{"id":296945,"date":"2010-02-09T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=97660"},"modified":"2010-02-09T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:00:52","slug":"gips-wants-iphone-to-video-conference-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296945","title":{"rendered":"GIPS Wants iPhone to Video Conference More Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/gipsvideoengine.gif?w=359&#038;h=191\" alt=\"gipsvideoengine.gif\" width=\"359\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gips.com\">GIPS<\/a>, a San Francisco-based company that licenses intellectual property including codecs for audio and video, says it&#8217;s come up with a technology that would allow third-party developers to embed video chat in their iPhone-related applications. The new technology is called VideoEngine (VEI) Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>The VideoEngine utilizes H.263 (video codec), GIPS wideband\/HD voice (iPCM-Wb) and G711 (audio codec) to provide functionality that would allow real-time video chat or multipoint video conferencing. GIPS is using the H.263 codec because it (and in turn the developers who use VEI) doesn&#8217;t have to pay royalties.<\/p>\n<p>Despite GIPS&#8217;s statement, VEI can&#8217;t really offer real two-way video chat today. Why? Because the iPhone doesn&#8217;t have a frontal camera. At best, VEI can be embedded in a mobile application and thus can receive video from some PC-type application, say, from your PC using your IM client to the iPhone. Just not the other way around. Audio is bidirectional. In December 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/fring.com\" >Fring<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/01\/video-calls-iphone\/\">launched a one-way video calling service as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I can only see one real value proposition of this new offering: tight synchronization of voice and video that will end up on the iPhone. And I&#8217;m not sure if that will be enough for GIPS to get the traction. For video conferencing to take off on the iPhone platform, two things need to happen: First, there needs to be a frontal camera for two-way video chats. Second, Skype needs to make available a video chat offering.<\/p>\n<p>Skype it seems is unlikely to use VEI. It&#8217;s already licensed H.264 video technology, which is being included in many mobile phones. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Skype ends up using some sort of scalable video version of H.264 for its mobile clients, one that adjusts the video quality based on the network conditions.<\/p>\n<p>As for GIPS, let&#8217;s just hope the iPhone gets an upgrade of its dreams &#8212; one that involves a video on the front of the device.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/97660\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=97660&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=LQs-CbdcRPw:KSaokMOhB6c:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/LQs-CbdcRPw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIPS, a San Francisco-based company that licenses intellectual property including codecs for audio and video, says it&#8217;s come up with a technology that would allow third-party developers to embed video chat in their iPhone-related applications. 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