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Sony Bravia KD55XG8196 Android TV - NAS Media Playback - best Android app to achieve playback?

rjsdavis — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:51:31 GMT

Hello to all

I have the abovementioned Sony TV. I'm tying to find the slickest and most efficient way to access the media files (video files) presently stored on my Western Digital My Cloud NAS drive, and play them on my TV?

I've been experimenting with the KODI app - but this is really pretty poor. It doesn't show all of the video files that are in the video folder that it has been directed to, and throws up error messages.

I have installed PLEX onto the NAS drive, and as I write, the drive is still "processing" all of my video and audio files. Whilst there are many, many thousands of files, it is still doing this after about a day of processing. I downloaded the PLEX app last night, and connected it to the PLEX server on my NAS drive, and eventually got a film to stream, but it really didn't want to work at all, and needed to be "retry'd" a number of times before it eventually ran. I am assuming that this is because the NAS drive was "processing" all of my files at the time, as it still is now....

What other app solutions are there, that I can download onto my TV?

At the moment, I'm sort of "making do" by accessing the NAS files on my Android smartphone, and mirror-screening them onto the TV. This is no good in the long-term as it burns through the phone's battery. I've also cast these videos to my Chromecast device which is plugged into the TV, but this is a poor solution due to the sheer number of file types that Chromecast won't play!

Many thanks for any app or hardware solutions in reply.

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rooobb — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:32:42 GMT

There are too many things you are skipping to be helped... Your tv doesn't have any Kodi app, WD mycloud AFAIK doesn't have any plex server, thousand of files how are encoded (assuming you legally own them)...

The easiest answer should be to use the internal tv mediaplayer connected to the standard DLNA server available on your NAS (should be twonky)

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rjsdavis — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:47:08 GMT

"There are too many things you are skipping to be helped..."

Am I? What are they then? It's a simple enough post: What app can easily and reliably access NAS files and play them on my TV? One step. One app.

"Your tv doesn't have any Kodi app"

Yes, it does. It's on there right now and I've used it. It's a poor app.

"WD mycloud AFAIK doesn't have any plex server"

Yes, it does. It's on there right now and I've used it.

It's not amazing helpful if you're going to criticize the quality of the original post, or my missing "of so many things that I am skipping that I can't be helped", when it's overtly clear that you are guessing and don't even know what you're talking about! Why post if you don't know? Honestly...

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rooobb — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:16:22 GMT

I already posted the easiest solution without installing anything that you didn't mention (but maybe you already tried that...)

The tv model you wrote is not an android tv so please if you have kodi on it share a picture since it is really a big news .

I have a similar setup but with an android tv (kd55a1) and it works right out of the box (you should only activate the default media server on the wd my cloud and configure the directory to be shared).

BTW just for you to understand my doubt on your description: why are you using a chromecast on an Android TV if it is embedded in the tv itself?

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rjsdavis — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:40:56 GMT

"I already posted the easiest solution without installing anything that you didn't mention"

...except that you didn't actually post a "solution". You wrote a vague sentence without the benefit of any actual expertise and/or experience.

"The tv model you wrote is not an android tv so please if you have kodi on it share a picture since it is really a big news ."
Really? I must have magic skills to have downloaded the KODI app, from the Google Play store direct onto my TV . I'm really glad that you know more about the capabilities of the TV sitting on my wall right now, than I do, and have experienced it directly.

"BTW just for you to understand my doubt on your description: why are you using a chromecast on an Android TV if it is embedded in the tv itself?"
I'm not really worried about your "doubt" to be honest. The embedded casting of the TV itself is flaky and unstable, and drops the connection. The MS Screen Adapter and Chromecast are far more stable.... not that I need to explain this to address your "doubt".

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rooobb — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:22:46 GMT

Enjoy your video

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rooobb — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:50:32 GMT

Just for your info sony states that the tv model you wrote is not an android one and no chromecast function at all so the options are you wrote the wrong model number or you got a special tv. In amy case the solution I wrote is still valid in case you change mood https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/televisions/xg7002-series/specifications?cpint=SG_PRODUCT_DETAILS_PRI-TOUT-PDP-X70G_SERIES-EN_GL-2018-11-M01-EMPOWERPICTURES

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williamfsmith — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:17:46 GMT

Android TV kd55xg8196bu

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rooobb — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:21:46 GMT

Do you understand that XG81 is a different tv than XG70 that you wrote in the post? Quite different.

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williamfsmith — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:29:09 GMT

Title says KD55XG8196

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rooobb — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:47:04 GMT

Title says XG81 now

@williamfsmith "sorry I made a mistake excuse me for being rude let's start again" could have been enough from @rjsdavis . Don't know how do you know which tv he has.

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rjsdavis — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:04:06 GMT

You're correct William.

For some reason, I've picked up a stalker that's either guessing, or photoshopping. Either way - too much time on their hands. I don't know why some people become so argumentative on forums when they don't know an answer, or have an actual solution.

I don't suppose you've got any idea do you?

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rooobb — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:16:49 GMT

@rjsdavis be aware that everything is logged into this site: the title was XG7073 and you or someone else changed it only later for this thread. And don't call me a stalker or I'll ask you to be banned.

I know exactly how to make an Android TV work via DLNA with a WD mycloud since mine is working. It's you that are not capable of and for sure you'll never get any more help from me. Bye .

PS: go into your own profile and you'll see the tracking of the thread stating "XG7073" and my doubt about it. Only the First one has been now changed, not all the answers.

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rjsdavis — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 20:59:48 GMT

@rooobb

Thank goodness. So glad that my hopelessly incompetent stalker, who hasn't got a clue, is going to leave me alone now.

There were no answers. Just awful guesses.

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Derharne — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:55:43 GMT

I have a KD55XG8796 and I use NOVA video player from the Google play store. It finds my WDCloud as an SMB drive and It's excellent, has audio bypass so dts and dolby digital files play fine, also HDR files play fine and look great.

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rjsdavis — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:15:01 GMT

@Derharne

Many thanks for this suggestion - I'll download this app this evening and give it go....