Solved Can Android's user run any video files on laptop via Bluetoo pairing ?

[Hadramawt]

So did you get things working? Are you able to watch the videos on your laptop from your Samsung phone?

Thanks a lot
No, I couldn't run anything at all since I couldn't installed ginkgosoft DLNA player. Since I didn't find that DLNA Player powered by 'ginkgosoft' was not listed at all when looking for it in google store, I really had to open the that link of the DLNA Player powered by 'ginkgosoft' sent by you from my Android. When, I opened that link while working on my Android, then I have redirected into the Google Store, then I found this program was not compatible with your model. As a result, I couldn't install it since there was no option for installing it.

However, I MX player was listed there, and I could install it if I wanted to, but it will not be do anything alone since its functionality is only palys the unsupported video file formats.

Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570I.

What about installing the first one AnDLNA player which was working with me, however, it couldn't support some file formats, and then I will install MX player. However, how could MX player will access file formats?


NB: Do you think that while watching the videos on my laptop from my Samsung phone, this will account from my internet credit as much as I watch videos on Youtube.com?

 

[strollin]

Does your Samsung phone have the Allshare app mentioned here?: How do I use the AllShare® (DLNA?) Application on my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant?? : T-Mobile Cell Phones | Samsung

 

[Hadramawt]

Does your Samsung phone have the Allshare app mentioned here?: How do I use the AllShare® (DLNA?) Application on my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant?? : T-Mobile Cell Phones | Samsung

Thanks a lot,

Unfortunately, My mobile seems as if it is different from what you have said. There is no AllShare at all.
There is applications, but there is no AllShare as it shown below.
Applications

> AllShare

. The AllShare screen is displayed.

My mobile is Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570I
Android version is 2.3.
My mobile is old and not new.
Are there any thing which may help.

 

[strollin]

I'm afraid I'm out of ideas to help you. Perhaps you can find a forum that deals specifically with your phone and people there can help you to find a DLNA client that will work on your phone.

 

[Hadramawt]

I'm afraid I'm out of ideas to help you. Perhaps you can find a forum that deals specifically with your phone and people there can help you to find a DLNA client that will work on your phone.

Thanks a lot,
Never mind, I only wish that I could succeed to play the unsupported video file formats.
By the way, as said before, the AnDLNA could play the MP3,4 video file formats. However, the others, it could not play them. There is no option or choice to prompt me to choose another player to play the unsupported video files

Thus, do you think that if I remains the AnDLNA installed and then installed the MX player or even the QQ player which can support all other formats. However, how could QQ player or MX player access those files as long as I only see those files while on AnDLNA?

In addition, I really have chatted a Samsung agent available in the link you provided, however, they said that my mobile is international, and not a US product. Thus, they didn't help me. However, I really quite surprised how they knew that my mobile is international, although my mobile model doesn't contain anything indicating internationalism.
My mobile is Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570I

For my curiosity, if anyone living in the US, and he was leaving the US to another country, thus what will they do with their US mobiles as long as they will be working in their own countries.

 

[strollin]

I installed AnDLNA on my phone and when I select a movie to watch from my server I am prompted as to which player to use and can then select MX Player or whichever other I choose. You need to figure out which player you currently have set to play AVI & FLV files and clear that as the player for those file types.

If you have a player that won't work with a video format then you need to go into Settings->Apps on your Android device, find that player app, touch it to open it's properties, then click on "Clear Defaults" to clear any file formats that player has been set as the Default app for.

 

[Hadramawt]

I installed AnDLNA on my phone and when I select a movie to watch from my server I am prompted as to which player to use and can then select MX Player or whichever other I choose. You need to figure out which player you currently have set to play AVI & FLV files and clear that as the player for those file types.

If you have a player that won't work with a video format then you need to go into Settings->Apps on your Android device, find that player app, touch it to open it's properties, then click on "Clear Defaults" to clear any file formats that player has been set as the Default app for.

Thanks a lot,

What did you do even you prompted? It might you have used another version of AnDLNA.
I really was not prompted. When I view, and click on a file format not supported, I don't see any response. If file format not supported was converted from the FLV format into mp4 by another program called 'QQ player' I saw clicking on that file inside 'AnDLNA' showed me this file cannot be running, although it was running well on my Laptop.

You need to figure out which player you currently have set to play AVI & FLV files and clear that as the player for those file types.

You mean that I can configure the AnDLNA client to let not play AVI & FLV by default, and then set the MX player to play those file formats by default. I would be saying that there is no settings inside the AnDLNA to be configured at all. Yes, QQ player or MX player, I think can be configured.

If you have a player that won't work with a video format then you need to go into Settings->Apps on your Android device, find that player app, touch it to open it's properties, then click on "Clear Defaults" to clear any file formats that player has been set as the Default app for

I really even before installing the AnDLNA client, or any other Media player software, such as MX player or QQ player, I noticed that most MP4, 3 are working well on the Android mobile, although I don't know what player play them. I think there is a built-in media player utility or program pre-installed on the Android, or otherwise I will end up with not working all video formats.

