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I've seen hdmifull and hdmwin out there, but my questions are one, is playback upscaled, and two, which app really works best. Any input would be great. Thanks!
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I haven't connected via hdmi but from what I understand no app is needed, it's a full mirror. I would imagine it also upscales accordingly.
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I haven't connected via hdmi but from what I understand no app is needed, it's a full mirror. I would imagine it also upscales accordingly.
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Thst is correct you get the full image on your tv and xoom at the same time with no app needed just plug in to your hdtv and your set
Yeah, piece of cake. I've had no issues including playing Super Mario Bros 3 on my 65" DLP
There is a slight overscan but doesn't really affect it. And it is still displayed on the Xoom at the same time.
Nice! Thanks guys!
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Does the Xoom output 720p or 1080p?
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Does the Xoom output 720p or 1080p?
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720p. I don't know if apps have the ability to increase that though
This would mean that there is no real benefit to having 1080p videos playing from it because even if you have a 1080p T.V. the Xoom is only outputting 720p. I was going to share some of my converted movies at a friends house from my Xoom and this means I can just do a batch conversion to 720p instead and save space which is great.
Does the xoom screen have to stay on while outputting hdmi? I'd like to save some battery and also not have it shining away while watching a movie in a dark room etc. What happens if you hit lock while it's outputting?
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Does the xoom screen have to stay on while outputting hdmi? I'd like to save some battery and also not have it shining away while watching a movie in a dark room etc. What happens if you hit lock while it's outputting?
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yes I am hoping for an update or an app in the near future that will allow this. Sometimes I don't want it playing on both (especially if its a movie).
Also another benefit would be great if we could have 2 different screens going on (it is dual core afterall) in games. This would allow us to have controls on the xoom's screen, and have the actual screen play image on the tv. Just a thought....
is root needed to do this, or will it just work on a stock XOOM wifi?
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is root needed to do this, or will it just work on a stock XOOM wifi?
thanks
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It works on stock. That's what the hdmi port on the bottom is for.
Has anyone had an issue with the connection at the xoom being loose or do I just have a junk cable? If I move it the wrong way playing a game, I lose the picture. Pretty crummy. :'(
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It works on stock. That's what the hdmi port on the bottom is for.
Has anyone had an issue with the connection at the xoom being loose or do I just have a junk cable? If I move it the wrong way playing a game, I lose the picture. Pretty crummy. :'(
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I haven't had that issue. I have the OEM cable from Moto though (bought it when it came out for the Droid X).
I need to get me one of those! That would be awesome to carry around...
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It works on stock. That's what the hdmi port on the bottom is for.
Has anyone had an issue with the connection at the xoom being loose or do I just have a junk cable? If I move it the wrong way playing a game, I lose the picture. Pretty crummy. :'(
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thanks man; ordered a cable from monoprice for my EVO, and I believe its the same size port, so will report back on the quality once it gets here..
I picked up a great cable that's HDMI certified from Amazon for $9 and free shipping. Works great 8)
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ihtfp69 said:
It works on stock. That's what the hdmi port on the bottom is for.
Has anyone had an issue with the connection at the xoom being loose or do I just have a junk cable? If I move it the wrong way playing a game, I lose the picture. Pretty crummy. :'(
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I have the same issue, I doubt we both have a bad cable. Seems odd to me that it would do this. Will be interesting to see if this is common or if we are just an isolated few.
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It works on stock. That's what the hdmi port on the bottom is for.
Has anyone had an issue with the connection at the xoom being loose or do I just have a junk cable? If I move it the wrong way playing a game, I lose the picture. Pretty crummy. :'(
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Same here mine does the same thing. I have both a cheap Ebay cable, and the one that came with my DX. They both do the same thing. IMO all the connections on mine are loose but the only one that will stop working is HDMI. I'm wondering if more people have the issue, or if I should return mine
Curious if anyone has had an issue with their bionic while charging. The issue I'm having is the screen becomes less responsive while charging. moments where it's ok other moments where its almost stuck or real slow. As soon as I unplug it, it's just fine. Thanks
I have noticed that too, it is almost comical some of the stuff it thinks I hit. Try using swype while charging, if it glitches it is really fun!
