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[Android Apps and Games] rodneyr:
Access to Other Folders with Synology NAS?

I've installed Bubbleupnp on my Synology NAS and can access my Video, Music, and Photo folders. In order to access these 3 folders, I don't need to use any credentials. However, I would like to access other folders such as my Home (created by Synology Cloudstation) and other user created folders which require my credentials.

Aside from my issue, great app and thanks for adding chromecast functionality!
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
I hope that will get fixed with bubbleserver

But as you suggested I used ip # in the server portion of bubbleupnp Client and it now streams from bubbleserver to my Samsung TV

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jan_1923:
battery drain and stopping playback...

Hello, with the latest release 1.8 the battery of my nexus 7.2 is draining from bubble like a charme consuming even more battery than the display...

Also since yesterday the playback of an album playing from an WHS2011 Assett Server stops at the end of each track... Very annoying.

Someone an idea what kind setting oft the vast possibilities might have screwn this up ?

THX

Jan
[Android Apps and Games] Dwd89:
Open.FM

Hi

after last update bubbleupnp - internet radio OPEN.FM stopped working :( i have pro version.

file path: h--p://gr-relay-1.gaduradio.pl/42 - Linkin Park Open.FM in foobar work beautiful.

how to fix it ?
[Android Apps and Games] gooplusplus.com:
Transcoding to Chromecast - must start from beginning

I am using the licensed Android version of Bubble UPnP on a Nexus 7 to my Chromecast connected VIZIO TV.

On the source side, I am using PS3 Media Server 1.90.1 (all transcoding off) and Bubble UPnP server 0.8

While the Bubble UPnP transcoding works great, I am very disappointed that you have to view a movie in a single session.

When I start a non-transcoded movie, I have the option to click on the visual timeline to restart it at any point in the stream.

However, when I start a "transcoded" movie, I must view in a single session. If I pause and the session times out, the movie will only start from the beginning - there is no option to start at a particular point in the movie.

Even if "transcoded time" is inaccurate, there should be some way to advance or rewind near to a particular point in a transcoded movie.

If transcoded "time of play" cannot be determined, even a crude "each 1/8" of movie file length restart point would better than none.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Playing to what renderer ?

This stream is a HE-AAC stream, and not all renderers support decoding it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I am very disappointed in people asking the same question over and over.

I know that seeking in transcoded video is needed.

That is complicated issue to solve that will be addressed at some point.

I will not asnwer any more question on this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Chromecast is supposed to play Ogg Vorbis natively, hence no transcode.

Can you upload one your non playing Ogg Vorbis somewhere (Dropbox, Google Drive) so I can try to see why the CC fails playing it ?

This has been discussed in several posts before. The CC is unable to play 1080p phone camera videos due to not having enough WiFi bandwidth. This will be addressed in the next BubbleUPNP Server update by transcoding them to 720p to reduce the bandwidth required.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you are using an external renderer, try to reboot it.
[Android Apps and Games] xlxcrossing:
Sorry if this has been asked but each time I attempt to play any media file streamed from the PC running the server software to my chromecast it acts as if its loading the media file then always reverts back to the bubbleupnp logo on the Tv screen. The only thing I have been able to play thus far is audio from my phone only.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The bug is not in BubbleUPnP Server but in Android BubbleUPnP which since a few versions overrides the BubbleUPnP Server returned ip/hostname with the ip/hostname setup in BubbleUPnP to connect to Android BubbleUPnP. This was done recently so connecting to BubbleUPnP Server work with ssh tunnels (it didn't before), but this breaks the numeric ip rule for Sammy.

Another way to achieve the original goal of having FLAC transcoded (to LPCM not MP3, which is better) for Samsung, is to create Proxy media server with BubbleUPnP Server and browse the proxy in BubbleUPnP. There will not be any numeric ip issue here as all ip will be numeric by default.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Sure, here's a sample.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8SBmII5UPGWdFdMMGhjOWFCdTA/edit?usp=sharing

The file doesn't play on Chromecast or BubbleUPnP's native renderer. It does play just fine with everything else.

