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[REQ] app to browes and open files on PC

ok so i have used remote desktops apps and everything but im looking for an app that just shows different drives on your home pc and able to open them up and play on your pc...
so it would kinda look like astro file manager but you can look though you pc
the closes that i have got was Gmote but they open it in there own player..
i wanna open and play it thought vlc
would be better to use wifi but bluetooth is ok 2
anyone come across a app like this???

I think there is an app that would fit your request... it`s calles "vlc remote" and turns your phone into a remote for the vlc on your pc via wifi, you can download it from the market
I hope that is, what you are searching for... i´m not sure if I understood your request in the right wy, my english is not very goot

You can use droid explorer: http://de.codeplex.com/releases/view/39922 or
Android commander: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597098

Toeppi said:
I think there is an app that would fit your request... it`s calles "vlc remote"
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na i know vcl remote but that dont let me browse files in my computer and open them...
and them other 2 arnt what im looking for... there just to transfer files via wifi... there pretty good but not what i was looking for
ok ill give you a scenario...
im kicking back in my bed and i just finished watching a movie on my computer...
now from my phone i wanna be able to browse the files on my computer and play another movie...
browse like the look you browse in astro
thanks heaps

4luk88 said:
na i know vcl remote but that dont let me browse files in my computer and open them...
and them other 2 arnt what im looking for... there just to transfer files via wifi... there pretty good but not what i was looking for
ok ill give you a scenario...
im kicking back in my bed and i just finished watching a movie on my computer...
now from my phone i wanna be able to browse the files on my computer and play another movie...
browse like the look you browse in astro
thanks heaps
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gmote may work for you, in the market
and you install the server portion on your pc, you connect via lan/wifi to your home pc. you can browse through your drives/folders like you would in astro and when you click on a movie file it will play it on your pc monitor, the video player is built into gmoteserver (pc side)
you can also install vnc server on your pc and then install vnc on android (market vnc)
and control it just like you would a normal vnc session.

i myself am looking for a file browser for android that will let me browse network shares and let me copy files to my sdcard

acids7n said:
gmote may work for you, in the market
and you install the server portion on your pc, you connect via lan/wifi to your home pc. you can browse through your drives/folders like you would in astro and when you click on a movie file it will play it on your pc monitor, the video player is built into gmoteserver (pc side)
you can also install vnc server on your pc and then install vnc on android (market vnc)
and control it just like you would a normal vnc session.
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as i said in my first post gmote dose this but when you open a .avi file it opens it in its own weird player and dont run the codec from vlc so the video isnt as clear (is there a fix for that)... but yer i want something just like that... but opens the files in vlc...
im using a remote desktop atm (VNC) without much enjoyment.. its ok i guess just would like a simple app to all drives and pick a file to play full screen on my computer to the look of astro

4luk88 said:
as i said in my first post gmote dose this but when you open a .avi file it opens it in its own weird player and dont run the codec from vlc so the video isnt as clear (is there a fix for that)... but yer i want something just like that... but opens the files in vlc...
im using a remote desktop atm (VNC) without much enjoyment.. its ok i guess just would like a simple app to all drives and pick a file to play full screen on my computer to the look of astro
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sorry i must not have read your OP sorry about that.
there is another app gremote much more polished version but its a paid app (market app free but pc software is costs)
besides a vnc type app, i dont know of any app for the pc that will let you remotely launch files too. so if its not there for the pc, its probably not there for the android.
im going to search google for remotely executing files that may lead us to an app that may be made for the android
only other thing i can think of is continue using vnc, switch to media player home cinema as it pauses/play on mouse click. setup a play list on the pc, then use your phone to vnc in to play/pause/volume up/down.
next to that cordless mouse and keyboard =)

So you are looking for a Media Remote Control application.
http://andremote.anddev.org/
Also try the
http://www.remotedroid.net/
and another
http://code.google.com/p/android-vlc-remote/

No no no. What you want is estrongs file explorer. Browse network shares via
Samba (PC networking) or ftp. Over wifi for lan shares or 3G with ftp.
You can ditch Astro after that find.
If you need to do it the other way around; browse the phone's file system with a pc or other device, use swiftp which is an ftp server.

larsdennert said:
No no no. What you want is estrongs file explorer. Browse network shares via
Samba (PC networking) or ftp. Over wifi for lan shares or 3G with ftp.
You can ditch Astro after that find.
If you need to do it the other way around; browse the phone's file system with a pc or other device, use swiftp which is an ftp server.
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astro just came out with SMB support, you can browse network files through that now too

[Q] Networking

Obviously my Transformer is on my network, but how can I make it see the other devices on it? I would like to keep my music on one PC and then when I travel just copy over the songs i want to bring. Or i want to keep all my PDFs in one simple location so i don't have to search for them, yet be able to read them on my Transformer.
Do I need static IPs?

