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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jatilq:
I been talking with the developer of Mezzmo who working on his server app to support the Droid X, but I believe that is one of the few apps thats trying to work on something. I miss airvideo myself, his forum is filled with people begging for him to port it to android. I'm hoping Froyo will allow me to use either Mezzmo (he recently said that the phone is looking for the moov atom at the front instead of the end like how ffmpeg puts it. I downloaded a adobe air app to move it and still no luck streaming.

Airmote doesnt work

Using ES Explorer to connect to samba shares would be cool if I could figure out how to get a1video player to play the streamed file (but since the moov atom is at the end it would have to download the entire clip to view it first)

umediaplayer I can't find to test out, that or homepipe

Orblive is a joke on Android.

Tried Tversity to android reading a way to use the webpage frontend, but same streaming issue.

Only thing sucks as of now is the fact there is no real streaming from PC option that works well for the array of video types out there like airvideo.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jatilq:
I did find something interesting even though it only streamed a couple avi files. I loaded yxplay and pointed it to TVersity 192.168.1.101:41952.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
I have the samsung galaxy s, and i heard that Samsung PC Share Manager + Allshare on the phone, would make streaming mkv from my pc easy.

I hurried up, and installed Samsung PC Share Manager, and got the error, "Server can`t start"

Another great piece of samsung software, almost as good as Kies :(

(Wich btw also doesnt work on my win7 64bit, no matter what i try)

I even tried Samsung Pc Share Manager on a Vista 32 box, same error there. Can`t start server.

Oh how i love Samsung software.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beards:
Have you had a look at Websharing?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
Tried it briefly, no go.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zsparks:
Try VLC

You can use VLC to transcode from a capture device, another stream, or media files.

I've used a Windows Media Server for years with my Windows Mobile Touch Pro (and its WiMo predecessors). I stream my police scanner, TV and music files but there's no working Android player. I left my WMS as is but run VLC on a workstation, taking the WMS stream and transcoding it to RTSP for the Android. It works just fine.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gthing:
I suspect that this would be very difficult if not impossible to do on Android right now. Streaming support just isn't up to par within the core OS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmrector:
Try VLC Stream and Convert. (Developer's website)

It's not exactly simple or user-friendly, but it works wonderfully to transcode and stream any video (or audio) file on demand from my server to my Nexus One.

The server software is VLC, which is a cross-platform application and works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.

There is a free as well as a paid version in the market. The free version transcodes and streams without a problem.

I just have it set up to work over wifi, but it should work over 3g as well, if you adjust the quality down a bit.

VLC Stream and Convert
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Powder79:
Sounds like a wonderfull app.

Can you share the settings on VLC to get the transcoding to work?

The app is not really user friendly on this aspect

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
Please do........

A small guide perhaps? :)

So you can choose wich files to stream from the pc from the phone? Or do you have to start a video file in vlc to able to stream to android?

Edit:

I used the setup from here: http://sites.google.com/site/traveldevel/vlc-stream-convert/setup

And i was able to stream video via rtsp, the quality wasnt great but good enough, this is definatly a step forward :)

Edit2: Quality could be adjusted, and it looks great over wifi now, im so happy ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nortor1000:
Dear |OP|

Could you please let me know what audio settings you are using? I get a picture that is good enough, but the audio is *noisy* to say the least.

Rgds,

NorTor
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmrector:
For just 'Audio Files', I have the Audio bitrate set to 128, 'Fake video' unchecked, and 'Keep stream open' unchecked. I haven't used that very often, so I can't vouch for the quality.

But under 'Video Files', I have the 'Audio bitrate' set to 96, and 'Synchronize on audio' checked. It sounds pretty good to me.

These are both under 'Stream rtsp' in settings, not the 'Stream http', as I don't use the HTTP streaming at all.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
Default audio settings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XaeroDegreaz:
Thank you so much for this. I have been looking everywhere and this is exactly what I was looking for. I wish I knew about VLC's streaming capabilities a long time ago; I've been using VLC for years lol.

