So I spent some time searching and looking around on the forums and couldn't seem to find an answer (for starters, everything was about TVs), so here we go:
I am trying to hook my TF up to a 1080p capable 25" computer monitor via HDMI. The picture shows up, but it seems to be a much lower resolution just blown up to fit the 1920x1080 size (possible the native 1280x800). I notice that when the TF switches to HDMI mode, a small black bar appears along the bottom, which I presume auto-corrects it to 1280x720 for 720p output. However, while playing GTA III, I notice that on the computer monitor, everything looks quite pixelated, much worse than an actual 720p signal. I also tested watching a TV episode I have stored on a microSD card using MX Video Player and the video resolution on the computer monitor was just as bad as GTA III.
Is there any way to get the TF to output an actual 720p signal (or even a 1080p signal if possible)?
Bump
Nobody's tried connecting to a computer monitor? I don't have an HD TV to test with
Related
Just thought I share this with everyone. While fiddling with my Tab tonight, I accidentally clicked on Samsung's AllShare app I previously installed, but never tried.
To my surprise, the app quickly went into discovery mode and a "WDTV live" popped up among the list of supported devices. Since I was just watching a movie on my WDTV live I was first completely puzzled as to how the heck Tab found it and just for the kicks I made a connection with the WDTV live. It didn't require any passwords, numbers or anything - simply made the connection in a second or two.
A list of videos I had on the Tab showed up, I clicked one and voila! - the video soon went streaming from the Tab to my WDTV live and then to my projector screen!
After a few minutes I remembered I recently plugged into the WDTV live a WIFI USB dongle to be used with my keyboards. I had no idea that WDTV would be able to receive anything other than keyboard inputs through them, but turns out it does!
I didn't do a lot of testing, but it seems to work very well - had no problem at all streaming DIVX quality video from the tab and even managed to play one 720 movie as well as 1080. Both of them are heavily compressed, tough, so be warned. I also tried playing a h264 720 movie but it was just all black for a minute so I gave up. This is the same movie that Tab plays normally through movie app, so I'm guessing it's probably the WiFi transfer rate that's the bottleneck. Maybe it would work after enough of data was transfered, but as I said - I didn't wait too long. Photos and music work just fine.
So, there you have it, if you have WDTV live, a WIFI USB dongle and the need to stream from the Tab, you can do it without any problem!
You can also use twonky and stream you media to an xbox 360 or ps3 as well.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
I found that the framerate drops when i connect my phone to TV via HDMI. I have tested with different videoplayers and the fpse emulator and they all slow down. I have also tested with the fps2d app and it shows that the framerate decreases. Does anyone know a solution to fix this or is anyone having the same problems?
the frame rate will likely be matching your tv.
that said, totally wouldnt be surprised if the jump from 800x480 to 1080p created some slowdown.
I have an older TV without an HDMI port. Is there a way to stream video from my phone to the TV?
I believe this should do the trick:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HDMI-3-RCA-RGB-A-V-Component-Conversion-Cable-Male-/170659070304
And then you need MHL adapter for the phone:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-MHL-Micro-USB-HDMI-Female-Cable-Adapter-HTC-Samsung-S2-/150867197550
EDIT:
Now that I think of it Iam not sure how well thats going to play out. Its very likely that the resolution the phone puts out is too high and the image will be strecthed out of the screen.
I was playing a YouTube video on my LG V10 in the same room as my smart TV (which was on) an tapped an icon on top, of a TV with sound coming from the bottom left corner. My TV started playing the YouTube video on the tv screen. Video & Audio. Now if I can figure out how to make it work with TV & Movie downloads!
Sent from an AT&T LG V10
Umm... A2DP a protocol for stereo audio and control via Bluetooth...
I think what you meant was DLNA...
The tag that came up when it was playing said "BluetoothA2DP". I assume that means that someone has improved it in the 10 years it's been around.
In fact, I cannot find a single article anywhere about a Bluetooth profile for streaming video as it is such low bitrate. That's why aptX was such a big deal, it improved quality while lowering the bandwidth requirements, for audio.
As for the icon you describe, this is what it is for:
https://www.youtube.com/pair
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3230451 (yes it says iOS, but it is the page for all devices.)
"If your TV or games console supports connecting over Wi-Fi, your device will be visible on the Connected TVs screen on your phone, tablet or computer. It isn't possible to remove devices connected over Wi-Fi from your Connected TVs list."
So you may have connected automatically with no manual setup.
RDI said:
I was playing a YouTube video on my LG V10 in the same room as my smart TV (which was on) an tapped an icon on top, of a TV with sound coming from the bottom left corner. My TV started playing the YouTube video on the tv screen. Video & Audio. Now if I can figure out how to make it work with TV & Movie downloads!
Sent from an AT&T LG V10
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you try allcast?
Hi guys,I purchased this tablet though used but from recently I'm having issues with youtube videos.
Every once in a while the video stops (even 720p resolution) and I get on a video like "rotating indicator",I suppose it's buffering video and then video plays and then again freezes/stops and this happens every 2-3 minutes.
But sometimes like today the video at 720P plays fine.
I wish I could show you what is happening but I will try to record.
I can understand that this is old hardware,but I lower resolution to 720p and I can not believe that it can not play even 720 smoothly.
So what is the problem here,slow CPU,RAM,disk,wifi connection or what?
Can I somehow resolve this.
I'm also suspicious that somehow battery is an issue because when I connect external power bank over micro usb port,video goes smoothly.
But battery is at 80 % and still this happens.
So what to do,this drives me nuts?
Please don't write it's old,buy new tablet bla bla bla.
Yah it's old but I'm not expecting from it to render and encode vids,just play.
Even my old S7 edge plays smoothly videos.
I mean it's quad core and 2 gigs of RAM,that should be sufficent for 720p playback.