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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No to all your questions.
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Long titles and album headers

Hi,

Glad you can implement suggestion no 2 (no track artist when an album header is shown).

I agree that long titles can be a pain on devices with small displays. That is where tablets come at a real advantage. Also, long titles are frequently offered for classical music on popular databases (eg freedb, allmusic), and on classical music download sites. This is something you have to live with. Retagging tracks could prove unfeasible unless you have a lot of time.

Again, thanks a lot for your help and this great app.

André Gosselin
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Maybe as a solution it would be possible to implement a slowly-scrolling title, similar to the 2nd example here.
[Android Apps and Games] Eduardo413:
Xbox 360

Love the app. Wanted to say thanks first of all. I have a few questions for my setup. I'm streaming from my Pogoplug to my Xbox 360.

1. When I queue videos from my pogoplug as a library I'll get playback errors like 15 seconds after it starts playing and gets stuck.

If I queue these same videos using windows media player library ( Library is of the pogoplug videos) it'll work no problem. Is this an issue with the pogoplug?

2. My music files show a nice high quality image on the bubble interface but when showing video thumbnails the now playing image looks pixelated and alot worse than the original in the file. (These are wmv, m4v's with cover art of the dvd case) anyway to fix this or can it be considered in an update?

3. Is there a way to control which audio track is played in a video, or skip by chapters embedded in the video from the bubble app?
[Android Apps and Games] redmaw:
configure which ports the server uses

Reading the Guide/FAQ I noticed it said you can configure the ports the server uses however I can not find any way. I apologize if I am just being blind but if anyone can tell me what I missed I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

redmaw
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. In the case it works, is the files in the WMP library or do you use WMP to access your PogoPlug library ?

Anyway, for such error, BubbleUPnP as not much control since the Xbox do direct http streaming from the Media Server holding the video (PogoPlug).

2. BubbleUPnP rely on whatever URL PogoPlug expose for album art in video items. Maybe it exposes only a low-res version (thumbnail). It's difficult to tell without looking at the XML data it returns for video items.

3. No, UPnP doesn't make this possible. The only way is to do it through the video renderer's UI, if it allows you to do it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
To change http ports you must manually edit the configuation file (configuration.xml, in install directory) and restart the server.
[Android Apps and Games] phenx:
Great app!

Would it be possible to add 'Album Display' mode for search results and remote playlists?
[Android Apps and Games] redmaw:
Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] vampyrex13:
Any ETA on the new BubbleUPnP Server update which fixes the XBMC fanart mime type issue? Been waiting eagerly for it.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This week I hope.
[Android Apps and Games] devandavis:
tapping "play" causes first track to play twice

when I browse to an album and press play (icon at the top of the screen), almost invariably the first track will play through twice. It doesn't appear in the playlist twice, and I can avoid this action by simply tapping the first song instead. (when "item tap action" plays item from tapped pos). I don't remember this occurring before upgrading the foobar upnp component, and really the functionality gained by that upgrade far outstrips my desire to press one part of the screen over the other.

Asset UPNP server --> BubbleUPNP control ---> Foobar renderer.

This app is fantastic.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I cannot reproduce this, but it is likely due to the gapless support in the latest foo_upnp.

Can you send me a BubbleUPnP log file, showing the problem ? (see first post of this topic for instructions)

EDIT: I could reproduce it finally so no need for a log. Looks like a foo_upnp bug.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
Actually VPN is precisely the reason I started playing with the BubbleUPnP Server :)

I don't feel like opening any ports to my home network except for the SSH and OpenVPN servers that I'm running already - both with private key authentication (ie strong crypto).

I already have VPN set up correctly - I can access any hosts on my home network, as well as get outside on the internet (ie using VPN to securing access to the internet when on an open wifi network etc).

The way I understood UPnP, I would connect my nexus 7 to my OpenVPN server, and have the BubbleUPnP client connect to the BubbleUPnP Server running on my XBMC at home. The BubbleUPnP Server would take care of the multicast "routing" and provide access to any UPnP services on my home network over the VPN tunnel.

So the question is - is this possible ? Ie does the BubbleUPnP server work kind of like a multicast router ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Although I never tried it, it should be possible by using the LAN Ip Address of BubbleUPnP Server (instead of the public IP, used in non-VPN scenario) in Android BubbleUPnP, to connect to BubbleUPnP Server (in Settings > Network And Settings > Home > Server Address).

In BubbleUPnP Server's web configuration, in the "Network and Settings tab", you will also probably need to set "Public hostname" to theLAN IP of BubbleUPnP Server (as it defaults to the public ip), so streaming URLs generated are valid when you are connected through your VPN [ EDIT: This shoud not be necessary as from the POV of BubbleUPnP Server, everything will be seen as a LAN connection when it comes from the VPN ]
[Android Apps and Games] ckraus000:
Love your app, but would it be possible to develop a plugin which allows playing music from amazon cloud or google play music using DLNA...would be fantastic...

