For those who use a Roku, you may find this of interest. Roku has updated their Roku App with what Roku is calling "Play on Roku". This new feature will allow you to stream music and pictures from your Android (or iPhone) device equipped with the updated Roku App to a supported Roku device. Per the Roku blog announcement; "Play on Roku works with all Roku 2 models, the current-generation Roku HD player (model #2500), and Roku LT (models #2400 and 2450), as well as the upcoming Roku Streaming Stick."
It should be noted that what music or picture formats are supported may be dependant on the Roku 2, Roku HD and Roku LT supported music/picture formats.
Note that the update Roku App DOES NOT, at this point, stream video from your Android device to the Roku box.
You can streaming pictures in a slide show format, with limited options on slide show speed and transition effects. There is also the option of playing music during the slide show. The options to set slide show speed, transition effects and music selection is set via the Play on Roku screen Menu option. Note when viewing pictures the music will only pay once the slide show is running (press the Play button to start the slide show).
The music streaming feature allows for Playlists, selecting by Artists, Albums and Songs. Note that when selecting Songs it sorts Alphabetically (at least it did for me) and not by song track. If album art is embedded into the song file it will be displayed as well.
There is at least one bug that I've experienced so far. If I'm streaming video with my Roku 2 XS and exit the Roku App on my Nexus 7, the Roku 2 XS dumps out of the streaming video and goes to the home/main menu screen.
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I have a Panasonic Smart TV and I'd like to watch some movies on it, via my Nexus 5. How do I do that?
I went to Settings>Screen Cast and when I turn it on, it finds nothing.
The cast feature isn't implemented yet in Chromecast. However, for streaming video I would recommend using the realplayer cloud app. You can stream any video (and audio I think) content from your phone, or anything in your realplayer library. For example if you have a computer on the same wifi that has videos in the library (not even necessarily uploaded, just in the library) you can stream it using your N5 because it will be in the app.
Hey guys
i m always having the problem of playing High Quality videos on my xperia miro...
I know About my phones limitation..but if there is any way i can play those videos or convert them to playable quality from the phone itself then please advice me...Thank You
Libinbabu53 said:
Hey guys
i m always having the problem of playing High Quality videos on my xperia miro...
I know About my phones limitation..but if there is any way i can play those videos or convert them to playable quality from the phone itself then please advice me...Thank You
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mx player is the only option
Libinbabu53 said:
Hey guys
i m always having the problem of playing High Quality videos on my xperia miro...
I know About my phones limitation..but if there is any way i can play those videos or convert them to playable quality from the phone itself then please advice me...Thank You
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You could be one of the five tries this option :
MoboPlayer
Any respectable discussion about free media players will honestly not be complete without mentioning Moboplayer, as it has been one of the most popular free media players out there for quite a bit of time now. MoboPlayer supports a lot of the video file formats that are rampant in the Internet, including ones that your device might not normally support, this through a feature called software decoding. The player itself also supports multiple audio tracks, subtitles – even multiple onscreen subtitles, and media streaming to media and home entertainment servers. The player takes some time in opening HD video files – especially 1080p ones – but it is rarely more than 3 seconds. With our Samsung Galaxy S3 Alpha (SC-03E) test bed – 4.8-inch 1280x720 screen, 1.6Ghz Exynos processor, Mali-400MP graphics, 2GB RAM – there was no visible lag opening a 1080p MP4 file.
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MX Player
One of the more substantial free media players out there, great for general purpose video viewing, is MX Player. Using this app, you get a feeling that the developers chose to put in just that right balance between ease-of-use and robust features. The video viewer itself is sleek and logical, and the app supports most popular formats. For better format support, there is a codec download available, both from the developers, or you may choose to use any other codecs out there. There are gestures galore, and pinch-to-zoom. You have access to subtitle options, aspect ratio control and other stuff just from the main screen, while a lot more tweaks can be discovered in the settings menu. No lagging on this one as well, the software and hardware decoding holds up well. And since this is a free version, there will be ads, but the experience was altogether unobtrusive and tolerable.
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Vplayer
Vplayer is a simple approach to a media playing. It lacks the bells and whistles of most premium players and even like Moboplayer and MX Player, but if you want a straight up video player, this is one of the “lighter” media players out there. It supports the common file formats, and then some. Vplayer will also detect all your folders that contain video files and display them in folder view, but there are no ways of filtering or organizing your content. One of the cool things about Vplayer is that it lets you copy and paste links out of Youtube and Vimeo and play them on Vplayer.
