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The Flash Platform in your TV?

by James on 10th December, 2009 in Adobe

This is very intriguing – a range of TVs with iPlayer, YouTube and other snazzy web-based features is available in the UK. Of course, the idea might be old hat to a lot of people, but I only get really interesting in things when I hear that the stuff is available, here and now.

An Open Screen Project TV?

They’re made by a company called Cello, who I’ve only just heard about, and they sell a TV which you plug into your broadband and start streaming stuff off the internet with.

http://www.celloelectronics.com/lcd-tv-range/iplayer-and-youtube-player-10748

Link: What’s new in AIR 2.0 & FP10.1

by James on 17th November, 2009 in Adobe

Hot on the heels of AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 being released on Adobe Labs, Shigeru Nakagaki has done some analysis and produced some (very technical) lists of what’s new in them;

API differences between AIR 2.0 and AIR 1.5.2

API differences between FP 10.1 and FP 10.0

An overview of Open Source Media Framework (aka. Adobe Strobe)

by James on 12th August, 2009 in Adobe

OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) is a new Open Source project from Adobe, designed to make deploying complex video players in the Flash Platform a little bit easier. Jodie O’Rourke did a presentation for FlashMidlands on “Intro to OSMF”, and here’s my thoughts and notes from that presentation.

Download OSMF (and the official project page):

http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/osmf/Open+Source+Media+Framework
You can find more technical details & code examples on Jodie’s blog.

OSMF

Why OSMF is needed:

Flash video is one of the primary driving forces behind the popularity of the Flash Plugin, but for something so key to the plugin its awfully difficult to implement anything clever. The basic components such as FLVPlayback are buggy and the basic elements, such as NetStream are frustratingly quirky and difficult to extend. We’re all familiar with the idea of a playlist and also annoyingly familiar with the idea of in-content advertising, but to actually implement any of this ourselves we have to build it from the ground up. YouTube have done it, Hulu have done it, CBS, BBC, ITV, E4 and many more all use similar concepts, but they’re all built from scratch each time.

Video Link: Adobe AIR and the future of Multitouch

by James on 11th March, 2009 in Adobe

https://xd.adobe.com/#/featured/video/160

The Open Screen Project

by James on 17th February, 2009 in Adobe

Palm (the mobile phone maker) has joined the Open Screen project – which means the next generation of Palm smartphones will come with the Flash Player installed (they should be available around end of 2009): http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090215005152&newsLang=en

Hot on the heels of such an announcement, I’ve noticed that there’s now a whole site dedicated to the Open Screen Project, available at http://www.openscreenproject.org/.