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yep same here with swype. Do you have a dock? If do is your video play back ok?
I don't sorry, I just use the bionic dock app.
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Do you use video playback with hdmi cable? If so, does that work okay? Thanks
I do but I have not tried it while charging.
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Ok. So play back is fine for you then? That is my second issue is playback. Itdoesn't play back smooth. It's like it almost skips or a split second pause. Trying to see if I need to get a new phone. Thanks for the info.
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Do you use video playback with hdmi cable? If so, does that work okay? Thanks
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I have screen issues when plugged in through AC (very erratic), much less but still there in the HD dock, and never in the car dock or webtop dock.
Never had issues with video playback in any charging mode, however.
I used to have that same problem with by thunderbolt. I was using a blackberry charger and not the oem one
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Thanks for the feed back
I might have to do another thread to ask about video playback in hd dock and just with hdmi cable.I have four bugs (issues) otherwise phone is great.
Well. S4 is quite powerfull for our device and well. Its kinda useless unless you do something that requires that firepower. Well Sony has put a great H/W mhl chip and it can interpolate the screen to FullHD if you have proper cable and tv. Watching Hd movies is a pleasure but only sometimes. I know English and i dont need subtitles. But when i wana watch a film with my family. And its full HD. I cant. S/W decoding lacs and it shows subtitles. H/W is perfect and smooth but Sony didnt make subtitles to be shown over H/W decoding on the big screen. Have anyone found a way to show subtitles ?
So the solution is to download VLC for Android and enable Hardware acceleration in options. It plays 1080p uncomressed videos perfectly and supports subtitles over the MHL cable
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Use bs player or mx player
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Use bs player or mx player
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There is no subtitles over H/W decoding with them too. I use JB. Maybe i ICS there was. Cause i bought my MHL when i had JB
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There is no subtitles over H/W decoding with them too. I use JB. Maybe i ICS there was. Cause i bought my MHL when i had JB
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What? There is. Just enable the subtitle.
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wednesday13 said:
What? There is. Just enable the subtitle.
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Noo. On phone i see subtitles but on tv they aren't shown if its on H/W and thats the only way FullHD vids are smooth
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Noo. On phone i see subtitles but on tv they aren't shown if its on H/W and thats the only way FullHD vids are smooth
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Oh yeah. Sorry bout that. So both players doesn't work? How bout HW+? But SW drains your battery and makes your phone kinda hot so it's not worth it.
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Oh yeah. Sorry bout that. So both players doesn't work? How bout HW+? But SW drains your battery and makes your phone kinda hot so it's not worth it.
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S/W is the only way you get subtitles on TV.
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And I believe it's got nothing to do with Sony, it's a limitation of the technology, because Dice player offers an expliciely stated experimental feature for subtite output via hdmi. I'd have to check if its for Samsung devices only though, I believe I remember the option saying that.
Side question: most fullhd tvs feature a usb port nowadays anyway, why not use that and play your stuff directly on the tv if the technology doesnt seem to be really there...?
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I agree. Or you could download screen standby in play store. Try if it could reduce lag when using SW rendering
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just planning wan buy MHL cable. if cant subtitles, this sucks. my english not good, so i need subtitle.
can i know how its perform with heavy games?
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lagunabad said:
just planning wan buy MHL cable. if cant subtitles, this sucks. my english not good, so i need subtitle.
can i know how its perform with heavy games?
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Everything that its smooth on your t will be smoorh mirrorwd on the big screen.you are ok with subtitles as long as you play good converted videos.
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And I believe it's got nothing to do with Sony, it's a limitation of the technology, because Dice player offers an expliciely stated experimental feature for subtite output via hdmi. I'd have to check if its for Samsung devices only though, I believe I remember the option saying that.
