Does anyone have any experience getting an NZB client up and running on a shield? I had an HTPC that died so I went to the shield TV due to the size and power of it. One thing i am struggling with is finding an NZB client that will allow me to upload an NZB file, download it, unpack/process it and then move it to an external drive. Thats one thing I absolutely need.
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moving the files to an external drive is not necessary if you download it to the external drive.
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I have a Seagate BlackArmor 110 NAS drive. I have tried messing with all of the settings, and no matter what I do, I cannot get the Clear.Fi to even see the NAS drive. My HTC Desire HD can see it with the Sense media share feature, and my Iconia can see it with ES File Explorer, and other apks. However, I'd really like to be able to utilize the Clear.Fi to stream my files in my home from the NAS drive. One of the main draws of purchasing the product. Anyone else had similar issues, or have suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I would recommend plugplayer from the app store.It found my xbmc media share instantly.
After quite a bit of tinkering, I have been able to play movies from a shared DVD drive on my Windows PC on my Fire TV with XBMC. This may save someone else a little time. Basic skills in setting up XBMC are required for this.
Note that while a DVD menu starts up quickly for me. It can take over 30 seconds (but less than 60 seconds) for the actual playback to start... so just wait for it. My Fire TV is on a wired network... I don't know how well this would work on a wireless network.
Basic steps are:
1) Share your DVD drive on your windows computer... call it something like "DVD". Make it public if you don't want to enter username/password.
2) Put a DVD Movie in the drive.
3) In Videos/Files add an item by browsing to the SMB share for the DVD drive.
4) In Settings/Video/DVD select Attempt to skip intro before DVD menu.
You can now play the DVD by hitting the play/pause button either on the DVD share or the video_ts folder. You can make this work better by
5) In Settings/Video/File List select Combine Split Video Items
This allows you to just use the center select button on the video_ts folder to play it rather than hitting the play/pause button.
6) You can also setup a favorite to the video_ts folder on the shared DVD drive so you can just select the favorite. Rename the favorite something like DVD.
7) If you are using elmerohueso's Confluence++ skin you can even add this favorite to a shortcut under the Videos menu so you can play the DVD from the main menu screen.
I also added an entry to the keyboard.xml file to be able to easily exit from the DVD menu back to XBMC:
<VideoMenu>
<keyboard>
<menu>Stop</menu>
<backspace>Stop</backspace>
</keyboard>
</VideoMenu>
**** If you cannot get playback to start, its probably a sharing problem on your PC. If you are not using username/password make sure you allow no passwords for public sharing profile ****
I am using SPMC http://spmc.semperpax.com/ as my Fire TV Launcher with elmerohueso's confluence++ skin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392 . I also use Alternate Keymap 3 http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Alternative_keymaps_for_Fire_TV_remote#Keymap_3 for Fire TV http with the VideoMenu addition above.
tselling said:
After quite a bit of tinkering, I have been able to play movies from a shared DVD drive on my Windows PC on my Fire TV with XBMC. This may save someone else a little time. Basic skills in setting up XBMC are required for this.
Note that while a DVD menu starts up quickly for me. It can take over 30 seconds (but less than 60 seconds) for the actual playback to start... so just wait for it. My Fire TV is on a wired network... I don't know how well this would work on a wireless network.
Basic steps are:
1) Share your DVD drive on your windows computer... call it something like "DVD". Make it public if you don't want to enter username/password.
2) Put a DVD Movie in the drive.
3) In Videos/Files add an item by browsing to the SMB share for the DVD drive.
4) In Settings/Video/DVD select Attempt to skip intro before DVD menu.
You can now play the DVD by hitting the play/pause button either on the DVD share or the video_ts folder. You can make this work better by
5) In Settings/Video/File List select Combine Split Video Items
This allows you to just use the center select button on the video_ts folder to play it rather than hitting the play/pause button.
6) You can also setup a favorite to the video_ts folder on the shared DVD drive so you can just select the favorite. Rename the favorite something like DVD.
7) If you are using elmerohueso's Confluence++ skin you can even add this favorite to a shortcut under the Videos menu so you can play the DVD from the main menu screen.
