Just wonder if it possible to connect PDA to TV-set
Imagine... you made pics, movies with your patched and tuned camera, and then, simply connect PDA to TV-set, starting slide-show mode at PDA, or watching movie, movieclip...:wink:
This device will let you output pictures on anything with a VGA input over Bluetooth:
http://www.mobl.com/handheld/portsmith.htm?Q=//
If your TV set does not have a VGA input you will need to get a VGA to TV adaptor, but these are widely available.
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Has anyone looked into this? With the audio now being output there, is there another pin carrying video that's yet undiscovered? Thanks.
nope no video out from what ive researched. even if there were, its qvga resolution so you are fairly limited.
you could your soti pocket controller to control your pda from your PC, you get a real time feed of you ppc on your pc.
hope this helps.
adios...
It is definitely possible to do it (even that I have no idea how).
Ateksoft has a program called WebCamera Plus which let you use your PDA as real-time webcam.
http://www.ateksoft.com/webcamplus.html
I'm using it on my TyTN and it works great.
using a pda or symbian smart phone as a webcam is possible as the software captures the straming video and transmits its as data packetrs via usb or BT to a PC, in which it is then decoded on the PC and the image/video stream from the camera is formed.
Actual video out (such as that accomplished with notebooks) via usb on the TYTN is another thing - from what I have read it might not be possible.
Anyone seen or tried the MicroSD version of this http://www.spectec.com.tw/sdv.htm ?
its really funny u askd this cus just last night b4 I went to bed, I wondered the same thing
I googled video out via usb and found a 60 dollar cable that converted from standard usb to s-video and audio and I'm sure theres mini-usb to usb converter
=) so hope that helps. I'd look it up but I have no 3g here at my parents lake house =/ I'm connectd over gsm, just got here. I get no umts at all and barely any gsm signal. this craps slow
I looked on the net for the Spectec Video-To-Go microSD Card and found it here
http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=139433&partner=froogle
It's $171.95. this would be great if I was still doing customer presentations.
Please note: This product does not convert the screen’s image into a VGA video signal. ... then what exactly does this do .. has me confused since some time ...
Also, these things require SDIO support .. not sure if TyTN got one ..
It'd be easy enough to emulate VGA on your device and use that for presentations, but your limitation is lack of an I/O to the graphic chip. As such, you're stuck with streaming the display data, which will be slow (for games), but perhaps perfectly fine for a slideshow.
Next prob though is the hardware - you can stream from device to device, but not stream from device to a (mini-usb) wire to a projector etc - at least the hardware issues are well beyond my experience.
A streaming projector might be a good solution. But all in, I think you're generally stuck for a cheap solution to outputing video over USB without a surrogate device in the middle. And if you're gonna have a surrogate, you might as well use that as the display device.
Check out nyditot for a VGA emulator.
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May I suggest a better way? Simply install PC-based Powerpoint viewer on storage card. That way you merely need to drop your card into an USB SD reader, connect the reader to any host PC, and run your presentation. I do this often and avoid traveling with my laptop.
-Jeff
One reason I've always disliked the Ateksoft solution is that it requires installation of Ateksoft magicry on the PC. A true webcam solution should simply make the PPC act like a dumb webcam, piping the audio and video to the USB. We've all experienced those cheap webcams which you just plug in to your USB port, and MSN or Yahoo or whatever can pick up the device as an audio/video webcam, no installation of drivers required.
Software which does for webcam what Softick does for USB mass storage is what I'm after...
You didn't say what you wanted by 'video out'.. but I can tell you there aren't any 'unused' pins in the USB pinout. They're all audio or usb data. If the TYTN supported usb on the go (which it doesn't seem to) then you might see it turn into a mass storage device or webcam easily..
But for the moment, no, theres no pins to tap a composite or vga signal off of. I highly doubt the device has such a chip on board.
eh, I wanted to output video to my car A/V system. since I can sync the video on my device to my media center, that would be the easiest way to take shows to my car. so the streaming or flash solutions really don't address the problem for me...thanks for all of the thinking on it, though
ditto here
JEM said:
eh, I wanted to output video to my car A/V system. since I can sync the video on my device to my media center, that would be the easiest way to take shows to my car. so the streaming or flash solutions really don't address the problem for me...thanks for all of the thinking on it, though
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That's the kinda stuff i've always wanted e.i. connecting my PDA to the SVideo Input of my car screen.
Seems "easy" to do with activesync, but seems to cause trouble because of the lack of video stream on usb pinout.
I'm just letting out an idea : Might be possible to emulate an activesync connection and capture the sreeen of the PDA and broadcast it out on svideo.
(don't ask, I don't even have a clue of how to do that)
SOTI Pocket controler and My Mobiler can do that, any chance someone find out a way ?
