KDL-40NX803 and Samsung Galaxy S3 Lte via DLNA

[theracles]

I'm desperately hoping that you guys will once more ride to my rescue!

I have decided to join the folks in the 21st century and get myself a smartphone.

As expected it's a damn sight smarter than I am.... even though it's almost 5 months old.

I was sat in my lounge exploring it's features.. (Wife speak.."playing with it") whilst oh wise one was watching some drivel on the TV.

Suddenly the world caved in on me!

The TV programme suddenly died, and the music I was listening to blasted out through the now blacked out TV...lol, the wife's face was a picture but the language was less than ladylike!

Non the less, she was impressed!

I would  have been too, if I could have remembered how I had achieved it!

I eventually sussed out how to do it and ventured into my picture gallery.... and yes that too worked!

O a roll, I tried video, but here the wheels came off.... I got a cryptic message with the title :

"Change player", and displaying an exclamation mark in a triangle.

The body of the message read :-

"Player is not available. Check the network status and connected device"

That means nothing to me.

I'm hoping someone here will be able to guide me through it successfully

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Sorry about all the edits, I was trying to correct a spelling mistake and it did something unexpected! Not sure if this additional info is pertinent, but I had a falling out with Java and uninstalled it to speed up my machine! Not yet installed it again so Serviio not working at present.

[theracles]

Hey Quinnicus! thanks for that, sounds like a plan!

I'll give it a try.

Hope you're getting better weather than we are here in Cheshire! :smileygrin: 

[theracles]

So much for bubble upnp it won't play anything at all from my phone to TV, From my PC to Phone, nothing, just loads of inscruitable messages telling you why it can't do anything!

How do I get this digital doggy doo off my phone?

[Anonymous]

Sorry it didn't work for you, it's just that I had it working a while ago.

To remove follow instructions from website below,  or via play store

http://mobilecrazies.com/2013/04/how-to-uninstall-apps-on-samsung-galaxy-s-iii/

Cheers

[theracles]

Thanks Quinnicus, I was panicking a bit 'cos I'm new to Android and still trying to understand the phone!

Found the method for uninstalling but trying to find a source of "help for simpletons" about it before consigning it to digital landfill!

[Nielsen]

Scrolling back to your first issue: Like the Samsung guy told you, your TV doesn't probably support (codec wise) your family video clip. There is no codec updating from SONY, if you are using latest firmware.

Workaround  :

1. Use serviio from your PC and skip the phone for this purpose

2. Convert your video clip into Sony friendly format and use phone.

Have you tried another clip (from another source)?

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Choices

[theracles]

Thanks Nielsen, but it must be something other than codecs which are causing the problem.

I have some clips on my phone's Micro SD card copied from my PC.

These play just fine from the PC to TV using  either Media Player, or Serviio.

Nothing (Video) will play from the phone to the TV either with the phone's own pre-installed software, or with "bubbleupnp"  which Quinnicus recommended.

I'm still trying to find advice concerning the "bubbleupnp" App. but not confident.

Thanks for trying to help.

[theracles]

Sorry message disappeared so I re-posted it.

Case of Now you see it Now you don't!:smileyplain:

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