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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 →

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 →

Wowza 3: Battle of Media Servers

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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 →

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 →

HTML5 <- Porting Flash Animation

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In this article, discussing transition from Flash applications and animations to the built-in capabilities of modern browsers, we are repeatedly mentioning the HTML markup language. As we are speaking about the technology of the latest months, this should have involved HTML5. Still, this is not, in fact, the case. Actually, most of the technologies described are applicable to most of HTML dialects, and HTML5 is nothing but a well-known brand (thanks to Apple). However, it really makes sense to create such applications with HTML5, as this dialect has its benefits. It improves the semantics and provides such features as form validation, allowing you to get rid of dozens of JavaScript lines of code. But by itself, HTML5 is not making the picture. Continue reading →

Flash Media Server: Live Streaming And ffmpeg

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Flash Media Server provides excellent functionality to create online video services. One of the most popular video services on the Web is live video. As video origin, Flash Media Live Encoder is often used. This is an excellent freeware encoder, although it has some limitations. In this post, we will discuss how to enable live streaming with Flash Platform products and how to overcome FMLE limitations of 3 bitrates per multi-stream. Continue reading →