I have ORB setup to run on my PC with UPNP support. Orb itself runs fine on my Wizard, but I need to login to the mycast page first. What I am looking for is a program that will act as a front end to the UPNP server in ORB.
I have pocket player right now and it works perfectly for browsing the UPnP shares. Pocket Player will stream my music over UPnP but video is a no go unless the movies are encoded for windows media. This is the problem, I dont want to have to re-encode all my video just so I can do a direct stream. That was the point of using ORB, it will re-encode it on the fly.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Oh almost all of my movies are encoded in Divx.
On my laptops (win 7) i have the option to send media to my tv(which is also networked)
-right click
-send to (sony bravia)
-enjoy on tv
Is there a way i can achieve the same with my Transformer?
Thanks in advance
Use DLNA? Go to the Mynet app and turn on the TF as a media server. If your TV is compatible with DLNA or Upnp you should be able to connect to it. Or perhaps use any Upnp player (xbox/ps3/boxee...) connected to your TV to use it.
I use (and love) VLC.
VLC on computer with HDMI cable to TV + VLC Remote (android app) lets me sit back on the couch and browse all of my networked media and fully control what plays on the TV from the transformer.
I wouldn't want to play stuff from the transformer directly because it's a little weak at decoding HD content and I don't want to run handbrake on everything
I finally decided installing Plex on my NAS (QNAP), and access videos on my tablet via Plex for android.
My objective was to stream my 720p MKV videos to the tab, without the need for transcoding on my NAS, but this doesn't seem to work. Instead it transcodes in a relatively low quality. So it seems a waste of time and effort.
Is anyone able to get Plex working to stream 720p mkv in un-transcoded quality to their tabs?
Is it possible to setup xmbc on fire tv to work as xbmc player and all heavy transcoding work be done by my htpc - especially dts in mkv files. I know plex can do it but for some reason im not a big on plex
As far as I'm aware, no. As you mentioned, plex is probably the best option for this. The other option, what I did, was transcode all my videos to a FireTV/Roku friendly format. I used HandbrakeCLI (command line version of Handbrake) on a Linux box. Just kicked off the command and let it run for a week or two. It took a long time, but not a lot of effort. Just spot check them then delete the originals that had been transcoded once a day. Now I have my entire DVD/Bluray collection in a more compatible, can play on pretty much anything, format and I can't tell the difference in quality. Ok, if I had both versions playing side by side and switched audio between them I might be able to tell the difference, but I don't notice anything when watching.
lukas718 said:
Is it possible to setup xmbc on fire tv to work as xbmc player and all heavy transcoding work be done by my htpc - especially dts in mkv files. I know plex can do it but for some reason im not a big on plex
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Plex on the FireTV can't handle DTS or AC3 5.1. If you don't want stereo you'll need to remux to mp4/aac audio. XBMC can handle mkv/dts without any transcoding. Just enable pass-thru audio and you are good, assuming your receiver can handle the audio.
Pretty detailed thread here: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/111666-firetv-surround-sound/
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Plex on the FireTV can't handle DTS or AC3 5.1. If you don't want stereo you'll need to remux to mp4/aac audio. XBMC can handle mkv/dts without any transcoding. Just enable pass-thru audio and you are good, assuming your receiver can handle the audio.
Pretty detailed thread here: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/111666-firetv-surround-sound/
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So you saying I cant do DTS even when my htpc (with plex server) does transocing for plex player on fire tv ?
This box would be great if it had xmbc streaming client/player like yatse
lukas718 said:
So you saying I cant do DTS even when my htpc (with plex server) does transocing for plex player on fire tv ?
This box would be great if it had xmbc streaming client/player like yatse
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No, I'm saying you need to sideload XBMC. You can stream from any number of servers including PMS without transcoding. See here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV and here: http://www.aftvnews.com/tag/guide/
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No, I'm saying you need to sideload XBMC. You can stream from any number of servers including PMS without transcoding. See here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV and here: http://www.aftvnews.com/tag/guide/
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ok but is it possible to have setup like this and be able to run xmbc on fire tv ?
fire tv with xbmc <----- HTPC xmbc transcoding on fly <------- NAS with movie library
lukas718 said:
ok but is it possible to have setup like this and be able to run xmbc on fire tv ?
fire tv with xbmc <----- HTPC xmbc transcoding on fly <------- NAS with movie library
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Is your fireTV connected to an audio receiver? If so, and it can decode DTS and DD5.1, can't you just stream from the NAS to XBMC on the fireTV and eliminate your HTPC?