 

[Hadramawt]

I installed AnDLNA on my phone and when I select a movie to watch from my server I am prompted as to which player to use and can then select MX Player or whichever other I choose. You need to figure out which player you currently have set to play AVI & FLV files and clear that as the player for those file types.

If you have a player that won't work with a video format then you need to go into Settings->Apps on your Android device, find that player app, touch it to open it's properties, then click on "Clear Defaults" to clear any file formats that player has been set as the Default app for.

Yes, thanks a lot,
Now when I installed AnDLNA along with MX player, then when I opened an unsupported file, I was prompted as to which player to use. Then, I chose play it with MX player.

However, I am now having other problems which are:
First: FLV formats are not supported by my WMP, thus WMP couldn't play the FLV formats, thus all the file formats weren't listed in the WMP, although the folder containing them was included well. As a result, they were not shown(listed) inside the AnDLAN client.

How to solved the above problem, I think the WLM server is only the one used on my laptop, then I think the the only solution is to convert those files into AVI or MP3 or others which can be played with WLM.

Second: Do you think that the Video files saved on an external hard disk, and included into a library in WLM, they will not be listed in AnDLNA client, although they were listed in the WMP server.

Third: I don't see the latest video files included into my WLM on my laptop were listed(shown) on my AnDLNA client even after refreshing AnDLNA client and clicked on 'Apply media information changes' on WMP, although the older ones are still shown, thus I thought of there is a capacity limit for the files will be listed on the AnDLNA client. I.e. if I have included video files with a size of about 10GB, or even more, then some of those files included later will not be listed as long as I have exceeded the capacity limit.

Finally: The AnDLAN client insists on keeping(saving) the video files viewed before even if they no longer exists in the WMP server(they removed from the included video library). Yes, when I clicked on one of them, then I was faced with 'this link cannot be working' I have tried refreshing the client, but it didn't make difference. I have uninstalled it, then installed it again, but it still keeps the previous files reviewed and played, althoug they are no longer exist in the WMP's included library. This is most strange thing.

 

[Hadramawt]

Strolling, could you help me with this new problem, from the AnDLNA client, I was able to viewing the files shared on the WMP server on my HP laptop(windows 7), however, when I have removed all files included in the WMP server, and then reincluded them again, I no longer see any shared files on WMP server are shown (listed) on the AnDLNA client.(I tried uninstalled the AnDLNA client, and then installed it again), but the same thing is still happening.
I am quite sure that the I did the same steps I did before.::

First:I’ve already organized my files into My Videos folders, and shared a folder included in the Video library.

Second: I lunched the WMP, I selected the option Automatically allow devices to play my media.
Third: I clicked the Stream drop-down menu again, and select More streaming options. Next: I enabled the Media programs.


If the problem were with the AnDLNA client, then I wouldn't see the files were listed when I have Plugged the same external hard disk containing the video files to another Dell laptop using the same Windows 7.
On Dell laptop, I can view and run all files via AnDLNA client on the Android.

Could you let me know what solution will be there?

 

[strollin]

I'm not ignoring you, I'm just busy with work so it might take me a couple of days to get to answering you.

 

[Hadramawt]

I appreciate your time spending helping me, however I just want to remind you.

 

[strollin]

Within Windows Media Player on your laptop, go to Organize->Manage Libraries->Videos and ensure that the folders that have your videos are there. After that, go to Organize->Apply media information changes. That should update the media player's library and then when you connect via AnDLNA you might be able to see your videos listed.

Other than that, I'm stumped as to why you can't list the videos, especially when you say you can plug the external drive into another laptop and see the files on your phone.

 

[Hadramawt]

Within Windows Media Player on your laptop, go to Organize->Manage Libraries->Videos and ensure that the folders that have your videos are there. After that, go to Organize->Apply media information changes. That should update the media player's library and then when you connect via AnDLNA you might be able to see your videos listed.

Other than that, I'm stumped as to why you can't list the videos, especially when you say you can plug the external drive into another laptop and see the files on your phone.

Thanks a lot,

I would like you to kindly take some of your precious time out to go through my points below, and reply to me to close this thread and mark it as an answered.

First: although what you have suggested above I have applied before, and made no difference, I have applied it again and everything is working well. However, I don't know what might be causing the error, though. I really have done these things before applying what you suggested again.

(A) The 'users' folder containing all user accounts was shared on the network file and folder sharing. I have made it not shared.
(B) in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings, The network discovery was ON, and then turned it OFF.

(C) The application 'Samsung Kies', which is used to manage files between my Android Samsung mobile plugged in to my Windows HP laptop. It was shown in the network under other devices

I have disabled it from startup program, and then got not listed under other devices.

