SpockThePain
11-24-2012, 04:08 AM
I used to be able to control DLNA from my Android phone but it no longer works. I had a few DLNA apps on the phone but many of them no longer work or haven't been updated for a long time. So I decided to start afresh. The two apps I am trying are iMediaShare and MediaHouse as they seem to be currently supported. iMediaShare looks better than MediaHouse and I will probably use that one but both of them have the same result.
I am trying to get my Google TV box to play the media. From the Google TV box media player, if I try to play an MP3 directly from Mezzmo then it will play it so I know that Mezzmo->Google TV box works.
When I try iMediaShare (or MediaHouse), choosing Mezzmo as the source and the Google TV as the player, the same mp3 just shows on the screen as a broken 'z' and does not play.
The device settings in Mezzmo are
Device Name: iMediaShare [motorola DROIDX]
Device Profile: Sony Google TV
The Device Name actually set itself like this! The Device Profile name I set myself because I think I remember you said this was required (in another reply to one of my threads). It seems a bit of an annoyance since this dedicates the phone to be a controller. If instead I wanted to play to it as a local device I would have to go to the PC and change the Mezzmo profile to RockPlayer or something else.
Maybe this isn't the way to do it? Also I should mentioned I recently got a new Cisco 6500 N-router. I don't think this makes a difference but it does have its own Twonky DLNA server built in.
I am trying to get my Google TV box to play the media. From the Google TV box media player, if I try to play an MP3 directly from Mezzmo then it will play it so I know that Mezzmo->Google TV box works.
When I try iMediaShare (or MediaHouse), choosing Mezzmo as the source and the Google TV as the player, the same mp3 just shows on the screen as a broken 'z' and does not play.
The device settings in Mezzmo are
Device Name: iMediaShare [motorola DROIDX]
Device Profile: Sony Google TV
The Device Name actually set itself like this! The Device Profile name I set myself because I think I remember you said this was required (in another reply to one of my threads). It seems a bit of an annoyance since this dedicates the phone to be a controller. If instead I wanted to play to it as a local device I would have to go to the PC and change the Mezzmo profile to RockPlayer or something else.
Maybe this isn't the way to do it? Also I should mentioned I recently got a new Cisco 6500 N-router. I don't think this makes a difference but it does have its own Twonky DLNA server built in.