Comments on: Total Media Domination - Your TV, Video and Audio on any Device

By: Weekly Links: May 16, 2008 : LostInTechnology

Weekly Links: May 16, 2008 : LostInTechnology — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:36:49 +0000

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By: The Television Installersblog » Blog Archive » ‘television installer’ on the web

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:05:29 +0000

[...] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/total-media-domination-your-tv-video-and-audio-on-any-device/Step 1: Install a Television Tuner Card. Television tuner cards are pretty easy to get a hold of these days. All of the big box retailers carry them, and they are even cheaper online. You have your choice between internal tuners and … [...]

By: murfix

murfix — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:00:06 +0000

this is fckn brilliant ****,

my media center pc is coming next week i can’t wait to install this:D

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:27:50 +0000

Wow this is some true TV hacking. If only it could surpass our school websense firewalls.

By: The Television Installersblog » Blog Archive » Quick Roundup

The Television Installersblog » Blog Archive » Quick Roundup — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:40:48 +0000

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:04:44 +0000

Good overall tutorial, but here’s how to get television on any device without having cable/satellite (do it for as cheap as possible right?)

Once you have the tv car set up (the tv in can be expensive, so I suggest tv out) try FreeTube TV and from there you can watch several channels via your Internet Connection rather then pulling them in from your television set. From there you can rebroadcast it to any device capable of supporting plugins like quicktime, etc.

With this method you could also use youtube, vimeo and joox.net to pull in tv shows but joox requires divx plugin so i don’t know how many mobile devices really support that.

By: Dave Drager

Dave Drager — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:46:20 +0000

I just wanted to add that Orb also includes a uPnP server for broadcasting it’s content over your local network. So for uPnP compliant devices, such as network connected set top boxes, you may not even need the web browser to get media off of your Orb server.

By: Dave Drager

Dave Drager — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:44:43 +0000

College campuses have all sorts of content filtering going on. Orb doesn’t proxy the content as far as I know - so it would be blocking the direct connection.

They could either be blocking based on port, but like you said blocking port 80 would be hard. Campuses also have advanced content blocking based on type of data, so they could be blocking real media streams or something like that. Your best bet is to contact the campus network people as they would be able to give you a better answer than I would.

As far as getting around it, you could have him use a proxy server to relay all information. But with media streaming, it could take a lot of bandwidth up for the proxy host!

By: g

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:40:05 +0000

i set this up for my cousin to use in Scotland. Recently it stopped working for him on campus. It works fine at his friends place who lives off campus. How is the campus blocking this if its going through port 80? Would they be blocking orb’s IP, or my ip (if its a direct stream). Anybody have any knowledge in this area? Additionally, any suggestions in terms of getting around this block? Thank you, g.