter
2 Laptops
2 mt4g
Using nothing more then the media sharing capabilities built into win7 + divx. Using twonky I am able to play anything shared on my main library to any device running win7 and the built in windows media player with the appropriate setting.
in win7, just make sure you have your libraries shared. With that, your phone, using twonky, should see the upnp/dlna server and be able to play music. I have a collection of mostly divx video, this u cannot play on the phone. I am still hoping for a divx/xvid codec..
If you have a mediacenter/server setup. Ensure your win7 libraries are shared on the library and you can see these shared libraries on your win7 mediacenter. If you can, run windows media player on the mediacenter. Under the Stream menu button check the option to "Allow Remote Control of My Player". Confirm this option and you will now see it on your phone using twonky. You will be able to play music/movies to your mediacenter because it should have the capabilities of decoding the video.
Going further, I have internet access enabled on my media. I can access everything I have from anywhere I have. Haven't tried to do this on my phone yet.. But I prob will sometime. I think the solution may be as simple as a vpn connection to my home network.
Let me know if you have any specific questions...

I did samething you told me to do in win7, but i got error " No permission to access server/service"
I can see it in my phone now.

Works perfectly with my WDTV Live player...
But I'm certainly interested in what nicholasb has to say about the streaming home content via VPN.... if I'm not mistaken.

Epic, DLNA, and transcoding... settings help.

I currently have a couple of problems...
I have a collection of music that is in WMA Lossless on my Windows Media Center. I am using Winamp to trans-code the music before it is sent wirelessly to my Epic. The music will play on my epic, however I get errors sending it over DLNA, saying that the format is not compatible. I have tried WAV and HE AAC for trans-coding. I am running DK17 and the Quantum Rom.
Also, I cannot seem to get handbrake to convert DVD rips to a playable format on my Epic which also function over DLNA.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to which formats I should be trans-coding to, to get these files working both on my Epic and over DLNA?

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What you play over dlna is decided by codecs on the playing device not by the phone, whatever the destination device is you need to check the codecs for that. Note that there are more to codecs than just the extension name there are settings that may have to be matched.
Since it seems like a good chance you are using a pretty basic device you best bet is basic codecs. Xvid and mp3.
If those dont work then you should probably start saving for something like a ps3 where dlna playing is quick and pretty easy

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Also, I cannot seem to get handbrake to convert DVD rips to a playable format on my Epic which also function over DLNA.
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I used handbrake to rip DVD in mpeg4 format (I believe I used H.264 codec with .m4v extension). DLNA streaming from PC to Epic works using allshare.

K lite Codec pack FTW
What OS are you running on the PC?
I have been using K Lite Codec Pack for years on XP, Win7 and a few Vista machines its my favorite codec pack, cccp codec pack is another good one to check out most people swear by one or the other.
Just as Masterface7 said its a codec thing on the target machine. DLNA (All share) has yet to fail to play any file i have thrown at it when playing to systems that are loaded up with all the codecs and are set up to play the same files local of there own HDD or from LAN.

zman519 said:
What OS are you running on the PC?
I have been using K Lite Codec Pack for years on XP, Win7 and a few Vista machines its my favorite codec pack, cccp codec pack is another good one to check out most people swear by one or the other.
Just as Masterface7 said its a codec thing on the target machine. DLNA (All share) has yet to fail to play any file i have thrown at it when playing to systems that are loaded up with all the codecs and are set up to play the same files local of there own HDD or from LAN.
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I think OP is trying to do the opposite of what you described. He's trying to play PC files onto the phone. In other words, the PC is the source and the phone is the target.
Unfortunately, even if the file can be played natively on Epic, it may not be playable via allshare.

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I think OP is trying to do the opposite of what you described. He's trying to play PC files onto the phone. In other words, the PC is the source and the phone is the target.
Unfortunately, even if the file can be played natively on Epic, it may not be playable via allshare.
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Mmm ic ya that's kinda sucky then. i have not tried to play many video files "On the Phone" But i would like to no the answer also if some one figures it out but i have a feeling we would need a new DLNA.akp

after searching the forum for my question this one sort of nailed it on the head, I have the same issue
Using allshare from my phone to play video files from my pc using the intel viiv media share I can see the video files but when try and open in my phone to lay the video files it says unspported file format. i record tv through my pc it can play it in windows media center and windows media player but will not play on my phone

does anyone have an answer for this issue?

To make a note, All Share will not play any content that has DRM...

Maybe I missunderstood samsung but it seems to me that allshare only half works if u can't play files both directions. There always seems to be some video file that will not work but the fact that NO video files work makes me think that allshare sucks. Its to bad xbmc can't run on ARM chips
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pc remote controller

is there any android to pc remote controller ? like next pause play for media player ?

Gmote 2.0 is good one. Works over WiFi.

there is one literally called "pc remote controller" lol it lets you see what your doing, which is good
theres also "unified remote" which is good for if your away from your computer but can still see the display. has media features, filemanager...etc, and you hav a multitouch mouse for rightclicking too.
these two, along with gmote, ive used, all through wifi. ive noticed all three tend to drop connection / difficulty connecting in the first place, thats why i had three of them, but this may have been a laptop/network/firewall issue.
(btw, all require you to install the server-side version on the pc, and be running when you want to use it.

I use itap mobile touchpad. Works great and offers gestures for two fingers for scrolling and stuff.
It also has a menu thing for volume and player control with pause play mute and stuff. I'm happy with it

Unified remote is pretty good especially because it has a whole range of remotes for various programs

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is there any android to pc remote controller ? like next pause play for media player ?
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I would recommend you XBMC!!!
It's a media center that can be controlled with any android device and play almost every kind of media that I know (mp4, mkv, avi, divx... It even plays img, iso and many more)
Give it a try!!

