[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Video Streaming?

[Juan Antonio]

Hi,
I was in Mexico last month, and Mexican market has not good data rates 
yet. So, I understand your concern, you have a great goal to face.

My advice is to use the second option. I know other companies in Mexico 
using this 'streaming' option with good results. And I dont like the 
first one, download each "movisode" at a time will give you headache.

Good luck
Juan Antonio Muñoz-Gallego

Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez wrote:

> 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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