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I just bought a new HDTV along with a new HTPC. I dont want a full size keyboard and I didnt feel like paying $130 for a Logitech DiVino Mini. I did a little digging around and found this.
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43156
I just downloaded at work so I cant test it yet. Only version .1 is out so its still pretty early. Use at your own discretion
I have tried it and it works, though not flawlessly. A few quirks.
It's worth mentioning it's at this stage only a remote, you have to have the TV/monitor turned on to see what you're doing. Nothing is rendered locally on the G1/Android, so you can't start up a music playlist without having to turn the TV on, for example.
That said, it's pretty nice. I hope he keeps working on it, because XBMC is by far the best media center out there.
mannyb said:
I have tried it and it works, though not flawlessly. A few quirks.
It's worth mentioning it's at this stage only a remote, you have to have the TV/monitor turned on to see what you're doing. Nothing is rendered locally on the G1/Android, so you can't start up a music playlist without having to turn the TV on, for example.
That said, it's pretty nice. I hope he keeps working on it, because XBMC is by far the best media center out there.
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Actually when I got home, I couldnt get it to work. I'm having issues with XBMC and Win7 so maybe thats the problem. I noticed remotedroid is the same as this tho. Maybe in the future or later releases the author will add short cuts or a remote control feel for it.
I would like to see something where you flick your finger across the screen and it goes to a mouse touch pad and than flick across the screen again and its a remote control.
O well, Guess Ill just get the Logitech Mini DiNovo still.
Hi
Any possibility for turning off the screen when I am using mhl tv out?
It doesn't makes sense that the screen it is on with the same image all the time.
How do you plan on doing stuff without using the screen? I can understand if you want to have it turned off during movies, but isn't it possible to turn the screen off and still get the image on the TV (when you're watching movies etc.)?
LordManhattan said:
How do you plan on doing stuff without using the screen? I can understand if you want to have it turned off during movies, but isn't it possible to turn the screen off and still get the image on the TV (when you're watching movies etc.)?
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No, it isn possible.
If you turn the screen off, then the tv doens't play anything, thats because I ask.
For movies or flash on phone streaming to tv I don't want to have the screen on but I can't put it off and continue playing or I don't see how to do it
up ?
probably isnt possible, the same as with conencting a laptop to the tv via hdmi, the laptop cannot be shut and still plays the video
well i have a Blackberry Playbook + Galaxy Note, the playbook has an amazing option (would be great if they could put it in the Note) they have presentation mode for videos, u press it and then u can hit the off button, the screen will go off but the video will keep on playing
I am using Galaxy Note too. The reason why we need to turn off the Mobile Screen while playing movie, is because of the performance.
I read somewhere that the movie playing on TV is having bad performance because the phone has to render for 2 displays, hence it make the playback lags.
I bought MHL cable and it's really a waste that I can't have a smooth playback of movie...
I haven't tried it yet but maybe a combination of the TegraDisplaySelector.apk with chainfire3d will allow us to turn our screens off.
from:
http://dext3r.komodin.org/
This widget app will give you the option to be able to switch between LCD and HDMI output, so you can preserver battery power, and disable any
annoying display enabled on lcd while using your TV.
you need to note, that managing the display is best with a mouse, but you can still use the disabled tablet screen for controlling your screen, but its not easy.
Remember you need to add this to your screen as a widget, thats the only way to access it, and it require root access to run the lcd vs. hdmi functionality. It does not work on android 3.x, as the library does not appear on that release for now
fosselman said:
I haven't tried it yet but maybe a combination of the TegraDisplaySelector.apk with chainfire3d will allow us to turn our screens off.
from:
http://dext3r.komodin.org/
This widget app will give you the option to be able to switch between LCD and HDMI output, so you can preserver battery power, and disable any
annoying display enabled on lcd while using your TV.
you need to note, that managing the display is best with a mouse, but you can still use the disabled tablet screen for controlling your screen, but its not easy.
