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Stream MythTV to Your Cell Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

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. "

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  1. Re:3GP by dtsazza · · Score: 4, Informative
    Can someone enlight us with the quality and/or bitrate of 3gp videos? TFA and the wikipedia link are light on details.

    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.
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  2. Re:I've used 3gp before... by Tx · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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