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[Android Apps and Games] tarasp:
Renderer selection when sharing media from other apps

I guess by 95% you meant 95% of users that use only one renderer. My problem is even if I use one renderer 95% of time I never know what the current renderer is, so I'm forced to switch back to BubbleUPnP each time I want to watch a photo or video. For the 5% of users that have several renderers it would be helpful to have an option in settings that enables some renderer selection dialog. BTW, can anyone recommend the app that already have such a feature?

Thank you,

Taras
[Android Apps and Games] gene.pavlovsky:
Good to know that. I think this should be mentioned in the description of "Kill on inactivity" in the settings. I still think there's a related problem. At night, my phone is on charger and I put on some relaxing music (local server, local renderer), and enable the sleep timer (45 minutes), screen is off. In the morning I expected BubbleUPNP to be killed because of inactivity, but it's not - ok, I got it now, because phone was on charger. However, after I unplug the charger and put the phone in my pocket, then after several hours (not using the phone at all) BubbleUPNP is still running (and have used significant amount of battery). I expect at least after unplugging the (already) long inactive BubbleUPNP should exit.

PS Would be nice to have a "reset" button in the sleep timer if it's already running. Sometimes I turn on the sleep timer but then get a call or something else distracts me, when I finally take care of that and get back to bed again, I want to start the sleep timer again from zero. Right now I have to open sleep timer then stop it, then open again and run it. Would be good to be able to do it in one step. Also it would be useful to have some indication on screen that the sleep timer is running now - this could be some icon in the corner. Or better yet, it could be the remaining time in the corner. Or something like that?
[Android Apps and Games] johnk1973:
Suggestion.

When streaming a film to my TV/chromecast and I press stop can this position in the film be remembered and the next time I press play I get the option to start from the beginning or from the last played place. It would be nice if I also get disconnected from the tv for some reason I also get the option to continue from the last played position.

John.
[Android Apps and Games] Christendom...:
Agreed!

This app really needs to have this suggestion implemented into the next update A.S.A.P?%
[Android Apps and Games] gene.pavlovsky:
Follow-up: kill on inactivity also didn't work with charger unplugged.

I unplugged my charger in the morning, turned on a short music track in BubbleUPNP, exited to the home screen, then turned off my screen. The music track reached the end soon, and finished playing.

Two hours later, during which I didn't use the phone at all, BubbleUPNP is still running, and battery is down significantly. Why is this setting not working at all?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
A bug probably. I'll have to investigate. In fact, having the app detect itself that it is not actively doing something is more complicated than it sounds.

EDIT: can you confirm that during these 2 hours, the screen was off ? Or that it was off for at least the Kill on inactivity timeout value you set (15 min by default) ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Resuming videos is one of the more asked feature since forever so I will look into it, although I'm not super fond of such feature.

I don't want it annoying for those who do not want yet another popup before playing stuff, so it will be possible to turn it off.
[Android Apps and Games] gene.pavlovsky:
I see, I hope you can find a way! Phone was off for the whole 2 hours, phone was on the desk facing up. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I cannot reproduce this an cannot see any reason why this would happen. Can you reproduce it every time ?
[Android Apps and Games] Jezz_X:
Well the video player app is a computer in another room so I'm pretty sure it doesn't care that I just rotated my phone
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Did you trigger playback of that video fron an external app or from BubbleUPnP ?
[Android Apps and Games] Jezz_X:
I pushed the video from my phones library too a upnp renderer on my PC aka xbmc
[Android Apps and Games] harry_b:
suggestions

hello, together

For a year I have been experimenting with UPNP / DLNA.

Bubbleguuum's BubbleUPnP since the beginning of one of my favorite app's.

Since the possibility to create, "Open Home Render" and Web access, it is the best app / server that I know.

I have a few suggestions:

It would be nice, we could separate albums / songs from the library or playlist, add to the local playlists. Also, a syncronisation of the present local playlists to the other instances of BubbleUPnP in the network would be nice.

