Speaking of cool thing w/Actionscript and flash video... Keith Peters over at bit-101.com did a cool example w/ a webcam. If you have a webcam...check out his sept. 8th entry. You have to click on lauch bit 101 experiments at the top of the page.
--- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think Flash 8 video looks pretty good on the web. > My problems with it are: > > - Requires Flash to encode Flash 8 video. Flash is very expensive software. > > - Requires Flash 8 plugin to view and is not backwards compatible with > previous versions of Flash plugin (if you can't install quicktime > plugin, you won't be able to install Flash plugin either). > > - Still doesn't solve the portability issue with Flash, being that the > video file requires a separate controller for playback. Why can't > Flash natively play Flash video without a controller? I know its > possible to do some cool stuff now with Flash/Actionscript, and there > is a new external API for Actionscript that I need to learn more > about, but that requires way more development in Flash/Actionscript > than I'd care for. > > > my 2 cents. > > -Josh > > > > On 1/20/06, Joe Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Has anyone here been playing w/ the new Flash Video Encoder included > > > w/ Flash 8 Pro? > > > > I recently switched to Flash 8 from QT. The quality is much better than it > > was in Flash 7. I think the compression is better, too. > > > > Only problem, is that a lot of people still haven't upgraded their players. > > Flash 8 won't play on older players. I have a little notice under my videos > > warning people in advance. Haven't had any complaints so far. > > > > I prefer to load/play my FLVs using the www.proxus.com player. > > > > joe > > www.HotBizz.com > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > ________________________________ > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
