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Date: 2008-11-05
Hack Allows Flash Videos to be Cached and Kept
This includes the videos from Amazon and other pay for view sources that use the Adobe Flash video servers.
Date: 2008-10-10
Tutorial: Make an Object Move Along a Path
I’m taking this tutorial from the point of where you have a character or object and would like it to move along a designated path, drawn on the Stage.
Date: 2008-10-03
Adobe Introduces Flash Media Encoding Server
Adobe today announced the Flash Media Encoding Server at IBC. This is a new scalable, high-performance solution for converting multiple video file formats to Flash video (FLV/F4V) and the latest addition to the Adobe Flash Media Server family of products.
Date: 2008-09-19
NBC Drops Silverlight Due to Low Olympic Presence
While 40 million US visitors to NBCOlympics didn’t have Silverlight installed, Adobe Flash is already installed on some 98 percent of Internet-connected computers.
Date: 2008-09-12
iPhone Ads Declared Misleading by ASA
The BBC are reporting today that the recent iPhone advert which says "all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone" has been called "misleading" by the Advertising Standards Authority.
Date: 2008-09-05
Adding Click-to-Seek in FLV Playback
If you are using the FLVPlayback component in combination with a custom
UI seekbar component then you may have asked yourself why the seekbar
is not clickable. Many video players implement this functionality:
rather than having to find the handle, drag it and let go it is
possible to click the seekbar anywhere to jump to that point.
Date: 2008-08-29
Flash Video Workflow to Enable Voice-to-Text
This is not brand new news it may not have reached the mainstream. Adobe has big plans for its video production workflow and voice-to-text extraction could be a new milestone in their quest for world domination (ok, maybe I am exaggerating a bit)..
Date: 2008-08-22
BBC Encodes in High Quality iPlayer
The BBC have started to roll out an updated version of the iPlayer which offers a new 'high quality' option, delivering video encoded in H.264 at 800kbps. And wow, does it look sweet
Date: 2008-08-15
onDisconnect Errors in Internet Explorer
I've just managed to iron out a nasty bug in one of my FMS apps and this issue will likely affect other applications.
Date: 2008-08-08
VOD Application Troubleshooting
This post should be read in conjunction with my previous one about virtual directories with the FLVPlayback component and FMS.
Date: 2008-08-01
Flash SEO Still in its Infancy
Google and Adobe had finally announced that Flash .swf files could be crawled by Google! I wanted to add my voice to the buzz on this topic and share with you my thoughts on how to optimize a site using Flash while considering the current updates.
Date: 2008-07-25
Flash Developers Enter Meez $20,000 Contest
Making money is hard these days. But for Flash Game Developer, Meez got a “Avatar Games Contest” with over $20,000 prize in cash.
Date: 2008-07-18
Flash Files Now Searchable in Google!
Adobe has just made it easier for Google and Yahoo! to uncover Web content that was previously “invisible” to Web searches.
Date: 2008-07-11
Euro 2008 Live in France Streamed With Flash
This is a follow-up to my post “Live Uefa Euro 2008 via FMS”. I’ve just heard that the Euro 2008 is streamed live with Flash in France too.
Date: 2008-06-27
Organize Imports in FlexBuilder
Do you write a lot of ActionScript classes in FlexBuilder? I do and one of the great little keyboard shortcuts I use time and time again is Apple-Shift-O (or Source > Organize Imports, for a Windows shortcut consult the docs).
Date: 2008-06-20
Use Flash and FMS to Control a Submarine
And now for something completely different. Have you ever thought about riding a submarine? Or how about simply controlling it, RC style? Well now you can and you can do it in style via Flash and FMS.
Date: 2008-06-13
What is Silverlight Trying to Accomplish?
Usually solutions are there to solve problems, yet I am having a hard time figuring out which problem Silverlight is trying to solve. My view point on Silverlight is that of an end user since I have not yet developed any Silverlight content. This is not down to a lack of interest either, after all it is a much hyped technology, but due to a lack of development tools on my chosen operating system, OSX.
Date: 2008-06-06
Zero Day: Virus Attacks Adobe Flash
While ISC has not upped the threat level yet, some 20,000 web servers have been hit with a code injection that leads to a zero day flaw in adobe flash, providing total ownage of your computer.
Date: 2008-05-30
Flash Optimization and Decompiler Programs
Flash Decompiler Trillix is perhaps the only tool available for the Mac which can help you regain lost FLA source files. It supports up to Flash 9 and ActionScripts 3.0. The people from Eltima were nice enough to send me a review copy of their software.
Date: 2008-05-23
Flash Player 10 Now Featuring P2P, Speex and UDP
Flash Player 10 Beta has just dropped on Labs and while the most hyped features center around 3D support and custom filters (amongst other things), there’s also a goodiebag full of toys for the audio/video crowd.
Date: 2008-05-16
The 360 Degree Interactive Video Experience
Forget spinning cubes with video stuck on their sides and instead check out the demo below. From Immersive Media, same the guys that brought you street view on Google Maps, comes an innovative new way to navigate 360 degrees inside a live playing video. How is it delivered? Flash of course.
