JD on EP

041308
http://www.embeddedflash.com/?p=60
Update: Now published.

Hi, I'm not comfortable with those WMP/QT comparisons either:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/rashomon_amp.cfm

AMP (Adobe Media Player) is an application atop AIR (the Adobe Integrated Runtime), which includes the WebKit HTML/JS engine and the Adobe Flash Player. That's why AMP is a way to manage subscriptions for video encoded the three codecs Player includes: Sorenson, On2, and H.264. There are definitely other ways to encode video too!

Mobile AIR is definitely a goal, but is currently MacOS, Windows, and Linux (alpha).

No extension model, but I'm not sure what the actual desire is.

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041308
http://newteevee.com/2008/04/13/secret-of-the-iplayers-success-no-drm/

"Adobe’s latest Flash version 9 is supporting encrypted media streams in order to lock out third party players and stream capturing applications."

It's more like creators can now create encrypted streams if they want... the goal is to offer a variety of contracts between consumer and creator, so that big-budget video can get a return. Adobe Flash Player 9 also renders H.264 video too. There's a range of choices.

"iPlayer users however have reported that the BBC is using Flash version 8 for their web streams since December. The broadcaster also started to reencode and optimize all of its video for Flash 7 in order to make the Wii version work since the Wii’s Flash Lite player doesn’t support Flash 9 yet."

Lengthy info on BBC production workflows here... it's amazing!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html

(Adobe Flash Player 9 includes three different video decoders: Sorenson, On2, and most recently H.264. The mobile engine, Flash Lite, is smaller and passes off video rendering to the device's own hardware-based video decoder. We're getting there.... ;-)

Re "Secrets of Success": I'm not sure that current "marketshare" would be a measure of success, so much as long-term sustainability of continuing video production would be. We need a variety of types of contracts between video's creators and consumers, so that each can reach their best choices.

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041208
http://www.chuckstar.com/blog/?p=160

"Why, Silverlight is so much like Flash, it even keeps 'Adobe Flash' in its own context menu..." ;-) j/k

MLB.com still uses Window Media Server on the backend, and still uses tons of Flash for menus, data-driven displays, Gameday, more. This year they added support for the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in, in addition to their existing support for Windows Media Player for local viewing.

When they've got a video asset stuck in Windows-Media formats (instead of H264 or such), then they surround the Silverlight video client with their normal Flash displays. "Silverlight" is added to the SWF's context-menu instructions in the normal way.

More info:
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mlb-silverlight
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/03/mlbcom_2008.cfm

For the plugin versioning, if you ever install a Microsoft Silverlight plugin, it defaults to silent auto-install of updates:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/privacy.aspx

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041208
http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/04/12/scott-barnes-talks-coldfusion/

[I didn't copy the text before hitting "Submit", but it was basically "What's your own actual concern, in whatever Scott Barnes may have happened to type?"]

040908
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/adobe-launches-media-player-adobe-tv/

Geographic restrictions would be set by policy files by the video owners. I'm not sure if there's general documentation yet on these abilities, and don't know specifics about how CBS sets their permissions, sorry.

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