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Encoding and Streaming to your Pocket PC (5)
By admin | April 24, 2007
Clicking Next again takes you to the Display Information window. As before, put as much or as little information in here and click Next. If you are using Encoder 9, deselect the “Begin converting” checkbox. With both encoders, click Finish on the Settings Review window. If you are using Encoder 9, you need to go back into the session properties, click on the Compression tab, click on the Edit button, click on the 135Kbps tab and change the audio format from “128kbps, 48kHz” to “128kbps, 44kHz”. Click on OK to close the Custom Encoding window and then click on Apply to keep the change you’ve made.
With both encoding applications, you can now start the encoding process. Since we are just broadcasting audio, there won’t be any video windows shown in the encoder window, but the encoder should be showing activity in the audio bars and the time in the Progress area should be increasing.
Figure 11: Encoding and streaming in action
Ready to start receiving the broadcast on your Pocket PC? OK - here are the steps:
- Start Windows Media Player
- Click on Tools
- Click on “Open URL”
- Enter the URL in the format http://ip addr:8080 where ip addr is the IP address of your PC. Using the IP address avoids any potential problems with the Pocket PC trying to translate your PC’s name into its IP address.
- Click on OK
WMP will say “Buffering” in the status area and then, after a while, change to “Playing”. If you’ve got the speakers on on your PC, you will notice that there is a lag between what your PC is playing and what your Pocket PC is playing. This is normal and is down to the time taken to encode, send the data across the wireless network and then decode it before it can be played.
…to be ended…
Source: pocketpcthoughts.com
Topics: Computers & Software |