I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.
There is no way that I'm aware of that you can stream blu rays from a computer to a TV. Two problems arise, one, I don't think you can stream an actual disk, but most importantly, the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it. You only option would be to rip the movie and re-encode it to a smaller bit rate and resolution. Why not just hook up a blu ray player to your TV?
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There is no way that I'm aware of that you can stream blu rays from a computer to a TV. Two problems arise, one, I don't think you can stream an actual disk, but most importantly, the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it. You only option would be to rip the movie and re-encode it to a smaller bit rate and resolution. Why not just hook up a blu ray player to your TV?
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Alternately you could just rip your blurays to your computer and then find a way to stream them... Or if you can't rip them, download a copy of the movie you already own from thepiratebay or something (legally because you already bought the movie) and throw it on a flash drive (assuming you have something capable of playing that hooked to your TV).
Blu-ray players are pretty cheap these days, as well...
jamice4u said:
I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.
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You cannot stream directly from the disc. You will need to rip them to your hard drive, and encode them into a compatible format. (h.264 in a .mkv container should work) Also if you're streaming wirelessly you'll probably want a dual-band wireless N setup.
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the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it
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I think you are confusing the bandwidth of HDMI rather than Bluray. The physical 1x read speed of a disc player is 36 Mbps. Raw PCM sound + The max video bitrate comes out to 68 Mbps. If you could stream just the data from the player across to another device any modern 1 Gbps home network could easily handle it and still technically possible.
Problem is your not trying to transfer the data from the disc, since the receiving device needs raw unencrypted video there are 2 problems. HDCP, that should stop you right there. But once HDCP is defeated the raw video stream is yes faster than your network can handle. So we would need something re-compressing that on the fly into something the receiving device has a decoder for.
So yes in short as said already, not going to happen. As D-Tronic said once ou have something in a streamable or compatible for the device format your good to go. Unprotected Blu Rays should be easily ripped back to h.264/.263 containers depending on whats stored on the disc.
.....Though why would you stream a bluray disc to your big screen TV? If you have a bluray player then it should be connected to it. If the only player you have is a PC which is a very finicky setup for Bluray still you just need to connect it to the TV, buy a nice wireless mouse. There are wireless HDMI solutions I never looked to see if they support HDCP. Starting to sound like all you want to know is how to rip bluray discs.
Thank all of you guys for your replies now that I know I am doing something that is technically impossible. I will forget about streaming blue rays on to my computer and just use my hdmi cable from my laptop to my T.V. set. I spent 3 hours researching on google trying to figure this out. One article claimed you could use windows media player to stream the dvds but I could never get window media player to show up on my network. The only thing that showed up was all share. The reason I wanted to do this is because I have a computer and laptop that are capable of playing blue ray and I did not want to spend and more money to duplicate something that my computers should be able to do. I also want to make my desktop computer my main media hub and my main back up service. Since I have a 2TB hard drive in this bad boy. Thanks again for all of your answers.
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I think you are confusing the bandwidth of HDMI rather than Bluray. The physical 1x read speed of a disc player is 36 Mbps. Raw PCM sound + The max video bitrate comes out to 68 Mbps. If you could stream just the data from the player across to another device any modern 1 Gbps home network could easily handle it and still technically possible.
Problem is your not trying to transfer the data from the disc, since the receiving device needs raw unencrypted video there are 2 problems. HDCP, that should stop you right there. But once HDCP is defeated the raw video stream is yes faster than your network can handle. So we would need something re-compressing that on the fly into something the receiving device has a decoder for.
So yes in short as said already, not going to happen. As D-Tronic said once ou have something in a streamable or compatible for the device format your good to go. Unprotected Blu Rays should be easily ripped back to h.264/.263 containers depending on whats stored on the disc.
.....Though why would you stream a bluray disc to your big screen TV? If you have a bluray player then it should be connected to it. If the only player you have is a PC which is a very finicky setup for Bluray still you just need to connect it to the TV, buy a nice wireless mouse. There are wireless HDMI solutions I never looked to see if they support HDCP. Starting to sound like all you want to know is how to rip bluray discs.
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Thanks, yea, I was mistaking the HDMI bandwidth. But what you are saying makes complete sense.
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jamice4u said:
Thank all of you guys for your replies now that I know I am doing something that is technically impossible. I will forget about streaming blue rays on to my computer and just use my hdmi cable from my laptop to my T.V. set. I spent 3 hours researching on google trying to figure this out. One article claimed you could use windows media player to stream the dvds but I could never get window media player to show up on my network. The only thing that showed up was all share. The reason I wanted to do this is because I have a computer and laptop that are capable of playing blue ray and I did not want to spend and more money to duplicate something that my computers should be able to do. I also want to make my desktop computer my main media hub and my main back up service. Since I have a 2TB hard drive in this bad boy. Thanks again for all of your answers.
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The solution to your problem is easy. All you need is DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip the blu ray to your hard drive, and a program like StaxRip to encode it to h.264 MKV. Both programs are free and relatively easy to figure out. I rip all of my blu rays and store them on my HTPC, simply because I don't like shuffling disks, and I encode them videos keeping the HD audio intact, because my computer is able to bitstream HD Audio (DTS-HD MASTER or Dolby TrueHD) to my AVR. I have to warn you though, encoding a blu ray at very high quality takes a long time. I have an overclocked 6-core AMD Phenom II CPU running at 4.2 Ghz on water cooling, and a typical action movie can take as much as 15-20 hours to encode. But my rips are imperceptible from the original, quality-wise.
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Thanks, yea, I was mistaking the HDMI bandwidth. But what you are saying makes complete sense.
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Being 4:30 in the morning i did mess up on a couple things like I meant "Over 100 Mbps its still technically possible". But yeah now that we know he has a laptop I have to lol just a little. Good stuff.
Use a MHL adapter.. but doesnt work on aosp roms at the moment for ics.. cut the pc out all together..
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Being 4:30 in the morning i did mess up on a couple things like I meant "Over 100 Mbps its still technically possible". But yeah now that we know he has a laptop I have to lol just a little. Good stuff.
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Yea, lol, a blu-ray capable laptop makes things very easy. All he needs is an HDMI cable and something like PowerDVD to play the blu rays. He is asking about Windows Media Player, but that is unable to decode a blu-ray disk AFAIK. I'm pretty sure those codecs are still proprietary. I am not aware of any free software solution to play blu rays.
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Yea, lol, a blu-ray capable laptop makes things very easy. All he needs is an HDMI cable and something like PowerDVD to play the blu rays. He is asking about Windows Media Player, but that is unable to decode a blu-ray disk AFAIK. I'm pretty sure those codecs are still proprietary. I am not aware of any free software solution to play blu rays.
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They actually asked what windows media player, not windows media player itself. Pretty confusing I know. Since I am a failure at English I am not sure if there is any punctuation to fix that but. What media player for windows is the question they were originally asking. Not that it mattered the question itself was futile.
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They actually asked what windows media player, not windows media player itself. Pretty confusing I know. Since I am a failure at English I am not sure if there is any punctuation to fix that but. What media player for windows is the question they were originally asking. Not that it mattered the question itself was futile.
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For blu rays, I am aware of 2 media players that can play them. PowerDVD and TotalMedia Theater. There may be more, but those are the 2 main ones. They are not free though, but that is because the codecs are still proprietary. I'm not sure if they will ever be open-source, but if that happens, just about every media player such as VLC or Media Player Classic will be able to decode and play blu rays. I use PowerDVD personally.
