Android Devices

[margram]

Easy out of the box free solution:

Download UPnPlay as the streaming client
Download arcMedia as the media renderer

Start UPnPlay on your phone. Start PMS on your computer.
PMS should find your Android device.

Navigate to your files on your phone. When the option appears after you press play, use arcMedia.

You are now streaming to your phone.

I'm trying this and look very promising, but I’m having a little trouble making the files play with arcMedia. UPnPlay works great, I can play music, see the preview images of all video files, but when it comes the moment to play a video it tells me it is an unsupported format. So how can I tell UPnPlay to use arcMedia?

[DeFlanko]

i was going to ask the same. Now that i think i got the iPhone to work well with AirPlayer... its time to get my wife's phone working =)

[Val Killmore]

Easy out of the box free solution:

Download UPnPlay as the streaming client
Download arcMedia as the media renderer

Start UPnPlay on your phone. Start PMS on your computer.
PMS should find your Android device.

Navigate to your files on your phone. When the option appears after you press play, use arcMedia.

You are now streaming to your phone.

I'm trying this and look very promising, but I’m having a little trouble making the files play with arcMedia. UPnPlay works great, I can play music, see the preview images of all video files, but when it comes the moment to play a video it tells me it is an unsupported format. So how can I tell UPnPlay to use arcMedia?

I have tried nearly every combination with arcMedia, UpNPlay, Mobo Player etc. etc. since I got my Android Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate phone. I can easily see PMS with UpnPlay, or with iMediaShare, and I have my choice of numerous players from VitalPlayer, to Mobo to ArcMedia.

Not one combination could be considered consistent at all.

The only app I have found that works 'good' streaming to my phone is VLC Direct Pro ( I can also use it as a remote to view/control any shared network media on my TV). But that's not related to this forum/thread.

[arix]

I finally got it! I could stream to my shiny new XOOM (but it takes some real tweaks). How to do it:

1) Get yourself a good player. Rockplayer and VitalPlayer (you'll need both read on).
2) Get a DLNA client
3) Remove the Android.conf,AirPlayer.conf and ipad.conf render files.

1. Did you try VPLAYER ?, I found it's better than Rockplayer
2. Can you recommend for DLNA client ?
I have GalaxyS2 and it comes with "Allshare" , the problem that
it has "own" player without the ability to change other player.
EDIT:
Found UpnPlay as recommended in this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... 179&page=3
The link also regards to this threat here, may helpful..
I didn't try it yet, but I'll try and report...

[DeFlanko]

Easy out of the box free solution:

Download UPnPlay as the streaming client
Download arcMedia as the media renderer

Start UPnPlay on your phone. Start PMS on your computer.
PMS should find your Android device.

Navigate to your files on your phone. When the option appears after you press play, use arcMedia.

You are now streaming to your phone.

I'm trying this and look very promising, but I’m having a little trouble making the files play with arcMedia. UPnPlay works great, I can play music, see the preview images of all video files, but when it comes the moment to play a video it tells me it is an unsupported format. So how can I tell UPnPlay to use arcMedia?

I have tried nearly every combination with arcMedia, UpNPlay, Mobo Player etc. etc. since I got my Android Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate phone. I can easily see PMS with UpnPlay, or with iMediaShare, and I have my choice of numerous players from VitalPlayer, to Mobo to ArcMedia.

Not one combination could be considered consistent at all.

The only app I have found that works 'good' streaming to my phone is VLC Direct Pro ( I can also use it as a remote to view/control any shared network media on my TV). But that's not related to this forum/thread.

And i think that's whats problem with Android Devices, there's just to many different hardware/os configurations, on top of inconsistent software.

So for the sake of testing... lets use the Emulated Android Device

[Val Killmore]

And i think that's whats problem with Android Devices, there's just to many different hardware/os configurations, on top of inconsistent software.

So for the sake of testing... lets use the Emulated Android Device

That is way beyond my understanding. Don't even understand what to do with that link.

Think I'll just stick with VLC Direct Pro. Works pretty good.

[arix]

I have tried with UPnPlay.
it's working great and amazing with PMS and could play with VPLAYER
all my Video files , even .iso dvd files...
I don't know it it's required , when I tried before UPNplay
I changed in Android.conf:

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TranscodeVideo=WMV
StreamExtensions=dvr-ms,dvr,mkv,dv,ty,mov,ogm,hdmov,hdm,rmv,rmvb,rm,asf,evo,asx,flv,m2v,mpe,mod,tivo,ty,tmf,ts


I didn't try to change Android.conf as it was, I guess it's should also work since
I m using VPLAYER

[mazey]

just wanted to say i am now a happy android user (lg optimus p500) thx to this thread i got the upnplay and moboplayer (the rock one shows a red R its ugly on screen), and all is working perfectly

i didnt edit the android.conf in anyway. basically just to make things a little simpler u launch upnplay always not the viewer, upnplay will launch the viewer on its own. u just need to have one installed, mobo player is a really good one

[Val Killmore]

just wanted to say i am now a happy android user (lg optimus p500) thx to this thread i got the upnplay and moboplayer (the rock one shows a red R its ugly on screen), and all is working perfectly

i didnt edit the android.conf in anyway. basically just to make things a little simpler u launch upnplay always not the viewer, upnplay will launch the viewer on its own. u just need to have one installed, mobo player is a really good one

Funny, it's like you stole my phone's playback capabilities. Was just gonna post to this thread about how literally NOTHING is working, unless the video is on my phone.

UPnPlay is connecting to PMS, as well other Upnp/DLNA apps are connecting, but literally NOTHING works.

Doesn't matter which video player I use, or which Upnp client I use.

Doing everything the way I was when things were HO-HUM, but now I want to toss this phone out the window. I can't tell if it's PMS or what or even how to tell, but jeeeeez I am getting frustrated.

Running 1.40.0 PMS. 'Stock" Android.conf . Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate.

I have even gone so far as to uninstall all external players and upnp/dlna type apps, and all data, then re-install the apps. Still nothing.

[Raptor399]

I can't tell if it's PMS or what or even how to tell, but jeeeeez I am getting frustrated.

There's a lot you can tell:

- Can your phone connect to PMS?
- If so, does PMS recognize your phone as Android?
- If so, are the requests handled properly?
- If so, are there any other mishaps in the debug.log?

No need to get frustrated when there is a debug.log around.