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[Q] Screen mirroring

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.

Netflix surround sound

Netflix on the nexus player now supports dolby digital plus. About time!

00Droid00 said:
Netflix on the nexus player now supports dolby digital plus. About time!
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I was just now trying to enable that option in my Nexus Player, but I couldn't find the setting for that. It seems my application is version 2.2, updated yesterday

According to Netflix, your avr should have DD+ but according to Dolby DD+ tecnology is backward compatible with "regular" avr´s that supports Dolby Digital 5.1

Question, I just got my Nexus Player to replace a Chromecast I had been using. With the Chromecast when I'd stream Netflix with DD+ I would get the Raw DD+ Bitstream sent to my AVR with no issues. On the Nexus Player I get the option to use DD+ on Netflix but when I enable it all I hear is crackles and nothing else? I have been forced back to 2 channel sound on the Nexus Player. This feels like such a step backwards for me, there has to be a fix out there for this right? I have already tried a more Up to Date Netflix APK, but that did not help. Anyone else having this issue?

djmend said:
Question, I just got my Nexus Player to replace a Chromecast I had been using. With the Chromecast when I'd stream Netflix with DD+ I would get the Raw DD+ Bitstream sent to my AVR with no issues. On the Nexus Player I get the option to use DD+ on Netflix but when I enable it all I hear is crackles and nothing else? I have been forced back to 2 channel sound on the Nexus Player. This feels like such a step backwards for me, there has to be a fix out there for this right? I have already tried a more Up to Date Netflix APK, but that did not help. Anyone else having this issue?
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I know this post is old, but I am experiencing the exact same issue. Chromecast worked fine but nexus player doesn't. Did you ever find a fix?

I have this issue too. Annoys me to death. Chromecast works but the Nexus Player doesn't.

Video play on phone and on tv same time with sound on both devices

Hi
I have a xiaomi mi a1 phone and a xiaomi mi box s (with chromecast support). I wanna to play video with sound on tv and on phone too at same time (so audio and video "cloning" on both devices).
I tried the cast mode with vlc and xplayer video player apps on my phone, but then it transfers both the video and the audio to tv, no video or audio on phone.
I tried screen mirroring too, but phone have no sound when played the video, and screen lock transferred too to my tv. It's not a correct solution.
Exist some special app for this, or android system can basically know this things just the settings are wrong?
What app do you recommend for it? Or maybe I should looking for another technique / method not cast/screen mirroring?
Thanks for your help!

MX player in TV Zion not casting to Chromecast

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.

Apps Music and Photos and video dlna

Hi there was wondering if there is any better apps for music video and photo that you can stream direct from phone to TV?
Like Samsung music player and video and there gallery you can stream direct from the app to your devices
And suggestions would be most help full
Ay the moment I am Using the LG app to stream to my TV
Thanks

Portor30 said:
Hi there was wondering if there is any better apps for music video and photo that you can stream direct from phone to TV?
Like Samsung music player and video and there gallery you can stream direct from the app to your devices
And suggestions would be most help full
Ay the moment I am Using the LG app to stream to my TV
Thanks
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I know that you can use wireless projection and basically cast the phone to the TV at least that way you can use things like Huawei music/spotify, in addition play your apps? whether that would be a fix?