Now, I need to work out how to create a VLC library.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucxxx:
Hello,

I dont know if you find the right solution, but you can look at "vdr" and "vdr client for android". It is a server cient streaming solution.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suomaf:
my problem with vlc stream and convert it connects to my ubuntu 10.04 and vlc 1.0.6 and when I click stream via http the sound would come through and its perfect for streaming mp3. If I were to stream movies this way.. only the sound comes thru and not the video part.

If I were to stream through rtsp, the phone would stall on buffering.... and on the command line is

[0x8cd1568] main stream out error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0x8cd1568] main stream out error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host
[0x8cd1568] stream_out_rtp stream out error: cannot export SDP as RTSP

I tried posting to see if anyone could help but no replies yet. All share is great but its limited in the file types that it can play.. Have not found something that is similar to Air video as yet but if VLC stream and convert can be figured out that it would be just about perfect.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OnSterrDroids:
After some trial and error, I finally got vlc S&C to work properly on both WiFi and 3g. I have been able to watch good quality movies. It has been able to transcode all video formats I've thrown at it.

Although the dev states to use rtsp ports 554 or 5554, they only work on WiFi for me. I think the stream is trying to use a variable port selection and I am not opening my router for all ports. Also, my home ISP (Comcast) blocks certain ports (including 554). For my rtsp port selection I use 8081 and it worked like a charm. hope this helps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reddragon72:
I have heard good things about Homepipe.

http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/08/...otos-remotely-pc-mac-iphone-android-homepipe/

Android app is supposedly available.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eozen81:
It's good to hear a progress upon on this issue but as far as I review that homepipe does not support mkv convertion and subtitle as well.

I can not believe Android is lack of a software like Air Video which is exactly awesome with it's skills (avi, mkv convertion, subtitle support with font/size change) :eek:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] $incere:
AndroStream

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it, but there is a program called AndroStream that works pretty good.

The phone app is available in the market and the agent that resides on the machine can be downloaded here => http : // androstream . mydedibox . fr

Similar to AirVideo, the desktop does the trans-coding into a format the phone can play. I've had pretty good results and have not had any major issues.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eozen81:
Does it support subtitle as well? Sorry I am asking because I do not have an android phone, yet :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phreddo:
Say wha?

I know it had to be Archos' special sauce, but I had an archos 5 running, what, donut? Anyhow, this could mount a shared XP drive via wifi and stream just about any format you could throw at it.

I can't see why this feat would be such a stretch with an EVO, Epic or the such.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nectons2000:
Maybe the guys at airvideo the dont have the knowledge to doit.. :P

Androstream works incredible good with 10 times the speed and the quality of airvideo in my 3gs.

But... no subtitles (importand for me) no good interface. Everytime you hitting the back key on my galaxy it things (almost 90%) the time) that i hit exit :P And it shows all my files in my pc and all hard drives but for some strange reasson cant see many videos and files.

Iv search so many hours but no sollution. When it can see a folder or a file it plays incredibly smooth and incredibly quality and the most importand is even if the file is 1080p mkv 10-20 gigs it plays ultra smooth with great quality and my cpu it is not eating 90% of power like the airvideo !!... 40-50% and better quality.

Come on guys at airvideo.. read, work and make the android version a reality. Many people will pay for it.

:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piffey:
I've burned through a couple different solutions and just interchange them now depending on what I've broken recently.

1st - Run VLC from the command line to transcode and stream stuff in real time. Really no big deal to set up once you learn VLC. While I only ever used it on my home network, you could easily forward some ports and have it working in no time. I'm pretty sure this would work best for serving up subtitles. Players like VPlayer ALpha can do RTSP streams too I think.

2nd - Started using SubSonic for my music. I tried to post a link to the tutorial, but I'm still too new on the forums to post outside links. There is a tutorial on the SUbsonic forums though that tells you how to set up the Web player to work with and transcode video on the fly. Alas, no subtitles here -- but you could always hard code stuff using Devede.

