Hi,
I have a local Server in my Windows network that I would like to access from my Nexus 10 in order to listen to music or display images directly from a network (SMB) share on my server. I have tried many file explorers like ES File Explorer, Astro File Manager, and some more, which all offer the ability to directly access network shares, but their photo viewers seem to be rather slow, especially compared to the one that comes with the Nexus 10 preinstalled: this one is amazingly fast, and I wonder: how do they do that? Do they use a special kind of hardware acceleration to enable users to smoothly slide through huge JPEGs?
I have tried to copy some of my 12MPixel digital photos locally, no problem viewing them with the Nexus 10 Galery viewer. But this software lacks network support (except for "cloud", which is not what I want).
In contrast, the photo viewers of these file managers mentioned are totally slow, ES file explorer takes around 20 seconds before it displays one 12 MPixel photo, and additionally, the quality is quite poor
Is there some kind of viewer available that is fast and smooth, and can access smb shares directly on the Nexus 10?
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Hello all,
I have a small computer store and I have connected 2 TrendNet IP cameras to my network to monitor my store and record all activity with their sowftware. Also them being an IP cams any computer in network can open their IP addresses and watch what is happening in the store over Internet Explorer or other browsers on a PC ...
Is there some program for my HTC Touch HD to monitor those cams? Or am i missing something I need to install to be able to see through Internet Explorer or Opera on my HTC Phone. In my previous phone (HTC TyTn) i could only see still image from camera, but not video. Blackstone won't even show still image.
Both cameras support MS ActiveX and one camera can also show video through java, video is coded in MPEG4 format.
Thanks in advance...
I would like to know a solution to this as well. I have the Panasonic netcams and have the same problem. My wife has the iphone and can view movement on the cams full screen via safari.
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razor_amd said:
Hello all,
I have a small computer store and I have connected 2 TrendNet IP cameras to my network to monitor my store and record all activity with their sowftware. Also them being an IP cams any computer in network can open their IP addresses and watch what is happening in the store over Internet Explorer or other browsers on a PC ...
Is there some program for my HTC Touch HD to monitor those cams? Or am i missing something I need to install to be able to see through Internet Explorer or Opera on my HTC Phone. In my previous phone (HTC TyTn) i could only see still image from camera, but not video. Blackstone won't even show still image.
Both cameras support MS ActiveX and one camera can also show video through java, video is coded in MPEG4 format.
Thanks in advance...
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Can i ask you, which camera you have.... it wouldnt be an ELRO camera would it???
i am having probs getting my camera to send an image to my webpage, once at webpage next step is what your trying to do....
any help would be greatly welcomed....
cheers mark
have you tried "my orb" http://www.orb.com/
Try to find out direct url to the mpeg4-stream, then just open windows media player, go library, menu -> open URL
If u manage to play the mpeg4-stream with ur computer, click over the video windows -> properties, there u should see the url from where windows media player is playing the stream. The url could be something "rtsp://..." or "mms://..."
Monitoring IP Cams (just released sw)
IP Camera viewing
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Try this.. Hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513988
L4z3r
could you not use the remote desktop client on the HD to view them?
Orb works great here already a vieuw years now. it's free,and you can also listen to music from your pc throug internet on your hd and/or watch movie's stored on you computerand watch them throug internet on your hd.
regards stef
Webcamxp:
webcamXP Mobile HD v2.1.3
This new version has been particulary optimized for HTC Touch HD.
Try Yawcam
I had a little dabble with streaming a web cam to the internet and the best program I came across was a free program called YAWCAM (Yet Another Webcam Software!).
http://www.yawcam.com/
I haven't used it recently, but it is simple to use and I successfully streamed images of our home to my Orange SPV E650 (this too was an HTC smart phone, but rebranded for Orange in the UK).
I reckon on the HD the results should be pretty good. A the time I was using it for monitoring our newly installed cat flap (CATCAM!) to make sure both of our cats were actually using it (one still refuses to ) .
