Abacast Client On an PDA
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:06 am
by awalker
Is it possible to get the Brewing network stream to work on a windows based PDA with media player 9 on it.
Wanted to know if anyone else had got it working, cos then i can go mobile and still listen to the streams.
At the moment I use it to listen to the archives.
Adam
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:27 am
by BrotherhoodBrew
well here is ther url to the 56kb stream
http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/thebre ... -sc-56.pls
you would jsut to try that and see if it works.
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:49 pm
by Ozbrewer
there is a way to get it going, but for the life of me i cant get it worked out again, there is a particular media player programe, KC Dave helped me out with it a while ago, but i had to remove the programe from my PDA
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:41 am
by Guest
Cheers BrotherhoodBrew but with Windows Mobile Media player it just comes up as an invalid file
Ozbrewer I did find some software that lets you stream more files to Windows Media Player via an add on. So I might give it a go now I know you had had it working at some point.
Adam
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:20 am
by awalker
That was me above
Managed to get it working with MortPlayer on the PDA from
www.sto-helit.de
with the
http://sc1.abacast.com:8065 link
So now I have TBN streaming with me
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:12 am
by Brewcaster J
That is awesome! how does the stream come through? Clear or lots of buffereing?
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:44 am
by BigBadBrad
I just tried it on my wireless PDA, it rocks. Now I can listen live while I move around the house, or brew on the patio. Very clear sound, no buffering.
Brad
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:36 pm
by awalker
Comes through really nice and clear and is more reliable that Windows media player on the PC or on the PDA. If you do have any problems with buffering which I dont, you can extend buffering to sort that out.
Also means I dont have to drag a laptop outside to the brew house just my pda. Which is a smaller target to drop wort on!
Mort player is what I use to listen to all the Brewcasts, so its nice it does both now.