Tomorow is our first event for Videmo. We are running it Vodafones XAir competition in wellington, New Zealand. If your around come down and say hi! I will be taking some pics and posting from there seeing it will be my job for the two days to be online (whats diferent really).

Videmo for those new to my blog is a whole system for showing pictures texts and videos sent in by people at events. These messages are then vetted through an interface (to check for the dodgy one ) and shown on screen.

The web interface for checking messages is made in flex and uses WebOrb's Flex data Service to transport faster amf packets round. It was really nice to develop against.

I tried to keep this interface as simple as possible as one day average Joe will have access to it. Simple flow from left to right, big what I like to call telly tubby style buttons… and rember its stil version 0.x so more to come with that.

See really simple. There is also a Flex display which runs and displays the messages on the big screen. This is wrapped in a .net wrapper for now, until Apollo comes out, arent we all waiting? – then I can ditch the .net client and go fully cross platform.

The display buffers the media to show and just queues each message, showing a little advertising in between x messages if wanted. This is just run from a laptop providing the feed to the big screen. 

On the server side there are several apis to receive messages, which then get processed but the .net server I made, responded to if appropriate, and then video is converted to flv and inserted into the database.

Next up is improve the video quality by buying On2s sdk and encode to FLash 8 video and to make the mobile portal so customers can log in from pdas and mobiles, view the messages sitting in the inbox, and accept or reject them from anywhere.

Very cool. – more about the flash video on phones in the next post