Develop Bugs

Wireless Connection to PS3 or Apple TV

Has anyone been able to play a Watch film on their TV through a PS3 or Apple TV? Is this possible? I'm sure I read something about being able to use a PS3 or Apple TV in the same way as a media link.

I am using an app called Skifta which is DLNA certified to push things to my Samsung Smart TV. I've not tried it on my PS3 but I would asume it would work for that also as the PS3 can also use DLNA. Looks and works really well with my Samsung TV though using that App. I can stream content from my HTC One X, from my media server(s) and also content from the internet.
I used to use something called ZappoTV on my iPhone and I know that worked with the Apple TV; I've just checked the Play store and its available on there so you could give that one a try also.

Thanks, I have given it a try but still no connection. I couldn't even get Skifter to find any media on the one x. Decided to buy a micro USB to HDMI, and save the rest of this afternoon!
I expect that even I could have made a connection between the phone and PS3, using a third party app like Skifter or Twonky, I still wouldn't be able to view HTC Watch movies, as they do not show up in the Gallery.

Have you stopped Media Service? Because I haven't any problem finding my movies. Another great app to use DLNA is HomeDia. It links all my devices and PC as media servers and I'm able to see them on PS3 and Samsung ES8000 smart tv
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Hi Nightranger, not sure how you would stop media service. I tried Twonky Media, and could see movies shot with the phone but not HTC Watch downloads. Either way I still couldn't get it to talk to my PS3. I have a Synology Diskstation which shows up on the phone and PS3, so I'm guessing that Media Services must be on.

doh!

PTM1 said:
Hi Nightranger, not sure how you would stop media service. I tried Twonky Media, and could see movies shot with the phone but not HTC Watch downloads.
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You need the HTC Media Link HD to stream HTC Watch movies. The Media Link HD box has DRM features added which regular DLNA doesn't have and HTC Watch won't let you do it without this.

Don't know if any asker still needs this, but here goes. I was also quite stumped as to how to stream media from HOX to PS3.
After quite extensive searching high and low on the interjacks, I come to these conclusions/solutions:
1. HTC purposely make it difficult/impossible to simply share media with DLNA clients JUST TO SELL their MediaLink HD.
2. For those who wants to stream their media (videos/pics/music), especially to Playstation 3 (PS3 - [for search engines]) simply download the free SKIFTA from Google Play. Instructions are straight forward, I was playing silly videos and HD trailers off my phone in no time.
Press that little thanks button if this has been helpful Thanks.

I used double twist air play and was able to stream photos to ps3. Don't remember about video...
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Does streaming things cost major battery? I mean if you can't stream a whole movie due battery life it is worthless right

I use skifta, free from play store works for pics music and vids works very well..
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Skifta
milkmanglc said:
I use skifta, free from play store works for pics music and vids works very well..
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Skifta seems to be the easiest of the several that I have tried and is free as well

ps3 playback
PTM1 said:
Has anyone been able to play a Watch film on their TV through a PS3 or Apple TV? Is this possible? I'm sure I read something about being able to use a PS3 or Apple TV in the same way as a media link.
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is there a particular reason why you dont just play them straight from your ps3?
I put my movies on a memory stick etc and transfer them to the ps3 and play them that way
for files like mkv i just convert them to mp4 and it works fine

I used the "Select Player" function on the player and it works even on Windows media player( sucks) and XBMC it should work for PS3 I think

XBMC is awesome on Nexus 7!

Just installed the pre beta of XBMC on the N7! For a pre beta, this app is really polished. Some buggy touchscreen things on the main skin but the touch skin works awesome. I set up my smb share and it recognized and downloaded all the info for my movies and TV shows. Can't wait to see how this app turns out when its out of beta!

Might I ask where you got the apk from?
I don't suppose its the same as this one is it?
Just about to try that on my N7...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772433</p><p>

Tested on N7
Tried it out, and it did work with SMB shares right away. Always have loved XMBC on many of my home network devices (wife does too). The resolution needs some work and it would not landscape correctly but all other loved XBMC options were there and it looks really promising! Nice work to the Devs!

Thanks for the heads up, this is exactly what I needed!

Love it!

