Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2 introduces H.264 video playback. I'm not a huge Flash fan, but in general this should be a very good thing. Also, it should now play .m4a audio, and the bug with mp3 playback at certain sampling rates has been eliminated. These last two are good news for the music project. Now if only I could find someone to build my dream AIR audio player.
- jim 8-22-2007 11:09 pm

I'm a huge flash video fan, so this is good news.
- L.M. 8-22-2007 11:10 pm


Can you describe your software setup for Flash creation L.M.?
- jim 8-22-2007 11:19 pm


Just Flash 8 on my PC. The codec for flv's are included. Is that what you're asking?

(do you need a key?)
- L.M. 8-22-2007 11:27 pm


Yeah, I was just wondering if you did things with Flex or anything like that. I did some flash when it first came out, but looking at it now it seems like it is (or can be) much different - maybe less like dragging and dropping onto a timeline and more like programming.
- jim 8-23-2007 12:48 am


I started in flash 3 too when it was all drag and drop, in flash 4 I was writing these insanely long scripts to mimic some basic lingo stuff like arrays, by F5, we were able to do object oriented programming (and all that time in F4 was wasted, except that the java programmers would take me for lunch when they saw what I could do)(my tech lead used to wonder why I'd even want to hang out with them.) Believe me, AS2 and AS3 are really nice robust programming languages. Way fewer bugs than Director.

Never worked with Flex. In most of my game jobs, there is a back end person for my program to send data strings and objects to. I've just used a bit of XML myself.

We could probably figure out a way to automate flash video uploading 'youtube style' with your skills. I'm just trying to figure out how much I'd be writing in flash and how much would be back-end.

I'm heading out of town tonght for a week, but I'll have some time when I return to dig a bit into this, because I'd love to see us publish video on DMT.
- L.M. 8-23-2007 1:31 am


Me too! I can do the backend stuff for sure.
- jim 8-23-2007 1:51 am


Wow. Very cool. 264 rocks
- mark 8-23-2007 3:09 am





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