Solution for Flash videos needed

[schnee]

Hi,

I have a content management system on a CF 5 server.
A couple of customers asked me to put some videos on their site.
They all come up with different solutions and implementations for Flash
players, ActiveX players, etc.

It is out of question I implement a different solution for each customer
and each new video, so I want to provide
them with ONE unique platform so that that would just have to get their
video prepared in a certain format
and upload one file, that's it.

There is so much information over the Net about "how to make Flash
videos" that I do not know where to start.
Can some one share his experience on that matter?

What I need is something as simple as this:
http://www.adfo.org/index.cfm?p=page&id=42
Except that Google won't take new videos any more, so I need my own
Flash player
and whatever it takes to store and stream Flash videos from my own server.
I don't want to format and produce the videos myself, just play them.

Thanks for your advice.

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[Jordan Michaels]

OpenBD uses FlowPlayer, which is actually pretty slick:

http://flowplayer.org/

It's not end-to-end instructions, I know. But it's a nice, free,
open-source place to start from.

Hope this helps!

Warm regards,
Jordan Michaels
Vivio Technologies
http://www.viviotech.net/
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee
Adobe Solution Provider


Claude Schneegans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a content management system on a CF 5 server.
> A couple of customers asked me to put some videos on their site.
> They all come up with different solutions and implementations for Flash
> players, ActiveX players, etc.
>
> It is out of question I implement a different solution for each customer
> and each new video, so I want to provide
> them with ONE unique platform so that that would just have to get their
> video prepared in a certain format
> and upload one file, that's it.
>
> There is so much information over the Net about "how to make Flash
> videos" that I do not know where to start.
> Can some one share his experience on that matter?
>
> What I need is something as simple as this:
> http://www.adfo.org/index.cfm?p=page&id=42
> Except that Google won't take new videos any more, so I need my own
> Flash player
> and whatever it takes to store and stream Flash videos from my own server.
> I don't want to format and produce the videos myself, just play them.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
>

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[Casey Dougall-2]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Claude Schneegans <
schneegans@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a content management system on a CF 5 server.
> A couple of customers asked me to put some videos on their site.
> They all come up with different solutions and implementations for Flash
> players, ActiveX players, etc.
>
>

http://www.longtailvideo.com/

With longtail you can create XML playlists of videos and everything. It's
one of the nicest players out there.


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[Jason Fisher-3]

+1 for LongTail player.  Easy to implement, very good JavaScript controls.  We have implemented on both ColdFusion and ASP.NET sites and been very happy with it.  Just need to get the player and the JS library and then code your videos as FLV files.  Pretty slick.

>On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Claude Schneegans <
>schneegans@...> wrote:
>
>
>http://www.longtailvideo.com/
>
>With longtail you can create XML playlists of videos and everything. It's
>one of the nicest players out there.

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[schnee]

 >>OpenBD uses FlowPlayer, which is actually pretty slick:

Pretty clean and simple indeed.
And the domain name unlimited licence is most convenient also.

Just one question: do you know if it is possible to get the actual width
and height from the flv file
in order to adapt the size of the viewer accordingly ?

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[Jordan Michaels]

Hmm... that's an unusual request. Usually you want a video to conform to
your site's design.

That said, you *might* be able to do it with FFMPEG. FFMPEG can do a LOT
of things, plus, this grid says FFMPEG can read FLV files:

http://ffmpeg.org/general.html#SEC4

Get the size however.... I'm not sure. I haven't had a reason to work
with that sort of thing, so I've never researched it. You'll have to dig
around a bit to find out.

Hope this helps.

Warm regards,
Jordan Michaels
Vivio Technologies
http://www.viviotech.net/
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee
Adobe Solution Provider


Claude Schneegans wrote:

>  >>OpenBD uses FlowPlayer, which is actually pretty slick:
>
> Pretty clean and simple indeed.
> And the domain name unlimited licence is most convenient also.
>
> Just one question: do you know if it is possible to get the actual width
> and height from the flv file
> in order to adapt the size of the viewer accordingly ?
>
>

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[K-Sea - dvsDJTV.com]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Claude Schneegans <
schneegans@...> wrote:

>
>  >>OpenBD uses FlowPlayer, which is actually pretty slick:
>
> Pretty clean and simple indeed.
> And the domain name unlimited licence is most convenient also.
>
> Just one question: do you know if it is possible to get the actual width
> and height from the flv file
> in order to adapt the size of the viewer accordingly ?
>
>

Just keep it in 4:3 format unless you know they are going 16:9 widescreen

Most everything will downsize correctly depending on the ratio it came in
at. No idea on that bit...

If these are webcasts, or well doesn't matter, hosting anything above what I
post next is expensive. Most likelly you need to keep it under 640x480 for
4:3 format and 640 x 360 for 16:9. Scale down according you actually get
better pictures the smaller you get.

If you got bandwidth and resources sure, look at higher resolutions, still
within those know scaled ratios.


~~

Side Note:

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Jason Fisher <jason@...> wrote:

>
> +1 for LongTail player.  Easy to implement, very good JavaScript controls.
>  We have implemented on both ColdFusion and ASP.NET <http://asp.net/>sites and been very happy with it.  Just need to get the player and the JS
> library and then code your videos as FLV files.  Pretty slick.
>
>
> This is big like twitter API, you herd it here first ;-)

And LongTail player now works on Livestream.com, Livestream provides an API.
It's kinda crappy at the moment since I can only access a couple API's and
it's new, but that isn't stopping me form digging in deeper.

There's a load of things I can get accomplished with this data on
dvsdjtv.com, Livestream.com is in no small part how that site lives, I love
them for it for sure! In the mist of rearranging how the slite flows, video
management came up. This is by far the worst video management website EVER
in terms of resource management because it's built on flex. I have not doubt
about it!! !These CPU intesive functions drive be and you I'm sure batty.

Over the past weekend I was at least having some fun with coding, BOH!  WOW
there is a lot that can be done outside of the livestream.com player I was
overlooking after the api came out.... Anyway, more on that shortly, Just
throwing it out there.

Maybe it's just how easy cfhtp makes it to consume API's

-----> Still don't get that one myself, does cf9 resolve any of that?

~safe

K-Sea


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[Cutter (ColdFusion)]

See this message thread for info on how to get meta content from flash

http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327231

I would think (but I could be wrong) that it also applies to flv format.

Steve "Cutter" Blades
Adobe Certified Professional
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer

Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS"
http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book
_____________________________
http://blog.cutterscrossing.com


On 11/9/2009 6:07 PM, Jordan Michaels wrote:

> Hmm... that's an unusual request. Usually you want a video to conform to
> your site's design.
>
> That said, you *might* be able to do it with FFMPEG. FFMPEG can do a LOT
> of things, plus, this grid says FFMPEG can read FLV files:
>
> http://ffmpeg.org/general.html#SEC4
>
> Get the size however.... I'm not sure. I haven't had a reason to work
> with that sort of thing, so I've never researched it. You'll have to dig
> around a bit to find out.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Warm regards,
> Jordan Michaels
> Vivio Technologies
> http://www.viviotech.net/
> Open BlueDragon Steering Committee
> Adobe Solution Provider
>
>
> Claude Schneegans wrote:
>    
>>   >>OpenBD uses FlowPlayer, which is actually pretty slick:
>>
>> Pretty clean and simple indeed.
>> And the domain name unlimited licence is most convenient also.
>>
>> Just one question: do you know if it is possible to get the actual width
>> and height from the flv file
>> in order to adapt the size of the viewer accordingly ?
>>
>>
>>      
>

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[schnee]

 >>Get the size however.... I'm not sure. I haven't had a reason to work
with that sort of thing,

Well, the reason is simple enough.
I can resize the flash player to any size, but the best is to start with
the original size of the video.

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