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Unseekable stream - Android vs Windows

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Mabel64

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yes, I know this is an old problem and often answered, but some questions still keep bugging me.
When watching video's from my (in-house) mediaserver on my (Android) phone and tablet, I can often not 'fast-foward' or jump to somewhere in the movie. Extremely annoying as, after every interruption, I have to re-start from the beginning.
I tried a variety of players; some courteously inform me of the problem: 'unseekable stream'. So I looked up the discussions on that subject and learned about missing 'index' data and ways to add them to my video files.
Now that's all well and good, BUT questions remain:
First, how can it be that I do NOT have this problem on my (windows) notebook? Sure, I do not see 'thumbnail' images when moving the slider, but that's a minor detail; I can jump to anywhere in the movie quite fast. This doesn't rime with the explanations I red for this error. Are all Android players simply dumber or less capable then their windows counterparts? Why would that be?
My second question is more pragmatic: isn't there a media-server around which automatically adds the neccessary indexes to my video files? (Adding them by hand, one by one, is a big nuisance.)
I'd be grateful for answers to either of these questions.
hans
 
Mabel64 said:
yes, I know this is an old problem and often answered, but some questions still keep bugging me.
When watching video's from my (in-house) mediaserver on my (Android) phone and tablet, I can often not 'fast-foward' or jump to somewhere in the movie. Extremely annoying as, after every interruption, I have to re-start from the beginning.
I tried a variety of players; some courteously inform me of the problem: 'unseekable stream'. So I looked up the discussions on that subject and learned about missing 'index' data and ways to add them to my video files.
Now that's all well and good, BUT questions remain:
First, how can it be that I do NOT have this problem on my (windows) notebook? Sure, I do not see 'thumbnail' images when moving the slider, but that's a minor detail; I can jump to anywhere in the movie quite fast. This doesn't rime with the explanations I red for this error. Are all Android players simply dumber or less capable then their windows counterparts? Why would that be?
My second question is more pragmatic: isn't there a media-server around which automatically adds the neccessary indexes to my video files? (Adding them by hand, one by one, is a big nuisance.)
I'd be grateful for answers to either of these questions.
hans
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What exactly does this "(in-house) mediaserver" consist of, what sort of hardware, software, media formats, etc. like is it Plex or something?
 
I didn't mention specifics because the problem seems to be so general and I trusted others would recognise it.
But since you ask: I use Plex Media Server, MediaMonkey server, Windows media server and the Fritz!box media server (the last one is a firm-ware program in a router; the others run om my 'home-server' under windows 10.)
On the Android client, I used VLC, MediaMonkey, Xtreme player and Andoids default player.
On te windows client side, I use VLC, but also tried various others: Windows Media Player, MediaMonkey and more.

All the Windows clients do fine with any of my media-servers: I can start wherever I want in the file. Yet NONE of the Android apps make this possible; they either ignore my request or complain about 'unseekable stream'.
 
To my great regret: NO. I'm still using my hefty windows laptop while using my android tablet would be SO much more convenient.
 
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