Stream all your Video from PC to Xbox One

How to stream video to Xbox One? This article teaches the way streaming all videos from PC to your game console Xbox One with ease.

If you’ve got a Xbox One, you’re in luck, because that’s our today’s lesson. It must be a huge waste to just play HD games on your Xbox One, you can also regard it as a media player. And in this Video to Xbox One guide, I will teach you how to stream any video from PC to Xbox One.

Part 1: Stream Xbox One Supported Video Formats

Xbox One is capable of receiving and displaying video streams from Windows Media Center 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs. So long as the PC and Xbox One reside on the same network, the streaming process is fairly simple.

1. Make sure you have the video application open on your Xbox One.



2. Check your PC network settings and ensure that the Xbox One is visible on the network. If it is not, make sure both devices are properly connected and configured to see one another.



3. Check your Xbox One Preferences under Settings and make sure “Play To” support is enabled.



4. Select a locally-stored video file on your PC. Most popular video file formats should work.

5. Right click the file or files you wish to play.

6. Select the “Play To” option.

7. A drop down menu should appear listing all compatible decides detected on your home network. You should see your Xbox One listed among them.

8. Select your Xbox One. The stream will load and then begin playing.

The Xbox One’s video controls will then take over, allowing you to pause and play the stream without touching your PC again.

• Read How to connect Windows Media Center to Xbox 360?

Part 2: Stream all your Video from PC to Xbox One

Note: There is still one important matter we should mention that the copied video files should be compatible with Xbox One or the Xbox cannot read the video files at all. If you don’t have a Xbox One compatible-video file, you should convert the video files to Xbox One playable format first.

To get the work done, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the highly recommended tool for you. (Read review) With the professional Xbox One Video Converter, you can convert your un-compatible video files to Xbox One MP4 video easily and quickly. That is to say all kinds of video formats could be played on Xbox One by converting. Moreover, you can freely edit your videos like trimming, cropping, adding watermark, adjusting the effect. Now just download the free trail and follow the steps below to see how it works.

Step 1: Import video/movie files.

Launch the best Xbox One Video Converter(Mac version is here). Click “Add video” to import videos from PC.



Step 2: Select an output format for Xbox One and set the output folder as you need.

Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”. From the sublist, the “Xbox 360 Video - Windows Media Video(*.wmv)”, “Xbox 360 Video (640*480)(*.wmv)”, “Xbox 360 HD Video (*.wmv)” are all the friendly formats for you to copy videos/movies to Xbox One for enjoyment. It is also possible to convert your videos to PS3.



Step 3: Trim the videos/movies for Xbox One.

Click the Edit function and you will go into the “Video Editor” windows. In the interface, click the “Trim” icon, and then trim your videos/movies. Usually, you can trim your videos/movies into two parts.

Step 4: Start converting your videos/movies to Xbox One.

Click the “Convert” button; it will convert videos/movies to Xbox One immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface. After the conversion, you will be able to get the first movie/video part for Xbox One via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly.

Now you can copy/tranfer videos/movies to Xbox One without any video size restriction. Also learn how to rip Blu-ray, DVD or ISO files for Xbox One.

Stream videos from my DSLR on NAS to PS3 for playback

Is it possible to access my own DSLR files on NAS to PS3? Now follow this article to play high-bitrate DSLR videos on PlayStation 3 smoothly effortlessly!

Question: I mainly store photos and videos from my DSLR on my NAS. I want to review high-bitrate footage on an HDTV (PlayStation 3) and stream it to my iPad when I'm not home. But it is really a huge conflict between DSLR videos on NAS and PS3 Media Player. What should I do? 

PS3 tends to serve as the all-in-on hub for your home entertainment. However, PS3 supported video formats are quite limited as below:
VIDEO: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PS,TS), H.264/MEPG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 SP
MUSIC: ATRAC (.oma .msa .aa3), AAC (.3gp .mp4), MP3 (.mp3), WAV (.wav)
IMAGES: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF


To watch DSLR video files on PS3, the movie file needs to be converted to H.264 video, with the file extension like .mp4 or .avi. Therefore, if you want to stream videos from my DSLR on NAS to PS3 for playback, an PS3 Video Converter is needed.

And according to the PS3 users' feedback, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate/iMedia Converter for Mac is supposed to be the right choice. It's offers a hassle-free solution to seamlessly make any file fully compatible with the PS3. With it, you can fast change MXF, MTS, MOV, MP4 DSLR movie files on NAS to PS3 compatible formats while keeping the orginal video quality. (Take a look at the review to learn more) Just download the program and follow the tips below to easily make PS3 play your DSLR videos.

How to convert videos from my DSLR on NAS to PS3 supported file format

1. Load DSLR vides to the converter

Download and install Video Converter for PS3 on your computer. Run it and directly drag and drop the recordings that you want into the main window of this converter. You can also add your video clips by clicking the “Add Video” button on the left bottom. This Ultimate Converter can also rip your Blu-ray, DVD and YouTube video to play on PS3.

2. Select format for PS3

After the files are added, click Format > PSP/PS3 and set output video format as PS3 Video(720P) MPEG-4(*.mp4) which the compatible MP4 preset for streaming via PS3 with best video quality.



Note: PS3 just plays the MP4 files with H.264 video codec and AAC audio. Click the Settings icon to set the correct video, audio codecs.



3. Begin the conversion

Hit the Convert button to start converting DSLR video from NAS to PS3 for playback.

4. Import Video To PS3 And Enjoy On Bigger Screen

After conversion, you could find converted video in the output folder. Copy them to your memory card, external drive or even an iPod, and then plug the storage media into your PlayStation 3 through USB.



You see, there is flashing indicating USB device (storage device) inserted. Click it and select the video that you want to import. Pressing the triangle button gives you several options -- navigate to "copy"or "move"(find the difference here).

Once your transferring is done, your imported video will end up in your PS3 video playlist. And now, you could enjoy your videos from my DSLR on NAS on PS3 system. It is easy right? And are you ready to try it by yourself?

High Quality Video Compression: Integrating an H.265/HEVC Solution for Android Platforms

This article introduces Strongene's H.265/HEVC solution on Intel Atom processor-based Android tablet. If you have any H.265 playback problem on Android or wanna an alternative, please refer.

For the HD videos are very popular today, most of us must have some HEVC files in Android Platforms. Here offers you some effective H.265/HEVC Solutions, we will provide you with information on products and services that we consider useful and of value to developers.

 

Abstract

According to the International Data Corporation, the total amount of global data for 2012 reached 2.7 zettabytes, an increase of 48% from 2011. Ninety percent of the global data was videos. Video apps consumed 66% of the total Internet data flow, and that number continues to increase rapidly. End users want to watch high quality videos but, for online video providers, costs of purchasing the network bandwidth and the storage devices grow increasingly expensive every year. How can video content providers meet the challenge of large data sources and their increasing storage requirements? Is it possible to achieve high quality videos with smaller bandwidth? The solution to these challenges is found in utilizing a video core compression technique known as High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC).

Some open source communities such as FFmpeg are developing an H.265/HEVC decoder, but the performance has not yet reached commercial use capability. Strongene Ltd., a producer of video codec core technology, has developed advanced H.265/HEVC encoder/decoder solutions, including optimized H.265/HEVC encoder/decoder libraries and demonstration codes for Intel® Atom™ processor-based Android platforms. This article introduces Strongene's H.265/HEVC solution on Intel Atom processor-based Android tablet (condenamed Bay Trail).

Strongene's H.265/HEVC Solution

To evaluate a good video standard, we generally use efficiency and compatibility standards. The video standard evolution over the past 20 years is shown in the following graph:




Figure1. Video standard history

H.265/HEVC is the successor codec to H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding), both were developed jointly by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is to provide 50% better compression efficiency than H.264 and support resolutions up to 8192 x 4320.