PowerDVD and TotalMedia Theater will play blu-rays. I use both AnyDVD HD (slysoft) and DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip to PC hard-drive. Rippers remove HDCP. Once ripped both Plex and Tversity can stream blu-rays. Also, the new VLC Player(free) that just came out can play and stream blu-rays as well. Plex streamer uses up 90% CPU on the PC when streaming and is most reliable at full 1080P. However, Tversity only uses 3% CPU when streaming has the best video quality and should be converted if streaming to E4GT. I use islysoft to convert to mp4 at both 800x480 on (4G or wifi) and 320x240 3G to my E4GT in motion in the car. http://dyn.com for $20 per year streams Tversity on PC to the E4GT on any android mobile browser or any browser. I use MX Player Pro on E4GT set to SW Fast when streaming from PC. Once in the blu-ray realm for quality and reliablity it does cost. Best free option is DVDFab HD Decrypter and VLC v2.0.1. Some Laptops only have VGA - in this case you need an up converter to digital HDMI 1080P.
I have both a laptop and a desktop. I use my desktop to stream because I have 2 TB of space on my desktop. My laptop is my work horse. It is the machine I use to get all my report done with. I don't want to eat up all of my hard drive space with a DVD's but maybe investing in an 2 TB or more external hard-drive might solve that problem in the future this would be a good solution because it would make my media portable. I have some cartoons, music and anime I currently stream from my desktop computer. How much hard-drive space does a typical blue ray movie takes up. My currently solution right now is to use a hdmi cable I also own FAB DVD as well.
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I have both a laptop and a desktop. I use my desktop to stream because I have 2 TB of space on my desktop. My laptop is my work horse. It is the machine I use to get all my report done with. I don't want to eat up all of my hard drive space with a DVD's but maybe investing in an 2 TB or more external hard-drive might solve that problem in the future this would be a good solution because it would make my media portable. I have some cartoons, music and anime I currently stream from my desktop computer. How much hard-drive space does a typical blue ray movie takes up. My currently solution right now is to use a hdmi cable I also own FAB DVD as well.
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Blu-Rays are 28GB to 50GB depending the length of the movie. 40 to 65 Full Blu-Ray movies will fit in 2TB of storage. I have both Roku and Seagate Streamers. You can use Seagate Theater or Goflex streamer and the USB drive can be used to play ripped blu-rays in original format. However, the Seagate remote is not great. Roku can play ripped blu-rays streamed from your PC with the Plex media server on the PC and the Plex plug-in on Roku. However, Rokus USB input the movies need to be converted to mp4 only when played off USB harddrive. If you have Directv box Tversity v1.8 on PC can stream converted mp4 movies thru your directv box using media stream. The point is a good converter like iSkysoft to mp4 the universal format is a good investment.
of course you should try this
jamice4u said:
I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.
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of course, you should try this, I have used it for almost 2 years.it never had any problem。it plays blu ray on pc smoothly。when i bought it, to my surprise, it can change region code, thus i'm never worried about relaxing myself when on business. It's an easy to use and professional blu ray player software for windows， including Windows 8. of course, it fully integrates with Windows Media Center too. beyond your surprise, it's also a 3d video player. maybe you should try. believe me, it is satisfying
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I have ripped movies from dvds and converted them to mp4 (320 X 240). I then added them to my storage card through windows media player. When I play the movie on my phone using wmp or tcmp, the audio is good but the video is choppy and blurry.
Can anyone please give me advice or point me to a source that may help.
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I have ripped movies from dvds and converted them to mp4 (320 X 240). I then added them to my storage card through windows media player. When I play the movie on my phone using wmp or tcmp, the audio is good but the video is choppy and blurry.
Can anyone please give me advice or point me to a source that may help.
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Buy DVD Wizard
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You need DVD wizard............!
I use Clone DVD mobile myself works great. Once you get it installed open it up and click on the + next to other devices. select windows smartphone click next, click the button next to DVD video files and browse to the dvd or Video_TS folder on your hard drive, do any editing there you want or not, click next, click next again, under resolution select 320x240, under enter file name to write click the button and browse to where you want to save the output file, under label put the name of the movie, under letterbox try the 3 settings to see which one you like best and hit go. When its done copy it over to your storage card on your phone with active sync explorer and use TCPMP player or Windows Media Player to watch the movie. The finished file size runs from 400mb to 650mb depending on the movie length. I was very impressed with the quality of the movies on my dash. I'll have to give DVD Wizard a try first I've heard about it. Anyways hope this helps.
