ArkMC Media Center DLNA/UPnP application

ArkMC Arkuda Media Center



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Hello.

Please take a look at ArkMC DLNA/UPnP application for Android devices.

ArkMC allows you to:
1. watch media (video, photos, and listen to music) located at PCs, MACs, network storages and other DLNA devices on your Android device.
2. send media from one DLNA device to another.
3. send media from your Android device to another devices, such as PCs, TV, another DLNA mobile devices.

Servers (devices where media is stored):
- Desktop and laptop computers with:
- Android devices
- Network Attached storages with DLNA/UPnP
- Set top boxes with DLNA/UPnP
- Media Players with DLNA/UPnP

Renderers (devices where media can be played):
- Desktop and laptop computers with:
- Android devices
- iPhone, iPad
- Network Attached storages with DLNA/UPnP
- Set top boxes with DLNA/UPnP
- Media Players with DLNA/UPnP
- TVs with DLNA/UPnP
- Acoustics with DLNA/UPnP


EXAMPLE:
1) run ArkMC,
2) see the list of servers,
3) select Windows Media Player
4) select music file, or video file
5) play it either on Android device, or send it to TV

3rd party players support enables you to use standard android player, or any other installed player. This ensures that you can play a lot of different file formats.

YouTube support: with the help of ArkMC you are able to not just watch YouTube video on your device, but also to send YouTube video to another rendrers, and watch it for example on TV.

We are trying to make ArkMC application better and we would appreciate to have your feedback:
e-mail: arkmc(at)arkudadigital.com


ScreenShots:

— modified on Feb 4, 2013, 1:41:26 PM

Features:

• Digital Media Player (DMP)


• Digital Media Server (DMS)


• Digital Media Controller (DMC)


• Digital Media Renderer (DMR)


• Access Point mode support (portable Wi-Fi spot)
• Supported file formats depend on used 3rd party player
• Playlists - adding, editing and removing media items*
• Browsing media files stored in media libraries on UPnP/DLNA-compliant servers (PC, laptop, Tablet PC, NAS (network attached storage), Smartphone)
• Streaming picture/music/video files to UPnP/DLNA® playback devices in the network (from Smartphone to TV, from laptop to Media Center)
• Controlling playback of all media files on all networked devices at once (pause, stop, forward, rewind, volume control)
• Local Playback (play media files on any pre-installed on your device media player)
• Multi-playback - enables instant sharing of locally played files with all DLNA-enabled devices in the network and controlling them from ArkMC
• Album art – view album covers, artists, genres and other file’s characteristics
• Managing all devices from both inside and outside of the network environment via VPN
• Send to extermal player function
• “Play-To” feature – send image/music/video files from any external Windows Media Player to ArkMC

• YouTube integration

FAQ

1. How can I manage my home media network from ArkMC?

Start ArkMC. Application will automatically search for all UPNP/DLNA® servers and renderers available in the media network. Select a media file from DMS and send it to available DMR. You can control the playback from Now Playing Tab.


2. Why cannot ArkMC discover my server/renderer?

The reasons could be:
- your device is not connected to a Wi-Fi network;
- your network connection is not stable or your router is not working properly;
- if the other device is not DLNA-enabled, it cannot be discovered by ArkMC;
- sometimes, it is necessary to turn off the firewall on your computer. Make sure your consult a professional specialist before you make such changes to your machine.


3. Some media files cannot be played back on ArkMC DMR

We are currently using a standard Android embedded media player for a local playback, and a range of supported media formats depends on your Android device maker. You can change Ark DMR settings through a Player software option. You may choose any media player installed on your device which supports certain media files. Note, the 3rd party players cannot be controlled remotely.


4. Why do I have 3rd party media players available on my list of players?

The 3rd party media players on your list of players appear depending on what type of a media file you choose. Media server provides content type information, and then Android system interprets it and selects a list of 3rd party players supporting a playback of certain media file format.


5. Does ArkMC run in background while, for instance, I’m browsing the Web?

At this moment ArkMC does not support background behavior. This feature will be available in the future.


6. How can I send media files from Win Media Player to ArkMC renderer?

Select media file from a list on your Win Media Player. Click the right button and choose “Play to” option, then choose Arkuda DMR from the list of available renderers.


8. How long does it take to connect to a DLNA server?

ArkMC should be able to find servers and renderers in the network within 1 minute upon condition that the network connection is running well and consistent and the Wi-Fi router is capable of transferring multicast data packages.


9. Which devices are DLNA enabled?
You can find a list of DLNA certified devices in official DLNA organization website.

Thanks for the message.
Yes we are planning to add these functions.

What else functionality are you interested in?

We will think on this. The problem is that DLAN standard doesn't support image zooming. But we will think what we can do. Probably it would be possible to add this feature to ArkMC so you would be able to do this when you watching picture on your Android device.

Free version of ArkMC has DMR functionality.
So, If you have an old smarthopne you can use it as media center. You just have to connect it to Speakers and run ArkMC.
After this you can send there media. For example you can send music from Windows PC using Play-To function!

We reccomed to use Foobar2000 server for music sharing.

There are a lot of servers we have tried with ArkMC.
But the couple of ones we use the most are:
WMP - on Windows PC
XBMC - for Linux and MAC computers.

But I think that it is better to try couple of servers and selece what suits your needs the best.

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Serviio works good with ArkMC. And it is crossplatform. It is awailable for Windows, Mac and Linux systems!

Sometimes TV players have very narrow file format supoprt. Maybe you can try to istall and use some other player?

We will think on this porblem. Probably there is the way to provide YouTube support even for those TVs.

Cool. Thanks for feedback. Sometimes updating something - is a good idea.

The reason is that Play Station 3 do not have DMR fuctionality, so it could not be controlled remotely.

There are couple of DLNA classes. And It is not necessary for all DLNA devices to support all of the classes.
For example Network Attached Storages - have only one DLNA class - DMS!

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Question to all ArkMC users:
What third party player do you prefer?

— modified on Feb 25, 2013, 1:50:59 PM