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benny1967 |
2010-01-16
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#11
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Originally Posted by qgil
The only feature I want is being able to use webservices that use flash based videochat.
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2010-01-16
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@ San Diego, CA
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#12
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Originally Posted by qgil
It's primarily useful for services such as ustream.tv and others that allow broadcasting via flash. Their may be some videoconferencing utils that use this as well?
So this is as I suspected. Code exists but according to our testing it's not up to the quality required. Enabling the feature would probably get users unhappy about video quality etc. Productizing this for the N900 would require extra resources and we prefer to put them in other areas that we believe have a higher priority. This is why it's not currently in the Fremantle plans.
If Maemo 5 has full Flash support already and you are not aware of many other OMAP3 devices with something similar, this tells you something about the amount of work Nokia has put already in order to help Adobe productizing their software.
Security concerns are not the reason, please edit the Brainstorm proposal if you want to focus the discussion on the right topic.
And now about brainstorming:
What are the features you want that make you ask for Flash camera support? Can these features be achieved using alternative technologies?
You may also consider explaining your needs to Adobe and/or any other partner shipping their software on OMAP3 hardware. At the end this is software that Nokia is licensing.
When you say code exists for this feature but doesn't pass testing, are you referring to a patch to the current 9.4 flash plugin?
Or will this feature also be unavailable on the upcoming flash 10.1 release?
It would be nice to have webcam support in flash, but not if it will in any way delay the release of a GPU/DSP accelerated Flash plugin (10.1) for Maemo.
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2010-01-17
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#13
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Using the front camera or not shouldn't be mixed with using Flash video or not since they are actually different problems.
Also the fact that some services use Flash video in some of their applications doesn't necessarily mean always that you need Flash video and only that to broadcast video in such services. For instance Qik for Maemo works.
Maybe it's worth investigating further about possibilities to use ustream.tv and other web services without Flash video?
You should ask Adobe for details about the Flash video availability/quality in their upcoming releases for Linux OMAP3.
Also the fact that some services use Flash video in some of their applications doesn't necessarily mean always that you need Flash video and only that to broadcast video in such services. For instance Qik for Maemo works.
Maybe it's worth investigating further about possibilities to use ustream.tv and other web services without Flash video?
You should ask Adobe for details about the Flash video availability/quality in their upcoming releases for Linux OMAP3.
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2010-01-17
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@ Netherlands
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#14
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Front camera in support within Flash can have other appliances than just videoconferencing via RTMP. You can do head-tracking navigation, RT OCR (it would be helpful to access the full back camera for that purpose, tho), augmented reality appliances etc. Just as an example, I wrote a simple library that gives ability for sites to implement dynamic 1D/2D barcode scan and automatically open the target product page. As I know, it's being used by one IT retailer here so users don't need to enter their product serials to get to the exact product support page - all users need to do is to wave their product in front of their webcam.
Yes, it's kind of a gimmicky feature, but being able to do that from within the browser on a handheld can have quite handy usage for large retailers (shopping malls for example) where you can connect on their site and get all the additional info you need on some product just by scanning the barcode of product you are interested in, without the need to develop a separate application for each use case.
Yes, it's kind of a gimmicky feature, but being able to do that from within the browser on a handheld can have quite handy usage for large retailers (shopping malls for example) where you can connect on their site and get all the additional info you need on some product just by scanning the barcode of product you are interested in, without the need to develop a separate application for each use case.
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2010-04-03
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#15
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This may be worth another kick.
Cuz I dont realy get it. The software is roughly ready, but nokia doesnt want it to get out? I would love to see this feature in the near future. Or Qik must come up with more plugins for like ustream or blogtv.
Cuz I dont realy get it. The software is roughly ready, but nokia doesnt want it to get out? I would love to see this feature in the near future. Or Qik must come up with more plugins for like ustream or blogtv.