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Stream Video to Android from remote PC

Doctorjazz said:
Hi-I recently tried MeCanto, which I thought was free, but I read a notice by the developer that he was going to charge a monthly fee for the service (it stores media in "the cloud"). I actually like the program, seems to work smoothly and fairly quickly, but I have most of my media on my PC in various high resolution files (mostly WAV, some FLAC), and the program ignores these (so I mostly get the itunes downloads of Lady Ga Ga my teenage girls have bought). I have 3rd party media players on my Droid that will play these, I think (Mixzing, Winamp), and have a few 3rd party media programs on my PC (VLC, DoubleTwist-hated it on Android-Media Monkey, RealPlayer, Spider Player, and off and on have had Winamp (off at present). I don't mind paying for a good app, though I don't like the idea of subscribing/renting cloud space monthly. I've read VLC could do what I want, though it seem too technical for me to set up. I'm critically low on space on my Droid (both internal and storage card), have an enormous music collection (my recently deceased 80gb ipod didn't have close to enough storage), and this would be a great way to finally use my phone for music. Any suggestions/recommendations?
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I think subsonic is what what you're looking for. It's not free. There's a one time payment(donation) $15 euros I think. Basically, you set up the subsonic server on your pc and point to your music collection. Then you'll configure your router to foward subsonic port to your machine. If you've configured it correctly, you'll be able to access all of your music from the android app or a web browser.

The best part about subsonic is that it caches your songs for offline use. That means you're not always opening a conection from phone and wasting battery streaming the same songs. The amount you want to cache is configurable.

It's a bit of pain to set up, but once you get it done, it works like a charm.
 
Skifa is free, I use that to stream from my DLNA server (serviio, free) to my phone, playing in Moboplayer, also free. All works very well, all free and relatively simple.
 
Hey.

I wonder the same, as the author of the thread, cause i have used plex for streaming movies and seasons a coupleof days, but recently plex stopped showing the server i have y movies on, have tried everything but it keeps just falling out of the list on my lg optimus 2x.

Is there an other just as good option? i dont care what the pricce it, as long as it works as it should do :) atleast an app that supports most video formats and up to 1080p in streaming.
 
andsa said:
Hey.

I wonder the same, as the author of the thread, cause i have used plex for streaming movies and seasons a coupleof days, but recently plex stopped showing the server i have y movies on, have tried everything but it keeps just falling out of the list on my lg optimus 2x.

Is there an other just as good option? i dont care what the pricce it, as long as it works as it should do :) atleast an app that supports most video formats and up to 1080p in streaming.
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I'm using bubbleupnp on my galaxy tab and an app called "ps3 media center" available for linux and windows. I have a more complex box but this is the simplest no config needed
 
To keep this thread going...I'm currently using Skifta for streaming within a WIFI network and it works flawlessly. My default player is RockPlayer Lite, but I'm going to try and use MoboPlayer because it supposedly adds subtitles and most of my films are foreign.

CAVEAT: I haven't been able to get Skifta to work over 3G...it says it does but when I leave the network and walk out...the video will just pause and ask me to return to my network area.

Otherwise...if you can get a WIFI signal? Works perfectly and you can't beat Free.99
 
For streaming videoes i recommend PLEX media server.

I can stream any videoes from my pc to the phone without any problems.
 
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