As shown in Figure 1, it took 9 years to evolve from MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC, so more challenges are expected to be encountered in moving from the H.264/AVC standard to the H.265/HEVC standard. Gaps between the technical concept and the actual quality of the product still exist for H.265/HEVC. However, H.265/HEVC does a good job of balancing the efficiency and compatibility requirements, which make up the next level of video standards.

Strongene's H.265/HEVC solutions were optimized using YASM assembler compiler, Intel® C++ Compiler, Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE), and Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), with OpenGL* used for rendering. By directly uploading the decoded YUV420 data to the GPU, it finishes the transcoding of YUV data to RGB data and renders the RGB data to LCD. This reduces the CPU's workload and improves performance. The data stream is shown in the following diagram:

Figure2. Render method comparison

On an Intel Atom processor-based tablet (codenamed Bay Trail), after having been tested by Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) tool, the optimized H.265/HEVC decoder refresh rate can reach 90 FPS (frames per second) when playing a 1080p HEVC video. If we set the refresh rate to 24 FPS on the Bay Trail tablet when playing the 1080p video, the CPU workload is less than 25%. Thus, Strongene's H.265/HEVC solution achieves commercial use capability.

Analysis of the APIs of Strongene's H.265/HEVC Solution

The APIs of Strongene's H.265/HEVC solution are easily used directly with or integrated into FFmpeg open source. Strongene defined five functions and one structure for the H.265/HEVC decoder, as listed below:

Structure:

lenthevcdec_ctx;

Description: It is the context of decoder for identifying different decoders.

Functions:

1. Unit32_t lenthevcdec_version(void);

Description: For getting API version of current library.

2. lenthevcdec_ctx lenthevcdec_create(int threads, int comoatibility, void* reserved);

Description: Create decoder with specified parameters.

Example: 

int32_t got_frame, width, height, stride[3], ret, i;
uint8_t* pixels[3];
int64_tpts, got_pts;
for ( i = 0; i <au_count; i++ ) {
pts = i * 40;
got_frame = 0;
ret = lenthevcdec_decode_frame(ctx, au_buf + au_pos[i], au_pos[i + 1] -
au_pos[i], pts,&got_frame, &width, &height, stride, (void**)pixels,
&got_pts);
if ( ret < 0 ) {
fprintf(stderr, 
"calllenthevcdec_decode_frame failed! ret=%dn", ret);
exit(1);
}
if ( got_frame> 0 ) {
printf("decode frame, %dx%d, pts is %" PRId64 "n", 
width, height, got_pts);
/* got frame, do something ... */
}
} 

How to Integrate Strongene's H.265/HEVC Solution

Developers can easily integrate these five functions when developing HEVC video players. The documentation and sample code are available from Strongene's download web site.

Developers can directly call the Strongene's H.265/HEVC APIs to develop their video players, or they can merge Strongene's H.265/HEVC patch for FFmpeg, and then use the merged FFmpeg APIs to develop their video players. The following paragraph introduces the two methods separately.

Directly Use Strongene's APIs to Develop Video Players
On Strongene's web site, developers can download the:

• sample code testdec.c/lenthevcdec.h 
• decoder: liblenthevcdec.so 
• documents: lenthevcdec_en.pdf, the Makefile 

Copy the sample code to Ubuntu* build machine into separate folders: 

wangsy@ubuntu:~/Desktop cp testdec.c Makefille ~/hevc/src
wangsy@ubuntu:~/Desktop cp lenthevcdec.h  ~/hevc/include
wangsy@ubuntu:~/Desktop cp liblenthevcdec.so ~/hevc/lib/Android_x86 

Set up ANDROID_NDK_HOME environment with the "export" command:

export ANDROID_NDK_HOME= $ ANDROID_NDK_HOME :/~/android-ndk-r9c 

Then you can run the demo on the Android devices directly.

