Hi,
I need to develop a video conferencing application in symbian. I would like to know if symbian has the video conferencing protocol like H.264 inbuilt or do we need to implement it. Also would like to know what are the classes to be used to implement video streaming.
Thanks in advance,
Inbuilt/built-in feature does not always mean published/available APIs for developers.
Symbian phones with built-in video conferencing features are the Motorola A920/A925/A1000 (all UIQ 2 and Symbian OS 7.0 based) and the Nokia 6630 (Series 60 2.6 and Symbian 8.0a). Also, the Fujitsu developed Symbian OS (6.1 based) devices for Japan (NTT DoCoMo) have video calling features (but no native API access, just i-mode/iAppli Java based apps).
See http://www.symbian.com/phones for a quick device feature/capability overview.
For all those, I suspect they all have the video telephony implemented by the manufacturer or a subcontractor; not coming from Symbian Software Ltd as part of the device).
In any case, what is documented/published, you can find in the SDKs on http://forum.nokia.com/ for Series 60.
If you're a Symbian Platinum Partner, you can license the Symbian DevKit for a particular OS version to get more documentation, etc., but there are no guarantees that everything that's in an OS release by Symbian actually ends up in a device.
There are no Symbian OS 8.1 (a or b) based devices on the market or announced, as far as I'm aware.
Hello,
Did you manage to do your video conference application? If so, how did you do it?
Thanks!