My Flash Wanderings
Adobe has released the version 1.0 of Adobe Media Player the video playing software that lets you watch your videos online or offline. With it you can queue up and download Internet TV content, and having your personal video library. Continue reading ‘Adobe Media Player and Adobe TV Released’
Mike Chambers posted a great new video over at video.onflex.org, of an interview with Deeje Cooley. from the Adobe Media Player team,
where he show us in more detail some of the capabilities of the player like RSS agreggation where You can actually add the feeds of internet Tv Shows like Blip.tv, another cool feature for advertising is the ability to add interactive video advertising on top of your video he gave an example of a guy wearing a green jacket and the ad pops up if You click on it it will pause the video and pop up a window with details and price of the item imagine the posibilities of this, enough of my blah blah blah go on and check it for Yourself.
You can view the entire video here.
This video comes from the Web 2.0 Expo where Kevin Lynch was presenting found on Daniel Dura’s weblog
Adobe is going to release a DRM solution for Flash Video via Adobe Media Player.(one of Adobe firs Apollo Apps) This player was anounced at NAB and with it the consumers will be able to play FLV content right in their desktop ( Mac and Win System Linux support will follow ) and the publishers of the content will have the option to restrict the content in various forms its suppose to have a Beta Version in the summer some of its features will be:
- Double click an FLV file to play it inside the Media Player, including HD footage, and do so cross platform.
- Stream, download and manage FLV content, watch it offline.
- Create Playlists.
- Automatically download your favourite shows.
- Protect FLV content both in downloadable and streaming format.
- Track your content.
Yummy can’t wait to have my hands on this baby.
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Adobe opens the SWF and FLV formats
Adobe has just dropped the licensing restrictions on the SWF and FLV formats as part of the open screen project .
Here’s an excerpt of the text in the Open Screen Project’s site.
The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.
Specifically, this work will include:
* Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
* Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
* Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
* Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free.
What does this means for us developers ? It means that now you can use this formats to create players that read in this formats… exiting huhh !!!!.
More info and a video of Kevin Lynch Adobe CTO explaining more deeply what this means for the developer community visit the Developer section of the Open Screen Project on Adobe’s site.