Converting ripped DVD's to run on a Dash
Hi,
I tried the trial version of Clone DVD Mobile but got terribly out of sync audio/video also a lot of chunky replay. I wrote to their tech support and got pretty good responses from one of their staff, but the end result was that it didn't work. At first we blamed the retention of the original 29.97fps as too heavy for the Dash's meager processor, but even when I edited the ini file to transcode at 15fps the problem continued.
I have copy of Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD on my machine which I generally use for editing TV shows I have recorded to my hard drive before burning to DVD-RW's for watching in the living room.
I poked around with it and it would allow me to transcode the .Vob files to mp4 files for an iPod @ 15fps. That worked like a charm. then just number the files sequentially so they play in the right order.
Basically any video editor or transcoding software that will allow you to convert a .vob file (found by exploring the DVD) to an ipod format will work
Good luck
i havent converted one in a while but i use dvd fab decrypter 4 platinum. which has the option to rip file from dvd to mobile. Then if i want to stetch a widescreen image to it fills the whole screen, i use pocket divx encoder
BTW... there's also a dvd fab mobile edition thats available too!
http://www.dvdfab.com/dvd-fab-mobile.htm
Have not tried it but here's one
GAOTD is offering a free one today...
Not sure how well it is but worth a try.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/xilisoft-dvd-ripper-ultimate/
Great DVD to movie converter: http://handbrake.fr/ and free!
CorePlayer plays my 368x208 H.264 PSP movies on my Dash. Great.
Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app
you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already
the best app i've discovered for PC is DVDDecrypter. it works perfectly. allows you to select by chapters, or the whole DVD. good stuff!
DVD Fab Platinum
you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already
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LOL, I help where I can, but I just didn't want to download a virus from a random site. Thanks for the response.
I asked about this before and just didn't see anything really mention dvd ripping
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i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well
Avalaunchmods said:
i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well
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just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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you can keep the quality and reduce the file size by a large amount by using handbrake. No need to have a 4gb file.
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Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/
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Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/
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wow thanks i jus downloaded handbrake and im gonna apply those changes and c how it looks as soon as i get the EVO.
looneylu said:
Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app
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Doubletwist
Doubletwist is nice, for music and apps. But it rips movies 640 x 320 too small for the screen. There are no preferences I can find the change that. I am on a MAC and I have had great success converting my .AVI files with FFMPEG and the Mp4 presets. THe movies are about 800 megs and look great.
if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android
this is gonna sound weird, but AirVideo server for iPad(it streams videos to the iPad) it's the only app i've tried so far that will convert MKV with little to no quality loss. best part, it's free. just a suggestion.
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download.html
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if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android
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Try using mkv2vob
Avalaunchmods said:
4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display? 4.3gb sounds like a lot of wasted space for all those extra unused pixels.
For everyone else, handbrake is the free simple alternative. And for people that care to learn a few command line options, ffmpeg is fantastic. I get much smaller better looking files from the open source x264 compiled ffmpeg. But, configured correctly, handbrake can be a front end for ffmpeg anyway.
Download Daniusoft DVD Ripper.
It searches for your phone, connects, converts the movie and places it on your sd card in the correct folder. All by itself.
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Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display?
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Also consider the wall I hit when I first tried ripping--I ripped the DVD at 800x480 with all the correct settings, but when I tried to throw it up on my HDTV via the HDMI output, my TV would not recognize the non-standard size.
So you have a choice: 1) rip to 720p if you are going to output via HDMI or 2) rip to 800x480 if you are ONLY going to view the movie on the phone.
I wanted to use MX player/BS player with PS3 Media server but the damn media server won't transcode for me for some reason. I'm looking for any other suggestions for programs that don't have some small file limit and that i could use that will transcode all the file formats for me on my PC and stream it to my android. Any suggestions. I've tried so many Air Play it etc that I'm almost out.
