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[Q] xoom videoplayback via smb

Im new to xoom guys. I used to play video files with opening them in astro file manager with smb. Seems smb is not working in astro, tried also on desire hd, but on my hd2 with core droid works fine. The other file managers are preferching the files to my tablet, so takes a long time to watch even a few hundred megs movie... how could i mount my network shares onto my xoom?
Another issue is with mkvs, no sound, onli the movie, moboplayer, factory video player either... any ideas for the above issues? Tks in advance guys.

Drop SMB and go with splashtop HD. Well worth the five dollars. Your desktop does the processing and streams the video and sound to the xoom.

LITHALE said:
Drop SMB and go with splashtop HD. Well worth the five dollars. Your desktop does the processing and streams the video and sound to the xoom.
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Unf, i can only have SMB, no other options.......
Tks.

Ok, in th meantime i found the best video player, named dice player. 3 bucks, but this worths. No need to convert your hd movies anymore. Matroska + ac3 is working very well. Just tap on any mkv file and will pla it smooth. The video encoding is done by the hw and sound by pure cpu, but with dual core it's working fantastic.
Still no info on any smb program which wud work without prefetching... any ideas?

AndrewBoy said:
Ok, in th meantime i found the best video player, named dice player. 3 bucks, but this worths. No need to convert your hd movies anymore. Matroska + ac3 is working very well. Just tap on any mkv file and will pla it smooth. The video encoding is done by the hw and sound by pure cpu, but with dual core it's working fantastic.
Still no info on any smb program which wud work without prefetching... any ideas?
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you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...

Kippui said:
you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...
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I think he said that he couldn't get mobo to play MKV's over the network without either copying the whole file to the Xoom first, or not getting audio.
You can use cifsmanager to mount network shares. Also, Astro has a module to read SMB shares. It's a separate download in the market.

Cifs is the way to go. It'll treat the shares as local folders and open the files accordingly without buffering.
Do a search around here for the cifs.ko and instructions on how to use it.
Also, I'm going to check out Dice player to see if it'll play high profile mkv.

I tested Dice Player last night with some HP 720 mkvs. Some minor hiccups on a few files but it played great. I play all my media off of twonky server on a linux machine.
I'm definitely thinking of buying the full version. I wanted CorePlayer to come out, but seems like that isn't going to happen. Wasn't impressed with moboplayer or rockplayer, and mx player didn't even register to open mkv's for me.

Baka no Kami said:
I think he said that he couldn't get mobo to play MKV's over the network without either copying the whole file to the Xoom first, or not getting audio.
You can use cifsmanager to mount network shares. Also, Astro has a module to read SMB shares. It's a separate download in the market.
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Astro smb is working only on froyo, not on gingerbread or honeycomb.

Kippui said:
you paid for something which moboplayer/Mv player does for free...
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Mobo and others cannot handle ac3.... so now i dont have to convert my regular shows into mp4..

I checked these cif managers. I dont want to root my device..... i dont want to wipe my data and restore everything

AndrewBoy said:
I checked these cif managers. I dont want to root my device..... i dont want to wipe my data and restore everything
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Well... I think you're out of luck then unfortunately. If you NEED this to be SMB and can't use a media server like Twonky or a streaming option like Splashtop then you'll need to root I think.

ES File Explorer recently added SMB streaming capability. Works fine on my Xoom, I can browse to a WHS network share via ES, and when I tap a video file, it asks me which video program I want to play it back through... Works great for AVI's for me, but I was having trouble getting MKV's to work right. I'll have to try this Dice player.

Tried es file explorer both on my xoom and sensation. On the phone es file exp offers the possibility to choose player or set one as default. On my xoom the factory player starts but nothing happens since cannot handle mkvs. I cannot chose dice, not even with open as video or other stuff. How can i delete default video player from my xoom? I cannot even find any factory playback **** in application manage(((

Maybe clear data for ES on the xoom or failing that uninstall and reinstall?
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uninstalled astro, now working fine finally can watch mkvs from my server tks guys!

