How to connect HTC Media Link HD to PC? - HTC One S

Hello!
I bought HTC Media Link HD and it works very well with my One S. However if I have understanded it correctly I should be able to hook it up on to my PC as well and play videos from there. I just cant figure out how to do it.
I have a desktop computer and windows 7 on it. That is connected on my router which has a wifi. And the Media Link seems to have connected to it since I can see the name of my home network in the idle screen from the Media Link when my phone isn't connected to it.
Do I need a certain program to my PC or how do I set it up?

Paqu1 said:
Hello!
I bought HTC Media Link HD and it works very well with my One S. However if I have understanded it correctly I should be able to hook it up on to my PC as well and play videos from there. I just cant figure out how to do it.
I have a desktop computer and windows 7 on it. That is connected on my router which has a wifi. And the Media Link seems to have connected to it since I can see the name of my home network in the idle screen from the Media Link when my phone isn't connected to it.
Do I need a certain program to my PC or how do I set it up?
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I'm trying the same thing. As of now, I have tried using the Windows Media Player "Play To"-function, and it works really good!
You can share images, video and audio to the media link. just right click any file, and it should be in the menu, i guess. It shows up here!
Next step is to share the desktop or share from browser, or something. I'm working on that. I wanna stream youtube videos and much much more to the tv screen! Twonky is so far the only solution that works 'kindof' the way i want it to.

Do you not have a flat panel hd tv? I just connected everything and can display "desktop" and YouTube video play fine.
Why would you want to connect to your computer? Just curious
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Spastic909 said:
Do you not have a flat panel hd tv? I just connected everything and can display "desktop" and YouTube video play fine.
Why would you want to connect to your computer? Just curious
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Sure I have flat TV, but the problem is that computer is bit far from TV in another room and I would need about 30 meter long HDMI cable to connect it to the TV. So thats why I would like to get it working wirelessly.
I managed to get it working with windows media player like embql said, but the problem is that video is not running very well. And Iam not even talking about any Full HD clip, but just a DVD quality one. Speed of the video keeps changing, sometimes it runs bit too fast, then it slows down and sound gets out of sync more and more the longer I let it play. Same thing happens if I play the video from a phone. Funny thing is that if I play youtube video from phone it runs great even with HQ quality or trailer from the IMDB app with 720p.
But my TV broke couple weeks ago so I got a new one which has DLNA and by using it I can play videos from the phone or PC without problems.

Help with this setup
Hi,
Could you please tell me how you connected to your Media Link HD through WMP? I activated streaming of media and keep trying to detect it with no luck. The Play To button says no media devices detected. I tried doing that both when my phone was connected to the media link and while it was not. I also connected directly to the Media Link HD's network on wifi but it still didn't work.
Thanks,
Mohamed

mmattar23 said:
Hi,
Could you please tell me how you connected to your Media Link HD through WMP? I activated streaming of media and keep trying to detect it with no luck. The Play To button says no media devices detected. I tried doing that both when my phone was connected to the media link and while it was not. I also connected directly to the Media Link HD's network on wifi but it still didn't work.
Thanks,
Mohamed
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Do you have the media link connected to your home wifi?
I have my computer connected to my modem by cable and media link is connected to it by wifi. Then all I need to do is to use the "play to" option from wmp and media link shows up in there.

Paqu1 said:
Do you have the media link connected to your home wifi?
I have my computer connected to my modem by cable and media link is connected to it by wifi. Then all I need to do is to use the "play to" option from wmp and media link shows up in there.
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Ok it just turned out that it was having issues, tried it again today and randomly everything worked beautifully! I just wish WMP gave us a better interface to the Media Link where I could control volume a little better and maybe even skip tracks with the shortcuts I have set up. I'll give video and everything else a try soon!

