DLNA support from the community? - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone.
Yeah I know that the sexy nexus s has no DLNA out of box(what a pity).
But, as fas as I know, DLNA support is just an software issue. So, are there any efforts from the community? DLNA really useful for me.

You can use Skifta from the market

Thanks.
But, is Skifta compatible with nexus s?it's powered by Qualcomm, and works fine on my Nexus one. no idea about nexus s as I haven't got it yet.

windandrain said:
Thanks.
But, is Skifta compatible with nexus s?it's powered by Qualcomm, and works fine on my Nexus one. no idea about nexus s as I haven't got it yet.
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Yep - Skifta works great on the Nexus S.
Allan.

Twonky is available on the market and it works with the Nexus S. I am able to push music, images, video to my popcorn hour.

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[Q] Possible to port codecs from SGS? HD Video Player with Sub tittle

From what I have gathered the SGS supports a lot more video/audio formats than Nexus S out of the box (correct me if I am wrong). Will it be possible to port these codecs from the SGS over to the NS?
Video Player Nexus S
Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.
zomgzombies said:
Helps. Need a video player for Nexus S. I switched from my G2 to this. With the G2, i used ArcMedia and it played pretty much anything without any conversion. Now all i get is FCs on the Nexus S. Sad panda i am right now.
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Probably just hasn't been updated for 2.3. Patience.
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[Q] How to play vidoes/movies on Nexus S?
So i was thinking about watching a movie this afternoon on my brand new Nexus S and started looking for some sort of video player under the appications. Is it true that the phone doesnt come with any kind of Video Player? How do i watch movies? What format to use for the movies? I download all my movies and they're all .avi. All the help, comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
AVI is just a container. It can hold any kind of codec inside. I heard people reccomend rockplayer is good though. Try that and report back on how it works.
Rockplayer doesn't work. Lots of players crashes on the Nexus S right now. They all need to be updated.
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You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
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varungandhi said:
You're right. Nothing works at the moment. Is it true our nexus came with absolutely no video player?
SENT FROM MY BAD ASS NEXUS S
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When I try to open a video file from astro, among the choices of program given to me is one called "movies"; this uses the same icon as the "gallery" proram, comes preloaded on the phone, and also fails to open most video formats.
Playing M4P via Meridian and it works great.
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Let me look up meridian. I guess I am gonna have to convert from avi to the extension you mentioned.
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Gallery is the video player.
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So is the issue that the nexus s doesn't come with an xvid codec or that apps with software decoding of the codecs like rockplayer just need to be updated ? Sorry if I'm a little dense about this.
I guess the 3rd party apps need to be updated.
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tominater12 said:
Gallery is the video player.
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So is there a specific file type that the galley plays? I just created a movie folder with 2 avi files but gallery isn't showing anything other than pictures on the same storage.
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M4P is a .h264 container. Most videos on the internet or torrents for phones come in M4P format. Best quality for the size.
Most phones can play M4P right out of the box. YouTube is a big supporter of the container.
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quick question regarding the camera, how do you upload videos to picasa.
I went to the gallery and hit menu to get the option to share, but I only see the option there when its photos. I thought you can upload videos also.
I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx
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I could not find a way to upload on mine. I have just used "Picasa Uploader" from the market. It's free and uploads video and pictures.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-pixelpipe-android-com-picasa-qmFq.aspx
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Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
thepoetvd776 said:
Yeah i know I downloaded the same thing, i just that that Google included some native option in 2.3
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Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.
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Nothing that I have ran across....that would make sense to include your service in the phone.
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Yeah I know.
BTW did you check the videos you uploaded on picasa from your nexus?
I just uploaded one using the same app you said, and it seems that the quality is not the same than that which was taken on the phone. Its a much lesser one.

