Pathpartner demos 720p HD Skype videocalling using Android and OMAP 4 (video)

Pathpartner demos 720p HD Skype videocalling using Android and OMAP 4 (video)

Putting Pathpartner and Ittiam
right beside one another may not have been the best idea if these two
were hot-headed, but shockingly, they were treating each other with a
great deal of respect within Texas Instruments' MWC booth. All jesting
aside, the former's 720p HD videocalling solution is aimed at an
entirely different market than that of the latter. Rather than arranging
for a four-way video conference, Pathpartner has concocted an Android
app that enables 720p video calling over Skype
-- you know, that VoIP application that you're already obsessed with.
Currently, the company's working with Skype in hopes of getting it
'Skype-certified,' and like Ittiam, it's also chatting with a number of
handset makers in hopes of getting it embedded on the phone's software
stack from the get-go.



Alexy Mathew Joseph, the company's senior technical lead, was on hand to showcase a demo running on a pair of OMAP 4-based
development boxes, and the low-bitrate technology that he has helped
create enabled smooth, high-def streaming of the call. We should mention
that this particular demo was done over an Ethernet network, but he
affirmed that it would operate on 3G and 4G networks as well. Also of
note, the new software is capable on running on more than just TI
equipment, though he wouldn't elaborate other than saying that NVIDIA's
Tegra 2 was a platform he hasn't tested on just yet. Just think -- 720p
Skype videocalls could be hitting your phone prior to the dawn of 2012,
and the carrier's have to be weeping at the mere mention. Vid's past the
break, per usual.

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