Video streaming app?

duc916 · Oct 17, 2011

What is the best Android-equivalent of Air Video and Stream To Me? Both of these work flawlessly for my iPhone and I just want to save myself the annoyance and money experimenting with all the crash-tastic crap available in the Android market for my Vibrant. I don't have time to re-encode and want instant access to my 10+TB's of movies. Thanks.

Wonderlad · Oct 17, 2011

duc916 said:
What is the best Android-equivalent of Air Video and Stream To Me? Both of these work flawlessly for my iPhone and I just want to save myself the annoyance and money experimenting with all the crash-tastic crap available in the Android market for my Vibrant. I don't have time to re-encode and want instant access to my 10+TB's of movies. Thanks.

Free AudioGalaxy streams, duh, your audio from your Mac or PC to your Android phone. I'll bet there's a video counterpart too.

duc916 · Oct 17, 2011

Thanks, but Audiogalaxy doesn't have a video streaming app... all the music I'll ever needs fits fine on the phone anyway. It's the terabytes of video that no sane person wants to re-encode for a phone that pose the problem.

Wonderlad · Oct 17, 2011

You want to watch "terabytes of video" on a phone screen?

duc916 · Oct 17, 2011

No, I want to be able to access them. Big difference. Do you understand the difference?

With my iPhone I can remotely control my PC at home to download any given movie. Then I can stream it to the phone. Then when I get home, it can be watched on the WDTV Live. This is the sort of thing I do with my iPhone. Can you not fathom this level of convenience with your Android yet?

woodsb123 · Oct 17, 2011

Hey duc916, from your last comment, it almost seems like you are picking a "fight" here with the other Android phone users. Now to possibly answer your question, if I heard you correctly, you are wondering if there is an app which allows you to remotely control your pc to download movies for future viewing, as well as, be able to stream those downloaded movies to your phone without having to decode them. If this is what you are asking, then, my answer would be the same as the other users. why would you be trying to do these things on such a small screen as on your phone, that's why I have an Android tablet. Next, I do however, use the Plex app to view movies that I have downloaded to my pc, streaming them to my android tablet(it works on my android phone-HTC Sensation, as well), without having to decode them, flawlessly. Also, to access my computer remotely, I just use the Logmein app on either my android phone or a pc that I might have access to. Lastly, to view all of these movies on my LED TV, I use a Logitech Revue, which also uses the android operating system. I'm able to access the entire contents of my pc, including movies, pictures, documents, and the entire internet with a wireless keyboard/mouse which was included. Can you currently do that with your Apple products???????

PS: I'm not really sure why you even have both an android and iPhone, frankly I never found a reason to pickup an iPhone.

Wonderlad · Oct 17, 2011

duc916 said:
With my iPhone I can remotely control my PC at home to download any given movie.

That's not exclusive to iPhone, you know.

Then I can stream it to the phone. Then when I get home, it can be watched on the WDTV Live. This is the sort of thing I do with my iPhone. Can you not fathom this level of convenience with your Android yet?

You call it 'convenient' to first watch it on a puny phone screen and then, when you get home, again on the WDTV?
To each his own, I guess. I can't afford that 'level of convenience'. Wish I could.

duc916 · Oct 17, 2011

Okay, so in other words, you guys don't know of any apps that will do this. Never said that remote control of a PC was an Apple-exclusive. I use VNC on both Android and iPhone. The simple question remains, regardless of whether you find any merit to the usefulness of streaming your entire library anywhere you have 3G signal. What app can do it (stream over 3G) reliably?

I'm not really sure why you even have both an android and iPhone, frankly I never found a reason to pickup an iPhone.

If your company gives you an iPhone with unlimited data, you take it, despite your disdain for Apple, because that's $100/month in the pocket. Simple enough. I'll easily tolerate the hate I receive from users on this site, because 99% of them are paying through the nose for their silly data-capped phones.

edit: I somehow missed your Plex referral... I'll give that a try. Thanks.

DanDroide · Oct 17, 2011

On my Motorola Droid Bionic, it came pre-loaded with "ZumoCast" and I can stream Movies, Videos, Music (transfer files) from any computer I load the ZumoCast host on. Or I can just download them. It works very well on 4g (from anywhere) or on WiFi in the local network. It may be limited to Motorola phones.

dylo22 · Oct 17, 2011

I've been using subsonic to stream my music and movies. It's pretty good. I haven't tested too many streaming app, so I'm not sure if it's the best out there, but it does it's job. The movies are transcoded (on the fly) to flash. You need a flash enabled android device to view it. The quality is decent.

The server is free to download, but you have to donate in order to get the android client to work. It comes with lots of options and configurations. You can even setup accounts for your friends and family. Oh it also comes with a web interface, where you can access your server from anywhere as long as you have a browser

Plex does look cool though. I might give that a try when I have time.

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