Help Am I going crazy...??

[homey]

Last night I was messing with my S3 while the rest of the family were watching something on our media PC (Win7) using XBMC.
I had the gallery app open and was just playing with the pictures, going from one pic to another when I noticed a button of the top right of the screen (where the delete button usually is that said "switch player". I'd never seen that before so naturally, I pressed it.
Within a couple of seconds, the kids and wife were yelling and shouting and when I looked up to see what was happening, the picture I was looking at, was on the TV!
I though "whoa, wtf, that's totally cool.." and swiped left and right and as I did the pictures on the screen did that too.
I was yelled down after a minute or so but I have no idea what happened.
I waited till the program was finished but the "switch player" button vanished and I was never able to do that again.

Its just a stock S3 with the Wifi on and browsing pics taken on the internal camera, stock S3 gallery app too. The TV is around 8 years old so it's nothing fancy.

Can anyone tell me what I did and how to do it again?

 

[muziq]

This happened to me a while ago. While I had my digital receiver running and my kid watching tv on it.

Don't know how it got enabled though.

Is you tv connected to your network?

 

[clitrenta]

Last night I was messing with my S3 while the rest of the family were watching something on our media PC (Win7) using XBMC.
I had the gallery app open and was just playing with the pictures, going from one pic to another when I noticed a button of the top right of the screen (where the delete button usually is that said "switch player". I'd never seen that before so naturally, I pressed it.
Within a couple of seconds, the kids and wife were yelling and shouting and when I looked up to see what was happening, the picture I was looking at, was on the TV!
I though "whoa, wtf, that's totally cool.." and swiped left and right and as I did the pictures on the screen did that too.
I was yelled down after a minute or so but I have no idea what happened.
I waited till the program was finished but the "switch player" button vanished and I was never able to do that again.

Its just a stock S3 with the Wifi on and browsing pics taken on the internal camera, stock S3 gallery app too. The TV is around 8 years old so it's nothing fancy.

Can anyone tell me what I did and how to do it again?

Sounds very interesting. You would think someone on here would know what happened. Now you got me wondering and I'll probably try and do that myself. My Flat screen tv's are all relatively new and now I have ROKU hooked to both so it's possible I have created the perfect storm for such an event to occur. You have thrown down the gauntlet!

 

[homey]

The TV is one the very first Panasonic flatscreen Plasma models that's actually nearly 10years old! It's just connected to the media PC by a component output (too old for hdmi)!
The Media PC has Win 7 and wifi and is connected to the home wireless network, as was the S3.

If it wasn't for the wife and kids witnessing this, I would have eventually come to the conclusion that I was dreaming or hallucinating!!

 

[waremaster]

that was DLNA it's designed to allow you to send media to a television wirelessly it is an option in the settings.

 

[naviwilliams]

Is your TV a Samsung? If so, is it connected either via WIFI or on a LAN?
I bet it is\was using the 'AllShare Play', or something like that.

Have you ever seen the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 3 advert? They show the feature in that advert...

 

[funkeruski]

Funny, same thing happened to me last night on a Panasonic LCD with a directv DVR. The wife said a picture of our daughter popped up while I was messing with the phone last night in the other room. While my gallery is clean, I find this feature slightly disconcerting.

Tried it out this morning. Couldn't get it to stream any video. Is this possible?

 

[SUroot]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. My samsung TV is pre DNLA. It's XBMC that does it. I know this as it throws up on the VGA channel which is what XBMC is connected to.

I wanted to see if I could do anything else but haven't found a way other than gallery at the moment.

But to answer your question, your TV needs to be on whatever channel XBMC is on and have your XBMC device powered up.

 

[waremaster]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. My samsung TV is pre DNLA. It's XBMC that does it. I know this as it throws up on the VGA channel which is what XBMC is connected to.

I wanted to see if I could do anything else but haven't found a way other than gallery at the moment.

But to answer your question, your TV needs to be on whatever channel XBMC is on and have your XBMC device powered up.

Right the Xbox and PS3 support DLNA the Allshare on the samsung phones copies files to and from servers its not true streaming like dlna is. And if your phone was copying info to another device you would know it. But like the OP said it just popped up on the display and interfered with whatever the others were watching.

 

[SUroot]

Originally Posted by SUroot
Exactly the same thing happened to me. My samsung TV is pre DNLA. It's XBMC that does it. I know this as it throws up on the VGA channel which is what XBMC is connected to.

I wanted to see if I could do anything else but haven't found a way other than gallery at the moment.

But to answer your question, your TV needs to be on whatever channel XBMC is on and have your XBMC device powered up.

Right the Xbox and PS3 support DLNA the Allshare on the samsung phones copies files to and from servers its not true streaming like dlna is. And if your phone was copying info to another device you would know it. But like the OP said it just popped up on the display and interfered with whatever the others were watching.

Not sure what you're talking about. I have a desktop pc wired to a switch. This pc runs xbmc. I was in the gallery app whilst xbmc was on my tv. I pressed the same button the OP pressed and hey presto, gallery images were displayed on my tv.

I can prove this is through xbmc as my computer is not running anything like windows. I can also prove that the source is the computer as this is connected via vga. This means no audio. I have a separate audio channel on my amp for xbmc and when I'm on this channel, I can play a video in video player and throw it onto the screen and the audio comes through.

Everything I said in my post is 100% correct. I am 95% sure that the op is witnessing this too.

Not really sure what your post is trying to say but if you're trying to prove me wrong, you'll have a job.

 

[waremaster]

Not sure what you're talking about. I have a desktop pc wired to a switch. This pc runs xbmc. I was in the gallery app whilst xbmc was on my tv. I pressed the same button the OP pressed and hey presto, gallery images were displayed on my tv.

I can prove this is through xbmc as my computer is not running anything like windows. I can also prove that the source is the computer as this is connected via vga. This means no audio. I have a separate audio channel on my amp for xbmc and when I'm on this channel, I can play a video in video player and throw it onto the screen and the audio comes through.

Everything I said in my post is 100% correct. I am 95% sure that the op is witnessing this too.

Not really sure what your post is trying to say but if you're trying to prove me wrong, you'll have a job.

I am not trying to prove you wrong or right. XBMC supports DLNA thats all I am saying.

 

[SUroot]

Ok