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Converting a video using Adobe Media Encoder Want to learn how to encode a raw video file using Adobe Media Encoder? This FREE video shows you how to confidently convert your videos into formats that will play in Flash and gives a good foundation for diving deeper into the encoding settings of Adobe Media Encoder. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Understanding the anatomy of a video player in Flash This FREE video will give you a solid foundation for building custom players for Flash and covers the differences between the Flash Player plug-in and a video player built for Flash; what FLVPlayback is and what it does for you; plus much more. Want to see […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Want to build a Flash video player and publish video online, WITHOUT the use of custom ActionScript code but not sure where to begin? This tutorial is a great place to start: Publishing Video with the Flash Platform The course explains the video publishing process in distinct projects of increasing complexity. Each project results in […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Join John Crosby and the Flash Media Server User Group for an online talk about HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS): Tuesday, June 28 at noon Eastern / 9am Pacific RSVP: http://fms.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=36732 HTTP Dynamic Streaming enables leveraging of existing caching infrastructures – for example, content delivery networks, ISPs, office caching, home networking – and provides tools for integrating content […]
Continue Reading →[UPDATE: Adobe has discontinued the free Strobe player] There are third-party applications that will play Flash video files, but those require installation — and that is often not allowed on shared or corporate computers. One quick down-and-dirty option is to play the video in the browser instead. To do this, you can pass in a […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →[UPDATE: This feature has been deprecated by YouTube] One of the drawbacks of YouTube for business customers has always been the mandatory YouTube logo on the embedded player. Well, good news! You can now embed a YouTube player without a YouTube logo. Using this unbranded player is still free, and you can use it with […]
Continue Reading →Flash and the City 2011 is a wrap — and it went by at warp speed! I closed out the conference Sunday night with the fastest presentation of OSMF for the Absolute Beginner I’ve ever given, as I only had 30 minutes before they locked the doors. Hopefully everyone who attended (thank you very much […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →UPDATE 4:10pm ET 06/01/11: Great detective work by Stefan Richter, uncovers lots of involvement by Microsoft, Logitech, Cisco, Intel, etc. and notably: Skype, including ex-Adobeian and P2P architect Matthew Kauffman. This is really getting interesting. Follow-up blog post on WebRTC: http://bit.ly/li83i1. Google seems to be targeting Flash Media Server’s core functionality with its new initiative: […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Huge thanks to everyone who dragged their butts out of bed to come to my 10am session this morning at FITC Toronto! I covered the basic benefits/drawbacks of OSMF, its architecture, core media elements, and showed some dead-simple code for getting started. I also talked about prebuilt OSMF players: Flash Media Playback, Strobe Media Playback; […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →In an unlikely twitter exchange this weekend, hollywood starlet Alyssa Milano raised some hackles in the developer community by tweeting this link-baiting article on ArsTechnica. The article claimed that Adobe was bowing to Apple by planning HLS streaming support in an upcoming version of Flash Media Server, as I noted in a previous post. When […]
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