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Alternative TV out

I have a samsung 7 series hdtv with 2usb ports. I plugged in via usb changed the source on my tv to the usb selection. I mounted my sd card as you would to your pc. Selected media. From here I could access the root of my sd card. No problem finding pictures and all my media. Picture quality was as good as my pc. I'm sure its better than connecting via 3.5 to rca. I did have the tv out option selected but I don't know if this I'd necessary since your mounting you're sd card
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I don't mean to be rude or anything. But to be technical, that's not TV out. Realize that they are putting small computer-type equipment into media equipment these days. Technically the computer in the TV was browsing your phone like your Desktop would, and the computer in the TV was displaying the images on the TV. Its like hooking up your computer to a TV and going that route.
Otherwise that's an interesting wish. The TV Out option would have nothing to do with that method.
ByTheLight said:
I don't mean to be rude or anything. But to be technical, that's not TV out. Realize that they are putting small computer-type equipment into media equipment these days. Technically the computer in the TV was browsing your phone like your Desktop would, and the computer in the TV was displaying the images on the TV. Its like hooking up your computer to a TV and going that route.
Otherwise that's an interesting wish. The TV Out option would have nothing to do with that method.
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Not rude at all. But isn't the point of tv out to veiw media on your phone? I understand that I could use my app s through my tv but why would I wan t to do that? The phones display displays it much nicer and id be limited to a 3 ft wire connected to my device. Just curious?
Also has any one used dlna to communicate with there tv? What about plugging it into a ps3? I was trying to use my ps3 to play music from my cap since my ps3 is hooked up to my receiver. I could get my ipod to. Just some thoughts
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I have used the DLNA feature to stream to my ps3. As long as they are the same network, your ps3 should discover the captivate when you select search for media server option in the xmb menu. It works pretty good but then again i was only streaming music.
Smallsmx3 said:
Not rude at all. But isn't the point of tv out to veiw media on your phone? I understand that I could use my app s through my tv but why would I wan t to do that? The phones display displays it much nicer and id be limited to a 3 ft wire connected to my device. Just curious?
Also has any one used dlna to communicate with there tv? What about plugging it into a ps3? I was trying to use my ps3 to play music from my cap since my ps3 is hooked up to my receiver. I could get my ipod to. Just some thoughts
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that dosn't count as tv-out.
tv-out is the phone doing the processing and your tv receiving the signal.
In your case, the tv is reading the music/movies off your memory card and doing the processing.
you don't need tv out enabled.
I have a 7 series Samsung tv as well. I can't believe I didn't think of this before. Obviously this is better than the composite out that I have been using. I can also keep the screen off on the phone unlike when using composite out. Thanks!
TV Out is an option that is tied to the 3.5mm jack. If you ahve the right wire - you can send your phone's display out this port to a TV (Component video and Sound) - so you can display the web browser or recorded video or any part of the phone's desktop.
I assume samsung added this for people that have older TVs that can't mount USB and don't support DLNA. You only need to enable TV-OUT if you are using the 3.5mm cable.

[Q] is there a way to streak music from my phone to my xoom?

Is there a way to stream music that's stored on my android phone on my xoom? I tried connecting via bluetooth and it pairs but wont connect to my mytouch 4g.
Is there another way to do it?
graffixnyc said:
Is there a way to stream music that's stored on my android phone on my xoom? I tried connecting via bluetooth and it pairs but wont connect to my mytouch 4g.
Is there another way to do it?
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anyone??..
According to specs, Xoom supports DLNA, so it should be possible. Try Twonky, in fact I will give it a try also.
Edit: it seems that Twonky doesn't work on xoom
OK, I found a way to stream music from my DHD to Xoom.
You need Twonky mobile on your phone and 2player on your Xoom. Also works with windows 7 media server. Unfortunately 2player can only play audio.

