Just got my Transformer yesterday and overall I like it but one of the biggest issue that I found is that I cannot stream mkv files from my HTPC to it (or haven't found a way to do it).
Is there a player that supports streaming of MKVs ? Also, other than using Plex is there any other option to do streaming ?
DicePlayer can stream MKV files, on a CIFS/samba share. I suggest you try the trial.
While Dice player can't play a single MKV I've thrown at it (and I tried a LOT of different files) and is, IMO, a complete waste of money I second the CIFS mount suggestion. that's the only way I found to reliably and painlesly watch movies from my NAS.
SteamTrout said:
While Dice player can't play a single MKV I've thrown at it (and I tried a LOT of different files) and is, IMO, a complete waste of money I second the CIFS mount suggestion. that's the only way I found to reliably and painlesly watch movies from my NAS.
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I tried Dice player and it did not even play my AVIs so I don't know why it is regarded as such a great player.
Is there a noob friendly guide of using CIFS somewhere?
Dice player plays all the MKV's I've thrown at it
Dice player work for me as well. Streaming using upnplay.
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Dice player works great on my htc sensation, i can play all my hd stuff, was rather annoyed to find out that my phone can play video better than my tablet though. Apparently tegra 2 struggles with high profile h264.
DICE plays all my anime mkv's, It's by no means the perfect application but it does a good job with support for certain audio streams. I don't regret the purchase.
No problem with Dice Player playing mkv. For streaming from HTPC i use Bubble UPNP or UPNPlay but i think Bubble UPNP is more userfriendly.
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steini81 said:
No problem with Dice Player playing mkv. For streaming from HTPC i use Bubble UPNP or UPNPlay but i think Bubble UPNP is more userfriendly.
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I just download the two apps. Bubble is more honeycomb friendly, but it will be a paid app in september.
But, Dice Player through Bubble or Upnplay can't show the subtitle included in the mkv movie file. I have to download the mkv file in order to have the subtitle. Is there another way to do it through UPNP streaming only?
Diamond360 said:
I just download the two apps. Bubble is more honeycomb friendly, but it will be a paid app in september.
But, Dice Player through Bubble or Upnplay can't show the subtitle included in the mkv movie file. I have to download the mkv file in order to have the subtitle. Is there another way to do it through UPNP streaming only?
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After a lot of trial and error I was able to stream mkv with the following combination
TVMoBili + Bubble + DicePlayer/Mx Player
Only with Dice player, the video does not shutter but Mx Player is the only one that shows embedded subtitles and unlike DicePlayer, I can skip ahead the video.
ajamils said:
After a lot of trial and error I was able to stream mkv with the following combination
TVMoBili + Bubble + DicePlayer/Mx Player
Only with Dice player, the video does not shutter but Mx Player is the only one that shows embedded subtitles and unlike DicePlayer, I can skip ahead the video.
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I use PS3 Media Server which work for ps3 and the ASUS tablet!
But MX Player (free version) is laggy when it come to play a 720p mkv video file. Dice Player is perfect with 720p file. It is a shame that Dice won't play subtitle when it play streaming videos.
Just saying. I'm watching a 720p video on my transformer right now using mxplayer and the armv7 codec for it and its running perfectly and no issues whatsoever.
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Streaming wise, I use Qloud and it is awesome.
I still cannot stream MKV.DICE was lagging even for normal videos when Rockplayer was able to make it work well. Will try mxplayer.
Please remember that MKV is just a container, inside that container you can have almost any combination of video codec and audio codec. MP4 is also a container but it has a very limited range of allowed video/audio codecs, so it's much easier to support.
If you are using the Android system video decoding (The only way to get hardware accelerated playback) you will be able to play some 720p h.264 video streams. If you are just using the CPU to decode then 720p will never be smooth.
All these video players can do is try to unwrap the containers (Like MKV or AVI) and _maybe_ do soft-decoding on the audio if the android system doesn't support the audio codec (Like AC3/DTS)
If the player does full CPU decoding for the video stream you won't be able to play HD content smoothly, ever (Things that claim "Optimised for the Tegra 2 CPU" are still just doing the work on the CPU).
This means that there will _never_ be a Tegra2 Android app that can play _all_ MKV's it's simply not possible. This is why people are saying "Plays my MKVs fine" and other are saying "Won't play any of my MKVs"
After spending many frustrating hours trying to stream my mkvs, the only 100% working solution that I have found so far is to use MyCloud app an remote desktop into my HTPC. This way I not only have access to all my movies/tv shows I can play them with subtitles.
I know its not the best solution but at least it is a working one
I'm using Plex to stream movies, but I can't recall if I have tried any .mkv files. Can anyone confirm? If so, OP might want to try Plex... it's pretty slick.
