The full video webcast of Schneider TM and Lustfaust performing during the opening event of Haunch Of Venison Berlin is now available for on-demand viewing on the Lustfaust blog.
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Interesting and informative Flash Video tip by Felix Raab (betriebsraum):
Calculating an optimal buffer size.
To calculate the buffer size you should consider three values, the length of your flv file in seconds, the bitrate of your flv file in kilobits per second and the user’s bandwidth in kilobits per second.
More on Buffering:
After a few weeks over-excited by papervision 3D stuff is time to go back to some other old hot Flash topics such as FLV (Flash Video)
Why BBC doesn’t use Flash Video:
Don’t miss this post by Stefan Richter where he resumes a reply from Steve Hermann to user comments about recent changes on the BBC website and in particular why the BBC chose not to use Flash Video for its news stories.
Wordpress FLV Plugins:
A couple of good WorPress plugins to embed FLV. Both plugins use Jeroen’s FLV Player.
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Today in a conversation with a friend about Google Video player interface, I realise that people don’t even use a small percentage of the nice features that the player offers.
I’m not going to get into the discussion of why use Flash instead of Quicktime, Windows Media Player or any other kind of technology (The Rise of Flash Video), I just want to highlight a few Video Google player features:
Link within a Video:
You can access to specific points inside a video. All you have to do is add the time you’d like to access to the end of a video’s URL, like this.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Caption Playback:
Go to this page, select a captioned video, and while playing it you can click on the [CC] symbol to turn captions on and off.
How to make a transparent flash video using Adobe After Effects 7.0 Pro and Flash, by Paul Jenkins.
[UPDATE:]
Flash: Full-Screen Mode
Flash full-screen mode and Flash Player Update 3 Beta 1 (build 9.0.60.120)
This is just an attempt to create a full screen Flash Video piece (original video size 360 x 204), trying to keep a decent quality by using Video.smoothing property
You can see the result here: Full Screen FLV.
You can download the source files here. (The video is not included)
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Wordpress plugin to simplify the process of inserting flash video inside a Wordpress post or page. The plugin is build around Jeroen Wijerings FLV Player
If you want to insert mp3 files inside a Wordpress post or page, you should take a look at WP-SingleMP3
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Fisrt day in the office after a nice holidays in Valencia (Fallas) and I feel a little bit lazy yet, cleaning up my computer I found a few links to FLV tutorials and articles that might interest to someone:
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A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors re-cut trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies.
This is the winner: Shining
Someone ask me about creating a background pattern with video, which it is not a big deal since we can use MovieClip.beginBitmapFill method in order to fill a drawing area with a bitmap image or like in this case with a video by using the BitmapData.draw method.
SWF sample (You need a webcam):
[flash]http://www.blog.lessrain.com/wp-content/upload/tilebackground3.swf,400,200[/flash]
Macromedia has released a couple of new interesting Flash Video articles:
Fabio Sonnati has a very nice and useful article in his blog about how to de-interlace video in real-time using the Convolution Filter in Flash 8.
Worth to read: Flash real-time deinterlacing best-practice.
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