'Video' Category
Video Technology Center
New/repurposed learning resource up on Adobe’s site now.
Flash video (FLV) bitrate calculator
Useful bitrate calculator created by Robert Reinhardt on Adobe’s site.
Codec Primer
First part here, with the second part now also appearing. Well worth a read, thanks TrustedReviews!
Adobe Media Player prerelease 2
Is out now on Adobe Labs. Looks very slick, although I’m still not sure if it’s intuitive enough to use. It’s got zefrank in the comedy section however, so I’m happy regardless.
Google sitemaps now do video
Very useful addition to the sitemap protocol. Read about it here, do something about it here.
Flash subtitle creator
I’ve been messing around with captions within Flash CS3 recently, but one of the things I thought was a little annoying was creating the timed text XML itself. Previous searches on the net didn’t seem to highlight any decent free caption creators, but then today I discovered the Subtitle Creator on Subtitle Horse’s website.
While I […]Silverlight released
So, Silverlight finally gets a release. The Halo 3 demo is nice enough, but I haven’t seen anything that knocks my socks off as a developer yet. My money’s still on Flash; “Moviestar” adds H.264 video support (HD) and going by Ted Patrick’s blog post it seems the next version of the Flash player, “Astro”, […]
H.264 Flash plug-in now available + FAQ
Beta player here, with the FAQ here. Still no word on DRM and/or protecting content in the plug-in (as opposed to outside the browser through Adobe Media Player). Shame; looks like Silverlight will still have it trumped in that respect, as not everyone’s going to want to shell out for Adobe’s media server to ensure […]
H.264 (mp4) support in Flash
The third beta of the Flash player on Adobe Labs will support H.264 video, with full support in the “proper” version of the plug-in coming in the 4th quarter of this year.
Big news, and a big step towards taking on Silverlight. Lots of detailed insider information on this announcement can be found on kaourantin.net, with […]Flash-Ajax Video component
Intend to look a lot closer at this new development from Adobe, which allows you to stick video on a webpage via a JavaScript embed specifying a few parameters. Looks very promising; works by bringing different skin swfs.
More on FAVideo can be found on gskinner’s blog. Didn’t realise Grant Skinner had been involved in the […]
