Last month, I had written about a free software called Wwigo that allowed users to use a Nokia S60 v3 mobile device as a bluetooth wireless webcam for Skype, Windows Live, Yahoo instant messengers for video chatting and recording in Windows.

A similiar open source project called Movino is available that allows streaming and broadcasting of live video from a Java J2ME/Nokia S60 3rd Edition based NSeries/ESeries mobile device to a Mac OSX computer and use it as a wireless webcam in compatible Mac apps such as Skype over Bluetooth or HTTP-TCP/IP.

The collection of applications includes:

A client for S60 smartphones: The S60 client is used to record video and stream it to a receiving computer. It can encode data in a different formats (raw YUV, abbreviated JPEG, MPEG for the video frames and AMR and ?law for audio) and send them over Bluetooth or TCP/IP (over GPRS/EDGE/3G och WLAN).

A smartphone client for J2ME: The J2ME client captures frames as JPEG still images and streams over both Bluetooth and TCP/IP.

A gui application and a QuickTime component for OS X: The OS X gui application can be used to receive a movino stream (over Bluetooth or TCP/IP), preview it, record it to a local file, serve the content as a multiplexed ogg/theora stream over http. The application can also relay the content to the video server. The gui application also relays the content stream to a QuickTime component, which can be used as a video/audio source in other applications. One potential use case is to use the phone as a webcam in Skype.

A video server for linux: The video server listens for TCP/IP connections, and receives one or more content streams. These are archived as ogg/theora and relayed over http to clients.

The Nokia S60 user guide can be downloaded here while the Mac OSX setup guide can be downloaded here. The applications itself can be downloaded at Movino’s homepage.