This is a bizarre situation that crosses multiple subforums. It's part home theater, part mobile computing, part smartphone, part small form factor.
I have a bunch of wifi "burner" phones (phones that run android, and have no SIM card so that they function as an Android "iPod touch" in essence).
The "best" one I have is a Moto E, and then I have a slew of ZTE Zingers. All run Android KitKat and have SD card capability.
I just got a new minivan that has a rear DVD player built in; and the discs are inserted from the front driver console. As far as I can tell, it will only read true DVD Video, not avi/mpeg burned onto a dvd as data.
Onto my situation: the third row of the minivan has an HDMI and composite in's which will play to the second row screen. If I want to play compressed movies in the car, I will need to input it through the back. I'm weighing my options:
1) Get a micro USB to HDMI cable and run video through a burner phone (equipped with SD card); use Plex to control what is playing from the front seat via whatever (real phone, ipad, etc).
2) Chromecast or Fire Stick into the rear HDMI, and fling from one of the burner phones from the front seat. The burner phone can have an app that would create a wifi environment in the car, but I don't know how practical it is to transmit video data in this way. I suppose it depends on the Chromecast buffer/cache
Opinions? Is there a third option that I didn't think of? I have a Fire TV, but not the stick. I have plenty of extra routers and wifi phones and external hard drives as anyone on this forum should.
I have a bunch of wifi "burner" phones (phones that run android, and have no SIM card so that they function as an Android "iPod touch" in essence).
The "best" one I have is a Moto E, and then I have a slew of ZTE Zingers. All run Android KitKat and have SD card capability.
I just got a new minivan that has a rear DVD player built in; and the discs are inserted from the front driver console. As far as I can tell, it will only read true DVD Video, not avi/mpeg burned onto a dvd as data.
Onto my situation: the third row of the minivan has an HDMI and composite in's which will play to the second row screen. If I want to play compressed movies in the car, I will need to input it through the back. I'm weighing my options:
1) Get a micro USB to HDMI cable and run video through a burner phone (equipped with SD card); use Plex to control what is playing from the front seat via whatever (real phone, ipad, etc).
2) Chromecast or Fire Stick into the rear HDMI, and fling from one of the burner phones from the front seat. The burner phone can have an app that would create a wifi environment in the car, but I don't know how practical it is to transmit video data in this way. I suppose it depends on the Chromecast buffer/cache
Opinions? Is there a third option that I didn't think of? I have a Fire TV, but not the stick. I have plenty of extra routers and wifi phones and external hard drives as anyone on this forum should.