ORB - Watch your home tv channels on a smartphone/pda for free!

[NG]

http://www.orb.com/

Looks pretty sweet. Acts as a server for all your home media and even television package if you have a compatible TV tuner in your pc.

[reboot]

Works great if you have EVDO coverage, and can stream a format your phone/pda understands.
If you don't have EVDO, it's streaming is too slow for serious watching.
Works great for mp3's though!

[NG]

Works great if you have EVDO coverage, and can stream a format your phone/pda understands.
If you don't have EVDO, it's streaming is too slow for serious watching.
Works great for mp3's though!

Nice to hear it actually works. Do you think either

a) A video stream shurnk down enough to 1.5 inchs with 10fps
b) It's possible to just to grab the audio from the tv or radio

to stream the content to a GRPS connection cell (Nokia 6585)?

[reboot]

It's not the size of the video, nor framerate, as much as the type and bitrate.
eg. My A920 plays 3gp, 3g2, mp3 and aac.
My capture card records mpg.
I have to convert everything to 3gp or 3g2 (176x220), to stream it to my phone (video) and aac or mp3 for audio (reduced bitrate at reasonable quality).
In a non-EVDO coverage area, reduce bitrate as much as humanly possible, yet still be viewable, even at 25fps.
You can stream audio, providing it's mp3 or aac, and 1x browser speeds are plenty for 128kbit mp3's.

[handyguy]

Its similar to a Sling box. Slingvideo.com

[Treebeard]

I tried this for streaming my music to wherever I was ( usually work) stupid program crashed everyday and I got tired of it so I uninstalled it. was nice when it worked though.

[NG]

It's not the size of the video, nor framerate, as much as the type and bitrate.
eg. My A920 plays 3gp, 3g2, mp3 and aac.
My capture card records mpg.
I have to convert everything to 3gp or 3g2 (176x220), to stream it to my phone (video) and aac or mp3 for audio (reduced bitrate at reasonable quality).
In a non-EVDO coverage area, reduce bitrate as much as humanly possible, yet still be viewable, even at 25fps.
You can stream audio, providing it's mp3 or aac, and 1x browser speeds are plenty for 128kbit mp3's.

Thanks for the info. I just got a PC Mobile phone (the Nokia) and I'm not big into cellphones so dropping more than the $25 Superstore wanted for it w/ $10 airtime is out of my price range for now however even if I can just get the audiostream to run Newsworld/CP24/CTV NewsNet and CNN with GPRS will do it.

Glad they have a $5 unlimited GRPS data connection

Just gotta find a program that'll capture the audio stream to a streaming audio format the phone can understand now

[reboot]

If your noki can decypher mp3, then that's probably the easiest to stream.
If it requires AAC, just do a batch conversion in Super video converter.
This all depends on exactly what phone model you have.

If you're capturing a live webstream, or using a TV cap card, ffdshow or dscaler may be able to convert on the fly, then orb will stream it.
Check the post processing features of your capture device/software.