Adobe launched a gallery of video in HD, which amazingly shows the power of the new Flash Player 9 Update 3, (aka Flash Player 1,0,115 or Moviestar). The footage was encoded in H.264 at 480p, 720p and 1080p, and distributed through the servers of Akamai network.
I remember a day in late 2004 when I almost cried for the happiness when I discovered a standalone utility for playing Flash Video files (FLV). It saved me a lot of time because it allowed me to playback immediately videos in FLV format, without even opening the Flash editor: it was just a double click on the file name or a drag-and-drop over the utility. That could have been somehow handy for a common user, but for a developer involved in Flash projects with video was super useful: it became immediately one of my most used Flash companions.
I quickly post the link to the demo files that I’m going to use tomorrow for my session “Advanced Video Encoding” at Adobe Max Europe:
labs.gantico.com/archive/2007/adobemax/
Here you can download the presentation:
www.gantico.com/en/media/2007/10/max-video-encoding.pdf - (2,26 Mb)
The recent support of H.264 codec by the Adobe Flash Player 9 update 3 made me wonder about licensing costs involved in publishing H.264 video on Internet. I’m not a legal expert, but from what I’ve understood you don’t have to pay anything if your viewers are not paying a subscription or a title-by-title fee. In other words, if your content is for free, the royalties are for free till 2010. After this term the license will expire and you might have to pay as for free television, starting from $2,500 per year.
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