Slimserver/770 Combo for Photos
 

First off I want to acknowledge and Thank Ben Klass and everyone else that has contributed to this kickbutt combo.

I have been searching for a set of apps that I would enable me to view photos from my PC's and/or NAS within the 770's photo viewer ( simialr to how mp3's are played with Ben's app). Does anyone know of any programs / scripts that could do this?

TIA

Yes, the Slimserver workaround is good, but it does only do audio.

For my DivX media player (Buffalo Linktheater) there are a number of streaming applications available for the PC. One of which is installed on my Server.

This streaming media server, streams video, audio and photos to my Linktheater.

I have been unable to get it to work with my 770. When you click on a link in the media browser web app, you get a text string of the form:

2001%20a%20space%20odyssey|0|0|http://192.168.0.20:8000/action/playvideo.jsp?id=0&ext=.avi|

if you paste the http... string into a PC (or 770) media player, it downloads the whole file before playing, rather than treating it as a stream :-(

This is clunky, OK for pictures and annoying for mp3s, but is impossible for films.

Has anybody got the 770 working with a media streamer? e.g. EZLink or MediaLink?

Thanks

Jon

How about .asx files?
 

Have you tried doing an .asx file for the .avi just to try out. It should enable streaming, havent tried myself yet, but will, if I get any sparetime...

I've also got a LinkTheater (+ LinkStation).
I have managed to get audio streaming to the 770 - I *think* that was when I had Pinnacle ShowCenter installed, but no luck with video or photos unfortunately.
Obviously SlimServer works so much better though :)

Display pictures from a PC/remote X clien problem
 

There is a version of xv for PCs. So in theory you should be able to run xv on the PC and point the display at the 770.
(Note xv is an X-windows picture viewer program)

I have tried this, and been unable to get access to the 770's X display. There are a number of forum discussions which seem to show people running remote X clients on their 770, Open Office for example. These forum discussions seem to imply it should just work.

xv -display <ip address>:0

should work?

How is this done? It does not seem to work for me.

Jon

I suppose the best solution would be to put up a web server on your network.
This way you can browse your pictures as you like ...
Fred

ssh x forwarding??
 

What about using ssh to connect to your pc, enabling X forwarding. You could then run whatever viewer you want on your pc but the display would be on the 770.

You can test Orb
With a low Bitrate (<76 Kb)

It streams Video, photos, and music but only with windows Xp