Flash and Strobe Media Playback

The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) has been released for a couple of months now, and provides an abstract framework to easily deploy latest Adobe technologies, and a rich plug-in architecture for third parties.

It’s a great framework for … Read More

H.264 Encoding Cookbook for the Flash Platform

Learn the recipes of video compression — both as an art form and as a highly technical process. This comprehensive technical whitepaper is intended as a reference guide for those whose aim is to improve the overall quality of their … Read More

Flash ‘vs’ H.264 demystified

There are a lot of recent discussions about H.264 replacing Flash as a video format. Technically, this is a wrong comparision (unfortunately quoted by numerous technical news sites including TechCrunch).

Since this blog has been covering Flash Video for many … Read More

Flash Player 10.1 Gala boosts OSX 10.6.3 video performance

Great news for Flash web video. Apple recently exposed their H.264 GPU decoding hardware APIs, and Flash Player 10.1 will be able to use them. This means a significant performance boost for Flash Video on the Mac.

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OSMF Sprint 10 (v0.93) available

A new version of the Open Source Media Framework with locked-down APIs is available now. A great time to start using OSMF, since the update to the final release will be relatively seamless. To learn more about the benefits of … Read More

HBO GO and HBO.com launched – full Flash experience

HBO launched their TV Everywhere product HBO GO this week, allowing subscribers to catch up with their favorite content online. The launch partner is Verizon FIOS, meaning if you have FIOS and are an HBO subscriber, you can enjoy the … Read More

Jesse Warden’s OSMF video overview

Jesse Warden, Flash/Flex guru, posted a video on his weblog describing OSMF and some of the features and concepts behind it. Great video to get a quick overview to understand how OSMF adds value to the video community.

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Flash Player 10.1 to support Core Animation on OSX 10.6, provides performance boost

Tinic Uro, senior computer scientist on the Flash Player team, unveiled some very interesting details about the upcoming support for OSX 10.6 Core Animation in Flash Player 10.1.

“Amazing, so many things have happened in the Flash Player engineering team … Read More

Exporting instant, edited on-demand highlights clips during live events with FMIS

My new Adobe Developer Center article is now available. This article demonstrates how to build an application that uses Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) as an editing module for live events without requiring any DVR features on a content-delivery … Read More

The Power of OSMF (v 0.9 released)

The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF – formerly “Strobe”) is an Adobe architected media framework, and is now available in version 0.9. If you worked with Flash video before in the past, you might be familiar the FLVPlayback Flash component, … Read More