So far, i have been using iMediashare off the android marketplace to play my music across wifi to my xbox 360. But its very unstable. Sometimes 3 songs play then some fail somewhere, others it plays like a champ. Is there a way to just plug this damn thing into the usb port on the 360 to play it that way? i have tried both media player and mass storage options when connection but its a no go. perhaps one of you out there has a great solution available. sans usb stick. i suppose i could burn a mp3 cd with a crap load of songs and then rip them to the harddrive but good lord, with the amount of music i have, itd take all day lol.
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Is it me or do none of the available mp3 players really cut it?
I'm no iPod fan, but it does seem to work well, the PDA MP3 players just seem 'clunky'. Now storage is soooo cheap, PDAs are really becoming sensible for use as such devices.
I use my PDA for everything so I want a media player to fit in with everything else, for example when I'm using the sat nav in the car, I want to be able to use it also for playing MP3s over an FM link to the car stereo. When a new track starts I'd like a window to pop up for 2 or 3 seconds telling me what it is, and giving me the chance to skip.
Anyone have more experience than me, and can suggest something?
Thanks!
personally, I use pocket music, but i dont listen to music often. I find its a nice player, really.
maybe the new pocket tunes 4.1 with its iTunes support is to your taste? I havent tried any others (only windows media player).
I'd like this too. I liked using the voice command function of WMP in the car too.
Mortplayer is probably the best I've used. It's free, skinable and very customizable.
I want to watch movies on my network at home but I can't seem to find a software that support DNLA
lilgotti56 said:
I want to watch movies on my network at home but I can't seem to find a software that support DNLA
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Google Skifta, let me know if it works.
rothnic said:
Google Skifta, let me know if it works.
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This actually looks pretty interesting thing i may try this out for new years, want to be able to play music from my gtablet via my phone like control the music playing on the gtablet from my phone (as the remote control) wonder if this would work hmmm, def will test tonight.
Just downloaded Twonky from the Marketplace and it works for me, streams audio, movies and pictures from my home media server. Supports standard DLNA compatible servers from what I can read. Also allows you to stream from the GTab to other DLNA compatible devices as well. Menu is in portrait mode, but the video will play landscape.
Was thinking about the same and saw this post and went off and looked around. There are a couple of other apps around as well, depends what you are using for a source.
Try Gmote
I've been using Gmote for streaming movies to my Gtab. It also has a pretty decent touchscreen mouse controller for when you're couchbound. Setup is really simple, and the interface for browsing your media is nice looking. Downsides are basic controls only for watching/listening and portrait orientation only for navigating menus and using the "remote control" feature. Playing movies though (landscape, of course), is very snappy and has a surprisingly lag free seek feature if you want to look around for a point mid-movie.
This tablet is actually pretty powerful and I stream most of the stuff to it from my server just using the ES File Manager. It supports SAMBA shares (windows shares).
I am not sure.. but the other day I had it decoding a 720p mkv file at around 10fps but no audio. I am sure that this is a player issue...
All of my 640*480 and lower AVI files play without a hitch though.
So someone recommended this product to me, but I'm not familiar with it. Anyone using it to give the thumbs up or thumbs down? I'd really like my iTunes music available on my Incredible. How does Double Twist with the airsync thing work? Is it streamed over the internet from iTunes, or is my whole library transferred to my SD Card?
Just looking for opinions about it and pro's and con's.
Thanks!
I use DoubleTwist, it has been the best music player I've used yet, so a thumbs up from me.
And airsync basically just lets you transfer songs from your computer to your phone via wifi - so you don't have to plug in your phone to transfer.
But you can still do that too.
I have several low res videos that I would like to watch on my PS3 without having to convert them all (they are just too many). I have successfully streamed video through different apps from my phone or tablet to my PS3, including HD stuff, but of course, none do any transcoding. The videos I want to watch most do not play because they use HE-AAC, which the PS3 does not support (plays the video but the audio is a complete mess). They are quite light and I'm sure if there's any app out there that can transcode it would be able to easily handle it.
I know I can just do HDMI through the Nexus 10 or my PC, but 1) I don't want to have the PC on all the time, 2) I don't like my tablet being on all the time while watching on the TV. It will still be on while transferring the files to the PS3 but the screen will be off completely which is what I want.
Not sure you will find a Media Server app that's going to offer Transcoding directly from the phone, as it requires a lot of CPU power to do.
Skifta ( http://www.skifta.com ) does the transcoding from the computer (from what I'm told), makes the file available to your phone, which then you stream to your PS3.
But this requires the PC be on all the time, and the video you want to be sent through transcode will need to be on the computer to... Basically, it just turns your phone into a fancy remote.
Could convert them to playable media files, then stream them through which ever Media Server app you prefer.. but that would require a few extra steps.
Sidenote: Its no good to shutdown your computer often. Your HDD has a Spin Up life span...
It's exciting to see that people have streamed everything from supported games to unsupported games and even PS2 and GC emulators. I have yet to see any mention of streaming something like KMPlayer.
My question is can you do it in some way? I have a very extensive multiple TB collection of all sorts of videos and media, and yes I know I can always transfer things to SD card etc to watch on the shield but the ability to just be able to load up anything anywhere (Thanks to the people that setup instructions to be on outside networks over VPN) and watch my movies with no hassle or even connect it to other peoples TVs would be amazing to me.
In the past I've tried this several different ways but it was never fast enough and even when it was sometimes Soft subs wouldn't work and a no stress solution to that may be possible with the shield.
I haven't tried streaming any media players, but I have a feeling that the controls might present a challenge.
I installed Plex last though and was very impressed. I already had a Plex server running on my Synology NAS, though, so no server setup was necessary.
Plex allows you to stream local or remotely if you set up a myPlex account. If you have the PlexPass as well, you can sync shows to microSD to watch offline.
I imagine XBMC for Android should work fine and mount network drives.
XBMC works for me so far.
I'm using es file explorer and MX video player for a quick to launch streaming media setup. Setup a couple favorites in es file and way you go. From home screen to movie folder I can be there in less than 10 seconds.
I've output HDMI to large TVs and the streaming is excellent.
Well my shield should be arriving Tuesday which I'm extremely excited for. Tried XBMC on my computer and love it not sure why I've never tried this before.
Here's to hoping the audio sync is good when connecting remotely
Try Dice Player, it has SAMBA support, so just need to enter network path and password and you good to go.
I just got my shield and I tried out XBMC I'm not sure if its supposed to be this way but the controller doesn't work with the program and audio isn't being transferred to my shield.
Another problem I have with regular streaming is there seems to be a slight audio delay and I am running the latest shield update (51 i think)
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I just got my shield and I tried out XBMC I'm not sure if its supposed to be this way but the controller doesn't work with the program and audio isn't being transferred to my shield.
Another problem I have with regular streaming is there seems to be a slight audio delay and I am running the latest shield update (51 i think)
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I'm hoping xbmc will add shield controller support soon.
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What types of video files can I play on Shield?
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whatever video you can find an app to play. VLC supports most media types (video and audio including formats you probably won't come across) plus it has the most awesome beta software warning ever when you launch it.
I have 2tb WD Live setup on my network. I use the wd2go app and can stream videos from home anywhere I have internet. It works great. You can also download movies to your device then upload them to your network.
I use the Archos video player app on the Shield. Can stream anything I can throw at it from my local network