My apology. I figured it's probably something like that, but this thread is now over 500 pages, so I admit I didn't read all the way through it. I look forward to the transcoding capability.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks.

Although the CC can play Vorbis natively, I forgot to white-list it, thus resulting in an attempt to transcode with BubbleUPnP Server.

Why the transcode did not work for you then ? because there is another issue (that I fixed) that is media server specific and that prevents transcode to start in some cases.

With the current version of BubbleUPnP / BubbleUPnP Server, you can probably play your Vorbis (transcoded), but using another media server.

In the next update it will work out of the box untranscoded, and regardless of the media server.

The Vorbis not playing on the local renderer you mention is caused by a similar issue, which I will fix.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
So I'm 100% sure the problem is what I think it is, can you send me a BubbleUPnP log file, playing that Vorbis to Chromecast and to the local renderer (refer to first post of this topic for instructions) ?
[Android Apps and Games] gooplusplus.com:
It played okay to Chromecast for me after I added the .ogg extension to the filename.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Here's the log of trying to play to local renderer from Google Drive. I hadn't done the Chromecast yet, because it's being used right now.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
My original file has the .ogg extension. I guess it got renamed when I uploaded it to my Google Drive.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks. There's a specific ogg problem when streaming from Google Drive that I will fix.

For Chromecast, no need for a new log as I have confirmation of what the problem is.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Well, I already generated it, so here it is anyway. Playing to Chromecast from local BubbleUPnP server on the phone.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
EDIT: the problem is that your file on Google Drive that you played in the log has no extension.

If it still doesn't play after adding the extension, please send me a new log.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Well, the Google Drive app on Android appears to strip the extension when uploading the file. Just to be sure, I uploaded another one and manually reappended the extension. Here's the file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8SBmII5UPGWdjNpM3VZUXlUYTA/edit?usp=sharing

and here's the log when trying to play it from Google Drive to Chromecast.
[Android Apps and Games] pinkwoolsun:
And what would be the best solution for streaming to sammy outside the lan?

Setting up 2 servers inside the bubble app? 1 with dyndns and 1 with numeric ip?

Or is it possible to make an exception for samsung renderers so it will always use numeric on those renderers.
[Android Apps and Games] gooplusplus.com:
In the meantime, on the Android side of things, an interim fix for transcoded movies might be to:

(1) save the most recent offset position in order to be able ask the user whether to start fresh or play from last position.

-- and / or --

(2) provide clickable fractional positioning not based on time but simply on video file size - crude and inaccurate but much better than nothing.
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
SWEET! i just turned on the Proxy and this is much better for FLAC to LPCM! Thank you for the advice.
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
Sorry, I seem to have missed that post you referred to. But anyway the latest BubbleUPnP server does seem to work.

Just one thing: when the server is set to transcode (from FLAC to mp3 for example) and I exit Android BubbleUPnP, Windows powercfg /requests is still showing BubbleUPnP Server in the Service and Awaymode sections. I don't know for long it remains there preventing auto sleep - seems to disappear at some point. I haven't done any extensive testing as I decided to keep my HTPC constantly powered on due to intermittent WOL issues. I'm also pretty much fed up with the unreliable handling of auto sleep in Windows.
[Android Apps and Games] hmphargh:
MKV with Multiple Audio Tracks on Chromecast

The app works great, and I'm planning on buying the full version soon, but I was wondering, Is there a plan to support the selection of a specific audio track within an MKV to cast for Chromecast?

Additionally, I've installed and configured the server on my Synology NAS, but the chromecast audio transcode functionality does not seem to work - the server says it can perform audio transcoding, but no audio is played on the chromecast. Is anyone else having similar issues?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
In that log, that Google Drive ogg still has no extension. That would happen if you did not reload (Menu > Reload) the folder it was in after renaming, or if the change did not propagate yet.

Anyway, with the correct extension it should play on the local renderer.

It *cannot* currently play on the Chromecast even with the correct extension because of an identified problem that will be fixed in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I have to evaluate the different options, but I'm leaning towards a fully functional seekbar (with correct duration), with seeking starting playback (eg transcoding) from scratch at the given position. The problem is that it doesn't work with subtitles...

I which I could use HLS, but to my knowledge HLS works for transcoding files and not existing http streams.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not sure for now as it is really a corner case. The best way would be probably to revert to the previous behaviour, and make modification to handle ssh tunneling differently so it doesn't interfere.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The new version prevents sleeping while ffmpeg is running doing the transcode. Which usually is less than a track's total time.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes there are plans to make this possible.

For Chromecast transcoding to work, ffprobe is needed (as well as ffmpeg).

On Windows, there is no problem since ffprobe is bundled in the installer.

On other platforms, ffprobe is used if it is found (in the PATH). Otherwise it is invoked from the cloud, but for it to work,

BubbleUPnP Server must be reachable from the Internet (status page), and you must not have disabled remote access in the "Network and security" page.
[Android Apps and Games] sabret00the:
Bumping this
[Android Apps and Games] aoaleman:
Want to thank bubbleguuum and any other contributors for their hard work. Now that Chromecast is supported this app works damn near flawless. Videos cast over without a lag, stutter or hiccup. Thank you very much!
[Android Apps and Games] Dwd89:
Open.FM

BubbleUpnp on android (tablet), before the update worked great.
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
I have a question concerning Chromecast

I will be traveling in the next two months and I plan to bring my Chromecast device with me.

I have BubbleUPnP server setup and currently can stream from the WAN side

Will I be able to stream to my Chromecast while away from home via the BubbleUPnP server?
[Android Apps and Games] twochannel:
Not sure about chromecast reaching the bubbleupnp server over the internet but I wanted to chime in on something to watch out for.

You may already know all this so sorry if I'm repeating the obvious.

If you are going to be staying in hotels, many hotels enable a wireless feature called client isolation that prevents one wireless client from talking to another. This would prevent your control app from seeing the chromecast on the local wlan. You can probably get around this by bringing your own access point/router.
[Android Apps and Games] c0l3:
hi,

will it be possible to create an upnp proxy renderer for your chromecast renderer, from BubbleUpnp server. Like it does with the open home server.

At the time it is only possible to send things to chromecast from bubbleupnp android.

The first setup would enable content from every upnp ready device.

Do you need any android framework specific stuff?
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Yes, I saw that in the log file. However, the file up on Google Drive most definitely does have the extension, and I renamed it before I ever accessed it from the phone, precisely to avoid the cached name problem. I even verified that the name change propagated to my phone by going into the Google Drive app first and making sure that the file extension was there, which indeed it was. It was only after that, that I tried it with BubbuleUPnP and it failed again. My suspicion is that the Google Drive API might be stripping the extension off when you access it exactly the same way it stripped it off when I uploaded it, possibly because it is aware of the data type.

It would probably be much better if the application could determine file types some other way besides examining the file extension, since that is a very error prone method of doing that. Perhaps use the driveResource.getMetadata().await().getMetadata().getMimeType() to identify the files?
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
OK. Then I guess it's just another example of the peculiarities of Windows' power management that when not transcoding, the Foobar2000.exe Process disappears from the power requests list immediately upon exiting Android BubbleUPnP (like it should). Whereas when set to transcode, the BubbleUPnPServer.exe Service seems to get "stuck" in there for quite a while even after exiting the Android app - in other words, for some reason Windows is still thinking the system is non-idle. :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
Ok I just enlisted one of my friend that uses bubbleupnp and has a Chromecast to see if he can stream videos/movies from my Bubbleserver (0.8)

Results is this.

Music works he can stream it to his Chromecast but movies/videos it just crashes bubbleupnp.

Which log would you need to help fix this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Does it crash BubbleUPnP as in you get "the app has crashed ... crash report will submitted..." toast message ?
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
BubbleUPnP on Nexus 7: Interpret cut off in Portrait modus

Hi bubbleguuum,

just to let you know: In Version 1.8.0 the Interpret and Time fields on Playlist are nearly cut off in portrait mode, see screenshot attached.

Best greetings

Martin
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What Android device and version is it ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I uploaded your ogg file to Google Drive on Windows with the extension. In the app, the Google Drive API reported the correct extension and it played successfully to the local renderer. If an app is uploading files without extension, it is a bug in that app because it is going to cause massive trouble to other programs trying to open that file.
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
Sorry, I put this information in the title of the posting, but this seems to be vanished. It is a Google Nexus 7 (2012) with Android 4.4.2. The cut off happens, when overall font size in settings of the Nexus 7 is set to "very large". But also with "large" there is a cut off in Album information with "Album view". Track view is fine with font "large".
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, provided that you are on a WiFi network where you can access your Chromecast (problematic in hotels).

And there is the restriction that BubbleUPnP server will able to transcode (if necessary) only cloud content.

That is:

- media from your remote home media servers accessed though BubbleUPnP Server

- Dropbox, Google Drive, etc

- cloud media sent from other apps

In that use case, all other media (local on your Android device, on your non-home WiFi network) can be played to Chromecast only if it doesn't need transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] mmstos:
Hi, first time here.

I have installed the app, just great.

I just could not get subtitles to work with chromecast, is it not supported yet?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
I just figured out why the Google Drive app stripped off the extension... I'm using Nexus 5 with KitKat 4.4.2, which has the new integrated file picker that the Google Drive app uses. With this picker, you have multiple ways of choosing files, including "Images" "Videos" "Audio", etc... I clicked on Audio and selected the file that way. Since the entries under Audio come from Android's music database instead of the filesystem, the file was named by the metadata and didn't have the .ogg extension, and that's how it got uploaded. Because I also have OI File Manager installed on the phone (provides the ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent), I was able to choose it to pick another file directly from the filesystem, and this time the file got uploaded with the extension intact, and then it also played with BubbleUPnP through the local renderer. I also replicated your test and uploaded a file using the web interface, and the file suffix stayed in tact. I was then able to play that file with BubbleUPnP as well.

With all that out of the way, I still think it would be better if you could use MIME types when reading from Google Drive instead of the file suffix, because I can see that a lot of your users might run into a similar scenario.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Bubbleguuum, you have seen how the Play store has an app section for Chromecast, right?

You should investigate how to get your app listed there! Plex is listed for example, why shouldn't BubbleUPnP be listed and allow more people to learn about your amazing app ?
[Android Apps and Games] banderos101:
has anyone managed to stream over dlna from android to android AND reliably remote control the device renderer media controls, specifically seeking
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
I'm wondering if there's any way around to assign two networks (set under BubbleUPnP's "Networks and settings") to use their own specific Foobar2000 Server (foo_upnp) profiles? Or is manually adding and removing the DSPs within the BubbleUPnP streaming profile my only option?

What I'm trying to achieve is to set up a separate network for listening to in the car, which for classical music means that a fair bit of DSP must be used. For normal listening at home I however do not want any kind of additional processing so I would need separate networks/profiles.
[Android Apps and Games] albertoim:
sdcard libraries

helo,

i have recently move the songs from the internal storage to the sdcard. the problem is that the libraries are still pointing to the interal storage, so they are empty. how can I refresh the libraries to detect the new location of the songs?

I have the full version of the app

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] gl&hf2all:
Hello!

It would be great to be able to select an audio track to the video when it is broadcast on DLNA via BubbleUPnP. Not all TVs have the ability to select an audio track when playing videos on the network...
[Android Apps and Games] notmilk:
I'm using this with my Chromecast, but some of the files has 2 Audio Channels. Is there a way I can switch between channels when streaming with Chromecast with this app?
[Android Apps and Games] parkcarshere:
I'm having an issue with Chromecasting encoded videos that hopefully can be resolved. I recently installed the BubbleUPnP app (version 1.8.0) on my Nexus 4 (Android version 4.4.2). I also installed the BubbleUPnP Server (version 1.8) on my Windows PC.

I successfully tested playing a video (mp4 format) from my PC to my Chromecast using the Android app. However, I cannot play AVI, MKV, or MPG videos. I've tried a bunch of videos, but my Chromecast will only briefly display the screen indicating it is loading the video, and then it disappears. It seems to me that any videos that require transcoding are not working. I have also restarted the server service, my entire computer, and my phone but the problem remains.

My server says "Video Transcoding supported: yes" and my Android app says "Status: Transcoding available" with the "Transcoding" checkbox checked. I am running the free version of the Android app for the time being, but that shouldn't be a problem from what I've read. I plan to purchase the license as soon as I see this working.

Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong? Am I missing a setting somewhere that will make everything magically start working? Other than that slight issue, this is one of the best apps of its kind that I've seen, especially now that it has Chromecast support!

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] notmilk:
I'm having the same problem when casting to Chromecast, seeking doesn't work, stays at 0:00 second and can't move the bar. but if i play a mp4 file, it seems like its working fine.
[Android Apps and Games] Theogenes:
I am interested in doing the same thing (with the same app, actually) as Acham_. Would there be some way of streaming it if a playlist or cue file was created? (If it helps, several of us who are looking to use external DACs with Android devices are using JRMC 19).

Essentially, the USB Player Pro app bypasses the audio of Android itself and outputs the files digitally to an external USB digital-to-analog converter, giving the possibility of dramatically higher audio quality. There's a pretty large thread over at Head-Fi about using USB DACs with Android devices, and I think that's generating a lot of the interest.

Anyway, if there's a way to make this happen, I know of at least one group of people who would be very happy ;). Thanks for all the awesome work!!
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
he said when it crashes it gives the toast message "The App has crashed"..etc...
[Android Apps and Games] oispkc:
Suggestion for future upgrade

Hello,

I am heavy user of Bubble UPnP App (1.8.0).

I usually use music library search by "Folder"

If the Folder has only music sources, I can use > and + button to add the sources to playlist.

But if the Folder has music sources and Sub-Folder, there is no > and + button.

So very uncomfortable.

Can I wish improvement in next version?

Thank's in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] GG71:
playback stops after every title

Hi All,

since the last update the playback stops after every title if I use the "Shuffle Library" --> "Shuffle Albums" function.

BTW: Is it possible to set the "Long Press Next Button" action to "Shuffle Albums" by default? It is my favorite.

BTW-2: "Settings" --> "Now Playing" --> "Keep screen on" - only if playing and plugged to power. Can we set it please also without external power? In the car I don't want to plug any cable for it.

BTW-3: In landscape mode the play control buttons are sometime hidden by the [NOW PLAYING|PLAYLIST|LIBRARY|DEVICES] buttons. If android status bar isn't hidden and song title or album name is something longer.

Thank a lot, a great app!

Ciao: GG ;)
[Android Apps and Games] elenhil:
I believe there's a flaw in the caching/buffering process. My router sometimes drops its wireless connection for a split second or less. The thing is, the length of time the connection is not there is definitely shorter than the one that its cached by AutoCast. And yet it does not save it from failing to continue (which, I thought, was the main aim of caching). Couldn't BubbleUPnP just wait till the bit cached runs out and, if it fails to reestablish the connection, drop it?
[Android Apps and Games] theloneranger08:
Sorry if someone has already asked about this, but whenever I play a movie through DLNA on my chromecast whether it be a MP4, MKV, etc. it starts to load but then just shows BubbleUPNP on the screen and doesn't actually play the movie. I have the full version of the app. TV shows play just fine which is odd..