DLNA tutorials?

[DroidNewb]

Saw the other threads discussing DLNA but I was looking for some sort of tutorial or explanation on how to take advantage of this feature from someone who has been successful with streaming video and or tv from their PC to the X device. And what other capabilities the DLNA has to offer.

 

[1088933]

Motorola DROID X HDMI/DLNA demonstration Video

Hope this helps!

 

[DroidNewb]

eh decent video but I would like some tech help on understanding what needs to happen on my device in order to run the DLNA properly and what all I can control from my phone to my PC and what programs I need to have installed in order to stream video or movies etc to my device. I tried to get the Tversity running on my X and it said cannot play video. It also recognized some torrents I DL'd but they wouldn't play either. Anyone have some input?

 

[jdbower]

I'm having similar issues. DLNA on the X seems geared more towards sharing media than playing remote media. Here's my setup:

PlayOn DLNA server that streams Hulu, etc. to DLNA-enabled devices and also streams local files.
Orb streams video over the Internet to devices and has a local DLNA server.
Tversity as a failsafe fallback for streaming local files.
All running on a dedicated XP machine that can stream to an XBox 360 or to XMBC running on a PC.

Orb works fine on the X using their application over the Internet but the DLNA server just shows "The media file cannot be played." when I try to play a video file. PlayOn and Tversity show the same message. Media file type seems irrelevant, an MP4 that plays just fine on the phone itself won't stream and in theory the servers should transcode as needed (as Orb does over the Internet). I've tried various flavors of AVIs, WMVs, and the trusty MP4 format to no avail. Sometimes if I manually click the "Play" button I get a "Loading" message followed by the vaguely amusing "Sorry, an internal error happened. The media file cannot be streaming played."

MP3s seem to work fine, but with Slacker I'm less prone to listening to my own collection. There is no difference whether I play via HDMI or on the phone itself. I can see all of the DLNA servers, I can browse the directory structure, and the error message happens pretty much instantly so it's not likely to be a timeout.

Anyone with any ideas?

 

[fronobulax]

I've tried Twonky, MediaTomb, Tvmobili, and a couple of others today. So far I cannot find any DLNA server that the Droid X will play video from.

Has anybody found a DLNA server that will work with the Droid X? I find lots of fanboy stuff about the Droid X having a DLNA client, and one video of DLNA/HDMI being shown off, but I'm yet to find anything referring to a server that that the X will take. I does fine on pics and audio. But on video I get an immediate message saying "The media file cannot be played". Even on servers that are setup to transcode everything they put out...

 

[swest6602]

Same issues here. PlayOn, tversity& the Win 7 dlna servers are all recognized but none will stream to the phone. TVersity was designed to auto- transcode and works for most things to my iPad (which plays similar file types). Have also used it via gmote w my Droid. I can trx a file from the PC to my phone and play it with RockOn ( HD Nation h264 downloaded via Miro). Think maybe we need to make a fuss on the VZW forum cause this should be working. To stream from phone to TV check out the Twonky Server app. Works great and was one of my 1st downloads last year when I got my Droid.

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[swest6602]

Hi all. Just sent a support email to VZW regarding the DLNA not playing anything. Threw in the stupidity of not allowing video out from the Blockbuster app (nicely, did not use the word stupidity!), and for good measure even reminded them that Apple allows video out. If any of you care about the DLNA feature, I'd urge you to report it. Strenght in numbers as they say.

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[n8mack33]

Anyone having any luck with this stuff? I'm hoping to do most of the same stuff we're talking about in this thread, especially hulu through playon.

 

[Cory Streater]

I'm making some assumptions here but could it be that you can only steam the DRM free formats listed in the audio and video section of this post? Those are the only file types that have worked for me so far.

 

[vicw926a4]

Interesting that everyone is working on sending video TO the DX. My only interest in DLNA is to send video FROM the DX to my PC, for starters. Has anyone tried that, and had any success?

 

[dookie.]

i have not attempted video. that said, it seems to work fine for audio...

i can both push ('play to') and pull (browse/play the contents) from the X to a DLNA-enabled onkyo pre/pro.

furthermore, i can play music on the X that is stored/shared by a win7 PC in the same manner...browse/play with the X as a client, or 'play to' with the win7 machine as client.

i use nothing more than the stock dlna implementations (in all devices), windows media player (12, i think, is stock in win7), and stock music app on the X.

guess i should try video, eh?

 

[CaDub1]

Interesting that everyone is working on sending video TO the DX. My only interest in DLNA is to send video FROM the DX to my PC, for starters. Has anyone tried that, and had any success?

I just tried using the DLNA sharing for the first time last night to send video from the Droid X to my TV via my XBOX 360. To my surprise, it worked great and was pretty simple. Here's what I did:
- I downloaded Twonky Server on my Droid X (free on Android Market), then turned on my XBOX 360.
- On the XBOX 360 I went to browse video, selected the Droid X as the source, and to my surprise the video played back very cleanly. I was surprised there were no visual artifacts or audio sync problems.
- Video: video bitrate was 1,000kbps, and audio was 160kbps. Video was an encoding from Handbrake.
- Network: The Droid X is connected to my LAN via my Belkin N wireless access point/router. The XBOX 360 is wired to the Belkin via Cat5.

 

[n8mack33]

All well and good folks, but I want to play content from my network on my X. Any success with this. Hell I could even do this on my Touch Pro with WM6.1.

 

[dookie.]

All well and good folks, but I want to play content from my network on my X. Any success with this. Hell I could even do this on my Touch Pro with WM6.1.

as i said...works fine w/music 'content'.

 

[initialjdg]

Ive been playing with dlna today just trying to copy songs from the pc to the X. I've had no luck, just the previously mentioned, it says copy to phone error, try again later. Can't seem to figure it out.

 

[myk110]

DLNA not working!!

Same issues here trying to stream DLNA to Droid X.. Have been trying since days now, before I came to know there is a problem with this device. Please fix this!!

 

[ifrankenberg]

Before I got my x I had a share drive on my pc that I would use to stream movies and movies to my xbox.when I got my xi thought I would give dlna a tey and to my surprise it worked without issue. Able to stream and copy to and from x all over wifi. Nothing special was done with the share and no app was downloaded to my x to make it work

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[jdbower]

Before I got my x I had a share drive on my pc that I would use to stream movies and movies to my xbox.

That is promising! What program do you use to stream the movies?

 

[ifrankenberg]

That is promising! What program do you use to stream the movies?

I didn't do anything special. Just had static ip addresses setup for all pc/electronics at my house
From the 360 i jsut go into video library and my pc showed up there and from there it showed me all the movies i had.
I think there is an option for simple file shareing when sharing the drive. Which i turned off.
Same with my x. just connected to wifi, opened up dlna, seen my media computer listed and it connected just fine.
Not sure if everyone else is having problems because the media is not placed on a share drive..?

 

[jdbower]

I'm guessing you're just using the Windows Media Player DLNA sharing, what version of Windows are you running? Do you know what video format your files are in?