Tag Archives: Streaming Media

Stream Media From Your PC To Network Devices With ALLMediaServer

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Have you been looking for a simple solution to stream videos, music or pictures on a smartphone or other DLNA compliant device directly from your computer? ALLMediaServer is probably what you need then. It’s a Digital Network Living Alliance (DLNA) server that gives access to media files stored on you PC across devices on your network. The application provides access to the connected devices on your network either through Ethernet or Wi-Fi. If you’re unfamiliar with DLNA, it’s a media sharing technology that uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for all the media management. Lucky for you, all of the modern gadgets, including Android, iOS, TVs, receivers etc., come packed with DLNA out of the box. In what follows, I will guide you how to setup ALLMediaServer to stream audio, video and photos to your multimedia gadgetry. Read More

Freemake Video Downloader Adds Download Queues, Speed Control & Native iPad Conversion

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Although video streaming is not something new, bringing it to mainstream by (the now-Google-owned) YouTube was nothing short of a tour de force. The company executed a brilliant idea of how we can share multimedia content with other folks around the globe. Back in July 2010, we covered an incredibly useful software that downloads video streams for offline viewing. Labeled Freemake Video Downloader, the application would let you instantly download videos from plentiful video streaming websites. The application packs some punchier features, such as one click download, video conversion to other formats, eye candy interface and so on, which makes it one of the best streaming media downloaders around. It’s been quite a while since we first reviewed it, and it has come a long way since then, introducing new options and bug fixes with incremental updates. The developers recently let out another updated version (3.1) of Video Downloader, which has added some promising new features (some which I had always craved for). A quick look at the change log and thorough testing revealed the following additions. Read More

MegaCloud For Android Allows On-The-Go Media Streaming From 5 GB Of Free Cloud Storage

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Cloud storage services seem to be arriving left, right and center these days. In just the past few weeks, we’ve seen Google Drive transform into a reality; Maxthon released Skyfile, whereas earlier this morning, LG jumped in with LG Cloud for Android. Another cloud storage service called MegaCloud has been around for quite some time now, catering to the online data storing, syncing and sharing needs of Windows, Mac and iOS users. The service has just released its official Android client too, which means that you can now remotely access, manage and share your MegaCloud content anywhere on the go. MegaCloud has been throwing an initial offer of 5GB of free cloud storage space to anyone who registers for a new account, and once you install its official mobile client, you are rewarded with an additional 1GB of storage space. Using the mobile client of MegaCloud, you can upload almost any file type to the cloud, and stream photos, videos and music files natively (video and music streaming does not seem to be working currently), without having to download the content beforehand. Read More

Home Media Center: Stream Photos, Music & Video Across Local Network

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Streaming media across a number of different devices connected to your home network is fun. With the advent of WiFi being integrated into nearly every device, such as laptops, iPhone, Android, Blu-ray players and even LCD TVs, people love to sync media files across their entire local network. Home Media Center is a server application to stream media files such as photos, video and music to UPnP / DLNA compatible devices. You can quickly and easily generate a local web host address, which can be used to get access to the files placed on your media center using a web (HTML) and UPnP interface. Supported output media files are MPEG2, WMV and WebM. More to follow after the jump. Read More

LXiMedia – Create DLNA Compatible TV, Xbox 360, And PS3 Media Server

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LXiMedia is an open source DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compatible media server application, which can fully transcode media in any selected format and allows streaming in real time across the network. LXimedia is designed to stream videos, music and photos to DLNA complaint television and media players (including PS3 and XBox 360). You can also stream media from one PC and view it (in a browser) on another, without the need of installing LXiMedia on both systems. Read More

Unsupported Android Devices Get Netflix Mod With Device Check Disabled

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A day after the official Netflix for Android was released to the Android Market with support for a meager five devices, we covered a simple hack that allowed users with root access on their devices to fool the Netflix app into thinking their devices were among the supported lot. While Android users with root access were busy editing their build.prop files, XDA member ften modded the app itself to prevent it from checking the identity device, providing a simpler solution that works for both rooted and unrooted devices. More after the break. Read More

Fetch.io Offers 20GB Online Storage To Save And Stream Media Files

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Do you hate the video streaming time restriction and download link generator that makes you wait for 60 odd seconds to begin downloading files? Many widely used file sharing and media streaming platforms, including, Rapidshare, MegaUpload, MediaFire, HotFile, FileSonic, MegaShares, etc, impose such constraints on downloading files and streaming videos, forcing user to eventually buy paid premium deals. We have advocated a handful of browser add-ons in the past to bypass such restrictions, such as, Illimitux, MegaVideo Forwarder, and Megaupload Skip Time, but sadly none provides the utility to download and stream from all aforementioned online file sharing platforms. Read More

Capture Streaming Media Online With Media Sniffer

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There is a plethora of free software out there that can download streaming videos not only from a host of sites, for example, FreeMake Video Downloader. Then there are download managers like Orbit Downloader that can do the same for you. However, what if you don’t want to use a dedicated downloader, and are not that much into fancy download managers either. For this kind of scenario, Media Sniffer is the right choice. Read More

Free Media Capture – Capture Streaming Media To Your PC

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The Internet is loaded with scores of websites that offer free audio and video streaming. Of these, the more popular sites, such as YouTube and Metacafe provide solutions that allow users to download media to their PCs. Unfortunately, the wide majority of other streaming websites do not offer similar methods of downloading media content to your PC. If you’re looking to capture streaming media content from any such website, Free Media Capture will help. Read More

URL Snooper: Streaming Audio & Video Recorder

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Most of the streaming media websites do not allow a user to download the stream – after all, what is the point of streaming something if the user can save it? While there are many recorder software available for most of the popular services, recording a stream from a rather unknown source can be challenging. URL Snooper comes into play at these times. Read More

The Last Ripper: Download & Save Songs From Last.fm

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Last.fm is one of the most popular internet radio service out there. Sporting a wide collection of music and various genres, this site becomes a top choice when you want to listen to something online. But what if you find a radio station that you want to listen to again? What if a song inspires you to keep for future listening? Last.fm does not allow any downloads, and this is where TheLastRipper comes into play. This program lets you save and download Last.fm’s streams as mp3, alongside album art, ID3v2 tags, and organizing the downloads neatly in Artist/Album/Track order. Read More