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This news announcement sparks a lot of questions in my mind.
YouTube moves to the small screen
First off its a little confusing because it says,
Users who subscribe to Verizon’s Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles.
and then states this,
The new deal will mean that VCast users, who pay $15 a month to watch and download video to their mobile, will have access to a limited number of approved videos from YouTube.
How do you go from saying that the Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website and then say they will have access to a limited number of approved videos? First off, the YouTube.com website is a Flash/FLV based media player and Vcast is a Mpeg4 based service, would be interesting to know how they implemented that one. I assume this might be some of the reason for limited number of approved videos? because converting FLV to other formats right now is not something of a smooth process. But we are talking about going from a larger resolution to a smaller one so even if you are going from a compressed format to another you will be alright. Most YouTube.com movies are compressed alot though so I wonder if they are limiting it to videos they have the source to?
Well like I said this new article sparked more questions then answers. It was nice to see that they hooked up a 5-digit code to send videos to for uploading videos. This should make the expansion of social-video-networking go up quite a bit. It would be really cool, this is way out there, to have this fuel Verizon’s relationship with Adobe and push the Vcast system to use FLV (and Flash Lite 2.X/3.0???) instead of or in addition to the Mpeg4 based service of right now. Anything that pushes Flash forward on the mobile device arena is cool.
November 28th, 2006
Now I am from Vegas and have seen the MGM Grand web site for a while now. I believe its one of the greatest examples of Flash Video, Flash, and HTML. The experience and the navigation all comes together really nicely.
Edge newsletter “The edge of Flash”
Here is the site it self MGM Grand
Other Links: MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel and Casino
November 15th, 2006
A news release from Mozilla just released, “Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine“.
Adobe has contributed their source code for ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. The project is called Tamarin.
The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript(tm) Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.
Tamarin will support the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 (”JS2″) language and will be integrated into SpiderMonkey as part of the Mozilla 2 project, to be released in 2008.
David Mendels quote:
What it means is that the next generation of JavaScript will be powered
by the Tamarin VM and that “JavaScript” and “ActionScript” will converge
into a single implementation used by both the Flash Player and the
Firefox browser/SpiderMonkey.
Points to be made:
- Its the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception.
- Now web developers have a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser
- Adobe and Mozilla communities will advance ECMAScript
- accelerating the adoption of a standard language, meaning Adobe is pushing AS3 as a standard language. This will help with the 1 million developers in 5 years…
- Will push interactive experiences that work consistently across PCs and mobile devices
Couple of things, I assume this is just the AS3 VM that was committed to the Mozilla foundation, not the whole Flash Player… well duh.
Does this mean we’ll be able to write in JS and create SWF’s?
Does this mean we can write AS3 in our HTML? most likely.
This is not something terrible new, the guy that wrought MTASC is off doing his own language called haXe now. But the cool thing now is AS3 is not just Flash, its a standard language being pushed at the Mozilla Foundation.
You can chat with Mozilla’s CTO Brenden Eich and Kevin Lynch, today at 10am PST time.
The source of the Tamarin project can be retrieved off the projects site. Its interesting to not the team members on the project.
The core members of the team are currently:
* Dan Smith, Adobe, Tamarin module owner
* Igor Bukanov, Mozilla, engineer
* Brian Crowder, Mozilla, engineer
* Jeff Dyer, Adobe, compiler architect
* Brendan Eich, Mozilla, CTO and JavaScript creator
* Graydon Hoare, Mozilla, engineer
* Steven Johnson, Adobe, Tamarin developer
* Edwin Smith, Adobe, Tamarin creator and VM architect
* Tom Reilly, Adobe, Tamarin garbage collector developer
* Rick Reitmaier, Adobe, Tamarin JIT developer
* Erik Tierney, Adobe, Tamarin developer
November 7th, 2006
The image should explain it all! (I was just looking at the video a few page clicks before this came up)
September 15th, 2006
I have a Treo 700w and have been looking into Flash Players for the Window Mobile 5 OS since I got the phone. The PocketPC Flash Player 7 came out earlier this year and worked well with FLV's but not Flex (at least with Treo 700w small memory size).
Yesterday Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 was annouced as a preview on Adobe labs site. I went ahead and downloaded the Flash Lite player, copied it over through ActiveSync and installed in on my Treo 700w. You then have to navigate to the Program Files/Adobe/FlashLite folder and click on saplaywm.exe file. This creates a License document that you need to open and read. The License document provides a url and a key to register your Flash Lite player to your phone. All a bunch of steps, it feels weird registering a Flash Player to a device.
Now I need some content to test things out, but I didn't know how to create it. I first opened my Treo 700w browser to see how it would handle regular Flash Player 7 SWF's (Note: I still have PocketPC Flash Player 7 on the phone). Well, it seems Flash Lite 2.1 installed over the PocketPC Flash Player 7 because when I went to a site with Flash Player 7 SWF's it gave me the below text in place of the SWF's.
"Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 will support Flash 7 content authored for mobile devices only."
I went ahead and downloaded the Flash Lite update for Flash Professional 8. I downloaded and install the Flash Professional 8 updater and created a simple animation. I exported as Flash Lite 2.0 (no Flash Lite 2.1) and put it up on my server here. I fired up my Treo 700w and pointed to my test URL and to my disappointment I received the same message as above.
How do I create content for Flash Lite 2.1, that will work on Windows Mobile 5?
I see the Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW conversion kit stuff, but creating mobile content is a little confusing.
UPDATE:
The fix had to do with the HTML, this is what it is suppose to look like (note the different "classid"):
XML:
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<object id="flash"
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classid="CLSID:EB8B5B8E-EDB9-4180-9E2E-F8F1632DC171"
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width="150" height="150">
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<param name="movie" value="Flash2_1_test.swf" />
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<param name="quality" value="low" />
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<param name="bgcolor" value="#110000" />
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<param name="loop" value="true" />
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</object>
Thanks Vijayan
You can also find the Windows Mobile 5 Flash Lite 2.1 documentation on labs.adobe.com.
September 13th, 2006
I did not know what to call this post. I have tried to get enough key words into it so if anybody else came across this issue they would find the post. This post is basically about Flash but the issue became apparent while messing with loading Flash animation SWF's into a Flex 1.5 application.
Continue Reading September 8th, 2006
Flash will officially be 10 years young on Wednesday, August 9, 2006. It just happens that it will be around my own birthday. Now I am a little older than 10 years but time sure does fly by.
Well I decided to provide a link to one of my first Flash creations. It was an old site for my BMX Dirt Jumping brother. You can find it here!
It has sound, dragable menu system (a picture of my bro doing an Indian Flare) and even some stick figures swinging in a tree. The videos are not linked in any more but most other part of the Flash file work. Its crazy to celebrate Flash's 10th birthday with so much on the horizon and I can't wait to see what the next 10 have in store.
Be sure to check with your local user groups to see what celebrations are planned.
Oh yeah, here is a link to some people that are trying to gather up old Flash examples.
July 27th, 2006
I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia.
Here is an excerpt:
The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file
Continue Reading July 12th, 2006
(update) Myspace.com hack to help Flash Player 9 pentration numbers.
It has been basically 8 days since the release of Flash Player 9. We have all been told that the pentration of this browser should gain a larger percentage faster then earlier Flash Players. This is because of the newer improvement installation methods.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2006
On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].
There is a bit of information that sparked my attention:
"Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash."
Continue Reading July 7th, 2006
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