N900 Videos

Bhaskar Roy, cofounder of Qik, demonstrates Qik live video sharing on the N900 in this video from thenokiablog.com.

Qik has a very simple user interface. The screen is the viewfinder of the video camera, with three icons overlaid on the right-hand side: Title, Share, and Privacy.

The big green “Share” button starts streaming live to whichever social networks, blogs or other services you have configured. Your video stream can be private or public, and you can overlay titles. You can also bring up the usual Maemo menu to change other settings.

Bhaskar then tells how pleased they are with Maemo, and how they were able to port the basics of the Qik client to the N900 in a few days, and how they appreciated the help they received from Nokia.

By the way, the N900 doesn’t change the focus during a video, so you need to be sure to set the focus correctly at the start of your video (by pointing the camera at an object at a suitable distance).