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[Android Apps and Games] alksolo:
I love this app it and has been working great. I'm running the emit erlang server app on my debian linux box but I'm having trouble writing an init.d script to run the service in the background. I'm not very familiar with erlang or writing init.d scripts either. I know that running a script with "emit -s &" should run the app in the background but I ssh into my server and every time I run that it displays the debug information and if I logout it ends the app. I tried running -noshell as an argument but I think this is needed to run the app correctly. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] lawrence750:
just realised that it might actually be when its in background from pushing home, and then the wifi disconnects/reconnects whilst emit is in background, then when you load it again thats when the quality increases (just happened now like that, whereas i was trying to reproduce the out of memory bit yesterday and that wasn't doing it..)

EDIT: both scenarios do it as far as i can tell
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Thanks :victory: We don't have any donation link. If you will come some day in Slovenia we can go on a beer :)

Thanks again,
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
There's no other options than that :(. I will see what I can do to improve video resizing.

Can you please post that question on our support page? You'll get an answer faster (support page is checking our whole team) and it could help also any other user with the same problem.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYxJFljbVM

And it works perfect. Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I don't "go" places much and don'th ave an android phone. However I stream my media to my living room, den, bedroom, and office. My kids are in the den, I'll be in my office, woman in the bedroom or living room. I had 3 ps3's with ps3 media server to do the job. However my bedroom ps3 died. My HP Touchpad has no video out. So much for watching a movie at night before bed. Until I found the android tv dongles. Ranging in price from $40-70 it gives the android experience to you on your tv via hdmi. They go from the MK802, MK802+, UG802, and MK808. I have MK802 and MK808. For web/streaming/music/etc the MK802 works really well. So those that to enjoy EMIT at home, here's a way to do it for cheap. I have a logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo on one and T2 air mouse on the other. Much cheaper than an HTPC, logitech revue, or pretty much anything else you can buy. So pick one up and then buy EMIT, the creator will get lots of money, and then will be motivated to add more features such as folder like desktop thing, sleep timer, maybe some colors that are cooler than 50 shades of grey.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=MK802
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Thanks for sharing informations. Emit app will get new design, work is in progress already. It will match new home page look.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I saw the new page, looks good. Even registered, or at least tried to. Never got the verification email. Will the new version include something letting us set up multiple logins for different folder listings? I'd like to have a different set of things for my kids vs myself, and I haven't found a way to run two instances of the app at once yet.
[Android Apps and Games] kzakhar:
Dear zokipirlo,

could you please clarify, whether Emit Android app supports HW playback acceleration, particularly on Nexus 7?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Sorry, I can't. We aren't doing anything special, just using default video player. I don't know how it's implemented on Nexus 7.
[Android Apps and Games] kzakhar:
Thanks for your response anyway ;)

I guess, the default player supports HW decoding, it would make sense ;)
[Android Apps and Games] DieH@rd:
Wow I just discovered this app, works great! The only downside is that transcoding is CPU based. Hopefully developers will finally come to senses end enable GPU transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] kzakhar:
Yep, this really sucks: transcoding makes my i7 run at full speed, all 8 cores, and I doubt this is really necessary: I run AirVideo for my wife's ipad and it barely uses CPU at all. Il. Is there a way to prevent emit from using so much CPU?
[Android Apps and Games] tommo123:
tried the latest ver in the OP and it worked pretty well - but the video i'm watching isn't in the right A:R. to me it's unwatchable as it's stretched vertically. it plays fine on a PC and the buton on the bottom right which i guess is for video resizing doesn't do anything
[Android Apps and Games] Powerbird101:
A suggestion to improve conversion altogether.

Trans-coding in general is a CPU intensive process but even then refinements need to be set in place for a few things still I believe.

The first would have to be trans-coding bit rate processing using the latest ffmpeg package and setting the CPU usage control to be more efficient and effective.

