Hi, Hoping this one hasn't been posted already - couldn't find it in a search.
I use Windows Media Centre in Vista to record TV shows. I then use Windows Media Player to auto sync those shows to my Pocket PC (TyTN II but that shouldn't be important here).
When syncing, Windows Media Player does alot of (essential) file conversion, which slows down the syncing process. Does anyone know if it's possible to set WMP to do this conversion as soon as the file is recorded, so that when I plug the device in I don't have to wait for conversion?
Sorry I dont' know. I use tivo to record, which transfers to my pc, and from there I stream it using winamp remote.
but you might not have an unlimited data plan i guess
Anyone know how actually get AllShare to work? Specifically with an xbox that I am unable to configure with windows media center (as I use a mac).
I'd love to be able to play HD videos and music on my tv, but but I haven't been able to get it to work thus far.
thanks.
With the Xbox I had to be inside of the Windows Media Center tab (on the Xbox). Then instead of just "Xbox 360" popping up inside of AllShare you get "Xbox Media Center" (or similiar, not at home). Then you just share to that.
What codec/format must the videos be in. I have been trying to connect to my server running tversity and nothing seems to work. I can browse my media but when I click a video I would like to watch I just get the "Sorry, this video cannot be played"
I have a Samsung TV with AllShare on it.
I can stream my movies I ripped and put on the phone just fine (although I don't have FFWD/RWD control)
The stupid thing is it will not play the phone HD video I took. It loads the video and then locks after the first 1 sec. Its like the phone's video isn't supported by the TV.
Try Orb.com, much better solution
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Anyone know how actually get AllShare to work? Specifically with an xbox that I am unable to configure with windows media center (as I use a mac).
I'd love to be able to play HD videos and music on my tv, but but I haven't been able to get it to work thus far.
thanks.
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I could only get it to work with windows media center. You can try another media app to act as a server and that might work without a PC. There is one called imedashare, try that.
You could run a virtual machine on your mac, then run windows and setup windows media center. But i don't like the way it works with media center.
Let me know if you get it to work without mediacenter.
I was able to play an AVI file stored on Windows 7 Media Center PC - but it would not play any of my recorded shows - DVR-MS or WTV.
If I have to convert them all to MP4 or AVI, i might as well just copy them over locally as Windows down converts things that are streamed.
I could stream a video I recorded on the phone back to a windows 7 PC - that was sort of cool - 720P HD looked nice.
Hi all
I'd like to be able to stream videos which are on my desktop PC to my phone possibly via some server/client set-up and the wireless network. To my surprise I haven't been able to find anything in the marketplace which advertises this ability. I'd very much like it if VLC could be used as the server but that's only incidental.
Thanks
try using ORB
orb doesn't support wp7, and on their forum they said maybe in the future...
If you serve up compatible (ie MP4 or WMV) files via http to the WP7 browser then these will apparently open the Zune player on the phone and the content will stream. I have not tried this yet myself however.
What I am planning on doing this weekend though is trying out TVersity (google is your friend). From what I can see, this software runs a server that allows you to access all your media (music, photos, video etc) from phones, other PCs, media players etc. It has the major advantage of optionally converting file formats on the go.
What I'm hoping to do with this is:
1. Set up TVersity server on my home HTPC
2. Browse my media collection using the TVersity server with IE on my WP7 (this tutorial suggests this should be possible)
3. Clicking on MP4 files should play them natively with the Zune software on the phone, and other formats should be converted to MP4 on the fly by TVersity (need to look into TVersity to make sure it can actually do this!)
4. Play files
5. ???
6. Profit!
I'm going to try this with the free version of TVersity first to make sure it works as I think it does. If it does, great. If not, I'm stuck converting my AVIs to MP4 and copying them to my phone. Also try out "Send to WP7"; the latest update allows you to right-click an MP4 on your desktop and send a local link to your phone so you can stream directly over Wifi.
But really somebody should make a server / app combo for WP7 that serves up media nice and easy.
EDIT: I've actually tried the above, and it works. You can access TVersity if you're connected by Wifi with your IP address (http://192.168.1.9:4321 or whatever) and you are provided a file browser to browse all your media. Selecting a video file automatically transcoded the AVI to WMV which looks pixel perfect and very good quality (widescreen and all) on my HD7. It opens in Zune player, so all you can really do is pause / play, fast forward and rewind. No scrubbing or anything.
Positives:
-Allows you to play any AVIs / divx videos in your library without converting beforehand
-Streaming quality is perfect and smooth
-Possible to stream over the internet (3G) if you want (you can set a username and password)
Negatives:
-TVersity menu looks poor on the phone and is difficult to navigate; some text is huge while other text is tiny
-Once you start streaming a TV show / Movie, there is no way of stopping the transcoding at the server side. ie If you start watching a 40 minute 350mb show but decide after a few seconds you want to watch another one, TVersity doesn't seem to have any way of telling that you've navigated away from the show. Which means that the server computer running TVersity and doing the transcoding (which is my case is an oldish laptop in a cupboard) will continue to transcode the entire episode for the duration of the show. This has the very unwelcome side effect of almost maxing out the CPU on the server for those 40 minutes. And if you start watching another episode, that starts transcoding too... server is crippled after a while. The only way to stop transcoding is by manually restarting the TVersity service on the server, which cannot be done remotely.
In fairness the issues here are not caused by WP7, they seem to be TVersity issues. I thnk they would be easily fixed with an official TVersity browser app that would solve the navigation issues and would tell the server to stop transcoding when you quit watching a video.