Use the H.265/HEVC Patch for FFmpeg to Develop the Video Players
In fact, most developers will use the open source FFmpeg to develop their video players. Strongene's web site also provides the patch for FFmpeg, which can be downloaded from:lentoid_ffmpeg2.0_patch_2014_01_23_new_encoder_interface.patch

To merge this patch, you should also download and decompress the FFmpeg 2.0.4 version. Then add the patch:

wangsy@ubuntu:~/ffmpeg-2.0.4
patch &ndash;p1 < ./lentoid_ffmpeg2.0_patch_2014_01_23_new_encoder_interface.patch

Copy the downloaded headfile and the libs code to ~/ffmpeg-2.0.4/thirdparty 

cp lenthevcdec.h lenthevcenc.h liblenthevcdec.so liblenthevcenc.so ~/ffmpeg-2.0.4/thirdparty 

Copy the following configure file to ~/ffmpeg-2.0.4 and add the "run" permissions: 

wangsy@ubuntu: cp build_x86.sh ~/ffmpeg-2.0.4
wangsy@ubuntu: sudo chmod a+x ~/ffmpeg-2.0.4/build_x86.sh 

Download build_x86.txt

Run the configure file "build_x86.sh" (embedded above), then run the "make" and "make install" commands. The merged FFmpeg with Strongene's H.265/HEVC patch should now be built successfully. The output libs will be under ~/FFmpeg2.0.4/android/x86/lib. You can use these output libs in your video players.

Summary

The H.265/HEVC standard is becoming more and more popular in the mobile market. Online video providers, mobile Internet users, and broadcast/TV operators are the beneficiaries of this new video revolution, along with users. To produce the results described in this article, Strongene's H.265/HEVC solutions were fully optimized for Intel® Atom™ processor-based Android platforms, so don't hesitate to adopt their solutions to develop HEVC players. 

via codeproject.com 

Editor's Note:

Didn't understand? Never mind! Due to the complex process, you may meet unexpected problems. Please comment below.

If you need an easy-to-use yet powerful H.265 encoder, decoder and converter, the upgraded Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate will be the perfect solution. It is clean and safe to install and use. With it, you can not only effortlessly transcode Blu-ray, DVD and non-H.265 video to H.265/HEVC MP4 for Android, but also decode H.265 video to any video format for playback on media player, Android devices and game consoles without problems. It works well and converts flawlessly. 

Convert FLV MKV MTS MP4 WMV AVI to Blackberry Z10/Z30 in a Simplest Way

This tutorial shares best Blackberry Video Converter and guide on how to convert video to Blackberry Z10/Z30 for you to play whatever video freely.

Blackberry delivers an incredible multimedia experience on the go, so I am thinking of buying the new Blackberry Z10 or Z30 for movie enjoyment. I have never bought any Blackberry product before. Can someone tell me if I can play videos on Blackberry Z10/Z30 directly or if not? Any restrictions? Is there any neat Blackberry Z10/Z30 video converter to help with this?

In this article, we will bring an easy solution to convert FLV MKV MTS MP4 WMV AVI videos to Blackberry Z10/Z30 with a reliable Blackberry video converter.

Supported Video Formats for Blackberry Z10/Z30

Before you transfer movies onto BlackBerry Z10 or Z30 you need to know BlackBerry supported format and best compatible format below:

Video codec support



Audio codec support



Best Video Converter for Blackberry Z10/Z30

The above Blackberry Z10/Z30 video formats are obviously not sufficient to cover all the videos as they exist in hundreds of different formats like MKV, AVI, MTS etc and various codecs turn that number into the thousands.

Feel confused? Don't worry, there is a professional Blackberry Video Converter named Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, which is specially designed for BlackBerry users (including BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl, and so on.) to convert WMV, FLV, VOB, MTS, MPEG, AVI to Blackberry Z10/Z30 playable format. It is known as best Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate Alternative and top Ultimate Converter.

How to Convert FLV MKV MTS MP4 WMV AVI to Blackberry Z10/Z30 

Step 1. Download and install Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, then lanuch it.

Step 2. Import video files.

