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[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Yes and No. Generally the web server is not exposed to the internet, only to the local device. This is done for security reasons. This exposes the web server to the internet.

There is an app. out there that will (somehow) allow you to send the URL of the video to an external XBMC server. Sorry I'm so vague, but it was a request early on and I don't really use it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ishmagel:
Thanks for the reply. I should have been a bit clearer. I am running XBMC on the same device I am running NMI, so I do not expect the web server to expose it externally. If I know the internal address, I should be able to set up XBMC to look at that address, e.g. 127.0.0.1, so it is this address I am after.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Yeah, it does not do that. What you want is a DNLA/UPNP server. That's like NMI V7 or V8. :)

Dustin
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Bob Smith42:
I got one of the C310 MicroB MicroSD OTG card readers from focalpoint.com and it works with Nexus Photo Viewer.

I have one tablet rooted and another not rooted. I also use StickMount but only on the rooted tablet.

The one feature I'd like to see is the ability to check overall storage size, which your "connect" feature implements, and used/available storage size. I'm thinking of something similar to USB Storage in settings which does not work with OTG on either of my tablets with stock ROM.

Thank you.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] androidgranny241:
Still the best Media App to date for the N7....
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Go to Advanced. Do not select any files then, from the Menu select Properties. That should show the information you want at the bottom of the popup.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] PCPhil1:
Fuji X-Pro RAF support?

Got my Nexus 7 2 days ago and quite simply finding it a delight!

I just bought Nexus Media Imports and works great. One cheeky request. One of the main reasons for getting the Nexus was to act as a portable photo editor. The Fuji X-Pro has RAW files in RAF format. I know you support Canikon, any chance of Fuji?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
I found some samples and I'll give it a shot. The next release should support HD preview for Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Olympus and hopefully Fuji.

Update: FUJI RAW support will be available in the next release.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jimflp:
Would it be possible for the program to automatically check and compare what is on the memory card against what is currently on the device to allow a quick way to select and copy only new photographs?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] garryknight:
I let a non-Android using friend view her photos on my Nexus 7 using Nexus Media Importer (v6.1) and she came up with some suggestions.

When you delete a photo, you lose your place in the list so why not show the previous or next photo?

If NMI closes then reopens with the same card/device attached to the USB-OTG cable, can it reopen with the same 'state' it had when it closed? For example, if a particular photo in the list was being viewed, can the current place in the list be restored and the photo be displayed?

When you view a number of photos by swiping new ones onto the screen, the highlight on the left moves off the bottom of the screen. Can the list be auto-scrolled so as to always show which photo is current?

It would help if you could tap at top of the list of photos to go to top and display the first photo.

Thanks for the app and your time. If you respond to this, I'll pass your feedback on to her.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Good idea. I'll add it to the list

Possible, but not as practical as it sounds. That would mean I would have to write the current photo every time the focus changes. I do think selecting the first photo makes sense.

I'm not sure what's happening there. Mine works that way.

Good idea!

Thank you for the ideas.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] foosion:
1) Adapter. Do these look like they would work to read an SD card with a Galaxy Nexus?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-S...Phone_PDA_Cables_Adapters&hash=item2c6c95a680

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-O...Readers_USB_Host_Adapters&hash=item5aee5745f2

2) Olympus raw. Am I reading earlier posts correctly, that I will be able to view Olympus raw (ORF) files?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
It should work, but I have not tried it.

These kind of work. I have an older one that works perfectly, but the new ones seems to lock up. I've made some tweaks in 6.1.1 to support them better, but they are not reliable

Yes, support was added in V6.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] foosion:
The first one looks much better than the second.

Being able to view raw pictures from my camera on a somewhat larger screen, as well as effectively increasing the storage of my phone (e.g., carry movies on an SD card), would be very nice.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mojo.uk:
Unable to access usb after disconnecting.