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ok but is it possible to have setup like this and be able to run xmbc on fire tv ?
fire tv with xbmc <----- HTPC xmbc transcoding on fly <------- NAS with movie library
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why would you do this? Just have the firetv pull straight from the NAS and properly configure passthrough.
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Is your fireTV connected to an audio receiver? If so, and it can decode DTS and DD5.1, can't you just stream from the NAS to XBMC on the fireTV and eliminate your HTPC?
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ok so my system is like this
NAS, HTPC, Fire TV on hdmi switch (so i can watch in different rooms)
living room (where I watch most of my movies) is connected to hdmi switch with hdmi extender over cat6 to tv. Sound from tv goes to sound bar.
most of my movies are converted to mkv with dts ( over 300+) so I dont want to convert them
Sorry if this was mentioned already....
Hello,
Something that has worked for me when i used ATV2 for my streaming needs...
i hated the answer "recode your files" - i simply watch too much TV and Movies to do that, so i installed PS3 Media Server on the PC that was sharing my files. XBMC picks up the PS3MS share easily and then a big portion (or all?) of any decoding needed can be done on the PC side. PS3MS can pretty much decode anything you throw at it, and you will NEVER need to re/decode EVER.
Hope this is useful - just trying to help!
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ok so my system is like this
NAS, HTPC, Fire TV on hdmi switch (so i can watch in different rooms)
living room (where I watch most of my movies) is connected to hdmi switch with hdmi extender over cat6 to tv. Sound from tv goes to sound bar.
most of my movies are converted to mkv with dts ( over 300+) so I dont want to convert them
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Gotcha. So the audio goes through the TV and it's down-converting to 2-channel stereo. This could be a setting or a limitation of the TV. My Samsung, for example, can accept DD5.1, but can only output 2- ch stereo.
I will certianly need to check out Playstation Media. Quick question though, would it pick up a DVD in the disc drive? I have XBMC mapped already to my disc drive, but if it would read the drive and have XBMC read it as a Movie on the Fire TV side, that would be great!!!
So basically short answer to my question is "no" ??
XMBC cannot be set as player only on fire tv. Once sideloaded it will work as player/server (same as my xbmc on HTPC)
Hello guys,
I'm currently setting up my apartment and I'm looking for the perfect "Media Player Box" to hook up to my non-smart TV.
I watched a lot of Nexus Player reviews on YouTube but still, I'm not sure this box will do everything I need.
So I want to be able to do the following with the Nexus Player:
Cast YouTube videos directly from the YouTube app of my iOS devices (OK - this one is possible)
Cast and decode DLNA/UPnP movies stored on my Synology NAS from the Synology video app (or others) of my iOS devices using the DLNA protocol (? - Can I install an app like BubbleUPnP to make the Nexus Player act as a DLNA receiver even if BubbleUPnP is running in the background ?)
Stream the music of my iOS devices (Spotify or local) to my TV using the AirPlay protocol (? - I've seen some video about Android app allowing AirPlay but is it really working with the last iOS version ?)
I haven't found any TV box capable of these 3 requirement yet so I hope someone that has a Nexus Player can tell me I can stop searching !
Or maybe someone knows an even better box for this ?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Yes there are a few DLNA receivers and clients. Kodi is free and excellent.
The paid apps AirReceiver or Airplay/DLNA receiver by the developer wax rain will give you both Airplay and DLNA as background apps always available. You can Airplay any audio to these apps (kodi's Airplay is still broken I think). The Airplay problems are mostly for video. If the video is drm protected content you won't be able to Airplay it
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Yes there are a few DLNA receivers and clients. Kodi is free and excellent.
The paid apps AirReceiver or Airplay/DLNA receiver by the developer wax rain will give you both Airplay and DLNA as background apps always available. You can Airplay any audio to these apps (kodi's Airplay is still broken I think). The Airplay problems are mostly for video. If the video is drm protected content you won't be able to Airplay it
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Thanks for your answer goodhur
AirPlay will only be used for audio so it's OK.
So it seems like the Nexus Player is the TV box perfectly suited to my usages. However, I still have a question:
My NAS has poor transcoding performance so will the Nexus Player be able to decode big movie files (1080p, MKV, ...) on its own? Will it be compatible with any file format while streaming from a DLNA source? I don't want my NAS to handle the transcoding.
Thanks
I can't really give you much information on transcoding. I have streaming boxes for about 5 years now. Since Roku and Apple TV were my first boxes, I just had to keep my videos in MP4 or M4v formats which pretty much can be played on any device.