I personally haven't tried this but it sounds interesting to be able to use open source applications for streaming and broadcasting live video from smartphones (over 3G or WiFi) onto your website.
Or use your phone as a bluetooth webcam in Mac OS X.
Free and Open Source.
Movino consists of:
* A broadcasting application for Symbian S60 phones
* A broadcasting application for camera phones with J2ME support
* A GUI application and a QuickTime component for Mac OS X
* A video server for Linux
* A web interface based on the Drupal CMS
Philosophy
These applications are available as open source (part GPL, part LGPL licensed). They were originally developed as a course project at Åbo Akademi University. Please do not expect them to automagically grow much beyond their current state, as our primary goals are met at this point and we have limited resources to spend. Continue reading »
Flexibility
The components are built with as little inter-dependencies as possible, since one of the project goals was to avoid targeting a single use case, but instead create fairly flexible tools suitable for a wider range of tasks:
* The phone clients can be used directly with a video server without any OS X computer inbetween.
* The video server can be used without web interface, if you just want to archive the video material.
* The phone client can be used with the OS X components without a dedicated linux based video server.
Do you want to broadcast live video from your phone to your website or blog using Movino, but find the idea of setting up a dedicated server troublesome?
Bambuser AB offers this as a service, free of charge. Visit bambuser.com for details.
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