3rd - When I have time, and don't want to stream, I transcode stuff using HandBrake from the command line over SSH then download it through SFTP in Astro. While it's slow over 3G, it works well enough. This is great to do before a flight if you forgot to make mp4s before hand.

4th - Run Justin.tv and VLC from the command line and stream videos to my Justin.tv stream. I then use the Justin.tv app for Android to watch them. This is best for social watching on the fly though -- have a few friends tune in and we chat while we watch a movie.

Hope that gives you some options. With SSH running on your home machine and a good client like ConnectBot you can pretty much accomplish anything from your phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eshu68:
All Shared

All Shared is a good app which comes with Samsung fascinate. It allows you to share media files from your computer with just Windows Media player.. I can stream/download files from my computer onto my phone.

I guess you can find apks online.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eozen81:
Does it support subtitle as well?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reddragon72:
Not sure about all other methods and whether or not this one does subtitles, but I have been using Winamps orb server and it seems to be working pretty well. To get the video to stream you'll need to set the app for flash. I am thinking of trying the new android streaming/player that is here on XDA, but want to wait till it gets a few more bugs ironed out.

But so far my music, including play lists and all my movies, xvid/mkv/wmv/avi plays fine through it. And it is a web based converter so you can use it on your PC as well to stream to.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Another one for VLC Stream and Convert! I've been using this since the day it came out and it's fantastic. Had a few glaring flaws along the way but that's to be expected with a powerful app like this. A lot of things can go wrong but it's very streamlined now.

:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khilbron:
Ive been streaming to my phone for awhile now, and for me the easiest to setup, and most reliable program has been TVersity Media server.

Install Tversity on your home PC, and set it up.

Then download Vplayer for almost all files, and NSWPlayer for mkv files.

Navigate to your pc's address on the port you configured. Select the video file, and enjoy good streaming over 3g/4g/wifi.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascalbrax:
since i have a PS3, i installed PS3 Media Server on my PC. It's an UPNP server, just like tversity, but it also transcodes esotic video formats and also supports subtitles transcoding.

it can also be configured to transcode to the native resolution of the phone (some tweaking required here, don't ask me).

I used it with UPnPlay+VPlayer on my android and (usually) they work fine.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeleni:
How do you browse media tru vplayer ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geocas1:
skifta

I would recommend skifta for streaming. I also am a iOS convert and have been looking for.n airplay for android. Skifta and rock player combo has been great so far. plus skifta can do some awesome things. I would also recommend using xbmc with it as it lets you stream media both ways (from PC. To tablet/phone & phone /tablet to PC)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Midnight1970:
I installed Skifta, it sees my servers, but will play nothing... that's the only thing about the stock ROM I miss, is the "connected media" option, as it sees my Tversity servers and plays flawlessly - on Cyanogen 7, there is no option for this and I've found nothing that works so far.....

Using an HTC Inspire...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bahnburner:
You may want to look into Plex. There's both a mac and pc client, server will actually scrap info and posters for your videos from imdb/thetvdb, it makes a great media server on your computer, and the android app works great over 3G/4G and wifi. It's also very simple to set up and will adjust the bitrate according to current connection speeds. It is $5 though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Midnight1970:
I like Tversity, as my DirecTV receivers can view the content also; it was just an added bonus that "connected media" on the stock ROM saw my servers and played with zero issues.... now that I'm on a different ROM, I've lost that capability and would desperately like it back.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuryriderX:
try this maybe, if your still looking?

doubleTwist AirSync

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.doubleTwist.androidPlayerProKey&feature=search_result

Description

Life Without Wires! Sync your iTunes music & videos over WiFi with AirSync.

★ Number one app in Newsweek's Top 10 Android apps for 2011 ★

"iTunes for Android" - use your phone as an iPod!

