I thought it would be nice to have a thread of successfull streamings to the Nokia 770...

I succeeded in streaming live audio from my PC today using the following settings:

Video: none
Audio: line in (From radio)

Output method: HTTP
Encapsulation: WAV
Transcoding, Audio: MP3, 64 kbps, stereo

To receive:
- Open AudioPlayer
- Select Playlist->Add Stream
- Enter http://<server>:<port>

Bitrates tested OK: 64, 128, 192 kbps

VLC used: 0.8.4a on WindowsXP

I've been unable to stream video with vlc, please post setting if you have success ...

I tried video streaming too... But no success in any codec, format, bitrate possible. I hope someone is working on a VLC player for our nokia 770 at this point.

also tried with VLC but failed miserable. I guess VLC doesnt support RV40
if anyone gets this to work I would love to find out how. The video player is serious lacking functionality, it is useless for the regular consumer.

Anyone working on a MythTV frontend? or another video player that supports mms stream?

I played around with the VLC streaming settings and made a little bit of progress, which I will report.
First, I was able to reproduce the audio streaming and transcoding mentioned in the earlier post. Then I tried the video settings. My source was a 640x480 MPEG2 file. The video player is limited on bitrate, resolution and stream encapsulation. I'm running VLC on windows, streaming in HTTP, with default port 1234, with a buffer size of 1500. I'm using an 802.11g network with good signal strength.

The VLC settings I used for transcoding/streaming were:
Encapsulation: MPEG1
Video codec: mp1v, bitrate 256kb, scale 0.5
Audio codec: mpga, bitrate 64kb, channels 1 (2 will work)

With these settings the video player will open the stream and buffer it, and play it, but the playback is very choppy (its interrupted by buffer fills). Video and audio gets out of synch sometimes. The total MPEG1 output bitrate is around 300kbits/sec.

Anyway, I'm reporting this so further experiments on streaming can be done. At least VLC can transcode and stream video to the Nokia, although its far from perfect.

Good luck

Hfs file server and n770 media conveter will streem clear and smooth video

A good point onspindle.

Is there an easy way to setup hfs to 770?
Also, do you know any easy installers for windows?

I think quite many people would be very pleased with such a setup (myself icluded).

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't HFS just serve files on the network, while VLC transcodes and streams? That is VLC can accept many source types and formats and then produce a Nokia 770 compatible stream (like shoutcast or icecast) in real time.

For instance in my example there is no way that the Nokia can digest a 640x480 MPEG2 stream - neither the resolution, bitrate and encapsulation is supported. For instance the input video bitrate in my case is 2000 kbits/sec. VLC can take real time sources, like internet streams and make them compatible. Or a DVD, with zero conversion time.

In another thread in this forum we are trying to get TVersity (another popular transcoding streamer) to work with the Nokia 770. It isnt producing compatible streams just yet.

Indeed, but setting HFS would solve quite many other issues as well (like accessing images, music, etc. from remote computer). Now, I know there are some frontends to VLC as well, but HFS and streaming VLC are not mutually exclusive. It would be great if users would be able to easily setup HFS sharing on their windows boxes as well (OSX and Linux naturally already have HFS servers). And it would be great to be able to stream from VLC as well.

What is HFS? I was under the impression that it is the fs Macs use, and I cant find anything about HFS regarding network storage.
I dont suppose you guys mean NFS? Has anyone gotten NFS to work on OS06 yet?