> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 5:44 PM
> To: cf-community
> Subject: Streaming video help
>
> I have desktop with XP pro in the dinning room and a Vista laptop
> plugged into the TV in the living room. I want my music and videos to
> play both places at the same time and I don't have an xbox or
> playstation but I have a Wii. I have an extender for music but want to
> do videos also. I'm looking at Orb mycast but not sure if I can play
> the stream currently running on the PC.
>
> Any suggestions?
Windows Media player 11 will stream to the Windows PCs (under "Library"
choose "Media Sharing") - this is a DLNA ("Digital Living Network Alliance")
compliant server so it'll stream to quite a few doohickeys and programs (PC,
Mac, Linux, PS3, XBox 360, Networked DVD players, Roku, etc). Unfortunately
it won't stream to the Wii since the Wii isn't compliant.
However the Wii does have a web browser (at least if you downloaded the
Opera channel). Orb is a traditional DLNA server but also includes a web
client: hit the client with the Wii's browser and you can stream to the
browser. This takes more PC oomph than the other options because the PC is
actually converting your video, on the fly, to Flash Video but it does
(mostly) work. The video quality is far from perfect, but for
news/talking/reality shows heads it's fine.
Music is just fine with pretty much any option.
Jim Davis
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