Streaming tv on pocket pc

[imi1232000]

Hi i've tried to stream video on my pocket pc via wireless lan and, i notice that the quality is quite choppy. I know its not my wireless connection speeds but probably my encoding settings. I'm using windows media encoder to broadcast live and i'm using ati tv wonder ve as my tv tuner. Anyone know why i would get choppy video?? Or does anyone have good settings i can use.

[Kaber]

2 Total streams
Audio: [32 Kbps] <Windows Media Audio 9> Stereo 22.1 kHz
Video: [186.2 Kbps] 208 x 160 <Windows Media Video V7>

Video stream (186.2 Kbps): 20 fps, 2 seconds per key frame, Quality: 0



...or select "Video for color PDA devices (225 Kbps)" in Windows Media Encoder

Thats what I use to stream DirecTV to my ipaq and its pretty good. I'm also overclocking @ 472Mhz.

I can control the DTV box using this app (http://www.pcmx.net/dtvcon/) and Pocket IE.

[imi1232000]

when you say your overclocking, do you mean that you are overclocking your pocket pc processor??

[Kaber]

Yes, I am overclocking my PPC using PocketHackMaster (http://www.pockethackmaster.com).

[ipaq38vette]

Has anyone tried streaming TV on a 206mhz strongarm?

[Kaber]

It works fine using WMP on my iPAQ 3765 also. Which I overclock (http://www.jimmysoftware.com/Software/Overclock/) also.

[ipaq38vette]

Kaber, can you post the settings you used for your 3765 in Windows Media Encoder? Is fullscreen possible?

[Kaber]

Same settings as above. I am only encoding and streaming from one PC. It is an Athlon 2000+ w/ 512MB RAM. I can watch the stream on either iPAQ (3955 or 3765) by opening the URL (http://192.168.0.5:1406) in WMP, and change the channels in pocket IE. There is about a 12 second delay changing channels. I am using WiFi cards in both iPAQs and a WEP encrypted AP connected to the "network" - a WinXP box with two NICs and a hub running ICS.

[ipaq38vette]

What is the resolution and fps? How much is the delay between live and streaming? One last question - Does it take up alot of CPU usage on the brodcasting machine (866mhx PIII)?

[imi1232000]

Which tv tuner cards are you guys using, and do you guys get tv quality video when streaming on your wireless lan or is it choppy?

[Steven Cedrone]

Which tv tuner cards are you guys using, and do you guys get tv quality video when streaming on your wireless lan or is it choppy?

I use an ATI TV-Wonder...

Steve

[Kaber]

I'm only using a Dazzle DVC80 (http://www.dazzle.com/products/dvc80.html) for streaming to the Pocket PC. You won't need a high quality capture device if all its doing is streaming to a pocket pc using the PDA setting in WME.

[imi1232000]

I'm noticing that when i use windows media encoder 9 with my ati tv tuner ve pci card to capture and stream video to my pocket pc, the video is very slow or choppy on my pocket pc.

Here is my specs:

intel celeron at 1.3ghz processor
512mb ram
40gb disk space
ati 7500 radeon graphics card
ati TV Tuner VE
Wireless lan on cable modem

Is this good enough to use as a stream server?? I will be the only one that will recieve the stream. Can my specs of my cpu make the video choppy, or is it the modem speed. I'm very confused because i'm not sure that when you stream tv to your pocket pc, what kind of quality you should expect. Will the frames be continuous or will the video stop for a while and then start again(choppy). I've even tried overclocking my pocket pc and still nothing. Can someone help me out.

[Kaber]

With the settings I listed earlier in the thread, i get about 17-19 fps (24 frames per second is what most movies are made at) with clean audio when wearing headphones. It can chop a bit during really active scenes. But the image quality is enough that I can read the scrolling news banners on CNN, or captions in foreign movies on IFC.

Your system sounds like it should work perfect for this. Are there any other apps running on your Pocket PC that may be using up bandwidth? I sometimes have a problem with Journal Bar being a hog if it tries to update while I am watching TV. Don't use ActiveSync over TCP/IP while trying to watch the stream either.

[Matty]

I am using the "Video for color PDA devices (225 Kbps)" in Windows Media Encoder (I've tried other setting as well). Why am I getting a black screen for video playback in WME preview window? What am I missing? Sound is ok though!

[Kaber]

Is it a RCA video cable, or S-Video? Is there an option to choose which if it has both? I had this problem when I first tried my DVC80 with the S-Video. The device properties were set to composite video, I changed it to S-Video and then it worked.

Also, my direcTV reciever's RCA audio out goes into my SBLive! card's line-in. I don't use the audio capture on the DVC80 because it tends to lag behind the video at times.