This is a short preview of a open-source script we wrote. It allows you to acces your content, like music or video to your iphone or ipod touch, streaming. So if your 8GB or 16GB is not enough, there is hope!
Note: this is not the final code but to keep you updated i decided to post my progress.
Things that are not included.
- rating
- number of files
* and some design bugs needed to be fix.
How its done?
- First you need a (local server) like wamp.
- Second we add some php files and the conent to the right folders.
Folder structure:
WWW (default)
contains: php and css files.
WWW/my_dirs/albums/
contains: your albums named like: Artist - AlbumName
WWW/my_dirs/movies/
contains: your movies (.mov or .mp4)
Of course you can setup more folder and program other sites, for example like favorites.
The php files makes a listing of the folders and output them in a basic html page, witch the iphone or ipod can view.
When opening the actual files, the iphone or ipod opens the internal quicktime player, so your files can be viewed streaming.
see the screencaptures for more details:
You can download the files and put them into the right folders of your (local) server. Although there need to be a lot of codecleaning be done.
It’s recommended to wait, till the fixes (like shown above) are done, this will be (hopefully) soon!
donwload the files:
ipod_touch_streaming.zip
Thanks for the comments!
Martijn
August 22nd, 2008
3 Comments at "iPhone and iPod touch streaming music and video - how to"
Hi !
On i phone its a really a stream ?
When i start it on computer, it asks me: Download or Open.
Hi Alex,
It’s basically the same as the quicktime player. It retreives the data of the file, When it has enough to get played, it started.. When using a internal network that would be direct. For a good example; look at the apple trailers page how it will react..
ok…
It works !
Thank you..
With quicktime player it works fine!
Thanks !
Really nice script!
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