Enterprising hacker gets video playing on Optimus Mini Three

Scott Hanselman might not be the camera man of the century, but he does apparently have the coding chops to get some choppy video playback going on those teensy Optimus Mini Three screens. He set his Mini to watch his baby son's webcam (which he inexplicably swapped for a plane landing vid for demonstration purposes), and conjectures you could use all three buttons for watching live video if you so choose. After that he gets a tad bit nerdy on us all, but managed to get in the words "I think I'll do a Vista SideShow driver at some point" before we passed out from all the coder jargon. Please do, Scott! Peep the video of his video-enabled Optimus after the break, or check out the read link to see how it's done.

Video: Video on an Optimus Mini Three

[MearWolf @ Feb 7th 2007 2:52PM]

nice, bit of a small screen though, lol

[Scott @ Feb 7th 2007 3:35PM]

Heh...a plane landing showed the frame rate better than a still image of my son sleeping. :)

I just noticed I left a password in the code in the video there. Changed. :)

[fashionista @ Feb 7th 2007 3:43PM]

On the front of your camera there, see that ring around the lens area? The one that has little ridges for gripping? That ring controls something called "focus". When you "focus" your camera, it makes the images sharper. When the images are sharper, people viewing your video can translate the blobs of color into recognizable objects.

[Juan @ Feb 7th 2007 4:04PM]

His blog says the video was taken with a cell phone camera. Although I'm sure he appreciates useless advice on how to work a focus, anyway.

[Dave @ Feb 7th 2007 5:46PM]

"He set his Mini to watch his baby son's webcam (which he inexplicably swapped for a plane landing vid for demonstration purposes)"

A lot of people don't want pictures of their children on the internet. I don't blame them.

[fitinferno @ Feb 7th 2007 8:22PM]

Is this a new permanent format w/the Digg thing right next to the article? Not so cool.

[BatteryAcid @ Feb 7th 2007 9:03PM]

Wow, amazing. Tis would be of great use if installed in a modified video switcher/fader to be able to see what you are switching from and too without a monitor. Just imagine this.

/////////////////////////////
/video output monitor /
/ /
/ /
/ /
/ /
/ /
/ /
/////////////////////////////
/
/////// /////// ///////
/s1 / /s2 / /s3 /
/ / / / / /
/////// /////// ///////
s = source

[BatteryAcid @ Feb 7th 2007 9:24PM]

Sorry, this is more what it looks like:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~/////////////////////////////~
~/video output monitor~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~
~/////////////////////////////~
~~~~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~///////~///////~///////~~~~
~~~~/s1~~~/~/s2~~~/~/s3~~~/~~~~
~~~~/~~~~~/~/~~~~~/~/~~~~~/~~~~
~~~~///////~///////~///////~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

s = source
ignore ~

PS-Does anyone know how to do what I was trying to do. Ive seen it done before but have never tried it myself.

[BatteryAcid @ Feb 7th 2007 9:25PM]

Aw skew it, you get the point.