Category Archives: Online Video

Online Video Services and DRM Technology

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Over the last few years, the multimedia technology has been growing exponentially. Twenty years ago, the analog over-the-air broadcast was the top experience available. Now, online video services make an increasing impact on the TV industry. You will find useful DRM technologies overview in this article (I hope). It was published in the latest issue of Russian magazine Telesputnik. Continue reading →

Now.ru + Adobe + DENIVIP Media = Success Story

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Now.ru

Recently Adobe published Success Story on using wide range of Adobe technologies and products in Now.ru project. Technologies and products mentioned: Flash Media Server, Flash Access, Flash Player, AIR, HTTP Dynamic Streaming and many others. Success Story is available here here.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →