Flash Video Website News

New Linux-based Flash Video Encoding Solution Helps You Build Video Hosing Websites

12.11.2008 :: Read Full Article
Sothink Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash (Linux Version) – A new flash video encoding tool offering you a complete and creative video hosting solution for video uploading and sharing, especially for building your own video hosing site like YouTube and many other popular video sharing sites was released by SourceTec Software Co., Ltd, recently.

This application can complete the video conversion from popular video formats to FLV format with fast speed and excellent picture quality. Support source file formats including avi, mpeg, mpg, mpe, dat(VCD), vob(DVD), wmv, asf, mp4, mov, 3gp, 3g2, 3gpp, dv, qt, rm, rmvb, and etc. You can invoke the flash video encoding in many server-side applications, such as PHP, JSP, Perl and etc to create FLV video files automatically, and start conversion in batch mode.

Apple Quicktime 7 Player annouces it's support for H.264 in the Quicktime Player.

12.08.2008 :: Read Full Article
Massive Quality, Minimal Files
H.264 uses the latest innovations in video compression technology to provide incredible video quality from the smallest amount of video data. This means you see crisp, clear video in much smaller files, saving you bandwidth and storage costs over previous generations of video codecs. H.264 delivers the same quality as MPEG-2 at a third to half the data rate and up to four times the frame size of MPEG-4 Part 2 at the same data rate. H.264 is truly a sight to behold.

Adobe just announced support for H.264 in the Flash Player.

12.06.2008 :: Read Full Article
What does this mean? It means we can deliver stunning quality at remarkably low data rates. What does that mean for websites? It means that we can no offer Super High Resolution video and nearly half the data rate. Now we can make the video bigger!

The Flash Video Explosion

10.30.2008 :: by Greg Stern, Online Media Consultant :: Read Full Article
A number of trends seem to be driving this explosion:

• Rich Internet advertising delivers. Rich media advertising delivers results that are orders of magnitude better than almost anything else out there. Increasingly this means integrating video into rich ads.
• Broadband adoption is exploding. A recent Pew Internet and American Life study claimed that more that half of American adults have broadband at home or the office—and prices for broadband service keep plummeting, driving the trend further.
• Flash helps you get video on the web. Flash MX Professional 2004 provides a complete feature set for integrating video onto websites.
• Flash Player lets everyone see video on the web. Flash Player 7 improves performance and offers progressive downloading of video from web servers.
• Flash Player is ubiquitous. Flash Player 6, required to view Flash video, has reached a 94% adoption level among web-connected computers—a full 30% better than any other video player out there. Even the new Flash Player 7 is at a 67% adoption level.
• Flash Video Streaming Service makes streaming a reality. Macromedia's partnerships with Speedera Networks and VitalStream—which provide customers with huge, scalable Flash video streaming services—make it possible for large media companies like Comcast to build out large Flash video implementations.

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