Life Without Wires! doubleTwist AirSync™ wirelessly syncs your iTunes music, photos and videos with your Mac or PC over your home WiFi network.

Use in conjunction with the free doubleTwist desktop app to automatically import your iTunes music playlists, iTunes ratings & playcounts from your Mac or PC.

♬ Securely pair your Android device with your Mac or PC

♬ Automatic, wireless import of photos and videos from your Android to your PC.

♬ Automatically import MP3 purchases & downloads from your phone back to your Mac or PC.

♬ Wirelessly sync iTunes music, iTunes playlists, iTunes ratings and playcounts.

♬ Stream photos, videos and music from your phone to your XBox or PlayStation 3 with AirTwist™

doubleTwist AirSync is an upgrade to the free doubleTwist Player.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jim2lim:
Plex is awesome and I think it fits your needs plus more. I have all my media on a Mac Mini at home. It streams to my:

- Apple TV 2 over wifi

- Nexus One over 3g/wifi

- Droid X over 3g/wifi

- Xoom over wifi

It has many plugins (i.e. Netflix, Hulu, CBS, CNN) and a great UI. Give it a try.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sky3y3:
mirage beta

I am also in love with air video. I've been using it to watch a lot of movies from my iPad. I recently bought galaxy tab and have been searching around for apps that is similar to air video.

You still need airvideo server on your pc or mac. Download apps from the market called mirage beta by JC. This app can be used as client to your air video server. You can watch video streaming now on your android devices...one problem though..it cannot play mkv file smoothly..I hope it is in progress since it is still in beta version.

Hope this helps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
Qloud Video seems nice.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] $incere:
Thanks for the heads up, Mirage works great!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] o2sys:
trying to use VLC stream and I'm not getting any video, just the sound with a blank screen...what could be the issue?

EDIT:

NVM if i use VLC direct instead of VLC Stream & Convert it works perfect!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slimdizzy:
Check http://plexapp.com. Works awesome for me locally at home and over 3G when Im in my car/at work/etc. Server software is free and app is $5 in the market or *cough* free *cough* to try out first to see if you want it. There is a client for the ATV2 as well of course a jailbreak is needed. It has "Airplay" and wifi remote control functionality built in. It scrapes for meta data the best out of any app. Highly recommend.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metaldood:
Mirage works quite okay. Choppy playback for MKV.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Takenover83:
Qloud is very good. Does not have as slick of a user interface as Plex but still very functional. Plex will not work on a CM7 rom, so keep that in mind. Qloud also has a ad supported version. I used it for a couple days before plunging the $2 down for the non ad version. They both work well over 3G and are easy to setup.

Qloud Free

Qloud Pro

Plex
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanthexter:
You might want to take a look at RemotePotato and the corresponding Android app Remote Media Center.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zokipirlo:
You could also try Emit. Check it out ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kasloent:
Search "emit" in android market. Streams audio and video directly from pc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweborn:
As previous post suggests, Qloud Server with Qloud Media is a very good option.

Features:

- Support multimedia streaming from your PC to Android phone

- Everything is transcoded on the fly, no copy or encode is needed

- Support video format : AVI, MP4, RM, MKV, WMV

-

Support most text based subtitle format, typeface, scale and encoding is user configurable

- Support audio format : MP3

- Support image format : JPEG, PNG

http://www.qiss.mobi/products_free/qme/qloud-video/qvideo
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xakarix84:
mirage beta not bad, it use the same air video server on my pc together with my ipad.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JagDave:
Personally I use a combination of cifs manager, ES File Explorer & VPlayer to stream music & video from my NAS and PC. HD (mkv) is a bit choppy, but other than that no problems.

Sent from The App that Time Forgot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4f1050:
I have unRAID and AirVideo Server is an available app. I tried Mirage Beta but I can only play using Wifi and non-HD movies or they play choppy.

Hope they fix that in Mirage, seems to be a great alternative!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phreddo:
Holy crap

Mirage grabbed my airvideo server and plays.