Remember you need to add this to your screen as a widget, thats the only way to access it, and it require root access to run the lcd vs. hdmi functionality. It does not work on android 3.x, as the library does not appear on that release for now
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NICE! Will test it out when I get home
ghlaw said:
I am using Galaxy Note too. The reason why we need to turn off the Mobile Screen while playing movie, is because of the performance.
I read somewhere that the movie playing on TV is having bad performance because the phone has to render for 2 displays, hence it make the playback lags.
I bought MHL cable and it's really a waste that I can't have a smooth playback of movie...
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I get absolutely no lag on HD movie playing over MHL
but i agree that having both screens running is completely useless
when watching a movie
Richy99 said:
probably isnt possible, the same as with conencting a laptop to the tv via hdmi, the laptop cannot be shut and still plays the video
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A little off-topic, but yes you can. Windows button + P will shut the computer screen off and only show the image on the TV.
nothing new?
Interested in a solution to this myself. Why burn the pixels when there is no need? Im a bit uneasy trying out the tegra solution presented above. I am heading to the play store to see what is available as far as presentation apps and such.
Wanted to bump this thread back up. Has anyond found a way to turn off or disable the phone screen while using the mhl hdmi out?
Like others mentioned its silly to have the phone screen on at the same time your watching a movie on a tv screen. There should at least be an option to disable phone screen while watching movie.
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Wanted to bump this thread back up. Has anyond found a way to turn off or disable the phone screen while using the mhl hdmi out?
Like others mentioned its silly to have the phone screen on at the same time your watching a movie on a tv screen. There should at least be an option to disable phone screen while watching movie.
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Look at my app here. It would be the solution.
Screen Standby its a app u can download keep ur touchs working i know what u mean like playingg ames whitout looking at device like gta! touch still works
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kersh said:
Hi
Any possibility for turning off the screen when I am using mhl tv out?
It doesn't makes sense that the screen it is on with the same image all the time.
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just did this to see that answer in ur notfications
No solutions yet? Would be nice if MHL mode could disable the phone screen for saving energy while improving HDMI video performance. I'd like to use my Galaxy Note as a netbook with external bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so keeping the phone screen on would be useless.
MHL does turn the screen off - but seems only while using built in player and playing a movie. At least it works like this on android 6 and Note 4. I am interested however in using KODI with the screen off while playing media...
so i just bought a MHL adapter for this in hopes of it looking good on a big screen. connected it to my 19" monitor first...popped up and it looked ok. icons were a little bigger than what looks compared to on the device. so using my BT mouse and keyboard i did some browsing around through some apps...not a good experience at all. then i noticed it cut the edges off on all 4 sides by just a little bit. look horrible. i thought it was the monitor, so i moved it to my 42" tv.
so connected it to my tv, again, cut off the edges, everything got larger. if you get a notification, the bar is so big u need to scroll down, not ideal, looks cheap.
tried web browsing, not as bad but every time you click on something to insert txt, a HUGE keyboard shows up that you have to hit back button on mouse or keyboard to get it to go away. cant get around this because to connect BT keyboard need to have the samsung keyboard active. maybe will be different using smart dock and usb keyboard. the notification bar takes up so much space along with tabbed browsing and address bar that 1/3 of your screen is gone.
the audio sounded horrible via hdmi, didnt try to use a 3.5mm out at the same to see if that would change.
oh and it eats battery.
did anyone else try it and have better luck? will the smart dock do a better job?
To get rid of the on screen keyboard while using a secondary monitor, download "null keyboard" from the play store. Also, I agree that the hdmi experience isn't anything to write home about, but it is useful for watching downloaded movie's, or browsing YouTube. I use a handheld bluetooth keyboard, and it's usable, but not too pleasant.
the reason why the edges are cut off isnt because of your phone, its because of your TV. you have overscan enabled. disable it.
as for the keyboard, yeah, i noticed that as well. it seems to only really go away with the default keyboard. kinda annoying =(
I believe with the smart dock the keyboard doesn't pop up if u have one connected
Souai said:
the reason why the edges are cut off isnt because of your phone, its because of your TV. you have overscan enabled. disable it.
as for the keyboard, yeah, i noticed that as well. it seems to only really go away with the default keyboard. kinda annoying =(
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whats overscan? i tried looking at every setting for picture..didnt see anything ..
