topic Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder in Tablets

Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Velenero — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:09:15 GMT

I have used File Commander to access a shared folder in my PC.

I can see all files listed, I can see pictures using Album, but when I try to play a video or an mp3, I get an error message "Cannot play video" or "Cannot play song".

This is really annoying, especially because I was able to do simple things like these with my old tablet.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Uliwooly — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:12:13 GMT

Are you sure you haven't deleted them?

settings > apps > all > album > clear data > restart the tablet

perhaps what you are seeing are thumbnails.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Velenero — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:19:52 GMT

Hi uliwooly,

I quite sure I haven't deleted them.

Those files are in a folder in my PC and I would like to play them remotely using the SMB protocol.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Uliwooly — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:24:21 GMT

How are you sharing the videos? are videos that you've recorded or downloaded from the playstore? if the later they could be copyright protected.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Rickard — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:02:00 GMT

Have you tried mounting the share? You can do that from Settings -> Storage -> Remote shares.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

SergioPL1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:23:39 GMT

Try Rickard solution. I'm using this way from the very beginning and it works almost perfect.

After disconnecting you may have some ghost pictures or videos in apps but they will disappear after some time.

Re: Playing videos from a remote shared folder

Velenero — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:57:23 GMT

It worked using Remote share!

Thank you all guys!