pocket-TV on mpx200.....

[Guest paxkine]

hello all,

just downloaded pockettv for smartphone and it works great....with one exception. When I try to stream .mpg or .mpeg videos over the web the phone says "The file cannot be viewed on this device". But when I save the same file to my desktop and transfer it to the storage card, then pocket-tv plays it just fine......

I installed pocket-tv on my storage card, do I have to install it in the phone memory for it to pickup the .mpg or .mpeg file associations? Pretty frustrating to have to download the entire file and then transfer it to sd before I can watch it....

any tips, anything I am doing wrong? :?

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

hello all,

just downloaded pockettv for smartphone and it works great....with one exception.  When I try to stream .mpg or .mpeg videos over the web the phone says "The file cannot be viewed on this device".  But when I save the same file to my desktop and transfer it to the storage card, then pocket-tv plays it just fine...... 

I installed pocket-tv on my storage card, do I have to install it in the phone memory for it to pickup the .mpg or .mpeg file associations?  Pretty frustrating to have to download the entire file and then transfer it to sd before I can watch it....

any tips, anything I am doing wrong?  :?

1) Streaming of MPEG files will not work unless you have a fast network connection. GPRS is not fast enough. So it would worl only with the ActiveSync pass-through (i.e. when the phone is connected to the PC).

2) Streaming on MPEG files requires the use of .m1u files (similar to the .url files used by PIE, which contains a URL, .m1u are small text files that contain the URL of an MPEG file). For more information on streaming with PocketTV, please read www.pockettv.com/html.html .

> I installed pocket-tv on my storage card, do I have to install it in the phone memory for it to pickup the .mpg or .mpeg file associations?

No, file association is independent on where the application is installed. But when you are in PIE and click on a link that points to an MPEG file (e.g. http://www.myserver.com/myfile.mpg ), PIE will download the file and then it will start the application corresponding to that file.

This requires that the server sends the *correct MIME type* for MPEG files, since unlike Internet Explorer on the desktop, PIE does not overwrite incorrect mimetypes using the file extension.

All this works well on Pocket PC's but PIE is different on Smartphones, and it is possible that some feature that work on Pocket PC's don't work on Smartphone (yet).

For the time being, we recommend downloading MPEG files and play them from local storage.

[Guest paxkine]

hello,

thanks for the informative post! I was still unable to watch streaming videos using my pass-thru connection (cable modem on the desktop) so that leads me to believe it's just not possible, period.

all I wanted was to click on some text links that open an .mpeg and then it would stream off the web.. the videos I tried are low bandwidth (56k) so I thought even those would work...

any suggestions? :)

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

hello,

thanks for the informative post!  I was still unable to watch streaming videos using my pass-thru connection (cable modem on the desktop) so that leads me to believe it's just not possible, period.

all I wanted was to click on some text links that open an .mpeg and then it would stream off the web.. the videos I tried are low bandwidth (56k) so I thought even those would work...

any suggestions?  :)

I have no problem watching streaming video on a Smartphone using the ActiveSync passthrough and .m1u files.

Try http://www.pockettv.com/stream_test.html

The link (to a small .m1u file that contains the URL of the large MPEG on our server) will cause PocketTV to stream a video from our server.

This should work with any Smartphone.