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Core Crash Dump For FMS On Windows
A few weeks ago someone posted about problems with their FMS server on the Flash Media List. Asa Whillock from Adobe was kind enough to post these guidelines for creating a core crash dump on Windows.
Date: 2007-09-28
Web Video Goes Wild
Adobe will not allow third party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC Audio into the Flash Player?
Date: 2007-09-21
Silverlight Vs. Flash
The goal of Silverlight is to get into the game, not to add anything new of value. If you look at the feature set on a pure technology basis, Silverlight has 80% less features and 98% less compatibility than Adobe Flash Player.
Date: 2007-09-14
Flash Media Server 3 Announced
Adobe announced the upcoming release of Flash Media Server 3 at IBC in Amsterdam. The next version will offer significant performance gains as well as a new enhanced (and encrypted) RTMP protocol to support new content protection features.
Date: 2007-09-07
Review: Actionscript Cookbook 3.0
I remember starting off beta testing huge bunch of ActionScript codes from Joey Lott which was supposed to be for the ActionScript 2.0 CookBook.
Date: 2007-08-31
Creating a Slide Show in Flash
An interesting way to show a fade-in slideshow using Flash.
In this tutorial, I will be using Flash MX. In Flash MX 2004, and Flash 8, the cosmetic set up should be the same.
Date: 2007-08-24
Text Replacement With Flash - Dangerous?
If you use Flash replacement techniques could Google misinterpret your pages and apply a penalty? Flash replacement techniques are quite a hot topic of late after reported comments attributed to Google about the implications of certain Flash replacement techniques.
Date: 2007-08-17
Eclipse Based .ASC Editor For FMS Released
This is huge. Darren Lee of fczone.com has released an Eclipse plugin which adds support for FMS's AS1-based server side code to Eclipse or Flex Builder 3
Date: 2007-08-07
Justin.tv: Behind The Scenes
You know Justin, don't you? The guy who's broadcasting himself 24/7 with a camera strapped to his head.
Date: 2007-08-03
FlashForward 2007: Register Now and Save
Register now for three days of intensive Flash® education, inspiration, community, and networking. Key-industry speakers, most up-to-date content, and leading industry suppliers join Flashforward for the first time ever in Boston.
Date: 2007-07-24
Deinterlace Your Video Footage!
We all know that Flash video is everywhere these days but what surprises me is how little quality control appears to be applied to the footage that big brands push out these days.
Date: 2007-07-20
Actionscript Error!
I'm attempting to build a site in Flash CS3, but I'm having a few problems.
I have my index .fla file with a container built into it. I'm trying to link an swf file into the container using the instance name "container", but I can't seem to get the script right. I want it to load on release of a button.
Date: 2007-06-26
SWFObject Broken In IE7 On Windows?
I've just made a worrying discovery: it seems that in some instances my preferred method of embedding a SWF file into a web page (I normally use SWFObject) can fail in quite a bad way for some users running IE7 on Windows - that's a lot of potential users that cannot see your SWF content.
Date: 2007-06-22
Flash And The Flex Builder
Here's my first tip for working with Flex 2 and Flash CS3. I'm not sure if you have had the opportunity yet to test drive Flash CS3 but if you have and you've also used Flex Builder on a regular basis then F;ash's ActionScript Editor will suddenly appear like a second class citizen to you.
Date: 2007-06-08
Linux Server Tool To Convert FLV To WAV
It seems that the longest ever thread in the forums is starting to bear some fruit. Nellynomore (I love that name) is a Linux tool which can convert FMS recorded FLV audio/video to WAV, which you can then convert further to MP3 or whatever sound format you prefer.
Date: 2007-06-01
MapQuest Launches ActionScript API
MapQuest has launched a new, Adobe ActionScript API that will allow developers to use a robust toolset with the benefits of ActionScript 3.0. Developers will be able to build rich applications with Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash software using a native API for ActionScript for better developer productivity.
Date: 2007-05-29
Slider Control Movie Clip
I am creating a Flash-based tutorial and one of the features I'm using is a slider bar for controlling the interval between "pages" (frames). It consists of a track (used as either a graphic or a movie clip, I can't remember which), a ball (used as a button with the startDrag code attached), and both of those make up the slider control movie clip.
Date: 2007-05-25
Adobe FLVCheck
Adobe have just released a new tool by the name of FLVCheck which allows publishers to 'clean up' malformed FLV video files. FLVCheck will ensure that your files are properly formed. The FLVCheck tool will verify internal timestamps, metadata, and message headers to help identify FLV files that may have trouble playing back from Flash Media Server.
Date: 2007-05-18
Flash Site Dilemma
I've had a client contact regarding his website that was built in flash. The site is indexed but not surprisingly search engines don't rank it at all. The whole site is done in flash, even the content, so effectively it's 1 page.
My dilemma is should I:
Date: 2007-05-11
Hands-On-Guide
To Flash Video
Some of you may know that I've been working on a
book, together with my co-author and all
round video meister Jan Ozer.
