How to stream audio and video to a mobile phone
May 29, '05 08:49:00AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
If any of you are interested in streaming your own video or audio handywork over the internet to your cell phone (be it a 2.5G phone or 3G phone), I've put together a little site with all you need to know. It's aimed at education, but there is nothing stopping you having a go yourself at home, if your Mac can be seen by the outside world -- that is, your home computer has an outside IP address on a broadband connection.
- You would need to download and install the binary version of the Darwin Streaming Server (DSS). It's open source, so no cost. After installing, then test out to make sure it's working. The Darwin Streaming Server Admin Guide is a great document.
- To convert your video or audio content out of Apple's iLife applications or QuickTime Pro and Final Cut Pro/Express, have a look at my tutorials.
- After your file has been converted to a 3GP file, then place it in onto your Darwin Streaming Server (more info).
- To then view it on your phone, make sure that you have internet access on it. Then enter the address of your server on your phone eg. rtsp://my-server/my-file.3gp.
- To make life easy for you and to browse your content, I suggest you use iWapper to create your WAP site on your .Mac site.
To have a look at my site on your phone: http://mlearning.rave.ac.uk/index.wml
[robg adds: I haven't tested any of this...]
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