Re: Video compression on Pocket PC....

First, with regard to the other company, if they have a product that does
what you need I'm not sure why you consider it extortionate that they'd want
to get paid for its use. Per-seat licenses (with an up-front SDK charge)
are not uncommon, especially for high-end stuff that's used in an
enterprise. They have to make money to pay employees and keep the lights
on. If they want $1,000 plus $2 per device that could end up costing less
than a couple months of your development time, and it's ready now - not in a
couple months.

Now to your question. You've been asking about this for a few days now and
the answers aren't changing. The ways to achieve it are to either "screen
scrape" by doing screen captures and shipping them (like remote display, for
which we've already told you where to get the source) or to create your own
display driver and have it send the data. A display driver would be able
send just updates rather than entire screens, so it's likely to be more
efficient. It's also going to be more work. If you've not done a display
driver before, I'd guess a couple months. If you don't have much C/C++
experience, that number gets bigger. Possibly much bigger.


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"Peter Morris" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you are short of time please feel free to skip the monologue and go
straight to the question at the bottom of the post :-)



In my search for a video compression library for the PPC I came across a
company named KTTech (www.kttech.com) who's boasts seem too good to be
true. I emailed the company asking for information but received no reply.
I few days later I phoned and left a voice mail. A few days later I still
not received a reply so I emailed again and said that so far I am not
impressed with their conduct, I would like to see a demo + I want pricing
information, and this is the last time I shall write. I received the
following email



============
Thank you for your interest in KT-Tech. At present, we are licensing our
C++
SDK to OEM's for integration into their applications. We charge
enterprises
a negotiated per month fee for use of our SDK in development plus a
royalty
stream based on distribution and market share of the developed
application.

If you are interested in a non-exclusive license of our SDK, please supply
further details about your company, your application, identified market
and
time estimate to first deployment/market.
============


To me this means
01: I pay a monthly fee to write my software
02: The customer pays a recurring fee per seat
03: The amount of the runtime license depends on
A: What the application is
B: The market share of the application

What a rip off! I wrote back to tell them that I found their pricing to
be extortionate, and that I have no idea if I am interested in their SDK
or not because I have no idea if it is any good or not. The reply I
received was simply


"From your response, it does not appear that there is anything further to
discuss."


I have just had the pleasure in writing back to tell him the name of the
multi-billion £ per annum turnover company I am developing the application
for and approximately how many employees this company has using Pocket
PC's that will have this software installed. I expect he is now "as sick
as a parrot" (whatever that means). I'd really advise against doing any
business with this company, and I strongly advise that you do not have any
dealings with them. Judging from comments on the web posted by people
that have seen their "keep your head still and just move your lips"
demonstration I suspect that they do not have the product they claim to
have.





Anyway, now to my question! I really need to be able to generate a series
of bitmaps on a PPC and stream them as video to a remote PC, the bitrate
needs to be as low as possible and I need a minimum of 2 frames per second
(320x240) and hopefully more. If anyone can help I would *really*
appreciate it!


Thanks

Pete



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