The MHL should have a power connector because of the high power consumption of the device. It needs to be plugged in. I get great sound over HDMI, maybe your video has a bad encode?
I will agree, on a 40" TV it doesn't look too great, but then I didn't transcode for a large screen either...
Would running a custom rom stop from the mhl hdmi to work?
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Hdmi sound is digital. Something is wrong with your setup
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
Greetings i just bought the original Samsung MHL for note 2 and galaxy s3 today .
To be honest if you want to play games , or do what you normally do with your phone its very laggy and bad quality picture.
If you want it to watch movies, youtube, music, Photos e.t.c ( Multimedia) its great . The video engine its totally different so the video output on screen its very nice and the sound very good.
So if you dont have a media center home or smart tv or whatever its good to have . If you have then its a bad investment you can not do much on screen even with BT keyboard.
Oh , browsing its ok...
I expected more but unfortuantly thats the deal, i dont know if someone running 4.1.2 can confirm better performance on mirroring , games etc. i run stock on latest update 4.1.1 .
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I own the Smart Dock and the virtual keyboard doesn't pop up when connected to USB KVM.
As far the display not fitting the screen there's a tools button on the Samsung TV's remote that allows changing the Picture Size to Just Scan so it fits properly.
For the most part it works well except for a few minor quirks but it may be related to me connected to an Avocent KVM to use one set of monitor, keyboard and mouse for all my devices. For anyone with Smart Dock, does holding down both shift and space bring up English(US)?
Yes this is overscan. This is common place with home theater pcs. Typically tvs don't have much functionality when it comes to dealing with over/underscan. Luckily with pcs, gpu drivers do.
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Same deal with using the allshare cast hub, got the cutoff screen untill I adjusted my tv settings. The only issue I have with the hub is that ive noticed the sound lags a tad. Love everything else.
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so is overscan on our tv's something we have to live with?
You can turn overscan off. Just look in your televisions picture setup. The scaling should be done by your phone. Not the telly.
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whats overscan? i tried looking at every setting for picture..didnt see anything ..
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If its a Samsung you may need to switch from 16×9 to autofit.
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I just got my adapter in today from Samsung. It just get a gray screen. Is there a limit to what it can push to? I had it connected to a new Samsung 65" TV.
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The stock video player plays full screen and correct aspect ratio. Random regular apps like gtalk display full screen and correct aspect also.
Netflix squishes into 4:3 for no explicable reason.
It's not the particular video on netflix since it looks right on the phone screen and it looks right on the tv too if I use my ltevo to play the same vid via mhl to the same tv over the same hdmi cable instead of the gn2.
Stretch to fit doesn't correct it either. No zoom/aspect option corrects it.
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You can turn overscan off. Just look in your televisions picture setup. The scaling should be done by your phone. Not the telly.
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Thanks, I have a Samsung 40" tv so I'll check it out later tonight to see if that option is available. I'm really loving this mhl cable though~
KEYofR said:
The stock video player plays full screen and correct aspect ratio. Random regular apps like gtalk display full screen and correct aspect also.
Netflix squishes into 4:3 for no explicable reason.
It's not the particular video on netflix since it looks right on the phone screen and it looks right on the tv too if I use my ltevo to play the same vid via mhl to the same tv over the same hdmi cable instead of the gn2.
Stretch to fit doesn't correct it either. No zoom/aspect option corrects it.
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Yes netflix is squished into 4:3 on the smart dock too and probably on the allshare cast hub but I don't have that to test it.
The squish thing Netflix does is just Netflix and whatever coding they did for the app. I think it does same thing on the GS3.
Hey guys! Been a while since I've posted on XDA. Anyway, down to business.
I just ordered a new PI2 and after thinking for several days on what sort of project I would like to make, I've come to a decision. I would love to make a "video jukebox" of sorts that randomly shuffles through episodes of the Simpsons.
