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HowTo: Stream contents of a PC window (i.e.Media Player, Joost) to the Wii Opera (experimental)
 
Hi, i just wanted to tell you what i found out about streaming from a Windows PC to the Wii (over the LAN).
 
This method is experimental, i know that it basically works, but not how good.
 
You should be experienced on computers and networks. It may happen that you will have to do some additional setup work (i.e. opening ports on your firewall).
 
What it did on my test:
Transfer the live contents of a Media-Player window (it was playing a mp3 with some silly animation) to the Wii Opera Browser.
I did NOT test the audio part though, found out later that activating "Sound-Mix" in the Volume Control might do it. The trick is to somehow redirect the audio-output to the Recording/Mic-input.
 
Why:
The intent is to "stream" the functionality of pc-apps to the wii.
I.e.:
TV-watching with Joost
Using your favorite MP3-Player on the PC
 
Limitations:
Keep the watched PC window small. Depends on your CPU. You should start with a size of about 500x400.
No Mouse-Control
 
You need:
Red5 from http://osflash.org/red5
(Flash Streaming Server, i used 0.6rc2, i suppose 0.6rc3 works also)
 
VH Screen Capture Driver from http://www.hmelyoff.com
(Emulates a kind of WebCam from the screen contents)
 
Both software is free.
 
On the PC:
Install Red5 and start it.
 
Open (& eventually reduce the size of) the window you want to stream.
 
Install the Screen Capture Driver and set it up to capture the window.
 
Open a Browser window (try to not let it cover the captured window).
And enter the address:
http://<your-pcs-ip>:5080/demos/
 
Select "simpleBoardcaster.swf". Press the connect button (plug) in the now opening flash-application. And allow flash to use your webcam & mic. (If you have multiple webcams you would have to select the right one in the flash-setup)
If all is working, you should now see the window contents in the PC's browser. Thats exactly what can (hopefully) be seen later on on the Wii.
 
On the Wii:
Open the "Internet Channel".
Open the address: http://<your-pcs-ip>:5080/demos/
Select "simpleSubscriber.swf".
Change the displayed address. Replace "localhost" with your PC's IP-address.
Press the Connect button (plug).
 
Now you should see the PC-Window as Flash-Video Stream on your Wii.
 
 
So that was it.
 
If you want to continue from here:
 
A seemingly useful link if you want to write some flash-streaming App yourself:
http://www.misterpatate.fr/blog/?page_id=182
(it's french, but learn it, your wife might appreciate)
or directly: openlaszlo.org
 
To simulate mouse-movements some little flash-coding would have to be done on the client side.
On PC-side some little Web-Service would have to be written (i.e. in Delphi or C++) to receive requests with mouse-x-y-click and simulate them (i.e. via windows-messages) to the targeted window.
 
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186410