psydstudent

I didnt get any responses to this question in the general Axim 30 forum so i thought I would try here:

Anyone aware of any programs or any way to stream video over Bluetooth 1.1 between a laptop and the Axim? I am aware of the limitations and am sure any video would have to be encoded within a very low bitrate in order for it to stream somewhat "smoothly" but I am curious to see what it would look like and if it can be done.

awdark

can you access the shared files on the computer like over a standard network? I have never tried bluetooth before.
Otherwise you might be able to stream as a video stream instead, with windows media encoder and connect to the stream over your own netowrk.

psydstudent

I know how to do that with WiFi over a LAN but wasnt sure if the procedure is similar when using Bluetooth and was hoping someone had already done this and could give a quick explanation as to how. I'll keep playing around and see if I can figure it out and post back my findings.

psydstudent

Played around a bit with Windows Media Encoder and stuff and got the streaming stuff to work. Music files streamed very well from my laptop to my Axim over Bluetooth, as long as I was within six feet or so...past that and it started to break up. Video was a little more complicated, namely on the fault of the Media Encoder. Instead, I set up to stream my Creative webcam to my Axim which also looked pretty good considering the slow bluetooth transfer rate. Was about a 12 second delay though. So now I know that it can be done it the quality is okay.

The reason I started this post in the first place is because I'm planning on setting up a PAN in my car and stream music and video from my trunk to my axim and/or laptop in the passenger compartment. Anyone else do this yet? If so, how do you have it set up and how well does it work?