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Orb and TMCMP problems...

Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.

theshrink said:
Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.
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I always use Orb and TCPMP and i've never experienced your problem.
What i do is:
- in TCPMP settings page i've associated the program with the streaming formats (don't remember exactly the extensions but, if you want to be sure, associate everything). This step must be done only once.
- with pocket Internet Explorer i open my.orb.com, login and choose the video to stream
- then, when i press the Play button, TCPMP starts automatically and plays the movie
that's all!

risidoro said:
theshrink said:
Well i finally went and downloaded tmcmp last night and tried to stream some Orb stuff onto it. Everything that i have tried has given me an error that the file is unsupported. Anyone know why? I've read about a lot of streaming success and this is quite frustrating. I have the newest version of orb and the newest version of tmcmp.
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I always use Orb and TCPMP and i've never experienced your problem.
What i do is:
- in TCPMP settings page i've associated the program with the streaming formats (don't remember exactly the extensions but, if you want to be sure, associate everything). This step must be done only once.
- with pocket Internet Explorer i open my.orb.com, login and choose the video to stream
- then, when i press the Play button, TCPMP starts automatically and plays the movie
that's all!
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I did just that and when it starts it freezes up for a bit, and then i get the stupid error... this is rather frustrating after reading all the good things about tmcmp... so Please someone help.

well seems that it doesn't wanna open anything... anyone know why? and the error is "Could not open URL!"

haha well finally i figured it out. I was on the BB plan and it would only work with the proxy "getmorespeed.voicestream.com" and i guess tcpmp doesn't support the proxy settings so now that i have the total internet plan it works. Anyway to get around the proxy setting?

BBC iPlayer Mobile - For WiFi enabled devices only

Hi all
I hope all you Brits out there are enjoying the snow. My office is closed today so I thought I'd share my experience of using the BBC iPlayer. I believe it can work for you too, if you're UK based. N.B. at the moment it only works over WiFi. Don't blame me for that, it's the BBC's restriction on their website. Also, this worked on my Kaiser, so again no guarantees it'll work on other devices, but I see no reason why it wouldn't.
Here's what I did:
Install the Opera 9.5.15529 cab that are attached to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475986
You will also need HTC Streaming Media. I've attached a version available on this forum. I don't actually know whether this will work on your device as I have the sreaming media cooked into my ROM (see below). Obviously if you have a VGA device you should use the equivelant version of Opera for VGA devices.
There are two other files attached. ASPlayer.exe and ASPlayerLNK.lnk. ASPLayer.exe is infact VJBrisk.exe renamed from an installation of VJBrisk by Vijay555 and a renamed link to the sreaming media player application. If you are installing the Media Player app attached then you need to check the shortcut to ensure it's correct. The one attached is for the executible in the windows folder (\Windows\StreamingPlayer.exe). You can edit shortcuts on your device using TotalCommander.
Once you're happy that the link is correct, copy ASPlayer.exe and ASPlayerLNK.lnk to the \Windows directory of your device.
In Opera type: opera:config in the address bar. Scroll down to User Prefs and open this section. Go to Custom User-Agent. Here type "sgh-i900" without the quotes and then scroll down and select save. Exit Opera and restart it. Go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer
in Opera and you will see the mobile iPlayer page load up. Select your chosen TV or Radio programme and click to play. The streaming app should now open and display your programme.
Hope this helps. I watched "Who do you think you are?" with Rory Bremner in bed this morning!
Best wishes
andrew-in-woking

Thank you for this tut, I have followed your instructions and all seem to be ok (I didn't watch a video but the streaming media did kick in when i clicked play.
I will test later and get back to you

I got as far as the file being played. Audio is fine, but no picture.
Any Ideas?
Tried this on a touch and a hermes

