portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread David Schwartz
I recently purchased a course online, and I need to go through all of the materials. It’s hosted online, but is also available for download. So I just downloaded a bunch of files. They’re a combination of audio (MP3), video (MP4), some PDF files, and slides (PPT/PPTX). The total size exceeds my

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Aaron Jones
Go to your local library, mcdonalds, or anywhere with free wifi. Use a laptop to download the entire archive. Place on a thumb drive that also supports your phone. Look them up on amazon. They can do full size usb or type c or whatever as a combo. Why buy a phone to support your phone so you c

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread David Schwartz
Thanks, but I’m looking for HARDWARE suggestions, not advice on how to reinvent my work habits. I did find one thing that looks promising: Asus Travelair N Wireless 1TB Hard Disk Does anybody know if RPi's have enough horesepower to stream a video? Can I fit one in a case with a battery that

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Todd Cole
I have several raspberry PI's that I use as media servers with no issues osmc and xbmc are a bit slow on the older raspberry pi's with 512 ram I just completed a media server with Raspberry PI B+ that loops MP4 videos as soon as you plug in the thumb drive then it connects to a hdmi 8 port hub to s

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Michael Butash
If you've a standard android device that can run vlc, why not just push the files to sd there and play? I've done this for movies on my phone or android tablet, vlc is always good about resuming when used. Kodi as well. If apple lover, who knows, they want you to buy it all from them, and I don'

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Bob Elzer
why not just load it all on to your ipad? at the end of the day you're going to want a bigger screen to view all the material and if you keep accessing it through different devices there won't be any way to know where you left off when you switch to another device. tiny screens aren't really cond

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Matt Birkholz
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 21:34 +, David Schwartz wrote: > Thanks, but I’m looking for HARDWARE suggestions, not advice on how to > reinvent my work habits. OK, but you heard the part about how your phone, most likely, already *is* this Asus Travelair you speak of (er, of which you speak)? It's

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread David Schwartz
I’ve got three mobile devices (plus my phone) with a 4th on the way, and I use them for different things and depending on my mood. ;-) I want to put the data on ONE DEVICE that could, preferably, fit in my pocket, and that would let me access the files on any of my other devices. If there’s an

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Michael Butash
So I use a synology filer at home (two, actually), and replicate data using their cloud sync app on there on my androids. I do this mostly for books as I add new things I queue to read. At some point I intend to do the same for music. I do this on my local lan right now, so when it *can* hit the

Re: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Matt Birkholz
Did those Pi3b+s need, like, Class 10 SDXC boot drives? Do they produce full HD? Do they read from the SD or an external USB hard drive? I tried MATE on a Pi3b but VLC could not keep it moving even when given fullscreen. --- PLUG-discuss mailing lis

RE: portable streaming media hardware question

2018-11-16 Thread Carruth, Rusty
On the other hand, you COULD use this as an excuse to go get a Raspberry Pi ;-) -Original Message- From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Jones ... Why buy a phone to support your phone so you can phone while your phone acts as a server