I have this video that a client want's me to put on his website. Now the video is about 10 minutes long and its made up of about 4 different sections. He wants me to make it so people can click on links to jump around in the video.For instance there is a section called "Home Control" and one called "Lighting" that when clicked would jump to that section of the video.From a bandwith perspective what makes sense. Should I just have one FLV that is the whole video and create markers so that it will just jump to whatever section people want to go to or should I break the video up into 4 different FLV's?
Is there a way to convert an uploaded video file to an flv file? Either through AS3 or through a pre-built app somewhere? Does AS3 have a function built in for converting videos in any way?
i would like to learn can Flash Media Encoder or other Adobe's product encode video then sent to FMS for streaming by combining two different sources (for example: from two cams).
Is it possible to record video through Flash's "Webcam" facility and receive encoded video on server side without any further processing (i.e. just saving the stream to a file)? Or is server side software always needed to encode the input? If server side software is necessary, are there free / Open Source solutions available?
I have an Adobe Air Flash, Action script 3.0 application. I need to save the webcam (or rather a series of bitmap as frames) to a video file. The video file needs to be compressed and needs to save as the frames go.
I'm having a bit of trouble with flash cs3 video encoder. I'd like to encode some mpeg files to flv but I keep getting errors when trying to encode. The mpeg files are raw imported from my dvd video cam. I'm guessing they are mpeg-2 720 by 480 res. Quicktime files encode fine but I haven't tried any other video types. I thought it was a codec problem as all I use is vlc for video. So I tried k-lite codec pack nut no success, same errors. Just wondering if anyone had any advice. I suppose I could encode my mpeg files to mov first? But what encoder would I use to keep high quality?
More specifically: I have a sequence of 32 bit unsigned RGBA integers for pixels- e.g. 640 integers per row starting at the left pixel, 480 rows per frame starting at the top row, repeat for n frames. Is there an easy way to feed this to ffmpeg (or some other encoder) without first encoding it to a common image format?I'm assuming ffmpeg is the best tool for me to use in this case, but I'm open to suggestions (the output video format doesn't matter too much).
I know the documentation would enlighten me if I just knew the right keywords... In case I'm asking the wrong question, here's what I'm trying to do at the highest level: I have some Actionscript code that draws and animates on the display tree, and I've wrapped it in an AIR application that draws BitmapData frame-by-frame. AIR has proved to be woefully inefficient at directly encoding this output- the best I've managed is a few frames per second, and I need to render at least 15 fps, preferably more like 100 fps, which I get out of ffmpeg when I feed it PNG images (AIR can take 1+ seconds to encode one 640x480 png... appalling). Instead of encoding inside AIR I can send the raw byte data out to an encoder or to disk as fast as it's rendered.
If you're wondering why I'm using Actionscript to render an animation or why it has to be encoded quickly, don't. Suffice it to say, the frames are computed at execution time (not stored as an animation in a .swf file, for example), I have a very large amount of video to create and limited time to do so, and using something other than Actionscript to produce the frames is not an option.
I am trying to encode and stream live video. I have downloaded both the Flash Media Encoder and Flash Media Server. The problem i have now is, i can't able to connect to Flash Media Server. The FMS url is as default: rtmp://localhost/live. Do i have to purchase a FMS url? How do i make sure that my FMS is running/ activated?
Is there any library in Action Script that be able to convert any video format to .FLV?
I've been looking for it with no success. I thought that as3 had functions for that purposes but not found.
I want to give the possibility that in my site, users can upload any video, so I need to convert it to a standard and compress it to a fixed resolution.
I was wondering if there was a way to encode a SWF with ActionScript 3. For example, could you take a MovieClip and encode it into a separate SWF file? If this isn't possible in the Flash player, is it possible with AIR?
I've been pondering this problem for some time now, and I need someone to correct me if Im wrong. Im trying to make a little search box to input a Polish word, so that Flash will url encode it, add then add it to and address and display the result on a html page.Now, the problem that I came upon is as far as Im know, that some of the Polish signs aren't supported by the URL encoding. From what I've read from google, most of the Polish signs are ISO-8859-1 encoded, BUT there are a few like: "S" with an ' on top of it, that is coded in ISO-LATIN-2 which isn't in the URL encode list.
