watch TV on your 7650?!

[Manfred27]

i read somewhere that you can watch TV with the oplayer streaming player. does someone of you know more about this?
if it should work, it would be great!!

knows someone some goods streaminglists for the oplayer (or adresses where you can get those)?

thx

[SaKy]

get realone player for 7650, and connect to TV station-s via web...if TV station-stations transmit over the realmedia streaming...

[schriss]

I have another idea: we could use a software to create a stream in realtime on PC with TV card, then connect to the PC with Real Player :-) Anyone tried this? Should be easy to do...

[schriss]

OK, I'll try that this weekend :)
I have TV card and RealServer on my PC, RealOne player on my 7650. I will change TV channels with my remote control, RealServer will stream in realtime and I'll watch TV on my Nokia 7650 via bluetooth :D

[sick_7650]

let us know if that worked then :)

[n3o2501]

Geez, sounds too good to be true :}
I'm really interested what the results will be...

I kinda dunno about the streaming off the web - don't you have to pay for the GPRS transfer? at 43 kbps per second that quickly sums up a pretty big bill, don't you think?

May the SymbianForceOS be with you,

n3o

[rtcdestiny]

Try this guys.


http://www.videocoding.com/v2/demos/mdevices/index.html

But pls share your comments so we all learn.

Thanks

[Rigla]

I dont think that its possible to watch via bluetooth, cause the connection is too slow for webcams! For example, if you want to use the 7650 as webcam with RemoteS60, the fastest connection is about 1 picture per second! Because 1 picture has about 30kb, and if you up/download a file onto your 7650 the maximum speed is around 30kb/second...
So you might watch TV with 1 pic every second ;)

[n3o2501]

Yes, rigla, but you are talking about uncompressed pictures (in remote60's co-called "compression"). Take a look at it this way - if you now had a DVD rip on your hard drive (which I presume you most probably do ;) - try to figure out how big it would be if there were 25 uncompressed pictures PER SECOND x the seconds a movie lasts - and I am of course talking about uncompressed formats too - so don't calculate 25 times a jpeg - do a 25 times a BMP or TIFF (both in uncompressed mode)

Now, try to take a look at a 28,8 stream - it looks a lot nicer than what remote 60 does with almost three times more bandwidth.

This is what mpeg 4 compression does - and it rocks :}

May the SymbianForceOS be with you,

n3o

[schriss]

OK, guys, here are the results:
First, I tried to make tests with pre-encoded .ra files to see if it is all possible. I have installed Helix Server and I have put few ra files in "content" directory. Then I installed RealOne player on my 7650. Then I created an additional access point, to be able to connect to my PC via bluetooth, without expensive GPRS. Then I opened RealOne on my 7650 and I have tried to open URL: rtsp://myIP/test.ram mRouter started to flash, RealOne shows "connecting" and then "communicating" but after some time I get an error "connection to server timed out". I tried many ram files, in some cases RealOne gives error "not enough network bandwidth", but with the other files it connects, but then times out.
I tried many ra files encoded with G2, 8 and newest 9 codec.
I tried newest version of RealOne, but it has new menu: "default access point" and whatever access point I chose, I'm not able to make RealOne connect via bluetooth, mRouter doesn't start to flash.
So I need help :-) What am I doing wrong? Technically it is all possible, because mRouter starts to flash, so I get connected via bluetooth. I could wach TV or at least some pre-encoded videoclips (Helix server streams files on demand), but this stupid RealOne only shows black screen and "Loading..." - then "time out".
Is there any .mpg, .avi or .mov player on 7650? Or maybe somebody will tell me how to make the new RealOne connect via bluetooth.