Samsung Allshare

[c2k]

Okay, that was the problem, I didnt have sharing enabled on media player. So I did that, and after about 20 minutes everything runs pretty smoothly. My question is now, can I access this media from my phone anywhere besides home? Say Im at a friends house and want to watch a movie from my home computer... is that possible?

Thank you for all the help!

 

[noc]

I've been using Allshare every night to watch movies and TV shows I've downloaded. There are some videos that won't work, and I haven't been able to figure out any rhyme or reason to this? I double checked and every video I was using was an .avi file, but most work, and some don't.
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Aerimus, my brother was explaining this to me just the other day, because I told him I couldn't find the right codec files for some of my videos that used to work on my old computer, but won't play on my new computer.

His reply to me was that .avi or whatever extension we're working with, is simply a container. People could've encoded/decoded with different codecs, but you won't always know. I'm not sure if this makes sense to you at all, because I'm not a professional at this either. I just know that on a PC, you can download a good set of codecs that will help your media player read the files. On a phone, you're probably stuck with the standard support that it launched with... unless they decide to provide a firmware update with added support.

Anyway, what I'm just trying to say is that your problem isn't with Allshare, it's the files themselves. You could also blame Samsung for not having sufficient codec support, but then again, not many other phone brands have a wide variety of codec support either. I can see Samsung providing additional updates regarding this, but it would most likely revolve around the relative success of their whole line of hardware that supports Allshare. If Allshare is well-received, then yeah, they'll support it better.

 

[Bon1380]

I have multiple machines at home. I was able to watch videos from all machines without any problems. Perfectly!

 

[sremick]

You can use a program like GSpot to analyze a video file and tell you what CODECs are being used for both video and audio inside the container format (as well as 100X more information than you could possibly want to know).

 

[nivenj]

Got my Galaxy S today and spent most of the day failing to get any sort of stable DLNA playback to the Phone from multiple DLNA servers. Like most people on here, having lots of problems with "usupported file format" messages when attempting to play avi and mkv containers, with various codecs (mostly x264 and mpeg4). All these files play without issue if i transfer to the phone, but will not stream from DLNA server. The only one that works sporadically is Twonkymedia Server, but allshare keeps losing access to it for some reason (as well as my Win 7 media server), sometimes all, sometimes only 1 or 2. All in all a thoroughly dissapoining start to my first android phone. It looks like a combination of issues with Allshare, and or the DLNA implementation on the Phone.I have multiple media clients (xtreamer, xbox360,ps3, Eva8000 and Sumvision MKV) all of which play media from my win7 media servers, twonkymedia and a Thecus NAS device, and all through the same Network configuration. So it has to be an issue with the implementation on the phone :-S. Going to see what improvements if any 2.2 brings on this front.

 

[Dvalin21]

I'm going to ask a dumb question, I know that allshare is on the local network, but I would love to be able to access my network away from home and still be able to stream to my phone at least through the wifi, can anyone help with this? I've discovered that I would be able to do it through the VPN client, but there is an incompatible encryption problem in between android and windows. I haven't tried a VPN connection to a linux based OS (planning on it soon), but the VPN service in android needs A LOT OF WORK!!! Either way, I'm still wondering why any of these apps that are on the market hasn't taken advantage of using hostnames i.e....tommy.chopshop.org...or whatever.

 

[takeshi]

There are some videos that won't work, and I haven't been able to figure out any rhyme or reason to this? I double checked and every video I was using was an .avi file, but most work, and some don't.

Old thread but this apparently needs repeating:

AVI is just a container format. You need to verify that whatever you're using supports the codec used in the AVI. AVI's can contain any of a large number of different codecs.