On 15/07/2006, at 9:15 PM, hank williams wrote: >> > The *encoder* in flash 8 is only for spark/sorensen (the old codec). > Flash 8 does not have an encoder for vp6/on2, only a decoder. Vp7 is > irrelevant to flash. To Encode in vp6 you need to get code from on2. > They have four solutions for encoding. > > 1 A retail package that allows individual developers to convert any > file to vp6. > 2. A live streaming encoder. (dont know what this costs but I am sure > its expensive) > 3. A server side encoder engine called flix engine. You can use this > on the server side to allow people to upload code and to then convert > it to vp6 on the server. ($2500 or $3500) per server - I forget which > ) > 4. An activeX/web plugin that will allow a website operator to give > customers the ability to record video using their webcam or to convert > video to vp6 before it is uploaded to a server. Basically it is a > client side vp6 converter. executed as a plugin that allows for upload > or webcam operation. This solution is *very* expensive. They want 12k > upfron which allows for 5000 uploads, and then you buy uploads in > packs. So for an additional 1800 or so you can get another 5000 > uploads, and for 125k you can get an additional 1M uploads. But you > pay by the upload. > > Regards > Hank >
Thanks for the detailed info hank, the solutions sounds insane, but not for our needs, and thats one damn rip off :) I guess spark it is, or whatever flv encoder codec we end up using. _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
