[Q] Samsung Focus S DLNA support? - Samsung Focus S

Does Samsung Focus S has DLNAsupport? I know can't launch the AllShare Samsung app. I read mixed things on the internet. Can anyone confirm this please? This is really important to me. If it doesn't have DLNA support, then I will go buy a Titan, sigh!

i tried using all share last night, all share itself doesn't seem to work right. i can see my pc and my xbmc box in all share, but when i try to play to my pc, nothing happens (but i do have a lot of sharing things turned off). when i try to play to my xbmc box, whatever is currently playing will stop, but the media i play doesn't start.
i will play around more tonight when i get time.

DLNA to Samsung TV
Been using AllShare to play music, pictures, and video on my Samsung TV and surround sound processor since I got the device. It hanfs once in a while, but I am running custom firmware in my router, so not sure the fault source.
matt

i just installed/tried it right now.
I can play music from my phone to my receiver (denon avr-4810ic). Volume didn't work tho.
i use DLNA all the time from my desktop to my home theather setup. it is pretty sweet.

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[Q] Movie Streaming from NAS

Hi
I've just purchased a Tab that will arrive shortly, i'm looking for something similar to Air Video that i use on my iPhone to stream movies from my DNLA NAS, is there an App that anyone can recommend?
Cheers.
i use the allshare app which is included in the tab by default and it is great!! u can use it as remote control to play streams to 3rd device or you can stream to tab
I'm using "upnplay". The UI is a bit klunky but it works great.
Anyone know of a great alternative to TVMobili on Windows OS? I'm using FUPPES atm and it makes UPNPlay freeze (for me, at least)
Is it possible to access these apps externally? At present i can access the Air Video server from any site wifi site so ican watch my movies whilst away from home.
I don't think so, they are DLNA based, so IFAIK it works only on your local network.
If you want to stream over the internet, you probably need another app/encoding station
Tolvar said:
Is it possible to access these apps externally? At present i can access the Air Video server from any site wifi site so ican watch my movies whilst away from home.
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Try Plex. As opposed to Air Video it doesn't support subtitles, but it's good and with a little port forward it can be accessed from outside of your network.
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Has anyone used Orb Live, it appears to do everything that Air Video does?

[Q] Netflix + DLNA ?

someone needs to add dnla support to netflix app!
Don't take this the wrong way, but why would you want this? Between Apple TV, Roku, PS3, Xbox, or any PC, you can stream Netflix with no problem without using a medium like a mobile phone.
In fact, if you have anything that's capable of DLNA, chances are it can natively stream Netflix anyway.
understood, but just for fast access to your movies, on your fast phone... messing with other peoples electronics does not make them happy,.. one click movies however do
hiimjasonkolp said:
understood, but just for fast access to your movies, on your fast phone... messing with other peoples electronics does not make them happy,.. one click movies however do
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honestly its just as easy to buy a cheaper MHL adapter, then you can just plug your phone into the TV's HDMI port.
hiimjasonkolp said:
understood, but just for fast access to your movies, on your fast phone... messing with other peoples electronics does not make them happy,.. one click movies however do
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Right, but where are you going to stream it to using DLNA if you're not messing with any other electronics? Maybe i just don't understand the scenario you'd be using it in.
I'm not patronizing you, I'm just a little confused.
scenario: you don't run windows, so your xbmc on linux doesnt run netflix native. sure you can use the wine/etc hack in a browser but that is ****ty for your remote control. you dont own a console, and your kickstarter love for ouya wont arrive for months. your linux box will stream dlna and windows cannot be installed and support your zfs arrays. phone is already owned, works well, plays netflix. if i could dlna it or even airplay it to linux xbmc it'd be boss. should i buy a 7 year old xbox360 just to play netflix for a few months with ease? maybe. but i'd prefer to just stream from the phone by either dlna or airplay to a linux box connected to a tv that has no hdmi (old hdtv with only dvi)
play Netflix movie to tv via DLNA
I totally agree with hiimjasonkolp that Netflix should allow me to send a movie from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to my Samsung UN32C5000QF TV via DLNA
I use iMediaShare to easily play movies to the Samsung TV via DLNA including movies stored on my SD card and programs listed in iMediaShare.
Unfortunately, Netflix is not included in the iMediaShare list or the problem would be solved.
Netflix should provide this capability to play movies from your phone via DLNA.
I'm not sure why greyhauk a so called "Senior Member" continuously disagrees with all of your ideas. Perhaps he simply hasn't the experience to on the subject to solve the problem.
swalker6 said:
I totally agree with hiimjasonkolp that Netflix should allow me to send a movie from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to my Samsung UN32C5000QF TV via DLNA
I use iMediaShare to easily play movies to the Samsung TV via DLNA including movies stored on my SD card and programs listed in iMediaShare.
Unfortunately, Netflix is not included in the iMediaShare list or the problem would be solved.
Netflix should provide this capability to play movies from your phone via DLNA.
I'm not sure why greyhauk a so called "Senior Member" continuously disagrees with all of your ideas. Perhaps he simply hasn't the experience to on the subject to solve the problem.
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Indeed.. I have an Android tablet.. And would be great to just run netflix on the tablet and then send it to our TV..
No cables needed.. and not having to connect the laptop to the PC..
Integrate with existing architecture
I have all DLNA rendering integrated into my TV's and they are all the same model and all is well in this setup, but unfortunately they don't support Netflix natively (Samsung 2010 c series). In order to enable netflix support I would have to introduce new hardware to all the TV's and new ways of interacting with media at home. This is a much more complicated and costly solution compared to simply redirecting the netflix client output from my Samsung phone or tablet to whatever TV I want at home in an "AirPlay" kind of a way. Like i can with other streams using imediashare etc.

