Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

Stephen Morris samorris at netspace.net.au
Sun Sep 14 01:09:50 UTC 2014


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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