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770 2006 OS MMC boot

I am pretty new to this media streaming thing. I was able to make the 770 do it and also test on my desktop successfully. However, I was wondering why am I doing it. I am very satisfy with my home networking at this moment. I was able to access any files, audio/video, from any one of my 8 pcs (some of them are 9 yrs old running winME from a Pentium II) and play the media on the local computer. And the quality is just as good as the media files. I believe people running media streaming are:

1) does not how to set up a file server,
2) "refuse" to continue using their old PC, but do not mind to plug down their hard earned $ for the fancy Xbox360 or whatnots,
3) does not own a hard copy of the media file, e.g. radio or TV signal.

I confess, I am in the (1) category. I am planning to learn to make the rdesktop/VPN on my 770 and then I probably will drop TVersity/WMP11 (see previous posts, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=7749; http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...848#post65848). For myself, the tablet evolution will be TV signal streaming, right, Nokia? Any thoughts? Any suggestions? Any comments?

My experiment with the WMP11 vs TVersity on 770. Audio streaming is fine for either the WMP11 or the TVersity, no noticeble difference. Video streaming the WMP11 is unacceptable, pics are jumping, loading time takes forever. TVersity wins by big margin.



bun

well, the WMP11 integrated real well with TVersity on two powerful desktop PC, both video/audio smooth streaming. So far, almost all my video collections streamed without a fuzz on the desktop PC whereas over 50% of my video collection failed to play on the 770. Unfortunately, there is obvious noticebly deteriote in video quality, probably from transcoding? When comparing to access the file remotely and play locally, video streaming is suffering some noticebly loss. So, when comparing with previous report, that the WMP11 cannot handle video streaming to 770, problems lie with the 770. Apparantly TVersity did a good job.

Just want to report at 4 am in the morning. Enjoy.


bun

Great post.

I, too, am in the old-school "why not just browse and play files on a network share (export) directory" camp.

However I can see three potential, personal uses for streaming.

1) Access to my media over a slow connection, possibly through firewalls. (If i ever get umts flatrate or feel the need to watch my media from a friend's house).

2) Transcoding my old stored xvid/divx videos that would not play back natively on the 770.

3) Capturing/Transcoding livetv and controlling a pvr through the nokia.

Oh and just thought of one more advantage - playing random-play music off a network share with thousands of files would incur high start-up times and memory usage on the 770 client, if it tried indexing all of the data before beginning playback.

I suppose all the media-streaming savvy people are laughing at this post right now for mentioning the obvious.

Old farts like me don't eagerly change habits or paradigms, and we tend to dislike fat, bloated, feature-overloaded solutions to problems we didn't know we had.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...treamserv.aspx (ok - it's a MiscroShaft page - but it runs through some of the differences between media servers and the old-school way of doing things )


Obviously if it's just one on one listening/viewing media files then standard old-school networking is more than enough.

But envisage a future when you, your wife/(or wives ), sons, daughters, family friends, etc all use their N900's to listen/view your media at the same time...also imagine said server/s contain your collection of Jean Michael Jarre's 5:1 DVDA Oxygene releases as well as performing data intensive tasks such as recording DVB-T.


A uPnP server setup correctly can not only manage your audio collection from multiple locations; but can also distribute it with guaranteed efficiency over the network. It can transcode the files to suit your playback device - so the client connected to your home theatre TV receives 5:1 digital audio whilst your N800 receives classic stereo.

Now I'm not saying the stuff we have now does that [it relies on QoS on the underlying hardware and softstacks] - but technically - that's where we're supposed to be going!

There are several reasons I like to stream media.

- Form factor, plug space. Being able to store everything centrally allows you to use client devices that aren't full fledged computers. Say I want to watch a movie upstairs on out TV, I either have to get a DVD player up there or bring up a laptop. Or I can use something like the MediaMVP ( a small cheap STB) and just stream the movie off of the central server. Same goes for any other room.

- Remote steaming. We were on a trip (car ride) and I had my 770. I used my Orb,my cellphone and central server to stream the Robot Chicken Star Wars show off of Youtube to my 770, worked great This would be the same with any media too.