This is the first time posting so bare with me. I have Slingbox Pro at home and since I purchased my new HTC Sprint Touch Diamond I have been trying Slingbox Mobile. I am still tweaking settings and testing but currently I find video streaming a bit slow but audio OK! Have not tried WI FI yet. Has anyone else been using Slingbox Mobile? Would like to know your tweaks, settings etc... on improving video quality.
Thanks
Sprint HTC Touch Diamond DIAM 500
ROM - 1.09.651.5
Radio -1.00.00F
OS - Windows Mobile 6.1
I have been using it for a while, though I am not sure I have figured out the optimum settings, it is working pretty well over wifi but a little jumpy in fullscreen.
These are my settings:
Player: Buffer setings-manual
Optimization:Enable slingstream optimizer
Enable fast start
Encoding:Enable sling stream optimization X
Video Bitrate 250
Video FPS 20
I-Frame interval 5
Video rseolution 320x240
Audio: Stereo low
advanced: no alert
no stats
reconnect
X=exit
no audio video offset
Use GDI Rendering
On the whole I am pretty pleased with it, but mainly because it turns my laptop into a TV, the mobile software does leave a lot to be desired, especially since they make you pay on top for the mobile software, that is taking the piss on an already expensive piece of kit.
Thanks for the reply post... I have been using Slingbox Pro and my son also who is in Germany has been using it and we both agree that the video and audio quality is great. I have SprintTV as well as DiamondTV which are OK but nothing like having my own DishNetwork TV programs. I am thinking of purchasing the Slingbox Mobile software. It's only $29.99... What's a few more $$$$ anyway. LOL! Again thanks....
I use Slingbox Mobile too. I paid for it because to it's worth a one-time fee of 30 bucks to be able to stream my tv to my phone with full control. I'm aware of Orb as a free alternative but it's way too bulky and resource intensive. Slingbox definitely beats it.
I have not touched any settings at all in Slingbox Mobile. Everything is default. I stream over 3G data and I think the picture looks great and the sound is great. I hope they update the Mobile app soon to have some of the functionality that the latest Desktop version has (DVR buffer, and Guide data). Overall, it's my favorite app on my Diamond.
I also am very happy with my Slingbox (Pro in my case) with my Tilt. I use it with the my recently acquired Motorola S9/S9-HD bluetooth headset and I have to say it GREAT. Highly recommend the wireless headset to go with you slingbox. The older S9's can be found on ebay for under $40, just watch out for knock offs from China.
I've been using the Slingbox Mobile software too and I've found the picture and audio to be fine most of the time. The only problem I have is that my upload speed via my broadband is terrible (thanks BT) so it sometimes struggles. When I use it at home it's fine though.
Hopefully this is the right place, looked at forums list and didn't see a BST nor were there rules for no sales allowed here, please move it if I am mistaken however.
Anyways here u have it!
HTC TOUCH (ELFIN) Unlocked Almost Brand New!
New phone that I got in November.
I upgraded Windows Mobile to 6.1 with a Custom ROM called Onyx 4.1.6.
Touch screen and the new ROM gives it the Touch Diamond user interface with Touchflo and slick home screen. Has Wifi as well which is great if you don't want a data plan! Comes with everything in box (2x stylus, soft case, HTC headphones and mic, charger, usb cable, and all manuals and software). AND I can throw in an extra set of the special type of mini usb headphones it uses.
Here are the specs:
Product Details
Display: 2.8" TFT touch sensitive screen supporting over 65K colours
240 X 320 pixels
Features: Operating system: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional
TouchFLO™ : Intuitive Touch Screen Technology:
Touch Cube: Three-dimensional interface
Wireless Phone: complete wireless phone features
Speakerphone: 5 way conference calling and enhanced music listening
Bluetooth-enabled: wirelessly connects to a stereo Bluetooth headset (using A2DP) and other Bluetooth devices
Embedded ring tunes: 40 polyphonics ring tunes
Music Player: Windows Media Player 10. Bring your music with you on the road. Support for AAC, AAC+ eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MIDI, MPEG4, AMR-NB and AMR-WB.
Connectivity: USB Cable (included)
Bluetooth
Wi-Fi compliant
Camera: Mega Pixels: 2
Quality of pictures: High
Resolution: UXGA 1600 x 1200, SXGA 1280 x 960, VGA 640 x 480, QVGA 320 x 240, QQVGA 160 x 120
Video: Downloadable videos
Frames per second: 8
Maximum Length of recordable video: No limit, depend on system free memory
Video Playback Software: H.263 + AMR-NB, MPEG4 + AM-NB
Applications: Microsoft® Office Word, Excel,® and PowerPoint® Mobile applications, plus PDF viewer
Internet Explorer Mobile®
Included Accessories: Travel Charger USB Sync Cable
Wired Stereo Headset
CD
Extra Stylus
Carrying Pouch
Touch Screen Protector
PRICE: 300 OBO
PRACTICALLY BRAND NEW 9/10 condition, perfect other than 3 little scratch marks in the side from stupid keys! Never putting in same pocket again!
