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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.
That's almost completely useless. The only thing more useless would be to stream 16:9 HD video to your freaking cell PHONE.
I'm ready for a technology downgrade. These "advances" are starting to annoy me.
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...
I probably need some help on the cell phone end though. I have no idea how to watch the stream on my phone. I think it can handle it though.
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!
...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.
U send me a 3G cell phone plz.
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.
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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?
Who uses their cell phone simply to place and recieve calls and nothing else. There has to be someone else out there like me who doesn't give a rat's ass about video/music on their phone.
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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!
Alternately, you can spend 30 seconds installing Orb on your Windows XP box and start streaming from just about ANY mobile device. But hey, some people like the feeling of empowerment that comes from wasting lots of time modifying scripts and tweaking config files to gain mediocre results.
futuRe at all
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
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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
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.
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On it, I tell you how to take a book with you and read when you're bored.
>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...)
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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/