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OSMF 1.6 and Strobe Media Playback 1.6 Released

Andrei Ionescu — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:18:28 +0000

Adobe just released the version 1.6 of both OSMF and Strobe Media Playback. The main things added to them are:

Stage Video support for hardware-accelerated video presentation (OSMF)
Smartphone and tablet optimized chrome for Flash-enabled devices (Strobe Media Playback)
HTML5 video player for non-Flash devices (Strobe Media Playback)
JavaScript device detection library for selecting the appropriate player and chrome (Strobe Media Playback)
DVR rolling window support, which allows you specify how far back from the live point viewers can rewind (OSMF)
Late-binding audio for providing viewers with multiple audio track options, e.g. additional languages, director’s commentary, and “home” v. “away” coverage (OSMF)
Improvements to HTTP Dynamic Streaming as well as the ability to better manage bitrate profiles with multi-level manifests (OSMF)

AIR 2.0 Is Now Available!

Andrei Ionescu — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:56:00 +0000

Yesterday, Adobe has released AIR 2.0 runtime and can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/air/.

The new things in AIR 2.0 are:

New Webkit with additional HTML5 and CSS3 support
Multitouch and gestures
Enhanced drag-and-drop support
Enhanced socket support
Enhanced printer interaction
DNS resolution
Local microphone API
Native document handlers to open document
Native process APIs
Native installer
Socket servers and peer-to-peer networking
TLS/SSL sockets
UDP networking support
Global error handler
IPv6 network support

I named just a few changes but there are a lot more, so please read the release notes.

If you to know even more read the Adobe AIR Team Blog article about the new AIR 2.0 at http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2010/06/introducing_air_2.html

Chromeless Youtube Video Player for Flex

Stelian Crisan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:10:49 +0000

This Flex component allow you to play Youtube movies into you Flex applications and also to be able to customize the look of your player. Actually I put a main movie component and two control sections, one for: play, stop, mute, unmute and time figures (current second and total number of seconds of the movie); the other one it’s for a visual playing time.

The Youtube API for ActionScript 3.0 (this is for Flash, but it’s working also in Flex) that I used it’s available on Google Code at: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html. Youtube API for Flash and ActionScript 2 it’s available at: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference_as2.html.

I implement almost all functions available on this API (see Youtube class), but for this example I use just the basics ones. Also you will see that are some skins for buttons, that you can use.

In order to change the Youtube video ID just go to init() function into ChromelessYoutubeVideoPlayer.mxmml file and change the value._youtube it’s player component, and we set to this the ID value, also we add this to the canvas where this will be in design.

//set video ID
_youtube.videoId = "D-wvgqDWjnk";
_playerArea.addChild(_youtube);

The size of played move it’s set for the moment on Youtube class. It’s better to set the sive before movie starts to play, also, using this API, you can set the playback quality (small, medium, large, hd720) and to see the state of the movie ( unstarted (-1), ended (0), playing (1), paused (2), buffering (3), video cued (5) ).

private function onPlayerReady(event:Event):void {
// Event.data contains the event parameter, which is the Player API ID
trace("player ready:", Object(event).data);
 
// Once this event has been dispatched by the player, we can use
// cueVideoById, loadVideoById, cueVideoByUrl and loadVideoByUrl
// to load a particular YouTube video.
_player = _loader.content;
//load our video ID
_player.loadVideoById(_videoId);
//set movie size
_player.setSize(480,270);
}

I think that it’s better to download the source code, and just try to see how it’s work.

Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) Version 0.8 is Now Available

Andrei Ionescu — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:33 +0000

On 21st of December, OSMF version 0.8 has been released. The new features are:

Live Stream Support – now you can specify the type
Subclip Support
Captioning Plugin
Flash Media Manifest Support – a new XML format for Flash Media
Preassigned Durations
CompositeElement Support for bytesLoaded and bytesTotal
Improved Metadata Merging Support

There has been a lot of refactoring in the OSMF to make it more consistent to Flash Platform, but this means that every player and/or plugin made using OSMF will need some changes to integrate with the new OSMF.

You can read more about the last release of the Open Source Media Framework on their official blog and on Adobe Open Source web site.