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Stream movies to HD TV from Galaxy Tab 8.9 via DLNA(AllShare)
  • If you are the owner of the Galaxy Tab 8.9, you may notice that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is compatible with DLNA service. DLNA, as the short term for Digital Living Network Alliance, is to make it possible to view media between PCs, mobile devices and other consumer electronics. If you have a home wired or wireless network, e.g. Wi Fi network and a DLNA-capable TV, you can stream movies from Galaxy Tab 8.9 to TV.
  • As we know, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 supported format is limited to 3GP, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, before you transfer the movie to Galaxy Tab 8.9, you have to convert the other video formats to Galaxy Tab 8.9 compatible format first. And then you can transfer movies to HD TV from Galaxy Tab 8.9 via DLNA service easily. This article will include two parts: one for converting movies to Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the other for streaming movies from Galaxy Tab 8.9 to HDTV.
  • Part I. Convert/Transfer movies to Galaxy Tab 8.9.
    We need a powerful video to Galaxy Tab 8.9 converter to make most videos compatible to Galaxy Tab 8.9. The best Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter is the right choice for converting TiVo, MTS, TOD, MOD to Galaxy Tab 8.9. (If you are Mac users, you can get the Mac Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter.)
  • Step 1: Import videos MTS, M2TS, TiVo, VOB to the best Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter.
    Launch the best Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter. Click the button “File” to add MTS, M2TS, TiVo, VOB, video files to the Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter. If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview.
    Tip: If you wanna join your several video files into single one, just check the “Merge into one” box. Afterwards, you can transfer videos to Galaxy Tab 8.9 without interruption.
  • Step 2: Select an output format for Galaxy Tab 8.9 and set the subtitle as you need.
    Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move you pointer to “Common Video”. From the sub-list, the MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV formats are all compatible with Galaxy Tab 8.9. While, in order to stream movie files to HD TV from Galaxy Tab 8.9 with DLNA, you’d better choose the “MPEG-4 Movie(*.mp4)” as the output format.
  • Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
    Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface freely and optimize the output file quality.
    Note: Since you wanna stream video from Galaxy Tab 8.9 to HD TV for enjoyment, and the Galaxy Tab 8.9 supports 1080p video playback, you can set the video size as 1920*1080 for full HD video playback on HD TV.
  • Step 4: Start converting your video MTS, M2TS, TiVo, VOB to MPEG-4 MP4 for Galaxy Tab 8.9.
    Click the “Convert” button; it will convert video to MPEG-4 MP4 for Galaxy Tab 8.9 immediately with the CUDA acceleration technology. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface. Once the conversion is done, you can get the output files for your Galaxy Tab 8.9 via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. After conversion, connect Galaxy Tab 8.9 to PC via USB cable, and transfer videos to Galaxy Tab 8.9.
  • Part II. Stream moviesto HD TV from Galaxy Tab 8.9 via DLNA service.
    The AllShare app works just like any other DLNA client, allowing you to share content to and from other networked DLNA-compliant devices.
    1. Fired up AllShare on your Galaxy Tab 8.9.
    2. AllShare app automatically found all of the DLNA devices on our wireless network, including the Windows PCs, Macs, DVD and Blu-ray players, HD TV as well.
    3. Within a few seconds, you can stream content movies to HD TV from Galaxy Tab 8.9 freely. (You can play media files movies, music, photos from these devices on the Galaxy Tab 8.9 as well.)
    Note: The DLNA service could be used as a stand alone, or used in combination with HDMI. A WiFi network shall be set up with your DLNA compatible TV and Galaxy Tab 8.9.
  • Tip:
    This Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter can help you to convert MTS, M2TS, TiVo, VOB to Galaxy Tab 8.9 at super fast speed. What’s more, this it can also help you to edit your video files freely. You can link to Brorsoft Galaxy Tab 8.9 Video Converter to learn more.

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