FlexMotion movie is a fully software-implemented, high-quality movie platform. It can be used on mobile phones and all kinds of embedded devices.
Full-screen display and continuous playback are possible on 3G mobile terminals.
FlexMotion movie automatically adjusts the bandwidth that it uses to match whatever bandwidth enables you to play the movie smoothly, even over an unstable connection.
Because FlexMotion movie is a fully software-implemented movie platform, it can be installed and used on a variety of devices.
You can customize elements of the movie player, such as the logo, the background image, and the image used for the splash screen.
Overview
Application and Codec Both Implemented Completely in the Java™ programming language
The movie player is a Java application.
The whole movie-distribution solution can be implemented simply by having the end users install this Java application on their mobile phones.
High-Resolution Image Display
Compared with the movie technology used by existing mobile phones, FlexMotion movie produces incredibly high-resolution images that contain no block noise.
FlexMotion movie is already being used to deliver movies and high-quality animation, and it has been well received by the industry.
Simple and Inexpensive Delivery
Simply use the specialized encoder to convert the original movie and then place the output file on your Web server.
There is no need to prepare encoded data for each supported terminal. Everyone can watch the same encoded data.
Support for Long Movies
No matter how long the movie is, FlexMotion movie supports it as standard.
Widescreen Support
Full-screen displays such as those on WVGA devices are supported as standard.
A Fully-Loaded Movie Player That Is Easy to Use
All the fundamental movie player features are installed as standard.
Support for switching subtitles and voice tracks
Supported File Formats
FlexMotion movie supports a variety of file formats such as MPEG, WMV, FLV, and AVI. These formats are converted to our proprietary format.
Can Be Used with Official Web Sites
Federated authentication functions for official Web sites are installed as standard. You can provide FlexMotion movie as a pay service.
A Freely Customizable Movie Player
You can freely modify the UI and the way that the movie player works.
You can change the UI and use a variety of features (such as browsing to a specified URL or changing the operation of the UI after you finish watching a movie) just by using templates and changing simple settings.
Features and Benefits
Equipped with a Movie Codec That Is Specialized for Mobile Phone Networks
This codec even stabilizes movie playback on mobile phones that are connected to unstable networks.
The codec even works with FOMA and HSDPA mobile phones.
Because FlexMotion movie supports multiple bit rates with a single data set, users can watch movies even when connected to mobile phone networks in which the utilized bandwidth changes dynamically.
Easy Movie Delivery
All that you need to deliver movies is a Web server and a PC to encode the movies.
All that you have to do to deliver movies is use the specialized encoder to convert the movie file, and then place the result on your Web server.
Customization Enables You to Create Your Own Specialized Application
You can freely customize your specialized movie player.
There are functions for switching subtitles and voice tracks.
There are bookmark and go-to-chapter functions.
Inexpensive
FlexMotion movie only uses the features of a normal Web server to deliver movies. There is no need to purchase a specialized server.
Because one data set can be used to deliver content at different bit rates and to different types of devices, there is no need to prepare different movie files for each bit rate or for each type of device. This decreases the storage requirements on the server.
List of Functions
Movie Player
UI customization (changing the image and the base color)
URL link (display a specified Web site after you finish watching the movie)
Volume control
Bookmarks
Fast forward and rewind
The same player supports both 3G and 3.5G
No limit to movie length
Approximately 10 seconds buffering time
Support for pay-content Web sites
Encoder
Batch commands to carry out multiple encodings at the same time.
Supports a variety of file formats such as MPEG, WMV, FLV, and AVI.
Encoding time is at most the run time of the movie.
Can be run on Windows® XP, Vista, and 2003 Server.
ile size of an encoded movie is 720 MB per hour (12 MB per minute).
High-Resolution Processing
Image quality correction uses dithering.
Employment of our proprietary compression-decompression algorithms.
10 levels of bandwidth adjustment when a movie is playing.
To Be Supported
One-step conversion of DVDs
Live delivery
Go-to-chapter feature
Subtitle overlay and voice track switching (switching between English and Japanese)
FlexMotion movie Applications
NTT docomo
There are numerous examples of FlexMotion movie being employed by web sites designed to be viewed using NTT docomo mobile phones, such as women's fashion web sites and movie publicity web sites.
FlexMotion movie was employed because of its high-quality images, the level of freedom that the user has with the UI, and the short length of time that it takes to integrate the movie platform into the Web site.
SoftBank Mobile
SD Content Viewer
This viewer is used to view the contents stored on an SD card.
The feature that enables the UI to change dynamically for each package (arranged by artist, album, or movie) was the key point for the client to employ FlexMotion movie.
