Opening Post

Posted At : May 3, 2007 11:13 AM | Posted By : Stefan Richter
Related Categories: General

Welcome! As you may know, this website accompanies the book 'Hands-On Guide to Flash Video' by yours truly, Stefan Richter, and Jan Ozer of Doceo Publishing.
I've just added the links to the sample applications that you may need to follow along with the examples in chapters 10 to 18.
Please post any questions, comments or ideas you may have in the comments section of the relevant chapter. Each chapter of the book is represented by a blog entry in the chapters category to make it easier to keep track of a particular subject.
It is also possible to subscribe to RSS feeds on a per-chapter bases (see the ARCHIVES pod in the right hand column) or subscribe to the entire blog via the RSS pod (again on your right) or by clicking this link.

Comments (16) | Print | Send | del.icio.us | Digg It! | Linking Blogs | 690 Views

Related Blog Entries

Comments
[Add Comment]
Just got the book. So far so good. Thanks for putting in the time. Excuse me if this is covered but I didn't see it in glancing through the book.

I want my videos to have the same or similar play interface as YouTube. That is, a play arrow right on the video that is clicked to play. How do they do that?

Thx
# Posted By Joe | 7/22/07 8:00 AM
Something like an overlay graphic (which is what the play arrow is) is very simple to do in Flash. It can easily be hooked up to only show before or after playback. I've your new to Flash and are looking to hire someone to add this to a player you may have I would not expect to pay more than one hour's work.

Stefan
# Posted By Stefan Richter | 7/22/07 7:52 PM
I wish it was that easy. If you take a look at www.HowAudio.com, I have 100's of individual movies. They are output via Sorenson Squeeze as FLV's. The FLV player is a prebuilt swf that is linked to the movie as the movie is called up from a data base. As the movie is called the screen is white prior to the movie having loaded sufficiently to start playing. Don't know if I'm describing it correctly but take a look and you'll probably get what I'm trying to say.

BTW - that's for your quick response.
# Posted By Joe | 7/23/07 6:03 AM
Hi Joe,
feel free to email me directly at stefan AT flashcomguru DOT com.
I'm sure we'll be able to help you with this.
# Posted By Stefan Richter | 7/23/07 8:53 AM
great book. thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
# Posted By sebastian | 8/20/07 7:00 PM
thank you for your feedback, much appreciated.
# Posted By Stefan | 8/21/07 3:12 PM
Hey guys. I haven't bought your book yet, but it's the only thing I can find on the market that even references Flash Media Server 2.

I'm developing a multi-user webcast presentation application, and we're having trouble understanding the slightly more advanced concepts of data collision and processor overloading. I've never really had to worry about this before, but in this application, we're talking about 1000-2000 users all connected to multiple shared objects. Our server locked up during a webcast, and I'm looking to eliminate that problem.

Does your book cover these kinds of issues, i.e. more code-related application / client object interaction? Processor Load? Client tracking and user states?
# Posted By Wompa | 9/20/07 10:07 PM
hi Wompa,
no, the book does not really go that deeply into advanced FMS topics, it concentrates on the video side of things and video delivery in the widest sense.
Feel free to contact me via email if you want further details. I can also recommend my mailing list for advanced help on FMS topics:
http://www.flashcomguru.com/flashmedialist/
# Posted By Stefan Richter | 10/7/07 8:51 AM
Great Book! With the ability of the newly released Flash Player to use H.262, what options exist to utilize this advancement in encoding in 2008?
# Posted By Steve Krivian | 1/16/08 2:58 PM
hi Steve, what do you mean by options exactly?
Regards,

Stefan
# Posted By Stefan Richter | 1/16/08 3:12 PM
In the book you wrote that you use Premiere Pro because it's free. Did I
misunderstand?
# Posted By trish | 1/29/08 11:23 PM
Re: free Premiere Pro.

This is not the best written line in the book, but it says:

"Fortunately, I edit a lot in Premiere Pro, which can directly output Flash video files vai a Flash encoding module borred from the Falsh video encoder. It's fast, easy, looks great on low motion footage, and, best of all, free."

The "free" comment refers to the "flash encoding module" not to Premiere Pro.
# Posted By Jan Ozer | 2/3/08 10:33 PM
Really Bizarre! (FMS and all content are on my local machine)

When I add a flash movie to a home page (plays a video), the HTML text link below the movie
(in a separate table) links to another page (which also has a flash movie-an animation).

BUT HTML links at the bottom of the home page no longer work-they link to pages without
any flash movies. When I remove the flash movie, (home page) the links at the bottom work!

So I made a test flash movie (1px x 1px) to place in each of the web pages
where the (home page) links didn't work. Now 4 out of 5 links work! On the page
that the link doesn't work, when opened I get the IE Information Box, evidently
blocking the local content.

I'd rather not use dummy flash movies to make some links work.
Can you offer any suggestions?
Thanks for the great book.

Mark
# Posted By Mark | 5/9/08 1:08 AM
Hi Mark,
could you put those examples online for us to check out?

thanks,

Stefan
# Posted By Stefan Richter | 5/9/08 8:21 AM
Hi Stefan;
I'm sorry, I don't have a domain to post on at this time.
If you haven't seen this before, perhaps this is a Windows IE problem.
I'll get back to you when I get a domain.

Thank you.
Mark
# Posted By Mark | 5/13/08 6:52 AM
I'm making english e-learning flash software for ESL students, and I want to insert a chromakeyed video of myself explaining certain points, kind of acting as a guide to the interactive text (which is basically what I'm making), I plan on delivering these programs 2 ways, one way would be as a stand alone program on a CD-Rom, and the other would be a one time download onto the students hard drive. Would a progressive video be the best way to do this and would it be difficult? The overall video time would be around 30 min but cut up into 5-10 min segments.

Thanks
Boke
Hiroshima,Japan
www.goodwinschools.jp
# Posted By Boke | 5/19/08 8:46 AM
[Add Comment]