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[Android Apps and Games] tommi.a:
Access to my dropbox does not work. The dropbox screen to grant access by bubbleupnp comes up but nothing happens if I touch the green button.

Not sure if this important: this screen still shows the old bubble icon.
[Android Apps and Games] Doemer:
I love audio cast but there seems to be a collision for thw lockscreen as soon as two apps with lockscreen control widgets are running. For example, if I listen to google music radio on my upnp kitchem radio I have no lockscreen widget for google music and can't skip annoying tracks without unlocking the device. As soon as I stop audio cast i can control google music on the lockscreen.

Do you think it would be possible to disable bubnleupnp lockscreen widget as soon as audiocast is avtive. I know its kind of bad because anyone would loose ability to adjust the volume :-/

But hey just because I wouldn't know such an issue doesn't mean a gifted progger can't :)

Thx a lot

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] sontaya:
Action failed: not connected to Google Play Services for Casting

My problem: I play movies from Google Drive but same time stop playing

error on screen: It can't continue or replay (Internet connection it working)

Action failed: not connected to Google Play Services for Casting

Note: BubbleUPnP (Chromecast/DLNA) Licensed on Android v4.1.2

Thank you,
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No, it is accurate but since the movie must be restarted from the new position (specific to transcodes), it is not as fast as one would expect.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Weird, I just tried it and it worked. You can send me a log file if you wish (see first post of this topic).

I have updated the icon.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I will look into it
[Android Apps and Games] wewen:
Subtitles

Is it possible to inplement the function to set a default location where the external subs are searched for. In my case a have a chromecast and a android mediastick attached to different tvs. In the mediastick archos videoplayer downloads all availible subs. It would be sweet if bubbleupnp found them and presented them as sub choices. Also is it possible to have a choise to play with subs automatically :laugh:?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Looks like the connection with Google Play Services is lost. Aer you using a custom ROM or root apps doing bad things to Google Play Services (removing permissions, fiddling with its wake lock, ...) ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I believe the last location is remembered with KitKat file chooser. For automatically subtitle selection, you just have to select it once and the choice is remembered.
[Android Apps and Games] whispersatthegate:
Ah, thanks for the reply.

For anyone else who doesn't want to sit making lots of .nomedia files for all their non-media folders, there is a utility that seems to work reasonably well here - StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager. It can trigger a rescan, too.

The only things to watch out for are:

1. It apparently doesn't work so well with Android 4.2+.

2. Obviously, watch out for photos and things that are not music/video that you might still want to have indexed.
[Android Apps and Games] sontaya:
Same the problem, I try streaming on Plex for Android (Cloud Synced) and Plex/Web on PC.

I think that the problem is Google Drive or ISP internet connection.
[Android Apps and Games] wewen:
Hmm thats correct. Thats actually works fine. Might have to trim my sub directory though since its hundreds of subs there. The best would have been if bubbleupnp suggested the matching sub when you press the sub button. But thanks for the quick reply!
[Android Apps and Games] tommi.a:
Sent log of a new attempt. I have noticed the updated icon but I still got just no response after touching the green bar.

Hope you have an idea what goes wrong.

Thanks,

Tommi
[Android Apps and Games] ratatao:
Kudos for latest release improvements

I just downloaded the latest version, and I am glad that the chromecast subtitles customization

was incorporated in this release. I upgraded my review on Play Store to five stars, because

now I can cancel my Plexpass subscription, both in the free version as in the license, that I

gladly payed before.

(1) As I already posted, I am volunteer to perform a translation of this amazing app to

Brazilian portuguese. Please PM me if I can help. Just send the english words, and I

will return with the portuguese translation.

(2) I suggest that this app downloads movie metadata from tmdb / tvdb, as mediahouse app

does, and presents it in a beautiful UI. I think that this step can be a Plex / Xbmc / Serviio killer.

One more time - congratulations for this release. I am very happy with it!!!
[Android Apps and Games] hasenbein1966:
Caching of media library index??