Hi,
Would I be able to listen to BBC Radio 5 on this on SE-Xperia?
Thanks

Radio 5
Invisible Sense said:
Hi,
Would I be able to listen to BBC Radio 5 on this on SE-Xperia?
Thanks
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Hi
If the HTC Streaming Media doesn't work on the Xperia then you will need equivelant software. You could try the media player attached if nothing else works. Real player might work also. Obviously you'd need to manually edit the shortcut in this case but hopefully you can get it working.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking

it keeps askin me to switch to wifi to play the program

BBC Restriction
dortyboy said:
it keeps askin me to switch to wifi to play the program
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Hi
Yes, this is the way the website behaves. Obviously the BBC believe that this is necessary at the moment as they'd rather no compromise on quality.
I guess for now this is not available for phones with no wifi connection. I'll change the first post to make this clearer.
Many thanks
andrew-in-woking

Your post is it VGA or QVGA as sounds great

Almost there!
Thanks for your post, I'm using a Hermes wm6 with your htc streaming media installed. It opens up streaming media ok but then has an unknown error message (both for tv and radio). Could be running low on ram causing the problem. Also tried Skyfire but it doesn't like the IP address and doesn't recognise me as British. I am not giving up just yet though!
Just tried on a Touch... sound only however nothing at all on live streams (memory not an issue here, my ten year olds xmas pressie!)

QVGA
wapvirus said:
Your post is it VGA or QVGA as sounds great
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Hi wapvirus
It's QVGA but should work with a VGA device as long as the correct streaming media player is installed and can be linked to the ASPlayer.exe shortcut in \Windows.
Hope that helps. Love your QVGA colour task bar items by the way!
Cheers
andrew-in-woking

i got 'unknown error' for the htc streaming media player on my lg ks20. Any ideas? how do i link it to the ASPlayer.exe?

Help me plz
Still tryin on my hermes, the best player to date was a dopod version (works perfectly.... but no video!!! Sounds great). After a little search I stumble on an updated tcpmp player which should play the files ok BUT how do I change the ASPlayer to use this as default, or do I change one of the Streaming Media files to use tcpmp ? It will not let me change the aslink.ink page and I presume we leave the opera setting on sgh-i900. I think I have at least 10 different media and streaming players now installed & have become very confused...

shame this cant be make into apanel for the x1 like they have done with youtube

andrew-in-woking said:
Hi
If the HTC Streaming Media doesn't work on the Xperia then you will need equivelant software. You could try the media player attached if nothing else works. Real player might work also. Obviously you'd need to manually edit the shortcut in this case but hopefully you can get it working.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
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Thanks for the cab!
I will give this a try.
Regards

Edit ASPlayerLNK.lnk
redflag said:
Still tryin on my hermes, the best player to date was a dopod version (works perfectly.... but no video!!! Sounds great). After a little search I stumble on an updated tcpmp player which should play the files ok BUT how do I change the ASPlayer to use this as default, or do I change one of the Streaming Media files to use tcpmp ? It will not let me change the aslink.ink page and I presume we leave the opera setting on sgh-i900. I think I have at least 10 different media and streaming players now installed & have become very confused...
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Hi redflag
The simple answer is that you need to edit the destination of the shortcut: ASPlayerLNK.lnk which you copy into windows along with ASPlayer.exe. This link can be edited with the file editor in Total Commander PPC. Hope that helps. If you're unsure about shortcut editing do a search for it on this forum.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking

Success... kind of
Thanks for your reply, have taken a flood day off work! Total Commander is not letting me save the edited LNK.Ink file so I went back and had another go at Skyfire and have got it working on both my hermes and on a touch. The only disappointment is that ,whilst Skyfire uses the main iplayer site which allows downloads, it doesn't feature live tv which yours does by using the mobile site. Keep up the good work!

Had problems getting video to work but when I used this version of the HTC Streaming Player it all worked fine!

How do I stop Opera from trying to stream it in Windows Media Player and not Streaming Media?

