| Under the development of the electronic, computer and communication technologies, the portable devices like Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and Smart Phone have became the most popular personal electronic device presently. The calculating capability of the portable device is getting stronger and stronger, and its function is getting more and more powerful. Now almost all of the users hope that the portable device can offer plenty of convenient services. At the present time, streaming service has been a highlight of these services for research and development. People are no more content for the playing of local media files, but wish that the portable device can connect to Internet via the wireless access network (GPRS, WLAN, WiMAX and 3G) to get more real-time media resource, like security monitor infomation, the traffic information, the TV program, and some entertainment media which is too big to store in portable device.For resolving the problem above, we did a plenty of researching and investigation work. After learning some mature open-source streaming player and plenty of portable devices which can do further development,... |