Streaming over WiFi

[Guest versus2]

I am totaly dissapointed with the fact that 5 years have passed since I owned HTC Wizard with which I was unable to watch movies over wireless network (and not from SD card either) and with a new phone /i8000/ I hoped that 5 years have been enough for the technology to advance so that I could have all the movies residing on my home PC and watch them occasionally in my bedroom without prior copying.

Unfortunately this is not the case. Plain DVD rips coded in Xvid are badly stuttering and practically unwatchable, and this is not because of the lack of bandwidth (managing 4 Mbit transfers) neither the lack of speed (movies can be played smoothly from the phone's memory) but from the combination of the two (wireless transfer tasking the processor).

This is not achiavable neither through specialized player and "connected home" option as due to unknown reasons it won't play 3 out of 5 divx movies I have. Here I dare not to mention HD movies which are practicaly today's standard in video. I can stream movies over WiFi on an antique laptop with Celeron processor with equally antiqued USB wireless stick without a problem. I can't beleive mobile proocessors of today are still lacking power for this simple task. Can anyone prove me wrong and state the combo of software which enable them to stream ordinary divx files over WiFi smoothly on i8000.

regards

[Guest surgex]

I am totaly dissapointed with the fact that 5 years have passed since I owned HTC Wizard with which I was unable to watch movies over wireless network (and not from SD card either) and with a new phone /i8000/ I hoped that 5 years have been enough for the technology to advance so that I could have all the movies residing on my home PC and watch them occasionally in my bedroom without prior copying.

Unfortunately this is not the case. Plain DVD rips coded in Xvid are badly stuttering and practically unwatchable, and this is not because of the lack of bandwidth (managing 4 Mbit transfers) neither the lack of speed (movies can be played smoothly from the phone's memory) but from the combination of the two (wireless transfer tasking the processor).

This is not achiavable neither through specialized player and "connected home" option as due to unknown reasons it won't play 3 out of 5 divx movies I have. Here I dare not to mention HD movies which are practicaly today's standard in video. I can stream movies over WiFi on an antique laptop with Celeron processor with equally antiqued USB wireless stick without a problem. I can't beleive mobile proocessors of today are still lacking power for this simple task. Can anyone prove me wrong and state the combo of software which enable them to stream ordinary divx files over WiFi smoothly on i8000.

regards

I can't get the connected home thing to play ANY of my .avi divx or xvid movies...not one.

I've tried the "Streaming Player" (Basically just an RTSP client) using orb and the resolution is always very small...I'm not sure why?

SkyFire + Orb is a decent solution, but you have to set it up a certain way so the flash movie fills the whole screen..

Playing a movie straight from an SMB share is not working very well either...Stuttering as you said.

It's not just this device though, all of them are like that -- almost every android device on the market cannot play .avi movies...only mp4.

Samsung is probably the best in terms of media as they give us hardware accelerated divx...and that's not saying much.

I can't find any commercial "phone" products that support MKV acceleration and hd...so...guess we have to wait another year :)

[Guest versus2]

I can't get the connected home thing to play ANY of my .avi divx or xvid movies...not one.

I've tried the "Streaming Player" (Basically just an RTSP client) using orb and the resolution is always very small...I'm not sure why?

SkyFire + Orb is a decent solution, but you have to set it up a certain way so the flash movie fills the whole screen..

Playing a movie straight from an SMB share is not working very well either...Stuttering as you said.

It's not just this device though, all of them are like that -- almost every android device on the market cannot play .avi movies...only mp4.

Samsung is probably the best in terms of media as they give us hardware accelerated divx...and that's not saying much.

I can't find any commercial "phone" products that support MKV acceleration and hd...so...guess we have to wait another year :)

I've managed to play some movies like 2012.2009.HQ.TeleSync.LiNE.XViD.READNFO-FUSION. Try removing subtitle files if you have them in the same folder. Some movies became playable for me after renaming .srt files. NexPlayer /Connected home/ is not perfect but is better than Touch player. Has anyone tried TCMP player or Core player? Do they stutter less while streaming over WiFi? How about overclocking?

[Guest surgex]

 

I've managed to play some movies like 2012.2009.HQ.TeleSync.LiNE.XViD.READNFO-FUSION. Try removing subtitle files if you have them in the same folder. Some movies became playable for me after renaming .srt files. NexPlayer /Connected home/ is not perfect but is better than Touch player. Has anyone tried TCMP player or Core player? Do they stutter less while streaming over WiFi? How about overclocking?

What program are you using as a server?

And on what OS?

I've tried Orb, XBMC, and Windows Media 12 built in sharing on Win7...all of them cause .avi files to crash the nexdlnaplayer.

Edited January 3, 2010 by surgex

[Guest versus2]

What program are you using as a server?

And on what OS?

I've tried Orb, XBMC, and Windows Media 12 built in sharing on Win7...all of them cause .avi files to crash the nexdlnaplayer.

Windows Media 12 built in sharing on Win7 x64. Some of mine crash too. Try 2012 movie in the above post. Did it crash 2? Try playing it first, it happens to me that if 1 movie crashes player it won't play others at all until I restart Connected Home.

Edited January 4, 2010 by versus2

[Guest paw1]

I've also failed to "download"(from withing connected home ->add to now playing -> Ur PC -> videos -> menu, download) files using WM 12 default sharing on win7 wirelessly. It says Download Error.

Can you confirm this? i've transfered files using other DLNA server apps, but they give very bad speeds.

[Guest versus2]

I've also failed to "download"(from withing connected home ->add to now playing -> Ur PC -> videos -> menu, download) files using WM 12 default sharing on win7 wirelessly. It says Download Error.

Can you confirm this? i've transfered files using other DLNA server apps, but they give very bad speeds.

Didn't try downloading. I've tried playing. Select i8000 as player and PC as content (enable steaming options in homegroup - "Share media with devices"). Connecting...Buffering and then it starts playing a video.

[Guest surgex]

As for "Downloading" i get download failed even with WM11 sharing on XP, as well as on W7 with WMP12, orb, and XBMC.

[Guest paw1]

Yes, the streaming is full of stutter. Only a few AVIs played without much stutter. I hoped, atleast i could download and then play, but cant do that either :)