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a tough video conferencing question

4 replies · 10,027 views · Started 02 August 2005

Hi!

I am new to symbian and I got some big questions ..
I need to make a video conferencing app that would probably run on a 6680 phone using SIP or the natural video capabillities of the 6680.
My problem starts when I want to be able to send jpgs and messaging during the call, which means that I need to turn off the video and send multimedia/files during an audio call!
I don't have a phone to test it on, and as far as I understand the emulator that comes with the simbian 8.1a is yet not capable of simulating a video call (I may be mistaken on that one).

The question above all is: can this be done: closing the video channel programatically while in a video conference whithout buying an SDK or writing the phone software from the beggining 🙄

thanks

The SDK is free, so you simply download and check it out from http://forum.nokia.com/series60

The SDK to download is "Series 60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2" (a.k.a. version 2.6).

Note that the SDK emulator just approximates generic Symbian OS/Series 60 Platform behaviour. It is not emulating exact device behaviour (not any specific devices based on those software releases).

I have already installed the sdk and the sip plugin but I doubt that you can do a sip video call or even 'fake camera' video call using the emulator ..
it's not even clear to me whether the phone (nokia 6680) uses the sip sdk for it's normal call routing .. and if so, can I use the sdk to make calls or change the status of open media channels using the sip sdk ??