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[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
Hi,

I can confirm that it does indeed run. I was able to navigate my folders and play one of my MKV files.

Few things I noticed:

1. TXT subtitles did not load, filename is exactly the same as main mkv filename and these subtitles load when played on desktop with any movie player.

2. Would it be possible to allow to rename shares? As you can see on attached screenshot, it might be confusing which letter is what. I keep different things on different shares on my NAS drive which are then mapped with separate letters. These are then renames in Windows so I know what is where.

3. Second screenshot shows listing of one of my directories. It appears to take a lot of space, only listed few files on such a big screen. Maybe a font size option would be a good idea, it would have to display smaller icons with smaller text. Also notice I can't see much of the rest of filename, so either smaller font and/or wrap text?

4. When selecting subtitles font size, I see 20 sp, 22 sp and so on. Could that value be shown with the actual size selected, as a preview? This way you would know what the resulting size will be rather than having to set size, then try, then go back and adjust.

The movie I played (over WiFi) had some visible compression artefacts but I think I have to change my settings, I'm still using defaults. My WiFi is capable of streaming these MKV HD files with no quality loss, when played directly from network drive mapped with CIFS Manager.
[Android Apps and Games] The Spirit:
i can say the beta now runs under ics 4.0.2 on my galaxy nexus.

but one thing would be great. could you make use of the full resolution of 1270x720 like the youtube app is doing it?

also it doesn´t look very nice if you see the white buttons next to the movie.

this would be really great.

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
If you mean with youtube app that you could watch movie and browse i will think about that.

I don't understand what do you mean with white buttons?
[Android Apps and Games] schriss:
He means that when you watch a movie full screen, in some apps you still see ICS software buttons. Some apps like YouTube, Dice player, MX Player are already updated to be able to go true full screen, with white software buttons hidden.

Sent from Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Last version for this year is released (6.5.1).

What's new:

- ICS support

- License check improvements

- other bugfixes

First of all I would like to thank you for all the support you were giving us. We received a lot of positive feedbacks, new feature ideas, bug reports,... thanks again.

Now it's time to make a list of all the ideas you gave us, sort them by priority and next year we will start with implementation.

Until then we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
[Android Apps and Games] Claude_C:
Thanks for the great app.

I tried it today.

On my laptop, ffmpeg was hoging the CPU at 99%, fans were going crazy.

I can't imagine running the Emit server for 2 hours, it will melt my laptop! ;-)

I have a Sony Vaio Intel Corei3 M330 2.23Mghz, 4 gigs Ram, ATI HD 5470

The video on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 was working great.

I have the latest version of both Windows 64 Home Premium and Android installed.

EDIT : I killed the ffmpeg process on my laptop, and I can still watch the video on my Tablet. Not sure if I will be able to watch thw whole movie or how does ffmpeg works with the streaming.
[Android Apps and Games] wpbear:
Great server and app!

Is there a way to get the server (Windows 7) to start on boot (before login).

Scenario: I use WOL to turn on the PC and server starts running. Currently I must actually boot AND log-on to the user account to get the server running;it does load from the Startup folder and I tried making reg entries to get it to boot under the local Machine RUN but it didn't work.

Playon does this by default, Plex does not and is the same as Emit.
[Android Apps and Games] tj!2k7:
On a similar note (which I think would also address this request), would it be possible to add functionality to the server app so that it could run as a background service?

Currently I use FireDaemon to run it as a service.

Thanks and happy holidays!
[Android Apps and Games] waterman981:
I just wanted to second this. My buddy was showing me Emit on his Kindle, and it got me to go out and buy one tonight. First thing I did was purchase the app through Amazon, only later to see it is 5.7.2. I'd love to see it updated!

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] NoLaw:
Problem playing on a Tablet

Hey guys, so far I love the app but I have one big problem. I am currently running EMIT free 6.5.1 on an ASUS Transformer Prime running Honeycomb. When I run the app, for some reason the virtual "menu" button does not appear, and thus I cannot add remote servers, etc. Is there a workaround to this? Thanks!

