Live video broadcasts from a cell phone? On the flight home from CES 2008 we realized watching Robert Scoble walking and streaming live video with Qik was way cool... and something we wanted to play with on Systm.
It's pretty cool to watch somebody streaming video (and audio) live from a cell phone over the cell phone's network to an audience that can ping questions back thru the cell phone's monitor.
That's what we saw Robert Scoble, of Scobleizer fame, doing down at CES.
Unfortunately, it turns out the secret ingredient for live video broadcasts from his cell phone is Qik. It works great, but it won't work with any of the cell phones we own. It's a Nokia and Nokia only kind of deal.
So to hold us over until we can a) dump either the resident Blackberry Pearl, iPhone or Cingular 2125 for something like Scoble's Nokia N95 we set up a live broadcasting notebook.
OK, a notebook and camera isn't nearly as slick (or as portable) as using a cell phone to broadcast video over the net... but it's a lot easier to set up.
Seriously:
1) Get a remote connection to the net: we used our EVDO modem, since it's the most portable net connection we have.
2) Get a live streaming video account from Ustream.TV, Stickam, or one of the umpteen competitors.
3) Connect your camera, whether it's the camera built into your Macbook, or a USB or Firewire video camera.
4) Fire up the stream, and let the folks back East see that soccer game, Bat Mizvah, birthday or, hey, the annual burning of the log in your backyard.
Next week we'll be setting up our Wireless Access Truck: how about an open WAP that can do 100 mph?
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Posted by echorom43 on 02/18/2008 at 06:02:05 am in Systm
I came across pocketcaster about a week ago, www.comvu.com. Runs on windows mobile devices. I've been playing with it an it works decently. I haven't seen Scobel's streamcast so I don't know how is compares. I am running pocketcaster on a Motorola Q9h (Q9 Global from AT&T). When I did my broadcasts, I had 3G service - was able to output at 250+ kbps - resulted in a frame rate in the 5-7 fps. So that is not great video but hell my wife thought is was pretty cool watching my daughter at ice skating lessons. If this tech takes off the performance will only get better...
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Posted by Sphinxer on 01/19/2008 at 01:03:13 pm in Systm
To be honest, when I watched this episode I went back to double check that I hadn't accidentally downloaded a episode of Tekzilla daily.
The low-tech content of this episode, is really the sort of stuff we've come to expect from Tekzilla, and as somebody already pointed out the episode was exceptionally short.
Actually the issue with short episodes have been going on for a few weeks now, and I wonder if it's just being posted for the sake of having a weekly show. If you had taken the last 3 episodes and released them as one Systm episode, it would have been a decent 25-35 minutes.
By all means, don't fill a show with crap just to make it longer, but if there isn't enough content to make more than 4 minutes of show, then why not skip the show this week and release a longer show every 2-3 weeks instead.
Also, when are we going to see Dave Randolph again? He decreases the entropy of the show by about 200%.
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Posted by ezxen on 01/15/2008 at 03:40:57 pm in Systm
Live systym broadcasting would be awesome
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Posted by blofeld07 on 01/15/2008 at 04:18:57 am in Systm
The nokia stuff was nutty. I wish apple was as open as nokia seems to be.
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Posted by yalborap on 01/14/2008 at 11:26:11 pm in Systm
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Because it's cool?
Just watched it. Awesome concept, and now I want to tinker with it myself. Wonder if I can find a camera that'll work....
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Posted by Maynza on 01/14/2008 at 08:09:14 pm in Systm
6 minutes long with 2 minutes of intro/outro. :/ Why even bother.
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Posted by hedg12 on 01/14/2008 at 07:19:25 pm in Systm
Too bad I don't have a Nokia cell.
I like the idea of advertising other podcasts at the end, too. I love finding new ones to watch. (Already knew about Make's, podcast, just like the idea of the ad.)
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Posted by chuckles on 01/14/2008 at 04:58:23 pm in Systm
Live video broadcasts from a cell phone? On the flight home from CES 2008 we realized watching Robert Scoble walking and streaming live video with Qik was way cool... and something we wanted to play with on Systm.
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