squiggs1982
04-20-2004, 12:08 AM
Hi all!
Right. I've searched this and other forums for about two weeks now and have failed to find a definitive answer on the feasability of, what I consider, to be proper streaming.
I can happily broadcast a file through media encoder and watch it on my ipaq 4150 in media player. It works lovely. However, this is very inconvenient! What I want to do, is sit with Resco file explorer, browse to the file on my HD and open it in media player or pocketMVP on the PPC.
Now, to clarify, I CAN do this for the most part, but it's awful. On media player, it w i ....l sta...rt an....d stu...t...ter like nothing on earth! On pocketMVP, the only file I've actually managed to play was a very short movie trailer (about 2.5 megs) and even then, it sat for about five minutes presumably coopying the whole thing to memory before playing it. When it finally does play, it was fine, but anything larger than that (say an TV show) will just hold on the spinning pie thing forever.
I've played around with all the settings on MVP and taken up suggestions in other posts, such as playing with the cache size and the index, but to no avail.
Basically, my question is can this be done or is my 4150 just not up to the job?
I'm in my house, with a g capable access point (although I know the ipaq is only b) and the files are either DIVX for MVP or the others are suitable for media player. The same thing works fine on my laptop, you'd never know it wasn't local content. Is my 'paq just a wimp?
Thanks!! :D
Right. I've searched this and other forums for about two weeks now and have failed to find a definitive answer on the feasability of, what I consider, to be proper streaming.
I can happily broadcast a file through media encoder and watch it on my ipaq 4150 in media player. It works lovely. However, this is very inconvenient! What I want to do, is sit with Resco file explorer, browse to the file on my HD and open it in media player or pocketMVP on the PPC.
Now, to clarify, I CAN do this for the most part, but it's awful. On media player, it w i ....l sta...rt an....d stu...t...ter like nothing on earth! On pocketMVP, the only file I've actually managed to play was a very short movie trailer (about 2.5 megs) and even then, it sat for about five minutes presumably coopying the whole thing to memory before playing it. When it finally does play, it was fine, but anything larger than that (say an TV show) will just hold on the spinning pie thing forever.
I've played around with all the settings on MVP and taken up suggestions in other posts, such as playing with the cache size and the index, but to no avail.
Basically, my question is can this be done or is my 4150 just not up to the job?
I'm in my house, with a g capable access point (although I know the ipaq is only b) and the files are either DIVX for MVP or the others are suitable for media player. The same thing works fine on my laptop, you'd never know it wasn't local content. Is my 'paq just a wimp?
Thanks!! :D