Drybonz said:
I'm using Plex to stream movies, but I can't recall if I have tried any .mkv files. Can anyone confirm? If so, OP might want to try Plex... it's pretty slick.
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Plex re-encodes on the fly so it'll play anything that the server can transcode in realtime. But the quality will be notably lower.
For SMB streaming I use ES File Explorer.
MX Player for avi's (SW).
MXP loads subtitles from the tablet.
Dice Player for mkv's (HW).
Could someone help with this? I have a WDTV Live HD media player and a Vizio Co-Star Google TV box. I would like to stream videos I have d/led from the internet to either of these devices using the TF700. I have MX Video player and Vplayer (licensed) and Vplayer UpNp plugin. Do I need any of those players to stream or do I need something else? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
In the mynet app there was an option to do this I think. It worked with my tv last time I tried. Also look up bubble upnp
Mynet can do it, but MediaHouse is even better. And for video playback, BS Player is much better than VPlayer.
I use MediaHouse and BS Player now. Used to use Mynet and used to use VPlayer once upon a time.
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Mynet can do it, but MediaHouse is even better. And for video playback, BS Player is much better than VPlayer.
I use MediaHouse and BS Player now. Used to use Mynet and used to use VPlayer once upon a time.
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+1. MediaHouse & BS Player are great apps for streaming and playback. Top notch!
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+1. MediaHouse & BS Player are great apps for streaming and playback. Top notch!
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+2 MediaHouse & MX Player
+3 ES File Explorer LAN & MX Player & Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB
elfaure said:
+2 MediaHouse & MX player
+3 ES File Explorer LAN & MX Player & Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB
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Thanks for the Seagate tip. Will be nice for portability.
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+1. MediaHouse & BS Player are great apps for streaming and playback. Top notch!
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How can I get MediaHouse to show in the list (the one where you select always or once) or how can I set it as my default media streamer? I have the Default App Manager Pro but when I try to use it to set my default app for streaming video it is not one of the ones made available to me' Twonky Beam and Bubble UpNp are there but no MediaHouse.
I use MX Player.
I use MX player pro
I've MX Player always but I just switched to VLC because I have it on my computer. It's great so far.
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MX Player all the way!
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What's the benefit of mx over stock android gallery one?
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What's the benefit of mx over stock android gallery one?
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Mx player supports much more formats than the stock android one. And I like the controls and settings that it provides.
Another MX Player fan...
Mx player & xbmc
MX playa
Used to be a fan of DICE but they removed AC3, VLC for Android is pretty good too. But MX Player is the best in my opinion.
Open source VLC..
I use vplayer a for a few years now. Works great. I use it to stream my movies and TV shows from my hard drive via my pogoplug
Definitely MX player
MX Player.
MX Player all the way.
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bs player
MX Player. Best by far
MX Player.
BS Player
MX player ftw. :good:
Hi,
I would like to be able to Share a particular video I am watching (for instance, from YouTube or YT Mobile) to MX Player. There is only 1 media player that I know I can share to most anytime. It is called BS Player. But I would much prefer to share to MX Player. I don't believe there are any copyright concerns nor technical problems to prevent this.
Would you consider adding this feature, because MX Player is definitely the way to go!
danbosma said:
Hi,
I would like to be able to Share a particular video I am watching (for instance, from YouTube or YT Mobile) to MX Player. There is only 1 media player that I know I can share to most anytime. It is called BS Player. But I would much prefer to share to MX Player. I don't believe there are any copyright concerns nor technical problems to prevent this.
Would you consider adding this feature, because MX Player is definitely the way to go!
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It's because BS has implemented to YouTube API to particularly play youtube videos.
The MX Player had a intention to app youtube support. But, it was on alow priority since there are some other features he is currently working on. Anyway I will ask the developer again in this regards & reply back to you.
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Hello,
I'm a registered user of MX Player (MX Player Pro) and I miss this feature on my NVIDIA SHIELD TV. NVIDIA is not going to add automatic frame rate switching because they say this feature should be implemented in each video application, not in firmware. MX Player is the video player with the best picture quality I have ever seen, but this feature is necessary on NSTV because we have to set the frame rate manually in Settings for each video file.
Thank you. Best regards.
I need this function for Amazon Fire TV 4K too. Please implement this, if possible. Hint: The SmartYouTubeTV app (free on github) has working AFR.
Please implement this feature! The Vimu Player, Plex, Emby works better!
djnice77 said:
Please implement this feature! The Vimu Player, Plex, Emby works better!
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or KMplayer.
If you use Kodi and set MX Player as the default video player in playerfactorycore.xml it will switch the refresh rate first, then send the video to MX Player to handle the playback.