Side question: most fullhd tvs feature a usb port nowadays anyway, why not use that and play your stuff directly on the tv if the technology doesnt seem to be really there...?
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Well Sony can add support for hdmi subtitles too. Google are saying that this is decided. By The manufacture
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And if all else fails, download a movie with subtitles hard coded.
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And if all else fails, download a movie with subtitles hard coded.
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Find me a FullHD film with hard coded subtitles on it...
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Well Sony can add support for hdmi subtitles too.
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We have MHL, not HDMI.
MrTapa said:
Find me a FullHD film with hard coded subtitles on it...
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Encode it yourself. Easy as eating a piece of cake.
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We have MHL, not HDMI.
Its absolutly totaly the same
Encode it yourself. Easy as eating a piece of cake.
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Dude thats imposible( i havent found a way)
Nope, it's not the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Relationship_with_MHL
Different connector, different wireing, different (altered) protocol. Nope, not the same.
Well it's not possible on your phone but you have a PC. There's plenty of tools to be found in the allmighty internet allowing you to easily overlay the subtitles onto your existing video. They will be a part of the "images" then though. Depending on the firepower at your disposal, such an encode takes somwhere between 10-30 minutes per movie for a typical hollywood blockbuster.
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Nope, it's not the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Relationship_with_MHL
Different connector, different wireing, different (altered) protocol. Nope, not the same.
Well it's not possible on your phone but you have a PC. There's plenty of tools to be found in the allmighty internet allowing you to easily overlay the subtitles onto your existing video. They will be a part of the "images" then though. Depending on the firepower at your disposal, such an encode takes somwhere between 10-30 minutes per movie for a typical hollywood blockbuster.
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Yep. Well i asked a person who edits videos and he said that it cant be hardcoded. Butt. thanks for the info. Although I really want sony to implement subtitles over MHL. And i mean there is no difference if i say HDMI or MHL. MHL is a convertor and it decodes colors different way. But it has aboslutly the same posibilities.
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Uhm... yes it can.
On the other hand, dont feed the trolls: You're right, it can't be done...
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http://www.bitfield.se/submerge/index.html first page on Google results...
Anything can be done. You just have to want it hard enough and be willing to put some work on it
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Hey I was just wondering if anyone had any mods/methods to use the micro hdmi port to display something WITHOUT leaving the actual phone screen on.
This wouldn't exactly be mirroring, I'm just wondering for purposes of playing movies on my phone on an HDTV or playing games on a larger display without eating my battery quickly due to a wasted display screen.
If this has already been discussed in another forum some guidance would be appreciated and I'll delete this post to avoid redundancy.
Thanks!
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Hey I was just wondering if anyone had any mods/methods to use the micro hdmi port to display something WITHOUT leaving the actual phone screen on.
This wouldn't exactly be mirroring, I'm just wondering for purposes of playing movies on my phone on an HDTV or playing games on a larger display without eating my battery quickly due to a wasted display screen.
If this has already been discussed in another forum some guidance would be appreciated and I'll delete this post to avoid redundancy.
Thanks!
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There's an app in the apps and games threads that does exactly this. I'm sorry I can't think of the name. Its a root only app, if that helps
Here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkahoang.screenstandby
Thank you! Downloading it now (I rooted my phone earlier today)
The app is called
"screen standby # root" for those reading the thread looking for the app and is available on the play store for free
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My nexus 7 has a cast screen button in the pulldown bar but I can't figure out this one. Wondering if I'll have to wait for L
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My nexus 7 has a cast screen button in the pulldown bar but I can't figure out this one. Wondering if I'll have to wait for L
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Go to: settings/display/cast screen
That should do it
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Go to: settings/display/cast screen
That should do it
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I believe that is for Miracast, not Chromecast.
For Chromecast some apps will have the Cast button (Youtube, Google Movies, etc.). I believe the Chromecast app has a cast screen functionality included but I haven't tried it.
