The latest effort to bring movies to your cell phone comes from Actimagine, which has developed a new video codec and DRM solution that will be able to deliver a full length movie to a cell phone.The latest effort to bring movies to your cell phone comes from
Actimagine, which has developed a new video codec and DRM solution that will be able to deliver a full length movie to a cell phone.
The software runs on Series 60, UIQ, Windows Mobile and Pocket PC operating systems. It will be formally introduced to the U.S. audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2006. The codec can fit a full length movie onto a 128 MB memory card. Actimagine claims that current smart phones can show more than 6.5 hours of screen video.
There's no better sign of acceptance than a studio embrace, and Sony Pictures Digital has released several movies, most notably "Spiderman 2" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," on memory cards for mobile phones using the Actimagine codec and DRM earlier this year. More titles, including "Stuart Little," "Ghostbusters" and "Hitch" were released in November. However, those releases were for the U.K. only.
Actimagine says all mobile devices like mobile phones, PDAs and portable multimedia players and all flash memory card formats can run the Actimagine video codec. In addition, Nintendo has licensed the Actimagine codec for the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS handheld videogame systems.
On the Nintendo DS, the Actimagine software video codec can provide full screen video at 256x192 resolution up to 30 frames per second from, 100kbps to 700kbps, with stereo sound from 8KHz mono to 48KHz stereo. Dual screen can be supported up to 15 frames per second.
"Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt" and "Jump Super Stars" are the first two games using those outstanding video capabilities.
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