Originally Posted by Bird

I have been looking at this for a long long time...I have only run across 2 maybe 3 apps that can do something like this.

The first place was I ever heard of such technology was 2004 Vegas show where CCMEDIA Networks had came up with Camsense. I just checked out Camsense today and it is still written in WML witch means it will not show up on an iPhone. The iPhone does not support WML nor does it support the Java app.

At the same show there was another company with a Java app solution but I forget their name. I think it was mobilestreamingsolutions.com I talked to a guy named to Jay.

A few years ago I ran across another site doing some Cam stuff, I actually helped put it together. What it did was it used plain xhtml-mp and would use multiple frames shots from vids and reload the page every 2 seconds to refresh the image. It gave it an animated gif effect. It was really weak but one of the first of its kind.

I still want to build something like this, but there are some major problems with the current devices.

No USA phones have front facing camera.
No devices that I know of can play embedded video in the page without hacking and adding plugins.

I know in 2003 Japan NTTDoCoMo was able to do this but it was only 1-on-1 as an in-call process. Much like push to talk. Currently I know AT&T has Video Sharing where you are in a call and with other video share phones you can take a short n quick video and send it during the call.

I think I may start looking in to building this again. Only if I can get the video to play in place on a embedded page then all I would have to do is add some AJAX chat and way we go.

Right now I know that only Nokia has the ability to Play video through a flash player. But I can not seem to get it to work with the Gordon.js on iphones, droids or other web kit devices. I'll be back later to share my findings.