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I was wondering, Since we have an alpha of Ubuntu, and an Ubuntu installer, anyone try setting up XBMCbuntu? When I get the chance I'll see whats needed to run regular Ubuntu and see if theres enough support in it to run the XBMCbuntu
There isn't. You might be able to kludge it to the point it boots XBMC, but it's pointless. The GPU isn't working in Ubuntu so video acceleration is non-existant. The audio doesn't work either, so you'd be able to lag through low-res videos without sound. Not a great experience. Ubuntu right now is NOT for multimedia, it works great for office, productivity, and programming but not multimedia.
The XBMC guys are focusing all their ARM dev into the Raspberry Pi at the moment. Would be kinda cool, though especially if the TP had HDMI out.
I believe they're working on a xbmc for Android, so hopefully we will have one soon
The current version (which you have to compile from source as no APK has been released to the non-dev community) runs pretty decently on the Touchpad. I haven't tried playing any videos with it, yet. I'll check and report later.
You can find unofficial builds of the Android XBMC build online and it actually seems to work fairly well. The XBMC interface has been adapted a bit to work with touch interfaces and overall it's quite nice. I had issues playing music, but had limited success streaming DVD ISO's from my server and playing other types of video content.
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We have provided a free software Wondershare DreamStream that can support chromecast your PC Video to HDTV
Rich video format support:MP4、AVI、MP4、MOV、WMV、MP3、M4A and much more
Download link: http://www.wondershare.com/dreamstream/
The official release version is on its way!
Hi everyone, this is mini wan from the Product Development Team at Wondershare. We would like to thank everybody
for their enthusiasm, support and valued insights into this beta. We are excited to announce the official release is
on its way, with future support for a wide range of devices. We’re also pleased to announce the inclusion of
optional Auto-Indexing based on your input and comments. Stay tuned for the latest version!
New version of this program just added Chromecast support. Looks promising, but very buggy (see below).
Information link: http://support.wondershare.com/media-center/
Download link on this page: http://support.wondershare.com/media-center/history.html
Wondershare is a Chinese company that has published a lot of low-cost video apps over the last several years. I've tried some of their video converters and DVD authoring programs. They are frequently given away on Giveawayoftheday.com. They have a full-featured video converter program, so it would be logical for them to have a Chromecast extension that could transcode. I'm also curious o see how this interacts with Chrome, since every other app I know that can cast to the Chromecast from a PC has to run within Chrome. I'll try it...
No good on Win7 64-bit, crashes a few seconds after starting:
MediaCenter has stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MediaCenter.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.6
Application Timestamp: 5319ad9a
Fault Module Name: DeviceDiscovery.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.2
Fault Module Timestamp: 5318a4f7
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00001bd4
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Win7 32-bit on another computer: same crash
Also has an error on startup on WinXP and can't find the Chromecast (yes, I can cast from Chrome running on WinXP, I know it's not officially supported).
Error is: "The procedure entry point inet_pton could not be located in WS_32.dll"
That's 3 for 3. Obviously not ready for prime time. Better give it a few days for Wondershare to fix initial bugs before you waste time trying it.
Update: problem identified as an incompatibility with Roku media players on the same network.
Also note that it has a couple of types of bad behavior:
1. Installs Wondershare Helper to auto-run on Windows startup (common to their other apps, can be removed from startup without hurting anything)
2. Starts auto-indexing ALL drives and media files on your system without prompting to ask which folders you want to index. In fact it has no settings at all to control auto-indexing.
mini_wan said:
I found a free software Wondershare Media Center that can support chromecast your PC Video to HDTV
Rich video format support:MP4、AVI、MP4、MOV、WMV、MP3、M4A and much more
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This program is running flawless
Big high five and thanks for finding it
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This program is running flawless
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What Windows version?
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What Windows version?
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Windows 8.1
Shame its windoze only. The installer runs fine under wine in linux and it completel the installation. Then the exe itself is .NET, and mono crashes when trying to load it.
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Windows 8.1
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Actually I don't think the problem is with the Windows version. I have my notebook here at at work that still has the Win7 32-bit version I tested with the Chromecast at home, and it doesn't crash when I run it here (although there's no Chromecast on the network here at work of course).
I don't think it's the absence of the Chromecast that's significant though, because I had inadvertently left the Chromecast USB cable unplugged the first time I tried it at home. The Chromecast wasn't on, but it still crashed that first time, same as subsequent times after I got the Chromecast turned on and connected properly.
