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Guest benjymous
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and probably expensive if I keep it up

I've just set up windows media encoder on my PC to broadcast the sound of winamp, so that I can connect to it on media player on my phone

Glorious 11kbps audio, travelling hundreds of miles to get from my computer to my phone that's 2 feet away :)

Guest modfather
Posted

lol... how about you wire up two small speakers to your spv... and i reckon u should get a bit of lag, poss 25ms??? then u could set up a dolby surround system in tandem with ur pc speakers.

but then again...

Guest benjymous
Posted
lol... how about you wire up two small speakers to your spv... and i reckon u should get a bit of lag, poss 25ms??? then u could set up a dolby surround system in tandem with ur pc speakers.

but then again...

After it's buffered during encoding, and buffered again on the phone, there's about a 50 second lag between the PC's audio and the phone playing it :)

However, I've found that if I use the USB network connection instead, I can play high quality sound quite happily. Not that it's much use, as I still have to be in the same room to listen, but still quite a good demo of the technology (it sounds really good on headphones, too)

Guest simonastro
Posted

can't seem to get streaming audio

can u recommend an url?

cheers

Guest HelloDave
Posted

It's pointless but still strangely cool! A while ago I thought of linking up the TV card in my PC to Windows Media Encoder and broadcasting that to my phone so that I could effectively get TV anywhere, perhaps changing channels via e-mail or something, but with the current speed and cost of GPRS it isn't even slightly practical! (and rather pointless I know, but haven't you ever done something just becuase you can?!) Maybe if I ever get 3G...

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

Slightly OT, but has everyone seen the 3G adverts on telly recently, looks as good as it sounds :)

Guest Syvwlch
Posted

I do this (PC to PC) by using my TV tuner card as a video source for Netmeeting. The picture/sound quality is really quite good and it is a helluva lot easier than messing around with Media Encoder... So, perhaps tangentially on-topic only, but perhaps a Netmeeting client for the SPV might be a Good Thing?

Guest kingdom master
Posted

ekk ur gprs tariff is goner love you:-)

regards

kingdom

Guest HelloDave
Posted

Nice small avatar you've got there :wink:

Guest fraser
Posted

Is it possible to stream mp3s in the same way? My webserver runs Linux not Windows, I've already gotten streaming mp3 to broadband/LAN PCs running fine.

I was wanting to install a re-encoder (to get the bitrate down to something GPRS can handle) but I couldn't get any mp3 streams to play at all (even over USB) so I never bothered following through...

Guest HelloDave
Posted

Windows Media Player on the SPV only accepts windows media streams I think, so you'd need a different app.

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