Orb on iPhone.

[Fred87nc]

Ok so I just ran some tests to see how well Orb worked with iPhone.

Video- Works great aslong as the videos are already in mp4 form. Good if you don't have the space to put it on your phone.

Photos- Worked like a charm.

Music- Worked great too.

Internet Tv - Doesnt work


Now my Biggest question is would the Tv Turner functionality work?

I don't have a tv turner in my computer so I can't test that out, but if someone does have one can you please test it out for orb, I'm ready to go buy a tv turner card if this works and I can watch tv on my iphone.

[thegasguru]

Did you use Orb version 1 or Orb beta 2?

Did you have to do port forwarding on your router?

[pb30]

How well does all of this work over EDGE?

[Fred87nc]

It sucks over edge. I used to at work's wifi so couldn't tell you about the port forwarding, and I'm using orb 2.0

[Alexander]

I tested orb 2.0 beta on the iphone and came up with the same results as you.

However I tested the TV tuner card, and I could not get it working. I don't think the iPhone supports the format the TV Tuner streams in.

[Fred87nc]

Originally Posted by Alexander

I tested orb 2.0 beta on the iphone and came up with the same results as you.

However I tested the TV tuner card, and I could not get it working. I don't think the iPhone supports the format the TV Tuner streams in.

damn, that was the thing i was most excited about. I went to settings and for stream i saw 3gp which the iphone supports. Did you try messing with any of those settings?

[Alexander]

Originally Posted by Fred87nc

damn, that was the thing i was most excited about. I went to settings and for stream i saw 3gp which the iphone supports. Did you try messing with any of those settings?

I'll check it out now.

[Fred87nc]

ok so heres the supported formats for the iphone:

The files you play have to be supported by the iPhone:

• H.264 Baseline Profile Level 3.0 video, up to 640 x 480 at 30 fps.
• MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile)
• AAC-LC audio, up to 48 kHz
• .mov, .mp4, .m4v, .3gp file formats
• Any movies or audio files that can play on an iPod

This tv tuner says:



MPEG Encoder
Video Encoder generates any of the following output formats: MPEG 4/2/1 & AVI

Record and Play in MPEG 4/2/1 format

High-Quality Real-Time MPEG 4, 2 & 1 Encoding (Note: MPEG4 is compatible with DivX or Microsoft MPEG4. You have to download the codec by yourself.)

http://www.pctekonline.com/powmtusbtvtu.html

ok So if these thing can stream in something that the iphone support, wouldn't the Tv tuner be able to work?
anyone with more insight on this please comment.

[Alexander]

Originally Posted by Fred87nc

damn, that was the thing i was most excited about. I went to settings and for stream i saw 3gp which the iphone supports. Did you try messing with any of those settings?

Changed the settings to 3GP and still no go with the tuner. I have yet to test the other formats but I doubt it would do any good when the native format doesn't work.

[Fred87nc]

Originally Posted by Alexander

Changed the settings to 3GP and still no go with the tuner. I have yet to test the other formats but I doubt it would do any good when the native format doesn't work.

Sucks....I wanted to watch tv on my iphone