Try RemotePotato
Try using Remote Potato on your PC with Windows Media Center (or even if you don't have it). It supports on the fly transcoding and has clients for Android and IOS platforms. I regularly watch MKV's (mostly soccer, sometimes movies) on both platforms and it's pretty solid. All the links and "how-to's" is on remotepotato dot com .
I too searched forever for something - God bless the developer, he really is onto something.
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Try using Remote Potato on your PC with Windows Media Center (or even if you don't have it). It supports on the fly transcoding and has clients for Android and IOS platforms. I regularly watch MKV's (mostly soccer, sometimes movies) on both platforms and it's pretty solid. All the links and "how-to's" is on remotepotato dot com .
I too searched forever for something - God bless the developer, he really is onto something.
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Im confused...how does remote potato allow me to take blu ray/hd movies I have ripped to my hard drive and transcode them into a less network streams over the network? I'm looking at Remote Potato now and there are no specific transcode options
save yourselves a long night by
1. turning off igmp proxy on your fios routers
2. turn off firewall during all of this
3. for the android: some combniation of mediahouse remote media serviigo es file explorer mx player, vplayer (8mb buffer)
4. for pc transcoding some combination of ps3media server (beautiful and ideal if it works, but buggy with no support), remote potato, servioo
For devs I tried to test the stream and connection with planet earth...the intro is high in bitrate
tomorrow im gonna decide what to keep and what to toss based on what works with my ps3
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Try using Remote Potato on your PC with Windows Media Center (or even if you don't have it). It supports on the fly transcoding and has clients for Android and IOS platforms. I regularly watch MKV's (mostly soccer, sometimes movies) on both platforms and it's pretty solid. All the links and "how-to's" is on remotepotato dot com .
I too searched forever for something - God bless the developer, he really is onto something.
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what are you using on your android to watch? i like remote media except for the fact it won't let me 'favorite' certain directories...kind of a pain to get to my desktop by browsing through c->users.....planet earth.
Does anyone know of an app that will play media from a network share? Ive tried Diceplayer and it doesnt seem to support mkvs... If I can find an app that will stream media off my local shares, this will finally be my "one box to rule them all" as it supports all the services Im interested in, I just want to be able to stream my local media. I DONT want to use Plex or XBMC.. I have a Plex server running and it runs great however I have a catch all folder where downloaded stuff goes before I move it into whatever directory its going to live in and thats the content I want to be able to play.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Does anyone know of an app that will play media from a network share? Ive tried Diceplayer and it doesnt seem to support mkvs... If I can find an app that will stream media off my local shares, this will finally be my "one box to rule them all" as it supports all the services Im interested in, I just want to be able to stream my local media. I DONT want to use Plex or XBMC.. I have a Plex server running and it runs great however I have a catch all folder where downloaded stuff goes before I move it into whatever directory its going to live in and thats the content I want to be able to play.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Try archos media player. I haven't tried it yet but it supports SMB. If you come across anything better, let me know
Well, its not an all in one solution, but...
Install VLC for Android and ES file explorer.
In ES file explorer when you try and open an MKV it will ask what app you want to use. tell it VLC and you are in.
The bad news is that the beta of VLC does not appear to support any controls on the Fire remote. It will take
"mouse" command from the cheap MCE remote that people are using as an InfraRed receiver.
Is there a reason XBMC is out? It can be setup to just show your movies and shows without doing any scraping or anything other then just letting you get to your network shares and play it.
I haven't had the greatest luck with XBMC. Ive set it up on numerous devices and its probably that I just end up getting frustrated with it. I ran it naively back in my original Xbox but now I just cant seem to get a handle on seeing it up to my liking. Plex has been great but I don't think my server has enough Wheaties to handle maybe more than 2 streams which is why I've been looking for something to just stream content across the network.
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You should try Vimu Player. You won't even have to sideload it is in the fire tv store.