Very sleek phone that is much more comfortable to hold than the iPhone and is a lot more compact, not like a huge slab that you hold to your face. Goes for 450 new from rogers! I got one for Christmas hence my reason for wanting to sell it!!
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Cant sell on here. Sorry.
Digital sound (pass through) is not possible so far I know on Android. People who say it works, please prove it. Guess they mean dolby pro logic, or that the stereo sound is converted to 5.1 or 7.1 by the receiver. The receiver should show that it's encoding AC3, Dolby digital or DTS, otherwise its not working.
Hope this will change, because a media center without digital multichannel sound is not really a media center.
MaVe_64 said:
Digital sound (pass through) is not possible so far I know on Android. People who say it works, please prove it. Guess they mean dolby pro logic, or that the stereo sound is converted to 5.1 or 7.1 by the receiver. The receiver should show that it's encoding AC3, Dolby digital or DTS, otherwise its not working.
Hope this will change, because a media center without digital multichannel sound is not really a media center.
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Your receiver doesn't encode but decodes your DTS or AC3 stream.
I don't know about these Android Stick mini pc's but on my SGS3 i can select HDMI audio output: surround under the accessory options.
Perhaps this is a Samsung feature, not sure.
Have never tested this.
What's more important is that the videoplayers should also support audio through HDMI, most probably don't.
Frag1le said:
Your receiver doesn't encode but decodes your DTS or AC3 stream.
I don't know about these Android Stick mini pc's but on my SGS3 i can select HDMI audio output: surround under the accessory options.
Perhaps this is a Samsung feature, not sure.
Have never tested this.
What's more important is that the videoplayers should also support audio through HDMI, most probably don't.
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I have options in XBMC to configure the audio channel/output options, up to 7.1 with support for DTS, AC3, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I have to look again, but I thought "passthrough" was also an option. I know for certain that it allows selection between HDMI, optical, and analogue output. Then again, I'm not 100pct what features are working all the way or not.
And of course, XBMC's hardware video decoding is still in the works, so there is that problem.
However, give it a go, see if their settings work with your receiver.
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I have options in XBMC to configure the audio channel/output options, up to 7.1 with support for DTS, AC3, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I have to look again, but I thought "passthrough" was also an option. I know for certain that it allows selection between HDMI, optical, and analogue output. Then again, I'm not 100pct what features are working all the way or not.
And of course, XBMC's hardware video decoding is still in the works, so there is that problem.
However, give it a go, see if their settings work with your receiver.
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Nope, these settings don't work. It does decode a 5.1 stream to 2 channel pcm, but no pass through.
Frag1le said:
Your receiver doesn't encode but decodes your DTS or AC3 stream.
I don't know about these Android Stick mini pc's but on my SGS3 i can select HDMI audio output: surround under the accessory options.
Perhaps this is a Samsung feature, not sure.
Have never tested this.
What's more important is that the videoplayers should also support audio through HDMI, most probably don't.
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Sorry, decode is what I meant.
I'm also waiting for this to buy a TV stick myself... it seems only a handful of devices in the whole Android world supports this feature, with the right firmware and video player nonetheless (see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150342&pid=1300761#pid1300761 for instance)
Also, it seems there's some licensing at play here: I'm not sure where but I saw that a manufacturer can't implement the dd/dts passthrough on their firmware/drivers without licensing the codecs first (and given how closed source are these drivers, it's not something the community can deal with easily)
shagrath78 said:
I'm also waiting for this to buy a TV stick myself... it seems only a handful of devices in the whole Android world supports this feature, with the right firmware and video player nonetheless (see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150342&pid=1300761#pid1300761 for instance)
Also, it seems there's some licensing at play here: I'm not sure where but I saw that a manufacturer can't implement the dd/dts passthrough on their firmware/drivers without licensing the codecs first (and given how closed source are these drivers, it's not something the community can deal with easily)
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Am I right if I say the G-Box midnight does pass through AC3/DTS? If so, then it should be possible with other Android boxes.
Well if you can show proof that it can (video/picture with your receiver showing DTS/DD multichannel working) than it sounds promissing for future devices.
Btw if anyone else with Android mini-pcs can test and report if their device does DTS/DD Hdmi passthrough that'll be great.
Until now i think they can't and i hope future android minipcs like the Ouya will support this, although i think it won't (out of the box)
The Minix X5 seems like a good box and they give good support, what is kind of special for chinese products. They say in their forum that multi channel audio is on it's way.
http://minixforums.com/index.php?posts/2881
I would prefer a Minix above the Gbox because of the better GPU.
ive bought a android tablet, bq curie, with a cortex a9, installed mx player and the codecs armv7, also installed the ffdshow codecs, available on a near thread.
my audio setup is a sony ampkifier with hdmi ports, in witch i connect my desktop/mediacenter.
