What Am I Watching Right now? MAJOR BREAKING BAD SPOILERS IN HERE!

My PCS is ancient and I need to stream from my tablet. On the downstairs TV I could copy the files to a USB and play via either the TV itself or the PS3. Trouble with copying things off the tablet is the time it takes. And, of course, if I want to watch upstairs my options are limited to ChromeCast.

wprager wrote:My PCS is ancient and I need to stream from my tablet.  On the downstairs TV I could copy the files to a USB and play via either the TV itself or the PS3.  Trouble with copying things off the tablet is the time it takes.  And, of course, if I want to watch upstairs my options are limited to ChromeCast.

Heh. Well, either keep fighting and struggling with the setup you have now or re-visit it, re-invest and start a new, much like the Vancouver Canucks.

shabbs wrote:Plex is pretty sweet. It's based on XBMC at it's core. Pretty slick interface.

I have an Apple TV v2 jail broken and running XBMC "Frodo" v12.3 at the core of my Media Center. Love it.

Interestingly, there is a Plex Android app that supports ChromeCast. But is this the media server or something else? The description includes this note: "NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A PLEX MEDIA SERVER (AVAILABLE FOR FREE AT https://plex.tv/downloads) INSTALLED AND RUNNING TO STREAM LOCAL MEDIA." So it doesn't sound like with this app alone (nearly $6 btw) I could play videos to ChromeCast.

I also installed LocalCast to try it out. Seems to play the video fine, and has buttons for subtitles, but clearly not meant for the embedded subtitles stream in the MP4 file. Perhaps if I download a .srt file, rename it to match the .mp4 file, then it will pick that up?

No idea.

Prags, I'm pretty sure for any Plex app to stream anything, you need Plex Media Server running on a computer on your network.  Could be wrong though, it'd be worth while checking out the Plex forums.

I see there is Plex for Apple TV. Hmmmm... may have to give it a look. Interesting.

tim1_2 wrote:Prags, I'm pretty sure for any Plex app to stream anything, you need Plex Media Server running on a computer on your network.  Could be wrong though, it'd be worth while checking out the Plex forums.

That's pretty much what I was implying. I need something that runs on my tablet -- my PC is unusable for anything other than testing my patients (that was for NEELY).

shabbs wrote:I see there is Plex for Apple TV. Hmmmm... may have to give it a look. Interesting.

I got the Plex App for my Roku 3, and it works incredibly well...the interface is really slick.  Nice having all the TV show/movie metadata automatically downloaded and displayed for me.

tim1_2 wrote:

shabbs wrote:I see there is Plex for Apple TV. Hmmmm... may have to give it a look. Interesting.

I got the Plex App for my Roku 3, and it works incredibly well...the interface is really slick.  Nice having all the TV show/movie metadata automatically downloaded and displayed for me.

Yeah, XBMC does that for me already. Love it. It hooks into the TV DB and Move DB on-line to pull in all the info, art, etc...

I played around with XBMC for a while and ended up uninstalling it, eventually. Now that my main TV is hooked directly into the router I think the HD playback will be much better, so I might give it another chance. It didn't have the ability to stream external subtitles (i.e. from a .srt file co-located with the video) but the GoT S1 I have has the subtitles included in the .mp4 file -- I should give it another try. And if they ever add ChromeCast support ...

XBMC handles subtitles easily. I needed that for "Captain Philips" and downloaded the file separately. You just need to have the proper naming convention so that it's picked up. It's all in the WIKI brah.

Hmm, will have to check this out later:

XBMC is the best.

shabbs wrote:XBMC handles subtitles easily. I needed that for "Captain Philips" and downloaded the file separately. You just need to have the proper naming convention so that it's picked up. It's all in the WIKI brah.

You seem to keep forgetting that I need to *stream* from my tablet to the TV (DLNA) or ChromeCast. XBMC absolutely does not do that for external subs (.srt file). It *should* do that for embedded subs (most torrents I find don't include subs; maybe this is changing). I might give it a try tonight.

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:XBMC handles subtitles easily. I needed that for "Captain Philips" and downloaded the file separately. You just need to have the proper naming convention so that it's picked up. It's all in the WIKI brah.

You seem to keep forgetting that I need to *stream* from my tablet to the TV (DLNA) or ChromeCast. XBMC absolutely does not do that for external subs (.srt file). It *should* do that for embedded subs (most torrents I find don't include subs; maybe this is changing). I might give it a try tonight.

I think your self-imposed limitation of streming FROM your tablet is your limiting factor. There's only so much you can do in that situation.

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:XBMC handles subtitles easily. I needed that for "Captain Philips" and downloaded the file separately. You just need to have the proper naming convention so that it's picked up. It's all in the WIKI brah.

You seem to keep forgetting that I need to *stream* from my tablet to the TV (DLNA) or ChromeCast.  XBMC absolutely does not do that for external subs (.srt file).  It *should* do that for embedded subs (most torrents I find don't include subs; maybe this is changing).  I might give it a try tonight.

I think your self-imposed limitation of streming FROM your tablet is your limiting factor.  There's only so much you can do in that situation.  

Yep. Live by the sword, die by the sword... or streaming tablet...

I can't use bittorrent on my laptop because of IT rules. Copying large files from the tablet to a USB device is slow and painful. That's why streaming is what I prefer.

Well, watched S1E01 of Game of Thrones last night. I'm not going to judge the show by the first episode, especially one where they clearly had to do a lot of exposition. I'm sure it'll get better because this one didn't really grab me. Sure, they were able to cram in gratuitous nudity, incest, beheadings (plural), multiple F-bombs, infidelity, rape (at a wedding, no less), child murder (or attempted murder), etc. Not really sure why they felt the need to do all of that in the first episode because much of it didn't really add to the story. Also I ended up having to go online and read a synopsis of the first couple of episodes to clear up some things. For example, I had no idea who the "wildlings" were -- I thought they were the ones with the glowing blue eyes, but apparently those are the White Walkers? This is the part where "the book is better" I suppose. Funny, despite what I said about exposition earlier, they could have done more, and leave some of the naughty bits until later episodes.

The one line that stood out to me was when "Angry Elf" said "All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes."