Category Archives: Online Video

Over The Top (OTT): Pay TV services and platforms

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Over The Top (OTT) TV has become increasingly popular now. Many companies across the globe are offering their products and services related to OTT platforms. Generally speaking, this term is likely to have emerged within the telecommunications industry, as a way for ISPs to avoid becoming wide pipes. At the same time, traditional Internet companies have no idea that Web multimedia can be built otherwise, i.e., not over-the-top, but using a private IP network). In this article, we will discuss OTT, TV and the Internet, and how they all get along together. Continue reading →

Flash Player 10.3: New Features

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Flash Player 10.2

Recently, Adobe has officially released its new Adobe Flash Player 10.3. Most of its enhancements are focused primarily on mobile devices, i.e. Android based phones and tablets. Some fascinating features have also been developed for the PC market. In this article, we will discuss the innovations of Flash Player 10.3 and the capabilities yet to come. Continue reading →

New Players in Online Video Market

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Online video projects are explosively growing worldwide. The viewers are increasingly using the Internet to access high-quality premium content. Online demand for premium content leads to the emergence of new online video projects. In this article, we will discuss two novel exciting portals launched within the last couple of months: Now.ru and Amazon Instant Video. Continue reading →

The Bright Future of Flash

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Adobe announcements from NAB 2011

During the NAB show currently held in Las Vegas, many companies are eager to announce more of fascinating developments prepared for the glorious moment. This event has attracted many people involved with Web based multimedia, as the Web is growing increasingly important to broadcasters. Adobe is in no way an exception. At NAB, they have made a number of important announcements. First of all, they have introduced a new version of Adobe’s desktop solution, Creative Suite 5.5. In addition, a series of Adobe Flash Media Platform enhancements were timed for the event, concerning Flash Player and Flash Media Server. In this article, we will discuss the technical innovations of Flash Media platform, and their application in online video projects. Continue reading →

Flash Media Server and Its Alternatives

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Flash Media Server

As multimedia content becomes globally popular, many online resources are seeking to enhance their pages with embedded video. Most of the Internet traffic is now generated by video content. This is a driver behind Adobe’s successful market indicators, as some of its products (primarily Flash Media Server and Flash Player) are focused at high-quality video publishing on the Web. If your Web resource has no video yet, you should at least consider its effect on the popularity of your site. There are many ways to publish video content. In this context, setting aside third-party hosting, you’d have to face the choice of a media server. It delivers video content from your server to the client application. In this article, we’ll discuss the most popular media servers and their use. Continue reading →

Flash Player 10.2: New Features

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Flash Player 10.2

Recently, Adobe officially released Adobe Flash Player 10.2. The new version introduces many useful features, but probably the most important of them is a new level of hardware acceleration of video playback. Flash performance has long been the object of accusations from the adherents of other even less productive platforms (sometimes, it has become even the object of political or holy wars). Optimization of video playback can drastically reduce requirements for user equipment and significantly expand the audience enjoying enhanced experience at higher bitrates. In the article, we will discuss the new capabilities in more detail. Continue reading →

Russian Video Portals

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The Internet industry in Russia is growing as fast as in many developed countries (USA, Great Britain, Germany), or maybe even faster. This is driven by many factors: a huge audience, broadband adoption and electronic commerce. Web projects in Russia are often following the trend of their Western counterparts. This was discussed at the recent TechCrunch Moscow 2010 conference. As the audience here is largely Russian rather than English-speaking, most major Internet video projects have their Russian implementation. This is unlikely to happen in most of European countries, since the native audience is not so large there and the costs of acquiring rights to the content most probably will not pay off (Hulu model). In this article, we are going to discuss Runet’s largest online video projects. Continue reading →

FMS Live Video: Architecture and Design

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In recent years, online video streaming has been gaining substantial popularity. It has many applications, starting with the already well-known online TV, sports events, conferences and seminars, video on demand and computer gaming tournaments. Also, it is used for online negotiation and collaboration. Internet bandwidth growth has made all of these services possible. Many high-end products are based on online streaming. In this article, we will discuss the basic challenges you should face while designing your online video streaming infrastructure. Continue reading →

How to Choose Flash Media Server

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Flash Media Server is Adobe’s cutting-edge video streaming product, featuring advanced functionality, flexibility and reliability. Its latest version 4 has a variety of new capabilities to enable even more innovative projects. This involves support of RTMFP for P2P communication between the clients. For details of this technology, please follow our next publication. Continue reading →

Flash without Flash: HTML5 Pitfalls

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HTML5 on iPad

However porting of Web application originally created in Flash is not an easy task, still it is not impossible. In this article, we will discuss a few points of migration from the Flash to HTML5 tools and the pitfalls you may encounter on the way.

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