how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Hulst
hi all, sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a happy new owner of a n810 and wondering how I could access my music/video collection on my home network from anywhere. I have all my audio/video content on a (Iinux based) home system, connect to the net via DSL, and I'm wondering if there'

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo

2008-01-08 Thread Chris
How did you do this? I tried browsing with the file manager, but I don't see Samba shares. Chris On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:00:04PM -0800, Peter Hulst wrote: > sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a happy new owner of a n810 > and wondering how I could access my music/video collection on my

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo

2008-01-09 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 07:41:30PM -0500, Chris wrote: > How did you do this? I tried browsing with the file manager, but I don't see > Samba shares. I see them with the File manager. On the left, there's a tree below Internal memory card and Bluetooth. It's called Shared something, IIRC. This t

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo

2008-01-09 Thread Piotr Zagorowski
Yes, I can confirm, I can browse samba/windows resources. However it takes some time when this "shared" menu can be seen. It probably does some scanning first etc cheers Pit On Jan 9, 2008 11:37 AM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 07:41:30PM -0500, Chris wrot

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Greene
I've been testing Webot.com and it seems to work really well, in the browser with minimal fuss. You can stream music and view photos... no video for the time being. On Jan 7, 2008 4:00 PM, Peter Hulst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a happy new

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:23:33PM -0500, Jonathan Greene wrote: > I've been testing Webot.com and it seems to work really well, in the > browser with minimal fuss. You can stream music and view photos... no > video for the time being. For the video part, you can try to use the web server complem

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Hulst
thanks - that looks good, I'll definitely give that a try. One other app I ran into was Jinzora ( http://en.jinzora.com/ ) which has a lot of features including video. Apparently it has a slim interface but not sure how good it is. I'd love to see an app with eye candy like UKMP or Canola supp

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Norman Ramsey
> sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a happy new owner of a n810 > and wondering how I could access my music/video collection on my home > network from anywhere. > > I have all my audio/video content on a (Iinux based) home system, > connect to the net via DSL, and I'm wondering

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Hulst
did you try the latest canola 2 beta? I have only tried that one and didn't need to use my keyboard for anything... I actually loved how it allows for navigating menus simply with your finger. thanks for the tip on firefly - will check that out too. Though I haven't tried it yet, Jinzora stil

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Greene
Looks like Webot is doing both Video and UPnP in beta ... http://tabletblog.com/2008/01/webot-on-n810-relays-video-over-upnp.html On Jan 7, 2008 5:05 PM, Kevin T. Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:23:33PM -0500, Jonathan Greene wrote: > > I've been testing Webot.com a

Re: how to access media content from home network to maemo device?

2008-01-08 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:00:04PM -0800, Peter Hulst wrote: > sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a happy new owner of a n810 > and wondering how I could access my music/video collection on my home > network from anywhere. > > I have all my audio/video content on a (Iinux based) home sys