iPhone/iPod Touch Thread

[Misfit]

Now this is blinding http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index ... 458471BD52 Hopefully if this is on the iPad it will sort out just buying the 16 gig one

Interesting. Will have to give that a go.

[Deckard]

Aye

People's jaw drops when I stream an MKV movie over 3G. Unbelievable how everything works so efficiently.

from their own forum

[WiteWulf]

Now this is blinding http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index ... 458471BD52 Hopefully if this is on the iPad it will sort out just buying the 16 gig one

That is fucking sweet....very impressive bit of kit!

However...there's a case of YMMV here: I was just watching a live-transcoded episode of The Wombles on my iPhone and my Mac Pro (8x 2.26GHz Xeon) and ffmpeg was using 352% CPU :-)

[Deckard]

Aye but the whole point its an away from home/computer solution so almost not bothered by the cpu usage at the other end.

[WiteWulf]

Oh, I realise that, just saying you may need a meaty machine at home to do the on the fly conversion.

Been playing with this for a few minutes and I'm *very* impressed, already had a mate on the other end of a 3G connection streaming The Wombles off my machine at Uni. It's so damn simple to use and the results are unbelievably good quality.

[Misfit]

Oh, I realise that, just saying you may need a meaty machine at home to do the on the fly conversion.

Been playing with this for a few minutes and I'm *very* impressed, already had a mate on the other end of a 3G connection streaming The Wombles off my machine at Uni. It's so damn simple to use and the results are unbelievably good quality.

Hmm, my celeron based Windows Home Server may not like this much then!

[WiteWulf]

Curious: live transcoding an SD format episode of The Wire produces a perfect image on the iPhone and uses just under 400% CPU but live transcoding an HD episode of Firefly produces a heavily macroblocked stream and, strangely, uses just under 200% CPU.

SD content would appear to fare best for live conversion, it would appear. Of course off-line conversion will be best of all; anything you already have in iPod/iPhone format should stream natively with no need for conversion.

[Deckard]

Bring on the iPad version I say

[WiteWulf]

Definitely, it'll be interesting to see how well it runs at the higher resolution. I doubt it'll look to brill over 3G but on WiFi it'll be sweet.

[Deckard]

My flickr app has just updated saying "for 3.2"

[Deckard]

Now this looks interesting http://gizmodo.com/5491471/when-iphone- ... -they-dont Sword and Sourcery EP

[Deckard]

This could be huge as you just bump to pay

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http://www.9to5mac.com/node/15022

[Misfit]

Now this looks interesting http://gizmodo.com/5491471/when-iphone- ... -they-dont Sword and Sourcery EP

Not sure the pixel art works for me. It does look atmospheric. The Sounds/music is pretty cool.

Bit more about it here including a demo of the fighting, which is done in portrait mode...

http://toucharcade.com/2010/03/11/gdc-2 ... en-at-gdc/

[Deckard]

Some new modes for Tilt
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[ThetaReactor]

Forgive me if this sounds horribly lazy and/or noobish, but:

My phone contract is up, and I'm seriously considering this iPhone thing. Is it pretty much assured that we'll be seeing new hardware come June? I can wait that long if it means getting the shiny new stuff, or at the very least a super-cheap 3GS as the 'wankers scramble to upgrade...