Can I "feed" video to my Blu-ray device?

[Kevin Ar18]

If you are familiar with devices like the Popcorn Hour, it's getting more common to feed many forms of video to the TV. However, I was wondering if I could do something similar with the features built into my Blue-Ray device.

It's a Samsung model: Profile 2.0 that supports Netflix and Pandora. So, it's capable of playing video from the internet and probably stuff downloaded to a USB stick.

I was wondering if anyone has created a method that will let me feed video to the Blue-Ray device by pretending to be Netflix or Pandora?
Or perhaps, there is a way to put videos on a USB stick and play those videos, because the device is Profile 2.0?
Or, maybe a crafty java app on a blue ray cd that will let me access stuff?

Anyways, just wanted to see if anybody knew of anything.

[gekke henkie]

I don't know which BD-player you have, but when thinking out loud here, would it be possible to put a wireless dongle in that usb-port and stream video that way (probably not)? Otherwise, a 32GB usb-stick (or SD-card with reader) can hold quite a few video's (your own homemade ones, of course ), but you'll have to use multiAVCHD to make it work, probably.

[Sammy]

Why not connect it to your AVR or directly to your HDTV?

[pacificvibes]

That doesnt sound legal to me.

[jkwest]

its not...and it won't work.

[gekke henkie]

Originally Posted by Sammy

Why not connect it to your AVR or directly to your HDTV?

??? I presume he has connected his Samsung BD-player to his AVR & HDTV, but that wasn't the question, I think. As far as I understand, the TS wants to know how he can watch video files, and since your AVR or HDTV won't play these files directly, you need a player (like his Samsung BD-player) to play them.

As said, I don't know which model Samsung you (TS) have, but if you have, let's say, the BD-P3600 or the BD-P4600, you don't need any additional software, because (quote from Samsung): "Wireless PC streaming: Enjoy movies, music and digital photos from your PC on your HDTV wirelessly via SAMSUNG’s networked Blu-ray player. Using a wireless or wired connection you can access DivX, MP3 and JPEG files on your home computer all from the convenience of your Blu-ray player’s remove control."


@pacificvibes and jkwest:
Can you please explain what would not be legal, or what would not work? If you are so opinionated, a little more usefull feedback would be appreciated on a forum like this (or any forum for that matter) .

[Sammy]

What about using a Media Connect to connect using HDMI to the AVR or HDTV then?

[Kevin Ar18]

Ok, I've posted a reply to this thread twice and it keeps getting deleted or never gets posted. In fact, I keep posting lots of stuff on this forum and it keeps getting deleted or never get's posted.

I'm not gonna write my well thought out reply yet again.... So, I'll just ask this.
Is there any details on how to use the USB drive features (where I put files on the USB device)?
Is there any details on how to use the networking feature to play files from the network and what kind of files to play?
I can't find details on either.

[Sammy]

If you have a player already, the USB drive and ethernet use is in the manual. If you haven't got one yet and are researching, go to the manufacturer's website of the player(s) that you are interested in and download the manuals and read them before buying.

[Kevin Ar18]

I did look at the manual, but I couldn't seem to find anything useful in there.


For example, it didn't say whether I could load videos onto the USB stick/drive. Supposedly I can't, but I thought the USB stick was for downloading Profile 2.0 video, so maybe there is a way. The manual didn't mention anything about playing video from the USB as far as I could tell.

As for the network connection. I also did not find anything that said you could use it to access files on the network and/or how to do that.

Maybe I need to go through the manual again or look elsewhere.
Thanks anyways, though.

P.S. Has anyone here ever used a bluray player to play their own videos?

[Nick4Blu_81]

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