On the other hand, we wouldn't have these issues if WP7 would just support AVI / divx like they promised they would originally... ;-)
I was actually tinkering with this tonight.. I was about to hit the hay when I saw this thread.. so i will chime in..
I went as far as to install a WAMP setup on my Media PC / Server. Then in my doc root I would structure my videos, mp3's photos, etc..
I did some port forwarding on my router and poked some holes in my firewall so my Media Server could listen on port 80.. so my laptop pulled server good..
I also own the HD7, and what I also confirmed was that i could hit the server from IE on the phone..and stream .wmv's successfully.. kewl..
Now all I need to do is develop a better webpage to house the content and make it look good.. possible MetroUI look.. scroll to the right or left instead of up and down.. I am also trying to include ffmpeg so I can have the functionality of the website taking a thumnail of the video upon upload and using it as the img src for the link to the video in my WP7-web-app..
Makes it even better that PHP is compiled on the server so i can do some trick things for the website..
I miss TCPMP...
Try PS3 Media Server instead of TVersity. I've found PS3 Media Server to be more welcoming to various devices (as well as being more stable).
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Try PS3 Media Server instead of TVersity. I've found PS3 Media Server to be more welcoming to various devices (as well as being more stable).
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I already use ps3 media server for my ps3, but how can I use it with my HD7?
You could try Smart Potato. It does interact with WMC.
As far as I can recall, TwonkyMediaServer supports a load of devices as well as streaming over the interweb.
VLC PLay is available on the zune marketplace and uses VLC on pc as a host.
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VLC PLay is available on the zune marketplace and uses VLC on pc as a host.
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It appears to only [optionally] stream audio. It's a controller, not an endpoint.
Why can't my Samsung Focus connect?
Hey, I just recently got TVersity and got it to work fine on my ps3...however, I am unable to connect on my wp7... I tried to go to the localhost url in IE but to no avail. Would creating a podcast of the info and adding that podcast to my Zune player work?
How did you get TVersity to output WMV??
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Selecting a video file automatically transcoded the AVI to WMV which looks pixel perfect and very good quality (widescreen and all) on my HD7.
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How the hell did you get the files to transcode into WMV??? I tried setting it up but it was only transcoding into MPG. What settings did you use in TVersity?
My transcoding settings are:
Only when needed
Video Resolution: 640 by 480
Image Resolution: 1280 by 1024
Use DirectShow: Windows Media Video 7
Quality
Wireless G - Connection Quality High
Decode media as fast as possible
I also set the Media Playback Device to Auto Detect. Should I change this to a different profile?
JukeFly is the best streaming app for music....
What would be nice is if they allowed VPN connections. Then i could vpn to my home network and browse to my server and use an app (yet to be created) to launch videos from my server. Did it on my android phone. Kind of miss it =(
While not an option yet, Microsofts next version of Windows Home server is going to have Windows Phone 7 integration. The next public release version that is suppose to support this functionality is rumored to come out some time in February. From using earlier builds of Vail (code-name for new version) it will do transcoding of media files and hopefully some of the issues that I experienced in the early beta versions will be resolved when the near final release is available.
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/...07/windows-home-server-goes-mobile-phone.aspx
I've had some success streaming to my phone using Tversity when transcoding to WMV8, it's worked pretty well.
I'm in the process of coding up a rudimentary UI for the phone instead of using the browser.
I would be interested in your progress... also.. can you share your setup using Tversity?
I am getting slow streaming using http over WLAN.. it works.. but is choppy at times..
I've got an app with full media streaming in the works also, just need to iron out some of the transcoding issues - but with the right settings I've had flawless video (more or less) even over a normal 3G connection.
Let me get this straight..
what you guys are doing is having the video transcoded on the server as the device requests it on the fly?
So I noticed HTC's Connected Media App now available for my HTC arrive.
I downloaded and have gotten it to stream to my XBox 360. Here's what to do for those interested.
Requirements:
1. HTC arrive with Mango
2. HTC's connected media app
3. Xbox 360
4. PC with Windows Media Center
What to do:
1. Make sure all devices are on the same wifi network.
2. Connect your pc's Windows Media Center to the XBox 360
3. Start Media Center on the XBox 360
4. Start the connected media app
5. browe music artist, albums, songs whatever
6. push the output button on the bottom and select the xbox
7. find some music to play
On my Arrive the app isn't seeing any of my videos so I don't know if video streaming is supported.Pictures are working though. Also the streaming worked with less interuptions when my Arrive was plugged into a power source.
Enjoy
Update
Update: I was unable to do video because all my vids were drm protected zune stuff. So no streaming DRM music or videos. Also, I started having problems finding my 360 with the app. I have now found it helpful to select media servers from the main screen and then select output on the bottom of the screen.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
i have on occasion used my old galaxy s-2 as a home theater media hub. many fones support mhl (media hdmi link) and the cables are cheap online (e.g.: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005NTHXYY/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ).
once you get your fones picture on your large screen tv, the next step is to install the software to manage your media. xbmc makes an app for android which can be downloaded here: http://xbmc.org/download/
once installed you can use another android device and install the xbmc remote app to control your media server (which is the fone connected to your tv). i would assume that a blu-tooth remote would also work.
other benefits are streaming videos from another fone or tablet should also work once dlna is enabled. xbmc addons (such as youtube, hulu, channel-1) work the same as if they were running on linux, windows, mac. you can launch other android apps from within xbmc although they cant be controlled with the remote.
the limitation is that my fone is limited to a 720p resolution (ymmv).