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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This is not a trick question, but more of a pushback on the recent FUD that various people have been spreading. Quotes such as ‘HTML5 video uses 10% CPU while Flash uses 100%’ were both unprofessional and not backed up by any actual data. The short answer to the above question could in fact be [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, Web Development
Friday, February 26th, 2010
My friend Jan has published some quality comparisons between the Ogg and H.264 video codec. For those who don’t know, Ogg Theora is the video container format and codec favoured by Mozilla for playback of web video in HTML5 whereas H.264 is a widely popular codec – one may say the industry standard – that [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, Streaming Media
Friday, February 19th, 2010
As you may already know, the Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona and it did not take long for the first announcements to hit the interwebs. Adobe has of course a large presence at MWC and today announced support for Flash Player as well as Adobe AIR [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, mobile
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Version 0.9 of the Open Source Media Framework has just been released. For those who haven’t heard about OSMF (formerly codenamed Strobe) yet, it is an ActionScript based framework to help facilitate the easy development of media players running on the Flash Platform. The framework is open source and supports not only video and audio [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, Streaming Media
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Adobe have just announced the immediate availability of the version 2 of Stratus, an update to the existing Peer 2 Peer rendezvous service that was launched in 2008.
In Adobe’s words: “Adobe Stratus 2 enables peer assisted networking using the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) within the Adobe Flash Platform. The most important [...]
By: Stefan Richter
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I’ve just received an interesting email from Jaromir Sivic, a czech developer who sent me news about a project of his called ‘Radical Flash Chat’. While I haven’t tried myself yet, Jaromir describes it as a framework that enables PHP and ASP.NET developers to build and manage their own Video Chats, Flash Chats [...]
By: Stefan Richter
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
I’m very late with this piece of news, I know, but in case you haven’t heard both Adobe and Wowza have released updates to their respective Media Server technologies. I must admit that one of these updates appears more significant than the other as Wowza have pushed out a major new version with Wowza Media [...]
By: Stefan Richter
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
This blog is slowly turning into a ColdFusion site it seems Blame ColdFusion for that, it’s the one application server that I know a bit about and I really like working with.
Today I needed to install CF9 on Windows Server 2008 64bit and I ran into a few issues which forced me to [...]
By: Stefan Richter in ColdFusion, Flash
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
The guys are Wowza continue to be hard at work pushing their platform – with good success as it turns out. They took first place in two categories at the Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards for Best Streaming Innovation and Best Server Hardware/Software.
“The Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards are the only awards of their kind [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Flash, Streaming Media, Video Player
Friday, November 20th, 2009
I’m finally finding a bit of time (at 10pm) to upload a little video demo that had been sitting on my hard drive for a couple of months. The premise was that I wanted to have a play with the new dynamic bitrate streaming feature in Flash Media Server so I grabbed a trailer from [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Apple, Flash, Open Source, Streaming Media, Video Player, Video streaming