Guest James Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 Says: Jian Shuo Wang What if we combine Webcam, Windows Media Technology, GPRS and a SmartPhone together? Here is the result: Video of my webcam is displayed on my phone in real time. There is serveral seconds delay between the encoder and the player. I broadcasted the scene of my cubicle and use a smart phone to view it, in video, at real time. I can pull my mobile phone and see what is going on, no matter where I am, on bus, in Metro, at airport, in Beijing or in Hainan.... Technology Used The Windows Media Encoder pushes the video stream from inside the firewall onto a Windows Media Server on public network. The SmartPhone Dopod 515 displays video using its Windows Media Player via GPRS. Specification in This Experiment Webcam: ICatch (VI) PC Camera (Driver) (Thanks for Yumin) Windows Median Encoder: Version: 9.00.00.2980 (Download) Windows Media Server: Included Windows 2003 Server SmartPhone: Dopod 515 Connection: GPRS via China Telecom Windows Media on Air Firstly, read this article Real-Time Stream Broadcasting Cookbook and setup your Real-Time Stream Broadcasting station. The result is, you can view your webcam from any other computer from the public. Secondly, visit the URL in your smartphone use your Windows Media Player. The Windows Media Play should behaves the same as the desktop Windows. The steps seem straightforward. Go Accross the Firewall The first problem in this experient is, the webcam is within the firewall and I have no permission to configure to the firewall. So I need to let users outside the firewall be able to see the video inside. The solution is to find a Windows Media Server on the public website. The Windows Media Encoder can PUSH the video to a publishing point at Windows Media Server. The HTTP connection is initiated by the encoder, so it can go out of the proxy. The client can directly access the Windows Media Server. We are at Digital Age I am so excited that my heart beat very fast after I see the video on my SmartPhone. It means a big impact to people's life. This morning, I suddenly found I can turn Wendy's phone into a radio. Just enter http://www.stv.sh.cn/990.asx and it plays the current East Radio Station's program. Then enter http://www.stv.sh.cn/finance.asx, the mobile became a TV set - the real time TV program appeared on the mobile... Really cool! Isn't it? Source:- here
Guest Richie M Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 i was just wondering why if this works he has used a fake picture :?
Guest dA_kBAz Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 A fake picture? Why do you say that? Because the image on the screen isn't equal to the image in the phone? As the article mentions, video is displayed with several minutes of delay.
Guest londonlad Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 microsoft potrait could already do this, but its the other way round that everyone's been asking for - phone cam to computer
Guest Pondrew Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 I don't want to doubt you jlowap but I've got doubts myself. Is that the camera on your phone showing on the screen? Because it looks the wrong shape to be a dopod. Looks like you're holding a digital camera... or something! I'm just trying to get my head around the camera's being used and what's transmitting what...
Guest therealmaninblack Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 Pondrew Of course its a digital camera, how do you think he got a photo of his phone and computer? If you look close you can see his hand just too one side with his phone in. Be really cool if it could work the other way round- phone to pc
Guest James Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 it took me a while to work out if it was real when i first saw it but it real if you ask me.. just think about what would be showing what :) and you will soon get it.. Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest Pondrew Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 Ok, now I look closer I think I can see the dopod infront of the digital camera. The dimensions just seemed off. All sounds feasible anyway so you'll hear no more doubts from me.
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