Issue: I was developing a Sharepoint webpart that will allow an end user to be able to easily insert videos (flv, f4v, mp4, swf) that are hosted elsewhere. And I encountered this weird issue where all the script and code appears to be good, and yet the video will not start to play when the [...]
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Peng Zhang on May 21st, 2011
One of the challenges we face as a global organization is that we have to account for a wide spectrum of bandwidths available to our users. On islands of Maldives, Bora Bora and Seychelles, and even at some land-based locations in Thailand, the bandwidth available is fairly low by today’s standards. These low-bandwidth locations roughly [...]
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May
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Web Video for Flash-enabled Browsers and Ipad – from MediaElement.js, and videojs back to FlowPlayer
Peng Zhang on May 20th, 2011
I have been using FlowPlayer for delivering web video in FLV for the last couple of years. And lately, I have switched from flv to mp4/H.264 videos. As there is the demand for supporting iPad, I started looking at libraries such as MediaElement.js and VideoJS for their support for HTML5 video. And in the past [...]
This post is to record the resources that I gathered in the search for a solution to detect client bandwidth. A tutorial to build a bandwidth tester with source download (on Net Tuts) A detector AS3 Class with source download Another AS3 Tester with source Yet another one with source (a library with bandwidth part [...]
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I know image maps are supposed to be deprecated html entities. But sometimes, you have to work with what is provided and does not have the time to enhance and modify the template. In such a HTML template, there is an image map and from one of its AREA tags, I want to play a [...]
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For one of our Flash-based projects, I have asked for a MP4 video with the .H264 encoding from our videographer. I was naturally expecting a video file ending in .mp4 file extension. But it came back as a MOV file, which I think is also a legitimate .h264 file extension, but is it mp4 file? [...]
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