Does it work?
Zeusie said:
How do I stop Opera from trying to stream it in Windows Media Player and not Streaming Media?
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Hi Zeusue
Does the iPlayer website work when when Opera launches WMP?
Cheers
andrew-in-woking

media file not supported?
thanks andrew-in-working
so i followed you instructions...opera installed, streaming media, changed user pref. All goes very well from iplayer in opera, link to streaming media and then... streaming media opens, a black screen and 0% buffering message appears, it hangs for a while and tells me this:
"media file not supported"
any idea why it should state this? odd that it is not recognising a file type?
any help would be appreciated..

Trick mediaplayer to play MP3 streams?

Hi, is there a way to trick the standard mediaplayer to play a mp3 stream rather than a file?
The mediaPlayer Object from the SDK just takes any source not matter if the link points to the lokal filesystem or a link to a website. But I don't get it to work :/
I try to play http://www.motor.de/extern/motorfm/stream/motorfm.mp3 for example and I tried to put it into a m3u playlist. But the mediaDetectorServer (or whichever) always deletes this file. Any other ideas?
[Edit] Before someone asks: I try to use this for my alarm clock to get woken up by internet radio.

You are a brave man. Do you really want to risk being late to work because 3G/Edge/Wifi was down?
Sorry, I don't have an answer to your problem. I use StreamFurious for my Internet radio needs.

You know anything about linux? Create a fifo named "something.mp3", dump the network stream into the fifo, play the fifo. Should work. I'm not going to bother trying though since it really doesn't matter to me. If you don't know what I said, then google search is your best friend.
tulamidan said:
Hi, is there a way to trick the standard mediaplayer to play a mp3 stream rather than a file?
The mediaPlayer Object from the SDK just takes any source not matter if the link points to the lokal filesystem or a link to a website. But I don't get it to work :/
I try to play http://www.motor.de/extern/motorfm/stream/motorfm.mp3 for example and I tried to put it into a m3u playlist. But the mediaDetectorServer (or whichever) always deletes this file. Any other ideas?
[Edit] Before someone asks: I try to use this for my alarm clock to get woken up by internet radio.
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Hm... dunno sound like a bit of a hassle to me. Might work all right though wit gScript. Hm...
Well I'm having a try with modifying the source of the musik.apk and/or the alarm.apk let's see how far I get.

Internet Streaming Radio App [for outside of the USA]

Hey guys,
as the title say, I am searching for an App for streaming internet radio. I found Slacker and Pandora by searching the forum, but both programs only work in the USA.
Since I'm in Germany, I'm searching for an App which can stream internet radio over here.
ACTUALLY:
It is just about this radio station I want to listen to on my TP2: http://radiometro.com.au/player/listenonline.html
I copied this link into the "Streaming Media App" on my TP2, but it only said 'invalid link'. So if anyone could tell me how I could get it done to stream this radio station on my device, I would really appreciate.
Thanks,
Don

Try this one;
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-tag-miasto_muzyki_ppc.html
I am using for a long time, and its awesome. many different style-oriented radios as well as regular ones. you can see track list on the screen.
I love it.
Enjoy

Don-Carlo said:
Hey guys,
ACTUALLY:
It is just about this radio station I want to listen to on my TP2: http://radiometro.com.au/player/listenonline.html
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open that page in your browser. In the View menu select Page Source
About a quarter of the way down you will find a line containing this
http://67.220.196.164:7777/listen.pls
Copy that and paste it into your browser (or alternatively copy the one above). When prompted save the file to your hard disk then copy it to your storage card.
Coreplayer will open it and play your radio station
HTH

Thanks a lot for the replies, but unfortunately none of them solved my problem.
@ royhapper: Installed it, started it, selected a channel, can't hear anything. Tried lots of channels, did 3 softresets,... reinstalled it,... no chance. Doesnt work
@ stunno: downloaded the listen.pls, but I dont feel like spending $30 on the CorePlayer. I know that I could use it for more than just streaming Radio, it definitely looks like a good player, but still.... $30 seems a little overpriced in my opinion.
Any other solution?