[Q] Splashtop

I wanted to know if using the splashtop HD (not sure if it comes loaded with or not) But I wanted to know if this does allow for gaming or not, just simple gaming nothing harcore.
Doesn't come loaded with SplashtopHD but MyCloud does the same thing and it's preloaded on the TF
baseballfanz said:
Doesn't come loaded with SplashtopHD but MyCloud does the same thing and it's preloaded on the TF
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Really, if can do the remote desktop thing so you can do basic point and click games?
Haven't tried to play any games but if it's basic point clicks should be do able if speed is not a factor.
sorry to disappoint you but clicks in games are very clunky at the best...Not sure why but my first guess would be there are some fundamental differences between inputs in windows api and DirectX api.. and in many (not all) games, a single click seems to only trigger a mouse-over event and you have to double click really fast and precisely in the same position to make it registered as a mouse click.
baseballfanz said:
Haven't tried to play any games but if it's basic point clicks should be do able if speed is not a factor.
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well for the moment it doesnt matter as I cant see my pc with it.
tried last night with Splashtop... the standard free version only lets u get 1024x768, while HD can get u 1280x720(extra 80 pixel taken by the bottom bar)
i tried launching Mass Effect from it, and it says failed, cos it doesnt support full screen application...
another thing worth mentioning is that the mouse control(or touchpad) is very awkward to use... it's the same control as android, right click = back, where the actual Windows right click = Hold Left Click..
also, the stream is rather laggy, i tried watching video on it.. it's not smooth, i guess it streams less then 24 fps then.. not yet practical, but got its potential, do hope Asus would improve it in the future
BBXiong said:
tried last night with Splashtop... the standard free version only lets u get 1024x768, while HD can get u 1280x720(extra 80 pixel taken by the bottom bar)
i tried launching Mass Effect from it, and it says failed, cos it doesnt support full screen application...
another thing worth mentioning is that the mouse control(or touchpad) is very awkward to use... it's the same control as android, right click = back, where the actual Windows right click = Hold Left Click..
also, the stream is rather laggy, i tried watching video on it.. it's not smooth, i guess it streams less then 24 fps then.. not yet practical, but got its potential, do hope Asus would improve it in the future
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My problem is still at getting it and my pc to see each other, but last night I had some network issues. (First could ping other pc's but no one could ping me and also I didn't even show up on the router as there) But after 4 hours and such I think I just want to figure out how to get a refund from them for the HD copy I got since it just doesn't work for me.
Even after I got my PC to show up on the network and everything else, it still doesn't show up. Load it on another pc boom shows up first time.
Damn, i installed the desktop version and showed me webpage to download splashtop for android. Did this and after 5 minutes it disconnected and showed me a paid app for full functionality. I buyed this, but now after 10 days is see it is included in mycloud. So i asked for a refund and they say: too late! this can only be done in 7 days!
tharonald1981 said:
Damn, i installed the desktop version and showed me webpage to download splashtop for android. Did this and after 5 minutes it disconnected and showed me a paid app for full functionality. I buyed this, but now after 10 days is see it is included in mycloud. So i asked for a refund and they say: too late! this can only be done in 7 days!
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Welcome to the ****ed over club then, I bought the HD and normal one. One for my phone and one for my tablet, and after 5 days of fighting with it I still can't get any of them to see my PC and all they do is shout port forward like I am to stupid to have done that first. The site they have also has limited support.
The one that came with the mycloud stuff I think is the old one and HD is the newer one.
Has anyone used it to stream Netflix from their PC? Youtube seems A-ok.
Got it free with mycloud... paid for the HD version. Best RDP software I've tried and I've tried a few
MurfsHTC said:
Has anyone used it to stream Netflix from their PC? Youtube seems A-ok.
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I haven't tried Netflix, but I've streamed live tv from my PC with a couple of DVB-C cards. This works fine and channel changes are almost as fast as when viewed on the PC directly, so I don't see any reason why Netflix shouldn't work too.
In order to play any game you have to set it to windowed mode. I played SC2 the other night. it wasnt bad but it's hard typing and playing at the same time unless you have the dock with mouse
Splashtop HD supports full-screen, so you can run games and watch videos in full-screen now. As to why your PC isn't detected, have you tried manually adding the internal IP of your PC? Did you try setting up Static internal IP? What kind of router are you running, I know some cheap routers have issues with routing properly even with correct settings.
frosty5689 said:
Splashtop HD supports full-screen, so you can run games and watch videos in full-screen now. As to why your PC isn't detected, have you tried manually adding the internal IP of your PC? Did you try setting up Static internal IP? What kind of router are you running, I know some cheap routers have issues with routing properly even with correct settings.
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I've had the problem where it was working and then stopped being detected. A reboot fixed the issue but for those that did get it working and it stopped working, this is what I had to do..
frosty5689 said:
Splashtop HD supports full-screen, so you can run games and watch videos in full-screen now. As to why your PC isn't detected, have you tried manually adding the internal IP of your PC? Did you try setting up Static internal IP? What kind of router are you running, I know some cheap routers have issues with routing properly even with correct settings.
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Aye I did, it's a netgear one. My pc has a set internal ip of 192.168.1.100 and at first no other system could see or ping me, never needed too so the problem was never noticed. I fixed it so now I can be seen and such but the app still won't find my pc, even when I manually add it to the program.
I went to the router and already forwared the ports it needed to .100 on my end and that is the only advise they keep drolling out at me. I know this works and was livid when I installed it on a pc wired into the router and boom found it right away, I know the issue is on my pc side just not sure what.
Hi all,
It's my first time posting here.
Got my TF fro about 2 weeks now, generally quite happy with it but have some problem using splashtop as some of you here.
I wanted to use TF to control my laptop at office. I was able to control my laptop if through local network but when try to control it from outside internet, I have done all the proper portforwarding (setting port 6783~6785 linked to my laptop static IP) I always failed
My laptop connect to office router (WAG200G) through wireless though. Could that be a problem?
Thanks
I can play games with Splashtop HD and they run great (even games like Crysis2).
The only problem is that I must use the same WiFi network.
If I connect my PC from a different network, it's very slow to even just browse my PC, not to mention playing a game.
@liorry how do you connect to PC on different network?

