Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Wow--ever hear of http://www.Qik.com? It lets you stream live from a cell phone to the web.

Can you do it with your Nokia N800? No, not yet--but it looks promising! CONTACT THEM AND TELL THEM YOU REALLY WANT THIS!

I just sent them the following message the other day:

and got the following message from jane@qik.com today:

Wouldn't it be COOL to be able to use your N800 to stream using that little built-in web cam? Of course it would! So by all means, write Qik.com and tell 'em you gotta have it! :D

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Well, you can already do it, just with some manual work. Someone at MIT streamed video from an N800 to 2nd Life, google it...

Not saying that their service wouldn't be nice anyway, of course.

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

I watched the video on that site and it looks great.

So, now the question is....if they can do that, why can't someone come up with a way to make video on Skype work?? ..(or Yahoo Messenger or Google Chat or any other IM software)??

There's gotta be a way! I love having that little built-in webcam on my N800, but I hate not really having any way to use it!

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Search around you'll find a few things...

aMSN works to stream video (albeit slow) to MSN Messenger clients.

SIP video via h.263/h.263+ works with PC clients that support that codec.

Gizmo video works to the Gizmo PC 4.0 beta client.

"motion" lets you stream via mjpeg/http or still frames.

Jabber/XMPP/GTalk video is done via jingle-video so technically it would work with a PC *if* someone could find PC client software with support.

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

I emailed qik.com too. I got back this answer:

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Misleading title.

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

QFT.

I have run Qik from my cellphone though. It works ok. Would be nice to have, but the camera on my phone is a hundred times better than the POS on these tablets...

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Greetings:


I think this feature is very important to have to keep the N800 competive.

Think about you can record a short video and place it in your blog right from the N800, now that would be cool.

So, yes Qik please make this feature happen.

For the rest of you continue righting a comment on this so that this feature becomes very popular.

Regards Robert

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

http://live.yahoo.com/ would be nice too, if our Maemo Flash client supported it.

Didjit

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

That Second-life streaming thing wasn't very useful, it can only be streamed to one fixed IP.

Peekaboo, for OS 2007, could stream a decent video from the webcam via HTTP. We need someone to port it to OS2008.


Peekaboo used a port of VLC to do the heavy lifting, by the way.

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Greetings:

I know what the answer will be, but why don't some developers create an app that can do this feature.

From what I've heard in other messages, flash is not available for linux.
Also the quality of the N800's Webcam is not worth taking time to create an apps.

But if many us want this app in whatever quality the webcam gives us, so please create this apps for us.

Thankyou Robert

Re: Stream Live to the Web via your N800!!
 

Flash is available for linux. In fact, OS2008 has the flash player plugin installed with microb by default. On the desktop, iirc there are at least a couple flash plugin implementations for firefox in linux.