[mythtv-users] Axim PDA

Adam Skinner kingmoffa at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 15:35:41 UTC 2008


Adam Skinner wrote:
> I have a dell axim that I have been itching to use with mythtv for
> years. I really want to have streaming video to it over 802.11b - it
> should be enough bandwidth as it works 95% of time for mythfrontend
> proper on my eeepc. 
>
> With the new release of mythweb I thought finally it was going to
work.
> But no joy. I started by commenting out some lines in mythweb to stop
it
> going into mobile/small screen mode. Upon trying to load the full
> recordings page - it wouldn't finish. To much going on the for the
> crappy internet explorer on the pda.
>
> I then picked a few links from the recordings page and turned them
into
> a page more suitable for a pda (no graphics / css for example). An
> example link is: 
> http://XXXX:80/mythweb/pl/stream/4106/1216245600.asx
>
> The links started to work and fired up windows media player - but no
> joy. The pda wouldn't play them.
>
> Any suggestions? Obviously the pda cannot play evil flash. I want
> something to work on the fly - that doesn't need to have tv shows
being
> transcoded after recording unless I really have to. 
>   
I would try installing VLC media player and try it again. AFAIK windows 
player will not play our files without a transcode. VLC will stream
from 
mythtv just fine plus its fairly light weight.

Bill


Thanks for the advice Bill, but I have already tried VLC. 

I never managed to make it work. Besides its not really what I want - I
want something that apache can be in control of. VLC server isnt so good
in this respect. 
I may continue down the asx route and see if I can find another client
instead of windows media player. 
Just a pity my perl isn't very good otherwise I would have a look at the
mythweb code.  



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