Hi763 Miracast: DLNA Streaming Help (Windows 7)?

I bought a Hi763 Miracast from Focalprice mostly for the DLNA feature because I want to stream wireless audio to a receiver. Setup is pretty easy and the device can switch between Miracast and DLNA mode. I am in DLNA mode and the device is connected to my home network just fine.
With the device connected to my network, when I browse "Network" via my Windows 7 PC, I see the device shows up as a media device titled HI763-8B8182-DMR however I do not get any option to connect to it. When I right click a music file, I also do not get the option to "Play To" the device like I would on other DLNA connected devices.
Thoughts on how I can stream audio to the device via Windows 7?
speedboxx said:
I bought a Hi763 Miracast from Focalprice mostly for the DLNA feature because I want to stream wireless audio to a receiver. Setup is pretty easy and the device can switch between Miracast and DLNA mode. I am in DLNA mode and the device is connected to my home network just fine.
With the device connected to my network, when I browse "Network" via my Windows 7 PC, I see the device shows up as a media device titled HI763-8B8182-DMR however I do not get any option to connect to it. When I right click a music file, I also do not get the option to "Play To" the device like I would on other DLNA connected devices.
Thoughts on how I can stream audio to the device via Windows 7?
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If you open Windows Media Player, you should be able to stream to your dongle via that. But you need to make sure that media streaming is enabled first (go to the network and sharing centre in the control panel, then select "change advanced sharing settings" from list on the left hand side. Choose whichever profile is appropriate for the wifi network you are on and then check "media streaming" (4th item down) is set to on).
The "Network" browse you refer to (presuming you mean the one under Windows Explorer) is for file shares (Samba or Windows shares) and isn't what you want for actual media sharing/streaming (it will presumably be showing up for management connection via web and/or telnet interfaces).
Once things are set up, you should be able to play your file via the stream menu that should be there. You may need to tweak a few settings in media player too though - see the link below for some guidance:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, this Miracast device just does not show up as an available streaming option. I know that the device is connected to the network properly (I can see it and browse the device webpage).
I am basically out of ideas now as I've tried everything.
speedboxx said:
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, this Miracast device just does not show up as an available streaming option. I know that the device is connected to the network properly (I can see it and browse the device webpage).
I am basically out of ideas now as I've tried everything.
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How are you trying to stream to it? Using which Windows program?
DarrenHill said:
How are you trying to stream to it? Using which Windows program?
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Windows Media Player. My experience with DLNA streaming is that you first have to "install" the device first. Such as with my Onkyo network receiver. I right click the device in My Network, then select the "install device" option. Then I can stream to it. But this Miracast does not have an "install device" option when I right click it in My Network.
speedboxx said:
Windows Media Player. My experience with DLNA streaming is that you first have to "install" the device first. Such as with my Onkyo network receiver. I right click the device in My Network, then select the "install device" option. Then I can stream to it. But this Miracast does not have an "install device" option when I right click it in My Network.
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Hmm, my experience is different - the DLNA renderer should just be visible to a suitable source and/or controller (such as Media Player), without any need to install anything, once it is connected to the same network as your laptop (the one with the Media Player, or whatever you are using as a DLNA server).