My life is complete.

Thanks for that suggestion!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedweed:
Been using Emit and Qluod Video for a while, been working great.

Trying the new mirage now :)

Edit: New Mirage Beta seems to be working great on wifi connections, but not so good with 3g/hspda.

Hope they get some more options in their upcoming releases so you can go down on quality for mobile data connections.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] $incere:
I use MediaBrowser3. Works just like Air video, streams to Android, iOS, Chromecast, and AppleTV I
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jorpe:
n00b I know...

I have 2 winmo phones with hard-spl (touch pro and hd2) as well as a jailbroken iPad, but for some reason when I look through the android development sub forum it looks like I'm reading wingdings or something. Is android infinitely more complicated than winmo 6.5 and iOS? am I just an idiot?

I dont get what boot recovery flashing is, nand unlocking, the difference between being rooted and fully rooted.

On a side note, I really like my evo but would like to tether and have full root access, I think.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SharkUW:
Root vs "full" root. HTC has started adding additional security to the /system partition. Although /system is an arbitrary mount point, it is also a predefined physical block of the flash memory. An additional step beyond basic root access is needed to make that area writable when not in recovery.

Recovery is another partition. The bootloader is capable of booting to that partition instead of the Android OS so that maintenance can be performed without the OS loaded.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timothydonohue:
i will answer this, to the best of my limited knowledge, and experience.

/system is a partition of the internal memory etc that holds and runs applications that either are necessary for function (dialer, contacts, etc), or are put there by the provider (like your sprint apps).

root access is writing to /system. without NAND unlocked, this can only be done in recovery mode.

full root is NAND unlocked.

NAND unlocked allows you have have read and write access to the /system partition while the phone is actually running on android, rather than just while in recovery.

a custom recovery allows you to flash unsigned ROMs, kernels, radios. you would 'boot into recovery' to flash the zip (it's just a menu option, pretty straightforward). there are also options to backup or restore your current ROM setup. think of it like imaging your pc.

if you've flashed custom ROMs on winmo phones, you probably used an RUU, where you just put the nbh file into a folder that contained the executable and ran it. well, here you would just put the .zip file onto your sdcard, boot into the custom recovery, and select the 'flash zip' from the menu.

hope that helps
[Streak 5 General] futurama:
Does anyone know know I can make to font size a little bigger on the streak? I can't seem to find it in the menus. Also will it affect text size in the apps
[HD2 General] amdlite2:
Does it cause any issues switching radio's without wiping everything?

I know the rules are wipe/radio/rom, but.....
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
no problem switching. no hard reset necessary. no data loss.
[HD2 General] amdlite2:
Thanx, just didn't want to introduce any extra bugs. That way if I have an issue it's the ROM or addon's and not necessarily because I changed the radio.
[EVO 4G General] snandlal:
To change your PRL in Froyo, since ##775# doesn't work, Google the program CDMA Workshop and download, Find your COM Port by going in device manager and looking at properties of your phone under modems, On your phone dialer-press ##3424#, plug into USB, in CDMA Workshop under the Main tab select your COM Port and hit connect....Go to the Other tab, under that you will see PRL. Directly below that you will see Read and Write, Hit Write and navigate to your preferred PRL, Reboot......You can also save your current PRL by hitting Read

OR

Easy way....

You can take the espt.apk from fresh's 1.0.1 and replace it with yours.

This doesn't work on CM6
[EVO 4G General] Techknowfile:
screw that, i'll make a fix. techknowfile is back
[EVO 4G General] Mdobble:
The coolest post I've read on any forum in ages. Are you kin to Black Dynamite? :cool:
[EVO 4G General] snandlal:
That would be nice if techknowfile would...I know he's got the skill
[EVO 4G General] theoner1:
you are the man!!!
[EVO 4G General] SiL3nTKiLL:
this is pretty cool
[EVO 4G General] ajk511:
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