This leads to the second and more important concept that needs to be implemented and that is variable bandwidth trans-coding. If the host (server) can better process the conversion than the application needs to be able to switch between bandwidth rates as well to alleviate the buffering needs. Essentially a check box on bit-rate encoding options would be helpful instead of just setting a default value. that way lets say you are watching a video at home you can connect to WiFi and stream at a higher bandwidth level without a problem. Problems are arising now due to transition towards the 3g and 4g networks (mobile browsing). With the implementation of variable bit rate trans-coding the application can efficiently use on the fly trans-coding to its greatest benefit by allowing the application to set trans-coding quality to whatever the current bandwidth capabilities at the time are (if you switch from 600kb/s to 2000kb/s it will change the quality of the picture as so instead of buffering repeatedly). Note that leaving the capabilities to lock certain bandwidths should remain for advanced users to tweak but for the most part variable bit-rate will be useful to the majority of user.
[Android Apps and Games] kzakhar:
I kid you not, when AirVideo transcodes a movie for my wife's iPad, my system barely notices it: I can play BF3 at Ultra and everything is as smooth as usual. When Emit transcodes the same movie, its ffmpeg uses all 8 cores at almost 100%.

I stopped using this app for this very reason.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
New Desktop version is released. You can control now network interface and number of encoding threads.
[Android Apps and Games] tommo123:
what about the aspect ratio problem? makes watching anything impossible
[Android Apps and Games] jabberwocky_one:
Bug: Audio/Video not in sync with subtitles over RTSP on WLAN. (Delay subtitles feature?)

Other than that, awesome all-in-one no frills mkv w/ subtitle support streaming app. (Perhaps the only)
[Android Apps and Games] phoenixs4r:
Strange, I don't have that issue. If anything I wish it would use everything my computer has to offer in hopes it goes faster.
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I've taken two videos of EMIT on my MK802 and MK808 smart tv adapters for those that might want a solution on their home tv. I do sd card playback test first, if you want to skip past that.

MK802

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nPYTL1W_rA&feature=youtu.be

MK808

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a--YgbbJEk&feature=youtu.be

The cheapest place I've seen them for sale is $40 and $60. I'm using the wireless air mouse that can be bought for $20. Sucks for typing but neat as mouse control while laying in bed. They can be had from in4dealz.com. It's a chinese company so shipping takes a while, but it's free shipping. My experience has been 2-3 weeks. In no way am I affiliated with them. You can also get it from amazon, but the one I got from there the "california based seller" was actaully in china and didn't speak english. He shipped me a "1gb ram 4gb rom" version, and I got a 512mb ram 2gb rom version. It was difficult to get it fixed, he was not a reputable seller. In the end I took a $5 refund from him, but it took 3 weeks of emails fighting through the language barrier to try and get it fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
I'm working on that. It's still not perfect but a little better (I hope) in 7.5.3 (7.5.4 free). WOL is also fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
I love emit but hate the player. Anyway you could make the app use a different player? I use player as my main video player so if that could be used it would be amazing if not I'll stick with emit I guess

Great app
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Yes, you can. But only encoded or downloaded videos.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
Never mind, I wanted it for streaming as my phone is full of music. No space for movies lol
[Android Apps and Games] tommo123:
thanks, i'll check it out
[Android Apps and Games] h3nk3:
Autostart problem ubuntu

Hello!!!

I've recently installed latest Ubuntu 12.10 x64 and Iḿ having the same autostart issue as I did in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After loggin I can start the server manually from terminal and everything working out fine. But during boot Iǘe tried in several ways without succes. I ve put the line emit -s & in /etc/rc.local and also in upstart programs without any success. Need help here

THANKS

---Edit------

Succes!!!!! Suddently it all started to work. Emit now autostarts through a command in /etc/rc.local....the same as I wrote above (emit -s &) I just had to move it one line up.....before wake on lan command during startup also.

But I'm now struggeling with ffmpeg.....as software updater want to install :

Multimedia player,server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)

The version it want to install is Ffmpeg 6:0.8.3-6ubuntu2 and the git version is 5:201211082334-git-1

I lock the installed version for now....but it would be really graet if we all could use a later version of Ffmpeg

As soon as I install this update Emit doesn't work no more. Error on ffmpeg shows in terminal. I then have to run command sudo sh ffmpeg.sh and make a re-installation of ffmpeg. But then the update appears again in software updater in Ubuntu 12.10 x64.