[APP] Best cifs/smb manager and player for streaming. ES File Explorer / Dice Player

I have been looking around for good file manager for a while to connect to my windows shares and be able to stream flawlessly my HD content. As well access all of my shared files like i could form another windows node. Thats right even though i am a unix admin i still enjoy using windows. Well ok I game some enough said .
I have tried cifs manager and being an admin i tweeked with the mount options directio,rsize,wsize not much helped to enjoy my windows sharing experiance. I tried many other apps to no avail until I found ES File Explorer.
Used with Dice Video Player, it's an experience I have not been able to beat for HD video playback.
I know there is probably alot of you that know about it but after scanning the TF101 forum I didnt see a thread so heres my first post in the EeePad thread.
Attached is the app, enjoy!

i have been using the same combination for few weeks now and its really great.

+2 I have been using Es explorer with mobo player to stream and it works well even for windows media center hd recordings.
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My Diceplayer cant play 720p Mkv Videos, are there any configs to cange?
Edit: bad installation, how did you managed the 3 day limitation?

i used es file explorer-mx player, but it always try to download the file... anyone can share how to stream it ?
now i use bubblePNP/upnp but wanted to use other renderer for music files instead of the local renderer. Any recommendation / idea?

[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 ?
Cheerz

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.

Stream

What do you guys use to stream videos from shared drive? I use air video and xbmc in apple products, anything similar for N7?
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es file manager to find drive, then mx video for file playing

Thanks tying es but can't seem to find shared drive.
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are you guys saying i could stream HD movies that are stored in my 3tb hard drive to my N7, wireless??

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are you guys saying i could stream HD movies that are stored in my 3tb hard drive to my N7, wireless??
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Lol... yes... yes you can... es file explorer works... I personally use qloud media server... love the interface and works flawlessly! Very air video-esque if you ever used an iPhone. Mirage is also very cool too... you can shrink the window down to a corner of the screen and continue doing other things while watching movies wirelessly over 3g or wifi

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Lol... yes... yes you can... es file explorer works... I personally use qloud media server... love the interface and works flawlessly! Very air video-esque if you ever used an iPhone. Mirage is also very cool too... you can shrink the window down to a corner of the screen and continue doing other things while watching movies wirelessly over 3g or wifi
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i am having some trouble with es file explorer. it difficult to connect to my pc. i am going to try Qloud media server. what is the difference from the paid version and the free version??

I use es file explorer and BS player.Both have lan options and work well for streaming and moving files.It is an easy setup with windows 7.
tip..Setting up a separate user account in windows for the Nexus makes things easy.Just set up a user and give it permissions in windows and share your folders with it.Make sure you set up a password or you will not be able to log in from the nexus.It will not allow connecting if you leave the password blank.Took me an hour to learn that.

If you use ES and have no password set in windows you can just go to "LAN" then "New" and hit "Scan" it should pick up your shares, if you actually want to add a share manually and have no password set in windows then just use the user name "Administrator" and leave password empty this always works for me in any app.
As for streaming "DicePlayer" supports smb natively so no need for "ES File Explorer" it also supports DTS audio when used with a custom plugin (libffmpeg.so)
If you want movie info and posters then you can use "MovieBrowser HD for Tablet" as it supports smb, UPnP and local sources.
If you don't mind using UPnP say you already have XBMC at home then "MediaHouse UPnP / DLNA Browser" is great especially as it allows you to easily change fanart and posters.
Movie info looks pretty good in landscape with MediaHouse
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BTW there is an Android version of XBMC but I don't think it yet supports hardware decoding.

[Q] Playing videos via OTG on flash drive

I'm not sure why this is so difficult, or if I'm missing something entirely easy, but I have no idea what the problem is. I've got two videos on my 64 GB flash drive right now, one is an .mp4, one is .mkv. I have Stickmount pro, and I'm not sure if it's working properly.
As of now, my file explorers aren't showing anything on the USB drive (though they were earlier), however VLC will show the files and play them (sort of). The .mkv lags slightly (it's only 720p), and the .mp4 plays a few frames then stops changing frames. The .mp4 played just fine earlier on a different player, but that player doesn't handle .mkv's. MX Player isn't recognizing anything on the drive at all, even after I've added it to be scanned for media.
From what I can tell the flash drive and OTG cable are working fine, I'm just not sure how to proceed from here. I'm tempted to try NMI, but I don't want to buy another app for this if I don't need to since I already have stickmount.

You need to be rooted and have a custom ROM/Kernel.
You'll need this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998585
Stickmount isn't needed. It probably hasn't been updated yet.

