{"id":1198,"date":"2008-12-06T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2008-12-06T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T16:30:55","slug":"some-qik-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/06\/some-qik-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Some Qik thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the December foss.my meetup, something I haven&#8217;t been to in a while. I had told Aizat that I&#8217;d attempt to record the session, but when push came to shove, I couldn&#8217;t find the AC adapter for my video camera!<\/p>\n<p>With less than an hour to spare, I decided to give <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/\">Qik<\/a> a try. It seemed to work in my initial testing, so I headed to the location and decided to give it a twirl.<\/p>\n<p><b>Executive summary?<\/b> It just worked. AeU had a good enough WiFi connection, and broadcasting Mohan speak live, just worked.<\/p>\n<p><b>The MyOSS Meetup<\/b><br \/>\nMohan talked to us about oAuth. His slides are online &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/fossmy\/mohanraj-securing-your-web-api-with-oauth-presentation\/\">Mohanraj &#8211; Securing Your Web Api With OAuth<\/a>. If you want to grab the video, don&#8217;t hesitate to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/649607\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/649647\">Part 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/video\/649697\">Part 3<\/a>. Note that there are also comments from the live chat feature &#8211; very cool.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it in 3 parts? I received three phone calls during that one hour session, and everytime the phone rang, and I cancelled the call, it would end up in me having to restart the streaming. Oh woe!<\/p>\n<p>Live chat? Allowed a few others to join in on a myoss meetup, without actually being there&#8230; There might have been five people chatting, with two actually being in the room ;)<\/p>\n<p><b>My initial thoughts on Qik<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its dead easy to setup. I broadcast video now at <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/byte\">my Qik account<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It allows export to .3gp (which I presume will work in real player on my Nokia), and mp4 (which may work on an iPod?). It doesn&#8217;t do .ogg, but neither does anything you can find hardware for commonly&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t seem to playback in my phone, in browser (with OperaMini or even the standard Series 60 browser). It also looks like playback in the iPhone doesn&#8217;t work. I understand kyte.tv fixes that (but its woefully slow in Malaysia, so a waste of my time)<\/li>\n<li>It seems to be pretty choppy on my UMTS connection. Bad Maxis&#8230; So there&#8217;s lots of buffering, before<\/li>\n<li>When it buffers, it uses the <b>phone memory<\/b>, instead of the memory on the memory card&#8230; this means that with about 100+MB free on the e71, you run out of memory after about 10 minutes of video&#8230; and then it kind of hangs the phone (typical of S60 devices). It involved rebooting my phone once <\/li>\n<li>The moment the connection resumes to qik.com though, everything buffered gets uploaded in an instant. Great!<\/li>\n<li>1 hour of video knocked 2 bars off my battery, while using WiFi<\/li>\n<li>Receiving phone calls, breaks video streaming. This is annoying. Continue recording, please!<\/li>\n<li>There seems to be no way to concatenate videos together. It would be wise, considering the problem above, where you actually get phone calls&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>It integrates with Twitter. So those following me there, or on FriendFeed can know when I&#8217;m broadcasting something live. Smart.<\/li>\n<li>There is mapping capabilities on the website&#8230; but it didn&#8217;t seem to integrate with the GPS in the phone. Why? Maybe I need to look harder<\/li>\n<li>It looks like it integrates well with iTunes&#8230; so this is a great tool for video bloggers and video podcasters&#8230; with enough adoption, I see this as being crowd-sourced <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JenniCam\">JenniCAM<\/a>&#8230; a way for the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/15\/define-camwhore\">camwhores<\/a> to become videowhores!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There seems to be a little trend of Qik users now&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/angch\">han<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/aizatto\">aizat<\/a> are broadcasting BarCampJB live on Qik. 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