Stream TV Remotely to Your PPC for Free

Bob Russell · 02-27-2005, 05:52 PM

A very interesting post in the PocketPC Thoughts forums purports to do just that -- stream tv content from your tuner-equipped desktop PC to your Pocket PC.

The author's own comment is

Quote:

Use at your own risk, it works but it is not pretty.

but if you're interested in doing something like this it might be a good place to start. Let us know if you give it a try!

Alexander Turcic · 02-27-2005, 06:31 PM

What a coincidence, I was looking into that myself last week and thinking of a way how I could stream live-TV on my PDA

At home, I have a digital TV receiver (Nokia Dbox 2) powered with the Linux-based Tuxbox software. This allows me to run a local web server on the receiver, which can then be accessed either locally or remotely through http://ip.of.dbox:8080. I can also directly capture or stream DVB (digitalvideo broadcast) data through another port, 31337. Unfortunately, the streamed data is in MPEG2 format, and I don't know of any media player for Palm OS or Pocket PC that can decode MPEG2 as of right now. I know Picard of BetaPlayer mentioned he was considering MPEG2 support in a future update of BetaPlayer. Until then, I might try out the method Bob has referred to.

doctorow · 03-10-2005, 10:43 AM

Finland is currently doing mobile TV tests for a selected number of mobile phone customers. Man, now I wish I lived in Finland!

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=4173

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02-27-2005, 06:31 PM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	What a coincidence, I was looking into that myself last week and thinking of a way how I could stream live-TV on my PDA At home, I have a digital TV receiver (Nokia Dbox 2) powered with the Linux-based Tuxbox software. This allows me to run a local web server on the receiver, which can then be accessed either locally or remotely through http://ip.of.dbox:8080. I can also directly capture or stream DVB (digitalvideo broadcast) data through another port, 31337. Unfortunately, the streamed data is in MPEG2 format, and I don't know of any media player for Palm OS or Pocket PC that can decode MPEG2 as of right now. I know Picard of BetaPlayer mentioned he was considering MPEG2 support in a future update of BetaPlayer. Until then, I might try out the method Bob has referred to.

03-10-2005, 10:43 AM	#3
doctorow Guru Posts: 914 Karma: 3410461 Join Date: May 2004 Device: Kindle Touch	Finland is currently doing mobile TV tests for a selected number of mobile phone customers. Man, now I wish I lived in Finland! http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=4173

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