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Stream MythTV to Your Cell Phone
lerhaupt writes "I've setup a howto for streaming your MythTV recordings to your 3G cell phone. In involves getting your myth box to convert recordings to 3gp format and then setting up Apple's Darwin Streaming Server to handle streaming the videos from a webpage it sets up. "
Now I can stream all my video pr0n to my cellphone!
I hadn't heard of the Darwin Streaming Server before - sounds quite cool from this review
Thanks Apple - nice to see you contributing your own code rather then just grudgingly contributing back derived code!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Can someone enlight us with the quality and/or bitrate of 3gp videos? TFA and the wikipedia link are light on details.
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Triumph. Indeed some beautiful uses of fair use. Fair use to record the tv program to my hard drive... Fair use to convert the video format to one viewable by my cell phone... Fair use to stream it to my cell phone for my own personal enjoyment.
M'lud that wraps up the case for the defence...
Looks like he's serving his web page from his freakin' 3g phone.
steampunk web design
I've setup a howto for Slashdotting pages submitted to Slashdot. In involves getting someone (the "submitter") to submit articles to Slashdot and then setting up your browser to point to the webpage in question.
Stuck down a hole! In the middle of the night! With an owl!
I'm ready for a technology downgrade.
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Here you go, enjoy!
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
http://www.justbewise.net/matrix.html
http://www.romanm.ch//seiten_layout/portfolio_asc
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
...and was far from impressed with how it ended up, I might see (after the slashdotting) what this is on about to see if the quality could be improved at all from what I got in the end. The best way to get tv on your phone is to put an avi on your sd card and then use a media player there to watch it (you could reduce the quality somewhat to compensate for the smaller screen)... where you get the avi from... "legal" channels
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
I'd prefer a truly rich web experience on my phone WAY more than streaming TV garbage.
I never thought TV on a tiny phone would take off enough to interest people into doing it with a few nifty hacks and some FOSS, but then again I never thought embedding low-quality cameras into phones would take off either. Funny old world.
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Great, now we can get into car accidents with people watching their cell phone while driving Paulie Walnuts talk on his cell phone while driving.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:PatIZzIYwXgJ:w ww.torrentocracy.com/blog/archives/2006/05/streami ng_mytht.shtml+mythtv+3gp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 &client=firefox-a
Or does anyone expect the MPAA to sit and watch? I'm pretty sure they're already trying to find a loophole where this MUST NOT be allowed.
And if the old laws ain't good enough, buy a new one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Its not something I can can do (no 3g and no tv card), but that sounds pretty cool
I was impressed by standard downloadable movie clips so would expect the 3g ones to be much better especially if its your own recording you actually get what you want not what other people decide everyone wants.
So while everyones watching the world cup highlights on their 3g phones, I could be catching up on lost (which btw the uk channel 4 are offering all aired episodes for free) or something.
If I had the kit I'd definatly give this a shot
I love the smell of burning karma in the morning...
1. make app X convert to a format device Y can understand
2. put the format in a streaming format header
3. put the format on a website
4. ??? wtf?
So this specifically was a tutorial with regards to MythTV and seeing your recordings on your mobile phone, and the steps were pretty much as above? Why is this front page news? Why is this news at all? Would it be front page news if I used a combination of my Avermedia recording app, mIRC, windows media encoder and the Apache web server to achieve the same but for "Stream Avermedia to your wifi-enabled PocketPC"?
Meh... on-topic.. 3G is fun and all, unless you have data rates. T-Mobile has a nice 'limitless' data connection (flat fee) in most of western Europe - but almost all others will charge you up the wazoo per MB. Until that drops or stops, I'm not streaming anything to my phone - I'll just copy it to the 2GB MiniSD card, tyvm.
When will sox support conversion from/to the 3gp format?
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I use vlc to stream TV to my work. Seems to be very similiar to this but possibly easier to set up.
/mnt/big1/incoming/now.mpg --sout '#transcode{deinterlace,vcodec=mp4v,acodec=vorbis, vb=300,ab=80,width=320,height=240,fps=12}:standard {access=http,mux=ogg,url=111.111.111.1111:9000}' &/dev/null &
Beyond my GUI this is basicaly what I do. I use http but I think vlc can do rtsp if needed.
At home:
vlc -I http
At work:
vlc http://111.111.111.111:9000/
Unless I'm missing the obvious, how would you go about changing the channels whilst streaming Live TV?
The article seems to mention streaming movies you have already pre-recorded, which is all well and good but if you are just going to watch pre-recorded films whats stopping you from just sticking them on your phone the next time its in the base station?
I would've thought with MythTV in the equation that streaming live TV and being able to change channels (on your phone) would be the killer app.
when you could just copy them onto a 2gb memory stick which should hold 6+ hrs of 320x240 h264 content
no internet required
Has anyone packaged the Darwin server in a Debian or Ubuntu .deb package? Has anyone got a Darwin server to act as a stream source for a shoutcast or icecast server?
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While we may get all the new shiny phones here in Europe, 3G and other data plans are priced so high that nobody uses them (as opposed to the US where you typically get unlimited bandwith).
FYI, I am with Orange in the UK where I am charged £4 for 4MB per month (that's about a Slashdot page per DAY!).