After using both a 32gb and 64gb Sandisk drive and viewing them on my Nexus 7 I am unable to access the drives on my laptop. It connects via N.M.I. still but nothing when removed. Any ideas?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
There have been a few rare corruption issues pre 5.2. These have all been resolved and I haven't heard anything since that release. There was one reported issue where a Western Digital Live corrupted files written by NMI. Please contact me via the "Email Developer" link we can investigate the issue.

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Slov:
Nexus 7 problem with powered OTG

Hello!

I have Nexus 7 (Android 4.2.2, previously 4.2.1 - same issue).

I have Y shape OTG cable with power. When I connect flash drive to device without power, it works fine and I can access files on it. If I connect power adapter to the OTG cable first, the NMI window come up for a half of second and then dissapears. If I open NMI manually it shows no devices detected. Same effect if I connect power adapter to OTG, connect OTG to Nexus and the connect Flash drive. But if I connect Flash to OTG, then connect OTG to Nexus (it starts work) and then connect power to OTG, it keep working no problem.

I would not mind this issue, but I have portable HDD that is powered by USB which I actually wanted to connect to Nexus. So if I connect OTG to power first to power up HDD and then connect it to Nexus I get the issue when NMI window comes for half a second and then NMI cannot find a device. If I connect HDD to Nexus first it fails because of insufficient power. HDD comes with it's own powered Y USB cable. So if I connect power to HDD cable and then connect it to Nexus via OTG I get same result - device not detected.

So it appears like NMI cannot detect devices that has been already powered. Google search didn't help. Has anybody encountered such issues?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
I have got the "Y" cables to work, but it takes some fiddling like you describe. If you connect the power first, the Nexus goes into charging mode and shuts down the OTG. This is a Nexus thing and I can't do anything about it.

I have had a similar issue with Seagate drives. I had to connect things in a certain order to get it to work. The best solution is to use a powered USB hub, or an official Nexus 7 dock (if you can find one).
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Xenocide:
Cannot connect to PC after using Nexus media importer

Hey all,

I was playing with mounting a thumb drive using an otg cable and playing mkvs from it using mx player (succsefully btw), and now when I connect my Galaxy note 2 to any computer (tried multiple) the phone charges, but does not mount as a media device within windows.

Anyone have any ideas? I tried uninstalling the app, rebooting, pulling the battery, different cords and different computers.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Check in Control Panel -> Device Manager and see if the device shows up. If it does, you may need to reinstall the drivers.

If it does not show up there and NMI does not work, you may damaged the data pins on the microUSB port and it may need repair.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Xenocide:
I had checked the device manager and had no luck, I should have mentioned it!

I am now getting a replacement phone. I believe it is likely that the pins are damaged.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bkmaracas:
Ooh I hope its possible that you can get this app chromcast-able without too much hassle - send media from external storage to TV on a tab. Nice..! ;)

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jimflp:
I have a nexus 10 that just updated to 4.3,NMI was working fine yesterday,as always, but after the update the cards I was importing yesterday are now not working and coming up as protected.

My wife has just checked on her Nexus 7 and it still works on that so I'm assuming 4.3 has broken it.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
I had that happen on my N7G2. To fix it, I opened NMI manually, then I Powered Off the tablet. (Press and Hold Power until you see "Power Off"...) Basically, I followed my own troubleshooting guide. :)

http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2012/08/trouble-shooting.html
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jimflp:
I tried that a few times yesterday but with no luck, tried it again today, no luck the first time but the second time everything now seems OK.

Thanks for the reply
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Yeah, it's kind of weird. I just forced my Nexus 7 3G to 4.3 and had no issues.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] giolc90:
Not working at Lg optimus G E975 E977

The Lg Optimus G device is very protected. Anyone know how to use the usb otg? Either media importer or OTG Troubleshoting not working.:crying:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
It seems OTG is not supported on this device.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...ptimus-g-e975-otg-support-wireless-mouse.html

Just curious, what does OTG troubleshooter say?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] giolc90:
Yes... there was a hope... All sites say that it has "usb host" but it hasn't.

