Windows Mobile Louisville

Qik just cranked out support for some 20+ additional Windows Mobile devices so that you can Qik all your holiday moments.

Also included in this build:

• Ability to utilize external flash memory so that you can Qik longer in disconnected mode or under very poor network conditions.
• Better experience for touch devices through on-screen functions that come up when you tap the screen on the phone.

DEVICES:

Palm:

• Palm Treo 800w
• Palm Treo Pro (alpha support)

Samsung:

• Samsung SGH-i900/i908/ SCH-i910 (Omnia)
• Samsung SGH-i907 (Epix)
• Samsung SGH-i760
• Samsung SGH-i780 (Blackjack3)

HTC-based:

• HTC Touch Pro
• HTC Touch HD
• HTC XV6800
• HTC TyTN
• O2 XDA Trion
• T-Mobile MDA Vario II
• Vodafone 1605 VPA Compact III
• Orange SPV M3100
• Dopod CHT 9000
• Dopod 838 Pro
• DoCoMo HTC Z
• Qtek 9600
• iMate JasJam
• AT&T 8525
• Swisscom XPA v1605
• SoftBank X01HT
• Vodafone PDA 1605
• Vodafone PDA 9600

Amoi:

• AT&T SMT 5700
• Orange SPV E610

Motorola:

• Motorola Q Music 9m

I just want to add an observation that has become more apparent to me lately:  As compared to the iPhone, look at how many WM devices Qik has to develop the app for!  These 20 are only the tip of the WM device iceberg!   Certainly a headache for developers - how can your app reach mass appeal when there are so darned many devices with variants of the operating system and hardware specs?!!  End of rant…

New Video Recording Software Captures Any Web Video, DVD, Video Chat and More in High Quality
 
November 6, 2008 - Applian Technologies announces the release of Replay Video Capture, a high-quality video recorder program for Windows that records any video from any web site, DVD, video chat, or anything else visible on a PC.  Using a high-speed, high-quality MPEG-2 codec, Replay Video Capture records and compresses video fast, resulting in a superior picture quality with no jitters or lost frames. Audio playing from the PC’s speakers or microphone is incorporated into the video as well. Windows Media format video files can also be created by Replay Video Capture.
 
In addition to offering superior quality, Replay Video Capture is easy to use. Customers just click “Record” to begin video capture, after using a convenient “get window” feature that automatically marks a recording region just by moving a mouse over it.  Most embedded web video players can be located in this way. Recording regions can also be set manually to crop or extend the recording area.
 
“Replay Video Capture is the holy grail of PC based video recording products”, said Bill Dettering, CEO of Applian Technologies. “If you can watch it, you can record it. Replay Video Capture will even capture from web sites and formats that have not yet been invented, and the quality is awesome.”
 
Replay Video Capture is just $39.95, and will work on all modern Windows PCs.

While this is a Desktop PC application, it is a great app to use in conjunction with your Windows Mobile device.  Applian makes a variety of media-related apps which allow you to save & convert all sorts of sound and video, much of which you can then enjoy on your device!  You can check out their full library of offerings here.

Kinoma has launched Kinoma Play to unify media browsing, search and playback, making it the first true mobile media browser. Featuring a user interface inspired by the simplicity and beauty of a digital television, Kinoma Play turns any Windows Mobile smartphone into a digital media powerhouse.

With Kinoma Play, smartphones now have digital media capabilities that meet, and sometimes even exceed, what users can do on their personal computers. Kinoma Play goes beyond organizing and playing a user’s video, audio and picture files, by bringing in media from around the Internet through the built-in Kinoma Guide, the most comprehensive catalog of the freshest, most diverse mobile media available.

Kinoma Play provides on-demand access from your phone to an unparalleled range of content:

• Media files – Play the music, video, pictures, panoramas and audio books on your phone
• Media services – Share your Audible.com, Flickr, iDisk, Live365, and YouTube accounts between your phone and computer
• Internet – Explore a terabyte of constantly updated, free streaming podcasts, music, radio stations, web-cams and audio books from thousands of providers including ClearChannel, CNN, NPR, Reuters, SHOUTcast, TUNED.mobi, and SomaFM
• Home PC – Access the gigabytes of music, video and pictures on your home PC from your phone – both on-demand streaming and download

Kinoma Play is $29.99. You can get it here.  The software is compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 and higher.