I think if you used this in conjunction with remote desktop, VNC or the like, you should then be able to control the camera too.
Hope this helps...
I own a couple of places... and use the AVTECH DVR's
16 cameras on each site..and it comes with an app.. eagleyes. It is for WM5/WM6..and have it running with no probs on all devices..from QVGA - WVGA.
only thing you may get is a weird name for each connection. otherwise..I can happily sit anywhere and still look at my public/staff
mmdirk said:
I would like to know a solution to this as well. I have the Panasonic netcams and have the same problem. My wife has the iphone and can view movement on the cams full screen via safari.
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Like L4z3r said, I would check out this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513988
There is no need for a computer to be on and attached if the camera supports JPEG or MJPEG. It allows you to have one free IP camera so you can also test to make sure it works for you.
mmdirk, the app supports PTZ on Panasonic (for cameras that have PTZ capabilities), you can actually control the camera with the touch of a finger. Hope this works for you.
WebcamXP Mobile HD does the job
Hi, I'm using Webcam Mobile HD (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=492081) with my IP camera Y-Cam Knight and it works like a treat. Best via 3G or WiFi but 1 pic every 10sec even via GPRS. The software also has full-screen and landscape modes to make use of the large display. Highly recommended!
Most of you will already know most of this, but I thought I would post a collection of things I have tried and have found useful on my Transformer, hopefully you will see something you haven't tried or though of.
I will add more as I think of them or find new solutions to problems.
1. Try MultiPicture if you are having problems getting Wallpapers to work on the tablet, it scales the image to fit the screen, so you won’t get your image cropped or distorted. Use a 1280x800, 72dpi image for perfect results. In MultiPicture settings, you can disable the homescreen scrolling so that the image stays still when you flip through your homescreens. You can also use different pictures on each homescreen if you like.
2. Use a static picture as wallpaper, live wallpapers are fun but seem to slow down the home screen transitions slightly in Honeycomb still.
3. Rockplayer, Vplayer and Moboplayer are all great apps that support almost every movie format and codec out there, they allow you to play movie files on the tablet that aren’t supported out of the box. You may have to select the Software decoding option in Rockplayer to get some formats working.
4. If you don’t already have it, install Windows Media Player 11 or higher on your PC and add any folders that you would like to be able to access from the Transformer to the library in WMP. (don’t forget to share them in windows as well by right clicking them and going to the sharing option etc.)
5. Install the app UPnPlay, it will make viewing your shared media much easier. It also allows you to choose the app you want to view media with, so you can choose Rockplayer or Vplayer etc to stream your movies.
6. Plex is another good app for accessing shared media, you have to install a server application on your PC and add any folders you want to be shared to the server application, then run the tablet app. It’s very simple and it adds cover art etc to your movies by searching the files meta data.
7. Install File Manager HD, it’s a great tablet optimised file manager and it can see your network shared files once you add a new W-lan connection. Use 192.168.0.2 (or your PC’s IP address), your Windows log on name and your Windows password.
8. If you are looking for a good news reader for your tablet, try News 360, it has a great interface and works really well. It has the option to show local news as well as national/international.
9. A great Magazine app recently released for Honeycomb is Zinio, try the version from the market, its slightly different to the one on the transformer, I prefer the UI. Zinio has a large and growing selection of magazines, its interface is great and the magazines look amazing on the transformers screen.
10. ACV is a brilliant comic viewer that reads most comic formats, it works well on the tablet.
11. Extended Controls is a brilliant app/widget that lets you add controls for virtually every setting on your tablet to your homescreen, for example WiFi or Bluetooth and even a toggle to force a media scan (useful if you have just transferred files to your tablet and they aren’t showing in the gallery etc.)