Furthermore, it would be great, could BubbleUPnP, deliver a variety of media content to specific media rendering on the local network. Images to the phone or tablet, video to TV, stereo system for music. A ranking of the preferred media player in the network for each media content.

I would be delighted if the layout could be more suited for use on the Tablet. A split view would be nice. With the player-tab on the left side and the playlist-/library-tab on the right side. Player and playlist/music collection together in one view.

Harry Greetings from Berlin

translated with Google Überstzer, sorry
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The Popcorn seems to either not support seek or to not properly report is is capable of seeking:

[cling-12 ] WARNING - 01:00:13.168 - d : Seek: Error: Argument[Unit] contains a value that is not in AllowedValueList (HTTP response was: 500 Internal)

Are you able to seek in any other UPnP app ?

And for volume, what error do you get exactly ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Hi Harry,

Sorry but I do not understand your request due to the translation.

No multi-pane layout is planned but a grid view of albums covers and folders in the Library is coming for browsing.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you confirm you triggered playback from a file manager app, cliking on a video to launch BubbleUPnP to start playback to XMBC ?

Or did you trigger playback from BubbleUPnP itself in the Library tab ?
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
What other app would you recommend, I use Bubble because it seems to be the best!

The volume seems to jump around, it doesn't stick to where you move the slider.
[Android Apps and Games] Jezz_X:
Hrmm I updated my rom today and just tried to make it happen again for you and turns out I couldn't :confused: maybe it was something to do with my rom
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, but I just fixed playback restarting on orientation change in case 1, that why I asked that question. I don't think it can happen in case 2 though.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Volume is applied when the slider is released.

There's some security in there for people who control hardware amps, to avoid blowing their system and hears =).

You can also control volume with hardware volume buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
It jumps around with the hardware buttons as well, normally back to near the previous setting. I'm not too worried about the volume, as I can control that with the popcorn RC app, it's the seek that stops me buying a licence.
[Android Apps and Games] Koying:
Open shared video links in BubbleUpnp

Hi,

I've made a prototype app allowing to open shared video links in BubbleUpnp (or any video player, really).

Works for Youtube and DailyMotion for now.

Tell me if you find the app of any value...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I briefly tested with XMBC11 as a renderer it and it works awesome! Both youtube and daily motion. Nice work really, very useful.

Suggestion: for youtube you might want to make the quality selectable as buffering the highest quality stream can take a long time.

With dailymotion it seems video plays nearly instantly.

Also you can add the following Intent extras which BubbleUPnP will use for the Now Playing screen:

intent.setStringExtra("artist", ...); // video artist

intent.setStringExtra("song", ....); // video title

EDIT: be sure to call setDataAndType() and not just setData() otherwise the app will not receive the custom extras (weird Android bug):

intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(....), "video/*");

If you have a video thumbnail http URL, I can add a third extra for it.
[Android Apps and Games] Koying:
Thanks.

I should have mentioned that it indeed worked flawlessly with XBMC (also tested locally with moboplayer).

With my connected Sony Bravia, when the codec is supported, it doesn't seem to accept the video link ("file not found").

Will do. For now, for youtube, it take the highest, not webm, quality. Actually, webm works fine in XBMC, too, but I assume there is little chance to have it working on anything else.

AFAIK, dailymotion quality doesn't seem to be extractable.

Will do...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I suspect it may act like Samsung TVs and do a particular request to the server, expecting a specfic response header, instead of playing directly the stream. Since the remote http server is not an UPnP Media Server, the TV doesn't get the response it expects and aborts. This could be solved with BubbleUPnP acting as a http proxy, providing the required headers. I may look into it in the future.

XMBC doesn't need this as it plays the http stream directly without fuss.

for the custom extras, be sure to call setDataAndType() and not just setData() otherwise the app will not receive the custom extras (weird Android bug):

intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(....), "video/*");
[Android Apps and Games] pwhooftman:
BubbleUpNP keeps starting in the background when leaving wifi

Hi,

Everytime i leave my wifi coverage at home, BubbleUpNP is started in the background, despite i exited the app prior, and despite unticking "Connectivity notification" in the network settings. Any way to prevent BubbleUpNP from restarting itself?

