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Monday, January 14th, 2008 – running time 06:11
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?

Highlights
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" Point one consistent with Newbury port from the -- on the net -- it's a good -- dot com are the 70% less than the competition plus -- includes free hosting with a website over a free blog please email and much more plus error code system one SYS one when you check out in the -- an additional 10% on in New York. Some restrictions apply see decide the details -- before the Internet and godaddy.com. Place you can read over 75000. Titles online including a lot of HD dvd and Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all the -- is happening just one business day. That puts plans start from 499 as a new member you need to know -- two week free trial membership you check it out at www. Netflix dot com. Slash system that's SY ST yeah yeah. Okay it's just an episode 33 I'm Patrick Norton we are fresh we'll actually we are damaged goods. Back from in other fine consumer electronics show CS 2000 and -- where there was more stuff that you probably shake several sticks that it."

" Interconnect here that everything here that is for the rest of broadcasting this line quality and hit the stop broadcasting them for a second. And one of the cool says -- on CS 2008. -- Flat panel television or or actually the incredible way of high dollar in burgers or even the components available to some pretty nifty things video robots. Excellent cool since we saw was live broadcasting this is not really new thing to the web not -- DIY -- broadcasting. But who's really cool about this you saw Robert Scoble of all people the Scoble either himself wandering around the Nokia N 95 camera. And actually doing live broadcast from the show floor from events around Las Vegas possibly while playing blackjack. That concept is actually really enlist the services called quick dot com Q -- Kate. Dot com. Now would you if you basically sign up you excepted they download. A application yourself -- you click on right now the last -- connect. The cell phone -- to the Internet to broadcast out people the other thing doesn't it saves video -- makes it available for people who view offline. The other thing it does. If folks are watching -- gives you access on the back of the cellphone into the chat messages they're typing in morning -- you broadcast which is really interesting idea of having an open feedback loop. Live over your cell phone anywhere you go if you have network connectivity. Now the downside right now -- dot com is that it only works on Nokia phones it's a pretty long list of Nokia phones put it on a Nokia phone you were bidding the technical terms of so well kids ask your parents not if they're kind of uptight about things like that. Was really cool about this is right now it's going over medium Motorola's music wireless connection here. -- is he footprint from my cell provider in this case so you're probably at this point getting an idea what. We're gonna talk about -- dot TV is free application you can sign and you do a live broadcast now you don't need any medium of them or notebook to do this. All you really need."

" Make this work is a camera whether the built in one like the -- had cameras notebook or built in -- any notebook you have. Or you know what on the connects over USB or firewire cheap netcam do because the resolution of this video is real spectacular. Next thing you need is an Internet connection. We're using any media motive here because we want to make this wireless and walk around of those you can literally broadcast video between a lot of people. Simultaneously. For no money now there's other services out there that provides similar features stick him as one of them -- I think decades and dot com. Over going to that show notes but history was one of the first one we found out about -- super simple setup you sign up for an account. You open up the broadcast to look at putting in some metadata information on the website they don't even have to do that and get URL in our case if you stream that TV. Slash system SYS TEM and -- synchronicity alliance. This is a look amazing absolutely not do you millions of dollars of podcast equipment he of the tower that -- about the satellite. Absolutely not. But if you do something like a -- christening. The kid's soccer game media lighting something on fire in the backyard your friends back in Oklahoma or Jersey. It area. You can do it you can do -- lives in you do it really easy so there's a really fast system for a -- I was a fun one. The -- live broadcast need to get a Nokia camera definitely check out quick -- dot com if not to get eastern that TV got -- suggestions. Farm out to us. Oh you're probably saying to you guys should believe year old server for system. Well the truth is is really nice features using somebody else's network like this. The main one is -- with its really difficult to sustain them with a stream media office server what you have to have a huge pipe and the dollars to pay for. If you're using stickam or you stream TV your quick dot com one of the other services and a few more become an out over the next months and days and years. Well you know want you to use their content delivery network so it goes from view to a central server to the array of server scattered around the planet. And they deal with the bandwidth issues in the delivery you. Cool stuff really free really easy we got some serious. Network wiring coming up next week talking about another remote project as one might have well. We'll tell you about it that involves amplifiers. Cell phone connections and sharing Internet while moving fast. Or it could be solar charging differently what you gonna come back. Provision you're dot com forward slash system SYS TN is the name of the website system that revision3.com. Is that email address we look forward to seeing you next week. If everybody yeah."

" Look bush and drive mode makes it never comes close but just consider."

