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What are your top tips / best practices for delivering the highest quality video experience through Flash?

Please describe some of the best practices for delivering video over the web through Flash Player. For example I am encoding video in FLV at 320x240 pixels, this seems to be the best size for reasonable quality and best filesize. When playing back I have a number of different video components that play the video in a few different sizes....

Getting keyframe info from FLV

I'd like to see the amount, and if possible, the exact position of all keyframes within a .FLV movie file. Anyone know of a way to programmatically do this, or at least know a video player that can show the keyframe information? ...

protect flv video file

I have a flv file,and want to play from only from AIR application. Now i need to protect my flv file in such a way that it cant be opened or played by any other existing flv player in the world.If some one doubleclicked that flv file then action will be zero or not played by existing flv player in the world and only played from my own...

encrypt the flv file

I am now thinking of encrypting the flv file . is there any way to do this by flex? do you have some tutorial of example to do encrypt the flv file. ...

Java: cross-platform .flv playback

Hi, I'm looking for a way to playback .flv files using java. This means I will need a ffmpeg lib that is cross-platform. I've been toying with jmf and fobs4jmf, but I cannot playback in linux because I need a native library (maybe fobs4jmf.so?). Is there any java lib that allows me to playback .flv besides fobs4jmf? Or fobs4jmf can be ...

flv video flex core

i have a flv video file i loaded the binary data of this flv file to memory by using var myFile:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath("AIR Test/video.flv"); var myFileStream:FileStream = new FileStream(); myFileStream.open(myFile, FileMode.READ); var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray(); myFileStream.readBytes(bytes); myFileStream.c...

Flash/FLV Media Player with .NET API

I am looking for a media player which I can control via an ASP.NET/Javascript API and also set playlists dynamically (ie from a datasource). ...

FLV MetaData Injection

I was wondering if there was a sever side system for injecting metaData into FLVs recorded using a streaming server like Red5. I don't want to hack in a command line injector, I would like to use a .Net, CF or Java solution. Caveat: I know that Red5 has its own Metadata.xml, I want to inject metaData directly into the FLV. ...

FLV glitching when replaying the same video

Hello ladies and gents, I'm building a flash site with video transitions between sections. When a navigation element is clicked, there's some code to check if the relevant FLV has already been loaded. If it hasn't, it gets initialized (i.e. netstream attached to video object, etc), loaded and played back; if it has, it just gets restar...

What is the easiest way to merge two flv videos?

Hi guys, what is the easiest way to merge two flv videos into one? Would be awesome if its possible without command-line-tools like ffmpeg. It would be great if someone knows a simple java solution =) (on the server side) ...

How can I add meta-data to recorded flv-files in red5?

Hello! I wonder how to you can add meta-data to flv-files you recorded by red5... mine just have something like this: 0.000 | FLV::Event tag | event : onMetaData | audiocodecid : -1 | canSeekToEnd : true | videocodecid : -1 | duration : 0 ...

best way to secure a streaming flv being output to a player in php?

Hi looking at embedding a flv player into a page but wish to read the flv file from a non www accessible location. I tried to write a controller action which takes a encrypted querystring, decrypt it, then output the contents to the page using readfile() but nothing seems to happen. I'm not sure if its becuase i'm sending the wrong con...

playing flv videos in jsp/j2ee

i want to play flv videos on my website. The video files are not stored on my server but i only have the url of video . The url of video donot end with .flv. So my flv player( jw player) gives error "video not found " . only if the url is ending with .flv then it plays. How can i play the videos whose path dont end with .flv ?? I cant ...

How to stop a FLV Movie on a Web FLV Player at the last frame.

I'm using http://flv-player.net -- When the movie finishes, it comes to the first frame after it finishes, and stops there. I'd like to stop it at the last frame. How can I do this if I don't have editing access to the FLA file? Is there a way to accomplish this with this player, or any other free ones out there? Please suggest a fre...

Parsing FLV header (duration) of remote file in Java

I'm looking for an example of parsing an FLV header for duration specifically in Java. Given the URL of an FLV file I want to download the header only and parse out the duration. I have the FLV spec but I want an example. Python or PHP would be OK too but Java is preferred. ...

How can I add audio (mp3) to a flv (just video) with ffmpeg?

Hi :) How can I add sound from a mp3-file to a flv file that has no audio? (With ffmpeg) When I use ffmpeg -i video.flv -i audio.mp3 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ab 128k -ar 44100 output.flv I get this output: FFmpeg version SVN-r12758, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-shared --prefix=/usr ...

Can I store my .flv files on a file system and have the play in my web page?

When my .flv and .swf files are referenced through an http:// address they work fine but when I reference them via UNC path, they don't work. Any idea if it's possible to for it to work? This works: <object width="640" height="360"> <param name="movie" value="/flash/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" /> <param name="salign" value="lt" /> <para...

FLV gets scaled down to 320 x 240 without me asking it to.

i'm simply playing a video file the normal way: var nc = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); ns = new NetStream(nc); var vid = new Video(); this.addChild(vid); vid.attachNetStream(ns); ns.play(videofile); My flv file is actually 600x678, but shows up scaled down on the stage, and tracing the width and height I get 320x240. I'm not...

icon flex movie flv core

i saw adobe player this link and downloaded.but all flv players icons are automatically changed.But if i write my own flv player and changed extension to 'AAAA' sothat movie file format will be abc.AAAA then how can i change the default icon of abc.AAAA to customized icon where customized icon must be configured by some mxml file built ...

How to build a server to broadcast real time video?

I need to build a system to broadcast videos, just like Youtube. But the video is real-time video, which means the video are captured, converted and broadcast immediately. Is there any open source software can do this? I really need some practical guides including the requirements (hardware and software). Thanks in advance~ ...