Streaming Wirelessly to your TV for $93

11 January, 2007 Posted by As Multimedia,Tips (2) Comment

There are several solutions out there including the latest AppleTV. Each solution has its own shortfalls (e.g.AppleTV only supports Wide screen HDTV -720p). The XBox solution is good but if you are not gamer, to buy a game console to serve to another purpose seems to be odd…

 

I ran across this solution for you..very inexpensive, over WiFi-G, Stream media contents from your PC or from Internet (World TV, Music, etc.), open source and the best only costs you $93. Here are the components:

  1.  D-Link Wireless Media Player 802.11B/G DSM-320 – $93: The user reviews are very good. This player itself comes with the host software from D-Link. But do not use this software.
  2. TVersity Media Server: Download this free software, its capability is incredible and the Usability is great.   You can stream all your media contents from your PC’s or from Internet (TV, Music, Podcast, etc..) to not only your TV but also on all your mobile devices (Internet tablet, Laptop, PSP,…).  More after the jump!
     Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devices
    The media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to connected devices via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
    The only truly universal media server (including support for both the Sony PSP and the Xbox 360)
    Use the same server for home and mobile networked devices (with multimedia capabilities) whether they support UPnP AV / DLNA or just have a web browser or an RSS/Podcast Reader
    Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video Guides
    The media server is bundled with hundreds of TV stations from all over the world and thousands of radio stations
    Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devices
    Finally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported devices disregarding their codec limitations
    Automatic Real-time Seamless Transcoding
    Let the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media player
    Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more)
    The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
    Advanced searching and smart playlists
    The Media Server supports keyword searching as well as advanced search expressions and allows search results to be saved as playlists
    Easy to use Graphical User Interface
    Control the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
    Support multiple devices simultaneously
    Connect every room with a TV and other connected devices you own to the same media server
    Share media with friends and family via RSS
    Synchronize your media library with remote installations of TVersity or with remote Podcast managers like iTunes
    Support for all leading tagging formats and then some
    ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis comments in Ogg, FLAC, and MPC/Ape, iTunes AAC tags, MPEG4 tags, ASF tags (WMA, WMV, DVR-MS)
    Intuitive Navigation
    Finally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
    Manage cache of transcoded media
    No need to transcode the same media twice
    Pause Live Internet feeds just like with Tivo
    Watching live Internet TV and listening to live radio stations have never been so much fun
    Runs as a service
    You no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
    Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster ones
    Transcode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
     
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Comments
Mark Woodman January 12, 2007

Could you provide your original source that discusses specifics on how TVersity interacts with the D-Link’s remote, etc?

SolSie January 12, 2007

You can read more here: http://www.tversity.com/
Devices supporting the UPnP AV / DLNA standard (which is the de-facto standard for connectivity between devices in the digital home). This includes devices like networked TVs, DVDs, Stereo Receivers, Digital Media Adapaters/Receivers (including the Xbox 360), Mobile Phones, Satellite and Cable set-top-boxes and more.
Supported devices: http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.tversity.com/devicelist.html

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