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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. Fair use... by jginspace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

  2. Oh good... by gearmonger · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Our access is becoming more and more universal just as the amount of watchable content on TV becomes less and less.

    I'd prefer a truly rich web experience on my phone WAY more than streaming TV garbage.

  3. Re:I've used 3gp before... by ToddML · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And when I'm traveling, or otherwise far away from my recordings, I'm supposed to just run home and load up my SD card, then make the trip back to wherever I was originally in order to watch video? That really makes no sense whatsoever, it solves a different problem altogether.

  4. Changing channels? by Durzel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  5. why stream recorded shows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful


    when you could just copy them onto a 2gb memory stick which should hold 6+ hrs of 320x240 h264 content

    no internet required

  6. It's a useless comment, but COME ON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's NOT off-topic