[Q] Play movies directly from NAS on Android with subtitles,without root(smb or DLNA) - General Questions and Answers

Hi, is any way how I could to watch movies directly from NAS (Synology) without rooting the phone?
I have shared the files as samba sharing and also as DLNA.
Samba clients which I found can only browse and download files to phone, DLNA clients are better, they can play directly but thet did not show subtitles.
Any advice, pelase?
Thanks

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marinierb said:
MyNet is a DLNA client, not a Samba or CIFS client. You need a DLNA server on your desktop in order to stream your media.
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Ditto. I use PS3 Media Server. Works very well.
I use serviio on Linux.
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I installed Ghost Commander and the SMB plug in; but still don't know how to connect with shared samba drives.
Same here, please anybody knows how to connects, let me know!
Try ES File Explorer... it supports SMB streaming and it doesn't copy the files anymore.
Works great with MoboPlayer
Hm.. that should be smart, I actually have Mobo player on my TF.
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Some programs have the option to start the movie and then load a local .srt file, but that is way inconvenient.
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