We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does – there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video. The <video> tag certainly addresses the basic requirements and is making good progress on meeting others, but the <video> tag does not [...]
[30 Jun 2010]
Our player doesn’t just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren’t necessarily [...]
[14 May 2010]
So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t [...]
[4 Feb 2010]
Trevor McCauley posted two new tutorials today about Flash Player Errors and how to fix them. One covers runtime errors, or errors that occur while a movie is playing. The other covers compiler errors or errors that occur while developing and testing a movie. If you’re not using it already, may I suggest using Flex [...]
[4 Dec 2009]