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[Guest xFall On Proverbx]

First of all ive checked the search engine and I cant find anything specific about this.

My question is

Is there anyway you can record video on your Pocket PC and get it shown in real time on your pc via activesync, similar to the way you can plug a camcorder into your TV?

Many Thanks

xXxJasxXx

[Guest simonastro]

just wandered to my pc to ask this very question

as I have wifi at home I was hoping to use my m2000

as a monitoring device

(actually to spy on my girlfriend hehe!)

surely there must be some way of making this work!

hopefully yours

simonastro

[Guest simonastro]

hmmmm

have downloaded something called pocketbone

installs ok but cant seem to get it to work

[Guest fraser]

He he, H.323, good luck! This is proper VoIP stuff, pretty complicated. It hasn't taken off for that reason! You need to set up a gat3way for it to work, and the gat3way must be listening on any network address you wish to use with it. There might be public gat3ways you can sign-up to online, but I'm not sure if you'll get a free one; all your traffic goes through the gat3way, so it's potentially costly for the operator.

I set it up ages ago to get netmeeting working for video, was a pain in the ass, had to set up a linux H.323 gat3way (not all that hard), then open up the firewaIl. Then people who want to "call" you need to connect to your gat3way. Basically H.323 sucks, badly designed. My info is old though; perhaps the standard has improved.

Skype etc are taking off because they do VoIP without the hastle!!

[edit: sorry for the "leet", those auto-ads really annoy me!!]

Edited March 27, 2005 by fraser

[Guest simonastro]

fraser

as usual you are the fountain of knowledge!!

I think this one is out of my depth

cheers

xxx

[Guest bolasz]

First of all ive checked the search engine and I cant find anything specific about this.

My question is

Is there anyway you can record video on your Pocket PC and get it shown in real time on your pc via activesync, similar to the way you can plug a camcorder into your TV?

Many Thanks

xXxJasxXx

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Haven't tried it but pocket controller or a similar app could help.

[Guest fraser]

Haven't tried it but pocket controller or a similar app could help.

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ActiveSync Remote Display won't work that way as it doesn't work over wireless... :D

None of this is all that hard. Just no one has written the software to do it. Writting a web cam app to take a snapshot every other second would be a doddle, and for anyone with experience with video streaming I'm sure getting live video out of it would be easy.

Try searching for terms like "pocket pc stream video 3gp" etc, though I'd imagine there would be a lot of noise in the search with stuff about the stream going in the opposite direction.

[Guest bolasz]

ActiveSync Remote Display won't work that way as it doesn't work over wireless... :D

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I've tried Pocket Controller 4.12, it works fine via BT.

[Guest Stoned_Krusty]

I've tried Pocket Controller 4.12, it works fine via BT.

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ActiveSync and Remote Display work fine over Wifi on the M2000, however you can't view video over it because of the way that the image is draw to the screen (i presume it bypasses the software rendering elements of windows and uses hardware drawing of some sort?)

[Guest fraser]

ActiveSync and Remote Display work fine over Wifi on the M2000

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You sure on Remote Display over WiFi? I always get a "PPP_PEER" error when I try it, works fine on the dock. PPP is a serial protocol, kinda made sense to me as the cradle would use something like that to work, so I didn't try to push it. Would be very nice if it could though!

It could be because my wireless lan is a different subnet from the wired one. That breaks file share browsing as well... :D

[Guest its_millertime22]

It could be because my wireless lan is a different subnet from the wired one. That breaks file share browsing as well...  ;)

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Different subnet shouldn't break file sharing as long as your gateway is properly configured to know where to find the other subnets. Although it could be that you can't browse a different subnet from Windows Mobile. :?:

[Guest fraser]

Different subnet shouldn't break file sharing as long as your gateway is properly configured to know where to find the other subnets.  Although it could be that you can't browse a different subnet from Windows Mobile.  :?:

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The phone is almost completely useless for crossing subnets. Web browsers work fine, as does SSH. All of the Microsoft protocolls must rely on broadcast messages however as hardly any of them work without doing workarounds. I had to hack a "PPP_PEER" hostname in the phones IP hosts file to get Remote Display work over TCP / wifi.

The phone is totally inconsistent WRT to all the Microsoft IP-using stuff. Some things ignore DNS completely (my network is setup perfectly, DNS server knows all the hosts). Others (e.g. ActiveSync) attach the wrong bloody fully qualified domain name, so I can't sync to my office PC over the internet and there is no way to manually change the setting.

On the SMB (file sharing), things are just as bad. I tried every trick I could think of, but I could not get it going. Port forwarding, DNS hacks, hosts files etc. Nothing worked. I can browse the machines on the wireless subnets, but not the wired one. Machines are pingable, VNC, web servers everything else works. I tried every single app that featured network browsing. No luck.

It doesn't work with Linux Samba file sharing either, which is a really hastle because that's where all my data lives. This box exists on both subnets, but it still won't work with the phone.