Tried to connect my tablet to the receiver, and it only outputs stereo sound. wit ac3 and dts
I'm open to sugestions how to passthought the audio to the receiver.
zzzpt said:
ive bought a android tablet, bq curie, with a cortex a9, installed mx player and the codecs armv7, also installed the ffdshow codecs, available on a near thread.
my audio setup is a sony ampkifier with hdmi ports, in witch i connect my desktop/mediacenter.
Tried to connect my tablet to the receiver, and it only outputs stereo sound. wit ac3 and dts
I'm open to sugestions how to passthought the audio to the receiver.
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You can't. You will have to wait untill the firmware for your android chipset is modified to work with multi channel sound passthrough.
Ok, here's an update, installed xbmcAndroid, noticed the Passthought options (DTS ...) unfortunately same result, the output sound was in 2.0
Perhaps this is really Firmware Problem, like statted in a previous post:
I'm also waiting for this to buy a TV stick myself... it seems only a handful of devices in the whole Android world supports this feature, with the right firmware and video player nonetheless
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zzzpt said:
Ok, here's an update, installed xbmcAndroid, noticed the Passthought options (DTS ...) unfortunately same result, the output sound was in 2.0
Perhaps this is really Firmware Problem, like statted in a previous post:
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Yes if the firmware doesn't support it, XBMC can't use the function. For instance Rockchip is working on a solution to passthrough 5.1 audio for SPDIF (optical audio out), it's not sure if it will work on HDMI output.
We will have to have patience...
the second no go is hdmi cec functionality - try Raspberry PI - is fine
Hi guys, I'm going to buy a stick but the lack of audio passthrough is blocking me as I will use this stick for media purposes. Nearly all files I have are at least dts or ac3 5.1 channel sound.
Would anybody have an update on this? I'm trying to search on Internet but not much info about progress of rockchip.
There still aren't any Android Mini PC/Stick that do multichannel passthrough. (correct me if i'm wrong)
The Ouya promised this on kickstarter in the promotional videos but they didn't deliver so false promises, so they are dead to me now.
RK3066 devices can't through HDMI and the few devices that have an optical out can neither.
RK3188 the few reviewed devices can't and the ones that are getting optical out aren't released yet so haven't been reviewed afaik.
I don't know about any other device or chip that does support this yet, so do share if you know one.
The Minix X5 (RK3066) should have a new firmware now that supports AC3 5.1 pass through to optical out {spdif). HDMI no pass through.
It's a firmware situation. Check out this video here demonstrating XBMC on the UT1, and another device called the Hi718 which seems to perform pretty good. Both have SPDIFF audio output. Without allowing the DTS encoded audio to pass through untouched, the devices decode the DTS sound and digitally output the audio via the SPDIFF. I just have the new UT1, so I can't speak with any authority on the HI718, but from the video it looks the same.
In the user guide for the UT1 it shows audio pass through option, and it maybe in the new UT1 firmware they just posted on the UT1 forum. I just haven't got the balls to reflash my device yet as there is always a degree of flash fear when a device is working really well lol
UT1 XBMC hardware playback test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qsprNRV6Y
Hi718 Review with hardware video playback tests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRQOpaCstU
BlobLobba said:
It's a firmware situation. Check out this video here demonstrating XBMC on the UT1, and another device called the Hi718 which seems to perform pretty good. Both have SPDIFF audio output. Without allowing the DTS encoded audio to pass through untouched, the devices decode the DTS sound and digitally output the audio via the SPDIFF. I just have the new UT1, so I can't speak with any authority on the HI718, but from the video it looks the same.
In the user guide for the UT1 it shows audio pass through option, and it maybe in the new UT1 firmware they just posted on the UT1 forum. I just haven't got the balls to reflash my device yet as there is always a degree of flash fear when a device is working really well lol
UT1 XBMC hardware playback test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qsprNRV6Y
Hi718 Review with hardware video playback tests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRQOpaCstU
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The whole idea behind DD/DTS passthrough is that the device doesn't decode anything and that your receiver/amp does the decoding.
I haven't watched the videos completely but if they decode the DTS and then output it'll probably be only 2.0 stereo.
Reviewer stated he was getting 5.1 channel sound, so I don't think it's stereo. Also XBMC show DTS and AAC when he's playing some of the files.
If you read my post, you will know I know what audio passthrough is, hence everything I wrote in my post relates to it. Which part didn't you understand?
Hi, my first post so be gentle!
Does anyone have one of these, it is the Bluetooth version of the MK809 ii and although I'm generally happy with it, it does have a few shortfalls. I am using it with a lan adaptor which works well.
