Plex app - Nexus Player Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I purchased the plex app about a year ago to use in my tablet, it appears the version available requires plex pass. Does anyone know for sure?

phin586 said:
I purchased the plex app about a year ago to use in my tablet, it appears the version available requires plex pass. Does anyone know for sure?
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Yes Plex on the Nexus Player is currently in development so it requires plex pass.
At some point in the future it will be released for use without plex pass requirement.

Sleeepy2 said:
Yes Plex on the Nexus Player is currently in development so it requires plex pass.
At some point in the future it will be released for use without plex pass requirement.
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Thanks for the heads up!

The only issue RIGHT Now is that the app freezes constantly while streaming a video, it's crazy.

I use the app and don't subscribe to Plex Pass. I had the old Plex for Android sideloaded on the NP and when they unified the app, it auto-updated and it works fine.
I'm not sure how one could go about reproducing this, try sideloading an old apk and see if it updates?
The only issue RIGHT Now is that the app freezes constantly while streaming a video, it's crazy.
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True, and with zero acknowledgement from Plex

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Netflix

It seems the apk for Netflix has been leaked can't seem to get it to work fully but maybe someone else can.
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I was able to install and launch. I can search movies and manage my queue, but I get an error if I try to stream. Looks more like Netflix is blocking it than a system error.
It would be great to get Netflix streaming.
Netflix DRM on Android
Netflix not streaming seems to be a DRM issue. More info in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995126
cbotd said:
Netflix not streaming seems to be a DRM issue. More info in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995126
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Amazon Prime bought Netflix of Europe,try their 30 day free movies on their instant video page,3000 movies so far, Free!
I use it on my A7,its great.After free trial its only $79.95 yr.
That s cheaper than Netflix USA and Blockbuster.
Thanks! I am a prime member but didn't know vids could be played on my elocity.
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Netflix - Amazon Prime?
I am also a Prime member and can stream videos just fine to my Mac or my lil netbook, but when I try on the A7 tab, it returns a message that Amazon does not have this set up yet for mobile devices. I've even tried signing in through various browsers to the full Amazon site, but each time it seems to recognize my device and says it's not supported.
If you are running something that allows you to stream videos, please do tell!
there are some alternatives to playing hulu / netflix on your mobile...
PlayOn makes it possible to stream from your pc to mobile/tablet.
TVersity makes it possible to stream from hulu.com (no netflix i think)
on your tablet, use something like Skifta to play the DLNA stream, it works.. i tried it with Tversity / hulu.com .. not perfect, but it works..
maybe someone got a better dlna based and cheaper solution?
Netflix app released on market work with several devices wonder how we can make the a7 look like the evo 4g.
rombold said:
Netflix app released on market work with several devices wonder how we can make the a7 look like the evo 4g.
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if it rely on "DRM" , A7 does not even support it at all..
my port "Blur" do support it, but not sure if its 100% implemented correctly from my side with directories and apps running.
A7 stock firmware has not support at all for DRM media.
cwolfpack3 said:
I am also a Prime member and can stream videos just fine to my Mac or my lil netbook, but when I try on the A7 tab, it returns a message that Amazon does not have this set up yet for mobile devices. I've even tried signing in through various browsers to the full Amazon site, but each time it seems to recognize my device and says it's not supported.
If you are running something that allows you to stream videos, please do tell!
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I'm confused. I'm able to run Amazon Prime video no problem on mine. I don't remember if there was a app on amazon or what (my fuzzy brain seems to be telling me that there was a download prompted by Amazon the first time I went to the video section).

Is it possible to watch XfinityTV or HBOGo on A500?

