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Movidity: like YouTube for your phone, but newer and untested
There's plenty of ways to transfer YouTube or Google videos to a mobile device. But what if you don't feel like downloading and transcoding videos to save on your phone? Movidity hopes you'll just say YouWho? and use their site instead.Movidity plans to launch movy.tv in January. The site will let users upload audio or video content which will automatically be converted into a format that is viewable on most smartphones and PCs. You'll be able to browse videos from any phone with a web browser and JAVA/MIDP2 support. If you visit the site on a PCE, you'll be able to watch videos in Shockwave format.
Of course, just because you can doesn't mean you will. And while user-generated video sharing sites are becoming a dime a dozen these days, I'm guessing most folks are just going to wait for industry-leader YouTube to roll out its own mobile service.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Mark Krebs said 4:22PM on 3-19-2007
Hi,
Just to clarify - the movy.tv system uses a very highly scalable transmission model that is cellular network independent allowing users to access the uploaded media globally through their local cellular network providers - we don't require any relationships with cellular providers to do this; the java player (which is also platform independent; we also offer a C language version for Windwos CE & Palm OS) allows you to search on uploaded/transcoded media; and the download of the media is a stream, not a file download. In fact, the media can be as a long as you want - our transmission model is an adaptive bitrate model and will resolve
All of our technology has been working for several months and it is used other contexts. It is not accurate to say that it has not been tested. We stream live television, radio, in multiple formats (our player is intellgent and recognizes capability on the handset it has been downloaded to).
Frame rate can vary as per the capabilities of the handset, but the player also optimizes about 35 variables in mpeg4 decoding...frame rate is just one of them. Several white papers can be found on our website about our technology in the Overview section.
The uploading capability is through a simple form that allows uploaders to see all the media on their PCs and simply click to upload and transcode (as we transcode multiple video & audio formats). The media can be two hours long and play for 2 hours on the handset. We can
also enable live upoading/transcoding for corporate customers - the live media will have the same transmission/access capabilities as archived "clips".
What we are working on now for the 15 Dec and 15 Jan dealines (as commented on in the news release) is website...for tracking, sorting, referencing, and twinning uploaded media for advertising.
We are working hard to get all the features on the website up and running; uploading/transcoding and dbmas functions has all been implemented and are fully functional. We hope to have it all up soon.
Thank you for your attention.
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VPS Hosting said 9:52AM on 11-30-2006
I’m not surprised becuase Microsoft’s Soapbox is already doing this.
http://soapboxteam.spaces.live.com
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