I haven't tried it on the fire tv but I used to use it a lot on my Logitech Revue Google Tv. It doesn't have all the features of xbmc or plex but it did a great job streaming video from my NAS.
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You should try Vimu Player. You won't even have to sideload it is in the fire tv store.
I haven't tried it on the fire tv but I used to use it a lot on my Logitech Revue Google Tv. It doesn't have all the features of xbmc or plex but it did a great job streaming video from my NAS.
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Ill give it a shot. I have Plex set up and it works great for me. But I have kids and they want to stream stuff too and Im concerned that my media server isnt going to have the Wheaties to stream that much stuff so the option of being able to play directly from the share is what Im after. My Plex server is an Athlon Phenom II X3 with 16GB of RAM.. really doesnt do anything but run Plex, SabNZB and PlayOn..
Thanks for the heads up!
I use MX Player and Skifta on my android devices to access my DLNA server. So you can give MX Player a try it handles mkvs perfectly fine.
Vimu looks like it has a lot of potential but sadly most of my MKV files dont have sound and I cant really find any settings to change for that. Im going to give MX Player a shot now.. I dont know if thats DLNA only but if it is, thats not what Im looking for. I just want to be able to stream without transcoding on the server side.
MX Player isn't DLNA only it can handle other network streams just fine as long as you know what they are.
DLNA is just happens to be how I push my media files around the house to my devices.
Yea.. I looked at it and couldnt find a way to browse to shares... Im using a Mede8r for playing from network shares right now.. Im so close to being able to ditch everything except the FireTV.. if I could find a good network player that just plays, I could get rid of all my other boxes. I really want the "one box to rule them all" thing......
Try using es file explorer to browse to the share and ND for playback?
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Try using es file explorer to browse to the share and ND for playback?
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I had issues with ES working with the Amazon remote. Are you using an external keyboard/mouse to control it?
Personally I do not have a Fire TV. Just trying to help out is all.
A keyboard and mouse should work fine. Even an air mouse should be ok as well if you want to go that route.
I'm really surprised that Qloud Media doesn't get more attention. You install it as a server on either Windows or Mac, point it at your media and that's it.
Run the client on Android, iOS or Windows devices, plug in the server PIN and you're off. Done and done.
The video is transcoded on the fly, so streaming over the internet results in a lower-quality image at times, but it's certainly watchable.
The GUI isn't fancy, but quite functional. The server end has almost no bells and whistles. You could think of it as Plex-ultra-lite, so there's no overhead processing going on. The server exists only to serve media and that's all. No indexing of your collection, no downloading cover images, etc. It just streams media from whatever source you choose and I haven't had any problems streaming anything in my collection, even .mkv files encoded with AC3 audio that the Chromecast won't touch.
I just loaded the client up to my new FTV last night and again, it works perfectly.
The only minor drawback is that the aspect ratio is a bit weird when viewed on the FTV. It's not perfectly 16:9 but more like 15:9, so the image is a bit squished in from the sides. You don't really notice it after a few minutes though.
Im surprised it's 6 months later and there is still no easy way of playin network shared files, say from a NAS device with a media server, on a Fire TV without having to sideload an app. If I'm wrong please correct me. I did try ViMu but it couldn't play any of my files (mostly MP4s) - everyone said it was unable to play. Currently I use an XBox 360 to browse/watch videos, which I have fairly organized into folders. Why is this so difficult? My Sony TV has a player but it doesn't support folders so its hundreds of videos just in alphabetical order by filename which isn't ideal- plus you can only read the first few characters of the file name without looking at a detailed view so no way to tell what specific file you're looking at if they all start with the same word.
Yes I tried XMBC but it's way overkill, I don't need or want custom artwork per file, it crashes, and it's also not something I can put in the regular fite tv menu. Also XMBC doesn't play 720p content full screen for some reason.
Has anyone had better luck?
