Hi, I have a Sony Bravia W6 42" and I was thinking that if I buy a MHL cable for the S4, then I will be able to connect the phone to the TV and will be able to watch movies in full screen, those 1920x800 resolution ones which are normally can't watch in full screen, without those disgusting black bars!
My question is, what about quality? Will the picture quality degrade if I watch via MHL, than watching through a PHD or a Pen drive?
If someone has already experience in this matter kindly input here.
Thanks.
No one? I really need to know this.
Interested as well
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I've used MHL on my S4 and my LG3DTV so I'll leave my first impressions. I'll try it again tonight to just be absolutely concrete but here's my immediate thougths.
1.) You need to make sure your MHL adapter supports the S4. There are some 5 pin ones and 11 pin ones. I have the Samsung adapter so I'm fine but make sure you get the right one.
2.) The black bars are part of the aspect ratio. Our screen is 16:9 so if your movie is 16:9 it'll fill the whole screen. Some movies use wider aspect ratios so you'll get the black bars on the top and bottom. I'll check tonight if you get the bars outputting to TV. I can't remember that.
3.) I believe there is some overscan (rather underscan) when outputting via MHL. It seems like I had a black border all the way around when I played a few games on my TV with MHL and a bluetooth controller (which is awesome by the way). Some HD games did fill the screen and was a pretty decent experience (NFSMW, A8, MC4, Osmos).
Again I'll test these out tonight and post some pics with my other phone so you can see for yourself before buying anything.
Daistaar said:
I've used MHL on my S4 and my LG3DTV so I'll leave my first impressions. I'll try it again tonight to just be absolutely concrete but here's my immediate thougths.
1.) You need to make sure your MHL adapter supports the S4. There are some 5 pin ones and 11 pin ones. I have the Samsung adapter so I'm fine but make sure you get the right one.
2.) The black bars are part of the aspect ratio. Our screen is 16:9 so if your movie is 16:9 it'll fill the whole screen. Some movies use wider aspect ratios so you'll get the black bars on the top and bottom. I'll check tonight if you get the bars outputting to TV. I can't remember that.
3.) I believe there is some overscan (rather underscan) when outputting via MHL. It seems like I had a black border all the way around when I played a few games on my TV with MHL and a bluetooth controller (which is awesome by the way). Some HD games did fill the screen and was a pretty decent experience (NFSMW, A8, MC4, Osmos).
Again I'll test these out tonight and post some pics with my other phone so you can see for yourself before buying anything.
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Ah finally someone replied. If I buy I will buy the original S4 MHL, that's not a worrying factor. But as you said, there's some under/over processing, hmm, that's what I was wondering! I mean if you clearly see picture quality degradation while playing via MHL in comparison to USB devices (PHD or Pen drive) then I will certainly not be interested, I will take black bars happily over a poorer picture.
jujuburi said:
Ah finally someone replied. If I buy I will buy the original S4 MHL, that's not a worrying factor. But as you said, there's some under/over processing, hmm, that's what I was wondering! I mean if you clearly see picture quality degradation while playing via MHL in comparison to USB devices (PHD or Pen drive) then I will certainly not be interested, I will take black bars happily over a poorer picture.
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picture seems to show nicely providing the res is HD (1920x1080) otherwise some pixelation (as TV and Phone is Full hd)
i get some lag when tapping the screen and overlay to pause skip video appears but when the overlay minimizes video starts again at normal speed.
sound works fine.
if phone is in portrait mode then ull have black on either side on tv .
ratio for tv 16:9 16:10 is fine
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I have gotten a TF101 to test it out as a supplementary mobile client.
We are running Citrix and I have a desktop published throug Citrix Receiver. I have found keyboard and mouse that works with this wonderful machine but I want to have an external display also.
But I find the HDMI support quite bad. The content fills more than the TV Screen and I cannot change the screen resolution. I would like to have a larger screen resolution on the external display but cannot find any way to do this.
I have a LG Optimus 3D phone and on that I can adjust a lot of options on the HDMI port so it should be possible.
One snag: I am testing out this to be used in large scale for hundreds and eventually thousands of users so this needs to be working on completely stock operating system.
Maybe the Asus HDMI to VGA Adaptor is something to think about?
http://www.asus.com/Peripherals_Accessories/Eee_Pad_Accessories/Mini_HDMI_to_VGA_Cable/
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Maybe the Asus HDMI to VGA Adaptor is something to think about?
http://www.asus.com/Peripherals_Accessories/Eee_Pad_Accessories/Mini_HDMI_to_VGA_Cable/
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Ok. I got this one and it almost fills my need. I need to get a higher screen resolution on the external display. 1280x720 is way to small for a permanent workstation. At least with the tools I use.
Maybe I just have to wait for ICS to get this working?
Are you trying HDMI on a TV or a monitor? If a TV does it look washed out and a little zoomed in? TV's have some over scan options that really mess with the signal from PCs. Look around the menu options of the TV and see if you can turn it off, alot of em can't tho. Just google HDMI PC overscan and you'll get a better picutre of what I'm talking about.
For res I don't think it can do better than 720 and I've never seen any options for it. I'd call up Asus if your going to be making a decision that could mean eventually thousands of sales for them.
Also don't forget that they said they're launching the Windows 8 Transformer this year. That should suit your needs beautifully.
How are you accessing your Citrix Desktop? Using the Receiver? Or is there another app specifically for Citrix Desktop access?
EDIT: Never mind, the VDI i was trying to access was taken down recently by the systems team. Do'h. Time to build a server.
Me personally I've been using the citrix beta app, seems to work better.
