First Carcast with Flixwagon - Qik versus Flixwagon shootout

Submitted by Roland on Mon, 2008-02-04 21:05
Today I tried out flixwagon, "a stream live from cellphone" competitor to Qik. I did a "Carcast" direct from my N95 (mounted on the empty passenger seat with my Gorillapod) as I drove from Gastown to the Viaduct (12 minutes). Impressive!
What Flixwagon seems better at then Qik:
  1. Better buffering
  2. More "Ajax-y" website

What Qik seems better at then Flixwagon:
  1. Non Cheesy look and feel. I could live without the little flixwagon icon moving about before the video is shown and the "too cute" flixwagon smiley icons.
  2. Higher Resolution. Qik seems to be higher resolution the flixwagon. Qik is 320x240, Flixwagon seems to be lower resolution
  3. Better URLs. There seems to be no flixwagon equivalent of qik.com/roland. If it's there I couldn't find it. UPDATE: it's there! found it by URL hacking, no obvious link when logged in, my page is indeed flixwagon.com/roland

Anyways the proof is in the video and both Qik and Flixwagon are evolving at a rapid rate, so let the competition continue! Check out my flixwagon "CarCast":

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Comments

supermario (not verified)

Tue, 2008-02-05 00:38

have you tried bambuser?

http://bambuser.com/

Anonymous (not verified)

Tue, 2008-02-05 02:22

I agree... Qik works much better. They have great content/events on their site too.

Anonymous (not verified)

Thu, 2008-02-07 12:54

Tried Both, Flixwagon has 320x240 as well, and give the same high quality on lower end devices. I use a Nokia 6120 and get the same quality as above.

 

Couldn't get the QIK client work on my 6120.. they never responed to my email.

 

This is going to be very interesting fight 

Jackie Danicki (Qik) (not verified)

Wed, 2008-10-01 13:51

Roland, thanks for the post! You can shoot in 640x480 from your N95 with Qik - this can be tweaked in the settings menu from the Qik phone client.

Anonymous: Can you please email me at jackie AT qik DOT come? We always reply to emails, so I would like to rectify the situation if yours slipped through the cracks. Apologies for this.

 

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