Samsung Galaxy S, ExtraOrdinary ICS 4.0.4 ROM & Icy Glitch Kernel
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Do you mean that if yo exit the app (Menu > Exit) and connectivity changes (WiFi->Mobile), the app restarts itself ?

2. Or something related to Android BubbleUPnP connecting/disconnecting to BubbleUPnP Server (for which you get a toast notification if "Connectivity notification" is ticked, which has nothing to do at all with restarting the app) ?

I cannot see how 1. could ever happen so give me the maximum of details so I can understand and reproduce your issue.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] nikfam:
It is pretty disappointing that when I am trying to stream a url video source to my chromecast it will not load (or it takes 5 min to load -download rate really slow 100kb/sec. When I use allcast it starts immediately and download rate is 10Mb/sec. I have already purchased bubble upnp and I just wonder what is wrong with the case of streaming content from online sources.

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Please tell the URL you are trying to play here or send it to me via email (bubbleguuum@free.fr) so I can try to reproduce your problem.
[Android Apps and Games] nikfam:
I also tried to reproduce yesterday and it seems that the unstable servers are to blame.. It is an app with direct links to iptv streams so after trying different links I found out that sometimes the servers become unresponsive while bubble upnp keeps trying to connect [perhaps you could add a notification when there is no download detected and stop the attempt] .

Thank you for your immediate response!

By the way I would like to ask if you know a workaround for the chrome cast being unresponsive sometimes in-between streaming from different sources and needs reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] mkdr:
[MENTION=3373153]bubbleguuum[/MENTION] There is some annoying bug in the server software, causing the public host name to reset sometimes. I didnt figure out when it happens, it seems totally random. I always notice it in the worst timings when I want to connect to my server from my mobile phone, and it doesnt work. And then at home I look inside the configuration and see that the server reset my dyndns to IP again... This happens on linux and Windows. The bug is present for a long time, I never reported it though until now, because it's really annoying. I have no clue what triggers it.
[Android Apps and Games] jsilvermist:
ZIP Outdated

The latest version of the portable ZIP for BubbleUPNP Server is currently 0.9u6 vs the current 0.9u9.

Please update asap, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Digiseed:
Feature Request

Hello, really dig what you've done with the app. I would really like it if the app would flag a file in the library as "Viewed" or "Played". If a progress meter or percentage done is possible to be kept track of, that would be welcome as well.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Try reinstalling the APK. The APK itself is independent of the BubbleUPnP Server version and always installs the latest version that it downloads (update-9 currently).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The manually entered dyndns hostname is reset to default if the hostname cannot be resolved to an ip address (on server startup).

This could happen if there's a problem with the DNS or if there is no Internet connectivity.
[Android Apps and Games] jsilvermist:
APK? I'm talking about the platform independent portable zip on the BubbleUPNP Server download page, the Java server zip, it's currently only at 0.9u6.
[Android Apps and Games] mkdr:
Ahem?? But thats terrible design? Please give an option to deactivate this. It happen a lot, that a dyndns provider has a short out-time... It cant be that this causes the server to decide on its own to reset the settings the user gives it, for a reason, and doesnt restore it when the dyndns is working again. I have a two WAN/ISP settup, and if bubbleupnp resets the dyndns setting, because for whatever reason, the server stops working, because the IP bubbleupnp sees is the wrong WAN ip. Also if it's not set to the dyndns host name, it doesnt work from outside too to reach, even if I "had" the IP, which changes every 24h.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The zip file is not associated to a specific version: on first run, (if missing) the latest BubbleUPnPServer.jar is downloaded.
[Android Apps and Games] jsilvermist:
Ah I see, my attempt to update it involved me downloading the ZIP and extracting it on top of the older files.

After deleting the JAR and running it again it downloaded the updated 0.9u9.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] KyoForever:
Hi, this is such a great app!!