TY Guys, have fun
Hi
I see in these sites a SDIO TV Tuner and A SDIO FM Tuner
Do they work with athena?
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4782.html
http://forum2.mobile-review.com/showthread.php?t=43515
Not much of a help here, but that's what I think
Radio, I can get a radio for £1 which I think those SDIO stuff will cost much more than that, and consider that it may also takes up my phone battery. It is ok that you stop listening to radio, but having a phone with dead battery isn't very good.
TV: The SDIO seems small enough, but I wonder how big an antenna it needs. I have those WinTV USB adapter, which has a size of a PC mouse and seemingly portable. However, it won't work unless I have a massive antenna attached to it. At my area, even with the massive antenna with booster still gives me relatively poor quality. Just make sure you will be using it on a good signal area.
hanmin said:
Not much of a help here, but that's what I think
Radio, I can get a radio for £1 which I think those SDIO stuff will cost much more than that, and consider that it may also takes up my phone battery. It is ok that you stop listening to radio, but having a phone with dead battery isn't very good.
TV: The SDIO seems small enough, but I wonder how big an antenna it needs. I have those WinTV USB adapter, which has a size of a PC mouse and seemingly portable. However, it won't work unless I have a massive antenna attached to it. At my area, even with the massive antenna with booster still gives me relatively poor quality. Just make sure you will be using it on a good signal area.
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tanX Radio is not very imporstant
but TV Tuner on mobile is very interesting
i want to know to they work with athena or no?
that thing you say work with athena or no?
is there any Bluetooth TV Tuner like Bluetooth GPS Reciver?
tanX
Wow - thats lucky, I was just thinking about this.
I was wondering how feezable it might be to use a WinTV type tuner with a WM5 device, namely the Athena via the external USB cable. I can get a reasonable signal here where I am on DVB-T, and it would be cool to be able to listen to the radio/watch TV via the Ameo without needing a seperate 'remote' device. I currently have the WinTV hooked upto our desktop machine @ work for this purpose, but it would be good to be able to do it via Ameo. You used to be able to get a CF TV adapter for Windows Mobile devices, but it was anallog and used seperate batteries to run the tuner.
Three problems, would the Ameo have the raw processing power to be able to do decoding of the data coming in from the TV tuner. I.e., Does the USB Stick do the decoding then the computer/pda just have to display the image/control the tuner e.t.c.
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Drivers:- I'm guessing drivers arn't available from Hauppage/someone else, but I believe linux drivers are. For an intelligent programmer (not me ), would it be difficult to convert the drivers to WM5?
Power:- Would the Ameo be able to supply enough power to powerup the USB Stick - I'm guessing the battery would wear down pretty quickly if it could (not a problem if running on mains, like id expect to do).
Another alternative for WinTV decoder would be to install the TV Tuner on your home pc and then watch the home pc via orb.com. This would allow you to have cable and/or satellite connected at home and be able to watch live tv on your athena.
A better solution if it is available in your country is to purchase Sling Tv Tuner and watch Cable/Satellite tv on Athena. The picture quality of SLing is a little better and you don't have to leave your PC on all the time.
I find the sling tv tuner better, but others like ORB because you can also stream mp3 or other videos also.
Check them out at
www.orb.com (need a tv tuner card to watch tv)
www.slingmedia.com
Yeah, I've considered the sling, but the problems with it are that a) I'm not allowed access via our corporate firewall and b) I'm 'technically' on a data plan that doesn't allow for streaming services. Unfortunatly I'm 100m shy of being able to access the BT Openzone that's around here, so no chance for me to connect that way either.
Also seen a few comments on here that says the Sling Resolution on the Ameo is rubbish, which kinda puts me off a bit.
Its not something I was desperate for, but it would be quite a cool function to be able to connect up a USB tuner!
tv +radio
i have ameo and i have tv and radio all the time over umts
in my home i have some dreamboxes. ( dvb-s sat and dvb-c cable recievers...
1 of this nice box is with audio& video cable connected with a small server .
on this server runs windows media server 9
over internet i can choose programm ( http://amd.co.at/anti/webif.png ) and server give me this signal via umts to my ameo.. thats all
very fine quality and good sound
i use tmobile flat rate / non traffic and all good run..
regards
I'm using my Slingbox Pro with my x7500 and it works great. Just used it last night to control my cable box while eating at my favorite Italian restaurant.
The Athena has a MiniSD slot so SDIO devices will not work with it.
Bluetooth TV tuner
Anyone take a look at this:
http://www.permian.com.cn/en/products_06.asp
Looks interesting. Does not show any details for pricing or anything else.
I gave thought to the idea of using the Athena as a DVR - ability to record from external sources (TV, DVD, etc) in similar fashion to an Archos device etc.
Could someone with technical knowledge enlighten us about this possibility please?