I would like to use BubbleUPnP for accessing a server with music files that is on my small NAS.

In fact it works so far - BUT: Each time I start BubbleUPnP, it needs a LOOONG time to display the server contents!

And my library on the NAS is a really large one, so to display, for instance, the list of the albums in the "Pop" category needs REALLY long.

So that it's in fact unusable!

There are apps which do better: The Squeezebox / Logitech Media Server app "Squeeze Commander" caches the contents of the media library index locally, so that if you start the app - bang - all titles, albums, artists are there, and you can instantly scroll through long lists.

Only when the server updates the library because I have added new files (this happens manually on the Logitech Media Server) then the data is cached anew.

Dear developers, is there any possibility to add this caching feature to BubbleUPnP?

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] yoda16:
Upgraded android app and server to latest and now the app won't see the proxy server. I uninstalled then installed previous version and everything works fine. I have bubbleupnp installed with UMS that is running as service. Anybody else have problems with update? Tried fresh install of update also and same results.
[Android Apps and Games] LouisTran:
Sorry for noob question but can any1 help me to get an intrucstion to install bubbleupnp media server on linkstation? I read in dev website but cannot follow on it, my chromecast cannot see bubbleupnp server. if you can pls help me step by step, im new on this.
[Android Apps and Games] malavan:
Please can someone tell me what shod i put on my remote upnp network configuration to get this to work this is my server on pc I tryed everything.
[Android Apps and Games] JonnyJaap:
AVM Fritzbox

delet
[Android Apps and Games] mtrskllz:
playback stops on pause

Great app. i have tried all for chromecast and this is the only one i like

i have one issue though, hopefully it has not already been asked i searched but did not come up with anything

when i am casting to chromecast and i pause playback for more than a minute or two when i hit play the movie will play for a second or two and then stop - requiring me to clear the playlist, exit the app. and relaunch the movie link. this happens weather transcoding through server or not. also the lock screen controls stop showing up randomly but i dont think that its related.

i dont get any errors, it just stops and will not start again

i am using a droid mini.
[Android Apps and Games] GROGG88:
The new icon was not applied to all dpi's. I have a couple older devices still showing the old icon.
[Android Apps and Games] richlux:
I'm having a similar problem casting from my Moto X to my Chromecast. When I cast videos that need to be encoded, the video will play for 5 or 6 seconds then pause for a few seconds and then play again and pause again, etc. It seems to only happen with 1080 videos. 720 play without pause. Is this a known issue or is my PC just not powerful enough to do the transcoding? GREAT APP by the way!

Thanks,

Rich
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
WiFi is not good enough to carry 1080p video in most cases, so are you sure transcoding happens? Try lowering the max bit rate from 8000 to 5000 in the chromecast section of BubbleUPnP and see if it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
True: hdpi devices still have the old icon. Will fix in next update.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
As mentionned by sodna, try first to lower Settings > Chromecast > Max video bitrate to 5000 or lower. If you still get stuterring, look at your PC CPU usage: if it is near 0% then there is no transcoding. If it is at 100%, CPU is not fast enough.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Where do the video comes from ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You mean you created a LAN proxy media server of UMS and the proxy is not appearing in Android BubbleUPnP Devices tab ?
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
BTW my own PC was exceeding 80% during transcoding of heavy movies so I changed the video encoding speed from medium to faster and my CPU utilization dropped to around 50%.

But I suspect something else about 1080p videos that reside on the phone: Is it possible that wifi may not be fast enough to carry them from the phone to the server to be transcoded ? If that's the case, the only possible would be to move the phone very close to the wifi router, correct ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's no plan for caching as it brings a whole new category of problems.

If you have a huge number of items, long lists are not going to be very usable no matter what.

The solution is to browse by smaller categories to have less items.

For example, some media servers are able to split album lists by first letter.
[Android Apps and Games] mtrskllz:
mostly i use showbox. but it also happens in tvportal and moviedroid

most of the videos i am streaming are mp4, but also some flv through encoding on the server
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Thank you for your kind offer for translations. I'm not doing translations because there is an overwelming amount of

strings to translate and I add new strings quite often.