Date: 2007-05-04
Silverlight
And Flash - As Bad As Each Other
Oh dear I have to try hard to stop myself from a huge rant
here - and I most likely won't succeed.
My personal feeling about Silverlight,
in a nutshell, is that yes, it does pose a threat to Adobe...
Date: 2007-04-27
Adobe
DRM Solution For Flash Video
We all saw it coming and here it is. Adobe is to offer a
DRM solution for Flash Video via its own Adobe
Media Player, previously code named Philo.
Date: 2007-04-20
Justin.tv
- 24/7 Live Streams In Flash
I'm going to be proven right: live Flash video is going
to be huuuge this year. Take Justin.tv
as an example - this guy wear a webcam strapped to his
head and he does this around the clock.
Date: 2007-04-13
Flash
Is 99% Good
Well Flash improved and was way up on accessibility and
usability; Jakob even joined erstwhile Macromedia to work
together to improve Web Usability and develop best
practices for developing Rich Internet Applications.
Date: 2007-04-06
Search
Engines and Flash
The article is sobering for those of us who were hoping
for a 100% optimizable version of Flash, but at the same
time I must stress that there are ways to optimize around
Flash if no other alternative is possible.
Date: 2007-03-30
Chizen:
'Flash Media Server A Big Surprise'
In it he mentions his suprise about the power of Flash
video and states how Flash Media Server turned out to
be a big surprise. I wonder what he means by that - Flash
video is exploding, that's clear, but FMS was never a
product that has been pushed very hard by neither Macromedia
nor Adobe.
Date: 2007-03-23
Trillian
Gets Flashy
I initially saw this on Ryan
Stewart's RIA blog and then again on Aaron
West's TrajikyHip blog: The next version
of Trillian, codenamed Astra, will be based on Flash and
will also have a desktop client that provides integration
with the host operating system - possibly even cross-platform.
Date: 2007-03-16
Tips
for Flash Implementation
I have written a few times about the problems with putting flash on your site.
It’s cool, and it’s sexy, but search engines want text rich sites, and movies
and text rich content don’t mix.
Date: 2007-03-09
Flash
Transparency In Firefox
A WebProWorld member has
been struggling with some cross-browser compatibility issues regarding Flash transparency.
This is surely a common problem and I thought was worth bringing up in FlashNewz.
WebProWorld member Matheen
writes:
Date: 2007-03-02
5
Days Of Live Webcasting: The Making Of Heidies
I really wanted to follow up on
this and I am happy to now present you with an email interview with an official
spokesperson from Diesel. As you may remember, Diesel instigated the Heidies campaign
in which two girls hijack
Diesel.com, holding their underwear salesman and his unreleased intimate collection
hostage, and broadcast live for five days, courtesy of Flash
Media Server.
Date: 2007-02-23
Consuming
A WebService With Flash Media Server 2
Friday's here and you know what that means - three more awesome Flash sites for
you all to dissect. This week's selection goes a long way to showcase just how
spectacular a well-designed Flash site can look.
Date: 2007-02-16
Flashy
Video Advertising
Whether you wish to promote your business, or as YouTube says "Broadcast Yourself,"
video content beats text adverts hands down. First, the viewer gets to see the
merits of your products and services instead of being told about them. Second,
videos say more in less time so it's more convenient to the people you want to
advertise your business or yourself, too.
Date: 2007-02-09
FMS:
Pending Clients Before Accepting A Connection
I'm currently working on a video chat app using Flash Media Server and Flex. This
will be version 2 of my Ameegos.com
excercise and this time I want to add real scalability to the app.
Date: 2007-02-02
Why
BBC Doesn't Use Flash (Video)
Those of you based in the UK (and probably some of you who aren't) may have noticed
some recent
changes on the BBC website, in particular the update to the audio and video
player which now uses Windows Media Player as well as Real Player (it used to
be just Real).
Date: 2007-01-26
Preserve your site's uptime and integrity
Thinking your web environment is secure and knowing it's secure are two entirely different things. With your data, your site's uptime and your business' reputation all hanging in the balance, thinking your security is adequate just isn't good enough. You have to know, without a doubt, that from every angle everything is secure.
Date: 2007-01-25
SEO Friendly Flash
6 different web designers have asked me about making Flash SEO friendly in the last month, so I'll post some tips here.
Date: 2007-01-19
Adobe, Verisign, FMS And P2P
If you are on the ball when it comes to Flash Video then youre likely to have seen the press release that made the rounds in the last few days.
Date: 2007-01-12
Build Desktop Applications with Adobe Flash or Flex
Zinc™ 2.5 is the Industry Standard Solution to Create, Build and Deploy real Desktop Applications for Windows and Mac OSX based upon the Adobe (previously Macromedia) Flash® Format!
Date: 2007-01-09
Scammers Go Phishing With Flash
Since anti-phishing measures can involve analyzing the content of a page to determine if it is a phish or not, some criminals have shifted to Flash to evade their notice.
Date: 2007-01-05
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