As you can see the device on the network and browse its webpage (I presume you mean by connecting directly to the device using IE or similar via the IP address it generates on the screen) then it's on the network properly. I would suspect that your laptop isn't set up correctly for streaming out to the device. There are details about that on the web, such as the link below (it also depends which version of WMP you are using, only v11 and upwards can do it) for Win7 and Win8:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx
http://www.topnettricks.com/windows-8-dlna-media-server/
There's a video on YouTube (link below) for mirroring a phone onto a TV using the device which may help if you haven't already seen it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNaxSH5HDI
Try to update to 5.0.0 rc1 with this flashing tools http://rantech.iblogger.org/aggiornare-la-chiavetta-miracast-lollipop-hi-763/
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=532996
5.0.0-RC2 : https://www.mediafire.com/?u222696ypthn86p
You can flash any firmware from another RK2928 with RKDeviceManage V1.7
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HI763 Lollipop
I just received mine this morning, and having quite a few problems with it too.
My phone won't detect it in Miracast mode, looks like 4.4 Roms have many problems with screen casting.
My tablet detect it, but it lags a lot and resolution seems to be the same as tablet screen so not 1080p at all, I want to stream Netflix on my TV, tried several HDMI adapters but it's very expensive and often break after a few days, so screen casting is way better to me.
DLNA seems to be working with the Google Play app, but I can't stream Netflix with it
So I was wondering if updating firmware will resolve some problems, or if anyone knows how to activate screen casting on 4.4 custom roms or anything else that will allow me to stream Netflix in HD on my TV lol.
PS : Hey un Clermontois ! lol, je suis de Vichy.
Have you switched on wireless display sharing in the detection?
Mikerhinos said:
I just received mine this morning, and having quite a few problems with it too.
My phone won't detect it in Miracast mode, looks like 4.4 Roms have many problems with screen casting.
My tablet detect it, but it lags a lot and resolution seems to be the same as tablet screen so not 1080p at all, I want to stream Netflix on my TV, tried several HDMI adapters but it's very expensive and often break after a few days, so screen casting is way better to me.
DLNA seems to be working with the Google Play app, but I can't stream Netflix with it
So I was wondering if updating firmware will resolve some problems, or if anyone knows how to activate screen casting on 4.4 custom roms or anything else that will allow me to stream Netflix in HD on my TV lol.
PS : Hey un Clermontois ! lol, je suis de Vichy.
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On my 4.4 phone, when I'm in the screencast settings, I need to press the menu button and check wireless screen casting in order for the phone to detect the dongle. maybe this helps.
miracast 5.0.0-rc1. mirroring problem
hello
i hv miracast dongle. on dlna or media sharing mode it working .but on miracast mode its not showing mirroring option. i m using motorola xoom tab with version 4.1.2.i saw video on youtube they were showing the option of mirroring is on display option .but there is no option for mirroring.kindly help me
anonymouslove said:
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i hv miracast dongle. on dlna or media sharing mode it working .but on miracast mode its not showing mirroring option. i m using motorola xoom tab with version 4.1.2.i saw video on youtube they were showing the option of mirroring is on display option .but there is no option for mirroring.kindly help me
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Hi
Try using WiFi Display application from Google Play. That's what I use with this dongle, but i've Sony XV 4.3.
and my question: did u send to this dongle video in 720P? was it lucky? i not.

[Q] Shifting media when using Skifta app not working

OK , first off thanks to everyone who helps me with this problem just so you know I did work very hard to try and resolve the issue on my own.
Problem: my computer is not at my house and while I'm at home I can shift media from my computer to my phone using the Skifta application over my LTE network just fine but when I try to shift it to my bluray it gives me the error "unable to determine what media types the media player supports". Now I was able to shift to the bluray player perfectly fine right before I rooted my device . I use T-Mobile and did do the tethering block fix on my device . any and all help will be much appreciated!!

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