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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
WiFi is perfectly able to handle a 44.1/16 WAV stream and higher. You might start to have bandwidth issue with 192/24 but you are not streaming that.

Don't normalize your music as there will be a loss in quality in the reecode. This is a Really Bad Idea(tm).
[Android Apps and Games] blackmyre:
Replay Gain

OK, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] YOLOLOLO:
Many thanks for your support.

<3 Bubble.
[Android Apps and Games] blackmyre:
ReplayGain

Well, I've installed foobar2000, added foo_upnp and got it serving music to BubbleUPnP successfully. I have set the options that I thought would be required for ReplayGain (Preferences>Tools>UPnP>Server>Streaming>Audio Processing, Source mode = track and Processing = apply gain), but I'm still hearing quite large differences in the volume between tracks. Is there anything else I need to do, or any way I can check whether the gain is being applied?

The tracks are tagged with ReplayGain data by MusicBee btw - don't know whether that's significant.
[Android Apps and Games] aringler:
steaming Web interface (Android)

hey,

is it possible to stream web content out of an android browser like chrome to a BubbleUPnP Renderer, running on a raspberry pi?

Are there more apps like semperVidLinks which help to stream general Android interface to a BubbleUPnP Renderer?

Thanks a lot in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Make sure you enabled ReplayGain for the BubbleUPnP streaming profile.

You can check what foo_upnp streams by looking a the console (View -> Console). You will see the URL of the stream and if ReplayGain is enabled (in which case the stream is a WAV).
[Android Apps and Games] ndcpower:
Chromecaste viewing pictures

Hello,

is it possible to disable the fadeout for picture viewing with chromecast?

It slowsdown the whole process of watching.

Within Bubbleupnp the pictures are displayed instantly. With chromecast the whole process of browsing through the pictures is rather slow.

But overall it's a much better experience as using Allcast or Avia :)

Thanks

Lars

P.S. the files are coming from an NAS via Twonky and are rather small in filesize and only HDTV in resolution.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It is true this fade out really get in the way for images. I have a fix for that in the next version.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
I'm getting the same issue on my Nexus 4. Videos (mp4) that were recorded by my phone camera continuously pause when I play them in the chronecast. I tried another mp4 video stored on my phone but recorded elsewhere, and it plays fine.
[Android Apps and Games] rachabot:
Is it because the files are native HD? Too much bandwidth? I will try another one transferred to the device and see. Just makes the locally stored videos unusable to the Chromecast (in my case anyway).
[Android Apps and Games] borchgrevink:
Stream 1: FLAC, stereo, 44100 Hz

I notice the time counter under the album artwork is blinking.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok. I think I know what the problem is. So I can be sure, could you send me a BubbleUPnP log file playing

that FLAC (see first post of this topic for instructions).
[Android Apps and Games] borchgrevink:
Thanks again. Log file is sent to your mail.

Christian
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I can reproduce it on a Nexus5 with a 1080p camera video, with BubbleUPnP Serving the video directly to the Chromecast.

There's the exact same problem with Twonky serving the video.

Thus this is likely that the Chromecast WiFi cannot keep up with the bandwidth (or it is not buffering enough).

The 37s clip I played is 74Mb which requires a sustained bandwidth of about 2Mb/s.

Unlike Ethernet, WiFi is really bad at sustaining high download rates. It is usually spiky and uneven as hell.
[Android Apps and Games] abgestumpft:
I have a similar issue via BubbleUPnP server (not related to the Album Art problem I have rarely via local Twonky server). Most of the Album arts are not shown when connected via BubbleUPnP Server. First I thought is was due to bad mobile connection but also experience this in WLAN now.

Could it be a performance/timeout problem? The QNAP NAS I use has slow CPUs (e.g. also downsizing mp3s takes very long = ca. 20% longer than track itsself).

So maybe extracting the jpg from the mp3 and downsizing just takes too long (though this shouldn't be really a time consuming task, but...)

If it helps I can stop time of the command you use to extract & downsize the jpgs.

Maybe it would also make sense to use the same cover (the one from the first track) for all tracks of an album (e.g. as option).
[Android Apps and Games] webs0r:
I'm testing BubbleUPnP Server along with trying to find a good UPnP server.

