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Is there a way to stream Netflix to my Pioneer car stereo via my android?

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tangoniner

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Hello everyone.

I recently purchased a Pioneer Avic-X940bt car stereo and had it installed. It works great and in the manual it says it can stream Netflix using an Apple 4. My question is this:

Is there anyway to stream Netflix via bluetooth on my Android phone to this Pioneer stereo?

I can stream Pandora flawlessly.

There reason for all this is because I have this stereo in a conversion van and I have the new receiver hooked up to the TV in the back of the van and I wanted to see if I could get Netflix to work on it.

Any help is much appreciated.

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This must be a harder task than I had thought.

Surely there is some really smart person out there who could write an app for this. I'm sure many would buy it.(including me).
 
Does Netflix not stream its audio via A2DP like your music player or Pandora does? I'll check on my GNex if mine will do it when I get a chance. What kind of phone do you have (probably doesn't matter)?

If not, an aux in jack would definitely work.
 
The audio is not the problem .........yet. First I have to get the head unit to recognize the Netflix program itself, which is playing on the android phone.
 
Wait, are you wanting to get video on it?? I thought we were just talking about audio. Yeah, you'd need some kind of video out from the phone. I don't think there's any other way to do it. For that matter, it might be easier to get a cheap Google TV and use a wifi hotspot from your phone for Internet access.
 
TheyCallMeBT said:
Wait, are you wanting to get video on it?? I thought we were just talking about audio. Yeah, you'd need some kind of video out from the phone. I don't think there's any other way to do it. For that matter, it might be easier to get a cheap Google TV and use a wifi hotspot from your phone for Internet access.
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I see.

So streaming video from a bluetooth phone is not doable yet?

I kinda figured(hoped) since the PS3 can do it, maybe mobile devices could too.

xmr405o said:
What phone do you have? Does it have some sort of video out capability?
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I have a Casio G'zone Commando. I don't think it has any sort of video out, but I haven't read the manual to see.

It's got the standard 3.5mm audio out jack and the charger port. That's the only hardwire connections I see.
 
tangoniner said:
I see.

So streaming video from a bluetooth phone is not doable yet?

I kinda figured(hoped) since the PS3 can do it, maybe mobile devices could too.
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Streaming it through bluetooth itself isn't possible that I know of. It isn't a very high bandwidth protocol. That said, it is fast enough to use it to give another device access to the Internet from the phone's cellular data. I don't know if it'd be fast enough for a Netflix stream-- maybe. But even so, there's no bluetooth protocol that I know of that streams video (like how the A2DP protocol streams audio).

How exactly does the PS3 do it? Are you sure you're not thinking about DLNA through wifi?

Yeah, it looks like the Casio doesn't have video out. It would come from the USB port using a cable called an MHL adapter, which has an HDMI plug on the other end for the TV.

But again, I'll say that if you're really interested in getting this working, get a Google TV box. There's a lot of inexpensive Chinese models that people on these forums swear by. Check out that section. I'm not sure how the Android Market works on the non-name brand Google TV models, so just make sure you can install Netflix. And then you could just connected it to the Internet using FoxFi on your phone to make a wifi hotspot for it.
 
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