P.S. Are there plans to optimize for tablets in the future?
[Android Apps and Games] kevintadams:
EMIT App works on Wifi not on 3g or 4g

I am using EMIT to stream content from my Epic 4g Touch and it only works when I am on Wifi. Any wifi connection will remotely connect me to my home PC to stream the content without a problem. When I try on a 3g or 4g connection, it will never stream the content, it sticks on buffering before telling me "something went wrong". A friend of mine can connect via Verizon's network on Galaxy Nexus, but I am not able to get it to work on Sprints network. Is Sprint blocking certain traffic?

Any thoughts?
[Android Apps and Games] olly230:
great app!

I can stream over 3g but not public wifi...

Is that normal or can i make it do what i want?
[Android Apps and Games] Anti_simlock:
Hi,

this app looks interesting and I dont have much time test it, so I'm asking here: Does the PC has to be switched on to be able to stream on my phone?

cheers
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
It's updated now ;)

Strange ... I will check that.

There are big plans for future development, but time is running too fast :)

I don't know, sorry :confused:

I don't know, why you can't stream. Maybe is bandwith too small.

To live stream, yes. But you can preencode and download movie to watch it offline.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
Great app, works fantastic when I'm @home, however when i'm at a remote location, it says "waiting for response, checking password, waiting for response, server not available". I have been arguing with it for a while with minimal success externally. However aside from all that is there a way to make it load .srt subtitles?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
You probably have a port forwarding problem. Please check if port 1554 is forwarded.

If you tap on video icon (video icon with black, down arrow) you will get an option to select a subtitle file.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I have a strange setup. It goes internet > win2k8 server > switch > computers.

I have one emit server on my file server, a core2duo. It can'tq uite handle the transcoding of 1080p video. I have another emit server on a quad core with some network drives. And I have a 3rd server on another quad core with network drives. The first server uses 1554 and 2000-2006, and i can access it from the internet. The second uses 1560 and 1560-1566 and i can't access that from the internet. The 3rd uses 1570 and 1570-1576, but is the main server, and binds to the wrong network adapter.

If i use 1554 and 2000-2006 with a differnet computer(change port forwarding) that machine works and hte origional no longer. Is it not possible to use different ports?

Also thanks much, this app is nice, exactly the air video alternative I was looking for.
[Android Apps and Games] deathsled:
how do you intend to stream from your PC if the PC is off?
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
There is no Wake On Lan feature in the app that will wake the computer up. That's a bit much of a request considering most computers don't support the function.

Also, I tried to download this on my logitech revue, figuring it would be perfect to set up at my parents house so they could easily watch tv hosted from my media server, however it says the revue is not supported. Were you aware of this? Is there some sort of limitation preventing it, or a workaround?

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So, a quick idea to be able to bind to a specific network adapter in future releases would be nice, though probably not really utilized. I'm not really sure what's going on with using ports other than the default, but it's smart enough to figure out that another server is on the network? Also everything on local network works great.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
The entire reason we support setting ports is so that people can have multiple machines in a network. Something in your network configuration must be keeping it from working.

Wake-on-lan is already implemented (long press on server) ;)

About Logitech Revue, streaming is working (RTSP only :confused:), but we have UI problems, that's way is unsupported.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I was curious about the ports because it's 1554, then 2000-2006, a seperate range for udp, however if you change 1554 to any other number, udp bottom range becomes the first number automatically, so if you make it 1640 tcp the udp will auto set to 1640-1646, that's why i was confused.

Is there plans to make it work ont he revue?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Of course ;)
[Android Apps and Games] sotodefonk:
I have a problem with my new atrix, every time I want to play something, the error "something went wrong" appears.

