Orb for TV - Page 2 - Motorola Q Forum

EdL · 12-03-2006, 02:28 PM

I use ORB with my WebCam. I can check on the nothings going on in my apartment while I'm away.

superbowlbengals · 12-03-2006, 04:12 PM

haha, that's rad. surveillance on nada. still cool.

EdL · 12-04-2006, 08:01 AM

I guess is nada is better than a burgler

Busta00764 · 12-23-2006, 11:44 AM

So what all of you are saying is that you need to have a TV tuner card on your HOME pc with Windows XP then you go to orb on your Q to watch live tv. And it streams off of your home pc? I am interested in this feature and any information to help me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys
-Chris-

Res-Q-Me · 12-28-2006, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Busta00764

So what all of you are saying is that you need to have a TV tuner card on your HOME pc with Windows XP then you go to orb on your Q to watch live tv. And it streams off of your home pc? I am interested in this feature and any information to help me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys
-Chris-

That's pretty much how it works. You can also view all the pics or listen to all your Mp3's on your computer. Cool.

jimbetts3 · 04-07-2007, 08:09 PM

I purchased my Q this week and am loving it. I also downloaded and installed Orb on my Media Center PC and it worked with my Q right away. However, this only lasted about 10 minutes and then Orb crashed on my PC. Now, it won't stay running at all.

Any suggestions would be helpful. It seems to be acting like there is a conflict of some kind (maybe with a Port?)

It seems like an awesome tool, if I can just get it to work!

koggit · 07-06-2007, 06:40 AM

I just got my Q today (traded in an UpStage for it) and am loving it. I've been toying it with it all day. Hence registering here.

I set up Orb (I wanted access to my 40 gigs of music) and it works great, but it takes a very long time for the stream to buffer. I'm on Sprint's Power Vision network, and Orb rates my connection at 600kb/s, so I don't really understand why these 128kbit mp3s are taking 5+ minutes to load. Is Orb's server slow? Is it because I have too many songs? Is it my Q?

I set Core Media Player to associate with most file types, so it automatically opens up Core, and then my Q freezes for (literally) about five minutes while it loads. As soon as it loads, the music starts and my Q resumes normal operation.

Any thoughts?

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