What steps do I take to build a CCTV application?

[Frost]

I would like to develop a cctv application for iPhone using objective-C. I have been practicing this language for a few months now however I need to be pointed in the right direction, what are the steps I need to take to develop this application?

Thanks

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by Frost

I would like to develop a cctv application for iPhone using objective-C. I have been practicing this language for a few months now however I need to be pointed in the right direction, what are the steps I need to take to develop this application?

Thanks

Dunno. You need to provide more specifics before somebody can even begin to help.

What kind of video source will you use? Is the captioning imbedded in the video, or do you have time-coded captioning from a separate file? Will the video be stored locally, or streamed?

Then you need to research the tools that are available for iOS. Do you know if there are frameworks for iOS to play your selected video format? (Either provided by Apple or 3rd party.)

Once you have the video format(s), the data source, and the frameworks, you can start mapping out the design for your application.

[Frost]

Originally Posted by Duncan C

Dunno. You need to provide more specifics before somebody can even begin to help.

What kind of video source will you use? Is the captioning imbedded in the video, or do you have time-coded captioning from a separate file? Will the video be stored locally, or streamed?

Then you need to research the tools that are available for iOS. Do you know if there are frameworks for iOS to play your selected video format? (Either provided by Apple or 3rd party.)

Once you have the video format(s), the data source, and the frameworks, you can start mapping out the design for your application.

I have a dvr system for my shop and I can stream the video footage using other iPhone applications such as iCamviewer but I would like to develop my own, I have been told I need to produce algorithms for compressing videos from avi format to Mpeg4 and I would need some sort of database, is this true?