2. no plan for that. I can accept that other apps are better for beautiful movie presentation and specialized in that.
[Android Apps and Games] fox-0:
Yep the ffmpeg version is used had libmp3lame support. But i compiled ffmpeg new myself and everything seems to work now. BubbleUPnPServer only needs ffmpeg with libmp3lame (for audio) and libx264 (for video) right? Thanks for the help.
[Android Apps and Games] zahradaniel:
downloaded transcodes

Hi

I have a problem with transcoding flac files via bubbleupnp server. On the fly transcoding works fine but downloading transcodes do not play back. This problem is on both my nexus 10 and Samsung galaxy i9000
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes and libmatroska. And the experimental aac encoder (or libfdk_aac) if you want multichannel preserved.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Downloading mp3 transcodes of FLAC files, not playing on both devices ?
[Android Apps and Games] yoda16:
Correct.
[Android Apps and Games] richlux:
57 2598366

Thanks. I tried that and I also set the Video encoding speed to the fastest setting, but it still paused. I checked the CPU and it's running at 100% during the transcoding, so sadly I guess my PC isn't powerful enough.

Ricj
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
Very happy with the latest update. Thanks a lot bubbleguuum for the subtitles fixes!

Seriously, Plex sucks balls compared to Bupnp.
[Android Apps and Games] zahradaniel:
Yes. Not playing on both.
[Android Apps and Games] malavan:
Guys does this transcode avi movies?

I can do this with plex but with this app is no go
[Android Apps and Games] V4lve:
I like the new app icon but don't see it in my launcher. Still uses the old one.

Edit. I think its the MIUI theme!
[Android Apps and Games] daftlush:
What folder do I place the ffmpeg binary in to allow transcoding with the server on a mac?
[Android Apps and Games] bertiess:
sleeping mode Samsung tab 2, 7inch

Hi,

I'm using the app for a couple of months now but since one of the last updates the connection between my samsung tab2 and the renderer (in my case a Sony bluerayplayer) gets disconnected while streaming. So my music stops suddenly. I assume that bubbleupnp doesn't work when my tab goes in sleeping mode, because the music stops a couple of minutes after my screen goes black. When I keep the screen on, I don't experience this issue. Is there a possibility to force the tablet to stay active without the screen on ? When plugged in with power you have the bubbleupnp option to leave the screen on but not a black screen and also not when not plugged in.
[Android Apps and Games] Nedle:
From what I understand the encoding options under Chromecast determine all transcoding to the Chromecast, even when streaming over the internet? Thus changing the encoding quality options in the web interface of the server only change the transcoding to the local renderer? Also noticed that slower actually means MORE cpu usage instead of less, I just tested and this seems to work the same way when changing the encoding quality in the web interface. Might want to make this more clear as to me it seemed like faster ment more CPU.. It says: Higher quality require faster CPU. Default: medium, hence I thought faster ment higher quality..

Also getting an error when trying to stream avi's over the net to my Chromecast, using BubbleUPnP 0.8.2 and XBMC as the server, all transcoding options are supported. Error I get is: failed to extract videon info. AV track selection will no be possible.

And as a result it loads an image instead of the video.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
For playing to Chromecast ? Yes but you must install BubbleUPnP Server (see Settings > Chromecast).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What are the specs of your PC (CPU) ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The new icon is missing for some older devices (hdpi). Will be fixed in next update.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Place it in the installation directory where BubbleUPnPServer.jar is found.

Make sure it is executable:

chmod +x ffmpeg

stop the server. Restart it with the launch.sh script so it uses the new ffmpeg.

You can check the ffmpeg version looking at the BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 log file
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You could first try to disable WiFi optimization in the advanced WiFi settings: device settings > WiFi > Menu > Advanced > WiFi Optimization.