From what I read and have tried myself, you can not use the screencast in Chromecast with the Turbo. Hope they will enable it soon. Chromecasting from within apps works just not the screencast.
Casting screen on the Turbo
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From what I read and have tried myself, you can not use the screencast in Chromecast with the Turbo. Hope they will enable it soon. Chromecasting from within apps works just not the screencast.
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This now works. You must go into the Chromecast app in order to cast your screen from a Droid Turbo at this time.
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Go to: settings/display/cast screen
That should do it
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Nope I tried that b4 I wrote topic
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This now works. You must go into the Chromecast app in order to cast your screen from a Droid Turbo at this time.
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I also tried that b4 writing topic
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I also tried that b4 writing topic
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I've done it several times. You just need to do it from within the Chromecast app itself.
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I've done it several times. You just need to do it from within the Chromecast app itself.
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Weird ....because I did that but I will try again in a bit after my coffee need a wake me up
I can confirm and I use thus daily. Just launch the Chromecast app and from the left slide out menu use the cast screen option. Obviously you need the Chromecast stick as well.
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I can confirm and I use thus daily. Just launch the Chromecast app and from the left slide out menu use the cast screen option. Obviously you need the Chromecast stick as well.
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Thank you. That left slide out menu hint is what made it work. It wasn't there at first, during initial set-up. But when I re-opened Chromecast app, then it was there and thanks to your tip I found it.
On my Nexus 5, with a custom ROM, the Display/Cast Screen worked with Chromecast, but as others have found out that setting does not work with the Droid Turbo/Moto Maxx.
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Thank you. That left slide out menu hint is what made it work. It wasn't there at first, during initial set-up. But when I re-opened Chromecast app, then it was there and thanks to your tip I found it.
On my Nexus 5, with a custom ROM, the Display/Cast Screen worked with Chromecast, but as others have found out that setting does not work with the Droid Turbo/Moto Maxx.
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That setting is for Miracast on the DT.
Picked up a Chromecast on New Years (Grandma bought an new TV at Best Buy on Black Friday, racked up the points, got $25 in Gift cards, was on sale for 29.99, got it for 4.99 + Tax!) and I must say It's not what I though it would be. I got it because it doesn't have a HDMI Out like my Razr Maxx HD and Droid X did. Came in handy and worked great. The thing I hate is if it turn the screen off on the phone it turns it off on the TV as well! My Razr Didn't do that.
I just got the Amazon Fire Stick and the DT screen cast does indeed work. When you first select cast screen a "no devices were found" message shows up. All I did was into that 3 dot menu thingy and check the use wireless box. Maybe that is what is missing from those of you trying with the Chromecast.
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I just got the Amazon Fire Stick and the DT screen cast does indeed work. When you first select cast screen a "no devices were found" message shows up. All I did was into that 3 dot menu thingy and check the use wireless box. Maybe that is what is missing from those of you trying with the Chromecast.
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No.
They were trying to use it with the Chromecast, which is not a Miracast tech. The fire stick is.
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Picked up a Chromecast on New Years (Grandma bought an new TV at Best Buy on Black Friday, racked up the points, got $25 in Gift cards, was on sale for 29.99, got it for 4.99 + Tax!) and I must say It's not what I though it would be. I got it because it doesn't have a HDMI Out like my Razr Maxx HD and Droid X did. Came in handy and worked great. The thing I hate is if it turn the screen off on the phone it turns it off on the TV as well! My Razr Didn't do that.
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Are you using the mirroring feature in the Chromecast app exclusively instead of finding appropriate apps to send the content? I watch literally all of my TV via a Chromecast and I never need to mirror the entire phone screen.
Must be. Only used it once though just to set it up. I was using the VLC media app to test. Its what i use fir videi playback. On my razr hd it saw the hdmi and used the phone as controls only. Ill look into it more though.
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I use ES File Explorer with the ES Chromecast Plug in to watch my vids and such.