I have ripped my dvd movies onto my NAS. I'd like to watch the movies via the Nexus Player. Is that possible via ethernet (I'll be getting an adapter)?
I have all my media files on my Western Digital My Cloud NAS. I can play them in several ways from my Nexus Player over WiFi - Kodi, Plex, ES File Explorer, the WD app all work fine. With an Ethernet connection, you should have no problem.
Should the ethernet cable be hooked into the NAS itself or into the router?
if the cable is coming from ur nexus player plug it into ur router. the player will be able to see the nas if its on the same network
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i'd like to connect my arc to my tv..but..it doesn't have hdmi input.
is there a way to connect the phone to tv?maybe an adaptor or something?
or I could use 3.5mm to RCA TV out cable,does arc have tv out through 3.5mm jack?
Thank you so much
There are HDMI to Composite/RCA converters, but for that price, you can get a cheap HDMI equipped telly.. (starting at around 80 Euro)
no -it can output via HDMI or for media you can use the media server app to stream directly to a DLNA receiver.. assuming that your TV doesn't have that built in.. however.. if you've got a PS3 that will. Xbox might (not sure about that.. just guessing!) and a lot of blueray players will too..
Hi Guys, wonder if anyone else has any ideas, i have a 1tb wd tv live hub with all my movies on and i want to copy a few to my galaxy tab.. the tab is running honeycombe. when i plug the tab into the live hub it pics it up as a mtp camersa device, and shows me lots of folders labeled in 0's and 1's.... now my sgs2 which is running ics connects fine tot he hub via usb... if this is a honeycomb limitation, is there and app anyone knows of to enable mass storage mode on a non windows/mac device? I think the wd tv is also a linux flava.
thank you
matt
WD live hub with Galaxy Tab 10.1
Well I do have the same setup as you are describing. The WD live hub is an excellent player and media storage device, not to mention a media server which all my computers can play directly from. I have my two Tabs 4g and non working great with it streaming content directly off from the hub. Also the cellphones and other computers all through wifi and or network lan. In order to hook up the WD live hub you have to be connected via wifi or lan. I found no way of directly interfacing with the hub by USB. I was too impatient with transfering my movies and photos to the hub, I took the built in HD drive out and directly interfaced it with my desktop and transfered that way. The drive by the way is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 5400RPM. The only other way is to have a USB to 30pin connector on your Tab and hooking the hard drive that way using a USB to SATA converter. But that is a tedious task, I'm not sure why WD didn't have a USB to Host adapter built in.
I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
gotroot801 said:
I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
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Once connection through Ethernet is established, wireless is automatically disabled.
gotroot801 said:
I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
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It could possibly be your specific adapter. Like sam.balia1012 said, when you plug up an ethernet adapter, it disables your wi-fi. however, even though I have the Inatek ethernet adapter, I am still able to tab cast or chromecast things from my phone to my Nexus Player while in ethernet mode without having to switch on wi-fi.
Hi.
Is ther a way to get a hdmi in for the Shield? Like a USB Capture Card or so?
I would like to stream to Twitch because play and stream with my Laptop isn´t but but stream with the shield is fine.
I'm about to buy a 2017 Shield TV (NO PRO). I want to plug in an external 3.0 usb hard drive to it, where I store all my movies and TV series, to enjoy Plex server installed in the Shield.
My questions are:
1. Will the external hard drive be automatically recognized by the network too, like if it becomes some sort of network hard drive? In other words, will I be able to access to the hard drive from my iMac through the network in order to transfer other movies while it is still plugged into the Shield?
2. I will connect the Shield to my main TV through a regular HDMI cable. Since I have another TV with DLNA in another room, can I stream from the Shield to this other TV?
Sorry for the dumb questions, I really am a newbie here... Thanks in advance!