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Well after some more trial and error I ended up using Llama to auto start XBMC in place of some other random app so I basically have XMBC on my main Fire TV screen. I also deleted all XBMC data and didn't run any file scrapers this time, and only access files via the Windows Network Share, so it is a much cleaner looking interface like I wanted. Finally the screen size issue was actually the entire Fire TV screen size which I had to enlarge in the Fire TV Display settings. Even maxed out it doesn't 100% fill the screen but it's much closer, I can live with it. Although I didn't bring it up I was also having an issue with the time display I was blaming on XMBC but was again the Fire TV itself was set to Pacific time- you'd think Amazon would have set the timezone right.
Anyway I feel it's much than it was earlier- still occasional crashes on XBMC but not too bad. Just wish I didn't was a few dollars downloading paid apps that didn't work as I thought they were supposed to.
If XBMC is crashing, consider trying SPMC (fork of XBMC). Its available in the Amazon app store (but for the Stick it must be side loaded).
I'm using it on my FTV Stick, and its been solid. No crashes or hangs.
Does anyone know why my MX Player stop playing on my one box it's saying cannot play link it's on my firestick on TV
Hi all,
I have been trying to stream videos from my laptop to my Note, and I haven't been able to get it running smoothly. I have tried a number of different players, but the issue is that it will either stutter like crazy or play audio without video. I can be more specific about the types of files (mkv, h264, 720p, etc.) and players (VLC for Android beta, Archos Video, MX Player, etc.).
Has ANYONE managed to stream and watch videos from their PC/laptop to this tablet successfully or is this tablet just not capable?
Many thanks!
I am running a plex server on my desktop and stream to several devices, including my note.
Another vote for plex it's pretty amazing. You can get it for free after you get some free coins from the amazon app store.
Of course the tablet is capable of streaming video smoothly. I use MX Player to stream videos from a samba server (traditional Windows share, no special software required). The MX Player is configured to use the 'HW+' decoder. It plays Full HD mkvs no problem.
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Of course the tablet is capable of streaming video smoothly. I use MX Player to stream videos from a samba server (traditional Windows share, no special software required). The MX Player is configured to use the 'HW+' decoder. It plays Full HD mkvs no problem.
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Junetastic said:
Hi all,
I have been trying to stream videos from my laptop to my Note, and I haven't been able to get it running smoothly. I have tried a number of different players, but the issue is that it will either stutter like crazy or play audio without video. I can be more specific about the types of files (mkv, h264, 720p, etc.) and players (VLC for Android beta, Archos Video, MX Player, etc.).
Has ANYONE managed to stream and watch videos from their PC/laptop to this tablet successfully or is this tablet just not capable?
Many thanks!
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With MX player change it to all software decoders(audi n video). Its what I have to do with MKV Files.
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With MX player change it to all software decoders(audi n video). Its what I have to do with MKV Files.
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Thanks! This resolved my issues!
gilani7 said:
With MX player change it to all software decoders(audi n video). Its what I have to do with MKV Files.
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That's not a good idea as a software decoder will burn through your battery, especially with HD content.
@Junetastic Can you try playing the sample videos from this site http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/ ? I have downloaded them to my computer and then tried streaming them to my tablet using the HW+ decoder and it worked without any problems (except the 'Birds' video, which is 40mbps and is too much for my wifi network to handle reliably. Once copied to the tablet, it of course played without problems.)
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That's not a good idea as a software decoder will burn through your battery, especially with HD content.
@Junetastic Can you try playing the sample videos from this site http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/ ? I have downloaded them to my computer and then tried streaming them to my tablet using the HW+ decoder and it worked without any problems (except the 'Birds' video, which is 40mbps and is too much for my wifi network to handle reliably. Once copied to the tablet, it of course played without problems.)
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I usually just have to use the software decoder for the Audio. Didn't really know it would take a hit on the battery. How much more will it really take? I have gone through many media players and found this to be the easiest solution.
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I usually just have to use the software decoder for the Audio. Didn't really know it would take a hit on the battery. How much more will it really take? I have gone through many media players and found this to be the easiest solution.
