Want to watch YouTube on your TV? Want to endlessly zap away? Want to watch everything for free? Once you’re PC or laptop is connected to your TV screen, and thus your TV is connected to the Internet, there really is no limit to the hours you will spend in your couch watching TV.
Many people seem to think this is hard, it’s not. It might be a little technical, but on any decent PC it will take you at most 15 minutes to get going. The first part is what this post is all about. It is also the one that will give you the most headaches. You need a cable between your PC and your television.
There are many types of connectors and there are many ways to connect those. Some are expensive and some are dirt cheap. If you need some guidance to get you started on your cable search, I have created a little program to help you pick your cable.
Just click here to get started.
On the more technical side, this little application was made using SmartGWT, a GWT API library for SmartClient. SmartClient is a neat RIA library and GWT makes them incredibly easy to use, program and debug. I know, SmartClient is yet another option in the already crowed RIA field, but it’s certainly worth a try.
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cool sample but your host provider is tooo slow.
here it's ok, nice app!
I don't have the most expensive (and fast) host, but I think the culprit for the slow download might be the large download size. For some reason, the entire SmartClient is downloaded, so the first time you load the page, it's about a 3MB download, which is a lot for such a small application.
I'm not sure SmartClient and SmartGWT have a solution for this problem, which sort of makes the library a lot less interesting for smallscale application development and deployment. My investigation is ongoing, so I'll keep you updated.
Test the page using yslow. It will give you a slew of recommendations on how to optimize your site.
For one I see that you aren't gzipping the files
Thanks for the suggestion.
I think this will improve performance a lot. My host doesn't have any Apache modules for gzipping, so I had to use a trick. I'm sending all JS requests to a PHP file that does the gzipping. It's a bit cumbersome and doesn't yet support all types of files, but I'm now down to about 800KB, so that's already a huge size reduction.
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Wow.. very interesting. I've been trying to find a way to stream movies from my PC to the TV.