Peace all over.
Im not certain of the devices capabilities, but I do know it sports the ability to be a USB host, and uses USB 2.0 and seems to have moderately quick internal data bandwidth coupled with a sizeable hardrive !! all this coupled with the fact that it has been done before as a Compact flash add on for any PDA with a CF slot !! and ultimately yes I think it is possible, and maybe even all that is required is a re-write of the BTwincap driver to allow many of the USB TV capture devices to run on win mobile instead of a normal computer.
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I do know it sports the ability to be a USB host, and uses USB 2.0
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The specs tell only about USB1.1 host. There is an USB2.0 chip in Athena
( http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=AthenaResearch ) but i guess it is used to connect the 8GB disk.
even USB 1.1 is more than good enough for 320X240 25 FPS video capture with stereo sound !!
Hello!
There is any possibility to use my htc p3600 for a power point presentation, connecting directly to a video projector which has also wifi? I could connect to the video projector throw wifi with my pda but I couldn't find any software to transfer the images. I'm looking for this from 4 days and nothing.
There is possible?
What is this guide about?
To play PS2 and PS3 games on your SGS3 and other mobile devices. It will show you what is required to do this and how to set it all up. Its very simple to do but I do expect you to know how to install programs on a computer, plug cables in and change settings in your PS3. This method does not use any illegal software or emulators.
Notes:
I found out how to do this by accident. I was looking around for ways to record my gameplay using a video capture device. The options were expensive but thankfully there is a cheap and easy option. Its called EzCAP 116 USB 2.0 Video Capture. It only costs £19.99 and comes from the UK. For USA its $31.95. HD video capture devices are alot more expensive but it is not needed for what we are using it for.
So here are the requirements that you need to play PS2/PS3 games on a SGS3.
1. PS2 or PS3 with wireless controller
2. Windows laptop or computer
3. Wifi N Router (computer must be connected with LAN cable)
4. Ezcap 116 USB 2.0 Video Capture
5. Playstation analogue cable (S-Video or RCA)
6. Video capture software (comes with the EzCAP)
7. Splashtop remote desktop (Currently half price)
This should be relatively inexpensive if you have most of the items above already. I only needed to buy the Ezcap and Splashtop app. Total spend is £23.
Ok lets start.
The first thing to do is download and install the Splashtop remote desktop app on your mobile and the Splashtop streamer on your computer.
The next thing to do is install the Ezcap drivers and video capture software supplied on the disc and plug the Ezcap in to your computer. Then plug in the playstation cable into your PS2/PS3 and Ezcap.
Now turn your PS2/PS3 on. Turn your TV on also if you've got a PS3. Now on your computer run the video capture software which is Arcsoft Showbiz and press Capture on the top left. The capture module will open in a new window.
Set the Video Input to S-Video or Composite for the cable you used. The Audio device to Line (USB EMP Audio Device). Then Press Device Settings and set your video standard to PAL_I for UK, NTSC_433 for USA and press OK. If you can see a blank square grey screen in the capture module then your Ezcap is working correctly. If not then unplug and plug the Ezcap back in and press refresh.
(Skip the next part if your using a PS2)
PS3 Setup:
If your doing this with a PS3 and your using a HDTV then you need to change the display settings to output video and sound through the AV MULTI/SCART before you will see the picture show on your computer. The PS3 display settings to set are RGB, Standard and 4:3. For audio set it to AV MULTI.
As soon as you set the video output setting to AV MULTI/SCART then RGB, you should now see your PS3 display on your computer through the capture module. Press X to accept setting. Continue the display settings as above.
PS2 Setup:
It already outputs analogue video so nothing to set. Just turn it on and the PS2 will display in the capture module on your computer.
Now that you have your PS2/PS3 displaying on your computer. The fun now begins.
Start Splashtop on your mobile and your computer should be shown. Make sure the resolution is set to 1280x720 in the settings. Now select your computer to start the stream. Your computer's display should be mirrored on your mobile. Double tap on the capture module's video window to go to full screen. Put a game disc in and start the fun.
The Splashtop app allows you pinch zoom, so you can zoom in to fill out the S3's screen if you want.
The Sixaxis Dualshock 3 has a good range so you don't have to be near the PS3 or in the same room. Thats the beauty of this method. Freedom to play anywhere in your house. You will need to be within good range of your wifi router though. As for the PS2, you can get RF wireless controllers. I've used one, one floor below where my PS2 is and it works fine with no lag.
So thats it. You basically have a portable PS2 or PS3 with this method. What this really needs though is a Gameklip to mount your mobile onto the controller to make it even more portable and convenient. It should give you the portable console experience. Check it out on here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1760595
This guide can apply to any tablets or mobiles that splashtop supports.
Screenshots to be added
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