flash-video

free or cheap open source browser-based Flash (flv) video players

Does any know of any free or cheap OSS browser based Flash video player? It's going to be embedded on ASP.NET 3.5, a webcontrol would be handy, but not required. I've been looking around and there are a lot of options. My client wants to host a video on their web site like in a player like YouTube. Here are some of the ones I've foun...

How to best convert Flash compatible mp4 files with FFMPEG

I am trying to convert different files to a flash compatible .mp4 file with ffmpeg, but i cant seem to succeed. Of cource the objective is to get the greatest quality with the smallest file size. So far I have this, which works, but it doesnt play in a flash player for some reason. The result isn't that great, how can I improve this co...

How can I control flv embedded video using external buttons?

I am not new to Flash but I have not properly used it for sometime, a lot has changed and as such i am unable to figure this out. I have embedded a flv video into my timeline, it uses the flv playback component to play and the SteelExternalAll.swf skin. I would like to control this flv using buttons that I have created that are postione...

(curiosity) Why does youtube show the loading icon even when it has loaded enough video to start playing?

I mean youtube or any other streaming video site, but I've seen it on Youtube. There are times that the loaded bar shows that more than enough video stream has been loaded so the player could play it but it suddenly pauses and shows the loading icon? I'm just curious. But it is a programming related question, as it could help me to bette...

How to create beautiful Screencasts for your web apps?

Hello all, I am trying to create a screen cast for my new web app. I have just come across a great example of a screencast and I am wondering what is used to do this: Click on the video to play on this page. I am impressed with the animation when the mouse is clicked and zooming into images from different angles. Is this done with Act...

Video and Images with Flex 4 on CD-ROM

I am working on a project where we have created an interface using Flex (started with 3, moved to 4 to get access to the included video player component) that has a video and photo gallery. Everything has been going great except I am running into issues when running on Mac. For some reason the videos play but the images do not show. T...

html5 video tag + flash video: how to change priority

hello! i'm playing around with html5 video cause it's nice to have fallback for iphone/ipad. html5 video first checks for <source> elements, if no formats are supported it falls back to whatever content is provided inside the <video> tag (e.g. flash). i'd love to reverse the behaviour to save bandwidth: use flash by default, if not...

Live streaming Flash video

Hi, what software do I need, if I want to make a video live stream, than could be watched in a flash player? Preferably Linux tools. I'd like to peercast it to a hub, and multicast it from there, much like webradio works. ...