Living on the Flash/HTML5 Roller Coaster
Wow, what a roller coaster. Just last week, Adobe announced their decision to stop developing the Flash Player for mobile devices, a decision that looks predestined in retrospect. Faced with the...
View ArticleOzer Interview on Adobe Withdrawing Flash from Mobile Market
As discussed here, Adobe is withdrawing Flash from the mobile market. Here's a video interview that Larry Kless shot of me at Streaming Media West in LA. ...
View ArticleApple to Adobe & Microsoft: With friends like you, who needs enemies?
In the desktop/mobile streaming marketplace, most producers provide two sets of streams; HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for Apple iOS devices and Android devices and either Flash or Silverlight for the...
View ArticleBe Your Own Compression Consultant
So. You’ve decided to add video to your website. Now it’s time to configure the streams.You’re either working with your own streaming server, or using an online video platform (OVP) that lets you...
View ArticleSecure streaming, digital watermarking and Content ID
It's frustrating when you get an email from a reader that you don't know the answer to. Here's one from an overseas streamer who is releasing very topical videos on their site, and despite using RTMPE+...
View Article48 kHz Audio Can Cause Loss of Synch with Flash Playback
Most camcorders capture audio at 48 kHz, so there's a natural tendency to produce your streaming files at that sample rate. There's just one problem; it can cause loss of audio/video synch during...
View ArticleMediaPlatform WebCaster Rich Media Conferencing Systems
I reviewed MediaPlatform's WebCaster product for Streaming Media Magazine and loved it. Here's the intro; check out the full review here. Webcasts are a great tool for acquiring and retaining...
View ArticleIntroduction to Live Streaming Webinar Now Available Online
It's free, of course. Here's the description from the event: Live event streaming is one of those value-added functions that looks harder than it actually is. As such, event streaming represents a...
View ArticleAdobe to Discontinue Flash for Mobile
In a surprise move, Adobe has announced that they will stop the future development of Flash on mobile platforms. Here's a quote from their official blog post. "HTML5 is now universally supported on...
View ArticleBest Explanation of Adobe Withdrawing Flash from Mobile Markets
My colleague Tim Siglin wrote an insightful analysis of Adobe's decision to cease development of the mobile Flash Player that you can read here. To his credit, Siglin actually predicted that Adobe...
View ArticleCool Flash Widget at the Economist (How far behind is Mitt Romney?)
Sometimes I get so caught up in Flash video that I forget that Flash does many other things, from serving as the environment for the WeVideo editor to enabling sites like the Economist to present...
View ArticleMPEG Ratifies Draft Standard for DASH
DASH stands for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, and it's MPEG spec that was unanimously ratified on December 2, 2011. What is DASH? As I open in my article What is MPEG DASH for Streaming Media...
View ArticleSh*t Streaming Video Consultants Say - A Digital Short
What video compression geeks do when they have a spare morning and a camcorder (and a friend who can edit). Enjoy.
View ArticleEncoding for Adaptive Streaming - From Streaming Media West
Here's a video from my presentation at Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, and a link to the PDF of my Powerpoint slides.
View ArticleQuickie Review of Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5
So, here I am at 3:38 on a Sunday AM, suffering from tummy rumbling insomnia fueled by massive chocolate over-indulgence at a dinner party last night (hey, I'm human). For some reason I thought vanity...
View ArticleHandout for Choosing an Enterprise Encoder
Here's the description. Click over to the article page to download the handout. This session will discuss factors to consider when choosing an enterprise video encoding systems from the likes of...
View ArticleWatch my Keynote Address at Sonic Foundry's UNLEASH 2012
OK, so it was the second day keynote, but a keynote nonetheless. Here's the description: The mobile craze, fueled by tablets and smart phones, has implications for how we produce and distribute video...
View ArticleHandout for Encoding Video for HTML5
Click over to the main page to download the handout. Here's the presentation description. Learn the technological fundamentals behind encoding both H.264 and WebM formats for playback with the HTML5...
View ArticleHandout for Encoding for Flash, Mobile, and HTML5 Workshop
Here's the description: Learn the technological fundamentals behind encoding for both H.264 and WebM formats. You'll learn how to encode H.264 for HTML5 distribution and streaming to iOS and other...
View ArticleAnother 5 Star Review for Video Compression For Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5
Another five star review for my book, Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5, from Matt Castrinos, a sales engineer with ViewCast, who manufactures capture cards and encoding devices for...
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