Multimedia Development

With mobile devices growing rich in multimedia features, and the hardware always improving, features and services based around multimedia capabilities of these devices evolved into a highly profitable market. Some of our achievements in this field can be briefly outlined:

Vision is Psiloc's view on tomorrow's market of the phenomenon known as ringtones. Instead of playing a simple melody during an incoming call, the experience is broadened by custom video playback in addition to sound, in any of the following popular formats: mp4, rm and 3gp. What's more, a different video can be used for each contact from the address book.

Psiloc's most recent multimedia development is the Music Player. Built totally from scratch, it incorporates some interesting features yet unseen in the mobile music players. The engine of this complex application was designed for the sole purpose of serving a music player, as the available solutions couldn't meet our harsh standards. OTA (Over The Air) music downloads in the AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) music format, ensuring the most efficient usage of bandwidth - a scarce and valuable resource in cellular networks. The Music Player. is designed not only to adapt to the playback device, by detecting whether to use hardware or software encoding, but also to the technical environment conditions. The connection speed, error rate, bit rate and sample rate amongst other factors have an influence on the Music Player. It adapts to these conditions using dynamic buffering and other optimization features, that allow functionality such as playback of incompletely downloaded music tracks (for the end user this in practice means the music starts streaming as soon as the play button is pressed). The streaming can be stopped at any time and resumed at that exact point at any moment convenient to the end user. Worth mentioning is also the fact that the UI (User Interface) was designed independently from the platform and in such a way that not only allows for skin swapping on the fly, but also for totally repositioning the control elements on the device screen as well, being at all times very responsive to user input with beautifully animated menu structures and marquees helping to display sometimes longer than usual song tags.