I've found a way to stream video from my home PC to my iphone from anywhere.
It requires the use of a web server and some php script (which I am currently working on for you guys.) It should be good to go in a little while.

Just to note, it will work over edge (With out video quality loss, damn youtube) -- but will be ungodly slow.

K things are going swimmingly, had a few bottlenecks... apparently all the movies I ripped from dvd to h264 are to high a level to be played back on the iPhone so I have to re-encode all of them... UGGG! (least they still work on 360, right?...)

Hopefully will have a nice working script for you guys soon -- on a side note, does any one even give a crap? lol.

Even though I don't have an iPhone yet, and probably won't get one for a few months, I am interested in this.

I use the Elgato Turbo.264. Will it be fast enough to work with the standard iPod Video quality that it outputs? I can send you a sample movie to test with if you would like.

See ya
Steve

I'm very interested in this! When you say it will be slow, do you mean it will spend a lot of time "buffering" before the video starts playing, or something else?

Quote: (Originally Posted by McNeuman)
I'm very interested in this! When you say it will be slow, do you mean it will spend a lot of time "buffering" before the video starts playing, or something else?

Not really sure, for some reason EDGE will not let me connect to my local network anymore -- was working fine up untill about 8pm yesterday and now I just can't connect to it via EDGE (so I can't test edge speeds.)

Quote: (Originally Posted by bigshot)
I use the Elgato Turbo.264. Will it be fast enough to work with the standard iPod Video quality that it outputs? I can send you a sample movie to test with if you would like.

See ya
Steve

I have samples to use, thanks though -- Was just having weird problems until I figured out that was the issue. My backups are encoded at Level 4.1 (which 360 can use) instead of 3 (which the iphone can use).

Any one have experience with apache? I'm currently using OmniHTTPD as my test server -- but I really don't want to roll out a "program" using it...

Here is a preview of what I have...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-UoLsSSw30

can you elaborate more on what sort of process this uses to stream video? i thought it was impossible to access the phones video player from the web?

Lol well.. it's not visit http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/ on an iphone and you can get an idea of how I figured out how to do it.

use Visual Hub beta to make the videos it has a iPhone option.

I use handbreak to rip mp4's from dvd and videora Xbox 360 converter for just converting from any other format to mp4 -- I've found both to work very well and give me the best quality/size ratio.

My rips stay in native size (Because I watch them on my tv/360) my iphone just pulls those and resizes them on the fly... not the best on my bandwidth, but that is how I personally prefer it.

Quote: (Originally Posted by riddlemd)
Lol well.. it's not visit http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/ on an iphone and you can get an idea of how I figured out how to do it.

ahhh i see! very nice. I would love to see what you have cooked up to allow for streaming!

You guys have any suggestions for features? PS rate/coment me on youtube and digg if you can get a chance -- I need as many peoples feedback as I can get.

(http://digg.com/apple/Streaming_video_to_iPhone)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-UoLsSSw30)

So, I do not own an iPhone, but if this turns out good I may sell my iPod to buy a phone. What is an acceptable upload speed and does it work good over edge?

I've tested it on 802.11b (which is like 11mb) works perfectly...

As I've said a few times -- for some reason I can not connect to my home server over the EDGE network, so I can not test how well it will work over EDGE. Hopefully I can figure out why it is not connecting and will be able to let you guys know. I'm guessing here, but being that the average speed of EDGE I'm getting where I am is 128kbs I'm going to say it might be rough to stream 1024kbs mp4 videos, but we will see. Songs should stream petty well over EDGE I would think though, will be adding audio support soon.