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DicePlayer
DicePlayer is another feature filled player that leverages on a streamlined and uncluttered viewing window, with some straight up features available. When viewing your movie, the controls for view lock, playback speed controller, audio track and subtitle support, and aspect ratio adjustment is immediately available. DicePlayer even has controls for subtitle sync calibration, for those times when annoying subtitles are just not synced with your movie file. Finally, Dice Network playback support allows users to push their device-based media to media servers and home networks over Samba filesharing, FTP, and other such processes.
Download from Google Play Store
BSPlayer
Our last media player on this list is definitely not the least of them all, as the BSPlayer is a solid all around media app as well. Robust to the core, BSPayer offers software and hardware decoding in what seems to be a pretty uncluttered viewing pane – and we do realize that an uncluttered and simple viewing pane is one of our main considerations in a video player. One of the major selling points for the BSPlayer is that it lets you customize the interface to your liking with a variety of skins available. The app has support for subtitles, even built-in subtitles in video container files such as MKVs. As an added feature, the BSPlayer can even automatically find subtitles for your files online – very neat. The BSPlayer also has a “pop-out viewer” where you can keep your video on top of any app you may be running at the moment. As with everything here.
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Is there a way to disable the screen play on my Galaxy s5 screen when the screen mirroring feature is in use?
Screen mirroring is done by the system, so it would be handled there. Not sure if the app can pick up on this... @bleu8888 ?
Also, how are you mirroring? HDMI, Miracast... etc Depending on the method, the answer may differ.
Let me start from the beginning. I have a galaxy s5 on 5.0 lollipop. I use said phone to run showbox. Before I upgraded to 5.0 about a month ago showbox gave me the option to choose the external video player I wanted to use, which was vlc player. Whenever I used vlc player while I used wifi screen mirroring(the built in feature) the screen would just have video controls on it, ie pause, play, rewind etc but the video didn't play on my phone screen while still sending the video to the tv thus conserving power on my phone.
VLC has beta Chromecast support; Chromecast =/= mirror. Mirror means both screens show the same thing; Chromecast means the video is only rendered on hte output device.
MX currently doesn't have Chromecast support: http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/mx-player/sticky-mx-player-chromecast-t2725253
So I get it that this feature is not supported on Mx player?
Nutcase242 said:
So I get it that this feature is not supported on Mx player?
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I believe this feature would be supported in near future.
Hi there,
when I choose or set my MX Player as a default player in TV Zion or any other similar app on my Android phone with the latest OS update - it works just fine and I can watch the video on my phone, works perfect.
However, when I try to cast the video that I am watching on my TV through Chromecast and press Chromecast icon on my video screen and choose "Chromecast", I get on my TV just a picture with text: MX Player - Choose the video...
What do I need to do to get the video which is already running on my phone to be shown on the TV?
Thanks for your help.
This is regarding some playback features that are unavailable, but partially visible through information menu.
On one hand, selecting information menu, all Video streams (or tracks), including Audio can be seen for an mkv container. Example as in shared attachment, Stream#1: Whiplash (2014)_FHD versus Stream#2: Whiplash (2014)_4k. However, there seems be no apparent way to select/switch to a specific Video stream. In this case Stream#2 - 4k HDR one over 1080p. It defaults only to main track 1 which is forced flagged. One can readily access/switch between Audio tracks, but is not given any such option for Video tracks.
Players such as KODI for example have this kind of feature for quite some time now. Playback of multi-video tracks is possible as one can seamlessly switch between stream using default keyboard shortcuts or Keymap Editor for custom keys/switches. Video stream switching can be done during playback, while maintaining played timeline status. Example, Stream #1 was playing at 32m:03s:500ms. When switched to Stream #2, it plays from the exact same position seamlessly. Another example of this is using more efficient players like MPC – BE on Windows, which works even more accurately. Both Videos are synced fairly accurately during switching.
I really like the playback efficiency of MX Player Pro over KODI which is bulky for most part. This is just one nagging issue that forces me to use KODI in such scenarios. Here, I am referring to playback from Media Servers such as Jellyfin with External Player support activated for MX Player Pro.
I would like to know if there is any such option or plugin that can make this possible.