I think it may be something else on my home network that is responding to the "DeviceDiscovery.dll" and confusing it into crashing. Let's see, my Roku 2 XS and my Android tablet are online all the time. Maybe one of those? I'll try disconnecting those later to see if it makes a difference. Or maybe it's something to do with the Chromecast having different historical IP addresses that are cached somewhere on my computer, and it's crashing when it tries to check one of those non-existent IP addresses?
worked like a charm here, but I can see the quality slightly reduced.. does anybody notice that? but overall recommend apps, can't wait to get a new update of this
keep it up guys.
Yes, the Roku was the problem - somehow it is returning a network response that crashes Wondershare Media Center.
But even though it's working now, the performance is disappointing. The video stutters, even with straightforward mp4 files. It's possible that may be because it's still indexing the large video collection on my secondary hard drive - but I didn't tell it to that, I don't want it to do that, and any software designer with an ounce of sense would have made indexing a low-priority thread.
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Yes, the Roku was the problem - somehow it is returning a network response that crashes Wondershare Media Center.
But even though it's working now, the performance is disappointing. The video stutters, even with straightforward mp4 files. It's possible that may be because it's still indexing the large video collection on my secondary hard drive - but I didn't tell it to that, I don't want it to do that, and any software designer with an ounce of sense would have made indexing a low-priority thread.
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probably because of that, the quality are quite decent in my side (playing 720p mp4 movie) I can see the pixel in my 50 Inch TV from very closer look , however from 1,5 - 2 meters it is acceptable and I dont see the quality degraded.
seems the method are similar with video stream cast extension, but VideoStream Cast extension definitely seems more mature than wondershare apps. but now my problem is solved, I can play mp4 files with .srt :good:
Nope, video continues to stutter after it has finished indexing, and it even loses audio sync while casting an mp4 file that doesn't need transcoding. I have a fast desktop computer (CPU utilization only 5% while Media Center is casting), and a good solid WiFi connection to the Chromecast. One time the Chromecast showed its "Brain Freeze" error message while Media Center was trying to cast to it. I think this app is just not ready for release. For the moment I'll stick with Videostream and do a quick conversion to mp4 if I have a file in an incompatible format. Media Center uninstalled for now, but I'll try it again when it's out of beta.
Tried playing an .avi and it stuttered a lot
win 8.1
I tried it on my PC with Windows 8.1, but it seems it can't find my Chromecast, it says "No cast devices found" =\
The download link doesn't seem to work for me! can anyone upload it somewhere and put the link here?
alakiha said:
The download link doesn't seem to work for me! can anyone upload it somewhere and put the link here?
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Download link on Wondershare website is broken.
Can anyone share it?
The Download link is to http://download.wondershare.com/cbs_down/media-center_full1694.exe, which is the version everyone has been testing for the last couple of days. They are probably updating it, which is a good idea since the testing showed it wasn't ready for general publication. Probably best just to be patient and wait to see if an update version shows up in the next few days.
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The Download link is to http://download.wondershare.com/cbs_down/media-center_full1694.exe, which is the version everyone has been testing for the last couple of days. They are probably updating it, which is a good idea since the testing showed it wasn't ready for general publication. Probably best just to be patient and wait to see if an update version shows up in the next few days.
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Everything related to Wondershare Media Center seems to have been removed from their web site.
www.wondershare.com/media-center/
Looks to me like it was deliberately removed...
Download link is dead.
Can any one upload it and share with us?
I have searched for a streaming app for windows, to chromecast... for long time now
lemondroid said:
Download link is dead.
Can any one upload it and share with us?
I have searched for a streaming app for windows, to chromecast... for long time now
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This product will be on-line as soon as possible, we will inform you the first time
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New version of this program just added Chromecast support. Looks promising, but very buggy (see below).
Information link: http://support.wondershare.com/media-center/
Download link on this page: http://support.wondershare.com/media-center/history.html
Wondershare is a Chinese company that has published a lot of low-cost video apps over the last several years. I've tried some of their video converters and DVD authoring programs. They are frequently given away on Giveawayoftheday.com. They have a full-featured video converter program, so it would be logical for them to have a Chromecast extension that could transcode. I'm also curious o see how this interacts with Chrome, since every other app I know that can cast to the Chromecast from a PC has to run within Chrome. I'll try it...
No good on Win7 64-bit, crashes a few seconds after starting:
MediaCenter has stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MediaCenter.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.6
Application Timestamp: 5319ad9a
Fault Module Name: DeviceDiscovery.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.2
Fault Module Timestamp: 5318a4f7
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00001bd4
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Win7 32-bit on another computer: same crash
Also has an error on startup on WinXP and can't find the Chromecast (yes, I can cast from Chrome running on WinXP, I know it's not officially supported).
