Random thought... a possibility?

[andyhamer]

Just wondering if some kind of Heath Robinson equivalent of StreamMyGame http://www.streammygame.com/smg/index.php could ever be achieved on Pandora, VLC can handle video streaming right..? and perhaps it could be cobbled together with Synergy http://synergy-foss.org/ or something similar.


Just daydreaming, but surely another USP (to add to the Pandora's already long list) if achievable...?

 

[Eridger]

Just wondering if some kind of Heath Robinson equivalent of StreamMyGame http://www.streammygame.com/smg/index.php could ever be achieved on Pandora, VLC can handle video streaming right..? and perhaps it could be cobbled together with Synergy http://synergy-foss.org/ or something similar.


Just daydreaming, but surely another USP (to add to the Pandora's already long list) if achievable...?

I think some guy got in contact with the maker(s?) Of StreamMyGame a while back, maybe September. He got a response from them saying that they'd like to port it to the device eventually, but of course it's more than likely that they won't, just because a company saying they'd like to see it happen doesn't mean it'll happen.


Hang on a bit, let me see if I can dig up that thread...

 

[XxionxX]

I was told that this is not possible, but I may be wrong. I asked if I could run VNC on my larger PC and play games via my wifi. I was told that VNC video compression/transmission? was not up to the job. It needs to be optimized... I think...

 

[WizardStan]

It's not possible with VNC, no. The video transmission and all it uses was never meant to be realtime, just real-enough time.


What streammygame and others have done is created a new format for rapidly compressing, transmitting, and uncompressing video, and syncing that to inputs on the remote end. It isn't as simple as it sounds, the internet was never designed to handle this kind of thing, so they're finding ways of working around it.

 

[andyhamer]

It's not possible with VNC, no. The video transmission and all it uses was never meant to be realtime, just real-enough time.


What streammygame and others have done is created a new format for rapidly compressing, transmitting, and uncompressing video, and syncing that to inputs on the remote end. It isn't as simple as it sounds, the internet was never designed to handle this kind of thing, so they're finding ways of working around it.

C'est la vie, on to my next little pipe dream then...