The Silver Tongue and Lifeless Corpse of Microsoft Silverlight
I work in a predominantly Windows oriented development shop focused around video and there’s been lots of discussion surrounding Microsoft Silverlight and VC-1 over the last year or so. We’ve looked at...
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Targeting Flash Player 10 In Flex 3.2
It seems like there should be a simple elegant toggle button or drop down in the Flex compiler options allowing you to choose which version of Flash Player you’d like to target, but until that happens...
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Pixel Bender + Video = Killer Runtime Effects
I’ve been playing with Pixel Bender a bit and noticed that there weren’t really any examples (I could find) that illustrated effects being applied to video. So I gathered together a whole slew of...
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Flex Basics – The Script Tag
Grasping the simple things is often the hardest part to getting up and running with Flex. For example, a friend of mine who I’ve been trying to pull over from the dark side (.Net guy) asked, “I’ve got...
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Jing Pro – A “Full Metal” Flex Video Player
This is a little “inside the devigners head” piece that explains some of the conceptual thinking behind the Jing Pro MPEG4-AVC Video Player (there’s also a sanitized version over at the Jing blog). The...
View ArticleConvert an ISO 8601 Date String to / from a Native AS3 Date Object
While making some improvements to my ilist metadata (iTunes MPEG4 style metadata) classes I ended up needing to convert an ISO 8601 date and time string to a native AS3 Date object and vice versa. An...
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ThumbGenie 1.1.0 Now Generates Embed Code
I updated ThumbGenie over the weekend to support generation of embed code. Now, every time you create a thumbnail from an MPEG4-AVC file or SWF embed code will be generated. ThumbGenie ships with a...
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Flash Player Games – Is It All About the Polygons?
Raph Koster sees the Flash Platform as the potential future of gaming: John Grden and some of the other 3d elites in the Flash world don’t feel Flash 3d is good enough. Is either party correct? Is the...
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Bilinear Resampling, ShaderJob, Pixel Bender And Flash Player
*Update* Sometimes you’re an idiot and you spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel because you misread one little line of documentation. This is one of those times where I get to be that idiot. I...
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Optimize Runtime Shared Libraries (RSL)
Chase Brammer shows how to optimize ActionScript 3 Runtime Shared Libraries during his session at 360|Flex in Indianapolis (just under 3 minutes). Download video.
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Cross-Domain Runtime Shared Libraries (RSL)
Chase Brammer shows how to create ActionScript 3 cross-domain RSLs during his session at 360|Flex in Indianapolis (just over 5 minutes). Download video.
View ArticleOSMF + Flex Example
I’ve been checking up on OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) periodically, but found that many of their examples / samples don’t work at the moment (their APIs have been in flux). If you’re just looking...
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