It used to work in my vibrant, but in this phone it won't work. Please fix it, I used it too much :(
[Android Apps and Games] malavan:
I can not get this to work on 3G network i have linksys 4200 and opend thoes port you

mentioned.btw it works over wifi.can someone with linksys help me please.
[Android Apps and Games] cboy82:
any chance of enabling lowerbitrate? or is it at its lowest
[Android Apps and Games] cboy82:
Any chance we can have a brightness setting please , like swipe up/down
[Android Apps and Games] misterx51:
works nicely once u open up the ports. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] sotodefonk:
I recently contacted the developer about a bug that im having with my phone, but I want to know if Im the only one with this problem...

So the question goes to anyone with a 960x540 device:

When you stream something. does the video always play at 4:3 aspect ratio? All the videos I tried shows black bars at the sides, even with 16:9 videos, this doesn't happen on 800x480 devices since my brother has one and it works fine there...

My phone its a motorola atrix, and need to know if it a problem with 960x540 devices or a problem with my rom
[Android Apps and Games] phoenixs4r:
I also have an issue with the app. Whenever I queue already encoded apps for download, the app stops downloading after the first video, and upon opening the app, force closes. Originally brought up to the developer as a device issue (Was running an Incredible, multiple roms) I shrugged it off. However, it is now happening again on my Galaxy Nexus. Anyone else have this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] cboy82:
Any chance of adding a delete option on long press of folder or video?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
HLS or RTSP?

You can change bitrate in settings (menu button -> settings)

I'm making some changes to the app core right now. I know about issues with downloader and I hope that will be ok with next release.

Stability issues are priority right now. Delete is already on a TODO list (with 30 other features :))
[Android Apps and Games] SilverStone641:
Hey guys. I'm having the same exterior routing issues as everyone else. No combination of open ports gets me a successful connection. I've even tried placing my router in a temporary DMZ mode (all ports open) and still it tells me the port is NOT open. That's getting old.

I have yet to try it on my home network, but lets face it. If i was going to watch video at home, i'd just fire up a tablet or laptop, not my phone. I really wish the 3G streaming worked, but it just doesn't. Thanks anyway though!
[Android Apps and Games] cboy82:
3g streaming works fine for me, probably the only app that does it well enough for streaming home media content
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Check your firewall settings, could be a problem with that. If that doesn't solve problems, please contact us on a support mail: support@wpn.tv.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
Can you tell me what video codec is being used? I have it on my touchpad running ics, and i get audio, but no video.

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Also, I can't get a secondary server to be available externally. When I change off the default port, the ranges of the UDP overlap with the tcp port. Any idea? I forward the port range even though they overlap, but only the one on the default port is accessible.
[Android Apps and Games] perkhus:
Wonderful app.
[Android Apps and Games] j0nson:
I found that I could only use the default ports. If anyone is having problems setting up access from outside your network, try using the defaults first.

I think it's the android client that doesn't use the correct ports when you change to a custom port scheme.

zokipirlo, can you look into this? It seems like a few people are having the same problem. You probably dismissed the reports since most people don't open the firewall and forward ports correctly, but I know how to do it, and I had the same problem.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
This is a great app. It seems to have gotten faster at buffering since the last time I tried it :) Just a few quirks I noticed:

-with subtitles retrieved from mkv files, for long subtitles that take up more than one line, only the first line is completely visible, and the 2nd and more lines are cut off.

-sometimes there are sequences in shows I watch where there are two simultaneous lines of subtitles (usually found in the introduction songs of shows, where top shows native language and bottom shows the translation), none show up at all during these parts.
[Android Apps and Games] cboy82:
Is there any chance to have different encoding profiles on the windows side and a profile selector on the android side?

For better quality encodes as i watch movies on my tablet and phone. Many thanks :-)
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Video codec is h264.

If they overlap between the servers then it will not work. Tcp and udp overlapping on the same server is fine.

Maybe is android client not picking new port after changing it. I will check that. In the mean time, please try to remove server and add it again.

