Fun with Moho and video cell phones
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 3:38 am
I found a new fun use for Moho, creating animations for video cell phones.
I have figured this out on my own, so I might not have all the details just right, but...
It looks like these phones use a media file format called 3GPP2. Now Moho does not output this format, but you can output a Quicktime file and then use Quicktime Pro to convert to 3GPP2.
There seems to be different flavors of 3GPP2 (just like AVI and Quicktime). My phone seems to need the MPEG 4 codec. Also Quicktime Pro gives the options of 176x144, 128x96, 96x80 or pass through dimensions. My phone looks like it outputs 176x144 so that is the size I used.
Anyways I was able to make a short cartoon, format it in 3GPP2 and send it to my phone. For some reason, I could not just mail it to my phone from my Mac mail application. when it got to the phone, it downloaded, but then the phone said the attachment type was unknown.
However, Verizon (my provider) provides a picture website for customers with picture phones, www.vzwpix.com, If I log in there and upload my video to the website, then have the message sent from the website to my phone, it works!
There is something satisfying about being able to carry a Moho animation around on my cell phone to show my friends.
For the test cartoon, I limited its run time to 15 seconds because that is the maximum video length that my phone will record on its own. I am not sure yet if I can send a longer cartoon, and I have not yet tried a soundtrack. Hopefully the length of the cartoon is only limited by the amount of memory available in the phone.
Stephen
I have figured this out on my own, so I might not have all the details just right, but...
It looks like these phones use a media file format called 3GPP2. Now Moho does not output this format, but you can output a Quicktime file and then use Quicktime Pro to convert to 3GPP2.
There seems to be different flavors of 3GPP2 (just like AVI and Quicktime). My phone seems to need the MPEG 4 codec. Also Quicktime Pro gives the options of 176x144, 128x96, 96x80 or pass through dimensions. My phone looks like it outputs 176x144 so that is the size I used.
Anyways I was able to make a short cartoon, format it in 3GPP2 and send it to my phone. For some reason, I could not just mail it to my phone from my Mac mail application. when it got to the phone, it downloaded, but then the phone said the attachment type was unknown.
However, Verizon (my provider) provides a picture website for customers with picture phones, www.vzwpix.com, If I log in there and upload my video to the website, then have the message sent from the website to my phone, it works!
There is something satisfying about being able to carry a Moho animation around on my cell phone to show my friends.
For the test cartoon, I limited its run time to 15 seconds because that is the maximum video length that my phone will record on its own. I am not sure yet if I can send a longer cartoon, and I have not yet tried a soundtrack. Hopefully the length of the cartoon is only limited by the amount of memory available in the phone.
Stephen