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Oh, I don't think you have to worry about battery life if you software decode just the audio. It's the video that takes a lot of work to decode. From what I seem to remember, software decoding of HD video can drain the battery up to several times faster (depending on brightness and other settings, which can change the relative energy consuption of the decoding process).
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That's not a good idea as a software decoder will burn through your battery, especially with HD content.
@Junetastic Can you try playing the sample videos from this site http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/ ? I have downloaded them to my computer and then tried streaming them to my tablet using the HW+ decoder and it worked without any problems (except the 'Birds' video, which is 40mbps and is too much for my wifi network to handle reliably. Once copied to the tablet, it of course played without problems.)
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I just downloaded one file (Suzumiya) and it didn't work with H/W+ Decoder; however, I was successful in streaming some episodes of Silicon Valley from my PC with it (and using S/W decoder for audio).
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I just downloaded one file (Suzumiya) and it didn't work with H/W+ Decoder; however, I was successful in streaming some episodes of Silicon Valley from my PC with it (and using S/W decoder for audio).
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Ok, I think I know where the problem comes from - I bet you have P600, the Exynos version right?
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Ok, I think I know where the problem comes from - I bet you have P600, the Exynos version right?
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Yeah. Am I out of luck?
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Yeah. Am I out of luck?
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I have the P600. I downloaded all of the video clips to my desktop. When I stream them directly using MX player, I do get some lag and stutter. However, when I add them to my Plex library I can play all of them just fine. The Plex server handles all the transcode that is needed and I just have to click play. I don't need to worry about formats or bitrates (unless I want to). It is so simple my 5yo can use it to watch videos on her tablet. She can even sync videos for offline viewing on car trips.
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Yeah. Am I out of luck?
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Well, it seems that the hardware decoders are quite different on the Snapdragon vs. Exynos and since Samsung is very sparse with documentation, the MX Player developers didn't manage to optimize their software for the Exynos (this is just my guess). So you might try a different player, perhaps some will work fine. But then again, it might not. In which case you might have to abandon universal streaming and either transcode your videos or use an application that will do it for you on the fly (e.g. Plex as WJThomas proposed). The downside is you have to use a computer (and often a paid app as is the case with Plex) and can't stream your content from a NAS.
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In which case you might have to abandon universal streaming and either transcode your videos or use an application that will do it for you on the fly (e.g. Plex as WJThomas proposed). The downside is you have to use a computer (and often a paid app as is the case with Plex) and can't stream your content from a NAS.
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The upside is that you don't have to worry about which device supports which formats, and that you can stream content from some NAS's without a computer. If you subscribe to PlexPass the app is free, and you can use the app to sync media to your device (and then you can even stream from device to device)
Can someone please explain how they're playing .mkv files without playback stopping after a few seconds?
What I'm trying to do is play full bit-rate Blu-ray .mkv rips. I am using ES File Explorer to navigate to shared folders on my Windows PC, and what happens is that the video will eventually start playing but then stop after 5 or so seconds of playback and never continue again. I've tried accessing the files via DNLA software like Servio, but I get the exact same result each time.
And bandwidth is not the problem, as I was able to stream uncompressed content just fine when I had my Surface Pro 2.
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Can someone please explain how they're playing .mkv files without playback stopping after a few seconds?
What I'm trying to do is play full bit-rate Blu-ray .mkv rips. I am using ES File Explorer to navigate to shared folders on my Windows PC, and what happens is that the video will eventually start playing but then stop after 5 or so seconds of playback and never continue again. I've tried accessing the files via DNLA software like Servio, but I get the exact same result each time.
And bandwidth is not the problem, as I was able to stream uncompressed content just fine when I had my Surface Pro 2.
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I use ES File Explorer to browse a 3TB networked hard drive and stream Blu-Ray .mkv files to my tablet with no problem. I use MX Player Pro (H/W decoder, H/W+ causes MX Player to force close on KitKat). No issues with playback.