Kevin Lynch live in concert

06/26/2008 07:10 pm by Peter Elst in Video
“In case it wasn’t clear already, you’re now watching Kevin Lynch live in concert. This isn’t just one track. No, this is a video of the entire live Kevin Lynch concert at Paradiso - Main Hall.”    http://www.fabchannel.com/kevin_lynch_concert/   That made me laugh, remember being at Spark Europe in October 2005, the last Macromedia conference I attended before Adobe [...]

Really Nice H.264 Flash Video Demo

01/07/2008 09:52 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
Fabio has posted a very nice H.264 video on his blog which he encoded using the free FFMPEG tool. This file played absolutely smoothly on my standard, consumer grade ADSL line and while I am not sure about the encoding bitrate used here I would like to point out that the video looks tons better than the so called Digital TV signal that Sky is pushing down on me. And Fabio's demo was running at 1600x1200 on my screen.

This year will be an awesome one for Flash video. I hope some clever developer will add some interactivity and community tools to this sort of viewing experience. Whoever said that Tv was dead was dead right. Hey, that gives me an idea...

How to Stream H.264 Flash Video *Today*

12/18/2007 07:40 pm by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
Or maybe I should say pseudo-stream... but hey, at least the headline got you to read the post :-)
I'm sure that by now you all know about this popular PHP approach to serving FLV videos progressively, but with the added benefit of being able to seek to any part of the video more or less immediately - something that traditional progressive delivery is not capable of.
The PHP approach (which in the meantime has been ported to many other server side languages such as ASP and ColdFusion) is targeted squarely at FLV delivery, a format which may lose a bit of its popularity over the coming months as H.264 support for Flash video becomes more widely available.
But fear not, because the clever guys from code-shop have alread been busy developing a H.264 pseudo streaming plugin for Lighty, a very light weight and performant webserver. The plugin allows Lighty to serve up H.264 encoded video content in an almost identical way to the 'old school' PHP method. The implementation as a webserver plugin is also much more efficient than the script based approach (which itself is not bad at all).
You can check out a demo here.

How About this for some Fantasticly Looking Video?

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
Fabio 'Encoding Wizard' Sonnati has outdone himself once again and published an HD resolution video clip on his site. What's stunning about this example is the low bitrate of only 500kbit.sec, while maintaining an amazing quality.

Double click the video to go full screen. Nice job Fabio!

360 Degree Interactive Video

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
Forget spinning cubes with video stuck on their sides and instead check out the demo below. From Immersive Media, same the guys that brought you street view on Google Maps, comes an innovative new way to navigate 360 degrees inside a live playing video. How is it delivered? Flash of course.

Check out this demo. Once the main content starts to play you can click inside the video and drag your mouse into the direction you want to view. Make sure you check out the snowboarders at about 1 minute in - and follow them as they go over the kicker.

There are more demos here.

CBS Launches New HD Video Player

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
CBS have launched their redesigned Flash based video player supporting H.264 HD videos. Viewers are able to watch full length episodes of their favorite shows such as CSI, Criminal Minds and How I met Your Mother, to name but a few.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to bring up any of the content which I presume is down to geographical restrictions. Hopefully viewers from the US could try the player and tell us about their experience by leaving a comment below.

Implementing Click-To-Seek For The FLVPlayback Component

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
If you are using the FLVPlayback component in combination with a custom UI seekbar component then you may have asked yourself why the seekbar is not clickable. Many video players implement this functionality: rather than having to find the handle, drag it and let go it is possible to click the seekbar anywhere to jump to that point.

Fortunately it is ot too difficult to add this piece of behaviour. The following code is applicable to an instance of the FLVPlayback component on stage (instance name 'player') not using a skin but using a custom UI seekbar component (instance name 'seekbar'). player.seekBar = seekb; seekb.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onclick); seekb.useHandCursor = true; seekb.buttonMode = true; function onclick(e:MouseEvent):void { var seekto = ((this.mouseX-seekb.x)/seekb.width)*100; trace(seekto); player.playheadPercentage = seekto; } Give that a try and you should be able to click the seekbar to jump to any point in the video (provided you are streaming or - if using progressive download - the video has already loaded up to the part you are trying to seek to).

BBC Adds More Channels To Simulcast Lineup

01/01/1970 01:00 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players
The BBC will be adding several channels to its online simulcast lineup shortly, including BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies. This is in addition to the already announced simulcast (read: live streaming) of BBC One.

Viewing habits and TV consumption is rapidly changing and this announcement just underlines the obvious trend. I'm sure future generations will find it very strange indeed that programs used to start at set times. Of course the really cool thing about this announcement is the fact that Flash will once again play a key role, since the streams are likely to be streamed via the iPlayer or one of its live-streaming-baby-brothers. Personally, I'm determined to ride this wave... watch this space.

The full press release is here.

And the usual disclaimer for everyone not in the UK: sorry but you'll be GEOIP blocked when trying to access any of the BBC streams. Those fortunate enough to be in the UK must hold a valid TV license (yes, no kidding, even if you have no TV but watch on a laptop or mobile phone).

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