Currently I'm using Serviio as the UPnP server.

I'm having an issue where BubbleUPnP Server is maxing one of my CPU cores - pegging CPU use at 25% total. It doesn't happen upon service startup, it is only when I begin to play media.

No transcoding is involved (by Bubble) - just passing through mp3 from Serviio. Serviio is transcoding the flac->mp3, which completes in the first few seconds.

After about 2 minutes in, Bubble Server's CPU use drops to 0%, but gets pegged to 25% as soon as the next track begins.

Any ideas what this could be?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's probably an issue in BubbleUPnP Server with some cover art requests failing, maybe failure in rescaling (or failure in Android BubbleUPnP to get them from BubbleUPnP Server). I will try to reproduce it and investigate. I don't think it is a Media Server specific.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for reporting, I will install Servio and try to reproduce this issue.

Do you run BubbleUPnP Server on Windows ?

EDIT: can you check the server log file (server.log, in the intall dir) that transcoding really is not happening. Look for "transcoding..." lines when playing a file.

You can also double check that transcoding is disabled in Android BubbleUPnP Remote network configuration. The fact that CPU is busy for that amount of time points to transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] Hoofer:
I cannot seem to get the album art in the "Now Playing" window to show with any kind of quality. I have 600x600 albumart in the mp3 tags for each song but it only shows in low resolution in the "Now Playing" window? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] abgestumpft:
Your media server should be responsible for this. Are you using Twonky Server?

Then you should change the device to "Linn Kinsky Desktop Control Point" in configuration page. Or edit the clients.db in resources folder and add this line to your device:

XM:AASCALE#JPEGORG
[Android Apps and Games] Hoofer:
Thanks much for the quick reply. I'm using Mezzmo as the server but I'm not sure how to make this change in Mezzmo.

Update: I figured out that editing the device profile in Mezzmo enables the resizing of the thumbnails streamed out. Works fine. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] webs0r:
Yep this is why it is strange; I am not sure what Bubble Server is doing.

So:

i) Running BubbleUPnP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2

ii) No transcoding lines in the Bubble log

iii) Same behaviour is observed with streaming native mp3 files anyway

iv) Bubble client settings are: no transcoding, except lossless only is ticked

Other interesting points:

Serviio is running on 64 bit java, bubble server on 32

Also I have a question - how does Bubble Server connect to the UPnP Server?

It seems not to pass through the user-agent of the end client (it didn't pass through BubbleUPnP for the Android client to Serviio, so I forced the association based on the server IP, but this constrains the design in case I had multiple clients of different capabilities connecting through Bubble Server).

Ideally I'd like to use profiles built on the server .

I'll give ps3 media server a try and re-test this to see if it happens.

EDIT: I stopped the Bubble service and installed PS3 media server, funny thing, in the log I get repeating lines of:

New I/O server worker #1-2] INFO 08:55:37.573 Media renderer was not recognized. Possible identifying HTTP headers: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1, Cache-Control: no-cache, Cookie: JSESSIONID=148xiacf7ybalc8v0eyvimvpo, Pragma: no-cache, Referer: <myip>/BubbleUPnPServer/A3FFF2A864B08E4E7F238300FAE1817B.cache.html

But the Bubble Server process is not even running - too weird !! Going to restart...

EDIT#2: Same behaviour with PS3 Media Server (strange Bubble Server cpu use)
[Android Apps and Games] vampyrex13:
Cannot connect to BubbleUPnP server

Device: Epic 4G

ROM: CM7

Issue: Cannot connect to my BubbleUPnP server. I get the below message. If I flash a stock OS like toadlife's CleanGB, it works. As soon as I go back to CM7 (clean install), it stops connecting.

Device: Asus Transformer

ROM: Revolution HD

Issue: I get the same exact issue as above.

WARNING - 16:42:10,208 - bblesoft.android.bubbleupnp.fp#m: error connecting to : http://my.home.domain.com:58050/res/connectiontest: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "my.home.domain.com": No address associated with hostname

[main ] INFO - 16:42:10,209 - bblesoft.android.bubbleupnp.ba#a: Error connecting to remote network Home: The remote server could not be joined: java.net
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the detailed tests. I will try to reproduce it. It could be interesting you mail me the BubbleUPnP Server log file (bubbleguuum@free.fr)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It looks like a DNS issue to me. What happen if you connect to http://my.home.domain.com:58050/res/connectiontest in the Android web browser ? (if the server is accessible, you should have a login/password popup displayed)
[Android Apps and Games] palmy999:
Can't read all sub-folders in 1 of my folders

Firstly, thanks for the great app. This is the best player I've used by far!

