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YouTube say Flash is key for Video. Longtail video agree.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Flash, General, Video | 2 Comments »

After the dust of HTML5 vs Flash settles, key sites for delivering video while recognising the importance of HTML5 are now publicly endorsing Adobe Flash as the primary vehicle for consuming video on the web. In a new blog post ...

SystemClockChangeWatcher

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in AS3, Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, General | No Comments »

When dealing with time sensitive applications (pretty much anything that needs to compare local times and/or remote server time) changes in the system clock can at best make for a bad user experience and at worst provide a means of ...

BBC Media Widgets

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in AS3, Flash | 1 Comment »

Just a quick update on what we've been working on in the BBC Media Player - we've introduced a new product range called Media Widgets. The first of which (below) is a collection of clips from the recently concluded series ...

Big new release for BBC iPlayer

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Adobe AIR, Flash, Flash Media Server, General | 2 Comments »

Before I go any further if you are interested in the whats and whys of this latest installment of iPlayer functionality then you can do no better than reading Anthony Rose's blog on the subject. Now since I'm not one to ...

FMS 3.5 BETA

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Flash, Flash Media Server | 2 Comments »

Oh cruel world why do you mock me?! (Imagine dramatic pose) Late last week Kevin Towes posted on the Flash Media lists that Adobe we're recruiting for the FMS 3.5 pre release programme. Given that I'm interested in all things media ...

BBC iPlayer launches Simulcast

Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Flash, General | 1 Comment »

The BBC iPlayer continued to strengthen its offerenings this week by making it possible to watch whats happening on the iPlayer at the same time as its broadcast on TV, the BBC calls this Simullcast. The first phase of this see's ...