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UPnP AV Player for HP Touchpad

Richard Brookes-Tee
posted this on July 10, 2011 22:12

So what is it, well our UPnP AV Player enables you to browse and view your Pictures, watch your Videos and listen to your Audio tracks that you have stored upon a UPnP Media server thats connected to the same Wifi network as your Touchpad, upon your Touchpad.

You can also import media from your UPnP Media Server onto your Touchpad for viewing whilst not connected to your Wifi network.

Here are a few screenshots of the key features.

Server Discovery

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Folder Structure

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Music

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Pictures

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Carousel

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Videos

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Selecting Media to Import

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Importing Media

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Ben Klopfenstein

where do I get this?

August 10, 2011 23:35
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi Ben,

Just waiting for HP to add to the cataloge.

Thanks

Richard

 

August 10, 2011 23:57
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Ben Klopfenstein
hi Richard, any word on price?
August 11, 2011 00:43
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Gary Gendel

Richard,

This has a nice clean layout. Is it possible to have a free app to use for testing your discovery mode (possibly with lots of debugging output)?  Bhome's free app doesn't see my DLNA server (serviio) on my LAN, but my other DLNA clients (on other machines) have no issue.  It's nice to know if it will or won't work before a purchase.

Regards,

Gary

August 11, 2011 11:01
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Ben and Gary, the apps now available in the App Catalog.

There is a fully functioning free version for you to test before purchasing. 

These are the prices for the full version.

France : 3.74 EUR
Germany : 3.74 EUR
Ireland : 3.74 EUR
Mexico : 38.00 MXN
Spain : 3.74 EUR
United Kingdom : 2.99 GBP
United States : 3.74 USD

Thanks

Richard

 

August 11, 2011 21:03
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Eric Woolf

As of 21 August, I don't see the app in the catalog.  What title should I search under?

August 21, 2011 19:29
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Gary Gendel

search for "upnp" it should find it.

August 21, 2011 19:39
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Eric Woolf

Only the Bhome app shows up.

 

August 21, 2011 22:04
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi Eric,

What country are you in? 

If you could let me know, I'll contact HP and see if theres something wrong.

Thanks

Richard

August 21, 2011 23:27
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Eric Woolf

USA.  Thanks.

August 22, 2011 00:42
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi Eric,

one more question, is your touchpad on webOS 3.0.2, or still on 3.0.0 as the app needs 3.0.2.

you can check by going to the Settings tab on the launcher and opening the system updates app.

thanks

Richard

August 22, 2011 01:08
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Eric Woolf

The update to 3.02 just came through this morning and the app now appears in the catalog.  I will give it a try.  Thanks.

August 22, 2011 10:58
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Bill Cheung

Hi Richard,

I'm a user from Australia.

Our app store does not cater for paid apps :(

how can I pay and get this app onto my TP?

August 23, 2011 23:56
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Alan Warmington

Hi Richard, i'm also from australia. Our paid app store is up and running but I haven't seen this jn our store yet. Are you able to add this to the australian catalogue?

thanks very much.

August 29, 2011 05:24
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi Alan,

I have marked this as available for Australia and New Zealand, several days ago.  Just waiting for HP to action it.

thanks

richard

August 29, 2011 09:36
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Tom Burns

I used the Discovery (free) version for about 5 days last week, and found it to be slow but worked very well. Came back to buy the full version this week and noticed an Update to the (free) version I was using. Downloaded the update, and now the app cannot find my upnp server at all. I had already updated the oS to 3.0.2, I'm in the USA, and nothing else is any different than it was from last week, except the update. Have also restarted the TouchPad - no luck.

September 01, 2011 22:39
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Tom Burns

Please disregard my above post... I've discovered the issue and it was an ID10T error (that spells 'idiot').

It's working just fine - going for full purchase. Thank you ever so much for developing this capability - this Rocks!

September 02, 2011 01:10
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taktha

Hi Richard,

 I download free version UPNP yesterday. Not sure if I missed something. My touchpad and PC is on same WIFI. I can find my PC (OS Win 7) name and touchpad name (2 Media server) in "Server Discovery" page. But there is no folder in "Folder Structure" page. How can I copy my MP3 from my PC to touchpad by UPNP?