Kinoma is also introducing Kinoma FreePlay as a free download. Kinoma FreePlay shares the same gorgeous user interface and simplicity of use with Kinoma Play. It is a great MP3 player and photo viewer and provides access to much of the Kinoma Guide including Audible.com, Flickr, Live365, Reuters, SHOUTcast, YouTube, and thousands of streaming podcasts.

Applian Technologies and All Alex Inc announce the release of WM Capture, a unique, high-performance video recorder program for Windows that records any video playing on a PC with near-perfect quality.  WM Capture creates unprotected video files from any region of the screen in real time, as the video is playing. Using a high-speed, high-quality MPEG-2 codec, WM Capture can record and compress video fast, resulting in a superior picture quality. Audio playing from the PC’s speakers is incorporated into the video as well. Windows Media format video files can also be created by the software.
 
In addition to offering superior quality, WM Capture has a convenient “get window” feature that automatically marks a recording region just by moving a mouse over it.  Most web page embedded video players can be located in this way. Recording regions can also be set manually to crop or extend the recording area.
 
Alex Urich, the developer, also develops medical imaging software.  Mr. Urich explains, “WM Capture is the first program of its kind to offer all this recording capability for less than $100.  WM Capture brings to the consumer a type of technology that was only available for professional applications. Now everyone can capture any moving image on screen and watch it with perfect clarity.”
 
Screen capture for personal use – which is 100% legal – has to-date been limited by CPU speed and inferior capturing technology. Using WM Capture, the company claims the difference between a screen captured video and the original is negligible.
 
WM Capture is just $39.95, and will work on all modern Windows PCs.  To learn more, visit here.

Applian Technologies and All Alex Inc announces the release of WM Recorder 12.1, the first streaming video recorder that can make exact digital copies of internet video and audio in all the popular formats, including Flash™, Windows Media™, Real Media™, MPEG™ and Quicktime™ streams.  WM Recorder 12.1 records all these streams automatically as they are played, and the included WM Converter lets customers convert videos to AVI, iPod/iPhone, WMV and other popular formats.
 
According to the program’s developer, Alex Urich, WM Recorder 12.1 is the easiest, most powerful way to record streaming video.   “We are really excited about WM Recorder 12.1.  Not only does WM Recorder support all the popular formats and protocols, it can do it extremely fast. Plus, it also converts.” 
 
In addition to recording capability, WM Recorder 12.1 comes with WM Converter built-in. Customers can convert to and from all the popular formats including Flash, WMV, MP3, MP4 and more.   WM Converter comes as a free 15 day trial with the purchase of WM Recorder; the full version of WM Converter is available with the purchase of the WM Recorder Bonus Bundle.
 
WM Recorder will work on all Windows PCs.  To learn more visit here.  

In previous discussions about viewing YouTube videos, we have mentioned TCPMP and Flash Bundle as a viable solution as well as the the HTC Streaming Media application.  These have been workarounds, but not universal, and not consistent (for example, YouTube frequently changes the code so the Flash Bundle has to be updated).

CorePlayer Mobile is actually the “big brother” to the free TCPMP (which actually stands for The Core Pocket Media Player).  The paid version ($24.95) is much more robust, and along with other things, it plays YouTube videos natively. 

The only downside is there’s no trial version, so you’d have to just take the plunge and drop 25 bucks for it.  Just know that it is the TCPMP application on steroids, so if you’ve tried the free version and like it, you should love CorePlayer Mobile for all your video viewing needs.

It looks like HTC is finally admitting, and addressing, the poor video drivers in devices such as the Tilt, the Touch and the Mogul.  They say that the video acceleration will be supported in the future, and will be included in software upgrades for current devices.  Could this be the reason for the delay of the updated ROM for the Mogul?!

No timeframe has been given for this supposed update.  Here is a quote from HTC: (more…)