Need help here / Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Update for ICS users with video player problem is released.
[Android Apps and Games] tommo123:
hi,

tried again with latest ver and the AR of the videos is still off. videos unwatchable
[Android Apps and Games] h3nk3:
Ffmpeg problems linux

ffmpeg lacks libfaac streaming will not work

and

ffmpeg lacks libx264 streaming will not work

how do I get rid of this errors????

I can connect to the server...but no streaming. Im in ubuntu 12.10x64. If I don't use the latest Ffmpeg package in Ubuntu 12.10 my media player in Ubuntu (smplayer,mplayer) doesnt work with ac3 sound, the sound gets out of synk. PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE!!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Scorpionyc:
Frame drop choppy playback

I have been using airplay it and airvideo on my ios devices for a while now and getting a perfect fluid streaming over wifi at 720P and 5000 kb/s.

I recently added the galaxy s3 and installed the paid version of emit on my device ; using the same computer base on i7 8 threads for streaming via emit server; the results were lots of frame drops and lack of fluidity. I thought the problem was my android ICS galxy s3 and decided to try emit on my ios devices for comperacense; the results were the same lack of fluid playback regardless of resolution and lower the bit rate.

Why would your server use an inferior decoder to the one used by the other 2 apps.

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
@ muspel, thank you for your feedback. I hope you will be more satisfied now, with this new version :)

What's new:

Emit widget (shortcut) - add any folder to your homescreen (find emit under widgets)

Audio player (fixed playlist order; added shuffle and loop)

Video player (seek improvements - like scrubbing in iOS, video resize fixed, controls fix)

Quickaction everywhere match context menu

Download pictures (long press on image in grid view)

Subtitle text improvements

Bug fixes
[Android Apps and Games] ElephantGlue:
+1
[Android Apps and Games] muspel:
Thank you aswell for listening to my ranting ;) already bought the app right after noticing the updates in the free version.
[Android Apps and Games] h3nk3:
Need help please!!!!

I had the latest server 1.10.3 running ONCE in Ubuntu 12.10

The next time I tried I had this message and the emit app changes the webbacc pin every time I restart emit (emit -s &)

Startplain

{"what":"exit"}

{23,39,10} - <0.39.0> Address in use 1554

sh: 1: exec: /home/priv/upnp: not found

{23,39,12} - <0.62.0> Upnp unknown msg {'EXIT',#Port<0.2683>,normal}

{23,39,13} - <0.62.0> Upnp unknown msg {try_extip}

PLEASE HELP ME HAVE THIS RUNNING AGAIN....everything started when I updated the server to a later version :(
[Android Apps and Games] jay6700:
I'm having a problem as of recently with the last update. During video playback, I don't get a progress bar, so I'm unable to skip ahead or backwards, or see where I am in the movie. Do you have any idea about that?
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
Hi Great-Dev,

I have some question before buying full version of this great app..

- Now I'm using the Free version but I'm unable to set the aspect-ratio during video playback... is this so even in the full version???? I can't find this information (only old posts in this thread)..

- What is the difference (for dummies) between "pre-encoded" and standard video folder??? playback is always fluid so I can't understand.. and what is reccomended for in-home usage???

Thank you for this app and for your support..

Greetings from Italy!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] ps3best:
nice app :p
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
What version do you have?

The only difference is in ad. Paid version is ad-free. I'm trying to do my best on this aspect problem, but I don't have any device where this wouldn't work ... it's not easy :o. I'm working on a completly new video player right now, so it would take some time.

Pre-encoded video is pre encoded :) Normal video is encoding and streaming in the same time. You can see difference in cpu usage. When you watch pre-encoded movie then your cpu is very low. But you have to wait that your video will encode.
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
Thank you very much.. this answer is the proof that you are a serious Dev... I will buy the full app..

PS.. I'm on Nexus S 4.1.2 cm10 stable.. in future I will try with a stock non-modded ROM for "real" feedback..

