flash Archives - Ben Farrell

Why Dojo? From a Flash/Flexer’s Perspective

user · February 21, 2012

Hey you guys… Is your Twitter stream bombarded with Ted Patrick tweets and retweets about Sencha? Do you get Sencha ads targeted at you when you visit websites, like EVERYWHERE you go? I am. It’s kind of annoying since I’m not looking to learn Sencha. Truthfully, though, you can hardly blame the current Sencha evangelist. …

Thoughts….er…Wild Unsubstantiated Predictions on Flash

user · November 15, 2011

Yes, Adobe did us, the developers wrong this week. No doubt about it. Even if they have the best possible intentions, they did an AWESOME job salting the developer community earth this week. It got me thinking, assuming they did have the best possible intentions for Flash, what could that mean? What is going on …

Hello from NCDevCon! My 2011 Presentations

user · September 15, 2011

Hello from NCDevCon. If you were able to attend my presentations, thanks! I’ve gone ahead and written them up as blog posts for you if you’d like to revisit what I talked about. HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely (slides) Live Instrumentation in Flash (slides)

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 10 – Other Options

user · September 9, 2011

Lets face it, Apple really stuck us in a bad situation. While HTML5 is really slick on the desktop (in supported browser with supported file types), its pretty clunky on iOS. And Flash is ALSO really slick on the desktop, but doesn’t work at all on iOS. So what we are left with are 2 …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 9 – The Verdict

user · September 9, 2011

So what wins? HTML5 video or Flash? What should you use, what’s better? The answer to this is that it depends on your project and what platforms you are targeting. Use HTML5 video for simple playback For short form video that contains no in-stream advertisements (that’s fancy talk for pre, post, and midrolls) its extremely …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 8 – Advertising and Reporting

user · September 9, 2011

Before we conclude this series, I should mention something nobody likes – but they are an absolute necessity if content producers are going to put their video online in the first place. Those things are ads and reporting. Content owners want to monetize their video, and be able to track many aspects of it’s usage …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 7 – What’s Happening on the Server Side

user · September 9, 2011

So we talked about how Apple supports both progressive and streaming video with their HTML5 video tag. We also briefly discussed how Flash Media Server serves up its OWN streams. What about Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming? What kind of magic is that? Turns out that its quite simple. Take a video file, after encoding it …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 5 – Streaming vs Progressive

user · September 8, 2011

We’ve discussed in part 4 of this series that Flash can get a little complicated. It’s true, but it mostly boils down to the different video formats you can play. Let’s talk about those formats. Progressive Video If you are clueless about what the difference is between streaming and progressive video – chances are the …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 4 – How to: Basic Flash Playback

user · September 8, 2011

The interesting thing about Flash is that before some recent projects, it was much harder to get a basic player going. Video playback is composed of three basic elements: the NetStream, the NetConnection, and the Video object. To start playback, you’d need to create a NetConnection, connect to a server if streaming or null if …

HTML5 vs Flash Video: Choose Wisely Part 2 – Playing with the Video Tag

user · September 7, 2011

Simple playback Simple playback is just that! Simple. This can be a very good thing. Offering a video up via the tag allows for easy playback. Easy for the user, and easy for the page developer! <video width=”640″ height=”360″ controls src=”myvideo.mp4″></video> See that?! It’s just like an image tag! Put a source, height, and width …