Unable to Stream Videos from my PC
PC : Windows XP SP3
N7(unrooted) : Android 4.2.2 with "ES File Explorer File Manager 1.6.2.5" and "MX Player 1.7.13"installed
The shared media folder in my PC shows up in "ES file manager". I can view text/PDF files and play musics from my PC in my N7 perfectly. When opening video files (RMVB/MP4) "MX player" reports "Can't open the video file". I tried some other players such as VPlayer same error. I am sure the failure is not caused by CODEC issue because all videos (RMVB/MP4) installed in N7's internal storage can be played back perfectly. I seams that some setting is blocking the files (video only) transfer from my PC to N7 so the players cannot open them. I have no clue on the solution.
Please help, any suggestion is welcome, thank you !!
Have a nice day.
Re: Unable to Stream Videos from my PC
Have you tried using both the hardware- and software-accelerated options in MX Player ("H/W decoder" and "S/W decoder," respectively)?
If not try that. Otherwise, I found a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on another site with the same issue. It seems they were able to resolve the issue by using Solid Explorer instead of any other file browser applications. Other than that, I don't have many ideas. I'd ensure that, in sharing options for your shared folder in Windows, you have the max. users set to at least three. It helps keep streaming/connection issues from cropping up, in my experience.
Re: Unable to Stream Videos from my PC
Thank you !
"H/W decoder" and "S/W decoder" in MX player both do not play (stream) the videos. With the same setting MX plays the videos stalled in N7 successfully so i don't think
coder is the issue. The share permission in my Win PC had been set to "Full".
For Solid explorer i will give it a try later.
Thanks !
SLo
Re: Unable to Stream Videos from my PC
I use ES Explorer and BSPlayer streaming from a Win7 machine. Has worked perfectly so far on all kinds of video formats.
fyi solid explorer isn't free like es explorer.
Re: Unable to Stream Videos from my PC
You might try an ap called "Mediahouse". It gives you a choice of what player to use and ES, MX-pro all of mine work on .mp4s. Media house is fast and starts with giving you a choice of shared devices on your LAN. "BS Player" plays videos that some of the other players (ES, MX-Pro) do not.