Mezzmo is a DLNA server with transcoding capability. Has anyone been able to get the video option to work? Music and pictures are working great.
Mezzmo is by far the best DLNA server I've tried. It works perfectly with my Series 6 Samsung LED TV over Wi-Fi N. But I also experienced problems with my Samsung Galaxy S - until I found the right settings on some forum. After connecting your SGS to Mezzmo (it's better to have a fixed IP address for your SGS I suppose), go to Mezzmo's menu Media Server -> Media Devices (smth like that, 'coz I have a Russian version of Mezzmo), then find your SGS in a list of devices, double click it to open the Settings window, choose Samsung Captivate as profile and make sure that both checkboxes are checked (especially the one with transcoding options); I also set 800 x 480 as a max resolution on Performance tab; now it works perfectly for all video formats!
You do use Allshare?
I do exactly like you and cannot play video, only music and pics.
What could be wrong?
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Any word on a cifs.ko for VEGAn-Tab beta3? I am dying to get connected to my home server which houses my music, movies, and ebooks.
I have searched some, but no one has mentioned it since November...
huntar said:
Any word on a cifs.ko for VEGAn-Tab beta3? I am dying to get connected to my home server which houses my music, movies, and ebooks.
I have searched some, but no one has mentioned it since November...
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There isn't a cifs.ko that I am aware of yet for this kernel but you should check out the Gmote app - I use it and have access to music and movies on my Windows home server/pc from my phone (and my tablet).
Works great too (it is the only reason my home pc is still on Windows). You can play on device or launch on the server/pc. It works fairly well over the 3g / 4g network too but not so well on Edge.
I think cifs.ko is really needed in some use cases... Gmote is great, but just remote control and playing music. I've also tried all the UPnP/DLNA sharing and viewing apps -- most have good aspects, but have a scenario in mind that uses the Android device as a control & redirector. I'm using my Viewsonic Gtab as a multimedia endpoint -- to play music, videos and view photos (e.g. glorified LCD picture frame). The default tools on my rooted Vegan b3 ROM are great for all those things if I could just mount the dang SMB share the media is sitting on!
Does TnT have cifs module?
No, it doesn't unfortunately since the kernel hasnt been released (yet). Until viewsonic let's the source out into the "wild", it wont happen.
Ive just today bought a P1010 wifi only galaxy tab after getting a price match sorted and a great price of £149 through Best buy and their new store opening.)
Ive already got a Galaxy S and have used this without any problems to connect that and display video content on the phone which is on my WHS2003 media server. Works a treat on this using allshare.
However, the app on the tab is different. I dont even get the option to add a username and password, which would be required to access the server.
Ive browsed a bit to find a solution, but no luck and have installed a couple of third party apps but still no good. I'm baffled why or how the galaxy S All Share is different to what it is on the tab.
I am basically wanting to access the media I have (thousands of films / TV shows / Music tracks) on my WHS2003 server and playback on my galaxy tab.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
If you are rooted on both devices you could try copying the Allshare apk from the Galaxy S to the Tab. I have found a few of the apps will work from one to the other. They should be in either the system\app or data\app folders.
Damn... I guess I'm going to have to wait a while before being able to do this! I dont have a USB connector for the phone at home - only a charger!
My phone is rooted - but not the tab as Ive only just got this today.
I used it to play some tvcatchup video - It was really pants! I hope it plays media better than that, else its not going to be with me for long and would be regarded as £150 down the pan!
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I like my Nexus 7, but the lack of an SD card slot means that it cannot be used to its full potential.
All this talk of the Cloud from Google is wonderful - if they offer the feature in your country. Google music for instance is only available in the US.
I've not rooted since it would appear that this will hamper OTA updates + I simply don't have the time to read endless threads!
Audio Galaxy
For anyone not aware, 'Audio Galaxy' ( https://play.google.com/store/search?q=audio+galaxy ) is your personal music cloud, but it does require that you leave a PC switched on at home/work. You just point the server end 'helper' of this at your music collection, and install the App. Unfortunately, It does not support all formats, WMA Lossless for instance is not supported, neither is anything containing DRM, bit of a PITA. The app itsself is OK, but there's no tablet optimisation.
FTP Server
Copying video's over the cloud is not practical esp in the UK with its poor mobile speeds, lack of 4G, and in the case of a home-cloud, poor broadband upload speeds.