[Q] AllShare streaming to TV

Hi all!
I already have a DLNA compatible Philips TV and I run 2 differnen DLNA server apps on my Win 7 PC, Windows Media Player 12 and TVersity. That way I can browse and play almost all my movies on my PC from the TV interface.
Now I just got my first Galaxy S.
Used, with stock Android 2.2. First thing, I rooted it and prepare to install CM 10.1.
But before removing stock I want to learn how DLNA works on the phone.
I took some photos and videos that I want to stream to the TV.
The stock AllShare would sometimes display my TV as selectable target, sometimes not.
When I could select the TV I could always stream photos to the TV but only sometimes videos.
The same happened with Skifta.
I will also test some other DLNA players such as MediaHouse, iMediaShare, Beam, BubbleUp.
But so far my results seem unpredicatable and unreliable.
I searched the web and XDA but found very little.
Can somebody share their experiences of streaming media from Galaxy S ot a TV?
Working configurations?
Would somebody have an install apk to AllShare?
The Samsung support pages recommend installing their AllShare server software. Is that important? MWP and Tversity should be compatible, or maybe not?
perakesson said:
Hi all!
I already have a DLNA compatible Philips TV and I run 2 differnen DLNA server apps on my Win 7 PC, Windows Media Player 12 and TVersity. That way I can browse and play almost all my movies on my PC from the TV interface.
Now I just got my first Galaxy S.
Used, with stock Android 2.2. First thing, I rooted it and prepare to install CM 10.1.
But before removing stock I want to learn how DLNA works on the phone.
I took some photos and videos that I want to stream to the TV.
The stock AllShare would sometimes display my TV as selectable target, sometimes not.
When I could select the TV I could always stream photos to the TV but only sometimes videos.
The same happened with Skifta.
I will also test some other DLNA players such as MediaHouse, iMediaShare, Beam, BubbleUp.
But so far my results seem unpredicatable and unreliable.
I searched the web and XDA but found very little.
Can somebody share their experiences of streaming media from Galaxy S ot a TV?
Working configurations?
Would somebody have an install apk to AllShare?
The Samsung support pages recommend installing their AllShare server software. Is that important? MWP and Tversity should be compatible, or maybe not?
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AFAIK AllShare isnt supported by CyanogenMod... AllShare works only on Stock Gingerbread Roms with the standard framework.
You have to use apps like imediashare or something. The Streaming works very well with stock... The only problems are the free apps which are provided in the market in my opinion. the most of them have a really annoying UI but it works. music, photos are working fine. for videos i cant say anything since i didnt try to stream movies.

