I was wondering if anyone was interested in seeing if we can get a Roku development section on here. I think it would be really cool to try to port the source for Google TV to a device like the Roku player, which is open source too, or at least work on some mods for the Roku player itself.
Input/ideas?
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Hi All,
Not sure if this is the best place to ask but... I'm looking for a way to stream .avi's/.mkv's over my wireless LAN to my new HTC desire. It seems that Android only supports a few video formats so I'm guessing I will need to do some transcoding on-the-fly. Is there any recommended software available for this? I've heard of TVersity but thats Windows-only, I'm running Fedora Linux.
Surely I cant be the first person to want to do this?
Thanks
Jeffers
I think Orb is supposed to do this but the comments seem to have mixed reviews on how well it works.
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Orb looks to be Windows/Mac only, no Linux builds. Theres bound to be an opensource solution somewhere.
An player that streams video files... ?
im looking to see a streaming tv is there an APP for that ?
ive tried all wiki,pandora ,vlc...
nothing works on my pov mobii andr 2.1
Saw on Youtube that it has built in smb support:
Anyone see if a port is possible?
I saw some interest for porting it over to the G-Tab, but how about for Qualcomm Snapdragons?
(Kind of in the wrong forum. Sorry)
I'm surprised nobody was interested on this... that media player app on the archos is amazing! Please port it to android phones
Hello,
Wondering if I can get some general help, I know the google TV is american only but I like to have some fun as well.
First, I can't download the google TV Remote app on my samsung galaxy i9000, I've tired downloading an .apk but it just didn't work, any suggestion or how to guides on this.
The Google TV works better than I first though it would in canada I can control my PVR some what and I faked an american comcast zip code and the search feature works some what but of course the programming and channel numbers for comcast don't match my Shaw Cable account, is there any way around that, in the settings I noticed it was pulling that info from some file, any idea how to trick it?
Also I am quite disappointed with the way I can't play almost any media files on my computer, the closest I have come is using my playon media service and the m.playon.tv with my lan on the google chrome but its so bad, was getting some Hulu access if I was running my VPN but I kept getting time out errors, worked fine on my phone browser tho. Any suggestions or other programs or ways?
Forgot to add, I am using the Logitech Revue
Thanks
Dave
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Very much thanks to BluechipJ for sending me the google TV app, worked out great.
So more of the reading I've done seems that this box just doesn't support local media files very well, I've tired a few media servers,
TVersity worked somewhat good, some play back on all files but still couldn't get a great all around experience.
Playon which has been my main media server works the best so far, but only on the mobile side, if you use the browser and go to m.playon.tv and have it setup on your computer you get access to hulu (with VPN) and all your media. Interface is not very good on the m.playon side but it works. Still having problems getting complete hulu playback and have issues with larger MKV files but I had those issues on the PS3 so still have to figure out whats causing it.
If anyone has any other suggestions or experience I'd like to hear some more.
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Just wanted to do one more and see if anyone else had any suggestions, after more reading and trying out some new things finding Twonky is a good media server pick, for both the google tv and your phone.
Whats great about Twonky if they have your Twonky Manger on the computer which Logitech revue will recognize and mainly works in logitech media player, MKV still an issue if you have the right audio code it would work, I've switch to downloading MP4 files as I can still get good quality and it works well.
Also there is Twonky mobile for your phone, works well with the logitech revue as you can play videos music and pictures right from your phone to the TV, the Beam option doesn't work to my knowledge but isn't a big deal to me.
I'm sure lots of people know about Twonky already but it was new to me and worked very well with my Galaxy S and Logitech revue and seems to be a good system, the app is free but Twonky Manger is $20 I think, also works great with a PS3 system as well.
Hope to get some other suggestions or Ideas, kinda weird updating my posts all the time.
So I finally have an htpc setup in the living room with xbmc running, I really like using the xbmc remote, yatse or other dosnt matter to much, its very nice to use the remote since I can easly find what movies I have and other information much more quicker and I dont interrupt anyone or myself when watching something, it also has a nice feature of sending a youtube link to be watched on xbmc.
What I wanted to know, is if its possible to have an android device locked completely off all apps and can only use two apps, specifically youtube and an xbmc remote app, the reason for this is that it makes my life easier since their are other people who watch xbmc but are not as "tech" oriented or what not, but using a remote like this might make their experience alot easier, so basically the android device can only change between the xmbc remote app and youtube, everything else is hopefully unable to be accessed.
Hi Guys,
I'm looking to buy one of the android tv boxes to run as a mythtv kodi frontend in the bedroom.
One of my main priorities was something that had an active developer community and decent roms were available for it. Having looked, it seems most boxes do not even have oem roms available for them as far as i can tell.
I had basically decided on one of the s812 based boxes as they seem to offer 4k and H265 which whilst not important now, may be in the future.
So can anyone recommend a box to me?
TIA Chris