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Video Streaming With Picasa and 3D Gallery

Hello everyone,
I am here to show you step by step on how to use Google's Picasa media storage services to stream HQ movies straight to your phone so that way you can save space on your phone. Now this technique can used by multiple users at once so if you can co-workers or family members that you want to share your movies with, this is the guide for you.
Here Are Some Things You Will Need:
1: Gmail Account (Either your personal one or create a new one if you plan to share your movies with others)
2: Picasa Uploader 3.6 (Used for uploading your movie files to your Picasa account)
3: Movie Converter Program (DVDcatalyst is my personal favorite and the easiest or some other good ones are Handbrake, meGUI or DIVX Converter that will work for this as well)
4: 3D Gallery (If you dont have a Google Experience device like the G1 or Motorola Droid, then you will need to google "Android 3D Gallery APK" and install it via the guides it gives you.
Optional:Quicktime may be needed in order for Picasa to recognize certain file types.
How This Works
Picasa is Google's service that has been around for years. Its primary function is place to store all your photos. Now recently they have made it so that you can upload home movies that you've taken with your digital camcorder for safekeeping. When you upload your movies thru Picasa Uploader, it converts the movie file to .FLV just like the same format that Youtube uses. The cool thing is during the encoding part, it keeps the same resolution and bitrate that you used when you encoded the movie. Now, the trick to this all is that the new native 3D Gallery program that comes with the Google Experience phones(Android phones that dont have a custom UI but stock look kind of like the Motorola Droid phone) with 2.1 OS or higher has the ability to stream those movies directly from your Picasa account to your phone.
Encoding Movies For Optimal Streaming
There are multiple guides on how to do this that I will list below but one thing you want to take into consideration is the Bitrate. Bitrate is kind of like the quality of video, if it is set too high, the video is cleaner but the file is huge but on the other hand, if it is set lower, the video might be pixilated but the file is a lot smaller. The trick is finding a good balance between Bitrate and filesize because Picasa does have a storage limit and also bigger movie files take longer to stream to your phone thru Gallery.
Here are two different guides to re-encode your movies, either one works for this technique but the DVDcatalyst is the easier way to go.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-faq/14858-how-convert-videos-use-droid.html
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-audio-video/35019-streaming-hi-quality-video-android-tversity-nswplayer.html
Uploading Your Movie Using Picasa Uploader 3.6
I am not going to tell you how to setup Picasa but you need to direct it to your folder for where all your newly encoded movies are being stored at. Now you might run into a error if you encoded your movies using the guides above where the movies dont show up. To fix this, you must have Quicktime installed in order for Picasa to recognize these movie files that were encoded using their CODEC. After installing Quicktime, you must reboot your PC and once rebooted, in Picasa Uploader, go to Tools> Options> File Type and check off .mov as available files for Picasa to view.
After setting up your folders in Picasa, go ahead and link Picasa Uploader to your either your personal gmail account or the community gmail account that you plan on using. From there, right-click on the movie file and select upload to Picasa Web Albums and it will put it into a queue to upload to Picasa. From here, either go smoke a pack of cigarettes or drink a 6-pack because it takes a few for it to upload to Picasa and when it gets there, it takes a couple hours for Google to re-encode the movie into an .FLV file for mobile playback. It will show up in Gallery but if you try to play the movie and it says something like "This Movie File Cannot Be Played" then it means that Google hasnt finished converting it yet.
Playback Thru 3D Gallery
After you are done uploading your movies to Picasa and waiting for Google to re-encode the movies, if you have added your Gmail account properly thru Accounts under settings incase its your primary account or secondary if you plan on sharing with others, then when you open Gallery, the movies you have uploaded should show up now. Depending on if you are using 3G or Wi-Fi and how big the movie files are, then it can take some time to start streaming. It takes anywhere from 10 secs to 1 minute to start streaming on 3G whereas on Wi-Fi, it only takes 2-5 secs to start.
If the movies dont show up, trying taking a picture and uploading it to your Picasa account. Sometimes it requires you to do so in order to establish a link from Picasa to your phone.
Anywho, thats about it. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions regarding this method of video streaming.

Streaming http/ftp to android?

i was wondering if anyone could help point me on how i could stream videos hosted on my personal website to my android. i basically have a website with unlimited bandwidth and 150gb of space and wish there was a way to stream movies to my phone. is there any pages that could help for this purpose? if converting the files to a streamable format is required thats fine aslong as they work and are viewable.
it would be cool if i had to make pages for each video and the android to recognize its a video like how it does with youtube and open on a video app.

App that can do both photos and videos?