New to xbmc..
If I'm running xbmc w upnp enabled on my Linux computer, how can I access my videos through the network with this app? Or is there a better way to do this

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jewnersey said:
New to xbmc..
If I'm running xbmc w upnp enabled on my Linux computer, how can I access my videos through the network with this app? Or is there a better way to do this
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You shouldn't need xbmc on another machine to get it to work on your android tablet, within xbmc video(or music and pictures), click on on add videos and the choose source and navigate(through SMB shares) to get to the share you want to add. This link will explain how to set it up: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_videos_to_the_library/Adding_media_sources

amcfarla said:
You shouldn't need xbmc on another machine to get it to work on your android tablet, within xbmc video(or music and pictures), click on on add videos and the choose source and navigate(through SMB shares) to get to the share you want to add. This link will explain how to set it up: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adding_videos_to_the_library/Adding_media_sources
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Thanks was looking for this guide. Do you know if XBMC host will convert vids on the fly for better streaming thru 3g/4g hotspot to my N
7

asuhoops8628 said:
Thanks was looking for this guide. Do you know if XBMC host will convert vids on the fly for better streaming thru 3g/4g hotspot to my N
7
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xbmc is not a host/transcoder software. it plays media, it doesn't stream it to other devices. as another poster mentioned, you are accessing media directly from the smb shares.

OK thanks for your reply. I am relatively new to xbmc. I came from tversity due to the massively better library functionality of xbmc.
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I tried the XBMC on the N7 and agree it works well! Going forward, I doubt I'll use this because if I want to watch movies, I just play them via my JB'd Apple TV2 running XBMC. I do however love using the XBMC Official Remote app on the N7. Makes browsing libraries so much easier.

Everything works for me. I, using the channel one repository but I'm only getting the video yo play in SD.. how do I gry HD playback?
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Newer build running extremely well.
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/1/topics/136#post-1058

bclark said:
Newer build running extremely well.
https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/1/topics/136#post-1058
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Found my Windows share and scraper worked. Playback is smooth even with my big 1080p mkv files.
Impressed.
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brizey said:
Found my Windows share and scraper worked. Playback is smooth even with my big 1080p mkv files.
Impressed.
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Can I ask how you got smooth playback? XBMC seems to be only working in software mode as my 720p files are very choppy in this yet smooth in BS Player.

Have anyone made hulu work on it?
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this is the first time i see somethign like this, just a quick question, can share video from my laptop to the n7?

goku16 said:
this is the first time i see somethign like this, just a quick question, can share video from my laptop to the n7?
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Yes you can share videos from your laptop - You can use SMB shares on Windows by setting up a workgroup. Have a look at the XBMC forums as they have a lot of wiki pages with a lot of info.

Send phot/video to TV (DLNA // Allshare)

Hi,
I have Samsung smart TV at home. My other Android device (Samsung Galaxy S3) is able to stream on demand to the TV with the Samsung app named Allshare. But that's a DLNA application and we have other DLNA apps for non-Samsung devices like Nexus 7.
For example, iMediaShare is a good DLNA server app. I can connect to my Nexus 7 from my TV, when I run DLNA app on the NExus 7.
However, I can't send photo or video to the TV on demand, as in the Samsung DLNA app (Allshare)
Is there a good DLNA app for Nexus 7 which could do what Samsung Allshare does ?
Thanks.

Maybe Skifta is what you are looking for
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Paulikid said:
Maybe Skifta is what you are looking for
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From what I read about skifta, I understand that it's not DLNA but uses a proprietary protocol, which works with only it's own server-client software. I need plain DLNA which works with TV's DLNA client.

Why dont you try twonky? Works fine for me
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brat komplex said:
Why dont you try twonky? Works fine for me
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does it have the capability of pushing a file (photo for example) from the Android device to a DLNA player (TV) ?

You can try BubbleUPnP. It sets your tablet as a UPnP server.

jhychin said:
You can try BubbleUPnP. It sets your tablet as a UPnP server.
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already tried. it's not what I'm looking for.
I need a DLNA server. But a DLNA server with push abilities.

mrmrmrmr said:
From what I read about skifta, I understand that it's not DLNA but uses a proprietary protocol, which works with only it's own server-client software. I need plain DLNA which works with TV's DLNA client.
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skifta can do all you need i'm using it on my gnex and N7 and connect great with my samsung smart tv es8000 allshare app.
you can send photo/video/music to the tv from n7....(open skyfta, select ource N/, select player smart tv, then browse your file and tap on the desidered )
or if you want to act from tv: open skifta on your n7, it will trasform your android device into a multimedia server named 'skifta'; open all share on sammy tv and you will see 'skifta' server, select it, browse your n7 files and play it! very easy man
after skifta installation, in the 'share menu' of your N7 will appear the entry 'skyfta' you can use it to share from gallery, file browser etc
sorry, it's only in Italian, but you can easly see how skifta work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWkTn0SY7M&feature=g-user-u