12. Plume is the Twitter app I am using, it has a great tablet optimised interface and a brilliant widget.
13. It’s still a bit choppy and laggy sometimes, but try out the website www.m.tvcatchup.com for free to air UK television channels, a huge selection of free channels that play about 5 seconds behind live TV. Wifi recommended but I have had it working on 3G. Some channels work better than others. Try changing your browser agent from android to desktop or even iPhone to get a better result.
14. TV Guide UK is just that, a great TV guide for your tablet, it’s not Honeycomb optimised and runs in portrait mode, but it works well and has a great interface. You can filter the channels in the settings to just show the channels you have or want to see.
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7. Install File Manager HD, it’s a great tablet optimised file manager and it can see your network shared files once you add a new W-lan connection. Use 192.168.0.2 (or your PC’s IP address), your Windows log on name and your Windows password.
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Thanks so much for this lol. i never knew that function existed and i've been using it from day one.
EXCELLENT post, thank you! On the News360, I LOVE it, but it doesn't show my local newspapers (Mendocino County in Northwestern California), the nearest it shows are in the San Francisco Bay Area, over 100 miles south of me, maybe I need to shoot off an email to them.
your welcome
Always interested to read TF users tips and some very useful ones here, many thanks
Thanks for this! as a newbie, I needed this
Hi guys, i've got a little problem with streaming videos to the N7 and need a little push in the right direction.
So i'm using Linux Ubuntu 12.04, i've setup Samba and managed to get the SMB share working on the tablet through ES File Explorer...
All that works fine, i can see what's on the computer, i can delete, add, move, copy files, that works good. However i cannot for the life of me get the damn thing to stream videos properly, the video just cuts out or drops or something. :crying:
Example:
So i'm watching chuck, i can watch the first 15/20 minutes without any hiccups, it streams perfectly and everything is all good, then all of a sudden the video stops and the app closes, ES File Explorer restarts and im back to the local content on the SD storage.
I have tried opening the videos in ES File Explorer with VLC player, MX Player, Dice Player and V Player... It just drops out every 20 minutes roughly... Am i doing something wrong or is it a bug or am i missing something obvious? I've googled the issue and the closest i can find is to use BubbleUPnP, i can't connect to local host in Linux to setup the pc end it refuses to connect.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
I'm pretty sure yur chuck video is broken/corrupted at one point. Can you verify if it always crash at the same minutes/second?
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I've checked around 6 episodes in the series and its done for all of them, I've also streamed a movie (Bourne identity) to see if its just the chuck videos and the movie cuts out around every 20minutes too.
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This happens to me also. I use ES File Explorer to browse to videos stored on my WD Elements external USB HD connected to a WDTV network media player on my LAN and stream to either MX Player or BSPlayer on an unrooted Nexus7. All videos abruplty stop after a period of time and I get kicked back to ES File Explorer SD Card directory. This happens regardless of the media (I've tried tons of files) and happens with both MX Player and BSPlayer. I am assuming it is a bug with ES File Explorer unless it has something to do with the source.
Anyone have any ideas why this happens?
I realize this is an old thread, but I have been having this issue for a long time. I contacted the developer, and the app has been updated many times since, but the issue persists. I had originally thought the issue was with the video player, but I think you're right. No matter which video player I use, the video drops out at random intervals, crashing the player and kicking me back to ES File Explorer, but on the Local tab, not where I left it. Sometimes the interval is less than 10 minutes, sometimes I make it through as much as 30 minutes before the player crashes. There doesn't seem to be a pattern. I have reproduced this with hundreds of videos, encoded with at least 3 different codecs, of varying size and length. My server is XP Pro SP3, so it's not something tied to Linux, as another user suggested. Although this is a Nexus thread, I have experienced this on my Transformer TF700T. Is it possible the ES app is going to "sleep" while the video is playing, causing the LAN session to close? Eight months is a long time to wait for such an important bug fix. I'd be willing to post logs if you explain how to get them.
I still have that problem, on my new devices, did any of you found a fix or a reason`?
It would be nice to be able to send video files from my laptop to the Shield via Google Cast. I have tried the Chrome extension of course, and it allows you to cast your whole screen but that's extremely quality-degrading for video. I want to cast actual files and nothing else.
I would have assumed there's no built-in compatibility between and Android device and a Window machine, yet when I right-click a video file in Windows Explorer there's an option to "Cast to Device" > "Android_b141". When I select Android_b141 I am asked for a WPS Pin but I've looked on the box and in the manual and there is nothing explicitly given as the WPS Pin. I've tried a few things like serial number etc but with no luck.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get this to work? I would really like to be able to just use this built-in functionality, if it exists. I have tried some third-party workarounds such as Chrome extensions which claim to be able to cast video files, but none work well if at all.
For comparison, on my Android tablet ES File Explorer allows casting of video files with no problem at all. This is the sort of functionality I am after on my laptop.
Thanks in advanced for any help or advice.
BenjiHansell said:
It would be nice to be able to send video files from my laptop to the Shield via Google Cast. I have tried the Chrome extension of course, and it allows you to cast your whole screen but that's extremely quality-degrading for video. I want to cast actual files and nothing else.
I would have assumed there's no built-in compatibility between and Android device and a Window machine, yet when I right-click a video file in Windows Explorer there's an option to "Cast to Device" > "Android_b141". When I select Android_b141 I am asked for a WPS Pin but I've looked on the box and in the manual and there is nothing explicitly given as the WPS Pin. I've tried a few things like serial number etc but with no luck.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get this to work? I would really like to be able to just use this built-in functionality, if it exists. I have tried some third-party workarounds such as Chrome extensions which claim to be able to cast video files, but none work well if at all.
For comparison, on my Android tablet ES File Explorer allows casting of video files with no problem at all. This is the sort of functionality I am after on my laptop.
Thanks in advanced for any help or advice.
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I use Plex works just fine
maxal said:
I use Plex works just fine
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Thanks for the suggestion. But Plex is not ideal for me. I used to have a big media library indexed by XBMC (now Kodi) and I also know how smoothly Plex can stream across a network but I don't need a whole media library server-client setup atm, just the ability to cast occasional unorganised video files (not even always TV and movies, sometimes old home videos that are stored on my laptop for example, or something I just pulled off my action cam).
Immediately after making the OP I found an imperfect workaround. Strem.io for Windows allows you to drag and drop any video file and cast via just about any casting protocol. The program is a simplified (but certainly not light-weight) media centre though, so I could do with something lighter. It's made me think that perhaps there are video players out there for Windows which support casting. I'm surprised that VLC doesn't.
Can't you use a windows shared folder? Kodi can read any smb share with ease
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hi, i have an essential fone and a 360 camera. when i copy fotos to my pc it looks like a salvador dali drawing and i am unable to drag the field of view around. however videos work in vlc (but not mplayer/kodi).
is there a viewer that is able to view these pictures as intended.
also, is there a webserver that can render them on a website ? (pannellum and photo-sphere-viewer seem to only work with panoramas).
so far i am only able to view the pictures correctly on the essential-360 camera app on my telefone. maybe essential is saving these in a non-standard format ?
Code:
[[email protected]]$ file IMG_TP20180303_213002.jpg
IMG_TP20180303_213002.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, aspect ratio, density 1x1, segment length 16, baseline, precision 8, 2560x1312, frames 3
[[email protected]]$ identify IMG_TP20180303_213002.jpg
IMG_TP20180303_213002.jpg JPEG 2560x1312 2560x1312+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.36773MiB 0.010u 0:00.000
i am able to view the pics and videos on my pc using vlc.
vlc mobile doesnt have the ability to directly view pics. i have to use file-expert-hd select each file 1-by-1, clik on ... -> open with -> vlc (kind of a kludge).
forgot i already opened a thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/accessories/360-camera-how-to-share-fotos-t3758617
I use a 360 deg. player Windows app from GoPro which works great. I'm on the road so can't recall the proper name at the moment but a simple search should work for you...
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