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.


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