I use "es file explorer", or "astro" to see all of my other devices on my network, and then just browse to the location I want...

+1 for ES File Exploer - does SMB, FTP, SFTP, Dropbox, etc... Absolutely awesome... Can even stream videos via the network via ES File Explorer!

Ok, you can't use the stock File Manager for that kind of activity? Eye opener!

[Q] Use Transformer to access music on PC

Hi,
I'm considering this tablet as a gift for my gf.
I'd just need to know if there's an app/mod (I'd prefer not to root, but if it's necessary, I'm no-problem) able to read music from a PC in home, an Ubuntu machine with Samba shares.
Also, which app would you suggest in order to see, manage and perhaps lightly edit picasa pictures and albums ?
Thank you very much !!
Fabio

I use ESFile Explorer, just add your lan folder/share in ES, and thats it, you can stream/copy any file from there.
I use it to stream movies from my windows xp download machine
ES File Explorer on android market

GoogleMusic. I use it on all of my Android products and I love it. Added advantage of being able to sign in to ANY computer and have your music as well.

With a rooted Transformer you can use CIFS to basically make any network share look like a local file folder on the tablet itself, as long as you're on the same network as the computer sharing the media.

Anyway app to STREAM NETWORK VIDEO from a Windows 7 PC?

how can you stream local network video through Android? any apps do this? I tried Rock Player, etc. and every app I try can NOT do this..

aliensquale said:
how can you stream local network video through Android? any apps do this? I tried Rock Player, etc. and every app I try can NOT do this..
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BubbleUPnP can as long as you have media sharing setup through WMP. Personally, I would setup something like Subsonic (http://www.subsonic.org) or Serviio (http://www.serviio.org/) as they both offer transcoding of media (both audio and video).
My current setup at home with both Subsonic for audio/video over the web and Serviio locally for in the house is running on a small Dell Optiplex 755 desktop running Windows Server 2008. It works flawlessly and I can stream audio and video anywhere that I am on pretty much any device.

Seriously, this is the Development section... it might have been a mistake but honestly from the first day I joined XDA I knew that Development was for releases. It's simple stuff, really. Questions go in general.

Zumocast if pretty awesome
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Zumocast works on Droid Charge?
BlackHoleSlam said:
Zumocast if pretty awesome
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I thought Zumocast only worked on Motorola phones. How did you get it on the Droid Charge. If you have a link, please share. Thanks!

number1kgfan said:
I thought Zumocast only worked on Motorola phones. How did you get it on the Droid Charge. If you have a link, please share. Thanks!
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I have it working on my charge because I got it from the bionic forums they modified it to work with any Android phone
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I have a super-*****in' awesome solution for you. How awesome depends on what you want and your setup.
If your phone and computer are both networked already via wireless router, etc:
Not so awesome, but still cool:
1. Get Allshare, this is a Samsung app that is on our phones, although it is removed on some ROMs.
2. Setup Windows Media player to share your content.
3. Watch stuff with default media player via Allshare.
Awesomest:
1. Get ES File Explorer or other networked file manager.
2. Create share on computer and add the share in ES File Explorer
3. Watch stuff with default media player via ES File Explorer.
Awesomest:
NOTE: You will need CIFS enabled kernel, like Imoseyon's kernel.
1. Aquire CIFS kernel modules (can't remember where, but the ones for Froyo work on GB.) I save these to a folder on the SD card.
2. Enable CIFS in Terminal Emulator with "su" and "enable cifs" commands
3. Install Busybox 18.2
4. Install CIFS Manager
5.. In CIFS Manager, load the previously download kernel modules with insmod
6. In CIFS Manager, create a mounted share to your computer share folder.
7. Mount Share.
8. Play your shared videos with your favorite player by browsing to a folder on your SD card!
You will likely need to reboot at various points of this process. If done correctly, you will then have a folder on your SD card that displays all the contents of the network share. Any video play that can browse folders will see your shared files inside of a folder on your SD card.
If you are serious about doing this, I can post a more in-depth guide to help. I personally find this to be essential, and extremely badass.
One thing that you should know is that many video files will not play properly on this phone unless you use Soft-decoding. I recommend Moboplayer which has a Soft-decoding feature if you long press a file. In this way you will be better able to play a wider range of files. NOTE that you have to be able to see the file in the program by browsing to the folder. Moboplayer cannot browse network shares. It will only browse local files. THUS, you have to enable CIFS if you want to use Soft-decoding because then the files will be mounted to you SD card so that Moboplayer can actually see the folder.
Lastly, there are other ways to mount CIFS shares and other ways to soft-decode files. I personally feel that this is the best way, since I can mount the shares to my liking via CIFS Manager, instead of having to modify the init.d and whatnot. THEN I can use Titanium Backup to save all my CIFS mounts, and don't have to fiddle-screw around for hours trying to set up all my shares every time I load my phone.
*EDIT* This is assuming you already have a network in which your phone and computer are installed on. There are ways of directly linking a laptop wifi, for example, to your phone and you can still mount the CIFS shares over an infrastructure wifi access point that you configure your laptop for. You can still connect your laptop to a wifi access point and get internet, as well as internet for the phone through the laptop (all the while sharing files from your laptop directly to your phone.) If this sounds cool to you, let me know.

