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Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: dukeinlondon on July 04, 2005, 03:49:25 pm

My zaurus recently zapped all my data and apps, rebooting in a clean environment. I've noticed at that occasion that I could very well do without a pda that can't reconcile with my work diary.;

Now I have loaded opie but I was thinking it'd be pretty cool to convert the machine to a wireless media streamer. It supposes a media pleayer able to stream from an icecast server and display new song titles with large characters and an easy figertip navigation.

Can anyone advise how to achieve this ? Or discourage me before I waste too much time ?  

Thanks in advance

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: adf on July 04, 2005, 03:58:54 pm

haven't tried with icecast, but firefox+vlc on pdaxrom does shoutcast for me.
I think icecast would work just fine.

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: dukeinlondon on July 04, 2005, 04:31:09 pm

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haven't tried with icecast, but firefox+vlc on pdaxrom does shoutcast for me.
I think icecast would work just fine.
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forgot to mention it's an sl5500. Would that still work ?

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: adf on July 04, 2005, 04:48:39 pm

if there is pdax for the 5500.

if not, try oz/gpe and gxine. in theory that should do it too.

though i've seen other peolpe discussing icecast here... look aound

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: ken on July 04, 2005, 04:58:44 pm

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if there is pdax for the 5500.

if not, try oz/gpe and gxine. in theory that should do it too.

though i've seen other peolpe discussing icecast here... look aound
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I just use the media player/kino2 with an url that has a stream.  Works great on my 6K, not sure on the 5500

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: adf on July 04, 2005, 06:28:19 pm

there is a static vlc announed here recently, too. don't know if it is for 5500
edit: it is for 5500 sharprom. would need compatlibs, maybe, for oz...though being static, maybe not

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: lardman on July 04, 2005, 06:38:22 pm

There are a few options for OZ:

Opie - opie-mediaplayer2 has a xine backend and should be able to do streaming according to the Opie wiki (you'll need to install extra ipks though), there's also mplayer - I'm not sure what that can do, and vlc (there's the static binary around, or it might be in OE in fact).

GPE - gxine is probably your best bet, it has lots of options for streaming stuff, but I never tried any of it.

I'm afraid I've no idea what icecast is, but you should be able to get it to work, and if it won't, I/we're willing (and happy dare I say  ) to help you get it sorted.


Si

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: bluedevils on July 04, 2005, 07:41:29 pm

with mplayer in command line form you can use shoutcast pls files.

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kino2 is the gui front end to mplayer.  Though I haven't been able to get pls files to work, manually entering the shoutcast url works (as mentioned previously by ken)

Title: Zaurus As An Audio Streamer
Post by: dukeinlondon on July 05, 2005, 03:12:41 am

Awsome, there are plenty of options. Thank you all.