Otherwise I think you can find apps that will keep the screen on.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Correct

Yes, that's why in 1.8.3 I changed the labels for Chromecast > Video encoding speed, to state clearly which option uses less cpu and which uses more. But I forgot to reflect that change on the Web configuration.

Maybe it would be even more clearer if it was called "Video encoding quality".

Can you trigger that error again then just after send me the BubbleUPnP Server log file (BubbleUPNPServer.log.0, in the install dir on Windows), at bubbleguuum@free.fr ?
[Android Apps and Games] tommi.a:
Bubbleguuum told me that the log doesn't tell too much.

I found out now that the problem is the overlay used by screen dimmer software makes the problem.

As long as a screen overlay is active, dropbox doesn't accept the touch of the green (and the red) button when trying to link BubbleUPnP.

Seems the behaviour of dropbox is no the same as when installing apps from unknown sources.

Problem solved by temporarily switching off the overlay!

Thanks,

Tommi
[Android Apps and Games] Nedle:
As the Chromecast option determines all transcoding options to Chromecast it picks the same maximum bitrate for wifi and internet streaming, even though for most people streaming over wifi will allow for a higher bitrate than over the net. Would it be possible to allow to differentiate between the 2 and set a different maximum bitrate?

Also the encoding quality option can now be different for Chromecast and streaming to local renderer, but what's the idea behind this? What encoding quality the server can handle should determine the setting, thus having different options for encoding to chromecast or local renderer doesn't seem neccasary, or is there a difference?

Send, thanks for the great work/support so far.
[Android Apps and Games] mtrskllz:
usually mp4 from showbox. but it also happens when transcoding flv from tvportal or moviedroid
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I just tried a random mp4 with showbox and could pause 5 minutes without problem.

- do you still have this problem if you keep the phone screen on ?

- can you give me the name of a movie in Showbox for which you have this issue
[Android Apps and Games] mtrskllz:
It happens with any movie. Honestly I'm thinking it might have to do with a setting somewhere. I just can't figure it out. It does not seem to be a common problem because I haven't seen it posted anywhere. I would say a pause time of 5-10 minutes will do it almost everytime
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Eventually you can send me a BubbleUPnP log file trigerring the probem to the point unpausing fails so I can see if the Chromecast is not disconnected or something (see first post of this topic for details). Also make sure you are not using any app potentially doing bad things to Google Play Services after a while, to save battery.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
now playing media info

Hi, when streaming media to the chromecast, I noticed that the media info does not give a lot of information (see attached screenshot). Also the info does not change if we enable/disable transcoding or change the transcoding quality.

Would it be possible to add more info? For example:

whether transcoding is on or off

estimated overall stream bitrate

and split into 2 sections, one for the original media info, and one for the transcoded.

In my screenshot you see 1920x1080 but I'm transcoding it so I would like to see in addition the 480 or whatever resolution I'm transcoding too.

It would be nice to have all the info for both original and transcoded stream. Even the media size (ie 154mb in this example) you can derive an estimated size for the transcoded stream as long as you know the bitrate and the time length.

This extra info will help when troubleshooting transcoding settings and their effects !
[Android Apps and Games] Mondayrain:
Pandora via audiocast?

Dear Bubblesoft,

I have the purchased version of the Android bubbleupnp app, and I particularly like the audiocast function that allows me to stream poweramp flawlessly to my Sony STR-DN840 receiver. Many thanks for this great program!

However, I am not able to stream music from the Pandora app via audiocast. Is this something that can be fixed? Sorry if there has been a similar post previously, I didn't have a chance to read the whole thread. Thanks for your help!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes it would be nice to have realtime status info of BubbleUPNP Server (what is being transcoded and to what format, CPU usage).

No promise but that would be useful, including for troubleshooting.