The app shows all marked red. On the "OTG detected" it shows a "?".
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Sometimes it depends on the carrier. Some will disable it.

FYI: The "?" just means cable detection may not work. It appears on everything but a Nexus 7, Nexus 10 or Xoom. If USB Host is not detected, it will not work, so I should just change it to an "X".
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] giolc90:
Hummm... I see! I'll make a try after rooting. Need to wait some months because of the warranty. Thanks;
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xamastrok:
App does not offer to play with MX Player

Hello,

I have purchased Nexus 7 Media Importer, which is great, especially for viewing photos off the sd card. However,here's the situation with videos:

I have installed MX Player on my Nexus 7. When I click on a video file from a file Explorer (I am using Anttek) it prompts me to open the file with the relevant apps, MX Player included. When I click on a video file from Nexus 7 Media Importer it does the same, but MX Player is not among the "relevant" apps. VLC Player is, for some reason Opera browser is also (!) (Opera browser does not appear as option when opening video file with Anttek), but MX Player is not.

Since MX Player is one of the best apps for video viewing and working well with Nexus 7 I find that disappointing. For example, VLC Player is lagging.

Can you help?

Best Regards,

Ari.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
The players register the streams they support via Android. I use the default mime type, but I can force one if it makes sense.

What's the video file extension? e.g. XXXX.mp4.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xamastrok:
For this particular file type it is .mov (camera produced videos). But I think it was not working with .mp4 either, meaning not showing MX Player.

Is there anything that can be done on my side?

Thanks for the reply.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Somethings not right. I primary test with mp4 and mov files and I just verified both work with MX Player. Try to reset your defaults.

Android Settings -> Apps -> Menu -> Reset app preferences
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xamastrok:
Thanks for your interest.

No, this didn't solve the problem. I am using the free version of MX Player by the way.

So, again Nexus Media Importer proposes to open a .mov or mp4 file with either Neutron Music Player or Opera browser. After I uninstalled both it said that "It couldn't find any app that could stream the file", and it proposed to create a temporary copy. After the copy was completed it automatically launched MX Player alright, so maybe you are referring to this when saying that your tests worked with MX?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
That is puzzling. I'm using free MX Player as well. Make sure you are updated to 6.2.

I've PMed you a sample clip that I know works. Give it a try.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xamastrok:
I finally solved the problem. I had to uninstall MX Player and install it again. Then it worked in streaming mode! So, it seems that the video apps need to be installed after Nexus Media Importer. This is perhaps something to consider for future releases.

As a side note, MX Player was not great at streaming my Nikon D5100 .mov files (although it played them alright when copied to the tablet). I discovered that only BSB Player worked flawlessly in streaming them.

Thank you.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bands:
Hello, a few months back I had a query re. when selecting songs to play that when I went back to the list, be it artists, albums or whichever, it always started at the top rather than where it had been.

You indicated that this was because you rebuild the list on the fly at each level and previous position is lost but that you should be able to add a prior position to the back function.

I was wondering if you had looked at this and determined that it wasn't possible or was too difficult.

Thanks ...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Funny you should mention that. I was looking at that for the next release. The challenges are:

I have to track the prior item

The list is generated in chunks and I need to reposition after each chunk is added.

If the list is touched, I need to abort the reposition

It should be doable. I'll see if I can work it in.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bands:
Nice one, thanks mate.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
It will be in the next release. It works on the Photos and Music screens (they are related).
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bands:
Once again, awesome support ... Cheers!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thewolf:
NMI and XPERIA Z1?

Hi,

does anybody have experiences with the combination of NMI and the XPERIA Z1 in accessing NTFS formatted harddisks? I am receiving timeouts while NMI tries to mount the harddisk (the harddisks works fine with NMI on my Nexus 7-2013, as long as I set ithat to english).

