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Friday, July 13, 2007
blueapple.mobi, converts videos on-the-fly
blueapple.mobi is an interesting new free service that converts and streams videos found on Internet sites on-the-fly (and this means both scaling and format conversion) so that mobile phones can show the videos.
This requires quite some horse-power on the service side, but according to Jay Borges at XinLab (that provides the service) blueapple can handle 1000s of simultaneous conversions, which is quite impressive.
Note that it's a .mobi site. I tested it on a basic featurephone and it converted the pages nicely to the smaller format.
As there's no operator involvement the transfer of the videos over the mobile network will cost, unless you have a flat rate subscription.
Contact Scott Miller (scott blueapple.mobi ) for more info.
This requires quite some horse-power on the service side, but according to Jay Borges at XinLab (that provides the service) blueapple can handle 1000s of simultaneous conversions, which is quite impressive.
Note that it's a .mobi site. I tested it on a basic featurephone and it converted the pages nicely to the smaller format.
As there's no operator involvement the transfer of the videos over the mobile network will cost, unless you have a flat rate subscription.
Contact Scott Miller (scott