Error is: "The procedure entry point inet_pton could not be located in WS_32.dll"
That's 3 for 3. Obviously not ready for prime time. Better give it a few days for Wondershare to fix initial bugs before you waste time trying it.
Update: problem identified as an incompatibility with Roku media players on the same network.
Also note that it has a couple of types of bad behavior:
1. Installs Wondershare Helper to auto-run on Windows startup (common to their other apps, can be removed from startup without hurting anything)
2. Starts auto-indexing ALL drives and media files on your system without prompting to ask which folders you want to index. In fact it has no settings at all to control auto-indexing.
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Got it, thanks!:good:
Hallo,
I'm using a Raspberry PI in my 2001 BMW. I can connect my phone (S7 EDGE) via Bluetooth to stream music to the PI and listen in my car.
The PI also shows content played in KODI server on the NAV screen in the dash.
I'd like to use the raspberry in the future to run the headunit app and control the S7 directly.
So far I was able to install QT5.8 on the PI and to compile the 0.94 version from this source:
github.com/gartnera/headunit/
It is designed for Mazda cars but also has an Ubuntu Folder. When I start the compiled file, it gives me some errors.
Did anybody ever try to compile this for use with a Raspberry ?
Some update:
I was able to compile the version 0.94 and also headunit-master from the source i already gave.
Errors:
With 0.94 the app starts in the X Session but i get a data stream error from gstreamer.
With headunit-master version the X Session suddenly closes with error segmentation fault.
Did anyone else try to make it run on a Pi?
Hello,
I would like to announce my newest project called OpenAuto.
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What is OpenAuto?
OpenAuto is an open source AndroidAuto(tm) headunit emulator application based on aasdk library and Qt libraries. Main goal is to run AndroidAuto(tm) on the RaspberryPI 3 board computer smoothly.
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9tKRqIkQs8
Status
Project is currently under beta testing.
Links and open source code
https://github.com/f1xpl/openauto
Features
480p, 720p and 1080p with 30 or 60 FPS
RaspberryPI 3 hardware acceleration support to decode video stream (video stream up to [email protected])
Audio playback from all audio channels (Media, System and Speech)
Audio input for voice commands
Touchscreen and buttons input
Bluetooth
Automatic launch after device hotplug
User-friendly settings
Supported platforms
Linux
RaspberryPI 3
Windows
Before you start using OpenAuto please read Readme and wiki page. Also check OpenAuto Pro.
Whoa, nice work. Would this also have a audio EQ/Crossover interface for the Pi?
Can you post a Windows binary build please? Thanks
Daved+ said:
Can you post a Windows binary build please? Thanks
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Is this at least possible OP? Noobs here, Thanks in advance.
Will this work as standalone or does it need the app?
"Do not use while driving" Well where is the fun in that?
look like someone may able create Open AA instead and resolve blocking issue by google..i guess
Time to give my ride a sweet upgrade
Will raspberry survive high or low temperatures?
I'm trying to compile it, but I got a bit rusty in building under linux.
Code:
[ 6%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/autoapp.dir/src/autoapp/Main.cpp.o
In file included repos/android-auto/openauto/src/autoapp/Main.cpp:19:0:
repos/android-auto/openauto/include/f1x/openauto/autoapp/USB/USBMain.hpp:22:40: fatal error: f1x/aasdk/USB/USBWrapper.hpp: No such file or directory
#include <f1x/aasdk/USB/USBWrapper.hpp>
Did I forget something when configuring with cmake?
f1x said:
Hello,
I would like to announce my newest project called OpenAuto.
Donate
What is OpenAuto?
OpenAuto is an open source AndroidAuto(tm) headunit emulator application based on aasdk library and Qt libraries. Main goal is to run AndroidAuto(tm) on the RaspberryPI 3 board computer smoothly.
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9tKRqIkQs8
Status
Project is currently under beta testing.
Links and open source code
https://github.com/f1xpl/openauto
Features
480p, 720p and 1080p with 30 or 60 FPS
RaspberryPI 3 hardware acceleration support to decode video stream (video stream up to [email protected])
Audio playback from all audio channels (Media, System and Speech)
Audio input for voice commands
Touchscreen and buttons input
Bluetooth
Automatic launch after device hotplug
User-friendly settings
Supported platforms
Linux
RaspberryPI 3
Windows
Before you start using OpenAuto please read Readme and wiki page.
