The stream can be directly read by VLC which is great because VLC is a very powerful tool, for example you can really easily record the stream in a file. [FAQ See the FAQ to find out how].
You can enable/disable sound or video streaming
The resolution, the bitrate and the framerate of the stream can be configured... Two video encoders are available for the video streaming: H.263 and H.264. For sound streaming AMR and AAC are available.
The flash can be controlled remotly !
You can choose between the back facing camera and the front facing camera (if your phone has one)
Funny sounds can be played on the phone from the HTTP interface !
You can make the phone vibrate remotely
You can see the battery level of the phone
Advanced Use of Spydroid RTSP Server
Since v3.2, you can pass sophisticated URIs to the RTSP server to remotly configure Spydroid. Here are some example of what you can do: Enable video streaming & with H.264 and turn flash on ! (H.264 is a standard for video compression)
vlc "rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8086?h264&flash=on"
Enable video streaming of the front facing camera !
Enable video streaming with H.263 and sound streaming with AMR and turn flash on ! (H.263 is also a standard for video compression and AMR is a standard for audio compression)
Enable aac streaming (introduced in v3.3): this is very experimental and it requieres ICS
vlc "rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8086?aac"
You can of course still use the following basic URI. Spydroid will then use a default configuration, that you can modify in the option menu !
vlc "rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8086/"
HTTP Server If you don't want to use the RTSP protocol, you can also start/stop streams using only the HTTP server You can use any of the options presented for the RTSP server ! The HTTP server will respond with a Session Descriptor.
vlc "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/spydroid.sdp"
Because you're not using the RTSP protocol, streaming won't stop when you quit VLC. You have to GET the following URL: