Com-Phone Story Maker vs RTSP IP-Cam Viewer
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Com-Phone Story Maker
Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish. Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app. A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf. Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia. For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
RTSP IP-Cam Viewer
RTSP IP-Cam Viewer is an Android app to watch RTSP video streams; this format is typical of inexpensive IP security cams.Goals:an extremely light-weight open-source app with minimal features and minimal UIability to add video streams (including via import of JSON text files)display of enabled video streams in list- and grid-view, full-screen view of a single high-res video streamNotes:this app does not require the latest Android versions, so your old device can be put to a new purpose with thiswhen videos are displayed in list/grid views: audio is mute; click to open video in full-screen view; long click to toggle pause/playwhen a video is displayed in full-screen view: audio is not mute; controls are visible
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | RTSP IP-Cam Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-2.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | GitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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