I HAVE A samsung with all share . bubble up will do the following ..
with bubble up connected to the tv thru wifi .. i can send video from my desktop pc wired to the same network. thru the tablet and output on the tv wireless.. it Just works... I do have custom kernel.. not sure if it has anything to do with it or not . Not tried it on stock.. I discovered this to work with my acer a500 . one day when i went to connect it i thought i had plugged in the cable watched a move then realized it was NOT Plugged in ..
SO im not sure how but it JUST WORKS. the all share does not really show where the connection is coming from.. Guess it would be in the settings but i have not really looked .
there is one called Via that also worked on my acer not installed it on the nexus
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Just tried using bubble up on my vizio tv .. dlna..
it works just the same. The reason i was able to stream movies to my tv thru the tablet was . ES FILE Browser launched before hand with the network drive MOUNTED.. way Bubble up sees the files as local on the device .. pushing them to the tv is easy just browse the menu on the tv . it will show the mounted resource.. on my tv it shows /mnt/bonniespc/m/movies..
the files are on the network on bonnies pc on a seperate drive called m in a directory called movies.. On the pc we have the samsung media share server program running under windows 7 64 bit.. The M drive is a 2 tb seagate drive all of this is connected thru a 45.00 netgear router. with a dlink 8 port switch.. the pc in question is on a dedicated ip as it also host our website and ftp...
anyway GOOD LUCK GETTING it to work . it can happen ..

Thanks.
Skifta really worked for me.
It can detect the TV and push any file (photo/video) to it.

sweetpiggy said:
skifta can do all you need
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Just got a Samsung series 6 and was so disappointed allshare does not work on my N7, N10 or N4
Came across this thread - wow skifta is awesome! Works an absolute treat.....Thanks you

Try using Twonky Beam.
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Live streaming and possible file sharing??

OK so this might be a tall order, I've been looking for a way to Stream to my nexus 7 and nexus5 from my laptop...I know about the apps out there but they don't quite do what I would like them to... Those apps allow me to access files on my laptop,...here's an example of what I want to do...run media on my PC...say powerpoint and have my mobile devices see the presentation....but have it controlled from my PC..bonus points if anyone can find a way for this to work on android and iOS..... thanks in advance for thinking about it.
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I think you can use iDisplay for this, it makes the tablet a secondary monitor for the computer

Chrome remote desktop. It shows everything thats on laptop screen on tablet. It allows control from PC or tablet.

I use chrome remote desktop as suggested and it working very well. Kind helpful when monitoring my pc when i'm away from home.
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chromecast

i know im late to the game but is this any good for streaming football to tv or is it only google apps that work and is it seamless or does it freeze ,cheers

tonybhoy said:
i know im late to the game but is this any good for streaming football to tv or is it only google apps that work and is it seamless or does it freeze ,cheers
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Lots of apps support Chromecast, like Netflix, Pandora, etc. If the app you're using to stream supports it (has a Chromecast icon) it should work. The only Google app I've ever used to cast was YouTube, but use Pandora and Netflix quite often.

fury683 said:
Lots of apps support Chromecast, like Netflix, Pandora, etc. If the app you're using to stream supports it (has a Chromecast icon) it should work. The only Google app I've ever used to cast was YouTube, but use Pandora and Netflix quite often.
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cheers for reply,i will have a look see if it has icon:good:

think i'll just get a cable from nexus to tv lol seems the best option

The Watch ESPN app has Chromecast support, and if you have a cable or other authorized provider service you can get live ESPN streams in the app.

I think CC sucks. It is slow, the connection isn't great either. At least in my experience. I recently got the Amazon Stick TV and that thing seems to be a million times better than the CC I have.

What does this have to do with the Nexus 7?

nhizzat said:
What does this have to do with the Nexus 7?
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i was wanting to see if it was good on my nexus 7 so i asked on nexus 7 forum,pretty radical eh :good:

tonybhoy said:
i was wanting to see if it was good on my nexus 7 so i asked on nexus 7 forum,pretty radical eh :good:
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Do you understand how the Chromecast works? The device sending the command to the Chromecast has no effect on the streaming capabilities of the Chromecast.
So back to my question: what does the Chromecast have to do with a Nexus 7 other than being able to send commands to the Chromecast to stream video from a source of your choosing?
You could use the original Droid, a Nexus One, a Moto X, a Galaxy S3, a HTC One, a Nexus 6, a Nexus 10, an iPhone 4, an iPad 2, a Macbook Pro, a Chromebook, or a Thinkpad X1 and the experience would be the same across all of those devices.