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TV out (DLNA)

Dont know if its been posted here yet but I can wire my HD2 up to my DLNA Samsung tv and watch any movie I have stored on the card.
If only all hotels had DLNA tv's it would save me having to take my Archos when I travel.

tNEGA said:
Dont know if its been posted here yet but I can wire my HD2 up to my DLNA Samsung tv and watch any movie I have stored on the card.
If only all hotels had DLNA tv's it would save me having to take my Archos when I travel.
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Are you saying you can, or are you asking if you can?

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I say I can.
Its a DLNA thing.
Through the tv i can browse all media stored on the memory card and play through the tv set.

how you can where is the dlna service in hd2

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The DLNA part of the tv sees the phone as just another external drive and can access it.
Thought if ppl were looking for a new tv they might consider a DLNA one, it has added benefits over non DLNA ones.
For example, I store loads of movies on an external hdd and play them back on my tv with no need for any other hardware.

tNEGA said:
The DLNA part of the tv sees the phone as just another external drive and can access it.
Thought if ppl were looking for a new tv they might consider a DLNA one, it has added benefits over non DLNA ones.
For example, I store loads of movies on an external hdd and play them back on my tv with no need for any other hardware.
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that is indeed interesting, alas i have just bought a new tv.

Is it possible to use the tv as a remote like in the manual? Or to allow text messages and such to the tv?

tNEGA said:
The DLNA part of the tv sees the phone as just another external drive and can access it.
Thought if ppl were looking for a new tv they might consider a DLNA one, it has added benefits over non DLNA ones.
For example, I store loads of movies on an external hdd and play them back on my tv with no need for any other hardware.
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That is not DLNA, that one is just USB HD support.

What you mean by (I CAN WIRE)? DLNA is a wireless service.

Allshare (DLNA) Problems

Hey everybody. I just got my Galaxy two days back. It's amazingly fast
However, I've been having problems with the DLNA software. I cannot get a single file to play either on the galaxy or on a pc.
I've tried three different software solutions on my server (PS3 Media Server, Tversity and FUPPES) and non of them worked and neither does streaming from the galaxy to WMP. It just says "Unable to play"
Any ideas?

Darkstriker, you are not alone, as a number of people have been having problems with DLNA. I have streaming working from one machine and not the other and yet they appear to be pretty much identitcal on the same network.
The second machine had been working, but then stopped. The only difference was an Office installation, and I cant see why that has any bearing on it.

Use the Samsung PC Share Manager.
Downloadable from Samsung support.

dualview said:
Use the Samsung PC Share Manager.
Downloadable from Samsung support.
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This is not really a workable answer.... especially when you are trying to use DLNA with a TV.
I have had and continue to have problems connecting to any DLNA devices.
Basically the Galaxy S doesn't show any Media Devices in the list to choose from.
TravUK above has tried many times to help me sort this out but despite checking this, that and the other the GS just does not want to show any devices.

I managed to view video's and photo's from my iMac through DLNA, using MediaLink (PS3 UPnP server)
It didn't work with all video's, but the Samsung Galaxy S sample video's linked in another thread streamed fine.

Hi,
I've managed to get wmv's and divx avi's to play on the PS3 through allshare but can't get it to connect to the xbox 360 whatsoever. It won't play the vids captured with the phones camera and also it seems picky about exactly which version of wmv the clip has been encoded with.
Cheers,
Mike

miker33 said:
Hi,
I've managed to get wmv's and divx avi's to play on the PS3 through allshare but can't get it to connect to the xbox 360 whatsoever. It won't play the vids captured with the phones camera and also it seems picky about exactly which version of wmv the clip has been encoded with.
Cheers,
Mike
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Do you mean that you can't stream to x360 at all? or you mean the file formats, codecs?
Streaming to the x360 requires running it on extender mode.. you need to have Windows Media Center on your pc and use the code the x360 gives you to complete the set up with it.
X360 has an optional media update that will allow it to run more formats. you can find it under the videogames marketplace>Game addons.

Hiya,
I can stream\browse the phone from the PS3 directly but it's quite picky about the formats.
Can't see the phone at all on the xbox360 and couldn't see any way of locating the phone from the xbox interface although the phone can see the xbox when you try to share a clip. I was surprised that the xbox was supposed to support the phone sharing but it's been mentioned in several reviews of the galaxy s so thought I must be doing something wrong.
Cheers,
Mike

miker33 said:
Hiya,
I can stream\browse the phone from the PS3 directly but it's quite picky about the formats.
Can't see the phone at all on the xbox360 and couldn't see any way of locating the phone from the xbox interface although the phone can see the xbox when you try to share a clip. I was surprised that the xbox was supposed to support the phone sharing but it's been mentioned in several reviews of the galaxy s so thought I must be doing something wrong.
Cheers,
Mike
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I don't know if you can push media from the x360 to SGS. The problem however doesn't seem from the SGS.. its probably the X360.

Agreed, although i'm trying to stream from the SGS to the xbox I think it's still most likely the 360 having the issues..

