Recent content by garyinspringhill

Thanks for all the good advice.... I just bought an android tv appliance and have a lot of movies on my server I want to access. I'm so glad to kiss cable tv goodbye along with honey booboo and all the other crap. I've been using a thin client but it's a full ubuntu desktop and want just a...

I'm thinking of a nexus7 or 10 and wonder if I can stream videos off a samba share on a linux server with android 4.1 or do I need to purchase an app for that? The video formats range from mpg to divix to avi to mkv. I'm very used to a linux env. but have NO experience with android os at all...