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Streaming video from the camera Eric Baines 10-03-2005
Posted by Eric Baines on October 3, 2005, 7:16 am
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 With Mobile 2003 & SE, I tried to find an application that would allow me to
capture video with the phone and 'stream' it over my GPRS connection back to
HQ. I work in the fire service and to be able to do this at incidents would
be very useful. We have a GPRS allowance of 60M but to be honest it would be
useful almost whatever the price.

I'd have thought journalists would bite your hands off for such an app too.

I was told that the infrastructure in the 2003 phone prevented such an app
being produced. Does anyone know whether Mobile 2005 would allow such an app
to be produced - or even whether there was one available?





Posted by Sven on October 3, 2005, 7:00 pm
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 Unless you have one of the 3G or better phones and services, I think the
capability of steaming video over GPRS is pretty shakey. However, MS has had
a research project for some time that does this. Microsoft Portrait.
http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/ The devices it supports is
a bit limited.

--
Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
> With Mobile 2003 & SE, I tried to find an application that would allow me
> to
> capture video with the phone and 'stream' it over my GPRS connection back
> to
> HQ. I work in the fire service and to be able to do this at incidents
> would
> be very useful. We have a GPRS allowance of 60M but to be honest it would
> be
> useful almost whatever the price.
>
> I'd have thought journalists would bite your hands off for such an app
> too.
>
> I was told that the infrastructure in the 2003 phone prevented such an app
> being produced. Does anyone know whether Mobile 2005 would allow such an
> app
> to be produced - or even whether there was one available?
>
>
>




Posted by Eric Baines on October 4, 2005, 1:11 am
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In the first instance, even the equivalent of slow scan TV, 1 frame per
minute or so, would be tremendous.

The phone I was looking at, the SP5 (http://www.imate.com/DETAILS_SP5.htm),
says it supports EDGE, so it could operate at high speeds.
It also has in the spec:-
Digital Camcorder Specification
Video Streaming or Off line: 30fps

Does anyone know if that means it would let me do what I want - stream live
video (& audio) over a wireless VPN back to my HQ?



"Sven" wrote:

> Unless you have one of the 3G or better phones and services, I think the
> capability of steaming video over GPRS is pretty shakey. However, MS has had
> a research project for some time that does this. Microsoft Portrait.
> http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/ The devices it supports is
> a bit limited.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP - Mobile Devices
> > With Mobile 2003 & SE, I tried to find an application that would allow me
> > to
> > capture video with the phone and 'stream' it over my GPRS connection back
> > to
> > HQ. I work in the fire service and to be able to do this at incidents
> > would
> > be very useful. We have a GPRS allowance of 60M but to be honest it would
> > be
> > useful almost whatever the price.
> >
> > I'd have thought journalists would bite your hands off for such an app
> > too.
> >
> > I was told that the infrastructure in the 2003 phone prevented such an app
> > being produced. Does anyone know whether Mobile 2005 would allow such an
> > app
> > to be produced - or even whether there was one available?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


Posted by James 'jlowap' on October 4, 2005, 9:05 am
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why not just e-mail the video?

James

> With Mobile 2003 & SE, I tried to find an application that would allow me
to
> capture video with the phone and 'stream' it over my GPRS connection back
to
> HQ. I work in the fire service and to be able to do this at incidents
would
> be very useful. We have a GPRS allowance of 60M but to be honest it would
be
> useful almost whatever the price.
>
> I'd have thought journalists would bite your hands off for such an app
too.
>
> I was told that the infrastructure in the 2003 phone prevented such an app
> being produced. Does anyone know whether Mobile 2005 would allow such an
app
> to be produced - or even whether there was one available?
>
>
>




Posted by Eric Baines on October 4, 2005, 4:27 am
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Several reasons really.

I work in the emergency services, so I want to be able to send pictures that
show how things are now, rather than how they were a few minutes ago. If I
take a 1 minute video, transfer it, and then watch from the beginning, it is
historic not current.

I would also like a degree of interactivity. So HQ could direct them to zoom
in on something (move closer), move to a different position, pan over to
something etc - but only if it is live action.

It is a bit like the use of video phones on TV news reports. The quality may
be low, but that is acceptable because the need is for up to date,
interactive photography.

At the moment we have one high definition camera on a height vehicle that
cost over £20k. It normally gets there about 20 minutes late because it is so
big and unwieldy. But we have 200+ officers and many of them have Smartphones
and they are there within a couple of minutes. The phones seem to have most
of the bits of the jigsaw to enable me to transfer video of the incident back
- but I seem to be unable to do it!

"James 'jlowap'" wrote:

> why not just e-mail the video?
>
> James
>
> > With Mobile 2003 & SE, I tried to find an application that would allow me
> to
> > capture video with the phone and 'stream' it over my GPRS connection back
> to
> > HQ. I work in the fire service and to be able to do this at incidents
> would
> > be very useful. We have a GPRS allowance of 60M but to be honest it would
> be
> > useful almost whatever the price.
> >
> > I'd have thought journalists would bite your hands off for such an app
> too.
> >
> > I was told that the infrastructure in the 2003 phone prevented such an app
> > being produced. Does anyone know whether Mobile 2005 would allow such an
> app
> > to be produced - or even whether there was one available?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


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