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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: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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  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. Re:Darwin Streaming Server by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm. Someone named Whiney Mac Fanboy who's unaware of Apple technologies (open source even) that have existed for many many years. Somehow it all makes sense...

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  7. No use here in Europe by OlivierB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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