InfiniFile

[Joel]

OnVerge Labs™ (www.onverge.com) announced the immediate availability of its flagship product, InfiniFile™ for Palm OS® Platform, originally slated for a January release. InfiniFile™ transforms a wireless Palm Powered™ device into a true network media center. [details (http://www.1src.com/?m=show&id=938)]

[doctorow]

Only bummer: according to Mobileread (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3665) it won't work with the Tungsten T5 (yet).

[jjesusfreak01]

Just another another downside, it wont work on my TH, but that could be my problem.

[JAmerican]

They say it works on the UX50 but when I try to install, I see Microsoft ActiveSync being installed???

JAmerican

[j0nblayz]

setup gives me error, it wont finish.. i even extracted the msi and took look at the msi, can't seems to find whats causing the error, but has a problem when registering the server as a windows service. anyone else getting this error?

[cyg]

setup gives me error, it wont finish.. i even extracted the msi and took look at the msi, can't seems to find whats causing the error, but has a problem when registering the server as a windows service. anyone else getting this error?


yes, error too! :(

[meir87]

has anyone gotten this to work?

[JJF01]

Ill bet that OnVerge has gotten it to work. I wonder if its a server side problem, or a handheld side one. Either way, this is why companies do beta testing.

[ballistic]

I haven't tried Infinifile yet, but I do know that WiFiGenie (http://www.iscomplete.org/Store/WiFiGenie.asp) works perfectly with the Asus WL-HDD2.5 hard drive enclosure (http://usa.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-hdd25/overview.htm), mounting the installed 20GB laptop hard drive as virtual SD card. Using the WL-HDD2.5 built-in SAMBA server, I can stream music using MMPlayer and Kinoma 3EX, no computer needed. It also acts as an HTML server. WiFiGenie also integrates with Resco Explorer (http://www.resco-net.com/palm/Explorer/), or you could use SMBMate.

IMHO, this is a great stand-alone solution for portable storage and use as a streaming music and file server.

Edit: FYI Movies do not stream well at all :(, but music is flawless using Kinoma 3EX and MMPlayer. I have experienced choppy playback using PocketTunes.

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Brian

[Navydoc]

I couldn't get it to work on my th55

:(

[Unhappy]

:( tried it w/my Zire72 and no, not happy. Won't work with MMplayer and badly crashes w/FileProg. Not yet ready, I'd say. I'll check out WiFiGenie.

[Unhappy]

Thanks, ballistic. Tried WiFiGenie and it works just fine. Nice piece of software. Way more advanced than Infinifile. Am happy with that. Am still unhappy about Infinifile. My advice: don't get it.

[ballistic]

Thanks, ballistic. Tried WiFiGenie and it works just fine. Nice piece of software. Way more advanced than Infinifile. Am happy with that. Am still unhappy about Infinifile. My advice: don't get it.

You're welcome ;). A few notes about WiFiGenie:

1. Make sure you unmount before turning off your device (crashes my Zodiac if I don't unmount first).

2. Running SMBMate & WiFiGenie at the same time causes a conflict (makes sense, they're both trying to run SAMBA) and might crash your device (it crashes my Zodiac).

Other than those two minor issues, it works very well.

Brian

[cyg]

i've managed to make it work on my TH55... stream mp3s through wireless lan, but performance was.... :(

it can't stream songs fluently with pTunes... seemed to have some kind of lag... anyway to fix it?

[timage]

Not very much in the way of support information. I think I'll wait and see...

[PalmNut]

Got InfiniFile to work just fine on my Zire 72. Used Kinoma and Real (came with the Zire) to play video and audio. Played audio while using other apps. Also enabled apps from my PC.

Didn't do so well with MMPlayer or PTunes. Not much of a loss as I generally prefer Kinoma and Real anyway.

Tried WiFi genie. Just too slow to get video. Also a bit choppy on the audio.

I'll take InfiniFile for now.

[PalmNut]

Running video and audio on my Zodiac with InfiniFile.

Wifi Genie too slow to handle video and some audio.

[Tam Hanna]

The big problem is the bad performance of the integrated Bluetoth or WLAN controllers in the handhelds. My T3 can max. transfer 115200bps over Bluetooth-BT 1.1 allows 723000bps...
More info on TamsPalm: http://tamspalm.blogspot.com/2004/11/bluetooth-why-art-thy-so-slow.html

[David Zucker]

To PalmNut (that sounds like me too!) - I also have a Zire 72 but how did you Use Kinoma and Real (came with the Zire) to play video and audio? What launcher program did you use to open the MP3 and video program with? I tried Explorer but it didn't "see" RealPlayer or Kinoma. I tried MegaCommander but it didn''t see the Inifile drive. I tried Uni Commander and you need a degree to figure out how to use the stupid (but nice looking) program. I tried PC Commander and it wouldn't open up (launch) the MP3 song. I use ZLauncher as my regular luancher. I do NOT have high speed internet. Do you have dial-up or high speed internet? Also, what program can speed up a bluetooth stream via a dial-up connection? I tried "SpeedOptimizer" and it did not work good enough. THANKS!!!!!!!!

[PalmNut]

I copied my content files into the InfiniFolder and launched the programs from the Palm. After getting InfiniFile started, hit home on the Palm to access your progams on the Palm.

I was also able to launch the programs from the InfiniFolder by copying over the launcher program from my Palm to the InfiniFolder (copy function from the Palm).

[David Zucker]

Thanks, PalmNut. I will try this tonight. Appreciate your help!! As a thank you, please let me know what Palm program you'll be interested in. I have tons of stuff (been a Palm user for 9 years now). MAYBE I'll have what you're looking for? E-mail me at davesearth1@yahoo.com.