[FIXED] Streaming iPod encoded .mp4 over network

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I've got an annoying problem that I don't know how to fix.

I have a script that uses handbrake to encode videos for me and spits them out as a .mp4 file. I used to view these from a local open web directory so I could stream them while I was in the bath or in the kitchen or having a dump or whenever I wasn't in front of my TV.

They work on my iPhone, iPod touch and on the various Android things I put on my HD2. How can it work on a flashed WinMo phone and not on a proper Android device?

What's frustrating is that they work when I transfer them over using Astro or downloading them in the browser. I assume it would work if I put them on a memory stick but all of these solutions take more time.

I was thinking I should root the Tab and put a custom Android on it, but is there anything else I can do without re-encoding a bunch of files?

What exactly is the problem? How are you trying to stream them?

I have an open web directory which is basically just a list of .mp4 files. I open the browser and point it to my site, 192.168.1.3/movies, and then click on whatever I want to watch.

Then usually it gives me an option of what app I want to play it in and I usually just pick the default video player.

This doesn't work on the Tab where it does on my other devices (Android and iOS).

So the problem is that its not giving you an option to pick which app to open the .mp4 with?

Maybe you dont have any other apps that can play the file?-

It does give me an option, it just refuses to play saying that the type is not supported. I've tried the built in video player, rockplayer, meridian. I've also tried it on a file manager like Astro.

The files just refuses to play like they do on my hacked HD2 and iPhone.

Are you trying to emulate this like the AllShare program? Cant seem to get this to work too on the network media

I don't know what AllShare is unfortunately. Did it work on a previous device?

Allshare is sammys DLNA client. Its pretty good for small folders on a LAN server. But it doesn't understand headers very well. Search is your friend.

Someone pointed me in the right direction on another board.

Originally Posted by Another Forum

OK, figured it out. The problem is that most MPEG4/QuickTime muxers append a critical piece of metadata to the end of the file and it needs to be moved to the beginning to allow streaming/progressive downloading in the Android media player (it's not a Samsung-specific problem).

If you already have a bunch of non-streaming-compatible MP4 files, there's a tool that comes with ffmpeg called qt-faststart that rewrites them (without reencoding) in a compatible fashion.

Also, it looks like Handbrake 0.9.2 and up have an option for producing "Web optimized" MPEG-4 files, which if you enable should fix future videos.