I also added an entry to the keyboard.xml file to be able to easily exit from the DVD menu back to XBMC:
<VideoMenu>
<keyboard>
<menu>Stop</menu>
<backspace>Stop</backspace>
</keyboard>
</VideoMenu>
**** If you cannot get playback to start, its probably a sharing problem on your PC. If you are not using username/password make sure you allow no passwords for public sharing profile ****
I am using SPMC http://spmc.semperpax.com/ as my Fire TV Launcher with elmerohueso's confluence++ skin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392 . I also use Alternate Keymap 3 http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Alternative_keymaps_for_Fire_TV_remote#Keymap_3 for Fire TV http with the VideoMenu addition above.
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Awesome guide! I plan on doing mine wireless, which should prove interesting and fun!
I will be doing some tinkering tonight, but there are a few ways I am planning to do this:
1) UPnP/DLNA (using a server, most likely Windows Media Player 12, and using MediaHouse or AirStream)
2) HTTP (apparently you can convert using MakeMKV one the fly and send stream via HTTP, and you can recieve by using an addon included in XMBC for MakeMKV)
3) Stream via ES File Explorer, or Solid Explorer, and somehow find a video player that will play Video_TS.
4) Something that I haven't thought of (which usually always happens)
After some fiddling around, I FINALLY got XBMC to receive video from my laptop, specifically from a DVD. I created a share path on the DVD, and added a Windows SMB, and I was successfully able to path to my DVD Drive. I specifically named the path E://DVD Drive and setup Windows SMB on the XBMC side to direct to the path.
However, there are a few things still I am trying to figure out.
1) View the disc in my drive as a DVD, rather then manually going into Video_TS and clicking on a file.
2) Figure out how to map the XBMC Remote for external applications
Those two are my big on to figure out list right now.
cloudbyday90 said:
After some fiddling around, I FINALLY got XBMC to receive video from my laptop, specifically from a DVD. I created a share path on the DVD, and added a Windows SMB, and I was successfully able to path to my DVD Drive. I specifically named the path E://DVD Drive and setup Windows SMB on the XBMC side to direct to the path.
However, there are a few things still I am trying to figure out.
1) View the disc in my drive as a DVD, rather then manually going into Video_TS and clicking on a file.
2) Figure out how to map the XBMC Remote for external applications
Those two are my big on to figure out list right now.
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For number 1 you need look at my first post...step 5. It will automatically play video_ts directory.
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Related DVD Folder question...
Thanks a lot for the detailed description!
I currently own a WD TV box and have most of my DVDs transferred to a HDD. The WD TV is able to play the Video_TS folders directly from the USB-attached HDD, which I think is great.
Now I thought about upgrading to a Fire TV but I couldn't find any information if that box is able to do the same and not just play each VOB file individually - like my not so smart LG-TV...
Would be great if you could let me know.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Wifi no go
While I was able to play some small clips over wifi, there was a lot of freezing, buffering, and artifacts. Trying to play the movie, it just freezes at the title screen and never does start playing. I've never had much trouble sharing a DVD drive between PC's, so this is rather disappointing.
Hey all,
I am trying to setup my nexus player to play SNES and N64 games. I looked through this site and did some Google searches but have yet to see a solid walk-through for setting up the player as a retro gaming machine. If there already is a walk-through please redirect me and I apologize ^^. Ok so I believe I already have a firm grasp on side-loading apps using ES File Manager. I also already have some emulators installed on an external HD. My plan is to play using a Logitech gamepad connected with a micro USB to USB OTG adapter (I think this will work). In addition to wondering about the walk-through, do you guys know if it would be possible to load my emulator/ROMs onto Google Drive, then use ES File Manager to simply talk to my drive from the Nexus Player and play emulators that way? I doubt this would work but since it seems like the easiest route thought I would explore this avenue first.
Again not sure if that is the most efficient way to hand things or if people are running emulators directly as an attached storage device through the micro USB port. Thanks for any help you guys can provide I appreciate it.
**UPDATE** I just found out I could install SNES 9x from the Play store direct to the Nexus Player, so that takes care of the emulator issue there I think.
**UPDATE** Using ES file manager and SNES 9x I was able to run roms off my google drive directly to my NP, just need to figure out the controller situation now.
AFAIK, this will be very difficult since there's no way to access external USB storage without root or flashing the new Android M, I haven't done either because of the risk and losing all of my stuff. You might have better luck right now with sharing your roms folder over your network if the emulator(s) supports it.
Not really sure why the NP didn't come with external storage support like we would need. I had maybe 4 games installed from the app store, along with Netflix, SlingTV, Kodi, Live Channels, ES File Explorer, the default NP apps, and ran out of space. So far, it is almost as disappointing to me as the Ouya.
