Hi Andy:
Wasn't the video compressed enough on the 650? Was size the issue
for your recompression or did you just need to have a more
compatible file type? Besides the need for recompression, did
anything stand in the way of just uploading the file to your server
from Mustapha's phone?
Hi everyone,
About an hour ago, I posted an entry on my blog about some of the
technical challenges to video blogging here in Ghana, including
bandwidth and the cost of video cameras. I noted that it might be
possible for Ghanaians to explore smart phones with bluetooth
wireless as a way of getting around the need for video cameras, but
first we'd have to see the growth of smart phones here.
A few minutes later, a local blogger named Mustapha introduced
himself. As we chatted, he saw my Treo 600 phone and he said that he
just got a Treo 650, which has both video and bluetooth. I told him
about my blog, so we decided to see how hard it would be to use the
treo for video blogging here in Ghana. He shot 30 seconds of me
talking about video blogging, and he beamed it to my laptop via
Bluetooth. I then compressed it as two Quicktime files, one 500k and
the other 1.5 megs, then uploaded it via the wi-fi hotspot at the
BusyInternet restaurant. The results can be found here:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/07/smartphonebluet_1.html
It's far from perfect - it looks like I recorded it on a video phone
- but it certainly was easy to do. I'll have to do some research to
see how prevalent smart phones are here in Ghana, because it might
increase the possibility of more Ghanaians getting involved in video
blogging... -andy
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