On 09/12/2014 08:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 07:15 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
Also, I suspect you may be labouring under a misconception: you
don't
stream media to your remote device, the device streams media *from*
the
server (using the DLNA protocol). You don't have to tell the server
what
the device is. It will just stream to any device on the LAN that can
find it. I can stream to my phone or tablet without any further
setup
other than installing a suitable app.
Thanks Patrick. I was assuming Linux was the same as Windows. Under
Windows having done the necessary steps to ensure that Windows can
see
the wireless device, I have to start the app I want to stream from as
setting up Miracast using the built in interface won't work unless
the
app is running (and it only works with the built in video player, it
doesn't work with mediaplayer), I then have to select the device
charm
to tell miracast that I want to project to an external screen only
(this
is so the video doesn't play on the pc screen as well), then I have
to
select the device charm again and select Play which then prompts for
which of the devices it can see I want to stream to, and then once I
select the android smart player the video appears to be then streamed
to
the device and appears on the TV using whatever of the multiple
players
on the device is its default.
Note that my comments were on using DLNA. Miracast is different (and
pretty much as you describe it) since it's focussed on screen mirroring
which is not the same concept. My TV supports Miracast and I can mirror
my phone or tablet to the big screen, something I haven't attempted to
do in Linux. If that's what you really want to do then ignore what I
said earlier, but you should consider if it is in fact what you want to
do. If you just want to watch videos it may not be.
Miracast is not what I really wanted to use but under windows that was
the only process that seemed to work, as when I configure mediaplayer
for streaming it doesn't get to the player, plus everybody I talk to
here are telling me that if I am using windows I should be using
Miracast. I figured Linux was similar, but I using wireless for
streaming and didn't want dlna streaming to be picked up by dlna
receivers by next door neighbors if that was at all possible.
Some of my issues may be my modem/router not being good enough for
streaming as well. When I try to get the device to play a video
directly
of my NAS device over wireless the playback stops every thirty
seconds
and buffers, but if I put the flash disk that the video came from
into
the device and play the video from there it plays fine without any
buffering.
I have my NAS device and TV connected via Gigabit Ethernet to Gigabit
ports on my router. I would only use Wifi for video streaming if I had
no other option.
From my perspective I don't necessarily have any other option. I have
my NAS connected to my modem/router/voip phone device, but not by
gigabit even though the NAS ethernet is gigabit, because the router
doesn't have a gigabit port (I can upgrade the router from my isp which
now have a device that has gigabit ports). As the device is also my home
phone, the device is situated next to the phone socket which is in a
remote room, hence I have to use wireless unless I run cables along the
ceiling or floor between rooms. I potentially could put a range extender
next to the Smartmedia Player and connect the player to the extender by
ethernet, but is that really any different to having the player
accessing the NAS over wireless?
regards,
Steve
poc
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