[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Video Streaming?

[Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez]

Hi there. Jorge from Argentina with a question here.

A very nice project was thrown onto us, which is some sort of  ¨mobile soap
opera¨ thing, where the user takes decisions at the end of each clip, taking
the story in different directions each time.

While not strictly a game, it sure requires some coding to make it work.
This project is for the mexican market, where the handsets are not totally
top notch (s40v2 is still doing great), so that is kind of a problem. 3G,
which would make this project quite trivial, is nowhere to be seen.

So far, we have seen there are two alternatives:

Downloading: downloading each "movisode" at a time. Some phones will lack
the disk space and some others will even refuse to download files to the
phone´s main file system, which is a problem

Streaming: won´t run on a great deal of handsets, or do so, but with a
sickening framerate. Considering it will be running mainly in Telcel, this
is pretty much a worst case scenario.

Does anyone know of a solution, commercial or not, to this problem? We´ve
been asked to solve this preferably from within an application with a nice
GUI, so that the user will never see the strings that run the show, and thus
break the fantasy.

Thanks,

Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez
Blue River S.A. - TEL. +54 (11) 4857-9340 - MOV. +54 (911) 6167-5412
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