Sorry if this have been requested before, but, can you please include more subtitle formats, like ssa, ass, etc... It will add more convenience than have to use another app to convert the subs to srt.
[Android Apps and Games] burt_ie:
I haven't been able to use this app for quite a while as all I get is empty folders when trying to browse my media stored on my PC. All my other apps can see the files fine.

Anyone got any fixes?
[Android Apps and Games] FF666:
I am now!... Apparently I never enabled the server for android in server settings. Sorry for my stupid mistake...
[Android Apps and Games] StevePritchard:
Hi,

When trying to play my own Shoutcast/Icecast steam I get a delay of over 60 seconds before it plays. The same steam in MX Player starts almost immediately. Is there a setting I can tweak to reduce the delay, or is there some other cause?

Cheers,

Steve
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What Shoutcast stream playing to what renderer ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
- make sure your media server is configured to index your files (paths)

- try changing Settings > UPnP Tweaks > Library Browse Method

- use a different media server
[Android Apps and Games] StevePritchard:
Is my own steam (I'll pm the url) and being rendered by the default local renderer.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes it is not a good idea to reset it, I will change it.

The idea was to validate the manually entered dns by checking it resolves to an ip, but it is currently problematic

if the dyndns hostname does not resolve to an ip on server startup.

Also, when a dyndns hostname is used, the displayed public ip is not meaningful and not used.
[Android Apps and Games] sidkumar:
Genre Shuffle Play

Hi,

Have been using BubbleUPnP since 2013 and a licensed user, just love it. Could you please implement one feature request: Right now if I want to shuffle play a Genre, it takes ages to load all the songs as some of my genres has thousands of songs. It should be possible to set the number of songs to play in shuffle play, especially for Genre. It can be limited to 10/20/50/100/All or whatever you fancy. I hope you are able to implement it.

Many thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ghazyhaxy:
Hi,

I have purchased this app and I do like the features in it. I am, however, experiencing 2 issues.

1) When using DLNA, there's an issue when playing a slideshow. There's a lag time between each image/video, and during this time, the DLNA device displays it's default background. Is there a way to display a black background instead in between when rendering the slideshow?

The problem is displayed here:

[YOUTUBE]cf1hhN407qQ[/YOUTUBE]

2) The other problem occurs when I'm using Local renderer. I'm trying to play a playlist of mixed images and videos. For a video, it asks me to open another external application. When I play it in the same, the slideshow stops. If I use that external application as a default method, the slideshow still stops rendering and I get an error, 'cannot play video.' It only plays the first video.

I would appreciate any help with this.
[Android Apps and Games] N17Studio:
I like it. Nice tool!
[Android Apps and Games] lulli1:
xposed not hooking native library Problem here. please take a look into the log file.
[Android Apps and Games] burt_ie:
I don't use a media server, I have an android TV box running Kodi which uses windows SMB share for it's library.

I was able to access those shares, and also browse my PC through Bubble and play them on my Android TV box, but now Bubble shows all my folders but they are all empty :(
[Android Apps and Games] giorgio.1204:
Onkyo TX NR 414 Volume Issues

Hi! I am having issues with the latest version (2.3.7.2) and an Onkyo TX NR 414: each new track resets the volume to the min. Trying to change the volume with the app volume doesn't works, only the "hardware" volume works.

In previous versions there was still a problem with the volume, but not as annoying: the first time you tried to change the volume with the app it was set to zero, but then it was possible to raise or lower. Furthermore, the volume was not reset each track.

Thank you in advance
[Android Apps and Games] myvisione:
Last.fm updated their App for the first time since years and now scrobbling is not working anymore with the official app.

Maybe they implemented a new handshake?