I'm having a similar problem. My Galaxy can see the xbox 360 but the 360 can't see it. Plsk1n, could you give a bit more detail on the steps you used to get it working?
Failing that, I may just buy the TV out cable for the phone

markmsmith said:
I'm having a similar problem. My Galaxy can see the xbox 360 but the 360 can't see it. Plsk1n, could you give a bit more detail on the steps you used to get it working?
Failing that, I may just buy the TV out cable for the phone
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The Xbox doesn't come as DLNA ready device out of the box. You need to setup a Windows Media Center Environment on it and on your PC and then use the xbox360 as an extender device to the PC environment.
Note: you don't need to keep windows media center running if you want to push media to your xbox360.
Here are the steps
1- Install Windows Media Center on your PC.
2- Run the Media Center setup on your xbox 360, when you start it it will tell you to write down a code for installation with your PC... write the code down.
3- Run your Windows Media Center on your PC and go down to tasks>add extender... you will use the code you wrote from the xbox in the process.
4- Complete setting up the xbox360 as the extender then check the options/preferences to allow the x360 to accept pushed media from other devices.

On my side, the PS3 ca see my phone but I didn't manage to play anything on teh PS
I tried divx, mp3, jpeg photo and it can't play them

I can stream from my QNAP nas to the GS almost everything, except 720p HD videos (tv shows). Sometimes however the GS simply can't see the nas, even with a strong wifi signal.

I can see my MacBook Pro and my DirecTV DVR through All Share but haven't been able to get antying to download, play or stream. I'd really like to be able to download media from the DirecTV DVR and take it on the road to go.

I can see my laptop, but can't actually see any files. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? It's annoying, as I know it's probably something stupid that I am doing (like not setting up sharing properly on my lappy). I haven't even tried it the other way around (laptop streaming from phone).

Plsk1n said:
The Xbox doesn't come as DLNA ready device out of the box. You need to setup a Windows Media Center Environment on it and on your PC and then use the xbox360 as an extender device to the PC environment.
Note: you don't need to keep windows media center running if you want to push media to your xbox360.
Here are the steps
1- Install Windows Media Center on your PC.
2- Run the Media Center setup on your xbox 360, when you start it it will tell you to write down a code for installation with your PC... write the code down.
3- Run your Windows Media Center on your PC and go down to tasks>add extender... you will use the code you wrote from the xbox in the process.
4- Complete setting up the xbox360 as the extender then check the options/preferences to allow the x360 to accept pushed media from other devices.
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I'm stuck at step 4 as there is no options on my 360??
thanks

Thread Astaire said:
I'm stuck at step 4 as there is no options on my 360??
thanks
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Whats not being made clear is the fact that you have to BE in windows media center mode on the XBOX360 when you use allshare. What will happen is that "xbox360 media center" will show up as a device in allshare AND THEN you can push media FROM your phone TO your xbox360.

ShawtyKING said:
Whats not being made clear is the fact that you have to BE in windows media center mode on the XBOX360 when you use allshare. What will happen is that "xbox360 media center" will show up as a device in allshare AND THEN you can push media FROM your phone TO your xbox360.
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It's not working that way for me. The Xbox360 option disappears from AllShare when I'm in Media Center Extender mode on the Xbox (connected to the Media Center PC). Where are the options he's talking about? On the Xbox, or on the PC?

DNLA works fine here! not with PS3 media server but with the stock "streaming" option in windows media player! i can even control the player from my phone!
And i can see the DLNA server from my laptop!

Media server with wan access and remote access

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.

Streaming movies from my PC to my Shield

I was wondering what free app does this? Both the Shield and the PC are connected to the same network via LAN.
Cheers

I highly suggest just running an FTP server of any sort (many in the market, sideload the apk) then use filezilla on the computer to move them over. Simple enough, though if you have any other questions, feel free to ask about anything.

GalaxyWhy said:
I was wondering what free app does this? Both the Shield and the PC are connected to the same network via LAN.
Cheers
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Not sure but vlc and kody can have a media server built in?
But the computer need to have media sharing ability.

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Wow, totally wasn't awake when I read that. Streaming, yeah. kodi does well streaming in my experience, I used an ssh server to do that and it worked pretty well, even on a raspberry pi.

JJ-KwiK said:
Plex
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I'm pretty sure it costs money?
kdb424 said:
Wow, totally wasn't awake when I read that. Streaming, yeah. kodi does well streaming in my experience, I used an ssh server to do that and it worked pretty well, even on a raspberry pi.
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SSH Server? I understand my PC would have to be on but yeah i dunno

If you stream movies from your pc, it will have to be on. You can also use it for file transfer.

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You can try the Playback Player, which will cast media from computer to the shield's Chromecast endpoint.
https://mafintosh.github.io/playback/

GalaxyWhy said:
I was wondering what free app does this? Both the Shield and the PC are connected to the same network via LAN.
Cheers
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I can recommend two options. Setting up an ftp server on your pc and using a video player app to stream contents from the ftp via file manager. Or just use plex like someone suggested above. I don't agree on transferring the actual files over ftp to the shield but instead STREAM the files from the shield.

You can create a shared folder with the video files on your PC and use Kodi on the Shield TV to scan the folder and play the videos on the Shield TV.

es file explorer does this with ease.
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Shield TV and NZB client

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.

np
Did you find this? took me 2 sec to google
powernzb.co.uk
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sic.nzb.app&hl=de
moving the files to an external drive is not necessary if you download it to the external drive.