Again, thank you.....
[Android Apps and Games] CLANK10:
Emit can't find smb shares

Hi

I just bought an Asus RTAC66U to replace my old router and now Emit can't find the server or smb shares.

Anyone knows what I should do?
[Android Apps and Games] sedinix:
Hey this app is very good but its posible to move to hmm half of movie ? becouse if i click on half or 1/3 its always blink and back on start any chance to do that ?
[Android Apps and Games] shiregator:
Hi zokipirlo, I am having this same problem (the Emit client cannot see the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder). I've verified that the VIDEO_TS folder and the VIDEO_TS.IFO file exists. Has this issue been resolved?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Tuga2010:
I´m having problems with this app.

I Opened the ports in my router , and successfully install app in my pc and device.

Connected very well with both , but when I put a folder in emit app on my pc to share with my device, the folder is empty in the smartphone.

It occourrs with video files and music files also .

I´m running Android 4.2.1 in Samsung Galaxy S3 , and the app from the pc is installed in windows 7 64 bits.

It´s a known issue or i´m I making something wrong ?

regards
[Android Apps and Games] BonkyMoon:
Is there a way to manually set the aspect ratio? Everything is stretched vertically and the button on the player that's supposed to change the aspect ratio doesn't do anything. I've tried this on both a Nexus 7 and an HTC One X with identical issue and results.
[Android Apps and Games] Powerbird101:
I am having audio video sync issues recently. although the video can stream smoothly it is not able to be in sync at any point. The only thing that i can think i have changed is i have (successfully ported) a new router and updates my phone to jellybean. Other than that nothing has changed. the sad part is it plays perfectly just not in sync.

EDIT on 01/14/2013 TS: 1206 hours CST: I believe it was my routers doing RT-N66U stock firmware... Ill make the jump to dd wrt later today and update what happens.
[Android Apps and Games] itrustno1:
I dont get it, why would u want to watch video FROM a pc on a android device? That's like saying, I WANA WATCH IT ON A SMALLER SCREEN, NOT MY PC MONITORS' SCREEN. Or am I not understanding something? School me please.

Now I'm so broke I can't even pay attention!
[Android Apps and Games] Powerbird101:
I think you are a bit confused... Live transcoding is nice when you don't have your computer screen on a plane. Or at your in laws. Or on a bus. I think you get my point. It enables us with large digital libraries to access and view them remotely. Emit works as a server from the connected hosting device (your PC) to the client (your android) and trans-codes the video to the set bandwidth to view shows anywhere. Example of use: I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dallas and was bored out my mind. I connected to the internet through Southwest WIFI and watched a movie that was being trans-coded from my computer through the internet and streamed on my device. It not useful unless you research and use its full potential. Live Transcoding is a big thing right now with instand upload from Google+ and Apple also using cloud systems to trans-code information on the go (On the go Transcoding = On the fly transcoding = Live transcoding).
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
+1

Aspect ratio don't work with free/full version, tested on Nexus S with CM10 (4.1.2), CM 10.1 (4.2.1), stock 4.1.2 (kernel and ROM), with EMIT default settings (for me, medium quality, because of my single core)....

Can someone have this issue on ICS (or GB)???

PS. my screen resolution is 800x480 with stock DPI...
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Would someone want to test beta version if I post it here? I did some job on video resizing.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
Yup I'm all up for testing
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
OOhuu yes.. :D no problem...
[Android Apps and Games] sirxdroid:
Interested in the beta too, please.

---------- Post added at 08:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM ----------

Any plans to support VobSub subtitles from source mkv files (lossless DVD rips to mkv)?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Great, tnx. Here it is :)
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
thankyou.. downloading it right now.. :)

EDIT: tested on Nexus S i9023 - CM 10 4.1.2 (with CM stock kernel - no mod):

"aspect ratio" option work perfectly

on 8.0.3 beta with: divx - xvid - h264 (720p mkv - 1080p mkv)

16:9 - 4:3 - Aspect - Full-Screen - Zoom - Original

Only a doubt: "Zoom" effect work like "Full-Screen".. "Aspect" effect work like "4:3" or "16:9" (depends on the file AR).... these are not real issues because I have tested this version with files that have "bigger resolution" than my phone...