Anyone else?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I suggest using the WAIL app instead. See Settings > Scrobbling
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yamaha bug not properly notifying volume. Try to reboot it.
[Android Apps and Games] myvisione:
Okay I will try. I have to delete the official app then to prevent double scrobbling. Could you please report back when it is fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You will not have double scrobbling as scrobbling is directed to WAIL if you select it in Settings > Scrobbling.
[Android Apps and Games] urzahil:
Help

I'm getting the following error with several files:

[qtp411272987-68 ] INFO - 01:05:45.163 - e : input URL: http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4
[qtp411272987-67 ] INFO - 01:05:46.480 - e : input URL: http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4
[qtp411272987-68 ] INFO - 01:05:48.185 - k : Content-Type: MIMETYPE_AUTO
[qtp411272987-68 ] WARNING - 01:05:48.185 - k : invalid mime-type: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error parsing string: MIMETYPE_AUTO
[qtp411272987-68 ] WARNING - 01:05:48.192 - e : ffprobe or ffmpeg failed, redirecting as fallback: http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4: java.io.IOException: not probing unseekable mp4
[qtp411272987-68 ] INFO - 01:05:48.193 - e : redirecting to http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4
[qtp411272987-67 ] INFO - 01:05:48.197 - k : Content-Type: MIMETYPE_AUTO
[qtp411272987-67 ] WARNING - 01:05:48.197 - k : invalid mime-type: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error parsing string: MIMETYPE_AUTO
[qtp411272987-67 ] WARNING - 01:05:48.205 - e : ffprobe or ffmpeg failed, redirecting as fallback: http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4: java.io.IOException: not probing unseekable mp4
[qtp411272987-67 ] INFO - 01:05:48.206 - e : redirecting to http://192.168.0.7:5001/get/41/300+Rise+Of+An+Empire.mp4

and the screen simply remains black with the BubbleUPnP logo. I'm using Universal Media Server as media server, with BubbleUPNP server on the same (Linux) machine.

I searched the thread but couldn't find anything. Any solution?
[Android Apps and Games] espionage724:
I'm trying to run a media server (UMS) with a Chromecast, and would prefer not to sign into any Google accounts on the tablet I use as the remote.

BubbleUPnP seems to work fine with the free version, but I would like to have a larger playlist. I don't have any particular issue with buying the license, but I don't want to have to sign into a Google account. Is there any (legitimate) way to buy the license without getting the paid app from the Play Store?

On another note, is there any direct apk links to BubbleUPnP's free version (aside from places like APK4Fun)?
[Android Apps and Games] Shimaran:
Today I discovered half my files are not visible in the application. Any idea why ?
[Android Apps and Games] patvdzwan:
I have a Sony Xperia z2 sinds 2 weeks and this app can't find my chromecast. Before i had a moto g 2014 and never had problems. What can i do?
[Android Apps and Games] CHeyLoaN:
Godspeed man, u super dev.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Try rebooting your Chromecast (replug power) and WiFI router.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Nope.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
UMS sending and invented mime-type. Use another media sever such as Plex, Kodi or Serviio.
[Android Apps and Games] alvester:
I wish the current render would show up on the Now Playing screen. For example I restarted the app while connected to my Bluetooth speaker in the bathroom thinking it would play on it but instead it started playing to my last renderer which was our Chromecast in the living room. This freaked out my wife. I was trying to play back a 24 bit file, which my speaker's DAC could handle but the Chromecast couldn't, so our home theater where she was sitting near started playing a loud hissing noise (since it was on the Chromecast input and the Chromecast just plays loud white noise when fed a 24 bit signal.)

I hope the renderer can be optionally shown on the Now Playing Screen of BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] jaaptina:
It would be great to hear Qobuz supported. I like the way Qobuz supports streaming and buying songs and albums. :good::good::good:
[Android Apps and Games] patvdzwan:
I tried everything but nothing seems to work. Other apps do recognize my chromecast only BubbleUPnP does not. I do also own a galaxy s4 and a Moto g 2014 and with that phones I don't have any problems, only with my Sony xperia Z2.
[Android Apps and Games] Shimaran:
In fact it turns out some file formats are not visible on my android devices : mp4 and mkv. Is this a known limitation ?

By the way, I was testing some things with Kodi, and files that are not classified as movies or tv shows don't have any thumbnail. Is there something I have to set somewhere ?