[Ssc-dev] Vidiom / securecam

[Nathan of Guardian]

On 02/22/2012 11:01 PM, Andy Nicholson wrote:
> hey mate,
> i discovered your fork of vidiom at
> https://github.com/guardianproject/sscxfer
> nice one :)

Hi Andy - great to hear from you. I think I sent you a github message
when I did that, but perhaps you didn't receive it. Definitely wanted
you to be in the loop!

> Im a bit hazy on how sscxfer, securecam/obsurcacam fit together, i
> havent looked yet - does securecam invoke sscxfer as an activity?

Yes, that is the idea. We want to build everything we are doing as
modular pieces, with the whole activity/intent model as part of it.
ObscuraCam is basically just an image (and soon video) processing
utility that can import and export to anything that speaks image/jpeg.

The idea with SSCXfer was to strip down the great work you began into
only a secured video uploader, that works with proxies, handles resumes,
can deal with very very slow networks, etc.

> open video conference, and doing prototype work at their hack day [1] .
> i went in 2009 to OVC, and know some of the people who go to OVC,
> including jay from videobin [2]

Yes, and we are working with Witness, who I think you have some contact
with as well. I have cc'd our dev list, that includes Sam and Bryan from
Witness.

> anyway, might be nice to collaborate - i will need to check out your
> code, and any new video editing stuff you are doing.

Yes, we are pushing to get something out shortly. Trying to do the
region tracking on top of moving videos, then processing that output is
tricky.

> I just published a new version of vidiom with FFmpeg built in, and a
> simple video triming interface...

Oh great! Have you seen our ffmpeg build system?
https://github.com/guardianproject/android-ffmpeg

> nice work on the guardianproject stuff btw!! love it.

Thanks. We have a lot going on, so glad to know there are allies out
there like yourself.


Best,
 Nathan