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Are you trying HDMI on a TV or a monitor? If a TV does it look washed out and a little zoomed in? TV's have some over scan options that really mess with the signal from PCs. Look around the menu options of the TV and see if you can turn it off, alot of em can't tho. Just google HDMI PC overscan and you'll get a better picutre of what I'm talking about.
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I tried with the VGA adapter on my 22" samsung syncmaster and the desktop filled the screen perfectly. Via HDMI to my 42 inch HDTV I got overscan problems.
It is though the monitor I need to use to acheive my goal of using it as a citrix thin client. I hope we can manipulate the HDMI output more in ICS. It would be nice to use the monitor's native resolution (1680x1050).
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Me personally I've been using the citrix beta app, seems to work better.
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Agreed. It has more options and seems more stable. Go figure.
The TF101 does not support greater than 720p output for mirroring. No word from Asus if they will ever bump it up to 1080p capability, since the Tegra 2 already struggles with 1080p video playback. You should wait for the TF700T for full 1080p output.
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The TF101 does not support greater than 720p output for mirroring. No word from Asus if they will ever bump it up to 1080p capability, since the Tegra 2 already struggles with 1080p video playback. You should wait for the TF700T for full 1080p output.
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Actually 1080p is not what I need. 1280 is more than enough horisontal resolution, but 720 vertical is too little. If it could output 1280x1024 on an external monitor I'd be very happy.
What I say is that there should be an alternative to mirroring on the HDMI port. With the dock and usb ports the interal screen could be switched off and a resolution of choice be shown on the HDMI-connected display.
Hi everyone, I have to do a presentation of a game I developed for Android. I wanted to show my phone's screen on my PC, so it can be showed in the projector. The problem is, all of the ways I tried to do this result in minimum fps, like 5 or 10, and obviouly, to show a game performance this isn't enough.
So, I ask, is there a way to show my Android screen on a PC with high fps? With som kind of wire or something to pass video channel? (my phone only has usb and jack outputs...)
Thank you all!
Well the only reason some electronics devices show 1080p or true HD images is that it has a built it port specially designed for its purpose. Which is to display images. Its called the HDMI port.
Phones on the other case is the maximum you can get. Since its the maximum amount of pixels it can display on the device. Eg the bigger the screen the more pixels you need for a crisp image. The smaller the screen the less pixels because we don't need that much. But if we enlarge it from a small device we get large pixels.
Unless you have a laptop, tablet or other mp4 I don't think you can get higher than 10 fps
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I have been looking for the answer to the same question for a long time now. I wanted to post video reviews for apps but nothing works. Obviously Screencast is too slow and emulators are even worse. The only way I've come across that gives great FPS so far, is buying a Media Capture Card, and a decent HDMI one costs around $100. Too expensive IMO but if you don't mind spending a little, I suggest you check it out. I guess that's how the game-making companies must do it...Oh well, let us know if it works out?
I just got the hdmi connector in the mail and it works great but when I play a netflix movie on the big screen it has 2 large bars on both sides of the screen as if it seems to be in a 4:3 format. Is there any way to fill the wholescreen?
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I just got the hdmi connector in the mail and it works great but when I play a netflix movie on the big screen it has 2 large bars on both sides of the screen as if it seems to be in a 4:3 format. Is there any way to fill the wholescreen?
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I got the same problem using the wireless hub.
I recently purchased the Samsung Media Dock for my Galaxy S4 i9505
All works well and I love it, apart from a few small niggles.
The dock only displays in 720p, as it was originally used for the Note II, so the resolution output is not Full HD, like it should be with our S4's natively supporting 1080p.
Also, the 720p output is not quite the correct aspect ratio, I have tried it on both of my TV's (Samsung 32" and Panasonic 42") and it cuts off a bit of the sides and top/bottom of the output.
Wanting to know if maybe Samsung will release an update to the software on the phone side to be able to display the correct resolution and ratio, or if it is a hardware issue on the dock side.
If anyone has any advice or knowledge on this, help would be greatly appreciated.
I tried my Galaxy Note Edge with HDMI (using the Smart Dock) and Screen Mirroring and in both cases the edge panel was displayed at the top of the screen when watching a movie in full screen on the TV.
Does anyone know if there is a way to hide the edge panel in this case?
Mark
I am currently having the same issue plus the screen is getting cropped because of the 16:10 aspect ratio which includes the edge screen, which mean that the note edge is actually pushing out a higher resolution than the note 4 but it also mean the edge sends an image with a black bar on the left and the right of the tv..
The phone really slows down when miracast is used, from 60fps to around 24fps. input responsiveness takes a hit as well.
If you use Wifi direct or all share instead of mirror. You wont get the edge bar.
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If you use Wifi direct or all share instead of mirror. You wont get the edge bar.
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I got it while watching a YouTube video through my all share.
bignibb said:
I got it while watching a YouTube video through my all share.
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I spent over an hour on YouTube yesterday and never got the edge screen on mine. I used allshare through the YouTube app
Mine still says Galaxy Note Edge
hello xda developers !!
I just got the USB-HDMI for my Galaxy Note Edge, and first I should say the WOW factor, it is great and (short of) unbelievable seeing this thing working on the bigscreen
(just take POPcorn for testing purpose and you will know what I mean)
Nevertheless, the WOW goes a bit down for the upper bar with the Galaxy thing (and the cropped sizes)
Did you, @bignibb, or others, come to solve it?
@larollin what do you mean with "Wifi direct" or "all share". All that I do is connect the usb-hdmi cable, and HDMI connected message come to screen
By the way, sound goes off from mobile to TV, thats great for TV, but not so much for proyector,
can be set that the sound goes still from mobile ?
thanks in advance