Regards,

TheWolf
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] bubblesmoney:
i havent tried with a sony z1 but under the settings there is some option for fiddling with time for scan etc as far as i remember. try that option out.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
It may work, but I strongly recommend using a powered USB Hub if you are going to do this. It is a bad idea to connect a bus powered USB drive to your phone. If you hear the hard drive clicking or spinning up and down, stop immediately.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] thewolf:
Of course! I use either a Y-OTG cable with power connection or a powered hub and connect the power und harddisk first, so the harddisk has already spun up, when I connect the phone and NMI comes into play.

Current state:

- XPERIA Z1: Phone work with FAT32-formatted USB stick (Flash) out-of-box, when using a NTFS-formatted harddisk (WD MyPassport 2TB), NMI recognizes the disk, but then says connecting (waiting for media) and nothing else happens.

- XPERIA S 4.2.2: everything works with USB hub, with Y-OTG-cable OS claims device is using too much power and disconnects device

- Nexus 7 (2013) 4.3: everything works when booting in English (USA), however it seems things get stuck up after a while and I have to disconnect and reconnect

- Nexus 7 (2013) 4.4:everything works

Regards,

TheWolf
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
A few people have had issues with the 2TB drives. I have not been able to duplicate them (I even purchased one to try). I changed the connection code in 7.1.x, so if you have not updated it might be worth giving it another try.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Jim-W:
4.4 Kit Kat breaks app?

Nexus 7 2013 was upgraded to 4.4 Kit Kat over the weekend. Since then, Nexus Media Importer no longer works. It sees the cable, but is always waiting for media. OTG used to work fine, still works on Note 2, just not on Nexus 7 2013. Using paid version. Any ideas?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] LagoonFish:
NMI with Nexus 10 and Sprint GN2 with 4.3

I have similar experience, except my experience was rather spotty.

Just got Nexus 10, brand new. The app was able to detect the OTG cable, but rarely able to detect ANY USB drives, which includes CF card reader (I've tried 2 different ones), USB thumb drives (tried 4), and CF cards.

The Galaxy Note 2: before buying the NMI, I was able to use the OTG on everything, even a 100Gb SSD HDD, except the 16Gb CF Card from Lexar. After installing the NMI, it's unable to even detect the OTG cable, not to even mention connecting to any USB devices or drives that I was able to connect before.

Went through the debugging process, didn't help; downloaded the USB Device Info app, and the app couldn't detect anything, including the drives I was able to connect to before.

I purchased the NMI hoping I could take Nexus 10 with me to backup pictures from my Canon 7D, but for now NMI seems to make things worse...

Dustin, if you're still around please let me know how we can troubleshoot together.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Freezy94027:
I have both a Nexus 5 and 7 that exhibit a different problem. There is stuttering when watching videos via the USB port. Strangely, when I first purchased NMI I had no issues with the same videos. But now that there have been updates to both the OS and apps, I no longer have flawless playback. Here are the specs:

Nexus 7 (2013, WIFI), 4.4, KRT16S

Nexus 5, 4.4, KRT16M

NMI v 7.1.2

OTG cable from Amazon per the recommended link

Meenova MicroSD reader

Various USB flash drives and SD card readers

Dice Player v 2.0.49 (latest)

BS Player (latest)

If I copy the file over to the Nexus device and play locally, everything works perfectly. If I stream via SMB the same files from a Seagate Wireless Plus hard drive, everything is smooth. I thought it was my Nexus 7 so I purchased a Nexus 5 phone and have the same problems. It does not matter what combination of hardware and software I use, I get the same results.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks and regards, Peter
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
KitKat breaks NMI version 6 in this way. If you have not already, update to NMI version 7.x.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
It sounds like your OTG cable is bad or broken. Try a USB Mouse to see if that works. If not, get a new OTG. In rare occasions, the actual microUSB port can go bad as well.

I don't own a Note 2, so The OTG Troubleshooter cable detection probably won't work properly. If someone was but if someone is good with the command line, we maybe be able to get it working.