Watch TV on Android

There's a pretty nice app on the market called Androidvideo Recharged. It has many tv shows to stream to Android. It doesn't use flash, so it is compatible on more devices than most streaming apps.
Cheers , but I do prefer Icestream.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stonyx.icestream
It can't be beaten, and its free.
Thanks for your suggestion though.
Regards
IceStream uses flash though, and just links to other sources on the internet that you can go directly to on your browser.. They can be removed at any time also. Androidvideo has their own servers and can ensure that videos won't randomly be removed.
smokedkill said:
There's a pretty nice app on the market called Androidvideo Recharged. It has many tv shows to stream to Android. It doesn't use flash, so it is compatible on more devices than most streaming apps.
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Don't forget to tell everyone that the app is free but you have to pay to watch anything.
I prefer SPB TV, it has not that many channels, but enough for me, and it's free.
Jemack said:
Don't forget to tell everyone that the app is free but you have to pay to watch anything.
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You don't have to pay to watch anything. What are you talking about. They do have a premium membership but they also have free videos. If your not smart enough to figure that out, maybe you.shouldn't be on XDA.
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IceStream uses flash though, and just links to other sources on the internet that you can go directly to on your browser.. They can be removed at any time also. Androidvideo has their own servers and can ensure that videos won't randomly be removed.
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Uses flash? To do what? I don't even have flash installed and ice stream works perfectly...
treUse said:
Uses flash? To do what? I don't even have flash installed and ice stream works perfectly...
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Ice stream isn't even on the market anymore and none of the links on my version of the app work anymore nor have they for weeks. Least with androidvideo, when they have a server problem, they have their videos back up within days, not weeks.
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Ice stream isn't even on the market anymore and none of the links on my version of the app work anymore nor have they for weeks. Least with androidvideo, when they have a server problem, they have their videos back up within days, not weeks.
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currently still using ice stream and almost all of the links I have chosen work. Did you download moboplayer and select soft-decoding in the settings?
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Ice stream isn't even on the market anymore and none of the links on my version of the app work anymore nor have they for weeks. Least with androidvideo, when they have a server problem, they have their videos back up within days, not weeks.
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Everthing works for me on icestream. Kids watched 3 episodes of super hero squad before and wifey and me are settling in for a movie in a minute
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I love ice stream...I even use it for xbmc in my living room!!
I use IceStream as well for Android on my Tablet and Phone.. quite nice... although sometimes with MoboPlayer it crashes , It plays well with MX Video Player .. Too bad its been removed from Market and its no longer on the dev's website either... not sure why.. probably a C & D .
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I love ice stream...I even use it for xbmc in my living room!!
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same here... just discovered xbmc on windows... and icestream for android...
so now I've a HTPC with xbmc on windows, and XBMC unified Remote on my phone to navigate through the XBMC interface and watch either icefilms ( through the addon) .. havent tried it with the XMBC Official remote though...
well i use popcorntime but gonna give a try to both Ice stream and Androidvideo