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Hi! First of all, thank you for bring us this post! Amazing I've the same question as another guy here, Could you post the Windows binaries or link to the step by step to get it running under windows?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Seriously impressive, great work.
Works perfectly on my Pixel 2/PI3.
Do you think it would be possible to get Android Auto Wireless functionality at a later point? Or does this require some specific wireless/bluetooth protocol that Google hasn't released just yet?
bluethoot
What can you do with the bluethoot feature ?
xbenjiiman said:
Seriously impressive, great work.
Works perfectly on my Pixel 2/PI3.
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Thanks for your feedback. Great to see it working .
Zaf9670 said:
Do you think it would be possible to get Android Auto Wireless functionality at a later point? Or does this require some specific wireless/bluetooth protocol that Google hasn't released just yet?
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I think it will be possible but needs some time and effort to implement it. OpenAuto is a hobbyist project and I cannot promise the exact deadline but this feature is on the TODO list.
brett1996 said:
What can you do with the bluethoot feature ?
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What do you mean?
f1x said:
I think it will be possible but needs some time and effort to implement it. OpenAuto is a hobbyist project and I cannot promise the exact deadline but this feature is on the TODO list.
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I wasn't sure how much of Android Auto is "open" to use. I haven't invested too much time looking into these forks like Auto and Wear but I know they're not quite as public as standard Android. At least that is the take I have gotten over the past few years.
Hopefully it's something that won't require some sort of specific hardware. Best of luck! I hope to test this out on my Pi 3 in a few weeks myself. I'll be sure to keep tabs on the project!
I promise I'm not one of those XDA ETA/update zombies.
Woohoo!! Thank you for this effort!
I'm curious which hardware, aside from the Pi, has been used successfully so far? Is that the Raspberry Pi Foundation touch display? Any HATs?
Thanks again!
-Chad
MasterCLC said:
Woohoo!! Thank you for this effort!
I'm curious which hardware, aside from the Pi, has been used successfully so far? Is that the Raspberry Pi Foundation touch display? Any HATs?
Thanks again!
-Chad
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Only Raspberry PI 3 has been tested so far in case of embedded platforms. Code itself is portable for any Linux-based or Windows platforms. If hardware acceleration of video decoding is supported by underlying backend used in Qt multimedia library (GStreamer for Linux and DirectShow for Windows) then OpenAuto will run smoothly without additional effort. If hardware acceleration is not supported by underlying backends then it must be implemented in OpenAuto (like in case of Raspberry PI 3).
I apologize, I meant in addition to the Pi, not alternative platforms. Things like which screen is it that you've used, any HATs on your Pi, etc. ?
Thank you!
MasterCLC said:
I apologize, I meant in addition to the Pi, not alternative platforms. Things like which screen is it that you've used, any HATs on your Pi, etc. ?
Thank you!
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Screen is the official one from PI Foundation (7''). Basically any screen should be suitable to run OpenAuto (as long as it is supported by the OS that hosts OpenAuto). The same for other hardware.
Dude! You're my hero, I've been playing around with so many ways to get this working, yours seems to be the perfect solution, I'll take it for a test drive tomorrow
Hi,
I'm currently building a Raspberry Pi (3) Android Auto project for my 55 year old Land Rover. I'm using Openauto installed on Raspbian (rather than using Crankshaft) so I can also add reversing cameras, ultrasonic sensors and so on, more easily.
Anyway, I the system so far:
RPi 3b running Raspbian Stretch
7" Touchscreen
USB soundcard with mic input.
It took a while but I finally configured the audio and it's working, at least Google Assistant and I think Navigation prompts (but it's difficult to assess that, the system isn't installed yet so it isn't going anywhere). The problem I am having is I can't get music at all. The music apps work, and I can use BBC iPlayer Radio no problem. I just can't get either Google Play Music or Pulsar working with locally stored files - There isn't any sound output at all. Mike input works, I tested the soundcard in Raspbian and it outputs audio now (after finding a guide and editing configs, it didn't work at first out of the box)
I'm not an expert on Linux or Android, I'm following guides so consider me a beginner if you would please! Also, if this has been covered before, I do apologise for bringing it up again, any and all help is very much appreciated. I also apologise if it is forum etiquette to introduce oneself before asking questions, I don't mean to be rude.
And here I was thinking the most difficult step would be figuring out how to mount/fit everything into the old bus...
Many thanks,
Ste