I am using Final Cut Pro 3 and would like to export FLV movies either directly FCP timeline or from Quicktime export. I have used systems with Adobe CS3 installed and they have a quicktime plug-in for encoding. However, I've just purchased Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium and I have not gained that functionality.
how to get export from FCP with what I have? Do I have use CS3 or CS4? Or do I have to export a quicktime movie from FCP then use Adobe Media Encoder to create FLV files?
We are going to be hosting some videos that will be streamed (not progressive download). Which is recommended? CBR (constant bit rate) or VBR (variable bit rate) encoding?
I'm trying to generate an embeded flash widget on a page with Python using a dynamic parameter. Here's the code I currently have.[code]...
The {{query}} parameter is passed through as a URL parameter. I'm not very technical, but I think the query value needs to be encoded for the flash to work. How do I encode the flash parameter?
If I URL encode my flashvars, is there a prefered technique/method(s) for handling them inside as3?
During some of my testing, I recently url encode the = and & symbols, but my AS did not seem to translate them when using LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters (Maybe I was doing it wrong... Hehe, it has been known to happen.) Question: Using AS3, should I decode the parameters? Or, does that happen automatically?
I assume I need to run some sort of url decode. What is the best way to handle Flashvars? Do you folks have any tips?
I'm recording audio in a Flash app and need to encode the bytearray being sent to the server. I haven't found a good encoder (client-side) to compress the bytearray before sending.
I have a live encode to the media server with dvr enabled for H264/MP3 format. When I try to play the dvr cache stream, all I get is audio and no video. If I switch to VP6/MP3, the stream plays fine. If I do a live encode with no dvr, it streams fine. Does dvr with H264 work only when you flatten the file using F4V post processor tool? Will the dvr cache stream work if I switch to AAC instead of MP3?
I have tried countless times in finding out from Adobe what would be the best solution to use the already 100s of videos encoded to H.264 in the mp4 container. Unfortunately, salesmen never know the answer yet keep asking me to buy. What benefits, if any is there to encoding to F4V over MP4 other than the ability to inject metadata without having to use a sidecar xmp file like you would if using MP4? The only downside I see with going F4V is that files will not be playable on set tops, gaming consoles, and also iPods.
Does FMS protect files already encoded to MP4 and if not, is there a tool to rewrap the MP4 into a F4V? My overall goal is to be able to put all metadata needed into the file and use actionscript 3 to populate the information on a web page and in the future an AIR app. I would love to pull the trigger and buy FMS but it just seems like the salesmen are reading from a brochure and never once address my questions let alone find me answers.
I am writing a business app in Flex that uses web services to communicate with a middle tier. The web services accept and return messages in XML format. In many cases, I need to be able to allow the user to type something like the following into a field in the app, which in turn will be added as an element in an XML payload bound for a SOAP web service (without the quotes):
"account balance < 1000"
The Flex parser chokes when trying to serialize an element with this in the Text node (e.g., account balance < 1000. So I need some way to encode the "<" to "<" prior to doing the XML serialization. In addition, I would prefer a generic way to do this, such as with an attribute on the service declaration, since I have over 40 services that must support this kind of input.
At the moment it seems I've tried every trick in the book trying to get this to work. I need some way of encoding AMF requests and then decoding the responses. At this point I don't care what language it's in, as long as it's doable and free (as in to me), however I would prefer PHP.I don't know what other information is needed
I'm using AS3 to base64 encode a JPG and pass it to Javascript. I'm attempting to use AJAX to pass that base64 encoded string to PHP and have PHP decode it. (I know I could send it back to Flash and Flash could decode it and send it to PHP, but I'm trying to eliminate the need for Flash on the decoding end).It appears that AS3's encodeToBase64String() function and and PHP's base64_decode() function do not use the same algorithm, as PHP evaluates it as a base64 encoded object, but does not seem to output it properly
I have an AIR app that saves JPEG files to the hard drive. Currently, the jpegs are in RGB colorspace, but I am wanting them to be saved as CMYK jpegs. Is this possible in flash? If so, does anyone know of any libraries or examples that can help me with such a task?
I need to get the webcam input in my web app through web browser, encode it to h264 and stream it to our server. The flash client app works fine before the encoding problems involved. It seems that I could not access the video data from the camera object in flash actionscripts. could I? If not, Then I will try to write some browser plugin to do the quest. I will try activeX in IE but I'm new to it, are there some tutorials or sample code for the webcam input process in activeX?
