Video Blogging or Videocasting with the Nokia 6670
I decided to put up a video of my cat who has learned to use the toilet all by himself in order to highlight the Video capabilities of the 6670 and how to use this with a blog.
Considering the native file format for videos is .3gp which is pretty standard for cell phone video formats, this eliminates the ability to directly post videos to your blog for videocasting on the fly since it's not supported for web applications without a special player.
I found a converter with a quick google search called Zwei-stein that allows you to convert .3gp to both Quicktime and Windows media formats pretty easily. It doesn't have the best UI I have ever seen, but it works. The only problem I experienced so far is that the conversion seems to speed up the video just enough to make the audio sound like a chipmunk which you'll notice in the example above. They have a newer version called ZS4 which I havn't tried yet so I'm hoping this will correct this issue, but either way I'll follow up as I learn more.
I used the instructions on this web page to create the code to embed the video in the HTML above, and attached the video to the post to get it into the RSS feed so this would be considered my first official videocast. More to come…
