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Title: Streaming mkv from nas to android tablet
Post by: robgray on May 21, 2014, 02:55:24 AM

All,

I appreciate that this might be a bit specific to me/my setup, but I am wondering if anyone can help me on this?

I have (on my DNS-320-L) a number of video files, they are .avi's, .mp4's and some .mkv's, and i use the BubbleuPNP and mxplayer apps on two different android tablet's to (over wifi) view them.

My nas is connected to my (virgin media) router via an ethernet cable.

Sometimes when I play .mkv files - which are HD/DTS encoded, the playback on the tablet can freeze/buffer or sometimes become unresponsive. I haven't really noticed the same situation when playing .mp4's or .avi files.

Has anyone else experienced this type of behaviour?
Do you think i might be overloading the nas (in terms of serving the file), or the tablet (in terms of converting the file)?

Does anyone have other apps/suggestions to use? Or maybe idea's to change the setup?

I was considering getting a raspberry pi to serve the files to the network and turning off upnp on the nas - so the pi is using the nas just as a filestore. Does anyone else use this type of configuration?

Thanks in advance
Rob

Title: Re: Streaming mkv from nas to android tablet
Post by: pittnuma on June 03, 2014, 02:56:32 AM

I could not find a way of doing it, in the end I use a Pi and use XBMC

Title: Re: Streaming mkv from nas to android tablet
Post by: warg on June 04, 2014, 05:34:46 AM

running rpi+openelec 4, streaming from nas (nfs)
it handles 1080p+dts