CAUTION: I am not sure how secure Orb is so make sure that you have at least some firewall or router on your network and your PC is not directly connected to the internet.
Here are the steps to stream media on your Sprint Instinct phone using Orb:
- Download Orb on your PC from here and install it.
- On your PC, start Orb (something like Start->All Programs->Orb Networks->Orb->Orb).
- If it goes to the task bar on the bottom right, right click on the icon that says "Orb" and select "Configuration".
- Follow the setup as shown in these screen images
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- Then login to the Orb website at https://mycast.orb.com/orb/html/index.html
- If you have iTunes installed and Podcasts setup, you will be able to see them on the Orb website. Any other music and video files in the the folders added to Orb (see screen image above) will also be listed on Orb's website.
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- You can even add other online streaming media that normally doesn't play on Sprint Instinct directly to re-stream through Orb custom channels. You will then be able to play this media on your Instinct phone!
- The screen print below shows you how to create custom channels in Orb and add streaming media links/URL's (from sites such as http://www.channelchooser.com/mobile.php) that can be played on your Instinct phone.
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- Now from your Sprint Instinct phone, login to Orb's website at https://mycast.orb.com/ and select the checkboxes to remember login and autologin.
- Once you are logged in, click on Settings and then from the Streaming formats, select the 3GP-AAC/RTSP format (.3gp). This is important for playing on Instinct's player.
- You can try different streaming speeds or leave it to default for now.
- You can now go back to Orb's mycast home page on your Instinct (https://mycast.orb.com/) and click on any media that is available to play it. It will open up in Instinct's player and will look like the same player that plays Instinct's TV app.
7 comments:
I must be doing something wrong. I see the tracks, etc on my phone and when i click on them it starts the loading bar, but it quickly disappears and i don't hear anything. I can stream on my Xbox with no problems.
After you login to Orb website from Instinct, make sure that you click on Settings and then from the Streaming formats, select 3GP format (.sdp). This is important because other media formats won't play on Instinct's player.
Yeah, did that, but for some reason, it ain't working...
You could try a few things to isolate where the problem is:
* Try playing these from Orb on a PC outside your network like from a friend's house. If you cannot play it from there either, your router might not be allowing these ports from outside.
* If you can play on another PC from a different location, you have to play with the settings on Orb when logged in through your Instinct.
* It could also be a codec issue so try some other kind of files like mp3 and windows media files to see if they play on your Instinct.
You could also see if anything here helps.
just for giggles, I set the stream format to 3gp-AAC/RTSP format(.3gp) and it worked. strange it wouldn't work on the .sdp... Thanks!
Excellent, I will update the instructions to use 3GP-AAC/RTSP format(.3gp).
Orb has bigger problems than Security...they have waked just about everyone, out of money, and their management has again taken a great technology and has taken it to new lows.
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