FYI: Version 7.x of NMI has a Preference to "Launch Automatically". You should probably disable this for Samsung devices so NMI and the kernel don't fight for control of the USB device on detection. You will have to open NMI manually after that.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
I have not received 4.4.1 yet, so I can't test with the latest and greatest. Do you know the format of the video file (MKV, H264, AC3)? If you get back to me with that, I can probably dig up a test file and maybe even force 4.4.1.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Freezy94027:
This is from a Blu-ray rip I made with DVDFab with the iPad Retina settings:

General

Complete name : /Volumes/NO NAME/BRTest.m4v

Format : MPEG-4

Format profile : Base Media / Version 2

Codec ID : mp42

File size : 1.11 GiB

Duration : 21mn 17s

Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Overall bit rate : 7 484 Kbps

Encoded date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:31:00

Tagged date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:36:29

Video

ID : 1

Format : AVC

Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile : Main@L4.1

Format settings, CABAC : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames

Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=24

Codec ID : avc1

Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding

Duration : 21mn 16s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 7 327 Kbps

Maximum bit rate : 11.2 Mbps

Width : 1 920 pixels

Height : 1 080 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Frame rate mode : Variable

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Minimum frame rate : 23.974 fps

Maximum frame rate : 90.000 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.147

Stream size : 1.09 GiB (98%)

Encoded date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:31:00

Tagged date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:36:23

Color primaries : BT.709

Transfer characteristics : BT.709

Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio

ID : 2

Format : AAC

Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec

Format profile : LC

Codec ID : 40

Duration : 21mn 17s

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 160 Kbps

Maximum bit rate : 237 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Channel positions : Front: L R

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 24.3 MiB (2%)

Encoded date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:31:00

Tagged date : UTC 2013-07-12 02:35:33

As mentioned, this file plays flawlessly when first copied locally or wirelessly streamed from a Seagate Wireless Plus. But there seems to be some issue with NMI or USB in general. I have tried this same file on 4.4, 4.4.1 and now 4.4.2.

Thanks and regards, Peter
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Just got 4.4.2 and tried a full blu-ray rip (not transcoded). It didn't miss a beat.

This will test your throughput. I'm getting about 8400 K/s with my Meenova. That 1GB file should be a good test.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Freezy94027:
I am getting about 7115 K/s with my file on the Nexus 5 and 12283 K/s on the Nexus 7. I will try reprocessing the file without transcoding to see if the method is causing the problems.

Thanks and regards, Peter
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
I also tried a Handbrake (4Kbps H264) rip and it worked as well. According to this, DVDFab does not support Fast Start (streaming optimization), which could be causing the problems...

http://forum.dvdfab.com/showthread.php?p=146773

Update:

It looks like DVDFab produces unstreamable video. I posted a little Util Script that will fix this in a post below.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Freezy94027:
Amusingly enough, the original full bitrate file plays without issue so it is not an interface speed issue. There is something different in how the various players handle the file buffering when it is local, though usb and streaming via SMB. Does NMI do any local file buffering or does it just pass through the requests of the software players letting them handle the buffering themselves?

Thanks and regards, Peter
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
NMI has a fairly small read-ahead buffer, 128K. It assumes the most of the buffering will be handled by the players. I assume that the problem is that streams are generally not random access where the other playback methods are.

FYI: It stutters being streamed from my Seagate Satellite Mobile Wireless too, just not as bad. It must really buffer because if I disable the internal player, and use Dice it stutters terribly.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Jim-W:
Thanks

The update to 7 worked of course. Should have checked for an update right away. Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dburckh:
Fixing Stuttering MP4/M4V Videos

If a video is not muxed for streaming it may stutter when streamed from NMI.

This little util based on MP4Box should fix it. It's designed for m4v/mp4, but may work with other formats.

To use it:

Unzip

Drag the stuttering file on top of MakeFastStart (Not into the the folder)

If all goes well the cmd window will close when the process is done.

Notes:

You only need libeay32.dll if you get an error that it's missing (Vista or earlier?). Drop it folder that has MP4Box.exe

Linux/MAC Users, you can acquire MP4Box and just run "MP4Box -inter 500 <fileName>"