Hey,

I will be receiving my Touch tomorrow - extremely excited! Anyways I was wondering... We all know the Touch only has 8 or 16gb of space - a big downgrade of older the 30gb video iPod. Anyways, sure the touch comes with youtube, but does it also have a divx or flash plugin (or can i install the plugin's)? Being able to stream video's which I can upload to a server would lower the hard drive space used. Sure I can only watch the video's in a hot-spot which is a downfall but being able to watch streaming videos on the bus, at school, in Starbucks or at home would be very cool. What ways are there to stream video files?

Nope, it doesnt have flash or divx. And you cant download them. So you cant stream vids. from most sites. but there are a few that work on the ipod

Nope, it doesnt have flash or divx. And you cant download them. So you cant stream vids. from most sites. but there are a few that work on the ipod

Do you have any links?

You can stream both audio and video from your mac to your ipod touch or iphone with this

http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/

You just have to forward two ports on your router but it works very well.

is there a way to do this with windows?

Cheers,
Ben.

is there a way to do this with windows?

Orb works very well for Windows.

youtube video

when i seach orb i got a foreign site is there on with the info in english?

Orb works very well for Windows.

You can send video to ur iPod Touch via Orb? Did i read that right?


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sent via my 16gb touch!

http://www.orb.com

You can't download, but you can stream all you want. For free.

any clue if it will work on the fly with my windows xp MCE

and any users who know how to do this really good if they could please make a tutorial the rest of the members, please.

Cheers,
Ben.

I installed Telekinesis on my MacBook, but I'm only able to play streaming mp3's. Unfortunatly, the mp4 movies that I load in my touch from iTunes can't be open by stream. I keep getting that crossed play icon that indicates unsupported format.

I created a directory on my server and uploaded a bunch of videos to it because I wanted a way to have extra storage space for videos for viewing on the Touch (when connected to wifi of course) that I could host and manage myself.

It only works if you export them from quicktime (or video converter of your choice) in the exact correct format. I experimented with different settings and none of them would play on the Touch, though they would play when I loaded them in Safari on my computer. Then I searched for the settings for exporting videos for the iphone for quicktime streaming and found a website that posted instructions for exporting the correct way:

http://www.contentdeveloper.com/mt/archives/2007/08/is_the_iphone_f_1.html

About 2/3 down the page there is a screenshot of quicktime settings that work. I copied these settings as closely as possible and uploaded a video and finally it played on my Touch!

I only have experience with exporting via quicktime, although I think that as long as you export the video in a format that the Touch version of Safari supports, it would work...though that format seems to be extremely specific from my experience with trying different export settings.

thanx for the info dude,

Cheers,
Ben.

the problem i had with orb, was that i got a message on my iPod touch that said "iphone cannot stream. it can only stream .m4v and some .mp4" or something to that effect (i didn't write it down or anything). Funny how it thought i was using an iphone. I also had to open up a lot of ports on windows firewall to even get orb to work. I don't have any m4v movies and haven't created any to test. Anyone else have this problem?

i installed orb and set up my comuter but i cant seem to get my vids to play

i go to my mp4 vids under itunes and tap on them and it brings up a screen thats shows the path and the name and a icon that looks like old fashin movie reel.... also there is a place for you to choose a rating but i cant get it to play as i said.... anyone know whats causing this?

ok so now in that same window where it says rating i can choose one and then it takes me back to the folder but now i got back and tap on the video and it brings up a Q ( the quicktime symbol) but it still doesnt play

and any users who know how to do this really good if they could please make a tutorial the rest of the members, please.

Cheers,
Ben.

I'm going to make one...keep your eyes open!

no problem streaming videos and audio with orb...I just had to set the firewall settings with the proper open tcp and udp ports

ill try to post a vid later

no problem streaming videos and audio with orb...I just had to set the firewall settings with the proper open tcp and udp ports

ill try to post a vid later

my issue with streaming video with orb to my pod is that it only plays about 5-10seconds at a time 30secs top before I have to wait and hit the play button again.

you need to adjust your speed settings


change your downlink speed to 128 or something..

then your uplink, measure and save.