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How to Listen to WMA Internet Radio station on Streamium using Tversity

After buying a Philips Streamium, the next question is can I listen to my favourite Internet Radio station?

For SLM5500 the answer is partially yes, since SLM5500 doesn’t support WMA internet streaming. To get my WMA Radio stations like BBC Live, I used a PC acting as a proxy using a software called Tversity.

Step 1
Download and install Tversity from http://download.tversity.com/TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe and install into my PC.

Step 2
Download and install the free codec from http://www.free-codecs.com/, I used the package “K_Lite_Codec_Pack” which have most of the stuff required already.

Step 3
After the installation,
I modified the file "C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\profile.xml” by adding my own SLM5500 profile. In this profile I specify that

onlineAudio="audio/mpeg”

Hence the PC will transcode any WMA Internet audio stream to MP3.

I then added another file call “C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\UPNP_AV_MediaServer_1.0.slm.xml” in the same directory so that I could rename the display name.

Step 4,
After starting Tversity,
Ø Add Internet Media -> Add Audio URL
Ø Audio URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_news_au_nb.asx

Ø

Ø Submit

Step 5
Now that the entry is inside, you should be able to use SLM5500, navigate to Tversity server, select

> Audio > Internet Audio > Audio URLs > BBC Live Station

How to watch YouTube on your TV?

How to watch YouTube and other RSS feed video/audio podcast on your TV.

Ever wanted to watch your YouTube stuff on the TV? Well I do, especially if I do not need to wake for it to download as well… Well here’s how.

You need a Digital Media Adapter. In my current setup, I’m using a Philips Streamium series, SLM5500. It has got a wireless 802.11g network port which I connect to my WiFi router. My pc(laptop) is then wired(mostly)/wirelessly connected to the internet.

Since Philips comes with a Media-Manager software, I chose to install a program call TVersity (www.tversity.com) on my PC running XP. It’s free for now, in its beta testing version 0.9.9.2(beta), however it is incredible software.

Step 1
Download and install Tversity from http://download.tversity.com/TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe and install into my PC.

Step 2
Download and install the free codec from http://www.free-codecs.com/, I used the full package “K_Lite_Codec_Pack” which have most of the stuff required already.

Step 3
After the installation,
I modified the file "C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\profile.xml” by adding my own SLM5500 profile.

http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?t=2117&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Although you might have to replace the Sony Vaio profile instead.

I then added another file call “C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\UPNP_AV_MediaServer_1.0.slm.xml” in the same directory so that I could rename the display name.

All I did was to copy the UPNP_AV_MediaServer_1.0.default.xml and change one line
"friendlyName "TVersity for Philips "/friendlyName"

So that I could get a better display name.

Step 4
Start TVersity by clicking on the icon, go to the
> Settings tab
> Transcoder - Video and Image resolution is 720x576.
> Internet Feeds set
Max download files is 4
Number of New items is 200.
(I just want to buffer as many stuff overnight as possible)


Ø Add Internet Feed / Podcast > Add Video Feed

Ø Video Feed : http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed_today.rss

Ø


After that add as much RSS feeds and let the PC running. It will download content overnight and you should have enough content to keep yourself entertain for awhile.

Favorite live radio on Streamium

How to Listen to your favorite live radio on Streamium SLM5500 and SLA5520

It’s stated that SLM5500 supports Internet Radio, but I find that the list provided is hopelessly little.

Luckily you can add in your favorites. This is how.

Via Club.Philips.com


Logon to club Philips, this is the place where you register your warranty online as well.

After registering, go to the Streamium management section, note that only certain country has this, and I always choose Australia, no difference as far a I can tell.

You can now add your favorite station via “My media” tab.

Unfortunately, the SLM5500 doesn’t support WMA internet streaming… which that will be in a separate article from me.

Meantime load in your favorite MP3 stations and start listening. Good reference stations are somafm.com, and shoutcast.com.

Now when you turn on your SLM the next time, using that register user login for SLM, you will be able to see this radio station under the Internet Radio section. For this you do not need your PC to turn on, just your router connected.

To get basic stuff working without hassle, this is a good solution since your pc need not be switch on for this to work. Beside it works with the SLA5520 unit I have as well.

There are however more internet radio stations that use WMA instead of MP3, since I have other alternative I’ll not explain it now.

Getting DVDs series on my TV

How to get my favorite DVDs to play on my TV using Philips Streamium SLM5500?

This a step by step article on how I get my DVDs to playback onto my TV using my Philips wireless media adaptor.

I do not know about you, but I have video files from all sources including DVD. Some of my favorites include Star Wars, Xmen series and of course the Star Trek, NG series and the Enterprise series. For my family members, we can rent an entire Cantonese series, copy to the harddisk, save the trouble of no time to watch now, and hassle of changing disc.

It’s kind of hassle to store the DVD physically and with price of harddisk falling but capacity increases it kind of easy to store them on my portable USB Harddisk. To watch it I could simply turn on my PC with my wireless router attached and stream the video down to my TV using Philips Media Player.

Step 1 – To get this DVD into my harddisk, I used a backup software call DVD Shrink. It’s free download. Simply do a Google search on “Download DVD Shrink”, download and install on to your PC.

Step 2 – Run DVD Shrink, just choose to backup the whole disc, (you can always skip to the next clip easily with streaming). Choose the right language.
I found that by selecting the correct subtitles, I would be able to get the subtitle playback when watching the movie.

You can choose to breakup each clip to 1GB or leave the whole chunk as one file (careful only NTFS file system, which your harddisk is formatted, as can handle files greater that 4GB). I tend to leave in 1GB chunk.

Hence a 2 hour movie is broken into 30minutes each. Since you can skip to the next clip, if you were interrupted, rather then trying to fast forward 1 hour

I have taken a couple of screenshots so that you can see what I meant.

Step 3 – Install Philips Media Manager, and share out the folder where your backup video files are and you are ready to stream. Select using Folder and start playing the first clip. The trick is SLM will continue playing one clip after the other from this folder unless repeat title button is pressed.

If you are not using PMM, then you can create a m3u playlist. This is easily done on a command prompt using DIR command.

D:\XMEN2_DISC1\VIDEO_TS>dir /b *.vob > xmen2.m3u

And the content of the playlist will simply be the name of these files:

VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_5.VOB
VTS_02_1.VOB

stuff i learn of today

How to surf anonymously :
http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/anonymous.shtml

Subscribe to Youtube Rss feed base on your own favourite
http://www.glowfresh.com/blog/youtube_favorites_rss

looks ok now let see

i was looking at TVersity forum and searching for that problem i have with feedburner.... then someone.. vdub14.. posted a teaching on how to create a podcast. sound interesting so i'll give it a try. here comes my blog

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