'Video' Category
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 […]Adobe Live 2007
Adobe Live was a two-day event held in Angel on the 5th-6th June which showcased a number of new technologies on offer from Adobe, along with various seminars and talks from industry professionals.
Below are the rough notes I took (more of a brain dump, but I haven’t the time to format it right now).
FlashFlash 9 […]
Flash CS3 video captioning
Flash needs all the accessibility points it can get, so articles such as this are welcome in enlightening both developers and consumers regarding Flash video’s current assessibility status.
Hopefully we’ll see big websites including these features, as otherwise the masses won’t be aware of the accessibility efforts Adobe are making.
In related news, I’m attending Adobe Live! […]Flash .fla framerate seemingly affects .flv video playback performance in IE
I’ve been doing some work using the FLVPlayback component to make a generic video player application, but noticed recently that video playback performance was choppy within Internet Explorer (6 and 7) compared to Firefox.
After a quick search I found this forum post, and after changing the framerate of my .fla from 12fps to 24fps I […]Flash video and Microsoft’s Silverlight to go to war!
It seems Adobe have relented and included DRM within Flash video with the announcement of Adobe Media Player.
Hot on their heels is Microsoft, who’ve also announced Silverlight, a plug-in for Windows and Mac that’ll work across the major browsers too.
Who will win? Hopefully Flash, but it’ll depend on which of the big boys incorporate what […]Flash video best when divisible by 16?
I’ve been looking into whether better-quality Flash video is produced when sticking to dimensions that are divisible by 16. This seemingly has been the rule with older codecs, but I’ve had to investigate the issue for Flash 8 .flv video. Adobe doesn’t seem to think so, stating:
Although these ratios are standard, and should be used […]
