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How to Develop AIR Video Applications for Android

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Today, smart phones and tablets have become integral parts of our daily life. People interact with such devices frequently and lengthly over a day. So, mobile and tablet applications have become important channels for content distribution. Launching of virtually any major service includes ad-hoc application development. Segmentation of mobile applications greatly increases the cost to implement a mobile strategy. Adobe AIR allows you to reduce the cost-to-market for cross-platform services. You can develop your application once and then adapt it easily to a range of devices or screens (also, there’s more dexterous Flash developers on the market than iOS or Android experts). In this article, we’ll dwell on some features regarding development of mobile applications with Adobe AIR. Continue reading →

Flash Access 3.0: More Features

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Today, we are happy to publish a post on the new features of Adobe Flash Access 3.0. This is sort of a belated attempt to compensate certain gaps in the Adobe’s documentation. However, as soon as the next generation of Adobe Flash Access supporting iOS will have been announced, the basic features of the current release will become even more important. Continue reading →

OSMF 2.0: New Features

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Online video technologies form an essential part of the Web today. New services and platforms are constantly emerging. By developing multimedia Adobe Flash applications based on OSMF, you can focus directly on user experience rather than multimedia content handling algorithms. Recently, Adobe has issued a new version of OSMF 2.0 multimedia framework. This post is focused on the essential innovations of the latest release. Generally speaking, OSMF 2.0 is the foundation of most of modern video players that ensures uniformity of their design. Continue reading →

HTML5 Video VAST Plug-In

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Today, almost every video content site is using inline advertising. However, no one would bother to say today of some upcoming massive shift from Adobe Flash Player to alternative solutions. Still, the HTML5 <video> tag is evidently becoming a matter of growing interest. Hence the issue of enabling advertising in the new context is emerging. Here we will show you a sample code of HTML5 video VAST plug-in to enable ads with a "clean" <video> tag. Continue reading →

Flash Access 3: DRM in Android Devices

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The popularity of mobile devices is pushing most of online video projects to adapt their services to mobile applications (e.g., tablets or smart phones). In the context of many online video services needing video content protection (for example, to offer content libraries from the major Western movie studios), implementing of DRM features in a mobile video player is becoming a critical task. As always, you have a set of solutions and platforms to choose from. Recently, we wrote of DRM features in iOS. Now, it’s high time to talk about Android DRM. Continue reading →

Adobe Flash Strategy for Mobile Devices

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Adobe’s recent announcement of a new Flash platform strategy for mobile devices have created quite a stir in the industry. The reason for this is the communications gap and misunderstanding which has been primarily caused by Adobe itself. Subsequent Adobe’s explanations have dispelled many fears and exaggerations perpetrated by tabloids. In this post, we’ll look at future developments and their impact on the online video projects. Continue reading →

Video Project Scaling

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Launching of large-scale online video portals requires a great deal of precision and accuracy at the design stage. In addition to complex infrastructure of a Web platform (the portal itself), we have to deal with a no less complex infrastructure video platform (as content delivery is only part of the platform). In this post, we will discuss some of the important principles of online video service design that we have learned over the five years of working on similar projects. Continue reading →

Implementing Audio Tracks in Flash

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In our era of ubiquitous globalization and internationalization, most of Web projects are launched in multiple languages. This especially applies to online video projects. Videos with alternate audio tracks and subtitles often attract viewers by the very fact of their existence. Most of popular content is created outside Russia, so there is abundance of content with original audio tracks and subtitles. Such content allows you to enjoy video in the original quality and detail, and learn foreign languages. In this post, we will tell you how to implement this functionality in Flash video player using OSMF 1.6. Continue reading →