I have debated whether it would be easier to use an old LCD screen I have with a connection on a breadboard, or just buy a cheap HDTV with HDMI input and plug and play.
Ideally, i'd like a rechargeable power source inside the "box" that would allow me to pick it up and move it around if I please.
Also, I would like the interface to be as simple as possible. I literally want a play/pause, and next button. That's it. Can we boot the PI and have a video player open automatically and start shuffling through a giant folder? The idea here is that you turn it on, and it starts playing random episodes of the Simpsons. I'll probably put all of them on a 128 gb stick. Also will need built in speakers. I may even waterproof it.
So, my question to you? What are your ideas, and how would you get started? What kind of display? What video player? What of external power? I am going to build the case out of nice finished wood. But even that is open for debate. What are your thoughts/suggestions???
I picked up a Google Cardboard for some fun, but the picture constantly rotates while trying to use it on my XZ. The axis of the rotation is that of going from portrait to landscape (Y axis??)
I've tested the accel, compass, and gyro using the service tests and they all seem to be fine. My XZ is completely stock and up-to-date (OTA).
Not sure what the problem could be? It works fine on my SGS5. I'd appreciate any feedback as the XZ looks and fits inside SO much cleaner than the SGS5, plus its not my daily driver so I won't have to take it out often.
I vaguely recall the same error happening on an app a long time ago, can't remember for the life of me what it was.
Hey. I also play with VR for almost month now(got two vr goggles with are WAY better lenses and quality than cardboard)
And also I have this problem of rotating screen. And to be honest its all depend on app and orientation provider. Most of the time app use indirect/direct sensor fusion but this method just suck...
I found only one solution for that and its to put phone on flat surface for few second with screen face up, and then phone calibrate sensor itself.
Of course its not helping for too long, but its always something...
My favorite VR game: Corridoom is best example for problem that we have.
Fast movement of device constantly move gyro starting point to one direction and when you sit in chair and look straight after a while you need to almost turn 180* because device lost this starting point. App does provide only simple calibration in main menu and Dev that I write about that said that for now its not gonna change this option.
So even if gyro in our xz is really accurate, because i use it as a VR goggles for PC gaming thanks to app Trinus VR
Only real solution for that is actual app that have option to block or reset roll effect. For example my main movie app for watching VR movies Cardboard Theater have such option and for most of time I dont have this problem when I watch movies.
I also tested it via service tests and you can see this problem, when you start app and this Rubik's cube is faced to you green move phone right and left and after few moves its not facing green, but red or blue... And for that app should have that option to reset yaw and roll when you stop moving, but for now most of devs that create VR apps and games just dont think to put such options.
And its not only XZ problem I tested it with galaxy S5 and galaxy Grand Prime and its also have that problem but not that often, mostly when I move my head very fast or for too long, screen start rotating.
maybe it would be possible to fix that in device it self to reset that roll effect but I dont think that anyone with knowledge would like to check that... :/
Trackers are pretty sensitive without some kind of reference point such as a camera. I expect a small amount of bias error over a duration, but using cardboard movie theater the screen turns 180 degrees (roll) in less than 10 seconds. The sensor tests are nowhere near as inaccurate.
Obviously any phone will have the issue over time though, they are cheap parts in small housing. There's multi thousand dollar systems with small degree of wander that are only IMUs. It's the severe amount the xz has that bugs me.
I'll try the laying it flat so it can reset its bias, might work. I noticed yesterday that when facing west it wasnt half as bad.
If you were actually able to enjoy a movie without locking the orientation then yours is far better than mine. My sgs5 I might have to adjust the orientation once every 30 minutes, the xz I have to reset it every seconds lmao.
Thank you for the input!
update:
Letting the bias adjust helped immensely. Thanks for the advice!
Hi did u manage to sort it out. I have xperia z and have same problem. I can play some games but everytime i use 'view in cardboard ' on youtube the screens spin, also when i use googke cardboard apps. Maby its a google problem and not our phones? Like you iv testedband recalibrated my phone byt to no avail
If you got it fixed giz a shout mate
Cheers