I've been bugged by this problem thinking it was because I changed my OS to MIUI. Then I had the same issue when using a CM7 and now my Honeycomb. So I think this is a bug.

Device: HTC Desire/MIUI, Nexus One CM7, Lenovo K1/Honeycomb

NAS: Biffalo Linskstation Live LS-CHLv2 with latest firmware

Bubble Upnp version: 1.2.2.2

Problem: I have a folder with 30 sub folders but could only see 10. Tried restarting the DLNA and could only see 4 after that. Strange enough, I had another folder than had 24 sub-folders and could see all of the them.

It's definitely not a Bubble version problem as I already saw it since Oct 2011. Just thought maybe because I didn't buy the license. Only realised it is probably a bug when I reorganised my other folders to group the 24 sub-folders in a single folder.
[Android Apps and Games] nabil2000:
boring expiry date

Hi BubbleG

updated to latest release, and still my server is not accepted (licensed version)

it worked ok before... but I didn't use it for a while...

Toshiba Thrive, not rooted :) - Android 3.1

what is the use of having the server if Ihave to disable access to it?
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua1ung:
1. Any thoughts on porting BubbleUPnP Server to Android/Dalvik? :D I got one of 'em GoogleTV appliances (Logitech Revue's the name) that's itchin' to run BubbleUPnP Server. Just sayin'.

2. How about instructing BubbleUPnP (player) to access a media server from outside the LAN--that is, without the need for a separate BubbleUPnP server? Myself, I am perfectly comfortable opening ports in my router, and I don't really need transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you get an expiration message for BubbleUPnP Server, update to BubbleUPnP Server v0.3.2
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. I'll look into it but not high priority. You'll have better luck running it on a PC or a NAS on your network for now.

2. You can do that with a VPN
[Android Apps and Games] Guto ViP:
I'm having problems trying to run the server on Linux Mint, the. Sh is opening in text editor and try to run the command "java-jar BubbleUPnPServer.jar" appear several lines, but nothing appears on my Galaxy Nexus.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 1.3.0p2 beta is available for anyone to test (download)

It introduces a missing feature often requested: the Local Media Server, allowing to play phone/tablet content to any renderer:

external renderers such as WMP, XMBC, WDTV, DLNA TVs etc

the local phone/tablet renderer. This makes BubbleUPnP a standalone music player

The Local Media Server exposes the following content:

Music, Videos, Images, Playlists indexed by Android

the SD Card filesystem, browsable from the root. Useful to access content not indexed by the system but with some limitations (list below)

The local Media Server is also discoverable on the network by other UPnP Control Points (PS3, XMBC, WMP, etc). This is enabled by default in this beta and can be disabled in Settings > Local Media Server > Advertise on LAN.

BubbleUPnP will now accept to start without any network connection. This allows to use BubbleUPnP as a standalone music (and video with external app) player using the local Renderer and the local Media Server.

The local Media Server can be configured in Settings > Local Media Server. Network name can be changed and root content node enabled/disabled.

Scenarios to test

local Media Server serving to local Renderer

local Media Server serving to external Renderer

local Media Server browsed from other Control Point and playing content from there (ex: from a PS3)

local Media Server serving to local Renderer without any network connection (standalone player)

Don't hesitate to test the local Media Server with any renderer / Control Point you may have, trying to play various content to various renderers.

If you find an issue, please record a log file as explained in the first post of this topic and send it to me (bubbleguuum@free.fr), clearly stating what the issue

is, and how to reproduce it.

Limitations

The local Media Server cannot be browsed from a Xbox 360.

