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
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So one of the walls I'm finding with the fire is the storage. I have a pretty good library of videos ripped to my Drobo...about a good 100 legally owned DVD's and probably a thousand or so MP3's ripped from legally owned CDs. Now we are talking a LOT of space. Is there any kind of relatively easy to setup cloud-type server with security where I can log in through the Fire and watch movies or listen to songs? Maybe access some files?
What do you guys think?
Use PlayOn Software/App
I use the 'MyMedia' option in PlayOn to watch streaming video from my PC on my Kindle Fire
I use an app called Emit that works OK.
Emit works ok I swear the free version skipped less though.
Emit works great for me
The Amazon cloud service holds unlimited music, I use that for my 100GB+ collection of music. You get a couple gigs free for other stuff, but I haven't loaded anything else to mine so I don't know if its any good for movies.
Damn you Swype!
ExploreMN said:
So one of the walls I'm finding with the fire is the storage. I have a pretty good library of videos ripped to my Drobo...about a good 100 legally owned DVD's and probably a thousand or so MP3's ripped from legally owned CDs. Now we are talking a LOT of space. Is there any kind of relatively easy to setup cloud-type server with security where I can log in through the Fire and watch movies or listen to songs? Maybe access some files?
What do you guys think?
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Google Music would be a good solution for you music needs, you can store up to 20,000 songs.
You could encode to Stream-able MP4 and upload to SugarSync/Dropbox. Or Use a app like Plex to encode/transcode on the fly.
Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
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Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
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I bought this tablet for two things.
I cannot save money.
My girlfriend moved four states away (NY to VA) and I wanted something to do while on the train for 7 hours. I did nothing on it for 14 hours total but watch movies (OTG cable) and play solitaire. It does both awesome!
Screen is great, headphone jack is nice. If the 10" was cheap I would buy one too!
Battery life while watching movies isn't stellar, however nothing is
Best small portable movie player I know of.
Use headphones in a noisy environment - helps the sound a lot.
I am fond of MxPlayer from the app store - plays .avi movies (ripped DVD format) without converting.
I also happen to think it's perfect for watching movies - having used both a phone and Xoom for comparison. I think the 7" form factor is perfect for tablets since you can comfortably hold the thing in one hand.
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Works great for movies, when rooted you can use an OTA cable and stickmount and play off external storage. However, I think external storage taxes the battery a bit more than on-board storage.
Root, stickmount, MXPlayer, VLC, and you're set.
Use dice player. Or mobo player best two video apps on android. On my 16gb ver without ocing I can play 720p h264 flac or aac audio with subs without any issues what so ever with dice player. As 720p h264 with flac or aac is really taxing and you need a high end device and the nexus7 fitted that to the T. smooth frame rate none or extremely little frame skip is not really noticeable at all unless you are looking for it and even if you are its hard to notice.
Best experience with video watching to date for me with android devices. Droid x2 was OK in the video department cause it had the tegra 2 and the dinc2 is just pathetic with its adreno 205. But this nexus7 plays videos much better them my own laptop. And my laptop is not really a pushover either. 380 dedicated vram, 4gb of ram, 1 tb 5400rpm HDD, dual core 1.9ghz turion (sp?). And this thing does the job either the same or little bit better or little bit worse depending on the video file. So far I have 1 video that won't play. But I think it was encoded improperly because only my PC with cccp with mpc can play it with no problems.
But highly recommended. And especially with dice and mobo player it should be hard to find and issues.
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I have to add - ES Browser is great for movies on your lan. I have a 500gb drive on my router (always on) with all my movies.
ES Browser sees this storage, and clicking on a movie launches MX Player. All .avi movies. Perfect playback.
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It's perfect to watch movies. The colors may not be perfect but the image is pretty sharp. The only disadvantage is that the screen is not very visible outside with sun directly at it. But this is with pretty much everything. It's also very portable and comfy to watch a movie. Specially if you have to hold it in your hand
Dmans said:
Hello all
I searched the internet as well as the forums and could not find an answer.
I might be picking up a 32gb nexus 7 for xmas tomorrow.
The title says it all.
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This is the seventh reply to verify the Nexus 7 is great for watching movies. I use the Dice player for h264 720p HD movies. After the 32GB is full, the Nexus Media Importer App and an OTG cable lets you stream movies from a USB flash drive. No rooting required.
Thanks all I will be picking up a nexus 7 from PC world on Tuesday hopefully.
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Get one from John Lewis as they give a 2 year guarantee!
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No john lewis in Ireland so........
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nexus 7 is really nice for movie watching. You see, other tablets is much heavier and this one lies in my hand really good. Also image is pretty nice.
rmm200 said:
I have to add - ES Browser is great for movies on your lan. I have a 500gb drive on my router (always on) with all my movies.
ES Browser sees this storage, and clicking on a movie launches MX Player. All .avi movies. Perfect playback.
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500 gig....amateur.
I do the same with mine. Works great!
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I would stream Pandora on my 4s and that's it.
Because of the tiny screen, there was no enjoyment trying to watch a movie or show.
But NOW I have this incredible N3, and I feel the need to stream !!!
Are there alternatives to Pandora & Netflix, or are they the best out there?
Please recommend some apps or services that you guys like for streaming.
Wow, no one streams with their N3 .......... weak
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
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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
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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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Maybe I'm alone but plex has been really slow and unresponsive. I switched from an AppleTV running Plexconnect on my macmini to the nexus player with the native plex app.
Movies that would transcode w/o issue on Plexconnect has issues through plex app. I don't see why this would be the case. The files are in the same external drive. Same plex library.
It is telling me that the server is not powerful enough to transcode the movie. Never happened on Plexconnect though.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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