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Mezzmo Android app
Hi are there any plans to develop an Android app for Mezzmo?
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Not at the moment. Do you mean a client or a server?
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I think a Mezzmo client a la PlayOn Android app would be great. I never have any luck getting DLNA to stream on my various Motorola Android devices, even with various other media players installed. But with the PlayOn app I can stream anything from their server.
An alternative would be a Mezzmo Android profile that conforms to the very limited codecs that Android guarantees.
And lastly, I think the ability to add and customize our own profiles would be great. Tversity lets you do this, but is let down by its limited format support.
Right now I'm trialing both Mezzmo and PlayOn (I already have Tversity Pro but its transcoding seems to be broken on Win7) and at the moment PlayOn is definitely winning on the "just works" front, for my Android devices, anyway.
Thanks for reading!
Pete
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I've started spending more time here the past few days trying to get a good DLNA solution on Android due to my recent acquisition of a Motorola Xoom tablet (Android 3.0 device). So far it's kinda quirky indeed. The best DLNA client I found so far for Android was Twonky, and it only works on my 2.3 phone - no 3.0 support sadly.
What makes things difficult is that on Android DLNA clients tend to rely on a third party player to improve the list of supported codecs. And those players don't all have the same codec support. For example. Moboplayer will play a LOT of formats under Android because it's based on ffmpeg code.
So, the problem lies in the fact that even if Mezzmo can identify the DLNA client used on your Android device, it still wouldn't know what codecs are supported because it has no idea what media player is used. Means Mezzmo will need to have Android profiles that are manually selected by the user based on the device (determines codecs as well as screen size), the DLNA client (determines native codecs and protocol peculiarities) AND the media player program (determines actual codec support).
My personal suggestion there would be to create four generic Android profiles:
- Android Phone - Basic
- Android Phone - Extended (would assume an ffmpeg-based player)
- Android Tablet - Basic
- Android Tablet - Extended (would assume an ffmpeg-based player)
If you'd rather keep it to two profiles, then maybe make the Phone one assume basic codec support only, and the Tablet profile assume ffmpeg-based playback.
If you want to look more closely at what would be supported for the Extended profile, here are some of the most popular video players:
- Moboplayer (http://www.moboplayer.com/moboplayer_en.html) my choice so far on my tablet
- Rockplayer (http://www.rockplayer.com/index_en.html)
- Vitalplayer (http://www.appbrain.com/app/vitalpla...go.VitalPlayer)
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@RMerlin
The best Ive found so far for Android is PlayOn. They transcode everything to flash and have a dedicated player (though you can still use the server as a general DLNA server for other devices). The resolution is a bit low for tablets and looks scaled up on the Xoom, but the advantage is that it's the only way to watch Netflix on an Android device so far (they have a bunch of specialized "channels" in addition to streaming your own media). Another drawback is the lack of seeking in videos because of the transcoding, but I still think it's better than TVersity, albeit a it more expensive (though serving just your own media is in the free edition).
Cheers,
Pete
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Thank you for the links and information - we'll be improving our mobile device support and they'll come in handy when testing.
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