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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. "
3GP is just a multimedia container format - so the quality and bitrate depends on what codecs you use for the video and audio contained within it. Video is stored as MPEG-4 or H.263, and audio streams as AMR-NB or AAC-LC. 3GP does apparently describe "image sizes and bandwidth" - though from searching on www.3gpp.org I couldn't pick it out. There's a lot of technical specifications there though, so if you really want to know (as opposed to idle curiousity) I'm sure you can find out from their specifications.
My, that was a yummy potato!
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OK its back: Currently mirroring site here: http://stats.photojerk.com/www.torrentocracy.com/b log/archives/2006/05/streaming_mytht_1.shtml incase it goes again!
3gp is a container, what you said makes as much sense as saying you're unimpressed with the quality of AVI video. It depends what codec was used (MPEG4 basically), what bitrate, and the quality of the playback software and hardware.
Oh no... it's the future.
Uh, Orb is free. I've been using it for 6 months and they have never requested any type of payment.
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!
No, you log into your MythTV box, transcode a show to a suitably low bitrate with MEncoder (or whatever), and download or stream the resulting file. I typically encode video to 320x240 MPEG-4 at 384 kbps and audio to 22.05 kHz mono MP3 at 64 kbps. If the remote location has broadband access of some sort, I could theoretically do HTTP streaming, but I can usually download one hour of video in 30-40 minutes instead. A few minutes' editing with VirtualDub trims out the commercials, after which I can either play it on my notebook with MPlayer or transfer it to my Treo's SD card and play it there with MMPlayer.
I've also downloaded shows through my phone's data connection, but since it's only ~150 kbps, it takes a while. I've not tried encoding at bitrates that low; the resolution would have to be reduced so low that I don't know if it'd be worth watching.
Encoding is fairly quick for SD sources (maybe 15 minutes for a good-quality encode, 5 minutes if you don't care as much about artifacts). HD takes a bit longer, but it can also be transcoded.
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