Recently we have finished content protection system (DRM) based on Microsoft Windows Media Rights Management Server software for Innova company. Deployed DRM solution satisfies major rightholders requirements, provides secure video content delivery in Internet and implement various business models (rent, own, etc.). Additionally WM RMS solution is free for commercial despite being very outdated.
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It is unlikely that the ongoing debate over HTML5 vs. Flash is much concerned with technical perspectives, openness or performance. Rather, it is an issue of consumer platform control, driving the businesses of such dominant players like Apple, Adobe, Google and Microsoft. Quite similar views were expressed at Web 2.0 summit, outlining points of control on the platforms plateau.
Here I will outline my view on HTML5 vs. Flash rivalry and its impact on your business. Probably this article will help you in choosing platforms and technologies.
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Apple’s DRM technology is called FairPlay. Its inner workings are kept secret and it cannot be licensed for use with stores other than iTunes and with non-Apple devices. The rationale for this decision can be found in Steve Jobs’ article:
Online web video is accelerating, more and more video content published on web. More people want to know how their content is consumed, whether quality good or not. How often do visitors watch state of the art “loader” designed by talented persons during bufferization? These questions could be answered only by visitors but not artificial testing by Gomez and Keynote services. Don’t get me wrong – they are very usefull but don’t forget your visitors voices. Probably you heard that CDN could help in this, or better hosting could. But it should be measured and we will talk how.
In this article I will describe approach on measuring your video delivery infrastructure in standard Google Analytics reports. Continue reading
Scalable online multimedia projects often require much more than just several video delivery servers. In this article we will cover the process of creating flexible infrastructure making you able to scale up to any number of Flash Media Servers. Using standard network level hardware load balancers often is not an option for RTMP/RTMPE delivery. Network level LB could bring extra restriction on available functionality and be very expensive. That’s why it is very usefull to make dedicated software load balancer to bring extra the flexibility without big expenditures.
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Flash video players become more interesting and complex, and almost as functional as home video systems. We wrote some time ago about DVR, dynamic bitrate and other functions (how to implement them in your player – not yet available in english at the moment). Now we will talk about implementing beautiful dynamic background lights like it made in Philips TV sets.
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In this post I would like to share with you list of video portals (and most interesting video players), made with Adobe Flash technology. Probably, some of them could be interesting for you as the source of inspiration.
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In this article we will go through the exciting service which let you publish online video analytics from your Flash Player to your Google Analytics account. All you need is to put small actionscript code snippet inside your video player. It collects all statistics data and publishes them to Google when possible. Interesting thing that it works in embedded players also. In case you ever dream for TubeMogul video reports inside your Google Analytics panel then your time has come! Start using it right now – it is free, at least during beta.
Product page with actual information is here.
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