I have a webcam that sort of works with Skype, but the large (Skype caller) and small (local webcam) images are the wrong way round, so if anyone calls I have to squint at the tiny picture! I tried the version off xda but it's the same. Any help there would be appreciated.
I've never dabbled with flashing anything android but should I be looking at doing this perhaps, and if so I have not seen any mention of the Bluetooth version of the MK809ii. I'll probably turn it into a vegetable anyway!
I welcome any thoughts/experience with this gadget.
Cheers
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
which lan adapter are you using and how much.
I am looking to buy the mk809ii, and was wondering what are some CONs and disadvantage you are seeing now? I heard it is much better than the mk808 as it has less glitches?
androidtvnoob said:
which lan adapter are you using and how much.
I am looking to buy the mk809ii, and was wondering what are some CONs and disadvantage you are seeing now? I heard it is much better than the mk808 as it has less glitches?
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I'm using the BOBJGEAR usb to Lan android adapter, works fine out of the box on my tv stick.
Aside from the Skype problem above (REALLY annoying!), not too many cons to be honest, just minor niggles mainly with some apps not being suited to it.
-Youtube seems to have lost its ability to go full screen for some reason, works fine on my Nexus 7 and is the same version.
-I have tried a few DLNA media apps to try and view pictures, videos etc from my NAS and they appear to be occasionally laggy across my network, the media app that came with the stick seems to work the best but looks pants!
-Watching films is generally a good experience, but the rendering isn't fantastic on darker films, probably mainly due to the quality of videos I have. Youtube HD videos are perfect.
-Google earth works but there doesn't seem to be any zoom buttons so is useless, i haven't looked into that yet.
All in all i'm happy with it, I bought a Xenta bluetooth keyboard with built in mouse which connects fine directly with the built in bluetooth. The mouse is a bit frustrating though so will be buying a bluetooth mouse.
Hope that helps
hi sadsplace, im just thinking of buying one, are you still happy 2 weeks in, any new suggestions?
thanks
joe
No Skype calls on new MK 809 II
I just got this new TV stick which seems to be working fine. Still, I'm unable to make calls in Skype. I attached a USB webcam and I also paired a bluetooth headset, I enabled video calls in Skype, but when I get to call anyone, after 2 or 3 rings, the call fails no matter if the other party answered or not. The only error message I see is "Call failed".
If anyone experienced this, is there a way to at least see if the webcam and the BT microphone are correctly installed? I tried several webcam apps from Google Play just to get an immage on my screen and finally I got one, but not in Skype.. .
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Hello everyone,
How is your opinion about the Z1´s Miracast (aka Screen Mirroring) feature?
After a few testing I must say that i am a bit disappointed.
Its not the lag (kind of natural for the current state of Miracast) that makes me say this, but the lack of a stable connection.
It works great for viewing static content like pictures, but fails when sending a stream, e.g. music or videos. This mostly results in stutters, bad sound / video quality or even a loss of connection.
P.S.: I am using Netgears ptv3000 as receiver, which works great with my laptop.
best regards.
MicroSoft Miracast Problems
I too am disappointed with the Miracast implementation on my Z1.
I have updated to the latest version of 4.4.4 and I tried to set up the Microsoft Display adapter (Miracast) with the Z1 and it fails due to HDCP support issues.
Apparently Sony is so paranoid that they block the Z1 from talking to anything that is not fully HDCP 2.2 compliant. Really, I bought your phone, and the people that want to steal your content can already do it, with our without your HDCP limits. All that Sony is doing is making it hard on their own customers.
OK, put a block on the Walkman app or the movie app if you need but I just want to project my screen into my car's AppRadio.
I can use MHL ... no problem but I don't like having to open and close the USB port every time I get into or out of my car. I want to use the magnetic charger for power and the wireless Miracast to sent images to the AppRadio.
Apparently the problem is that Microsoft is not 2.2, but really this is Sony trying to hold the Keys too tight.
Just like apple did with iTunes. Look what happened there. The DMR made it a hassel so people got free music of the web. Once Apple opened up the access and removed DMR then people were able to listen their way and iTune sales jumped.
Are you listening Sony ...
Apparently Sony has said they will fix this in Lollipop but I don't have 5.0 yet, I need a fix now.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to turn the HDCP restrictions off on my otherwise stock (but rooted) Z1
Thanks,
C
miracast worked fine with my tv until kitkat, jellybean worked fine
Screen mirroring is great for me, using sony bravia tv wifi direct, no lag and great picture quality.
Dadovvv said:
Screen mirroring is great for me, using sony bravia tv wifi direct, no lag and great picture quality.
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Same with me, Sonys Smart TV and it works great ! no major lags you can even play games with it, sometimes small kinda net lag effects. no complaints !