Tablet or phone? OS version?

You can change bitrate and resolution values with sliders in settings. No need to use profiles. Will try to simplify that in future.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Phone, HTC G2 aka Desire-Z running Gingerbread 2.3.7
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
I'm having a problem with Emit on my Galaxy Tab 8.9 running stock 3.2.

No matter what I set the resolution or quality to, I'm getting a lot of artifacts on the screen when there's high speed movement.

I'm using RTSP, as I get "Something went wrong" when I use http streaming.

Emit works fine with http on my Galaxy S phone, and on my iPad.

Any thoughts?

Thanks..
[Android Apps and Games] slowatsch:
Is there a solution to the problem that the PIN is not working with the linux version? "emit pin" give me a pin, which is not working at all.

Help would be nice :)
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Strange, I also have a 8.9 tablet and HLS is working fine for me. But I'm on a HC 3.1 because Kies can't update my tablet :mad:

Thanks.

When you open emit do you get a "starting upnp" message? Do you have webacc in config to true? Do you get any other messages in console? Do you have the latest version from web site?
[Android Apps and Games] slowatsch:
Thanks for your verry fast response.

I see no "starting upnp" , well after I type emit -s I see no messages at all. Yes webacc is set true in the config.

If you can tell me where a possible logfile is I could check it myself, but I didn't found one on the fly.

My Config is pretty simple I guess:

{
"dirs" : [
"/path/to/glory/censored/",
],
"webacc" : "true",
"password" : "supersecrit",
"encdir" : "/home/xxxuserxxx/emit/encdir"
}

I guess the port is default when not changed by config.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Are you sure you have the latest version of emit from the website?

Emit for Linux - 1.8.4
[Android Apps and Games] slowatsch:
Yes, downloaded and compiled the whole thing yesterday ;)
[Android Apps and Games] gharris:
changelog?

I noticed the new version on the website the other day, but it seems the changelog hasn't been updated yet. I was just curious as to what is new.

Thank you for making my mythtv recordings streamable!
[Android Apps and Games] scottter:
Bought your app on sale a little while ago and I really like it. I have a galaxy nexus, is there any way that you could hide the softkeys while video is playing? This is really bugging me, especially in the dark when the scene in a movie is supposed to be dark and there are these bright softkeys glaring at me.
[Android Apps and Games] phoenixs4r:
Does ICS bring anything to the table that will speed up streaming to device?
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
I just installed Plex and that's working fine. Would still like to get Emit working though. Any thoughts?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
I'm working on that. With constant API changing Google doesn't help us :(

I doubt. You need working HLS on a device and a fast computer. Movie file has to be decoded, encoded, sent to device and buffered a little on a device ... quite a long process.

Sorry, I don't know what could be wrong :(. Can you try to play some movie over HLS and send me a logcat output in pm?
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
Is there any way to track change logs per release, and track releases? I'd love to have a place to see if it's compatible with the logitech revue other than having my buddy try it on his every week or two.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
On a webpage is a little outdated, but you can find all the changes here in this thread. After every release I made a post with changes.

Regarding revue. It works but you have to disable hls and a navigation is a little tricky (ui problem).
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
Can you tell me how to do that?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Check private message ;)
[Android Apps and Games] panfist:
I have an Motorola Atrix 4.5.91.MB860.ATT.en.US running the stock up to date ROM. The server is 1.8.4 on windows 7 x64.

I have been trying out the free version and it's pretty awesome but I'm experiencing two pretty bad bugs.

The first problem is that it seems to be looping the same buffered section of video over and over. Depending on the source this could be between ~2-30 seconds. Soemtimes it keeps repeating over and over, and other times it repeats once and then crashes back to the file browser after the second playback is done. At the default settings, I kept getting "Something went wrong" so I disabled HTTP streaming, which allowed me to at least start to see the video, but it just repeats the same chunk.