...great work

Greetings
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
yes, that's exactly how I've set it up (the first paragraph of your post), so now I'm just waiting for the XBMC workaround :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] Eduardo413:
1. In the case it works the files are in the windows media player library. I've added the pogoplug folders to the video library and it has scanned them into its library. If I use the xbox to queue the files they work from both libraries, but if I queue from the bubble app it will only work from the windows media player library.

2. These low res thumbnails are coming from my wmp video library. When I view WMP on my computer they don't seem low res?
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
Hi, I would like to suggest to enhance the 'Show OpenHome only' setting to 'Hide doubled devices'. It would be cool if all the server devices doubled by BubbleUPnP Server would be hidden with this setting also:

- If a proxy server is available, hide the corresponding regular server

- If the regular server *and* a corresponding remote server are available, hide the remote server

- If a regular server, the proxy server and a remote server are available, show only the proxy server

cheers and thanks for the great app!
[Android Apps and Games] Tuborg68:
Hi!

Here's a noobish question from a guy who hasn't any experience w media server, dlna and such stuff:

I have now a mk808 android minitv stick connected to my tv. Can I, and if so how, show media from my phone (htc desire w nikez jb rom) on the tv using bubbleupnp app?

Can I run bubble as media server on the mk808?

Thanks for any help w this!

Skickat från min HTC Desire via Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Just another case of seek time/duration continually increasing while paused.
[Android Apps and Games] Tuborg68:
Ok, "greenhorn" here again. I now installed the app on one tablet (asus transformer on JB) and one phone (htc desire on JB). I set Local media Server on both to be Adverticed on LAN but they don´t see each other. I can connect ok to the demo servers. What am I doing wrong here?
[Android Apps and Games] rkirmeier:
I just discovered that some functionality I use in BubbleUPNP no longer works. I have BUPNP on my Revue (GoogleTV) and on my phone. I like to send pictures or video to the BUPNP on the Revue and have BUPNP pop up to show the picture or play the video then disappear again when done. It no longer disappears when done showing the picture or playing the video. This was truly one of my favorite features of BUPNP. I really hope this can be added back, maybe as a option so users can have it remain or disappear after finishing the playlist or single image/video.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] xda_wigan:
BubbleUPNP on Android can't see Serviio

I'm having problems with upnp.

I have the following networking set up:

ADSL modem - Thompson TG585 v8. This is linked to a NetGear GS724T 24 port switch.

Plugged into the switch is a HP server running Serviio and my Samsung smart TV.

Also, plugged into the switch is a Netgear DG834Gv3 wireless router. I've configured this to act as a wireless access point on my network. I've turned off DHCP on this. So everything on the network should get IP addresses from the Thompson router.

The IP addresses are:

Thompson 192.168.1.254

Netgear GS725T - 192.168.1.7

HP server - 192.168.1.75

TV - 192.168.1.64

Netgear GS834G - 192.168.1.100

I've an android phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) and a Google Nexus 7 tablet. Running on these is BubbleUPNP. I want to use them as a UPNP controller.

However, I can't see the Serviio server on the wireless network. But the two android devices can see each other acting as UPNP servers.

Everything on the wired side of the network can see each other.

I can access my HP Server from my android phone. I've proved this by doing a telnet test to port 22 where there is a sshd process running. So this proves to me that routing between my wireless and wired network is basically working.

Can anyone please suggest where I'm going wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Seems reasonable although to avoid adding an obscure setting just for this, I'd add the more general ability to hide/unhide any server or renderer. So in that case, you'd hide the regular server.

These scenarios only happen when the Android device is connected to home WiFi *and* a remote server is connected due to "Active on connection" setting's value having WiFi/Ethernet (it cannot hapen on mobile only). Maybe in the "Active on connection" dialog, I can add a "Exclude home LAN" toggle so remote servers are only connected when the current LAN is not the same than the home LAN. What do you think ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can use BubbleUPnP as a media server on the device you want to expose media, and install BubbleUPnP on the device you want to browse and play stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Interesting, although I have no idea for now how this can happen.

- Does this happen often (my guess: no) ?

- when you hit pause, did the elapsed time froze and was blinking (normal state in pause) ?

- on that screenshot, elapsed time was advancing. Was it blinking too ?

- were you accessing foo_upnp through BubbleUPnP Server here ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Discovery issues are not related to the demo server.

Could be an issue with your router. Try rebooting it just in case.

Also try after enabling UPnP Tweaks > Blast Alive message on both devices (you may have to wait up to 20s for devices to eventually show up).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'll have to check about this. What are you using as a video player ?

I can understand video player disappearing after the video completed, but what do you mean for images ?