Waiting other feedback..

Thank you zokipirloI for your work.. I hope to be helpful :D

PS. sorry for bad english..

PS 2. Using Windows 64bit, Emit exe don't have the Icon... only the icon in systray..
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
"Fullscreen" resizes video to match display size (changes video aspect to display aspect). "16:9" and "4:3" also changes video aspect. "Aspect" and "Zoom" are very similar. Both of them resizes video so that the video aspect doesn't change. Only difference is how the video fits screen.

My English is too bad to be able to explain this better :)
[Android Apps and Games] MrMat:
Thank you for the explanations... but now I'm waiting for 8.0.3(?) full version :)
[Android Apps and Games] Reddly:
Great app works perfect for me over wifi.

Works well from a computer at a remote location using the Web player

Only issue what so ever:

Works almost perfect over 4g/lte. The functions perform as the are supposed to however it seems that there is constant stutter (buffering) after only a few seconds of play.

Looking for some advice (or perhaps better buffering), to watch video "on the go".

Any advice would be appreciated other than that small tweak this app is amazing and does everything I could ask for.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Will be released today.

Try to lower quality settings (bitrate, resolution) in "External network" part.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Version 8.0.3 released. Changelog:

- Bugfix for 2.1 & 2.2 devices

- More aspect options

- Option to enable full brightness in video playback
[Android Apps and Games] andy o:
Hi, thanks for this app. I'm on a Nexus 7 (grouper) and the 1/22 CM 10.1 nightly. The aspect ratio options are great, thanks for that too. I'm getting crashes though, every time I tap on the RW or FF buttons.

Another thing, the controls are difficult especially with long videos or movies. The iOS-like scrubbing is a great idea, but the way it works there is that when you tap, first you have to drag the finger significantly to either side for the scrubbing to actually begin. This prevents the play point jumping as soon as you touch it, and makes it much easier to go up or down to choose the speed of the scrubbing.

Also, the RW and FF buttons in AirVideo jump 30 seconds without waiting for the video to start playing. The last Emit I used where RW and FF worked, this was only the case for RW, but not for FF. May be a bug?

I tried both the paid and the free versions, if that's relevant.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
S**t, I totally forgot on this two buttons :(

Scrubbing looks a lot more complex than I was thinking first :) I'm trying with every version to be better.
[Android Apps and Games] andy o:
No problem, just wanted to report the bug and see if it was just me or not.

On scrubbing, probably iOS makes it easier for app developers to do it their way, so I can see how emulating it on Android can get more complicated. Is it necessary to do it that way though? I imagine it could probably be less complicated having like a "zoom" function for the progress bar, like I remember YouTube having at some point. IIRC in YouTube a second, smaller progress bar appeared that controlled a small segment of the video. Instead of doing it exactly like that, maybe a "zoom" button where the bar gets zoomed in or out, controlling smaller or wider portions of the video?
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
Thanks for all the ideas. Currently have no idea where to put secondary progress bar, so I will try to improve that version first. But I will think about that idea too. Thanks.

New update with fixed forward and backward seek buttons will be released today. I have made some improvements also so that you can click them multiple times before seek happens.
[Android Apps and Games] zokipirlo:
One question for you guys :) Original question here. What do you think about movie name in video player (on top)? Is this ok or would be better to display filename?
[Android Apps and Games] kaisies:
has anyone had the "TCP port not open" error on the windows version and fixed it? I have messed with this for a few hours now to no avail. I know how to open ports just fine and I know they are open and forwarding properly. Per suggested on the website, I tried version 1.10.1, and version 1.9, and both do not resolve my issue :(

edit - im a moron. working now. awesome.
[Android Apps and Games] simpat1zq:
I just installed Emit a few days ago, and it works great, except the android app's audio is out of sync. It happens on Wifi or 3G. On the web page using my computer, it works perfectly. I have the latest version of the android app(I think they just released it in the past few hours), and it still has the problem. Does anyone else have this same problem? Does anyone know anything I could try? I tried a bunch of different settings, but none of them help.