Second:: After that, I have apply what you have suggested again, and everything is working well.
However, I am only surprised when I was including folder before doing the steps listed before, I was promoted if I want to share or not share this folder' However,after doing the steps listed above, I am no longer seeing if I want to share or not share this folder' when I include it (I think that I was promoted as to if I want to share or not share a folder included since 'User' folder was shared in its properties on the network file and folder sharing)

Third: I am now only still having a problem with nonsupporting files in WLM on my laptop,
FLV formats(and others) are not supported by my WMP, thus WMP couldn't play the FLV formats, thus all the file formats weren't listed in the WMP, although the folder containing them was included well. As a result, they were not shown(listed) inside the AnDLAN client as well.

How to solved the above problem, I think the WLM server is only the one used on my laptop, then I think the the only solution is to convert those files into AVI or MP3 or others which can be played with WLM. But, I really converted some FLV files into MP4 by QQ player, and then there were working well with my WMP, but not working well in the AnDLNA client on my Android mobile. Another thing is converting far too many FLV file formats with a size of 512MB will take a long time files.


Finally: While my internet subscription was out of credit(no internet access), I have tried connecting both my devices 'Android mobile phone' and 'Wireless laptop' to the same wireless router, then I tried playing videos on the AnDLNA client on my Android mobile, and I found them playing well, which means running videos via setting up the streaming media will not be calculated from my Internet credit.

However, in that article (How to Stream Digital Media From Your Windows 7 PC), I have seen 'Internet access is also necessary for sharing across the Web to another PC.', although I found that internet access was not necessary.

 

[Hadramawt]

Could you please strollin, reply on my post posted about four days ago?

 

[strollin]

I'm lost as to what you're asking on most of your post. The only thing I can address is why WMP can't play files with certain extensions. The reason for that is because it lacks the codecs to play those files. You might try downloading and installing the K-Lite codec pack: Codec Guide: K-Lite Codec Pack - For XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8

 

[Hadramawt]

I'm lost as to what you're asking on most of your post. The only thing I can address is why WMP can't play files with certain extensions. The reason for that is because it lacks the codecs to play those files. You might try downloading and installing the K-Lite codec pack: Codec Guide: K-Lite Codec Pack - For XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8

Thanks a lot,

Yes, my problem is now only with that WMP cannot play files with certain extensions. Do you think that updating or upgrading it into another version will solve the problem??? I really have another QQ player program, and run any file extensions, however, it cannot be a DLNA server like WMP.

My WMP don't have any K-Lite Codec Pack???
Isn't 'K-lite' 'Media Player Classic(k-lite)'? If yes, then what will this do with WMP?

Also, I had to post this screen shot to let you know that I have found many downloads there, and i have marked the first one.

The first and second point in my previous post posted 4 days ago are about the guessing what solved that error was preventing me from showing the files on AnDLN client player.




Finally: I meant that the internet access is not necessary to play the files on the AnDLNA client on the Android device. However, in that article (How to Stream Digital Media From Your Windows 7 PC), I have seen 'Internet access is also necessary for sharing across the Web to another PC.', although I found that internet access was not necessary.

Since While my internet subscription was out of credit(no internet access), I have tried connecting both my devices 'Android mobile phone' and 'Wireless laptop' to the same wireless router, then I tried playing videos on the AnDLNA client on my Android mobile, and I found them playing well, which means running videos via setting up the streaming media will not be calculated from my Internet credit. However, in that article

 

[strollin]

K-Lite is a set of codecs that, when downloaded and installed, will allow WMP to play many of the video files that it can't with it's included codecs. Many will recommend the VLC video player as it comes with codecs to play almost any video file. Media Player Classic is just another video player that can be used instead of WMP.

As far as I know, there should be no requirement for internet acess in order to share video files across a network.

 

[Hadramawt]

Thanks a lot, to close this issue, and mark it as answered, I would like you to confirm for me if I only need to download the first set of codecs of K-Lite as shown in my screen shot, since there are other downloads related to 'K-Lite codes in that page.

 

[Hadramawt]

Thanks a lot, Strollin, I get things working well. Then, this thread must be marked as solved.

 

[Hadramawt]

K-Lite is a set of codecs that, when downloaded and installed, will allow WMP to play many of the video files that it can't with it's included codecs. Many will recommend the VLC video player as it comes with codecs to play almost any video file. Media Player Classic is just another video player that can be used instead of WMP.

As far as I know, there should be no requirement for internet acess in order to share video files across a network.

Strollin,
The problem is resolved, but to be perfectly resolved, I would like you to kindly let me know if I can install any K-Lite codecs on MX player since it also doesn't play FLV video file formats on my Android device.
I am no longer receiving a problem with playing FLV on WMP after installing K-Lite codecs on it on my Windows Media player.