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Duo to Android Streaming (Local and Remote)
Hi I purchased my ReadyNAS duo for redundancy purposed for my photographs etc. but recently I became aware of all of the other great things it can do. I also recently (I know, its 2011!) just got ...
hi,
I found a way to stream video and mp3 music from my duo to my Xperia X10. I have only tested it with mp3 and avi (divx/xvid), and it works great. I have not tried streaming photos, but I don't see, why that shouldn't work as well.
here is how, I set it up:
Readynas: I activated dnla on the nas, and forwarded Port 8200 to the nas on my router for 3g streaming.
Android: Fetch these apps from Market: PlugPlayer (paid app) for streaming, Rockplayer (I pulled it from market, but you might have to get it from http://rockplayer.freecoder.org/index_en.html . I think it was removed from market) or Vplayer ( paid app) for playing video files. For browsing the duo I use astro with the smb module. I have not tried it with 3g yet, so I don't know if it works, but wifi works great.
I installed the applications, and opened plugplayer with wifi enabled on the phone. It should pick up your dlna devices by itself. It did with me. Go to the "Devices" tab, and press menu, open "advanced settings", and make it use the phone as renderer for video. Test it on wifi. if it works, then go to the "Devices" tab again and long press the dnla device ( the duo of course), and press edit. In "Base URL" use "http://YOUR EXTERNAL IP:8200", to allow the phone to find your nas via 3g.
Now you should be able to stream video, mp3 and probably photos as well, when you are on the move :)
I found a way to stream video and mp3 music from my duo to my Xperia X10. I have only tested it with mp3 and avi (divx/xvid), and it works great. I have not tried streaming photos, but I don't see, why that shouldn't work as well.
here is how, I set it up:
Readynas: I activated dnla on the nas, and forwarded Port 8200 to the nas on my router for 3g streaming.
Android: Fetch these apps from Market: PlugPlayer (paid app) for streaming, Rockplayer (I pulled it from market, but you might have to get it from http://rockplayer.freecoder.org/index_en.html . I think it was removed from market) or Vplayer ( paid app) for playing video files. For browsing the duo I use astro with the smb module. I have not tried it with 3g yet, so I don't know if it works, but wifi works great.
I installed the applications, and opened plugplayer with wifi enabled on the phone. It should pick up your dlna devices by itself. It did with me. Go to the "Devices" tab, and press menu, open "advanced settings", and make it use the phone as renderer for video. Test it on wifi. if it works, then go to the "Devices" tab again and long press the dnla device ( the duo of course), and press edit. In "Base URL" use "http://YOUR EXTERNAL IP:8200", to allow the phone to find your nas via 3g.
Now you should be able to stream video, mp3 and probably photos as well, when you are on the move :)
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