Orb 2: Streaming to the Nokia 770 vastly improved.
 

You have to see this:

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/12/orb-2.html

I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am with the latest Orb. I can stream to my 770, Motorola Q, Ultra-mobile PC, or (shh... don't tell) work PC if I so desire.

Read. Watch the video. Get the software.
In a perfect world, the Canola developers would write a front-end to that site :)

Grate find!
But I am having problems playing media with 770 it trys to open all files with the video player... Also the videos when they open with video player I get unsuported format?!?
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

I think I got it ;)
Thanks nice find!

Glad you like it! Make sure Real codecs are installed on your host PC first, then make sure to set Real as your default codec on the 770 and that your bitrate is around 400 kbps. Faster than that (even with the bandwidth) is too high quality for the 770 to handle.

I installed some time ago, just a few days before losing my Maxtor 160GB HDD :mad:

I'll try as soon as I get it again...

any luck with orb on linux?

There are Linux-like solutions, but Orb is a Windows product as far as I can tell.

But I don't have a windows box. Otherwise this would be very very cool.

I appreciate that this post is tangental, but I wonder if the Wii Media Center X (Server running on Linux, Mac or Win PC) could be seen by the Nokia 770? As the Nokia and the Wii both use the Opera Browser and have problems with latest versions of Flash etc.

http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/

Anyway come what may it's yet another take on Media Servers running on your main MAC, Linux, Win PC and transcoding/serving media to portable devices etc.

Not at Home till New Year, so cannot try out myself :(

I played with the media center X on my wii but it didn't actually STREAM anything because it first required that ALL content be converted to .FLV first. I didn't have the patience for that (and neither will most users, I suspect.) I expect Redkawa will build an on-the-fly conversion machine within their software in future releases.

Also: the Flash implementation on the 770 doesn't support .FLV anyway - which is why Youtube and Google Video do not work.