Welcome to what could be my most amazing post ever. In this post I will be going into everything (I can think of) to do with Qik on the iPhone. I am an official alpha tester for the Qik iPhone application, so I am in a great postion to provide some ke…

Thanks for noticing about the latency; it’s something we take very seriously. We also save all files until they’re verified to have been sent safely across the network. Currently it’s a bit annoying to get them off the phone if you have to quit the app before it could finish (you just send us the raw file — it’s all there, every second, with no segmentation), but this too will be automated soon.

Regarding the twitter links: you now have full control of the message *and* the destination link when you tweet your qiks. You can send people to your Qik page with the chat open, or send them to your blog or anywhere else you have the player embedded — it’s totally up to you.

Finally, with Qik you have complete access to your video stream. You can download the flv and even the original-format 3gp file right from your RSS feed. If you’re shooting in 640*480 and/or want to edit the video, this is a great way to go.

Clintus: it’s a toss-up on Qik v. Flixwagon for me. FW has a nice safety feature built in so you don’t lose video — it caches the video locally and even if you walk into an elevator or something with no signal, you won’t lose the footage. It will buffer it out later when you are back in network coverage, even if you stop shooting (and even stop the application and restart later, I believe). If you build up a lag time in Qik, you can’t shut the app down or start filming again until it clears the buffer or you lose it for good. I don’t know what flyguy is talking about, though; I’ve found the lag time in FW to be a bit higher than Qik. The bigger downside of their caching scheme to me though is that there’s a hiccup in the footage every 15 seconds when it starts a new cache file, so if someone is speaking to you, losing a half second every 15 seconds is kind of irritating. They promise it’ll be fixed on the next release. The upside of the FW web interface to me is that if someone follows the Twittered link to your current stream, the chat interface is right there ready for typing; if someone follows the Twittered link to your Qik stream, they have to click another link to get to your chat room and thus miss a few seconds of the action as the page reloads.

Now I *will* be able to get videoconferencing on my 3G iPhone – I’ll just stand in front of a mirror!

They aren’t really showing anything? It almost looks faked to me…

my 2 cents

And, Apple will not allow an application that uses a private framework into the Apple Store.

Ergo, neither Flixwagon nor Qik will be available in the Apple Store. They will be jailbroke only.

And that’s a shame. Apple, paleeze, give is a legitimate video API.

Spanks.

Perhaps Qik aren’t as ready as they claim… releasing for iPhone 2G isn’t one-upping Flixwagon at all.