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

Posted by James - 12/08/09 at 07:08:59 pm

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.

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.

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