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streaming with gprs
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10/17/05 10:43am
curtd32 |
i have siemens sx66 and i have cingular. i have been trying to stram radio stations using my gprs connection. but it doesnt seem to be working. I taked to cingular and they said that the connection speed wasnt fast enough. they did say that a third party software may could help me out. but they wouldnt name any. could anyone help solve this problem.
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Bob_Katayama
Hi Curtd32:
You may want to check out my Blog post HERE which showcases a program called Resco Pocket Radio from resco.net. This program should be suitable. Simple GPRS connect and quick disconnect from GPRS when you exit the program.
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I've played quite much[/url] with this stuff and found out that if you have a steady (meaning it really downloads stuff utilizing preferably four download slots like [url="http://winmobiletech.com/082005GprsManagers/RVGSMTrafficCounter.png"]in this RVGSM traffic counter/meter screenshot taken of a 4-slot GPRS connection) download, then, you'll be able to listen to radio streams of up to 35-40 kbps without major stops for buffering.
This means you can achieve tolerable FM stereo quality - if you're fortunate enough; that is, the radio station you'd like to listen to does have 30-35-40 kbps, FM-quality streams. If it doesn't (for many radio stations, the low-quality 15-20 kbps and high-quality 60-100 kbps streams are the norm), then, you can still play a bit with Windows Media Encoder (WME) 9 Series[/url]-based transcoding (or, if you only have a Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD box/admin account somewhere and/or prefer MP3-based streams, SHOUTcast , assuming you have access to a non-firewalled desktop PC somewhere that you can run it on. Please let me know if you need more help with configuring/using WME. Also, [url="http://www.winmobiletech.com/streaming/"]I've written a quite extensive tutorial on all these questions (non-English article!).
As for the 'third-party software', there isn't any (assuming the Cingular people didn't mean WME- or SHOUTcast –based transcoding – I seriously doubt it). Unfortunately, GSM operators know almost nothing about Pocket PC's – not just Cingular, but also (almost?) all of them. See, for example, this thread for Vodafone's silly mistakes, PPC-wise.