I am looking for an app that can play both photos and videos in the same playlist from a presentation standpoint so I can hook my tablet up next to a TV and have it stream both to the TV.
Right now the Gallery can do photos and MX Player can do Videos, but I need something that can do both in the same play list. Anyone have any ideas?

indiscriminant said:
I am looking for an app that can play both photos and videos in the same playlist from a presentation standpoint so I can hook my tablet up next to a TV and have it stream both to the TV.
Right now the Gallery can do photos and MX Player can do Videos, but I need something that can do both in the same play list. Anyone have any ideas?
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So you're basically looking for a media server? I use Twonky. Check out the description, but it should match what you are looking for.
I have only once used the app to stream (via WiFi) a movie from my tablet to a TV and it worked fine. I also have Twonky running on my NAS as a permanent media server to serve all my devices that are connected to my home network.

I will look into it, but not looking to have this need to be over a server.
I am looking for something to simply play a slide show that can go from photos, to video, to photos, etc and have all the files on my tablet and not stored remotely.

indiscriminant said:
I have all the files on my tablet and not stored remotely.
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I think I confused you. Twonky is just that, it runs on your tablet so the TV (or any compatible media play device) can play/display the files you allow it to access. Twonky will turn your tablet into a media server.
I was only explaining that I have used it only once on my tablet. This was to watch a video that I had on my tablet on a TV via WiFi. So I was not using a HDMI cable to hook my tablet to the TV, which is something different. In addition I tried to explain that I use Twonky for the exact same purpose at home, just not on the tablet, but on a NAS.

I see apps for Twonky Mobile, Beam, Video, etc on there. Which one should I use to display these on my tablet in a playlist/slideshow. I will be attached via HDMI.

It doesnt seem to allow me to put both a video and a photo into the same play list... is that correct?

I think what the OP is looking for is a single application that can play both audio and video content within.
Try QuickPic, its a gallery application similar to the stock Gallery, but can play video as well (says standard video on the page).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
If you want to create a 'playlist' of sorts, you could create a folder and put your files (pictures, video) inside of it. It should come up as a folder in QuickPic. I'm not sure about the ordering however, you'll have to play with that. Possibly alphabetical, or date modified.

Take a look at BubbleUpnp.
It's a dlna app, and the paid version lets you set up your device as a renderer or a library. Set your phone as the server/library, set your TV as the renderer, et voila...
I've tried loads of options, and this is by far the most comprehensive.
You even have the option to subscribe to a cellular based protocol...

[APP][4.0+] ShareON Video 1.2.6

Hi, This is Spika and we would like to introduce a new and exciting application called ShareON Video. All feedback will be appreciated
Description:
Anytime. Anywhere, Share All your content with this remote video player ShareOn Video.
You can easily access your audio, video, photo files in stored on your pc and play them on your mobile devices with just one user name. You can also play your media files on an HD TV and Wi-Fi speakers supporting DLNA without having to plug anything in.
Features:
- DLNA supported
- Sort by device icon 
- Advanced Search : Auto complete 
- photo : slideshow,rotate
- video : resume, favorite.
- music : Shuffle,repeat,playlist.
Featurelist
1. Anytime, anywhere, play your content. 
You will be able to watch the videos on devices anywhere and anytime through Wifi, 3G and 4G signal with ShareOn video .
2. Always remembers the last scene you watched
ShareOn video will enable you to resume watching videos where you left off on any devices you want to use.
3. Share all the contents on your PC to smartphone
You can manage all your contents on both your PC and phone and play it on your smart devices without having to transfer your media.
Find your files easily.
- ShareOn video has ‘Search’ and ‘Sort’ functions. So you can find any files without any problem.
Make Your Own Playlist
- You can manage all your songs on various devices, so you can put them all into a list as you want.
4. No More Running Out of Memory 
ShareOn Video helps you save memory on your phone by allowing access to your PC remotely without transferring any files to your mobile device.
5. History List Put into a Time Order
ShareOn video automatically keeps a record of previously played music, videos or photos on a timeline.
6. Play Media on a Bigger Screen or Louder Speakers
. You can play the video files in your phone on a big screen. Also, you can listen to songs on your phone with different speakers(only if DLNA supported).
7. No Converting is Required
You can watch any video files on your phone without having to encode or decode videos by streaming them with ShareOn video.
8. Share Your Content on Social Networks.
While You Are Looking at Photos on ShareOn video , You Can Easily Share Them with Your Friends on Facebook.
Download ShareOn Video PC - www.shareon.tv
Supported Devices and Computer Operating Systems:
✦ Televisions : Samsung Smart TV (w/ AllShare), LG and many DLNA supported TV and speakers.
✦ Phones : Android ICS, JB / Resolution, + 720P ,+ 1080P(Some devices' resolution is not be supported.) 
✦ Etc : XBOX
✦ Computer OSs : Windows XP, window 7

wow
Sharing all my content throughout my devices would be an awesome experience. I'll try it right now.
But I'm curious, does the device have to be on the same network as the computer?

