kinderadam
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I have converted many movies for playback on my droid but have run out of memory... is there any way that i can stream them over 3G to my droid. My computer is a MacBook Pro and I am using snow leopard.
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- Thread starter kinderadam
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Hi, kinderadam,
Which is the format of your source movies?
this topic will help you: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...-best-ripping-utilities-ive-tried-so-far.html
Good luck!
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dvdcatalyst
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The streaming will work if you set up some form of web server (apache) on your mac
Try the mp4 links here:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-audio-video/15161-droid-optimized-movie-trailers.html
You have to make sure that the "faststart" quicktime atom is enabled though (probably need quicktime pro for that, I have no idea for trick on a MAC to enable it)
The problem you will run into is that if you stream from home, your internet connections UPLOAD speed is the limit. Eventhough you might have a 100Mbps connection, your upload speed is usually significantly lower, so you will have to adjust the quality settings of your video files to match.
I have a 3mbit internet connection, but my upload speed is only 768kbps. this 768 is directly tied to the file quality. if I create video files of 600kbps video and 128kbps audio (total 728kbps) I have a little bandwidth to spare for connection inconsistencies. If I would stream a 1000kbps / 128kbps video file (1128kbps) the movie would be buffering for about 1/3rd of its entire duration, making a 2 hour movie almost 3 hours.