[mythtv-users] Playing Myth content from Symbian phone? eg Nokia N95

Mike Dent mcdent at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 09:20:34 UTC 2008


2008/9/15 xavier hervy <xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com>:
> On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 10:06 +0100, Mike Dent wrote:
>> My Son recently got a Nokia N95 8gb running symbian OS. I was
>> surprised to see out mythtv box appear in its list
>> of network media devices via our wifi network.
>>
>> It's possible to browse all the recordings, music and videos from the
>> handset, however when attempting to play the
>> content nothing happens.
>> Does anybody know if it is possible? I'm assuming a codec is not
>> available on the handset to play the videos but even
>> the music does not appear to play, so maybe there is something else missing?
>>
>> As you can imagine it would be really cool and geeky to be able to do
>> this kind of thing. Seems its part way there already!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mike
> I am on happy user of a N95 first version, I can watch my recording on
> my phone trough video center. However the recordings need to be
> transcoded before, There is no way to play your recording straight away
> (It might be possible but it depends of you TV card I suppose and what
> profile you use).
> My solution is in two part:
> - a cron job which re encode the video in a adequate format using
> ffmepg.
> - a php file which allow me to generate the vcfg file (like reuters do)
> and rss file
> It does work pretty well.
>
> The problem with the upnp stuff (home media) is  it show the recording
> regardless the capabilities of the phone.
>
> For the music, when I transfert them through upnp, the music a faulty
> (i.e. the music jump quite often) which does happen when I transfert it
> through http (via the nokia web browser)
>
> My script to generate the the feed for video center is a bit dirty, but
> I can clean it up and post it if needed.
> Xavier
>

Hi Xavier,
thanks for your reply.
Yes I would like your scripts and the ffmpeg commands to do this
encoding if you dont mind.
Also how do you go about expiring your transcoding after a period of time?

many thanks,
Mike


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