In any case, you probably can make the video player or image viewer disappear by issuing a "Stop" command on the Controller (long-click on the play/pause button).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Some things to try:

- reboot the router (unlikely cause but you never know)

- check if other UPnP apps discover Serviio (try with UPnPlay)

- check if a firewall or security software on your PC is not blocking Serviio or all UDP multicast trafic

- install another Media Server on your PC to see if it is discovered

- update your router's firmware if necessary
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Also found this on linn forums which you may want to search (http://forums.linn.co.uk/):

"A few hours on various message boards and a few scotch's down I think I've cracked it! Thanks Tim confirming the likely multicast issue. It appears the firmware on my router (NETGEAR dg834g v3) was out of date. A bug in the earlier version caused problems with multicasting manifesting in discovery problems in wired to wireless or vice-versa set-ups (apparently all-wired or all-wireless is fine!). After upgrading my firmware to V4.01.40 everything works swimmingly"
[Android Apps and Games] xda_wigan:
Thanks for your help.

Some follow up points below.

Tried that - no luck :(

Tried that - it didn't :(

I can see serviio from other uPNP clients on my wired network (e.g. other PCs, my Samsung TV). Also, I don't have a firewall running on the HP Ubuntu server.

I've not tried that. I've installed Serviio on 2 PCs - one running Ubuntu and one running Windows 7. My Android phone with BubbleUPnP couldn't see either, but both were visible on the wired network.

I've updated the firmware of the DG834G - which is acting as the wireless access point. No luck.
[Android Apps and Games] rkirmeier:
Thanks for the long press stop tip! I'll give that a try. Honestly I didn't try a video, I was only viewing some pictures. So in the past I would have bubble installed and set to start at boot on my GoogleTV so bubble is running in the background listening. I could be watching TV and on my phone or tablet I would select the BubbleUPnP (Revuew) renderer then browse to a picture/image on my phone. When I select the picture/image it would pop up on the TV without any other interaction and when done it would disappear so I was back to watching TV. However now when it's done it pop out of full screen and back to the main bubble interface. I have to then open my GoogleTV remote app and hit the live TV button to get back to watching TV. It's not a lot of work but I really liked the way it used to operate in that I could display pictures on a TV by simply selecting it and return to TV without any further interaction. Maybe long press (stop) is the solution but it seems it has already stopped as it returns to the main bubble interface.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
I did suggest this because currently I've set "Active on connection" to 'Mobile' just to avoid having three instances (now i have two instead) of MinimServer in my home LAN (regular, proxy and remote). Sometimes when I'm connected via WiFi in a foreign network, I do have to reset 'Active on Connection' to WiFi/Ethernet and I will switch it off when back home again.

I think that the "Exclude home LAN" toggle is a good idea, although I don't have a reason in my mind why it shouldn't be hard-implemented (without a possibility to toggle).

For the rest, the possibility to hide/unhide devices via their context menus is surely the best general purpose solution, as it would also make the 'Show OpenHome only' setting obsolete.

cheers, winxi
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There are a few corner cases were having the remote servers connected on the home LAN is useful:

- audio/video transcoding (as this cannot be set for LAN proxies)

- bypassing UDP multicast discovery, in case of discovery issues

- accessing servers through a VPN, as UDP multicast do not work in a VPN (special case of item above)

Yes I had the idea of removing this option in mind
[Android Apps and Games] xda_wigan:
That was it!!!! It's working now. The NetGear site was a bit confusing over which is the latest UK firmware. But got 4.01.40 and everything is visible now.

Thanks so much for your help. I've spent months scratching my head over this one!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, so your issue is that the video player or image player returns to the BubbleUPnP interface instead of showing what was before the launch.

I'll look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Well, take a few scotches to celebrate :)
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Often? Not really, but it's happened at least 4 times.

Not sure, will check next time.

Yes, it was blinking.

Yes, foo_upnp through BubbleUPnP Server.
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
I see, these are good reasons for adding such a toggle. Had forgotten how versatile the possibilities with your app are :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks.

The fact that elapsed time is blinking *and* advancing

points at the Android media streaming framework being confused.

The track *is* paused but the media framework indicates elapsed time advances (instead of returning the same position). That's very weird.
[Android Apps and Games] rkirmeier:
I hope you didn't spend any time on this yet! It's working now, I don't know what changed or why but it is... There seems to be a new delay after pressing back and the picture disappearing on the Revue that may have thrown me off this morning but I'm sure I waited longer then that delay at least once. None the less this appears to be working fine now.

I did notice a different issue though. So if I select my revue as a renderer and my phone as the media server (for example) I browse into my library and press and hold on a folder of pictures then select play from the popup. The first picture pops up on the Revue which is what I would expect. However it just stays on that picture indefinitely and if I press the little play button above the picture on the phone it starts flipping through the pictures on the phone but the same picture stays displayed on the Revue. I would expect the Revue to flip through the pictures along with the phone but it does not.