My phone has a 64GB SD card in it. When out and about, I always take the phone. I use FolderSync ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full&hl=en ) to sync TV shows to the phone over wifi via a scheduled task.
I would use WiFi direct to push films to the N7, but this does not work between a Galaxy Note and the N7. Android Beam requires 2 NFC compatible handsets, and I read somehwere that it uses BT rather than WiFi to transfer stuff meaning its not suitable for videos.
If I choose to watch one of the videos from my phone on my tab, I just copy it over. Download FTP Server ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yYXBmb3guZnRwc3ZyIl0. ) for your phone, and point it at your movies. Enable the phones WiFi hotspot feature, and start the FTP Server.
On the Nexus 7, start an FTP Client - good one in ES File Explorer ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en ). Setup a new connection, and point it at the IP Address shown on the FTP server running on the phone. (Note that unfortunately, this IP address changes since its allocated by your mobile network), Using the FTP client on the N7, copy films from Phone to N7. Turn off FTP Server and WiFi hotspot on phone.
NB: If you root (the phone) you can run an SMB server on it. The phone must do the sharing since there is no WiFi hotspot feature on the N7 (it has no connection to share!)
NB2: You need to have a mobile signal to be able to start the wifi hotspot! - otherwise the phone has no IP address.
Until WiFi direct starts working, I am stuck with the above. An app to turn the phone into a WiFi harddisk (where phone acts as a wifi access point rather than connecting to existing router) would be nice.
Nigel
Check Plex in the market, great for video, music, and any other media stored on your home PC. PC left on at home works as at home server.
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Used in the past
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I've used plex in the past and removed it because its clunky - especially the server end where you config everything. Anyway, I just had another go. Its still clunky! For instance it just created 3 sections for 'Home Movies', and 3 for 'TV Shows' I only have one folder on the server for each. It also does not allow you to remove the unwanted sections from the library. As a result on the N7, I end up with everything listed 3 times over. I eventually found the option to remove these, and have re-created.
In addition to that, despite that fact that every album I own has album art, it has not picked it all up. I don't think it reads folder.jpg files from the album dirs (standard mechanism on windows media player/center), relying instead on the jpg being present within the meta data for the track.
- It does not transcode music from WMA Lossless to a format playable on device. It will index everything, but none of it is playable from the Android client
- It does not support TV shows recorded with windows media centre
- It keeps reporting 'Server Error when trying to fetch data'
So... still pretty clunky all told!
Worth another try though, and it is better than the last time I tried it.
Nigel
In the Settings "More Settings..." there is a "Nearby devices" item that says "Share your media files via DLNA". So the DLNA abbrev appears, but what the heck can you actually do with it. I have a Samsung TV that supposedly can access DLNA files, but the camera doesn't show up as a device on the TV, nor does the TV show up as a device on the Camera. I'm not really all that hot to use DLNA, but I'm curious what this stuff actually means since it shows up on the Camera. Anyone know how to do anything with these DLNA settings?
OK, New info: I played around with it some more, and found that if I login to the AllShare Play app, then the Nearby Devices settings actually do something (weirdly, the AllShare app doesn't seem to be involved anymore - there aren't any controls in that app I did anything with, just logged in and exited). Now when I turn on the file sharing toggle in Settings, my TV sees the camera and I can look at photos (but I haven't found any video that works yet).
Maybe you can try the "all share cast dongle" accessories .. some friends of mine already tested to some TVs and monitor .. they also tried with some projectors not only with HDMI but also with VGA by buying an converter HDMI-VGA cable ..
I can use the wifi direct option in advanced settings of the wifi menu to pair to any other android. BUT, how do I use it natively to file share media to and from? I can do it via 3rd party apps but its a hit or miss.
For example I transfered an mp4 to an Xperia phone from my N6 and an mp3 vice versa using super beam app. But couldn't get it to work on any media from my N6 to galaxy s3?! I want to avoid downloading multiple wifi direct apps just to have one work per one model android and another for a different model. Not to mention the other android needs the same app(s) too.
If the native option can pair through a wifi direct feed to any android why then isn't there a native option in the choices when the send /share icon is pressed on media files??? Not even in photos is the option present. I can hit the share icon - after pairing to another android - and still no wifi direct option?
Did you ever find your answer?