MFC goes mobile

[AmberCutie]

Here's the mobile site they just announced on Twitter!



Models: you need to select "Super High Definition" on the video tab in your options window on the Model Web Broadcaster in order for people on mobile to see your video stream.

 

[eclipse76]

Yay, goodbye Flash! Hello MPEG4!

 

[Kickaz]

nicely done mfc! wonder if that option is on the software as well?

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I've been wondering about that. Been seeing 'mobile' on some avatars when I'm on my tablet for a few weeks now, but hadn't been able to notice any difference.

 

[kuntykim]

Awesome!

 

[FifthElephant]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

 

[WildFingers]

Somehow I feel that I will be find myself using up my data plan much quicker than usual.

 

[Zoomer]

If members need to use mobiles to get yet more mfc then they really need to reassess life priorities...

I'm all for progress, but in this case the question is "why can you not live without..."

 

[AmberCutie]

nicely done mfc! wonder if that option is on the software as well?

I don't believe it's available on the software.

 

[FifthElephant]

If members need to use mobiles to get yet more mfc then they really need to reassess life priorities...

I'm all for progress, but in this case the question is "why can you not live without..."

'Mobile' in this case can mean 'things that don't do flash'.
Tablets, TVs, Google Glass (sorta-kidding).

I truly hope nobodies using it in unsavoury ways in public - but...

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

Might want to reinstall your Firefox. Just checked mine (android on a Samsung Note) and it pulled up mfc great. No lag, full video and sound.

 

[AmberCutie]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

Might want to reinstall your Firefox. Just checked mine (android on a Samsung Note) and it pulled up mfc great. No lag, full video and sound.

That doesn't look like the mobile version.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

Might want to reinstall your Firefox. Just checked mine (android on a Samsung Note) and it pulled up mfc great. No lag, full video and sound.

That doesn't look like the mobile version.

It may be different on a tablet vs. a phone. I specifically typed in m.myfreecams.com and that's what loaded up.

Edit. Never mind. Evidently my firefox pulled up the desktop site anyway. grrr.

 

[eclipse76]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

Will only work with Chrome because it's a mpeg stream. Too bad because it looks better in Firefox than Chrome so far:

 

[Kradek]

If members need to use mobiles to get yet more mfc then they really need to reassess life priorities...

I'm all for progress, but in this case the question is "why can you not live without..."

It's not far off, where, for a large percentage of people, tablets will be their main computing device. There's no real need for a laptop or desktop for those people.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

Might want to reinstall your Firefox. Just checked mine (android on a Samsung Note) and it pulled up mfc great. No lag, full video and sound.

That doesn't look like the mobile version.

It may be different on a tablet vs. a phone. I specifically typed in m.myfreecams.com and that's what loaded up.

Edit. Never mind. Evidently my firefox pulled up the desktop site anyway. grrr.

Okay, got it to load the 'mobile' site instead of the desktop site, so i see the difference now. I didn't get the same error. But I also couldn't get any video to play. So I guess it still needs a bit of work. I'll just stick to the regular site on my tablets with flash video.

Chrome did work for me too. It's still in Beta so there's bound to be a few things to improve. Overall a good first step.

 

[FifthElephant]

If members need to use mobiles to get yet more mfc then they really need to reassess life priorities...

I'm all for progress, but in this case the question is "why can you not live without..."

It's not far off, where, for a large percentage of people, tablets will be their main computing device. There's no real need for a laptop or desktop for those people.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/26 ... ht_design/ comes to mind.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

If members need to use mobiles to get yet more mfc then they really need to reassess life priorities...

I'm all for progress, but in this case the question is "why can you not live without..."

It's not far off, where, for a large percentage of people, tablets will be their main computing device. There's no real need for a laptop or desktop for those people.

Agreed. One of my neighbors is elderly man and was given a tablet by the government. This is the only computer he has. Also many of the students in my college are going with tablets and their phones only. Computers aren't really needed anymore now.

 

[Chachazero]

I have been, using it for about a half an hour and it all seems to be working fine. The only problem is it does not show my friends list to me That and so few models have turned on super HD yet.

 

[LilyMarie]

Here's the mobile site they just announced on Twitter!



Models: you need to select "Super High Definition" on the video tab in your options window on the Model Web Broadcaster in order for people on mobile to see your video stream.

What does this "Super HD" mean outside of being mandatory for models who want to be watched on mobiles?

 

[eclipse76]

Loading on Firefox - MFC serves up a '"application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"' - which somewhat breaks things.
Seemed to work on chrome on android.

And unless I'm more than usually confused, 320*240 is not usually considered 'super high definition'.

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

320×240 has always been the default MFC resolution. Currently on the normal website, model Violet420 has the HD tag, but if I check her mobile stream, it's still 320×240.
But since I've never been quite sure what HD meant in normal MFC, I'm not sure if they reencode all their mobile streams in that resolution or if it's actually the original resolution.

 

[JickyJuly]

Might help a few struggling girls be noticed if they jump on it quickly before everyone is super HD!

 

[The Insider]

Before the mobile site no rooms had sound and video was like stop motion animation

And it's the same on the mobile site as well



I used to see models in white & highlighted in green, now I also see them in pink

I selected esmerelda bel as it specified "mobile feed"
I still had no sound in her room, video was like a slideshow and If I slected the Mobile option all i got was a white screen


On a samsung galaxy

 

[AmberCutie]

Before the mobile site no rooms had sound and video was like stop motion animation

And it's the same on the mobile site as well



I used to see models in white & highlighted in green, now I also see them in pink

I selected esmerelda bel as it specified "mobile feed"
I still had no sound in her room, video was like a slideshow and If I slected the Mobile option all i got was a white screen


On a samsung galaxy

You went to "www.m.myfreecams.com", which does not go to the mobile site. You need to go to the actual mobile site, "m.myfreecams.com" (I linked it in the original post)

 

[AmberCutie]

The link to the mobile site is http://m.myfreecams.com/.

 

[Sevrin]

The full website with a Flash-enabled browser is still the way to go if you want to have sound and video, it seems. I can't tell the difference between a model's who's "mobile" from one who isn't as far as that's concerned.

Everything else works better on the mobile site, now that I figured out the "toggle video" thing.

 

[Sevrin]

Models who are, should add "mobile", etc. to their tags. If a member is on the main site and wants to see which models he can view on another device, there's no other way to search for them.

 

[AmberCutie]

Models who are, should add "mobile", etc. to their tags. If a member is on the main site and wants to see which models he can view on another device, there's no other way to search for them.

Good idea!

 

[JubalCobb]

Models who are, should add "mobile", etc. to their tags. If a member is on the main site and wants to see which models he can view on another device, there's no other way to search for them.

rather than relying on the 0.001% of models who will do that, you could just go to m.myfreecams.com.
On the models tab, click on the 3 horizontal lines on the right side of that tab. (what is that called? its like the menu button in chrome)
This opens the model list options menu.

select show models with mobile feeds.

 

[Crumb]

i've been playing around a bit on my blackberry, seems to be almost working fine except when typing in a room i get a big red X so not sure if i was seen or not ( or possibly ignored)
thought i'd mention, in case it wasn't only me

edit, works if i don't use emotes