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*question for 5600 smt owners*
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Posted by: Galandrius

im watching a movie on my smt 5600 and im loving it and i was wondering...is there a way to watch tv on this phone. cuz im here at work, and when stuff goes boring i just watch movies on this bad boy but it would be kool ot watch tv on this thing...any ways how? thanks

Posted by: Omega2008

WM Encoder can brodcast streaming media. So if you have a TV tunner card in your computer you can broadcast tv to your phone. You just have to enter the proxy in the Data Settings and go the URL where its broadcasting at. Take note that it will be choppy because GPRS isn't the fastest data there is.

Posted by: Galandrius

ok man im slow when it coems to this...im what u cal a "newbie'" except im those special eduaction ones...so maybe u got a site that can break it down to me step by step...cuz thats how i figured out how to put movies here.

1.) how do i find out if my pc has a tv tuner first off...
2.)whats wm encoder
3.) and what was all that proxy talk about??

thanks
-confused user

Posted by: Omega2008

OH man thats alot to type. If you have a port on the back that has a coaxil then you probably got a tv tunner card, if not you can buy one.

WM Encoder = Windows Media Encoder. Go to www.microsoft.com and search its easy to find.

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_ja...ia_encoder.html

The above link is the same concept but with audio, just select video under Device Options. In the drop down box beside video select the TV tunner as the source.

Posted by: hylton

You can also use ORB (again, requires that your PC have a TV tuner), the software can be downloaded and a free account setup at www.orb.com. They only list a few compatible TV tuners, but I've read a number of other brands work as well...I know the Nvidia NVTV tuner works...it runs around $65 for a single tuner card and $135 for the dual tuner NVTV.

Anyway...ORB also will allow you to watch a few 'web TV' broadcasts, but none are mainstream channels...it (ORB) also allows you to access all of your pictures, video, music content on your PC from any web interface (including your phone)...I use ORB some w/ my SMT 5600 and it works great, although somewhat slow...it'll be very nice w/ a new EDGE enabled device like the Wizard...

Chris

Posted by: WeatherB

I tried ORB a while ago with my SMT5600 and I wasn't too happy with the quality. Even when I connect at 42kbit/s (which I think it pretty fast for GPRS) the video was low quality (you can't steam video and audio @ only 5kb/s).

It should work better on the SP5 thanks to Edge.

Posted by: hylton

Yea, but you are going to have that problem regardless I think...no service (paid or free ORB-ish type software) is going to produce very good quality over GPRS...

Chris

Posted by: WeatherB

Exactly. GPRS just doesn't have enough bandwidth for streaming media.