Thanks

September 03, 2011 16:47
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Stuart H

Hi I have purchased this app. But I'm not that impressed as video and mp3 audio stutter and do not play smoothly. Another app in the store, manages to play everything ok with no stuttering. Do you know of the issue and if so is there a patch lined up for it?

Regards

Stuart

September 03, 2011 23:10
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi taktha, is all your media accessable via Windows Media Player and have you turned on Media Streaming.

This guide should help you set it up if not already done.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Getting-started-with-media-streaming

Let me know how you get on.

 

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for buying, I've not heard of this issue from anybody else, I'll take a look though and will patch.  What media server are you running?

Thanks

Richard

 

 

September 04, 2011 00:11
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taktha

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your reply. It works like magic. One more question. Does your full version support RMVB, AVI, WMV format? Do you have plan to support these formats later if not?

September 04, 2011 00:35
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Vijay Subramaniam

Richard,

 

Is there a way to disable the extension detection.  I am running mediatomb and I think I have transcoding setup properly but I keep all my files as a .mkv.  So when I click it in the UPnP AV Player it automatically tells me the file format is not support.  I am transcoding to mp4 so I need to be able to bypass the file extension check to see if it works.

Thanks

Vijay

September 06, 2011 02:09
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Daniel

I was wondering if anyone else was having issues with it loading the list from where you are streaming from very slowly.  I have almost 4000 songs and it takes many minutes for the entire list to load for me to see all the songs available.  Is this just something that I must live with, or do I need to tweaked settings somewhere?

September 08, 2011 06:27
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Daniel

adition for above comment,

I am streaming from my home computer which I setup to stream media, movies and music.  This is done strictly on my home network.  Computer has gigabit network adapter and router is gigabit dual band.  I have the touchpad connected via the 5 ghz band.

September 08, 2011 06:29
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TTH

How can I purchase the app if my touchpad doesn't allow me to create an account?

September 17, 2011 05:00
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Manix Bamba

bamba 828

September 21, 2011 00:34
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Manix Bamba

the application do n wa

September 25, 2011 18:24
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harold flamenbaum

Hi Richard.   I so want to use your app, but for some reason, it finds the root of my NAS, but not any of the sub-directory locations. What do i need to do to see more than the root.

Thanks

Harold

September 26, 2011 00:42
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

We've just pushed version 1.1.0.  This includes several fixes.

Stuart, the stuttering should be gone now :)

Vijay, give it a go now, instead of checking the file extension, it now checks the collection of files presented back from the server to find a compatible mimetype.  (It used to just pick the first.) 

Daniel, I've speeded up the browsing significantly so hopefully the new version is fine for you.  If not, let me know.

 

September 29, 2011 12:52
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

HI Harold,

What UPnP server are you running on your NAS?

Thanks

Richard

September 29, 2011 12:53
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Kenny Graves

Plese tell me where and how to buy this app. I would like to add it to my HP tocuhpad

September 29, 2011 14:33
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Richard Brookes-Tee
Norvinet Ltd

Hi Kenny,

You should be able to purchase it from the HP App Catalog.  It's under the "Entertainment" category.

Thanks

Richard

September 29, 2011 15:40
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steve

Hello Richard

I'm running Tversity. All of the computers on my network see the Tversity server. My Touchpad with upnp AV Player cannot see it however. I consistently get 'No Servers Found'. I tried with Windows Media Player as well - same result. Any suggestions?

Thank You.

October 04, 2011 00:36
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djSPUD

Any plans on supporting other codecs that are not covered by the Touchpad stock player? (divx, mkv,....)

October 11, 2011 15:26
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Kenny Graves

Good question. I am really liking the player and it was a good purchase. I also purchased Bhome but use thisone way more. If it supported divx, mkv, avi esp avi I would be so so happy even willing to pay a upgrade fee for it.

October 11, 2011 15:28
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