Just got my A500 via Staples mail order. Using the stock browser, I tried to catch up on my Falling Skies via XfinityTV with no success. Instead of a show, I got a message to install Microsoft Silverlight plug-in.
One of the reasons I got a tab is to be able to watch shows online when I'm stuck waiting for family at rehearsals, etc. I already have an e-reader and a video player, so this is the gap I need to cover.
Is this possible? Do I need a different browser? Or am I outta luck?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: In case anybody else is interested in this, Comcast "thinks" that the Xfinity android app will be updated to allow actual tv episode watching in a couple of months. Apple took precedence and they will eventually finish working on it for Android. Meanwhile, their app is good for controlling your DVR remotely, which is useless for me, which is why I tried to watch through the browser. Which is why I ended up posting here.
As far as I know there isn't any silverlight support for android yet. There was a project called moonlight that was supposedly going to bring silverlight to android but I did not hear anything new about it for the past 6 months, so I assume it is dead.
time to start calling and complaining.
BrianDigital said:
time to start calling and complaining.
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To whom? It's hardly Acers or Google's fault that these sites decided to use a Windows only technology for their media streaming.
HBOGo on A500 works.
And given that HBOGo app streams video in H.264, the stream from the website is higher quality.
I am using Dolphin Browser
Did you install the app (from where, I don't see it in market) or do you just navigate to hbo dot com via browser? Thanks.
tanman1975 said:
HBOGo on A500 works.
And given that HBOGo app streams video in H.264, the stream from the website is higher quality.
I am using Dolphin Browser
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How did you get to work HBO Go when launch says not supported on your device, is there tab ver of it because I'm using the one installed on my phone which works fine there.
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dito33 said:
How did you get to work HBO Go when launch says not supported on your device, is there tab ver of it because I'm using the one installed on my phone which works fine there.
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Just use the stock browser (or others), go to hbogo.com and sign in. It works that easy.
naplesbill said:
Just use the stock browser (or others), go to hbogo.com and sign in. It works that easy.
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Almost. If you're on honeycomb 3.1, you need to go into your browser's settings and set the viewing mode to "desktop." If you're still on 3.0, you will need to set your browser to debug mode to enable desktop UA string.
Though really, you will want to watch on 3.1 because supposedly it gets better video performance with Flash.
And if some of the online shows require real player how do you watch that since
the extension is .smil and android real player can't open that to play.
Trying to run hbogo on stock browser along with dolphin opera and Firefox all a nogo has laggy video audio is great but picture very slow running 3.2 stock rom but these sites only run when in desktop mode tablet mode not an option any have a working apk version to install and see if we can get it working or some good setting for the browser
Acer A500 3.2 AsusNetflix patch FTW
fincan said:
As far as I know there isn't any silverlight support for android yet. There was a project called moonlight that was supposedly going to bring silverlight to android but I did not hear anything new about it for the past 6 months, so I assume it is dead.
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Greetings everyone, this is my first post. I found this comment and recalled seeing this on a blog of Jeffrey Steadfast who was developing that:
Jeffrey Stedfast said... Liam,
Unfortunately there's no update. We've been so focused on fixing bugs and implementing new features for MonoTouch and Mono for Android we just haven't had time to look at Moonlight anymore.
August 3, 2011 3:32 P
I would think that more or less confirms your thought that it might be dead.
FloatingFatMan said:
To whom? It's hardly Acers or Google's fault that these sites decided to use a Windows only technology for their media streaming.
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Calling into comcast to support android.
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Help, can it be done? AllShare Cast nexus 10 to Samsung tv

Hi I recently got the 2013 Samsung 8 series TV and was wondering if there is a way to enable all share cast on the nexus 10 for screen mirroring? I have this feature on my siii given its also a Samsung device
Looking around the inter web information is a little vague and conflicting!
Thanks
Dan
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For screen mirroring you will need a miracast capable device. Initially the Nexus 10 was supposed to have miracast, but I doesn't (to my knowledge).
You can stream videos and pictures to your tv over WiFi using apps like imedia or bubbleUPnP. (or any dlna player)
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freshlysqueezed said:
For screen mirroring you will need a miracast capable device. Initially the Nexus 10 was supposed to have miracast, but I doesn't (to my knowledge).
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I believe it has the capability of doing so hardware-wise, but the settings for it aren't enabled or visible. I think the memory bus or something would be a limitation due to having to push 2560x1600, but perhaps we can just change the resolution (there's some HDMI command thing found recently that does this) and use that?
Yea, wished we could enable it.
I have a netgear ptv3000 receiver. Works well with my dad's Note II.
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thanks for the replies.
To give some more background, until very recently i was running XBMC on a win8 front room PC and Yatse on the nexus 10.
the joy was that if i was watching videos on the nexus i could hit Share/Send to Yatse and the XBMC would automatically start playing the stream for me on the TV.
thats the functionality i am looking for.
A lot that I have seen on the play store are simply players in their own right which if i look at my usage is not what i want.
ideally the right app would sit in the background as a service and catch any source (you tube, pictures, music, mxplayer or any where else I can press share/send to)
has anyone seen anything like this ?
at this point i am less interested in screen mirroring as such (until i want to play need for speed on the big tv!!)...
thanks
Dan.
DanielGwalter said:
thanks for the replies.
To give some more background, until very recently i was running XBMC on a win8 front room PC and Yatse on the nexus 10.
the joy was that if i was watching videos on the nexus i could hit Share/Send to Yatse and the XBMC would automatically start playing the stream for me on the TV.
thats the functionality i am looking for.
A lot that I have seen on the play store are simply players in their own right which if i look at my usage is not what i want.
ideally the right app would sit in the background as a service and catch any source (you tube, pictures, music, mxplayer or any where else I can press share/send to)
has anyone seen anything like this ?
at this point i am less interested in screen mirroring as such (until i want to play need for speed on the big tv!!)...
thanks
Dan.
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http://www.bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver
Check out bubbleupnp on the play store. I think this is what you are looking for.
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freshlysqueezed said:
http://www.bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver
Check out bubbleupnp on the play store. I think this is what you are looking for.
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Confirming that Bubblesoft is great UPNP software.
dibblebill said:
Confirming that Bubblesoft is great UPNP software.
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ok, thanks, i will give it a go tonight and let you know how i get on ....
ideally we would want the new Samsung Link to work on Nexus 10 devices but apparently this is not happening right now!
DanielGwalter said:
ok, thanks, i will give it a go tonight and let you know how i get on ....
ideally we would want the new Samsung Link to work on Nexus 10 devices but apparently this is not happening right now!
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Don't forget, this will allow either the nexus 10, your pc, or a home server to stream media to your tv through WiFi . You just have to make sure the settings in your tv are on for dlna and that your tv is connected to your network.
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Yes It Can!?
Initially it was said that N10 would support Miracast
Then we were told neither N7 or N10 would support it.
Now Miracast has been enabled and working for N7, see
ht tp s://github .com/kensuke/ How-to-Miracast-on-AOSP/wiki and ht tp://w ww. you tube.com/watch?v=KNEmaIr3FEg
Even though Kensuke warned about trying it I went ahead and installed the non-tested OTA package for N10
I did not experience any loops as he was afraid of, no errors at all and it seems stable.
The OTA package seems stable but Miracast may or may not work.
I do have "Wireless display" in the menu now. I also believe searching for miracast receiver was working the first time I booted the tablet. Unfortunately I didnt have a miracast receiver nearby then and when I got home it seemed like I had lost the possibility to search for receivers.
I still have "Wireless Display" in the menu though.
Just spreading the word. Maybe and hopefully someone smarter then me would be able to make use of the patch :fingers-crossed:
hugeabscess said:
Initially it was said that N10 would support Miracast
Then we were told neither N7 or N10 would support it.
Now Miracast has been enabled and working for N7, see
ht tp s://github .com/kensuke/ How-to-Miracast-on-AOSP/wiki and ht tp://w ww. you tube.com/watch?v=KNEmaIr3FEg
Even though Kensuke warned about trying it I went ahead and installed the non-tested OTA package for N10
I did not experience any loops as he was afraid of, no errors at all and it seems stable.
The OTA package seems stable but Miracast may or may not work.
I do have "Wireless display" in the menu now. I also believe searching for miracast receiver was working the first time I booted the tablet. Unfortunately I didnt have a miracast receiver nearby then and when I got home it seemed like I had lost the possibility to search for receivers.
I still have "Wireless Display" in the menu though.
Just spreading the word. Maybe and hopefully someone smarter then me would be able to make use of the patch :fingers-crossed:
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This would be great to see in one of these rom builds
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Agreed! I am testing and reporting to the author of the patch, Kensuke, at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989513&page=5
Lets hope he and the community will resolve this

Still FREE Today 10/31 - Amazon Plex ($5) App ++++ More

Hi folks..
Plex $5 app is free today at Amazon along with a bunch of other games & apps (Not all FireTV compatible).
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=nav_sap_mas_14_10_30_Oct_Bundle?ie=UTF8&node=10221878011 :good:
All 40 Amazon apps should still be free today until midnight PST if I am not mistaken...
Plex app on the FTV is worth less than 0.
Where I don't fault anybody for spreading info, i have to agree somewhat on the plex info. From what I've seen, not sure what benefit that has for anybody that uses xda. BTW, what the heck is all that Plexpass stuff? Why do you need a subscription?
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JJ-KwiK said:
I sideloaded the most recent version of the app. Then, purchased(when it was free prior to this offer) the app on amazon's site, where I selected cloud only. From there, the most recent version of the plex app was on the FTV's homescreen.
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You mean sideloaded PlayStore latest Plex app... Added the Free Amazon Plex app to your Amazon account. Now you have a shortcut to the PlayStore's Plex app on your homescreen. Any problems with controls (FireTV control) on the PlayStore version of the Plex App ??
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No problems.
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What are the biggest differences you see between both apps...

DirecTV for Tablets on Shield?

I am on the fence about selling my fire TV 2 and buying an NVIDIA Shield TV. Does anyone know if DirecTV for tablets works on the shield? Or does it need to be rooted first?
Only way to get directv now on shield tv is by casting.
sask3m said:
Only way to get directv now on shield tv is by casting.
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How well does casting work for you? How is the video quality? Any stutter?
sask3m said:
Only way to get directv now on shield tv is by casting.
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Sorry, I am talking about "DirecTV for Tablets" specifically. Directv Now is a different service with a different app.
pwnted said:
Sorry, I am talking about "DirecTV for Tablets" specifically. Directv Now is a different service with a different app.
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Yes it works fine, you just have to sideload the apk as you can't find it through the play store on stock. But it works, you can navigate the channel list with the d-pad and the right stick works as a mouse.
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How well does casting work for you? How is the video quality? Any stutter?
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Works fine, i'd say on par with the amazon app or very close. Zero stutter.
Yes, the DirecTv app for tablets works perfect sideloaded on the shield Tv. I just ditched Comcast and signed up for DirecTv. Best decision I made in a while.

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