Mobile Video Streaming Project

I just wanted to open up something I have been working on in on the side and that is taking the content from Revision 3 and converting it to mobile phones for streaming play back. I’m now opening this up to the public to test and provide feedback. Over the past few months I have been doing a lot of testing and getting a lot of great feedback on mobile streaming.

So now I feel like I can share some of my work to the public and Revision 3 is a prefect site that offers great shows for both web and iPod playback. I felt that they were missing a mobile version of their site so decided to tackle that project which fit right into the things I was working on.

I would love to get your feedback on how the system works for you and any tweaks or suggestions you have that I could implement. Keep in mind I’m not doing this for people who are on slow mobile networks because after a lot of testing I found that the video quality is so bad on those slow networks that its not worth bringing such quality content to the phone. Please don’t get me wrong I really made an effort to see if things could work but after much disappointment’s of video quality I decided to not work with the slower networks and focus my efforts on 3g type networks. The choice was made really clear to me after seeing a 5 frame per second video that looks like a bunch of square blocks and you could barely make out the video and sound. I’m sure you guys would agree with my choice.

When playing around with this site and watching videos I would first recommend that you go to the test my phone page and test which video types playback on your phone. This page was built to give you a good idea of what your phone can play and which format looks and sounds better on your hand set. Keep in mind not all phones can play all formats which is normal and you might just be stuck with H2.63 and AMR.

point your phones browser to : http://mvstreamer.mobi

Please use the contact page to provide any feedback or suggestions.

I’m also looking for donations such as server bandwidth,servers , php/perl programming or any financial help since this whole project (servers and bandwidth) currently comes out of my pocket.

Pocket PC (windows mobile users) , Windows Media Player on the PPC doesn’t stream 3gp, so you will need to install Platform4 Player.

One last thing, Help support Revision 3 as well since they seem to be a great group of people also pushing to do something different on the net.

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