I expect some DLNA TV to refuse to play content due to a silly part of the DLNA spec not being implemented yet

SD Card filesystem browsing details

only files with recognized extensions are listed (Audio / Video / Images)

directories are listed first in case-insensitive alphabetic order, followed by files

hidden directories are not listed

files in a directory holding a music album are also listed alphabetically. This means the tracks will be listed in track order only if the filenames include the tracknumber: "01 - track1.mp3, 02 - track1.mp3, ..."
[Android Apps and Games] Guto ViP:
I wanna buy PRO version for Android, but i need know what to do the make server work on Linux Mint...
[Android Apps and Games] Hoofer:
Mezzmo Media Server

Hi BubbleG,

Were you able to determine why BubbleUPnP Server does not detect Mezzmo Media Server? Thanks for the help.
[Android Apps and Games] 1stsuburb:
Thanks bubbleguuum for the quick reply.

So for transcoded AVI files, I get that they dont have a seek bar. The odd thing is any video type (even natively supported types like mkv, mp4) also do not display a seek bar for me. Only audio files display a seek bar. When playing AVI, I can see the server CPU jump when transcoding. When playing mkv\mp4 no transcoding is being done, hardly any cpu usage noticeable.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It is probable that in the latter case, only audio is transcoded, which use very little CPU.

That would be the case if your original MKV has DTS or AC3 audio for example.
[Android Apps and Games] jazacoop:
Transcoding Support for Chromecast on QNAP

Hi guys,

Just saw that Chromecast support has been added for BubbleUPnP. I store all my content on a Qnap TS-419 P II using Twonky and I started doing some digging. I noticed that there is a Bubble server qpkg for qnaps and that transcoding is supported (mostly for my mkv files which don't play audio on Chromecast). I've hit a road block and am hoping someone can assist. This is how far I've got:

Installed Java and got it working on Qnap.

Installed the Bubble Server qpkg

Followed the "How do I compile ffmpeg on a QNAP NAS ?" instructions on this Bubble faq page

Restarted Bubble server

I can't seem to get Bubble to recognise the presence of ffmpeg. Says it's not found in the web interface status page.

If someone could give me some pointers as to how I can get this working, it would be much appreciated!
[Android Apps and Games] 1stsuburb:
You're good! Confirmed, I was able to find a mp4 with no special surround sound encoded with the video, I do see a seek bar. Thanks for the clarification.
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
Ok finally got some time to get a log in

So here is my problem. I am trying to use BubbleUPNP and BubbleServer on my local LAN and stream music it to my Samsung TV. I am hoping that the Bubbleserver will transcode or convert FLAC to MP3 on the fly, since my Samsung TV doesn't support FLAC. However I found out that when I select the server via BubbleServer some of my MP3 doesn't get played, while if I use the direct DLNA server it is fine.

Ex: In devices I choose the local broadcast DLNA server and play music01.mp3 it works fine when streaming to my Samsung TV. However, in devices I choose the BubbleServer broadcast server and play the same music01.mp3 and stream to my Samsung TV it will say format not supported.

So I am thinking that during the transcoding/converting process it makes a mp3 format that is "bad" or incompatible? Is this a possibility?

I hope that explanation is clear. I have attached a log
[Android Apps and Games] borchgrevink:
Problem solved (did not play Flac to Chromecast). Developer solve dit in hours, great work!!! Will buy full edition!
[Android Apps and Games] smartymcfly:
VGet https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=vget&pcampaignid=APPU_RXAIU4TqEpfboASzsYGAAg
[Android Apps and Games] Jeff Omelchuck:
Unrecognized file types

I posted a problem on Feb. 19. No replies. Can anyone help?
[Android Apps and Games] namurt:
apologies if this was answered much earlier in the thread. search is unavailable as of the time of writing this post.

in bubbleupnp server, there is a "video encoding quality" setting, which defaults to medium and scales all the way up to ultrafast. i have a quad-core xeon x3440 with 12gb of ram. the cpu is roughly the equivalent of a first generation core i5, although i've been running a stable overclock for years, so it's actually a bit better than the i5.

my question is: what should i be using for the above mentioned setting? can i crank it up? mkv video played to my chromecast via the bubbleupnp android app seems to be as sharp as it's going to get (720p is max for transcoding as i understand it?), however i get pauses every few seconds. the pauses are almost like buffering on a youtube video. if it matters, the mkv file itself is on my nas, which is of course wired into my home lan with ethernet. my media server is plex. media server pc is connected to my home lan via ethernet as well. all other devices (chromecast and my phone) are connected to the lan via wifi.

i'm hoping that by turning up this setting i can get rid of the pauses. or perhaps there's another setting within the android app itself that i'm missing?
[Android Apps and Games] juanrra242:
sopcast streaming to tv

Im the proud owner of this worder piece of software.