Chromecast plays pandora on its own, cant turn it off

When i connect my iphones pandora to my chromecast the tv plays the music like it should, and the music on the tv matches what is displayed on my iphone, volume works, skip, pause all works like it should. However, when i go to the ipod app on my iphone and press play the iphone stops pandora and plays the ipod like it should, but the chromecast on the TV keeps playing pandora. when i go to the pandora app on the phone it has to restart (like it wasnt running in the background) and starts playing a song, but the song is different than the one chromecast is playing. the iphones controls no longer control chromecast like it did before and chromecast will continue to play song after song even when the iphone is turned off completley. when i change the input on the tv to cable or something else the chromecast will make the tv switch back to it when the next song starts, it will also turn my tv on if i turn the tv off. the only way i can get the chromecast to turn off is to unplug the power. does anyone know why its doing this? as far at i know the chromecast is just to transfer media from another device to a tv, not make its own media. where is it getting the pandora from?
shordinges said:
as far at i know the chromecast is just to transfer media from another device to a tv, not make its own media. where is it getting the pandora from?
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That's where you're wrong, you aren't 'slinging' the actual content to your Chromecast, just the login/tokens and content SELECTION to the chromecast... then it takes over, it runs a regular instance of chrome on the chromecast and does all the streaming of the media directly on the chromecast over the internet... for instance, I can start watching Netflix on my Chromecast from my Android phone... I can then put my phone into airplane mode (which turns off wifi), it will continue playing Netflix... luckily, on Android, when I reconnect, and open Netflix, it realizes that my Chromecast is already playing, and gives me control again. Probably just an iOS bug with Pandora, I would just stop playing it before jumping over to the standard music app, or... Use an an Android device.
*edit*: the exception to the above is if you're casting a tab from a desktop/laptop browser, then you are encoding whatever is on the tab to video, then decoding it on the Chromecast.... This would require the computer as a intermediary as the page itself will always be rendered on the PC.
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*edit*: the exception to the above is if you're casting a tab from a desktop/laptop browser, then you are encoding whatever is on the tab to video, then decoding it on the Chromecast.... This would require the computer as a intermediary as the page itself will always be rendered on the PC.
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Or if you have a rooted Chromecast and you are using AllCast to play media from your Android phone/tablet.
(depending on what you are watching)
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which app can I use on Android to cast from a NAS without transiting through my phone (Galaxy S4)??
I've tried LocalCast and the ES File Manager chromecast plugin and both stream my files to my phone and then on the chromecast... What a useless loop...
NAS -> wireless N router -> phone -> wireless N router -> chromecast
How can I make it stream directly from the NAS in that sort of way: NAS -> Router -> chromecast, and the phone as remote controller????
Thanks you
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How can I make it stream directly from the NAS in that sort of way: NAS -> Router -> chromecast, and the phone as remote controller????
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If your NAS supports DLNA you might have more luck. If it strictly supports only CIFS/SMB/AFP type file-sharing, I don't know of any apps whose Chromecast component can browse those.
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If your NAS supports DLNA you might have more luck. If it strictly supports only CIFS/SMB/AFP type file-sharing, I don't know of any apps whose Chromecast component can browse those.
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well, I say NAS but in reality it is a HDD conencted to a Asus RT-N16 router running tomatousb which (I think) runs minidlna of something similar.
My smart TV, xbox, ps3, computers... they all see the files and stream it no problem.
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well, I say NAS but in reality it is a HDD conencted to a Asus RT-N16 router running tomatousb which (I think) runs minidlna of something similar.
My smart TV, xbox, ps3, computers... they all see the files and stream it no problem.
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OK. Check BubbleUPnP or maybe Avia. I'm pretty sure there as one early app that later started pulling directly, but I can't remember which one it was at the moment. I think it was discussed in a thread here.
bhiga said:
OK. Check BubbleUPnP or maybe Avia. I'm pretty sure there as one early app that later started pulling directly, but I can't remember which one it was at the moment. I think it was discussed in a thread here.
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Thank you. I'll look into it right now!
If you're lucky @Asphyx might remember
I think Bubble may be the answer provided no transcoding is required.
I know the dev was dabbling in limited in device transcoding as well but not sure where that is at or if it is even needed for Music.
aVia most definitely runs everything through the phone if I'm not Mistaken but that too could have changed since I least used it.
Pretty much everything I stream to CCast now is via Plex which does not require the launch device to stay on.
Most 3rd party Content providers whose content is on the web and who support CCast via the casting icon will send the stream direct.
That would include Pandora, Hulu Etc...
Bubble or Plex is probably the best option but both will require a PC to handle the streaming.
It doesn't take much or affect the PC's ability to function but it will require an always on PC.
I think last time I checked (which was more than a year ago, probably closer to 2), Avia kept streaming from my server running Serviio (UPnP server) even after I rebooted my phone, but I'm not in a spot that I can retest this.
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I think Bubble may be the answer provided no transcoding is required.
I know the dev was dabbling in limited in device transcoding as well but not sure where that is at or if it is even needed for Music.
aVia most definitely runs everything through the phone if I'm not Mistaken but that too could have changed since I least used it.
Pretty much everything I stream to CCast now is via Plex which does not require the launch device to stay on.
Most 3rd party Content providers whose content is on the web and who support CCast via the casting icon will send the stream direct.
That would include Pandora, Hulu Etc...
Bubble or Plex is probably the best option but both will require a PC to handle the streaming.
It doesn't take much or affect the PC's ability to function but it will require an always on PC.
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I've just tried Bubble and it works with the launch device turned off. Exactly what I was looking for :good:
Avia is a paid app, I didn't try it. I'll look into Plex, thanks!
mathieums said:
I've just tried Bubble and it works with the launch device turned off. Exactly what I was looking for :good:
Avia is a paid app, I didn't try it. I'll look into Plex, thanks!
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In some respects Plex is a semi-paid app...
You don't need to pay to use it with a CCast but to get everythig requires a Plex pass account which has grown very expensive from the day when I bought my lifetime membership.
If Bubble works and the interface is not an issue then stick with it...
Plex is a little prettier and does full scraping of titles for a better display but if all you want to do is fling content you might not need all of that.

