USB OTG goes webcam

This time in my mini series of testing USB on the N810 tablet - I bring you external webcam. The following video shows mplayer playing v4l stream from the device. See details after the jump.

Nokia N810 + Creative webcam + USB OTG + mplayer on Vimeo.

Nokia N810 as a bluetooth GPS-module?

Is it possible to use N810 as a bluetooth GPS module? For example GPS might be needed on a laptop, or to test a cellphone application. At first the idea seems a bit stupid, but I’m sure someone somewhere might appreciate the functionality.
I’m pretty sure it won’t work out of the box, but creating an [...]

Videocenter with mplayer

This is the application I’ve been waiting for. But it has abug (or a feature) that needs some knowledge to bypass.
So the idea of this program is to be able to watch vidcasts & live TV easily on the go. A feature that I almost decided to implement myself But because this program [...]

IRC with N800

For reasons not specified here, I had to get IRC working on some level with my N800.
The easiest way would’ve been to use web-irc, but I wanted a better solution. First I tried to find an irc-client, but didn’t. The I tried using gaim with irc-protocol, and ended up cursing the program to the hottest [...]

DVD disk and image transcoding for N800

I needed to encode a movie, but the Media Converter didn’t seem to work with DVDs in Windows Vista.
After googling a while, I stumbled upon two programs that seem to do the job. For transcoding DVDs to N800 format (MPEG4 400×240) the open source solution MeWiG is adequate. The GUI crashes after a few minutes [...]

Some additional MPlayer testing

After my last post, MPlayer has been updated to version mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.16, and I decided to test again to further optimize my video experience. I’ve found that when you transcode your videos with 30 fps instead of 25, the effect to smoothness is for some reason very dramatic. Mayde I should also try with 24, but [...]

Canola 1.0 beta 2 is out

Today these killerapps just keeps on coming…
Our friends at indt have just release a pre-release of beta 2 from a media managing software called Canola. To my knowledge, betas have been available for Nokia 770, but this one also runs on N800.
I really like Canola, now that I have finally been able to try it [...]