I am rooted, and the drive is FAT32 (if that matters). However, a custom ROM/kernel is 100% necessary? In that case, what will I have to do to play videos? Will the players and file managers not have issues reading the drive and playing them?

Try this, and look around on this forum for it's discussion thread.

Dont need to be rooted. Use nexus media importer and then chose which program to play videos with. I use a nightly build of vlc.
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I am rooted, and the drive is FAT32 (if that matters). However, a custom ROM/kernel is 100% necessary? In that case, what will I have to do to play videos? Will the players and file managers not have issues reading the drive and playing them?
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May need to be NTFS think i read that somewhere.

I'm rooted and I use stickmount.
This way I was able to play from a USB stick...
MPJ88 said:
Dont need to be rooted. Use nexus media importer and then chose which program to play videos with. I use a nightly build of vlc.
May need to be NTFS think i read that somewhere.
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Im not rooted and use one excellent piece of software called "Nexus Media Importer" I think it cost 1 or 2 quid !! But it is one excellent, hassle free way to use external storage. Its also clean to use. It is available on the play store.
I have successfully used it on:
Nexus 7
Nexus 10
SGS 3
OTG cable + 32GB storage!
and NO ROOTING required. Well worth it.
You can either copy to local storage OR stream !
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Nitemare3219 said:
I'm not sure why this is so difficult, or if I'm missing something entirely easy, but I have no idea what the problem is. I've got two videos on my 64 GB flash drive right now, one is an .mp4, one is .mkv. I have Stickmount pro, and I'm not sure if it's working properly.
As of now, my file explorers aren't showing anything on the USB drive (though they were earlier), however VLC will show the files and play them (sort of). The .mkv lags slightly (it's only 720p), and the .mp4 plays a few frames then stops changing frames. The .mp4 played just fine earlier on a different player, but that player doesn't handle .mkv's. MX Player isn't recognizing anything on the drive at all, even after I've added it to be scanned for media.
From what I can tell the flash drive and OTG cable are working fine, I'm just not sure how to proceed from here. I'm tempted to try NMI, but I don't want to buy another app for this if I don't need to since I already have stickmount.
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What I found was that I had to use ES File Explorer with Stick mount for the best results. Usually is use FX File Explorer, but I had to open the app THEN mount my drive for it to show anything on the drive.
As far as playing movies direct, your flash drive may not be quick enough. I usually move the movie to my device from my flash drive prior to playing it and delete when I'm done. This way I eliminate the speed issue.
You can also flash craiggomez's ROM and have native OTG support without need for stick mount. It actually works smoother than stickmount IMO.
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Blueback22 said:
What I found was that I had to use ES File Explorer with Stick mount for the best results. Usually is use FX File Explorer, but I had to open the app THEN mount my drive for it to show anything on the drive.
As far as playing movies direct, your flash drive may not be quick enough. I usually move the movie to my device from my flash drive prior to playing it and delete when I'm done. This way I eliminate the speed issue.
You can also flash craiggomez's ROM and have native OTG support without need for stick mount. It actually works smoother than stickmount IMO.
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I have a 16GB N10 and use a 1TB portable HDD to store all my movies... being 16GB it's not capable of holding some BR rips so I play them from the drive... There's no lag or stuttering at all so moving a file isn't needed unless, maybe, if the device being used is a USB 1 device. My HDD is USB 3, but I believe the OTG cables are 2 and the N10 may be 2 as well.
Also, as a note to the OP, keep in mind that you're limited by file size when using FAT32 so you won't be able to put videos on the drive that are high enough quality to really show off the N10 unless they're under 3GB (i think is the limit)

I formatted the drive to NTFS, however the file explorers and now VLC still do not show anything on the drive when using Stickmount. Decided to give NMI a try, and it worked flawlessly. MX Player streamed the 720p .mkv with audio (had to use s/w decoder for audio) without a problem.

Glad to here its working, should be able to use VLC too, i had to for 1080p.

Fat32 max file size is 4g (2^32). So you will Need NTFS for good quality .mkvs.
Youre only able to read files in NTFS AS far as there were no updates. But for streaming mkvs there shouldnt be a problem. The reading speed of i think every USB 2 stick is faster than 5mb/s so its Speer shohldnt be a Problem either. Also i read multiple times that there is no Problem streaming 1080p via otg. For me it Loks like a Hardware issue. At least i cant think of anything else starring At the working devices trying with the same setup
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