Can anyone help?

So my dad has this love for playing movies on the TV with his new tablets. I told him he might as well buy the Chromecast because it will work wirelessly and he doesn't need to go across the room to pause and play (he had to use HDMI cables).
Anyway, I didn't know til we got the thing that mirroring is only supported on a small amount of devices. I got it to work on my phone because I'm fully rooted with a KitKat rom on my G2, which is actually a supported device. But my dad has a Hisense tablet running 4.2.2 (latest update). I'm a little nervous about breaking it to him that he actually can't stream movies from his favorite app or mirror his screen.
He uses the app Show Box, I'm sure a lot of people know about it. Its basically free movies. I was wondering if there was an app like MX Player that has Chromecast support. I.e. he can stream movies with this app, and the video player that is playing the movie can cast it.
Or if there is a workaround to mirror the screen on a 4.2.2 device, hopefully doesn't require root.
Our internet isn't too fast, so we're not too hip on downloading movies and having to wait forever to stream them locally. Unfortunately, that might be the best option though.
Thanks!
---Update---
Found an app called Web Video Caster. Does exactly what I was looking for. When you play a video in an app, just choose the option.
sawyerbenjamin said:
So my dad has this love for playing movies on the TV with his new tablets. I told him he might as well buy the Chromecast because it will work wirelessly and he doesn't need to go across the room to pause and play (he had to use HDMI cables).
Anyway, I didn't know til we got the thing that mirroring is only supported on a small amount of devices. I got it to work on my phone because I'm fully rooted with a KitKat rom on my G2, which is actually a supported device. But my dad has a Hisense tablet running 4.2.2 (latest update). I'm a little nervous about breaking it to him that he actually can't stream movies from his favorite app or mirror his screen.
He uses the app Show Box, I'm sure a lot of people know about it. Its basically free movies. I was wondering if there was an app like MX Player that has Chromecast support. I.e. he can stream movies with this app, and the video player that is playing the movie can cast it.
Or if there is a workaround to mirror the screen on a 4.2.2 device, hopefully doesn't require root.
Our internet isn't too fast, so we're not too hip on downloading movies and having to wait forever to stream them locally. Unfortunately, that might be the best option though.
Thanks!
---Update---
Found an app called Web Video Caster. Does exactly what I was looking for. When you play a video in an app, just choose the option.
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