Thanks! Keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] RealWotan:
BubbleUpnp with autostart after boot

Hi,

at first, i think it is the best app to beam media contents to an another android device. I want to use this app on a mini-TV Android-Box (MK808). This device is connected with my TV on hdmi and usb (for power) for upgrade my 4 years old TV to an smartTV. The problem: i have to start the app every time after switch on the TV manually and i cant find an option to set automatically start after boot the mini-TV Andoid-Box? Isnt built in such option presently?

regards
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There is an option to start the renderer on boot, only available in the licensed version: Settings > Local Renderer > Start on boot
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP Server 0.6.3 is available.

Mostly a small bugfix release, fixing the XBMC "fanart" browse issue, and adding video subtitles support (provided these are returned by your Media Server).

Ubuntu and QNAP packages are still v0.6.2 and will be updated later.

0.6.3

added subtitle support (including transcoded videos)

fixed certain XBMC and PS3 Media Server folders not browsable (due to invalid mime-types returned by these servers)

fixed rare issue on UPnP device disappearance

fixed sometimes wrong LAN IP detected in presence of a VPN

OpenHome room and name can be more than 20 characters
[Android Apps and Games] digitalnerd:
Can your break your steps down into more detail? I'm stuck after :

cd /opt/compile

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git

Not sure what to do after that. Help from anyone would be appreciated, thanks!

EDIT : i was also able to edit configure with bin/bash to bin/sh

Still not sure how to comple now though.... I get No C compiler found error but I do have YASM and GCC installed from what I can tell.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
On what platform are you compiling ffmpeg ?

If on Linux x86 you can just drop the ffmpeg linux binary (downloadable from BubbleUPnP Server page) in the server's install dir.
[Android Apps and Games] vampyrex13:
Thank you for the new update. Works great with my XBMC install.
[Android Apps and Games] krikkevw:
Problem with pause button (pauses and goes to next track)

Hi!

UPDATE: problem fixed. I upgraded the PS Audio firmware!

I really like the application. Everything works like a charm except the pause button. When pressing the pause button, it pauses and goes right to the next track in the playlist. I saw someone having the same issue (a post from december 2010 in this forum thread) but no possible solution was replied.

I consider buying this application, any clue what might be the problem or a possible fix?

I'm using a Synology ds212j NAS as media server and a PS Audio perfectwave DAC as renderer. I play FLAC files.

Using the app on a HTC Desire with Android 2.3.3.

Cheers!

Kris
[Android Apps and Games] digitalnerd:
Sorry, should have mentioned my platform earlier. I'm using x86 in a Qnap 469 PRO (2.13 GHz Intel Atom Dual-Core D2700 to be more specific)

I tried your suggestion to place the ffmpeg linux binary in my the Qnaps install directory but now I get

I admit to being a linux noob but I'm fairly certain this is the installation directory for my server

I've tried to restarting BubbleUPnP server multiple times with different methods but the end is result is the same. Would it help for you to see the BubbleUPnPServer.log file? There is some stuff about Java in there but there is not much. It does not look good. Qnap package center shows Java 7 as being installed.

Thanks for your response Bubble! Customer support is what really enticed me to buy your app

EDIT : Not sure what the problem is, all I want to do is include video transcoding with BubbleUPnP server but it's becoming a struggle

Following this guide form the Bubble homepage -->

When I add --enable-libx264 I get gpl not found so I also add --enable-gpl but then I get LIBX264 not found.....

That is what brought me to warheads post @ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1118891&page=167

After following the steps I have audio transcoding back again.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Post the exact error you got (with just --enable-libx264).

Compiling ffmpeg can be super tricky if you are not familiar with that kind of stuff.

Are you sure your NAS has enough CPU power to transcode videos ?
[Android Apps and Games] digitalnerd:
OK, here is the output :

I think the NAS has enough power because it's a new model with Twonky already built in with transcoding capability. I'm no expert but I did my research and reviews are solid. Here is a link to the product and specs :

http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?lang=en&sn=822&c=351&sc=513&t=521&n=12475&g=1

without a doubt ffmpeg is a tricky install, have not found steps that will work for me. They seem pretty specific to the platform from what I have tried so far. Let me know what else I can provide to solve this.

Thanks for your help!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
"I browse into my library and press and hold on a folder of pictures then select play from the popup" => Do you do this on the phone or the Revue ?

You must do it on the phone if you want to initiate a slideshow (or manual advance) remotely controlled.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You must compile libx264 separately first.

The instructions you referred do not include libx264 as it is for mp3 transcoding only.

To avoid compiling libx264 research if you cannot just "ipkg install" it (as it is done for lame).
[Android Apps and Games] SorryGoFish:
Can't wait! Thanks for your amazing support.