Load your video files like MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MTS, MXF, MOV, TOD, MOD, 3GP, FLV, F4V, M4V, etc. to this Blackberry Video Converter by clicking the second icon “Add video”.



Step 3. Choose output format.

MP4 format is the best format for BlackBerry Z10/Z30. Click "Format" menu and go through the dropdown list, you are recommended to choose the "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" under "Common Video" which fits for BlackBerry Z10/Z30.



Tips: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like bitrate, size, audio channels, etc to meet your requirement.

Step 4. Convert Various Videos to BlackBerry Z10/Z30.

Hit the big "Convert" button to start converting videos for BlackBerry phone and if you do not remember the location of generated files, click "Open" button to find it quickly. Now start transferring converted video to BlackBerry Z10/Z30 for playback. 

With this powerful Blackberry video converter, all movies including Blu-ray, DVD and videos downloaded from the Internet, shot with digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, tablets, and output from screen recording program, video editing software etc can be easily converted to Blackberry Z10/Z30 with faster speed and no quality loss. Take action to have a try!

Also you can use Skype app or play top 5+ Free BlackBerry 10 games on your Blackberry Z10. 

Is it possible to edit Sony PMW-200 XDCAM footage on Mac FCP without XDCAM Transfer?

This post explains how to re wrap video files taken with a Sony PMW-200 to ProRes 422 .mov for editing in Final Cut Pro fluidly with best quality.

Sony is unveiling the newest addition to its XDCAM HD4:2:2 line – the PMW-200 camcorder. This new model boasts three 1/2 -inch Exmor CMOS sensors and full HD 4:2:2 50 Mbps recording. Is it possible to edit Sony PMW-200 XDCAM footage on Mac FCP? If you have preordered a PMW-200 Camera, you may want to know the answer to this question.

There're lots of headaches with workflow of Sony PMW-200 XDCAM media into Final Cut Pro even with the XDCAM Transfer Sony providing, as far as I know, the best workaround to make PMW-200 XDCAM footage well compatible with FCP 6/7 and FCP X is converting PMW-200 video files to Apple ProRes for FCP.

Software requirement – Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac.

This program is better than Sony XDCAM Transfer. XDCAM Transfer will turn XDCAM files into QT MOV when it copies source files from the camera media to the computer. Well, this XDCAM Converter allows you to convert Sony XDCAM to Prores .mov for FCP editing with zero quality loss. Plus, it also supporting transcoding Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX to AIC for iMovie/FCE, DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro.

Wanna output Multi-track ProRes for FCP? Here are steps.

Convert and Import Sony PMW-200 XDCAM footage to FCP on Mac

Step 1: Import PMW-200 XDCAM video clips

Install and run the Sony XDCAM to FCP Converter on Mac, and then click "Add Video" icon to import your PMW-200 recordings directly from your camcorder or the copied folder on the desktop.



Step 2: Choose Final Cut Pro video format

Hit the Format box to select the specially designed video codec for editing in FCP: Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes Codec 422(*.mov). Learn types of Apple ProRes Codecs.



Step 3: Advanced video/audio settings (Optional)

Adjust the video and parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings buttion on the main interface.

Step 4: Start Sony PMW-200 XDCAM to FCP conversion

Click the arrow button to start transcoding Sony PMW-200 XDCAM footage to Prores for FCP immediately. After the conversion finished, you can directly transfer the Prores .MOV video to FCP for further editing without any problem (Just launch Final Cut Pro, click Import File > Import > Movies to add your videos).

P.S. Besides transcoding Sony XDCAM to FCP, Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac can also convert Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX files (from PMW-100, PMW-EX3, PMW-EX1R, PMW-EX1, PMW-320K, PMW-200, PDW-F800… ) to iMovie, FCE, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc NLE systems on Mac(Mavericks and Yosemite included). Choose a proper format in the second step.

Also read how to edit Sony XDCAM files in After Effects and Magix Movie Edit Pro 2015 Plus.