I did Option #2 with ES File Explorer.. but it will NOT stream my .avi movies... it first has to download the entire 630mb movie file locally to the phone.. then it plays...
I just don't get why it's such a pain in the ass to get streaming video from a Windows networked share to STREAM to an Android device??? I mean this is basic functionality.. why is it such a process to do it with Android?
I also have a Viewsonic g-tablet.. that is the main device I want to STREAM my Windows 7 networked movies onto... and I have the same problems on the G-tablet running Android 2.3.5. It's just a real PITA to get this to work... I give up!
time to revert back to using my Windows 7 laptop and ditch this crappy Android tablet.
xdadevnube said:
I have a super-*****in' awesome solution for you. How awesome depends on what you want and your setup.
If your phone and computer are both networked already via wireless router, etc:
Not so awesome, but still cool:
1. Get Allshare, this is a Samsung app that is on our phones, although it is removed on some ROMs.
2. Setup Windows Media player to share your content.
3. Watch stuff with default media player via Allshare.
Awesomest:
1. Get ES File Explorer or other networked file manager.
2. Create share on computer and add the share in ES File Explorer
3. Watch stuff with default media player via ES File Explorer.
Awesomest:
NOTE: You will need CIFS enabled kernel, like Imoseyon's kernel.
1. Aquire CIFS kernel modules (can't remember where, but the ones for Froyo work on GB.) I save these to a folder on the SD card.
2. Enable CIFS in Terminal Emulator with "su" and "enable cifs" commands
3. Install Busybox 18.2
4. Install CIFS Manager
5.. In CIFS Manager, load the previously download kernel modules with insmod
6. In CIFS Manager, create a mounted share to your computer share folder.
7. Mount Share.
8. Play your shared videos with your favorite player by browsing to a folder on your SD card!
You will likely need to reboot at various points of this process. If done correctly, you will then have a folder on your SD card that displays all the contents of the network share. Any video play that can browse folders will see your shared files inside of a folder on your SD card.
If you are serious about doing this, I can post a more in-depth guide to help. I personally find this to be essential, and extremely badass.
One thing that you should know is that many video files will not play properly on this phone unless you use Soft-decoding. I recommend Moboplayer which has a Soft-decoding feature if you long press a file. In this way you will be better able to play a wider range of files. NOTE that you have to be able to see the file in the program by browsing to the folder. Moboplayer cannot browse network shares. It will only browse local files. THUS, you have to enable CIFS if you want to use Soft-decoding because then the files will be mounted to you SD card so that Moboplayer can actually see the folder.
Lastly, there are other ways to mount CIFS shares and other ways to soft-decode files. I personally feel that this is the best way, since I can mount the shares to my liking via CIFS Manager, instead of having to modify the init.d and whatnot. THEN I can use Titanium Backup to save all my CIFS mounts, and don't have to fiddle-screw around for hours trying to set up all my shares every time I load my phone.
*EDIT* This is assuming you already have a network in which your phone and computer are installed on. There are ways of directly linking a laptop wifi, for example, to your phone and you can still mount the CIFS shares over an infrastructure wifi access point that you configure your laptop for. You can still connect your laptop to a wifi access point and get internet, as well as internet for the phone through the laptop (all the while sharing files from your laptop directly to your phone.) If this sounds cool to you, let me know.
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I use http://www.orb.com/

Zumocast still works great give me a sec I will find the link
Here we go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17845532
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maybe this is a dumb question but what is Zumocast? is it just like another media player like Rock Player, Mobo Player, etc.?
is it available for download in the Android Marketplace?
BlackHoleSlam said:
Zumocast still works great give me a sec I will find the link
Here we go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17845532
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It is a streaming service used by motorola you need the computer exe and to stream you need your computer on
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thank you...
how do I install the .APK file onto my android phone?

running ZumoCast right now... great stuff.. thank you very much!
I'm wondering however... if I am inside my LAN at home.. .meaning my android phone is connected to my local wifi router.. AND my windows 7 pc is also connected to the local wifi router... what speeds will Zumocast use? does it transmit all the data content right through my local wifi connection withOUT going through the Zumocast servers at all?
how about if I am away from home on my Android phone?
Zumocast made me make an free account and the Android app needs that account to login to see all your data.. so I'm not sure if all the data that I stream is actually first going from my Windows 7 pc... through the internet through the Zumocast servers... then back down to my Android phone?

