Streaming video to a mobile device?

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I need something setup so I can access video from my pc and stream it to my pda via 3g at lower bitrate/res with encryption. Is there any software that can do this?
 
Windows Media Encoder will let you stream the video (I've used it with my iPAQ before now) but I don't think it supports encryption. There are two ways of getting around this; firstly is to get a streaming server and player with built in encryption (I'm not aware of any). Second way would be to setup a VPN server in addition to the WME server. Then the PDA would connect to the VPN and once on would access the WME server as though it were local. I don't know anything about VPN clients for Pocket PC though (I assume that's the OS of your PDA).

Link to WME: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Hope this helps, null :)
 
Can wme stream x.264 and ogg? And will it let you select what video you want to watch? Ideally I'd like to be able to click any video and have it streamed to me.
 
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Don't know, it's a while since I've used it and I never tried doing either of those. I think VLC might, though having never used it other than reading from the local disk I can't say. It might even do encryption but that is *might*. Might I ask what the need for this encryption is btw? Also, is it not going to cost a lot sending large amounts of data over 3g? :o

Hope this helps, null :)
 
T-mobile have a £1 for 24 hours unlimited data plan, they don't want you to stream video with it though. ;) As far as I'm concerned though £1 is worth 1GB at least.
 
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In that case a VPN is probably best because if it were just the stream that was encrypted there is a possibility that it would still be recognisable as a video stream. VPN should make it unrecognisable. But I didn't tell you this :p

Hope this helps, null :)
 
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