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What he's trying to tell us is that the iPhone is underpowered to display most of today's web pages.
I personally don't really care much about this. The iPhone is still an outsider in terms of handset penetration. What would worry me more if I was in Adobe's shoes is Nokia's Silverlight initiative.
Now apparently YouTube wants a slice of that cake and, as Sarah Meyers found out, they'll do it sometime this year. It remains to be seen if Google will put in an order for a couple of FMS license or if they will put their own spin on things, similar to what they did with their current HTTP pseudo streaming solution (check this post if you'd like to know more about that). But long story short, it's almost a given that the actual video will be Flash, regardless of how it gets to the server. At least I have my doubts that Google would use Silverlight :-) Of no, I don;t think Silverlight will support webcam originated video feeds... Bummer.
Well in that case, rock on Flash.
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"Every day on the web new video related sites appear. Video sharing, video delivery sites or simply mashups, all Flash Video based. I'm very happy about this but there is a thing I can't understand and it is : why very often is video.smoothing property not used ? This is completely obscure to me because in my opinion a smoothed video is always better than a blocky one."
Of course he's right, video.smoothing is simple yet effective, once turned on your video will look a lot better. Take the following example.
On the top you see the intro screen of a movie trailer with smoothing turned on, and on the bottom the same screen without smoothing (it looks bad because this video was scaled down quite heavily). Big difference, the top one looks a lot better.
Unfortunately smoothing (a property of the Video object in Flash/Flex) is turned off by default. To turn it on you simply set smoothing to true. Something like
myvideo.smoothing = true;
But what i you're using the FLVPlayback component? How does one access the underlying video object there? It's quite simple really if you know where to look. The FLVPlayback component uses the VideoPlayer object under the hood, and VideoPlayer extends Video and therefore inherits the smoothing property.
Say you have a FLA file (AS3) with an instance of the FLVPlayback component on stage and named it flvpb. You simply need to add the following code to enable smooting:
var videoplayer:VideoPlayer = flvpb.getVideoPlayer(0);
videoplayer.smoothing = true;
Note that you have to specify an index when calling getVideoPlayer(), but if you are not dealing woith indexes then it should normally be 0 anyway.
Hope this helps, go use it and tell your friends how smooth you are.
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