Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4g Touch

what OS is it running ?

download skifta to the phone and rockplayer lite both availible from market place and then use that to stream to it will work right out of teh box on ALL formats

I did that and while I get a list of the video files on my win 7 pc running serviio 0.6.0.1 (having selected, media source : Serviio, player: samsung gti-9100) when i click on a .mkv file and select Rockplayer Lite as the player to use, I get an error message "This file cannot be played with sytem player".

I probably am doing something very stupid, please help

[zip]

Give the IP of your phone the proper (Samsung) profile in the console.

Which is the proper profile to use? I've tried the generic DLNA and a custom one found in a thread in this forum.

Well, strike my previous post. When I selected the new profile (see below) Rockplayer Lite plays the .mkv video (with DTS sound) on my Samsung Galaxy S II. However there's video "decay" little squares peeling off every and sound breaking or unsyncing. My wifi networks eeems to be working well; turning up the transmit power (I run a custom firmware on my wifi access point) and locking the speed at 54 mbps didn't make any difference.

My next step will be to install serviio on a desktop pc that will connect to the wifi access point via wired ethernet (now on wifi).

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks,

Nikolas



The profile:

  Code:

 <Profile id="21" name="Android Samsung Galaxy S2" extendsProfileId="1">
       <ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.SamsungDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
        <ResourceTransportProtocolHandler>org.serviio.upnp.protocol.http.transport.SamsungWiseLinkProtocolHandler</ResourceTransportProtocolHandler>
        <DeviceDescription>
           <ExtraElements>
              &lt;sec:ProductCap&gt;smi,getMediaInfo.sec,getCaptionInfo.sec&lt;/sec:ProductCap&gt;
            &lt;sec:X_ProductCap&gt;smi,getMediaInfo.sec,getCaptionInfo.sec&lt;/sec:X_ProductCap&gt;
           </ExtraElements>
        </DeviceDescription>
        <MediaFormatProfiles>
            <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-msvideo">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>
        </MediaFormatProfiles>
    </Profile>

Update:

Installed Serviio 0.6.0.1 on my desktop pc running Win XP SP3. Created a test directory with 2 .mkv files and a divx .avi. The .avi plays fine. The .mkv's show the same video "decay" symptoms. One of the .mkvs had two audio tracks (dialogs in two languages), one in AC3, the other in DTS. The video "decay" symptom was the same with both audio streams.

The 2 .mkv's were (by selection) of differing file size. One was 4GB, the other 8GB. Both for roughly the same playing time. As a newbie I'd tend to think that when playing the -much- larger file Serviio would have to cram much more data per second on my network; thus the video problem would be more pronounced if it were a case of latency, low/unstable wifi bandwidth. But the problem was the same in both files. Standing under the access point (and of course having a much better wifi signal) made no difference either.

Severe head scratching.... is there a solution I wonder?

[zip]

If you are using this profile then there is no transcoding going on, you could confirm by unchecking the Transcoding checkbox in the console. If that is the case it is down to your player (sw) to decode the stream and any pixelation would then be caused by the player and not the file/server itself.

[Cerberus]

get an error message "This file cannot be played with sytem player". = your still using default player and not rockplayer that why u get that and generic profile is fine as rock player uses ffmpeg libs

[Cerberus]

Can a CDMA phone work on a 4G network? My wife just recently got a CDMA phone... it's a Samsung Freeform... the carrier we are through is possibly finally updating to the 4G network. Can a CDMA phone work on a 4G network?

dunno try asking samsung

You don't really need another dlna client/media player. The Allshare player I think works decently if you give it the right profile.
This is the profile for Galaxy S2, which works for avi, flv, mkv files w/o transcoding. You might have to change the user agent to the one that your cellphone is sending out (You can check it out/change it in the All share Settings : Device name). This will allow Serviio to select the correct profile for your phone.

<Profile id="22" name="Android Samsung Galaxy S2" extendsProfileId="1">
<Detection>
<HttpHeaders>
<User-Agent>.*SGH-T989.*</User-Agent>
</HttpHeaders>
</Detection>
<ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.SamsungDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
<ResourceTransportProtocolHandler>org.serviio.upnp.protocol.http.transport.SamsungWiseLinkProtocolHandler</ResourceTransportProtocolHandler>
<MediaFormatProfiles>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/avi" name="">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4">MPEG4_P2_3GPP_SP_L0B_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4">MPEG4_P2_3GPP_SP_L0B_AMR</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4">AVC_3GPP_BL_QCIF15_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4">FLV</MediaFormatProfile>
</MediaFormatProfiles>
</Profile>