July 2008 Archives

We are extremely excited and happy to see so many people unleashing the iPhone, broadcasting live from all across the globe. we see many first ever, including the longest broadcast - 96 Minutes and 48 seconds non stop live from an iPhone ! for those of you who haven’t installed the application yet – here is a short flix of how it actually looks like :




keep painting our home screen in red broadcasting live,  send us your feedback (feedback@flixwagon.com) and thoughts as we are working on our next version.

we found this great video from tysiphonehelp reviewing our new iPhone app and thought you might like it as well. apparently flixwagon is his favorite app of all times ! thanks for a great overview of our iPhone app and service :

Following our announcement in June that our developers were the first to successfully broadcast live video from iPhones, we are now officially launching our iPhone alpha app. The app currently runs on first generation “opened” iPhones with firmware 1.1.4 or earlier, that have Installer.app on the device. It is available to all users with suitable configuration on their iPhones.

For users using the new iPhone 3G, or the original iPhone with firmware 2.0, our team is currently working on an application for those devices as well, and we’ll announce when ready (will require an “opened” 2.0 iPhone as well).


Flixwagon iPhone Broadcast Screen


The iPhone app supports the following features:

• Express Sign-up on the fly: once you install the app via installer you can be up and running within seconds: simply enter your phone number and you’ll be instantly logged-in. You'll also receive a text message with your new user name and password (which you can then change when you log-in to flixwagon.com).

Express Registration

• Edit video details on the fly: change title and tags directly from the device before or during broadcast. This is especially useful in helping more users discover your broadcast while you're still live, by adding relevant tags and titles based on events in the broadcast.
  

• Set sharing preferences directly from the device: set flix as private, public, or viewable only by certain groups like friends, family, co-workers, etc.

Edit video details and sharing preferences on the fly

• Choose video quality settings: select between higher resolution (sharper details within the frame) or higher frame rate per second (smoother video flow).

Choose between sharper resolution or more frames per second


How do I get Flixwagon on my iPhone to Start Broadcasting Live Video?

From Installer go to the ‘Sources’ tab, tap ‘Edit’ on the top right, then ‘Add’ on the top left, type in the following URL: http://m.flixwagon.com/iphone, and then tap “Done”. Then tap the ‘Install’ tab, find the new Flixwagon folder, and then follow the installation instructions. Once you return to the home screen you’ll see the new Flixwagon icon.

Tap the Flixwagon icon. If you already have a user name and password type them in. If not, enter your mobile phone number with country code and you'll be instantly logged-in. Your new user name and password will be sent to you via SMS. You can then edit the login details or restore them by visiting flixwagon.com. Also, if you prefer full registration via our website, you an do so here.


Please note, the iPhone apps (1.1.4 and 2.0) are both in Alpha, and are used primarily for us to learn and experiment more with the iPhone platform. Feel free to email us comments or feedback about the alpha app at feedback [at] flixwagon [dot] com. Once the iPhone SDK supports native video we expect to develop an app for the new official app store. We don’t encourage 'opening' or ‘jailbreaking’ iPhones, nor switching back to older firmware, and users do so at their own risk.

We have some great news today at Flixwagon:  after a quiet roll-out last week, we’ve now officially launched our open public version, and added several new cool features on the mobile client and on Flixwagon.com:


1. As of today our site is officially open to all users. This means anyone can easily sign up for Flixwagon.


2. We added a dead-simple new way to sign up on the fly, directly from your device. All you need to do from supported devices is access m.flixwagon.com/nokia on your mobile browser, hit 'Yes' to follow the express registration instructions, and Voila! And off course we still offer registration through flixwagon.com where you can also download the software (to computer, via SMS, or via mobile browser). Existing users can get the most recent version by accessing m.flixwagon.com/nokia on the mobile browser or visiting Account Settings on Flixwagon.com.


3. New features on the Flixwagon mobile client:

• Choose between delay or video quality: in the preferences section you can determine whether your broadcasts will be optimized for the shortest delay, or highest video quality.

• Two-way text Chat: you can send IM messages back to the video chat room, making chats around your video 2-way. This is especially useful when you want to respond to your viewers' comments without interrupting the video or audio in the broadcast.

• Share on Twitter and YouTube directly from phone: you can share individual videos on twitter and YouTube directly  from your device, as well as customize the message or titles (no more generic Twitter messages!). All you need to do is add your Twitter or YouTube account details on Flixwagon.com, and then you can customize posts directly from your phone.

• Detailed sharing from device: for the past several months Flixwagon has supported group and sharing preferences. Now you can also easily choose your sharing settings for specific videos directly from your device, and determine which groups (friends, family, etc.) can access your video even before you start broadcasting. Make sure you set up your contacts, groups, and alerts first on flixwagon.com and you can start sharing flix with them on the fly.

• Digital Zoom-in and zoom-out feature.

• Change title: you can now change the video title directly from the phone while broadcasting.  This is great when the ‘right’ headline comes to you while you broadcast (and can help more viewers discover your broadcast while you’re still broadcasting live).

3. New features on flixwagon.com:

• RSS: get your videos out to feed.

• Import contacts: we made the “Import Contacts” option more visible so you can more easily invite your friends to watch flix.
  

Feel free to let us know what you think here or via @flixwagon on Twitter,

Flixwagon Team

Mike Butcher of TechCrunchUK broadcasts the first-ever live mobile video from 11 Downing Street using Flixwagon: