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Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

KarstenImmortal — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:52:56 EDT

You can actually use orb and orb live to view your slingbox on the itouch. Not sure if you can posts links or not, but check out my post on slingcommunity . There is a slight delay. Of course it's not the optimal way and there is no way to control the slingbox.

KarstenImmortal

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

jesseg — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:54:21 EDT

go jazz!

jesseg

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

phantam — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:14:31 EDT

@diabolusunknown: only if the ip they give you is a public ip accessible from outside, some isps especially ones not in the US block inbound unsolicited access, and some dont even give out public ips

phantam

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

phantam — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:12:14 EDT

it works awesome... a few bugs, like the volume control not working, also i added 3 drive letters to my videos, but when i click folders i see the drive letters but if i click that i dont see any videos or folders under the drive.

phantam

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

FP ph15h — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:17:59 EDT

frickin sweet

FP ph15h

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

GaleChamois — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:03:56 EDT

Comment on Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone Sling player for iPhone? What about the good stuff, LocationFree? All the while my PSP has been collecting dust, I've been required to be in front of a TV to watch TV...what's up with that???

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Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

baltwade — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:32:36 EDT

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can also use it to browse your TV Programming Guide and set shows to record, that is if your computer has Media Center. I Think Orb works great, but the novelty of watching live streaming TV on your phone or whatever wears off pretty quick. It lasted about three days for me.

baltwade

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

MilburnMocker — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:17:04 EDT

Comment on Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone Im using orb on vista with quad core 3.3ghz processor. Streaming live tv uses no more than 5% cpu utilization. If you are planning on streaming tv you must have a dual core 3 ghz system at least. Hopefully the 3g iphone will make streaming bearable as edge is simply too slow

MilburnMocker

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

OrenEscargot — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:27:59 EDT

Comment on Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone Why no support for mac!!!

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Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

goaliegeek — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:41:09 EDT

Man. you have to have a tv tuner card to watch tv. I can only stream my movies and photos and music. I don't wanna pay $100 for a good tuner. I have a Dish Network HD set top box in my room. Idk how id get that signal in the tuner card unless I can get a coax cable coming outta the box in the tuner into my comp and still have my HD component feed to my tv to watch.

goaliegeek

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

Ron-Mexico — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:16:02 EDT

Orb's awesome. Kind of frustrating though that they'll whip this out even before it's officially supported for the iPhone, yet the won't make a native app version for other mobile phones.

And as for Orb hogging resources. I agree, it's frustrating. I finally just limited it to utilize only one core on the CPU and that worked great for me.

Ron-Mexico

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

xxdesmus — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:58 EDT

wow, consider me very impressed. I'll give this a try this weekend.

xxdesmus

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

diabolusunknown — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:54:10 EDT

@kpuri: [www.no-ip.com]

If you have a router, you just forward the port requests to your PC, which then must remain on (obviously).

The address you set up in no-ip, or any DDNS service allows you to enter in that address, which then just forwards to the IP of your home PC through your internet IP supplied by your provider.

diabolusunknown

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

potentato — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:51:21 EDT

Now if only Orb weren't a total bloated hog of an app that slows the host PC to a crawl.

potentato

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

mxmarks — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:41:51 EDT

@ACoBildo: Seriously. I also can't believe that theres no mac support for this. I'll check out that iPhone Remote however, never heard of it....

mxmarks

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

bigdogg12 — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:43 EDT

Since windows media center encodes tv in MPEG-2 format, how is it that the iphone can display this video? I thought the iphone could only play MPEG-4 video files.

bigdogg12

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

bdk184 — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:23:27 EDT

@bdk184:
And iPhone too!! thats the key in this post.

bdk184

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

bdk184 — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:22:47 EDT

its okay but I still prefer Toast Titanium 9 with the streaming software and you can still access it from any computer around the world.*

*As long as the host is on :O

bdk184

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

ACoBildo — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:22:45 EDT

No Mac support, seriously?

ACoBildo

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

takemetoyourtoaster — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:01:53 EDT

it really pisses me of that they have had enough time to create a an application for the iphone, but not an app for mac so you can stream the stuff of your mac, its reallly bugging me

takemetoyourtoaster

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

Y2KGTP — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:01:19 EDT

I put this on my iPod Touch last night, really cool app. I can even stream my PC webcam to the Touch.

Can't wait to get the new 3G iPhone when my Verizon contract expires in about a year or so....

Y2KGTP

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

justinpe — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:00:32 EDT

Very cool. Most importantly, it's FREE!!!!

@kpuri:

I'm sure you can get it working outside your LAN, sorta like iPhone Remote streams music and video to your iPhone. Took me a while to get everything configured, but works great now, even though its a little slow over edge.

justinpe

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

rasbill — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:00:22 EDT

kpuri are u serious, its called the internet, look it up

rasbill

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

beekerstudios — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:58:47 EDT

My guess is some sort of RTSP Darwin streaming server is involved here. They are throwing a video stream from the tv input or a media file, at the streaming server, and then spitting back the URL to the client, or the web client previously.

Fun Stuff... will definitely be checking this out!

beekerstudios

Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone

kpuri — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:56:23 EDT

how does it stream? wont the PC and the iphone need to be on the same wifi network?

I mean how would I access my PC's content if i'm in another state?

kpuri