I went to the Netherlands for week-end and unfortunately needed to lookup a few things on my PDA while over there, I totalled £60 for almost 5MB (that's USD 100 for you guys).
So I won't be streaming 24 and al from no mythbox to my cellphone.
T-Mobile launched web-n-walk which they sell as unlimited usage for £30 except you can't use it for P2P (duh), but excludes as well any IM (!!) or VOIP usage.
I hope data-plans are next (after roaming charges) on the EU's commission list of but-rape things to fix.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
I have a Motorola E815 on Verzion.. It plays 3gp video that's on the phone's internal memory as well as video that's on a micro SD card.. It also streams video (what look to be some form of protected WMVs...) from verizon's "VCAST" video service. I can't for the life of me figure out how to stream my own video though. Going to a video/streaming video link in the phone's openwave browser does nothing. Any ideas?
Wow, 1 whole cotribution from Apple! SO let's see, thats Open Source In OS X: 1000, Apple giving back: 1. 2 if you count the occasional patch for Konqueror. Great record Apple!
kind of like people that prefer to spend lots of money on mircosoft products and the ever faster computers need to run them for medicore results.
some people are rich assholes without technical know-how. others are comfortable but prefer to use their brain to gain technical know-how.
Let me guess what camp you are in.
Now I just have to find something on TV I actually want to watch so badly that I can't wait until I get home and I'll be the shizzle!
MjM
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
Orb.
1 - $10 per month, $80 per year. To stream YOUR content to YOUR device. Not bad if you can get it.
2 - Binary application. No idea WHAT it does. And I don't trust them.
3 - Limited tuner support.
Within those limitations -- sure go ahead. I don't run rogue-ware on my server, though. Especially a front-facing server.
YMMV
Ratboy
Just another "Cubible(sic) Joe" 2 17 3061
What carriers has anyone used for this kind of video streaming? Mine (Verizon) blocks RTSP video streaming (see http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog/2005/10/re quest_for_com.html#comment-10560368), probably to lock customers into VCAST. I'd be willing to switch to T-Mobile or Sprint just for something like this.
It's NOT off-topic
Uh, Orb is free. I've been using it for 6 months and they have never requested any type of payment.
I'm in the "my time is valuable and I need things to work" camp. For better or worse, XP provides me with an experience that allows me to be productive without having to resort to recompiling my kernel or learning another command line interface.
If I were using Linux as long as I've been using Windows, the situation might be different. Unfortunately, the reality is that Windows is in the majority and has been the (desktop) OS of choice for just about every business and individual I've dealt with.
I try to stay on top of multimedia related stuff. Its a flood. My original press release from Orb indicated a fee. I have checked the web-site: you are correct, no fee is charged.
I apologize for the mis-information.
Ratboy.
Just another "Cubible(sic) Joe" 2 17 3061
On it, I tell you how to take a book with you and read when you're bored.
A) some people enjoy doing that
B) you gain knowledge for next time you want to stream a different format
C) you have complete control over what your application is doing, it's not a closed source binary that might phone home or come packaged with some spyware or something like that
>so that you can build a 19" display out of 20 phones all displaying the same thing
(My subject line is a reference to a Married with Children ep where Al gets a 1,000 channel cable connection — and discovers nothing worth watching on any of them. An ungodly number seem to be running reruns of a certain TV show...)
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I can't believe this was called flamebait as it's a wonderful service and more feature rich alternative than what the TFA provides.
Orb can stream pretty much any (XVID, DIVX, MPEG, QT, RM, WMV and more) prerecorded video to any device with an internet connection. I've even used it over 26.4k dialup with acceptable results (considering the speed). At 26.4k normal streaming radio stations want to buffer every three or four minutes, but with orb streaming video at that same speed I can watch for an hour or more without any rebuffering.
Throw a capture card in your PC and it can also record via antenna, cable, satellite, etc. You can then watch the recorded content via stream at any time.
Better than that, you can stream live TV! You can change the channel right from your normal media player (pretty much any) while watching. You use the forward and back buttons and it changes the channels up or down. Need a break? Hit pause. When you are ready it will pick right up where you left off.
You can put up pictures so anytime you want you can look at the picture of your baby (or your PC if you are that much of a geek).
Orb also streams whatever audio you may have and want it to.
Another nifty thing, you can setup "shared folders" so you can allow others to see your media (suppose to be for only media you actually own the rights to, not TV or the Simpsons episodes you ripped from your DVDs.
I'll tell ya, it makes the weekend or holidays at the in-laws bearable. Pick up my iPaq and hit an access point and at least I'm entertained for a while.
The only current draw back for me is that it won't currently run on any flavor of 64 bit Windows (at least not the live TV part which is the biggest draw for me. And it's likely that is an issue with Directshow and the capture card drivers.)
Shhh... Lets not tell the **AA about this! This is a service I for sure don't want to lose but I can't believe exists in the first place.
I am Homer of Borg. Resistance is Fut.. Mmmmmmmm, Donuts!
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and so it shall continue, thanks to people like you.
Yeah, now when you go to buy a cell phone the salesperson will ask: "what are you planning to use it for?" Duh! Maybe I want to phone people with it ...
this great program has been doing this for a while, but i guess if you just HAVE to do it off of mythTV platform, this is a good tool also, though i doubt if it's as powerful and great ease of use as the orb tool.
http://www.orb.com/