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Developing Video Player for Android

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Android Video Player

One of the issues you may face when developing an application for Android is embedding of a video player into your application. A standard SDK provides two ways of solving this problem. You may use a low-level MediaPlayer class or a ready visual VideoView component in conjunction with MediaController, a standard playback control panel. Both approaches have their downsides, so we decided to develop our own video component, AVideo. In this post, we will discuss how you can use this component in your application and what are its benefits. Continue reading →

Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5

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Version-to-version, fans of any software product expect innovations or even dramatic improvements from their favorite package. No doubt this applies to content delivery servers. Well, what users expect from a streaming server today? They want it “to be quick, safe, easy and stream to all devices at once”. In fact, those were the criteria used by Adobe in developing the new version of Flash Media Server 4.5. In this post, we’ll review the main innovations and improvements of the new media server announced a few hours before. You can read the press release here. Continue reading →

Preparing Video Content for the Web

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Efficient content preparation for the Web is becoming ever more difficult:

  • Increasing number and variety of devices: PCs, laptops, mobile devices and TV screens
  • Video sources are encoded in different formats using various codecs
  • Video codecs are becoming more complex (but also more efficient)
  • Growing volume of content and its quality: SD, HD and Full HD.

In this post, we will discuss the major development issues related to content preparation to ensure the highest video quality to your users. Continue reading →

Omniture SiteCatalyst vs. Google Analytics

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Сравнительный анализ

Many market experts, Web developers and site owners are constantly looking for optimal solutions for Web portal analytics to increase their conversions. There are many Web analysis products available in the market. They are either paid or free, focused at a particular aspect of Web analysis, offered as a service or a solution. When choosing Web analysis solutions, companies are often interested in what is available in paid analytics and what is worth the money. This is especially vital in the context of similar freeware, first of all, Google Analytics. Let’s now discuss the benefits of paid analytics compared to its freeware competition. Continue reading →

Wowza 3: Battle of Media Servers

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wowza vs fms

Media server is a dedicated server to deliver audio / video content to users. Explosive growth of online video views has led to a substantial growth of the media server market and sharpening of competitive conditions (Adobe sued Wowza). Adobe Flash Media Server and Wowza Media Server are the main players on this market. Both products are actively developing. Their already impressive feature set is continuously enhanced with new fascinating functionalities. Earlier this year, Wowza announced its new release, Wowza Media Server 3. Wowza and Adobe are moving in the direction of cross-platform video content availability to all user screens. In this post, we’ll share our hands-on experience in testing Wowza 3 and give you an idea of its major functional innovations. Continue reading →

Flash Access: Live Video Protection

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As live streaming is gaining popularity, the necessity to protect the content from illegal copying and unauthorized use is also growing. In this post, we will describe how you can implement content protection based on Adobe Flash Media Server and Adobe Flash Access to further optimize your live streaming. Continue reading →

Video Portals

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Online video is growing increasingly popular every day. Many Internet portals offer online video features to their users. We would like to offer you the list of popular video portal so you can get familiar with the online video strategies of the largest Web, telecom and media companies. We hope that this will possibly inspire you to implementing new features in your own projects. Continue reading →

More on OpenX Features

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In this post, we continue our overview of the OpenX ad server. This time, let us consider the basic features of this product in depth. When preparing and launching our campaign, we should focus at advertising formats, targeting options, and statistics. For all these aspects of online advertising, OpenX has implemented the most demanded features and more specific options. Moreover, it offers a flexible developer framework to extend the server functionality and meet the customer specific requirements. Continue reading →

Showing OpenX Ads in Android Applications

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The mobile advertising market is constantly gaining momentum, and many Android application developers are interested in ads based content monetization. Most of them use the services of AdMob, the largest provider of mobile advertising. But AdMob is in no way the only alternative. An open and free OpenX Web advertising server can also be used to show ads in mobile applications. In this post, we will show how to do this and who may benefit from it. Continue reading →