I use phone my pc. My computer on my phone and I control everything like I'm sitting at my desk. If anyone wants it I will up the apk. Let me know.
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I would recommend you XBMC!!!
It's a media center that can be controlled with any android device and play almost every kind of media that I know (mp4, mkv, avi, divx... It even plays img, iso and many more)
Give it a try!!
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Off topic i know but thanks for the tip on XMBC, looks like a good replacement for Media Center and has phone remote control built in; off to install after work. Thanks

Streaming home videos wirelessly over network to SGT 10.1

Objective:A consolidated post listing multiple ways to stream videos from desktop to SGT 10.1. Contains answers to 4 questions
1) Best DLNA App?
2) Best Video Player that can play files over the network or one AllShare or DLNA app can use?
3) How to encode files to view them over SGT?
4) DLNA Server serving video files from desktop
Solution1 (cnewsgrp)
3) This thread says that SGT with 3.1 can play high profile natively. The encoding instructions are great
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
4) I use Tversity and it works well. Any other suggestions are welcome.
Solution2: paua__
1) :get UPnPlay, which you use to browse the videos you want to stream
2) paua__ : DICE Player is (AFAIK) the only mediaplayer which utilizes Hardware Acceleration to process those heavy HD files. It eats .mkv for breakfast.
Solution3: oreo
1) 2) 4) VLC Direct.
it streams everything from your PC via VLC's built in web interface, and you can browse through all your files in your computer all with just 1 app. As an added bonus, it can REVERSE stream FROM my TAB to the PC (which is hooked up to my HDTV), I find this very useful when I want to show something quick on my big screen to my guests (like photos and vidoes that i JUST took). and you can fine tune the stream quality with settings in the app. oh and there's also virtually no limit on the number of formats/codecs it can handle, if your VLC player on the PC can play it, everything can be streamed to the Tab.
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Solution4: jastop
Still tweaking this setup, but it works well for the SGT, Xoom, HTC phones (and the i*'s also)
* Windows Media Center 7 Host
* 2 WD TB hard drives
* Ceton InfiniTv 4 channel digital cable card tuner
* Verizon FIOS (all shows set to copy freely!)
* Remote Potato (Provides Windows Media Center Interface on Mobile and Desktops)
* MCBUDDY (Beta 18) - Transcodes recorded shows to smaller file, more mobile friendly format
* ES File Explorer - Can browse the Media Center hard disk wireless, and launch recorded TV, Movies and home videos in the player of choice. Also can use to copy a video to the device for offline watching
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My goal is the opposite of cluttering XDA with another video thread. I will take time to compose good information in my first post. for that to succeed you experts must provide me good usable information in replies .
Solution4: BarryH_GEG: Plex
1) DLNA App: Plex for Android, AllShare
3) How to encode files to view them over SGT?DVDFab, CoreAVC
4) DLNA Server: Plex Media Server

First off, get UPnPlay, which you use to browse the videos you want to stream.
Then BUY the DICE Player, which then will play the file tou select with UPnPlay.
DICE Player is (AFAIK) the only mediaplayer which utilizes Hardware Acceleration to process those heavy HD files. It eats .mkv for breakfast.
I assume you have already activated file sharing on your computer for your media files?

paua__ said:
First off, get UPnPlay, which you use to browse the videos you want to stream.
Then BUY the DICE Player, which then will play the file tou select with UPnPlay.
DICE Player is (AFAIK) the only mediaplayer which utilizes Hardware Acceleration to process those heavy HD files. It eats .mkv for breakfast.
I assume you have already activated file sharing on your computer for your media files?
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Thanks. Comments added to first post. I will test this in about a week after I get my SGT.

After using tversity, now I use ps3 media server to share everything on my xbox360 ( for watching movies on the TV ) and on my GT10.1. You don't need to build a library and it can handle mkv ( It was not possible with Tversity in the past, I don't know now. ?)

I use an alternate method, VLC Direct. it streams everything from your PC via VLC's built in web interface, and you can browse through all your files in your computer all with just 1 app. As an added bonus, it can REVERSE stream FROM my TAB to the PC (which is hooked up to my HDTV), I find this very useful when I want to show something quick on my big screen to my guests (like photos and vidoes that i JUST took). and you can fine tune the stream quality with settings in the app. oh and there's also virtually no limit on the number of formats/codecs it can handle, if your VLC player on the PC can play it, everything can be streamed to the Tab.

Works in the house and on the road
Still tweaking this setup, but it works well for the SGT, Xoom, HTC phones (and the i*'s also)
Windows Media Center 7 Host
2 WD TB hard drives
Ceton InfiniTv 4 channel digital cable card tuner
Verizon FIOS (all shows set to copy freely!)
Remote Potato (Provides Windows Media Center Interface on Mobile and Desktops)
MCBUDDY (Beta 18) - Transcodes recorded shows to smaller file, more mobile friendly format
ES File Explorer - Can browse the Media Center hard disk wireless, and launch recorded TV, Movies and home videos in the player of choice. Also can use to copy a video to the device for offline watching
Before Google acquired SageTV I was looking at using it as the media center component, but for now it seems to be lost in acquisition limbo. The advantage it had was it didn't record in Microsoft's WMV format, it maintained the native MPEG2 encoding used by FIOS. Transcoding was much easier, and mostly unnecessary.

I use qloud media. If you beef up the bandwidth settings, it gives you good viewing experience. You have to run a separate server app on your desktop. Also both the client and the srvr versions are under constant development. I used to use air video on my ipod touch, and always felt tailored app just for the device always gives the perfect experience.