I am trying to get the Orb to stream the TV from my VirginMedia/WinTV PVR-150 without much success. I can stream everything else, video, music etc but not the TV.
Anybody got this working?
It is working fine for me over wifi and hsdpa.
I am viewing the streams in windows media player at a fixed (non speed test) speed.
Occasionally I get sound with a distorted image on a couple of the BBC channels but otherwise it works well.
My next project is to be able to orb a sopcast stream to allow me to view live soccer games.
Are you able to view tv streams on a PC? The forums and wiki at the orb site may be able to pinpoint any issues relating to your specific tv card.
A lot of popular video streaming sites are still using Flash and RTMP to serve their videos. These are always embedded in an FLV container. Currently Android doesn't natively support RTMP or FLV format, but it does support RTSP for streaming.
I recently patched solid RTMP support into ffmpeg, and have now succeeded in getting RTSP working as well. So if you have a machine with decent network connectivity, you can install ffmpeg/ffserver and make it act as a proxy/relay to grab RTMP videos and republish them on RTSP for viewing on your phone.
I've posted the details here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6495551&postcount=8
as a proof of concept. It should be pretty easy for someone else interested to turn this into a polished app. Enjoy...
Got some streaming working on my G Tab running CM B4. Runs smooth on 480Pish video.
Here's what I used:
UPnPlay- http://www.appbrain.com/app/upnplay/cx.hoohol.silanoid Its a bit rough, listed as Alpha, but gets the job done. Plays/pauses easily but fast forwarding is a pain and skipping via the scrubber isnt possible.
Tversity- http://tversity.com/ desktop DLNA server.
This is a quick and dirty setup. If anyone has any ideas of a better setup, especially client, let me know .
I wonder if cifsmanager will work (if there is a cifs.ko yet) The tablet should be omw to my house right now if she picks it up for me at Sears.
Androstream pro should work, maybe test the free version out?
test out Filmon.com free streaming tv if the tablets browser uses the android user agent.
Cifs.Ko doesn't work yet, so upnplay is the best option so far. I enabled the upnp service in XBMC. Too bad rockplayer doesn't properly utilize the hardware decoding yet...
Androstream pro loads but it seams to crash while getting the video file.
Upnplayer works but has horrible choppy audio in the standard players. After installing Soul Player and changing Twonky it plays video well. I cant play MKV's yet.
Filmon.com works, but with another browser
m.playon.tv (if you have playon) wont work until they fix it. Upnplayer connects but I havent gotten anything to playback yet.
Gmote works perfectly minus. Subs (I'm sure it can be fixed if I research more)
Until there is. A Cifs.ko or I can figure out androstream gmote is the way.
Zumocast needs a client, was slow navigating the website for me.
I'm going to change the client peofile in twonky / mezzmo to see it that helps upnplayer (even though gmote is perfect for playback and scanning rr / ff )
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For the past few weeks I've been looking into different media servers to stream video to my android devices without re-encoding each video for mobile use. I tried TVersity, but I wasn't able to get the streaming to work. Lately I've been using Subsonic to stream everything and it's been great. It streams any type of video through a flash player on the fly. It's also very easy to install and even works outside of your home network. The amazing thing is how fluid this flash player works on the G-Tab. Coming from a rooted Pandigital Novel, this device's video and flash playback capabilities keep amazing me. If you are looking for a media server application to stream video, I'd highly recommend subsonic. What other media servers does everyone use?
I use Twonky Server on my Netgear ReadyNAS Duo and Twonky Mobile on my Gtab. Works great.
I am trying to stream my anime using DLNA BubbleUPNP. My computer is running PS3 Media Server because its been a reliable DLNA server for me for quite some time on many different platforms. It is hosting over a terabyte of anime.
I am having issues with divx/xvid playback strangely. All my videos that require hardware acceleration (1080p h264s) work fine but older encodes using divx/xvid in an AVI/MKV container do not work. I've tried MX Video, dice player, rock player, and bs player. Only BS Player would seem to actually render the videos at all but it strangely cuts to the middle of the video.
I watch tons of anime so pretty much my older anime episodes do not work but newer ones do. I am running the latest CM9 nightly (3/29). Well any insights would be helpful. I would think any recent player would play my old anime without a problem but it just freezes and crashes. Sometimes it would play audio before it does that.
Sorry if this is in the wrong forums and I haven't had much luck finding an answer while searching.
