MyMedia for Kindle Fire (via lan url)

[RokuMN]

I have been using MyMedia for Roku and have been very impressed with
its ease of use and performance! I have also found that I can access
MyMedia via browser ([IP]:8001/feed) from other PCs on my home
network, which is awesome! My next effort was to try to access the
MyMedia feed from my wife's Kindle Fire, but this did not work the
same as the other PC browsers.

When I try to access MyMedia via the Silk browser on my wife's Kindle
Fire, I only get text displayed (no hyperlinks like on Firefox on the
PCs). I can copy and paste the text into the URL field to navigate
through my folder structure, although this is not very efficient.
When I finally get to a movie file (mp4 format), it starts to play the
file but then throws an error after about a minute. The error seems
to indicate that the Kindle Fire cannot find the steam anymore or that
it has stopped. I know that MyMedia may not be intended for this use,
but does anyone know whether it might be possible to get the Kindle
Fire's Silk brower to recongnize the MyMedia feed as hyperlinks and
then stream an entire file without issue?

I am a complete newbie to both MyMedia and Python, so I cannot tell
whether this is most likely an issue with my setup of the MyMedia
server (is there any buffer setting or the like?) or an issue with the
Kindle Fire. Since stroage on the Kindle Fire is limited, I think it
would be another great use of MyMedia if a simple tweak could make
MyMedia work through the Kindle Fire's browser! If this is too far
off topic or outside the intended use of MyMedia, I completely
understand. Thank you!

[Brian Taylor]

Something to try: See if it works any better if you disable cloud browsing on your kindle fire. It may be trying to use amazon's cloud servers to make your access to my media more efficient... but that's not going to work since your local mymedia server can't be reached by amazon's cloud servers.

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[RokuMN]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I tried disabling the
accelerated browsing, and it did not seem to have any impact.

Does it make sense that the RSS feed folders and files would show up
as hyperlinks in Firefox, but plain text (no hyperlinks) in the
Kindle's Silk browser? Is there anything that might disrupt the
stream/feed on the MyMedia side, or does it seem like this is purely
an issue on the Kindle's side? Thanks!

On Feb 21, 11:49 am, Brian Taylor <el.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something to try: See if it works any better if you disable cloud browsing
> on your kindle fire. It may be trying to use amazon's cloud servers to make
> your access to my media more efficient... but that's not going to work
> since your local mymedia server can't be reached by amazon's cloud servers.
>

[Brian Taylor]

I'm guessing its just how the Kindle browser decides to interpret the RSS feed. Chrome does something similar to what you're seeing as well.

Something else to try (browser support for this has been hit and miss) is the web player at http://your-server-ip:8001/static/player.html

My expectations are pretty low for that working. The audio code I used is supposed to use flash or HTML 5 for playback depending on what's available but it isn't very reliable.

[ashes00]

http://your-server-ip:8001/static/player.html is working from Chrome on W7 and Android.  Its great to get to play my music from the browser.  Has there been any thought of setting up the Video portion?  I have not been able to get that to work.  Maybe I ma missing something?  

Thanks for all the hard work.

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[Brian Taylor]

Web video is still really tricky -- mainly because of the wealth of formats and the non-wealth of browser support.

I haven't put any thought into it beyond "it'd be cool.... and hard... and not really worth it to me but if someone else wants to do it i'd support them!"

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