[mythtv-users] Playing Myth content from Symbian phone? eg Nokia N97

Jonny B jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 13:41:57 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Andrew Williams<andy at tensixtyone.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/14 Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
<snip>
> I've had raw video from my mythbox play on my N95, but not using the
> stock player. I think its Core Player or something in its ilk (I dont
> have my N95 with me at the moment).
>
> I've never used UPnP video, I just transcode my video then rsync over
> to the phone. Set the phone to always show as a storage device and
> you'll get access to the extended storage (D:).

I was wondering if anybody had gone out and bought an N97 yet, and if
so, if they had tested the UPnP functionality on their mythbox. With
the full 16x9 display, and their emphasis on media functionality, I
was hoping they might have gotten a decent set of codecs together.


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