[MOD] Somebody enabled Miracast for Nexus 7

I just found this on GitHub:
Somebody, called Kensuke, enabled Mircast (Streaming screen over WiFi) for the Nexus 7. I don't have mine here so I can't test it.
Maybe somebody can try it out.
It seems that he compiled the complete 4.2.2 ROMs with the addional Miracast Support.
Try it on your own Risk!
Source:
Github Repo:
https://github.com/kensuke/How-to-Miracast-on-AOSP
Installation:
https://github.com/kensuke/How-to-Miracast-on-AOSP/wiki
DL Links:
NX7 3G
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/178702/AOSP-Miracast-otapackages/Nexus7_3G(tilapia)/20130703_00_full_tilapia-ota-eng.satoken.zip
NX7
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/178702/AOSP-Miracast-otapackages/Nexus7_WiFi(grouper)/20130703_00_full_grouper-ota-eng.satoken.zip
Credits all to Kensuke!
His HP: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/RC3/
awesome! Cm should merge this feature. And now, we know Miracast is a software-related not hardward-related. Oh yeah.
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Oh man I hope this gets baked into some ROMs! This is the one feature that I really want that the N7 doesn't have...
I would love this baked into a ROM
Would love to see this become a common feature for Roms.
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blmvxer said:
Would love to see this become a common feature for Roms.
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I completely agree with you.
I will look into adding this to my ROM, ReVolt ROM ! Stay tuned !!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I must get a miracast receiver and I will be trying this.
****ty video, awesome feature.
Anybody test it already?
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mathsz said:
****ty video, awesome feature.
Anybody test it already?
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Tried the Tilapia package for my 3g. It almost works. I'm going to play with it some more. Documentation for his app would be great. It's not straightforward.
Have there anyone a image now?
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If someone would like to test it I did include the patch on my ROM, take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43489843#post43489843
So anyone able to verify this working?
Working fine here.
Using Samsung Allshare cast dongle.
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Well this is exciting. Hopefully there's enough demand for it so we won't be limited to just a handful of ROMs to take advantage of this.
I wonder if there is any way a mod like this could be packaged into an Xposed module? Or is it such a fundamental change that it has to be baked into the ROM?
I would test this out if I had a Miracast receiver already. Also I don't want to lose the tethering menu in my current tilapia ROM, so ideally if a ROM had both Miracast & tethering that'd be great.
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Well this is exciting. Hopefully there's enough demand for it so we won't be limited to just a handful of ROMs to take advantage of this.
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Indeed.. lol. Would be nice if this eventually came to all CyanogenMod ROMs for all devices.
heero884 said:
Indeed.. lol. Would be nice if this eventually came to all CyanogenMod ROMs for all devices.
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Maybe someone with CM coding experience can do that.
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farhanito said:
Working fine here.
Using Samsung Allshare cast dongle.
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So you streamed your screen to your TV, no problems at all?
Is it smooth? How much does the Allshare dongle cost, I should get this instead of Android stick PC.
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So you streamed your screen to your TV, no problems at all?
Is it smooth? How much does the Allshare dongle cost, I should get this instead of Android stick PC.
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Tried both allshare cast dongle and Android TV stick (dual core rk3066 one), all works. Pretty much the same experience as my Nexus 4 with native wireless display.
With android TV stick, it lags a lot. Definitely not for gaming, no. But with allshare cast dongle, it works much much better..
In my country, the dongle cost me around $80
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XBMC Streaming working or not?

Has anyone tested the xbmc and navi x addon and see if it can stream movies this would be a great conbination if this works.
jutley said:
Has anyone tested the xbmc and navi x addon and see if it can stream movies this would be a great conbination if this works.
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I downloaded XBMC to my Shield yesterday and set some of the stuff up... today, I'll see if I can get it to work and will let you know!
I have not tried XBMC however Plex works great.
xbmc here http://xbmc.org/download/
Navi x addon here https://code.google.com/p/navi-x/downloads/list
If it works on my 12 other android devices I'm sure it works here as well
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xbmc streaming on shield
jutley said:
Has anyone tested the xbmc and navi x addon and see if it can stream movies this would be a great conbination if this works.
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xbmc steaming works near flawlessly for me. Better than ouya or apple tv 2 wireless.
Haggeman said:
xbmc steaming works near flawlessly for me. Better than ouya or apple tv 2 wireless.
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Did you try the navi x addon.
jutley said:
Did you try the navi x addon.
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No, but I plan to when I get home from work, I'll report back with my findings.
I tried XBMC just now, and it couldn't play a 1080p mkv on my local network very well, I'm guessing it wasn't using hardware decoding. I was just using the regular Android apk provided on the xbmc website.
Ok then try the neon or non neon .apk files here and the mplayer video player
https://code.google.com/p/xbmc-android/downloads/list
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Did you try the navi x addon.
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I can verify that Navi x seems to work on my Shield. I was able to load it and stream various videos.
try this apk its the latest gotham release with alot of new features
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots/android/

Nvidea Shield Xfinity app

Anybody got the app from the Shield so it can be side loaded on the Nexus Player?
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Well, I finally gave up and bought a damn Roku to do this and today I found (on FB for now God's Sake!)....
https://m.sendspace.com/file/em1cs9
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And it works pretty darn good. Better than the Roku and possibly faster than the X1 box.
Actually running it on a Shield. Haven't tried it on Nexus Player yet.
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wyelkins said:
And it works pretty darn good. Better than the Roku and possibly faster than the X1 box.
Actually running it on a Shield. Haven't tried it on Nexus Player yet.
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Currently testing on my Nexus Player (running stock Oreo)...
Much better than previous Xfinity app options. Good find, much appreciated. Thanks for sharing [emoji6]

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