Problem solved.
I am not entirely sure what I did but I did a few changes to the ps3 media server client and fixed everything. It may have been related to me changing the number of transcoding cores to 4 instead of 8. It somehow thought I had 8 cores. I also added avi to the streaming extensions of the Android.conf in rendered and that may have done something. (I actually dont know what that did but I just wanted to try)
So it seems I am able to use Dice Player, BS Player, and MX Video to watch my videos now. BS Player seems to be the most reliable but all the players seem very fickle. Dice player likes to try HW acceleration on everything then crashes. BS Player knows when to switch between SW and HW so it seems to be the most compatible. I really don't like BS Player because I can't seem scroll through the video which is pretty bad. I've also noticed my video stops for no reason after a while which is frustrating too.
I would like to know if anyone has a better setup with a particular combination that works for them best.
I'm also using Bubble pnp, but with TVersity and also Samsung's All Share. Both seam to work, though All share adds metadata to all your media files for thumbnail generation. So if you have a large library, it takes a while to generate the extra files the first time you start the program. but having thumbnail previews is really nice.
I've also been using Dice player, but on a different tablet without any issues on most formats. I'll try it out on my TP and see if I can get it to work.
One thing I've done, which is probably something you might wanna consider at some point if you plan on continuing to stream, is doing a permanent transcode of your video files. Handbrake is a free tool that allows you to transcode almost anything into almost anything else, and it has an Android setting. I really like how that works, personally. I have all of my video files (TV series, anime, movies, etc.) all transcoded into M4V files, and they all play gorgeously on everything - my PS3, my ATV2G, my tablet, my phone. Beats the crap out of the AVI files, and they're slightly smaller, too. H264 is the way to go, and this changes everything to work great for that. You can even soft-code and hard-code subs into the shows if you want.
As I said, my favourite part of all this is the files are universally accepted on everything. My TP, my Android phone (running CM7), my PS3, my ATV2G, my dad's iPhone, everything.
Hah, I am firmly against re-encoding all my anime because I have a lot and it just bothers me when I change things from its original format.
I wish these DLNA browsers software like skifta and bubbleupnp were more customizeable in their UI. They all function perfectly fine but sometimes I want to try some different layout once in a while. I can see thumbnails fine for everything but I think it would be better if there were more modern 3d effects to sort of flip through all my anime playing small clips. Overall, I really have no complaints of my set up and have just minor stability issues with certain anime encodings.
Using ES File Explorer and MX Player, I can stream XviD flawlessly with no transcoding of any kind. 720p MKV mostly the same. 1080p does naturally buffer quite a bit due to the high bit rate.
My PS3 media server method has stopped working for whatever reason . It seems anything with mencoder avi files just crashes any chance for playback for some reason.
I've looked into SMB file sharing via ES File Explorer + MX Video player but for some reason everything refuses to even run. I can browse my windows shares fine but I can't play anything. It actually worked at one point but I am not sure what changed. Streaming my anime seems so fickle.
I've tried using TVersity + BubblePNP and everything also worked flawlessly at one point. Then TVersity refuses to even load itself and crashes right away. This is getting a little sad.
I've tried Windows Media Center and shared my videos but it magically refuses to show all my folders containing only mkv and ogm files. These are apparently unsupported formats so they won't even show up in my bubbleupnp browser. Somehow everything that did show up worked perfectly.
I've tried and gotten a lot of different ways to work...but somehow it magically just stops working. I am hoping someone has like some magic bullet solution to all of this. As of now I can only play stuff that are hardware accelerated. Maybe I shouldn't be so stubborn about re-encoding all my anime but I really like it the way it is now lol.
Has anyone tried Serviio? I'm getting ready to upgrade my home file server and was searching for solutions when this popped up.
It seems to support transcoding and the like but would be interested in informed opinions if any are available.
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So I reinstalled TVersity a few times and now it mysteriously works like a charm. I really like it now. Seems to reliably play all my stuff fine. The really cool part is I can host my files online and access it while away from home as long as my computer is on.
I also tried Serviio. It seems to really surprisingly well also. Its a little bit user unfriendly without a default GUI. I just used the Serviidroid app to configure the Serviio server so its fine now. I think its actually pretty good. I guess it lacks the polish of more mainstream programs but it seems to do the job just fine. I'll have to play around more to see if it chokes on anything.
For now I hope TVersity is my last stop because it seems to work pretty well when it works.