About the su line commented in the init script: I had disabled it because it was causing PC shutdown triggered from the UI to not work anymore. Any init script starting su can cause this issue. Since I cannot think of a workaround, I'm leaving it like that currently.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's a short list of apps that cannot work with Audio Cast. I never could test Pandora as I'm not in the US but it is probable it cannot work for the same reason Tunein also can't.
[Android Apps and Games] richlux:
It's an older machine: Intel Core2 Duo T6600 (dual CPUs at 2.2Ghz) with 4 Gigs of RAM

Rich
[Android Apps and Games] remmie80:
Hey,

I have a playlist with radio streams to stream to chromecast and whenever I'm playing one of the streams and I try to play another one it plays the one after that instead of the one I clicked. It doesn't happen if I'm not already playing anything.

In on version 1.8.3 with a license installed.

Android 4.2.2

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3n1wrjdh43dzx22/SCR_20140323_223935.mp4

Verstuurd vanaf mijn HTC One X met Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] mtrskllz:
Log file sent. If you didn't get it let me know and I will send it again

Thanks for looking at it
[Android Apps and Games] czonin:
Hey everyone i'm trying to set up the BubbleUPnP server but I keep getting the follow when running the internet connectivity test:

HTTP: ERROR: cannot reach external server to perform test: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

HTTPS: ERROR: cannot reach external server to perform test: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
upstart 1.4 and later (Ubuntu 12.04 and newer) supports setuid/setgid directives. You would put them in /etc/init/bubbleupnpserver.conf

for example:

...
respawn

env DEFAULTFILE=/etc/default/bubbleupnpserver
env COMMAND=/usr/share/bubbleupnpserver/launch.sh
setuid bubble
setgid bubble

script
...

Then it gets executed as user "bubble" without su hacks !

Some info here: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you send me a log file, just clicking once on an item that triggers playback of the next item (see first post of this topic for instructions) ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the tip, will update it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Try this:

- go to the BubbleUPnP Server web configuration

- in the Network And Security tab, in the public hostname section, click the Default button then Apply button

- is th connectivity test successful now ?
[Android Apps and Games] czonin:
Already tried this and i'm still having the issue. I've also done all of the suggested fixes like port forwarding 58050 and 58051, and added the rule to my firewall.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Send the me BubbleUPnP Server log file at bubbleguuum@free.fr (BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 in the installation directory on Windows)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I have written some documentation on Chromecast transcoding.

On particular interest is ffmpeg/ffprobe requirements on non-Windows platforms and detailed info to troubleshoot stuttering video playback:

http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/#cc_transcoding
[Android Apps and Games] czonin:
Sent.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Problem indentified. It only happens with FLAC with embedded album art.

It produces a mp3 that the Android MediaPlayer used in most music players (including BubbleUPnP for local playback) fails to play.

The mp3 plays in music players using their own audio engine such as Poweramp and Neutron.

In fact it seems to be a ffmpeg bug as the tag info is also missing in that case.

I will have a workaround for this in the next app update.
[Android Apps and Games] wewewi999:
I'm getting this as well. Any clues will be appreciated. Tried reinstalling Java, made sure ports were open on router and in Windows firewall..

No idea what I can do next.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
[Android Apps and Games] Roger W:
Hi bubbleguuum,

I saw a discussion much earlier in this thread where you talked about not wanting to behave badly in the app ecosystem by auto-launching on Play commands - let me outline this scenario and ask you to reconsider...

Bluetooth stereo in the car, when I get in the car with my phone in my pocket and start the car, the radio should auto-link and start playing, as easily as if it were FM radio without me having to think about it.

With Google Play Music, this works, but they have a bug that kills my phone's audio on disconnect

With Apollo, it works, but *they* have a weird volume-leveling thing that makes it start loud and get softer after a half second.

With BubbleUPnP, it works, if the app is already running and is set to not stop itself after inactivity, but doesn't if the app isn't running.

So I set it to not shut down, and now my idle battery drain is about twice what it otherwise is. I think I'll have to go back to Apollo with its volume glitch instead, for the car. (BubbleUPnP is still great for DLNA at home!)

Any chance you could add the option to handle Play when unloaded, like the others do? However hacky it seems behind the scenes, it's the behavior that users need!

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] blablazzz:
Please, make possibility to view Google+ pictures (former picasa)