Thread: Video Center for Maemo (was Video Center)
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2007-09-11 , 04:48
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Originally Posted by HeebieJeebie View Post
And secondly this is a relatively mature Nokia app developed by Nokia engineers that's already been fully implemented on the S60 platform.
Wrong. This is NOT the same application that's on the S60 platform and this one was probably done by an entirely DIFFERENT set of developers than the S60 Podcast client team.
I know. I use the S60 v3 podcast client on a daily basis for both audio and video podcasts. It's pretty damn rock solid even though it could stand a few minor "tweaks" like an "Update All" function instead of having to select all and then update.
This thing is so beta it even says on the website.

Originally Posted by HeebieJeebie View Post
@ iball - I certainly agree that boosting codec support would help greatly. But I'm not so concerned with WMV as I am MPEG-4 part 14 since that's the native format you find a huge percentage of video podcasts encoded in these days. I don't know how significantly licensing these formats would raise the price of the NIT, but it would definitely be worth it to make it more attractive to a larger audience IMO.
While that is very, very true, MPEG-4 p14 support is trivial to add to the current video center application when compared to licensing and coding in WMV support.
Not only that, I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia's working harder on the WMV support since that is what their new music store launching NEXT MONTH will be using. Of course, they'll probably do a proper cost-benefit analysis on the WMV licensing and find that it does NOT benefit them monetarily now to get 'er done for the N800 due to the low installed userbase so hopefully they will fix MPEG-4 p14 video streaming support.
Nokia's a business first and to them it's all about the dolla' dolla' bill, yo.
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