Date: 2008-05-09
Flash Now Open Source!
Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and with it came the ultimate good news — the SWF and FLV/F4V formats are now totally open source. Adobe has dropped the licensing restrictions on the formats.
Date: 2008-05-02
Unworthy of the Flash Goddess Crown
So back in January this year, Flashnewz reported the commencement of the 2008 Flash Goddess Award. Flashgoddess.com, a site promoting the creativity of female flash designers everywhere was set to grant a mortal woman a title that of a goddess! Alas, the deity was spurned by her subjects and due to so few applicants to the contest, a FlashGoddess was not dubbed her title nor granted her magnificent powers.
Date: 2008-04-25
Stream from Virtual Directories with FLVPlayback Component
Here comes a little gotcha that could potentially have you pulling your hair out for a fair few hours, and some more once you realise how simple the 'fix' is.
If you are streaming files from FMS (be it version 2 or 3) then you may have made use of its Virtual Directory feature. This allows you to use a key (basically a named mapping) to point FMS at different storage locations for video files.
Date: 2008-04-18
Flvmagazine.com Caught Stealing Site Content
t's amazing how unscrupulous (and naive) some folks are these days. What's the matter with Flvmagazine.com (no need to go there by the way, the site is rubbish) publishing content that's blatantly scraped off other websites? And not only that, but after stealing the content they don't even give credit to the original author.
Date: 2008-04-11
What’s New In ActionScript 3.0
Here is a recent podcast from Peter Elst on “What’s new in ActionScript 3.0.”
Peter Elst is a certified Flash instructor, Adobe Community Expert, and User Group Manager for the MMUG Belgium. Peter explains what ActionScript 3.0 is capable of and how you can take advantage of it.
Date: 2008-04-04
Flash On The iPhone - Yes Or No
Apple’s iPhone, in recent times, has been the must have uber cool device/phone for those who are style-aware, techno-savvy, geek-cultured, business-professionals and Apple fanboys. It is pehaps one of the most marvellous innovative evolution from Apple, fantastically marketed down the tech-piped throats of the internet-aware civilization.
Date: 2008-03-28
Badmash Flash on US Prime Minister Candidacy
Badmash is bored. Don’t get us wrong. We love us some Bollywood. We couldn’t help but getting addicted to MTV Roadies. We even admit to curling up with an episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati every once in a while.
Date: 2008-03-21
Adobe Publishes Flash Media Server 3 White Paper
You can now download a comprehensive (over 50 pages!) long white paper from the Flash Media Server 3 product page (click the White paper link on the right or simply click here).
Date: 2008-03-14
No Flash On The iPhone
On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone.
Date: 2008-03-07
Using Video.smoothing with the FLVPlayback Component
Sometime last year Fabio asked this question on his blog:
“...why very often is video.smoothing property not used ? This is completely obscure to me because in my opinion a smoothed video is always better than a blocky one.”
Date: 2008-02-29
The EFF Speaks Out On Flash Video DRM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Seth Schoen has posted an article on the upcoming - as he calls it - DRM features of Flash Media Server 3.
Date: 2008-02-22
JW FLV Media Player 3.14 Now Available
If you haven’t heard of the JW FLV Media Player yet then you must have been offline for the last year or two. It is is without doubt the most widely used Flash Video player on the net and best of all it’s open source and free to use for non commercial projects.
Date: 2008-02-15
The 2008 Flash Goddess Award
Flashgoddess.com is revving up their 2nd Annual FlashGoddess Contest. If you are a Flash developer, designer, animator and member of the fairer sex now is the time to receive your accolades.
Date: 2008-02-08
Flash Can Modify Router’s UPnP Interface
Security firms and Interested Institutes keep stumbling on security issues and vulnerabilities almost every waking hour of the day. Very recently, Google Researchers documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash SWFs
Date: 2008-02-01
Flash Media Server 3 Is Here!
Adobe have today released Flash Media Server 3. The server now ships in two editions, the Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 (FMSS) is ideal if all you want to do is serve up live or on demand video while the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3 (FMIS) gives you access to all features including video recording, server side Shared Objects and more.
Date: 2008-01-25
Serious Flash/UPnP Issue Identified
Click on a single malicious Flash file, and you risk losing control of your router, according to two researchers. GNUCitizen.org’s Petko D. Petkov and Adrian Pastor judge the issue to be “HIGHLY SEVERE!”
Date: 2008-01-18
Creator of Java Disses Flash
I thought Flash Bashing, these days, was done only by the Internet’s semi-literates! Coming from a respectable person like James Gosling, the creator of Java is rather uncalled for.
Date: 2008-01-11
ActionScript 3.0: NOT Hard to Learn
I regularly hear people claim, incorrectly, that to use ActionScript 3.0, you have to know object-oriented programming, or every variable's datatype must be declared, or everything has to be in packages and classes.
Date: 2008-01-04
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