Overview
Features of Flash Video
• Formats
• Delivery options
• HD
• Hardware Acceleration
Doing It
• The FLVPlayback Component
• Adding Closed Captioning
Building Your Own
• The Flash Video Class Trinity: NetConnection, NetStream and Video
• Add Cue Points
Encoding Video
Flash 7 + 8
• Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder
• On2 Flix
• Sorenson Squeeze
Flash 7 + 9
• FFMPEG
On the Server
• On2 Flix Engine
• FFMPEG
Other Tools
• Captionate
• Perian
• Adobe Media Player
• Robert Reinhardt’s Bitrate Calculator
• Good Reference Books
Who this is for:
Any Flash developer or designer who works or wants to work with video. We cover all the essentials of what tools to use,using the components for simple and rapid deployment, and the core ActionScript required to build any Flash video application from the ground up.
What you will walk away with:
A detailed understanding of the various aspects of Flash video, including the supported codecs, the latest enhancements like high definition and hardware acceleration as well as support for H.264 video, and how to deploy video in Flash on the web. And a whole bunch of sample source code!