Nephilim3883 said:
AFAIK, this will be very difficult since there's no way to access external USB storage without root or flashing the new Android M, I haven't done either because of the risk and losing all of my stuff. You might have better luck right now with sharing your roms folder over your network if the emulator(s) supports it.
Not really sure why the NP didn't come with external storage support like we would need. I had maybe 4 games installed from the app store, along with Netflix, SlingTV, Kodi, Live Channels, ES File Explorer, the default NP apps, and ran out of space. So far, it is almost as disappointing to me as the Ouya.
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Thanks for the reply. I actually was able to run roms with my NP from my Google Drive using the ES File Manager. However I have not been able to really play them yet since I need a cable to hook a controller into the back of the NP, and that will need a special USB OTG to Micro USB cable. There also appears to be some issues with resolution using SNES9X on my TV (it stretches off the side of the screen) but I think that should be fixable.
Anyway yea, roms off your gdrive to your NP using ES file manager to load your cloud data, it works check it out!
Keep in mind that this way ES will cache the files locally but still download them again for a second launch, this builds up quickly. Those ROMs are small enough to copy to the local drive. For emulators, RetroArch is still a bit tricky to get working at first but has cores for most popular consoles and arcades. C64.emu also works great, and for both you can use Gamesome as a launcher. I suggest you get a cheap otg hub, the one I've got has 3 ports, and reads sd / micro sd and some sony cards too. I play with both an official asus gamepad and a wireless xbox 360 one using the pc usb receiver. I had to root and link a file to get the wireless one properly mapped, a wired one works as soon as you plug it. Haven't tried a DualShock 3 or 4 but afaik wired they work, as most pc usb gamepads.
All of the .emu emulators and snes9x ex+ work great and can be installed right from the play store. Worth the money. They also all have an option to shrink the video to fit to your screen.
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I am hoping to build a media server to replace my simple setup. Now I have an external hardbdrive connected to my Samsung smart TV which plays my movies. Now I want a media player connected to my Tv with the hard drive that I can access remotely and can update over the net (add movies to it)
Can the pi2 do this?
nickmax1 said:
I am hoping to build a media server to replace my simple setup. Now I have an external hardbdrive connected to my Samsung smart TV which plays my movies. Now I want a media player connected to my Tv with the hard drive that I can access remotely and can update over the net (add movies to it)
Can the pi2 do this?
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I had an entire media server running with a Raspberry Pi 1 model B, that also ran a few python scripts. I'm sure the Pi 2 has more than enough horsepower for your needs.
darksabre_x said:
I had an entire media server running with a Raspberry Pi 1 model B, that also ran a few python scripts. I'm sure the Pi 2 has more than enough horsepower for your needs.
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really, thats impressive. Did you follow a guide to do that? Could the pi do any transcoding?
Yes and no...........
I used a lot of tutorials, and parts of tutorials, and just playing around.
It was the results of my playing around in linux. The solution actually consisted of more than just the server end. I had the Pi sharing a 3TB hdd via NFS, and at the time I had another Pi connected to my TV running Kodi media center. (I've since moved to an old Quad core which works much better, for obvious reasons.)
The Original Model B wasn't powerful enough to do any transcoding and I don't have any experience with the Pi 2 yet, but I had a lot going on in that lil box and it served me fairly well. I had 2 python scripts running to collect and sort media, an SQL db to sync multiple instances of Kodi, a newsbin client, torrent client, and web server running off the same Pi.
I only encountered a few issues and could never get WAN streaming working, but I suspect that may have been something with my router configs.
I simply sat down and thought up what I wanted my server to do, and started hitting the web to find ways to do it, one feature at a time.
With the release of Plex server for shield TV I've decided to make the shield my permanent media server which the media will be saved to a Western digital USB storage device. My problem is getting new media on the shield.
I'd like to have a method to remotely download torrents directly to the western digital drive on the Shield using my phone or laptop. Is there anyway I could achieve this?
i have this problem too
i am unable to write/add/rename files?
yerger425 said:
With the release of Plex server for shield TV I've decided to make the shield my permanent media server which the media will be saved to a Western digital USB storage device. My problem is getting new media on the shield.
I'd like to have a method to remotely download torrents directly to the western digital drive on the Shield using my phone or laptop. Is there anyway I could achieve this?
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Well, for add torrents from my phone I use tTorrent WebUI in my Shield and Transdroid in my phone. Just make sure to set the right config in your router to get access from your phone. :good: