I'm probably missing the point here but if I want to copy videos or music from my Samsung phone to my laptop (or vice versa) I use a USB cable.
What does this software do that a USB cable can't do?

Derek Lawler  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (-6)

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Derek Lawler,
You haven't read the app's description: its purpose is to 'screencast' (mirroring activities on your phone) to your computer, with or without recording. Some scenarios for use would be to watch videos on a larger screen, make training videos, create reviews of Android apps or capture behaviors needed to report program bugs or obtain support, and quite a few others.

It's not for copying files between your Android device and computer, which you can do without the use of special software, and with or without a USB cable.

Derek Lawler, You haven't read the app's description: its purpose is to 'screencast' (mirroring activities on your phone) to your computer, with or without recording. Some scenarios for use would be to watch videos on a larger screen, make training videos, create reviews of Android apps or capture behaviors needed to report program bugs or obtain support, and quite a few others. It's <i>not</i> for copying files between your Android device and computer, which you can do without the use of special software, and with or without a USB cable.
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Robert Garofalo  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+17)

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Installed without any difficulty on my XP hard drive, unfortunately my tablet android version is not recent enough.
It requires Android 5.0 or later.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the download of the android application, 10 MB, it assumes that the default browser is Internet Explorer rather than Firefox as in my case, something I really dislike.

It also installed Bonjour apparently an Apple application on my PC.

It looks a really interesting program but as I can't use it I uninstalled it.

Tata  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+16)

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Steffo,
There is nothing 'malwarelike' about it; you should avoid throwing words around irresponsibly. It's simply a tool which facilitates discovery of network devices on a LAN, with a minimum of fuss.

Personally, as a long-time Windows and Linux user--and one who has vehemently eschewed iTunes--I've never historically had a need for Bonjour. That is, until my daughter became a Mac fan and I had to incorporate her laptop into the network so that she could access the household file and media server (which runs on a Linux machine). By installing Bonjour on the Linux box (actually, an open-source version called Avahi) it saved me a nightmarish amount of headaches in getting Windows, Mac, and Linux machines to all talk to each other.

Sure, Apple's Bonjour (which gets installed as a "service" on Windows machines) can sometimes be annoying (particularly in how frequently it likes to update), and there can be some security risks--but this almost always the fault of a specific vendor's implementation, not of Bonjour itself. And any potential inconvenience should be weighed against its ability to make network devices easily discover and communicate with each other while obviating the need for manual configuration, especially helpful for networking noobs.

This is why so many software and hardware vendors implement it--and if you use any of the following products you will likely already have it on your [Windows] machine:

-iTunes
-TiVo
-Skype
-Pidgin messenger client
-Safari
-almost all Adobe products, like Photoshop, or their Creative Suite

Steffo, There is nothing 'malwarelike' about it; you should avoid throwing words around irresponsibly. It's simply a tool which facilitates discovery of network devices on a LAN, with a minimum of fuss. Personally, as a long-time Windows and Linux user--and one who has vehemently eschewed iTunes--I've never historically had a need for Bonjour. That is, until my daughter became a Mac fan and I had to incorporate her laptop into the network so that she could access the household file and media server (which runs on a Linux machine). By installing Bonjour on the Linux box (actually, an open-source version called Avahi) it saved me a nightmarish amount of headaches in getting Windows, Mac, and Linux machines to all talk to each other. Sure, Apple's Bonjour (which gets installed as a "service" on Windows machines) can sometimes be annoying (particularly in how frequently it likes to update), and there can be some security risks--but this almost always the fault of a specific vendor's implementation, not of Bonjour itself. And any potential inconvenience should be weighed against its ability to make network devices easily discover and communicate with each other while obviating the need for manual configuration, especially helpful for networking noobs. This is why so many software and hardware vendors implement it--and if you use any of the following products you will likely already have it on your [Windows] machine: -iTunes -TiVo -Skype -Pidgin messenger client -Safari -almost all Adobe products, like Photoshop, or their Creative Suite
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Robert Garofalo  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+16)

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Not bad but needs work.

Tried it out with an Android TV box running on 5Ghz WiFi.

It can be a little hit and miss as to whether Google cast sees the program on my PC but closing and opening the generally program solves that.

Started off with an MP4 standard quality recording with audio.

It worked but there were 3 issues:

1. Although the quality of video image was good, the playback was a little juddery to the point where it becomes annoying.

2. Audio is slightly out of sync with the video. not by much but enough to notice.

3. The resultant video output is split into a host of MP4 files of varying sizes, which means that I would have to join the files together to get a single video. I can't see why this needs to be the case as the files are split at random intervals.

I then increased the video capture quality to the maximum and repeated the test.

Playback was much smoother with the better quality.

Audio was still slightly out of sync with the video.

More of the same split MP4 files (13 in all for 2 minutes worth of recording).

I suspect that people will have varying degrees of success dependent upon the Andoid device used and speed of network, so it may well be that some users will have perfect quality output.

I am impressed with what it's potential is but as to whether the program has bugs or not, more comments will be required to assess things.

The split files is a real pain though and the one aspect that would put me off purchasing until I could be sure of a single file output.

Perhaps the developer could offer some thoughts.

PhilS  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+11)

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