Don-Carlo said:
Thanks a lot for the replies, but unfortunately none of them solved my problem.
@ royhapper: Installed it, started it, selected a channel, can't hear anything. Tried lots of channels, did 3 softresets,... reinstalled it,... no chance. Doesnt work
@ stunno: downloaded the listen.pls, but I dont feel like spending $30 on the CorePlayer. I know that I could use it for more than just streaming Radio, it definitely looks like a good player, but still.... $30 seems a little overpriced in my opinion.
Any other solution?
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Give miasto muzyki one more try, I suggest. I am also having same problems since 2-3 days, its a system update or something I suppose. But now its working. I am listening at least.
This is a radio from Poland, you are closer than me, it must be easier for you )

@ royhapper: Still doesnt work.
I found an App called "Wunder Radio" which lets you listen to just about any radio station on this planet. There is a 15 day Trial Version,... and you can get a licence fpr $14.95
http://www.jeyo.com/radio.asp
Still dont want to pay though,... so if anyone figures a cost-free way, let us know

Try GSPlayer. It's a freeware media player that can play Shoutcast and other internet streams. I just tried it with the site you are trying to stream and it works just fine.
1. Download GSPlayer from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
2. In GSPlayer select Menu > File > Open URL
3. Put in 67.220.196.164:7777 (don't add the /listen.pls part or it won't work)
4. It should start buffering and streaming...
It worked for me, and it shouldn't be limited to the US, since the GSplayer is from a Japanese site.

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pinoymutt said:
Try GSPlayer. It's a freeware media player that can play Shoutcast and other internet streams. I just tried it with the site you are trying to stream and it works just fine.
1. Download GSPlayer from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
2. In GSPlayer select Menu > File > Open URL
3. Put in 67.220.196.164:7777 (don't add the /listen.pls part or it won't work)
4. It should start buffering and streaming...
It worked for me, and it shouldn't be limited to the US, since the GSplayer is from a Japanese site.
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !!!
Thanks a lot pinoymutt,... finally I can listen to my favorite Radio Station while traveling by car (which I have to do quite a lot)!
Thanks again, really appreciate it!

Don-Carlo said:
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !!!
Thanks a lot pinoymutt,... finally I can listen to my favorite Radio Station while traveling by car (which I have to do quite a lot)!
Thanks again, really appreciate it!
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No problem! Enjoy your streaming

how to d/l .mov, view...and Twonky - wtf?

Seems like this problem should have a relatively simple solution, but after googling for quite a while, still can't figure it out.
A friend sent me a link directly to a .mov file. I thought I could just click the link and stream it. Instead, clicking the link in the browser brings up Twonky, which tries to get me to set up media sharing. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to just download (or stream) the .mov file to my phone.
If I can't steam, it looks like an app like arcMedia would allow me to view it once on my phone - but again, how do I get the browser to download instead of trying to open up Twonky when I click the link to the file?
Also, every time Twonky starts, there seems to be no way to close it except togo into settings/applications/running services and close it from there - is there an easier way?

Download act one video player. Works great with streaming media and videos on the sd card
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

kitchencop said:
Download act one video player. Works great with streaming media and videos on the sd card
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
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Thanks for the response. I found out that apparently Twonky tries to launch any file that the phone doesn't recognize. I tried to download a few video players including Act 1 that appeared in the "perform action with" dialog when I attempted to open the .mov file directly by clicking it within the email, but none of them worked to actually play the file.
I figured out I could download the .mov file if I went to my email using my browser and long-pressing the link and selecting 'save link' (long-clicking didn't work from within the email program...from there, it just opened the browser and automatically initiated a short-press which tried to stream and brought up Twonky). Once downloaded, then I was able to play with an alternative player (in this case - Vplayer worked, although this particular player didn't seem to support streaming as it didn't appear as an option in the "perform using" dialog that opens when short-clicking the link).

i hate how twonky wont let you download files i have removed it. so i could at least snag the file and keep for when i get home...