File association not working over network

[SteveB69]

Using either Astro File Manager or ES File Explorer.

I use my Asus EEEpad to read a lot of comics & watch videos, I use Perfect Viewer for the comics & have various video players installed for avi files. I am able to browse my sd card, click the file I want to open & it will open in the correct program.

Now using Astro or ES File, when I browse to my media PC via network, I can click to the files I want to play but I get the error message on both avi, pdf, cbr & cbz, Sorry no application available (in ES File) or File type avi not found (in Astro)

If I hold down the file name I get an option to Open As, I select the appropriate type, ie, image, video, music etc but nothing happens.

Does anyone have any idea of why this file association is not working over a network & more importantly how to fix this?

 

[slikvic2002]

I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to access video files on a Western Digital My Book Live 3TB. What's odd is that i was able to play my videos with ES File Explorer but it was a bit jerky... the videos would play for a few seconds and then abruptly stop for another. I believe it was trying to buffer or something. The video i was testing was only a 300MB avi. So I uninstalled it and installed Astro File Manager but right after doing that I went into

SETTINGS > Applications > Manage Applications

then from there i selected "Video Player" and then tapped on the Clear Defaults button. I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. I will try copying an .avi onto my flash card and making the video player the default program to see if that allows me to play the avi on the network drive.

Forgot to mention my phone is a Samsung Epic 4G.

 

[SteveB69]

Strange, now on mine when I browse to the network via either Astro or EZ File Manager & select a video it asks me which prog I want to use to open it with & all works fine.

Just wish I could do this with cbr, cbz (comic book) files but I just get a sorry no program to open this with message?

 

[ColtsWalker]

I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to access video files on a Western Digital My Book Live 3TB. What's odd is that i was able to play my videos with ES File Explorer but it was a bit jerky... the videos would play for a few seconds and then abruptly stop for another. I believe it was trying to buffer or something. The video i was testing was only a 300MB avi. So I uninstalled it and installed Astro File Manager but right after doing that I went into

SETTINGS > Applications > Manage Applications

then from there i selected "Video Player" and then tapped on the Clear Defaults button. I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. I will try copying an .avi onto my flash card and making the video player the default program to see if that allows me to play the avi on the network drive.

Forgot to mention my phone is a Samsung Epic 4G.

I stumbled upon this thread doing a google search "android sorry no application available"

With ES File Explorer I will try to play a video, from a LAN share, resulting in the error above. Like the thread author I hold down on the video file and select Video and play in the video player app that came with the Android Galaxy Tab 2. It will play extremely slowly, like one frame every minute, so it is completely not watchable. I know the LAN stream speed is fine because I use a laptop and view these videos all the time.

The issue in this thread remains unresolved. It would be nice to have a solution here.

 

[Harry2]

On your phone has to be a video player installed which can play the video format and, when a video is on a network, can stream this video for smooth playing.

Install MX Player. The player will stream your LAN share's videos.
MX will be in EStrongs's list for to choose.

EDIT: EStrongs couldn't yet manage other video players in the year 2011

Harry