" Point one consistent with Newbury port from the -- on the net -- it's a good -- dot com are the 70% less than the competition plus -- includes free hosting with a website over a free blog please email and much more plus error code system one SYS one when you check out in the -- an additional 10% on in New York. Some restrictions apply see decide the details -- before the Internet and godaddy.com. Place you can read over 75000. Titles online including a lot of HD dvd and Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all the -- is happening just one business day. That puts plans start from 499 as a new member you need to know -- two week free trial membership you check it out at www. Netflix dot com. Slash system that's SY ST yeah yeah. Okay it's just an episode 33 I'm Patrick Norton we are fresh we'll actually we are damaged goods. Back from in other fine consumer electronics show CS 2000 and -- where there was more stuff that you probably shake several sticks that it."

" Interconnect here that everything here that is for the rest of broadcasting this line quality and hit the stop broadcasting them for a second. And one of the cool says -- on CS 2008. -- Flat panel television or or actually the incredible way of high dollar in burgers or even the components available to some pretty nifty things video robots. Excellent cool since we saw was live broadcasting this is not really new thing to the web not -- DIY -- broadcasting. But who's really cool about this you saw Robert Scoble of all people the Scoble either himself wandering around the Nokia N 95 camera. And actually doing live broadcast from the show floor from events around Las Vegas possibly while playing blackjack. That concept is actually really enlist the services called quick dot com Q -- Kate. Dot com. Now would you if you basically sign up you excepted they download. A application yourself -- you click on right now the last -- connect. The cell phone -- to the Internet to broadcast out people the other thing doesn't it saves video -- makes it available for people who view offline. The other thing it does. If folks are watching -- gives you access on the back of the cellphone into the chat messages they're typing in morning -- you broadcast which is really interesting idea of having an open feedback loop. Live over your cell phone anywhere you go if you have network connectivity. Now the downside right now -- dot com is that it only works on Nokia phones it's a pretty long list of Nokia phones put it on a Nokia phone you were bidding the technical terms of so well kids ask your parents not if they're kind of uptight about things like that. Was really cool about this is right now it's going over medium Motorola's music wireless connection here. -- is he footprint from my cell provider in this case so you're probably at this point getting an idea what. We're gonna talk about -- dot TV is free application you can sign and you do a live broadcast now you don't need any medium of them or notebook to do this. All you really need."

" Make this work is a camera whether the built in one like the -- had cameras notebook or built in -- any notebook you have. Or you know what on the connects over USB or firewire cheap netcam do because the resolution of this video is real spectacular. Next thing you need is an Internet connection. We're using any media motive here because we want to make this wireless and walk around of those you can literally broadcast video between a lot of people. Simultaneously. For no money now there's other services out there that provides similar features stick him as one of them -- I think decades and dot com. Over going to that show notes but history was one of the first one we found out about -- super simple setup you sign up for an account. You open up the broadcast to look at putting in some metadata information on the website they don't even have to do that and get URL in our case if you stream that TV. Slash system SYS TEM and -- synchronicity alliance. This is a look amazing absolutely not do you millions of dollars of podcast equipment he of the tower that -- about the satellite. Absolutely not. But if you do something like a -- christening. The kid's soccer game media lighting something on fire in the backyard your friends back in Oklahoma or Jersey. It area. You can do it you can do -- lives in you do it really easy so there's a really fast system for a -- I was a fun one. The -- live broadcast need to get a Nokia camera definitely check out quick -- dot com if not to get eastern that TV got -- suggestions. Farm out to us. Oh you're probably saying to you guys should believe year old server for system. Well the truth is is really nice features using somebody else's network like this. The main one is -- with its really difficult to sustain them with a stream media office server what you have to have a huge pipe and the dollars to pay for. If you're using stickam or you stream TV your quick dot com one of the other services and a few more become an out over the next months and days and years. Well you know want you to use their content delivery network so it goes from view to a central server to the array of server scattered around the planet. And they deal with the bandwidth issues in the delivery you. Cool stuff really free really easy we got some serious. Network wiring coming up next week talking about another remote project as one might have well. We'll tell you about it that involves amplifiers. Cell phone connections and sharing Internet while moving fast. Or it could be solar charging differently what you gonna come back. Provision you're dot com forward slash system SYS TN is the name of the website system that revision3.com. Is that email address we look forward to seeing you next week. If everybody yeah."

" Look bush and drive mode makes it never comes close but just consider."

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Started discussion: January 14, 2008 @ 4:58pm GMT

Episode 33 [Discussion]

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.

hedg12
about 1 year ago

Looks cool to me.

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.)
Maynza
about 1 year ago
6 minutes long with 2 minutes of intro/outro. :/ Why even bother.
yalborap
about 1 year ago
In reply to Maynza:
6 minutes long with 2 minutes of intro/outro. :/ Why even bother.


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....
blofeld07
about 1 year ago
The nokia stuff was nutty. I wish apple was as open as nokia seems to be.
ezxen
about 1 year ago
Live systym broadcasting would be awesome
Sphinxer
about 1 year ago
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%.
echorom43
about 1 year ago

Check out PocketCaster for Windows Mobile devices..

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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