Has anyone used Orb.com for streaming media?

[DnetMHZ]

Just wondering if anyone has tried this out?
They set up a portal to stream audio/video/etc from your Pc to anywhere with web access.

Sounds like there has to be some catch to it.

http://www.orb.com/

 

[mflacy]

PCMag seemed to like it.

 

[DnetMHZ]

I'm looking at that review now.

 

[loup garou]

Setting it up now on my MCE box. I was interested in it for awhile but the fee turned me off...this just may be awesome...

 

[loup garou]

hmm...I've set it up and can see all my recorded tv, media, etc, but can't stream anything. I can view photos, though. I opened the ports they requested too. Strange. Maybe a restart is in order.

 

[loup garou]

Ok, got my music working (cooooool!), it was a problem with my wmp associations.

Recorded TV isn't working yet, though. :| I think it might not like my tuner card drivers. :|

 

[loup garou]

Ok, I know everyone is on the edge of their seat for my next update so here it is:

Updated my 150mce drivers, restarted. Could stream live tv, but it crashed the mce shell on my home box (it's supposed to gracefully close it, but it took a header).
Restarted MCE shell and orb service, could stream recorded tv. Buffered like crazy....started watching recorded tv on my MCE box and through orb and everything went to hell. I guess my box isn't powerful enough. Restarted again and MCE box kept playing DVD in drive...it even continued playing the audio from it when I switched to LiveTV! Ejected DVD and everything is back to normal.

I think my box isn't powerful enough to act as a dedicated MCE box and Orb streamer. Oh well, maybe I'll upgrade it in the future.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Thanks for the updates werk, I'm going to try this out when I get home. I don't have a MCE box/tv card so it will be audio/video streaming only no TV.