Feb. 21 2014 Version 1.3.5
- Log-in with Facebook Account
- Guest Log-in now available
- Media control in notifications bar
- Log-in speed improved
- Now supports Multi DPI (Works with various tablets)
- Application will not disconnect when changing networks

androidprincess said:
Sharing all my content throughout my devices would be an awesome experience. I'll try it right now.
But I'm curious, does the device have to be on the same network as the computer?
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As long as your computer is connected to a network, you may access files on your PC from a mobile device through a wi-fi, 3g, or LTE network.
Simply put, no you do not have to be on the same network to access files.

SpikaDevTeam said:
Feb. 21 2014 Version 1.3.5
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Okay, let me make it clear, can I share all AVI video to my Android TV box and watch it using ShareON Video? Thanks

el_easy said:
Okay, let me make it clear, can I share all AVI video to my Android TV box and watch it using ShareON Video? Thanks
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Depending on your Android TV Box set, you should be able to stream your media directly to most boxes using ShareON Video.
Please let me know the brand and model of the Android Box your are using and I will be sure to let you know asap.
ShareON Video will also instantly recognize Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 systems.

Thank you for this app. Please add support to Philips Smart TV.
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patopt said:
Thank you for this app. Please add support to Philips Smart TV.
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I am sorry to hear that it is not working on your Phillips Smart TV.
Please make sure that your Phillips Smart TV is DLNA Supported. If your Phillips television set is DLNA supported we will look into the issue and get back to you as soon as possible.

Great free app!!
ShareON Video !!
SpikaDevTeam said:
Hi, This is Spika and we would like to introduce a new and exciting application called ShareON Video. All feedback will be appreciated
Description:
Anytime. Anywhere, Share All your content with this remote video player ShareOn Video.
You can easily access your audio, video, photo files in stored on your pc and play them on your mobile devices with just one user name. You can also play your media files on an HD TV and Wi-Fi speakers supporting DLNA without having to plug anything in.
Features:
- DLNA supported
- Sort by device icon 
- Advanced Search : Auto complete 
- photo : slideshow,rotate
- video : resume, favorite.
- music : Shuffle,repeat,playlist.
Featurelist
1. Anytime, anywhere, play your content. 
You will be able to watch the videos on devices anywhere and anytime through Wifi, 3G and 4G signal with ShareOn video .
2. Always remembers the last scene you watched
ShareOn video will enable you to resume watching videos where you left off on any devices you want to use.
3. Share all the contents on your PC to smartphone
You can manage all your contents on both your PC and phone and play it on your smart devices without having to transfer your media.
Find your files easily.
- ShareOn video has ‘Search’ and ‘Sort’ functions. So you can find any files without any problem.
Make Your Own Playlist
- You can manage all your songs on various devices, so you can put them all into a list as you want.
4. No More Running Out of Memory 
ShareOn Video helps you save memory on your phone by allowing access to your PC remotely without transferring any files to your mobile device.
5. History List Put into a Time Order
ShareOn video automatically keeps a record of previously played music, videos or photos on a timeline.
6. Play Media on a Bigger Screen or Louder Speakers
. You can play the video files in your phone on a big screen. Also, you can listen to songs on your phone with different speakers(only if DLNA supported).
7. No Converting is Required
You can watch any video files on your phone without having to encode or decode videos by streaming them with ShareOn video.
8. Share Your Content on Social Networks.
While You Are Looking at Photos on ShareOn video , You Can Easily Share Them with Your Friends on Facebook.
Download ShareOn Video PC - www.shareon.tv
Supported Devices and Computer Operating Systems:
✦ Televisions : Samsung Smart TV (w/ AllShare), LG and many DLNA supported TV and speakers.
✦ Phones : Android ICS, JB / Resolution, + 720P ,+ 1080P(Some devices' resolution is not be supported.) 
✦ Etc : XBOX
✦ Computer OSs : Windows XP, window 7
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Videos not found in Videos or Gallery apps, but are seen in My Files

Hello all. I bought the S6 for my daughter, and she is having an issue with getting a video uploaded to Instagram. The video in question was taken by my wife and uploaded to her Google Drive. At this point, my daughter downloaded the video from Google Drive, and then, she tried to share it. She keeps getting a message that it can't be imported and that there is a problem processing the video. If I use My Files, I can find and directly play the video using Google Photos to do so (Google Photos is the only option provided to me to play the video). However, it's not found by the Gallery and Video apps. My wife sent her the video via Instagram (private message?) also, and that video works and shows up just fine. I will note that the video she sent via Instagram is an edited .mp4 file and the original from Google Drive is a .mov file. Can Samsung Video and Gallery apps not read .mov files? If they can, does anyone know why they won't show up on the phone or be uploaded via Instagram? Thanks in advance.