If I helped press the thanks button
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I use ps3 media server on my PC and UPnPlay app on my phone.
The reason I use PS3 media server is I have a PS3 and stream my library of ripped dvds to the TV that way.
So I tried to get samsung allshare app to run with media player. I couldn't get it to work.
So I tried UPnPlay app. It doesn't have a media player with it which I like. I just use Moboplayer which supports just about anything I can throw at it. And it works flawlessly.
This should work right out of the box since PSM has matured to more than a server to the PS3. It has a default android .conf (configuration file). But I edited one and created a pretty good one for the charge. If anyone wants to try it out I'll gladly post the info.

aliensquale said:
I did Option #2 with ES File Explorer.. but it will NOT stream my .avi movies... it first has to download the entire 630mb movie file locally to the phone.. then it plays...
I just don't get why it's such a pain in the ass to get streaming video from a Windows networked share to STREAM to an Android device??? I mean this is basic functionality.. why is it such a process to do it with Android?
I also have a Viewsonic g-tablet.. that is the main device I want to STREAM my Windows 7 networked movies onto... and I have the same problems on the G-tablet running Android 2.3.5. It's just a real PITA to get this to work... I give up!
time to revert back to using my Windows 7 laptop and ditch this crappy Android tablet.
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Yep, that is one of the annoying things I should have mentioned. Allshare won't require that you download files first, but Allshare is kindof annoying to use. There are other DLNA apps on the Market that should work better though.
In any case, I quit messing around and I just use CIFS. Plus, I can VPN into my home network if I am on the go. With CIFS, all my files show up in my SD card folders no matter where I am. I can't think of a more elegant solution. Its just like mapping a network drive in Windows. If you want some help getting set up, either post on this thread or PM me, I can offer more details. This is great as well considering you can share any file, documents, music, videos, etc and any app can see it on your SD card.

I used emit free, it's simple AND it's free!
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andrep182 said:
I used emit free, it's simple AND it's free!
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I was just going to recommend that! It streams all media, not just videos. It used to be over wifi only, but i think a later update added the ability to stream from a website. It works well and all you need is to run a program on your computer at all times.
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Simple. Skifta. It's in the market. Also get moboplayer to play the files. Easy peasy.
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[Q] Stream PC music through Poweramp over wifi/3g?

Hi there,
I'm looking for an application whereby I can assess music on my pc wirelessly and browse/play them within Poweramp. I have seen applications that can sync the music within their own interface, or download the tracks but I wish to stream them over wifi/3g.
I can see that ES File Explorer may allow to browse my pc via ftp, I haven't tried this as of yet, but essentially I want to be able to see my pc music folder on my phone within poweramp (my preferred music player) and stream them as opposed to sync/download.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Hi,
Currently to remotely access (in 3g as well WiFi) to my server to see my personal media (pics, music, video...but streaming video depends on your bandwidth) I use several apps but all of them use it's own media player so no way to pass music to PowerAmp..
They are:
Tonido
Plex
Qloud Media
You can try to access your Pc trough Samba share (\\servername\musicfolder) but not a really a wise idea if you care about the security of your pc...
Never tried by myself but should work:
Prerequisite (without this you will not be able to use this method)
Your kernel MUST support cifs (modules called cifs.ko).If you are on stock Rom/kernel... No way, if you are on a custom one it depend on the dev that have developed the kernel, try to find it out ( XDA is a good way )
Share your music folder(restrict acces to only one user avoid EVERYONE)
On your router redirect Samba(also known as cifs, smb or windows share) tcip port to your server intranet Ip (local ip of your server usually 192.168.xxx.xxx)
Install from the market an app to mount cifs share on your android phone (I use CIFS Manager, remember to configure it, it does not work out of the box)
Add your music share to CIFS Manager (you must know your Public Ip and, if it is not static, every time you have to know the new Ip your ISP assigned to you)
Using any File browser go to /mnt/cifs/ and you'll find the share you have just created
Browse it and you should be able to access to your music library, as well all the file of your Pc.
Not using this method or PowerAmp not sure if you'll be able to stream music or only to download it.
To be honest I wold not expose my Pc to Internet in this way.... Windows security is not so strong... Anyway It's up to you.
Hope this will work, as I never tested it,and hope will help you.

Thank you for the detailed response there, I'll look into it!

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ermeda said:
Add your music share to CIFS Manager (you must know your Public Ip and, if it is not static, every time you have to know the new Ip your ISP assigned to you)
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or apply and setup a dyndns or no-ip account

Hi pratetorious,
I do also use Dyndns services, quite all new router have built in the client to do it, but not sure that CIFS manager support HOSTNAME rather than simple IP, never tested it.
It could work anyway, but not sure about it