It the best app i´ve ever bought and its perfect for all the media i have on my android tablet and http links , i use it to stream to a samsung smarttv via wifi, and it does it very well.

The search on this thread is not available so i´m sorry if this question/issue has been solved before...

My problem is that i don´t know how to view sopcast streams from the tablet to the tv via wifi using bubbleupnp.When i got a sopcast link ,the only thing that opens is the sopcast player and i can not choose bubbleupnp.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance and congratulations for this magnificent software.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's a good question and something I am working on to make more flexible for the next version of BubbleUPNP Server for transcoding videos to Chromecast.

There are 2 specific issues with 1080p videos for Chromecast (currently kept transcoded at 1080p with current BubbleUPnP Server):

- the bandwidth it requires at 1080p (transcoded or not) is higher than what the Chromecast WiFi connection can handle. That's why you get the freezes you mention. And that's also why the Chromecast also fails to to play 1080p camera videos without stutter. It must be transcoded to 720p, there is no other choice.

- transcoding 1080p to 1080p requires a monster CPU (+ monster network bandwidth). Hence again the need for 1080p => 720p.

The preset setting you mention affect video quality by using more CPU. It doesn't solve the 1080p issues mentionned above which will be addressed in the next version of BubbleUPnP Server, along with other transcoding issues that have been found.
[Android Apps and Games] GadgetGator:
Google Play Music Stopping with Chromecast

Bubbleguuum, first off, thank you for the Chromecast support. It is awesome. However I am having a problem with the playback of Google Music. Using your app, sometimes a song will just abruptly stop playing. Not a temporary pause, or a skip to a next track. It just sits there. It's like the app thinks I have hit the stop button. I do not have this problem using the Google Music app with my Chromecast, only with BubbleUPnP. But I like the user interface better with your app so I rather use it then Google's product.

It's not song specific. In other words I can play the same song in Google fine. And a second run through with your app might turn out okay too. It just seems to be a somewhat random (though frequent) occurrence.

Any ideas??
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Hi folks, I bought the full version of BubbleUPnP from Google Play and also installed the BubbleUPnP Server on one of my Linux systems, but I don't seem to be able to play a lot of files to my Chromecast. My understanding is that the server is supposed to automatically transcode files into a format that Chromecast will understand. I have a large collection of Ogg/Vorbis music files, many of which I have on my Nexus 5 phone, and I'd like to be able to play them though Chromecast using BubbleUPnP. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. When I select a Ogg/Vorbis file to play with Chromecast selected as a renderer, the Chromecast screen on the TV will temporarily blank and then return back to waiting for media to play. It also looks like the server doesn't even get a request to transcode anything, because I don't see any console output and the CPU usage on the server stays low. I'm probably missing something really obvious, but can you please point me in the right direction?

Also, trying to play videos recorded with the phone is pretty much useless, because while it does start to play, it seems to only play in one second chunks which long pauses in between. Is this also due to a misconfiguration on my part? I'm pretty sure that Chromecast can natively play H.264 video that Android phones record, so there shouldn't be any transcoding involved, and it should play smoothly.
[Android Apps and Games] sabret00the:
I'm looking for an alternative to AllCast, something which can cast everything Koush's can but without needing a separate apk to be the unlocker. I don't mind if it's done via IAPs. Anyway, is this app what I'm looking for? If not can you point me in the right direction?
[Android Apps and Games] pinkwoolsun:
To play to a samsung tv u need to set <useNumericIpInStreamURL>true</useNumericIpInStreamURL>

In the config of bubbleserver.

This seems broken since the last versions though.

Even set to true in config it sends out a dyndns.org/58050/stream/audio/music.mp3

Sammy doesn't like that and wants 192.xxx.xxx.xxx/58050/stream/audio/music.mp3

quick fix is removing the dyndns in the app and replacing it with a numeric ip.