Any video that I have tried to watch is shown in 4:3 regardless of what the original file aspect ratio was. I tried changing the resolution from 800 to 960 to match my Atrix screen, but that didn't help.
[Android Apps and Games] kboi:
Streaming over 3g/4g Sprint Galaxy S2 Touch

Aloha:

I just saw your app the other day and so far everything works great over the local lan and through the web browser. I am trying to get the app to work on my Android device over 3g/4g streaming and best I can get is just the listing of the folders when I connect. When trying to stream any video it goes to "buffering" then "something went wrong". I have tried the recommendations on your support page but it doesn't seem to help. I have tried using the web browser on the phone and it works but the app won't play videos.

Hope you can help out.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
Hi, I sent you log output. If that's not what you needed, please let me know.

I upgraded my Captivate from Android 2.3 (CM7) to Android 4.03 (CM9) and it too is now going the same thing as my Galaxy Tab running Android 3. So it looks like there is indeed an issue with newer Android builds.
[Android Apps and Games] sotodefonk:
I have exactly the same problems with my atrix, and apparently its a bug with our phones only, I sent a few mails to the dev a few weeks ago, and he couldn't find the problem.

I asked this same question a few posts back, and asked for someone with a 960x540 device to test it but nobody answered, so I thought it maybe was a problem with my rom or something, and uninstalled the app. Now I see you have the same problem, I hope this bug is fixed on future releases :)
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Did you try to lower bitrate and resolution for 3G in settings?

Thanks, it's what I need. That output is from Galaxy Tab 8.9, Android 3.2? In that case I know what is wrong ;)

I will do my best to fix it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
No, that output was from my Galaxy S running Android 4.03. It's having the same symptoms as my Tab running 3.2. If you need Tab log data as well, let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Yes, please. Would be really helpful.
[Android Apps and Games] VirtualNobody:
Log data from my Tab running HC 3.2 sent as well.

Any chance you can add a 30 second skip feature?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Thanks.

Added on TODO list ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kboi:
Tried to lower 3G settings but still getting the same message and not able to stream over 3G/4G. Works great when using the Android web browser and over wifi is awesome.

Thanks for the quick replies.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Did you try to switch from HLS to RTSP? Can you watch YouTube videos?

Regarding problem on Sprint network ... the only thing I found is this video.
[Android Apps and Games] kboi:
Tried switching from HLS to RTSP and still still same error. I am able to watch YouTube and Amazon prime videos through the web browser also over 3G. It looks like it try's to stream the video but ends up the error message. I am able to download the video just. Of a Le to watch it through the app. Thanks again for all the help, hope to get it resolved.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Did you try to encode video and watch encoded? Does this work?
[Android Apps and Games] kboi:
I will try the encoding and watch endcoded today. One thing I found out is I tested out the app on an iphone thats on the Sprint network and it is able to stream videos over the 3G signal. It seems to be only my Android device thats having the problem.

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Tried encoding and it still won't play over 3G. Over wireless it worked fine but the mystery behind the 3G continues just on the android phone. Hope this info helps.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Check private message please.
[Android Apps and Games] lawrence750:
brilliant app! just bought the ad free version :)

For some reason though, on 2-3 different avis (so far) it said they were 2-3 minutes long (instead of ~40 mins), when I encoded them and watched it worked fine, but not direct streaming. Any ideas? Can pm you a link to the file tonight so you can test it if you want?

Otherwise all the videos are working flawlessly over 3g and wifi @ work/home.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Yes, please.
[Android Apps and Games] t0flus:
Tried to register at emitapp.com but I haven't received an activation email...

Øystein
[Android Apps and Games] slowatsch:
Hello

Is there any news about linux and the not working web connectivity? Got no response from my last PM.

Also for some reason a lot of big movie downloads fail immediately. Stating "Download failed" after 5-10 seconds.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Please try with new version (1.9) of desktop app.